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Resilience (2006)
33
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An average man finds himself in a position to prevent the murder of a family member -- the unnerving descent of a man caught between resilience and ruthlessness.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film
Plot:
moral dilemma, life is a bitch, rivalry, human nature, dishonesty, life turned upside down, feud, murder, alcohol abuse, sexual content, nudity, violent content, sex, prostitute, alcoholic, morality, cruelty, intrigue, graphic violence, nude, crime, nudity (full frontal - brief), crimes
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to Resilience
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and tense films with plots about murder, dishonesty, rivalry, deadly, danger, life is a bitch and violent content mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Resilience: N-Secure (2010), Her Name Is Carla (2005), Fatal Secrets (2009), Toxic (2008), Fatwa (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
716
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
N-Secure is a no holds-barred thrilling drama mixed with murder, mayhem and manipulation among affluent professionals. This film sheds light on a man's downfall from the pinnacles of success into the depths of his damaged character. His ...
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Plot:
betrayal, murder, infidelity, breakup, couples, couple relations, rivalry, obsession, danger, jealousy, sex scene, african american ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two strangers refuse to leave the seaside home of a couple, which leads to sexual tension and crime.
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
zimbabwe
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100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
"BALANCING THE BOOKS" is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The lives of a nightclub owner, a crime boss, a stripper, a bartender, two hitmen, a prostitute and a psychic take a turn for the worse when they are trapped in an escaped mental patient's sinister path of madness and destruction.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, mental illness, mentally unstable, vengeance, criminal's revenge, violence spree, sexual content, murder, strip club, nightclub, crime boss, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
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511
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the midst of a personal crisis, junior senator Maggie Davidson (Holly) ascertains that she's the subject of a terrorist plot.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
save the day, political conspiracy, politics, danger, undercover, terrorism, rivalry, state affairs, dishonesty, murder, terrorist, propaganda ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A teen seductress pulls three other privileged Malibu kids into her devious scheme, and unforeseen consequences force the group to face their own fears and mortality.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, teen ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual content, best friend, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, danger, disorder, teenage life, boy girl relationship, profanity, teenager, manipulation, moral dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, malibu california
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Alone in their isolated home where no cars pass and no one lives nearby, Vincent and Tally suffer together in a loveless marriage. But what they don't know is that they are not as alone as they think -- a criminal and his psychotic brother are ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, kidnapping, cons and scams, danger, dishonesty, crime gone awry, murderous pair, rivalry, graphic violence, nudity, violent content, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
It's not politics as usual, or is it? The governor of Louisiana is about to become the vice-presidential candidate for his party but a murder and an international web spanning from South Africa to Pakistan and North Korea might just get in the ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
assassination, campaign, danger, politics, haunted by the past, political corruption, dishonesty, rivalry, violent content, state affairs, profanity, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Étienne Meunier (Benoît Magimel) is a young executive who has everything going for him. His career is skyrocketing and he is about to become #1 at work, he is married to a picture-perfect wife, has a dream home and money. To top it off, he's ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspenseful, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, haunted by the past, moral dilemma, promotion, under the surface, life turned upside down, breaking point, dishonesty, harassment, nudity, suffering, secret ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A wealthy high powered woman suffers a horrible tragedy after which she descends into substance abuse,turning her back on her family. She later discovers that someone close to her may be behind her subsequent abduction and kidnapping.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
twists and turns, life turned upside down, addiction, home invasion, car accident, faked death, husband wife relationship, abduction, kidnapping, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, crime gone awry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
For burned-out Seattle cop Daniel Pruitt, a camping trip turns hellish when his wife, Jessica, is savagely attacked in the forest. En route to the hospital, the Pruitts collide with a semi, and Jessica identifies the driver as her assailant. ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, crime drama ...
Plot:
small town, vengeance, law enforcement, police investigation, rivalry, murder, dishonesty, life is a bitch, mistaken identity, moral ambiguity, sexual assault, investigation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, seattle
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Young bachelor Babee is looking after his dead mother's estate when married couple Keith and Vera move in. Babee becomes attracted to them by the beautiful Vera and the risk taking Keith. However at a party Vera crashes her car, putting Keith ...
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, twists and turns, vengeance, nudity, estate, cons and scams, hollywood, rivalry, sexual content, violent content, falling from height, drowning ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
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, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
murder, chemistry, kidnapping, on the run, drug dealing, danger, dishonesty, drug abuse, violent content, farm, confined, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Kenya, Somalia
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In Somalia, principled, young husband and father Abdi turns to piracy to support his family. While his wife and child wait for him in Yemen, an outdated and fragile satellite phone is his only connection to all he truly values. Abdi and his fellow ...
