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Intellectual Property (2006)
221
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
An inventor (Masterson) must protect his inventions from becoming casualties of the Cold War.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, bleak, mind bending, noir
Audience:
adult
Plot:
paranoia, obsession, betrayal, conspiracy, isolation, character study, espionage, claustrophobia, identity crisis, moral ambiguity, loss of innocence, cat and mouse, ethical dilemma, urban, inventor, invention, blood, gadget, corpse, diner, death of father, exterminator, notebook, mccarthyism, voice over narration ...
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Most similar movies to Intellectual Property
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller and noir films with plots about moral ambiguity, isolation, obsession, claustrophobia, urban, paranoia and cat and mouse mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Intellectual Property: Strings (2011), Apotheosis (2018), Dusk (2015), In Darkness (2009), The Ghoul (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
325
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Strings is a 2011 American dramatic thriller film about a musician who discovers his therapist manipulates patients into committing crimes.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, dark, twist ending ...
Plot:
redemption, love, new identity, father daughter reunion, therapy, pianist, violence, daughter, vigilante, surgery, manipulation, psychological manipulation ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
The dark twisted tale of a man who's accused of murdering his girlfriend, told from his shadow's perspective.
Style:
dark, psychological thriller, crime drama, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
guilt, character study, alienation, obsession, mental breakdown, paranoia, isolation, claustrophobia, identity crisis, morality, slow burn, surveillance ...
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31%
352
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
John Whitmore wakes to find his wife, Anne, has disappeared from their bed overnight and a recorded ransom message now remains in her place.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, dark, tense, intense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, missing person, abduction, paranoia, claustrophobia, desperation, isolation, road trip, manipulation, hostage situation, betrayal, character study ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A drama-thriller centered on an advertising agency employee for whom work is an outlet from his life under his overbearing mother's roof.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, bleak, intense ...
Plot:
mother son relationship, family drama, character study, overbearing parent, male protagonist, advertising agency, claustrophobia, identity crisis, obsession, moral ambiguity, isolation, slow burn ...
Place:
turkey
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, detective, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
reality vs fantasy, folk horror, murder mystery, psychotherapy, psychological manipulation, mind game, double murder, paranoia, suspicion, slow burn, claustrophobia, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A home health care worker in her 20's gets hired to care for a elderly man who had molested her when she was a child. She plans her revenge during a weekend when his family is out of town.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
revenge, female protagonist, character study, psychological manipulation, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia, slow burn, isolated house, ethical dilemma, cat and mouse, stroke, child molestation ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Henry Long desperately seeks a cure for the condition that leaves him unable to feel physical pain.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cure, patient, doctors and patients, pain, illness, disease, character study, male protagonist, hospital, ethical dilemma, scientific research, disability ...
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24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Eddie (Kim Bodnia) and Maria (Maria Bonnevie) enjoy an idyllic life in their remote countryside farmhouse. But their happiness is threatened by the arrival of Kullmann (Mikael Persbrandt), an old friend of Eddie's with whom he had committed a ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, melancholic, noir
Plot:
guilt, secrets, love triangle, isolation, loyalty, moral ambiguity, intimate, character study, betrayal, cat and mouse, revenge, fear ...
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A mentally unstable and socially isolated young man spirals out of control, determined to find a woman who will stay with him-by force if necessary.
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, tense, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental illness, stalking, control, obsessive love, unsettling, loneliness, character study, paranoia, desperation, possession, threat, manipulation ...
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24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Ishigami comes home from work and discovers his wife dead. Just then, he receives a phone call from his wife and falls in utter confusion. Unexplainable things keep happening as Ishigami struggles to find his wife. Gradually, Ishigami realizes all ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
memory loss, investigation, identity crisis, runaway, experiment, memory lapse, scientific experiment, losing-it hero, experiment gone awry, secret identity, on the lam, false memory ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality.
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
paranoia, mentally unstable, woman in danger, couples, conspiracy, mental breakdown, emotional manipulation, murder, obsession, hallucination, character study, identity crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When hard partying and volatile neighbours move in next door, a quiet woman's life begins to spiral, pushing her to the edge and triggering a slow, unnerving descent into obsession and revenge.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, intense, psychological horror
Plot:
obsession, slow burn, revenge, paranoia, privacy invasion, retribution, mental breakdown, escalation, domestic drama, confrontation, isolation, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
23%
322
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mitchell Osgood dreams of being a famous writer, but the book he has written constantly is rejected by the editors. When the psychopathic killer Albert Merrik is released from prison after 15 years, Osgood believes that writing down the history of ...
Style:
dark, psychological thriller, suspenseful, crime drama, crime thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, manipulation, ambition, psychopath, darkness, psychological manipulation, character study, bookstore, paranoia, moral ambiguity, crime investigation ...
Time:
year 1991
Similarity:
23%
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:
23%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Gemma moves to LA, hoping to become an actress. She takes an overnight gig at a sleep clinic that promises to make their clients’ dreams come true. But the longer she spends there, the more it becomes clear that something sinister is going on.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, mind bending, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
dream, nightmare, paranoia, female protagonist, hallucination, insomnia, identity crisis, obsession, isolation, character study, claustrophobia, slow burn ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A drifter searching for answers to a mystery from her past takes on a job looking after a sick teen who is undergoing a mysterious transformation her family will do anything to stop.
