Movies like Fear of Water

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Fear of Water (2012)
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Fear of Water (2012)
Original name: La peur de l'eau
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, rough, thought provoking, realistic, neo noir
Plot: army investigation, murder, military, family relations, life is a bitch, law enforcement, police investigation, parents and children, family problems, investigation, missing child, who done it, crumbling marriage, island, corpse, snail, loss of daughter, legal investigation, deadly, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: canada, quebec

Most similar movies to Fear of Water

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about murder, deadly, investigation, law enforcement, who done it, life is a bitch and dishonesty mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Fear of Water: The Collector (2002), Picture Claire (2001), The Snake (2006), The Lost Angel (2005), Nexus (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Collector (2002)
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, mind game, police detective, riddles and clues, who done it, life is a bitch, law enforcement, serial killer, sex crime, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Picture Claire (2001)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After her Montreal apartment burns down and her possessions are reduced to ash, Claire Beaucage heads to her boyfriend's place in Toronto, only to find that he's missing. Then the police mistake her for Lily Warden, a sinister woman who ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: mistaken identity, chase, murder, dishonesty, police, investigation, arson, photographer, police investigation, murder suspect, gangster, womanizer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada, bahamas, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 3K
The Snake (2006)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A ruthless gang led by private detective Joseph Plender is extorting rich people and famous fashion photographer Vincent Mandel seems the next victim. He is married to Hélène, daughter of one of the richest people in Europe, but not quite happily. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, dishonesty, obsession, rivalry, psychopath, photograph, blackmail, photography, european, twists and turns, snow, tattoo ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 3.8
 443
The Lost Angel (2005)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Slight off-balance police inspector Palmer (Alison Eastwood) works with Father Brian (Judd Nelson) to solve for a religion-based killer, while she deals with her teen-aged goth sister.
Style: suspense, scary, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, crucifix, law enforcement, danger, investigation, murder, dealing with death, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals, who done it, female pubic hair, church ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Nexus (2010)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Holly is a struggling singer whose life is torn apart when she loses custody of her daughter, Chloe. When she travels to her soon to be ex-husbands estate in the country, for a weekend visit with Chloe, she is shocked to discover that he is missing. ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: conspiracy, false accusation, uncover truth, on the run, frame up, dishonesty, betrayal, law enforcement, life turned upside down, murder, danger, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty (2008)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After extricating 17-year-old Lisa Halle from a life of prostitution in Copenhagen, private investigator Varg Veum becomes ensnared in a tangle of parental neglect and bad love when he is hired to locate Lisa's boyfriend, Peter Werner.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, detective ...
Plot: private investigator, woman in danger, life is a bitch, gangster, who done it, murder, prostitute, law enforcement, investigation, private detective, danger, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Secret (2009)
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A detective suspects that his wife murdered a gangster's brother. As he tries to misdirect the police and the bloodthirsty gangster while independently investigating his wife, terrible secrets slowly begin to surface.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: infidelity, state affairs, mentally unstable, dishonesty, unsupportive spouse, murder, police detective, suspicion of murder, dealing with death, protagonist as suspect, heroes, unfulfillment ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 3.9
 306
Cover Story (2002)
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: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense
Plot: femme fatale, amateur detective, false accusation, dishonesty, frame up, political corruption, investigation, murder, law enforcement, haunted by the past, love affair, righting the wronged ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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 115
Suburban Bliss (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Catherine, a rebellious pre-teen who has been deeply affected by her parents’ divorce, plays a game which involves crossing a dangerous road with her eyes closed. She becomes friends with the girl next door, the quiet Ariane, to the consternation ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: overprotective parent, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship, rebelliousness, teenage life, family problems, family relations, youth, social differences, parents and children, parents separation, teenager ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 5.5
 207
Telling Lies (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: The morning after the night before, a rapid spiral of disastrous telephone calls chart the certain ruin of young Phil's day as he attempts to fib his way out of one scrape after another. Told entirely in animated captions.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, mind bending ...
Plot: murder, couples, rivalry, hidden identity, law enforcement, who done it, investigation, life turned upside down, twists and turns, profanity, violent content, legal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Absence of the Good (1999)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Salt Lake City homicide detective Caleb Barnes is under increasing pressure from all sides to crack a string of serial killings that have been terrorizing the city. At the same time, Barnes' home life is beginning to crumble in the wake of his ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Plot: serial killer, crime investigation, killing, rivalry, redemption, protagonist as suspect, life is a bitch, law enforcement, mind game, investigation, dealing with death, police investigation ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.0
 478
Zephyr Springs (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Dawn, an overworked single mother, agrees to take her teenage daughter, Kayla, to a luxurious but isolated spa retreat, the women believe they have escaped to a paradise of spa treatments, yoga, and nature hikes until a series of disturbing ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense, scary ...
Plot: resort, woman in danger, single parent, witnessing a crime, kidnapping, danger, isolation, family relations, murder, parents and children, weekend, guru ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.7
 212
Lullaby (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An American mother receives word that her drug addled son has been kidnapped by a drug lord operating in South Africa.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot: fish out of water, kidnapping, gang, life is a bitch, police corruption, danger, missing child, family problems, child in peril, parents and children, drug abuse, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
My Mother's Secret (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a woman becomes pregnant and tells the news to his mother is revealed to him that she is adopted. Then decides to search for his biological family and hired the services of a private detective.
