Movies like The Next Skin

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The Next Skin (2016)
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The Next Skin (2016)
Original name: La propera pell
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A teenager who went missing and was presumed dead returns home after eight years to find a family deeply affected by his disappearance. Gradually, doubts arise about whether he really is the missing boy or an impostor.
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, serious, intellectual
Plot: gay interest, self mutilation, uncle nephew relationship, lost child, mother son relationship, missing child, uncover truth, violence, youth, investigator, family relations, escapades, rivalry, society, who done it, interrogation, countryside, evidence, suspicion, gays and lesbians, bisexuality, gay, childhood friend, false identity, teenager ...
Time: 2010s
Place: indiana

Most similar movies to The Next Skin

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, suspenseful and psychological films with plots about evidence, uncover truth, investigation, murder, violence, who done it and society mostly in Mystery, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Next Skin: Stealing Paradise (2011), Last Winter, We Parted (2018), Gone (2011), Rojo (2018), Knives and Skin (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Stealing Paradise (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The story follows a brilliant engineer whose breakthrough design is stolen and patented by a colleague. When the colleague is found murdered, she becomes the prime suspect.
Style: suspense, psychological, talky, tense, suspenseful
Plot: murder, murder investigation, partner, rivalry, investigation, testimony, police detective, evidence, investigator, interrogation, death, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Last Winter, We Parted (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An ambitious, young freelance journalist takes on the closed case of a famous fine arts photographer whose beautiful female subject died on set in a gruesome fire.
Style: tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot: murder investigation, investigation, testimony, suspicion, death, society, youth, investigator, victim, heroes, aspiring writer, weirdo ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 4.8
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Gone (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: The kidnapping of a young girl propels her mother into a web of conspiracies.
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, talky
Plot: kidnapping, child abduction, evidence, uncover truth, escapades, police officer, investigator, death, victim, doctors and patients, law enforcement, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.4
 3K
Rojo (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of a successful lawyer gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.
Style: suspense, contemplative, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lawyer, small town, abduction, private detective, missing person, who done it, dictator, dictatorship, uncover truth, evidence, rivalry, murderer ...
Time: 70s
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Knives and Skin (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The investigation of a young girl’s disappearance in the rural Midwest, led by an inexperienced local sheriff. The ripple of fear and suspicion among the small-town residents destroys some relationships and strengthens others.
Style: tense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, contemplative, suspense ...
Plot: high school, teacher, teenage girl, school, sheriff, missing girl, investigation, evidence, law enforcement, violence, youth, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
 5.5
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Homunculus (2021)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A homeless man meets a medical school student who pays him to volunteer for a surgical procedure known as trepanation, drilling a hole in his skull, which ends up giving him the ability to communicate with the dark side of people’s subconscious ...
Style: suspenseful, contemplative, suspense, tense, captivating ...
Plot: medicine, supernatural, youth, society, escapades, rivalry, violence, male protagonist, mission, cyberpunk, eye surgery, yakuza ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Deception of the Novelist (2019)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Deception of the Novelist revolves around Justin’s character as a famous novelist who receives a large inheritance after his father’s passing. He rents out one of his inherited properties to a Japanese/Chinese woman named Elaine and they ...
Style: unusual plot structure, contemplative, psychological, tense, suspense
Plot: murder investigation, violence, investigator, police detective, murder, revenge, police officer, vengeance, testimony, death, police investigation, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Chiwawa (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Chiwawa is a popular girl. One day, her dismembered body is found in Tokyo Bay. Chiwawa's friends gather to remember her, but they realize they do not know anything about her background or even her real name.
Style: contemplative, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: murder, murder investigation, graphic violence, friends, murderer, society, suspicion, murder mystery, escapades, young girl, mysterious girl, murder of a woman ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set against the backdrop of the infamous Theatre Grand Guignol the story revolves around iconic actress Paula Maxa - the most famous of the Grand Guignol's leading ladies and the titular Most Assassinated Woman, who was graphically slain on ...
