Movies like The Cry of the Owl
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The Cry of the Owl (2009)
5K
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, neo noir, surreal, realistic, ambiguous ending, noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, danger, couples, love and romance, neighbor, mysterious character, small town life, dating, dishonesty, twists and turns, murder, murder mystery, divorce, missing person, breakup, vendetta, ex husband ex wife relationship, cop, relationships, loneliness, mental disorder, depression, designer, beauty, routine ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
pennsylvania, new york state
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Most similar movies to The Cry of the Owl
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, psychological and suspense films with plots about obsession, murder, deadly, danger, psychopath, dishonesty and twists and turns mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Cry of the Owl: The Hole (2001), Coffin Rock (2009), Unforgettable (2017), Born Bad (2011), Love Object (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
50K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
Style:
psychological, scary, twist ending, dark, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
claustrophobia, obsession, psychology, twists and turns, school, youth, underground bunker, male nudity, danger, bunker, survival, teenage girl ...
Time:
year 2001
Place:
wales, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman unable to conceive a child with her husband, despite years of trying, makes the drunken mistake of sleeping with a young stranger. The stranger then goes to terrifying lengths to prove his paternity.
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
pregnancy, stalking, obsession, danger, infidelity, couples, small town, husband wife relationship, suspicion, stalker, male female relationship, wedding ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Julia moves in with her fiancé, David, but his ex-wife and her own haunting past join forces to rock her quiet suburban existence.
Style:
sexy, psycho sexual, psychosexual thriller, scary, intense ...
Plot:
obsession, insanity, jealousy, ex husband ex wife relationship, unrequited love, frame up, divorce, stalking, fear, ex husband, mentally unstable, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
california, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young woman (Bonnie Dennison) falls for a mysterious man (Michael Welch) who reveals his dark side.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, crime drama
Plot:
abusive boyfriend, father daughter relationship, murder, psychopath, dangerous attraction, hidden identity, danger, dishonesty, family relations, confined, disorder, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The twisted tale of Kenneth, socially insecure technical writer who forms an obsessive relationship with "Nikki", an anatomically accurate silicone sex doll he orders over the Internet.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, serious, slasher, perverse ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sex doll, obsession, stalking, murder, loner, doll, mentally unstable, abduction, couples, objects come to life, love affair, love and romance ...
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in his slowly disintegrating mentally.
Style:
psychological, rough, psychological thriller, neo noir, independent film ...
Plot:
small town, sheriff, snow, small town life, alcoholism, dysfunctional family, insanity, abusive father, domestic violence, addiction, character study, drinking ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
new hampshire, usa, canada
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1960s New York, Walter Stackhouse is a successful architect married to the beautiful Clara who leads a seemingly perfect life. But his fascination with an unsolved murder leads him into a spiral of chaos as he is forced to play cat-and-mouse with ...
Style:
psychological thriller, disturbing, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
unhappy marriage, death of wife, architect, investigation, police brutality, revenge, danger, police investigation, disorder, dishonesty, winter, brutality ...
Time:
year 2016, year 1960, 60s
Place:
new york, columbus ohio, usa
Similarity:
25%
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:
24%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of Juliette and Patrick and watch her cook. She thinks he's a prowler and confronts him, then ...
Style:
neo noir, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
voyeurism, injustice, impossible love, dead woman, murder, vengeance, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, mentally unstable, love and romance, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
europe, france, vichy
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When hotel event planner Rachel breaks up with her boyfriend John for cheating on her, she decides to go looking online for a new boyfriend. In the expanse of cyberspace, she meets a charming, wealthy man named Craig, who at first, seems perfect. ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
obsession, dangerous attraction, couples, danger, destructive relationship, internet dating, social network, stalking, love, manipulation, woman in danger, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young man is found bruised, beaten and stumbling down a secluded road. As the police try to piece together what happened, the convoluted relationship between a young woman and her two suitors gradually emerges.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dangerous attraction, couples, love triangle, love and romance, police detective, missing person, obsession, uncover truth, police investigation, mysterious character, teenage life, amateur detective ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
21%
339K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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:
neo noir, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
small town, murder, police investigation, psychopath, investigation, investigator, character study, police corruption, murder mystery, insomnia, death, guilt ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, persia, usa, north america, los angeles
Similarity:
20%
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 ...
Plot:
ransom, marriage, kidnapping, hostage, psychopath, fbi, marital problem, family life, haunted by the past, danger, wilderness, kidnapped ...
