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Abandoned (2010)
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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, action thriller, realistic, independent film
Plot:
missing girl, hospital, female protagonist, danger, race against time, investigation, intrigue, rivalry, confined, doctors and patients, uncover truth, mind game, hostage, ransom, medicine, blood, disappearance, renovation, kidnapping, chases and races, woman in danger, dishonesty, patronizing, violent content, missing person ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
kansas city, los angeles
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Most similar movies to Abandoned
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, tense and realistic films with plots about danger, investigation, murder, dishonesty, uncover truth, kidnapping and deadly mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Abandoned: Flightplan (2005), Taken Back: Finding Haley (2012), Reclaim (2014), Don't Say a Word (2001), The Clearing (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Dean Cain portrays Scott Peterson, the California man accused of murdering his 8 month pregnant wife, Laci. Based on a true story.
Style:
disturbing, tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
husband murders wife, amateur detective, murder, pregnancy, false accusation, missing person, courtroom drama, protagonist as suspect, uncover truth, investigation, infidelity, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
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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
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100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Unable to get over the abduction of her daughter, a mother is convinced she has finally found her, but is she simply a mother obsessed?
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
missing child, overprotective mother, abduction, uncover truth, parents and children, twists and turns, family problems, child abduction, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, danger, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China, Malaysia, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After their newly adopted daughter goes missing in a small town, Steven and Shannon will stop at nothing to uncover the truth behind her disappearance and the dangerous secret behind the adoption agency they trusted. Risking their own lives, they ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
missing child, couples, couple relations, uncover truth, investigation, kidnapping, daughter, adoption, cons and scams, chases and races, family problems, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
puerto rico
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Switzerland, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When the daughter of a psychiatrist is kidnapped, he's horrified to discover that the abductors' demand is that he break through to a post traumatic stress disorder suffering young woman who knows a secret..
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, psychological thriller, rough ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
psychiatrist, kidnapping, bank robbery, killer, haunted by the past, murder, torture, manipulation, stalking, mind game, doctor patient relationship, spy ...
Time:
90s, 2000s, year 1991, year 2001
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
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:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Dr. Martin Blake, who has spent his life looking for respect, meets an 18-year-old patient named Diane, suffering from a kidney infection, and gets a much-needed boost of self-esteem. However, when her health starts improving, Martin fears losing ...
Style:
medical horror, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
obsession, doctors and patients, hospital, nurse, family dinner, workaholic, power relations, manipulation, medication, sociopath, teenage girl, evil doctor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
71K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Russia
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When her mother disappears while on vacation in Colombia with her new boyfriend, June’s search for answers is hindered by international red tape. Stuck thousands of miles away in Los Angeles, June creatively uses all the latest technology at her ...
Style:
disturbing, independent film, serious, suspenseful, dramatic ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, missing woman, missing person, mysterious disappearance, found footage, teenage protagonist, teenage girl, cat, investigation, female protagonist, social media, fbi ...
Time:
year 2008, 2020s
Place:
colombia, los angeles, san antonio texas
Similarity:
100%
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134K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, danger, investigation, woman in danger, 911, youth, psycho, murder, kidnapped, chase, child abduction ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
UNREQUITED is a psychological thriller and tells the story of Ben Jacobs, a troubled young man who, on his 18th birthday, has to leave the group home for "troubled teens" where he has been living for the past several months and move back ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
love and romance, unrequited love, teenage love, unfulfilled love, danger, adaptation, abduction, teenager, loner, kidnapping, youth, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
288
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Preeti Sengupta (Tanushree Dutta) is an airhostess living in with her boyfriend Karan Malhotra (Rohit Roy). They share a nice 2BHK apartment in the northern suburbs of Mumbai and are befriended by their elderly neighbor Madhusudan Tanha (Anupam ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, enigmatic, remake of american film
Plot:
femme fatale, dark past, insanity, bipolar disorder, roommate, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mental illness, breakup, insecurity, anxiety, investigation, friendship ...
Place:
mumbai india
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Jessica and her fiancé Evan just moved from the city into their dream home on a quiet suburban street. Soon after, Jessica catches her seemingly friendly new neighbor, Simon, in a strange lie and can't let her suspicions rest. The danger ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, captivating
Plot:
held captive, disappearance, locked in a room, kidnapping, imprisonment, prison, deception, female protagonist, robbery, professor, stalker, stockholm syndrome ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An attorney is trying to solve her younger brother's mysterious disappearance while simultaneously helping a new friend rid herself of a stalker. As she begins to uncover the truth, it turns out that the seemingly separate situations are ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic, crime thriller ...
Plot:
investigation, missing person, amateur detective, uncover truth, legal, dishonesty, who done it, danger, stalking, false identity, disappearance, private detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
It was love at first sight for beautiful young lawyer Sandra "Sunday" O'Brien-Parker (Rachel Blanchard) and Henry Parker (Cameron Mathison), retiring White House Secretary of State, when Sunday's dad Danny (Jack Wagner), ...
