Movies like Detached

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Detached (2009)
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Detached (2009)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Detached is a contemporary Scrooge tale set in the Hollywood Hills that follows Chadh Campbell, an unscrupulous mortgage broker, as he receives a stream of anonymous holiday greetings during Christmas Eve and Day. As Chadh searches for the perpetrator of this "festive" assault he must face the unfavorable reality of just how many people he's harmed during his life, forcing him to confront how emotionally detached from those around him he's become.
Plot: christmas, revenge, murder, hollywood, holiday, mockery, hate, scrooge, secret, selfishness, regret, racial injustice, ruthlessness, wrestler, brutality, mortgage

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, independent film and detective films with plots about murder, revenge, secret, investigation, murderer, murder mystery and murder investigation mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Crime genres. Some movies like Detached: Naked City: A Killer Christmas (1998), Locked In (2023), Wild Indian (2021), The Man in the Trunk (2019), Double Walker (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Naked City: A Killer Christmas (1998)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An ambitious reporter gets in their way of two cops assigned to investigate a serial killer who became active around Christmas time..
Style: detective
Plot: christmas, xmas, serial killer, holiday, female nudity, lesbian sex, police, reporter, murder, police partner, investigation
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.1
 8K
Locked In (2023)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A kindly nurse tries to unlock the secrets of a coma patient's injuries — and discovers the bitter rivalry, infidelity, betrayal and murder behind them.
Style: psychological thriller, psychological
Plot: murder, extramarital affair, revenge, secret, adultery, husband wife relationship, unfaithful wife, remorse, journey, victim, marital infidelity, cheating wife ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 5.8
 2K
Wild Indian (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Decades after covering up his classmate’s murder, Michael has moved on from his reservation and fractured past. When a man who shares his violent secret seeks vengeance, Michael goes to great lengths to protect his new life with his wife and boss ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing
Plot: native american, murder, confronting the past, hidden corpse, secret, indians, murder mystery, hidden truth, dark past, murderer, revenge, native american reservation ...
Time: 80s, 2010s, year 2019
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Man in the Trunk (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: On an otherwise quiet night there is a startling knock at the door. Andrew Tucker answers the door to find an old friend whom he hasn't seen in years. The disheveled and absent friend comes to him with one request: "I need you to come with ...
Style: suspense, christmas horror, psychological thriller, art house, dark
Plot: holiday, chase, friendship, fear, best friend, murder, love, blood, christmas, xmas, woods, hunting ...
Place: arkansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 4.6
 398
Double Walker (2021)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: A young woman's ghost investigates the mysterious events that led to her own murder.
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, mystical, captivating ...
Plot: revenge, vengeful ghost, supernatural horror, ghost, murder, uncover truth, murder investigation, female protagonist, investigation, ghost girl, mysticism, murderer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 5.4
 58
Detour (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A nightclub piano player (Tom Neal Jr.) hitchhikes to the West Coast and soon figures into two deaths.
Style: independent film, neo noir
Plot: musician, hollywood, stolen identity, hitchhiking, murder, arizona desert, femme fatale
Time: 1940s
Place: arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.3
 331
Primal Doubt (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When an ex-romance author who is trapped in an unsatisfying marriage, decides to give love another chance with a man she met over the Internet, she finds herself caught up in a terrifying murder mystery.
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, murder mystery, female writer, trap, marriage, troubled marriage, problem, murder investigation, internet dating, secret, murderer, marriage crisis ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 4.0
 975
6 Ways to Die (2015)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Sonny "Sundown" Garcia is the top cocaine distributor in the United States, which has made him a very rich and powerful man. It has also made him plenty of enemies. John Doe is just such a man. A nameless man of mystery, John lives to see ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, twisted
Plot: drug cartel, kidnapping, husband wife relationship, murder, hitman, robbery, revenge, criminal's revenge, vengeance, criminal, drug dealer, woman with a gun ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 3.7
 864
Restitution (2011)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A true crime writer investigating a small town murder spree uncovers the devastating truth that changes the town forever.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, investigator, investigation, uncover truth, amateur detective, gunfight, social relations, small town, secret, revenge, danger, insurance fraud ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Twenty Plus Two (1961)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Julia Joliet handles fan mail for movie stars. Now someone has a message for her, delivered at point-blank range. David Janssen (TV’s The Fugitive) brings his laconic cool to Twenty Plus Two as Tom Alder, a Los Angeles private eye who ties ...
