Movies like The Good Neighbour
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The Good Neighbour (2011)
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Original name: Unter Nachbarn
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The Good Neighbour is a 2011 German film directed by Stephan Rick. It premiered in competition at the 2011 Shanghai International Film Festival and was screened at the 2011 Montreal World Film Festival and the Hof International Film Festival.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, serious, psychological thriller, captivating, dark, independent film, realistic ...
Plot:
journalism, friendship, neighbor, manslaughter, obsession, manipulation, guilt, psychological manipulation, hit and run, hidden truth, power relations, danger, deception, accident, grief, moral dilemma, cover up, domestic drama, jealousy, claustrophobia, isolation, loss, ethics, cat and mouse, paranoia ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
germany
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Most similar movies to The Good Neighbour
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological thriller, suspense, tense and dark films with plots about moral ambiguity, revenge, obsession, cat and mouse, manipulation, claustrophobia and paranoia mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Good Neighbour: The Wrath of God (2022), Strings (2011), Devious Deeds (2023), Unnatural Causes (2008), Something to Remind Me (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Convinced the tragic deaths of her loved ones were orchestrated by a famous novelist she worked for, Luciana turns to a journalist to expose her truth.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, disturbing, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot:
revenge, investigation, female protagonist, boss, problem, murder mystery, puzzle, suspicion, secret, suspect, conspiracy, murder ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
100%
325
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Strings is a 2011 American dramatic thriller film about a musician who discovers his therapist manipulates patients into committing crimes.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, dark, twist ending ...
Plot:
redemption, love, new identity, father daughter reunion, therapy, pianist, violence, daughter, vigilante, surgery, manipulation, psychological manipulation ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Mariela arrives from Venezuela to the United States to care for the Collins' young daughter, Abbey. But behind this family's seemingly perfect facade hides a sinister secret.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, creepy, twisted ...
Plot:
au pair, nanny, deception, family secret, danger, psychological manipulation, manipulation, isolation, paranoia, intimate, moral ambiguity, mistrust ...
Place:
usa, venezuela
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, investigation, infidelity, betrayal, murder, danger, twists and turns, love, stalking, surveillance, deception, adultery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Middle-aged lawyer Thomas assists Leyla, an attractive blonde, when she drops her things at the pool. After their paths keep crossing, he picks up the courage to ask her out for a date. Somewhat to his surprise she agrees, but arrives late, just as ...
Style:
suspense, tense, art house, psychological thriller, neo noir ...
Plot:
obsession, minimalism, psychological manipulation, manipulation, moral ambiguity, deception, missing person, cat and mouse, loneliness, betrayal, isolation, identity ...
Time:
turn of the century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An award-winning performer trio and a sophisticated story characterize the thrilling TV thriller "The Missing Woman". From the naive betrayed to the tough revenge angel Corinna Harfouch turns into the lead role. At her side, Ulrich Matthes ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, bleak, tense, grim ...
Plot:
betrayal, deception, manipulation, insurance fraud, revenge, female protagonist, fraud, moral ambiguity, psychological manipulation, hitman, corruption, survival ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
25%
273
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When three very different people (Mike Baldwin, Will Haza, Ali Lukowski) from three completely different worlds begin a deadly game of Russian Roulette, they soon discover that their pasts are a trilogy of overlapping events that have brought them ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
russian roulette, game of death, suicide, life is a bitch, mind game, destiny, down on your luck, danger, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, character study, claustrophobia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Latvia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A nightmarish evening unfolds for David, a former New York Times journalist, when he and his strange new neighbor Robert, accidentally hit a girl on her bike. Buzzed and disoriented, David lets Robert convince him to flee the scene and leave the ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
murderer, neighbor, hit and run, guilt, fatal accident, friendship, tragic event, problem, friendship between men, neighbor neighbor relationship, nosy neighbor, murder ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the surface, Ray Ryan has it all. He's a successful advertising executive with a new promotion. He has a nice home and a beautiful fiancée. Underneath it all is a dark secret he's finding harder to hide. Ray's nightmares are ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, life is a bitch, murder, secret, family secret, trauma, murder mystery, character study, nightmare, domestic drama, violent outburst, guilt ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A disturbing psychological thriller, that engages the audience to the point that it is always caught off guard, thus changing the point of view of the two main performers.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
revenge, isolation, locked in, elevator, trap, mind game, captivity, danger, social problems, trapped, psychopath, social relations ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A bad guy, a cruel guy, a lame guy, a cowardly guy and the meanest woman gets involved in a beautiful university student's murder case.
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, psychological thriller, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
lovers, murder, unspoken love, voyeurism, obsession, twists and turns, friendship, police officer, pursuit, watching sex, murderer, secret identity ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
With her husband working all the time, Kate is thankful when her brother-in-law David reappears to help out. But she soon realizes that he wants to be the new head of the family, and will do anything to make that happen.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological, unusual plot structure, disturbing ...
Plot:
brother in law, hostage, murder, psychological manipulation, manipulation, brother brother relationship, vengeance, brothers, family relations, danger, youth, psycho ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Bermuda
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When Hailey’s final stage of pregnancy is threatened by the arrival of a new doula, she must stay one step ahead for the sake of her unborn child.
Style:
suspense, tension, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
pregnancy, pregnant woman, protective mother, problem, female protagonist, psychological manipulation, paranoia, deception, home birth, family drama, intimate, claustrophobia ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A woman tries to move on past her divorce, she goes to a singles retreat, but begins to see that things aren't what they seem.
Style:
suspense, tense, dark, psychological thriller, creepy ...
