Movies like Strings 2011

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Strings (2011)
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Strings (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Strings is a 2011 American dramatic thriller film about a musician who discovers his therapist manipulates patients into committing crimes.
Plot: love, violence, pianist, surgery, vigilante, daughter, redemption, therapy, father daughter reunion, new identity, piano, talent show, backpack, name change

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Most similar movies to Strings

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, serious, suspenseful and psychological films with plots about violence, murder, love, redemption, revenge, hopes and vengeance mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Strings: Deadly Daycare (2014), Absolute Killers (2011), Red (2008), What a Wonderful World (2014), Doctor Death (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Deadly Daycare (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Rachel decides to take her three year old daughter to daycare. As the days pass, the woman feels that the teacher turns too with her daughter, reaching an almost obsessive relationship.
Style: suspenseful, bleak, captivating, serious
Plot: abused child, hidden camera, therapy, father figure, jealousy, kidnapping, kindergarten, female teacher, daughter, children, child, mother and daughter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Absolute Killers (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Thriller - Johnny Graham, raised by the Torino crime family after the death of his parents, is repeatedly torn between loyalty to his adoptive family and his conscience. - Edward Furlong, Grace Johnston, Meat Loaf
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, independent film
Plot: witness protection, on the run, chases and races, danger, gangster, murder, redemption, violence, woman in danger, violent content, u.s. marshal, district attorney ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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86%
 6.9
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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 ⇓
81%
What a Wonderful World (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Moldova
Duration: 73 min.
Story: After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist ...
Style: independent film
Plot: travel, police interrogation, fight, sex scene, police, interview, cigarette smoking, murder, violence, female nudity, love
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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 297
Doctor Death (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a skiing accident, Sarah's life is saved thanks to a brilliant surgeon, Dr. Vincent. But when Dr. Vincent mistakes Sara's gratitude for love, he becomes obsessed with her, determined to have her at any cost.
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: doctor, surgeon, psychopath, murder, medical, hospital, danger, possessed human, obsession, chase, vengeance, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
The 'Human' Factor (1975)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After his family is brutally murdered for an unknown reason, a computer engineer sets out to find those responsible.
Style: neo noir, independent film, poliziottesco
Plot: vigilante, murder, revenge, blockade, dead girl, dead woman, terrorist, terrorism, showdown, manhunt, murder of family, hostage ...
Time: year 1975
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
 6.3
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From Now On (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Dora divides her time between her work as a beautician, her policeman husband António, and her involvement in left-wing politics. A tale of love and how we must learn to cherish it against all odds in the pursuit of happiness.
Plot: nudity, love, violence, politics, sex, anger, redemption, revolt
Place: portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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 ⇓
74%
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On the Inside (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, independent film ...
Plot: mental illness, murder, mental institution, psychopath, redemption, mentally unstable, crime and punishment, woman in danger, haunted by the past, criminal psychologist, prison, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Gangster Kittens (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Story: An uncompromising portrait of the struggles of a resplendent teenager with an anarchic spirit, fighting to maintain her existence in the bleak urban landscape of London. Angel is a cool but troubled nymphet, disillusioned by the tedium and ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating, dark comedy ...
Plot: social injustice, redemption, corruption, violence, controversy, nudity, orgy, brothel, sex scandal, bondage, teenage sexuality, parliament ...
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70%
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Instinct (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything -- even put his ...
Style: philosophical, psychological, suspense, emotional, touching ...
Plot: prison, murder, estrangement, psychologist, redemption, violence, insanity, greed, survival, corruption, doctors and patients, human animal relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, africa, florida, rwanda, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 5.2
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Death Waltz (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hungary
Duration: 103 min.
Story: From a policewoman broken leg seems completely slip out of the soil. Life-threatening love triangle mixed with her husband and their criminal friends.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: broken family, dark past, parent child relationship, love triangle, drug use, policewoman, crime boss, cheating on husband, female alcoholic, violence, murder, fatherhood ...
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67%
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Canal Street (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A Chicago lawyer embraces his undying faith when his teenage son is accused of murdering a classmate.
Style: rough, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: father son relationship, society, murder, rivalry, death, hopes, parents and children, vengeance, violence, friendship, heroes, life is a bitch ...
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65%
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Savage (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: There was a double homicide on the forgotten Swedish countryside several years ago. Two angry young men beat two young women to death, seemingly without any particular reason. The years passed but the images in our heads did not disappear. We tried ...
Style: mythical, independent film
Plot: serial killer, criminal, city, white trash, love, violence, father son relationship, murder, sex, preacher, religious, prostitution ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
Style: psychological, realistic, tense, serious, independent film ...
