Movies like The Things We've Seen

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The Things We've Seen (2017)
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The Things We've Seen (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Accusations of guilt turns a father into a fugitive, leaving his son to find and bring him home after struggling to put the pieces together.
Style: serious, captivating, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: small town, family relations, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, search for father, family crisis, brother brother relationship, teen angst, amateur detective, runaway, gunfight, fight, forest, police, depression, map, boy, teenage boy, teenage protagonist, cigarette smoking, friendship between boys, modern western, coming of age, father figure, protective male ...

Most similar movies to The Things We've Seen

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspense and suspenseful films with plots about murder, family relations, small town, father son relationship, violence, gun and youth mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Things We've Seen: Runaway (2005), Witness to Murder (2007), Phantom Halo (2014), The Narrows (2008), Restitution (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 514
Runaway (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Michael Adler has run away from his suburban home with his little brother Dylan. Hiding out in a quiet, rural town, Michael's convinced he can make a better life for both of them. While Dylan stays holed up in a cheap motel all day, Michael ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: starting over, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, teenage life, on the run, obsession, family problems, investigation, hiding, small town, fall in love, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Witness to Murder (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In a small town, Jordan, the son of police chief Bates, and his friends Glenn and Russel Derrek, the son of the garage-owner Gordon Russell, enjoy having their way with local girls, like Tori, and recording those exploits on video. When Alex Mills ...
Style: suspense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: ambition, love, teenage girl, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, small town, sheriff, prison, party, threat to kill, discussion, women ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 5.1
 983
Phantom Halo (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two brothers barely scrape by as their father continues to gamble and drink away the money they do bring home. They hatch a plan for a robbery but at what price?
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: forgery, father son relationship, gambling, brother brother relationship, gambling debt, dysfunctional family, financial problem, gambler, older woman younger man relationship, family problems, money problems, criminal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 6.1
 2K
The Narrows (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A 19 year old Brooklyn boy who is torn between two worlds when his photography portfolio wins him a partial scholarship to NYU. He must figure out how to balance his Italian neighborhood roots with the expansive, sophisticated world on the other ...
Style: serious, captivating, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: college student, moral dilemma, parents and children, city life, family relations, human nature, self discovery, society, coming of age, hot and sexy, nypd, family in crisis ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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 3.7
 864
Restitution (2011)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A true crime writer investigating a small town murder spree uncovers the devastating truth that changes the town forever.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, investigator, investigation, uncover truth, amateur detective, gunfight, social relations, small town, secret, revenge, danger, insurance fraud ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Everybody Has a Plan (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Following the death of his identical twin brother Pedro, Agustín sets out to begin his life anew by assuming Pedro’s identity and returning to the mysterious Tigre Delta region where the brothers had spent their childhood. Soon after his ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: hidden identity, starting over, twin brother, danger, homecoming, haunted by the past, dishonesty, family relations, siblings, identical twins, death, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
The Parts You Lose (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An unlikely friendship unfolds between a young deaf boy, Wesley, and a fugitive criminal who takes refuge in an abandoned barn on the family’s rural North Dakota farm.
Style: suspense, realistic, serious, rough, touching ...
Audience: teens, family outing, boys' night
Plot: boy, deaf, forensics, criminal, friend, runaway, friendship, teenage life, estrangement, disabled person, choice, violent ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
 6.0
 6K
Hellion (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other ...
Style: touching, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: motocross, youth, brother brother relationship, juvenile delinquent, father son relationship, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, dysfunctional family, social worker, death of mother, family relations, estrangement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: britain, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Man from Reno (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A stranger in the increasingly strange city of San Francisco, Japanese crime novelist Aki is unsure of precisely what role she has to play in a real-life murder mystery involving ambiguous MacGuffins and amorphous identities. Unfolding in lonely ...
