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My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done (2009)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Brad (Michael Shannon) has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place; Based on a true story, this gripping and unnerving blend of deadpan comedy, melodrama and raw tragedy is fleshed out by an expert cast, including Willem Dafoe and Chloe Sevigny
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, serious, realistic, surreal, disturbing, cult classic, surprise ending, bleak, dark comedy ...
Plot:
murder, obsession, crazy, memory, family relations, family problems, law enforcement, delusion, parents and children, dysfunctional family, surrealism, eccentricity, serial killer, police investigation, violence, death, swat team, meaning of life, suicide, killing spree, crime scene, cosmic horror, hostage situation, disturbed individual, profanity ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century, contemporary
Place:
california, peru, usa, san diego california, new orleans
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Most similar movies to My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and psychological films with plots about murder, deadly, serial killer, psychopath, obsession, death and violence mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like My Son, My Son, What Have Ye Done: Clean, Shaven (1993), Shotgun Stories (2007), The Element of Crime (1984), Rampage (1987), The Grief Tourist (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive family. He attempts to function in a world that, for him, is filled with strange voices, electrical noise, disconcerting images, and jarringly ...
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disturbing, serious, independent film, art house, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental illness, mental disorder, illness, mental health, insanity, character study, serial killer, abused child, psychopath, adoption, murder ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect ...
Style:
bleak, realistic, harsh, suspense, depressing ...
Plot:
violence, vengeance, violent, brutality, revenge, family relations, character study, sibling relationship, family bonds, family feud, siblings relations, estrangement ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
usa, arkansas, southern usa, california
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the ...
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surreal, bleak, psychological, neo noir, art house ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, hypnosis, police investigation, surrealism, mentor, dystopia, society, memory loss, distopia, dialogue, psychoanalysis ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Rampage delves into the subject of legal insanity, so often the default defense in modern-time gruesome crime trials. Alex McArthur plays an outwardly normal guy who goes on incredible killing and mutilating sprees until (and even after, when he ...
Style:
christmas horror, action thriller, cult classic, independent film, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, courtroom, courtroom drama, killer, true crime, lawyer, violence, death sentence, court case, killing spree, hunting, art ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
JIM TAHANA doesn't leave much of an impression when he passes you by. But look closer and you'll sense his hunger - the deep hunger of an insatiable American soul - always scanning to devour something - anything that might fill the ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, childhood trauma, killing spree, murder, obsession, friendship, twists and turns, violence, nudity, transgender, tourist, tourism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa, louisiana
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young man who works at a nursing home uses the legendary Zodiac killer's M.O. to kill people who neglect their elderly relatives.
Style:
slasher, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
wannabe, murder, police detective, police investigation, mind game, psychopath, obsession, danger, master criminal, rivalry, woman in danger, gory ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
bay area, los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Seemingly mild-mannered businessman Edmond Burke visits a fortuneteller and hears a remark that spurs him to leave his wife abruptly and seek what is missing from his life. Encounters with strangers and unsavory people weaken the barriers ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, philosophical, stylized ...
Plot:
midlife crisis, bipolar disorder, murder, sodomy, oral sex, redemption, starting over, prison, society, unlikely criminals, self control, violence ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. The discarded bodies turned up beaten, sexually assaulted and horribly mutilated. Deceptively charming and intelligent, the scheming murderer ...
Style:
rough, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, strong violent content, rape and murder, who done it, life is a bitch, physical appearance, mentally unstable, stalking, law enforcement, police detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A quiet and inconspicuous man (Trelkovsky) rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, atmospheric, surreal, creepy ...
Plot:
surrealism, paranoia, nightmare, satire, suicide, conspiracy, obsession, apartment building, loner, dream, landlord tenant relationship, mental illness ...
Time:
year 1976, near future, 70s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A series of interviews are conducted with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy in hopes of gaining insight into the Green River Killer who is terrorizing Seattle.
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, profiler, true crime, mind game, police detective, woman in danger, killer, murder, violence, brutality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, florida, washington d.c.
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The story centers on paroled white supremacist who has just killed a cop, and takes a black family hostage. Within hours of being released from 14 years of solitary confinement in maximum-security Pelican Bay State Prison, Garrett Tully is on the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
hostage, family in danger, danger, murder, family relations, confined, kidnapped, home invasion, husband wife relationship, african american, hostage situation, blaxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Unemployed and unemployable, Tony is a sympathetic recluse with severe social problems, an addiction to VHS action films and a horrible moustache. Occasionally he snaps and murder is the result…
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, realistic, bloody ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, violence, isolation, loneliness, psychopath, murderer, mental disorder, social realism, crime investigation, mental illness, brutality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, britain, europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
Style:
rough, psychological, bleak, scary, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, killing spree, investigation, police detective, mind game, gory, family conflict, law enforcement, danger, journalism ...
