Movies like Shock Treatment 1964
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Shock Treatment (1964)
675
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot.
Style:
tense, offbeat, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, freeze frame
Plot:
shock treatment, danger, hypnosis, psychiatrist, decapitation, hidden money, courtroom, experimental drug, imposture, insane, murder, mental institution, twists and turns, psychopath, investigation, life is a bitch, isolation, working undercover, confined, hidden identity, doctors and patients, stash, disorder, amateur detective, mentally unstable ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 1960s
Place:
usa, beverly hills
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Most similar movies to Shock Treatment
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and tense films with plots about deadly, murder, investigation, dishonesty, danger, law enforcement and uncover truth mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Shock Treatment: Committed (1991), Found (2005), A Crime of Passion (2003), Assumed Killer (2013), Megachurch Murder (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
268
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, independent film ...
Plot:
mental institution, doctor, nurse, murder, mistaken identity, power relations, dishonesty, mentally unstable, misfit, patient, trap, woman in danger ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Similarity:
95%
265
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Sixteen years after the Drakes' young daughter was kidnapped by her nanny, a woman appears claiming to be the long-lost child.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
amateur detective, danger, police investigation, investigation, law enforcement, orphan, family relations, criminal heroes, parents and children, dishonesty, child abduction, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
93%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young heiress has her life turned upside down after her business partner's wife is killed and foul play is suspected.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, enigmatic, realistic
Plot:
amateur detective, woman in danger, investigation, dishonesty, danger, murder, couples, who done it, estate, inheritance, adultery, murder investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Bernard Salzmann's thriller Assumed Killer tells the tale of a reporter investigating a serial killer. After she suffers an accident and becomes an amnesiac, she begins to suspect her husband may be the person responsible for the brutal slayings
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense
Plot:
serial killer, amateur detective, memory loss, investigation, murder, uncover truth, danger, life is a bitch, deep south, media, journalism, television reporter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
79%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, clergy, amateur detective, uncover truth, youth, society, dishonesty, danger, teenager, soul, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has ...
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
serial killer, private detective, amateur detective, danger, investigation, rivalry, murder, psychopath, police investigation, law enforcement, police detective, who done it ...
Time:
year 1995, year 2005
Place:
usa, oregon, new york
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Determined to pull in the Pulitzer Prize, reporter Johnny Barrett will go to any length necessary to win the coveted award. When he learns of an unsolved murder committed at a mental institution, Barrett devises a scheme to solve it and earn himself ...
Style:
independent film, suspenseful, tense, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
insanity, mental institution, psychiatrist, mental illness, macabre, murder, journalism, investigation, murder mystery, voice over narration, mental breakdown, racial slur ...
Time:
60s, year 1963, 20th century
Place:
mount fuji, america, africa, japan, usa
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A famous writer is found hanged in his office. At first, all police investigations conclude that it was suicide, but when Samantha Kinsey, owner of Seller 'Mystery Woman' starts his own investigation, he discovers that there is chance that ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, light hearted
Plot:
amateur detective, investigation, betrayal, dishonesty, murder, danger, store, sabotage, murder mystery, whodunit, female protagonist, crime solving ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
67%
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519
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, twists and turns, parents and children, haunted by the past, small town life, small town, mental illness, ghost, afterlife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
67%
547
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two homicide detectives find their careers - and lives - on the line when they get caught up in a case of murder and betrayal in high-society Savannah.
Style:
atmospheric, detective, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, police detective, betrayal, dishonesty, law enforcement, partner, high society, danger, couples, twists and turns, deep south ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, georgia
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Johanna is a therapist on the verge of a midlife crisis. When one of her patients is found brutally murdered, she takes it upon herself to solve the mystery. But why is this stressed-out shrink willing to risk her marriage, her career and her entire ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, midlife crisis, investigation, doctors and patients, therapist, female protagonist, police, car accident, danger, haunted by the past, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
62%
479
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious, independent film
Plot:
investigation, uncover truth, family relations, redemption, life is a bitch, injustice, parents and children, murder, idealism, price of justice, hopes, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alabama, usa, tennessee
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Emily Parker is haunted by visions of a woman from the past soon after receiving an antique engagement ring from her fiancé.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, tense, mind bending
Plot:
ghost, uncover truth, haunted by the past, investigation, life is a bitch, murder, supernatural, dishonesty, legal, dedicated lawyer, deep south, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A female lawyer who specialises in defending suspected rapists is left traumatised after she herself is assaulted in her own home.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, psychotronic
Plot:
rape victim, murder, female lawyer, police detective, blackmail, rape, self defense, criminal lawyer, violent content, strong female presence, manipulation, protagonist as suspect ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his ...
