Movies like River 2015

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River (2015)
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River (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In the south of Laos, an American volunteer doctor becomes a fugitive after he intervenes in the sexual assault of a young woman. When the assailant's body is pulled from the Mekong River, things quickly spiral out of control.
Style: tense, captivating, serious, suspense
Plot: accused of murder, doctor, pursuit, running from police, chase, murder, false accusation, manhunt, survival, danger, monster, choice, trapped, fugitive, river, police, rape, island, vacation, brother sister relationship, drunkenness, on the run, american abroad, stealing a car, questioned by police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: southeast asia, laos, bangkok thailand, asia, thailand
Keyword: doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, serious and tense films with plots about murder, danger, deadly, rivalry, chases and races, on the run and police mostly in Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like River: Angel (2015), No Through Road (2008), Fatal Call (2012), The King of the Hill (2007), Venom (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Angel (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Angel, a woman who was horribly abused by her grandmother as a little girl and institutionalized after killing her, embarks on a killing spree as an adult. Though sentenced for the rest of her life to an insane asylum, Angel was released due to ...
Style: suspense, exciting, suspenseful, serious, political thriller
Plot: police, politics, murder, child abuse, manhunt, violence, prison, miscarriage of justice, danger, confined, amusement park, serial killer ...
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100%
No Through Road (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The serenity of another quiet evening is shattered for an amateur photographer when a desperate woman takes refuge in his humble suburban home. Reluctantly, he is pulled into a cat and mouse game with her pursuers. Only dawn will reveal the ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: chase, on the run, danger, mysterious character, rivalry, suburbs, revenge, murder, pursuit, vengeance, unlikely partners, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
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33%
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Fatal Call (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Leaving his small-town roots to start a new life, Mitch meets the beautiful and seductive Amy at a happy hour and begins a tantalizing romance. Before long, Mitch learns that nothing is as it appears and, unable to trust anyone, finds himself on a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: femme fatale, murder, false accusation, danger, life turned upside down, protagonist as suspect, on the run, dishonesty, disorder, power relations, chases and races, heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The King of the Hill (2007)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Quim drives around an isolated rural area through a maze of lanes. When he drives into the woods, he gets lost. Trying to find his direction, he suddenly gets shot from the hill. On his escape from gunshots, he meets Bea, an attractive young woman, ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: survival, chase, on the run, wilderness, isolation, danger, male female relationship, mountain, murder, violence, killer child, supernatural horror ...
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Venom (2011)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After a car breaks down in an isolated desert, a mother and young daughter are relentlessly pursued by a deadly snake
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snake, desert, survival, chase, danger, dangerous animal, on the run, crash, pursuit, creature feature, killer animal, creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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28%
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Nexus (2010)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Holly is a struggling singer whose life is torn apart when she loses custody of her daughter, Chloe. When she travels to her soon to be ex-husbands estate in the country, for a weekend visit with Chloe, she is shocked to discover that he is missing. ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: conspiracy, false accusation, uncover truth, on the run, frame up, dishonesty, betrayal, law enforcement, life turned upside down, murder, danger, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
20 Ft Below: The Darkness Descending (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Below the streets of New York is a dark and dangerous world hidden in the shadows of abandoned subway tunnels and miles of forgotten infrastructure. When a young documentary filmmaker goes into these tunnels to uncover the unseen stories of the ...
Style: bleak, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: gang, rivalry, danger, police, tunnel, secret place, murder, violence, found footage, homeless, imaginary, social misfits ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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24%
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Favor (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Kip's perfect life is put in jeopardy when the waitress with whom he's having a casual fling is accidentally killed in their motel room. Desperate, he turns to childhood friend and loser, Marvin, to help get rid of the body. Marvin agrees ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: murder, friends, disposing of a dead body, life turned upside down, dishonesty, danger, death, twists and turns, violent content, disorder, buddies, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Paris Under Watch (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: An anonymous hacker has hacked all of Paris' cameras and observes the city unbeknownst to its inhabitants. Petty crimes and moments of stolen intimacy, he sees everything. Until the day that an explosion lays wasted to the Gare ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, computer hacker, danger, rivalry, politics, police, surveillance, mind game, state affairs, voyeurism, hacker, murder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france, paris france
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22%
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Taped (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Johan and Saar make a final attempt to save their marriage by going on vacation to Buenos Aires. In keeping a promise to their daughter they will make a video of their activities there. When they accidentally witness (and videotape) a brutal murder ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, danger, on the run, chases and races, dishonesty, husband wife relationship, survival, death, police, accidental death, trapped, inadvertently ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Way of the Wicked (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Lawrence Salva's script centers on a detective (Facinelli), on the trail of a murderer, who is led to believe that a local teenager, harboring some sort of strange supernatural power, may be involved. Slater plays the man's disbelieving ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, psychological, scary ...
Plot: good versus evil, demon, supernatural, danger, rivalry, curses spells and rituals, murder, small town, law enforcement, ghost, investigation, showdown ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Suspension of Disbelief (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in the Thames and no one really knows, what has happened to her.
Style: sexy, erotic, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, artists and showbiz, writer's life, sex scene, uncover truth, danger, missing person, writers, disappearance, wife, female nudity, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Persecuted (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Colombia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After witnessing the murder of a little girl's parents, a young woman becomes the child's protector and is forced to flee from the killers while trying to discover their motive.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, independent film
Plot: witness, witnessing a crime, manhunt, murder witness, saving a life, runaway, on the run, killings, murder, struggle for survival, murderer, female protagonist
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Sicarivs: The Night and the Silence (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A hit man receives the assignment to kill a woman. But what seems as another job complicates when he is about to execute her, but does not. He will have to go after those who gave him the contract, for, in his profession, those who do not comply ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: danger, on the run, woman in danger, murder, murder of a nude woman, gang, hitman, male nudity, violent content, chases and races, nudity, dead body ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
House Under Siege (2010)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Two young boys and a girl commit a diamond robbery on Halloween. During escape the girl is fatally shot. One of the boys knows a doctor (Jeremy London) who has a private clinic in his house. They decide to go to his house instead of the hospital ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: crime gone awry, on the run, confined, dishonesty, rivalry, fugitives, chase, gang, doctor, halloween, home invasion, hostage ...