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot: uncover truth, investigation, family relations, parents and children, couples, family secret, danger, family problems, pregnant woman, birth mother, relationship problems, crime investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.7
 296
Presumed Dead (2006)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A famous crime novelist's protigie disappears before the release of author's first new book in years. Is the seeming crime an elaborate publicity stunt, or was this author so desperate for material that he created his own sinister ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, realistic, detective ...
Plot: investigation, police detective, missing person, murder, uncover truth, woman in danger, danger, rivalry, writer's life, law enforcement, female detective, disappearance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
The Candidate (2008)
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, investigation, frame up, dishonesty, twists and turns, uncover truth, cons and scams, law firm, false accusation, nordic, law, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Six-Pack (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A serial killer is on the loose in Paris and he seems to be an american citizen working in the US embassy and being in the middle of a french-american economical affair.
Style: serious, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, perverse ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, police investigation, psychopath, who done it, murder, law enforcement, race against time, politics, bait, bowling, amateur detective ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Murder on Pleasant Drive (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After Fran Smith disappears one day in mysterious circumstances, Fran's daughter Deanna and Fran's sister, Sherrie endlessly search for her with enduring hope. The most likely suspect in Fran's disappearance is her husband John, but ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious
Plot: missing person, investigation, dysfunctional family, law enforcement, injustice, family problems, dishonesty, private detective, remarry, couple relations, murder, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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White Water Fury (2000)
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, missing person, brother brother relationship, sister sister relationship, search party, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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 852
Son of Cain (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nico Albert is a very peculiar character teenager, with exceptional intelligence and a single obsession: chess. His parents, concerned about the anomalous attitude of his son, child psychologist hired Julio Beltran. Through therapy and common hobby ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: chess, emotional manipulation, mentally unstable, parents and children, family relations, murder, psychologist, teenager, danger, dishonesty, mind game, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
No One Can Hear You (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Families are dying and reporter Trish (Kelly McGillis) finds herself reporting on a serial killing spree. After her daughter Lisa's (Kate Elliott) best friends are killed, she fears that her family may be on the killers list. Sheriff Webster ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, mind game, investigation, danger, law enforcement, murder, family life, teenage life, journalism, home invasion, media ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Honour (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A story centered on a young woman is targeted by her family for an "honour killing" and the bounty hunter who takes the job.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: hitman, danger, on the run, family relations, family problems, woman in danger, parents and children, aryan brotherhood, chases and races, woman, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.2
 389
Harm's Way (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Darlene and her daughter Victoria seek refuge at a remote rural safe house for abused women that's run by the strict and tough, but folksy and supportive Bea. Things turn sour when Bea proves to be a total lunatic with an especially dangerous ...
Style: psychological, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing, rough ...
Plot: psychopath, youth, on the run, danger, supernatural, woman in danger, mental illness, false accusation, farm, life is a bitch, rivalry, mind game ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Holding (2011)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A heart-pounding suspense thriller, set on an isolated farm in England's beautiful, rugged Peak District.
Style: serious, suspense, psychological, rough, realistic ...
Plot: farm, danger, murder, haunted by the past, parents and children, psychopath, violence, life is a bitch, love and romance, confined, family relations, countryside ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.7
 220
Layla Fourie (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany, South Africa, France, Netherlands
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Layla Fourie, a young single-mother in South Africa, receives a job assignment as polygraphist. In the constant presence of mistrust, lies and fear Layla soon becomes a suspect herself.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: casino, life turned upside down, protagonist as suspect, family relations, murder, single parent, life is a bitch, suspicion, guilt, lie, woman, mobile phone ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 126
Naked Lie (1989)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: They are the perfect, and politically correct, couple. He is a judge, she is a high profile attorney. When she takes on a sensational murder case, the trail leads right to her own front door.
Style: erotic, sexual, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: law, murder, prostitute, legal, power relations, who done it, dedicated lawyer, uncover truth, dangerous attraction, courtroom, rivalry, love and romance ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Last Seen at Angkor (2006)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Singapore
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Jeremy Oden returns to Cambodia four years after his fiance disappeared from the streets.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: investigation, missing person, kidnapping, life is a bitch, amateur detective, prostitute, private detective, drug abuse, addiction, immigrant, prostitution, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: cambodia, thailand, laos, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.3
 676
Blood Crime (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: For burned-out Seattle cop Daniel Pruitt, a camping trip turns hellish when his wife, Jessica, is savagely attacked in the forest. En route to the hospital, the Pruitts collide with a semi, and Jessica identifies the driver as her assailant. ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense
Plot: vengeance, rivalry, dishonesty, police investigation, murder, law enforcement, life is a bitch, small town, mistaken identity, nypd, violent content, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.9
 557
Slow Burn (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The murder of the ex-wife of Doctor Sam Charney (Rutger Hauer) leads Detective Della Wilder (Pam Grier) to uncover a series of women's murders somehow linked to a big pharmaceutical company.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroes, murder, psychopath, female detective, reluctant partners, law enforcement, police investigation, who done it, partner, dishonesty, life is a bitch, partners against crime ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Galentine's Day Nightmare (2021)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A woman's life becomes a living nightmare when she becomes the prime suspect in her boss's murder.
Style: suspenseful, tense, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot: murder mystery, who done it, boss and employee, murder, death, murderer, power relations, youth, law enforcement, victim, police investigation, investigation ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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