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Far North (2007)
 6.1
 3K
Far North (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A soldier's unexpected arrival affects two women's simple existence.
Style: psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful, serious, realistic, gloomy, epic
Plot: hunting, survival, mother daughter relationship, eskimo indian, isolation, arctic, curse, dog sled, love triangle, betrayal, haunted by the past, life turned upside down, love and romance, wilderness, winter, nomad, thief, massacre, glacier, minimal dialogue, nordic, strangulation, face mask, friendship, girlfriend ...
Time: contemporary

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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, violence, nude, sex, death, betrayal and gun mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Far North: Forever Mine (1999), A Single Shot (2013), A Perfect Fit (2005), Criminal Lovers (1999), The Best Man (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
 5.3
 3K
Forever Mine (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A hotel cabana boy falls for the wife of a powerful politico. But when she confesses to the affair, her husband determines to end it forever.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot: betrayal, couple relations, haunted by the past, love triangle, love affair, hidden identity, unfulfillment, dishonesty, infidelity, lovers reunited, murder, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: florida, new york, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.7
 11K
A Single Shot (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 116 min.
Story: The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, serious, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot: poacher, hostage, divorce, wilderness, haunted by the past, moral dilemma, human nature, small town, violence, murder, truck, money ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, west virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
 5.1
 432
A Perfect Fit (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A psychological drama about an unstable man, tormented by nightmares, who seeks help from a shrink but is pushed over the edge into increasingly dangerous, psychotic territory by a relationship he is unable to control.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: nightmare, obsession, dangerous attraction, losing-it hero, doctors and patients, psychopath, mentally unstable, male female relationship, mental illness, paranoia, therapy, mental patient ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Criminal Lovers (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After a perverted impulse drives them to kill, Alice and her boyfriend, Luc, drag the body into the woods, only to find themselves hopelessly lost – much like the fairy-tale plight of Hansel and Gretel. Starving and with no hope of being found, ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: lgbt, lovers on the run, couples, murder, youth, confined, psychopath, mind game, hostage, teenage life, violence, teenage boy ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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 6.9
 275
The Best Man (2006)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After painter Michael 'Mike' Sheldrake's failed suicide attempt, house-mate and life-long best friend Peter Tremaine, an antiques shop owner, reminisces their common past, like Mike does in therapy. It started at the beach, when ...
Style: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: haunted by the past, friends, friendship, fall in love, power relations, jealousy, father figure, love, flashback sequence, suicide attempt, performer's life, best friends ...
Time: 20th century, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 172 min.
Story: Based on a local legend and set in an unknown era, it deals with universal themes of love, possessiveness, family, jealousy and power. Beautifully shot, and acted by Inuit people, it portrays a time when people fought duels by taking turns to punch ...
Style: bleak, tense, harsh, sentimental, atmospheric ...
Plot: survival, revenge, native american, betrayal, jealousy, dog sled, love triangle, tragic love, rivalry, intrigue, human nature, temptation ...
Time: 18th century, middle ages
Place: canada, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 5.9
 4K
B. Monkey (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace's innocent and chivalrous ...
Style: sexy, feel good, unusual plot structure, enigmatic, romantic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: teacher, sex, love, sexuality, gangsters, jazz, hospital, addiction, violence, betrayal, british, male nudity ...
Time: 90s, 70s
Place: london, paris france, england, united kingdom, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 7.3
 16K
Read My Lips (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: She is almost deaf and she lip-reads. He is an ex-convict. She wants to help him. He thinks no one can help except himself.
Style: tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, touching, realistic ...
Plot: mute or deaf, workplace, heist, disability, twists and turns, relationships, opposites attract, character study, warden, gangsters, mentally unstable, unlikely partners ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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 6.2
 2K
Captives (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A beautiful young dentist working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate after the break-up of her marriage, and embarks upon an illicit affair with him, with terrible consequences for all.
Style: sexy, suspenseful, sweet, visually appealing, unusual plot structure ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: forbidden love, prison, destiny, erotica, bittersweet, obsession, nude, blindness, beautiful scenery, transformation, betrayal, vengeance ...
