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Passion and Paradise (1989)
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Passion and Paradise (1989)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 185 min.
Story: Sir Harry Oakes is a wealthy magnate, living amongst the British aristocrats who have made their home in the Bahamas just prior to World War II. Their small community is one of privilege and status and when Sir Harry's beloved daughter marries a handsome but penniless gigolo, Alfred De Marigny, Sir Harry is outraged by the union. But before Sir Harry can break up the marriage he is brutally and viciously murdered and his son-in-law is the prime suspect. Nothing is as it appears and Sir Harry's death soon points towards intrigue and deception on an international scale.
Style: political thriller, crime drama, romantic drama, historical drama, period drama, political drama
Plot: nobility, mafia, gambling, world war two, forbidden love, prisoner, love triangle, family relations, farmer, farm, father daughter relationship, high society, interracial relations, mother daughter relationship, organized crime, private detective, blackmail, gigolo, unsolved crime, deportation, mob boss, riot, widow, colonialism, family drama ...
Time: year 1942, year 1943, 1940s
Place: new york, miami, jamaica, bahamas

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, tense and suspense films with plots about murder, family relations, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, dishonesty and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Passion and Paradise: The River King (2005), Chinatown (1974), Assumed Killer (2013), The Wonder (2022), Page Eight (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The River King (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Abel Grey is sent to investigate the death of a boy from an exclusive local school, who is found floating in the river. Fearing scandal, the school insists it was suicide. But after discovering from the boy's girlfriend, Carlin, that he was ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: investigation, private school, uncover truth, murder, snow, bullying, school, winter, teenager, dishonesty, danger, boarding school ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 347K
Chinatown (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double ...
Style: neo noir, detective, atmospheric, twist ending, bleak ...
Audience: date night
Plot: private detective, corruption, investigation, femme fatale, rape, police, murder, conspiracy, domestic violence, father daughter incest, incest, investigator ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1974, year 1937
Place: los angeles, california, usa, eastern europe, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 3.6
 478
Assumed Killer (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Bernard Salzmann's thriller Assumed Killer tells the tale of a reporter investigating a serial killer. After she suffers an accident and becomes an amnesiac, she begins to suspect her husband may be the person responsible for the brutal slayings
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense
Plot: serial killer, memory loss, investigation, murder, life is a bitch, uncover truth, amateur detective, danger, deep south, journalism, media, car crash ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 6.6
 43K
The Wonder (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: In the Irish Midlands of 1859 an English nurse, Lib Wright, goes to a tiny village to observe what some see as a medical anomaly and others a miracle, that a girl has survived without food for months. Tourists flock to see 11-year-old Anna ...
Style: dramatic, psychological, costume drama, harsh, suspense ...
Plot: brother sister incest, village, catholic, murder, survival, tourist, young girl, love, young woman, stranger, incest, renaissance ...
Time: 1860s, 19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place: ireland, australia, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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 6.8
 19K
Page Eight (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Page Eight is lovingly turned, with elegant writing, a flawless cast and a heartfelt message from writer/director David Hare about the danger zone where spies and politicians meet. The tension builds gently as we follow the fortunes of Johnny ...
Style: political thriller, serious, tense, realistic, political ...
Plot: spy, espionage, blackmail, secret service, undercover, government agency, loss of friend, state affairs, dishonesty, father daughter relationship, prime minister, journalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Minute You Wake Up Dead (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A stockbroker in a small southern town gets embroiled in an insurance scam with a next-door neighbor that leads to multiple murders when a host of other people want in on the plot. Sheriff Thurmond Fowler, the by-the-book town sheriff for over four ...
Style: captivating, serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting
Plot: death of father, car chase, blackmail, murder of father, diner, life insurance, sheriff, arrested, car accident, killings, murder, town ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 5.9
 4K
Dark River (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After her father dies, a young woman returns to her Yorkshire village for the first time in 15 years to claim the family farm she believes is hers.
