Movies like Waiting in the Dark
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Waiting in the Dark (2006)
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Original name: 暗いところで待ち合わせ
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Michiru has lost her eyesight, and to make matters worse, her father dies shortly afterwards. She is now all alone and spends most of her day isolated in her home. Akihiro is a Chinese-Japanese immigrant, that has had to deal with racism all throughout his life. He is now tormented at work by one of his older co-workers named Toshio. One day at a train station in front of Michiru's house, Toshio is thrown into the path of an oncoming train. The only person seen at the train stop was Akihiro. Akihiro frantically flees from the scene and manages to enter Michiru's house without her knowledge. After a few days, Michiru starts to sense the presence of another person in her home.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, sweet
Plot:
blind woman, settler, police investigation, intruder, murder, neighbor, dead father, home invasion, suspense, judiciary, police officer, train, police, racism, bully, orphan, blind man, accident, discrimination, funeral, racist, pig, asian, blindness, japanese woman ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, psychological and realistic films with plots about murder, suspense, danger, police investigation, obsession, deadly and police officer mostly in Thriller, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Waiting in the Dark: RoomMate (2013), Red : The Dark Side (2007), Blind Man's Bluff (1992), Often (2006), Witness (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Harumi Hagiwara lands in the hospital after being involved in an accident. She hits it off with her nurse, Reiko Nishimura, and the two decide to move in together after she's discharged. However, Harumi begins to witness a series of mysterious ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, bleak
Plot:
murder, split personality, teenage girl, nurse, accident, suspense, twins, japanese girl, high school, japanese schoolgirl, car accident, sex with teenager ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
Neil Oberoi(Aftab Shifdasani), is a billionaire with a serious heart condition and is in need of a new heart. He finds a donor who has left behind the beautiful Anahita.(Celina Jaitley). They fall in love but the death of her husband has left the ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, neo noir
Plot:
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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.
Plot:
murder, neighbor, home invasion, blindness, suspect, accident, runaway
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Ricky (Emraan Hashmi) is a leading fashion photographer, who carries his heart on his sleeve. He's an absolute womanizer. The film begins with Ricky getting a call from Sheena (Udita Goswami), who asks him to meet her in a gym. Once there, the ...
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suspenseful, realistic, serious, sexy, sexual ...
Plot:
murder, femme fatale, police investigation, love triangle, love affair, manipulation, dishonesty, couples, infidelity, estate, buddies, adultery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, sexy, captivating, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
police corruption, amish, witnessing a crime, police, twists and turns, forbidden love, corruption, fish out of water, murder, female nudity, police detective, bully ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
pennsylvania, philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Thriller, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A hard-working young man meets and falls in love with his sister's bridesmaid. He soon finds out how disturbed she really is.
Style:
psychological, serious, captivating, sincere, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, femme fatale, love affair, dangerous attraction, love at first sight, mentally unstable, power relations, couples, siblings relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, obsessive love, wedding ...
Place:
europe, france, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Michiko Oshitani, who lived in Shiga Prefecture, is found dead at an apartment in Tokyo. She was strangled to death. Mutsuo Koshikawa is the owner of the apartment and he goes missing. Detectives including Yuhei Matsumiya who is a cousin of ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, contemplative
Plot:
police officer, japanese police, japanese woman, clue, police, dead, who done it, murder investigation, evidence, investigation, partners against crime, investigator ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tokyo
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67%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When Ryo, a young magazine reporter, moves into a new apartment he is greeted by the passionate sounds of his astonishingly beautiful neighbor Satsuki. Realizing the wall dividing their apartments is paper thin, the captivated journalist begins to ...
Style:
erotic, tense, suspenseful, sexy, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, stalking, dangerous attraction, fall in love, woman in danger, dishonesty, femme fatale, voyeurism, power relations, journalism, sexual relations, neighbor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
east asia, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Brussels homicide cop (Jérémie Renier) begins to lose control of his life as he tries to solve a bizarre murder.
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, psychological, neo noir ...
Plot:
police detective, life turned upside down, police investigation, law enforcement, murder, mental illness, pregnancy
Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, brussels
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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, suspenseful, bleak, disturbing
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Story:
Businesswoman Sia Malhotra lives a wealthy lifestyle in Bangkok, along with her twin, Ria, who is deaf and dumb due to a neurological disorder. She meets with Raj Oberoi, and both fall in love. Their endeavors to cure Ria are all in vain. Sia plans ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological
Plot:
obsession, twins, marriage, murder, femme fatale, false accusation, uncover truth, deaf mute, suspense, car wash, wedding, wedding night ...
