Movies like Undercurrent
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Undercurrent (1998)
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A nightclub manager with financial problems accepts an offer to seduce another man's wife for money, and soon finds himself entwined in a web of double-crossing con artists.
Style:
neo noir, crime thriller, tense, noir, suspense, dark, crime drama, twist ending, independent film, moody
Plot:
con artists, betrayal, deception, manipulation, twists and turns, seduction, nightclub, moral ambiguity, scam, mistrust, betrayal of trust, femme fatale, cat and mouse, underworld, revenge, female nudity, crime boss, adultery, blackmail, strip club, framed for murder, gangster, psychological drama, cityscape
Time:
contemporary
Place:
puerto rico
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Most similar movies to Undercurrent
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, dark and crime drama films with plots about betrayal, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, deception, revenge, urban and investigation mostly in Thriller, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Undercurrent: Pretty Poison (1996), Professional Affair (1995), Erida (2021), Sweet Revenge (2001), Irresistible Impulse (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A clueless cheerleader falls for a mysterious young man who tells her he's a secret agent. But the truth is much simpler and darker.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, psychological thriller, tense, crime drama ...
Plot:
cheerleader, manipulation, deception, teen romance, moral ambiguity, coming of age, impostor, emotional manipulation, psychological manipulation, betrayal, high school, mistrust ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A drug lord hires a private investigator to track down the culprit who killed his henchman and took a briefcase full of money. One of the suspects is Heather Finch, a madam who seduces the detective and suggests that he swindles the drug lord.
Style:
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Plot:
investigation, femme fatale, murder mystery, private investigator, betrayal, seduction, deception, organized crime, madam, drug lord, manipulation, suspicion ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
82%
2K
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A femme fatale and her much older husband have a windfall at a game of poker. But the gambling doesn't end at the cards table.
Style:
crime thriller, psychological thriller, dark, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
80%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman looks for the man who betrayed her.
Style:
dark, suspense, tense, psychological, crime drama ...
Plot:
revenge, woman with a gun, vengeance, betrayal, female protagonist, confrontation, determination, moral ambiguity, deception, investigation, trauma, cat and mouse ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A desperate salesman reluctantly teams up with a beautiful femme fatale to close a big sale. After a hot love affair, she is murdered and her personal assistant blackmails the salesman into a major financial scam, and he falls deeper and deeper into ...
Style:
suspense, tense, erotic, neo noir, dark ...
Plot:
older woman younger man, older woman younger man relationship, woman seduces a man, blackmail, murder, femme fatale, greed, scam, manipulation, deception, seduction, betrayal ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A trusting detective is drawn into an elaborate murder plot by a beautiful femme fatale.
Style:
detective, tense, suspenseful, psychological, noir ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A struggling ex-con and his unpredictable accomplice scam superficial trophy wives and their rich older husbands in self-obsessed Los Angeles.
Style:
neo noir, crime drama, psychological thriller, suspense, tension ...
Plot:
scam, ex convict, con artists, kidnapping, seduction, moral ambiguity, accomplice, extortion, manipulation, deception, betrayal, trophy wife ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Charming flight attendant Brooke juggles two marriages, one with her high school sweetheart, Stefan, and the other to an older, successful businessman, Dane, who she and Stefan plan to fleece for a windfall of cash. However, while Dane’s ...
Style:
suspenseful, tension, crime drama, crime thriller, twisted ...
Plot:
deception, double life, love triangle, secrets, greed, betrayal, manipulation, female protagonist, con artists, bigamy, showdown, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When the matriarch of a family of assassins falls ill, her three children and younger boyfriend fight among themselves to take over her empire.
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, tense, neo noir, dark ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
55%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In this erotic thriller, a detective looks into the murder of a pornography magnate.
Style:
suspense, crime thriller, suspenseful, crime drama, sensual ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young woman begins to suspect that her brother's young fiancée, an attractive Englishwoman, is actually a serial killer who kills men on the eve of their weddings.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, crime drama, crime thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, wedding, deception, female protagonist, female antagonist, psychological manipulation, manipulation, female rivalry, femme fatale, jealousy, obsession, engagement ...
Similarity:
51%
625
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A woman being terrorized by a stalker hires and develops a relationship with a handsome private detective, not realizing he'd become her deadly avenging angel.
Style:
suspense, tense, crime drama, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
stalker, private detective, revenge, female protagonist, relationships, stalking, relationship problems, male female relationship, life is a bitch, terror, problem, psycho terror ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Leaving his small-town roots to start a new life, Mitch meets the beautiful and seductive Amy at a happy hour and begins a tantalizing romance. Before long, Mitch learns that nothing is as it appears and, unable to trust anyone, finds himself on a ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
danger, false accusation, murder, femme fatale, life turned upside down, dishonesty, on the run, protagonist as suspect, falsely accused, deception, fugitive, seduction ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
49%
225
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
48%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A famous inventor marries a beautiful but much younger woman. His son becomes romantically involved with her.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, crime drama, erotic, twist ending ...
Plot:
love triangle, infidelity, deception, psychological manipulation, betrayal of trust, family secret, father son estrangement, seduction, obsession, jealousy, conspiracy, domestic drama ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Hollywood multiple murder is investigated by a homicide cop, despite high-placed efforts to cover up the crime.
Style:
crime thriller, detective, suspense, tense, dark ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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43%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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8K
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
erotic thriller from 1996
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
41%
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
41%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Kristen decides to take a break from college and return home, she finds Jake, a handsome stranger, living in her old room. Her mother, Moira, explains that she invited Jake to live as a tenant to help with the house expenses. Soon, Kristen ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
40%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In a tangled web of power and love, the lives of a pharmaceutical company CEO, a failed Don, a grieving widower, and a shrewd lawyer intersect when a mysterious woman is kidnapped, sparking a chain of events in New York City's underbelly.
Style:
tense, crime drama, suspense, dark, psychological ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A policeman's wife falls for a reporter who suspects her husband of corruption and murder.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
38%
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A beautiful computer programmer is framed by her fraudulent lover and sent to prison. When she gets out she agrees to cooperate with a scheme of a fellow-inmate to defraud a bank, in order to have enough money to escape from her (by then) ex-lover.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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