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Illusions (1992)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Greg Sanderson is helping his wife, Jan, to recover from a nervous breakdown and revive their strained marriage. Their privacy is interrupted by the arrival of Greg's stunning and mysterious sister, Laura. Jan's paranoia deepens as she suspects that Greg's and her sister's relationship is too close. In her desperation, she confides her fears to the landlord but his weird reaction only creates more confusion.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, exciting, enigmatic, erotic
Plot:
incest, femme fatale, mental illness, incestuous relationship, love, sister, craziness, suspicion, husband wife sex, wedding, sex scene, love triangle, archaeologist, father daughter relationship, pills, insanity, hallucination, nightmare, sister in law sister in law relationship, drinking alcohol, dog attack, caretaker, poisoned drink, ultimatum, sister in law ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, suspenseful, serious and suspense films with plots about murder, sex scene, female nudity, obsession, couples, sex and erotic thriller mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like Illusions: Body Language (1992), Sister of Mine (2017), On the Inside (2011), Shattered Mind (1996), In Dark Places (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
neo noir
Plot:
harassment, extramarital affair, wife, woman with a gun, office, murder, secretary, identity theft, femme fatale, evil, investigation, dinner ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Colombia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Oliver, a young film director, discovers on a porn Web site one night that the protagonist of one of the erotic videos is his younger half-sister Aurora. In the process of finding out what she was doing there, Oliver will become fascinated by his ...
Style:
erotic, meditative, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
half sister, porn star, brother sister incest, brother sister relationship, sex with sister, sexual perversion, incestuous sex, incest, sex scene, girlfriend boyfriend relationship, student, sex tape ...
Place:
madrid, los angeles
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100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, independent film ...
Plot:
mental institution, murder, psychopath, redemption, mentally unstable, criminal psychologist, woman in danger, crime and punishment, haunted by the past, prison, love, prison life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Heather Locklear stars in this psychological thriller as a woman who is racked by multiple personalities and confronts a horrifying past of dark secrets buried a long time ago. When her father dies she descends into a bizarre emotional world where ...
Style:
psychological thriller
Plot:
dissociative identity disorder, abuse, multiple personality disorder, sexual cruelty, death, blackout, mother daughter relationship, abusive father, acceptance, memory loss, repressed memory, sex in car ...
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A vengeful woman lures her half brother into a game that may leave her the sole heir to their abusive father's fortune.
Style:
erotic, sexual, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
voyeurism, incest, brother sister sex, forbidden sex, brother sister incest, sex scene, making love, sex with brother, brother sister relationship, false accusation of rape, exhibitionism, revenge ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
25%
115K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself.
Style:
psychological, dark, ambiguous ending, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
mental illness, nightmare, schizophrenia, obsession, insanity, paranoia, nervous breakdown, dream, delusion, character study, premonition, couple relations ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, year 1986, 21st century
Place:
ohio, columbus ohio, peru, usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young woman who is getting back on her feet after a mental breakdown, Carol Rivers discovers that her late uncle has left her a rundown nightclub. Carol decides to renovate the venue, but, in the process, uncovers dark secrets about the club and ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, scary ...
Plot:
police, nightclub, rape, incest, voyeur, female protagonist, hallucination, mental illness, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, family problems, haunted by the past ...
Time:
80s, year 2016
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Being kidnapped shatters a brother and sister's harmony, forcing them to confront their desires.
Style:
psychological, touching, erotic, sincere, eros ...
Plot:
incest, brother sister sex, brother sister incest, brother sister relationship, forced sex, shame, forbidden love, female nudity, sex scene, incestuous relationship, family in crisis, kidnapping ...
Time:
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Place:
mexico, latin america, mexico city
Similarity:
50%
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37K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.
Style:
erotic, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, serial killer, voyeurism, murder, hidden camera, video surveillance, surveillance, sex, dangerous attraction, sex scene, apartment building, secret ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Ronnie and Sara are best friends and roommates. And for Ronnie, Sara is her whole world. She does everything with her and their small group of friends. But one day, Sara suddenly disappears and Ronnie is left with a hole in her life that she cannot ...
Style:
psychological, enigmatic, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending ...
Plot:
obsessive love, missing person, obsession, insanity, ghost, murder, depression, mental illness, guilt, split personality, friend, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A sex therapist finds herself forced to cooperate with the police in tracking down a killer who has been targeting other sex therapists by using her as a decoy.