Style: unusual plot structure, tense, contemplative, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: murder, partner, vengeance, revenge, graphic violence, female protagonist, society, police detective, woman in danger, murder investigation, police investigation, actress ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Innocent Days (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
TV show
Story: Sasaki Shinichi looks at his childhood friend Tanaka Yukino in court. Yukino is sentenced to death. She went to her ex-boyfriend’s apartment and caused his wife and child to burn to death. Shinichi knows his childhood friend and perceives that she ...
Style: suspense, unusual plot structure, contemplative, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: friendship, murder investigation, vengeance, investigator, murderer, investigation, escapades, murder mystery, society, testimony, violence, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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The Suffering (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Pablo Rouviot is a renowned psychoanalyst. His life changes completely when Paula arrives to his office and asks him to prove that his brother, a man with serious psychological problems and accused for the murder of his father, is in no able ...
Style: disturbing, tense, psychological, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: police investigation, murder investigation, chase, mysterious man, testimony, who done it, police detective, name calling, buddy cop, investigator, police officer, clue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Viso d'angelo (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 400 min.
TV show
Story: TV miniseries in four parts. A serial killer mysteriously leaves a signature species, a rosary in the hands of his victims. Inspector Roberto Parisi, a specialist in this type of crime, but that hides a dark past, will be responsible for conducting ...
Style: unusual plot structure, contemplative, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder investigation, police detective, homicide detective, murder, heroes, victim, society, vengeance, chase, who done it, partners against crime ...
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Wandering Eye (2011)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Neglected by her workaholic husband, a young wife, Maren Abbott, meets a man through Wandering Eye - a networking website designed to facilitate extramarital liaisons. Charming as he is, she realizes she can't go through with the affair. When ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful
Plot: murder, husband wife relationship, police officer, serial killer, murder investigation, partner, interrogation, testimony, investigation, love and romance, escapades, evidence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.6
 4K
The Bygone (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When a young rancher crosses paths with a Lakota girl from a nearby reservation, her mysterious disappearance sparks a search that uncovers a harrowing past and hints at a dire future.
Style: tense, touching, unusual plot structure, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: kidnapping, girl, kidnapped woman, uncover truth, heroes, abduction, chase, who done it, evidence, love, love and romance, youth ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Murdered (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Cathy has been preparing herself since early morning. She is about to celebrate her daughter Eva's 20th birthday. But on this very day, Cathy's life is turned upside-down with the shocking news that her daughter has been murdered. At first ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, psychological, tense ...
Plot: partner, death, murder investigation, violence, who done it, murder mystery, murder, family relations, society, evidence, uncover truth, partners against crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Lies Within (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Kim Seo-hui’s life is changed forever when her politician father dies in a car crash and her husband disappears – all in one day. She enters the world of politics and join hands with small-town detective Jo Tae-sik to uncover the truth when she ...
Style: suspense, detective, contemplative, psychological, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: investigation, murder, police investigation, violence, murder investigation, homicide detective, heroes, graphic violence, uncover truth, police detective, investigator, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
A Witness Out of the Blue (2019)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In this classic whodunit, a police detective must rely on the only witness - a parrot, to catch the killer of an armed robber.
Style: contemplative, unusual plot structure, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: police officer killed, partner, uncover truth, criminal, society, coworker, evidence, law enforcement, who done it, investigator, escapades, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Last Fashion Show (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Style: contemplative, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: murder investigation, murder, model, law enforcer, vengeance, police detective, youth, murder mystery, investigation, police investigation, revenge, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Return (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story: Choi Ja-Hye is a lawyer and Dokgo Young is a detective with a hot temper. They work together on a murder case where the suspects are children from the elite class.
Style: suspenseful, contemplative, unusual plot structure, tense, captivating ...
