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Distant Cousins (1993)
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Kate's husband Richard hasn't seen his cousin Harry for 20 years. So when he comes to stay with his fiancee Connie they are welcomed. But Kate senses her family is at risk when they start behaving suspiciously.
Style:
independent film, scary, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
mentally unstable woman, family relations, psychopath, kidnapping, murder, stalking, captivity, mental institution, missing person, family life, couples, danger, hidden identity, pills, cousin cousin relationship, advertising executive, deadly, bound and gagged, cleavage, tied feet, knocked unconscious, tape over mouth, crimes
Time:
90s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and psychological films with plots about deadly, danger, psychopath, murder, rivalry, woman in danger and serial killer mostly in Thriller, Horror and Drama genres. Some movies like Distant Cousins: The Ex (1996), Water Damage (1999), Deadbolt (1992), The Neighbor (1993), Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In order to get her husband back, an architect's psycho ex-wife kills everybody she can get her hands on.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, bleak, scary ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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529
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
boston
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young couple, Mary and John, awaiting a baby is in search for a house when they decide to buy that lovely old villa they found by coincidence. What they both do not know is that Myron, the owner of that villa and their new neigbour, is a dangerous ...
Style:
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Plot:
psychopath, pregnancy, home invasion, danger, dangerous attraction, obsession, couples, family problems, babies and infants, youth, mind game, domestic disturbance ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, year 1943
Place:
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Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psycho, nanny, murder, infidelity, psychopath, couples, family relations, family problems, babies and infants, criminal heroes, danger, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Jeffrey has met the man of this dreams, hunky Frenchman René, he impulsively moves into the same building. The move backfires as Remé becomes cold and distant. Landlady Gladys lavishes attention on her new tenant.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
40%
503
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A beautiful attorney's hunt for a serial killer is frustrated by his accomplice's twisted scheme to keep the killer free at all costs
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
38%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Slight off-balance police inspector Palmer (Alison Eastwood) works with Father Brian (Judd Nelson) to solve for a religion-based killer, while she deals with her teen-aged goth sister.
Style:
suspense, scary, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
37%
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Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
37%
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Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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37%
494
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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36%
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, psychological, scary
Audience:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video film about five high-school students that are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area in Florida. It was directed and written by Lee Stanley based on the novel by Lois Duncan.
Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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