Movies like Apartment Zero
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Apartment Zero (1988)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Argentina
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The owner of a failing cinema and his mysterious boarder are caught up in the political intrigue of Argentina.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, homoerotic, serious, captivating, cult classic, tense, bleak, independent film, lgbt cinema ...
Plot:
homoerotic friendship, homosexual subtext, closeted homosexual, mental illness, neighbor, dark humor, serial killer, loneliness, closeted gay, murder, twists and turns, lgbt, gender, gay, suspicion, dangerous friend, secret, unsettling, love, killer, violence, death, insanity, manipulation, gay interest ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place:
buenos aires argentina, argentina, latin america, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, suspenseful, crying and serious films with plots about murder, photograph, cigarette smoking, blood, death, flashback and investigation mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Apartment Zero: Tom at the Farm (2013), Death in Buenos Aires (2014), Murder 101 (1991), Greta (2018), Before I Go to Sleep (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.
Style:
psychological, serious, sexy, sexual, gloomy ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, male homosexuality, lgbtq, loneliness, lgbt teen, family problems, closeted homosexual, brother brother relationship, threat, farm, gay son ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2013, year 1997, 70s ...
Place:
quebec, canada, montreal
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Buenos Aires in the 1980s. Detective Chavez, a family man and a tough cop, once again must solve a mysterious crime. To reveal the identity of the murderer, Chavez must clarify the enigma waiting in ambush to capture his own heart. Passion surprises ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, lgbt cinema, tragic ending ...
Plot:
homoeroticism, gays and lesbians, gay, lgbt, lgbtq, sexual attraction, gay club, sexual tension, murder investigation, murder, partners against crime, law enforcement ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Charles Lattimore, an author of a book about a famous murder trial, arranges to meet with one of his students one night. When the student is found murdered and Lattimore has no alibi, he suspects he is being framed by the subject of his book.
Style:
realistic, psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
amateur detective, police investigation, uncover truth, dishonesty, police corruption, who done it, frame up, mind game, protagonist as suspect, law enforcement, false accusation, writers ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
42K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA, Hong Kong, South Korea, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young woman returns an elderly widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers her elder might not be all that she seems.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, suspense, perverse, captivating ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, trapped, stalker, trap, female villain, stalking, nightmare, obsessive love, obsession, held captive, roommate, female stalker ...
Place:
usa, new york, paris france, france
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, obsession, psychology, investigation, power relations, uncover truth, domestic violence, memory, psychiatrist, life turned upside down, amnesiac ...
Time:
90s, year 2014, year 2007, year 2000, 2010s ...
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young woman is accused of murdering her debauched neighbor after dreaming it. Was she set up, or did she really do it?
Style:
slasher, psychosexual thriller, grindhouse, erotic, psycho sexual ...
Plot:
nightmare, lesbian lover, erotic dream, disembowelment, lesbian, murder, gay rape, female nudity, glamour, serial killer, female psychopath, plot twist ...
Time:
70s
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
An insurance scam lands a man on death row for murdering his wife. What everyone doesn't know is she really isn't dead.
Style:
realistic, sexy, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot:
murder, love triangle, investigation, who done it, false accusation, death row, sexual fantasy, killer, plot twist, female nudity, doppelganger, sexual obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
italy, paris france, san francisco
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A wife and mother is consumed by the thought that her husband's co-worker is trying to win him away from her and their family.
Style:
scary, serious, tense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
fear, stalking, paranoia, stalker, male female relationship, trapped, sex, adultery, unfaithful husband, love and romance, family problems, couples ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
australia, kosovo, melbourne, new zealand
Similarity:
36%
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53K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A woman is involuntarily committed to a mental institution amid uncertainty as to whether her greatest fear is real or delusional.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, medical horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, stalking, mental institution, maniac, psychiatric ward, mental patient, sexual assault, psychopath, stalker, murder, mental illness, mental disorder ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
portugal, pennsylvania, boston
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young newlywed couple from America returns to Geneva to visit Marcel's home town. Once there he is informed of his former lover's suicide and in turn is subjected to threats that accuse him of being responsible for her death and further, ...
Style:
psycho sexual, psychological thriller, sexy, crying, neo noir ...
Plot:
female nudity, female orgasm, dead body, mysterious telephone call, violence, game, striptease, car wash, death threat, murder, boxing, suspicion ...
Place:
switzerland, geneva switzerland
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA, Hungary, Turkey
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
In the bleak days of the Cold War, espionage veteran George Smiley is forced from semi-retirement to uncover a Soviet mole within his former colleagues at the heart of MI6.
Style:
confusing, neo noir, bleak, period piece, political ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
cold war, espionage, spy, secret service, mole, british intelligence, investigation, double agent, kgb, government agency, secret agent, undercover ...
Time:
70s, year 2011, 2010s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, istanbul turkey, hungary ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
Style:
suspense, scary, surprise ending, psychological horror, tense ...
Plot:
twists and turns, mental illness, ghost, plot twist, abandoned house, murder, death of mother, sibling relationship, haunted house, split personality, violence, schizophrenic ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s, year 2017
Similarity:
34%
120K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After India's father dies, her Uncle Charlie, who she never knew existed, comes to live with her and her unstable mother. She comes to suspect this mysterious, charming man has ulterior motives and becomes increasingly infatuated with him.
Style:
psychological, gothic, suspenseful, bleak, twisted ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
danger, mysterious character, under the surface, antisocial behavior, fatal attraction, psychopath, attempted rape, family relations, masturbation, estate, family problems, death ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2000, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania, connecticut
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who ...
Style:
erotic, sexual, crying, neo noir, mind bending ...
