Movies like Undertow

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Undertow (2004)
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Undertow (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The Munns, father John and sons Chris and Tim, recede to the woods of rural Georgia. Their life together is forever changed with the arrival of Uncle Deel, though the tragedy that follows forces troubled Chris to become a man.
Style: harsh, suspense, suspenseful, depressing, intense, lyrical, cult classic, atmospheric, stylized, gothic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, dysfunctional family, juvenile delinquency, murder, tragedy, brutality, homelessness, danger, lifestyle, parents and children, violence, boy, single father, brother brother relationship, brothers, teenage boy, youth, curse, on the run, beautiful scenery, kids in trouble, prison, hospital, chase, drinking ...
Time: year 2004, 70s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: georgia, usa, iceland, nebraska, mexico
Keyword: avant-garde, americana, mexican, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, independent film and suspense films with plots about murder, family relations, parents and children, youth, father son relationship, cigarette smoking and violence mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Undertow: Shotgun Stories (2007), Don't Tell a Soul (2020), We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), The Strange Ones (2017), Winter's Bone (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Shotgun Stories (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect ...
Style: bleak, harsh, depressing, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: vengeance, revenge, violence, family relations, violent, brutality, character study, sibling relationship, family bonds, siblings relations, family feud, estrangement ...
Time: year 2007, 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, arkansas
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100%
Don't Tell a Soul (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Two thieving teenage brothers, stealing money to help their sick mom, match wits with a troubled security guard stuck at the bottom of a forgotten well.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, intense, realistic, dark ...
Plot: moral dilemma, robbery, teenage boy, brothers, money, sick mother, heist gone wrong, cover up, hidden truth, attempted robbery, youth, heist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
Style: disturbing, psychological, bleak, depressing, gloomy ...
Audience: teens, toddlers, teen drama, adult
Plot: psychopath, evil child, school shooting, high school, depression, mental illness, sociopath, teenager, antisocial behavior, childhood, mother son relationship, boy ...
Time: year 2011, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: america, united kingdom, connecticut, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Strange Ones (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Mysterious events surround the travels of two brothers as they make their way across a remote American landscape. On the surface all seems normal, but what appears to be a simple vacation soon gives way to a dark and complex web of secrets. This is ...
Style: road movie, rough, suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Plot: boy, motel, man boy relationship, pedophile, road trip, sibling relationship, gay, child abuse, pretending to be someone else, psychopath, investigation, on the run ...
Time: year 2017
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Winter's Bone (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and ...
Style: depressing, atmospheric, harsh, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, adult, teen drama
Plot: poverty, missing person, small town, family in crisis, female protagonist, bail, dysfunctional family, down on your luck, mental illness, rural setting, family crisis, uncle niece relationship ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: missouri, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
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Bright Angel (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Road-movie from Montana to Wyoming. A gullible, innocent young man (Mulroney) assists a versatile girl (Taylor) on her long quest to get her brother out of jail.
Style: road movie, serious, suspenseful, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot: destructive relationship, family problems, on the road, jail, life is a bitch, dysfunctional family, teenage life, siblings relations, parents and children, brother, marital problem, hidden treasure ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, montana, wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
George Washington (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Set in the landscape of a rural southern town, "George Washington" is a stunning portrait of how a group of young kids come to grips with a hard world of choices and consequences. During an innocent game in an abandoned amusement park, a ...
Style: bleak, independent film, meditative, lyrical, touching ...
Plot: coming of age, boy, adolescence, father son relationship, friendship, youth, kids in trouble, life is a bitch, death, social relations, society, hopes ...
Time: year 2000, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.8
 51K
Joe (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The rough-hewn boss of a lumber crew courts trouble when he steps in to protect the youngest member of his team from an abusive father.
Style: touching, dark, atmospheric, depressing, southern gothic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: father son relationship, child abuse, alcoholic, coming of age, friendship, woods, teenage boy, small town, hopes, teenager, character study, loneliness ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: texas, midwest, britain, usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Black Circle Boys (1997)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young man moves to a new town after experiencing a tragedy and becomes involved with a gang of Satan-worshipping teens who believe they have supernatural powers. But by the time he realises he’s in too deep, it may be too late to escape.
