Movies like How I Spent My Summer Vacation

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How I Spent My Summer Vacation (1967)
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A man who completes compiling a dossier on a mysterious billionaire begins to get the feeling that he is becoming the victim of a conspiracy.
Plot: escape, castle, yacht, conspiracy, helicopter, cruise, witness, job interview, surveillance, suspicion, journal, guard dog, reality versus fantasy, wrestler, bikini
Time: 60s, 1960s
Place: paris france, mediterranean sea, swiss alps
Keyword: american

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, suspense and psychological films with plots about conspiracy, murder, danger, dishonesty, investigation, surveillance and helicopter mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like How I Spent My Summer Vacation: Desperate Voyage (1980), The Conversation (1974), The Firm (1993), Tentacle 8 (2014), Nowhere Safe (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Desperate Voyage (1980)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Plummer plays a modern-day pirate who hijacks private yachts, steals the valuables on board, and sends the passengers to the bottom of the ocean. His captives on this voyage are Cliff Potts, Christine Belford, Lara Parker and Nicholas Pryor, none of ...
Plot: boat, desolation, ocean, pirate, yacht, rape, caribbean sea, killing, trapped, terror, water, cruise
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Conversation (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired by a mysterious client's brusque aide to tail a young couple. Tracking the pair through San Francisco's Union Square, Caul and his associate Stan manage to record a cryptic conversation between them. ...
Style: psychological thriller, neo noir, psychological, disturbing, political thriller ...
Plot: paranoia, surveillance, conspiracy, spy, obsession, character study, investigation, wiretap, alienation, murder, espionage, dream ...
Time: 20th century, year 1974, 70s
Place: bay area, san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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The Firm (1993)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the ...
Style: suspense, tense, surprise ending, clever, psychological ...
Plot: lawyer, corruption, law firm, murder, conspiracy, surveillance, investigation, legal, chase, seduction, blackmail, courtroom ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: memphis, boston, tennessee, usa, harvard university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 4.0
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Tentacle 8 (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A mysterious computer virus wipes out highly classified personnel files at the NSA, prompting a top secret investigation. RAYMOND BERRY, an NSA operative is thrown into a detention center, where he is suspected of crimes against the United States. ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: intelligence agency, conspiracy, analyst, investigation, crime investigation, government agent, special agent, sleuth, agent, computer hacker, uncover truth, computer cracker ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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 5.5
 2K
Nowhere Safe (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Nowhere to run...Nowhere to hide. After two teen girls cruelly impersonate her online in a reverse cyber bullying plot, Ashley s reputation is ruined. She and her mother, Julie (a high school teacher), are ostracized, forcing them to flee an ...
Style: touching, realistic, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: starting over, on the run, parents and children, teenage life, youth, school, family relations, false accusation, confronting the past, conspiracy, tragic past, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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 181
Early Warning (1981)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Batshit-insane christian propaganda from the early 80s. From the VHS dust jacket: "A fully dramatic feature film which gives a glimpse at incredible events which may well be taking place today - events which have perilous significance when ...
Style: spiritual, christian film
Plot: christian, faith, 666, bible prophecy, christian propaganda, conspiracy, on the run, escape, reporter, bank, journalist, militia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Parallax View (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: An ambitious reporter, investigating a senator's assassination, realizes witnesses to the shooting are systematically dying and discovers a multi-million dollar corporation which serves as a front for the recruitment of political assassins.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, political ...
Plot: politics, corruption, conspiracy, investigation, reporter, journalism, murder, assassin, media, senator, political conspiracy, paranoia ...
Time: 70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: seattle, los angeles, washington state, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Istanbul Express (1968)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval tries to help and pursues criminals on the Istanbul Express.
Plot: train, inspector, intrigue, spy thriller, auction, railway, secret agent
Place: istanbul turkey, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Contract Killers (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Trinidad and Tobago
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A CIA assassin attempts to break out of the contract killing business to try to lead a normal life. But when "the system" tracks her down and frames her for the death of her husband, she embarks on a path of revenge that leads her back ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, tense, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, hitman, rivalry, starting over, frame up, twists and turns, dishonesty, assassination attempt, assassination, danger, government agency, undercover ...
