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Firecracker (2005)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A tale of murder in small-town Kansas. When Jimmy is lured away from his abusive family by a traveling sideshow carnival, he encounters Sandra, one of the main attractions. The happiness they find together causes them to confront the darkness in their lives
Style:
disturbing, psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, neo noir, crying, independent film, detective, controversial ...
Plot:
anal rape, rape, gay rape, male rape, dysfunctional family, murder, small town, gay incest, teenage boy, psychopath, friendship, life is a bitch, mental illness, family problems, haunted by the past, parents and children, surrealism, circus, incest, giant, schizophrenia, religion, female nudity, gypsy, death ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
kansas, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and suspenseful films with plots about murder, death, violence, storytelling, police investigation, brutality and blood mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Firecracker: Little Boy Blue (1997), Ethan Mao (2004), The Minus Man (1999), Clean, Shaven (1993), The Dead Girl (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Living in rural Texas is a dysfunctional family: an abusive dad, a Vietnam vet with a war wound that's left him impotent; a compliant wife and a son of about 20, two small sons who look a lot like their brother. The dad harbors a secret, and he ...
Style:
disturbing, sexy, psychological, serious, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult, teen drama
Plot:
incest, sexual abuse, parents and children, dysfunctional family, missing person, murder, forbidden love, female nudity, implied incest, child abuse, investigation, life is a bitch ...
Time:
90s
Place:
texas, asia, usa, vietnam, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
654
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Kicked out of his house because he's gay, Ethan Mao returns home to steal and ends up holding his family hostage on a fateful Thanksgiving Day.
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
gay, friendship, thanksgiving, juvenile delinquency, haunted by the past, lgbt, family problems, survival, youth, rehabilitation, drug dealing, society ...
Place:
boston, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The Minus Man is a 1999 film based on the novel by Lew McCreary. It was directed by Hampton Fancher, who also wrote the screenplay. The film centers on a psychotic killer whom Fancher describes as "a cross between Psycho's Norman Bates, ...
Style:
independent film, psychological, disturbing, offbeat, clever ...
Plot:
serial killer, american football, psychopath, small town, xmas, killer, death, murder, violence, poison, heart attack, high school football ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
oregon, vancouver
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Peter Winter is a young schizophrenic who is desperately trying to get his daughter back from her adoptive family. He attempts to function in a world that, for him, is filled with strange voices, electrical noise, disconcerting images, and jarringly ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, independent film, art house, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, mental illness, mental disorder, illness, mental health, insanity, character study, serial killer, abused child, psychopath, adoption, murder ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The clues to a young woman's death come together as the lives of seemingly unrelated people begin to intersect.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, atmospheric ...
Plot:
missing person, investigation, prostitute, murder, uncover truth, family relations, life is a bitch, outdoor sex, violence against women, dead body, promiscuous daughter, child abuse ...
Time:
year 2006, 2000s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, southern california
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100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A small town policeman must investigate a suspicious hunting accident. The investigation and other events result in his slowly disintegrating mentally.
Style:
psychological, rough, psychological thriller, neo noir, independent film ...
Plot:
small town, sheriff, snow, small town life, alcoholism, dysfunctional family, insanity, abusive father, domestic violence, addiction, character study, drinking ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 20th century
Place:
new hampshire, usa, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Boston is being terrorized by a series of seemingly random murders of women. Based on the true story, the film follows the investigators path through several leads before introducing the Strangler as a character. It is seen almost exclusively from ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, rough, suspense, retro ...
Plot:
serial killer, strangulation, true crime, split personality, murder, double life, police detective, serial rapist, police investigation, psychopath, strangler, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, year 1968, 60s, year 1963
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts, new england
Similarity:
100%
250K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
Style:
disturbing, sadistic, harsh, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot:
courtroom drama, child abuse, vengeance, childhood, rape, pedophile, lawyer, pedophilia, murder trial, friendship, sexual abuse, sexualized violence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s, 60s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, madison square garden manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
100%
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157K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and ...
