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The Lady Vanishes (2013)
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The Lady Vanishes (2013)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Beautiful and wealthy young socialite Iris Carr is used to being at the heart of her social group, but when her friends' raucous and unsociable behaviour escalates whilst on holiday in the Balkans she resolves to seek out some tranquillity and travel home alone. But her expectations of peace are short-lived when, at the railway station, Iris wavers in the scorching heat and constant jostle of passengers, fainting suddenly on the platform. She wakes in time to be rushed onto the train, but with a pounding head and a feeling of being almost in a dream. Whilst in this malaise she is comforted by an older English lady called Miss Froy, but when Iris falls asleep she awakes to find Miss Froy has gone and her fellow passengers denying she ever existed.
Style: psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, captivating, suspense, absurd, period piece, mind bending, realistic ...
Plot: train, female protagonist, missing person, twists and turns, investigation, fall in love, danger, amateur detective, disappearance, mind game, dishonesty, inspiration, storytelling, backpacking, missing woman, fake identity, love and romance, strong female presence, woman in danger, tea, newspaper, old woman, train travel, old lady, drugged ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, 30s
Place: europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and tense films with plots about danger, investigation, murder, dishonesty, deadly, uncover truth and twists and turns mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like The Lady Vanishes: Riddle (2013), The Woman in White (1997), I Know What I Saw (2007), A Closed Book (2009), Megachurch Murder (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Lady Vanishes (1979)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Remake of Alfred Hitchcock's 1938 classic. On the eve of the Second World War, a train carrying an assortment of passengers, pulls out of a small town in Bavaria. When one of the passengers, a kindly old lady, mysteriously disappears the other ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating, touching ...
Plot: missing person, spy, mind game, secret agent, train, danger, amateur detective, dishonesty, woman in danger, american abroad, world war two, intrigue ...
Time: 1930s, year 1979, year 1939, pre world war two
Place: germany, london, austria
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Riddle (2013)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Holly & Nathan Teller live in a small town in Pennsylvania. Holly is on the cheerleading team and has a close relationship with her younger brother Nathan, who is subjected to bullying at school. Nathan is taken for a car ride one day by ...
Style: serious, disturbing, rough, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: missing person, uncover truth, investigation, college, small town, amateur detective, haunted by the past, social relations, riddles and clues, secret place, danger, unlikely criminals ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Woman in White (1997)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Based upon Wilkie Collins Victorian mystery, the gothic tale tells of a pair of half sisters whose lives end up caught in a grand conspiracy revolving around a mentally ill woman dressed in white. As the story unfolds, murder, love, marriage, and ...
Style: gothic, psychological, suspenseful, serious, costume drama ...
Plot: investigation, mysterious character, uncover truth, social differences, society, couple relations, love and romance, infidelity, ghost, missing person, obsession, supernatural ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1870s
Place: england, britain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
I Know What I Saw (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mourning the loss of her father, who committed suicide, Mackenzie starts having hallucinations of killing people. They seem so real that she's convinced she's been committing these crimes; however, she can find no evidence to support this. ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, investigation, danger, losing-it hero, serial killer, uncover truth, rivalry, dishonesty, twists and turns, suspicion, youth, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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A Closed Book (2009)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jane appears to be ideal: attractive, intelligent, unruffled by her employer's abrupt eccentricities. But, gradually, we come aware that Jane has another agenda. Incrementally, Sir Paul's familiar surroundings are altered. His housekeeper ...
Style: psychological, captivating, serious, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: blindness, rivalry, femme fatale, danger, twists and turns, gain trust, mind game, boss and employee, haunted by the past, power relations, estate, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, oxford university, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Megachurch Murder (2015)
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: captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: murder, investigation, uncover truth, amateur detective, clergy, youth, dishonesty, society, danger, teenager, soul, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Terrible Angels (2012)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Detective Ben Nolan is sent to investigate the story of a convicted prostitute and known drug dealer Linda Grossel. Linda explains that she was kidnapped and held captive for weeks. As the investigation unfolds, Linda's sanity is put to ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: uncover truth, danger, law enforcement, abduction, police detective, investigation, violent content, confined, isolation, woman in danger, life is a bitch, captivity
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Ordeal by Innocence (1984)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed for the murder of his mother. Calgary can prove that Jack was innocent. In spite of opposition from ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, grindhouse ...
