Movies like Lies My Mother Told Me
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Lies My Mother Told Me (2005)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Joely Richardson plays a con artist who changes identities faster than most women change hair color. Going on the lam with her daughter (Hayden Panettiere), she scams her way into a prosperous marriage and, when that union sours, pulls off a murder scheme that may be her very last con.
Style:
rough, realistic, suspenseful, sentimental, captivating, dark, serious
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, mother daughter relationship, single parent, hidden identity, cons and scams, family relations, parents and children, femme fatale, dishonesty, on the run, manhunt, false identity, free spirit, deception, dark past, criminal, changing lives, relationship problems, personality change, lifestyle change, secret identity, confronting the past, dealing with the past, new identity, drastic change of life ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
las vegas, usa, north carolina
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and tense films with plots about murder, deadly, dishonesty, serial killer, true crime, law enforcement and family relations mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Lies My Mother Told Me: Perfect Sisters (2014), Who Is Clark Rockefeller? (2010), Beautiful & Twisted (2015), The Adversary (2002), Point of Origin (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The real-life case based on the horrific crimes of Sante and Kenny Kimes, the mother and son duo who specialized in theft, fraud and murder.
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
criminal, landlady, mother son relationship, female psychopath, murder, domineering mother, mentally unstable, obsession, childhood trauma, suspense, parents and children, bandit ...
Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
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Tired of their mother's alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her.
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Time:
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Place:
canada, toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Called "the longest running con in FBI history," Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, the man that people knew as "Clark Rockefeller" had brilliantly impersonated numerous people, ranging from a talk show host to a Pentagon Advisor ...
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criminal heroes, dishonesty, hidden identity, family relations, cons and scams, track down, love and romance, disorder, parents and children, serial killer, impersonation, entrepreneur ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, massachusetts, boston
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75%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy.
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realistic, serious, captivating, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Switzerland, Spain
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot ...
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serial killer, murder, hidden truth, hidden identity, police investigation, mysterious character, dishonesty, cons and scams, impostor, mysterious man, deception, husband wife relationship ...
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switzerland, europe, france, geneva switzerland, paris france
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fact-based drama about an arson investigator searching for the perpetrator of a string of deadly fires in 1980s California.
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Audience:
boys' night
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Time:
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Place:
california, usa
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59%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The women in a Seattle serial killer's life often had an unpleasant way of turning up dead - from his girlfriend to his mother-in-law to his second wife. The police and FBI knew who the killer was, but were never prepared to face a bizarre ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, washington d.c., seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A former child art prodigy and second generation petty thief arranges to buy his way out of prison to spend time with his ailing son, only to be forced to alter his plans and commit one more job for the man who financed his release.
Style:
serious, sentimental, suspenseful, touching, realistic
Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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51%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Based on the events surrounding the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.Hayden Panettiere (Heroes) and Marcia Gay Harden (Academy Award winner for Pollock) star in the Lifetime Original Movie Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy based on the ...
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Three high school students that are under pressure from their parents to get into good colleges convince a shy but very smart girl to take the College Entrance Test for them.
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Time:
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Place:
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49%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
For years he terrorized California motorists as he rode the endless highways searching for his next victim. The discarded bodies turned up beaten, sexually assaulted and horribly mutilated. Deceptively charming and intelligent, the scheming murderer ...
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After the shocking murder of her mother, a girl helps a police detective by searching her home for clues that they hope will lead to the perpetrator.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
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Genre: Thriller, Drama, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Europol Agent Tom Brindle is called to Barcelona, Spain, to track down the notorious serial killer known as Pygmalion. A set of fingerprints lead to a young, volatile soldier, Marco Soler. Agent Brindle arrests Marco and intensely interrogates him, ...
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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