Plot: kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, family problems, homecoming, parents and children, hopes, redemption, child abuse, teenage girl, isolation, fish out of water, starting over ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 4.5
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Ice Scream (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Story: A shy young man attempts to buy ice cream for his girlfriend when faced by two of the town's worst bullies. This is the beginning of a day he will never forget.
Plot: bullying, death, violence, ice cream
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59%
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Fiksi. (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Alisha (Ladya Cheryl) never feel comfortable staying in her cool and spacious home until one day she meets Barry (Donny Alamsyah) who introduces her the meaning of love.
Style: disgusting, indonesian
Plot: murder, psychopath, violence, female protagonist, secret, life, writers, neighbor, blood, love, suicide, rabbit ...
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55%
Maternal Instincts (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A pregnant doctor's life is made hell by the deranged patient to whom she gave a hysterectomy, without the patient's consent.
Style: independent film
Plot: love, woman seduces a man, doctor, cancer, nurse, revenge, miscarriage, expectant father, pregnant woman, killer, pregnant wife, pregnancy ...
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American Badger (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A seemingly cold-blooded hitman is assigned to befriend a call girl, but all hell breaks loose when he is assigned to kill her.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: hitman, martial arts, double life, fight, femme fatale, love, revenge, deception, killing spree, prostitute, vigilante, violence ...
Place: vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Illusions (1992)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Greg Sanderson is helping his wife, Jan, to recover from a nervous breakdown and revive their strained marriage. Their privacy is interrupted by the arrival of Greg's stunning and mysterious sister, Laura. Jan's paranoia deepens as she ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, enigmatic, exciting
Plot: incest, mental illness, love, sister, femme fatale, craziness, suspicion, incestuous relationship, sister in law, insanity, brother sister incest, erotic thriller ...
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51%
 6.1
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Runt (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Neglected and unsupervised, a group of high school seniors are pulled into a downward cycle of violence.
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological
Audience: chick flick
Plot: high school student, school, teenage protagonist, teenager, bad influence, troubled teen, social problems, life is a bitch, teenage life, adolescence, violence, distopia ...
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51%
 6.0
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Trial by Fire (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Paulette Gil is a very engaged teacher. When she realizes that her pupil Kip has problems she takes special care for him. But Kip interprets it in the wrong way and tells his mates that he had an affair with Paulette. Then he commits suicide and the ...
Plot: love, abuse, victim, older woman younger man relationship, nudity, suicide, deception, peeping tom, courtroom, judge, teaching, school ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Extremities (1986)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A woman escapes from the man who is about to rape her, but leaves her purse behind. Afraid that her attacker might come after her, she goes to the police, but with no proof of the incident, they can do nothing. In fact, the man does use the ...
Style: tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot: rape and revenge, revenge, home invasion, unsupportive friend, attempted rape, vigilante, sexualized violence, moral dilemma, rapist, vigilantism, female protagonist, woman with a gun ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Game (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Struggling artist Min Hee-do is offered three billion won to bet his life to a game against a rich old man, Kang No-sik, who is dying from a terminal illness. The game is for each man to dial a random phone number and guess if the person who answers ...
Style: mind twisting, mysterious, twisted, surprise ending
Plot: uncle nephew relationship, male nudity, surgery, identity, mistaken identity, identity theft, new identity, bet, rich man, doctor, painter, male full rear nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Her Name Is Carla (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two strangers refuse to leave the seaside home of a couple, which leads to sexual tension and crime.
Style: psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot: rape, couple relations, danger, couples, rape and revenge, stranger, husband wife relationship, adultery, nudity, impotent husband, cuckolded husband, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: zimbabwe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Evil Has a Face (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A talented young female police sketch artist uses her abilities to track down an evil child molester.
Plot: child abuse, serial killer, family relations, daughter, sexual predator, child molester, predator, sketch artist
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
All Mistakes Buried (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A lone, struggling addict takes on a dangerous underground criminal ring in his small Southern town to retrieve a stolen pendant he believes will save his marriage.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot: redemption, addiction, hopes, danger, life is a bitch, obsessive quest, small town, drug, mob
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.4
 860
Scalpel (1977)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A psychopathic plastic surgeon transforms a young accident victim into the spitting image of his missing daughter.
Style: southern gothic, slasher, independent film, psychotronic
Plot: plastic surgery, american horror, surgical operation, exploitation, surgery, plastic surgeon, accident victim, funeral, drowning, dual role, pianist, woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
A Face to Die For (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A scarred, unattractive young woman is conned into helping with a robbery of her employer. As a result, she is sent to prison, gets plastic surgery, and returns to seek revenge on those who wronged her.
Style: rom com, slasher
Audience: chick flick
Plot: disfigured face, disfigured, surgery, fashion designer, prison, revenge, plastic surgery, female vigilante, face, facial scar
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.5
 115
Blackout (1988)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young girl returns to her hometown in search of her father, gradually her childhood memories returns; a childhood with incest and violence.
Style: independent film
Plot: isolation, runaway, incest, flashback, sex, father, murder, violence, girl, young
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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