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Doonby (2013)
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Doonby (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A handsome drifter, without a past, gets off an interstate bus in a small Texas town and finds work at Leroy's Country Blues Bar....and the mystery begins.
Style: humorous, serious, realistic, surprise ending, twist ending, independent film
Plot: faith, bus, musician, alcoholic, seduction, truck driver, abortion, father daughter relationship, single mother, bartender, drifter, mental illness, sheriff, robbery, blues, gynecologist, psycho killer, drunkenness, diary, false accusation, drunk, small town, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, party girl, flashback ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: texas

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and suspenseful films with plots about small town, murder, flashback, family relations, father daughter relationship, small town life and bar mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Doonby: Untouched (2017), What Would Jesus Do? (2010), Hearts in Atlantis (2001), Fever Pitch (1985), October Baby (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Untouched (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Untouched is the story of a reluctant attorney's struggle with inner demons while defending a teenage girl accused of murdering her newborn. When the "Hostess City of the South" is rocked by the horrific crime, Mitchell Thomas III ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspense, grindhouse ...
Plot: dedicated lawyer, uncover truth, haunted by the past, courtroom drama, legal investigation, life is a bitch, legal, courtroom, murder, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
What Would Jesus Do? (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The citizens of a small town lose their faith day by day. Poverty and hardships have been hard on them... when all of a sudden something changes. Their faith is reborn. And a question rises inside them: "What would Jesus do?"
Style: christian film, realistic, serious, spiritual, inspirational ...
Plot: faith, pastor, christian, small town, clergy, introspection, human spirit, society, hopes, social relations, religions or cults, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa, xian
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Hearts in Atlantis (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A widowed mother and her son change when a mysterious stranger enters their lives.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, atmospheric, melancholic ...
Plot: small town, childhood, coming of age, single mother, childhood memory, friendship, stephen king, mysterious stranger, childhood friend, father figure, parents and children, selflessness ...
Time: 60s, 1950s, year 2001, 20th century
Place: virginia, new york, usa, connecticut
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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 345
Fever Pitch (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An investigative journalist gets hooked on the subject of his inquiry - organized gambling.
Style: twist ending, surprise ending
Plot: reporter, casino, gambler, interview, cathartic, narration, father daughter relationship, journalist, faith, employer employee relationship, soldier, car accident ...
Time: year 1985
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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 6.6
 8K
October Baby (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: OCTOBER BABY is the coming of age story of a beautiful and naive college freshman who discovers that her entire life is a lie and sets out on a road trip with a host of misfits to discover herself and the answers she craves.
Style: touching, serious, emotional, realistic, christian film ...
Plot: christian, self discovery, asthma, adoption, abortion, epilepsy, female protagonist, protective parent, faith, life turned upside down, best friend, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
The Ghost and the Whale (2017)
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, realistic ...
Plot: mental illness, false accusation, uncover truth, vengeance, life is a bitch, missing person, social relations, mental health, psychology, bipolar disorder, small town life, small town
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.7
 46K
Proof (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Catherine is a woman in her late twenties who is strongly devoted to her father, Robert, a brilliant and well-known mathematician whose grip on reality is beginning to slip away. As Robert descends into madness, Catherine begins to wonder if she may ...
Style: psychological, emotional, inspirational, clever, serious ...
Plot: mental illness, mathematics, insanity, prodigy, university, paranoia, schizophrenia, illness, older woman younger man relationship, grief, life, character study ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, new york, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
A Stranger in the Kingdom (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A Vermont town in the 1950's hires a new minister based on his war record and capable presentation, but then are shocked when he shows up and is a black man. Things go completely wrong for ...
Style: independent film, contemplative, serious, realistic, thought provoking ...
Plot: murder, false accusation, small town, racism, life is a bitch, legal, society, dishonesty, courtroom, social relations, price of justice, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: vermont, usa, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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 8K
Agnes of God (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough ...
Style: atmospheric, intense, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot: nun, mental illness, psychiatrist, murder, investigation, clergy, religion, trial, convent, life is a bitch, women, psychiatry ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: montreal, quebec, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.0
 274
Interstate 84 (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When a body is found floating in an upstate New York river, hard-drinking cop Joe Weldon is left with few clues. After uncovering the man's identity - an enigmatic simpleton named Hap - Weldon is led to the crooked hustler who took advantage of ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, touching ...
Plot: police investigation, uncover truth, life is a bitch, introspection, murder, law enforcement, misfit, small town life, redemption, mysterious character, small town, addiction ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
McBride: The Chameleon Murder (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: As a favor to a friend, defense attorney McBride takes on a client accused of murdering a woman. When McBride and his partner Phil investigate the deceased, they discover she had many identities and with each new life she was leading the list of ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective
Plot: false accusation, legal investigation, courtroom drama, wrong place wrong time, legal, cons and scams, rivalry, murder, uncover truth, twists and turns, lawyer, forensic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 5.3
 299
Mysteries (1978)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 97 min.
Story: In the winter of 1891 a stranger arrives in a small coastal town on the Isle of Man. His presence soon disturbs the lives of the local inhabitants, especially the beautiful daughter of the parson.
Style: serious, suspense, surprise ending, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot: social relations, obsession, rich man, intrigue, drifter, suicide, nudity, dark humor, contests and competitions, village, small town life, village life ...
Time: 70s
Place: holland
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Deep in the Heart (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An alcoholic man refocuses himself on putting kids through college via 4H and FFA scholarship donations. Guiding him is a spiritual figure he calls "The Bearded Man".
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, touching, captivating ...
