Movies like Eureka 1983

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Eureka (1983)
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Eureka (1983)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An Alaskan gold prospector (Gene Hackman) lives in luxury with his family on an island gangsters want.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, stylized, erotic, psychological, offbeat, surreal, avant garde
Plot: wealth, greed, family relations, gangster, ambition, rise and fall, parents and children, dishonesty, brutality, courtroom drama, father daughter relationship, island, killer, nature, labor, union, strike, british gangster, friendship, snow, male nudity, obsession, mine, rivalry, sexual content ...
Time: 1940s, year 1983, 1920s, 20th century, year 1945, 20s, 40s
Place: canada, bahamas, caribbean
Keyword: gangsters, twilight, avant-garde, jewish

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and psychological films with plots about murder, death, drinking, blood, husband wife relationship, family relations and flashback mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Eureka: Class Action (1991), Bad Timing (1980), A Dry White Season (1989), Her Name Is Carla (2005), The Chamber (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Class Action (1991)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Liberal activist lawyer Jedediah alienated daughter Maggie years ago when she discovered his many affairs. Now a conservative corporate lawyer, Maggie agrees to go up against her father in court. To gain promotion, she must defend an auto ...
Style: suspense, thought provoking, serious, touching, talky ...
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, lawyer, legal, court, father daughter relationship, father daughter conflict, parents and children, uncover truth, hopes, righting the wronged, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, year 1991, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Bad Timing (1980)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their ...
Style: controversial, erotic, disturbing, art house, non-linear ...
Plot: voyeurism, female nudity, extramarital affair, obsession, infidelity, rape, rape victim, parallel universe, erotica, overdose, psychopath, investigation ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: vienna, britain, austria, europe, morocco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
A Dry White Season (1989)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Taking place during the 1976 Soweto uprising, the story follows a white school teacher whose life and values are threatened when he asks questions about the death of a young black boy who died in police custody.
Style: talky, disturbing, emotional, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: racism, lawyer, fighting the system, society, legal, injustice, rebellion, discrimination, social commentary, women, slavery, children ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1976
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Her Name Is Carla (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two strangers refuse to leave the seaside home of a couple, which leads to sexual tension and crime.
Style: psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot: rape, couple relations, danger, couples, rape and revenge, stranger, husband wife relationship, adultery, nudity, impotent husband, cuckolded husband, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: zimbabwe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Chamber (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather's only legacy, young attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to appeal the old man's death sentence for the murder of two small Jewish boys 30 years before. Only ...
Style: suspense, emotional, thought provoking, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: courtroom drama, racism, legal, courtroom, murder, prison, ku klux klan, death sentence, haunted by the past, anti semitism, lawyer, politics ...
Time: 90s, year 1967, 60s, 20th century, year 1996
Place: mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.1
 104K
Runaway Jury (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
Style: clever, suspense, tense, captivating, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lawyer, court, courtroom drama, corruption, courtroom, trial, jury, legal, lobbyist, justice, twists and turns, society ...
Time: year 2003, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, indiana, ohio, cincinnati ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Intended (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A period drama/thriller about a surveyor and his fiancée who arrive in a remote Malaysian trading post and encounter a closed-fisted ivory trader and her ill-meaning family.
Style: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: jungle, nothing goes right, obsessive quest, crimes of passion, danger, culture clash, dysfunctional family, greed, older woman younger man, age-gap relationship, couple relations, escapades ...
Time: year 2002, 1920s, 20th century, post world war one
Place: malaysia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Day of the Locust (1975)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story: An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.
Style: cult classic, disturbing, cerebral, biting, cynical ...
Audience: date night
Plot: movie business, female nudity, hollywood, filmmaking, art, satire, great depression, showbiz, politics, surrealism, actor, social commentary ...
Time: 1930s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, glendale california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Tailor of Panama (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A British spy is banished to Panama after having an affair with an ambassador's mistress. Once there he makes connection with a local tailor with a nefarious past and connections to all of the top political and gangster figures in Panama. The ...
Style: political, talky, stylized, suspense, sexy ...
Plot: espionage, spy, politics, gangster, mentor, adultery, brainwashing, undercover, conspiracy, debt, secret agent, 007 ...
Time: y2k, year 2001, 90s
Place: panama
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is a contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment". Roseanne is outwardly a perfect and popular teen. However, her image is hiding the abuse at her stepfather's hands, and she decides to ...
Style: disturbing, serious, psychological, clever, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: rape, murder, dysfunctional family, high school, guilt, crime and punishment, obsession, suburbs, friendship, youth, teenage life, teenager ...
Time: year 2000, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.9
 13K
Billy Bathgate (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In the year 1935, a teen named Billy Bathgate finds first love while becoming the protégé of fledgling gangster Dutch Schultz.
Style: stylized, erotic, realistic, serious, gloomy ...
Plot: organized crime, mafia, teenage boy, gangster, nudity, lake, waterfall, great depression, coming of age, drinking, death, chase ...
Time: 1930s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.4
 9K
F.I.S.T. (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Johnny Kovak joins the Teamsters trade-union in a local chapter in the 1930s and works his way up in the organization. As he climbs higher and higher his methods become more ruthless and finally senator Madison starts a campaign to find the truth ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, rough, serious, cult classic ...
Plot: labor union, politics, gangster, gang, against the odds, rivalry, legal, injustice, campaign, political corruption, racism, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1978
Place: cleveland ohio, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.7
 114K
Stoker (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
Style: psychological, gothic, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: antisocial behavior, danger, mysterious character, under the surface, psychopath, family problems, lolita, fatal attraction, family relations, estate, masturbation, mental illness ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.9
 147K
The Firm (1993)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the ...
