Movies like The Boy Next Door 2008

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The Boy Next Door (2008)
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The Boy Next Door (2008)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A novelist (Dina Meyer) moves to a little town to write her next novel. She loves to get inspiration and as time goes by she gathers information about her neighbor, a young and wealthy guy whom she observes and picture from her window most of the time. Soon, she gets involved in a crime and most of the evidence is pointing at her due to her lonely life and life style. She needs to fight to demonstrate her innocence and that's what will be the plot of the movie till the end.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: murder, novelist, small town, espionage, frame up, who done it, dishonesty, stalking, police, milf, investigation, false accusation, law enforcement, legal investigation, small town life, passion, forest, kidnapping, stalker, rich man, car chase, theft, neighbor, time jump, chase ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary

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Most similar movies to The Boy Next Door

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, tense and serious films with plots about murder, deadly, law enforcement, dishonesty, investigation, who done it and danger mostly in Thriller, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Boy Next Door: The Perfect Student (2011), American Crime (2004), Murder in My House (2006), Storage (2009), A Killer Among Us (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Perfect Student (2011)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A criminology professor becomes a target herself when she tries to establish the innocence of her star student in a murder.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: college life, murder, deception, courtroom, police, seduction, investigation, danger, amateur detective, fight club, wrestling, college ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
American Crime (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young smalltown reporter, Jessie St. Claire, begins investigating a killer stalking his victims making video tapes. This might just be the career opportunity, which she has hoped for. When she herself becomes a target and suddenly disappears, the ...
Style: serious, scary, realistic, tense, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, stalking, mind game, investigation, uncover truth, who done it, danger, protagonist as suspect, journalism, law enforcement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Murder in My House (2006)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Before Lauren and her dad, Stran, even settle into their beautiful new house, she learns that it was once the site of a grisly homicide! When her pops, a former prosecutor, becomes obsessed with cracking the case, he's murdered. And it's ...
Style: suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: murder, private detective, femme fatale, amateur detective, riddles and clues, couples, legal investigation, intrigue, starting over, police investigation, dishonesty, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Storage (2009)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Working at an underground city storage facility, a young man discovers evidence of a murder and vows to bring the killer to justice.
Style: serious, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: murder, obsession, injustice, vigilantism, frame up, investigation, death of father, danger, evidence, retribution, special agent, police detective ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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A Killer Among Us (2012)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the shocking murder of her mother, a girl helps a police detective by searching her home for clues that they hope will lead to the perpetrator.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: murder, small town, investigation, death of mother, law enforcement, dishonesty, teenage life, murder suspect, murder case, teenager, father, teenage girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Never Forget (2008)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man (Phillips) who wakes up with amnesia also finds his supposed friend has accused him of murder.
Style: psychological, realistic, mind bending, tense, exciting ...
Plot: murder, amnesia, woods, rock, puzzle, memory loss, best friend, dishonesty, law enforcement, danger, chases and races, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Varg Veum - Woman in the Fridge (2008)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An international oil drilling company hires private investigator Varg Veum to find their missing systems designer, Arne Samuelsen. Varg discovers the headless body of a woman jammed into the fridge in Arne's apartment - and is promptly knocked ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, detective ...
Plot: hit and run, police, investigation, missing person, murder, private detective, twists and turns, corporate crime, who done it, violence, danger, transgender ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Three Blind Mice (2003)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Thomas is a talented computer programmer living in a vibrant, urban metropolis. Lonely and unsure about life, he finds solitude in the world of internet chat rooms, webcam sites and virtual communication. One evening, Thomas witnesses the brutal ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, realistic
Plot: murder, mind game, investigation, fighting the system, false accusation, witnessing a crime, law enforcement, fall in love, protagonist as suspect, danger, psychopath, dishonesty ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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I Know What I Saw (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mourning the loss of her father, who committed suicide, Mackenzie starts having hallucinations of killing people. They seem so real that she's convinced she's been committing these crimes; however, she can find no evidence to support this. ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, investigation, danger, losing-it hero, serial killer, uncover truth, rivalry, dishonesty, twists and turns, suspicion, youth, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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 ⇓
34%
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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 ⇓
34%
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One Way Out (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Harry Woltz is a homicide cop with a gambling problem; a problem that leaves him owing a great deal of money to the Russell brothers. To clear the debt they ask him to train John Farrow to murder his wife, Evans, without leaving the usual clues or ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspense, tense
Plot: police corruption, addiction, police investigation, murder, gambling, law enforcement, dishonesty, gambling debt, sex, winter, snow, gang ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Reversible Errors (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story: A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.
Style: serious, psychological, bleak, tense, realistic ...