Time: 90s
Place: london, spain, england, new jersey, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.8
 5K
Heli (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Netherlands, Germany, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Heli must try and protect his young family when his 12-year-old sister inadvertently involves them in the brutal drug world. He must battle against the drug cartel that have been angered as well as the corrupt police force.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: drug cartel, cocaine, gang, drug dealing, corrupt law enforcer, torture, society, kids in trouble, urban ghetto life, small town, factory worker, police corruption ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 7.0
 4K
Eastern Boys (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: They come from all over Eastern Europe: Russia, Romania, Chechnya. They are Eastern boys. The oldest appear no more than 25; as for the youngest, there is no way of telling their age. They hang around the Gare du Nord train station in Paris. They ...
Style: bleak, realistic, serious, atmospheric, sexy ...
Plot: gay, strong sexual content, sexual relations, life is a bitch, prostitute, gay youth, male prostitute, hustler, disorder, immigrants, lgbtq, illegal immigrant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, chechnya
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 6.2
 19K
Revenge (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Michael ‘Jay’ Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years and he's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican businessman who he ...
Style: sexy, erotic, intense, emotional, serious ...
Plot: betrayal, dangerous attraction, love triangle, couple relations, revenge, adultery, vengeance, friendship, desert, extramarital affair, love, suspense ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 7.1
 75K
Blue Ruin (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The quiet life of a beach bum is upended by dreadful news. He sets off for his childhood home to carry out an act of vengeance but proves an inept assassin and finds himself in a brutal fight to protect his estranged family.
Style: dark, neo noir, intense, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: vengeance, revenge, death, vigilantism, vigilante, suspense, car, violence, murder, brutality, violent, haunted by the past ...
Time: 21st century
Place: virginia, usa, delaware
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 7.5
 56K
Tell No One (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, psychological, surprise ending, serious ...
Plot: investigation, frame up, murder, serial killer, twists and turns, corpse, loss of wife, suspense, surveillance, grief, brutality, torture ...
Time: 2000s, 90s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.5
 1K
The Nark (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Paris police detective (Richard Berry) plays rough with a prostitute (Nathalie Baye) and her pimp/lover (Philippe Léotard), whom he wants as an informant.
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sex, undercover police officer, undercover agent, spy, prostitution, gangsters, female nudity, lesbian, male nudity, love triangle, sex club, tough heroes ...
Time: 80s
Place: paris france, new york, france, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Honeymoon Killers (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Martha Beck, an obese nurse who is desperately lonely, joins a "correspondence club" and finds a romantic pen pal in Ray Fernandez. Martha falls hard for Ray, and is intent on sticking with him even when she discovers he's a con man ...
Style: neo noir, disturbing, psychological, stylized, sexy ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, con artists, cult, female serial killer, spinster, loneliness, valentine's day, violent, male nudity, marriage, wedding ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, 70s
Place: alabama, usa, missouri, michigan, new jersey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.4
 22K
The Yards (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: In the rail yards of Queens, contractors repair and rebuild the city's subway cars. These contracts are lucrative, so graft and corruption are rife. When Leo Handler gets out of prison, he finds his aunt married to Frank Olchin, one of the big ...
Style: tense, bleak, emotional, talky, intense ...
Plot: gangsters, corruption, betrayal, political corruption, murder, whistleblower, character study, police corruption, false accusation, mafia, injustice, moral dilemma ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Crying Game (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Irish Republican Army member Fergus (Stephen Rea) forms an unexpected bond with Jody (Forest Whitaker), a kidnapped British soldier in his custody, despite the warnings of fellow IRA members Jude (Miranda Richardson) and Maguire (Adrian Dunbar). ...
Style: twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: transsexual, terrorism, tragic love, kidnapping, sexuality, haunted by the past, transvestite, interracial romance, hostage, irish republican army, gender, twists and turns ...
Time: 90s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Escobar: Paradise Lost (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Spain, Belgium, Panama
Duration: 120 min.
Story: For Pablo Escobar family is everything. When young surfer Nick falls for Escobar's niece, Maria, he finds his life on the line when he's pulled into the dangerous world of the family business.
