Movies like Dragonflies 2001
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Dragonflies (2001)
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Original name: Øyenstikker
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Eddie (Kim Bodnia) and Maria (Maria Bonnevie) enjoy an idyllic life in their remote countryside farmhouse. But their happiness is threatened by the arrival of Kullmann (Mikael Persbrandt), an old friend of Eddie's with whom he had committed a crime that landed Kullmann in jail.
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, noir, melancholic
Plot:
secrets, guilt, love triangle, isolation, loyalty, moral ambiguity, character study, intimate, revenge, betrayal, minimalism, claustrophobia, fear, cat and mouse, slow burn, romantic triangle, obsession, dog, prison, female nudity, male nudity, chainsaw, animal death, arson, bare chested male ...
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Most similar movies to Dragonflies
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspense, psychological thriller and suspenseful films with plots about isolation, moral ambiguity, character study, slow burn, revenge, betrayal and obsession mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Dragonflies: Sons (2024), 5 Women (2016), The Night (2018), Gina (2025), Turner Risk (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Sweden, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Eva, an idealistic prison officer, is faced with the dilemma of her life when a young man from her past gets transferred to the prison where she works. Without revealing her secret, Eva asks to be moved to the young man’s ward – the toughest and ...
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, intense, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
revenge, prison guard, moral dilemma, secrets, conflict of interest, female protagonist, claustrophobia, betrayal, manipulation, trauma, violence, justice ...
Similarity:
95%
221
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Five old girlfriends meet once a year for a weekend get-together in Southern France, to catch up together in a relaxed atmosphere. But when an intruder interrupts their getaway, the weekend threatens to spiral out of control.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, intense, realistic
Plot:
intruder, female friendship, women, home invasion, fear, weekend getaway, intimate, conflict, character study, secrets, power struggle, isolation ...
Place:
south of france
Similarity:
93%
415
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
On an autumn night, in the deserted streets of a seaside town, Sara is fleeing from a party, convinced she has witnessed a murder. He finds refuge with Veronica, but does not know that the woman is the lawyer of an important industrialist, the ...
Style:
tension, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
fear, secrets, woman, secret, undercover, deception, female protagonist, lie, intrigue, seaside town, character study, lawyer ...
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93%
45
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
At a therapy session, a top Real Estate Executive with a killer secret reveals the dark entanglement that took her down a path she thought she had escaped.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense, tense, ambiguous ending
Plot:
character study, dark secret, trauma, moral ambiguity, confession, real estate, manipulation, guilt, obsession, identity crisis, intimate, betrayal ...
Similarity:
92%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A topical yet timeless story about the parallel impacts of both bullying and friendship, Turner Risk focuses on a troubled young man who sets out to effectively reboot his world by clearing out all the negative forces in it.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, dark, suspense, intense ...
Plot:
bullying, friendship, revenge, character study, confrontation, loyalty, social commentary, mental breakdown, isolation, loss, moral ambiguity, male camaraderie ...
Similarity:
83%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
8 important executive members of some notable corporations of the country are kidnapped during a recent trial.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, intense, dark ...
Plot:
kidnapping, hostage, guilt, power struggle, moral ambiguity, interrogation, corruption, isolation, morality, revenge, retribution, justice ...
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79%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
An inventor (Masterson) must protect his inventions from becoming casualties of the Cold War.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, tense, bleak, mind bending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
paranoia, betrayal, isolation, conspiracy, obsession, character study, espionage, moral ambiguity, identity crisis, claustrophobia, cat and mouse, ethical dilemma ...
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79%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Middle-aged lawyer Thomas assists Leyla, an attractive blonde, when she drops her things at the pool. After their paths keep crossing, he picks up the courage to ask her out for a date. Somewhat to his surprise she agrees, but arrives late, just as ...
Style:
suspense, tense, art house, psychological thriller, neo noir ...
Plot:
obsession, minimalism, psychological manipulation, manipulation, moral ambiguity, deception, missing person, cat and mouse, loneliness, betrayal, isolation, identity ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
At the trial of a judge who was found with a prostitute, a list of clients pops up. It contains the names of some very influential judges and politicians. Then, dead bodies and death threats erupt. Jacques is the trial judge and his own life seems ...
Style:
political thriller, suspense, dark, crime thriller, tense ...
Plot:
blackmail, courtroom, scandal, corruption, politician, danger, investigation, intrigue, conspiracy, judiciary, suspicion, power struggle ...
Time:
90s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A group of city dwellers make a trip of three days and two nights into the isolated countryside to visit a friend in the hills. Their true nature begins to reveal itself: love hidden but never forgotten, primitive desires suppressed in the city, ...
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, melancholic
Plot:
human nature, isolation, betrayal, jealousy, survival, character study, moral ambiguity, mature, slow burn, class differences, small community, dog ...
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74%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, Serbia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Luca is a forty-year-old teacher experiencing a relationship crisis with his wife, Sara, who is much wealthier than him. During the lockdown, Luca finds himself a bystander in the life of his new neighbor, Amanda, and decides to bridge the distance ...
Style:
melancholic, tense, suspense
Plot:
quarantine, loneliness, character study, isolation, existential crisis, midlife crisis, guilt, claustrophobia, introspection, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, obsession ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An alcoholic spends all his time spying on his neighbor, waiting for the right moment to kill him.
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, alcoholic, obsession, alcoholism, death threat, plan, murderer, neighbor neighbor relationship, neighbor, espionage, criminal, character study ...
Similarity:
71%
167
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Marcos is an experienced nurse. He works in the night shift of a provincial private clinic. He is applied and professional but has a secret: in some extreme cases he applies euthanasia. He'll soon meet someone that knows what he's doing.
Style:
homoerotic, dark, suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense ...
