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The Elizabeth Smart Story (2003)
1K
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:
thought provoking, suspense, psychological, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
true crime, child abuse, kidnapped, missing child, religious cult, child rape, hostage, teenage girl, false identity, survival, captivity, love, religion, hostage situation, wrestling, homeless, poverty, polygamy, anti christianity, prison, teenager, large family, adoption, father figure, chores ...
Place:
utah, nova scotia, salt lake city utah
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Most similar movies to The Elizabeth Smart Story
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense and realistic films with plots about true crime, kidnapping, abduction, kidnapped, serial killer, rape and murder mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Elizabeth Smart Story: 3096 Days (2013), Girl in the Bunker (2018), Eden (2012), Cleveland Abduction (2015), I Know My First Name Is Steven (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
18K
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, saga, rough, controversial, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, child abuse, psychological torture, rape, abduction, basement, life is a bitch, violence against women, pedophile, missing child, stockholm syndrome, kidnapped ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place:
germany, austria
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Set in 2006 and based on the true story of Elizabeth Shoaf, this powerful film explores the tension-filled ten days Elizabeth was kidnapped and held prisoner by Vinson Filyaw. Imprisoned in a secret underground bunker hidden deep in the woodland, ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, rough, thought provoking, disturbing ...
Plot:
kidnapping, sexual assault, sexual predator, rape of a minor, bunker, rape, pedophile, teenage girl, sex slave, police, impersonating a police officer, age difference ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
10K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The true story of Chong Kim who, as a young teen, was abducted into the sex trade, and the complicated moral choices she had to make in order to survive as her situation grew more desperate.
Style:
sexy, psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
human trafficking, sex trafficking, kidnapping, prostitution, captivity, rape, teenage life, pimp, slavery, smuggling, prostitute, sex slave ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1994, 21st century
Place:
new mexico, nevada, las vegas, usa
Similarity:
100%
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, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
kidnapping, true crime, captivity, isolation, violence, missing person, woman in danger, life is a bitch, sexual abuse, abuse, cruelty, rape ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2002, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
Similarity:
80%
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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, suspenseful, rough, touching, captivating ...
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, abduction, kidnapped, true crime, rape, child abduction, psychopath, kidnapped girl, autobiography, homicide detective, homicidal maniac ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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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 ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, emotional, thought provoking, sad ...
Plot:
kidnapping, missing child, abused child, pedophile, child abuse, child molestation, captivity, sexual abuse, male rape, starting over, haunted by the past, life is a bitch ...
Time:
80s, year 1974, 70s, year 1972, year 1980
Place:
northern california
Similarity:
100%
15K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, scary, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, confined, survival, danger, murder, group of strangers, game of death, captivity, gory, riddles and clues, escape room, torture ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans
Similarity:
100%
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, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, hostage, rape, stockholm syndrome, showdown ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nebraska, montana, wyoming
Similarity:
35%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Lori Vallow gained national attention when her children, JJ and Tylee, were reported missing from their Idaho home.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, missing child, true crime, child abduction, family relations, uncover truth, partners against crime, escapades, who done it, kidnapping, law enforcement, police investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, idaho, arizona
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The film tells why a girl was killed by two of her best friends.
Style:
unusual plot structure, suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers
Plot:
true crime, murder, family relations, drowning, grief, killer, false friend, lie, investigation, rivalry, conflict, rivals ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
This fact-based crime thriller details the downfall of Miami's hottest nightclub. Chris Troiano owns the trendiest nightclub in all of South Beach; a place where the line always winds down the block and only the most beautiful people make it ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Plot:
abuse, lifestyle, downfall, gangster, nightclub, nightlife, bankruptcy, criminal heroes, drinking, addiction, false identity, drinking alcohol ...
Time:
90s
Place:
miami, florida, usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
"She Made Them Do It" follows the twisted life of Sarah Pender (Jenna Dewan-Tatum) a charismatic, intelligent young woman who would become one of the country’s most sought after fugitives.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, crime drama, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
adult, teen drama
Plot:
manipulation, investigation, murder, fugitive, mind game, true crime, femme fatale, double murder, convict, uncover truth, dangerous attraction, murder mystery ...
Place:
midwest
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Justina is a fifteen years old girl who lives with her mother and stepfather in Mexico City. In her sexual-awakening, she starts flirting with the only man in her life, her stepfather, causing the accidental murder of her mother and stepfather. ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, rough, psychological, neo noir
Plot:
stepfather stepdaughter relationship, stepfather, flirting, sexual awakening, police, murder, teenager, femme fatale, catholic schoolgirl, police officer, exhibitionism, police corruption ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Convicted killers David Sweat and Richard Matt seduce bored, restless, small town mom Joyce Mitchell who aids and abets their audacious jailbreak.
