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False as Water (1985)
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False as Water (1985)
Original name: Falsk som vatten
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 102 min.
Story: John is the owner of a small publishing company. One day John meets the poet Clara and falls in love with her. A movie about jealousy and death.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, eighties
Plot: death, jealousy, publisher, love and romance, fall in love, couples, infidelity, breakup, dishonesty, life turned upside down, love, winter, cat, party, snow, female nudity, adultery, poet, father daughter relationship, drunkenness, cruise ship, poison, mental breakdown, shakespeare's othello, bathtub ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Keyword: sweden

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, tense and suspenseful films with plots about dishonesty, couples, infidelity, couple relations, love and romance, female nudity and danger mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres. Some movies like False as Water: The Bottom of the Sea (2003), Betrayal (1983), Dark Obsession (1989), Clean Break (2008), Night Eyes (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Bottom of the Sea (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An architect (Daniel Hendler) trails a man (Gustavo Garzón) who was hiding under his girlfriend's (Dolores Fonzi) bed.
Style: psychological, suspense, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot: jealousy, love, obsession, investigation, danger, couples, stalking, infidelity, rivalry, lovers, unfaithful, true love ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina
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Betrayal (1983)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Pinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best friend; the entire story is told from the ...
Style: psychological, realistic, talky, tense, captivating ...
Plot: unfulfillment, love triangle, dishonesty, betrayal, danger, infidelity, autobiography, rivalry, friends, british pub, writers, affair ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: england, europe, london
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Dark Obsession (1989)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Hugo Buckton seems to have it all: He is apparently rich and has a beautiful wife and a doting son. In actuality, though, Hugo is having money problems and is paranoid that his wife is cheating on him. After a boozy night at a party, Hugo hits and ...
Style: sexy, serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: hit and run, erotica, police, nudity, murder, evil wins, incident, jealousy, investigation, violent content, best friend, profanity ...
Time: year 1989, 80s, 20th century
Place: england, london, yorkshire
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 4.2
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Night Eyes (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Beverly Hills home-security guard is seduced by a rock star's wife he monitors by video.
Style: sexy, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Plot: femme fatale, rock star, investigation, crumbling marriage, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty, law enforcement, obsession, love affair, strong sexual content, erotica ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
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Proof of Lies (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A scientist researches the genetic cause of addictive behavior.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, surprise ending
Plot: betrayal, woman in danger, danger, couple relations, infidelity, conspiracy, couples, college dropout, inventions and discoveries, university, miscarriage, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
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52%
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Green (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A New Yorker moves to the country with her boyfriend, where her new friendship causes a problem as her partner also takes an interest in the woman.
Style: tense, mumblecore, captivating, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: infidelity, jealousy, love triangle, couples, couple relations, suspicion, women, danger, rivalry, coming of age, male full rear nudity, young couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 7.5
 29
Resilience (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An average man finds himself in a position to prevent the murder of a family member -- the unnerving descent of a man caught between resilience and ruthlessness.
Style: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: moral dilemma, life is a bitch, rivalry, dishonesty, human nature, life turned upside down, feud, murder, sexual content, violent content, nudity, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Istanbul (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary, Netherlands, Ireland, Turkey
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Housewife Katalin Munk (Johanna ter Steege) has her world torn apart when her lecturer husband János (Andor Lukáts) arrives home to tell her that he’s leaving her for a younger student of his. Katalin falls into a state of shock and wanders ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, touching
Plot: self discovery, love affair, life turned upside down, family problems, couples, family relations, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance, infidelity, parents and children, breakup ...
Time: 21st century
Place: budapest, istanbul turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
An Unfinished Affair (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a man ends a regretful love affair that occurred during his wife's illness, his mistress plots revenge by targeting his family's most treasured possessions, a priceless painting and his son.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: erotica, love, infidelity, affair, unfaithful husband, terminal illness, love affair, power relations, couples, dishonesty, danger, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.5
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Caught (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A middle-aged couple has a drifter enter their lives. The fish-store owners find that the mysterious young man awakens the couple in ways they didn't expect. Things get tense when the drifter begins an affair with the woman of the house.
Style: psychological, erotic, tense, serious, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: unfaithful wife, adultery, cheating wife, older woman younger man, stepmother stepson relationship, betrayal, erotica, older woman younger man relationship, family problems, infidelity, twists and turns, murder ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, future
Place: usa, new york, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Paris by Night (1988)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Clara Bell is a busy Euro MP with a husband and child at home and a high powered career - but on a trip to Paris her ordered existence is overturned by a murder and a chance encounter.
Style: independent film, tense, biting, realistic, serious ...
Plot: murder, politics, female politician, strong female presence, manipulation, couples, life turned upside down, haunted by the past, infidelity, relationship vs career, love affair, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: paris france, france, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.5
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Deceit (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A man returns to his hometown after his father's death and soon enters into an affair with the wife of his old best friend.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, erotic ...
Plot: infidelity, obsession, destructive relationship, friendship, dangerous attraction, love affair, manipulation, love and romance, stalking, dishonesty, couples, tragic love ...
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49%
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Duration: 110 min.
Story: Saara is a middle-aged doctor who one day finds out that her architect-husband Leo is having an affair with a younger woman, Tuuli. Instead of revealing her true identity, Saara pretends to be someone else and makes friends with Tuuli. At the same ...
Style: erotic drama, psychological, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot: infidelity, older woman teenage boy sex, lesbian, self defense, lesbian seduction, love affair, love triangle, dishonesty, mistrust, pretense, crumbling marriage, unfulfillment ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: europe, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
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Story: Running away on the highway, Maria is alone in her roaring SUV. Behind her, fire and a case full of money. In front of her, the hopeless vastness of the motorway. Only a day before she was a caring mother, a loving wife, a responsible daughter. ...
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Time: 20th century, 90s
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Blowfly Park (2014)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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