Movies like Flourish

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Flourish (2006)
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Flourish (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A tutor recounts a frantic night that culminated in a 16-year old girl's disappearance. Unfolding in front of a video camera direct from a psychiatric ward, Gaby Winters (Jennifer Morrison) recalls a dreadful babysitting job that sent her on a frantic search for a missing teenager out into the heart of a mysterious city. Woven into the story are a multitude of subplots that add up to one chaotic night that Gaby will never forget.
Style: humorous, serious, suspenseful, captivating, mind bending, realistic, independent film
Plot: missing person, abduction, investigation, youth, murder, isolation, teenage life, who done it, amateur detective, mentally unstable, eccentric family, adolescence vs adulthood, parents, ward, psychiatric ward, babysitter, martial arts, dark humor, kidnapping, best friend, rivalry, child illness, child as adult, woman in danger, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary

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Most similar movies to Flourish

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about deadly, murder, investigation, amateur detective, who done it, dishonesty and danger mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Flourish: Lucky Day (2002), Killer Hair (2009), The Least of These (2008), Stunts (1977), Megachurch Murder (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
 5.6
 248
Killer Hair (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A fashion reporter stumbles on a murder investigation in the Nation's Capitol, only to be thrown for a loop when her police detective former lover is assigned to the case.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, humorous, realistic
Plot: amateur detective, murder, riddles and clues, journalism, rivalry, fashion, hairdresser, dead woman, reporter, media, woman, female reporter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
The Least of These (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A priest returns to his old Catholic high school to replace a priest who has gone missing, only to begin to suspect that the missing priest may have been murdered by someone at the school to hide a darker secret.
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, realistic
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, riddles and clues, who done it, danger, clergy, amateur detective, boarding school, teachers and students, rivalry, society, school ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 5.5
 728
Stunts (1977)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: After a stunt man dies while he is involved in the making of a motion picture, his brother takes his place in order to find out what really happened.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense ...
Plot: filmmaking, danger, murder, investigation, amateur detective, who done it, stuntman, twists and turns, swing, chases and races, race against time, dishonesty ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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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 ⇓
83%
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 ⇓
82%
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Cold Weather (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A guy who moves back to Portland, Oregon becomes involved in the mystery of his ex-girlfriend's disappearance.
Style: mumblecore, tense, realistic, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot: missing person, investigation, brother sister relationship, who done it, amateur detective, partner, homecoming, buddies, private detective, missing girl, coming of age, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oregon, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
A Crime of Passion (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young heiress has her life turned upside down after her business partner's wife is killed and foul play is suspected.
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, enigmatic, realistic
Plot: investigation, amateur detective, woman in danger, who done it, couples, murder, dishonesty, danger, estate, murder investigation, adultery, inheritance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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My Pure Joy (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: On the outside Adam appears to be a normal teenager, but underneath...his mind has been so rotted by trauma from his past and the gory films he watches, that he has blurred the lines between reality and pretend! This prompts Adam to start killing ...
Style: slasher, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: obsession, serial killer, murder, youth, mentally unstable, gory, terrorism, teenage life, female nudity, teenage murderer, psycho, deadly ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
 6.2
 606
Class of '76 (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the only thing they have in common is being classmates. In addition, the deaths appear to be related to a mysterious "faceless child."
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: investigation, amateur detective, obsession, murder, riddles and clues, law enforcement, kidnapping, mentally unstable, mystery killer, classmate, serial killer, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
At the Gate of the Ghost (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Thailand
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Adapted from Japanese film called Rashomon, U Mong Pa Meung (The Outrage) takes place in a wood during Thai’s Lanna period where a mysterious murder happens. The story is told through three witnesses: a young monk, woodcutter and undertaker.
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Plot: murder, uncover truth, who done it, investigation, life is a bitch, society, injustice, dishonesty, medieval, under the surface, tunnel, murder mystery ...
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Murder on Pleasant Drive (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After Fran Smith disappears one day in mysterious circumstances, Fran's daughter Deanna and Fran's sister, Sherrie endlessly search for her with enduring hope. The most likely suspect in Fran's disappearance is her husband John, but ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious
Plot: missing person, investigation, dysfunctional family, law enforcement, injustice, family problems, dishonesty, private detective, remarry, couple relations, murder, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Verdict in Blood (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a female judge is found murdered in her home, television reporter and amateur detective Joanne Kilbourn finds herself neck-deep in a homicide investigation. Her only two clues are twin wills left by the victim -- one donating everything to the ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: investigation, amateur detective, police detective, journalism, law enforcement, murder, danger, who done it, nypd, strong female presence, police investigation, media ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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End Game (2009)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Vicious criminal Brad Mayfield takes pleasure in kidnapping, assault and murder. It is up to Officer Dan Burk to stop his lust for blood. The stakes of the game quickly rise when Burk becomes romantically involved with a beautiful woman who happens ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, captivating, sincere ...
Plot: serial killer, mentally unstable, danger, rivalry, psychopath, confined, law enforcement, kidnapping, missing person, clown, graphic violence, terrorism ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Hart to Hart: Harts in High Season (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: One of the final entries in the series of romantic suspense adventures takes Jennifer and Jonathan Hart off to Sydney, Australia, where they plan to purchase a wildlife reserve from Jennifer’s old flame, the handsome and mysterious Elliott ...
