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Buster's Mal Heart (2016)
 6.1
 12K
Buster's Mal Heart (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An eccentric mountain man on the run from the local sheriff recalls the mysterious events that brought him to his present fugitive state.
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, bleak, serious, melancholic, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, psychedelic, intellectual ...
Plot: mountain man, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, runaway, male protagonist, workplace, social activism, pursuit, introvert, society, danger, paranoia, reality vs fantasy, mental disorder, woman, gadget, human relationship, nightmare, unsettling, on the run, fugitive, male nudity, mysterious character, chase, psychological drama ...
Place: america
Keyword: avant-garde

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Most similar movies to Buster's Mal Heart

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, serious and psychological films with plots about murder, danger, deadly, conspiracy, investigation, serial killer and twists and turns mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Buster's Mal Heart: Mr. Robot (2015), Sun Don't Shine (2012), The Living (2014), Horse Girl (2020), The Woman in the Window (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mr. Robot (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min.
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Story: A contemporary and culturally resonant drama about a young programmer, Elliot, who suffers from a debilitating anti-social disorder and decides that he can only connect to people by hacking them. He wields his skills as a weapon to protect the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, realistic, melancholic ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: hacker, computer hacker, hacking, computers and web, conspiracy, fighting the system, psychotherapy, paranoia, split personality, conspiracy theory, secret society, introvert ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, indiana
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33%
Sun Don't Shine (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Crystal and her boyfriend Leo embark on a tense and mysterious road trip through the desolate yet hauntingly beautiful landscape of central Florida.
Style: mumblecore, realistic, tense, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: lovers on the run, on the road, couples, couple relations, love and romance, haunted by the past, road trip, self discovery, mental disorder, love, women, vacation gone wrong ...
Time: 21st century
Place: florida, usa, everglades
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45%
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The Living (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After an alcohol induced blacked-out night of drinking, Teddy discovers he has severely beaten his wife, Molly. As he attempts to redeem himself to her she must decide whether or not she will take him back as her mother, Angela, continuously ...
Style: suspenseful, bleak, serious, suspense, crime drama ...
Plot: hitman, danger, crime gone awry, siblings relations, disorder, mental illness, brutality, revenge, life is a bitch, abusive relationship, domestic violence, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.0
 20K
Horse Girl (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A socially awkward woman with a fondness for arts and crafts, horses, and supernatural crime shows finds her increasingly lucid dreams trickling into her waking life.
Style: psychological, suspense, surreal, disturbing, sincere ...
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, memory lapse, disorientation, paranoia, socially awkward, unfulfillment, society, anxiety, youth, disorder, sleepwalking ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Boston Strangler: The Untold Story (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston ...
Style: scary, psychological, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, prison life, confined, law enforcement, prison, danger, killer, biopic, manipulation, rivalry, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Woman in the Window (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: agoraphobia, mental illness, mental disorder, murder, car accident, death, suicide, uncover truth, plot twist, deception, espionage, illness ...
Time: 2020s
Place: america, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Midnight Swim (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Spirit Lake is unusually deep. No diver has ever managed to find the bottom. When Dr. Amelia Brooks disappears during a deep-water dive, her three daughters travel home. They find themselves unable to let go and become drawn into the mysteries of ...
Style: mumblecore, psychological, disturbing, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot: found footage, lake, sister sister relationship, sisters, women, family problems, diving, female protagonist, puzzle, mother daughter relationship, underwater, woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Columbus Circle (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An heiress who's been shut inside her apartment building for nearly two decades is forced to confront her fears after one of her neighbors is killed and a detective arrives to begin the investigation.
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: murder, police investigation, isolation, law enforcement, privacy invasion, mind game, mysticism, conspiracy, grief, trap, hustler, trapped ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 7.7
 426K
The Game (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: twists and turns, mind game, manipulation, psychology, game, uncover truth, life turned upside down, existentialism, scheme, disorder, life & death, surveillance ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: san francisco, usa, bay area, california, seattle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Little Things (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, action thriller, neo noir ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, serial murder, cold case, police, investigation, police station, police detective, murder mystery, mysterious man, missing person, murder investigation ...
