Movies like Buddy Boy
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Buddy Boy (1999)
1K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An introvert relieves the tedium of caring for his invalid mother by spying on his neighbor.
Style:
disturbing, dark comedy, sexual, philosophical, depressing, controversial, black comedy, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
voyeur, gender bending, atheism, dysfunctional family, home invasion, shy man, surrealism, socially awkward, thoughtful, murder, misfit, mental illness, psychopath, obsession, hotel, alcohol abuse, rescue, parents and children, life is a bitch, couples, teenage life, down on your luck, dangerous attraction, woman in danger, human nature ...
Time:
90s
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Most similar movies to Buddy Boy
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and psychological films with plots about deadly, murder, couples, obsession, dangerous attraction, danger and psychopath mostly in Drama, Thriller and Horror genres. Some movies like Buddy Boy: Murder of Innocence (1993), Frisk (1995), Man of Her Dreams (1997), Lured Innocence (1998), King of the Jungle (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this shocking account based on a true story, newlywed Laurie Wade finds her marriage, and eventually the rest of her life, shattered by her deep-rooted psychotic behavior. The young woman soon begins a terrifying descent into insanity and brings ...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, gloomy, disturbing ...
Plot:
school shooting, self mutilation, psychopath, murder, misfit, mentally unstable, disturbed individual, child murderess, gun store, meat, obsessive compulsive disorder, woman with a gun ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A first person narrative of a gay serial killer explores violence, sexuality, and imagination.
Style:
disturbing, controversial, independent film, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
gay, naked man, lgbt, serial killer, lgbtq, homosexuality, male nudity, male prostitution, nudity, male pubic hair, gay interest, gay straight relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After suspecting her husband is playing the field, a nervous woman finds a sympathetic ear in the form of a strange man. The drawback is that her sensitive new-found friend is an obsessive psychopath.
Style:
sexual, independent film, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stalking, psychopath, infidelity, obsession, danger, dangerous attraction, couple relations, dishonesty, couples, husband, woman, friend ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
older man younger woman romance, small town life, infidelity, extramarital affair, investigation, couples, who done it, family problems, couple relations, obsession, dangerous attraction, journalism ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Seymore is a young man with the mind of a child. He loves three things in life: basketball, sneaking out for cigarettes, and his mother. But all life's simple pleasures are brutally torn from him when he witnesses his mother gunned down by a ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, disturbing, independent film ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, life is a bitch, fighting crime, vengeance, social decay, disability, society, parents and children, mental illness, addiction, murder, drug abuse ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Jennifer (Alicia Silverstone) is a lovely teen who has been hired to baby-sit the kids of Harry Tucker (J.T. Walsh) and his wife, Dolly (Lee Garlington). The Tuckers go to a party and proceed to get inebriated, with Mr. Tucker fantasizing about his ...
Style:
psychological, erotic, sexy, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, dangerous attraction, hottie, voyeur, babysitting, nymphet, brutality, twists and turns, stupidity, lolita, looking for sex, suburban life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Her fears and inability to cope with the harsh realities of life becoming so intense that they manifest themselves in an altered state of reality, a schizophrenic girl begins taking orders from a pair of clown dolls who instruct her to murder her ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
mental illness, murder, curses spells and rituals, split personality, danger, parents and children, family problems, youth, doll, hallucination, bad kids, gory ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The young architect Walter leaves his wife Linda to go to L.A. to draw a mansion for Harrison. On the highway a truck driver almost drives him off the road. Walter calls the truck-company to complain. The driver gets fired. When Walter arrives to ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, obsession, stalking, danger, mind game, dangerous attraction, rivalry, mentally unstable, psychopath, architect, starting over, uncover truth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young man is found bruised, beaten and stumbling down a secluded road. As the police try to piece together what happened, the convoluted relationship between a young woman and her two suitors gradually emerges.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dangerous attraction, couples, love triangle, love and romance, police detective, missing person, obsession, uncover truth, police investigation, mysterious character, teenage life, amateur detective ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, serious, cerebral, dark comedy ...
Plot:
medical, mental illness, ambulance, hospital, redemption, paramedic, insomnia, hallucination, character study, crime gone awry, rescue, haunted by the past ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, empire state building manhattan new york city, new jersey
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Michael is a recovering addict. Back on the wagon, he's now responsible for a young, beautiful, and pregnant wife. He's working the graveyard shift at a gas station to support his new family, but the job drives him crazy. Then a wealthy ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, psychological, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
illegal drugs, addiction, murder, danger, drug dealing, dishonesty, mental disorder, mythical creature, psychology, nightshift, pregnancy, nightlife ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
32%
268
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, independent film ...
Plot:
mental institution, doctor, nurse, murder, mistaken identity, power relations, dishonesty, mentally unstable, misfit, patient, trap, woman in danger ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, realistic, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family in danger, obsession, mentally unstable, stalking, family problems, dysfunctional family, family life, hidden identity, danger, murder, oedipus complex, peeping ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A wife, her two-timing husband and a flirting neighbor are unpredictable competitors in a warped game that turns into a life-or-death affair.
Style:
erotic, sexual, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
erotica, passion, bigamy, home invasion, murder, infidelity, mind game, couples, family problems, love triangle, love affair, unfulfillment ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Hollywood film executive gets blackmailed by a derelict who uses some damaging information to move into his house and take over his perfect life for himself.
