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Endangered Species (1982)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Thriller about a New York ex-cop and an attractive female sheriff who fall in love while investigating a string of mysterious cattle mutilations in a small Colorado town. Urich is great as Reuben Castle, the retired alcoholic police lieutenant out visiting the town with his tomboy daughter. At first he tries to stay out of the case but finds himself involved after the mysterious death of his friend Joe Hiatt, the editor of the local paper whose theories about black helicopters have aroused the ire of cattle baron Ben Morgan. Trying miserably to stay sober, Castle finds himself back in danger and in love, as he and the sheriff work together to get to the bottom of the mystery, encountering incredible danger and resistance from the frightened locals.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, rough, suspense, retro, scary, serious, ambiguous ending, detective, mind bending ...
Plot:
conspiracy, bio weapon, investigation, scientist, female sheriff, military, sheriff, blackmail, small town, experiment gone awry, heroic mission, danger, environmentalism, secret base, father daughter relationship, 16 year old, cowboy, alien invasion, flying saucer, reporter, kidnapping, space and aliens, law enforcement, evil alien, alien encounter ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
new york, usa, colorado, wyoming
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Most similar movies to Endangered Species
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and tense films with plots about investigation, deadly, danger, murder, small town, law enforcement and dishonesty mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Endangered Species: Within (2009), Found (2005), Circle of Friends (2006), Awakened (2013), Megachurch Murder (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Rachel is a sweet girl with a troubled soul, caused by a unique gift - she can see evil spirits within others. After witnessing the brutal killing of her mother, Rachel and her father look for a fresh start by moving to a new town. After befriending ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, spooky, suspense, tense
Plot:
supernatural ability, investigation, danger, murder, supernatural, small town, riddles and clues, small town life, hostage, ghost, dealing with death, witnessing a crime ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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95%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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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:
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Place:
usa, los angeles
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91%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Maggie returns to her hometown to dedicate a scholarship in her late husband's name. While there, she reconnects with old friends and comes to believe that her husband's death is tied to the mysterious deaths of several old classmates..
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
old friend, small town, homecoming, career woman, school, danger, investigation, murder, couples, high school, high school life, fashion show ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
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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.
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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:
82%
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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: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Kaitlyn, an ER nurse who is tending to a young stabbing victim, is accidentally electrocuted by the defibrillator that is used in an effort to save the woman's life. Almost immediately Kaitlyn starts to experience the victim's memories. ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
victim, uncover truth, supernatural, investigation, twists and turns, danger, criminal, cognitive science, electrocution, a vision, memories, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
76%
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:
76%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Young, ace assistant DA, Shelby Cook, works with driven cop, Mike Holland, to catch Daedalus, a serial killer infamous for luring his victims to their deaths through labyrinth traps. Three innocent men have already taken the fall for Daedalus and ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, law enforcement, legal investigation, police investigation, dedicated lawyer, twists and turns, legal, parents and children, rivalry, investigation, family secret, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When a teenage girl says she's the victim of a secret network called The Sisterhood of Night, a quiet suburban town becomes the backdrop for a modern-day Salem witch trial.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
small town, investigation, witch, social relations, sexual harassment, twists and turns, life is a bitch, mean girl, danger, society, social issues, social problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Tells the story of a young boy and his family who are terrorized by an unseen presence.
Style:
suspenseful, scary, suspense, twisted, semi autobiographical ...
Plot:
farm, youth, family in danger, murder, danger, small town, religions or cults, family relations, redneck, child in peril, serial killer, boy ...
Time:
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Place:
pennsylvania
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A snooty female production assistant and an eager gopher at a TV station are assigned by their boss to locate a mysterious cassette. They quickly find themselves framed for murder and pursued by government agents.
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, tense, independent film, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, paranoia, conspiracy, cover up, cat and mouse, falsely accused, investigation, government agent, surveillance, urban, espionage, investigative journalism ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
68%
1K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Boston detective investigates the mummified remains of six women, based on a novel by Lisa Gardner.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, detective, enigmatic ...
Plot:
serial killer, danger, uncover truth, police investigation, riddles and clues, law enforcement, murder mystery, investigation, crime scene, police procedural, evidence, cold case ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, usa
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston ...
Style:
serious, psychological, scary, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, danger, confined, psychopath, prison life, prison, law enforcement, killer, biopic, killing spree, manipulation, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, boston
Similarity:
64%
983
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Rembrandt Macy (Tom Berenger) is a maverick cop assigned to a case where the primary evidence is a woman's hand found in a pond. Investigators identify the dead, and Macy is lead into a young woman's past. Macy's primary path to ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, intense, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
blackmail, murder, uncover truth, investigation, tough law enforcer, mind game, rivalry, law enforcement, police corruption, gang, fall in love, dishonesty ...
