Movies like Circle of Friends 2006

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Circle of Friends (2006)
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Circle of Friends (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Maggie returns to her hometown to dedicate a scholarship in her late husband's name. While there, she reconnects with old friends and comes to believe that her husband's death is tied to the mysterious deaths of several old classmates..
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: murder, old friend, small town, homecoming, career woman, school, investigation, danger, couples, high school life, high school, sex, gay, stalker, female protagonist, childhood friend, black bra, mysterious death, bare chested male, seduction, deadly, partial female nudity, male in shower, bra removing, mystery ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, new york
Keyword: old friends

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Most similar movies to Circle of Friends

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and tense films with plots about murder, deadly, danger, investigation, dishonesty, woman in danger and uncover truth mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Circle of Friends: Ricochet (2011), Fatal Trust (2006), I Dream of Murder (2006), Cyberstalker (2012), Clean Break (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ricochet (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two homicide detectives find their careers - and lives - on the line when they get caught up in a case of murder and betrayal in high-society Savannah.
Style: atmospheric, detective, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: murder, investigation, police detective, dishonesty, law enforcement, betrayal, partner, high society, danger, couples, twists and turns, deep south ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
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Fatal Trust (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After the father of her kid son Sam was killed by an escaped psychiatric patient, Kate decides it's time for a new chapter in her life. She moves to the town where her former lover Tom lives and now works in the sheriff's department, and ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious
Plot: family relations, psychopath, danger, small town, male female relationship, murder, love, serial killer, death, murder of father, doctor, murder of husband ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
I Dream of Murder (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Johanna is a therapist on the verge of a midlife crisis. When one of her patients is found brutally murdered, she takes it upon herself to solve the mystery. But why is this stressed-out shrink willing to risk her marriage, her career and her entire ...
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, midlife crisis, investigation, doctors and patients, therapist, police, female protagonist, car accident, haunted by the past, danger, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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34%
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Cyberstalker (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After spending several years in seclusion, a woman encounters the stalker who murdered her parents over a decade ago, and fears she may be his latest victim when he starts to cyber-stalk her.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: murder, stalker, woman in danger, psychopath, stalking, danger, computers and web, woman in peril, deadly, off the grid, young
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Clean Break (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, obsession, twists and turns, danger, investigation, betrayal, infidelity, stalking, love, crumbling marriage, corrupt officer, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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30%
A Near Death Experience (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Ellie suffers a strong shock to discover that, after suffering a near-death experience, can hear voices from beyond. He soon realizes that it is a gift with which you can help others.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: ghost, murder, psychic power, danger, talking to the dead, serial killer, death, new neighbor, fugitive, flashback, train, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Megachurch Murder (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: murder, investigation, uncover truth, amateur detective, clergy, youth, dishonesty, society, danger, teenager, soul, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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 ⇓
29%
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Godspeed (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Joseph McKelheer and Cory Knauf (The Hamiltons, The Violent Kind) star in this intense thriller set in the lingering light of the Alaskan midnight sun. Charlie Shepard, a modern day faith healer with a small flock of believers, is stunned when his ...
Style: tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, death in the family, haunted by the past, religions or cults, society, small town, life turned upside down, investigation, grief, killer child, strong violent content, wilderness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alaska
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29%
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Awakened (2013)
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, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, parents and children, twists and turns, haunted by the past, small town, small town life, afterlife, mental illness, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Secrets From Her Past (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ten years ago, Kate Collins (Ashley Jones) was a different person. Literally. She was living in Chicago, working as a bartender, and going by her real name ‘Stephanie Wickers.’ That all changed when she witnessed the murder of her boss by a ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: hidden identity, murder, witnessing a crime, danger, gangster, haunted by the past, on the run, woman in danger, dishonesty, hitman, chases and races, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Flirting with Danger (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A lawyer begins a sordid fling with an attractive young woman whom he slowly begins to suspect to be a serial killer of men.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: murder, femme fatale, investigation, fall in love, psychopath, lawyer, strong female lead, sex, police, multiple personality disorder, dangerous attraction, deadly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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27%
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Uncle John (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Uncle John revolves around the struggle to keep a mysterious disappearance unsolved
Style: tense, sincere, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: missing person, investigation, homecoming, social relations, unlikely criminals, manipulation, small town life, under the surface, small town, dishonesty, murder, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Secrets of Eden (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Based on Chris Bohjalian’s New York Times best-selling novel, “Secrets of Eden” centers on Stephen Drew, an adored small-town minister, and the brutal and sadistic murder-suicide of Alice and George Hayward, the town’s most beloved ...
Style: tense, realistic, psychological, serious, captivating
Plot: murder, small town, murder investigation, pastor, clergy, society, religions or cults, under the surface, social relations, minister, small town life, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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White Orchid (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Shy and reserved, Claire Decker, 30ish, is a part-time investigator for Social Services. Typically, she solves cases where senior citizens have died alone, leaving no indication of who must handle their estate. This time however, Claire is ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: disguise, investigation, murder, femme fatale, danger, female protagonist, chase, brutality, death, police, woman with a gun, lesbian ...
