Movies like The Secretary 1995
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The Secretary (1995)
317
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Her boss made a big mistake by not promoting it. Now is the perfect secretary in the service of revenge.
Style:
depressing, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
odd couple, vengeance, rivalry, manipulation, workplace intrigue, strong female presence, workplace, dishonesty, boss and employee, power relations, business, revenge, secretary, humiliation, stock broker, business rivalry, deadly, disgruntled, manipulations, crimes
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to The Secretary
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and independent film films with plots about deadly, dishonesty, murder, rivalry, danger, vengeance and revenge mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Secretary: A Sister's Secret (2009), Supercapitalist (2012), The Devil's Dominoes (2008), Baby Monitor: Sound of Fear (1998), Benefit of the Doubt (1993). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When Katherine (Alexandra Paul) finds out her father's company is about to close the paper mill they own in her hometown in rural Pennsylvania, she comes up with a plan to save it. Needing the approval of the city council, she goes back and ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
homecoming, murder, family relations, vengeance, workplace, dishonesty, betrayal, parents and children, family business, mother daughter relationship, strong female lead, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A maverick New York hedge fund trader with uncanny analytic abilities moves to Hong Kong and orchestrates a mega-deal that swiftly escalates beyond his control.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
Plot:
fish out of water, ambition, dishonesty, misfit, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, culture clash, rivalry, society, stock broker, workplace, workplace situations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, asia, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On their way to a weekend hunting trip in the Ozarks, four friends get in to a car accident, killing the driver of the other car...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
gangster, vengeance, partner, dishonesty, rivalry, murder, danger, car accident, car, son, revenge, friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A neglectful mother overhears her husband on the telephone at their workplace talking with their babysitter. She discovers they are having an affair and are going to have a baby. She concocts an evil plan to win back her husband and remove the girl ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psycho, nanny, murder, infidelity, psychopath, couples, family relations, family problems, babies and infants, criminal heroes, danger, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Twenty two years earlier, Karen helped convict her father, Frank, for the murder of her mother. With his new freedom, thanks to parole, Frank returns home to seek revenge. Having always pleaded his innocence, Frank soon works his way back into ...
Style:
independent film, psychological thriller, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
chase, murder, repressed memory, desert, waitress, female nudity, revenge, stripper, vengeance, dishonesty, rivalry, couple relations ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Twenty years ago Danny Summer found his father hanging from the rafters on Christmas Eve. Ever since that night he has been plotting revenge. When Brian Hartwell moves into Jessica Michael's guesthouse, she has no idea that her new tenant has a ...
Style:
scary, serious, psychological, suspenseful, christmas horror ...
Plot:
psychopath, split personality, vengeance, mind game, mysterious character, haunted by the past, danger, intrigue, supernatural, mentally unstable, chase, rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
31%
507
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An undercover agent (Anthony LaPaglia) uses his rare personality disorder in pursuing the drug-cartel leader responsible for the deaths of his wife and kids.
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
undercover, special agent, secret agent, violent content, law enforcement, master criminal, drug dealing, couple relations, partners against crime, dealing with death, chases and races, government agency ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
31%
494
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Henry, an uptight businessman who sometimes acts with questionable ethics, nevertheless rejects Ron, a scam artist who wants a partner. Ron won't let up and finds a lever to blackmail Henry, whose daughter Gina has killed a pedestrian in a ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, hitman, unlikely criminals, parents and children, dishonesty, danger, manipulation, cons and scams, blackmail, serial killer, masturbation, hit and run ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
31%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Kate's husband Richard hasn't seen his cousin Harry for 20 years. So when he comes to stay with his fiancee Connie they are welcomed. But Kate senses her family is at risk when they start behaving suspiciously.
Style:
independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mentally unstable woman, family relations, couples, psychopath, danger, hidden identity, stalking, missing person, murder, captivity, kidnapping, mental institution ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After five years in prison for insurance fraud the sailor Lanarsky is released. Together with his buddy Bone he gets a job as seamen on board the yacht owned by the wife of his insurance fraud-partner Michael Reddick. Lanarsky has a question to his ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
ship, sex scene, betrayal, criminal heroes, danger, dishonesty, woman in danger, caucasian, fire, african american, cons and scams, erotic thriller ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In this taut thriller, newlyweds Jen and Mitch find that three's company and four's a crowd when they ask their friend Danny to move in with them to share expenses. But a sweet situation turns sour when Danny invites a new person into the ...
Style:
sexy, tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
femme fatale, dangerous attraction, obsession, manipulation, couple relations, friends, rivalry, couples, dishonesty, uninvited guest, danger, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Karen is shopping at a convenience store during which a robbery occurs. Her niece is kidnapped and left seriously injured in hospital. When one of the perpetrators is released, Karen decides to go on a murderous trail of revenge.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
rivalry, vigilantism, hospital, store, revenge, murder, abduction, paralysis, investigation, danger, twins, wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
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:
29%
289
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
It should have been a simple murder. But a botched job, an old flame, and too many loose ends can spell just one thing for businessman Colin Wentworth: chaos!