Plot: amateur detective, murder, uncover truth, death row, frame up, false accusation, injustice, law enforcement, legal, murder mystery, alibi, incest ...
Time: 20th century, 50s
Place: england, antarctica, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Uncovered (1994)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, patrons and restorers, and she finds that the mystery of the painting is interwoven with the mystery ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot: chess, investigation, murder, inheritance, uncover truth, mind game, danger, race against time, dishonesty, amateur detective, law enforcement, prostitute ...
Time: medieval times, year 1993, middle ages
Place: barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Inju: The Beast in the Shadow (2008)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The writer and college professor, Alexandre Fayard, researches and gives lectures about the gruesome literary work of the mysterious Japanese writer Shundei Oe, considered by him to be the master of manipulation.
Style: neo noir, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: dishonesty, stalking, danger, mind game, obsession, uninhibited rivalry, lifestyle, twists and turns, writers, murder, violent content, nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Abandoned (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: female protagonist, hospital, danger, race against time, confined, rivalry, uncover truth, investigation, intrigue, doctors and patients, abduction, mind game ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Shadow in the North (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When an elderly client loses a fortune on an investment, fearless Sally Lockhart will stop at nothing to rectify the situation — even if it means risking everything important to her in the process. As Sally sorts out the threads of the mystery — ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Plot: victorian england, murder, detective agency, amateur sleuth, uncover truth, investigation, partners against crime, dishonesty, private detective, danger, friends, amateur detective ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1870s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Intruders (2014)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 45 min.
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Story: Members of a secret society chase immortality by seeking refuge in the bodies of others.
Style: atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: haunted by the past, missing person, dishonesty, danger, death, supernatural, secret society, occult, mythical creature, immortal, paranormal phenomena, ex-cop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Bay of Silence (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Will believes his wife Rosalind is innocent of their son's suspected murder, only to discover the devastating truth behind her past links her to another unsolved crime.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: murder, wife, save the day, paranoia, brutality, police investigation, female protagonist, twists and turns, male nudity, panic, artist, missing person ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Nobel's Last Will (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While covering the annual Nobel Banquet for tabloid Kvällspressen, crime reporter Annika Bengtzon witnesses a spectacular murder right in front of her. Two people are shot, one of them the controversial Laureate in Medicine, Aaron Wiesel. Annika is ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: journalism, murder, journalist, investigation, nobel prize, uncover truth, danger, media, dishonesty, nordic, writers, investigative journalism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Vanishing (1988)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, France, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Rex and Saskia are enjoying a biking holiday in France when, stopping at a gas station, Saskia disappears. Confounded, Rex searches everywhere, but to no avail. Three years later, he's still obsessed with finding her, pleading his case on ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, bleak, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, twists and turns, missing person, obsession, road trip, macabre, murder, insanity, police investigation, mind game, secrets ...
Time: 20th century, year 1988, near future, 80s
Place: france, europe, holland, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.0
 398
Ties That Bind (2010)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Hope finds herself leaving the comfort of her suburban life for New York City in order to settle the affairs of her best friend Rachel who has just been murdered. Little does she know that she is being sucked into a vortex of intrigue, where nothing ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, crime drama ...
Plot: murder, investigation, danger, intrigue, twists and turns, amateur detective, rivalry, criminal, woman with a gun, strong female presence, dishonesty, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Uncle John (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Uncle John revolves around the struggle to keep a mysterious disappearance unsolved
Style: tense, sincere, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: missing person, investigation, homecoming, social relations, unlikely criminals, manipulation, small town life, under the surface, small town, dishonesty, murder, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A woman reports that her young daughter is missing, but there seems to be no evidence that she ever existed.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, disturbing, serious ...
