Movies like A Sister's Secret 2009
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A Sister's Secret (2009)
338
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When Katherine (Alexandra Paul) finds out her father's company is about to close the paper mill they own in her hometown in rural Pennsylvania, she comes up with a plan to save it. Needing the approval of the city council, she goes back and runs into someone from her past: Jane (Cynthia Preston). Years ago, in high school, Katherine dated Jane's twin brother Sean, who subsequently committed suicid
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, exciting, suspense, disturbing
Plot:
murder, homecoming, betrayal, family relations, parents and children, vengeance, family business, workplace, dishonesty, mother daughter relationship, strong female lead, rivalry, workplace intrigue, strong female presence, small town, haunted by the past, boss and employee, power relations, revenge, twins, suicide, twin brother and sister, ex girlfriend, loss of brother, loss of mother ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
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Most similar movies to A Sister's Secret
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and tense films with plots about deadly, murder, dishonesty, rivalry, danger, woman in danger and family relations mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like A Sister's Secret: Awakened (2013), Accused at 17 (2009), Fatal Trust (2006), Killing Daddy (2014), Living in Fear (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
519
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, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, twists and turns, parents and children, haunted by the past, small town life, small town, mental illness, ghost, afterlife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teenager is accused of murdering a classmate and claims that she was framed by her best friend. Her mother must try to find the truth.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, police investigation, vengeance, law enforcement, disorder, prank, dishonesty, youth, crime gone awry, murder, friends, teenager ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After the father of her kid son Sam was killed by an escaped psychiatric patient, Kate decides it's time for a new chapter in her life. She moves to the town where her former lover Tom lives and now works in the sheriff's department, and ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
Plot:
family relations, psychopath, danger, small town, male female relationship, murder, serial killer, love, death of father, doctor, running, ex lover ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Cassie Ross is scarred by the suicide of her mother, which occurred when Cassie was a child. She is convinced that her father was to blame for her mother's death. Cassie's older sister, Laura, has always sided with their father, so for ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
psychopath, family problems, family relations, dysfunctional family, homecoming, danger, vengeance, murder, winter, relationship problems, retribution, family tragedy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man returning to his childhood home for the reading of a will is met with hostility. Do the townsfolk know more about him than his new wife?
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
small town, woman in danger, who done it, danger, haunted by the past, dishonesty, homecoming, murder, twists and turns, family secret, murder investigation, deception ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Her boss made a big mistake by not promoting it. Now is the perfect secretary in the service of revenge.
Style:
depressing, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
odd couple, vengeance, boss and employee, dishonesty, rivalry, workplace, power relations, workplace intrigue, manipulation, strong female presence, secretary, revenge ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
1K
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, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, mental illness, mentally unstable, vengeance, criminal's revenge, violence spree, sexual content, murder, strip club, nightclub, crime boss, nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Unable to get over the abduction of her daughter, a mother is convinced she has finally found her, but is she simply a mother obsessed?
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
missing child, overprotective mother, abduction, uncover truth, parents and children, twists and turns, family problems, child abduction, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, danger, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Brad Sterling arrives by yacht as a handsome dream prince, and the discrete favorite nephew and brilliant investor of his tycoon uncle Wade. Charles Colton's ingrate heiress Laura eagerly dates him and puts him in the guest-house, partially as ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
sex scene, manipulative person, danger, couples, stalking, jealousy, intrigue, hit and run, strong female presence, manipulation, dishonesty, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Between 11:50 and 12:00 noon, a crime is commited. In the same ten minute period, we follow the lives of the ten people, all connected to this crime. As we see each person's point of view, we are propelled closer and closer to the truth of what ...
Style:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, kinky sex, female assassin, vengeance, crime gone awry, couples, disorder, rivalry, dishonesty, betrayal, danger, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
268
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, independent film ...
Plot:
mental institution, doctor, nurse, murder, mistaken identity, power relations, dishonesty, mentally unstable, misfit, patient, trap, woman in danger ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son Martin taking over the family business. Martin does not seem to have inherited the qualities that Paul ...
Style:
serious, emotional, suspense, captivating, culinary ...
Plot:
wine, family business, favoritism, rivalry, workplace, intrigue, countryside, family problems, introspection, father son relationship, favoritism among siblings, vineyard ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After sixteen years of marriage and four children, Betty Broderick's high-powered attorney husband decides to leave her for a younger woman with whom he's been having an affair. Hurt by his betrayal and feeling helpless against his legal ...
