Movies like Presumed Dead

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Presumed Dead (2006)
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Presumed Dead (2006)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A famous crime novelist's protigie disappears before the release of author's first new book in years. Is the seeming crime an elaborate publicity stunt, or was this author so desperate for material that he created his own sinister inspiration? Despite his cunning defense on trial (the trial that made his book a best seller), Detective Cooper suspects the latter. She's determined to separate fiction from reality, but the deeper she gets in the story, the more twisted the plot becomes.
Style: serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, realistic, surprise ending, detective
Plot: investigation, missing person, police detective, murder, uncover truth, rivalry, danger, law enforcement, writer's life, woman in danger, female detective, disappearance, dark past, police investigation, strong female presence, psychopath, police officer, police, writers, mother, single mother, strong female character, crime scene, presumed dead, female police officer ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa

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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 deadly, murder, law enforcement, danger, investigation, rivalry and who done it mostly in Thriller, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Presumed Dead: The Skulls III (2004), Cries in the Dark (2006), Officer Down (2005), The Collector (2002), Tangled (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Skulls III (2004)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young college co-ed tries joining the elite, all-male, secret society, the Skulls, and in so doing, she uncovers some unscrupulous methods used by some of the members to get what they want.
Style: serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: murder, college life, investigation, uncover truth, woman in danger, youth, mind game, dishonesty, danger, college, sexism, brotherhood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Cries in the Dark (2006)
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, law enforcement, police investigation, missing person, police detective, vengeance, danger, dishonesty, woman in danger, missing child, infidelity, sister sister relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 4.5
 365
Officer Down (2005)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A policewoman unwittingly puts her family in danger when she uncovers corruption in her department.
Style: serious, exciting, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilantism, vigilante, uncover truth, fighting the system, police detective, rivalry, danger, vengeance, law enforcement, police corruption, society, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
 6.0
 643
The Collector (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Une policière, Maud Graham, suit un tueur en série qui agresse des femmes. En même temps, elle héberge un jeune prostitué et un fugueur de 12 ans. L'action se déroule dans la ville et capitale de la province du même nom, Québec.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough, neo noir
Plot: police investigation, murder, kidnapping, mind game, police detective, riddles and clues, who done it, life is a bitch, law enforcement, serial killer, sex crime, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Movie in collections
 5.5
 3K
Tangled (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young man is found bruised, beaten and stumbling down a secluded road. As the police try to piece together what happened, the convoluted relationship between a young woman and her two suitors gradually emerges.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, teen horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dangerous attraction, couples, missing person, obsession, investigation, love triangle, uncover truth, police investigation, psychopath, mysterious character, teenage life, police detective ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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 ⇓
59%
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 ⇓
57%
 5.9
 106
Chosen (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The film follows Michael Todd, a lonely college student, with no direction in his life; he is assigned a research paper about a local New Orleans legend, the tale of Erica Fisc, a girl who disappeared some twenty years prior. As he looks into the ...
Style: serious, psychological, tense, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: uncover truth, investigation, missing person, on the run, danger, truth
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Movie in collections
 4.3
 1K
Summoned (2013)
Genre: Horror, 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, suspenseful, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Audience: teens
Plot: serial killer, murder, uncover truth, haunted by the past, mysterious character, danger, law enforcement, police detective, stalking, woman in danger, lawyer, riddles and clues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, san francisco, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 4.9
 630
Breaking Point (1994)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A retired police detective reluctantly returns to action to stop a serial killer dubbed "The Surgeon".
Style: action thriller, independent film, realistic, serious, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, woman seduces a man, rivalry, danger, law enforcement, mind game, police detective, nudity, killer, tv star, female police officer, police ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: washington d.c., usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
No One Can Hear You (2001)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Families are dying and reporter Trish (Kelly McGillis) finds herself reporting on a serial killing spree. After her daughter Lisa's (Kate Elliott) best friends are killed, she fears that her family may be on the killers list. Sheriff Webster ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, slasher, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, mind game, investigation, danger, law enforcement, murder, family life, teenage life, journalism, home invasion, media ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 3.7
 466
Final Move (2006)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The LA police are baffled: someone is killing people who have been found innocent of violent crimes. At the crime scenes, DNA evidence and clues linked to chess point to a suspect who's dead, recently executed for murders with a similar M.O. ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, police investigation, law enforcement, chess, psychopath, who done it, life is a bitch, danger, dishonesty, false accusation ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 4.8
 304
Dream Man (1995)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Kris is a homicide cop with psychic abilities. She works to prove that the prime suspect in her latest case (the much younger husband of the millionaire victim) is innocent. But are her visions true, or planned by someone who knows what she can see?
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, sexual
Plot: a vision, police detective, couples, love and romance, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, danger, law enforcement, supernatural ability, love affair, murder, psychic ...
Time: 90s
Place: seattle, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Intimate Stranger (1991)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A policeman (James Russo) guards a barroom singer (Deborah Harry) whose phone-sex sideline has put a killer (Tim Thomerson) on her trail.
Style: neo noir, erotic, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: phone sex, prostitute, making love, sex scene, murder, psychopath, couples, woman in danger, who done it, sexual relations, serial killer, police investigation ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 4.6
 273
Killer Reality (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Hayley, a producer on the hit reality show LOVE EVER AFTER, unwillingly falls for The Bachelor on this marriage elimination series. Things become complicated very quickly, especially when one of the female contestants turns up dead. That's when ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot: murder, psychopath, contests and competitions, media, rivalry, uncover truth, media satire, fall in love, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 4.2
 1K
Impact Point (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Pro Beach Volleyball star, Kelly Reyes, faces challenges everyday, fierce competitors, the press, but nothing could prepare her for him.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological, scary
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, danger, rivalry, murder, stalking, psychopath, mind game, dangerous attraction, obsession, woman in danger, law enforcement ...