Time:
year 2004
Place:
pittsburgh, london
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After marrying a handsome man she barely knows, a woman experiences threatening calls and violent attacks from a mysterious woman who claims to be her new husband's former lover.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
private detective, dangerous attraction, woman in danger, dishonesty, danger, infidelity, family problems, couples, stalking, husband wife relationship, home invasion, abusive husband ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A lawyer begins a sordid fling with an attractive young woman whom he slowly begins to suspect to be a serial killer of men.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime thriller, crime drama ...
Plot:
femme fatale, investigation, murder, fall in love, psychopath, murder mystery, seduction, serial killer, danger, deception, psychological manipulation, female antagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Journalist Zenia Arden has disappeared. When her finger turns up on the shores of Lake Ontario next to her blood-soaked car, the police believe they've uncovered a homicide.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
investigation, uncover truth, protagonist as suspect, law enforcement, danger, dishonesty, friendship, twists and turns, murder, obsession, police, deception ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, lawyer, twists and turns, legal, court, murder, surveillance, danger, women, murder mystery, trial ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, san francisco
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Plagued by flashbacks of a violent home invasion, Laura Benson is on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Looking for a fresh start, she and her husband sell their house and relocate to a seemingly idyllic gated community. But, little do the Bensons ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
obsession, stalking, neighbor, mind game, family in danger, haunted by the past, family problems, vengeance, dishonesty, rivalry, mentally unstable, amateur detective ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality.
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
paranoia, mentally unstable, woman in danger, couples, conspiracy, mental breakdown, emotional manipulation, murder, obsession, hallucination, character study, identity crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A loathsome man ends up dead, but it's not clear who's to blame. If ever a person got what he deserved, it's James Urbanksi, an abusive drunk who steals from his wife, Joyce, and promises her close friend Cynthia Kellogg that ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, talky, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
murder, crime gone awry, twists and turns, police investigation, character study, obsession, redemption, domestic violence, crumbling marriage, unlikely criminals, law enforcement, murder mystery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, absurd, atmospheric ...
Plot:
hitman, perfect crime, murder, serial killer, greed, vengeance, redemption, cons and scams, criminal heroes, gangster, danger, intrigue ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
italy, berlin germany, europe, france, milan italy
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Abel Grey is sent to investigate the death of a boy from an exclusive local school, who is found floating in the river. Fearing scandal, the school insists it was suicide. But after discovering from the boy's girlfriend, Carlin, that he was ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
private school, uncover truth, murder, bullying, school, winter, teenager, dishonesty, danger, police officer, boarding school, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A couple works hard to renovate their dream house and become landlords to pay for it. Unfortunately one of their tenants has plans of his own.
Style:
neo noir, scary, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
psychopath, home invasion, sociopath, manipulation, stalking, anger, deception, landlord, yuppie, identity theft, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, home renovation ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
san francisco, california, bay area, usa, los angeles ...
Similarity:
19%
518K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style:
psychological, suspense, depressing, twist ending, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
murder, murder mystery, vengeance, police, police investigation, investigation, death in the family, police detective, sexual abuse, loss of child, child abuse, loss of daughter ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts, persia, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A reclusive surveillance expert is hired to spy on a mysterious blackmailer, who just may be a serial killer.
Style:
sexy, psychological, neo noir, erotic, enigmatic ...
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, murder, femme fatale, secret agent, surveillance, secret service, obsessive love, voyeur, making love, stalking, female serial killer ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
alaska, san francisco, chicago, new york, pittsburgh ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After spending several years in seclusion, a woman encounters the stalker who murdered her parents over a decade ago, and fears she may be his latest victim when he starts to cyber-stalk her.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, stalker, stalking, woman in danger, danger, computers and web, time jump, hacking, woman in peril, man in a wheelchair, art gallery, intruder ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An artist whose work involves capturing images of strangers begins to believe she herself is being observed.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
stalking, murder mystery, art, female protagonist, paranoia, obsession, photography, voyeurism, privacy invasion, female artist, fantasy becomes reality, secretly observing ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, obsession, psychology, investigation, power relations, uncover truth, domestic violence, memory, psychiatrist, life turned upside down, amnesiac ...
Time:
90s, year 2014, year 2007, year 2000, 2010s ...
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
18%
220K
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, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
psychology, twists and turns, insanity, split personality, stephen king, isolation, losing-it hero, obsession, plot twist, haunted house, macabre, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
Similarity:
18%
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