Movies like Mother's Boys

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Mother's Boys (1993)
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Mother's Boys (1993)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a divorce. She responds by trying to turn her three boys against Callie, then by slashing herself and blaming her rival and finally by drawing her 12-year-old, Kes, into a murderous plot.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense, realistic, neo noir, dark, independent film, serious
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, mentally unstable, family life, dysfunctional family, family problems, family in danger, murder, stalking, danger, hidden identity, killer, children, women, youth, crazy, mother, peeping, oedipus complex, femme fatale, gory, family relations, parents and children, couples, rivalry, mind game ...
Time: 90s

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Most similar movies to Mother's Boys

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and psychological films with plots about deadly, danger, obsession, couples, murder, psychopath and rivalry mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like Mother's Boys: The Good Son (1993), Sleeping with the Enemy (1991), Man of Her Dreams (1997), Natural Enemy (1996), Say Nothing (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Good Son (1993)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, serious ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: children, manipulation, evil child, killer child, psychopath, problem child, brutality, disbelieving adult, creepy child, murder, death, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: maine, japan, usa, asia, new england
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100%
Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tense, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: obsession, domestic violence, stalking, violent husband, woman in danger, starting over, psychopath, dangerous attraction, haunted by the past, revenge, abusive relationship, obsessive love ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1990
Place: africa, iowa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
Man of Her Dreams (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After suspecting her husband is playing the field, a nervous woman finds a sympathetic ear in the form of a strange man. The drawback is that her sensitive new-found friend is an obsessive psychopath.
Style: independent film, realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: stalking, psychopath, infidelity, danger, obsession, couples, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, couple relations, husband, friend, woman ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.2
 677
Natural Enemy (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: William McNamara plays a young man who was given away by his mother at birth, seeking revenge on her for abandoning him.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, parents and children, danger, dishonesty, woman in danger, couples, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, obsession ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 4.7
 721
Say Nothing (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Housewife Grace Needham (Nastassja Kinski) has a one-night stand with Julian Grant (William Baldwin), who then becomes obsessed with sinking her marriage to husband Matt (Hart Bochner). The twist here is that Julian is a millionaire global ...
Style: sexy, serious, suspenseful, suspense, erotic ...
Plot: obsession, dangerous attraction, femme fatale, love affair, manipulation, infidelity, family problems, mentally unstable, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, danger, sexual relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear (1998)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A neglectful mother overhears her husband on the telephone at their workplace talking with their babysitter. She discovers they are having an affair and are going to have a baby. She concocts an evil plan to win back her husband and remove the girl ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: nanny, murder, infidelity, psycho, rivalry, danger, vengeance, criminal heroes, dishonesty, babies and infants, crumbling marriage, psychopath ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Single White Female 2: The Psycho (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A warped woman takes deadly measures to help a new roommate get rid of her problems.
Style: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: obsession, female psychopath, psychopath, murder, mentally unstable, female assassin, psycho killer, murderer, female killer, seduction, serial killer, girlfriend ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Axed (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A strict father loosens up enough to let his children take a day off school for a trip to the countryside. But things turn darker when the family realize he is planning to make it their last outing ever.
Style: slasher, tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: family relations, unemployment, psychopath, family in danger, rivalry, confined, isolation, parents and children, countryside, profanity, murder, crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Blue Smoke (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After witnessing an uncontrollable blaze burn her family's pizzeria to the ground when she was just 11 old, it's no wonder that Reena decides to become an arson investigator. Now, years later, she decides to visit the old neighborhood, ...
Style: serious, tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful
Plot: obsession, female protagonist, psychopath, danger, fire, rivalry, couples, stalking, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, serial killer, firefighter, writers ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Below Utopia (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Daniel returns to his family's mansion for the holidays along with his girlfriend Susanne. His family's seemingly-utopian existence is overshadowed by not only the death of Daniel's brother, but also by Daniel's failure to live ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Plot: murder, crime gone awry, family gatherings, heist, confined, danger, gunfight, sex scene, woman with a gun, making love, mansion, sensuality ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.0
 248
Committed (1991)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, independent film ...
Plot: mental institution, doctor, murder, mistaken identity, nurse, power relations, dishonesty, mentally unstable, misfit, patient, trap, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Table for One (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A wife, her two-timing husband and a flirting neighbor are unpredictable competitors in a warped game that turns into a life-or-death affair.
Style: erotic, realistic, serious, psychological, tense ...
Plot: erotica, home invasion, mind game, infidelity, murder, bigamy, couples, family problems, obsession, crumbling marriage, love and romance, unfulfillment ...
Time: 90s
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100%
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The Ex (1996)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: In order to get her husband back, an architect's psycho ex-wife kills everybody she can get her hands on.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, bleak, scary ...
Plot: obsession, psychopath, danger, family in danger, murder, obsessive love, family life, manipulation, wife, architecture, architect, vengeance ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Poison Ivy (1992)
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: sexy, erotic, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: femme fatale, older man younger woman relationship, lesbian, dangerous attraction, teenage girl, infidelity, teenage life, adultery, obsession, high school, nymphet, seduction ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Malicious (1995)
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: psychological thriller, erotic, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, stalking, female nudity, voyeur, sex in car, stalker, femme fatale, toxic relationship, woman seduces a man, bad girl, making love, sex scene ...
Time: 90s
Place: san francisco
