Movies like Islands
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Islands (2025)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In this twisty thriller, a tennis coach at a tropical resort finds himself at the center of a missing persons mystery. Tom teaches tennis during the day and parties at night. When an enigmatic tourist arrives, Tom is unable to shake the feeling he has met her before. Tension and attraction grow, until her husband disappears, and the police suspect Tom.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, atmospheric, suspense, melancholic, crime drama, moody
Plot:
island, loneliness, investigation, missing person, suspect, moral ambiguity, character study, tennis, obsession, midlife crisis, isolation, infidelity, male protagonist, guilt, seaside, sexual tension, regret, attraction, luxury hotel, ambiguity, alcoholism, slow burn, tourism, claustrophobia, identity ...
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Most similar movies to Islands
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, psychological thriller, suspense and noir films with plots about moral ambiguity, isolation, slow burn, obsession, investigation, betrayal and character study mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Islands: Close To Me (2025), Two Small Bodies (1993), Something to Remind Me (2001), Gina (2025), Blinded (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Serbia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Luca is a forty-year-old teacher experiencing a relationship crisis with his wife, Sara, who is much wealthier than him. During the lockdown, Luca finds himself a bystander in the life of his new neighbor, Amanda, and decides to bridge the distance ...
Style:
melancholic, tense, suspense
Plot:
quarantine, loneliness, character study, isolation, existential crisis, midlife crisis, guilt, claustrophobia, introspection, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, obsession ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Eileen Maloney, a hostess at a strip joint, has woken up to find her two children are missing. Lieutenant Bramm suspects that she killed them herself. He questions her for days about her lifestyle, her children, her ex-husband, men and women, and ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
transgression, obsession, interrogation, missing child, female protagonist, guilt, trauma, moral ambiguity, manipulation, character study, interrogation room, suspicion ...
Time:
year 1993
Similarity:
78%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Middle-aged lawyer Thomas assists Leyla, an attractive blonde, when she drops her things at the pool. After their paths keep crossing, he picks up the courage to ask her out for a date. Somewhat to his surprise she agrees, but arrives late, just as ...
Style:
suspense, tense, art house, psychological thriller, neo noir ...
Plot:
obsession, minimalism, psychological manipulation, manipulation, moral ambiguity, deception, missing person, cat and mouse, loneliness, betrayal, isolation, identity ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
73%
45
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
At a therapy session, a top Real Estate Executive with a killer secret reveals the dark entanglement that took her down a path she thought she had escaped.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense, tense, ambiguous ending
Plot:
character study, dark secret, trauma, moral ambiguity, confession, real estate, manipulation, guilt, obsession, identity crisis, intimate, betrayal ...
Similarity:
58%
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182
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While doing her rounds in the Scottish countryside, Doctor Caroline Lamar comes upon a hitchhiker, and offers him a lift. Young Danish backpacker Mike Hammershoi explains that he is looking for work in the area, and so she points him in the ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, atmospheric, intense, erotic drama ...
Plot:
blindness, love triangle, forbidden love, jealousy, infidelity, adultery, sexual tension, isolation, betrayal, obsession, secrets, slow burn ...
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Her distant husband refusing to join, a mother spends the holidays alone with her children for the first time. Lost in her life, she opens up to a seducing and strange and young man, who slowly draws her into his dark trap.
Style:
tense, melancholic, bleak, art house, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
female protagonist, family drama, motherhood, toxic relationship, beach, parenting, isolation, gender roles, seduction, single mother, emotional abuse, manipulation ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tension, crime drama, period piece ...
Plot:
suspicion, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, character study, cold, paranoia, slow burn, adaptation, claustrophobia, psychological manipulation, marital discord, investigation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
france
Similarity:
54%
415
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
On an autumn night, in the deserted streets of a seaside town, Sara is fleeing from a party, convinced she has witnessed a murder. He finds refuge with Veronica, but does not know that the woman is the lawyer of an important industrialist, the ...
