Movies like Sway
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Sway (2006)
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Original name: ゆれる
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A murder investigation reveals a deep-rooted sibling rivalry in director Miwa Nishikawa's brooding family drama. On the one-year anniversary of his mother's death, Tokyo art and fashion photographer Takeru (Joe Odagiri) returns to his small hometown in order to pay his respects. But all is not well back home, and when Takeru's authoritative father questions his sincerity, the frustrated son strikes back with accusations of violent conduct. Though the situation is initially diffused by Takeru's older brother Moniru (Teruyuki Kagawa), who stayed behind to run the family business, tensions once again start to run high when Tekeru, Moniru, and pretty childhood friend Cheiko (Yoko Maki) decide to celebrate their reunion by taking a hike in the wilderness.
Style:
realistic, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, emotional, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, family relations, couples, anniversary, lawyer, love triangle, witness, brother brother relationship, haunted by the past, homecoming, funeral, samurai, photographer, courtroom, sibling relationship, love and romance, tragic love, family business, resentment, crimes of passion, siblings relations, death in the family, prostitute, con artists, slut ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
japan, tokyo
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and psychological films with plots about murder, deadly, family relations, dishonesty, couples, love and romance and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Sway: Distance (2001), Villain (2010), Your Next Life (2004), In Defense of a Married Man (1990), The Wolves (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
On the eighth anniversary of a cult's failed chemical attack on Tokyo and their subsequent mass suicide, family members of those affected gather at the cult's former base on the shores of a lake to observe the anniversary of their loved ...
Style:
serious, psychological, bleak, realistic, mind bending ...
Plot:
afterlife, destiny, terrorism, supernatural, life is a bitch, estrangement, death in the family, haunted by the past, teenage life, dealing with death, religions or cults, forest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Shimizu Yuichi (Tsumabuki Satoshi) is a shy and lonely day laborer looking for love. He aimlessly spends time corresponding with girls via telephone dating services and going on random encounters with girls looking for spending cash. His world is ...
Style:
atmospheric, emotional, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
love and romance, fall in love, unlikely criminals, lovers on the run, murder, couples, socially awkward woman, romancing a suspect, social misfits, misfit
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia
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35%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A fight over the calf of a prize milk cow in the close-knit and traditional Pas Valley of Cantabria leaves a cantankerous dairy farmer dead and another fearful of arrest. He and his daughter Val conspire to keep the cause of death quiet, but ...
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atmospheric, emotional, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
countryside, murder, farm, love and romance, rivalry, fall in love, couples, village, siblings relations, family relations, father daughter relationship, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A lawyer's husband is having an affair. When the woman he is having the affair with is found dead. He is the prime suspect. Though he adamantly proclaims his innocence. His wife takes charge of his defense, but can she place his betrayal behind ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, serious, realistic
Plot:
lawyer, love, murder, adultery, framed for murder, infidelity, con artists, murder case, murder suspect, accused of murder, broken family, murder trial ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
After going to prison for killing the boss of the Kanno gang, Seji Iwahashi (Tatsuya Nakadai) gets released early -- only to find that his former gang has merged with the Kannos. But with bitter resentments lingering on both sides, how long will it ...
Style:
serious, realistic, atmospheric, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
yakuza, gangsters, samurai, gang, graphic violence, conspiracy, tough heroes, rivalry, criminal heroes, heroes, society, dishonesty ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Quiet and unassuming church organist Jenny Moran is depressed with her marriage to working-class Matt and leaves him. Jenny begins an affair with the manipulative and charming Dr. Stephen Carrow, who is also deacon of her church and a married man. ...
Style:
rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, church, love affair, investigation, fall in love, infidelity, family problems, couples, crumbling marriage, love and romance, dishonesty, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A famous writer is violated in a sex-movie-theatre. He had a date with Roos, a young student who works also as a prostitute. Quickly it becomes clear that more students are active in the prostitution. Enough reason for Hannah and her team to go ...
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, police investigation, haunted by the past, parents and children, gain trust, law enforcement, college, prostitution, rivalry, strong female presence, assault, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, ghent, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A car full of irresponsible youths hit a woman on a rainy freeway and think she is trying an insurance scam.
Style:
realistic, serious, atmospheric, emotional, tense ...
Plot:
infidelity, double life, dishonesty, car accident, uncover truth, murder, couples, chinese, affair, accident, flashback, police investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Reeling from the discovery of her husband's adultery, Grace moves back to her family home with her son. Amidst all this emotional turmoil, forensic psychologist Grace is asked by police to determine the guilt or innocence a man who killed his ...
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
infidelity, murder, investigation, false accusation, family problems, couples, mind game, law enforcement, legal, dishonesty, criminal psychologist, memory loss ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An actor rigs a fake shooting on TV with the connivance of his friend, the show's host, but the practical joke goes wrong when the gun turns out to contain a live round.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, clever, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Séléna is chief of the Marseille police. Respected and feared by his men, his sole enemy seems to be himself, along with his 300 pounds. Strangled by the bursting straight-jacket of his body, tortured by his past, he leads a solitary life in a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, gloomy ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over his criminal empire to his three corrupt and power-hungry daughters. Kath runs a brothel down by the docks, Tracy owns a soccer team and Jo, a ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic
Plot:
rivalry, family relations, vengeance, dishonesty, betrayal, drug dealing, gangsters, parents and children, murder, prostitute, tragic love, aging ...