Time: 21st century
Place: langley virginia, west indies
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Devil at 4 O'Clock (1961)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.
Style: serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: convict, clergy, disaster, priest, evacuation, island, natural disaster, rescue, church, faith, volcano, quicksand ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Edge of Darkness (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: As a seasoned homicide detective, Thomas Craven has seen the bleakest side of humanity. But nothing prepares him for the toughest investigation of his life: the search for his only daughter Emma's killer. Now, he is on a personal mission to ...
Style: brutal, tense, suspenseful, exciting, detective ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: vengeance, father daughter relationship, murder, investigation, corruption, uncover truth, fighting the system, riddles and clues, conspiracy, political corruption, violence, vigilantism ...
Time: year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Alone: The Only Thing to Fear Is Yourself (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: In today's world options are not running out, they are running away and we can't keep up. To be cutting edge today, one must hold their mind together when it simply feels as if it will explode. In the mind itself there are different parts ...
Style: spiritual, mystical
Plot: integrity, freezing, reptile, self-help, life, journey, humanity, witness, justice, guru, fight, humanitarian ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
My Blood Runs Cold (1965)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Wealthy, reckless Californian Julie Merriday, accompanied by her boyfriend Harry Lindsay, an attorney, narrowly avoids crashing into a motorcycle driven by young Ben Gunther. Ben temporarily abandons his damaged cycle and accepts a ride from Julie ...
Style: psychotronic
Plot: ship, accident, deception, murder, lawyer, diary, reincarnation, sailboat, ancestor, madness, shoulder wound, woman in jeopardy ...
Place: california
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.5
 17K
Jagged Edge (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she ...
Style: neo noir, tense, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: courtroom, courtroom drama, lawyer, court, legal, murder, twists and turns, surveillance, danger, women, murder mystery, trial ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.6
 180
Acapulco Gold (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In this rollicking adventure set on the high seas, an innocent insurance agent working on the beautiful Hawaiian island of Kauai, is framed as a drug smuggler. He gets help from a most unlikely source - the town drunk who knows more than anyone ...
Style: independent film
Plot: drug, money, jail, corruption, resort, murder, yacht, beach, heroin, golf, fight, helicopter ...
Time: 70s
Place: hawaii, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 575
The Amaranth (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Lily and Richard move to a luxurious and cult-like community, where Lily becomes unsettled by the transformation she observes in her older husband and in her own physiology, leading her to wonder if there's something more sinister at play.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: suspicious wife, transformation, suspicion, private investigation, undercover, secret, senior citizen, investigation, husband wife relationship, family relations, male female relationship, manhood
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.6
 19K
Inheritance (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A patriarch of a wealthy and powerful family suddenly passes away, leaving his wife and daughter with a shocking secret inheritance that threatens to unravel and destroy their lives.
Style: suspense, enigmatic, atmospheric, surprise ending, tense ...
Plot: family secret, dark secret, twists and turns, young girl, daughter, father daughter relationship, death of father, bribery, interracial romance, breaking the fourth wall, childhood memory, riddles and clues ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 4.0
 675
The Crew (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Still depressed over the suicide of his mother, Bill has no idea that he's in for a wild ride when he and his wife Jennifer board the yacht owned by her bigoted lawyer brother. Along for the trip: a rock musician and his wife, as well as the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: rescue, hostage, survival, captivity, isolation, forces of nature, danger, confined, husband wife relationship, cruise, lgbtq, social relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: bahamas
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Deadlier Than the Male (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In this 1967 drama, resourceful British agent Bulldog Drummond, who appeared onscreen in a series of spy stories between 1929 and 1951, returned to duty in the wake of James Bond. Here, Drummond (Richard Johnson) is on the trail of Carl Petersen ...
Style: grindhouse, political thriller, psychedelic, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: james bond spoof, spy, bulldog drummond, chess, secret agent, private detective, undercover, cold war, women, woman with a gun, erotic scene, undercover agent ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place: london, england, riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.2
 19K
Topaz (1969)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 143 min.
Story: A French intelligence agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missle Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, political thriller ...
