Movies like A Trick of the Mind

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A Trick of the Mind (2006)
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A Trick of the Mind (2006)
Original name: Mind Games
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A woman puts her own life on the line by helping a private investigator gather evidence against her potentially dangerous husband.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: private detective, woman in danger, uncover truth, stalking, danger, couple relations, couples, unsupportive spouse, spouse in danger, stalker, mental institution, architect, real estate, imaginary friend, car accident, high school reunion, newlyweds, villainess, nervous breakdown, heiress, rich girl, escaped mental patient, psychiatric hospital, plot twist, mind game ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: canada

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Most similar movies to A Trick of the Mind

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about danger, woman in danger, deadly, dishonesty, murder, couples and uncover truth mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like A Trick of the Mind: Fatal Reunion (2005), Cyberstalker (2012), View of Terror (2003), Seduced by Lies (2010), A Daughter's Nightmare (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Fatal Reunion (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jessica is a housewife, unhappy in her marriage, who decides to "spice it up" a little bit. But she gets more than she bargained for when she contacts an old high school classmate she once had a crush on.
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, couple relations, danger, stalking, twists and turns, classmate, jealousy, murder, rivalry, violence, stalker, marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 4.0
 787
Cyberstalker (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After spending several years in seclusion, a woman encounters the stalker who murdered her parents over a decade ago, and fears she may be his latest victim when he starts to cyber-stalk her.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: murder, stalker, woman in danger, psychopath, stalking, danger, computers and web, woman in peril, deadly, off the grid, young
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 5.2
 735
View of Terror (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On the face of it Celeste seems to have it all - a successful career, a handsome boyfriend and a luxurious new apartment with a breathtaking view of the city. However, Celeste's dream life becomes a nightmare when she's targeted by a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
Plot: stalker, stalking, woman in danger, twists and turns, mind game, home invasion, voyeur, obsession, danger, strong female presence, photographer, voyeurism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Seduced by Lies (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Brad Sterling arrives by yacht as a handsome dream prince, and the discrete favorite nephew and brilliant investor of his tycoon uncle Wade. Charles Colton's ingrate heiress Laura eagerly dates him and puts him in the guest-house, partially as ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: sex scene, danger, couples, manipulative person, stalking, jealousy, intrigue, hit and run, strong female presence, manipulation, dishonesty, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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A Daughter's Nightmare (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A college student suspects that a nurse may harm her lonely, widowed mother.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, scary, serious, dark ...
Plot: family problems, family relations, parents and children, isolation, college, death in the family, couple relations, danger, grief, father son relationship, father figure, abuse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
 4.9
 351
Blind Terror (2001)
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After marrying a handsome man she barely knows, a woman experiences threatening calls and violent attacks from a mysterious woman who claims to be her new husband's former lover.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Plot: dangerous attraction, private detective, woman in danger, danger, dishonesty, family problems, couples, infidelity, stalking, husband wife relationship, home invasion, obsession ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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 ⇓
58%
Before I Say Goodbye (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Nelly McDermott, the granddaughter of a prominent politician, loses her husband, architect Adam Cauliff, in a fiery boat explosion. When she's informed that he was murdered, Nell is compelled to find the killer by searching for the truth, with ...
Style: captivating, tense, serious, realistic
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, danger, dishonesty, private detective, woman in danger, life is a bitch, architect, politician, murder, grandfather granddaughter relationship, police detective ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Murder, She Wrote: The Last Free Man (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Jessica Fletcher discovers a shocking old family secret that leads her on a journey to the deep South to bring to light the mysterious details surrounding the death of a slave owned by one of her long dead ancestors in the mid-1800s.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, enigmatic
Plot: amateur detective, private detective, uncover truth, riddles and clues, false accusation, danger, frame up, elderly, murder, dishonesty, intelligence agency, strong female presence ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
Place: usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Nightwaves (2003)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Recently widowed Shelby Naylor (Sherilyn Fenn) listening to her husbands police scanner overhears a husband and wife arguing on the phone. The wife ends up dead and Widow Naylor points the finger endangering herself.
Style: psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: murder, amateur detective, woman in danger, false accusation, haunted by the past, couple relations, family problems, hitman, couples, infidelity, who done it, danger ...
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Love Thy Neighbor (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Plagued by flashbacks of a violent home invasion, Laura Benson is on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Looking for a fresh start, she and her husband sell their house and relocate to a seemingly idyllic gated community. But, little do the Bensons ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Plot: obsession, stalking, neighbor, psychopath, mind game, haunted by the past, family in danger, family problems, vengeance, mentally unstable, rivalry, amateur detective ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Secrets of an Undercover Wife (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A wife goes undercover to gain information from the mob to free her husband from jail who has been convicted for embezzlement and murder.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough
Plot: embezzlement, bail bondsman, hidden identity, woman in danger, uncover truth, undercover, law enforcement, newlyweds, framed for murder, irish mob, female fbi agent, supportive spouse ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 770
Hide (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A Boston detective investigates the mummified remains of six women, based on a novel by Lisa Gardner.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, enigmatic
Plot: uncover truth, police investigation, riddles and clues, serial killer, danger, law enforcement, serial murder, strong female presence, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.1
 413
Living in Fear (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man returning to his childhood home for the reading of a will is met with hostility. Do the townsfolk know more about him than his new wife?
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot: woman in danger, who done it, homecoming, murder, haunted by the past, dishonesty, danger, twists and turns, small town, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.2
 725
