Movies like The Conversation
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The Conversation (1974)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired by a mysterious client's brusque aide to tail a young couple. Tracking the pair through San Francisco's Union Square, Caul and his associate Stan manage to record a cryptic conversation between them. Tormented by memories of a previous case that ended badly, Caul becomes obsessed with the resulting tape, trying to determine if the couple are in danger.
Style:
psychological, cerebral, neo noir, disturbing, meditative, realistic, dark, intense, surprise ending, political ...
Plot:
paranoia, surveillance, spy, conspiracy, suspense, loneliness, obsession, investigation, murder, character study, wiretap, hotel, dream, twists and turns, espionage, alienation, losing-it hero, voyeurism, technology, voyeur, psychology, plot twist, birthday, church, unfulfillment ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, san francisco
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Most similar movies to The Conversation
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, psychological, interesting and complex films with plots about suspense, storytelling, obsession, paranoia, secrets, twists and turns and police investigation mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Conversation: Blow Out (1981), Night Moves (1975), The Lives of Others (2006), Blow-Up (1966), Pi (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jack Terry is a master sound recordist who works on grade-B horror movies. Late one evening, he is recording sounds for use in his movies when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot:
political conspiracy, conspiracy, serial killer, surveillance, investigation, murder, assassination, politics, suspense, murder mystery, conspiracy theory, macabre ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
philadelphia, california, pennsylvania
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, psychological, meditative, serious ...
Plot:
private detective, investigation, murder, missing person, suspense, infidelity, loneliness, manipulation, crime gone awry, complex characters, espionage, uncover truth ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, florida, california, los angeles
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100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the ...
Style:
gloomy, tense, reflective, atmospheric, sincere ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
cold war, surveillance, spy, communism, berlin wall, stasi, iron curtain, espionage, voyeurism, loneliness, interrogation, politics ...
Time:
80s, year 1984, 20th century, 90s
Place:
east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, central europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
64K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A successful mod photographer in London whose world is bounded by fashion, pop music, marijuana, and easy sex, feels his life is boring and despairing. But in the course of a single day he accidentally captures on film the commission of a murder. ...
Style:
surreal, cerebral, art house, stylized, erotic ...
Plot:
photographer, voyeurism, fashion, murder witness, fashion photographer, cover up, sex, art, corpse, surveillance, fashion model, free love ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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181K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
Style:
surreal, psychological, mind bending, atmospheric, cerebral ...
Plot:
mathematics, insanity, conspiracy, paranoia, obsession, computer, surrealism, cyberpunk, rabbi, torah, psychology, mental illness ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, intellectual ...
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, manipulation, suspense, mind game, game, uncover truth, scheme, life turned upside down, life philosophy, existentialism, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california, mexico, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A quiet and inconspicuous man (Trelkovsky) rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill ...
Style:
psychological, surreal, scary, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot:
surrealism, paranoia, insanity, suspense, bruce lee, dark humor, nightmare, apartment building, mental illness, hallucination, suicide, conspiracy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
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75%
424K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead – and him unscathed. The answer to this mystery could lie with the mysterious Elijah Price, a man who suffers from a disease that renders his ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
superhero, plot twist, invulnerability, twists and turns, train crash, suspense, villain, self discovery, father son relationship, supernatural ability, supernatural power, a vision ...
Time:
future, 20th century, 90s, 60s, 2000s
Place:
philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
This acclaimed thriller stars Jane Fonda as Bree Daniel, a New York City call girl who becomes enmeshed in an investigation into the disappearance of a business executive. Detective John Klute is hired to follow Daniel, and eventually begins a ...
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
private detective, prostitute, conspiracy, missing person, obsession, suspense, murder, private investigator, investigation, call girl, pimp, prostitution ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, pennsylvania, california, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
162K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, China
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A husband and wife try to reinvigorate their relationship but their lives are threatened by a "friend" from the husband's past who holds a horrifying secret about him, sending their world into a tailspin.
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
suspense, revenge, twists and turns, bullying, secrets, gift, obsession, stalker, husband wife relationship, psychopath, manipulation, surveillance ...
Place:
los angeles, california, chicago illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, scary, atmospheric ...
Plot:
conspiracy, hospital, investigation, suspense, twists and turns, amateur detective, coma, serial killer, medical, black market, intern, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An ambitious reporter, investigating a senator's assassination, realizes witnesses to the shooting are systematically dying and discovers a multi-million dollar corporation which serves as a front for the recruitment of political assassins.
Style:
atmospheric, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, political ...
Plot:
politics, corruption, conspiracy, investigation, reporter, murder, journalism, undercover, media, senator, twists and turns, political conspiracy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
seattle, los angeles, latin america, washington state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Style:
atmospheric, neo noir, psychological, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police investigation, small town, murder, investigation, character study, investigator, police, suspense, police corruption, snow, guilt, murderer ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Newlywed Jennifer is brutally attacked at a dark rest stop. While healing from her injuries, she can’t recall anything from her past, including the ordeal. Her husband, Russell , is just thankful she’s alive and eager to get her home. As he ...
