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The Clearing (2004)
15K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When affluent executive, Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a forest, Wayne’s wife is forced to reckon with the FBI agents as they negotiate with the kidnapper.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, contemplative, psychological, psychotronic, detective, realistic, psychological thriller, intense ...
Plot:
ransom, marriage, kidnapping, hostage, psychopath, fbi, marital problem, family life, danger, haunted by the past, wilderness, kidnapped, betrayal, adultery, fbi agent, chase, businessman, supermarket, unfaithful husband, love, forest, missing person, fbi investigation, ransom demand, pursuit ...
Time:
year 2004, contemporary
Place:
pittsburgh, london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and psychological films with plots about murder, dishonesty, husband wife relationship, couples, twists and turns, danger and obsession mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Clearing: Darkness Falls (1999), The Vanishing (1993), Impulse (2008), Blind Turn (2012), Abandoned (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
With his pregnant wife at death's door after a car crash, desperate husband John Barrett invades the home of Mark Driscoll and his rich, neglected wife Sally. He holds the couple hostage in order to understand the events that led to his wife ...
Style:
realistic, psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot:
captivity, hostage, confined, vengeance, couples, family problems, haunted by the past, dishonesty, danger, estate, dysfunctional marriage, unhappy marriage ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A young woman (Sandra Bullock) mysteriously disappears, sending her boyfriend Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland) on a years-long quest to find her. Not even a new love (Nancy Travis) can keep him from his obsessive search. All the while, the calculating ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, suspense, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
missing person, obsession, kidnapping, kidnapped, psychopath, buried alive, spider, killer, slow burn, serial killer, hostage, missing girl ...
Time:
90s
Place:
seattle, washington state
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Acting on impulse, Claire Dennison (Willa Ford), enjoys a brief fling with a sexy stranger (a dead ringer for her husband), only to realize that the object of her desire is a crazed, manipulative, and tenacious psychopath.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychological, tense, sexy ...
Plot:
dangerous attraction, sexual fantasy, stalking, femme fatale, love affair, danger, anal rape, sex, woman in danger, infidelity, dishonesty, sexual relations ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, san francisco, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Samantha Holt had the perfect life with a handsome fiancée and a future that couldn’t look brighter. But an unexpected turn on a dark lonely road puts her on a collision course with Bruce Miller, a devoted family man who descends into madness ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
psychopath, kidnapping, obsession, car accident, life is a bitch, danger, confined, family tragedy, woman in danger, psychological trauma, plot twist, violence ...
Time:
year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, boston
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
missing girl, hospital, female protagonist, race against time, danger, uncover truth, rivalry, investigation, confined, intrigue, doctors and patients, mind game ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kansas city, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor lets his wife, Amy, hitch a ride with a trucker to get help. When she doesn't return, Jeff fixes his SUV and tracks down the trucker -- who tells the police he's never ...
Style:
psychological, road movie, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, violence, chase, road trip, couples, highway, conspiracy, desert, uncover truth, murder, danger, car breakdown ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, new mexico, usa, massachusetts, arizona
Similarity:
100%
2K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
kidnapping, hostage, life turned upside down, uncover truth, dishonesty, confined, danger, captivity, abduction, ransom, double life, liberation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
belgium, europe, paris france
Similarity:
100%
1.2M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style:
psychological, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, boys' night ...
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, murder mystery, missing person, manipulation, infidelity, investigation, marriage, femme fatale, revenge, missing wife, adultery ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
peru, america, usa, manhattan new york city, new york ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sy "the photo guy" Parrish has lovingly developed photos for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually believes he's part of their ...
Style:
psychological, creepy, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, photography, loneliness, loner, voyeurism, insanity, psychopath as protagonist, adultery, character study, female pubic hair, voyeur, photograph ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
america, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
13K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
New Orleans businessman Michael Courtland’s life is shattered when his wife and daughter are tragically killed in a botched kidnap rescue attempt. Many years later whilst visiting Italy he meets and falls in in love with Sandra Portinari, who ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, atmospheric, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
twists and turns, kidnapping, doppelganger, obsession, chase, ransom, dangerous attraction, male male relationship, lookalikes, mistaken identity, disorder, missing person ...
Time:
year 1975, year 1959, 20th century, year 1976, 70s ...
Place:
new orleans, usa, florence, italy, los angeles ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.
Style:
scary, serious, tense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
fear, stalking, paranoia, stalker, male female relationship, trapped, sex, adultery, unfaithful husband, love and romance, family problems, couples ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
australia, kosovo, melbourne, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
32K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Five men wake up in a locked-down warehouse with no memory of who they are. They are forced to figure out who is good and who is bad to stay alive.
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, disturbing, clever, suspense ...
Plot:
twists and turns, confined, kidnapping, memory loss, amnesia, murder, hostage, trapped, loss of friend, puzzle, trap, group of strangers ...
Time:
year 2006, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Abby Lord (Maria del Mar) is kidnapped and her husband Robert Lord (Joe Lando) has to pay off a million dollar ransom. Based on a True Life story.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
woman in danger, danger, rivalry, confined, family relations, false identity, abduction, revenge, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, wife, wedding ring, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.
