Movies like Peacock
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Peacock (2010)
13K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man with a split personality fools his small town into believing his two alter egos are man and wife, although a struggling young mother holds the key to his past and sparks a battle between the personalities.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, thought provoking, psychological, intense, stylized, serious, atmospheric, realistic, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
mental illness, split personality, faked death, dissociative identity disorder, small town, mental disorder, single mother, double life, secret life, guilt, social relations, small town life, train, bank clerk, alter ego, mayor, husband wife relationship, twists and turns, lgbt, crime gone awry, death, murder, drinking, cross dressing, motel ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s, 1960s
Place:
nebraska, usa, texas
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Most similar movies to Peacock
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, psychological thriller, suspense and serious films with plots about mental illness, twists and turns, psychology, murder, obsession, mental disorder and insanity mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Peacock: Psycho (1998), Black Swan (2010), Spider (2002), Affliction (1997), Stay (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
53K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Criminal on the run, Marion Crane takes refuge at the motel operated by Norman Bates - a troubled man whose victims encounter a grisly fate at the hands of his "mother." Marion soon becomes the next victim and her disappearance prompts ...
Style:
suspenseful, scary, slasher, psychological, bleak ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
motel, psychopath, split personality, murder, hotel, psycho, murder of a nude woman, eccentric family, isolation, parents and children, serial killer, mental disorder ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, arizona
Similarity:
100%
882K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style:
psychological, cerebral, atmospheric, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, character study, dancing, insanity, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, ballerina, surrealism, schizophrenia ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
bolivia, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
43K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, surreal, cerebral, bleak ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental illness, childhood trauma, murder, haunted by the past, paranoia, mental patient, misfit, macabre, psychopath, twists and turns, mental health ...
Time:
2000s, 1950s, year 2002, 50s, 21st century
Place:
london, europe, england, east end london, united kingdom ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in his slowly disintegrating mentally.
Style:
psychological, rough, psychological thriller, neo noir, independent film ...
Plot:
small town, sheriff, snow, small town life, alcoholism, dysfunctional family, insanity, abusive father, domestic violence, addiction, character study, drinking ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
new hampshire, usa, canada
Similarity:
47%
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92K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, surprise ending, mind twisting, confusing ...
Plot:
suicide, obsession, twists and turns, death, surrealism, guilt, unfulfillment, suicide attempt, mental illness, depression, parallel universe, psychiatrist ...
Time:
year 2005, future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered ...
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, twists and turns, supernatural, plot twist, memory loss, nervous breakdown, murder, mental patient, danger, riddles and clues, haunted by the past, insanity ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about an eight year old boy named Cole Sear who believes he can see into the world of the dead. A child psychologist named Malcolm Crowe comes to Cole to help him deal with his problem, learning that he really can see ghosts ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, date night, girls' night, horror for children, teen drama
Plot:
twists and turns, afterlife, supernatural, psychology, ghost, plot twist, death, psychiatrist, psychic, life & death, supernatural horror, psychologist ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1999, future
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, persia, philadelphia
Similarity:
40%
519
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, twists and turns, parents and children, haunted by the past, small town life, small town, mental illness, ghost, afterlife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, rough, suspense, retro ...
Plot:
serial killer, strangulation, true crime, split personality, murder, double life, police detective, serial rapist, police investigation, psychopath, strangler, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, year 1968, 60s, year 1963
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts, new england
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The storyline is a thought-provoking drama of two lost and troubled individuals who are forever entwined after a traumatic event occurs. Janis, a twenty-year-old woman who is struggling with depression, takes the blame for Peter, who works as a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
surrealism, depression, crime and punishment, conundrum, death, murder, guilty conscience, introspection, traumatic past, character study, guilt, redemption ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental institution, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental patient ...
Time:
1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 1940s, year 1945 ...
Place:
iran, persia, america, boston
Similarity:
39%
295K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When a willful young man tries to venture beyond his sequestered Pennsylvania hamlet, his actions set off a chain of chilling incidents that will alter the community forever.
Style:
surprise ending, atmospheric, suspense, psychological thriller, creepy ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, teens
Plot:
plot twist, isolation, forest, twists and turns, psychology, village life, village, utopia, mysterious place, woods, autumn, small town ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 1890s, 19th century, 18th century ...
Place:
pennsylvania, philadelphia, new england
Similarity:
39%
290K
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Complete strangers stranded at a remote desert motel during a raging storm soon find themselves the target of a deranged murderer. As their numbers thin out, the travelers begin to turn on each other, as each tries to figure out who the killer is.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, scary, suspenseful, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, murder mystery, whodunit, dissociative identity disorder, psychology, investigation, motel, murder, mental disorder, split personality, mental illness ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, florida, nevada
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can ...
Style:
surprise ending, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot:
murder, justice, police investigation, twists and turns, investigation, guilt, law enforcement, prostitute, brutality, dishonesty, rivalry, secret ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
1.2M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style:
psychological, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, boys' night ...