Style:
tense, captivating, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
pirate, piracy, moral dilemma, hijacking, surrender, confined, danger, rivalry, international relations, violent content, hostage, realism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, somalia
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, undercover, witnessing a crime, gangster, introspection, working undercover, rivalry, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, dishonesty, danger, assassin ...
Place:
usa, cuba, florida, new york, miami
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, iran
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
gambling, best friend, betrayal, vengeance, rivalry, intrigue, murder, dishonesty, ambition, obsession, interracial, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On their way to a weekend hunting trip in the Ozarks, four friends get in to a car accident, killing the driver of the other car...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A descent into hell, Jesper Ganslandt's disturbing and suspenseful second feature begins with a man waking up in unfamiliar surroundings, only to find the life he knew the day before is gone.
Style:
disturbing, contemplative, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, hell, introspection, moral dilemma, human nature, family relations, disorder, life turned upside down, heroes, parents and children, surrealism, father ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
21%
125
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In a smoke-filled dive in Buffalo, NY, David Marx tells us his tale of obsession, betrayal, and murder - leading him to an uncertain fate "underneath Niagara Falls." David tells us how his beautiful redheaded ex-girlfriend, Jennifer ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
missing person, femme fatale, amateur detective, murder, ransom demand, uncover truth, investigation, betrayal, life is a bitch, rivalry, dishonesty, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Emily Parker is haunted by visions of a woman from the past soon after receiving an antique engagement ring from her fiancé.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, tense, mind bending
Plot:
ghost, uncover truth, haunted by the past, investigation, life is a bitch, murder, supernatural, dishonesty, legal, dedicated lawyer, deep south, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Leah's brother dies in a car accident, she vows revenge on the doc who failed to save him.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, twisted ...
Plot:
female killer, revenge, murder, psychopath, femme fatale, serial killer, family problems, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, infidelity, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The morning after the night before, a rapid spiral of disastrous telephone calls chart the certain ruin of young Phil's day as he attempts to fib his way out of one scrape after another. Told entirely in animated captions.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, mind bending ...
Plot:
murder, couples, rivalry, law enforcement, hidden identity, who done it, investigation, twists and turns, life turned upside down, profanity, violent content, legal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, clergy, amateur detective, uncover truth, youth, society, dishonesty, danger, teenager, soul, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In a small Catholic boarding school an unspeakable act has been committed. When High School student, Luther Scott, confesses to Father Michael Kelly, Kelly is bound silent to the particulars of a grisly murder. Now, framed guilty by the desperate ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, catholic, courtroom drama, false accusation, moral dilemma, investigation, frame up, teenage life, who done it, clergy, legal, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A First Amendment scholar is recruited by an attorney to sue a publishing company after a hit man commits a triple murder by allegedly following a how-to manual the book company published. They set out to put the company on trial for providing ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, tense ...
Plot:
murder, hitman, courtroom, courtroom drama, price of justice, rebellion, rivalry, society, false accusation, dedicated lawyer, hopes, righting the wronged ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
19%
283
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A doctor and his girlfriend are stalked by a woman who claims to be in love with him. Meanwhile, the man falls in love with a younger woman. Based on a true story
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot:
dangerous attraction, police investigation, obsession, danger, couples, dishonesty, life is a bitch, fall in love, mentally unstable, couple relations, stalking, female stalker ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Da-eun lives a happy life with her single father, a man who sacrificed everything in his life for her. She loved her father very dearly. However, their relationship is about to take an unexpected turn. Da-eun becomes suspicious that her father might ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
kidnapping, uncover truth, murder, investigation, danger, moral dilemma, hidden identity, woman in danger, parents and children, single parent, reporter, life turned upside down ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, east asia
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On the trail of her missing sister, Charlotte enlists the help of Wayne, an ex-Marine and alcoholic, to infiltrate the Church of One Accord - a community of snake-handlers who risk their lives seeking salvation in the Holy Ghost.
Style:
tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
religions or cults, missing person, rescue, uncover truth, woman in danger, clergy, danger, religion, religious fanaticism, brainwashing, anti christianity, faith ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young married couple encounters a stranger who threatens their marriage and their lives.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
sex scene, couples, stranger, family problems, mysterious character, danger, drinking, duel, drinking alcohol, romantic triangle, marriage, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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