Movies like Suburban Bliss

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Suburban Bliss (2002)
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Suburban Bliss (2002)
Original name: Secret de banlieue
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Catherine, a rebellious pre-teen who has been deeply affected by her parents’ divorce, plays a game which involves crossing a dangerous road with her eyes closed. She becomes friends with the girl next door, the quiet Ariane, to the consternation of Ariane’s father, David. Although he appears to be a model father, David is in fact obsessed by the need to protect his daughter. As such, he tries – unsuccessfully – to prevent Ariane from coming under Catherine’s bad influence. Ariane takes up smoking, starts telling lies, and begins to explore her sexuality. While Catherine’s mother attempts to seduce the handsome, and single, David, he sets a trap for Catherine. For Catherine, living dangerously is no longer a game, and she has to summon all her strengths in order to survive.
Style: serious, realistic, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: overprotective parent, father daughter relationship, parent child relationship, teenage life, rebelliousness, youth, family relations, parents and children, social differences, family problems, parents separation, teenager, teenage girl, coming of age, dealing with death, murder, precocious child, female nudity, cigarette smoking, female full frontal nudity, underage smoking
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: canada

Most similar movies to Suburban Bliss

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about family relations, youth, danger, parents and children, teenage life, deadly and murder mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Suburban Bliss: Remember Me, Mommy? (2020), Son of Cain (2013), Fear of Water (2012), My Mother's Secret (2012), Surviving Crooked Lake (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Remember Me, Mommy? (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Rebecca, a respected teacher at a private girls school, has her life turned upside down when a new scholarship student arrives who might be the daughter she gave up for adoption seventeen years ago.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense, weird
Plot: family secret, girls' school, girls' boarding school, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, mother and daughter, teenager, youth, relationship problems, teenage girl, family problems, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Son of Cain (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Nico Albert is a very peculiar character teenager, with exceptional intelligence and a single obsession: chess. His parents, concerned about the anomalous attitude of his son, child psychologist hired Julio Beltran. Through therapy and common hobby ...
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Time: 21st century
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Fear of Water (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Rosalie Richard is found raped and dead at the foot of a cliff. This gruesome murder is the first ever in the Magdalen Islands. Her death will radically change the orderly life of Sergeant André Surprenant.
Style: serious, suspenseful, thought provoking, realistic, rough ...
Plot: army investigation, murder, family relations, military, life is a bitch, police investigation, law enforcement, parents and children, family problems, investigation, missing child, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec
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My Mother's Secret (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a woman becomes pregnant and tells the news to his mother is revealed to him that she is adopted. Then decides to search for his biological family and hired the services of a private detective.
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, captivating
Plot: uncover truth, investigation, family relations, parents and children, couples, family secret, danger, family problems, pregnant woman, birth mother, relationship problems, crime investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, usa
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Surviving Crooked Lake (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A summertime canoe trip turns into a nightmare for four 14-year-old girls.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: teenage girl, wilderness, river, estrangement, buddies, youth, starting over, escapades, danger, haunted by the past, teenage life, forces of nature ...
Time: 21st century
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No Good Deed (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Karen never planned on being a hero. A recent widow, she has her hands full with work and parenting her son Max. Then Karen saves Jeremy's life during a drug store robbery and quickly discovers that the young man is intent on paying her back at ...
Style: psychological, suspense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: brutality, mother son relationship, family relations, widow, psychology, bravery, youth, obsession, rivalry, deception, saving a life, manipulation ...
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Honour (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A story centered on a young woman is targeted by her family for an "honour killing" and the bounty hunter who takes the job.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: hitman, danger, on the run, family relations, family problems, woman in danger, parents and children, aryan brotherhood, chases and races, woman, deadly
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Place: london, england
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The Boy She Met Online (2010)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When teenager Cami Winters falls in love, she falls hard. Her single mother, Tori, has no idea that Cami has fallen in love with a boy named 'Jake' she met on a social networking website. Although Cami believes Jake's a 23 year-old ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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Teenage Bank Heist (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Cassie works as a teller at the bank where her mother is the branch manager. When the bank is robbed, Cassie is taken hostage. She soon finds out that the bank robbers are teenage girls, one of whom is her best friend, Abbie. In this propulsive real ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
The Tenth Circle (2008)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Based on Jodi Picoult's best-selling novel, "The Tenth Circle" tells the powerful story that probes the unbreakable bond between parent and child.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, teen ...
Audience: teen drama
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Pinprick (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Hungary
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A criminal gradually integrates himself into a broken household by methodically asserting control over a teenage girl and her lonely mother.
Style: suspense, serious, realistic
Plot: criminal heroes, youth, parents and children, teenage life, uninvited guest, teen angst, bad guy, psychotic, figment, coitus, teenager, criminal ...
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Zephyr Springs (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Dawn, an overworked single mother, agrees to take her teenage daughter, Kayla, to a luxurious but isolated spa retreat, the women believe they have escaped to a paradise of spa treatments, yoga, and nature hikes until a series of disturbing ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Moonlight (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Netherlands, UK, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Claire lives with her wealthy adopted parents in a luxurious and isolated house in the woods. She discovers a wounded and bleeding boy her age in her family's garden shed. The boy is a young drug courier from Afghanistan; shot and wounded after ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, touching, suspense
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76%
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The Collector (2002)
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Duration: 125 min.
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Child of Mine (2005)
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Duration: 100 min.
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Harm's Way (2008)
Genre: Thriller
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Lost in Africa (2010)
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Stalked at 17 (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
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Nexus (2010)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
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Missing at 17 (2013)
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Duration: 90 min.
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Genre: Thriller
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Duration: 94 min.
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Audience: teens
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Hellion (2014)
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
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Place: britain, usa
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72%
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Norfolk (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Set in Norfolk, amidst an idyllic, brooding landscape, an innocent teenage boy and his battle-weary father live a simple life. Days are spent hunting, fishing and daydreaming. Out-of-nowhere, disrupting this tranquility, a mysterious intense figure ...
Style: captivating, tense, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
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