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Tangled (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young man is found bruised, beaten and stumbling down a secluded road. As the police try to piece together what happened, the convoluted relationship between a young woman and her two suitors gradually emerges.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, teen horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dangerous attraction, couples, missing person, obsession, investigation, love triangle, uncover truth, police investigation, psychopath, mysterious character, teenage life, police detective ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Body Chemistry (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A research project on sexual response leads two doctors into an affair where their deepest passions and darkest fantasies are revealed.
Style: sexy, erotic, sensual, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fatal attraction, obsession, infidelity, erotica, laboratory, love triangle, danger, dangerous attraction, love affair, obsessive love, stalking, sexual relations ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Perfect Nanny (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Upon her release from a mental institution where she was recovering from a suicide attempt, Andrea McBride applies for the position of nanny for a handsome, wealthy surgeon, Dr. James Lewis, a widower with two children. Another applicant is hired, ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: nanny, obsession, under the surface, danger, murder, parents and children, family relations, femme fatale, woman with a gun, strong female lead, stalker, woman seduces a man ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Darkness Falls (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With his pregnant wife at death's door after a car crash, desperate husband John Barrett invades the home of Mark Driscoll and his rich, neglected wife Sally. He holds the couple hostage in order to understand the events that led to his wife ...
Style: realistic, psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot: captivity, hostage, family problems, couples, confined, vengeance, haunted by the past, estate, danger, dishonesty, unhappy wife, unhappy marriage ...
Time: 90s
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100%
 5.3
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The Operator (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A scoundrel is tormented by a seemingly-omniscent telephone operator.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film ...
Plot: gambling, infidelity, vengeance, mind game, family problems, couples, womanizer, investigation, danger, downfall, family in danger, false accusation ...
Time: 90s
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100%
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Runaway (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Michael Adler has run away from his suburban home with his little brother Dylan. Hiding out in a quiet, rural town, Michael's convinced he can make a better life for both of them. While Dylan stays holed up in a cheap motel all day, Michael ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: starting over, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, teenage life, on the run, obsession, family problems, investigation, hiding, small town, fall in love, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
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100%
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Hollywood film executive gets blackmailed by a derelict who uses some damaging information to move into his house and take over his perfect life for himself.
Style: serious, psychological, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: frame up, dishonesty, mind game, murder, false accusation, psychopath, manipulation, dangerous attraction, crime gone awry, danger, protagonist as suspect, cons and scams ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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100%
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Blind Terror (2001)
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After marrying a handsome man she barely knows, a woman experiences threatening calls and violent attacks from a mysterious woman who claims to be her new husband's former lover.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Plot: dangerous attraction, private detective, woman in danger, danger, dishonesty, family problems, couples, infidelity, stalking, husband wife relationship, home invasion, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Bottom of the Sea (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An architect (Daniel Hendler) trails a man (Gustavo Garzón) who was hiding under his girlfriend's (Dolores Fonzi) bed.
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot: jealousy, love, obsession, investigation, danger, couples, stalking, infidelity, rivalry, lovers, unfaithful, true love ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina
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100%
Single White Female (1992)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam proves unfaithful, Allison strikes out on her own but must use the classifieds to seek ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, erotic, sexy, intense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, stalker, mental illness, femme fatale, sexual harassment, psychopath, jealousy, stalking, female rapist, manipulation, borderline personality disorder, sex scene ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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100%
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First Born (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Laura's expecting. Her husband, Steven's a loving guy but has little time for her. Her mom lives thousands of miles away. Forced to give up on her dreams, she's always been a bit edgy. A C-section drives her over the edge, making her ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, psychological, tense ...
Plot: family in danger, mentally unstable, nanny, danger, parents and children, family problems, isolation, suburbs, obsession, supernatural ability, pregnancy, curses spells and rituals ...
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Love Walked In (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two romantically involved down-and-out lounge singers get involved in a caper.
Style: suspenseful, neo noir, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot: femme fatale, showbiz, love triangle, sex scene, cons and scams, obsession, private detective, down on your luck, love and romance, infidelity, violent content, supportive spouse ...
Time: year 1997, 1940s
Place: latin america
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100%
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Wicked (1998)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A cul-de-sac in an oppressive suburb becomes a literal dead end for wife and mother Karen Christianson (Chelsea Field) when she is brutally murdered in her own home. In the wake of the event, Karen's teenage daughter Ellie (Julia Stiles) begins ...
Style: teen horror, detective, independent film, realistic, psychological ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: father daughter incest, incest, unfaithful wife, incestuous relationship, teenager, obsession, serial killer, psychopath, dysfunctional family, erotica, age difference, nymphet ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Tie That Binds (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: John Netherwood and his wife Leann are fugitives who are both wanted for murder. They have a young daughter named Janie and they want her back.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, bad ending, intense, serious ...
Plot: adoption, fugitives, children, family relations, wanted, haunted by the past, parents and children, custody, criminal heroes, rivalry, obsession, little girl ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mummy An' the Armadillo (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Secrets, murders and lies... all in the name of family. In the middle of nowhere sits the Armadillo Café.The once popular, but now desolate, café is run by a strange family led a troubled, booze-addled mother (Betty Buckley) and a disturbed family ...
Style: tense, psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: mind game, psychopath, family problems, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals, family relations, woman in danger, missing person, mysterious character, danger, diner, hostage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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