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Telling Lies (2008)
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Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The morning after the night before, a rapid spiral of disastrous telephone calls chart the certain ruin of young Phil's day as he attempts to fib his way out of one scrape after another. Told entirely in animated captions.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, couples, rivalry, who done it, law enforcement, hidden identity, investigation, twists and turns, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, profanity, chases and races, legal, legal investigation, dishonesty, violent content, infidelity, revenge, shooting, woman, psychotic, graphic violence, deadly, flick knife, stun gun ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
england
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Most similar movies to Telling Lies
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and psychological films with plots about murder, deadly, danger, law enforcement, investigation, dishonesty and rivalry mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Telling Lies: Twin Sisters (1992), Dead Beat (1994), Reykjavik-Rotterdam (2008), Experiment (2005), Nexus (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman flies from Los Angeles to Montreal to investigate the supposed death of her identical twin. What she finds out could get her killed.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, tense, mind bending ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
canada, montreal, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
268
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In 1965, Rudy, a Midwestern high-school kid, moves to Albuquerque; lonely and friendless, he's attracted to Kit, slightly older, with a car, his own apartment, and spending money. Kit loves Elvis and loves the ladies; plus, he's a complete ...
Style:
period piece, independent film, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, lovers on the run, murderous pair, killing spree, killer, desert, who done it, murder, teenage life, elevator, couples, coming of age ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Iceland, Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A former sailor who has served prison sentences for alcohol smuggling fights to keep his family afloat. He is offered pay for a last tour of cargo between Reykjavik and Rotterdam. He agrees, in the hope to get out of debt, but unexpected events ...
Style:
suspense, realistic, captivating, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
down on your luck, delivery, smuggling, danger, financial problem, escapades, security guard, rivalry, mafia, ex convict, sailor, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, iceland, rotterdam netherlands, holland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young woman, Anna, walks the streets of a foreign city. Her mind full of pain. No memory of who she is. and plagued by nightmarish visions. Then she meets Morgan, a man who also has no memory. Forced to trust each other, the two feel a mysterious ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
memory loss, danger, a vision, uncover truth, experiment, investigation, mysterious man, trust, losing-it hero, twists and turns, profanity, sexual content ...
Place:
england, prague
Similarity:
30%
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93
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, realistic, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
conspiracy, false accusation, uncover truth, on the run, frame up, betrayal, dishonesty, law enforcement, life turned upside down, murder, danger, woman with a gun ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Karen is shopping at a convenience store during which a robbery occurs. Her niece is kidnapped and left seriously injured in hospital. When one of the perpetrators is released, Karen decides to go on a murderous trail of revenge.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
rivalry, vigilantism, hospital, store, revenge, murder, abduction, paralysis, investigation, danger, twins, wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
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, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, crucifix, law enforcement, danger, investigation, dealing with death, murder, curses spells and rituals, religions or cults, who done it, female nudity, church ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
gangster, vengeance, partner, dishonesty, rivalry, murder, danger, car accident, car, son, revenge, friend ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A beautiful attorney's hunt for a serial killer is frustrated by his accomplice's twisted scheme to keep the killer free at all costs
Style:
erotic, independent film, slasher, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
making love, sex scene, lawyer, serial killer, legal investigation, criminal heroes, law enforcement, stalking, dishonesty, rivalry, legal, legal action ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
26%
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:
26%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Sally Wilson's daughter Amanda is stricken with a brain tumour and each day, her condition appears to be worsening. Sally is at her wits end as to how to help her daughter and knows a life saving operation in America that she can't afford ...
Style:
captivating, tense, suspenseful, psychological, crime thriller ...
Plot:
murder, moral dilemma, inheritance, twists and turns, couples, family relations, couple relations, human nature, moral ambiguity, single mother, family drama, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A retired FBI profiler is called in on a last case - only to find himself at the mercy of a teenage killer's deadly game. He must use all his skills and experience to save lives, including his own.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
criminal psychologist, mind game, murder, serial killer, special agent, rivalry, youth, police investigation, investigation, violent content, confined, one last case ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, minnesota
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Marek, the main character of "Palimpsest," is a police inspector, a man on the verge of psychological disintegration trying to solve an intricate case. The story is told on two planes. The first one is a crime story, which constitutes the ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, suspenseful, serious, mind bending ...
Plot:
police inspector, murder, police investigation, riddles and clues, police detective, mental illness, law enforcement, mentally unstable, who done it, life is a bitch, dishonesty, disintegration ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Similarity:
24%
143
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
They are the perfect, and politically correct, couple. He is a judge, she is a high profile attorney. When she takes on a sensational murder case, the trail leads right to her own front door.
