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The Abduction of Zack Butterfield (2011)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A beautiful but disturbed young woman returns to the US after combat as a American mercenary in Iraq and abducts a 14 year old New York boy, holding him prisoner in her isolated country home as a bizarre relationship develops.
Style:
captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful, psychosexual thriller
Plot:
female psychopath, coming of age, stockholm syndrome, sex with a minor, kidnapping, obsession, sheriff, teenage boy, fall in love, isolation, search and rescue, boy, bare chested male, abduction, male female relationship, kidnapped, young love, iraq war veteran, boyhood, murder, kidnapper, killing, teenage sexuality, teenager, dancing ...
Place:
american
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Most similar movies to The Abduction of Zack Butterfield
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, captivating and suspenseful films with plots about murder, kidnapping, obsession, investigation, kidnapped, abduction and revenge mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Abduction of Zack Butterfield: Alone with Her (2006), Swimfan (2002), The Perfect Neighbor (2005), Stolen from the Suburbs (2015), Misery (1990). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The harrowing story of a disturbed young man's attempts to win the affections of an unsuspecting young woman. When Doug first sees Amy, he instantly falls for her and begins to watch her every move, going so far as to set up spy cameras in her ...
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
found footage, obsession, sexual dysfunction, strangulation, sex, hidden camera, stalker, pervert, female nudity, murder, danger, psychopath ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Ben Cronin has it all: the admiration of his many friends, a terrific girlfriend, and he's on the fast-track to an athletic scholarship. Ben's rock-solid, promising future and romance are turned upside-down with the arrival of Madison ...
Style:
suspense, sexy, psychological, suspenseful, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
obsession, stalking, obsessive love, stalker, hospital, unrequited love, female psychopath, swimming pool, sexual obsession, swimming, dangerous attraction, teenager ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new jersey, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In Kansas City, the deranged middle-age Donna Germaine stabs and kills her lover, when he calls off their relationship to stay with his wife. Donna uses an excuse to move to the house of her aunt, and she becomes obsessed in their neighbor, the ...
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
obsession, neighbor, murder, attraction, femme fatale, woman seduces a man, husband wife relationship, marriage, betrayal, stalker, unsettling, obsessive love ...
Place:
kansas city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A single mother from the suburbs searches for her kidnapped daughter before human traffickers sell her on the international market.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, crime thriller ...
Plot:
human trafficking, abduction, single mother, kidnapped girl, child abduction, missing child, single parent, kidnapped, search and rescue, rescue mission, female protagonist, victimization ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, insanity, hostage, loneliness, psychopath, stephen king, kidnapping, snow, isolation, captivity, obsessed fan, female psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
colorado, persia, usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A single mother risks her life to save her starstruck daughter from the clutches of a talent agent's sex trafficking ring, on a secluded island.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
slave girl, slave trade, malice, slave auction, sex slavery, price of fame, abduction, single mother, kidnapping, evil man, desire for fame, celebrity ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
On the afternoon of August 3, 2013, 16-year-old Hannah Anderson was abducted after finishing cheerleading practice in a San Diego suburb. When the bodies of her mother and brother were found in the burned home of family friend James DiMaggio later ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
true crime, child abduction, father daughter relationship, 16 year old, uncover truth, disappearance, crime solving, unsolved crime, teenage girl, forensics, investigation, crime investigation ...
Place:
california, san diego california, idaho
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Every 24 hrs. after a child's been kidnapped by a stranger, chances of finding them alive diminishes to almost 100% ... The true and inspiring survival story of kidnapped teen, Anne Sluti, and how she manages to stay alive by manipulating her ...
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
kidnapping, kidnapped, survival, rescue, missing person, danger, confined, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, hostage, rape, stockholm syndrome, showdown ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
nebraska, montana, wyoming
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
In upstate New York, two teenage boys are tasked with cleaning out their father's old mobile home on an abandoned property, but the boys are in for a surprise when they discover three crooks on the run have taken refuge in the trailer.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
murder, con artists, threat, escaped prisoner, death threat, risk, murderer, criminal, suspicion, home invasion, survival, showdown ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A girl and her mother escape to suburban safety after a home invasion scares them out of the city, but they're soon menaced by a sinister figure.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
home invasion, murder, stalker, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, death, single mother, photographer, danger, new neighbor, teenager, age difference ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
841
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young Hitman who lives with his mother catches feelings for the witness of a murder he commits.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, neo noir
Plot:
kidnapped, hitman, murder, murder witness, witnessing a crime, killer, criminal gang, kidnapping, assassin, bandit, murderer, abduction ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman, Dakota, is trying to move on with her life and get away from her past after being rescued from a grim basement, where she was kidnapped and abused by a monstrous man. However, when the normal life she had starts to unravel, Dakota ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stalker, kidnapping, female protagonist, threat, investigation, private investigation, trauma, fear, survivor, problem, abduction, kidnapped woman ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
To rescue his daughter, an unstable Special Forces veteran unleashes his inner beast as he pursues her kidnappers — and soon becomes a suspect himself.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, kidnapping, ex soldier, war veteran, child abduction, vigilante, ptsd, post traumatic stress disorder, criminal, fighting crime, kidnapped, family problems ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Every night the boy dreams he is someone else. Someone in danger. A crazy woman is after him. A woman who cannot have a son of her own. A story about a kidnapped boy, who finds out that the people he thought were his parents are his kidnappers. The ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, intense, dark ...