Plot: missing child, missing person, investigation, kidnapping, danger, imaginary friend, kindergarten, journalism, family relations, missing daughter, single parent, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 1965, 60s
Place: london, england, britain, america, europe ...
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20%
The Killing Game (2011)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Eve Duncan is contacted, 10 years after the disappearance and murder of her 7-year-old daughter Bonnie, by a man claiming to be her killer. Taunted by his clues about Bonnie's case and his threats to kill again, she throws herself into her ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, haunted by the past, murder, danger, death, mind game, strong female presence, riddles and clues, foster home, child abduction, deadly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Suspension of Disbelief (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Martin is a screenwriter, who finds himself in one of his own plays: A young woman is found dead in the Thames and no one really knows, what has happened to her.
Style: sexy, erotic, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, artists and showbiz, writer's life, sex scene, uncover truth, danger, missing person, writers, disappearance, wife, female nudity, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Nemesis Game (2003)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, New Zealand, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Sara Novak is an introverted college student with a few skeletons in her closet. Shying away from classmates, she prefers to spend time with Vern, an older comic store owner who shares her passion for mind games and riddles. But when the riddles she ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, mind game, murder, uncover truth, investigation, danger, obsession, riddles and clues, dangerous attraction, college, nemesis, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century
Place: toronto ontario canada
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20%
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Agatha (1979)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: In real life, mystery writer Agatha Christie disappeared for 11 days in December 1926. To this day, no one knows the details of what she did during that time. The film gives a fictional account of Christie's time away, showing her as a woman ...
Style: atmospheric, realistic, serious, psychological, factual ...
Plot: disappearance, missing person, writers, investigation, writer's life, historical figure, uncover truth, private detective, murder, biopic, interwar period, spa ...
Time: 1920s, year 1979
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Ricochet (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two homicide detectives find their careers - and lives - on the line when they get caught up in a case of murder and betrayal in high-society Savannah.
Style: atmospheric, detective, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: murder, investigation, police detective, dishonesty, law enforcement, betrayal, partner, high society, danger, couples, twists and turns, deep south ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Alone (2002)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Experience the fear as you're sucked into the disturbed mind of Alex. Tormented by harrowing voices of the past Alex searches for the one girl who can silence the horror of a tortured soul. As the quest becomes darker and more sinister ...
Style: psychological, rough, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, woman in danger, danger, psychopath, mentally unstable, stalking, twists and turns, eye, violent content, law enforcement, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Seven Dials Mystery (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 132 min.
Story: When two mysterious deaths mar an otherwise pleasant weekend in the English countryside, unflappable flapper Lady Eileen Brent (Cheryl Campbell) teams up with the dashing Jimmy Thesinger (James Warwick) to solve the dastardly deeds. Their sleuthing ...
Style: mind bending, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: amateur detective, mysticism, murder mystery, conspiracy, countryside, riddles and clues, who done it, murder, estate, danger, investigation, espionage ...
Time: 1920s
Place: england, europe
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19%
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Awakened (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, parents and children, twists and turns, haunted by the past, small town, small town life, afterlife, mental illness, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
A Killer Upstairs (2005)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman investigates when her teenage son is arrested for his married lover's murder.
Style: psychological, realistic, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: murder, infidelity, investigation, false accusation, law enforcement, legal, amateur detective, dishonesty, parents and children, jail, model, alibi ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Deadly Encounter (2004)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Restaurant hostess and mom Joanne Sanders has to work late one night. After she leaves the restaurant she accidentally cuts a car off on the highway. This driver takes it personally and he begins to stalk and harass Joanne.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: woman in danger, stalking, danger, chases and races, stalker, violence, ex husband ex wife relationship, police detective, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, threatening telephone call, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Road to Nowhere (2010)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A passionate filmmaker creating a film based upon a true crime casts an unknown mysterious young woman bearing a disturbing resemblance to the femme fatale in the story. Unsuspectingly, he finds himself drawn into a complex web of haunting intrigue: ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, atmospheric, neo noir ...
Plot: filmmaking, murder, investigation, artists and showbiz, dishonesty, femme fatale, love and romance, twists and turns, political corruption, filmmaker, fall in love, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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