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
murder, chemistry, kidnapping, on the run, drug dealing, danger, dishonesty, drug abuse, violent content, farm, confined, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
An autistic boy witnesses his parents' double murder. Richard Dreyfuss as a controversial therapist, seeks to probe the child's mind in order to solve the case.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller, independent film, action drama ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
autism, murder, attempted seduction, psychopath, murder mystery, halloween, secrets, investigation, disability, hipster, revenge, plot twist ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s
Similarity:
47%
23K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, creepy ...
Plot:
conspiracy, amateur detective, transplant, medical, investigation, coma, hospital, serial killer, hired killer, black market, danger, twists and turns ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Fog and the Night is the search of an investigator who has lost his confidence in his organization and whose happy"family father" order has been disrupted by his young lover.And introverted man due to his profession , not a big talker or ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, bleak
Plot:
fighting the system, investigation, uncover truth, partner, society, dishonesty, murder, life is a bitch, who to trust, rivalry, friendship, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, lawyer, twists and turns, legal, court, murder, surveillance, danger, women, murder mystery, trial ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, san francisco
Similarity:
44%
402
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A tale of infidelity, deceit, greed, and murder. Nick Compton, a Palm Springs real estate developer...
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
investigation, private detective, intrigue, love affair, rivalry, betrayal, mysterious character, infidelity, gambling, murder, twists and turns, stalking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
44%
2K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
There is a thin line between money and loyalty. Thomas Skepphult runs an investment company, and is arrested for the murder of his business partner when his fingerprint is found on the murder weapon. When he tries to call his lawyer, the phone is ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic
Plot:
uncover truth, twists and turns, rivalry, murder, workplace intrigue, dishonesty, hunting, mafia, partner, loss of partner, workplace, insurance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Socialite Molly Lasch is released from prison after serving a six-year sentence for the murder of her husband, Dr. Gary Lasch. Now, with the help of Fran, an investigative reporter, Molly sets out to prove her innocence. Together they uncover a ...
Style:
serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, amateur detective, uncover truth, righting the wronged, woman in danger, false accusation, partner, law enforcement, life is a bitch, dishonesty, danger, frame up ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jimmy Stevens, a senior VP at an international energy firm, blows the whistle on his company's deadly and corrupt practices in Latin America. Knowing he will be assassinated for his betrayal, he places an anonymous call securing the services of ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
private detective, whistleblower, amateur detective, murder, uncover truth, investigation, danger, survival, dishonesty, workplace, journalism, deadline ...
Time:
1940s, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
france, usa, new york, europe
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A priest returns to his old Catholic high school to replace a priest who has gone missing, only to begin to suspect that the missing priest may have been murdered by someone at the school to hide a darker secret.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, enigmatic, realistic
Plot:
uncover truth, investigation, clergy, who done it, danger, amateur detective, riddles and clues, rivalry, society, teachers and students, boarding school, school ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
41%
15K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
25 year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in moton a deadly series of events that change his life and the life of the ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, semi serious, tense, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly
Plot:
murder, small town, witness, dishonesty, witnessing a crime, disorder, nothing goes right, small town life, cons and scams, coming of age, blood, small village ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
montana, usa
Similarity:
39%
523
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Patrick stars as a private investigator traumatized by his father's suicide who goes undercover in a mental institution to uncover the murderer of his psychiatrist.
Style:
independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, psychiatric ward, cons and scams, mental institution, murder, working undercover, hospital, clinic, power relations, dishonesty, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
39%
266
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Randi Stewart is a sergeant on a marine base where her father is the commanding officer. She is being treated by the new base psychiatrist, Bill Turner. Her brother, Gordon Stewart is running for political office. General Stewart is murdered and ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychotronic
Plot:
army investigation, murder, psychiatrist, dangerous attraction, uncover truth, military life, life is a bitch, politics, military, danger, state affairs, femme fatale ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After the father of her kid son Sam was killed by an escaped psychiatric patient, Kate decides it's time for a new chapter in her life. She moves to the town where her former lover Tom lives and now works in the sheriff's department, and ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
Plot:
family relations, psychopath, danger, small town, male female relationship, murder, serial killer, love, death of father, doctor, running, ex lover ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe may have been framed and murdered by undercover American agents.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
amateur detective, murder, investigation, undercover, police corruption, journalism, media, law enforcement, uncover truth, legal, working undercover, political conspiracy ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
puerto rico
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Josh wakes each day to a series of Hells. Between uncaring parents and bullying at school he has little to live for. After a brutal event and ensuing humiliation of an online video, Josh and his friends decide to take revenge by staging a massacre ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, scary ...
Plot:
survival, teenage life, danger, twists and turns, psychopath, gory, isolation, terror, serial killer, acid, fear, bullying ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
36%
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