Movies like The Dark Nest

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The Dark Nest (2011)
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The Dark Nest (2011)
Original name: Das dunkle Nest
Genre: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: murder, priest, murderer, life is a bitch, sexual abuse, father daughter relationship, child murder, female police officer, catholic church, policewoman, dna testing, burning car, mystery, crimes, female director
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Most similar movies to The Dark Nest

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspenseful, suspense and psychological films with plots about murder, murderer, murder investigation, investigation, murder mystery, criminal and crime investigation mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Dark Nest: The Katsuragi Murder Case (2016), Maria's Breast (2014), The Girl Is in Trouble (2015), Dark Blood (2021), Invisible Killer (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Katsuragi Murder Case (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The Katsuragi Household that runs a small store may appear serene. But as the younger son Minoru commits a murder on the street, the family is exposed to the public. Is there anybody that is behind this murder case?
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: depression, murderer, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, family relations, father son relationship, murder, family problems, husband wife relationship, inheritance, family business, killing spree ...
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Varg Veum - The Dead Have It Easy (2012)
Genre: Crime
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Varg Veum tries to help a scared girl lost in the woods at night, but he fails to avoid her death. What was this young asylum seeker fleeing from?
Style: tense, realistic, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: twists and turns, investigation, murder, race against time, dishonesty, danger, violence, private investigator, violent content, sexual abuse, chases and races, conspiracy ...
Time: 21st century
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Maria's Breast (2014)
Genre: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Masao (Kokone Sasaki) was once famous for having supernatural powers, but she now lives as a prostitute. Her special power is to know when a person will die by touching them. Masao has sex with men about to die. One day, a man named Tachibana ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, psychological
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, problem, murderer, secret, murder mystery, who done it, murder, crime solving, police investigation, homicide detective, murder investigation ...
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Crimes of Passion: Tragedy in a Country Churchyard (2013)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A murder investigation takes detective Christer Wijk to a small village, where he needs to separate rumors and facts to trail the murderer.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, captivating
Plot: murder investigation, murder, church, winter, police detective, priest, danger, storytelling, husband wife relationship, swedish, snow, countryside ...
Time: 1950s
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68%
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The Good Father: The Martin MacNeill Story (2021)
Genre: Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Weeks after his wife's suspicious death, Dr Martin MacNeill moves in his mistress under the guise of a live-in nanny. Shocked by her father's actions, his daughter begins to question everything she's known about him while uncovering a ...
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller
Plot: infidelity, murder, father, murder mystery, father and daughter, secret, murder investigation, murderer, male female relationship, relationships, family relations, bad father ...
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The Girl Is in Trouble (2015)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Lower East Side bartender becomes entangled in a murder mystery involving a desperate woman, a missing drug dealer and the scion of a powerful investment firm.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, captivating
Plot: murder, murder mystery, investigation, murder investigation, moral dilemma, criminal, blackmail, uncover truth, crime investigation, murderer
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Dark Blood (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A father is imprisoned after committing a brutal revenge crime. During his confinement he must adapt to a new life of abuse, including injury and humiliation by guards and other prisoners.
Style: tense, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: revenge, confined, male protagonist, prisoner, jail, bandit, violence, murderer, violent, male nudity, father
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64%
Invisible Killer (2009)
Genre: Crime
Country: China
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Zhang Yao, the leader of the Haidao vice squad, accidentally captured suspect Gao Fei, who used a fake ID. According to his confession, Gao Fei is a player of the online game "World of Warcraft" and he once met a beautiful young woman Ju ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: murder, murder investigation, couple relations, murderer, unsolved crime, forensics, murder mystery, investigation, crime solving, crime investigation, love affair, male female relationship ...
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61%
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The Third Nail (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A young man is sentenced to life in prison for killing two children, a crime he didn't commit. DNA evidence sets him free, but there is no hiding from the prison gang that wants him dead. When his own daughter is abducted and apparently ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: wrongful conviction, priest, faith, falsely accused, religious faith, ex convict, false accusation, kidnapping, confronting the past, investigation, child abduction, uncover truth ...