Plot:
kidnapping, coming of age, abduction, escape, danger, family secret, identity, memory, pursuit, betrayal, childhood trauma, false identity ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
48%
45
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
At a therapy session, a top Real Estate Executive with a killer secret reveals the dark entanglement that took her down a path she thought she had escaped.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense, tense, ambiguous ending
Plot:
character study, dark secret, trauma, moral ambiguity, confession, real estate, manipulation, guilt, obsession, identity crisis, intimate, betrayal ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A violent night sends cycling champ Rick Van Pelt into a neon-drenched fever dream. Fuelled by scotch and paranoia, he confronts Isaac about an affair with his fiancé. A shocking turn of events unveils their scheme to rip off a reclusive art ...
Style:
suspenseful, detective, psychological thriller, crime drama, neo noir ...
Plot:
murder, cycling, night, champion, help, nightmare, sleeping, murderer, bad dream, bicycle, paranoia, violence ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Claude is an easily overlooked statistics professor. After a childhood trauma left him motherless, he formed a dysfunctional craving. To satisfy the depraved hunger, he kidnaps Kim from the park and holds her captive in his basement. As the days ...
Style:
psychological thriller, captivating, suspense
Plot:
professor, kidnapping, abduction, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love interest, psychopath, kidnapper, infatuation, crime victim, male female relationship, love affair, relationships ...
Similarity:
48%
285
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The nine-year-old Nikolas has been missing for days. The criminal psychologist Claudia Meinert notices contradictions in her conversation with the parents of the missing child. In particular Nikolas' mother appears to be hiding something. When ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense
Plot:
child in peril, teenage boy, coming of age, parents and children, vengeance, teenage life, family relations, adoption, abduction, brother brother relationship, crime investigation, psychologist ...
Similarity:
48%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Doing her best to balance a successful career with family life, a single mom's world spirals out of control when her shy teenage son is arrested for the murder of a young woman he met online.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
secrets, juvenile delinquency, mother son relationship, family relations, relationships, problem, murder, dysfunctional family, female protagonist, murderer, criminal, parent child relationship ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After learning that her abusive ex-husband is about to be released from prison, a woman flees with her teenage daughter back to her old hometown.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
abusive husband, stalker, mother daughter relationship, relationship problems, ex husband ex wife relationship, ex couple relations, family problems, stalking, threat, danger, domestic violence, protective mother ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Belize
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When her daughter is kidnapped in Belize and held hostage to be used for human organ trafficking, Kate Johnson goes on a crusade to infiltrate the cartel and rescue her.
Style:
suspense, captivating, entertaining
Plot:
kidnapped woman, female detective, kidnapped, hostage, organ, working undercover, kidnapping, undercover agent, police detective, crime investigation, investigation, search and rescue ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young woman commits murder to keep her classmates' social media careers under her thumb. After killing a popular friend, she turns her sights on a new girl, but the girl's mother suspects the truth and will fight to protect her daughter.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
murder, social media, killing, influencer, teenage girl, teenager, murderer, teenage life, mother daughter relationship, death threat, social problems, social network ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young man desperate to be connected to the people close to him resorts to devious measures to achieve that desire
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
obsession, family in danger, relationship problems, murder, investigation, uncover truth, love affair, couples, dishonesty, sociopath, desire, criminal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A middle-American teenage boy who is affected by 9/11, terrorism, and the war in Iraq becomes involved in an isolated high school altercation that escalates into a hate crime that shocks the entire nation.
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, bullying, hate crime, teenage life, psychological trauma, teenager, criminal, terrorism, changing lives, terrorist attack, life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Freddie is an inept bank clerk with no future. His only hobby is collecting butterflies, which gives him a feeling of power and control that is otherwise totally missing from his life. He comes into a large sum of money, and buys himself a country ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, serious, tension, suspense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, psychopath, obsession, collector, loneliness, confined, woman in danger, danger, mentally unstable, dangerous attraction, stockholm syndrome, serial killer ...
Time:
year 1965, 60s, 20th century
Place:
london
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Samantha and daughter Blake invite Chloe, a foreign exchange student from Britain, into their California home. The two girls become close friends but Samantha's uneasiness begins with the suspicious death of Blake's boyfriend. Samantha ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
ruse, girl, problem, girlfriend, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, life is a bitch, female protagonist, relationship problems, plan, murder, stalker, killing ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An attorney with a military past hunts down the gang who killed his wife and took his daughter.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot:
crime boss, murder of family, criminal syndicate, vigilante, vengeance, criminal gang, murder of wife, death of brother, abduction, outlaw gang, kidnapped, death of wife ...
Similarity:
47%
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:
suspense, serious, realistic, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
small town, family relations, amateur detective, search for father, family crisis, teen angst, brother brother relationship, dysfunctional family, father son relationship, runaway, gunfight, shootout ...
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on real events, Canada's most notorious serial killers, Paul Bernardo and wife Karla Homolka kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girls.
Style:
sexy, psychological, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
abusive husband, rape, serial killer, domestic violence, sister sister relationship, rape victim, sex scene, murder, rough sex, erotic scene, making love, true crime ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Mysterious events surround the travels of two brothers as they make their way across a remote American landscape. On the surface all seems normal, but what appears to be a simple vacation soon gives way to a dark and complex web of secrets. This is ...
Style:
road movie, suspense, rough, suspenseful, enigmatic ...
Plot:
motel, man boy relationship, male masturbation, sexual attraction, gay, pedophile, teenage boy, on the run, investigation, road trip, sibling relationship, hiding place ...
Time:
year 2017
Similarity:
47%
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