Movies like Elle
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Elle (2016)
68K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and mouse with her stalker.
Style:
disturbing, art house, erotic, psychological, controversial, intense, stylized, sexy, slasher, feminist film ...
Plot:
rape, rape and revenge, perversion, strong female character, sexual abuse, cat, death of mother, revenge, older woman younger man relationship, female protagonist, video game, car accident, masturbation, twists and turns, obsession, manipulation, sex, justice, secrets, loneliness, dysfunctional family, rapist, violence against women, ex husband ex wife relationship, male nudity ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
france, paris france
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Most similar movies to Elle
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, psychological and disturbing films with plots about runaway, pornography, dialogue, brutality, nude, mentor and police investigation mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Elle: The Piano Teacher (2001), La Cérémonie (1995), Merci pour le Chocolat (2000), Lady Vengeance (2005), Ms .45 (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: France, Austria, Germany
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Erika Kohut, a sexually repressed piano teacher living with her domineering mother, meets a young man who starts romantically pursuing her.
Style:
sexual, controversial, psychological, disturbing, erotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bdsm, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, sexual relations, teacher, teacher student sex, masochism, rape, mother daughter relationship, overbearing parent, pianist, teachers and students ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vienna, paris france, france, germany, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for the upper-class family Lelievre, hides her illiteracy under the cloak of a perfect household and obedience. She finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to ...
Style:
thought provoking, suspenseful, serious, art house, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder, village, social differences, social relations, secrets, psychology, manipulation, female psychopath, master and servant, society, village life, suspense ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, los angeles, usa, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A mystery set in the environs of Lausanne concerning several plots which wind their way through the elegant homesteads of a couple of well-heeled French-Swiss denizens. Mika is the couture-attired, oh-so-perfect head of Muller Chocolates--a company ...
Style:
psychological, enigmatic, tense, suspenseful, art house ...
Plot:
chocolate, unlikely criminals, investigation, love and romance, haunted by the past, dishonesty, infidelity, parents and children, family life, couple relations, pianist, food ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
switzerland, europe, france, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
After a 13-year imprisonment for the kidnap and murder of a 6 year old boy, beautiful Lee Guem-ja starts seeking revenge on the man that was really responsible for the boy's death. With the help of fellow inmates and reunited with her daughter, ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, dark, cerebral, atmospheric ...
Plot:
vengeance, revenge, serial killer, violence, prison, vigilantism, justice, torture, murder, violent, suspense, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, india, korea, asia, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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11K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A shy and mute seamstress goes insane after being attacked and raped twice in one day. She wanders the New York streets at night in a sexy black dress with her attacker's gun strapped to her garter belt, blowing away any man who tries to pick ...
Style:
disturbing, neo noir, controversial, bloody, tense ...
Plot:
rape, revenge, murder, sexual abuse, vengeance, vigilante, rape and revenge, serial killer, femme fatale, killing spree, one woman army, violence ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo similar movies
43K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her ...
Style:
disturbing, emotional, controversial, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
sexual abuse, teenager, investigation, father daughter relationship, bullying, child abuse, rape and revenge, internet, innocence lost, child sexual abuse, teenage girl, teenage life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago illinois, california, usa, cleveland ohio, milwaukee wisconsin ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, 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:
disturbing, psychological, neo noir, surreal, rough ...
Plot:
small town, murder, psychopath, killer, sadism, serial killer, violence, revenge, violent, twists and turns, deputy, investigation ...
Time:
50s, 20th century
Place:
texas, usa, austin texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
David Sumner, a mild-mannered academic from the United States, marries Amy, an Englishwoman. In order to escape a hectic stateside lifestyle, David and his wife relocate to the small town in rural Cornwall where Amy was raised. There, David is ...
Style:
bleak, disturbing, psychological, controversial, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
sexual abuse, home invasion, rape, small town, violent, rape and revenge, revenge, murder, female nudity, sexual desire, brutality, sexual assault ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
england, cornwall, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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12K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A conflicted youth confesses to crimes he didn't commit while a man and woman aroused by death become obsessed with each other.
Style:
disturbing, erotic, sexy, psychological, controversial ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, murder, obsession, necrophilia, character study, psychology, investigation, femme fatale, sex, dangerous attraction, sexual relations, crimes of passion ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
spain, iberian peninsula, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
Story:
Sasha, a young British woman, is living with her baby daughter at Ile d'Yeu, a peaceful beach community. A stranger appears. Her name is Tatiana, she's passing through, and pitches her tent in Sasha's yard. The two women build an odd ...
Style:
disturbing, art house, erotic, sexy, tense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, gay, murder, existentialism, police investigation, dysfunctional family, runaway, death, culture clash, psychology, fantasy world, manipulation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, tokyo, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Movies similar to Irreversible
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Vulgar is about a man who is a children's clown but has not been getting much luck lately. He lives in a cheap apartment which he can't even afford. Bums are constantly sleeping in his run down car and crashing on his lawn. He has a ...
Style:
disturbing, dark, psychological, bleak, controversial ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
clown, revenge, vengeance, destiny, rape, alter ego, homosexual rape, gang rape, psychopath, blackmail, dark humor, serial killer ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An alienated teenager, saddened that he has moved away from London, must find a way to deal with a dark family secret.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, rough, controversial, emotional ...
Plot:
incest, sexual abuse, father daughter incest, dysfunctional family, brother sister relationship, innocence lost, loneliness, incest rape, father daughter relationship, small town, psychology, guilt ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden, Norway
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, rough, clever, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, rape, hacker, missing person, sexual abuse, twists and turns, strong female character, murder mystery, vengeance, uncover truth, journalist ...