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60%
A Killer Walks Amongst Us (2016)
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Haunted by the ghosts of the past, an ex FBI agent helps the police on a case of a murdered teenager to track the murderer.
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot: teenager, female agent, mother daughter relationship, serial killer, murderer, haunted by the past, special agent, investigation, secret agent, confronting the past, forensics, dark past ...
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59%
Intrigo: Dear Agnes (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Sweden, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: What is a human life worth? How is it possible that a woman like Agnes could agree to kill another human being? Is it the money? Or are there other forces at play?
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot: relationship problems, assassination plot, female assassin, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, murder, female protagonist, conspiracy, female villain, unlikely criminals, murder mystery, murderer, girlfriend ...
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59%
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Diner (2019)
Genre: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Kanako Oba contacts a mysterious site for part-time work. Because of this, her life is soon in jeopardy. She is then forced to work at the restaurant Diner as a waitress or she will be killed. Bombero (Tatsuya Fujiwara) is the owner and chef at ...
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: criminal, chef, waitress, restaurant, serial killer, diner, workplace, self discovery, meaning of life, hitman, life is a bitch, murderer ...
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58%
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Primal Doubt (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When an ex-romance author who is trapped in an unsatisfying marriage, decides to give love another chance with a man she met over the Internet, she finds herself caught up in a terrifying murder mystery.
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, murder mystery, female writer, trap, marriage, troubled marriage, problem, murder investigation, internet dating, secret, murderer, marriage crisis ...
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56%
Dearest Brother (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Would you help your brother ditch a dead body? Etienne Leroy must make this snap decision when his younger brother Mathias admits to having accidentally killed his young mistress. The decision is pressing, as the body is lying on Etienne's ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, suspense
Plot: guilty conscience, brother brother relationship, disposing of a dead body, murder mystery, corpse, family problems, family relations, hidden truth, murder, murderer, moral dilemma, crime investigation ...
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56%
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Death on Ice (2015)
Genre: Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A body is found on a frozen village pond in the Waldviertel. Ironically, the former police officer Sepp Ahorner finds the dead man. When the Linz Commissioner Grete Öller and her young colleague Lisa Nemeth arrive in the sleepy village, the case ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, psychological
Plot: forensics, who done it, uncover truth, crime investigation, murder, murder investigation, police investigation, secret, murder mystery, killings, murderer, crime solving ...
Place: austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Sins of the Father (2019)
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Story: Police unearth a sinful conspiracy when they investigate the murder of a pastor's wife.
Style: suspense, captivating
Plot: family secret, bandit, criminal, changing lives, life is a bitch, lifestyle change, gang, pastor, street gang, family problems, outlaw gang, murder
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54%
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Bodywork (2001)
Genre: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Virgil Guppy buys a sleek-looking used Jaguar, but the car turns out to be a lemon. Unfortunately, that's just the start of his problems; a dead prostitute is discovered in the trunk, and Virgil is accused of her murder. Aided by a ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, semi serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: prostitute, murder, injustice, frame up, false accusation, life is a bitch, dishonesty, on the run, meme, nothing to lose, criminal heroes, police ...
Time: 90s
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52%
Northern Skies Over Empty Space (2022)
Genre: Crime
Country: Mexico
Duration: 114 min.
