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Hitting Home (1988)
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Hitting Home (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to New York, only to discover that the crime is not covered by the extradition treaty between Canada and the US. She becomes obsessed with bringing the criminal to justice.
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: obsession, hit and run, revenge, redheaded woman, life is a bitch, vengeance, rivalry, erotica, train, businessman, journalist, graffiti, criminal, doctor, ambulance, hospital, computer, boy, tragedy, taxi, singing, taxi driver, father daughter relationship, elevator, prosecutor ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada, new york, montreal, usa, united states of america, montreal quebec, montreal quebec canada
Keyword: american, visit

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, independent film and suspenseful films with plots about apology, cigarette smoking, telephone call, opening a door, telephone, husband wife relationship and night mostly in Drama, Romance and Thriller genres. Some movies like Hitting Home: Ticket to Heaven (1981), The Nest (2020), The Handyman (1980), In Her Defense (1999), The Informers (1963). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ticket to Heaven (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: David is a young man seduced by a religious cult that uses starvation, exhaustion, and brainwashing to mold recruits into money hustling disciples of a messiah-like leader. Chronicles David's chilling transformation into a gaunt, mindless ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, tense, thought provoking ...
Plot: sleep deprivation, religious cult, religion, religions or cults, sect, atheism, hidden treasure, brainwashing, mind control, society, human nature, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: toronto ontario canada, california, usa, san francisco
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The Nest (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into ...
Style: suspense, serious, talky, cynical, realistic ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, husband wife sex, family relations, hidden money, mother daughter conflict, family life, ambition, husband wife conflict, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, american abroad, wealth ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, london
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31%
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The Handyman (1980)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: One of Canada's talented directors, actress Micheline Lanctot expresses an effective, engaging approach in this simple, poignant drama about Armand (Jocelyn Berube), a handyman with one problem romance after another. The quiet Armand settles ...
Plot: two brothers, boy, husband wife relationship, friendship between men, sandwich, adultery, golf club, mother daughter relationship, brother brother relationship, singing, telephone call, roommate ...
Time: year 1980
Place: montreal
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In Her Defense (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In Her Defense is a 1998 thriller directed by Sidney J. Furie. Lawyer Andrew Garfield begins having an affair with a deaf woman, played by Marlee Matlin, when one day her husband catches them. Andrew Garfield then kills him. From then on in the ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, sexual, suspenseful
Plot: deaf, lawyer, love, hitman, law, murder, infidelity, frame up, couples, power relations, legal action, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Informers (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.
Style: noir, detective, independent film, vintage
Plot: bank robbery, blackmail, bare chested male, junkyard, police chase, bartender, married couple, black woman, criminal gang, ferry, night, cat ...
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24%
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The Bank (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: The Bank, a world ripe with avarice and corruption, where O'Reilly and his ilk can thrive and honest Aussie battlers lose everything. Enter Jim Doyle a maverick mathematician who has devised a formula to predict the fluctuations of the stock ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, captivating, cynical, clever ...
Plot: business, stock exchange, mathematician, greed, mathematics, finance, economics, computer genius, workplace, ambition, rise to the top, fighting the system ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 70s
Place: australia
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Native Son (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In 1940s Chicago, a young black man takes a job as a chauffeur to a white family, which takes a turn for the worse when he accidentally kills the teenage daughter of the couple and then tries to cover it up.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, biting, gloomy ...
Plot: racism, african american, murder, lawyer, chauffeur, blaxploitation, black history, blindness, courtroom, paranoia, racial issues, black ...
Time: 1940s, year 1986, 1930s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Heatwave (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A woman attempts to stop a redevelopment plot which she thought was the cover-up for fraud and other criminal activity.
Style: neo noir, retro, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: heat wave, christmas, redheaded woman, injustice, against the odds, fighting the system, rivalry, society, state affairs, rebellion, father daughter relationship, party ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: australia, sydney australia
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22%
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Nobody Waved Goodbye (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: 18 year-old Peter lives with his parents in a middle-class Toronto suburb and rebels constantly against their imposed middle-class goals and conventions and the materialist values they represent. He constantly mocks and belittles his family with his ...
Audience: teens
Plot: boy, juvenile delinquent, teenager, rebel, probation officer, breaking the law, pregnant girl, boat ride, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, job interview, lie ...
Place: canada
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22%
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Tim (1979)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Handsome but backward gardener Tim Melville has a new woman in his life. She is Mary, his widowed employer, a woman who had given up on love until she had found Tim. At first they are friends. But soon they become lovers, as Mary, drawn to ...
Style: romantic, serious, realistic, sentimental, sincere ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, redheaded woman, family relations, unrequited love, autism, women, sibling relationship, age-gap relationship, psychopath, mental disorder, tenderness, social relations ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: australia
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22%
Hungry Hearts (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance.