Time:
year 1966, 2010s, year 2011, 60s, 21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, scandinavia, sweden, europe, eastern europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
Style:
disturbing, bleak, road movie, tense, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, journalism, journalist, lovers on the run, suspense, road trip, writers, obsession, on the road, cross country, violence spree ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, pittsburgh, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After a young woman suffers a brutal rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.
Style:
disturbing, rough, realistic, thought provoking, compassionate ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
rape, courtroom drama, lawyer, sexual abuse, injustice, violence against women, rape victim, gang rape, legal action, court, courtroom, legal ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
massachusetts, canada, boston, usa, washington d.c. ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Movies like I Saw the Devil
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A strange young man has a sinister effect on the family of a middle-aged writer.
Style:
surreal, psychological, erotic, allegory, controversial ...
Plot:
sex, guilt, male nudity, rape, drug abuse, hitman, nude, murder, death, redemption, catastrophe, secrets ...
Time:
80s, 1930s, 70s
Place:
canada, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, ...
Style:
disturbing, erotic, sexy, bleak, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
coming of age, sexuality, rape, innocence lost, sexual abuse, manipulation, defloration, virginity, virgin, first time, first love, female nudity ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
france, south of france, paris france, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young short-con grifter suffers both injury and the displeasure of reuniting with his criminal mother, all the while dating an unpredictable young lady.
Style:
neo noir, sexy, tense, cynical, intense ...
Plot:
femme fatale, manipulation, betrayal, hidden money, twists and turns, gangsters, con trick, con artists, nude, suspense, swindle, couples ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, arizona, phoenix arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
rape, obsession, revenge, murder, psychopath, vigilante, vigilantism, rape and murder, vengeance, women, haunted by the past, loss of daughter ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
This is the story of Ryu, a deaf man, and his sister, who requires a kidney transplant. Ryu's boss, Park, has just laid him off, and in order to afford the transplant, Ryu and his girlfriend develop a plan to kidnap Park's daughter. Things ...
Style:
disturbing, rough, dark, harsh, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
kidnapping, revenge, organ donation, crime gone awry, violent, suicide, transplant, mute or deaf, rape and revenge, vengeance, ransom, black market ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, asia, south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Films like The Silence of the Lambs
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany, Norway
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Swedish thriller based on Stieg Larsson's novel about a male journalist and a young female hacker. In the opening of the movie, Mikael Blomkvist, a middle-aged publisher for the magazine Millennium, loses a libel case brought by corrupt Swedish ...
Style:
tense, intense, atmospheric, suspenseful, gothic ...
Plot:
hacker, investigation, rape, twists and turns, strong female lead, journalist, sexual abuse, age difference, violence against women, missing person, lesbian, serial killer ...
Time:
year 1965, year 2002, year 1958, year 1949, year 1950 ...
Place:
sweden, scandinavia, stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A woman escapes from the man who is about to rape her, but leaves her purse behind. Afraid that her attacker might come after her, she goes to the police, but with no proof of the incident, they can do nothing. In fact, the man does use the ...
Style:
tense, psychological, thought provoking, sexy, suspenseful ...
Plot:
rape and revenge, home invasion, revenge, unsupportive friend, attempted rape, rapist, moral dilemma, sexualized violence, vigilantism, female protagonist, woman with a gun, suspense ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.
Style:
art house, clever, humorous, sexy, erotic ...
Plot:
redemption, amnesia, sexual abuse, twists and turns, distopia, poetry, greed, mission from god, melancholy, catastrophe, eccentricity, destiny ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Julie Styron thinks she is going to be fired, but instead discovers that she is being promoted. Trapped in an airport hotel, she wants to celebrate but finds only the company of her young assistant, Paula Murphy. As the night progresses, the two ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, harsh, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
psychology, women, lesbian, trust, brutality, twists and turns, airport, character study, manipulation, paranoid, redemption, vengeance ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
california, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
While investigating a young nun's rape, a corrupt New York City police detective, with a serious drug and gambling addiction, tries to change his ways and find forgiveness.
Style:
neo noir, disturbing, bleak, sexy, controversial ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
police, gambling, drugs, rape, police corruption, corruption, addiction, drug addiction, gangsters, redemption, violent, character study ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Movies like Sleepers
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Someone does a nasty hatchet job on a San Fransisco big noise and the Assistant D.A. takes charge of the investigation. Through a web of blackmail and prostitution involving the Governor, an old lover of the law man emerges as a prime suspect and he ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, suspenseful, rough, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, murder, adultery, suspense, femdom, investigation, murder mystery, manipulation, femme fatale, sex, prostitution, seduction ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
25K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S/M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated from ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, controversial, sexy, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, gay, murder, police investigation, strong sexual content, psychopath, sex, investigation, gays and lesbians, violence, brutality, undercover ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
new york, canada, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Russian teenager, living in London, dies during childbirth but leaves clues to a midwife in her journal, that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family.
Style:
neo noir, bleak, disturbing, serious, tense ...
Plot:
gangsters, russian, russian mafia, brutality, suspense, mob boss, prostitution, male nudity, murder, twists and turns, death in childbirth, child prostitute ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, canada, st. petersburg russia, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Paul, an irritable and stressed-out hotel manager, begins to gradually develop paranoid delusions about his wife's infidelity...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, sexy, thought provoking, visually appealing ...
Plot:
obsession, jealousy, marriage, hotel, adultery, murder, husband wife relationship, hearing voices, rape, parallel universe, suspense, insanity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
france, europe, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sandra is the manager at a fast-food restaurant, and Becky is her teenaged counter girl who really needs the job. One stressful day, a police officer telephones and accuses Becky of stealing money from a customer’s purse, which Becky vehemently ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, thought provoking, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
manipulation, twists and turns, suspense, psychology, false accusation, police investigation, human nature, dishonesty, power relations, moral dilemma, sexual humiliation, confined ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey, ohio, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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