Style:
psychological horror, creepy, tense, suspenseful, grim ...
Plot:
transformation, body horror, drifter, female protagonist, family secret, identity crisis, claustrophobia, slow burn, small town, paranoia, isolation, outsider ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A woman on a train becomes the center of attention when she is mistaken for a spy by opposing factions who are traveling on the same line.
Style:
tension, suspenseful, atmospheric, political thriller, noir
Audience:
adult
Plot:
espionage, covert operation, train, spy thriller, mistaken identity, falsely accused, female protagonist, conspiracy, paranoia, deception, cat and mouse, mistrust ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elle Overton, a college student, becomes obsessed with Katie Kampenfelt, the mysterious heroine of a novel she's just finished reading. When Elle, battling depression, becomes convinced that Katie is actually a flesh-and-blood human being, it ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
obsession, depression, mental illness, obsessed fan, possessed woman, female protagonist, problem, paranoia, character study, internet culture, identity crisis, stalking ...
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Psycho stalks a talk radio personality and her mentally challenged sister.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, independent film
Plot:
obsession, paranoia, cat and mouse, victimization, survival, isolation, threat to kill, claustrophobia, erotica, mentally challenged, dj, suicide attempt ...
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22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A gripping psychological thriller where a paranoid husband, Panos and his cunning sister plot against his unsuspecting wife. A dream of a life in the country turns into a dystopian nightmare.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, captivating, serious, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
isolation, survival, dysfunctional family, paranoia, family relations, family conflict, conspiracy, farm, female protagonist, psychological abuse, manipulation, farmhouse ...
Place:
south africa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Russia, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jeremy Northam portrays a real estate tycoon, while Fionnula Flanagan plays the matriarch of the Lazarov family, in this psychological thriller.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
psychological manipulation, manipulation, revenge, family drama, unsettling, obsession, betrayal, moral ambiguity, slow burn, power struggle, matriarchy, mistrust ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The formerly revered journalist Frank Molina finds himself in hiding, with his career shattered. However, he continues to write anonymously hidden in the shadows. Frank’s sense of calm is abruptly interrupted when a pair of severed eyes and a ...
Style:
crime thriller, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder mystery, trauma, serial killer, journalism, investigation, hidden identity, obsession, paranoia, blood, violent, moral ambiguity, isolation ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
John Rotit is a happy, content man with a loving wife. Hours later, he's a rock star shooting up heroin. And after that...he's something far more sinister. John unwillingly flashes between three parallel lives in which he knowingly exists ...
Style:
mind bending, existential, surreal, psychological horror, intense ...
Plot:
alternate reality, loss of control, drug addiction, identity crisis, character study, obsession, moral ambiguity, heroin, marriage, isolation, disorientation, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Soon after Hope Howard is mysteriously fired, her former boss, a desperate scientist, discovers she holds the secret to his fatal illness-but she has disappeared.
Style:
suspense, tense, dark, fast paced, twist ending ...
Plot:
female protagonist, disappearance, pursuit, betrayal, scientist, conspiracy, determination, cat and mouse, terminal illness, survival, moral ambiguity, identity ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The story follows Anne, a painter who struggles with inner demons after being forced into a life of solitude when her husband leaves mysteriously.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful
Plot:
character study, isolation, obsession, painter, trauma, creative block, solitude, paranoia, symbolism, psychosis, haunting, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A blind professor is accused by the police of killing his neighbor and must clear his name by finding the murderer.
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, tense, noir
Plot:
blindness, murder mystery, falsely accused, paranoia, deception, man on the run, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, amateur detective, family secret, betrayal by friend, private investigation ...
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21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Police sketch artist, Jack, helps blind rape victim Emmy describe her attacker.. a serial rapist and murderer who is now out to get her.
Style:
suspense, dark, tense, psychological thriller, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, serial killer, blindness, danger, investigation, cat and mouse, threat, rape, justice, obsession, paranoia, revenge ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
21%
214
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A talented piano tuner's life is turned upside down when he discovers that his meticulous skills for tuning pianos can equally be applied to cracking safes.
Style:
crime thriller, tense, suspenseful
Audience:
adult
Plot:
safecracker, heist, slow burn, obsession, minimalism, double life, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, claustrophobia, isolation, cat and mouse, urban ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, dark, philosophical, existential ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
conspiracy, scientist, secret project, surveillance, paranoia, cat and mouse, research facility, assassin, laboratory, espionage, protection, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Working undercover to expose a corrupt judge, an investigative journalist confronts his secret past plus his mother's mental illness and must choose between addiction and obsession or love and redemption.
Style:
tense, suspense, dark, noir
Plot:
mental illness, investigative journalism, addiction, corruption, redemption, justice, moral ambiguity, covert operation, crime investigation, obsession, ethical dilemma, conspiracy ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
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