Style:
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Plot:
destiny, manic, betrayal, desert, couples, character study, psychic power, dishonesty, couple relations, a vision, business venture, business deal ...
Time:
year 2006, future
Place:
new mexico, usa, dallas texas, oklahoma city, boston
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
What starts out as a romantic honeymoon on a deserted island turns into a horrible nightmare as Julianne discovers that her new husband is psychotic...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
psychopath, woman in danger, kidnapping, couple relations, isolation, island, danger, newlyweds, love and romance, honeymoon, lake, wilderness ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The story follows Danika, a woman whose fears for her children are manifested in premonitions of death and disaster. Bierko plays Tomei's husband, while Hall is her psychiatrist and confidant.
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
psychiatrist, mentally unstable, mental illness, family relations, infidelity, fear, nanny, obsession, danger, dishonesty, parents and children, love affair ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
It all began with a little white lie.
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, sexual, captivating ...
Plot:
suspicion of adultery, couples, secret life, infidelity, deception, liar, family relations, family life, dishonesty, love and romance, love triangle, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iberian peninsula, europe, spain, madrid
Similarity:
39%
185K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
airplane, twists and turns, missing child, conspiracy, airplane accident, female protagonist, kidnapping, disappearance, strong female lead, flight attendant, family relations, little girl ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
berlin germany, persia, newfoundland, new york, germany
Similarity:
38%
44K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
It took Anna 10 years to recover from the death of her husband, Sean, but now she's on the verge of marrying her boyfriend, Joseph, and finally moving on. However, on the night of her engagement party, a young boy named Sean turns up, saying he ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, cerebral, suspenseful, controversial ...
Plot:
reincarnation, couples, deja vu, wedding, love triangle, sex scene, older woman younger man relationship, erotic scene, couple relations, obsessive love, obsession, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
persia, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman becomes inexplicably attracted to a man who is stalking her. When her boyfriend goes missing, the stalker is the immediate suspect, until a game of jealousy and betrayal turns deadly.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, danger, couples, love and romance, neighbor, mysterious character, small town life, dating, dishonesty, twists and turns, murder mystery, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, new york state
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Ray is young, charming, successful and the owner of a prosperous architect company. However, he has recently gone trough a very painful divorce. His friends try to cheer him up by showing him the positive sides of being single but for Ray marriage ...
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, sexual, erotic, serious ...
Plot:
femme fatale, adultery, paranoia, female psychopath, dangerous attraction, sexual content, extramarital affair, marriage, infidelity, murder, family problems, fatal attraction ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Wanting to escape city life for the countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Quaid), his wife Leah (Stone) and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. Turning it into their ...
Style:
scary, tense, horrifying, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
haunted house, danger, twists and turns, country house, unfaithful wife, police investigation, nudity, family problems, snake, murder, hospital, supernatural ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can ...
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot:
murder, justice, police investigation, twists and turns, investigation, guilt, law enforcement, prostitute, brutality, dishonesty, rivalry, secret ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, romantic drama ...
Plot:
adultery, secret lover, betrayal, secret relationship, family problems, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, obsession, chess, love triangle, husband wife relationship, loss of wife ...
Time:
year 2008, future, 21st century
Place:
italy, milan italy, england
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story centers on paroled white supremacist who has just killed a cop, and takes a black family hostage. Within hours of being released from 14 years of solitary confinement in maximum-security Pelican Bay State Prison, Garrett Tully is on the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
hostage, family in danger, danger, murder, family relations, confined, kidnapped, home invasion, husband wife relationship, african american, hostage situation, blaxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jessica is a housewife, unhappy in her marriage, who decides to "spice it up" a little bit. But she gets more than she bargained for when she contacts an old high school classmate she once had a crush on.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, serious ...
Plot:
infidelity, danger, couple relations, stalking, twists and turns, classmate, jealousy, murder, rivalry, violence, stalker, marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
402
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A tale of infidelity, deceit, greed, and murder. Nick Compton, a Palm Springs real estate developer...
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
investigation, private detective, intrigue, love affair, rivalry, betrayal, mysterious character, infidelity, gambling, murder, twists and turns, stalking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
44K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Parole officer Jack Mabry has only a few weeks left before retirement and wishes to finish out the cases he's been assigned. One such case is that of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, a convicted arsonist who is up for parole. Jack is initially ...
Style:
psychological, cerebral, sexual, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
couples, manipulation, prison, infidelity, seduction, redemption, twists and turns, dangerous attraction, danger, confined, cons and scams, jail ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, michigan, detroit, new jersey, new york
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After the father of her kid son Sam was killed by an escaped psychiatric patient, Kate decides it's time for a new chapter in her life. She moves to the town where her former lover Tom lives and now works in the sheriff's department, and ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
Plot:
family relations, psychopath, danger, small town, male female relationship, murder, serial killer, love, death of father, doctor, running, ex lover ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When a teacher kidnaps a girl from a prestigious school, homicide detective, Alex Cross takes the case and teams up with young security agent, Jezzie Flannigan in hope of finding the girl and stopping the brutal psychopath. Every second counts as ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, surprise ending, clever, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, kidnapping, police investigation, serial murder, investigation, psychopath, profiler, twists and turns, secret service, telephone call, u.s. senator, teacher ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
33%
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