Style: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: amateur detective, investigation, law enforcement, extramarital affair, writer's life, small town, love affair, missing person, book, bookstore, writers, secret service ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
Deep Dark Canyon (2013)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Bloom Towne is a small-town sheriff under the thumb of the well-established, deeply influential Mayor Dick Cavanaugh's family. When Bloom's two teenage sons, Nate and Skylar accidentally shoot and kill Dick during a deer-hunt, Bloom's ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: small town, manhunt, chase, on the run, violent content, woods, parents and children, murder, revenge, brother brother relationship, police, escape ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Bad Turn Worse (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Three teenage friends get in way over their head when they cross a down-home crime syndicate. They hope to make a break for it and escape their dead-end existence in a cotton-mill town but get sucked into the seedy underbelly of organized crime when ...
Style: captivating, bleak, tense, serious, suspense ...
Plot: small town, juvenile delinquency, gangster, danger, friendship, betrayal, love and romance, love triangle, farm, rivalry, jealousy, hot and sexy ...
Place: texas, britain, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 6.8
 51K
Joe (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: The rough-hewn boss of a lumber crew courts trouble when he steps in to protect the youngest member of his team from an abusive father.
Style: touching, dark, atmospheric, depressing, southern gothic ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: father son relationship, child abuse, alcoholic, coming of age, friendship, woods, teenage boy, small town, hopes, teenager, character study, loneliness ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: texas, midwest, britain, usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 6.1
 2K
Sand Castles (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In rural Indiana, Noah and his impoverished family wrestle with the mysterious return of his now mute sister, Lauren, who was kidnapped and held captive for over a decade.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, exciting, sincere, independent film ...
Plot: kidnapping, mute, investigation, husband wife relationship, missing person, mental illness, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, deception, farmhouse, scarecrow, shootout ...
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.3
 628
Steel City (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a tragic accident caused by the truck of the middle-aged Carl Lee where a woman dies with a crushed stern, he is arrested and sent to the county jail. His son PJ, who works washing dishes and cleaning tables in a restaurant, feels lost, ...
Style: emotional, touching, sincere, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: police, family life, family relations, family problems, couples, parents and children, dysfunctional family, couple relations, introspection, youth, redemption, siblings relations ...
Place: usa, midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Darkness Falls (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, USA, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After his wife's suicide, Detective Jeff Anderson becomes convinced that she has been murdered. Obsessed with his investigation, he finds out that his wife was the victim of a team of father-and-son serial killers and sets out to stop them.
Style: suspense, serious, exciting, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: team, police detective, heist, danger, violence, partners in crime, perfect crime, mental health, nypd, child in peril
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Partners in Crime (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 89 min.
Story: On his way to school, Huang witnesses the death of Hsia, a popular teenager in their high school,along with Lin and Yeh, the other 2 students from their high school, whom Huang has never known before. Even though the three guys try to save her, she ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, tense ...
Plot: high school student, amateur detective, uncover truth, investigation, teenage life, youth, high school, coming of age, bullying, high school life
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, taiwan
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 3.2
 267
Green River (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: There is no turning back. Whether we trust our friends, others or ourselves our decision determines the fate of the future. Green River's story deals with the agonizing truth of the actions we take in times of crisis.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, missing person, missing girl, amateur detective, isolation, torture, paranoia, killer, peace, war veteran, radio, pistol ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.4
 96
Bucksville (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In a small, wooded town, a young man struggles to leave a secret militia started by his father.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Plot: small town, injustice, vigilantism, militia, society, secret society, good versus evil, father son relationship, guilt, execution, guilty verdict, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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 5.3
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Meskada (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Small-town detective Noah Cordin is called to solve a juvenile homicide that occurred during a home burglary in his affluent town of Hilliard. The dead boy's mother, Allison Connor, is a member of the Meskada County Board of Commissioners, and ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, dark, tense ...
Plot: murder, law enforcement, police investigation, social differences, small town, working class, friend, investigation, crime scene, home invasion, burglar, dead boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
A Life Not to Follow (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A Neo-Noir film told in three interlacing chapters: Eric is a dead man and he knows it. Death is imminent and he must make amends for his past sins, by killing those who wronged him, no matter the price: A wiseguy willing to do anything to move up ...