Plot:
female nudity, assault, impossible love, unrequited love, sexual attraction, stalking, topless woman, man hits a woman, love, police detective, murder, mental illness ...
Time:
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Place:
nice france, france, riviera, south of france
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder ...
Style:
sexy, erotic drama, erotic, sexual, neurotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, sexual manipulation, rape, rape victim, small town, erotica, breast feeding, exhibitionism, bare breasts, mother daughter relationship, traumatic childhood, revenge motive ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 70s, year 1976, 1950s ...
Place:
france, europe, south of france, provence
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer. Based on a story by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, bleak, suspense, depressing ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, child murder investigation, investigation, murder mystery, child murder, plot twist, justice, private investigation, violent, small town, obsession ...
Time:
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Place:
nevada, turkey, reno nevada
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by his troubling visions and also by a mysterious doctor.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, confusing ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, plot twist, investigation, mental illness, insanity, psychology, memory, paranoia, mental institution, schizophrenia, psychiatrist, mental patient ...
Time:
1950s, year 2010, year 1954, 1940s, year 1945 ...
Place:
iran, persia, america, boston
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Takes place in 1995, the year of the second referendum on the separation of Quebec. In the dead of winter, a serial killer is on the loose in the small Montreal neighborhood of Notre Dame de Grace. The tenants of an old apartment house must figure ...
Style:
serious, psychological, captivating, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, police detective, cat, rape, police investigation, investigation, who to trust, friendship, snow, male female relationship, xmas ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1995
Place:
canada, montreal
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
psychology, twists and turns, insanity, split personality, stephen king, isolation, losing-it hero, obsession, plot twist, haunted house, macabre, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A brief fling between a male disc jockey and an obsessed female fan takes a frightening, and perhaps even deadly turn when another woman enters the picture.
Style:
suspenseful, creepy, psychological, suspense, neo noir ...
Plot:
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Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
california, monterey california, san francisco, usa, pacific ocean
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, bleak, depressing, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, toddlers, teen drama, adult
Plot:
psychopath, evil child, school shooting, high school, childhood, guilt, prison visit, depression, teenager, sociopath, antisocial behavior, teenage boy ...
Time:
year 2011, 90s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
united kingdom, america, connecticut, usa, new york ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An unemployed executive is forced to sell his apartment. When he discovers that he still has the keys, he becomes obsessed with the family that now lives there and decides to recover the life he has lost, at any price.
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
blackmail, intruder, stalker, stalking, delivery, sociopath, psychological manipulation, manipulation, unemployed, suspicion, jealousy, couples ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young girl suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery.
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, touching, lgbt cinema ...
Plot:
female friendship, life turned upside down, self discovery, amnesia, losing-it hero, house fire, mountain, unrequited love, sexual attraction, homoerotic friendship, murder, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south of france, london
Similarity:
31%
Movie in collections
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double ...
Style:
neo noir, detective, atmospheric, cult classic, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
private detective, corruption, femme fatale, investigation, police, whodunit, murder, twists and turns, conspiracy, murder mystery, father daughter incest, domestic violence ...
Time:
20th century, year 1937, 1930s, year 1974
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, eastern europe, pacific ocean ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
French anthropologist Jean-Charles Pommier and his wife have come to LA so he can take up a position as lecturer. To his surprise he encounters a group of urban nomads. As he investigates things become more unsettling as he realizes the price paid ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, scary, psychological ...
Plot:
anthropologist, mentally unstable woman, ghost, doctor, obsession, murder, danger, ancient mystery, hospital, anthropology, home invasion, male pubic hair ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police ...
Style:
cult classic, grindhouse, detective, slasher, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens, girls' night
Plot:
vigilante, killer, male nudity, serial rape, murder, murder of a nude woman, serial killer, revenge, sex maniac, caught having sex, red light district, arrogant woman ...
Time:
80s, year 1983, 70s
Place:
los angeles, san francisco
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An immigrant in search of the American dream is forced to take a room in a boarding house and soon finds herself in a nightmare from which she can't escape.
Style:
suspense, slasher, suspenseful, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
nightmare, survival horror, immigrant, occult, haunted house, supernatural, illegal immigrant, secret, human sacrifice, survival, female protagonist, struggle for survival ...
Time:
2020s, 60s, year 1963
Place:
cleveland ohio
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Rejected by her lover, the only man left in Cheryl's life is the orphaned nephew she has raised as her own son. She'll stop at nothing to keep Billy with her. When her plans misfire, she is swept up into an insane frenzy that means death ...
Style:
slasher, psychological, disturbing, grindhouse, psychotronic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
orphan, basketball, male nudity, athlete, cheerleader, caught having sex, attic, homosexual, serial killer, homosexuality, high school, hairy chested man ...
Time:
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Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In Italy, the American writer Sam Dalmas witnesses an attempt of murder of the owner of an art gallery, a couple of days before his foreseen return to the United States of America. He decides to stay with his girlfriend Julia and help the police in ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, slasher, grindhouse, creepy ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, maniac, police detective, investigation, female psychopath, psychopath, voyeurism, attempted murder, amateur detective, murder, killer ...
Time:
70s, year 1970, 60s, 20th century
Place:
rome italy, italy, europe
Similarity:
30%
3K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
DD is a smug fellow, almost 30 years of age, who can manage all by himself. At least that's what he thinks. However, a strange woman - Lova - enters his life, hunted by evil men who want to hurt her. Against his will, DD is forced into a series ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, freeze frame ...
Plot:
on the run, good versus evil, rivalry, heroes, escapades, danger, journalism, investigation, delusion, obsession, love affair, time travel ...
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
30%
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