Style:
tension, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
fear, secrets, woman, secret, undercover, deception, female protagonist, lie, intrigue, seaside town, character study, lawyer ...
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Alexandre finds out his wife Juliette is cheating on him. They quarrel with each over, Juliette runs away during the night, and has a fatal fall. The next day, torrential rain have taken her body away. The police force is investigating and Patrick, ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, crime drama, atmospheric ...
Plot:
infidelity, guilt, domestic drama, father daughter relationship, accidental death, family secret, moral ambiguity, tragedy, cover up, family drama, moral dilemma, investigation ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A drama-thriller centered on an advertising agency employee for whom work is an outlet from his life under his overbearing mother's roof.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, family drama, character study, overbearing parent, male protagonist, advertising agency, claustrophobia, identity crisis, obsession, moral ambiguity, isolation, slow burn ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Eddie (Kim Bodnia) and Maria (Maria Bonnevie) enjoy an idyllic life in their remote countryside farmhouse. But their happiness is threatened by the arrival of Kullmann (Mikael Persbrandt), an old friend of Eddie's with whom he had committed a ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, melancholic, noir
Plot:
guilt, secrets, love triangle, isolation, loyalty, moral ambiguity, intimate, character study, betrayal, cat and mouse, revenge, fear ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A neo-noir tale of a man who seeks out an old friend, only to succumb to the will of a beautiful, mysterious woman.
Style:
neo noir, dark, suspense, tension, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mystery woman, femme fatale, psychological manipulation, obsession, moral ambiguity, seduction, fatal attraction, deception, betrayal, urban, loneliness, fatalism ...
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Enrique Hubermann, homeopathic physician, travels in flight from a love. By a joke of fate, in that distant place he meets the woman he wants to forget, a beautiful young woman like a demon who manipulates men and triggers dangerous passions.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
hotel, seduction, vacation, obsession, relationship problems, attempted seduction, male female relationship, relationships, tragic love, couple relations, seductress, irony of fate ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A thriller about a man haunted by a past trauma...
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, tense, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Plot:
trauma, identity crisis, secrets, memory loss, post traumatic stress, flashback, slow burn, mature, claustrophobia, character study, amnesia, isolation ...
Place:
germany, morocco
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In a rural setting on the weather-beaten French Atlantic coast, the ten year old daughter of a single mother is implicated in murder. Crime scene evidence contradicts the story of the talented, introverted child as expressed in her Mangas.
Style:
crime drama, suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, noir ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, murder mystery, suspicion, childhood trauma, imaginary friend, investigation, isolation, family secret, isolated house, loneliness, protective mother, false confession ...
Similarity:
38%
284
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A couple have a peaceful existence in a small provincial town. He is a teacher and she runs an opticians practical. Their life is turned upside when Belle, a friend’s daughter who is lodging with them, is found dead in her room. The husband ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, moody
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder mystery, wrongful accusation, suspicion, small town, moral ambiguity, secrets, domestic drama, intimate, alibi, realism, provincial, trust ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 35 min.
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Story:
When a neighbor's au pair vanishes from her wealthy suburb, Cecilie seeks answers — and unravels secrets that shatter her seemingly perfect world.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, crime drama, suspenseful, noir
Plot:
missing person, au pair, investigation, female protagonist, secrets, slow burn, class conflict, character study, identity, moral ambiguity, paranoia, betrayal ...
Place:
copenhagen
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
John Dubury, a fifty-year-old man disappointed by his life, sees his wife die from a fatal fall while they are on vacation together. And while an accident is initially thought to be the cause of death, suspicions soon turn to John... especially ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
husband and wife, murder investigation, husband, dead wife, death of wife, police detective, police officer, wife, investigation, police, police investigation, death ...
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jeremy Northam portrays a real estate tycoon, while Fionnula Flanagan plays the matriarch of the Lazarov family, in this psychological thriller.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
psychological manipulation, manipulation, revenge, family drama, unsettling, obsession, betrayal, moral ambiguity, slow burn, power struggle, matriarchy, mistrust ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A police officer who is diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease must solve one last case before he loses all his memories. He must run against time to catch the notorious serial killer who he believes has a mysterious role in his own personal life.
