Movies like The Book of Henry

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The Book of Henry (2017)
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The Book of Henry (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Naomi Watts stars as Susan, a single mother of two, working as a waitress in a small town. Her son, Henry, is an 11-year-old genius who not only manages the family finances but acts as emotional support for his mother and younger brother. When Henry discovers that the girl next door has a terrible secret, he implores Susan to take matters into her own hands in this imaginative and emotional drama.
Style: touching, emotional, sad, entertaining, intellectual, suspense, scenic, tear jerker, crime thriller, disgusting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: boy genius, genius, boy, single mother, friendship, suicide, mother son relationship, child prodigy, small town, sick child, fear, child abuse, brother brother relationship, child custody, violence, adoption, child, stepfather, death of brother, drunkenness, fired from the job, boyhood, book, rape, revenge ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017
Place: new york state
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Most similar movies to The Book of Henry

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, serious and realistic films with plots about blood, boy, police officer, telephone call, murder, violence and death mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Book of Henry: Wonder (2017), St. Vincent (2014), Room (2015), Disturbia (2007), Good Time (2017). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wonder (2017)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Hong Kong, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The story of August Pullman – a boy with facial differences – who enters fifth grade, attending a mainstream elementary school for the first time.
Style: inspirational, uplifting, touching, sincere, thought provoking ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly
Plot: bullying, child, school, middle school, friendship, happy ending, father son relationship, deformity, family relations, fight, hospital, science teacher ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: coney island brooklyn new york city, new york, manhattan new york city, pennsylvania
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St. Vincent (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
Style: realistic, feel good, witty, entertaining, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: friendship, coming of age, youth, bullying, teacher, neighbor, storytelling, redemption, happy ending, character study, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 2010s, y2k, year 2014, year 1965, year 1946 ...
Place: new york, peru, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
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Room (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?
Style: sentimental, heartbreaking, suspense, psychological, sad ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: kidnapping, isolation, captive, kidnapped, mother son relationship, escape, rape, room, child born of rape, abduction, survival, imprisonment ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: ireland, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.8
 247K
Disturbia (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Kale is a 17-year-old placed under house arrest after punching his teacher. He is confined to his house, and decides to use his free time spying on his neighbors. Things start to get weird when guests enter the Turner's house and don't ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, intense, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, neighbor, murder, voyeurism, house arrest, paranoia, homicidal maniac, investigation, psychopath, death, arrest, teenager ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Good Time (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After a botched bank robbery lands his younger brother in prison, Connie Nikas embarks on a twisted odyssey through the city's underworld in an increasingly desperate—and dangerous—attempt to get his brother Nick out of jail.
Style: neo noir, suspense, independent film, brutal, captivating ...
Plot: prison, brother brother relationship, loneliness, stolen money, on the run, hospital, brother, mentally challenged person, mental disorder, robbery, promise, game playing ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Eastern Promises (2007)
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, disturbing, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: gangster, mob boss, russian mafia, prostitution, murder, male nudity, rape, brutality, death in childbirth, child prostitute, investigation, organized crime ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: england, london, st. petersburg russia, europe, scotland yard ...
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28%
 6.1
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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 ⇓
28%
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The Dry (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: date night
Plot: murder, haunted by the past, murder mystery, investigation, murder investigation, police, small town, suicide attempt, violence, family relations, male female relationship, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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21 (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for ...
Style: suspense, clever, inspirational, surprise ending, exciting ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids
Plot: gambling, casino, mathematics, prodigy, youth, talented, professor, cheating, blackjack, genius, manipulation, card playing ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: las vegas, boston, harvard university, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.6
 15K
Luce (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.
Style: psychological, non-linear, suspense, thought provoking, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: social problems, track and field, cheerleader, african american, interracial, trust, mistrust, public speaking, drunkenness, drinking, independence day, doubt ...
Place: ohio, middle east
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27%
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The Ciambra (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Brazil, Germany, France, Sweden, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Pio Amato, a 14 year-old member of a small Romani community in Calabria, is in a hurry to grow up. Pio follows his older brother Cosimo everywhere and from him he learns how to hustle and how to navigate the streets of his hometown. One night Pio ...
