Movies like The Night Listener
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The Night Listener (2006)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the midst of his crumbling relationship, a radio show host begins speaking to his biggest fan, a young boy, via the telephone. But when questions about the boy's identity come up, the host's life is thrown into chaos.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, enigmatic, melancholic, stylized, light, atmospheric, thought provoking, bad ending, dark ...
Plot:
radio, suspense, gay, listener, adaptation, mental illness, aids, amateur detective, mysterious character, twists and turns, lgbt, winter, investigation, snow, child abuse, father son relationship, liar, writers, illness, hospital, blindness, terminal illness, catastrophe, psychology, relationships ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, new york, wisconsin
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, psychological, intense and interesting films with plots about police investigation, twists and turns, storytelling, dialogue, brutality, pornography and runaway mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Night Listener: The Dead Girl (2006), Insomnia (2002), Jack Goes Home (2016), The Deep End (2001), The Minus Man (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, bad ending, depressing ...
Plot:
missing person, murder, serial killer, investigation, prostitute, uncover truth, life is a bitch, family relations, dead girl, promiscuous daughter, child abuse, parents and children ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, southern california
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
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atmospheric, neo noir, psychological, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot:
police investigation, small town, murder, investigation, character study, investigator, police, suspense, police corruption, snow, guilt, murderer ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, los angeles, usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After his father is killed in a car crash, Jack travels home to Colorado to help nurse his mother (who was injured in the crash) back to health. There, he uncovers long buried secrets and lies within his family, his friends, and his very identity.
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surreal, disturbing, ambiguous ending, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
dark secret, child abuse, haunted house, getting home, dead father, childhood memory, mother son relationship, gay, family problems, family secret, family relations, secret ...
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspenseful, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
gay, murder, twists and turns, suspense, gay teenager, life is a bitch, plot twist, tragedy, police investigation, murder mystery, conspiracy, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The Minus Man is a 1999 film based on the novel by Lew McCreary. It was directed by Hampton Fancher, who also wrote the screenplay. The film centers on a psychotic killer whom Fancher describes as "a cross between Psycho's Norman Bates, ...
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psychological, clever, disturbing, thought provoking, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, american football, christmas, psychopath, small town, killer, violence, murder, death, violent, mentor, psychology ...
Time:
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Place:
oregon, vancouver
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
Style:
atmospheric, enigmatic, intense, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, investigation, murder, justice, journalism, homosexual, police investigation, small town, voodoo, suspense, culture clash ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
georgia, new orleans, usa, southern usa
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56%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can ...
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surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, talky, clever ...
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murder, police investigation, twists and turns, investigation, guilt, mind game, suspense, law enforcement, prostitute, brutality, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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56%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Julie Styron thinks she is going to be fired, but instead discovers that she is being promoted. Trapped in an airport hotel, she wants to celebrate but finds only the company of her young assistant, Paula Murphy. As the night progresses, the two ...
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psychological, disturbing, harsh, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
psychology, women, lesbian, trust, brutality, twists and turns, airport, character study, manipulation, paranoid, redemption, vengeance ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
california, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sy "the photo guy" Parrish has lovingly developed photos for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually believes he's part of their ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, tense, scary, dark ...
Plot:
obsession, loneliness, loner, voyeurism, mental illness, insanity, psychopath as protagonist, adultery, suspense, serial killer, twists and turns, paranoid ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, stylized, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick
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serial killer, investigation, murder, murder mystery, journalism, suspense, maniac, paranoia, killings, police, uncover truth, mind game ...
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Place:
san francisco, california, usa, sacramento california, oakland california
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A young woman (Sandra Bullock) mysteriously disappears, sending her boyfriend Jeff (Kiefer Sutherland) on a years-long quest to find her. Not even a new love (Nancy Travis) can keep him from his obsessive search. All the while, the calculating ...
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psychological, suspenseful, tense, intense, scary ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
missing person, kidnapping, obsession, psychopath, serial killer, suspense, twists and turns, buried alive, existentialism, killer, marriage, redneck ...
Time:
90s
Place:
seattle, washington state
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52%
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 ...
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serial killer, split personality, true crime, double life, strangulation, police investigation, murder, serial rapist, psychopath, mind game, obsession, police detective ...
Time:
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Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts, new england
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49%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, enigmatic, scary ...
Plot:
investigation, child abuse, dysfunctional family, domestic violence, suspense, murder, maid, sexual abuse, small town, abusive husband, women, strong female lead ...
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman ...
Style:
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Plot:
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1940s, 20th century, year 1948
Place:
los angeles, california, africa, texas, usa ...
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48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Eight years after the disappearance of Cassandra, some disturbing incidents seem to indicate that she's still alive. Police, parents and Cassandra herself, will try to unravel the mystery of her disappearance.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, surreal, non-linear ...
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, stylized, absurd ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style:
psychological, depressing, emotional, twist ending, tense ...
Audience:
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vengeance, loss of child, murder, suspense, sexual abuse, childhood, murder mystery, investigation, police investigation, child abuse, death in the family, revenge ...
Time:
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Place:
massachusetts, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In this spine-tingling and visually stunning thriller, Academy Award®-nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Unbreakable, Shaft, Pulp Fiction delivers a "full-throttle performance" (People) as Romulus Ledbetter, a misunderstood musician turned ...
Style:
psychological, dark, intense, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental illness, murder, investigation, suspense, interracial relations, corruption, conspiracy theory, redemption, moral ambiguity, parents and children, life is a bitch, homeless ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines is brought in ...
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psychological, scary, twist ending, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
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psychiatrist, police officer, sexual abuse, suspense, investigation, hospital, paranoia, false accusation, memory loss, twists and turns, child abuse, nightmare ...
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Place:
usa, minnesota, canada
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44%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. "This will only take ten minutes", they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley ...
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Audience:
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Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, Sweden
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building. Suspecting wrongdoing, Smilla uncovers a trail of clues leading towards a secretive corporation that ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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41%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
twist ending, psychological, disturbing, intense, surprise ending ...
Plot:
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Time:
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usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer. Based on a story by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Style:
bleak, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending, enigmatic ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, twists and turns, child murder investigation, murder mystery, small town, suspense, obsession, promise, psychology, child murder ...
Time:
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Place:
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40%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A rude, contemptuous talk show host becomes overwhelmed by the hatred that surrounds his program just before it goes national.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When affluent executive, Wayne Hayes is kidnapped by a disgruntled employee and held for ransom in a forest, Wayne’s wife is forced to reckon with the FBI agents as they negotiate with the kidnapper.
Style:
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Plot:
kidnapping, ransom, marriage, fbi, marital problem, psychopath, haunted by the past, family life, chase, wilderness, twists and turns, betrayal ...
Place:
london, pittsburgh
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39%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s, 70s
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38%
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