Style: gothic, serious, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: gang, occult, devil worship, dysfunctional family, juvenile delinquency, social decay, youth, society, violence spree, friendship, teenage life, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Crime + Punishment in Suburbia (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: This is a contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment". Roseanne is outwardly a perfect and popular teen. However, her image is hiding the abuse at her stepfather's hands, and she decides to ...
Style: disturbing, serious, psychological, clever, teen ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: rape, murder, dysfunctional family, high school, guilt, crime and punishment, obsession, suburbs, friendship, youth, teenage life, teenager ...
Time: year 2000, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.5
 7K
Inhale (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A couple goes to dangerous lengths to find a lung donor for their daughter.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot: transplant, doctor, moral dilemma, child illness, parents and children, family problems, couple relations, escapades, society, street kid, male pubic hair, daughter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, usa, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Place Beyond the Pines (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A motorcycle stunt rider considers committing a crime in order to provide for his wife and child, an act that puts him on a collision course with a cop-turned-politician.
Style: harsh, captivating, psychological, stylized, neo noir ...
Audience: date night, family friendly
Plot: motorcycle, haunted by the past, bank robbery, corruption, family relations, money problems, robbery, loner, father son relationship, bank robber, parenthood, police ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, y2k, future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Indian Runner (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: An intensely sad film about two brothers who cannot overcome their opposite perceptions of life. One brother sees and feels bad in everyone and everything, subsequently he is violent, antisocial and unable to appreciate or enjoy the good things ...
Style: psychological, realistic, rough, serious, independent film ...
Plot: small town, family problems, brother brother relationship, pregnancy, vietnam war, welder, brothers, melancholy, murder, childhood, violence, blood ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 60s, year 1991
Place: usa, nebraska, america, ohio, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.6
 7K
The King (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A motiveless malignancy? Elvis leaves the Navy and heads for Texas where he contacts his father, whom he's never met, the pastor at a Christian community church. Pastor Dave tells Elvis to stay away and, without telling his family that Elvis is ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot: incest, brother sister incest, incestuous sex, redemption, illegitimate son, hypocrisy, confession, murder, haunted by the past, family problems, society, clergy ...
Time: year 2005
Place: austin texas, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Trigger Effect (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: How tenuous is man's hold on civilization when survival becomes an issue? When the lights go out and stay out for several days, suburbanites Matthew and Annie learn the hard way that man is "by nature" a predatory creature. ...
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, bleak, cult classic ...
Plot: survival, apocalypse, nudity, bare breasts, female nudity, suburbs, disaster, dystopian future, neighbor, paranoia, chase, betrayal ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Crossing Guard (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: After his daughter died in a hit and run, Freddy Gale has waited six years for John Booth, the man responsible, to be released from prison. On the day of release, Gale visits Booth and announces that he will kill him in one week. Booth uses his time ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, suspense, emotional, intense ...
Plot: haunted by the past, murder, obsession, hit and run, tragedy, redemption, vengeance, loss of daughter, justice, crime gone awry, car accident, tragic event ...
Time: 90s
Place: nebraska, usa, los angeles, glendale california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Safety of Objects (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 121 min.
Story: In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to ...
Style: philosophical, psychological, depressing, compassionate, confusing ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, loneliness, guilt, family relations, coma, family life, family problems, couple relations, society, crumbling marriage, single parent, parents and children ...
Time: year 2001
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.9
 13K
Red (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An older, reclusive man's best friend and inspiration for living is his 14-year-old dog named "Red". When three troublesome teens kill the dog for no good reason, the grieving man sets out for justice and redemption by whatever means ...
Style: suspense, touching, tense, serious, disturbing ...
Plot: dog, justice, redemption, murder, twists and turns, small town, revenge, brutality, vigilante, violence, greed, pets ...