Style: neo noir, dark, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: gangster, police, criminal, revenge, city, mob boss, murder, family relations, mafia, death, mexican standoff, stripper ...
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Tie That Binds (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: John Netherwood and his wife Leann are fugitives who are both wanted for murder. They have a young daughter named Janie and they want her back.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, bad ending, intense, serious ...
Plot: adoption, fugitives, children, family relations, wanted, haunted by the past, parents and children, custody, criminal heroes, rivalry, obsession, little girl ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Fjällbacka Murders: In the Eye of the Beholder (2012)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Erica's sister Anna is visiting at the same time as the TV program "Antiques cubed" is in town to record at the castle in Fjällbacka. When Anna runs into the TV host for the show, Claes Wager, sparks quickly evolve into a flirt ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, serious ...
Plot: investigation, murder, amateur detective, love affair, family relations, nordic, danger, couples, swedish, writers, strong female presence, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.1
 14K
One False Move (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Following a series of drug deals and murders, three criminals -- Fantasia, Ray Malcolm and Pluto -- travel from Los Angeles to Houston, finally arriving in a small Arkansas town to go into hiding. Two detectives from the LAPD, who are already on the ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night, date night
Plot: small town, police investigation, heist, gangster, gunfight, justice, corruption, criminal heroes, law enforcement, criminal, siblings relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: los angeles, texas, arkansas, california, louisiana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jessica Fletcher is off to solve another murder mystery, this time in Ireland.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Plot: amateur detective, investigation, dysfunctional family, artists and showbiz, writer's life, treasure hunt, murder, intelligence agency, riddles and clues, strong female presence, elderly, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Kim Novak Never Swam in Genesaret's Lake (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Norway, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: 14-year old Erik gets sent to live with his older brother, Henry, during the summer as his mother is dying in cancer. Henry starts dating Ewa, who is married to Berra. A few days after Ewa shows up battered and bruised from an altercation with ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: skinny dipping, friendship, power relations, family problems, who done it, youth, teenage sexuality, coming of age, teenage boy, brother brother relationship, vacation, summer ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 7.1
 33K
Mean Creek (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teenagers living in small-town Oregon take a boat trip for a birthday celebration. When they get an idea to play a mean trick on the town bully, it suddenly goes too far. Soon they're forced to deal with the unexpected consequences of their ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, intense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: prank, friendship, kids in trouble, small town, vengeance, coming of age, teenager, bullying, revenge, bully, guilt, childhood ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Beneath the Harvest Sky (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A teen drama set during the fall potato harvest in a small northern Maine town.
Style: captivating, realistic, tense, psychological, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: coming of age, friendship, small town, youth, teenage life, social relations, drug, police, harvest, couples, teenager, best friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: maine, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.9
 6K
Red Stone (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: With one bullet, Motley’s life spirals out of control as he’s forced to go on the run from the ruthless crime lord, Jed Haywood. The brother of Haywood's best friend Boons recently died in a terrible car accident and today is the funeral. ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot: hitman, corrupt cop, fbi agent, abduction, assignment, fight, moral dilemma, teenager, brother brother relationship, sheriff, ruby, bartender ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 3.9
 744
The Contractor (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Elizabeth Chase is busy remodeling her new home with her lawyer husband, Paul and daughter, McKenzie. To make sure it's finished before a charity event they're hosting, the couple hire a contractor, Javier, to help. However Elizabeth ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: stalking, obsession, family in danger, psychopath, danger, dishonesty, violent content, strong female presence, vengeance, couples, woman in danger, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.2
 423
Come Morning (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Set in rural Arkansas in 1973, Come Morning is the tragic story of Frank and his 10-year-old grandson and the hunting accident that forever changes their lives.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense ...
Plot: woods, coming of age, countryside, father son relationship, hunting, corpse, death, manslaughter, danger, youth, country, dead body ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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