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, stylized ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: drug dealing, gangsters, drug cartel, family relations, murder, forbidden love, young lovers, siblings relations, mafia, father son relationship, husband wife relationship, uncle niece relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1991, 90s
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Survival Island (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A millionaire and his wife are shipwrecked after a yachting accident with their former servant, Manuel.
Style: sexy, realistic, suspenseful, erotic, scenic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: island, survival, sex scene, love triangle, sexual tension, husband wife relationship, cheating wife, shipwreck, desert island, romantic rivalry, marital infidelity, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.4
 285
13 m? (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jose is looking for a way out of his small time banlieue deals. When he overhears a conversation between his girlfriend and his step-brother,he might just have found a very lucrative way.Together with his two best friends,he decides to attack an ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot: friendship, crime gone awry, heist, confined, disorder, partners, hiding place, police, suspense, paranoia, trust, isolation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.1
 17K
360 (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Austria, France, Canada, Brazil, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Inspired by Arthur Schnitzler's classic La Ronde, screenwriter Peter Morgan and director Fernando Meirelles' 360 combines a modern and dynamic roundelay of stories into one, linking characters from different cities and countries in a ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, touching, suspenseful ...
Plot: temptation, love and romance, society, couple relations, missing person, husband wife relationship, jealousy, couples, suspense, cheating wife, multiple storylines, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: slovakia, rio de janeiro, paris france, vienna, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 7.0
 59K
The Lookout (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, intense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: bank robbery, memory loss, heist, suspense, amnesia, casual sex, seduction, female nudity, violence, young man, robbery, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, kansas, california, kansas city
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 6.5
 5K
Disco Pigs (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Pig and Runt born on the same day, in the same hospital, moments apart. Twins, all but by bloodline. Inseparable from birth, they are almost telepathic. They are one, needing no one else, inhabiting a delicate, insular and dangerous world where they ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: friendship, friends, love and romance, youth, couples, couple relations, teenage life, teenager, love, male female relationship, violence, jealousy ...
Time: 2000s
Place: ireland, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Last Seduction (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Looking to escape her unhappy marriage, villainous femme fatale Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) convinces her husband, Clay (Bill Pullman), to sell cocaine, then steals the profits and runs out on him. She stops in a small town en route to ...
Style: sexy, erotic, neo noir, sexual, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, small town, manipulation, seduction, betrayal, private detective, murder, fatal attraction, suspense, infidelity, love triangle, greed ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, california, usa, boston, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.9
 743
Killer (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: This lyrical, modern-day film noir finds cynical hit man Mick (Anthony LaPaglia) tiring of his job and asking his boss, mob kingpin George (Peter Boyle), for time off. George gives him the assignment of his life, however, prompting Mick's ...
Style: neo noir, sexy, psychological, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot: hitman, gangsters, obsession, assassination, femme fatale, killer, suspense, redemption, love, nude, character study, dark humor ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.1
 5K
Godforsaken! (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two small town Dutch boys whose socially unnatural friendship is so close, they care nothing for human or divine rules and lose all grip on reality, sliding into violent crime.
Style: captivating, rough, suspenseful, confusing, serious ...
Plot: gangsters, organized crime, hitman, gang, friendship, pregnancy, criminal heroes, love triangle, love, hollywood, serial killer, bad father ...
Time: 90s
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.4
 62K
Straw Dogs (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ...
Style: bleak, disturbing, psychological, controversial, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexual abuse, home invasion, rape, small town, violent, rape and revenge, revenge, murder, female nudity, sexual desire, brutality, sexual assault ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: england, cornwall, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.5
 2K
Blood Money (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Three friends on a wilderness excursion must outrun a white collar criminal hellbent on retrieving his cash, but soon their greed turns them against each other. A modern re-telling of Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948).
Style: ambiguous ending, captivating, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: betrayal by friend, suspense, wilderness, greed, embezzler, group of friends, survival, friendship, chase, criminal, young adult, runaway ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.3
 11K
Enduring Love (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, ...
Style: psychological, tense, disturbing, sexy, suspenseful ...
Plot: stalking, mental illness, obsession, guilt, haunted by the past, attempted murder, countryside, couple relations, dangerous attraction, suspense, lgbt, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%