Style: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot: guilt, death of father, haunted by the past, farm, twists and turns, family home, father daughter incest, homecoming, dysfunctional family, memory, farmhouse, police ...
Time: 2010s
Place: yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.6
 2K
Daniel (1983)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: The fictionalized story of Daniel, the son of Paul and Rochelle Isaacson, who were executed as Soviet spies in the 1950s. As a graduate student in New York in the 1960s, Daniel is involved in the antiwar protest movement and contrasts his ...
Style: psychological, realistic, sincere, serious, retro ...
Plot: legal, espionage, politics, injustice, racism, state affairs, uncover truth, betrayal, undercover, spy, false accusation, vietnam war ...
Time: 50s, year 1983, 1950s, 60s
Place: usa, new york, asia, vietnam, soviet union
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
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: neo noir, detective, dark, stylized, clever ...
Plot: private detective, african american, missing person, jazz club, black, gangster, murder, jazz, racism, home invasion, private investigator, cop ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1948
Place: los angeles, california, usa, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
You Can't Take My Daughter (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young woman fights to keep her rapist from gaining custody of her daughter.
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating
Plot: social problems, family relations, life is a bitch, sexual abuse, rape victim, relationship problems, rape and revenge, violence, rape, mother daughter relationship, feminist
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Out of Annie's Past (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Annie's got a secret past she's eager to hide from her husband and her family. An iconclastic bounty hunter blackmails her to keep that past a secret. As the stakes increase, though, so do the ruthless and brutal actions of all those ...
Plot: blackmail, threat, bounty hunter, secret, mafia, murder, family relations
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 4.3
 2K
The Fields (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Tells the story of a young boy and his family who are terrorized by an unseen presence.
Style: suspenseful, scary, suspense, twisted, serious ...
Plot: youth, farm, family in danger, murder, danger, small town, religions or cults, family relations, redneck, child in peril, serial killer, boy ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1973
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.9
 4K
Eureka (1983)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: An Alaskan gold prospector (Gene Hackman) lives in luxury with his family on an island gangsters want.
Style: serious, realistic, atmospheric, stylized, erotic ...
Plot: wealth, greed, gangster, family relations, rise and fall, ambition, dishonesty, parents and children, brutality, courtroom drama, father daughter relationship, island ...
Time: 1940s, year 1983, 20th century, 1920s, year 1945
Place: canada, bahamas, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Pray for Rain (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When Emma Gardner, a whip smart NYC reporter learns of her father's untimely death, she returns to her home town to find that the idyllic farming community of her childhood has been ravaged by drought and has become a place tormented by gangs ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot: reporter, gang, death threat, female protagonist, death of father, farmer, investigation, gang war, investigative reporter, getting home, criminal gang, female journalist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Where Are the Children? (1986)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Thriller about the kidnapping of two children and the investigation that follows, based on the book by Mary Higgins Clark.
Style: mind bending, realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller
Plot: child abduction, kidnapping, family relations, missing person, false accusation, family problems, injustice, couples, remarry, wrongfully committed, parents and children, computers and web ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Trial by Jury (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Valerie is a juror in the trail of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, legal investigation, who done it, lawyer, legal, gangster, law, law enforcement, society, idealism, rivalry ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 1940s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Wrong Bed: Naked Pursuit (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A woman mysteriously wakes up in a hotel handcuffed to a firefighter to find messages they left themselves the night before revealing that their lives are in danger.
Plot: hotel, motel, scientist, cancer, awkwardness, laboratory, hotel room, caucasian, firefighter, flashback, handcuffs, bed
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Wander Darkly (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: New parents Adrienne and Matteo are forced to reckon with trauma amidst their troubled relationship. They must revisit the memories of their past and unravel haunting truths in order to face their uncertain future.