Style:
rough, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, hitman, vengeance, rivalry, danger, dishonesty, skinny dipping, nudity, profanity, couples, clergy, sexual relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
29%
420
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Plot is actually pretty crafty and full of (surprisingly) unsuspecting twists. The special effects are actually quite realistic which is surprising for such a low budget movie. Bokeeem Woodbine plays his role with a serious emotion that only ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, siblings relations, disorder, dishonesty, crime gone awry, cons and scams, blackmail, home invasion, lesbian, sex, voyeurism, female nudity ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Alone in their isolated home where no cars pass and no one lives nearby, Vincent and Tally suffer together in a loveless marriage. But what they don't know is that they are not as alone as they think -- a criminal and his psychotic brother are ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, kidnapping, cons and scams, danger, dishonesty, crime gone awry, murderous pair, rivalry, graphic violence, nudity, violent content, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Young bachelor Babee is looking after his dead mother's estate when married couple Keith and Vera move in. Babee becomes attracted to them by the beautiful Vera and the risk taking Keith. However at a party Vera crashes her car, putting Keith ...
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, twists and turns, vengeance, nudity, estate, cons and scams, hollywood, rivalry, sexual content, violent content, falling from height, drowning ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A policeman (James Russo) guards a barroom singer (Deborah Harry) whose phone-sex sideline has put a killer (Tim Thomerson) on her trail.
Style:
neo noir, erotic, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
phone sex, making love, sex scene, murder, psychopath, couples, who done it, woman in danger, sexual relations, rivalry, danger, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Almost rich, almost thirty, he never lies or cheats, even when his beautiful fiancé orders him around and his ball-busting boss uses threats as motivation. John never makes a sound, eager to do right. Rick Carlson is not. A smooth talking and ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
workplace, boss and employee, dedicated lawyer, obnoxious boss, power relations, law firm, legal, innocence lost, visual hallucination, lie, hustler, arrogant man ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A homicide detective (Michael Madsen) falls for a resort owner (Laura Johnson) suspected of slaying a playboy developer.
Style:
neo noir, independent film, realistic, sexy, serious ...
Plot:
dangerous attraction, strong sexual content, porn actress, serial killer, murder, violent content, profanity, power relations, sexual relations, obsession, police detective, fall in love ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
327
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Kris is a homicide cop with psychic abilities. She works to prove that the prime suspect in her latest case (the much younger husband of the millionaire victim) is innocent. But are her visions true, or planned by someone who knows what she can see?
Style:
sexual, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
a vision, police detective, couples, law enforcement, dishonesty, danger, love and romance, supernatural ability, dangerous attraction, love affair, murder, police ...
Time:
90s
Place:
seattle, usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Susan Price has written a #1 bestseller, a steamy novel about a woman's search for the ultimate sexual experience entitled, "The Dark Side of Judith." When Susan is framed for the murder of her fiance, billionare publisher Jack ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, enigmatic, surprise ending ...
Plot:
voyeurism, murder, undercover, danger, frame up, dishonesty, life turned upside down, woman in danger, protagonist as suspect, strong sexual content, deaf, sexual relations ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
970
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Oscar Bonsetter tells a dying prisoner that he will take revenge on the sadistic guard who killed him. In exchange, Oscar is told of a stash of money. Oscar is eventually released from prison but when he goes to get revenge, he gets sidetracked by ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
armed robbery, dishonesty, couple relations, dangerous attraction, love triangle, prison, cuckolded husband, husband and wife, making love, ex convict, adultery, erotica ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A tense and intricate web of deceit and betrayal entangles Archie, a wandering grifter who is hired by a traveling carnival owner to murder his beautiful wife.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
manhunt, murder, betrayal, crime gone awry, frame up, gangster, criminal heroes, law enforcement, femme fatale, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect, cons and scams ...
Place:
usa, new orleans, alabama
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In a world filled with love and deception, the truth is always bittersweet.
Style:
independent film, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
prison, betrayal, unlikely partners, law enforcement, vengeance, dishonesty, rivalry, wrongfully committed, frame up, woman, male female relationship, bare chested male ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
27%
459
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A businessman with a compulsive gambling problem which has led to his wife leaving him, travels to Reno, Nevada for some gambling therapy which takes a turn when he picks up a psychotic serial killer posing as a hitchhiker.
Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, terror, revenge, taxi, driver, vigilante, hitchhiking, gambling, addiction, police corruption, down on your luck ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
27%
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:
26%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A wealthy, successful, East-Anglian tulip grower, Dad Savage is also something of a godfather in the local criminal fraternity but doesn't trust banks to take care of his money. On recommendation from his son, Sav, Dad hires two of Sav's ...
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, tense, rough ...
Plot:
father son relationship, murder, criminal heroes, rivalry, dishonesty, vengeance, heist, godparent, chaos and mayhem, stash, godfather, money ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A neglectful mother concocts a plan to kill her live-in nanny when she discovers the nanny is having an affair with her husband.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
vengeance, family relations, love affair, danger, nanny, attempted murder, adultery, urban, disorder, couple relations, crime gone awry, hitman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A man's life gets wrecked by a woman with whom he had a casual "affair" over the Internet.
Style:
erotic, sensual, sexual, sexy, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, erotica, woman seduces a man, fatal attraction, eroticism, violent content, nudity, danger, vengeance, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, mentally unstable ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
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