Movies like Downtime

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Downtime (1997)
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Downtime (1997)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Former police psychologist Rob (Paul McGann) helps to save young Chrissy (Susan Lynch) when she is about to commit suicide by jumping of 21st-story balcony with her 4-year-old son Jake. When he persuades her to go on a date, they are trapped with Jake in an elevator after a drunken gang crashes into the elevator's engine room and creates havoc.
Style: independent film
Plot: elevator, child in peril, psychology, police officer, police, gang, psychologist, hostage situation, troubled teen, hospital, fire, family relations, helicopter, old man, single mother, juvenile delinquent, youth gang, father son relationship, teenage boy, unemployment, trapped in an elevator, british, husband wife relationship, working class, death of father ...
Place: northern england
Keyword: flat

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, tense and realistic films with plots about husband wife relationship, murder, police, female nudity, family relations, death and hospital mostly in Thriller, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Downtime: The Cliff (2016), The Secret Rapture (1993), Our Secret (2002), Lapse of Memory (1991), Forget and Forgive (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Cliff (2016)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A mass suicide involving members of a cult takes place in the Canary Islands. Gabriel's younger sister, Cordelia, who he hasn't seen for years, was one of the cult followers. Gabriel decides to travel there and find out what happened.
Style: enigmatic, disturbing, captivating
Plot: disappearance, sect, sister, investigation, police, mass suicide, island, religious cult, uncover truth, pregnancy, sex scene, brother ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Secret Rapture (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Upon her father's death, a woman comes into emotional and psychological conflict with her young lover, her overbearing sister and her alcoholic stepmother.
Style: independent film
Plot: dead body, family relations, mental disorder, female nudity, cigarette smoking, death of father, nurse, rain, father daughter relationship, fire, bicycle, game playing ...
Time: year 1993
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24%
 6.4
 4K
Our Secret (2002)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 173 min.
Story: A wealthy industrialist and business man named Raj Singhania lives in Bombay, India. He reaches up with a music band in which Karan Malhotra is the leader and Priya is his right-hand and sweetheart. Karan finds that it is not easy to achieve ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot: murder, love triangle, husband wife relationship, blackmail, true love, nothing goes right, music band, deception, betrayal, billionaire, marriage for money, wealth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Lapse of Memory (1991)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: After a terrible accident, a psychatrist has to help Bruce to regain his memory. In flashbacks we learn that his family had to flee from New York after his father uncovered a large case of corruption. Bruce didn't know this for most of his ...
Style: independent film, bilingual
Plot: amnesia, dam, bus trip, writers, suicide attempt, cemetery, small town, bus, prairie, witness protection, psychiatrist, father son relationship ...
Place: usa, new york, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Forget and Forgive (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After being left for dead, Anna Walker awakes in the hospital to find she has full blown amnesia.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense
Plot: mother daughter relationship, uncover truth, family in danger, policewoman, female detective, police officer, memory loss, family relations, police investigation, amnesiac, fighting crime, assassination attempt ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 3.8
 155
Flowerman (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Loving wife & mother Sarah is abducted by intelligent and forensically aware psychopath Nigel. The family and the police are subjected to a manipulation of the reality that surrounds them. Relating to the darkest side of the human character ...
Style: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, crying
Plot: serial killer, marriage, brother sister relationship, family relations, violence, murder, father daughter relationship, divorce, obsession, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, loss of wife ...
Place: england, united kingdom
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
A Thousand Kisses Deep (2011)
Genre: Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After witnessing an older version of herself committing suicide, Mia (Jodie Whittaker) attempts to rewrite history and thereby avert this tragic fate. She travels back in time, exploring dark secrets and lashing out against handsome Ludwig (Dougray ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: haunted by the past, tragic love, changing the past or future, couple relations, obsession, supernatural, love affair, unfulfillment, time travel, female protagonist, police, introspection ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
He Loves Me, He Loves Me Not (2002)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Angelique, a young student, is in love with a married doctor. We see her attempts to make him leave his pregnant wife, but he does not appear for meetings or finally the booked journey to Florence. Then the movie is turned back to the beginning, and ...
Style: romantic, sweet, light, disturbing, enigmatic ...