Style:
psychological thriller, detective, suspense, tense, crime drama ...
Plot:
serial killer, memory loss, investigation, police procedural, obsession, isolation, cat and mouse, solitude, identity, empathy, urban, slow burn ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a man is involved in a car wreck that kills his former lover, his life is derailed and his mind is splintered with guilt and the subsequent uncertainty about what exactly happened.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
memory loss, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, uncover truth, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, tragedy, car crash, guilt, fatal accident, trauma, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Sweden, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
What is a human life worth? How is it possible that a woman like Agnes could agree to kill another human being? Is it the money? Or are there other forces at play?
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, female protagonist, moral dilemma, secrets, relationship problems, female assassin, assassination plot, conspiracy, murder mystery, murderer, girlfriend, female villain ...
Place:
bruges
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A girl is kidnapped and the perpetrator roams freely. When a similar case occurs along the same road and in similar circumstances a suspect is identified leading to the accused running away and going into hiding.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
kidnapping, suspect, suspicion, investigation, abduction, framed for a crime, crime investigation, prime suspect, missing person, paranoia, fear, isolation ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
34%
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450
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After thirty years, Nina decides to return to the seaside town where she grew up to confront the man who changed her life and to whom the town now pays homage. The reunion with her origins, with her memories and with Blas, a childhood friend, will ...
Style:
melancholic, tense, art house
Plot:
revenge, female protagonist, moral ambiguity, memory, homecoming, confrontation, getting home, betrayal, guilt, seaside, introspection, seaside town ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Elise's dream to become a painter isn't going anywhere, so she eagerly accepts to house-sit the wealthy eccentric Frank's villa, while he is in Boston for business. A leaky pipe makes her call a plumber not from Frank's ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
casual sex, sex, couple relations, relationships, male female relationship, social problems, relationship problems, family problems, character study, love triangle, betrayal, struggling artist ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
34%
222
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The crime of Facundo provokes in Gustavo and Cristina, his parents, an irreparable vacuum. The tragedy demonstrates everything that could not be in the link between Gustavo and son and disarms appearances with his wife; Cristina Gustavo undertakes a ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, tension, atmospheric, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
father son relationship, revenge, trauma, loss, grief, family drama, anger, obsession, character study, moral ambiguity, justice, murder investigation ...
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Sweden, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Nineteen-year-old Vera Kall cycles home through the night. She arrives at a farm, leaves her bike and sneaks quietly in through the door. She enters the kitchen and doesn't even have time to notice that she's not alone.
Style:
suspense, enigmatic, bleak, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, uncover truth, puzzle, human nature, writers, hidden corpse, redemption, convict, classmate classmate relationship, murder investigation, investigation, secrets ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
germany, antwerp
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Ecem and Rahmi, who are at the very beginning of their relationship, live in the basement of an apartment in Istanbul. Their life takes a different turn one night when Ecem's ex-boyfriend Kazim comes to their doorstep. The anger of Rahmi, who ...
Style:
romantic drama, tense, emotional, realistic, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
jealousy, confrontation, ex boyfriend, regret, intimate, love triangle, claustrophobia, anger management, moral ambiguity, betrayal, social realism, obsession ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The murder of a woman in an abandoned house is the first murder this rural French island has had in 100 years. Or is it? A cop who left the island 20 years earlier and a young intern who moved away when she was six years old - but doesn't ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, disturbing, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
whodunit, crime scene, island, murder case, crime investigation, presumed dead, erased memory, death of mother, childhood memory, missing person, investigation, murder ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
32%
567
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, intense, crime drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, paranoia, jealous husband, mental illness, female protagonist, obsession, claustrophobia, identity, investigation, isolation, slow burn, small town ...
Similarity:
32%
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