Plot: legal, false accusation, investigation, frame up, testimony, uncover truth, police investigation, lovers reunited, dedicated lawyer, police detective, law enforcement, fighting the system ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter - Lifetime (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When David Lindholm, Sweden's most famous police officer, found shot in bed identifies herself quickly with his young wife Julia. Julia is threatened with life imprisonment for murder, both her ​​husband and her missing four year old son ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: journalism, investigation, murder, race against time, dishonesty, murder investigation, homicide detective, crime investigation, murder mystery, missing child, criminal, private investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Annika Bengtzon: Crime Reporter - Prime Time (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It is Midsummer's Eve and ten people are on a deserted castle for a TV recording. The next morning the program leader is shot dead. Kvällspressens Annika Bengtzon a mandate to monitor the murder, but she soon learns that her best friend Anne ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense
Plot: journalism, murder, investigation, dishonesty, multiple suspects, who done it, law enforcement, false accusation, estate, nordic, mysticism, writers ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Fatal Acquittal (2014)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A woman accused of murdering her husband is found innocent, only to be terrorized by the real killer once she is set free.
Style: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Plot: murder, dishonesty, legal, uncover truth, danger, who done it, acquittal, legal action, suspect, guilty, husband, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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 ⇓
28%
Her Husband's Betrayal (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Cathy Coulter is looking forward to a bright future with new husband Riley and her son Billy. Settled in their new home, Cathy becomes disheartened with Riley's frequent work trips and her intuition tells her something is amiss. When Riley ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot: false accusation, danger, betrayal, couples, psychopath, murder, frame up, stalking, family in danger, woman in danger, on the run, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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My Neighbor's Secret (2009)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Nicholas Brendon is a grieving husband out to ruin a man (Vincent Ventresca) he blames for ruining his marriage by targeting his family.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, haunted by the past, murder, obsession, race against time, love affair, memory loss, danger, neighbor, stalker, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Killer Upstairs (2005)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman investigates when her teenage son is arrested for his married lover's murder.
Style: psychological, realistic, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: murder, infidelity, investigation, false accusation, law enforcement, legal, amateur detective, dishonesty, parents and children, jail, model, alibi ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 ⇓
26%
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Quiet Kill (2004)
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An attractive married woman and a member of the 'Country Club Tennis Set', is being neglected by her workaholic doctor husband, Jerry (Corbin Bernsen). Lonely and insecure, Amy foolishly falls for the seductive charms of a much younger ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, independent film ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, stalker, dangerous attraction, woman in danger, love affair, rivalry, danger, law enforcement, mind game, who done it ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
A Chilling Cosplay (2013)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The police investigate the murder of a young woman whose corpse was frozen and dressed up like a doll.
Style: tense, realistic, psychological, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: police, corpse, murder investigation, police investigation, partner, death, heroes, friendship, chase, police detective, mysterious man, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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R.I.F. (2011)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A policeman takes his family on a holiday, and after almost hitting a wild hog, the car won't start. They get hike with a guy scrutinizing his pretty wife. Shortly after, she disappears.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: missing person, uncover truth, on the run, police investigation, police detective, chase, cop, revenge, violent content, who done it, law enforcement, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Impunity (2014)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Investigating the gruesome murder of a cabinet minister's daughter, a special investigator and a local police detective find themselves knee-deep in political corruption and conspiracy, in this sizzling noir thriller set in post-apartheid South ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic
Plot: uncover truth, police investigation, murder, danger, political conspiracy, dishonesty, political corruption, violent content, partner, partners against crime, murderous pair, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Fjällbacka Murders: In the Eye of the Beholder (2012)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Erica's sister Anna is visiting at the same time as the TV program "Antiques cubed" is in town to record at the castle in Fjällbacka. When Anna runs into the TV host for the show, Claes Wager, sparks quickly evolve into a flirt ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, serious ...
Plot: investigation, murder, amateur detective, love affair, family relations, nordic, danger, couples, swedish, writers, strong female presence, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Surveillance (2006)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story of an security guard whose spotless record at crime prevention marks the horrifying reality of deception, blackmail and murder.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, psychopath, murder, rivalry, dishonesty, manipulation, security guard, police, obsession, xmas, surveillance, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Lawless: Dead Evidence (2001)
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A killer thought behind bars is killing again. It's up to John Lawless (Kevin Smith) and Jodie Keane (Angelina Dotchin) to stop the murders.
Style: detective, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot: sleuth, murder mystery, crime investigation, killings, police investigation, serial killer, who done it, murder investigation, murder, uncover truth, investigation, private investigator ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Demons from Her Past (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A woman returns to her hometown searching for answers after she's released from prison, having served a 25-year sentence for a crime she didn't commit.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, vengeance, wrongful conviction, frame up, righting the wronged, injustice, homecoming, rivalry, abduction, cover up, small town, strong female lead ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.2
 913
True Blue (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Rembrandt Macy (Tom Berenger) is a maverick cop assigned to a case where the primary evidence is a woman's hand found in a pond. Investigators identify the dead, and Macy is lead into a young woman's past. Macy's primary path to ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, intense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blackmail, murder, uncover truth, tough law enforcer, mind game, investigation, law enforcement, rivalry, police corruption, gang, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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