Movies like Godspeed 2009
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Godspeed (2009)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Joseph McKelheer and Cory Knauf (The Hamiltons, The Violent Kind) star in this intense thriller set in the lingering light of the Alaskan midnight sun. Charlie Shepard, a modern day faith healer with a small flock of believers, is stunned when his family is brutally murdered. Six months later a young, mysterious girl (Courtney Halverson) appears and becomes the link to his family's killing and the murderers themselves, ultimately leading to violent consequences for all.
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, rough, serious, suspenseful, stylized, independent film, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, death in the family, society, haunted by the past, religions or cults, small town, life turned upside down, investigation, grief, killer child, gory, family problems, strong violent content, wilderness, disorder, dealing with death, power, brother sister relationship, northern lights, faith healing, deadly, crimes
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, alaska
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Most similar movies to Godspeed
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, tense, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about murder, deadly, danger, investigation, small town, haunted by the past and uncover truth mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Godspeed: Secrets of Eden (2012), Awakened (2013), Megachurch Murder (2015), I Dream of Murder (2006), Gut (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Based on Chris Bohjalian’s New York Times best-selling novel, “Secrets of Eden” centers on Stephen Drew, an adored small-town minister, and the brutal and sadistic murder-suicide of Alice and George Hayward, the town’s most beloved ...
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, serious, captivating
Plot:
murder, small town, murder investigation, pastor, clergy, social relations, under the surface, religions or cults, society, minister, small town life, unfaithful wife ...
Time:
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Place:
vermont, usa
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519
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, twists and turns, parents and children, haunted by the past, small town life, small town, mental illness, ghost, afterlife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
38%
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:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Something is missing in Tom's life. His marriage has lost its spark, his job is suffocating him, and his childhood best friend Dan still clings to the past. Every day he goes through the motions, becoming increasingly detached from those around ...
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder, haunted by the past, best friend, losing-it hero, serial killer, danger, violence, black bra, female nudity, killer, violent content, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young man and his friends react to a sudden, unexpected tragedy during their annual all-weekend summer party.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, vengeance, rivalry, prison, tragedy, danger, guilt, grief, youth, moral ambiguity, trauma, secrets ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Maggie returns to her hometown to dedicate a scholarship in her late husband's name. While there, she reconnects with old friends and comes to believe that her husband's death is tied to the mysterious deaths of several old classmates..
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
old friend, small town, homecoming, career woman, school, danger, investigation, murder, couples, high school, high school life, fashion show ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
24%
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:
24%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a man is involved in a car wreck that kills his former lover, his life is derailed and his mind is splintered with guilt and the subsequent uncertainty about what exactly happened.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
memory loss, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, uncover truth, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, tragedy, car crash, guilt, fatal accident, trauma, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
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:
23%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two cousins, Jill and Patti, visit a quaint little town on a perfect little island. Patti came to visit a man she had met and brought her cousin Jill to tag along. The two meet some local men and seem to spark relationships with them. Patti seeks to ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
frame up, small town, island, struggle for survival, uncover truth, danger, ritual, forbidden love, murder, babies and infants, unlikely couple, performer's life ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
479
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious, independent film
Plot:
investigation, uncover truth, family relations, redemption, life is a bitch, injustice, parents and children, murder, idealism, price of justice, hopes, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alabama, usa, tennessee
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Emily Parker is haunted by visions of a woman from the past soon after receiving an antique engagement ring from her fiancé.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, tense, mind bending
Plot:
ghost, uncover truth, haunted by the past, investigation, life is a bitch, murder, supernatural, dishonesty, legal, dedicated lawyer, deep south, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ellie suffers a strong shock to discover that, after suffering a near-death experience, can hear voices from beyond. He soon realizes that it is a gift with which you can help others.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, scary ...
Plot:
ghost, murder, psychic power, danger, serial killer, talking to the dead, new neighbor, death, fugitive, sex, train, flashback ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman once possessed by a mysterious entity uncovers a shocking secret about her past and must face the demon that is lurking inside of her.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, curse, curses spells and rituals, danger, small town, human host, showdown, evil, murder, ghost, paranormal, possession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
530
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
"Slip" is the story of Sarah, a young woman who witnessed her mother's murder as a child. Now grown, Sarah is haunted by her mother's memory, her restless soul, opening a gateway for the spirits of the recently departed. Sarah is ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
ghost, vengeance, danger, murder, supernatural, haunted by the past, a vision, death, investigation, childhood trauma, superpower, strong violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A father suspects his son to be a murderer...or is he just paranoid and trying to cover up his own past which involves his wife being killed in a fire?