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A small town sheriff who's investigating a murder at the local diner ends up finding more than he bargained for in the town and in himself.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, small town, diner, murder, law enforcement, small town life, social relations, murder mystery, sheriff, self discovery, danger, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A woman mysteriously wakes up in a hotel handcuffed to a firefighter to find messages they left themselves the night before revealing that their lives are in danger.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, thrilling, fast paced ...
Plot:
hotel, flashback, danger, on the run, intimate, mistrust, chemistry, chase, cat and mouse, sexual tension, survival, motel ...
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62%
566
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, alaska
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young man and his friends react to a sudden, unexpected tragedy during their annual all-weekend summer party.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, vengeance, rivalry, prison, tragedy, danger, guilt, grief, youth, moral ambiguity, trauma, secrets ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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13K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
This film is about a hyper-vigilant employee of the department of public safety who, while training his young female replacement, has to track down a missing girl who he is convinced is connected to a paroled sex offender he is investigating.
Style:
serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
missing person, investigation, kidnapping, murder, danger, obsession, law enforcement, special agent, serial killer, missing woman, sex maniac, missing girl ...
Place:
new mexico
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
For burned-out Seattle cop Daniel Pruitt, a camping trip turns hellish when his wife, Jessica, is savagely attacked in the forest. En route to the hospital, the Pruitts collide with a semi, and Jessica identifies the driver as her assailant. ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot:
small town, vengeance, law enforcement, police investigation, rivalry, murder, dishonesty, life is a bitch, mistaken identity, moral ambiguity, sexual assault, investigation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, seattle
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Left for dead in the remote Southwest, Frank is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. As he recovers, ominous memories begin to flash back...
Style:
tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
desert, amnesia, memory loss, hitman, assassination attempt, conspiracy, investigation, uncover truth, political conspiracy, race against time, dishonesty, danger ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
new mexico, usa
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Holly & Nathan Teller live in a small town in Pennsylvania. Holly is on the cheerleading team and has a close relationship with her younger brother Nathan, who is subjected to bullying at school. Nathan is taken for a car ride one day by ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
missing person, amateur detective, uncover truth, investigation, small town, haunted by the past, social relations, danger, riddles and clues, secret place, woman in danger, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania
Similarity:
53%
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:
52%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After bagging his latest victim, a murderous sociopath (Kiefer Sutherland) decides to steal the dead man's identity and pose as the deputy of a remote coastal town, where the local sheriff (Beau Bridges) and his lover (Camelia Kath) are cooking ...
Style:
tense, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, small town, frame up, disorder, hidden identity, investigation, mistaken identity, betrayal, law enforcement, dishonesty, love triangle, small town life ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A serial killer targeting the city's mobsters taunts police with clues and photos left behind at the crime scenes. A veteran cop takes on a rookie partner hoping to crack one last case before retiring. As the web of deception and lies unravels, ...
Style:
tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, manhunt, psychopath, one last job, danger, rivalry, law enforcement, murder, riddles and clues, supernatural ability, clue ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After her dad is critically injured in a so-called hunting accident, Maggie returns to her hometown in the mountains of Colorado to be by his side. But during her stay, this devoted daughter learns that the shooting was no mistake. As Maggie ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, conspiracy, secret, father daughter relationship, cover up, murder mystery, small town, murder investigation, getting home, crime investigation, puzzle, murder ...
Place:
colorado
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After Fran Smith disappears one day in mysterious circumstances, Fran's daughter Deanna and Fran's sister, Sherrie endlessly search for her with enduring hope. The most likely suspect in Fran's disappearance is her husband John, but ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Plot:
missing person, investigation, family problems, injustice, dishonesty, law enforcement, dysfunctional family, private detective, couple relations, remarry, murder, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
46%
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:
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
Style:
rough, psychological, bleak, scary, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, killing spree, investigation, police detective, mind game, gory, family conflict, law enforcement, danger, journalism ...
Time:
20th century, year 2005, 60s
Place:
san francisco, california, bay area, usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A female American reporter searches for her missing brother against the backdrop of violence and human smuggling across the US/Mexican border.
Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
border, missing person, u.s. mexico border, woman in danger, illegal immigration, investigation, uncover truth, dishonesty, journalism, danger, siblings, woman in jeopardy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, arizona, mexico
Similarity:
42%
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