Story: With a keen sense of how to deploy omens that herald change, Alejandra Márquez Abella portrays a period of epochal change in rural Mexico – as seen by those who are usually restricted to the role of passive supporting actor.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: life is a bitch, changing lives, criminal, social problems, lifestyle change, family problems, village life, countryside, problem, woman, violence
Place: mexico
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Griekwastad (2019)
Genre: Crime
Country: South Africa
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In 2012, Deon Steenkamp was murdered along with his wife Christel and their teenage daughter Marthella on their farm Naauwhoek. GRIEKWASTAD, based on the bestselling true crime novel by Jacques Steenkamp, tells the tale of the search to find the ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological
Plot: murder investigation, murder, problem, sleuth, investigation, secret, crime solving, uncover truth, murderer, murder mystery, crime investigation
Place: africa
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46%
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Nachtschicht (2003)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
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Story: Night shift thriller story.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, suspense
Plot: criminal gang, murder investigation, gang, criminal, murderer, gang member, bandit, criminal underworld, murder, female nudity, female full frontal nudity
Place: germany
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46%
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Cold Blood (2005)
Genre: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Brian Wicklow is jailed after a killing spree so macabre that he has become one of Britain's most notorious murderers. Vilified by the popular press and despised by fellow inmates, his notoriety is compounded by the fact that detectives, ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: serial killer, investigation, killings, murderer, murder investigation, jailed, murder, prison life, serial murder, criminal, jail, killing spree ...
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46%
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My Murder (2012)
Genre: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
Story: A chance meeting with a girl leads to murder as a teenage boy is engulfed by a web of lies in this innovative and gripping factual drama. My Murder tells the true story of Shakilus Townsend, a 16-year-old boy who was led to his death by the ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, captivating
Plot: partner, police detective, murder mystery, chase, escapades, police investigation, partners against crime, murder, violence, police officer, death, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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44%
The 1990s: The Deadliest Decade (2018)
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: A look at notorious murders and crimes that happened during the 1990s.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, captivating
Plot: murder, investigation, murderer, killings, crime investigation, murder investigation, serial murder, who done it, crime solving, uncover truth
Time: 90s
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The Good Neighbor (2022)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Latvia
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A nightmarish evening unfolds for David, a former New York Times journalist, when he and his strange new neighbor Robert, accidentally hit a girl on her bike. Buzzed and disoriented, David lets Robert convince him to flee the scene and leave the ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: murderer, neighbor, nosy neighbor, friendship between men, friendship, murder, life is a bitch, unlikely friendships, tragic event, neighbor neighbor relationship, problem, writers ...
Time: 2020s
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38%
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12 Citizens (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When the film broke out that a young man coming from a rich adopted family murdered his birth father, the controversy around the case hit a nerve with the public at large. An experiment was held through the form of virtual court inside a college to ...
Style: thought provoking, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, captivating
Plot: murder, justice, murderer, social problems, court, problem, legal action, criminal, trial, courtroom drama
Place: china
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38%
Essex Boys Retribution (2013)
Genre: Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Twenty years after Britain's most notorious gangland murders, the next generation of Essex Boys vie for control as revenge is sought by all sides.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense
Plot: murder, gang war, violent, crime boss, gang, organized crime, murderer, revenge, criminal's revenge, bandit, criminal gang, criminal ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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In the Wake (2021)
Genre: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Baffling serial killings unfold in which the victims are tied up and left to starve. Tone was just released from prison after finishing his sentence for another crime, and he surfaces as a suspect but detective Tomashiro can't nail down ...
Style: captivating, psychological
Plot: crime investigation, murderer, uncover truth, murder mystery, who done it, murder investigation, murder, crime solving, investigation, criminal, serial murder, police investigation ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Frustrated (2013)
Genre: Crime
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Constant humiliation from society and a long drift into solitude slowly turn murder fantasies of Fabrice Lombard into an irrepressible impulse and Fabrice Lombard into a serial killer.
Style: slasher, psychological, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, human monster, loneliness, homicidal maniac, stripper, model, perversity, weirdo, sex crime, rape, death, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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22 Chaser (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: One of the city's last decent tow truck drivers risks everything on a desperate quest to become king of the road and provide for his struggling family.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: truck, criminal underworld, needing money, money problems, truck driver, family problems, driver, criminal, life is a bitch
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Stray Bullets (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In upstate New York, two teenage boys are tasked with cleaning out their father's old mobile home on an abandoned property, but the boys are in for a surprise when they discover three crooks on the run have taken refuge in the trailer.
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful
Audience: teens
Plot: teenage boy, criminal, murderer, death threat, murder, escaped prisoner, con artists, threat, risk, boy, house, trailer
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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