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Shin is a Japanese university student living a boring and meaningless life. One day, he spots a book titled Dangerous Ways to Walk the World, in which he finds a page written about hazards in New-York. Eager to get out, he jets off to New-York to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
teenage life, juvenile delinquency, youth, teenage rebellion, street gang, heist, escape, coming of age, gunfight, car theft, cat, sunset ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, new york, asia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
In the teeming black markets of postwar Japan, Shozo Hirono and his buddies find themselves in a new war between factious and ambitious yakuza...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
post world war two, 1940s, 20th century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A married man (Michel Bouquet) who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.
Style:
art house, psychological, realistic, serious, cynical ...
Plot:
murder, affair, time travel, guilt, middle class, forgiveness, nanny, unlikely criminals, human nature, love and romance, dishonesty, betrayal ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story—about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Swallowtail Butterfly takes place in an alternate Japan, in a ghetto where immigrants from all over the world have come to live and make their fortune. The city is called Yentown, and it is much like Tokyo. Sixteen-year-old Ageha (Ito), a young girl ...
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tense, realistic, serious, rough, atmospheric ...
Plot:
prostitute, forgery, sex, city, melancholy, money laundering, illegal prostitution, money, urban ghetto, disorder, crime gone awry, society ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
iggy Banks tells the story of two charming and brilliant brothers who finance their lifestyle by robbing and murdering pretty much anyone foolish enough to get in the car with them. They learn the business from their sociopath father (Tom Sizemore) ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, criminal heroes, introspection, parents and children, father son relationship, violence, brother brother relationship, tarot card, strangulation, truck driver ...
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24%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Wounded in the war, Tommy Donahue and DD Davis return home from Iraq to the slum neighborhood they grew up in. Tommy returns to his wife, Faith, whom he abandoned while she was pregnant to escape a life of crime. Tommy meets his disabled six ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
racism, murder, iraq war, urban ghetto, homecoming, haunted by the past, family problems, society, gang, war veteran, graphic violence, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Coincidence and the aftermath of violence. A man's middle-school daughter has been murdered. His wife is already deceased. He tells a counselor he wants to live in anonymity, working with his hands. He moves away and gets a job in a factory. ...
Style:
serious, psychological, emotional, sincere, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, friendship, small town, loss of daughter, forgiveness, friends, starting over, dealing with death, very little dialogue, deadly ...
Time:
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Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
Adapted from the bestselling Japanese autobiography of the same title, this gentle coming-of-age drama concerns an adolescent boy, Boku - Masaya, torn between the inherited recklessness of his father Oton and the inherited responsibility, wisdom and ...
Style:
serious, sentimental, sincere, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
parents separation, family life, life is a bitch, aging, family relations, parents and children, terminal illness, mother and son, single parent, overprotective mother, mother son relationship, care ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Kanao, a courtroom portrait artist, observes crimes, scandals and the decline of Japanese values without passing judgement. As he and his wife endure the tragedy of their first child’s death, hope slowly unfolds and their love story flickers to ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Abel lives with his mother in a small town on the outskirts of Barcelona. His life, grey and boring, is based on the small family business, his mother's house, his girlfriend's bed, and the town bars. However under an appearance of quiet ...
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Plot:
serial killer, family life, family relations, social relations, mental illness, murder, small town, store, small town life, insanity, mental breakdown, empire ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Man (played by: Billy Bob Thornton) is still in shock many years after a devistating accident takes the life of his only son and perminantly injures his wife. After all of these years the man finaly comes home to his still married wife (Played by: ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, emotional, gloomy
Plot:
life is a bitch, haunted by the past, starting over, dysfunctional family, homecoming, death in the family, addiction, family in crisis, grief, missing child, white trash, family problems ...
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23%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A corrupt businessman blackmails the lovelorn reprobate Atsushi into watching over his suitcase full of embezzled cash while he serves a jail sentence. Rather than wait for the man to retrieve his money, however, Atsushi decides to spend it all in ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, prison, criminal heroes, obsession, betrayal, dishonesty, political corruption, embezzlement, materialism, jail, money, secretary ...
Time:
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Place:
japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Bill Scanlin loses his job and embarks on a life of crime. As Bill stays ahead of the law, he discovers that sometimes the only thing worse than getting caught is getting away with it.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot:
downfall, protecting from truth, human nature, unfulfillment, destructive relationship, rivalry, murder, family relations, society, crisis, uncontrollable, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When his wife's murderer is released due to a procedural error, Luc will do everything in his power to stop it from happening... He is going to take justice into his own hands and will then compete with the constitutional state which let him ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
justice, courtroom, courtroom drama, injustice, legal action, legal, life is a bitch, lawyers and clients, court, lawyer, murder, vigilante ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In this tension-packed thriller, brothers Mike and Tre set out in search of better lives, trying to leave their demons behind for good. After being released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, Mike's only care in the world is to ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
starting over, going straight, family relations, hopes, parents and children, released from prison, life is a bitch, brother brother relationship, father daughter relationship, false accusation, siblings relations, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Perry must defend the husband of an old flame from a murder charge.
Style:
psychological, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Bill Pullman (Independence Day, Torchwood) stars as Rusty Sabich, a judge charged with the murder of his wife, a situation that comes 20 years after he was cleared in the death of his mistress. During this latest trial, a secret affair from ...
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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