Confined (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A couple moves into a quiet neighborhood. With too much time on her hands, the woman begins to suspect that someone is confined in the basement next door.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: neighbor, captivity, woman in danger, couples, family relations, dishonesty, psychopath, captive, basement, relocation, crazy neighbor, chamberplay ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Living with the Enemy (2005)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Smart, sexy Allison can't help but fall in love with Philip, a dashing software billionaire, and they quickly marry. But soon this new bride begins to think her hubby was involved in the mysterious death of his first wife. This suspicious ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: investigation, woman in danger, uncover truth, dangerous attraction, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, love, suspicious wife, runner, older man younger woman relationship, helicopter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 263
Cheaters' Club (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A controversial therapist assembles a group of discontented wives and prescribes using adultery to save their failing marriages, only to have her patients killed off one by one.
Style: captivating, tense, exciting, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot: murder, infidelity, danger, stalking, woman in danger, law enforcement, wife, therapy, strong female presence, marital infidelity, cheating wife, extramarital affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Someone Is Watching (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Cory is a young boy who has just moved into a new house with his mom. He develops a relationship with an "imaginary" friend who lives in his closet. No one believes him until people start dying violently and the "imaginary" ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, enigmatic, realistic ...
Plot: imaginary friend, danger, mentally unstable, stalking, parents and children, voyeurism, murder, voyeur, violent content, nudity, neighbor, halloween party ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 4.6
 513
Crisis Point (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Criminal psychologist Cameron Grainger is Detroit’s go-to hostage negotiator. Blaming herself when a crisis she’s handling goes wrong and a young man is killed, she removes herself from service. But she is called back into sudden and terrifying ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Plot: criminal psychologist, siblings relations, kidnapping, danger, family relations, forced into action, woman in danger, nypd, confined, strong female presence, hostage, hostage negotiator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, detroit, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.3
 264
Her Fatal Flaw (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: If you think your dating life is hard, check out what happens to poor Laney! Talk about a love hangover: The nice guy this prominent attorney spent last night with winds up being the main suspect in the brutal murder of a Chicago city councilman. If ...
Style: tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: uncover truth, woman in danger, police detective, manipulation, danger, dishonesty, legal, legal investigation, courtroom drama, murder, political corruption, courtroom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
My Husband's Double Life (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A woman (Margaret Colin) discovers that her husband faked his death and assumed a new identity, while she struggled for 10 years as a single mother.
Style: suspenseful, emotional, serious, sincere, realistic ...
Plot: faked death, uncover truth, starting over, family in crisis, life is a bitch, couple relations, parents and children, family relations, family problems, leadership, redemption, society ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Into the White Night (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 149 min.
Story: A pawn shop owner in Osaka is murdered, but due to a lack of conclusive evidence the police lists the man's death as a suicide. Detective Sasagaki, who investigated the case, can't forget the dark eyes of the main suspect's daughter ...
Style: tense, atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: murder, police detective, investigation, uncover truth, haunted by the past, unsolved crime, danger, rivalry, pedophilia, serial killer, killer, hidden truth ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 4K
Murk (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The psychological thriller "Murk" tells the story of Jacob, who is investigating into the circumstances surrounding his sister's death on her wedding night.
Style: psychological, bleak, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: investigation, destructive relationship, uncover truth, amateur detective, woman in danger, couples, disability, obsession, family relations, siblings relations, murder, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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The Robber Bride (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Journalist Zenia Arden has disappeared. When her finger turns up on the shores of Lake Ontario next to her blood-soaked car, the police believe they've uncovered a homicide.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty, law enforcement, friendship, danger, twists and turns, obsession, murder, police, deception ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Nightmare Nanny (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Stay-home mom Annie is reluctant to return to work, until she finds Amber, the perfect nanny for her 3-year-old daughter Jenny. But as Annie's young daughter grows closer and closer to Amber, Annie begins to feel like she's being pushed ...
Style: serious, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, tense ...
Plot: missing child, family relations, parents and children, nanny, couples, woman in danger, single parent, danger, suspicion, twists and turns, woman seduces a man, child in peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
A Crime of Passion (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young heiress has her life turned upside down after her business partner's wife is killed and foul play is suspected.
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, enigmatic, realistic
Plot: investigation, amateur detective, woman in danger, who done it, couples, murder, dishonesty, danger, estate, murder investigation, adultery, inheritance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Missing Person (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man's identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: missing person, private detective, uncover truth, riddles and clues, danger, train, post september 11 2001, fbi agent, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, private investigator, investigator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Surrogacy Trap (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After losing hope of conceiving a child on their own, Christy and Mitch turn to surrogacy in hopes of creating the perfect family. However, their confidence is quickly shaken when they discover that the young woman might not be as perfect as they ...
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: surrogate mother, pregnancy, obsession, under the surface, family relations, psychopath, woman in danger, danger, mentally unstable, couples, stalking, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.8
 511
Missing at 17 (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman tries to save her adopted daughter from a criminal, with help from the girl's biological mother.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: rescue, adoption, danger, parents and children, family relations, woman in danger, life turned upside down, age difference, strong female presence, estrangement, teenage life, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Stranger at the Door (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Katherine "Kathy" is happily married to businessman Greg Norris and lives in his beautiful home with his about 18-year old daughter Tara. When suddenly a charming young man, who Tara first saw lurking around in the garden, turns up on ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: murderous pair, garden, family in danger, amateur detective, family relations, parents and children, adoption, cons and scams, dishonesty, held captive, stalker, adopted son ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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