Style:
depressing, atmospheric, harsh, dark, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
poverty, small town, missing person, female protagonist, family in crisis, bail, rural setting, life is a bitch, down on your luck, coming of age, family crisis, uncle niece relationship ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
missouri, usa, california
Similarity:
100%
518K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style:
psychological, suspense, depressing, twist ending, emotional ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
murder, murder mystery, vengeance, police, police investigation, investigation, death in the family, police detective, sexual abuse, loss of child, child abuse, loss of daughter ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
boston, massachusetts, persia, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A father suspects his son to be a murderer...or is he just paranoid and trying to cover up his own past which involves his wife being killed in a fire?
Style:
psychological, serious, bleak, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
serial killer, murder, mind game, mysterious character, uncover truth, investigation, haunted by the past, law enforcement, life is a bitch, psychopath, who done it, protagonist as suspect ...
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, ...
Style:
surreal, dark, atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, incest, investigation, surrealism, small town life, murder, rape, double life, small town, mental illness, sexual abuse, teenage girl ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, near future, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place:
washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Dolores Claiborne was accused of killing her abusive husband twenty years ago, but the court's findings were inconclusive and she was allowed to walk free. Now she has been accused of killing her employer, Vera Donovan, and this time there is a ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, detective, psychological, sexy ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, child abuse, stephen king, abusive husband, maid, domestic violence, investigation, sexual abuse, childhood trauma, mother, small town, murder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
maine, persia, nova scotia, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Will Graham, a former London crime boss who has left his former life to live as a recluse in the forest. Haunted by the blood of those he has murdered, Will wishes never to return. But when his brother commits suicide, following a sexual assault at ...
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
violence, revenge, anal rape, male nudity, vengeance, murder, male rape, rape victim, gay rape, suicide, dark hero, sexual assault ...
Time:
year 2003, 70s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
21%
6K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A mentally ill man searches New York for his missing eight year old daughter. He recreates her steps each day hoping for some clue to her disappearance, until he meets and befriend a woman with a daughter the same age. Could she help him with the ...
Style:
sincere, touching, serious, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
kidnapping, mental illness, missing child, little girl, missing person, schizophrenia, self destructing, delusion, parents and children, life is a bitch, danger, poverty ...
Time:
year 2004, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A dispossessed, violent man's life is a disastrous attempt to exist outside the social order. Successively deprived of parents and homes and with few other ties, Ballard descends to the level of a cave dweller as he falls deeper into crime and ...
Style:
disturbing, gothic, bleak, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, necrophilia, murder, social decay, misfit, social misfits, insanity, criminal, mountain, mental disorder, homeless, outlaw ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
tennessee, usa, southern usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
AND YOU'RE TO BLAME! Honey, you give love a bad name. (The story of a man coming to terms with the sins and secrets of his notorious brother and, in the process, exploring the legacy of violence in his own family.)
Style:
disturbing, tense, realistic, suspenseful, talky ...
Plot:
murder, mormon, death row, prison, prison life, dysfunctional family, courtroom drama, tragic hero, parents and children, haunted by the past, false accusation, price of justice ...
Time:
70s
Place:
utah, usa
Similarity:
20%
12K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, noir, cynical, detective ...
Plot:
private detective, murder, missing person, investigation, kidnapping, twists and turns, uncover truth, dishonesty, divorce, adultery, swimming pool, ransom ...
Time:
60s, year 1966, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, las vegas, usa
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, erotic, brutal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
private detective, obsession, male nudity, videotaped sex, revenge, murder mystery, private investigator, sexual abuse, investigation, violent, serial killer, sex ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, usa, pennsylvania ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A killer of Detroit clergy confesses to a priest (Donald Sutherland), who turns sleuth because he cannot tell the police.
Style:
disturbing, serious, atmospheric, bleak, neo noir ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, who done it, moral dilemma, church, haunted by the past, uncover truth, investigation, clergy, society, legal ...