Time: 20th century, year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Hellion (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: motocross, youth, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquent, father son relationship, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, dysfunctional family, social worker, death of mother, family relations, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Deep Dark Canyon (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bloom Towne is a small-town sheriff under the thumb of the well-established, deeply influential Mayor Dick Cavanaugh's family. When Bloom's two teenage sons, Nate and Skylar accidentally shoot and kill Dick during a deer-hunt, Bloom's ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: small town, manhunt, chase, on the run, violent content, woods, parents and children, murder, revenge, brother brother relationship, police, escape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Low Tide (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In the long days of summer in a beach town on the New Jersey shore, high schooler Alan (Keean Johnson) and his friends Red (Alex Neustaedter) and Smitty (Daniel Zolghadri) break into vacation homes to steal valuables, funding dates at the boardwalk ...
Style: suspense, touching, rough, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot: friendship between boys, breaking and entering, teenager, murder, boy, friendship, family problems, dysfunctional family, parents and children, escape, danger, life is a bitch ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Hush (1998)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jackson and Helen are in love and about to have their first child when they move in with Jackson's mother, Martha, in order to take care of the family estate. But all is not well in this household. Martha is jealous of her son's affection ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, scary, emotional, serious ...
Plot: domineering mother, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mentally unstable, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, borderline personality disorder, family problems, parents and children, manipulation, female nudity, pregnant wife, danger ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: kentucky, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.7
 114K
Stoker (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
Style: psychological, gothic, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: antisocial behavior, danger, mysterious character, under the surface, psychopath, family problems, lolita, fatal attraction, family relations, estate, masturbation, mental illness ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2000, 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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The Dynamiter (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: All fourteen-year-old Robbie Hendrick ever wanted was a family. Yet as another Mississippi summer begins, his wayward mother has run off again fearing a breakdown and he's left to burn the days caring for his half brother, Fess. As the deep ...
Style: realistic, serious, touching, atmospheric, sincere ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: coming of age, small town, youth, family relations, family problems, american football, social relations, innocence lost, small town life, dysfunctional family, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.2
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The Road (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind and water. It is cold enough to crack stones, and, when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the ...
Style: bleak, harsh, depressing, rough, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: survival, apocalypse, post apocalypse, post apocalyptic, distopia, father son relationship, cannibalism, end of the world, dystopia, starvation, on the road, catastrophe ...
Time: future, year 2009, near future, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place: pittsburgh, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Fierce People (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yanomani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client.
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: single mother, family relations, parents and children, social differences, teenage life, summer, life is a bitch, sex scene, teenage boy, making love, sex crime, teenager ...
Time: year 2005, 80s
Place: new jersey, new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The United States of Leland (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A withdrawn young man, Leland Fitzgerald is imprisoned for the murder of a mentally disabled boy, who also happened to be the brother of his girlfriend, Becky. As the community struggles to deal with the killing, Pearl Madison, a teacher at the ...
Style: depressing, psychological, bleak, emotional, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prison, murder, teacher, coming of age, dysfunctional family, writers, prison life, family relations, unlikely friendships, investigation, parents and children, family problems ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: new york, los angeles, italy, paris france, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.2
 3K
Firstborn (1984)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Because he's the oldest, Jake has been the man of the house, since his parents divorce. When Mom starts seeing Sam, who always seems to be trying some new way to get rich quick, and declares he's the man of the house now, Jake puts up with ...
Style: tension, serious, realistic, psychological, biting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: child abuse, teenager, drug addiction, domestic abuse, domestic violence, little brother, killer, school, dysfunctional family, woman in danger, family in danger, single parent ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.4
 4K
Coldwater (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A teenage boy is sent to a juvenile reform facility in the wilderness. As we learn about the tragic events that sent him there, his struggle becomes one for survival with the inmates, counselors, and the retired war colonel in charge.
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: juvenile delinquency, re-education, survival, prison life, escape attempt, humiliation, youth, danger, confined, prison, juvenile delinquent, power relations ...
Time: year 2013, year 2014, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
We Own the Night (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A New York nightclub manager tries to save his brother and father from Russian mafia hitmen.
Style: suspense, harsh, stylized, captivating, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, mafia, gangster, police, nightclub, gang, cop, brothers, hitman, multiple storylines, law enforcement, heroin ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, year 1988, 80s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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