Plot: murder, revenge, who done it, partner, vengeance, partners against crime, evidence, chase, interrogation, police detective, investigation, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: With graduation 10 days away, homeroom teacher Hiiragi gathered all 29 students of class 3-A and proclaims them his hostages. His last lesson regards the death of a student that passed away a few months before. Nobody will be able to graduate until ...
Style: unusual plot structure, contemplative, tense, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: school, teacher, murder, who done it, revenge, mass suicide, suicide, uncover truth, youth, society, hostage, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
In Family We Trust (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
TV show
Story: It’s a drama about conflicts in a big family, involving murder and a police investigation. The title is a twist on the idiom, blood is thicker than water. Because of the conflicts, their family bonds aren’t strong. When one relative mysteriously ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
Plot: murder, family relations, police investigation, murder investigation, partner, who done it, uncover truth, partners against crime, murder mystery, revenge, youth, clue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Death in the Soul (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Marc Lagnier confesses to the murder of his adored son, but refuses to explain.
Style: unusual plot structure, disturbing, psychological, suspense, tense ...
Plot: murder, father son relationship, father, husband wife relationship, half sister, confession, young woman, lawyer, murderer, murder investigation, death, investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Smile Has Left Your Eyes (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A detective thinks about quitting his job. He takes on a female university student murder case that was disguised as a suicide. The detective becomes obsessed with solving the case. He has a young sister and she meets a man. The man does not ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, contemplative, tense ...
Plot: murder, true love, investigation, brother sister relationship, murder investigation, police detective, murderer, serial killer, violence, suspicion, evidence, investigator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Luther (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: French adaptation of the British series Luther (2010).
Style: talky, stylized, clever, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: police, police detective, murder investigation, murder, chase, police officer, police investigation, murder mystery, suspicion, society, evidence, victim ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Judgement (2021)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A Dutch TV journalist finds himself challenging the police, courts and media as he attempts to uncover the truth about the controversial 1999 Deventer murder case.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, disturbing
Plot: murder investigation, uncover truth, murder mystery, death, mysterious man, partner, name calling, rivalry, murderer, clue, investigator, suspicion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Murder In The Tarentaise Valley (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While she was jogging Lisa Campion , the daughter of the retired police officer Fabio Campion , discovered the frozen corpse of Julien , a child who disappeared 20 years ago.The police officer Simon Beauregard is then sent to Roches Noires , a ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, contemplative, suspense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: accusation, witness, missing child, crime investigation, murder investigation, partner, who done it, violence, police detective, uncover truth, investigation, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Criminal: Spain (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Psychological games abound between detectives and suspects in a tense interrogation room, where the search for answers sometimes comes at a moral cost.
Style: suspenseful, contemplative, serious, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: interrogation, investigation, who done it, criminal, police, partners against crime, testimony, law enforcer, investigator, police investigation, law enforcement, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Double Xposure (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When Song Qi stumbles upon her boyfriend's affair with her best friend, her life quickly starts falling apart and she is subsequently drawn into a quicksand of revenge and murder. Though all is not as it seems and Song Qi will have to embark on ...
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, disturbing
Plot: childhood sweetheart, murder, unsolved crime, murder investigation, corpse, love and romance, escapades, testimony, who done it, partners against crime, mysterious man, uncover truth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.0
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The Void (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Esma is a beautiful, ambitious and strong woman who is the second boss of her father's law firm. Filiz is a stubborn but fragile lawyer candidate. One murder will cross the paths of these two different women. But how?
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, intellectual
Plot: murder, psychopath, youth, murder mystery, heroes, victim, woman in danger, female protagonist, uncover truth, evidence, mysterious man, suspicion ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.5
 1K
Character (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A kind man aspires to become a manga writer, but villains and evil deeds do not come easily to him, for he has little experience or natural inclination for them. Things take a surprise turn when he comes across a family who were described as ...
Style: manga, tense, scary, stylized, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, law enforcement, murder mystery, investigation, violence, meeting, chase, victim, murder investigation, youth, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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