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I Know My First Name Is Steven (1989)
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I Know My First Name Is Steven (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: 7-year old Steven Stayner is kidnapped a few days before Christmas by Kenneth Parnell. Under the belief that Parnell has been given legal custody of him, and that his family has moved away, he stays with Parnell for seven years, enduring repetitive sexual abuse the entire time. Finally, at fourteen, he returns home to his family.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, emotional, thought provoking, sad, tense, bleak, serious, realistic
Plot: kidnapping, missing child, child abuse, pedophile, child molestation, captivity, starting over, haunted by the past, parents and children, life is a bitch, danger, coming of age, perversion, rape, psychopath, false identity, legal system, true crime, escape, abused child, children, stockholm syndrome, sexual abuse, kidnapped, mental health ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 1980, year 1972, year 1974
Place: northern california

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Most similar movies to I Know My First Name Is Steven

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and disturbing films and TV series with plots about kidnapping, life is a bitch, true crime, serial killer, rape, child abuse and kidnapped mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like I Know My First Name Is Steven: When Andrew Came Home (2000), Cleveland Abduction (2015), A Friend of the Family (2022), 3096 Days (2013), Line of Fire (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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When Andrew Came Home (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A mother searches for five years to find her kidnapped son in this fact-based drama. Unexpectedly the boy is found, but the reunion is not as she hoped. She now has to deal with five years of abuse that the boy suffered at the hands of his ...
Style: touching, realistic, serious, emotional, sad
Plot: kids in trouble, kidnapping, coming of age, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, parents and children, captivity, family problems, estrangement, danger, confined, hopes ...
Time: 90s
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100%
Cleveland Abduction (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, true crime, captivity, life is a bitch, violence, isolation, sexual abuse, woman in danger, rape, missing person, cruelty, abduction ...
Time: 2010s, year 2002, 2000s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
A Friend of the Family (2022)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 473 min.
TV show
Story: The harrowing true story of the Broberg family, whose daughter Jan was kidnapped multiple times over a period of years by a charismatic, obsessed family "friend." The Brobergs — devoted to their faith, family, and community — were ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: family relations, kidnapped girl, kidnapping, kidnapped daughter, kidnapped, eccentric family, family problems, undercover, child abduction, kidnapped child, cheating wife, psychopath ...
Time: 70s
Place: idaho
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 16K
3096 Days (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.
Style: realistic, rough, twisted, teen, controversial ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, child abuse, rape, psychological torture, abduction, life is a bitch, basement, pedophile, violence against women, missing child, hostage, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: germany, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Line of Fire (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Line of Fire is a crime drama television series that was broadcast on ABC for 11 episodes in the winter of 2003-2004. It starred Leslie Bibb and Jeffrey D. Sams as two rookie FBI agents assigned to the bureau's Richmond, Virginia branch, where ...
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Plot: fbi, undercover, fighting crime, working undercover, gangster, special agent, workplace, law enforcement, haunted by the past, nypd, gay slur, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Michael (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Austria
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Although to the outside world he seems like the a perfectly normal insurance broker, Michael secretly keeps a 10-year-old boy, Wolfgang locked in a room in his soundproof basement.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, bleak, sexy ...
Plot: pedophilia, pedophile, child abuse, boy, life is a bitch, child molestation, kidnapping, child rape, isolation, gay, basement, psychopath ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, austria, europe, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Elizabeth Smart Story (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Based on the true story of the kidnapping of teenager Elizabeth Smart,in June 2002, by two people, in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA.
Style: suspense, thought provoking, psychological, rough, suspenseful
Plot: kidnapping, child abuse, true crime, missing child, child rape, religious cult, kidnapped, hostage, false identity, teenage girl, survival, escape ...
Place: utah, nova scotia, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
 30K
The Missing (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 943 min.
TV show
Story: A gripping anthological relationship thriller series exploring the emotional fallout of a child's abduction not only on the family but on the wider community, told over two time frames.
Style: detective, realistic, serious, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot: investigation, missing child, missing person, police detective, twists and turns, abduction, pedophile, police, child abuse, journalist, child abduction, life is a bitch ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, year 2014, year 2006, year 2009 ...