Style: neorealism, psychological, tense, contemplative, suspense ...
Plot: gypsy, male female relationship, friendship, teenager, petty criminal, father son relationship, chase, betrayal, brother sister relationship, family relations, coming of age, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2017
Place: italy, southern italy, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.3
 3K
Low Tide (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In the long days of summer in a beach town on the New Jersey shore, high schooler Alan (Keean Johnson) and his friends Red (Alex Neustaedter) and Smitty (Daniel Zolghadri) break into vacation homes to steal valuables, funding dates at the boardwalk ...
Style: suspense, touching, rough, suspenseful, thought provoking ...
Plot: friendship between boys, breaking and entering, teenager, murder, boy, friendship, family problems, dysfunctional family, parents and children, escape, danger, life is a bitch ...
Time: 80s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 104K
Widows (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Set in contemporary Chicago, amidst a time of turmoil, four women with nothing in common except a debt left behind by their dead husbands' criminal activities take fate into their own hands and conspire to forge a future on their own terms.
Style: suspense, tense, neo noir, bleak, exciting ...
Audience: adult
Plot: heist, girl gang, murder, widow, harlot, premarital sex, black, grief, criminal, caper, brutality, danger ...
Time: 2010s
Place: chicago, xian
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 35K
In the Fade (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Katja's life collapses after a senseless act impacts her life. After a time of mourning and injustice, she seeks revenge.
Style: suspense, tense, art house, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: terrorist, lawyer, revenge, racism, conspiracy, terrorist attack, trial, courtroom, bomb, murder, pursuit, drug use ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, year 2013, year 2016, 21st century
Place: germany, greece, hamburg germany, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Devil All the Time (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: In the 1960s after World War II in Southern Ohio, bizarre, compelling and mentally disturbed people suffer from the war's psychological damages.
Style: suspense, neo noir, gothic, southern gothic, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, post war, murder, stepbrother stepsister relationship, psycho, small town, sheriff, violence, boy, reverend, suicide, world war two ...
Time: year 1957, 2020s, 1940s, 20th century, 50s ...
Place: west virginia, ohio
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27%
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Joe the King (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A destitute 14 year old struggles to keep his life together despite harsh abuse at his mother's hands, harsher abuse at his father's, and a growing separation from his slightly older brother. Petty thefts for food grow into more major ...
Style: emotional, harsh, tense, rough, grim ...
Plot: coming of age, children, dysfunctional family, child abuse, working class, youth, boy, redemption, poverty, childhood, corporal punishment, debt ...
Time: year 1999, 70s, 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 ...
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27%
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 31K
Freeway (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Following the arrest of her mother, Ramona, young Vanessa Lutz decides to go in search of her estranged grandmother. On the way, she is given a ride by school counselor Bob Wolverton. During the journey, Lutz begins to realize that Bob is the ...
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, suspenseful, bloody, black comedy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, little red riding hood, life is a bitch, sexual abuse, drug addiction, psychopath, brutality, prison, dysfunctional family, hitchhiker, murder, police investigation ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Before the Storm (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Leo, a guy in the seventh grade gets harassed by a two years older boy in school and seeks revenge. At the same time, Ali, the father of a girl in Leo's class (who Leo has a crush on) is contacted by a opposition group from his home country ...
Style: independent film, suspense, tense, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: teens
Plot: bullying, teenage boy, friendship, murder, manipulation, terrorism, fight, school, humiliation, boy, immigrant, investigation ...
Time: 2000s
Place: middle east, eastern europe
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27%
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Let Him Go (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Following the loss of their son, a retired sheriff and his wife leave their Montana ranch to rescue their young grandson from the clutches of a dangerous family living off the grid in the Dakotas.
Style: suspense, emotional, brutal, tense, rough ...
Plot: horse, grief, grandson, father in law daughter in law relationship, husband wife relationship, brutality, abusive husband, death, sheriff, retired, fight, grandparent grandchild relationship ...