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, murder mystery, missing person, manipulation, infidelity, investigation, marriage, femme fatale, revenge, missing wife, adultery ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
peru, america, usa, manhattan new york city, new york ...
Similarity:
39%
120K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, 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, twisted ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
danger, mysterious character, under the surface, antisocial behavior, fatal attraction, psychopath, attempted rape, family relations, masturbation, estate, family problems, death ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, connecticut
Similarity:
38%
279K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not ...
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, psychological, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, mental illness, murder, courtroom drama, plot twist, trial, psychology, courtroom, court case, corruption, lawyer, manipulation ...
Time:
90s, future, year 1996, 20th century
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself ...
Style:
independent film, suspenseful, tense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
insanity, mental institution, psychiatrist, mental illness, macabre, murder, journalism, investigation, murder mystery, voice over narration, mental breakdown, racial slur ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, 20th century
Place:
mount fuji, america, africa, japan, usa
Similarity:
37%
Movie in collections
20K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
An awkward young teen working at a spa becomes overly attached to her fellow worker, a lonely outcast. They hang out at a bar owned by a strange pregnant artist and her has-been cowboy husband. Amid emotional crises, the three woman steal and trade ...
Style:
surreal, stylized, art house, depressing, visually stunning ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
surrealism, insanity, psychology, suicide attempt, women, feminist, identity, feminism, gender issues, mental disorder, artist, psychotic ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place:
california, usa, texas
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Suspecting that people around him are turning into evil creatures, a troubled man questions whether to protect his only friend from an impending war, or from himself.
Style:
psychological, scary, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, demon, insanity, supernatural, twists and turns, mental disorder, obsession, paranoia, friendship, illness, macabre ...
Time:
70s, 80s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A man, Joseph, loses his wife at sea, then spirals deep into a world of confusion. The wife's brothers' need revenge! Joseph tries to tell anyone who will listen that a whale killed his beautiful Annabel Lee, but even he doesn't quite ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, tense, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
mental illness, uncover truth, false accusation, missing person, life is a bitch, vengeance, social relations, small town, grief, loss, revenge, family feud ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
37%
6K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A mentally ill man searches New York for his missing eight year old daughter. He recreates her steps each day hoping for some clue to her disappearance, until he meets and befriend a woman with a daughter the same age. Could she help him with the ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
kidnapping, mental illness, missing child, little girl, missing person, schizophrenia, self destructing, delusion, parents and children, life is a bitch, danger, poverty ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
36%
339K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
small town, murder, police investigation, psychopath, investigation, investigator, character study, police corruption, murder mystery, insomnia, death, guilt ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
alaska, persia, usa, north america, los angeles
Similarity:
36%
Movie in collections
185K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A claustrophobic, Hitchcockian thriller. A bereaved woman and her daughter are flying home from Berlin to America. At 30,000 feet the child vanishes and nobody admits she was ever on that plane.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspense, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
airplane, twists and turns, missing child, conspiracy, airplane accident, female protagonist, kidnapping, disappearance, strong female lead, flight attendant, family relations, little girl ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
berlin germany, persia, newfoundland, new york, germany
Similarity:
35%
163K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, melancholic, intense ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, split personality, police investigation, imaginary friend, macabre, murder mystery, psycho killer, maniac, schizophrenia, twists and turns, secret ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
oregon, usa, palo alto california, portland oregon
Similarity:
35%
1.4M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, neo noir, confusing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
memory, vengeance, memory loss, plot twist, revenge, murder, amnesia, whodunit, twists and turns, paranoia, murder mystery, manipulation ...
Time:
year 2000, year 2001, future, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, california, iran, america, usa ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, gothic, psychological thriller, atmospheric ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, mental patient, insanity, plot twist, psychiatrist, edgar allan poe, madhouse, doctors and patients, doctor, macabre ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1890s, 1800s, year 1900
Place:
england, britain, usa, oxford university, tuscany ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.
Style:
scary, serious, tense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
fear, stalking, paranoia, stalker, male female relationship, trapped, sex, adultery, unfaithful husband, love and romance, family problems, couples ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
australia, kosovo, melbourne, new zealand
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A teenage girl living with schizophrenia begins to suspect her neighbor has kidnapped a child. Her parents try desperately to help her live a normal life, without exposing their own tragic secrets, and the only person who believes her is Caleb – a ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, intense, dark, thought provoking ...
Plot:
fear, mental illness, schizophrenia, teen angst, schizophrenic, fictional reality, missing child, delusion, hospitalization, hearing voices, abduction, paranoid schizophrenia ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Similarity:
35%
204K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspense, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
mental illness, depression, psychiatrist, manipulation, murder, patient, sleepwalking, twists and turns, doctor, mental patient, mental institution, deception ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, future, year 2004, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
34%
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