Time:
year 1987, 80s
Place:
usa, detroit
Similarity:
19%
80K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, mind bending, cerebral, neo noir ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, revenge, medieval, determination, uncover truth, asian, mentally challenged, mother, mental disorder, police brutality, overprotective mother ...
Time:
year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, year 2002, 21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, east asia, korea, tokyo
Similarity:
19%
13K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man with a split personality fools his small town into believing his two alter egos are man and wife, although a struggling young mother holds the key to his past and sparks a battle between the personalities.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, thought provoking, psychological, intense ...
Plot:
mental illness, split personality, faked death, dissociative identity disorder, small town, mental disorder, double life, single mother, secret life, guilt, small town life, social relations ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century, 1950s
Place:
nebraska, usa, texas
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Fifteen years after a murderer is convicted he is released and all the witnesses against him begin to be murdered.
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, realistic, scary ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, police investigation, haunted by the past, manhunt, law enforcement, vengeance, rivalry, woman in danger, murder, friendship, small town ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
miami, usa, florida
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
The Serpent's Egg follows a week in the life of Abel Rosenberg, an out-of-work American circus acrobat living in poverty-stricken Berlin following Germany's defeat in World War I.
Style:
suspense, art house, philosophical, political, mind bending ...
Plot:
circus, nazism, nordic, world war two, inspector, sex, female nudity, masturbation, nudity, reptile, realism, conspiracy ...
Time:
20th century, 1920s, pre world war two
Place:
germany, berlin germany, middle east, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, sexual, tricky, suspenseful ...
Plot:
dangerous attraction, murder, investigation, infidelity, amateur detective, incest, photograph, women, family problems, couples, sexual relations, isolation ...
Time:
19th century, 90s, 1870s, 2000s, victorian era
Place:
maine, new hampshire, europe, usa, new england ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A cop (Matthew McConaughey) who moonlights as a hit man agrees to kill the hated mother of a desperate drug dealer (Emile Hirsch) in exchange for a tumble with the young man's virginal sister (Juno Temple).
Style:
neo noir, dark comedy, black comedy, sexy, creepy ...
Plot:
sex, violent, hitman, murder, dysfunctional family, cheating wife, contract killer, killer, greed, police detective, deal, nudity ...
Time:
year 2011, 21st century
Place:
texas, usa, dallas texas, oklahoma, seattle
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden, Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Deputy Sheriff Lou Ford is a pillar of the community in his small west Texas town, patient and apparently thoughtful. Some people think he is a little slow and maybe boring, but that is the worst they say about him. But then nobody knows about what ...
Style:
neo noir, surreal, bleak, sexual, disturbing ...
Plot:
violence, murder, killer, sadism, psychopath, serial killer, small town, erotic scene, violent, sex, revenge, sexual content ...
Time:
50s, year 2010, 1950s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, oklahoma city, austin texas
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A tough police detective escapes from custody handcuffed to a foul-mouthed car thief after being framed for the murder of his ex-wife. He must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.
Style:
neo noir, tricky, suspenseful, detective, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, mafia, chase, police investigation, vengeance, frame up, stalking, vigilantism, juvenile delinquent, female serial killer, false accusation, femme fatale ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s, 1930s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent ...
Style:
sexy, gothic, erotic, atmospheric, sexual ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
reporter, prison, small town, paperboy, journalism, dangerous attraction, american south, violent sex, injustice, police investigation, newspaper man, deep south ...
Time:
60s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1969, 21st century
Place:
florida, everglades, usa, miami
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Rich, successful Bryce meets beautiful Lissa at a bar one night and invites her back to his house, not suspecting for a moment that Lissa isn't really who she seems. What unfolds next is a dangerous, tangled web of double-crosses and seduction.
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, suspense, tricky, cynical ...
Plot:
heist, crime gone awry, twists and turns, manipulation, small town, betrayal, murder, cons and scams, nothing goes right, dishonesty, disorder, couples ...
Time:
20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place:
usa, nevada, portland oregon
Similarity:
19%
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