Plot:
sexual tension, gay, murder, secrets, lgbt, ethical dilemma, euthanasia, manipulation, moral ambiguity, nurse, nightshift, character study ...
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland, Czech Republic, Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A perfect couple rents a holiday home on a sunny Italian island. The reality does not live up to their expectations when they find out that the pool in the house is broken. Ignorant of the fact that the island faces water shortage, they ask for ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful
Plot:
island, mistrust, suspicion, unsettling, slow burn, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia, irrational behavior, character study, paranoia, isolation, secrets ...
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When hard partying and volatile neighbours move in next door, a quiet woman's life begins to spiral, pushing her to the edge and triggering a slow, unnerving descent into obsession and revenge.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, intense, psychological horror
Plot:
obsession, slow burn, revenge, paranoia, privacy invasion, retribution, mental breakdown, escalation, domestic drama, confrontation, isolation, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A home health care worker in her 20's gets hired to care for a elderly man who had molested her when she was a child. She plans her revenge during a weekend when his family is out of town.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
revenge, female protagonist, character study, psychological manipulation, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia, slow burn, isolated house, ethical dilemma, cat and mouse, stroke, child molestation ...
Similarity:
63%
193
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In their final semester of school, a group of six college friends get together to pull the ultimate prank on a fellow classmate. The joke goes awry, resulting in a series of tragic events. Can they explain their way out of this one?
Style:
tense, dark, suspense, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Plot:
prank, college student, tragedy, revenge, cover up, guilt, college, secrets, ethical dilemma, accidental death, moral ambiguity, betrayal ...
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63%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Redemption and damnation share a bed of hope in a love story between a suicidal psychiatrist and a drug addicted homicidal cop. How far can one fall, how bad can one become and still find forgiveness?
Style:
intense, emotional, existential, grim, tense ...
Plot:
redemption, addiction, forgiveness, character study, guilt, mental illness, moral ambiguity, curse, desperation, self destructing, love story, obsession ...
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A disturbing psychological thriller, that engages the audience to the point that it is always caught off guard, thus changing the point of view of the two main performers.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
revenge, isolation, locked in, elevator, trap, mind game, captivity, danger, social problems, trapped, psychopath, social relations ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A bad guy, a cruel guy, a lame guy, a cowardly guy and the meanest woman gets involved in a beautiful university student's murder case.
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, psychological thriller, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
lovers, murder, unspoken love, voyeurism, obsession, twists and turns, friendship, police officer, pursuit, watching sex, murderer, secret identity ...
Similarity:
57%
182
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
While doing her rounds in the Scottish countryside, Doctor Caroline Lamar comes upon a hitchhiker, and offers him a lift. Young Danish backpacker Mike Hammershoi explains that he is looking for work in the area, and so she points him in the ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, atmospheric, intense, erotic drama ...
Plot:
blindness, love triangle, forbidden love, jealousy, infidelity, adultery, sexual tension, isolation, betrayal, obsession, secrets, slow burn ...
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
56%
594
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of a woman who is suddenly visited by her estranged ex-husband. The ex-hubby wants to buy her country house, which she received in the divorce settlement. Instead he finds himself locked in a cage in the cellar.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
revenge, mind game, power struggle, captivity, ex husband, manipulation, confined, control, claustrophobia, psychological torture, cat and mouse, basement ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A drifter comes between an aging Southern beauty and her teenaged daughter.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, southern gothic, sinister ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, murder, love triangle, family secret, trauma, betrayal, domestic drama, stalker, manipulation, hotel, revenge, guilt ...
Place:
georgia
Similarity:
56%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, detective, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
reality vs fantasy, folk horror, murder mystery, psychotherapy, psychological manipulation, mind game, double murder, paranoia, suspicion, slow burn, claustrophobia, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Taxi driver Phanishwar is living with a mysterious girl, Nanaam, who he keeps in chains. When a medical student, Rami, a victim of revenge porn leaked online by an ex-boyfriend, seeks refuge in Goa, she stumbles into the strange but placid lives of ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, disturbing, grim, suspense ...
Plot:
toxic masculinity, social media, abuse, stalking, female victim, sex scandal, unsettling, manipulation, surveillance, obsession, voyeurism, claustrophobia ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An award-winning performer trio and a sophisticated story characterize the thrilling TV thriller "The Missing Woman". From the naive betrayed to the tough revenge angel Corinna Harfouch turns into the lead role. At her side, Ulrich Matthes ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, bleak, tense, grim ...
Plot:
betrayal, deception, manipulation, insurance fraud, revenge, female protagonist, fraud, moral ambiguity, psychological manipulation, hitman, corruption, survival ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Seven friends try to keep a secret.
Style:
tension, tense, suspense, psychological, grim ...
Plot:
hunting, cover up, blackmail, forest, small town, guilt, betrayal, death, moral dilemma, fatal accident, secrets, loyalty ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
52%
335
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A ride-share driver finds himself transporting the man who is secretly sleeping with his wife.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, tension ...
Plot:
infidelity, driver, lovers, betrayal, marital problem, family problems, learning the truth, secrets, jealousy, domestic drama, confrontation, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A drama-thriller centered on an advertising agency employee for whom work is an outlet from his life under his overbearing mother's roof.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, family drama, character study, overbearing parent, male protagonist, advertising agency, claustrophobia, identity crisis, obsession, moral ambiguity, isolation, slow burn ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A college student fears for her life after a number of disturbing occurrences, leaving her desperately searching for the culprit. Her suspicions lead to her family house maid, unaware that their connection is much deeper than meets the eye.
Style:
tense, suspense, dark, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
revenge, suspicion, family secret, maid, housekeeper, stalker, teenager, murder suspect, chambermaid, death threat, threat, life is a bitch ...
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47%
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