Time:
20th century, year 2005, 60s
Place:
san francisco, california, bay area, usa
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A lonely waitress with a tragic past, Agnes rooms in a run-down motel, living in fear of her abusive, recently paroled ex-husband. But when Agnes begins a tentative romance with Peter, an eccentric, nervous drifter, she starts to feel hopeful again ...
Style:
psychological, cult classic, suspenseful, mind bending, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
insanity, paranoia, obsession, losing-it hero, mental illness, psychosis, couples, nudity, conspiracy theory, addiction, schizophrenia, violent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
oklahoma, usa, louisiana
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The story of a clairvoyant who falls in love with a crime photographer. Soon, both become involved in the search for a pathological murderer.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, independent film ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, photographer, obsession, couples, disability, danger, mind game, who done it, mute or deaf, male female relationship, sign language ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The Prophet has arrived in the ultimate playing ground... Los Angeles. It has taken an innocent childhood game and twisted it into a deadly match of wits, where the only prize is survival. Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, riddles and clues, investigation, ex cop, chases and races, vengeance, danger, obsession, uncover truth, death of daughter, serial murder, psychopath ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Gangster and deadbeat dad, Ulysses Pick, embarks on an unusual journey through his home.
Style:
sexy, surreal, serious, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
haunted house, gangster, family relations, homecoming, escapades, parents and children, violence, ghost, caught having sex, magic realism, organized crime, psychology ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, seattle
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The Machinist is the story of Trevor Reznik, a lathe-operator who is dying of insomnia. In a machine shop, occupational hazards are bad enough under normal circumstances; yet for Trevor the risks are compounded by fatigue. Trevor has lost the ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, depressing, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
insomnia, insanity, uncover truth, obsession, mysterious character, paranoia, losing-it hero, twists and turns, schizophrenia, life is a bitch, secrets, alienation ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, america, persia, los angeles
Similarity:
41%
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43K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, surreal, cerebral, bleak ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental illness, childhood trauma, murder, haunted by the past, paranoia, mental patient, misfit, macabre, psychopath, twists and turns, mental health ...
Time:
2000s, 1950s, year 2002, 50s, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, east end london, united kingdom ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A charismatic psycho suspected of killing two innocent campers in a cold-blooded double homicide grows increasingly unstable as his suburban empire starts to crack at the foundations.
Style:
disturbing, sexy, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychopath, female nudity, murder, unsolved crime, female pubic hair, lesbian, drug use, police investigation, youth, rivalry, motel, violence ...
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Young lovers Sailor and Lula run from the variety of weirdos that Lula's mom has hired to kill Sailor.
Style:
surreal, sexy, road movie, black comedy, psychedelic ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
road trip, murder, surrealism, violence, sex scene, forbidden love, rape, domineering mother, haunted by the past, dark humor, psychopath, female nudity ...
Time:
90s, year 1990, 20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, new orleans, southern usa, austin texas, california ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fact-based drama about an arson investigator searching for the perpetrator of a string of deadly fires in 1980s California.
Style:
surprise ending, serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
arson, arsonist, firefighter, fire, delusion, investigation, law enforcement, danger, race against time, tragic hero, escapades, rescue ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
40%
780
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An enigmatic phone call from a psychic catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resurrected.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, surreal, mumblecore ...
Plot:
resurrection, siblings relations, supernatural, family in crisis, death of mother, afterlife, waiting, faith, love, death, sexual content, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
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263K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, insanity, hostage, loneliness, psychopath, stephen king, kidnapping, snow, isolation, captivity, obsessed fan, female psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
colorado, persia, usa, new york
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The true chilling story of the "two of a kind", killing cousins Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers, is told in this TV drama.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, two killers, serial killer, true crime, psychopath, cousin, strangler, homicide, killing spree, killer, criminal, violent ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A tormented rich girl hires a sex worker to act as her mother.
Style:
deep, dark, slasher, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, prostitute, stepfather, psychotic, death by drowning, twists and turns, mental disorder, female psychopath, underground, daughter, grieving mother, couples ...
Time:
60s
Place:
england, europe, london
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family ...
Style:
neo noir, psychological thriller, suspense, sexy, visually stunning ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, writers, husband wife relationship, abortion, murder, divorce, rape, loss of family, infidelity, flashback, rape and murder, art ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
texas, los angeles, new york
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A former Texas Ranger is recruited by a Houston police captain to assist a homicide detective in the search for an elusive serial killer who collects antique dolls.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
serial killer, texas ranger, psychologist, serial murder, chases and races, rivalry, law enforcement, police investigation, obsession, danger, police detective, psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, rough, suspense, retro ...
Plot:
serial killer, strangulation, true crime, split personality, murder, double life, police detective, serial rapist, police investigation, psychopath, strangler, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, year 1968, 60s, year 1963
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts, new england
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, serious, cerebral, dark comedy ...
Plot:
medical, mental illness, ambulance, hospital, redemption, paramedic, insomnia, hallucination, character study, crime gone awry, rescue, haunted by the past ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
40%
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