Plot: obsession, obsessive love, stalker, relationships, insanity, female psychopath, mental illness, infidelity, love story, life philosophy, destiny, art ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Seventh Target (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough cause for anxiety -- between his new lover Laura and a feisty mother, life provides its own ...
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: ventriloquist, elevator, car chase, airport, police, car bomb, extortion, on the run, chases and races, journalism, rivalry, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: paris france, france, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Kiss You Gave Me (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A TV reporter from Puerto Rico loses her son after her ex-husband Armando kidnaps him and takes him to the States. Angela must team up with a lawyer to find and rescue the child.
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, suspense
Plot: kidnapping, missing child, investigation, danger, life is a bitch, rescue, couple relations, family problems, parents and children, love affair, woman in danger, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Time: future, year 2006, year 1961
Place: puerto rico, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Tryst (1994)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young man journeys to the estate of rich family in Santa Barbara, California, to visit his mother, who works there as a maid and whom he hasn't seen in many years. He winds up getting involved in adultery and a murder plot and uncovering some ...
Style: erotic, independent film, detective
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, abusive husband, rape, erotica, seduction, woman seduces a man, female nudity, voyeur, older woman younger man, femme fatale, housekeeper, maid ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Deliver Them from Evil: The Taking of Alta View (1992)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A man (Rick Worthington) assaults the Alta Vista Hospital taking four women, a man and two babies as hostages. He wants to kill Dr. Garrick, who, according to Worthington, ruined his life sterilizing his wife. He threatens to detonate a bomb. Based ...
Plot: serial killer, violence, hostage, doctor, death, police, murder, criminal, nurse, hospital, bandit, insult ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Sleeping with Danger (2020)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Inspired by Ann Rule’s true crime collection Mortal Danger and Other True Cases. Paul Carter was like a knight in shining armor when he met flight attendant Grace Tanner and swept her into a passionate love affair. But her dream man quickly became ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Plot: obsessive love, psychopath, fatal attraction, rough sex, obsession, murder, stalking, family conflict, graphic violence, blackmail, investigation, seduction ...
Time: year 1994
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Eye of the Storm (1991)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: At a highway gas station/motel/diner where they live, two young brothers witness their parents murder. The younger brother is blinded in the same incident. Ten years later both brothers are still there and the tragedy may have turned one of them ...
Style: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: diner, murder, family relations, psychopath, disability, family life, desert, alcohol abuse, haunted by the past, infidelity, family in danger, siblings relations ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 795
The Wrong Man (1993)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story: US merchant sailor Alex Walker (Kevin Anderson) is stranded in Mexico, penniless and wanted by the police. He meets and joins up with an unlikely couple - ageing but likeable shit Phillip Mills (John Lithgow) and young sexy, frustated wife Missy ...
Style: road movie, serious, realistic, mind bending, neo noir ...
Plot: nude girl, love triangle, voyeur, lovers on the run, police, woman seduces a man, jealousy, prostitute, female nudity, husband wife relationship, bare breasts, fondling ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.4
 1K
Method (2004)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Romania, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The line between fantasy and reality blurs when an actress begins behaving like the 19th-century murderer she is playing.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, filmmaking, murder, mind game, obsession, psychopath, haunted by the past, dangerous attraction, actor's life, danger, journalism, couples ...
Time: 19th century
Place: indiana, romania, europe, usa, new orleans ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.3
 1K
Love Crimes (1992)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A tough female district attorney is investigating a man who picks out women from public places by posing as a famous photographer, then takes pictures of them, then pushes on their submissive tendencies and takes advantage of them physically and ...
Style: psychosexual thriller, erotic, neo noir, sensual, serious ...
Plot: seduction, sex scene, voyeurism, making love, extreme, law, female pubic hair, woman in jeopardy, erotica, held captive, victim, desire ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.6
 505
Relentless (2018)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, El Salvador
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An American mother searches for her daughter who was kidnapped by human traffickers in Central America.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, serious, suspense
Plot: human trafficking, kidnapping, gang, rescue, child in peril, determination, danger, female protagonist, anger, single mother, chase, little boy ...
Place: central america
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Hungry Hearts (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, indie film, sad ...