Time: 2020s, year 1990, year 1985, 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Cry of the Owl (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, France, UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young woman becomes inexplicably attracted to a man who is stalking her. When her boyfriend goes missing, the stalker is the immediate suspect, until a game of jealousy and betrayal turns deadly.
Style: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, danger, couples, love and romance, neighbor, mysterious character, small town life, twists and turns, dating, dishonesty, cop, breakup ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pennsylvania, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 4.2
 2K
Border Run (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A female American reporter searches for her missing brother against the backdrop of violence and human smuggling across the US/Mexican border.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot: missing person, border, woman in danger, illegal immigration, uncover truth, investigation, danger, dishonesty, journalism, u.s. mexico border, siblings, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: latin america, arizona, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.8
 5K
We Go On (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: WE GO ON tells the story of one man's quest to find out if there is more out there after we die. Paralyzed by his fear of dying, Miles Grissom offers a cash reward to the first person who can show him a ghost, an angel, a demon anything that ...
Style: mumblecore, suspenseful, suspense, scary, bleak ...
Plot: ghost, supernatural, supernatural power, murder, pursuit, occult, parallel universe, twists and turns, spirituality, haunting, overdose, airport ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.5
 676
Banshee (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A kick-ass professional car thief, Sage, (Taryn Manning), steals a classic '66 Charger on a challenge. It turns out the car belongs to a serial killer (is there another kind?), who proceeds to slice and dice her friends because he wants his car ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, race against time, heist, danger, car chase, master criminal, criminal's revenge, car thief, witnessing a crime, hostage, chase ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.4
 1K
The Caller (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jimmy Stevens, a senior VP at an international energy firm, blows the whistle on his company's deadly and corrupt practices in Latin America. Knowing he will be assassinated for his betrayal, he places an anonymous call securing the services of ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: whistleblower, private detective, murder, uncover truth, investigation, survival, dishonesty, amateur detective, danger, journalism, workplace, deadline ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: france, new york, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.0
 800
Fatal Desire (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Fatal desire tells the story of the first Internet-related murder in the United States. Sharee Miller is a 27-year-old fiancee, when interviewing with Jerry Cassaday in an Internet chat room. Soon they are in the real life begin a passionate affair. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot: child, gangster, love and romance, parents and children, computers and web, pregnancy, teenage life, dishonesty, domestic disturbance, serial killer, danger, casino ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rhode island, nova scotia, pittsburgh
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 5.3
 353
Lucky Day (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Nora Barkin is an aspiring actress who supports herself by working for a courier service. No sooner has Nora's friend and coworker Bill Reagan jubilantly announced that he possesses a lottery ticket worth 13 million dollars than Bill is killed ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending
Plot: fish out of water, amateur detective, investigation, riddles and clues, couple relations, who done it, best friend, murder, danger, law enforcement, lottery, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Megachurch Murder (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: murder, investigation, uncover truth, amateur detective, clergy, youth, dishonesty, society, danger, teenager, soul, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Reasonable Doubt (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When up-and-coming District Attorney Mitch Brockden commits a fatal hit-and-run, he feels compelled to throw the case against the accused criminal who was found with the body and blamed for the crime. Following the trial, Mitch's worst fears ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, legal, life turned upside down, district attorney, false accusation, hotshot lawyer, twists and turns, murder, law, winter, extreme, exodus ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Home, Not Alone (2023)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Story: Sara Wilson and her 18-year-old daughter, Jordyn, move into their dream home in a great neighborhood to make a fresh start. But when strange occurrences start happening in the house, Sara can’t help but feel danger is lurking closer than she ...