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
dangerous attraction, frame up, dishonesty, mind game, psychopath, false accusation, murder, manipulation, protagonist as suspect, danger, crime gone awry, disorder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
William McNamara plays a young man who was given away by his mother at birth, seeking revenge on her for abandoning him.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, dangerous attraction, rough sex, murder, parents and children, dishonesty, danger, woman in danger, family problems, couples, family relations ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
28%
61K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A 16 year old girl takes up with a charming young man who quickly shows his colors when he beats a friend simply for walking with her and then goes totally ballistic after she tries to break up with him.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, sexy, sexual, psychosexual thriller ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
obsession, psychopath, dangerous attraction, fatal attraction, teenager, obsessive love, stalker, rape, danger, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, violence against women ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
seattle, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Michael needs a change in his life, so when he hears about clinical trials for a new anti-depressant, he signs up to be a guinea pig - without telling his family. Because of dangerous side effects, the trial is subsequently abandoned but Michael ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
mental illness, family problems, death in the family, dysfunctional family, doctors and patients, midlife crisis, estrangement, couples, losing-it hero, love and romance, life is a bitch, illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
scandinavia
Similarity:
28%
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861
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Lila a college student discovers a latent ability to see into the past. When a professor hires her for some psychological tests she becomes the target of the killer of the woman she sees in her dreams.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, independent film, mind bending ...
Plot:
psychic, female nudity, erotica, strangulation, sex, voyeur, serial killer, murder, power relations, couples, college, experiment gone awry ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An average man finds himself in a position to prevent the murder of a family member -- the unnerving descent of a man caught between resilience and ruthlessness.
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, life is a bitch, rivalry, dishonesty, human nature, life turned upside down, feud, murder, violent content, nudity, sexual content, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A warped woman takes deadly measures to help a new roommate get rid of her problems.
Style:
suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
female psychopath, obsession, female killer, female assassin, psycho killer, dominatrix, murder, mentally unstable, possessed woman, stalking, murderer, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A rich but lonely woman, Frances Austen, one day invites a boy from a nearby park to her apartment and offers to let him live there.
Style:
psycho sexual, psychological thriller, psychosexual thriller, intense, disturbing ...
Plot:
kidnapping, obsession, dangerous attraction, captivity, voyeurism, losing-it hero, female nudity, male nudity, jealousy, unrequited love, love triangle, nude girl ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
vancouver, canada
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a small Catholic boarding school an unspeakable act has been committed. When High School student, Luther Scott, confesses to Father Michael Kelly, Kelly is bound silent to the particulars of a grisly murder. Now, framed guilty by the desperate ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, catholic, courtroom drama, false accusation, moral dilemma, investigation, frame up, teenage life, who done it, clergy, legal, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Alex Sheppard, a college student who hosts a late-night talk show on the campus radio station, finds herself in dire straits when she enrolls in the school her recently murdered sister attended in order to track down the killer. Little does Alex ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, sexy ...
Plot:
serial killer, amateur detective, woman in danger, police investigation, law enforcement, dangerous attraction, danger, psychopath, couples, who done it, stalking, voyeurism ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Brad (Michael Shannon) has committed murder and barricaded himself inside his house. With the help of his friends and neighbours, the cops piece together the strange tale of how this nice young man arrived at such a dark place; Based on a true ...
Style:
atmospheric, stylized, serious, realistic, cult classic ...
Plot:
murder, obsession, crazy, memory, family relations, family problems, law enforcement, delusion, parents and children, surrealism, dysfunctional family, eccentricity ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
california, peru, usa, san diego california, new orleans
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A waitress confronts all the wrong turns she has made in her short life and ultimately ends up facing the biggest wrong turn of all: her dangerous ex-boyfriend who's determined to win back her love or die trying.
Style:
serious, psychological, bleak, erotic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
addiction, drug abuse, passionate kiss, ecstasy, voyeur, no bra, aspiring singer, dangerous attraction, obsession, down on your luck, love and romance, domestic disturbance ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A research project on sexual response leads two doctors into an affair where their deepest passions and darkest fantasies are revealed.
Style:
sexy, erotic, sensual, sexual, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, fatal attraction, obsessive love, infidelity, erotica, laboratory, love triangle, love affair, dangerous attraction, danger, mental illness, sexual relations ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
26%
259
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The young caretaker at the estate of a reclusive woman develops a dangerous obsession with her daughter, a sexy television star. Unexpected twists and turns.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
fatal attraction, obsession, dangerous attraction, tragic event, murder, widow, obsessive love, life is a bitch, betrayal, mentally unstable, addiction, social misfits ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new mexico, usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A mysterious attacker is preying on the rich and decadent set in an elite community.
Style:
erotic, serious, realistic, sexy, mind bending ...
Plot:
lesbian sex, fondling, female nudity, sexploitation, sex, erotica, lesbianism, lust, voyeurism, bare breasts, voyeur, coitus ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Charlie is an introverted person getting out of prison. He feeds in an apartment and starts dreaming of the woman who died in this apartment. And his fantasies of this woman getting worse and worse.
Style:
independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, male nudity, psychiatric patient, alone, murder, psychopath, friendship, hospital, woman in danger, mental institution, drug dealing, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
25%
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