Movies like The Kissing Place

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The Kissing Place (1990)
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The Kissing Place (1990)
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 film is about his escape and search for his home.
Plot: coming of age, kidnapping, child kidnapping, child abduction, murder, taxi, memory, child in peril, playground, birth certificate
Place: new york

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, psychological, suspense and serious films with plots about kidnapping, murder, child abduction, child kidnapping, serial killer, abduction and deadly mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Kissing Place: Gone in the Night (1996), Bump in the Night (1991), Down Will Come Baby (1999), Captive (1998), Bastard (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Gone in the Night (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min.
Story: A couple is unjustly accused of the murder of their daughter. Based on a true story and book of the same title.
Style: dark
Plot: serial killer, false accusation, kidnapping, murder, parent child relationship, news reporter, intruder, daughter, child murder, private investigator, trial, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 80s
Place: illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Bump in the Night (1991)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Martha "Red" Tierney used to be a hot-shot reporter, but that was before alcohol took over her life. One morning Martha's son Jonathan leaves for school, stopping first to meet his father for breakfast. But Jonathan never meets his ...
Plot: pedophile, kidnapping, alcoholism, reporter, mother son reunion, director, investigative reporter, police station, stalker, murder, alcoholic mother, best selling author ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Down Will Come Baby (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Leah Garr wants to move from Phoenix to take a new job in Denver to help her family (Husband Marcus and Daughter Robin). When Robin goes to camp to give her parents time to sort things out, something unexpected occurs. On Robin's return from ...
Style: sad
Audience: girls' night
Plot: stalker, youth, summer camp, child kidnapping, photography, camp counselor, troubled marriage, desert, villainess, identity theft, neighbor neighbor relationship, tickling ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 4.5
 148
Captive (1998)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Joe Goodies has just entered an advertising agency after recovering from the death of his girlfriend in a car accident. Ruined by the compensation he has to pay for the accident, he decides, with his new girlfriend, to kidnap the son of the ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: kidnapping, child kidnapping, boy, lawyer, murder, lesbian, homosexual, kidnapper, bisexual woman, prison guard, boxer shorts, male underwear ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 264
Bastard (2012)
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: captivating, psychological, suspense
Plot: child abduction, coming of age, kidnapping, teenage boy, child in peril, parents and children, teenage life, vengeance, teenager, adoption, family relations, abduction ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Stolen by Their Father (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The story of a mother whose two young daughters are kidnapped by her abusive ex-husband—and her all-consuming fight to get them back.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: kidnapping, abduction, marital problem, female protagonist, kidnapped child, mother and daughter, despot, family relations, parents and children, mother child separation, mother, child kidnapping ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.3
 4K
Devil's Pond (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: What starts out as a romantic honeymoon on a deserted island turns into a horrible nightmare as Julianne discovers that her new husband is psychotic...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, serious, suspense ...
Plot: psychopath, woman in danger, kidnapping, island, couple relations, newlyweds, danger, isolation, honeymoon, love and romance, wilderness, insanity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
Style: psychological, realistic, tense, serious, independent film ...
Plot: kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, family problems, homecoming, parents and children, hopes, redemption, child abuse, teenage girl, isolation, fish out of water, starting over ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Nowhere to Run (1989)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Rural Texas, 1960 -- An age of good times and innocence, when growing up was supposed to be easy. Six high school seniors know the terrible secret that will make the difference in the biggest election in the county's history. Now they must make ...
Style: independent film
Plot: smuggler, secret, small town, murder, jail, election, corruption, teenager, high school, sheriff, coming of age
Time: 60s
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.1
 320
Abducted (1986)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mixed-up mountain boy kidnaps a pretty college student.
Style: surprise ending, independent film
Plot: kidnapping, creature feature, nature, home invasion, murder, hunting, wilderness, father son relationship, damsel in distress, woman, runner, filicide ...
Time: year 1986
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.3
 125
Vengeance (1980)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Four hoodlums break into a jeweller's house and brutally murder him, his wife and daughter. On the run they kidnap Jenny, a Senator's grand daughter and her boyfriend, but discover that the two will not be taken easily. In the melee that ...
Style: grindhouse, slasher
Plot: murder, kidnapping, death, attempted rape, sexual assault, rape and revenge, nudity, rape, revenge, female nudity, murder of a nude woman, mass murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.2
 1K
Playground (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min.
Story: It's the end of the school year and today is the last chance for 12-year-old Gabrysia to tell her classmate that she has fallen in love with him. She sets up a secret meeting and blackmails the boy to show up. But what was supposed to be an ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, controversial, sincere ...
Audience: kids
Plot: bullying, childhood trauma, killer child, children, teenage love, unrequited love, teenager, coming of age, prank, tragic love, kidnapping, mentally unstable ...
Place: poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Terror in the Night (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A fugitive killer posing as a policeman arrests two campers in the Arizona mountains.
Plot: rape, tourist, killer, true crime, camping, cigarette smoking, kidnapping, murder, foot chase, gun
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.8
 125
A Superior Day (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: A thriller set in 24 hours where only the superior survives, and the ordinary man who has to save his kidnapped daughter by killing a serial killer.