Plot: starting over, support group, hopes, alcohol abuse, mysterious stranger, college, rise to the top, society, friendship, lifestyle change, changing lives, alcoholic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Who Are You People (2023)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After trying and failing to seduce her teacher, 16-year-old Alex runs away from her boarding school. Trying to seek out the biological father her mother has always kept hidden from her.
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: father daughter relationship, search for father, parents and children, family problems, teenager, relationships, relationship problems, family relations, life is a bitch, teenage girl, secret, teenage life ...
Place: portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.4
 497
Everything (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A man visits a prostitute but just wants to talk. She goes along with it until he starts asking questions. Is he just a loner or is there a different reason for him to come here?
Style: realistic, serious, tense, talky, minimal cast ...
Plot: prostitute, husband wife relationship, father daughter reunion, father daughter relationship, sex crime, striptease, immigrant, roommate, female pubic hair, money, anger, pimp ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 2K
Waterland (1992)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The story of a mentally anguished high school history teacher going through a complete reassessment of his life. His method for reassessing his life is to narrate it to his class and interweave in it three generations of his family's history.
Style: realistic, atmospheric, psychological, serious, offbeat ...
Plot: teacher, high school, haunted by the past, teachers and students, self discovery, power relations, couples, introspection, couple relations, friendship, father son relationship, mental illness ...
Time: 90s, 1940s, 70s, year 1992, 1920s ...
Place: england, pittsburgh, europe, london, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Disappeared (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Harry Sands is a self made man, happily married with two children. When he learns that his daughter has gone missing in Istanbul, he flies out to find her. To Harry's horror, he discovers from Olivia's best friend, that the two of them ...
Style: serious, disturbing, suspenseful, realistic, suspense
Plot: missing person, parents and children, chases and races, father daughter relationship, prostitute, stripper, strip club, ferry, exotic dancer, passport, female nudity, lesbian ...
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 7.4
 32K
Lone Star (1996)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.
Style: neo western, witty, tense, sincere, touching ...
Plot: father son relationship, sheriff, police investigation, murder, investigation, small town, greed, police corruption, haunted by the past, twists and turns, law enforcement, family history ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: texas, austin texas, midwest, usa, southern usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 7.1
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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 ⇓
43%
Evidence of Blood (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When a brilliant crime writer investigates a 40-year-old murder, he confronts a small town's worst fears
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: writers, deep south, death sentence, electric chair, small town, murder, legal, investigation, life is a bitch, dishonesty, who done it, wrongfully committed ...
Time: 90s
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
The Other Side of Sleep (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Loosely inspired by the director’s own memory of a girl’s disappearance from her village, the film follows Arlene (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), a young factory worker living alone in a rural Irish community.
Style: surreal, tense, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, obsession, investigation, amateur detective, who done it, small town, insomnia, paranoia, corpse, funeral, sleepwalking, monster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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The Nothing (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The faith of five strangers is put to the test when they awake to find themselves in a mysterious place, with no idea of how they got there... and no way out.
Style: underground film, sincere, psychological, touching, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: faith, cancer, christianity, spirituality, religion, christian, church, dying, death, infidelity, stranger, afterlife ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
One Deadly Summer (1983)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story: In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder ...
Style: sexy, erotic drama, anthology, social, erotic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: revenge, sexual manipulation, rape and revenge, small town, exhibitionist, summer, rape victim, exhibitionism, traumatic childhood, erotica, breast feeding, raped woman ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 70s, 60s, year 1955 ...
Place: france, europe, south of france, provence
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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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 ⇓
40%
 6.2
 12K
Peacock (2010)
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, psychological, intense, thought provoking ...
Plot: mental illness, split personality, small town, guilt, mental disorder, single mother, double life, small town life, social relations, husband wife relationship, twists and turns, lgbt ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place: usa, nebraska
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.1
 223
Out of Sight (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Israel
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ya'ara, a blind PhD candidate in Mathematics at Princeton University, hears of her cousin Talia's suicide. Ya'ara rushes back to Israel. They were best of friends and twin spirits. Talia saw for both of them, and was always the one ...
Plot: suicide, israeli, grief, father daughter relationship, airport, swimming pool, taxi, sex, flashback, doctor, blood, diary ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.8
 23K
Ondine (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: An Irish fisherman discovers a woman in his fishing net believing her to be a mermaid.
Style: sentimental, touching, fairy tale, sweet, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: mermaid, small town, father daughter relationship, self discovery, character study, secrets, family drama, adaptation, redemption, small town life, hopes, love and romance ...
Time: year 2009
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Murder Without Conviction (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Recently released from her vows as a nun, Christine Bennett is discovering "life on the outside." After a visit to her mentally-handicapped cousin Gene, Christine becomes embroiled in the investigation of the murder mystery surrounding ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, gloomy, realistic ...
Plot: murder, twins, uncover truth, who done it, mental illness, dishonesty, society, police investigation, injustice, family relations, mental retardation, mental institution ...
Time: year 1973, year 1960, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Spitfire Grill (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Percy, upon being released from prison, goes to the small town of Gillead, to find a place where she can start over again. She is taken in by Hannah, to help out at her place, the Spitfire Grill. Percy brings change to the small town, stirring ...
Style: christian film, sentimental, emotional, touching, serious ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: small town, friendship, bittersweet, self discovery, restaurant, solitude, hospital, storytelling, death, food, christian, abortion ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: maine, vermont, usa, new england, ohio ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.1
 153
Story of Jen (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A man commits suicide leaving a disturbing note. His wife and his daughter try to cope with it when the step-brother of the deceased visits them.
Style: tense, serious, suspense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: pregnancy, estrangement, family relations, escapades, odd couple, on the run, youth, parents and children, teenage life, single parent, death in the family, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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