Place: usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Presumed Guilty (2018)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
TV show
Story: A terrible event leads an investigator in Paris to come back to his birth town ten years after leaving it, where he has to confront the ghosts of his past and an unsolved mystery.
Style: captivating, serious, realistic, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: police investigation, riddles and clues, murder investigation, investigation, law enforcement, danger, murder, crime scene, police detective, murder mystery, forensics, escapades ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.1
 793
Dead Awake (2001)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An insomniac (Stephen Baldwin) who walks the streets at night witnesses a murder which triggers a strange chain of events.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: murder, insomnia, psychopath, mind game, investigation, amateur detective, protagonist as suspect, uncover truth, witnessing a crime, law enforcement, dishonesty, sleep disorder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Movie in collections
 3.8
 443
The Lost Angel (2005)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Slight off-balance police inspector Palmer (Alison Eastwood) works with Father Brian (Judd Nelson) to solve for a religion-based killer, while she deals with her teen-aged goth sister.
Style: suspense, scary, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, crucifix, law enforcement, danger, investigation, murder, dealing with death, religions or cults, curses spells and rituals, who done it, female pubic hair, church ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
American Crime (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young smalltown reporter, Jessie St. Claire, begins investigating a killer stalking his victims making video tapes. This might just be the career opportunity, which she has hoped for. When she herself becomes a target and suddenly disappears, the ...
Style: serious, scary, realistic, tense, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, stalking, mind game, investigation, uncover truth, who done it, danger, protagonist as suspect, journalism, law enforcement ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Way of the Wicked (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Lawrence Salva's script centers on a detective (Facinelli), on the trail of a murderer, who is led to believe that a local teenager, harboring some sort of strange supernatural power, may be involved. Slater plays the man's disbelieving ...
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, psychological, scary ...
Plot: good versus evil, demon, supernatural, danger, rivalry, curses spells and rituals, murder, small town, law enforcement, ghost, investigation, showdown ...
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 3.6
 224
Quiet Kill (2004)
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: An attractive married woman and a member of the 'Country Club Tennis Set', is being neglected by her workaholic doctor husband, Jerry (Corbin Bernsen). Lonely and insecure, Amy foolishly falls for the seductive charms of a much younger ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, independent film ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, stalker, dangerous attraction, woman in danger, love affair, rivalry, danger, law enforcement, mind game, who done it ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Angels Don't Sleep Here (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A man is accused of murder and manipulated into a web of deceit as his thought-to-be dead twin brother plots revenge on those who tried to kill him.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, independent film
Plot: murder, twins, revenge, investigation, uncover truth, law enforcement, danger, psychopath, police corruption, protagonist as suspect, mind game, dishonesty ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Troubled Waters (2006)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Intrepid FBI agent Beck, assigned to solve the case of a multimillionaire couple's missing daughter. As clues begin to reveal themselves, Beck draws an explosive line connecting the kidnapper and the girl's mother -- and brings to light ...
Style: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, riddles and clues, danger, race against time, supernatural, supernatural ability, infidelity, who done it, dishonesty, betrayal, special agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 3.9
 306
Cover Story (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An ambitious magazine editor gets too caught up in a high-stakes sex scandal and is framed for murder.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense
Plot: femme fatale, amateur detective, false accusation, dishonesty, frame up, political corruption, investigation, murder, law enforcement, haunted by the past, love affair, righting the wronged ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 3.8
 260
Watchful Eye (2002)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Malibu detective Shannon (Renee Rea) goes undercover in a group house to discover who murdered one of the women living there. Shannon gets caught up in the sex and parties, not knowing that her every action is being secretly broadcast on satellite ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, erotic, detective ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: murder, voyeurism, femme fatale, police, bondage, investigation, law enforcement, dangerous attraction, danger, dishonesty, erotica, woman with a gun ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Requiem for Murder (1999)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A thriller starring Molly Ringwald
Style: independent film, mind bending, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, erotica, murder, media satire, who done it, psychopath, amateur detective, law enforcement, danger, unsupportive spouse, media, fall in love ...
Time: 90s
Place: philadelphia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.4
 399
Fear of Water (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Rosalie Richard is found raped and dead at the foot of a cliff. This gruesome murder is the first ever in the Magdalen Islands. Her death will radically change the orderly life of Sergeant André Surprenant.
Style: serious, suspenseful, thought provoking, realistic, rough ...
Plot: army investigation, murder, family relations, military, life is a bitch, police investigation, law enforcement, parents and children, family problems, investigation, missing child, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.9
 89
Nexus (2010)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Holly is a struggling singer whose life is torn apart when she loses custody of her daughter, Chloe. When she travels to her soon to be ex-husbands estate in the country, for a weekend visit with Chloe, she is shocked to discover that he is missing. ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: conspiracy, false accusation, uncover truth, on the run, frame up, dishonesty, betrayal, law enforcement, life turned upside down, murder, danger, woman with a gun ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 4.9
 705
Striking Poses (1998)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a beautiful paparazzo for a tabloid magazine finds herself pursued by a ruthless stalker, she is determined to emerge from this deadly game alive, and independently wealthy.
Style: surprise ending, independent film, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: stalking, kidnapping, profanity, family in danger, gory, woman in danger, haunted by the past, celebrity culture, genocide, femme fatale, hidden identity, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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