Plot: murder, pregnancy, family problems, life turned upside down, couples, vegetarian, saving a life, tragic event, husband wife relationship, mental illness, paranoia, hunger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.5
 846
B&B (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Gay Londoners Marc and Fred plan for a weekend of mischief, baiting the Christian owner of a remote Christian B&B. Events take a deadly turn when another guest arrives, who they think might have something more sinister in mind.
Style: suspense, touching, unusual plot structure, tense, queer horror ...
Plot: gay cruising, lgbt, gay couple, gay, gay slur, male homosexuality, moral dilemma, father son relationship, lgbtq, homosexuality, gay interest, lgbtqi ...
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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 688
K.O. (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A CEO for a television channel finds his life torn apart after he wakes up from coma.
Plot: coma, elevator, boxing, police, hospital, boxing match, nurse, cigarette smoking, gun, novel, kiss
Time: year 2017
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.3
 131
Hidden Passion (2000)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Kim is the wife of a mobster and she is very unhappy. Then when her ex shows up and they discover her husband's hidden money, they decide to steal the money and blame one of husband's friends.
Style: erotic, captivating, disturbing, sexy
Plot: erotica, adultery, money, ex couple relations, stolen money, marital problem, theft, cheating girlfriend, mafioso, family relations, stealing money, ex girlfriend ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Darker Shades of Summer (2023)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: At a swingers retreat, a couple will undergo the ultimate test in the tense erotic thriller.
Style: erotic, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating
Plot: femdom, female nudity, sex scene, nude, sex, husband wife relationship, couple relations, male nudity, sexuality, sexual relations, relationships, couples ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Kill the Referee (1984)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Michel,a referee has to suffer the consequences of having whistled a penalty against a team which is supported by football hooligans.
Style: exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: soccer, chase, false accusation, chaos and mayhem, militant, gang, on the run, vengeance, chases and races, obsession, death, falling from height ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, normandy
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.5
 87
Crosstalk (1982)
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Only the computer saw the murder...and it liked what it saw...
Style: independent film
Plot: man in a wheelchair, poisoned drink, rescue from drowning, corporate greed, car accident, death of killer, elevator, murder, adultery, extramarital affair, rain, swimming pool ...
Place: sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Tall, Dark and Deadly (1995)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Maggie falls in love with a very romantic and mysterious man, who makes Maggie's life a hell...
Style: light
Plot: running, cemetery, photograph, strangulation, fire, love triangle, death, police, falling from height, lawyer, murder, marriage proposal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Imagining Argentina (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain, UK, USA, Argentina
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Set during the unsettling disappearances in Buenos Aires during the dictatorship of the 1970s, the film involves theater director Carlos Rueda and his wife Cecilia. Shortly after Cecilia writes an editorial commentary questioning the mysterious ...
Style: serious, bleak, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: politics, disappearance, uncover truth, danger, political unrest, father daughter relationship, compassion, sex crime, revolution, political intrigue, inspiration, basement ...
Time: year 2003, 70s, year 1976
Place: latin america, buenos aires argentina, argentina, europe, venice ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Hard Luck Love Song (2020)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jesse, a charismatic but down on his luck troubadour, finds himself at an existential crossroads as bad choices catch up with him during an unexpected reunion with Carla, an old flame.
Style: sincere, psychological, touching, romantic, talky ...
Plot: love story, illegal gambling, character study, love and romance, love, couple relations, couples, friendship, true love, love affair, love interest, music ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 3.1
 702
Dirty Games (2022)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A group of hopefuls are invited to play an erotic game show.. but all is not as it seems as things take a sharp turn for the worst!
Style: erotic, entertaining, captivating, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: female nudity, simulated cunilingus, interracial romance, bare breasts, prize, sex scene, nudity, sex, relationships, sexual relations, social media, social network ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.3
 814
Wicked Minds (2003)
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young man returns home from college to find his father remarried, until the sudden murder of his father leaves everyone suspect.
Style: tense, erotic, psychological thriller, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: stepmother stepson relationship, murder, seductress, sex with stepmother, sex with stepson, stepmother, femme fatale, older woman younger man sex, parents and children, dangerous attraction, father son relationship, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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