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The Falls (2003)
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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 Barnes, has disappeared and how he ended up the guardian of the 2.5 million dollars that "was supposed to have bought Jen's safety."
Style:
neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, surprise ending
Plot:
missing person, femme fatale, amateur detective, murder, ransom demand, investigation, uncover truth, betrayal, life is a bitch, rivalry, danger, dishonesty, niagara falls, revenge, obsession, seduction, evidence, jazz, sex, body swapping, violence, water, singer, suicide, tragedy ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
new york, usa
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Most similar movies to The Falls
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and tense films with plots about murder, deadly, dishonesty, investigation, danger, uncover truth and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Falls: Water's Edge (2003), Tangled (2001), Quicksand (2002), Bound by Lies (2005), Assumed Killer (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Robert wanted an escape from the big city. He thought a small town by the water's edge would give him a new start. He couldn't have been more wrong. This little town has dirty secrets, and Robert just found the worst of them...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, surprise ending
Plot:
femme fatale, murder, uncover truth, small town, investigation, dishonesty, life is a bitch, political corruption, betrayal, husband wife relationship, town mayor, skinny dipping ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young man is found bruised, beaten and stumbling down a secluded road. As the police try to piece together what happened, the convoluted relationship between a young woman and her two suitors gradually emerges.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, teen horror ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dangerous attraction, couples, love triangle, love and romance, police detective, missing person, obsession, uncover truth, police investigation, mysterious character, teenage life, amateur detective ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
266
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Randi Stewart is a sergeant on a marine base where her father is the commanding officer. She is being treated by the new base psychiatrist, Bill Turner. Her brother, Gordon Stewart is running for political office. General Stewart is murdered and ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychotronic
Plot:
army investigation, murder, psychiatrist, dangerous attraction, uncover truth, military life, life is a bitch, politics, military, danger, state affairs, femme fatale ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Detecive Max Garrett is assigned to protect the sultry photographer Laura Cross from a ruthless killer, he has no idea what he's in for. The more involved Garrett gets in the case, the more attracted he is to Cross, but as they get closer, ...
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
serial killer, photographer, murder, uncover truth, police investigation, dangerous attraction, reluctant partners, bodyguard, dishonesty, life is a bitch, betrayal, manipulation ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Bernard Salzmann's thriller Assumed Killer tells the tale of a reporter investigating a serial killer. After she suffers an accident and becomes an amnesiac, she begins to suspect her husband may be the person responsible for the brutal slayings
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense
Plot:
serial killer, amateur detective, memory loss, investigation, murder, uncover truth, danger, life is a bitch, deep south, media, journalism, television reporter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the surface, Ray Ryan has it all. He's a successful advertising executive with a new promotion. He has a nice home and a beautiful fiancée. Underneath it all is a dark secret he's finding harder to hide. Ray's nightmares are ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, life is a bitch, murder, secret, family secret, trauma, murder mystery, character study, nightmare, domestic drama, violent outburst, guilt ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Searing and luscious, "Beautiful" tells the story of Daniel, a shy and introverted 14 year old boy residing in Sunshine Hills, a suburb living in the grip of fear following the rumoured abductions of three teenage girls. Daniel's two ...
Style:
suspense, scary, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, suburbs, youth, investigation, dishonesty, uncover truth, danger, teenage life, blind ambition, suburban life, teenager, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Rent’s a bitch. And that is why, six months after her best friend went missing, Amanda finally gives in to getting another roommate, Hailey. The two college students turn out to have something in common, however: abusive men. For Hailey, it’s ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, sexual, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
roommate, abuse, uncover truth, danger, dishonesty, woman in danger, haunted by the past, lesbian sex, manipulation, friendship, gain trust, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The high school students didn't mean to kill Mr. Griffin. They wanted to make him suffer. But when their mean English teacher turns up dead, they have to find out who killed them before the police arrests them all.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleader, sexual attraction, emotional abuse, choice, kidnapping, high school, teachers and students, high school life, murder, teenage life, vengeance, uncover truth ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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:
22%
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:
danger, rivalry, dishonesty, secret, couple relations, uncover truth, maniac, murder, best friend, violent content, profanity, family problems ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three men are dangerously obsessed with the same woman.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, obsession, investigation, erotica, femme fatale, artists and showbiz, music band, college life, who done it, college, school, performer's life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Hollywood film executive gets blackmailed by a derelict who uses some damaging information to move into his house and take over his perfect life for himself.
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
dangerous attraction, frame up, dishonesty, mind game, psychopath, false accusation, murder, manipulation, protagonist as suspect, danger, crime gone awry, disorder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A private detective is drawn into a complex murder mystery when he is hired to track down a missing young woman.