Time: 21st century
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21%
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Trapped (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 78 min.
Story: A soldier is stuck in a combat zone after stepping on a mine.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: soldier, desert, survival, isolation, danger, confined, deathtrap, holocaust, war in afghanistan, trapped, landmine, military ...
Time: 21st century
Place: afghanistan, middle east, morocco
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21%
Til Death Do Us Part (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A woman investigates the past of her seemingly ideal husband, a doctor who starts to become increasingly hostile.
Style: psychological, captivating, tense, suspense, psychological thriller
Plot: suspicion, doctor, marriage, small town, newlyweds, danger, uncover truth, murder, under the surface, wedding, school teacher, hallucination ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Devil's Dominoes (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On their way to a weekend hunting trip in the Ozarks, four friends get in to a car accident, killing the driver of the other car...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: vengeance, gangster, partner, rivalry, dishonesty, murder, danger, car accident, son, friend, revenge, car ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Boyfriend's Deceit (2018)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Annie is pulled over by police for a traffic violation while she is driving her boyfriend's car. When the police discover a bloody knife in the back of the car, she has to find what is really going on before she is wrongly accused of a murder.
Style: suspense, captivating
Plot: framed for murder, false identity, false accusation of murder, accused of murder, murder investigation, falsely accused, false accusation, criminal, crime investigation, investigation, uncover truth, accusation ...
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21%
This Is Not a Love Song (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The small time criminal Heaton is anxiously waiting for the release of his close friend Spike, after spending a couple of months in prison for being caught with 87g of marijuana. Heaton robs a truck, meets Spike outside the penitentiary and travels ...
Style: tense, realistic, rough, bleak, serious ...
Plot: chase, manhunt, disorder, crime gone awry, on the run, chases and races, buddies, survival, criminal heroes, countryside, stealing a car, father daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
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20%
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The Stray (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a drifter is struck by a car the driver offers to take him back from the hospital to her home in order to nurse him back to health...which turns out to be one of the biggest mistakes of her life.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Plot: danger, dangerous attraction, woman in danger, violence, male female relationship, murder, seduction, revenge, police detective, homeless, restaurant, chase ...
Time: 90s
Place: venice beach california
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Exit Speed (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: On Christmas Eve, ten strangers board a bus traveling across Texas. Far out in the wilds they collide with a meth-addicted biker
Style: scary, serious, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: gang, murder, psychopath, survival, rivalry, danger, vengeance, escapades, chase, bus, die hard, biker ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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20%
The Devil's in the Details (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 7 minutes from now in Nogales, Arizona, Thomas Conrad's life will forever change when he gets caught up in a Mexican cartels poetic game of drug mule chess.
Style: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: drug dealing, danger, rivalry, chases and races, strong violent content, drug cartel, race against time
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa, sonora, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Employer (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Five highly qualified applicants interview for a coveted job with the Carcharias Corporation, a powerful conglomerate whose business practices are shrouded in mystery. On the night before the last round of interviews, they are all kidnapped and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: trap, kidnapping, twists and turns, danger, rivalry, contests and competitions, mind game, struggle for survival, trapped, new job, rivals, secret identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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20%
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4Closed (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a young family moves into a foreclosed house, the previous owner begins a campaign of intimidation and terror. The deranged man will stop at nothing to get his home back.
Style: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: family in danger, psychopath, family problems, danger, stalking, family in crisis, deaf, murder, deception, stalker, basement, lawyer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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20%
Benefit of the Doubt (1993)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Twenty two years earlier, Karen helped convict her father, Frank, for the murder of her mother. With his new freedom, thanks to parole, Frank returns home to seek revenge. Having always pleaded his innocence, Frank soon works his way back into ...
Style: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: murder, chase, revenge, desert, waitress, female nudity, stripper, repressed memory, violent content, parents and children, homecoming, family life ...
Time: year 1993, 20th century, 90s
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Slip (2006)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: "Slip" is the story of Sarah, a young woman who witnessed her mother's murder as a child. Now grown, Sarah is haunted by her mother's memory, her restless soul, opening a gateway for the spirits of the recently departed. Sarah is ...
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Plot: ghost, vengeance, danger, murder, supernatural, haunted by the past, a vision, death, investigation, childhood trauma, superpower, strong violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Paris Countdown (2013)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Unable to repay their debts, Milan and Victor, best friends and co-owners of a Paris nightclub, are lured into a drug deal that goes bad. Tortured by police, they negotiate their freedom against an overwhelming testimony that condemns their ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: psychopath, survival, race against time, friendship, betrayal, danger, on the run, murder, police, chase, friends, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Fatal Justice (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Karen is shopping at a convenience store during which a robbery occurs. Her niece is kidnapped and left seriously injured in hospital. When one of the perpetrators is released, Karen decides to go on a murderous trail of revenge.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, exciting ...
Plot: rivalry, vigilantism, heist, store, hospital, revenge, murder, abduction, investigation, paralysis, danger, twins ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Below the Surface (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Cameron thought she had the perfect life with a perfect job and a perfect fiancé until he becomes a suspect in a murder case.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: murder, female protagonist, murder mystery, marital problem, framed for murder, accusation, relationship problems, framed for a crime, relationships, life is a bitch, guilty verdict, accused of murder ...
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