Style: suspense, tense, surprise ending, clever, psychological ...
Plot: lawyer, corruption, law firm, murder, conspiracy, surveillance, investigation, legal, chase, seduction, blackmail, courtroom ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: memphis, boston, tennessee, usa, harvard university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Body of Evidence (1992)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sizzingly sexy Madonna leads a star-filled cast in this erotic thriller as a woman accused of killing a wealthy, elderly man through her insatiable sexual prowess.
Style: erotic, sexy, sensual, suspenseful, psychosexual thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, seduction, courtroom drama, sex scene, lawyer, murder, strong sexual content, fatal attraction, sex, infidelity, extramarital affair, dying during sex ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place: portland oregon, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.5
 529
Lying in Wait (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Young bachelor Babee is looking after his dead mother's estate when married couple Keith and Vera move in. Babee becomes attracted to them by the beautiful Vera and the risk taking Keith. However at a party Vera crashes her car, putting Keith ...
Style: suspenseful, sexy, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot: murder, twists and turns, vengeance, nudity, violent content, estate, cons and scams, hollywood, rivalry, sexual content, female nudity, drowning ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
City of Ghosts (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A con man travels to Cambodia (also on the run from law enforcement in the U.S.) to collect his share in an insurance scam, but discovers more than he bargained for
Style: intense, stylized, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: betrayal, father son relationship, character study, greed, chases and races, police investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, cons and scams, friendship, unlikely friendships, fbi ...
Time: year 2002
Place: cambodia, usa, new york, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.6
 8K
Nuts (1987)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A high-class call girl kills a customer in self-defense. To avoid scandal, her parents try to have her declared mentally incompetent. Not helping matters is that she is very distrustful of everybody, including her court-appointed attorney, and is ...
Style: psychological, hilarious, psychological thriller, tense, realistic ...
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, courtroom, murder, court, self defense, flashback, women, mental illness, mental health, psychiatrist, prostitution ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Brimstone & Treacle (1982)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.
Style: surreal, psychological, offbeat, realistic, serious ...
Plot: devil, rape, male nudity, guilt, sex, rock, couples, cons and scams, mental illness, family life, dangerous attraction, mysterious character ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: canada, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.3
 1K
On the Ice (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In Barrow, Alaska, teenagers Qalli and Aivaaq find their bond tested when a seal-hunting trip goes wrong, resulting in the death of their friend.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: native american, friendship, grief, death, family relations, buddies, youth, parents and children, society, village, accidental death, coming of age ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Grief Tourist (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the ...
Style: psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: serial killer, childhood trauma, murder, obsession, twists and turns, friendship, anti hero, violence, killing spree, child abuse, prostitute, transsexual ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Under Suspicion (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. "This will only take ten minutes", they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, talky, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lawyer, serial killer, rape, police investigation, murder, murder mystery, twists and turns, investigation, psychology, plot twist, mind game, pedophile ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place: puerto rico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.2
 9K
First Snow (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, intense, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: desert, betrayal, manic, character study, psychic power, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, a vision, business venture, business deal, secrets ...
Time: year 2006
Place: new mexico, usa, dallas texas, oklahoma city
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Brad (Michael Shannon) has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place; Based on a true ...
Style: atmospheric, stylized, serious, realistic, surreal ...
Plot: mental illness, murder, psychopath, obsession, crazy, memory, family problems, family relations, law enforcement, delusion, parents and children, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 2009, 21st century
Place: california, peru, usa, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Five Minutes of Heaven (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The story of former UVF member Alistair Little. Twenty-five years after Little killed Joe Griffen's brother, the media arrange an auspicious meeting between the two.
Style: psychological, intense, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: redemption, reconciliation, murder, memory, haunted by the past, secrets, life is a bitch, acceptance, terrorism, trouble, ira, vengeance ...
Time: year 2009, 70s, year 1975, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ireland, northern ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.7
 3K
Katie Tippel (1975)
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In the late 19th century, a young woman moves to Amsterdam with her family and tries to make a living. Preyed upon by various men, she nonetheless rises in society.
Style: cult classic, touching, sexual, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: prostitution, sex crime, dutch history, family relations, prostitute, sexual abuse, male nudity, rape, erection, poverty, nudity, couples ...
Time: 19th century, year 1975, 20th century, 1880s
Place: amsterdam, europe, netherlands, holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Fierce People (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yanomani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client.
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: single mother, family relations, parents and children, social differences, teenage life, summer, life is a bitch, sex scene, teenage boy, making love, sex crime, teenager ...
Time: year 2005, 80s
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.8
 42K
Anonymous (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
Style: stylized, serious, visually stunning, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot: shakespeare, conspiracy theory, medieval, politics, writers, betrayal, political intrigue, incest, intrigue, incestuous sex, poet, writer's life ...
Time: 16th century, 17th century, middle ages, year 2011, ancient times
Place: england, britain, europe, new york, wales ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Crossing Guard (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, suspense, emotional, intense ...
Plot: haunted by the past, murder, obsession, hit and run, tragedy, redemption, vengeance, loss of daughter, justice, crime gone awry, car accident, tragic event ...
Time: 90s
Place: nebraska, usa, los angeles, glendale california
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.7
 15K
Gangster No. 1 (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Ireland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: An old gangster is advised that Freddie Mays would leave jail after thirty years in prison. His mood changes and he recalls when he was a young punk, who joined Freddie Mays' gang, a man he both envied and ultimately betrayed.
Style: intense, tense, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, rise and fall, organized crime, psychopath, torture, mafia, betrayal, prison, violence, gang war, leadership, extortion ...
Time: year 2000, future, 60s, 20th century, 80s ...
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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