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
investigation, private detective, gangster, danger, dishonesty, riddles and clues, missing person, seduction, twists and turns, killer, serial killer, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong, china, asia, thailand
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An attorney is trying to solve her younger brother's mysterious disappearance while simultaneously helping a new friend rid herself of a stalker. As she begins to uncover the truth, it turns out that the seemingly separate situations are ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic, crime thriller ...
Plot:
investigation, missing person, amateur detective, uncover truth, legal, dishonesty, who done it, danger, stalking, false identity, disappearance, private detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, investigation, infidelity, betrayal, murder, danger, twists and turns, love, stalking, surveillance, deception, adultery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
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:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, life is a bitch, rivalry, dishonesty, human nature, life turned upside down, feud, murder, violent content, nudity, sexual content, alcohol abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jimmy Stevens, a senior VP at an international energy firm, blows the whistle on his company's deadly and corrupt practices in Latin America. Knowing he will be assassinated for his betrayal, he places an anonymous call securing the services of ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
private detective, whistleblower, amateur detective, murder, uncover truth, investigation, danger, survival, dishonesty, workplace, journalism, deadline ...
Time:
1940s, year 2008, 21st century
Place:
france, usa, new york, europe
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
After childhood abuse by her step-father and eight years in a juvenile psychiatric lockup, Amanda Lear is released. Her shrink is also her lover, who surreptitiously pays her rent on a nice house for a year. She moves in, takes one look at her ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, erotic ...
Plot:
female stalker, stalking, hidden camera, abusive stepfather, neighbor, obsession, dangerous attraction, mentally unstable, youth, danger, rivalry, femme fatale ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
20%
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:
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, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A lawyer begins a sordid fling with an attractive young woman whom he slowly begins to suspect to be a serial killer of men.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime thriller, crime drama ...
Plot:
femme fatale, investigation, murder, fall in love, psychopath, murder mystery, seduction, serial killer, danger, deception, psychological manipulation, female antagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
older man younger woman romance, small town life, infidelity, extramarital affair, investigation, couples, who done it, family problems, couple relations, obsession, dangerous attraction, journalism ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Tom Flynn, the idealist owner of a left-leaning radical café/bookstore and the quixotic publisher of a hard hitting 911 conspiracy expose, finds himself entangled with a mysterious Eastern European beauty, Kasia, who is on the run from strong hand ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black and white ...
Plot:
uncover truth, investigation, fighting the system, race against time, undercover, assassination, rebellion, life is a bitch, danger, dishonesty, government agency, society ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A famous writer is found hanged in his office. At first, all police investigations conclude that it was suicide, but when Samantha Kinsey, owner of Seller 'Mystery Woman' starts his own investigation, he discovers that there is chance that ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, light hearted
Plot:
amateur detective, investigation, betrayal, dishonesty, murder, danger, store, sabotage, murder mystery, whodunit, female protagonist, crime solving ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
467
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Haunted by memories of his ex-girlfriend Alice, a heartbroken Billy returns home to Northern Virginia seeking solace from old friends. But what he finds there is more disconcerting: his best friend Stanley has become unstable, mysterious and ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, slasher ...
Plot:
murder, homecoming, best friend, couples, breakup, missing person, danger, friendship, campus, serial killer, suicide by gun, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
virginia, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a man ends a regretful love affair that occurred during his wife's illness, his mistress plots revenge by targeting his family's most treasured possessions, a priceless painting and his son.
Style:
noir, tense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
affair, unfaithful husband, erotica, love, infidelity, power relations, couples, love affair, terminal illness, couple relations, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Jack Hart lives with his lawyer wife and yound daughter and enjoys a wonderful life. Jack's old girlfriend, Lisa, comes into town and they have an affair. Lisa kills her current boyfriend in self-defense and Jack witnesses the whole thing. Lisa ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, erotic, psychological ...
Plot:
femme fatale, investigation, murder, betrayal, love and romance, legal investigation, manipulation, power relations, legal, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty, dedicated lawyer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
utah, salt lake city utah
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe may have been framed and murdered by undercover American agents.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
amateur detective, murder, investigation, undercover, police corruption, journalism, media, law enforcement, uncover truth, legal, working undercover, political conspiracy ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
puerto rico
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A hitchhiker gets a ride with an oddball woman who has her husband's body in the trunk of the car.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, tense, crime thriller ...
Plot:
small town, investigation, destructive relationship, dangerous attraction, love affair, uncover truth, murder, dishonesty, couples, homecoming, love and romance, femme fatale ...
Place:
new orleans, mississippi, usa
Similarity:
19%
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