Movies like Sanctuary 2001

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Sanctuary (2001)
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Sanctuary (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A famous photographer, Jo Ellen Hathaway, has been being stalked for quite some time. She returns to the island she grew up on in an effort to get away from the stalker and get some well-needed relaxation time. On the island, she meets up with old friends and boyfriends and works on relationships with her family. However, she can't shake the feeling that she's still being watched.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, emotional
Plot: stalker, panic attack, female photographer, island life, stalking, family relations, relationships, island, friends, life is a bitch, female protagonist, family problems, hunted, photograph, nightmare, aunt niece relationship, parent child relationship, sex, father daughter relationship, flashback, paranoia, novel, pier, kitchen, family ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, disturbing, suspense and psychological films with plots about family problems, family relations, relationship problems, relationships, life is a bitch, female protagonist and male female relationship mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres. Some movies like Sanctuary: Blue Smoke (2007), The Shattering (2021), Stalked by My Ex (2017), The Nurse (2014), Winter Solstice (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Blue Smoke (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After witnessing an uncontrollable blaze burn her family's pizzeria to the ground when she was just 11 old, it's no wonder that Reena decides to become an arson investigator. Now, years later, she decides to visit the old neighborhood, ...
Style: serious, tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful
Plot: obsession, female protagonist, psychopath, danger, fire, rivalry, couples, stalking, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, serial killer, firefighter, writers ...
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The Shattering (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Claire has everything - money, a loving husband and a desired child. But suddenly her life changes. Doubts and lies bring her to the edge of insanity.
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, family problems, marriage crisis, marital problem, family relations, relationships, infidelity, relationship problems, changing lives, female protagonist, life is a bitch, lifestyle change ...
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Stalked by My Ex (2017)
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, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: stalker, abusive husband, relationship problems, ex husband ex wife relationship, family problems, ex couple relations, mother daughter relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, ex convict, husband wife relationship, obsessive quest, getting home ...
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84%
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The Nurse (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young woman takes in her estranged father after he suffers a stroke, but his home-care nurse's attentive dedication may be masking a dark and dangerous secret.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense, erotic
Plot: father daughter estrangement, family problems, father daughter relationship, estrangement, secret, life is a bitch, female protagonist, family secret, family relations, woman
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75%
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Winter Solstice (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When Elfrida Philips abandons London for a country village, she settles in quickly. She is very poor, but has a tiny cottage, her four-legged friend Horace, and friendships of good neighbors. Tragedy upsets her newfound tranquillity, and she takes ...
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: christmas, ex boyfriend, life is a bitch, family problems, love affair, family relations, romantic relationship, love story, relationships, male female relationship, uncle niece relationship, dysfunctional family ...
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The Captive Nanny (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Chloe (Karynn Moore) is a nanny who desperately wants to adopt but needs to get her life together first. She finds the perfect live-in nanny position with the Brown family - Emily (Austin Highsmith), Michael (Michael Aaron Milligan) and their son - ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: wanting a baby, hostage, family problems, husband wife relationship, nanny, locked in, marital problem, relationship problems, female protagonist, life is a bitch, social problems, male female relationship ...
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65%
Home Is Where the Killer Is (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: What if Dee Dee Blanchard was a rich lady doctor who preyed on her roommates and also loved to watch Downton Abbey?
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: girlfriend girlfriend relationship, social problems, relationships, friends, life is a bitch, obsession, relationship problems, girlfriend, friendship, female protagonist, mysterious death, mysterious event ...
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Fear Bay (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A woman being terrorized by a stalker hires and develops a relationship with a handsome private detective, not realizing he'd become her deadly avenging angel.
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: relationship problems, life is a bitch, male female relationship, private detective, revenge, female protagonist, psycho terror, stalker, terror, relationships, terrorizing, couple relations ...
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A Woman's Nightmare (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A mother and wife finds herself haunted by a brief affair she had while separated from her husband. With her scorned lover refusing to give up, she must fight to keep her family and her secret safe.
