Movies like I Dream of Murder
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I Dream of Murder (2006)
158
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Johanna is a therapist on the verge of a midlife crisis. When one of her patients is found brutally murdered, she takes it upon herself to solve the mystery. But why is this stressed-out shrink willing to risk her marriage, her career and her entire life to solve the crime? As the case unravels, so do the dark inner demons that Johanna has been trying to hide for the past 20 years!
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Plot:
murder, serial killer, midlife crisis, investigation, doctors and patients, therapist, police, female protagonist, car accident, danger, haunted by the past, power relations, sex, high school sweetheart, death, suicide, adultery, dream, psychiatrist, nightmare, strangulation, suicidal thoughts, marriage, black bra, marital problem ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to I Dream of Murder
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, serious and realistic films with plots about murder, danger, deadly, investigation, serial killer, haunted by the past and woman in danger mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like I Dream of Murder: Awakened (2013), Killer by Nature (2010), Lighthouse (2014), Kept Woman (2015), The Last Lullaby (2008). 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: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The troubled teenager Owen Whitmore has a sleep disorder and occasionally sleepwalks. Owen is having therapy sessions with Dr. Katherine Ramos. Having just joined the medical school, he has to move to another town, but he is divided between the ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, nightmare comes true, nightmare, who done it, doctors and patients, sleepwalking, dream, danger, couples, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An obsessive fan rescues a famous musician from a car crash, then takes her to his secluded lighthouse.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
obsession, musician, car accident, lighthouse, mentally unstable, danger, salvation, pop star, stalker, high school, woman with a gun, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
maine, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Jessica and her fiancé Evan just moved from the city into their dream home on a quiet suburban street. Soon after, Jessica catches her seemingly friendly new neighbor, Simon, in a strange lie and can't let her suspicions rest. The danger ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, captivating
Plot:
held captive, disappearance, locked in a room, kidnapping, imprisonment, prison, deception, female protagonist, robbery, professor, stalker, stockholm syndrome ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
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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%
123K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
When a rare phenomenon gives police officer John Sullivan the chance to speak to his father, 30 years in the past, he takes the opportunity to prevent his dad's tragic death. After his actions inadvertently give rise to a series of brutal ...
Style:
psychological, clever, feel good, serious, touching ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, time, radio, father son relationship, investigation, police detective, parallel universe, altering history, murder mystery, changing the past or future, murder, rescue ...
Time:
future, year 1999, year 1969, year 2000, y2k ...
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Sang-woo receives painful surgery when he is ten, and murders another kid from trauma. After he receives hypnosis treatment, he disappears with his family. After 25 years, a successful doctor meets his old friend one day, and everything changes.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, vengeance, haunted by the past, rivalry, danger, hospital, doctors and patients, investigation, childhood trauma, murder, killer, surgery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, asia, korea
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Ellie suffers a strong shock to discover that, after suffering a near-death experience, can hear voices from beyond. He soon realizes that it is a gift with which you can help others.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, scary ...
Plot:
ghost, murder, psychic power, danger, serial killer, talking to the dead, new neighbor, death, fugitive, sex, train, flashback ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
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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:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, danger, haunted by the past, cold case, forensic, death, bereavement, cat and mouse, evidence, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
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:
31%
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:
29%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Maggie returns to her hometown to dedicate a scholarship in her late husband's name. While there, she reconnects with old friends and comes to believe that her husband's death is tied to the mysterious deaths of several old classmates..
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
old friend, small town, homecoming, career woman, school, danger, investigation, murder, couples, high school, high school life, fashion show ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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:
27%
566
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Joseph McKelheer and Cory Knauf (The Hamiltons, The Violent Kind) star in this intense thriller set in the lingering light of the Alaskan midnight sun. Charlie Shepard, a modern day faith healer with a small flock of believers, is stunned when his ...
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, death in the family, haunted by the past, religions or cults, society, life turned upside down, small town, investigation, grief, killer child, strong violent content, wilderness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, alaska
Similarity:
26%
1K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A police profiler has just returned from psychiatric leave only to find that he is caught up in a serial killer's rampage. Fighting to keep buried the trauma of his childhood, he must confront the all too-familiar flesh masks that the killer ...