Style: suspense, creepy, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: starting over, danger, female protagonist, woman, relocation, house, new house, daughter, pursuit, mother and daughter, moving
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26%
Chasing Sleep (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A college professor wakes up to find his wife has not returned home, then struggles to understand her disappearance.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, tense, scary, mind twisting ...
Plot: nightmare, insomnia, professor, police, uncover truth, obsession, murder, haunted by the past, hallucination, missing person, teacher, philosophy ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 5.9
 41K
After.Life (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Following a terrible car crash, a woman (Christina Ricci) awakes to find an enigmatic mortician (Liam Neeson) preparing her for burial.
Style: psychological, bleak, mind bending, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: afterlife, life & death, mysterious character, psychology, able to see the dead, supernatural, twists and turns, dealing with death, danger, nudity, mentor, betrayal ...
Time: future, year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.0
 32
Red Ink (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A female doctor is shot by police who think she pulled a gun on them. A reporter looks into the case and discovers links to the deaths of several black children.
Style: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: investigation, murder, police, conspiracy, female doctor, conspiracy theory, african american, violence, doctor, cop, children, paranoia ...
Place: atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 5.3
 13K
Meeting Evil (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Follows disillusioned young family man John as a mysterious stranger, Richie takes him on a murder-fueled ride that transforms the weak-willed John into a desperate hero willing to go to any length to protect his family.
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychological thriller, neo noir ...
Plot: murder, moral dilemma, family in danger, violence spree, human nature, life is a bitch, serial killer, gang, psychopath, sociopath, assassin, mysticism ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa
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26%
 5.6
 42K
Regression (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Minnesota, 1990. Detective Bruce Kenner investigates the case of young Angela, who accuses her father, John Gray, of an unspeakable crime. When John unexpectedly and without recollection admits guilt, renowned psychologist Dr. Raines is brought in ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, atmospheric, detective ...
Plot: psychiatrist, investigation, hospital, paranoia, police officer, false accusation, memory loss, twists and turns, child abuse, nightmare, obsession, devil ...
Time: 20th century, year 2015, year 1990, 90s
Place: usa, minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Under the Silver Lake (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night. When she suddenly vanishes the next morning, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind ...
Style: neo noir, black comedy, atmospheric, surreal, dark comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, surrealism, swimming pool, conspiracy theory, conspiracy, secret society, dog, parrot, disappearance, missing person, party, secret message ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 7.7
 214K
Blue Velvet (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Style: neo noir, surreal, detective, dark, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, small town, voyeurism, kidnapping, sadomasochism, sex scene, serial killer, violence, dark humor, sexual humiliation, nightclub, femme fatale ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1986
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 5.0
 187
The Owls (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story: Two middle-aged, lesbian couples accidentally kill a younger lesbian and hide the body, without reporting it to the authorities. Their guilt and long-kept, dark secret comes back to haunt them, as an unexpected stranger shows up in their lives, ...
Style: neo noir, tense, serious, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: murder, vengeance, mysterious character, danger, rivalry, haunted by the past, couples, gender, couple relations, lgbt, conspiracy, missing person ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: indiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Conversation (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired by a mysterious client's brusque aide to tail a young couple. Tracking the pair through San Francisco's Union Square, Caul and his associate Stan manage to record a cryptic conversation between them. ...
Style: psychological thriller, neo noir, psychological, disturbing, political thriller ...
Plot: paranoia, surveillance, conspiracy, spy, obsession, character study, investigation, wiretap, alienation, murder, espionage, dream ...
Time: 20th century, year 1974, 70s
Place: bay area, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.4
 14K
Nine Dead (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Communication is the key to the survival for nine strangers who have been kidnapped by a masked gunman and told that one of them will die every ten minutes until they discover how they are all connected. Who of the nine lives and who dies?
Style: psychological, surprise ending, serious, scary, suspenseful ...
Plot: survival, kidnapping, confined, danger, gory, captivity, group of strangers, riddles and clues, game of death, murder, locked in a room, torture ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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