Style:
talky, touching, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
prison escape, prison, prison life, punishment, friends, freedom, convict, heroes, framed for murder, justice, society, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york, new york state
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A student at a private school uses his connections to establish a drug trafficking network.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense
Audience:
teens
Plot:
student, drug dealing, marijuana, love, prison, jealousy, teenager, high school, drug dealer, cocaine, murder, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia, usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The TRUE STORY of how Kara Robinson was kidnapped, assaulted and held captive for 18 hours, 15-year-old Kara Robinson plots a daring escape from a serial killer's apartment.
Style:
serious, captivating, suspenseful, dramatic, historical drama
Plot:
kidnapped woman, teenage girl, abduction, sexual assault, serial killer, teenager, violent, violence, homicidal maniac, murderer, captivity, physical abuse ...
Similarity:
29%
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, tense, serious, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot:
kidnapping, captivity, danger, confined, hostage, kidnapped, ambush, changing lives, family problems, fear, family crisis, extortion ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
mexico, usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The pious John List regularly goes to church and is respected by his neighbours. But one day the police finds his wife Helen and their three children slayed in their house - obviously by John, who left two letters for the police and his priest and ...
Plot:
serial killer, killing spree, child abuse, killer, church, police, murder, true crime, murder of a family, fugitive, new identity, child murder investigation ...
Time:
80s, 70s
Similarity:
29%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Imagine leaving everything you have, everyone you know, everyone you love, behind. Having to cross half a continent on foot, atop freight trains, inside truck trailers. Swimming across wild rivers. Crossing borders illegally. Walking across the ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, undocumented immigrant, ransom, abduction, violence, torture, human trafficking, immigration, border crossing, problem, illegal immigrant, ransom demand ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
central america
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
On the afternoon of August 3, 2013, 16-year-old Hannah Anderson was abducted after finishing cheerleading practice in a San Diego suburb. When the bodies of her mother and brother were found in the burned home of family friend James DiMaggio later ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
true crime, child abduction, father daughter relationship, 16 year old, uncover truth, disappearance, crime solving, unsolved crime, teenage girl, forensics, investigation, crime investigation ...
Place:
california, san diego california, idaho
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teenage girl becomes entangled in a volatile relationship with a pair of high-school lovers.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, dark ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
stalking, teenage life, friendship, couples, love and romance, youth, bullying, seduction, rape, revenge, mentally unstable, danger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania
Similarity:
28%
709
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Inspired by the true story of Kim Kyung-ho, a math professor who was arrested for shooting a crossbow at the presiding judge of his appeal against unfair dismissal.
Style:
thought provoking, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
legal, mathematics, life is a bitch, courtroom drama, legal investigation, dedicated lawyer, society, legal action, injustice, courtroom, law, archer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, korea, south korea
Similarity:
28%
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, bleak, brutal, sad ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
child abuse, true crime, torture, captivity, murder, threat, dysfunctional family, children, court, courtroom drama, domestic violence, trial ...
Time:
year 2007, 60s, 20th century
Place:
indiana, usa
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The true story of Trish Weir who in 1963 was kidnapped and brutally raped by Ernesto Miranda. Committed to putting her assailant in prison, Trish’s life is destroyed by America’s legal system as she triggers a law that transforms the nation.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, exciting, serious
Plot:
rape victim, legal, legal system, rape, true crime, abduction, sexual abuse, violence, fight for justice, violent, kidnapped, kidnapper ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
She has her life firmly under control - but then the unbelievable happens. For seven hours, Hanna, who works as a psychotherapist in a Bavarian high-security prison, is taken hostage in her office by one of her patients. She is at the mercy of her ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
rape, violence, prison, trauma, sexual assault, hostage, problem, life is a bitch, sexual abuse, psycho, rape victim, psychiatrist ...
Place:
bavaria
Similarity:
28%
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, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
abduction, held captive, captivity, confined, power relations, child in peril, childhood memory, child abandonment, nightmare, loss of father, minimal dialogue, basement ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Two Hurricane Katrina evacuees from the Desire Projects in New Orleans who both end up in Houston after the storm. The storm twists the fates of these two men. The first, Jay Dee, was a feared and powerful crime boss who is humbled when he loses ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, suspense, independent film
Plot:
hurricane katrina, criminal, flood, disaster, drug, money, robbery, murder, sex scene, apocalypse, narration, true crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mississippi, new orleans
Similarity:
28%
532
Genre: Drama
Country: Slovakia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Creation of the Slovak republic in 1993 and first years of its existence are marked with mafia connected to the highest places of the new government. True story about the hijacking of the son of the first president of the Slovak republic.
Style:
political thriller, psychological, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
kidnapping, politics, intrigue, kidnapped, true crime, politician, european history, photograph, nudity, bare chested male, male pubic hair, photography ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
In this fact-based film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker, a teenage single mother. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, rough, thought provoking ...
Plot:
death row, murder, death sentence, prison, courtroom drama, price of justice, confined, going straight, journalism, legal, true crime, biopic ...
Time:
year 1976
Place:
utah, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An unlikely romance occurs when a kidnapped victim falls in love with one of her abductors.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, rivalry, gang, captivity, single parent, confined, hostage, love, hostage situation, abduction, forbidden romance, stockholm syndrome ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
28%
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