Movies like Resilience
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Resilience (2006)
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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
Plot:
moral dilemma, life is a bitch, intrigue, rivalry, human nature, dishonesty, life turned upside down, feud, murder, alcohol abuse, graphic violence, sexual content, nude, sex, prostitute, alcoholic, morality, cruelty, nudity (full frontal - brief), crime, crimes
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about dishonesty, murder, rivalry, danger, deadly, graphic violence and life is a bitch mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Resilience: Fatal Secrets (2009), Blood and Ties (2013), Fatwa (2006), The Letter (2012), From the Inside (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, ...
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Plot:
rivalry, dishonesty, couple relations, secret, suspense, uncover truth, maniac, murder, family problems, sexual abuse, woman in danger, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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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 ...
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psychological, tense, serious, realistic, captivating ...
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uncover truth, murder, kidnapping, parents and children, hidden identity, family relations, moral dilemma, investigation, dishonesty, single parent, woman in danger, father daughter relationship ...
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south korea, korea
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473
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:
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Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
save the day, political conspiracy, undercover, politics, terrorism, state affairs, rivalry, dishonesty, murder, suspense, government agency, heroes ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa
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66%
Genre: Drama, 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:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
mentally unstable, woman in danger, couples, psychological manipulation, conspiracy, emotional manipulation, paranoia, murder, writers, dishonesty, writer's life, playwright
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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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:
serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
murder, murderous pair, rivalry, dishonesty, crime gone awry, kidnapping, cons and scams, graphic violence, suspense, nude, death, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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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, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sexual content, dishonesty, best friends, dangerous attraction, disorder, teenage life, boy girl relationship, teenager, manipulation, friends, moral dilemma, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
645
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 ...
Style:
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Plot:
betrayal, murder, infidelity, breakup, couples, couple relations, rivalry, obsession, jealousy, sex scene, african american, making love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
952
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
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, mental illness, mentally unstable, track down, vengeance, criminal's revenge, violence spree, sexual content, murder, strip club, prostitute, nightclub ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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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, psychological, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, murder, moral dilemma, promotion, life turned upside down, under the surface, breaking point, dishonesty, nude, chase, suffering, money ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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:
suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
assassination, campaign, political corruption, politics, dishonesty, haunted by the past, rivalry, graphic violence, state affairs, corruption, sex, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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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, captivating
Plot:
twists and turns, life turned upside down, addiction, home invasion, faked death, car accident, husband wife relationship, abduction, suspense, kidnapping, confined, crime gone awry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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 ...
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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:
serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, undercover, witnessing a crime, gangsters, working undercover, introspection, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, rivalry, dishonesty, chase, vengeance ...
Place:
usa, miami, florida, new york
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52%
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 ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 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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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:
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Plot:
moral dilemma, pirate, hijacking, surrender, confined, piracy, escape, rivalry, graphic violence, hostage, power relations, realism ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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986
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Kip's perfect life is put in jeopardy when the waitress with whom he's having a casual fling is accidentally killed in their motel room. Desperate, he turns to childhood friend and loser, Marvin, to help get rid of the body. Marvin agrees ...
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Plot:
murder, friends, life turned upside down, dishonesty, suspense, disposing of a dead body, death, twists and turns, buddies, disorder, graphic violence, deadly ...
Time:
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Place:
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261
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When three very different people (Mike Baldwin, Will Haza, Ali Lukowski) from three completely different worlds begin a deadly game of Russian Roulette, they soon discover that their pasts are a trilogy of overlapping events that have brought them ...
Style:
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Plot:
russian roulette, suicide, mind game, life is a bitch, destiny, down on your luck, game of death, woman in danger, deadly, danger, unreliable narrator, gun
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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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
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47%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ethan Tell is a small time crook who makes a big-time score when he steals 1 million dollars. Ironically, his life radically changes for the worst when he discovers that stealing the money was the easy part and he now must keep his partner, his ...
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exciting, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Addison Terrill, a former district attorney now in a lucrative private practice, has what seems to be the perfect life. But life as he knows it is turned upside down when he arrives home from work late one night to find his wife brutally murdered ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Plot:
social decay, moral dilemma, woman in danger, workplace situations, dishonesty, political corruption, rivalry, life is a bitch, workplace, workplace intrigue, state affairs, down on your luck ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 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: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, scary, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 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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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After being granted a questionable transfer that will keep him stateside as his National Guard unit deploys for Iraq, Lieutenant Danny Sefton becomes embroiled in a last minute AWOL attempt by one of his soldiers — forcing him to choose between ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 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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