Time: year 1992, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Beautiful & Twisted (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: murder, femme fatale, danger, couples, husband wife relationship, psychopath, investigation, rivalry, death, true crime, mother in law, strip club ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida, miami
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22%
Garage Sale Mystery: The Deadly Room (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
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Story: A sleuthing garage sale maven suspects foul play when her friend dies in an old house with a cursed reputation. Even though police evidence - and even webcam footage of the death – point to natural causes – this mysterious death in a cursed” ...
Style: serious, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: amateur detective, who done it, riddles and clues, investigation, murder, uncover truth, danger, couples, strong female presence, couple relations, supportive spouse, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Killing Game (2011)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Eve Duncan is contacted, 10 years after the disappearance and murder of her 7-year-old daughter Bonnie, by a man claiming to be her killer. Taunted by his clues about Bonnie's case and his threats to kill again, she throws herself into her ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, haunted by the past, murder, danger, death, mind game, strong female presence, riddles and clues, foster home, child abduction, deadly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Guilty at 17 (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenager becomes overwhelmed with guilt after her lies to support a friend's claim of sexual assault lead to the accused teacher's suicide.
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, captivating, sexy ...
Plot: false accusation, uncover truth, high school life, teachers and students, frame up, friends, youth, dishonesty, suicide, sexual abuse, high school, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A Sister's Secret (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When Katherine (Alexandra Paul) finds out her father's company is about to close the paper mill they own in her hometown in rural Pennsylvania, she comes up with a plan to save it. Needing the approval of the city council, she goes back and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot: homecoming, murder, family relations, workplace, dishonesty, vengeance, betrayal, family business, parents and children, mother daughter relationship, strong female lead, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, usa
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22%
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Fatal Reunion (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jessica is a housewife, unhappy in her marriage, who decides to "spice it up" a little bit. But she gets more than she bargained for when she contacts an old high school classmate she once had a crush on.
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, couple relations, danger, stalking, twists and turns, classmate, jealousy, murder, rivalry, violence, stalker, marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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22%
A Crime of Passion (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young heiress has her life turned upside down after her business partner's wife is killed and foul play is suspected.
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, enigmatic, realistic
Plot: investigation, amateur detective, woman in danger, who done it, couples, murder, dishonesty, danger, estate, murder investigation, adultery, inheritance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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22%
The Perfect Nanny (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Upon her release from a mental institution where she was recovering from a suicide attempt, Andrea McBride applies for the position of nanny for a handsome, wealthy surgeon, Dr. James Lewis, a widower with two children. Another applicant is hired, ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: nanny, obsession, under the surface, danger, murder, parents and children, family relations, femme fatale, woman with a gun, strong female lead, stalker, woman seduces a man ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Cheaters' Club (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A controversial therapist assembles a group of discontented wives and prescribes using adultery to save their failing marriages, only to have her patients killed off one by one.
Style: captivating, tense, exciting, melancholic, sentimental ...
Plot: murder, infidelity, danger, stalking, woman in danger, law enforcement, wife, therapy, strong female presence, marital infidelity, cheating wife, extramarital affair ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Fatal Acquittal (2014)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A woman accused of murdering her husband is found innocent, only to be terrorized by the real killer once she is set free.
Style: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Plot: murder, dishonesty, legal, uncover truth, danger, who done it, acquittal, legal action, suspect, guilty, husband, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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21%
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Psycho BFF (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Renee's shy teenage daughter Deandra finally makes a friend, Olivia, she is thrilled. After Olivia's initial bossiness turns into emotional abuse, Renee forbids the relationship from continuing, prompting the girls to run away ...
Style: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: mother daughter relationship, high school, female protagonist, female antagonist, murder, psychopath, best friend, friendship, couples, chase, youth, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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21%
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Assumed Killer (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Bernard Salzmann's thriller Assumed Killer tells the tale of a reporter investigating a serial killer. After she suffers an accident and becomes an amnesiac, she begins to suspect her husband may be the person responsible for the brutal slayings
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense
Plot: serial killer, memory loss, investigation, murder, life is a bitch, uncover truth, amateur detective, danger, deep south, journalism, media, car crash ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Garage Sale Mystery: All That Glitters (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
TV show
Story: Jennifer Shannon (Lori Loughlin) has a gift for finding rare treasures hidden in garage sales that she can resell at her consignment store, Rags to Riches, and for get her involved in the criminal investigations that happen at the very second-hand ...
Style: psychological, serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: investigation, murder, uncover truth, amateur detective, who done it, danger, suspicion, strong female presence, riddles and clues, police investigation, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
I Know What I Saw (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mourning the loss of her father, who committed suicide, Mackenzie starts having hallucinations of killing people. They seem so real that she's convinced she's been committing these crimes; however, she can find no evidence to support this. ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, investigation, danger, losing-it hero, serial killer, uncover truth, rivalry, dishonesty, twists and turns, suspicion, youth, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Lucky Day (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Nora Barkin is an aspiring actress who supports herself by working for a courier service. No sooner has Nora's friend and coworker Bill Reagan jubilantly announced that he possesses a lottery ticket worth 13 million dollars than Bill is killed ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending
Plot: fish out of water, amateur detective, investigation, riddles and clues, couple relations, who done it, best friend, murder, danger, law enforcement, lottery, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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20%
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