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful
Plot: writers, family relations, love and romance, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, couple relations, male female relationship, couples, adultery, love triangle, marital infidelity, romantic triangle ...
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Sleeping With My Student (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: New school headmaster and single mother Kathy discovers her vacation fling with charming 18-year-old Ian was no accident when he transfers to her school targeting Kathy and her teenage daughter Bree in a deadly scheme. Ian wants revenge as he ...
Style: psychological, bleak, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot: love affair, hunted, sexual blackmail, stalking, false accusation, friendship, student, nothing goes right, death of father, mental illness, obsession, haunted by the past ...
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Tempting Fate (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Gabby's picture perfect marriage to Elliott is jeopardized when she meets Matt, a handsome younger man who ignites a fire and desire within her. Based on the New York Times best-selling novel of the same name.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense
Plot: relationship problems, marital problem, forbidden love, male female relationship, romantic relationship, husband wife relationship, love story, marriage crisis, love triangle, love interest, romantic triangle, relationships ...
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57%
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Stalker's Prey (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Laura's life is turned upside down when she is attacked by a shark while celebrating her 18th birthday. She's rescued by Bruce, a handsome young man just returned home from college. As she recovers, he becomes a local hero for his bravery. ...
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: shark, unrequited love, obsession, rescue, danger, relationship problems, violence, romantic obsession, family problems, brutality, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dishonesty ...
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55%
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The Red Dress (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Malta
Story: Rainer and Patricia move to Malta to reinvigorate their marriage after the loss of their child.
Style: tense, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, tragic past, family tragedy, marital problem, husband wife relationship, life is a bitch, troubled past, family life, new life, male female relationship, loss of child ...
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Sadistic Yoga (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The female instructor Mariko gives yoga classes at a high-class club in Tokyo. She has a crush on Rika whom she gives private lessons to. When she notices bruises on Rika's body, Mariko learns that the young woman is involved in a highly ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: bondage, yoga, sadism, torture, sadomasochism, violence, life is a bitch, female protagonist, relationship problems, yoga instructor, revenge, family problems ...
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Hostile Border (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When she’s deported to México, Claudia must choose between reconciling with her estranged father or partnering with a dangerous smuggler to return to the U.S.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: drug smuggling, social problems, drug smuggler, father daughter relationship, money problems, illegal immigrant, smuggling, family problems, criminal gang, dysfunctional family, illegal drugs, male female relationship ...
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Tainted Love (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
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Story: Yasemin's story began in Germany and found itself in the ups and downs of life. However, she was not afraid to live and succeeded in entering the law school. Now she is both studying and working. Her sole purpose in life is to receive custody ...
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: family problems, relationships, family relations, male female relationship, life is a bitch, female protagonist, relationship problems, orphan, dysfunctional family, brother sister relationship, businessman
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My Daughter, Geum Sa-Wol (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
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Story: A family has been dismantled by revenge and hate, but Geum Sa-Wol (Baek Jin-Hee) attempts to build up a dream house for the dismantled family.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspenseful
Plot: life is a bitch, family problems, relationship problems, family relations, relationships, father daughter relationship, family life, revenge, dysfunctional family, switched at birth, sibling rivalry, sister sister relationship ...
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48%
Skipping Stones (2020)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Nearly a decade after a tragic accident costs a young man his life, his sister, Amanda (Gabrielle Kalomiris) and best friend, David (Nathaniel Ansbach) are still peeling back the layers of grief and guilt that come with being left behind.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: tragic event, relationships, life is a bitch, loss of brother, family relations, changing lives, friendship
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47%
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Not on My Watch (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A single mother gets entangled in a web of lies to protect her sons.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: parent child relationship, female protagonist, life is a bitch, deception, financial problem, social problems, family problems, mother son relationship, single parent, single mother, family relations, jeweler
Place: paris france
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47%
A Woman Deceived (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: It’s been one year since Elizabeth’s husband, Bill, died in a tragic horseback riding accident and she is starting to move on. When she runs into Travis Brown, the cowboy she met the same weekend Bill died, the two immediately hit it off. Travis ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, psychological
Plot: family problems, money problems, family relations, widow, male female relationship, intrigue, life is a bitch, couples, love interest, financial problem, love affair, tragic love ...