Style:
slasher, serious, scary, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
death, profiler, murder, forensic, law enforcement, haunted by the past, danger, police investigation, rivalry, gory, serial killer, male objectification ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark. Under hypnosis, a mental patient admits to several recent murders. He also offers a strange defense when he claims that he is the reincarnation of a 19th century man who was wrongly executed.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, detective, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
reincarnation, serial killer, police detective, woman in danger, law enforcement, murder, investigation, revenge, psychosis, hypnosis, trauma, mental institution ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
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:
22%
1K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Something is missing in Tom's life. His marriage has lost its spark, his job is suffocating him, and his childhood best friend Dan still clings to the past. Every day he goes through the motions, becoming increasingly detached from those around ...
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder, haunted by the past, best friend, losing-it hero, serial killer, danger, violence, black bra, female nudity, killer, violent content, disorder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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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:
22%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Emily Parker is haunted by visions of a woman from the past soon after receiving an antique engagement ring from her fiancé.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, tense, mind bending
Plot:
ghost, uncover truth, haunted by the past, investigation, life is a bitch, murder, supernatural, dishonesty, legal, dedicated lawyer, deep south, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new orleans, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story:
An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has ...
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
serial killer, private detective, amateur detective, danger, investigation, rivalry, murder, psychopath, police investigation, law enforcement, police detective, who done it ...
Time:
year 1995, year 2005
Place:
usa, oregon, new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Recently widowed Shelby Naylor (Sherilyn Fenn) listening to her husbands police scanner overhears a husband and wife arguing on the phone. The wife ends up dead and Widow Naylor points the finger endangering herself.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
amateur detective, murder, haunted by the past, false accusation, woman in danger, couples, family problems, couple relations, danger, hitman, who done it, infidelity ...
Place:
usa, boston
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A pawn shop owner in Osaka is murdered, but due to a lack of conclusive evidence the police lists the man's death as a suicide. Detective Sasagaki, who investigated the case, can't forget the dark eyes of the main suspect's daughter ...
Style:
tense, atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, police detective, uncover truth, haunted by the past, pedophile, unsolved crime, rivalry, danger, killer, serial killer, pedophilia ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jessica is a housewife, unhappy in her marriage, who decides to "spice it up" a little bit. But she gets more than she bargained for when she contacts an old high school classmate she once had a crush on.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, serious ...
Plot:
infidelity, danger, couple relations, stalking, twists and turns, classmate, jealousy, murder, rivalry, violence, stalker, marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Young, ace assistant DA, Shelby Cook, works with driven cop, Mike Holland, to catch Daedalus, a serial killer infamous for luring his victims to their deaths through labyrinth traps. Three innocent men have already taken the fall for Daedalus and ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, law enforcement, legal investigation, police investigation, dedicated lawyer, twists and turns, legal, parents and children, rivalry, investigation, family secret, female protagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
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:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
What's in a name but murder? Münster comes across the strangled body of a young woman in her home and surprises the murderer who is still on the premises. Though the murderer escapes, a rare book is found at the scene with a dedication by the ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, law enforcement, investigation, police detective, murder mystery, evidence, twists and turns, escapades, witnessing a crime, danger, nypd ...
Time:
19th century, 21st century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A 911 operator receives a ghostly call from a child murdered thirty years before and becomes obsessed with unraveling the crime. What she discovers shatters her.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, emotional, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Plot:
supernatural, riddles and clues, haunted by the past, danger, nightmare comes true, murder, uncover truth, grief, murder mystery, haunting, twists and turns, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
21%
547
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, betrayal, dishonesty, law enforcement, partner, high society, danger, couples, twists and turns, deep south ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, georgia
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killing them off one by one.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
police detective, serial killer, murder, uncover truth, haunted by the past, mysterious character, danger, stalking, woman in danger, law enforcement, lawyer, riddles and clues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco, cuba
Similarity:
20%
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