Style:
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Plot:
sex scene, erotica, lesbian sex, skinny dipping, threesome, bare breasts, serial killer, night, nudity, cheating wife, male full rear nudity, lesbian ...
Similarity:
23%
12K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When a young woman unexpectedly arrives at an older man's workplace, looking for answers, the secrets of the past threaten to unravel his new life.
Style:
psychological, cynical, sad, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Plot:
child abuse, childhood trauma, female nudity, confrontation, pedophilia, forbidden love, teenage sexuality, sex scene, sex, incest, pedophile, teenage girl ...
Place:
england
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Inmates at a women's mental asylum stage a theatrical production of Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick.'
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, melancholic ...
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, delusional woman, treatment, cure, theatre group, insanity, women, female protagonist, mentally unstable, role playing, claustrophobia ...
Time:
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Similarity:
22%
354
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Dead bodies are piling up, and the leads the two LA homicide cops have point to Barbara, business manager for a successful architectural firm she runs with her husband Lance. The dead men were interns at the firm, and each of them was Barbara's ...
Style:
exciting, detective, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, sex scene, erotica, sex, voyeur, murder suspect, investigation, murder, corpse, police, architect, bondage ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A seductive teen befriends an introverted high school student and schemes her way into the lives of her wealthy family.
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
seattle
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
california, san francisco
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, sexual, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
erotica, passion, bigamy, home invasion, murder, infidelity, mind game, couples, family problems, love triangle, love affair, unfulfillment ...
Time:
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Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style:
psychological, cerebral, atmospheric, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, character study, dancing, insanity, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, ballerina, surrealism, schizophrenia ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, sexual, talky, stylized, melancholic ...
Plot:
male female relationship, sex, sex scene, lesbianism, topless woman, sexuality, nudity, female nudity, seduction, femme fatale, couples, female masturbation ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, israel
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological thriller, tense, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, infidelity, stalker, adultery, husband wife relationship, sexual obsession, femme fatale, family in danger, crimes of passion, extramarital affair, fatal attraction, mental illness ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
20%
372
Genre: Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Fifteen-year-old Sammy has recently become aware of desires she awakens in men but one man to whom she is herself attracted is her older brother Jacob. With an institutionalized father and a mother neither sibling has seen for years, Jacob provides ...
Style:
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Plot:
incest, brother sister incest, brother sister sex, teenage sex, forbidden sex, brother, sex with sister, sex with brother, seduction, sexual awakening, coming of age, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
50%
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, suspense, exciting, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
obsessive love, stalker, psychopath, forbidden love, unrequited love, one night stand, stalking, obsession, murder, fiance fiancee relationship, infatuation, husband wife relationship ...
Place:
new orleans, santa monica california
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Charlie is an introverted person getting out of prison. He feeds in an apartment and starts dreaming of the woman who died in this apartment. And his fantasies of this woman getting worse and worse.
Style:
independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, male nudity, psychiatric patient, alone, murder, psychopath, friendship, hospital, woman in danger, mental institution, drug dealing, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a boy from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there.
Style:
psycho sexual, psychological thriller, psychosexual thriller, intense, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
vancouver, canada
Similarity:
20%
8K
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, psychological thriller, hilarious, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, mental health, courtroom, lawyer, court, murder, flashback, sex worker, self defense, prostitution, child abuse, insanity ...
Time:
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Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Jack Hart lives with his lawyer wife and yound daughter and enjoys a wonderful life. Jack's old girlfriend, Lisa, comes into town and they have an affair. Lisa kills her current boyfriend in self-defense and Jack witnesses the whole thing. Lisa ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, erotic, psychological ...
Plot:
femme fatale, investigation, murder, betrayal, love and romance, legal investigation, manipulation, power relations, legal, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty, dedicated lawyer ...
Time:
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Place:
utah, salt lake city utah
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Nicole and Mark get engaged, but his stepsister believes she has a claim on him and is willing to do anything to be his bride.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
fiancee, bride and groom, love triangle, attempted murder, jealousy, marriage, obsession, couples, relationships, half sister, couple relations, sister ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An introvert relieves the tedium of caring for his invalid mother by spying on his neighbor.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A mystery woman turns vengeful after a college athlete dumps her following a one-night stand.
Style:
erotic, psychological thriller, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
19%
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