Style:
tense, biting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, men's rights, betrayal, true crime, killing spree, serial killer, couples, family problems, suburban life, suburbs, social decay, infidelity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san diego california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Detective Carrie Macklin and her little sister Elle had always been the closest of friends. But when Elle goes missing after a run-in with a relocated sex offender, it is up to Carrie to find her little sister...who is nine months pregnant. Carrie ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, detective
Plot:
murder, police investigation, law enforcement, missing person, police detective, danger, dishonesty, vengeance, infidelity, woman in danger, missing child, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After spending several years in seclusion, a woman encounters the stalker who murdered her parents over a decade ago, and fears she may be his latest victim when he starts to cyber-stalk her.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, stalker, stalking, woman in danger, danger, computers and web, time jump, hacking, woman in peril, man in a wheelchair, art gallery, intruder ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Price, a former hitman, is struggling to cope with retirement. He left the assassination business to live the "easy life." However, retirement arrived with its own agenda. It was not the instant peace and calm that Price expected. Rather, ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, tense, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
hitman, moral dilemma, retiring, rivalry, going straight, self discovery, danger, femme fatale, retirement, attempted murder, paranoia, loner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A former gang member and her young cousin become embroiled in a vendetta between L.A. gangs, as rivals seek revenge for old crimes.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, crime drama
Plot:
crime family, revenge, murder, gangster, gang war, betrayal, society, heroes, brutality, family relations, death, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, south america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A woman returns to her hometown searching for answers after she's released from prison, having served a 25-year sentence for a crime she didn't commit.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, rough ...
Plot:
murder, wrongful conviction, vengeance, injustice, righting the wronged, homecoming, frame up, rivalry, abduction, cover up, small town, strong female lead ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Plagued by flashbacks of a violent home invasion, Laura Benson is on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Looking for a fresh start, she and her husband sell their house and relocate to a seemingly idyllic gated community. But, little do the Bensons ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
obsession, stalking, neighbor, mind game, family in danger, haunted by the past, family problems, vengeance, dishonesty, rivalry, mentally unstable, amateur detective ...
Similarity:
31%
265
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Sixteen years after the Drakes' young daughter was kidnapped by her nanny, a woman appears claiming to be the long-lost child.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
amateur detective, danger, police investigation, investigation, law enforcement, orphan, family relations, criminal heroes, parents and children, dishonesty, child abduction, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
30%
402
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A tale of infidelity, deceit, greed, and murder. Nick Compton, a Palm Springs real estate developer...
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
investigation, private detective, intrigue, love affair, rivalry, betrayal, mysterious character, infidelity, gambling, murder, twists and turns, stalking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two brothers struggle to uncover the truth behind the mining accident that killed their father and bankrupted the town.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
uncover truth, life is a bitch, redemption, social relations, siblings relations, countryside, family relations, parents and children, family in crisis, small town, down on your luck, small town life ...
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Ten years ago, Kate Collins (Ashley Jones) was a different person. Literally. She was living in Chicago, working as a bartender, and going by her real name ‘Stephanie Wickers.’ That all changed when she witnessed the murder of her boss by a ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, crime thriller ...
Plot:
murder, danger, hidden identity, witnessing a crime, on the run, haunted by the past, gangster, identity, witness protection, secret, female protagonist, new identity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, philadelphia, chicago, pennsylvania
Similarity:
26%
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479
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious, independent film
Plot:
investigation, uncover truth, family relations, redemption, life is a bitch, injustice, parents and children, murder, idealism, price of justice, hopes, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
alabama, usa, tennessee
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Katherine "Kathy" is happily married to businessman Greg Norris and lives in his beautiful home with his about 18-year old daughter Tara. When suddenly a charming young man, who Tara first saw lurking around in the garden, turns up on ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Plot:
family in danger, amateur detective, murderous pair, garden, family relations, cons and scams, parents and children, dishonesty, held captive, stalker, adopted son, parent child relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
25%
2K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
There is a thin line between money and loyalty. Thomas Skepphult runs an investment company, and is arrested for the murder of his business partner when his fingerprint is found on the murder weapon. When he tries to call his lawyer, the phone is ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic
Plot:
uncover truth, twists and turns, rivalry, murder, workplace intrigue, dishonesty, hunting, mafia, partner, loss of partner, workplace, insurance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
25%
171
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Times are tough for talented, twenty-one year old filmmaker, Donny Rocconi. He grew up in New York City, a place where either you learn fast, or lose everything. Estranged from his mother, and never knowing his dead father, Donny sets out to collect ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, realistic
Plot:
cafe, vengeance, betrayal, gangster, dishonesty, city life, murder, ghost, criminal heroes, urban ghetto life, filmmaking, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Criminal psychologist Cameron Grainger is Detroit’s go-to hostage negotiator. Blaming herself when a crisis she’s handling goes wrong and a young man is killed, she removes herself from service. But she is called back into sudden and terrifying ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
criminal psychologist, family relations, danger, siblings relations, forced into action, woman in danger, nypd, confined, strong female presence, hostage negotiator, two sisters, hostage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, michigan, detroit
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Kathryn Vale (Lena Olin) is a reclusive ex-movie star with a dark secret and a daughter hoping to follow in her mother's movie-star footsteps. When Kathryn attempts to make a career comeback, she is threatened by an anonymous blackmailer. The ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
blackmail, danger, family relations, haunted by the past, parents and children, actor's life, rivalry, desire for fame, power relations, follow your dream, artists and showbiz, actress ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
460
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lainie Wheeler has two daughters, but her husband leaves them for a Thai monastery. She completely neglects her job in TV production but finds a new vocation in nursing terminal patients, even after the death of her friend in that home. She also ...
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
starting over, woman in danger, family problems, rivalry, hopes, redemption, murder, rehabilitation, violent content, graphic violence, psychopath, sport team ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
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