Style:
serious, captivating, tense, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
investigation, rescue, danger, rivalry, fighting crime, uncover truth, murder, confined, hitman, couple relations, race against time, blackmail ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Sang-woo receives painful surgery when he is ten, and murders another kid from trauma. After he receives hypnosis treatment, he disappears with his family. After 25 years, a successful doctor meets his old friend one day, and everything changes.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, vengeance, haunted by the past, rivalry, danger, hospital, doctors and patients, investigation, childhood trauma, murder, killer, surgery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A distraught college student finds a phone that enables her to talk to her deceased mother in the past. Instead of a heart attack, she learns that her mother was murdered. She tries to use the phone to stop the murder from occurring before the ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, serious
Plot:
murder, changing the past or future, danger, uncover truth, race against time, hidden identity, imaginary, time travel, female protagonist, dishonesty, chases and races, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A widowed reporter recruits the help of a federal agent to investigate her late husband's secrets, but the two become the target of unknown attackers. When FBI Agent John Nelson’s key informant, Miles, is abducted and shot, all that’s left ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, uncover truth, investigation, undercover, manhunt, special agent, chases and races, law enforcement, dishonesty, couple relations, danger, journalism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, hong kong, australia, cuba
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Kidnappers force a young mother (Melissa George) to recover money stolen by her shady husband (Christian Campbell).
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, captivity, criminal, revelation, missing child, trust, family problems, dishonesty, danger, crime gone awry, rivalry, survival ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
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977
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Cassie, a psych student, was kidnapped and traumatized as a child by a disturbed person. To exorcise her demons and to finish her thesis, she decides on an experiment in isolation, working at a secluded watch tower as a fire lookout. But once ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, realistic ...
Plot:
mind game, danger, female protagonist, manipulation, haunted by the past, isolation, rivalry, alone, woods, strong female presence, dishonesty, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Detective Ben Nolan is sent to investigate the story of a convicted prostitute and known drug dealer Linda Grossel. Linda explains that she was kidnapped and held captive for weeks. As the investigation unfolds, Linda's sanity is put to ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
investigation, uncover truth, danger, law enforcement, captivity, isolation, abduction, police detective, trauma, kidnapping, moral ambiguity, sanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Bernard Salzmann's thriller Assumed Killer tells the tale of a reporter investigating a serial killer. After she suffers an accident and becomes an amnesiac, she begins to suspect her husband may be the person responsible for the brutal slayings
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense
Plot:
serial killer, amateur detective, memory loss, investigation, murder, uncover truth, danger, life is a bitch, deep south, media, journalism, television reporter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
20%
265
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Sixteen years after the Drakes' young daughter was kidnapped by her nanny, a woman appears claiming to be the long-lost child.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
amateur detective, danger, police investigation, investigation, law enforcement, orphan, family relations, criminal heroes, parents and children, dishonesty, child abduction, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Kaitlyn, an ER nurse who is tending to a young stabbing victim, is accidentally electrocuted by the defibrillator that is used in an effort to save the woman's life. Almost immediately Kaitlyn starts to experience the victim's memories. ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
victim, uncover truth, supernatural, investigation, twists and turns, danger, criminal, cognitive science, electrocution, a vision, memories, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Johanna is a therapist on the verge of a midlife crisis. When one of her patients is found brutally murdered, she takes it upon herself to solve the mystery. But why is this stressed-out shrink willing to risk her marriage, her career and her entire ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, midlife crisis, investigation, doctors and patients, therapist, female protagonist, police, car accident, danger, haunted by the past, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, clergy, amateur detective, uncover truth, youth, society, dishonesty, danger, teenager, soul, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Anthony's family runs a small Italian restaurant in London. When his childhood friend, Dario, dies in a suspicious accident, Anthony inherits a vineyard in Sant'Angelo, the village his parents came from in Italy. Surprised by the large sum ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
manhunt, femme fatale, mysterious character, dishonesty, intrigue, danger, chases and races, inheritance, vineyard, investigation, betrayal, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
italy, london, europe
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A former guerrilla is reluctantly drawn into the vengeance scheme of one of his victims.
Style:
exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, danger, rivalry, forced into action, race against time, colombian drug cartel, murder, conflict, violent content, tough heroes, chases and races, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, colombia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Brad Sterling arrives by yacht as a handsome dream prince, and the discrete favorite nephew and brilliant investor of his tycoon uncle Wade. Charles Colton's ingrate heiress Laura eagerly dates him and puts him in the guest-house, partially as ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
sex scene, manipulative person, danger, couples, stalking, jealousy, intrigue, hit and run, strong female presence, manipulation, dishonesty, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Left for dead in the remote Southwest, Frank is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. As he recovers, ominous memories begin to flash back...
Style:
tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
desert, amnesia, memory loss, hitman, assassination attempt, conspiracy, investigation, uncover truth, political conspiracy, race against time, dishonesty, danger ...
Time:
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Place:
new mexico, usa
Similarity:
19%
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