Movies like The Circle 2002
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The Circle (2002)
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Some students at Runcie prep school form an elite club. The group is implicated in a cheating scandal and one of the club members dies mysteriously. Another member decides to try and discover the dangerous truth about Runcie.
Style:
bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
high school, murder, investigation, rebellion, uncover truth, friendship, youth, life is a bitch, teenage life, rebelliousness, college life, idealism, dedicated educator, teachers and students, society, secret society, false identity, preparatory school, preppy, school, cheating, clique, elitism, college, friends ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to The Circle
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and independent film films with plots about deadly, murder, investigation, life is a bitch, law enforcement, uncover truth and danger mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like The Circle: Skeletons in the Closet (2001), The Skulls III (2004), The Skulls II (2002), The Secret Pact (1999), The Collector (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of retirement, and Frank Salek, an official of Interpol, embark together on a hunt for the killer, and also to a ...
Style:
serious, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
law enforcement, riddles and clues, murder, investigation, partner, danger, religions or cults, society, kidnapping, mafia, child in peril, partners against crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A father suspects his son to be a murderer...or is he just paranoid and trying to cover up his own past which involves his wife being killed in a fire?
Style:
psychological, serious, bleak, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
serial killer, murder, mind game, mysterious character, uncover truth, investigation, haunted by the past, law enforcement, life is a bitch, psychopath, who done it, protagonist as suspect ...
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A 33 year old woman takes on a teenage identity and goes back to high school. Inspired by True Events.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, absurd
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleader, strong sexual content, body swapping, silly humor, love and romance, life turned upside down, disorder, switching roles, friends, character change, responsibility, lifestyle ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young college co-ed tries joining the elite, all-male, secret society, the Skulls, and in so doing, she uncovers some unscrupulous methods used by some of the members to get what they want.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, college life, investigation, uncover truth, woman in danger, danger, dishonesty, youth, mind game, college, suspicion of murder, brotherhood ...
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After joining the Skulls, Ryan Sommers (Robin Dunne) is warned not to betray any secrets about the organization or its high-powered members. However, when Ryan witnesses a murder within the Skulls' private chambers, he finds that the closer he ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, slasher, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
initiation, conspiracy, lacrosse, murder, college, betrayal, brotherhood, uncover truth, leadership, life is a bitch, investigation, police corruption ...
Place:
connecticut
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After witnessing the killing of his parents, a young teenage boy is put in a witness relocation program and sent to a boarding school in Canada to start a new life. He soon befriends a fellow student whom is a hit man looking for him.
Style:
independent film, psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
school, friendship, witness protection, preparatory school, hitman, angst, male friendship, teen angst, danger, youth, witnessing a crime, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Une policière, Maud Graham, suit un tueur en série qui agresse des femmes. En même temps, elle héberge un jeune prostitué et un fugueur de 12 ans. L'action se déroule dans la ville et capitale de la province du même nom, Québec.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, neo noir
Plot:
police investigation, murder, kidnapping, serial killer, mind game, police detective, who done it, riddles and clues, life is a bitch, law enforcement, sex crime, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Will arrives for his last year at Military Academy, in the Deep South USA, in the 1960's. A black student, Pearce, has been accepted, for the first time and Will is asked to keep an eye out for the inevitable racism. The racists come in the ...
Style:
cult classic, serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
racism, conspiracy, military academy, abuse, loyalty, racial slur, cadet, military school, friendship, military, military training, torture ...
Time:
year 1983, 60s, 20th century
Place:
south carolina, usa, southern usa
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In the early 1980s, an FBI Agent is assigned to investigate the murder of a respected professor. Through his investigation, he unearths a spider web of international secrets that has been thriving within college campuses across America for decades. ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
political unrest, police detective, politics, uncover truth, investigation, rebellion, who to trust, society, law enforcement, fight for supremacy, state affairs, special agent ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
taiwan, chicago, asia
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A political thriller taking place during the Wounded Knee insurrection in 1973. Two activists are arrested and in the custody of the local sheriff's office. During their stay they are visited by a Nixon advisor, a lawyer, a senator and a movie ...
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, political ...
Plot:
political unrest, state affairs, injustice, rebellion, friendship, society, confined, prison, political activist, arrest, native, indigenous people ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
High school senior Stacey has a frightening nightmare that just might come true. Christina, the new girl in school...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, bleak, serious, slasher ...