Style:
psychological, serious, bleak, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
serial killer, murder, mind game, mysterious character, uncover truth, investigation, haunted by the past, law enforcement, life is a bitch, psychopath, who done it, protagonist as suspect ...
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After the apparent suicide of her daughter, a woman tries to prove that her son-in-law killed her.
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot:
legal investigation, murder, protagonist as suspect, legal action, couple relations, false accusation, dedicated lawyer, dishonesty, society, legal, injustice, clergy ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman tries to save her adopted daughter from a criminal, with help from the girl's biological mother.
Style:
emotional, tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
adoption, rescue, danger, parents and children, life turned upside down, family relations, woman in danger, abduction, runaway teen, mother daughter conflict, search and rescue, family reunited ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When Katherine (Alexandra Paul) finds out her father's company is about to close the paper mill they own in her hometown in rural Pennsylvania, she comes up with a plan to save it. Needing the approval of the city council, she goes back and ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
homecoming, murder, family relations, vengeance, workplace, dishonesty, betrayal, parents and children, family business, mother daughter relationship, strong female lead, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a girl is murdered soon after leaving a closed religious community, Moreno faces a difficult investigation as the community closes ranks and refuses to cooperate. When another girl is abducted and her bloody fingernails mailed to the police, ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, police investigation, religions or cults, law enforcement, private detective, society, kidnapping, partner, police procedural, investigation, missing person, religious community ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
20%
2K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
There are terrible things happening in the desert...unexplainable, frightening things. Tragic, inexplicable incidents… ever since she arrived.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
rescue, ghost, supernatural, desert, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, eye, murder, uncover truth, dark secret, american horror, child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, usa, canada
Similarity:
20%
338
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
On a remote farm in the sweeping hills of Pennsylvania, three lives are torn apart by love, abandonment, deception and murder.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, estate, tragic love, destiny, countryside, family farm, inheritance, danger, sex with sister, sex crime, farm, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In a small, wooded town, a young man struggles to leave a secret militia started by his father.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
militia, small town, injustice, vigilantism, society, father son relationship, guilt, execution, good versus evil, guilty verdict, murder, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
456
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Rachel is a sweet girl with a troubled soul, caused by a unique gift - she can see evil spirits within others. After witnessing the brutal killing of her mother, Rachel and her father look for a fresh start by moving to a new town. After befriending ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, spooky, suspense, tense
Plot:
supernatural ability, investigation, danger, murder, supernatural, small town, riddles and clues, small town life, hostage, ghost, dealing with death, witnessing a crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Uncle John revolves around the struggle to keep a mysterious disappearance unsolved
Style:
tense, realistic, sincere, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
investigation, missing person, homecoming, social relations, unlikely criminals, manipulation, under the surface, dishonesty, small town life, small town, murder, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
illinois, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A stranger in the increasingly strange city of San Francisco, Japanese crime novelist Aki is unsure of precisely what role she has to play in a real-life murder mystery involving ambiguous MacGuffins and amorphous identities. Unfolding in lonely ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
amateur detective, investigation, law enforcement, extramarital affair, small town, writer's life, love affair, missing person, book, writers, bookstore, secret service ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco, california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Nate's little brother and hippie dad depend on him for literally everything, but the well-meaning, small time pot dealer Nate wants nothing more than to run away with Nikki, the love of his life, and get out of Texas.
Style:
realistic, tense, suspense, captivating, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
drug dealing, haunted by the past, danger, family relations, family problems, teenage life, save the day, on the run, drug dealer, love, rivalry, mob boss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In "An Amish Murder", the peaceful Amish farming community of Painter’s Mill, Ohio, is shattered when a series of brutal murders leaves the town with a sense of frailty and loss of innocence. Among the most affected by the tragedy was ...
Style:
suspenseful, mind bending, serious, realistic, rough
Plot:
murder, amish, police investigation, religions or cults, society, law enforcement, winter, nypd, snow, religion, performer's life, innocence lost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ohio
Similarity:
18%
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