Plot:
retreat, secrets, manipulation, danger, deception, domestic drama, single woman, obsession, betrayal, paranoia, isolation, relationships ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Tragedy strikes when Olivia and Harry Davis’ newborn baby doesn’t survive the birth. 6 months later the young couple have come to terms with their loss and are rebuilding their lives, they may even be ready to try again for a family soon. But ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, grief, possessed woman, worried mother, mother and daughter, loss of child, stalker, mother child relationship, psychological trauma, bereavement, obsessive love, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
28-year-old medicine student Malina wakes up disoriented in a locked trunk and realizes, to her horror, that she is missing more than just her memory of what happened. With her phone as the only link to the outside world, the intelligent young woman ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
kidnapping, survival, female protagonist, memory loss, claustrophobia, car trunk, medical student, confined space, race against time, threat, abduction, amnesia ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Kamel Helmy is a famous writer, in the late 1940s, living in Cairo, in the famous Imobilia building, after the death of his wife and the departure of his children from home. He suffers from loneliness and schizophrenia. One day he calls a girl named ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological thriller, psychological, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
social media, isolation, loneliness, writers, murder, family relations, love and romance, life is a bitch, internet, society, violence, online dating ...
Place:
cairo egypt
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A drama and thriller story of a young woman who has suffered great abuse as a girl and who finds happiness when in a car accident, by mistake, she finds refuge in a false personality. She allows a pair of grieving parents to believe she is their ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, serious, intense ...
Plot:
mistaken identity, impersonation, heir, forbidden love, blackmail, car accident, rags to riches, switching roles, scam, pregnancy, trauma, grief ...
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A rising tennis star becomes entangled in a savage charade with a grieving couple while staying in their picturesque home.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, dark, grim, twist ending ...
Plot:
betrayal, domestic drama, grief, moral ambiguity, deception, revenge, psychological manipulation, manipulation, obsession, claustrophobia, cat and mouse, intimate ...
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A woman, looking after her ailing mother-in-law is at breaking point. What happens when she can't take any more?
Style:
psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, breaking point, problem, family problems, murderer, domestic drama, moral dilemma, character study, family conflict, female protagonist, intimate, claustrophobia ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After the tragic death of their daughter, Julie and Dennis decide to donate her organs. They opt out of initiating any contact with the recipients but remain open to meeting if someone reaches out–and someone does. Vera contacts Julie and Dennis ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
revenge, deception, loss of child, stalking, grief, tragic past, loss of daughter, con trick, husband wife relationship, tragic villain, loss of family member, accident ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An aspiring artist is finally done with her abusive husband. She knows she has to start over, or he will find her. She thinks she is safe in Seattle with a friend she has been out of touch with, but she finds herself in danger.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, suspense ...
Plot:
abusive husband, danger, husband wife relationship, woman in jeopardy, domestic abuse, female protagonist, abusive relationship, woman in danger, peril, woman, woman in peril, psychological trauma ...
Place:
portland oregon, seattle, los angeles
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When young couple Sarah and Kyle move next door to Helen, a charismatic older woman, they have no idea she's a deeply disturbed psychopath who will stop at nothing to become Sarah's surrogate mother, and grandmother to the child she is ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
obsession, psychopath, neighbor, manipulation, mental disorder, mental institution, female psychopath, mental illness, husband wife relationship, surrogate mother, mentally unstable, possessed woman ...
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jeremy Northam portrays a real estate tycoon, while Fionnula Flanagan plays the matriarch of the Lazarov family, in this psychological thriller.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
psychological manipulation, manipulation, revenge, family drama, unsettling, obsession, betrayal, moral ambiguity, slow burn, power struggle, matriarchy, mistrust ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A lawyer is riding high after putting a notorious swindler behind bars, but has to look over her shoulder when a woman she meets in a traffic accident is not all she appears to be.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, exciting, serious ...
Plot:
stalker, obsession, woman, obsessive love, psychological manipulation, danger, deception, legal action, attorney, lawyer, female lawyer, pursuit ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It has been a year since Paige and Nathan Petrovic tragically lost their teenage son Zach. Nathan and daughter Addie have slowly been putting their lives back together. Paige, however, remains consumed by grief and withdrawn, and is unable to work. ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, psychological, scary ...
Plot:
manipulation, deception, manic, children, mourning, problem child, parents and children, loss of son, uncover truth, couple relations, death in the family, family problems ...
Similarity:
20%
181
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Jakob Evans suffers an emotional breakdown after the death of his wife in a car accident. His loss and pain runs deep as he claims to have found her in bed with another man just before she died. Unable to accept her death and her infidelity, Jakob ...
Style:
emotional, disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, emotional breakdown, infidelity, grief, mental disorder, character study, obsession, loss, introspection, cheating on husband, adultery, lovers ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A lawyer begins a sordid fling with an attractive young woman whom he slowly begins to suspect to be a serial killer of men.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime thriller, crime drama ...
Plot:
femme fatale, investigation, murder, fall in love, psychopath, murder mystery, seduction, serial killer, danger, deception, psychological manipulation, female antagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, detective, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
reality vs fantasy, folk horror, murder mystery, psychotherapy, psychological manipulation, mind game, double murder, paranoia, suspicion, slow burn, claustrophobia, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Pretty and popular, seventeen-year-old Brooke Emerson is the envy of her classmates--and even some of her closest friends. But while she seems to have it all, Brooke has never felt so lost. Ever since she sustained a head injury during a ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful
Plot:
manipulation, psychological manipulation, deception, murder mystery, toxic relationship, hidden truth, secret, crime and punishment, murder, runaway, teenage girl, youth ...
Similarity:
20%
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