Movies like Sioux City
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Sioux City (1994)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young Lakota Sioux, adopted by a wealthy Jewish couple in Beverly Hills, gets in touch with his cultural roots and solves a mystery in this thriller
Style:
mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
native american, spirituality, death of mother, adopted son, house fire, murder, racism, family relations, adoption, shaman, legends and myths, orphan, parents and children, life is a bitch, interracial relations, injustice, self discovery, society, opposites attract, family problems, redemption, americana, culture clash, amateur detective, death in the family ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, beverly hills
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Most similar movies to Sioux City
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and tense films with plots about murder, deadly, family relations, suspense, investigation, dishonesty and danger mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Sioux City: Awakened (2013), Megachurch Murder (2015), Stranger at the Door (2004), The Dark Wind (1991), Gone but Not Forgotten (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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.
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Plot:
supernatural, uncover truth, murder, investigation, twists and turns, parents and children, haunted by the past, small town life, small town, suspense, ghost, mental illness ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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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 ...
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Plot:
murder, investigation, uncover truth, clergy, amateur detective, dishonesty, society, youth, suspense, teenager, strong female presence, conspiracy ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Katherine "Kathy" is happily married to businessman Greg Norris and lives in his beautiful home with his about 18-year old daughter Tara. When suddenly a charming young man, who Tara first saw lurking around in the garden, turns up on ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
garden, family in danger, amateur detective, family relations, cons and scams, parents and children, adoption, dishonesty, suspense, adopted son, stalker, held captive ...
Time:
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58%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation.
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, mind bending, tense ...
Plot:
native american, native american reservation, murder, desert, conspiracy, battles, police detective, police investigation, dishonesty, society, vengeance, law enforcement ...
Time:
90s
Place:
arizona, usa
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58%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 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, suspenseful, serious, psychological
Plot:
serial killer, private detective, investigation, amateur detective, murder, psychopath, mind game, rivalry, law enforcement, protagonist as suspect, who done it, police investigation ...
Place:
usa, new york, oregon
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57%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Thriller about the kidnapping of two children and the investigation that follows, based on the book by Mary Higgins Clark.
Style:
mind bending, realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller
Plot:
kidnapping, family relations, missing person, false accusation, family problems, remarry, injustice, couples, computers and web, wrongfully committed, parents and children, legal ...
Time:
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57%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
New York attorney William Boyals has escaped the Louisiana bayou of his childhood, but he must return to investigate the death of a childhood friend who, like Boyals himself, was both black and gay.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot:
police corruption, murder, racism, small town, fighting the system, investigation, injustice, legal, dishonesty, life is a bitch, society, rebellion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, new york, southern usa
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56%
553
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Joseph McKelheer and Cory Knauf (The Hamiltons, The Violent Kind) star in this intense thriller set in the lingering light of the Alaskan midnight sun. Charlie Shepard, a modern day faith healer with a small flock of believers, is stunned when his ...
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, death in the family, religions or cults, haunted by the past, society, small town, life turned upside down, grief, investigation, killer child, family problems, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Upon her release from a mental institution where she was recovering from a suicide attempt, Andrea McBride applies for the position of nanny for a handsome, wealthy surgeon, Dr. James Lewis, a widower with two children. Another applicant is hired, ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, scary, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
nanny, obsession, parents and children, murder, under the surface, family relations, suspense, femme fatale, woman seduces a man, stalker, strong female lead, woman with a gun ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Ray Lorkin, chief lawman in the tiny rural settlement of Wala Wala, Australia, fears that long-simmering tensions between the area's aborigine natives and white settlers are on the verge of erupting. When it's discovered that Kate, the ...
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak
Plot:
interracial sex, horny wife, aborigine, interracial relations, culture clash, infidelity, murder, sex scene, suspense, outback, culture, wilderness ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman tries to save her adopted daughter from a criminal, with help from the girl's biological mother.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
rescue, adoption, parents and children, family relations, woman in danger, life turned upside down, track down, age difference, youth, strong female presence, teenage life, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Dean Cain portrays Scott Peterson, the California man accused of murdering his 8 month pregnant wife, Laci. Based on a true story.
Style:
disturbing, tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
husband murders wife, murder, pregnancy, false accusation, courtroom drama, missing person, protagonist as suspect, investigation, uncover truth, mysterious character, infidelity, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
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55%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Tim and Cheryl Broadbent are excited to finally adopt Mona, a beautiful baby girl. But when the baby's biological father starts stalking them, their world turns upside down: through intimidation, manipulation, and violence, he is determined to ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, tense
Plot:
psychopath, stalking, murder, family in danger, family problems, adoption, parents and children, husband wife relationship, babies and infants, child, family relations, privacy invasion ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
680
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Shayla Stonefeather, a Native American attorney prosecuting a Lakota teen in a controversial murder trial, returns to the reservation to say goodbye to her dying father. After the teen is killed, she hears ghostly voices and sees strange visions ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot:
ghost, dying father, haunted by the past, supernatural, family relations, murder, self discovery, society, death in the family, juvenile delinquency, court, native american ...
Place:
south dakota
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54%
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:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot:
family relations, psychopath, small town, murder, male female relationship, serial killer, love, ex boyfriend, murder of father, night, doctor, murder of husband ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In Los Angeles, Dr. Sarah Hathaway hired private eyes trying to find her missing son, the painter Thomas, who ran away from their home ten years ago after a quarrel with her. She finds a clue in a catalog of a panting exhibition in San Petersburg ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
missing person, uncover truth, investigation, mind game, haunted by the past, private detective, amateur detective, obsessive quest, family relations, estrangement, riddles and clues, parents and children ...
Place:
usa, los angeles, russia, st. petersburg russia
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243
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
fish out of water, on the road, interracial relations, injustice, society, politics, life is a bitch, misfit, desert, small town life, love affair, americana ...
Time:
90s
Place:
chicago illinois, usa, los angeles
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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, serious, psychological, tense, mind bending
Plot:
ghost, mysterious character, haunted by the past, uncover truth, investigation, supernatural, life is a bitch, murder, legal, dishonesty, dedicated lawyer, afterlife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A mother dealing with the death of her young son, learns that her niece is in contact with his spirit.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic, mind bending ...
Plot:
estrangement, ghost, vengeance, love and romance, twins, opposites attract, family problems, pregnancy, death in the family, siblings relations, sister sister relationship, halloween ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When a body is found floating in an upstate New York river, hard-drinking cop Joe Weldon is left with few clues. After uncovering the man's identity - an enigmatic simpleton named Hap - Weldon is led to the crooked hustler who took advantage of ...
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, touching, suspenseful ...
Plot:
uncover truth, life is a bitch, police investigation, introspection, murder, law enforcement, misfit, small town life, redemption, mysterious character, addiction, small town ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric
Audience:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A detective must uncover the truth behind the death of his daughter. But the truth hits close to home.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, sexy ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, bleak, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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