Place: california, san francisco
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Daddy's Perfect Little Girl (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A 12-year-old girl becomes jealous when her adoptive father develops a budding relationship with a woman and her teenage son.
Style: disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: jealous woman, family problems, father daughter relationship, jealousy, male female relationship, relationships, relationship problems, life is a bitch, parents and children, dysfunctional family, female protagonist, foster home ...
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Battlecreek (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Henry is a loner and a night owl. His rare skin disease has kept him under the close watch of his fiery mother, who has sheltered him his entire life. One night, a young woman's car breaks down and Henry's life will change forever.
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological thriller
Plot: skin disease, relationship problems, family relations, lifestyle change, couple relations, male female relationship, love affair, life is a bitch, mother son relationship, relationships, small town life, illness ...
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After Ever Happy (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: As a shocking truth about a couple's families emerges, the two lovers discover they are not so different from each other. Tessa is no longer the sweet, simple, good girl she was when she met Hardin — any more than he is the cruel, moody boy ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense, romantic
Audience: chick flick
Plot: love, teenage crush, infatuation, lovers, relationships, couple relations, family secret, friendship, love and romance, relationship problems, love story, family problems ...
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Never Here (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An artist whose work involves capturing images of strangers begins to believe she herself is being observed.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: art, stalking, murder, fantasy becomes reality, female photographer, self discovery, female artist, murder mystery, introspection, secretly observing, performance art, identity ...
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44%
Cyber Seduction (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman discover her husband is having an online affair and that his internet lover is dangerously obsessed with him.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: woman seduces a man, unfaithful husband, stalker, life is a bitch, husband wife relationship, problem, relationships, relationship problems, family relations, internet dating, infidelity, marital infidelity ...
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Some Beasts (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A family travels to a remote island in southern Chile. During the trip they try to convince the grandparents to support them financially to build a hotel in the place. Nicolás, the man who crossed them disappears, leaving the family trapped on the ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological
Plot: family relations, family problems, vacation, relationships, family vacation, self discovery, trap, dysfunctional family, relationship problems, husband wife relationship, sexual abuse, discussion ...
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43%
Deadly Exchange (2017)
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: disturbing, tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: girl, life is a bitch, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, ruse, female protagonist, relationship problems, plan, girlfriend, problem, stalker, deadly
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43%
Christmas Sail (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When Liz returns home to take care of her estranged father, she is determined to give her daughter a perfect Christmas and reconnects with her best friend.
Style: psychological, disturbing, captivating
Plot: christmas, boat, parents and children, kids and family, father daughter relationship, relationships, friends, getting home, social problems, family relations, christmas season, eccentric family ...
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42%
The Legend of Jack and Diane (2023)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jack and Diane are forced to leave Indiana after discovering secrets about the death of Diane's mother. When their worst fears are confirmed by the chief of police, Jack and Diane create a "Hit List" and exact revenge on everyone ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling
Plot: revenge, life is a bitch, murder, bereavement, family problems, murderer, vengeance, avenge, killings, murder mystery, problem, death
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42%
The Russell Girl (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Sarah Russell, a 23-year-old aspiring medical school student, visits her loving family to share some important news, but instead finds herself attempting to finally confront a difficult period from her past.
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Audience: teen drama
Plot: female protagonist, father daughter relationship, getting home, ex boyfriend, mother daughter relationship, relationship problems, relationships, family problems, confronting the past, family relations, christmas, accidental death ...
Place: chicago
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42%
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