Style: realistic, touching, serious, indie film, sad ...
Plot: murder, pregnancy, family problems, life turned upside down, couples, vegetarian, saving a life, tragic event, husband wife relationship, mental illness, paranoia, hunger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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22%
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Hamlet (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.
Style: meditative, intense, cynical, psychological, serious ...
Plot: shakespeare, murder, revenge, tragedy, vengeance, betrayal, ghost, intrigue, tragic hero, haunted by the past, corporation, poisoning ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2000
Place: new york, denmark, europe, usa, england
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22%
Rolling Vengeance (1987)
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A truck driver builds a special, eight-ton truck to help get revenge against the rednecks who killed his family and raped his girlfriend.
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, bleak, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: truck, revenge, carsploitation, car, murder, rape, vigilante, trucker, automobile, redneck, car chase, car crash ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Unfinished Business (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Seventeen year old Izzy Marks lives in Toronto with her divorced mother and finds her life boring and directionless. Meant to be a sequel to Don Owen's acclaimed 1964 film "Nobody Waved Good-bye", "Unfinished Business" ...
Style: independent film
Plot: homeless shelter, environmental, cycling, night, basketball, old woman, teddy bear, environmental activism, mirror, policewoman, swing, black boy ...
Place: canada
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Blue Smoke (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
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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
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The Custodian (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Det. Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt police force that surrounds him. He abandons his 'straight' life to partner in crime with his co-worker, ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: husband leaves wife, corruption, police corruption, corrupt, cop, marital separation, coffee shop, police raid, redheaded woman, rape and murder, internal affairs, undercover ...
Time: 90s
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Asylum (2005)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
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Duration: 99 min.
Story: A woman becomes very curious about one of her psychiatrist husband's inmates, a man who was found guilty in the murder and disfigurement of his former wife.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: psychiatrist, couple relations, obsession, love, love and romance, destructive relationship, hospital, affair, crumbling marriage, family problems, infidelity, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century, year 2005, 50s, 1950s, 60s
Place: europe, london, wales, united kingdom, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Brilliant Lies (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Susy Conner accuses former employer, Gary Fitzgerald, of harassment and unfair dismissal for failing to comply with his sexual demands. Relating the incident to conciliation lawyer, Marion Lee, Susy comments that the trauma experienced should ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: sexual harassment, family relations, sexual abuse, feminism, couples, courtroom, power relations, siblings relations, sexual relations, courtroom drama, workplace situations, false accusation ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: melbourne, australia
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Heavenly Bodies (1984)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A small "Dance-ercize" studio fights for its existence against the unscrupulous owner of a rival club. The conflict boils down to a "Dance Marathon" to settle the score.
Style: independent film
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Annie's Coming Out (1984)
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Split Image (1982)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An impressionable young man finds himself literally enslaved by a modern-day religious cult. In an effort to bring him back to reality, the boy's parents hire a deprogrammer to kidnap him and return him to his family.
Style: spiritual, retro, independent film, weird
Plot: religion, hidden treasure, occult, atheism, religions or cults, true love, bare chested male, villain as protagonist, photography, blonde, van, photograph ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
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A Summer Story (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A bittersweet tale of lost love, based on a short story ("The Apple Tree") by John Galsworthy.
Style: period piece, independent film, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
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Streets (1990)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, realistic, serious ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
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Story: Every choice has a consequence. But what if the flip of a coin could trigger two separate but parallel destinies? Bobby (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) and Kate (Lynn Collins) are a young New York couple at a crossroads whose lives are about to take very ...
Style: serious, sincere, captivating, clever, experimental ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
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The Crossing Guard (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, suspense, emotional, intense ...
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Already Dead (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When Thomas Archer's happy & successful life is all but ruined following a horrific attack he is presented with a perfect opportunity to exact physical revenge upon the man who caused all his grief. However the immediate consequences of ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
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The Perfect Guy (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After a painful breakup, Leah seems to meet the perfect guy. But she soon discovers his violent side that disrupts her life.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, fatal attraction, stalker, woman in danger, stalking, psychopath, couple relations, danger, fear, black, female protagonist, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, san francisco
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19%
The Perfect Wife (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Leah's brother dies in a car accident, she vows revenge on the doc who failed to save him.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, twisted ...
Plot: revenge, murder, psychopath, femme fatale, serial killer, couples, family problems, dishonesty, couple relations, infidelity, female killer, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
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This Man Must Die (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then ...
Style: neo noir, twisted, anthology, contemplative, tense ...
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Kiss or Kill (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After accidentally killing one of her victims with an overdose, Nikki and Al are on the run.
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
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Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: australia, south australia
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