Style: serious, suspenseful, bleak, exciting, captivating
Plot: child kidnapping, murderer, kidnapped, serial killer, kidnapped girl, homicidal maniac, serial murder, murder, killings, child abduction, killing spree, kidnapping ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.7
 129K
The Call (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, investigation, danger, woman in danger, 911, psycho, murder, youth, chase, child abduction, panic ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 6.3
 103
Freak Out (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: In 1977, teenager Wayne (Nick Foster) gathers his two friends, female runaway Rhonda (Sarah Ogg) and disco club hopper Tim (David Gobble), for a drug party located in the suburban home of quiet recluse Dean (Brad Jones). But unknown to Tim and ...
Style: independent film
Plot: serial killer, disco, cocaine, homosexual, cigarette smoking, dancing, kidnapping, party, violence, murder, father daughter relationship, female nudity
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story (1992)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After sixteen years of marriage and four children, Betty Broderick's high-powered attorney husband decides to leave her for a younger woman with whom he's been having an affair. Hurt by his betrayal and feeling helpless against his legal ...
Style: realistic, serious, tense, biting, suspenseful
Plot: murder, men's rights, betrayal, true crime, serial killer, legal, rivalry, crumbling marriage, battle of the sexes, unfulfillment, society, vengeance ...
Time: 90s
Place: san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Night of the Hunter (1991)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A false preacher ingratiates himself with a dead man's family to find where he hid the money from a robbery.
Style: psychotronic
Plot: serial killer, police, preacher, murder, treasure, child in peril, family crisis, tickling
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 335
Night Sins (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: A female FBI investigator takes over jurisdiction in Dear Lake, a small northern town just as a young boy is abducted. Her investigation leads to a bigger series of abductions and murders dating back over 20 years. Her investigation also brings her ...
Style: tense, melancholic, suspenseful, disturbing, enigmatic
Plot: child murder investigation, female protagonist, murder, police, policewoman, religious fanatic, mind game, serial killer, pedophilia, child kidnapping, dead children, car accident ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 3.0
 159
Good Chemistry (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, kidnapping, drug dealing, on the run, dishonesty, danger, drug abuse, chemistry, farm, confined, cons and scams, forced into action ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Kidnapped: The Hannah Anderson Story (2015)
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: captivating, tense, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: child abduction, kidnapping, kidnapped child, true crime, father daughter relationship, 16 year old, crime solving, cold case, forensics, disappearance, uncover truth, teenage girl ...
Place: california, san diego california, idaho
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Terror in the Shadows (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Five years ago, Christine went after the baby she gave up for adoption, claiming he'd been stolen, and wound up killing Alex Williams' wife and the baby the Williams' had adopted. Now, Alex has remarried to a woman with a young son ...
Plot: adoption, kidnapping, revenge, insanity
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Incident at Deception Ridge (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When a double-crossing husband runs off with his wife's ransom money, her kidnappers come after him and the missing money. He leads them on a treacherous journey through the wilderness.
Style: cliffhanger
Plot: die hard, kidnapping, bus, blindness, asthma, blindfold, bound and gagged
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Where Are the Children? (1986)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Thriller about the kidnapping of two children and the investigation that follows, based on the book by Mary Higgins Clark.
Style: mind bending, realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller
Plot: child abduction, kidnapping, family relations, missing person, false accusation, family problems, injustice, couples, remarry, wrongfully committed, parents and children, computers and web ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Missing Pages (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 8 important executive members of some notable corporations of the country are kidnapped during a recent trial.
Style: surprise ending, crying
Plot: manager, kidnapping, company, room, suicide, medication, murder, telephone call, lie, fear, boss, death ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 6.6
 1K
The Demons (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A ten year old boy, prone to excessive worry, begins to succumb to his anxiety as a string of child abductions plague his town.
Style: stylized, weird
Plot: boy, bullying, sexual curiosity, childhood, mental disorder, child, children, coming of age, sexual exploration, child kidnapping, fear, sibling relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Interrogation of Michael Crowe (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The lives of Escondido, California residents Cheryl and Stephen Crowe change one morning when they find their twelve year old daughter Stephanie Crowe stabbed to death in her bedroom. As procedure dictates, the police take each member of the ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: false accusation, police investigation, murder, uncover truth, coming of age, interrogation, injustice, fighting the system, law enforcement, teenage life, courtroom drama, suspect ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Shattered Illusions (1998)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Psycho stalks a talk radio personality and her mentally challenged sister.
Style: independent film
Plot: erotica, dj, mentally challenged, suicide attempt, psychiatric hospital, car crash, mental disorder, murder, kidnapping, father daughter relationship, drunkenness, mental institution ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Deadly Adoption (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Things go awry when an author and his wife welcome a pregnant woman into their home, with plans to adopt her baby.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: pregnant woman, adoption, baby, family in danger, pregnancy, obsession, child in peril, surrogate mother, loss of child, little girl, murder, mother daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Cinderella Game (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Sana Haitani (Kasumi Yamaya) is a member of an idol group. She's following the dreams of her now deceased older sister who always wanted to become a top idol. Unfortunately, Sana's idol group is disbanded. She is then kidnapped and taken ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, bizarre
Plot: murder, game of death, dark humor, kidnapping, death match, abduction, idol, kidnapped, female protagonist, ambition, fight, sexploitation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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