Plot: cold war, espionage, spy, secret agent, betrayal, cuban missile crisis, surveillance, undercover, conspiracy, kgb, politics, government agency ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1969, year 1962
Place: cuba, france, paris france, copenhagen, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.1
 90
Green Sails (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When ambitious CCT exec Will Patterson uncovers a corporate conspiracy, his life spirals out of control. With an unlikely ally and beautiful crusader to guide him through his struggle, he travels to the jungles of Indonesia where a tribe--wrongly ...
Style: realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: strong female character, heroes, escapades, danger, injustice, dishonesty, workplace situations, environmentalism, corruption, corporation, environmental, conspiracy ...
Time: 90s
Place: asia, indonesia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 3.6
 1K
The Mourning (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: 20 years after going MIA in Desert Storm, Aaron returns home under mysterious conditions, not having aged since his disappearance, and must reestablish relationships with loved ones before an imminent return to an ambiguous other-worldly existence.
Style: mystical, suspense, tense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: presumed dead, conspiracy theory, mysticism, paranormal, soldier, secret, conspiracy, public nudity, male nudity, bare chested male, naked man
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.9
 21K
Coma (1978)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, psychological, neo noir, scary ...
Plot: conspiracy, medical, amateur detective, investigation, hospital, coma, serial killer, transplant, black market, danger, intern, twists and turns ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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88 (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The Financial Director for a democratic super PAC behind a frontrunner presidential candidate investigates donations, uncovering a conspiracy.
Style: political thriller, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot: conspiracy, politics, investigation, crime solving, problem, political conspiracy, political intrigue, secret, uncover truth, political corruption, political unrest, business tycoon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.4
 438
The Great Game (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Pierre Blum, 40, is a writer who had his time of glory in the early 2000s. One evening, on a casino terrace, he meets Joseph Paskin. This mysterious man, charismatic and manipulative, is influential in the world of politics and persuades Pierre to ...
Style: ambiguous ending, political thriller
Plot: ghost writer, paranoia, murder of friend, female journalist, casino, puppet master, bribery, dissident, dead body, on the run, escape, political manipulation ...
Time: 2010s
Place: paris france, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.1
 1K
Long Lost (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Seth receives a mysterious letter inviting him to spend the weekend at a secluded mansion in the country, he soon realizes the people inside the house may know him better than he knows himself.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, enigmatic, tense, dark ...
Plot: taboo, luxury, mansion, temptation, dysfunctional family, girlfriend, death, weekend, danger, suspicion, hot and sexy, sexual tension ...
Time: 21st century
Place: connecticut, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Endangered Species (1982)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Thriller about a New York ex-cop and an attractive female sheriff who fall in love while investigating a string of mysterious cattle mutilations in a small Colorado town. Urich is great as Reuben Castle, the retired alcoholic police lieutenant out ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, rough, suspense, retro ...
Plot: investigation, ufo, bio weapon, scientist, military, sheriff, blackmail, small town, experiment gone awry, heroic mission, environmentalism, danger ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: new york, usa, wyoming, colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 3.4
 2K
The Letter (2012)
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, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: mentally unstable, woman in danger, couples, conspiracy, emotional manipulation, murder, paranoia, writers, backstage, writer's life, dishonesty, playwright ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Mission Istaanbul (2008)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A promising journalist Vikas Sagar (Zayed Khan) is offered a position to head a controversial news station in Istanbul by its owner Owais Husain (Sunil Shetty). With this offer comes the promise of money and many other perks that make this offer ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, exciting
Plot: terrorism, news reporter, chase, conspiracy, frame up, investigation, danger, murder, rivalry, escapades, bare chested male, estranged couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: istanbul turkey, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Secret Ways (1961)
Genre: Adventure, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Vienna, 1956. After Soviet tanks crush the Hungarian uprising, soldier-of-fortune Mike Reynolds is hired to help a threatened Hungarian scientist (Prof. Jansci) escape from Budapest. He and Julia, the professor's daughter, cross the boulder ...
Style: black and white
Plot: cold war, iron curtain, spy, espionage, escape, prison, refugee, bullet wound, hiding place, car chase, looking for someone, male female relationship ...
Time: year 1956, year 1961, 60s, year 1960, 1950s
Place: vienna, europe, zurich switzerland, budapest, soviet union ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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