Style:
sexual, suspenseful, tense, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jonas Bechmann, a defense attorney, is a man of the system. Until the day he himself is accused of murder. Taking matters into his own hands, he throws himself into the hunt for a group of blackmailers who threaten to expose him as the killer. But ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Plot:
murder, frame up, investigation, twists and turns, uncover truth, cons and scams, law firm, false accusation, dishonesty, inadvertently, nordic, law ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
psychopath, police investigation, serial killer, riddles and clues, legal investigation, life is a bitch, injustice, law enforcement, mind game, murder, rivalry, danger ...
Time:
70s
Place:
michigan
Similarity:
23%
2K
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
London, modern day: Joe, a mild mannered young man is bored by his life. When his beloved brother is murdered Joe finds solace in Piggy, one of his brother's old friends. Piggy helps Joe to cope with grief, intent on saving him and helping him ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
london, england, britain
Similarity:
23%
570
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Anna Carter is diagnosed with a terminal illness, she sees her final three months as an opportunity to enact some vigilante justice. Racing her deteriorating health and trying to stay one step ahead of the police, Carter furiously tracks down ...
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilantism, vengeance, doctors and patients, injustice, terminal illness, vigilante, fighting crime, murder, danger, strong female lead, female fight, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
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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, amateur detective, legal, law enforcement, dishonesty, parents and children, jail, model, alibi ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
In this made-for-television thriller, Roselyn Tyler (Eve Best) awakens in her London flat with no memory of the previous night. She discovers that she was drugged and sexually assaulted -- and her roommate is dead. When investigating cop Will ...
Style:
tense, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, dishonesty, law enforcement, sexual abuse, uncover truth, murder, lie, love, memory loss, danger, blackmail, police detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
22%
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:
suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious
Plot:
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Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A dutiful Liverpool beat cop discovers what he is truly capable of after his partner is brutally murdered in a targeted attack by a local gang.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, crime drama ...
Plot:
police, rivalry, loss of friend, life turned upside down, law enforcement, vigilantism, revenge, murder, investigation, danger, friendship, nypd ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, liverpool
Similarity:
22%
788
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
murder, rivalry, legal action, law enforcement, legal investigation, courtroom drama, hotshot lawyer, dedicated lawyer, legal, criminal, defense attorney, death sentence ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
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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, psychological, suspenseful, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
sex scene, murder, artists and showbiz, writer's life, uncover truth, danger, missing person, writers, disappearance, wife, female nudity, police ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After killing his English partner, a Canadian businessman assumes his identity. Things begin to fall apart for him when the murdered man's body is found.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, rough, realistic, mind bending ...
Plot:
murder, on the run, cons and scams, dishonesty, law enforcement, danger, serial killer, deception, hidden identity, killing spree, chases and races, autopsy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A neglectful mother overhears her husband on the telephone at their workplace talking with their babysitter. She discovers they are having an affair and are going to have a baby. She concocts an evil plan to win back her husband and remove the girl ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psycho, nanny, murder, infidelity, psychopath, couples, family relations, family problems, babies and infants, criminal heroes, danger, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
21%
315
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
With the police stalling the investigation into her husband's murder, Deeksha decides to set up an investigation of her own to find the killers. However, as she gets closer to the truth, she invites trouble from some dangerous people
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense
Plot:
murder investigation, death of husband, police, murder, who done it, murderer, law enforcement, vengeance, graphic violence, husband wife relationship, evidence, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Kin Suk-hyun is Korea’s youngest appointed criminal court head judge, very famous for his rational rulings. It is before his court that the case of distinguished mathematics professor Sohn Ki-chul’s murder of his wife is presented. While ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
deja vu, psychopath, vengeance, danger, law enforcement, haunted by the past, judge, husband wife relationship, murder, lawyer, threat to kill, graphic violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, asia
Similarity:
20%
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, police investigation, life is a bitch, military, law enforcement, parents and children, family problems, investigation, who done it, missing child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, quebec
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
When some of her buxom co-workers vanish, exotic dancer Julie Baxter believes their disappearances -- and subsequent deaths -- may be the work of a psychotic killer … and that she could be next. With no help from her abusive boyfriend or the cocky ...
Style:
erotic, suspenseful, serious, sexy, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, danger, investigation, who done it, missing person, legal investigation, murder, couples, law enforcement, legal, exotic dancer, stripper ...
Similarity:
20%
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