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Trade (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A Texas cop (Kevin Kline), whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth (Cesar Ramos) to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman who ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, detective ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: human trafficking, kidnapping, slavery, missing child, sexual abuse, sex slavery, child molestation, sexual assault, rape victim, forced prostitution, child rape, rescue ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: new jersey, mexico city, el paso texas, poland, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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I'm Not Scared (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town baddie Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell ...
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: childhood, boy, kidnapping, coming of age, rescue, friendship, father son relationship, uncover truth, captivity, children, life is a bitch, bullying ...
Time: year 2003, year 1978, 70s, 21st century
Place: italy, southern italy, europe, venice, milan italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.3
 118K
Unbelievable (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 385 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of Marie, a teenager who was charged with lying about having been raped, and the two female detectives who followed a twisting path to arrive at the truth.
Style: detective, serious, crime drama, social, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: investigation, rape, rape victim, female protagonist, sexual abuse, female detective, psychopath, teenage rape, violence, murder mystery, police, criminal ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Deliberate Stranger (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 185 min.
TV show
Story: Based on a true story, this film depicts the life of Theodore Robert Bundy, the serial killer. In 1974, after having murdered several young women, he leaves Seattle for Utah, where he is a law student and where other girls disappear. It takes the ...
Style: psychotronic, tense, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, true crime, killer, psychopath, murder, manhunt, ted bundy, murderer, politics, criminal, woman in danger, mental illness ...
Time: 80s, 70s
Place: seattle, utah, colorado, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Taken in Broad Daylight (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Every 24 hrs. after a child's been kidnapped by a stranger, chances of finding them alive diminishes to almost 100% ... The true and inspiring survival story of kidnapped teen, Anne Sluti, and how she manages to stay alive by manipulating her ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: kidnapping, kidnapped, survival, rescue, missing person, danger, confined, hostage, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, rape, showdown, stockholm syndrome ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nebraska, montana, wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 18K
At Close Range (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Based upon the true story of Bruce Johnston Sr., his son, and his brothers; together, they constituted one of suburban Philadelphia's most notorious crime families during the 1970's. Their criminal activities ranged from burglary, theft... ...
Style: neo noir, disturbing, tense, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: rape, organized crime, small town, father son relationship, sociopath, revenge, violent, gang, murder, violence, psychopath, serial killer ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1978
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
We Have Your Husband (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: American-born Jayne Valseca, her husband Eduardo, the son of a legendary Mexican newspaper publisher, and their two children live an idyllic life on their 1,000 acre ranch outside of a peaceful Mexico town. But in the summer of 2007, their peaceful ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: captivity, danger, kidnapping, confined, abduction, kidnapped, ambush, family problems, changing lives, strong female presence, true crime
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Dirty John (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Anthology series in which each season is based on a true crime story featuring an epic tale of love gone wrong.
Style: meditative, suspense, bleak, melancholic, tense ...
Plot: single woman, criminal, businessman, deception, male female relationship, dishonesty, relationship problems, manipulation, lie, tragic love, real life, psychology ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
An American Crime (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The true story of suburban housewife Gertrude Baniszewski, who kept a teenage girl locked in the basement of her Indiana home during the 1960s.
Style: disturbing, harsh, serious, bleak, brutal ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: child abuse, true crime, torture, dysfunctional family, murder, captivity, courtroom drama, family problems, domestic violence, court, trial, mistreatment ...
Time: 60s, year 2007, 20th century
Place: indiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Stolen Children (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: Real life story of babies stolen from their mothers during the 1970s and their struggles during the following decades.
Style: emotional, serious, disturbing, touching, realistic
Plot: uncover truth, haunted by the past, kidnapping, parents and children, life is a bitch, missing child, family problems, couples, babies and infants, hospital, child kidnapping, couple relations ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Believe Me: The Abduction of Lisa McVey (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: The disturbing true-story of Lisa McVey, who was abducted in 1984 but later released by her abuser, only to have people question her story.
Style: suspense, rough, suspenseful, touching, captivating ...
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, true crime, abduction, child abduction, kidnapped, rape, psychopath, kidnapped girl, autobiography, homicidal maniac, homicide detective ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Human Trafficking (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 253 min.