Place:
bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Our hero Adam gets drawn into a web of intrigue as evidence is planted on him of a gay royal affair.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
surveillance, conspiracy, intrigue, gay, investigation, race against time, rivalry, murder, frame up, state affairs, amateur detective, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The Good Neighbour is a 2011 German film directed by Stephan Rick. It premiered in competition at the 2011 Shanghai International Film Festival and was screened at the 2011 Montreal World Film Festival and the Hof International Film Festival.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
friendship, journalism, neighbor, manslaughter, hidden truth, power relations, suspense, psycho, friendship between men, psychopath, journalist, car accident ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A boy finds a dead woman. When police move the corpse they find the skeletons of two women who disappeared in the seventies.
Style:
bleak, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
police investigation, family feud, murder, police, murder investigation, blackmail, pastor, suspense, dead woman, danger
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49%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A man gets out of prison after 15 years for stabbing his wife to death, and his social worker becomes convinced he was innocent. As she researches his case, and interviews other people who were involved, she begins to fall in love with him, as her ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
erotica, prison, home invasion, police officer killed, murder, sex scene, righting the wronged, injustice, life is a bitch, investigation, starting over, dishonesty ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
While fighting for a woman who sits on death row, a lawyer happens upon new information which brings into question the motives of a man associated with her client
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, sincere, realistic, serious
Plot:
uncover truth, dedicated lawyer, false accusation, death sentence, confined, redemption, prison life, legal, life is a bitch, dishonesty, death row, letter ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Pete & Jerry are cousins living in Sydney's Western Suburbs, where life consists of drinking, getting stoned, getting in fights and hanging out. But things change forever when Pete and Jerry both fall in love with the same girl.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A father and daughter are on their way to dance camp when they spot the girl's best friend on the side of the road. When they stop to offer the friend a ride, their good intentions soon result in terrible consequences.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young woman with a mysterious past lands in Southport, North Carolina where her bond with a widower forces her to confront the dark secret that haunts her.
Style:
romantic, touching, sentimental, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
small town, starting over, obsession, fall in love, love and romance, domestic violence, small town life, single father, power of love, runaway, love, choice ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
north carolina, boston, usa, new jersey, san francisco ...
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41%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Set on the Jersey shore, the lives of three childhood friends begin to unravel when a secret from their past is revealed
Style:
realistic, sincere, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
best friends, haunted by the past, friends, brother brother relationship, neighbor, american abroad, mother son relationship, suspense, social relations, under the surface, amusement park, mental retardation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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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, psychological, suspenseful
Plot:
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41%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Creature of habit, Jon Smith, spends his days mindlessly working as a barista in New York City. When night falls, this seeming everyman savagely kills "filthy women" as his social outlet. A chance encounter with Delia, a young prostitute ...
Style:
psychological
Plot:
prostitution, train, murder, love, rape, abuse
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41%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck.
Style:
road movie, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, stalking, truck, obsession, fear, stepfather stepson relationship, car chase, boy, road trip, killer, obsessive quest, psychopath ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Sam Maddox, a troubled girl whose father committed suicide, has earned a reputation at her high school for being a bit promiscuous. When Sam begins seeing brilliant, MIT-bound Henry Sinclair, the two opposites really attract. Although Sam ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Thriller, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Ed Altman is a psychiatrist who relocates to Palm Springs, Calif., in order to avoid a lawsuit. However, he happens to wander directly into more trouble when he begins an affair with the rich and beautiful Ally Mercer (Annabel Schofield), who has ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
469
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Sarah, a beautiful and gifted 15-year-old from a wealthy but chaotic family, holds on to one dream: to run away from home and to become a professional ballet dancer.
Style:
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Plot:
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38%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Things couldn't be better for Derek Charles. He's just received a big promotion at work, and has a wonderful marriage with his beautiful wife, Sharon. However, into this idyllic world steps Lisa, a temporary worker at Derek's office. ...
Style:
suspenseful, sexy, intense, disturbing, erotic ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Justine Grace is desperate to sort out her life, her marriage to her husband Tom, and herself. When Domenic, a handsome yoga teacher, takes an interest in her, it seems like he might be the one to finally bring happiness to her life. However, he has ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful
Plot:
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