Style: realistic, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, detective
Plot: undercover, righting the wronged, dishonesty, amateur detective, investigation, protagonist as suspect, supportive spouse, missing person, false accusation, murder, marriage, reunion ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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My Gal Sunday (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: It was love at first sight for beautiful young lawyer Sandra "Sunday" O'Brien-Parker (Rachel Blanchard) and Henry Parker (Cameron Mathison), retiring White House Secretary of State, when Sunday's dad Danny (Jack Wagner), ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, psychological, emotional ...
Plot: investigation, rescue, fighting crime, danger, uncover truth, rivalry, hitman, couple relations, race against time, murder, confined, blackmail ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Serial Killing 101 (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Casey Noland, a high school kid with no direction in life, decides to pursue the serial killing profession. Only problem...he can't bring himself to kill anybody. Will the help of a gothic chick named Sasha, he attempts to learn the ways of a ...
Style: slasher, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, horror comedy ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, high school, psychopath, mind game, dark humor, police investigation, danger, youth, obsession, teenage life, stalking ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Jane Doe: Ties That Bind (2007)
Genre: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: DNA evidence and camera footage places a corrupt CEO as the prime suspect in the murder of a company whistle-blower, but Jane Doe believes the real killer may be a twin sibling.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating ...
Plot: amateur detective, whistleblower, twins, siblings relations, investigation, power relations, who done it, murder, law enforcement, boss and employee, dishonesty, father son relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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She Knows Too Much (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In this comedy-drama set in Washington, D.C., an ex-burglar and a dumbbell detective must team up to solve several puzzling murders.
Style: mind bending, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: serial killer, partner, partners against crime, dishonesty, investigation, rivalry, misfit partners, goofy hero, private detective, law enforcement, murder, presidential candidate ...
Time: 80s
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Happy Here and Now (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When an unhappy young woman disappears, her worried sister desperately searches the internet for a clue to her missing sibling's whereabouts.
Style: serious, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot: missing person, riddles and clues, woman in danger, investigation, amateur detective, haunted by the past, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, voyeurism, rivalry, blues, computers and web ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 413
Living in Fear (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man returning to his childhood home for the reading of a will is met with hostility. Do the townsfolk know more about him than his new wife?
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot: woman in danger, who done it, homecoming, murder, haunted by the past, dishonesty, danger, twists and turns, small town, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.7
 2K
Helpless (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A woman suddenly disappears. Her fiance then sets out to find her and, in the process, uncovers layers of dark hidden secrets.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot: missing person, wedding, secret identity, couples, love and romance, supernatural, rivalry, abduction, kidnapping, chases and races, obsessive quest, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, seoul, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Sexy Evil Genius (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A dark comedy about an eclectic group of strangers invited to a downtown bar by a mutual ex-lover, Nikki Franklyn, a maddeningly sexy, unpredictable and possibly insane young woman who's recently gotten out of prison for murdering her last ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, humorous, independent film, talky ...
Audience: date night
Plot: psychopath, ex-lover, couples, group of strangers, vengeance, betrayal, obsession, rivalry, dark humor, murder, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, isolation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Other Side of Sleep (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Loosely inspired by the director’s own memory of a girl’s disappearance from her village, the film follows Arlene (Antonia Campbell-Hughes), a young factory worker living alone in a rural Irish community.
Style: surreal, tense, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, obsession, investigation, amateur detective, who done it, small town, insomnia, paranoia, corpse, funeral, sleepwalking, monster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Dean Cain portrays Scott Peterson, the California man accused of murdering his 8 month pregnant wife, Laci. Based on a true story.
Style: disturbing, tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: husband murders wife, murder, pregnancy, false accusation, missing person, courtroom drama, investigation, uncover truth, protagonist as suspect, infidelity, amateur detective, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Perry Mason: The Case of the Defiant Daughter (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young woman from Las Vegas wants Perry Mason to defend her father.
Style: detective, realistic, serious, suspenseful, clever
Plot: courtroom, murder, amateur detective, lawyer, advocate, intelligence agency, who done it, parents and children, legal, mind game, false accusation, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 6K
Abandoned (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: female protagonist, hospital, danger, race against time, confined, rivalry, uncover truth, investigation, intrigue, doctors and patients, abduction, mind game ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Girl on the Train (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: When documentary filmmaker Danny Hart boards a train at Grand Central Station he has no reason to expect anything more than a pleasant ride to upstate New York to interview the subjects for his latest project. But a chance encounter with a ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, psychological thriller, serious, rough ...
Plot: train, witnessing a crime, investigation, twists and turns, murder, disappearance, adultery, found footage, narration, filmmaker, woman, young ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
When the Bough Breaks (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A police detective investigates the apparent serial killing of several children which is linked to an institutionalized, autistic child.
Style: scary, rough, serious, psychological, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, missing person, murder, investigation, mentally unstable, witnessing a crime, female police officer, police investigation, woman in danger, police detective, mind game ...
Time: 90s
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Carnival of Crime (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Comedy
Country: Brazil, Spain, Argentina, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mike, an architect, is married to Lin, a beautiful and unfaithful woman. Returning from a trip, he finds she's disappeared. When he tries to locate her, he also learns about her many affairs, and he gets closer to Marina, his efficient ...
Style: cult classic, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: murder, couples, frame up, who done it, beach, infidelity, love affair, love and romance, dishonesty, danger, law enforcement, stalking ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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