Time: 60s, 2020s, year 1952
Place: north dakota, montana
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Promising Young Woman (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young woman haunted by a tragedy in her past takes revenge on the predatory men unlucky enough to cross her path.
Style: disturbing, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: revenge, rape, rape and revenge, revenge from beyond the grave, medical school, feminist, unpunished crime, violence, death of friend, chauvinism, sexual predator, oral sex ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: ohio, nebraska, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Underworld U.S.A. (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A bitter young man sets out to get back at the gangsters who murdered his father.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: gangster, testimony, prison, vengeance, manhunt, dishonesty, haunted by the past, law enforcement, witnessing a crime, parents and children, drug addiction, revenge ...
Time: 60s, year 1961
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Chase (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Most everyone in town thinks that Sheriff Calder is merely a puppet of rich oil-man Val Rogers. When it is learned that local baddie Bubber Reeves has escaped prison, Rogers' son is concerned because he is having an affair with Reeves' ...
Style: suspense, retro, neo noir, technicolor, crime drama ...
Plot: racism, social commentary, manhunt, small town, adultery, lynch mob, drunkenness, sheriff, murder, vigilantism, on the run, escaped prisoner ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Every Secret Thing (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: One clear summer day in a Baltimore suburb, a baby goes missing from her front porch. Two young girls serve seven years for the crime and are released into a town that hasn't fully forgiven or forgotten. Soon, another child is missing, and two ...
Style: disturbing, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: missing child, kidnapped, hostage, teenage girl, suspect, manipulation, police detective, interrogation, child murder, uncover truth, life is a bitch, ex convict ...
Place: baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
A Thousand and One (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Struggling but unapologetically living on her own terms, Inez is moving from shelter to shelter in mid-1990s New York City. With her 6-year-old son Terry in foster care and unable to leave him again, she kidnaps him so they can build their life ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, serious, dramatic ...
Plot: mother son relationship, parent child relationship, son, abduction, foster home, domestic drama, kidnapping, foster child, adopted son, runaway, mother son reunion, mother and son ...
Time: 90s, year 1994, year 2001
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, harlem, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Little Accidents (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In a small American coal town living in the shadow of a recent mining accident, the disappearance of a teenage boy draws three people together—a surviving miner, the lonely wife of a mine executive, and a local boy—in a web of secrets.
Style: suspense, sad, psychological, enigmatic, disturbing ...
Plot: small town, teenage boy, extramarital affair, adultery, coming of age, solace, marital problem, investigation, tragic event, disappearance, husband wife relationship, secret ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 245K
21 Grams (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: This is the story of three gentle persons: Paul Rivers an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré, Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife, happily married and mother of two little girls, and Jack Jordan, an ...
Style: mind bending, emotional, bleak, gloomy, depressing ...
Plot: life is a bitch, guilt, tragedy, grief, drug addiction, multiple storylines, drug addict, drug, loneliness, loss, mathematician, hit and run ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new mexico, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.2
 19K
Eye for an Eye (1996)
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, psychological thriller ...
Plot: rape, obsession, murder, vigilante, revenge, vengeance, psychopath, vigilantism, rape and murder, women, haunted by the past, loss of daughter ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: persia, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.9
 8K
Empire (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A big time drug dealer Victor Rosa is looking to get out of the game and sees his chance with a big deal with a new friend who happens to be a Wall St. stockbroker. Thinking this will be his chance to go out on top Victor soon finds out that he has ...
Style: intense, stylized, melancholic, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: betrayal, organized crime, gangster, greed, twists and turns, drug dealing, wall street, ghetto, criminal heroes, going straight, cons and scams, mafia ...
Time: year 2002
Place: usa, new york, miami, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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 4K
Five Corners (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A psychotic young man returns to his old neighborhood after release from prison. He seeks out the woman he previously tried to rape and the man who protected her, with twisted ideas of love for her and hate for him.
Style: disturbing, talky, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: prison, violence, stalking, psychopath, visceral, character study, hitman, police investigation, friendship, police detective, ex convict, rape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1987, 60s, year 1964
Place: new york, usa, mississippi, bronx new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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