Style: independent film, crime drama, neo noir
Plot: private investigator, private detective, dual identity, lost girl, movie actor, motel, rapist, fratricide, secret, brother brother relationship, world war two veteran, miscarriage ...
Time: year 1961, 60s, year 1947, year 1951
Place: los angeles, tokyo, north dakota, japan, minneapolis minnesota ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
What We Did That Night (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An ex-con Henry (Rick Schroder) returns to town after being released from prison and contacts his old college frat members about a murder that they committed years earlier. They have to return to move the body to a new location before it is ...
Plot: murder, dead body, mockery, friendship, secret, prank, corpse, revenge, dark secret, ex convict, digging a grave
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.2
 311
Deadly Game (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of seven strangers, including a dancer, a doctor, a teacher, and a disgraced former football player, are brought together on an island owned by the mysterious Osirus. There they are told that at some point in their lives, they crossed Osirus ...
Plot: serial killer, game of death, stranger, group, hunted, ex football player, murder, on the run, dancer, revenge, doctor, teacher ...
Time: year 1991
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.5
 183
Love Kills (1991)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Glamorous fashion photographer Rebecca is getting even. Angered by her husband's infidelity, she takes a lover - a mysterious hunk she fist met during a photo shoot. He's exciting. He's handsome. And, after a night of lovemaking, he ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: paranoia, money, psychiatric patient, downbeat ending, bad guy wins, unfaithful husband, husband wife relationship, car chase, secret, murder, cheating wife, best friend ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.7
 98
Unstable (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Friends become enemies after one of them is accused of committing a hate crime against a gay teenager during a weekend camping trip.
Style: cinema verite
Plot: gay, teenager, hate, gay slur, friend, hate crime, bigotry, homosexual, loyalty, murder
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Stalked by My Mother (2016)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A daughter acuses her mother for killing her boyfriend but was it really the mother who did it or was it someone who has always been there?
Style: serious, suspense, enigmatic, mysterious, suspenseful
Plot: mother and daughter, uncover truth, revenge, overprotective parent, murderer, female assassin, running from police, murder, puzzle, criminal's revenge, guilt, murder mystery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Night Rain (2022)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Story: An actress is unwittingly hired by her stalker to make an independent movie about a famous unsolved Hollywood murder, but she and her group of young indie filmmakers soon find themselves the subject of their own terror.
Style: suspense, scary, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot: stalker, hollywood, filmmaking, murder, true crime, paranormal phenomena, paranormal, demon, death, violence, fear, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 4.9
 109
Passing Fancy (2005)
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: "Passing Fancy" is a film about the devastating effects that emotional and sexual abuse reap on the human mind. In this story the abuse leads to drugs, deception, insanity and eventually murder. With few clues to go on, Detective Rodriguez ...
Style: independent film
Plot: insane asylum, female nudity, nudity, police, revenge, murder, emotional abuse, sexual abuse, insanity
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 2.7
 298
Red Herring (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A Las Vegas homicide detective investigating his best friend uncovers a professional assassin.
Style: neo noir, detective
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In 1938, Jewish-rights activist Emma Sachs is targeted by the Nazis. When she dies, foul play is suspected. But was it the Nazis, or was it someone else? Det. Tony Rossini investigates, along with Larry "Cash" Carter, a theatre director ...
Style: detective
Plot: murder, nazi, inheritance, aunt nephew relationship, flight attendant, secretary, suspect
Time: year 1938
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.7
 6K
Grand Isle (2019)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Walter and his neglected wife lure a young man into their Victorian home to escape a hurricane. When the man is charged with murder by Det. Jones, he must reveal the couple's wicked secrets to save himself.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, southern gothic
Plot: husband wife conflict, murder, seduction, adultery, false accusation of murder, robbery, husband wife relationship, evidence, uncover truth, secret, moral dilemma, trial ...