Style:
intense, captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, memory loss, stalker, suspense, murder, violence, deception, memory lapse, psycho killer, chase, threat, investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, War
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, atmospheric, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot:
vietnam war, insanity, jungle, anti war, mission, military, violence, army, soldier, violent, war, secret mission ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1969
Place:
vietnam, cambodia, asia, the philippines, southeast asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A modern nightmare nearly becomes reality in this tension-filled story about an "incident" at a nuclear power plant. Jane Fonda stars as Kimberly Wells, an ambitious TV reporter covering a story on energy sources, who is present at the ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
reporter, power plant, politics, journalism, investigation, radiation, disaster, suspense, media, nuclear power, nuclear, environmental ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will and his new girlfriend Kira are invited to a dinner with old friends at the house of Will’s ex Eden and her new partner David. Although the evening appears to be relaxed, Will soon gets a creeping suspicion that their charming host David is ...
Style:
scary, twist ending, dark, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
dinner party, suicide, obsession, conspiracy, suspense, suspicion, cult, deception, old friend, insanity, vengeance, survival ...
Place:
los angeles, california
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28%
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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, surprise ending, clever, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, suspense, missing person, investigation, infidelity, murder mystery, marriage, manipulation, psychology, adultery, missing wife, disappearance ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york, missouri, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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, atmospheric, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
obsession, kidnapping, incestuous relationship, twists and turns, chase, ransom, suspense, dangerous attraction, mistaken identity, disorder, doppelganger, missing person ...
Time:
year 1959, year 1975, 20th century, 70s, 50s
Place:
usa, new orleans, italy, europe, los angeles ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
82K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, surreal, art house, tense ...
Plot:
suicide, guilt, childhood, dysfunctional family, videotaping, family in crisis, haunted by the past, suspense, voyeurism, psychology, lie, nightmare ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
paris france, france, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, confusing, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
suspense, amnesia, memory loss, murder, plot twist, revenge, memory, paranoia, vengeance, psychology, twists and turns, haunted by the past ...
Time:
future, 90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After several years of living with a cult, Martha finally escapes and calls her estranged sister, Lucy, for help. Martha finds herself at the quiet Connecticut home Lucy shares with her new husband, Ted, but the memories of what she experienced in ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, bleak, dark ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cult, paranoia, hippie, sexual abuse, religion, female protagonist, mind control, psychology, brainwashing, suspense, manipulation, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
connecticut, california, new york, new york state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
201K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
psychology, insanity, twists and turns, suspense, split personality, losing-it hero, isolation, nervous breakdown, murder, macabre, writer's life, mental illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Ford plays an American doctor whose wife suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Style:
neo noir, psychological, tense, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot:
espionage, kidnapping, suspense, spy, missing wife, chase, hotel, investigation, missing person, hotel room, illuminati, nude ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Police Inspector Renko tries to solve the case of three bodies found in Moscow's Gorky Park but finds his attempts to solve the crime impeded by his superiors. Working on his own, Renko seeks out more information and stumbles across a ...
Style:
political, neo noir, tense, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cold war, spy, murder, conspiracy, police investigation, espionage, kgb, murder investigation, suspense, politics, murder mystery, police corruption ...
Time:
80s
Place:
moscow russia, russia, ussr, sweden, stockholm sweden ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
Style:
surreal, psychological, disturbing, cerebral, visually appealing ...
Plot:
distopia, paranoia, surrealism, courtroom, courtroom drama, insanity, existentialism, art, corruption, justice, lawyer, legal ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, 60s, 18th century
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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:
suspenseful, psychological, tense, scary, dark ...
Plot:
obsession, loneliness, loner, voyeurism, mental illness, insanity, psychopath as protagonist, adultery, suspense, serial killer, twists and turns, paranoid ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, France, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Rex and Saskia are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he's still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, suspense, twists and turns, missing person, obsession, murder, road trip, macabre, insanity, police investigation, mind game ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
france, europe, california, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style:
psychological, surreal, neo noir, atmospheric, art house ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, amnesia, lesbian, hallucination, hollywood, alternate reality, obsession, nightmare, doppelganger, lesbian sex, filmmaking ...
Time:
future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Claire is under the grip of a mysterious new cult called Faults. Desperate to be reunited with their daughter, Claire's parents recruit one of the world's foremost experts on mind control, Ansel Roth.
Style:
dark, psychological, tense, enigmatic, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
brainwashing, kidnapping, cult, mind control, manipulation, redemption, cult leader, life is a bitch, parents and children, religions or cults, sexual innuendo, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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