TV show
Story: When a sixteen-year-old girl from the Ukraine, a single mother from Russia, an orphaned seventeen-year-old girl from Romania, and a twelve-year-old American tourist become the victims of international sex slave traffickers, a specialized team of ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: human trafficking, kidnapping, violence against women, slavery, sex trafficking, captivity, forced prostitution, child prostitution, sex slavery, child abduction, prostitute, child rape ...
Place: eastern europe, the philippines, thailand, europe, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Dungeon Girl (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A shocking story of captivity and survival inspired by actual events.
Style: rough, disturbing, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: captivity, held captive, abduction, confined, power relations, child in peril, nightmare, loss of father, child abandonment, childhood memory, minimal dialogue, basement ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Girl in the Box (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A hitchhiking woman is abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
Style: psychological thriller, dark, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: sex slave, rape, sexualized violence, slavery, sadistic cruelty, sadistic violence, kidnapped woman, slave girl, sex slavery, sexual torture, sexual abuse, violence ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Love, Lies and Murder (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
TV show
Story: This movie, based on the true story, begins with the murder of a housewife. When troubled teenage daughter confesses the crime, it looks like a solved case. But, the investigators are suspicious because of the lack of motive and spend years trying ...
Style: detective, mind bending, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: legal, murder, older man younger woman relationship, rape, true crime, sexual abuse, violent, woman killed, serial killer, psychopath, manipulation, family relations ...
Time: 80s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 7K
Sybil (1976)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 198 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of a young woman named Sybil, whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed at least 13 different personalities.
Style: psychological, touching, disturbing, emotional, depressing ...
Plot: mental illness, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, psychology, mental disorder, psychiatrist, children, child abuse, women, psychiatry, illness, mental health ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.6
 388
Fallen Angel (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 205 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the Roth Trilogy of novels by Andrew Taylor, Fallen Angel tells the story of Rosie Byfield, a clergyman's daughter, who grows up to be a psychopathic killer. It has an unusual narrative that moves backwards in time as it uncovers the ...
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, detective ...
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, psychopath, life is a bitch, betrayal, weakness, murder, danger, flashback, violence, murder mystery, clergy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Helter Skelter (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 194 min.
TV show
Story: The investigation of two horrific mass murders leads to the capture and trial of the psychotic pseudo-hippie Charles Manson and his "family".
Style: disturbing, spooky, slasher horror, serious, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, courtroom drama, true crime, hippie, charles manson, psychopath, killer, commune, murder, lawyer, counterculture, mental disorder ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.8
 2K
Sex Traffic (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 189 min.
TV show
Story: Boston based Kernwell Industries is an American defense contractor. One of those contracts is to deploy 3,000 peacekeepers to the International Peacekeeping Coalition's work in the Balkans. Because of the near epidemic problem of sex ...
Style: bleak, thought provoking, realistic, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: human trafficking, sex trafficking, sexual abuse, prostitute, pimp, woman in danger, society, life is a bitch, stripper, kidnapping, slavery, human rights ...
Time: 21st century
Place: former yugoslavia, europe, england, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.5
 603
Five Daughters (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Factually-based drama telling the stories of five young women who were tragically murdered in Ipswich in 2006.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police detective, police investigation, drug abuse, woman in danger, addiction, prostitute, life is a bitch, small town, murderer, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Onion Field (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Greg Powell, a disturbed ex-con, recruits Jimmy Youngblood (Smith) a petty thief, as partner in crime. Powell panics when they two of are pulled over by two cops for tail lights. Powell decides to kidnap the cops and Smith goes along with his crazy ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: courtroom drama, murder, police investigation, true crime, legal, moral ambiguity, manipulation, brutality, courtroom, trial, law enforcer killer, haunted by the past ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979, 60s, year 1963
Place: los angeles, california, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Deep End of the Ocean (1999)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Michelle Pfeiffer is ferocious in the role of a desperate mother whose 3-year-old son disappears during her high school reunion. Nine years later, by chance, he turns up in the town in which the family has just relocated. Based on Jacquelyn ...
Style: psychological, touching, sentimental, melancholic, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: kidnapping, missing child, missing person, family drama, children, family relations, kidnapped, family life, parents and children, police detective, family problems, hostage ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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