Time: year 1988
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.0
 46
Prank Week (2017)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A campus urban legend myth comes true when fraternity brothers start to get killed off one by one by the infamous serial killer who used to live in the fraternity house 25 years ago.
Style: bloody, sexy, underground film, parody, stylized ...
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: fraternity, serial killer, serial murder, college student, college, violence, drug, frat party, fear, college campus, marijuana, evil ...
Place: illinois, chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 3.7
 95
Mortal Sins (1989)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A PI hired to find a killer is led to a corrupt televangelist.
Style: detective
Plot: televangelist, female nudity, nudity, erotica, murder, sex, daughter, investigation
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.6
 2K
The Vanished (2018)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A detective investigates the disappearance of a woman's corpse from a morgue and tries to uncover the cause of her death.
Style: serious, suspense, captivating, enigmatic, disturbing ...
Plot: husband, husband wife relationship, twists and turns, uncover truth, corpse, infidelity, death, revenge, investigation, deception, murder, lovers ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 3.9
 295
Countdown (1996)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Chris Murdoch falls obsessively in love with a Japanese girl attending University in Seattle (Kaori Ozaki) he murders Japanese men who have shown her kindness under the pretext of revenge for the attack on Pearl Harbor during WWII. However the ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, die hard, police investigation, chases and races, rivalry, undercover, mind game, terrorism, law enforcement, crime gone awry, manhunt, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Falsely Accused (2016)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When a young woman is falsely accused of murdering her brother, she must catch the real killer to prove her innocence. Along the way she encounters unexpected love, sadness, and hardships, as well as deep insights about the crime, herself, and her ...
Style: detective, suspenseful, captivating, serious
Plot: murder, coming of age, grief, false accusation of murder, murder investigation, murderer, murder mystery, falsely accused, false accusation, loss of brother, love, death of brother ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.2
 53K
Untraceable (2008)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) works in an elite division of the FBI dedicated to fighting cybercrime. She thinks she has seen it all, until a particularly sadistic criminal arises on the Internet. This tech-savvy killer posts live feeds ...
Style: clever, intense, twisted, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, investigation, internet, fbi, kidnapping, hacker, website, sadism, suicide, torture ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: oregon, usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
From Hollywood to Deadwood (1988)
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When actress Lana Dark (Barbara Schock) disappears in the middle of a film shoot, putting an expensive stop to production, the studio hires gumshoes Raymond Savage (Scott Paulin) and Jack Haines (Jim Haynie) to track down the fleeing femme fatale in ...
Style: detective, independent film
Plot: private investigator, reward, disappearance, hollywood, investigation, private detective, partner, movie actress, film producer, murder, corpse, blood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Trick of the Eye (1994)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman artist is hired by a wealthy woman to paint a mural in a room however she finds out that the woman wants her to do more than paint the mural as hidden family secrets are revealed.
Plot: strange person, secret, mother daughter relationship, painter, domineering mother, death of daughter, death, widow, mansion, mural, novel
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
To All a Goodnight (1980)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: It's Christmas break at the Calvin Finishing School for Girls, and the students are planning a big party while the president of the school is away. A group of boys show up and the fun begins, until mysterious killer starts bumping off couples ...
Style: slasher, christmas horror, suspense, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience: teens
Plot: christmas, holiday horror, killer santa claus, teenager, revenge, murder, santa claus, school, maniac, xmas, police detective, murder mystery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Frozen with Fear (2001)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Katherine Sullivan, an acute agoraphobic, witnesses the murder of her husband and speaks with the investigating detective. Then both the body and the detective disappear. Katherine hires private investigator Jack Mize to figure out, only Mize ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, enigmatic, thrilling ...
Plot: private detective, murder, murder witness, homicide detective, murder mystery, witness, fear, witnessing a crime, disappearance, secret, undercover, mysterious disappearance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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