Movies like Pretty Poison 1996
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Pretty Poison (1996)
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Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A clueless cheerleader falls for a mysterious young man who tells her he's a secret agent. But the truth is much simpler and darker.
Style:
twist ending, psychological thriller, tense, suspense, crime drama, grim, dark comedy, psychotronic
Plot:
cheerleader, deception, manipulation, betrayal, impostor, coming of age, psychological manipulation, teen romance, moral ambiguity, emotional manipulation, obsession, high school, identity crisis, mistrust, murder, small town, cat and mouse, sexual tension, older man young girl relationship, psychological drama, erotic thriller
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
new england
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological thriller, tense, suspense and crime drama films with plots about obsession, manipulation, betrayal, cat and mouse, murder, deception and moral ambiguity mostly in Thriller, Romance and Drama genres. Some movies like Pretty Poison: In the Heat of Passion (1992), Blue Chill (1989), Room for Murder (2018), Twice Bitten (2021), Murder In-Law (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A struggling actor lands the part of a rapist in a TV reenactment for a "Crimebusters" segment. He soon meets a beautiful rich woman whom he begins an affair with, even though she is married. Her husband soon finds out and is accidently ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
An unmitigated and sexy conman targets his next mark, the widowed Monique, for his latest swindle. But his routine scam hits a snag when suspicion mounts and his scheme quickly escalate into desperation, betrayal and murder.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, crime drama ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Claire has always loved her son Jim and her granddaughter Sydney, but struggles to connect with her daughter-in-law, Allison. When Allison announces a big job promotion that will relocate them far away, Claire's motherly instincts are pushed to ...
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, family problems, overprotective mother, overprotective parent, dysfunctional family, mother in law daughter in law relationship, domestic drama, murderer, life is a bitch, family relations, husband wife relationship, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A famous inventor marries a beautiful but much younger woman. His son becomes romantically involved with her.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, crime drama, erotic, twist ending ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Unsatisfied in her marriage, Rachel begins seeing Rick, unaware that her lawyer husband Tom is also having an affair. But she discovers that Tom hired Rick to seduce her, so that Tom could get grounds for a divorce.
Style:
twisted, sensual, erotic, independent film
Plot:
infidelity, betrayal, seduction, love triangle, deception, affair, adultery, emotional manipulation, domestic drama, manipulation, marital discord, secrets ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman has a brief affair with the contractor who is renovating her apartment and he refuses to accept the end of the relationship.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, crime drama
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teenage girl visits her mom on death row and gets lured into a dangerous trap to take the fall for her mother's crimes.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
The Guest is an addictive, fast-paced story that centres on the toxic and beguiling relationship between a successful business owner, Fran, and her employee, Ria. Ria has never had the time or opportunity to think about what she might actually want ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, twist ending
Plot:
cat and mouse, obsession, manipulation, control, emotional manipulation, deception, betrayal, employer employee relationship, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia, mature, slow burn ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A boy brings home his new girlfriend. However, Mom is sure that something isn't right about her, which starts a fight with her son. And then everything takes a deadly turn for the worst.
Style:
romantic drama, tense, dark, psychological thriller
Plot:
family conflict, alcoholism, family drama, mother son relationship, emotional manipulation, toxic relationship, small town, deception, betrayal, protective parent, claustrophobia, obsession ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
After troubled teen Katie is sentenced to house arrest, Katie falls for an attractive young man named John, who has just moved in next door. While their affair seems harmless at first, Katie becomes increasingly convinced there's more than ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
house arrest, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, family problems, girl next door, romantic relationship, relationships, teenager, psychological manipulation, romantic obsession, dangerous attraction, suspicion ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In this erotic thriller, a detective looks into the murder of a pornography magnate.
Style:
suspense, crime thriller, suspenseful, crime drama, sensual ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Albert (John Savage) is a psychopath who, after brutally murdering a woman, becomes obsessed with her 11-year-old daughter Annie. Twenty-one years after being sent to prison for his crimes, Albert is freed over the strenuous objections of Dr. Sachs ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A woman urges her daughter to get married. And when her daughter does, she doesn't think that she made a good choice. So she goes out and hires a killer to kill her son-in-law.
Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
100%
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, psychological thriller, crime drama, suspenseful, twisted ...
Plot:
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Place:
san francisco, los angeles, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: 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:
usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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