Movies like Motives
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Motives (2004)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Motive is an edgy thriller that centers around Emery Simms, a highly educated and successful business tycoon who happens to be married to the quintessential wife Constance. Things go dangerously awry when the thrill seeking Emery engages in an adulterous fling with the wildly free-spirited and exotic Allanah. Timing couldn't be any worse when the politics of high society, shady business deals, bad press, and a violent murder collide, they threaten to destroy more than just his shaky marriage. As police probe into his situation, they uncover a labyrinth of deception, agendas and motives, where the stakes are enormous and nothing is what it seems.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, tense, sexy
Plot:
desire, sensuality, dangerous attraction, attraction, murder, manipulation, fatal attraction, sexual relations, couples, infidelity, danger, black, african american, passionate kiss, seduction, black cast, urban, crime gone awry, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect, prison, tennis, interrogation, fight to the death, poetry ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Motives
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about dishonesty, couples, dangerous attraction, deadly, murder, infidelity and danger mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Motives: Heart of Stone (2001), Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (2000), Mother's Boys (1993), The Housemaid (2010), Coffin Rock (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
california, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, suspenseful, realistic, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
dangerous attraction, uncover truth, manhunt, femme fatale, false accusation, friendship, on the run, estrangement, prison life, murder, prison, frame up ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A man's affair with his family's housemaid leads to a dark consequences. Eun-yi is hired as an au pair for Hae-ra (pregnant with twins) and her rich husband Hoon. Eun-yi's primary task is watching the couple's young daughter, ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
master and servant, maid, eroticism, dangerous attraction, adulterous husband, abuse of power, jealous wife, sexual relations, strong sexual content, destructive relationship, asian prostitute, servant ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, UK, New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman unable to conceive a child with her husband, despite years of trying, makes the drunken mistake of sleeping with a young stranger. The stranger then goes to terrifying lengths to prove his paternity.
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Audience:
date night, boys' night, teens
Plot:
pregnancy, stalking, obsession, danger, infidelity, couples, small town, husband wife relationship, suspicion, stalker, male female relationship, wedding ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia, oceania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia, France, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A wealthy man married to a beautiful younger woman puts her fidelity to the test.
Style:
sexy, tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, erotic, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
extramarital affair, infidelity, murder, nightclub, manipulation, who done it, love affair, love and romance, dangerous attraction, femme fatale, mysterious character, couples ...
Similarity:
42%
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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:
sexual, independent film, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stalking, psychopath, infidelity, obsession, danger, dangerous attraction, couple relations, dishonesty, couples, husband, woman, friend ...
Time:
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Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Romania, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a young drifter is forced to stay the winter in a small seaside town, he inadvertently becomes the catalyst for deceit, double crossings and murder amongst the locals.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
contract killing, hitman, dangerous attraction, murder, manipulation, crime gone awry, hidden identity, femme fatale, couples, dishonesty, law enforcement, danger ...
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38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Joan Alton is a lawyer who goes undercover at a strip club to gather clues that might exonerate her lover who has been accused of murder. While the defendant's secrets unveil, she will stop at nothing to catch the real killer.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, sexual, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, realistic, serious, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, femme fatale, woman in danger, legal, betrayal, serial killer, law enforcement, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, obsession, couples ...
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433
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In an erotic update of "Strangers on a Train", airline pilot Ted Beaumont and his lover, Erin Davenport, scheme to rid themselves of their respective spouses. Ted's wife disappears mysteriously and thinking that all is proceeding ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, independent film, rough ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In Lille, Claire Gauthier is an ordinary married woman with a young daughter that works in an insurance company analyzing losses of insured properties. When the single veterinary Laurent Kessler claims damage in his basement caused by a flooding due ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
serial killer, dangerous attraction, couples, danger, dishonesty, murder, suspicion, psychology, infidelity, female nudity, scalpel, veterinarian ...
Time:
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Place:
flanders
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Movie producer Alan Clay wants to make a movie about Dr. Claire Archer and her amazing life story (she's been 'forced' to kill two men in self defence). Claire falls for Alan, and Alan cannot resist temptation, so now he's hiding ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, independent film, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
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754
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, erotic, sensual, sexual, psychological ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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716
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, erotic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When a hip-hop promoter is bailed out of a hefty debt by a club owner, he becomes one of her call boys and nearly loses his life in the process.
Style:
sexy, stylized, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Plot:
sex scene, erotica, making love, hip hop, infidelity, gigolo, black cast, massage, blackmail, adultery, emotional manipulation, debt ...
Place:
atlanta georgia
Similarity:
33%
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Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
spain, new york, barcelona
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, tense, serious, suspense, realistic
Plot:
sexual blackmail, dangerous attraction, obsession, dishonesty, couple relations, danger, stalking, infidelity, secret past, couples, sexual content, bare breasts ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
33%
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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, sexual, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
erotica, passion, bigamy, home invasion, murder, infidelity, mind game, couples, family problems, love triangle, love affair, unfulfillment ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young man desperate to be connected to the people close to him resorts to devious measures to achieve that desire
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
obsession, family in danger, relationship problems, murder, investigation, uncover truth, love affair, couples, dishonesty, sociopath, desire, criminal ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
804
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him unresponsive to her needs. Mara wants out, but she also wants Donnie's money. When Mara meets a ...
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, female nudity, woman with a gun, vietnam veteran, cheating wife, inheritance, vietnam war, family problems, couple relations, infidelity, manipulation, unsupportive spouse ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
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, love triangle, love and romance, police detective, missing person, obsession, uncover truth, police investigation, mysterious character, teenage life, amateur detective ...
Place:
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Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, serious, suspenseful, erotic, suspense ...
Plot:
obsession, dangerous attraction, infidelity, femme fatale, love affair, manipulation, family problems, dishonesty, mentally unstable, crumbling marriage, danger, sexual relations ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Hollis Parker hosts a nightly web show that brings together sexual misfits from across the World Wide Web. A new intern at the studio shows romantic interest in Hollis, and what begins as a seemingly innocent crush turns into an unhealthy obsession.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, sexy, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, haunted by the past, obsession, couples, strong sexual content, computers and web, media, sexual relations, desert, suv, sex scene, male nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Detecive Max Garrett is assigned to protect the sultry photographer Laura Cross from a ruthless killer, he has no idea what he's in for. The more involved Garrett gets in the case, the more attracted he is to Cross, but as they get closer, ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
serial killer, photographer, murder, uncover truth, police investigation, dangerous attraction, reluctant partners, bodyguard, dishonesty, life is a bitch, betrayal, manipulation ...
Similarity:
32%
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