Style: touching, suspenseful, sweet, sentimental, non-linear
Audience: toddlers
Plot: afterlife, family problems, encounter, family in crisis, death, life & death, secret, impossible love, love, bittersweet, supernatural, unfulfillment ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Run for Your Life (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A journalist must make a decision to flee with her two children from her abusive ex-husband or kill him before he kills her.
Style: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot: abusive husband, domestic violence, violence against women, journalist, battered wife, false identity, starting over, legal system, trial, emotional abuse, hitman, intrigue ...
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Woman in the Fifth (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.
Style: suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: waitress, ex husband ex wife relationship, divorce, widow, estrangement, power relations, artists and showbiz, twists and turns, writers, father daughter relationship, letter, translator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.9
 147K
The Firm (1993)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the ...
Style: suspense, tense, surprise ending, clever, psychological ...
Plot: lawyer, corruption, law firm, murder, conspiracy, surveillance, investigation, legal, chase, seduction, blackmail, courtroom ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: memphis, boston, tennessee, usa, harvard university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.4
 12K
The Other Man (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, romantic drama ...
Plot: adultery, infidelity, secret lover, betrayal, family problems, crumbling marriage, dishonesty, obsession, love triangle, husband wife relationship, loss of wife, father daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2008, future, 21st century
Place: england, milan italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Kat Connors is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve, disappears. Having lived for so long in an emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, ...
Style: sexy, surreal, independent film, stylized, cynical ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: missing person, coming of age, teenage girl, dysfunctional family, recurring dream, female nudity, mysterious disappearance, teenage life, mother daughter relationship, gay interest, disappearance, 17 year old ...
Time: year 1988, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 5.7
 1K
Storyville (1992)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: While investigating his own blackmailing, a young politician uncovers his family's deep secrets.
Style: serious, captivating, atmospheric, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Plot: politics, murder, politician, blackmail, family secret, frame up, campaign, manipulation, false accusation, intrigue, political conspiracy, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: new orleans, usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.6
 664
The Surrogate (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A married couple, struggling to have a child, hires a young woman to be their surrogate, but soon discovers she has a bizarre and deadly agenda.
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense, tense, sexy
Plot: obsession, surrogate mother, stalker, wanting a baby, husband wife relationship, possessed woman, tragic love, love triangle, unrequited love, relationships, romantic obsession, love affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Hidden Family Secrets (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A woman determined to save her dying daughter uncovers her mother's sinister secret.
Style: thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, tense
Plot: family problems, family relations, mother daughter relationship, cancer, sister, child illness, family secret, fighting illness, sister sister relationship, female protagonist, kids and family, secret ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Dangerous Intuition (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Kate Aldrich, a successful career woman is devastated when her husband leaves her for stay at home mom, Laura, with whom she is forced to share custody of her beloved daughter, Izzy. But Kate's despair soon turns to terror as she begins to have ...
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot: divorced parents, divorced couple, dysfunctional family, divorced father, mother daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, secret, parents and children, father daughter relationship, divorced man, child custody, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.7
 16K
Passing (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.
Style: black and white, anamorphic, feel good, period drama
Plot: racism, childhood, jealousy, african american, lesbian, black, interwar period, demonic possession, women, woman, destiny, black history ...
Time: 1920s, year 1929, 2020s
Place: harlem, new york city, new york, harlem, chicago, hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.2
 13K
Shadow Dancer (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Set in 1990s Belfast, a woman is forced to betray all she believes in for the sake of her son.
Style: political thriller, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: ira, moral dilemma, state affairs, betrayal, undercover, family relations, snitch, radical, siblings relations, political unrest, single parent, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, year 2012, 90s, year 1993, year 1973 ...
Place: ireland, northern ireland, london, england, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.7
 13K
Spinning Man (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Sweden, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A 'happily married' professor, known for having many affairs with students, becomes the prime suspect when a young woman is found murdered.
Style: bleak, captivating, twist ending, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: university professor, teenage girl, missing person, lawyer, police detective, evidence, murder suspect, danger, character study, cheerleader, high school student, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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