Plot:
high school, obsession, disappearance, danger, supernatural ability, woman in danger, friendship, teenage life, youth, best friend, twists and turns, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fog and the Night is the search of an investigator who has lost his confidence in his organization and whose happy"family father" order has been disrupted by his young lover.And introverted man due to his profession , not a big talker or ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, bleak
Plot:
fighting the system, investigation, uncover truth, partner, society, dishonesty, murder, life is a bitch, who to trust, rivalry, friendship, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Three spoiled college girls are held responsible for a handicapped boys death.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
rural setting, nudity, train, murder, violent content, school, family life, false accusation, mistaken identity, mental illness, college, disorder ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of a group of friends whose devotion to each other is tested when one of them is raped, and another one is murdered at a weekend party. Now they are forced to take the law into their own hands.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
friendship, moral dilemma, rivalry, murder, life is a bitch, buddies, lifestyle, vigilantism, nightlife, friends, vengeance, violence spree ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, north carolina
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A priest returns to his old Catholic high school to replace a priest who has gone missing, only to begin to suspect that the missing priest may have been murdered by someone at the school to hide a darker secret.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, enigmatic, realistic
Plot:
uncover truth, investigation, clergy, who done it, danger, amateur detective, riddles and clues, rivalry, society, teachers and students, boarding school, school ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
31%
479
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious, independent film
Plot:
investigation, uncover truth, family relations, redemption, life is a bitch, injustice, parents and children, murder, idealism, price of justice, hopes, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alabama, usa, tennessee
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An ambitious magazine editor gets too caught up in a high-stakes sex scandal and is framed for murder.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious
Plot:
amateur detective, femme fatale, dishonesty, false accusation, political corruption, investigation, frame up, murder, haunted by the past, law enforcement, love affair, journalism ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Eugene is a small town barber, beloved by the local community, but hiding a deadly secret. John is hunting for a serial killer not to expose him but to learn the business! They form a twisted bond and turn the town upside down as Eugene teaches John ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic, grindhouse ...
Plot:
serial killer, mind game, investigation, murder, twists and turns, small town, monster, killer, house, barber, son, barbershop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A first time landlord purchases a run-down, rent-controlled apartment building in hopes of making a solid investment. Everything seems to be going smoothly until, one by one, the tenants begin to meet strange, untimely gruesome deaths.
Style:
scary, serious, bleak, suspenseful, creepy ...
Plot:
investigation, dual identity, danger, law enforcement, pursuit, crossdresser, transvestite, old dark house, home invasion, drug, self mutilation, landlord ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jonas Bechmann, a defense attorney, is a man of the system. Until the day he himself is accused of murder. Taking matters into his own hands, he throws himself into the hunt for a group of blackmailers who threaten to expose him as the killer. But ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Plot:
murder, frame up, investigation, twists and turns, uncover truth, cons and scams, law firm, false accusation, dishonesty, inadvertently, nordic, law ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
27%
493
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After being arrested for solicitation, a high-class prostitute threatens to make public a list of her best clients and someone resorts to murder to keep the list a secret. Meanwhile, the judge on the case struggles with his dilemma and one cop aims ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, suspense, erotic ...
Plot:
prostitute, courtroom, call girl, murder, political corruption, sex scandal, bait, uncover truth, fighting the system, courtroom drama, life is a bitch, law enforcement ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A retired FBI profiler is called in on a last case - only to find himself at the mercy of a teenage killer's deadly game. He must use all his skills and experience to save lives, including his own.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
criminal psychologist, mind game, murder, serial killer, special agent, rivalry, youth, police investigation, investigation, violent content, confined, one last case ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, minnesota
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When Grace is accused of playing a role in a deadly accident, her best friend reaches out from beyond the grave to unveil the truth behind what happened.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
memory loss, false accusation, uncover truth, investigation, life is a bitch, dishonesty, best friend, accident, car accident, danger, murder, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
With a passion for solving crime, fueled by the unsolved murder of her father’s death at the hands of a mass murderer days before she was born, law student Fiona Reid sets about the task of catching a mass murderer.
Style:
realistic, serious, scary, suspenseful, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, amateur detective, campus, law enforcement, police investigation, mass murder, danger, woman in danger, teachers and students, student life, college, college life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Four young men – Luke, Simon, Anders and John – are on the gang’s annual outing. During the trip down the river the four meet sisters Marie and Susanne, who recently moved up to northern Sweden from Stockholm. They decide to camp and party ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
uncover truth, investigation, buddies, murder, who done it, camp, wilderness, sister sister relationship, brother brother relationship, missing person, search party, family relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Held for Ransom is a 2000 direct-to-video film about five high-school students that are kidnapped and held for ransom in a remote swamp area in Florida. It was directed and written by Lee Stanley based on the novel by Lois Duncan.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
one man army, captivity, ransom, psychopath, danger, rivalry, survival, confined, teenage life, wilderness, murderous pair, chases and races ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After witnessing a brutal murder, a little girl is quickly surrounded by a group of law-enforcement professionals and a psychologist.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
political conspiracy, murder, witnessing a crime, on the run, investigation, uncover truth, politics, danger, police corruption, government agency, chase, life is a bitch ...
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a small Catholic boarding school an unspeakable act has been committed. When High School student, Luther Scott, confesses to Father Michael Kelly, Kelly is bound silent to the particulars of a grisly murder. Now, framed guilty by the desperate ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, catholic, courtroom drama, false accusation, moral dilemma, investigation, frame up, teenage life, who done it, clergy, legal, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
Rosalie Richard is found raped and dead at the foot of a cliff. This gruesome murder is the first ever in the Magdalen Islands. Her death will radically change the orderly life of Sergeant André Surprenant.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, thought provoking, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
army investigation, murder, family relations, police investigation, life is a bitch, military, law enforcement, parents and children, family problems, investigation, who done it, missing child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After 12 years in an asylum, as she is reunited with friends and family, Dana begins to realize the events that led to her stay there may not have been imaginary.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, scary, mind bending ...
Plot:
murder, woman in danger, haunted by the past, best friend, mental illness, teenage life, youth, supernatural, mentally unstable, mental institution, doctors and patients, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new england
Similarity:
25%
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