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Sand Trap (1997)
225
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
After falling victim to a burglar, Nelson, a wealthy businessman, takes a trip to the desert with his wife Margo and lawyer/friend Jack. The trip takes an unexpected turn when Jack helps Nelson over a cliff. Jack and Margo return to the site with the sheriff only to discover Nelson's body is missing, indicating he is still alive. As Nelson struggles to survive against madness and the elements, two separate searches for him are conducted--one by an increasingly suspicious sheriff and the other by the treacherous Margo and Jack.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, psychological horror, noir, twist ending, crime drama, independent film
Plot:
survival, desert, betrayal, deception, murder mystery, isolation, man versus nature, revenge, conspiracy, missing person, adultery, paranoia, vengeance, cat and mouse, small town sheriff, corruption, morality, wilderness, mental breakdown, burglar, murder, minimalism, runaway, claustrophobia, manipulation ...
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Most similar movies to Sand Trap
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, psychological thriller and noir films with plots about cat and mouse, betrayal, revenge, investigation, murder, moral ambiguity and isolation mostly in Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Sand Trap: Compelling Evidence (1995), The Other Man (1994), Unpaarvayil (2025), Erida (2021), Love Hurts (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Rick Stone is the world's biggest action star but unfortunately, he is also the prime suspect in his wife's death. He must enlist the help of a conniving tabloid reporter named Dana Fields and the trust of his mistress Stephanie to try and ...
Style:
suspense, crime thriller, tense, dark, twist ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
suspect, false accusation, murder mystery, investigation, suspicion, evidence, danger, investigative reporter, intrigue, moral ambiguity, mistress, fame ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Unsatisfied by her boring marriage, Christine begins an affair with a seductive, mysterious stranger named Quinn. But they get carried away with their passion, when lust becomes obsession ... and murder. It seems someone wants to frame Christine who ...
Style:
erotic, independent film
Plot:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, twist ending, crime drama ...
Plot:
female protagonist, murder mystery, family tragedy, resilience, empowerment, revenge, investigation, conspiracy, betrayal, suspicion, grief, claustrophobia ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
27%
2K
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A femme fatale and her much older husband have a windfall at a game of poker. But the gambling doesn't end at the cards table.
Style:
crime thriller, psychological thriller, dark, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
murder, poker, greed, deception, betrayal, manipulation, femme fatale, revenge, moral ambiguity, bet, luxury, fatal attraction ...
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Six strangers are invited to a dinner party by a charming and enigmatic host, lured by the promise of substantial financial reward if they last the whole evening. However, all is not what it seems as the host reveals the dangerous and ultimately ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, captivating, bleak, scary ...
Plot:
dinner party, social experiment, female nudity, dinner, psychological manipulation, blood, mansion, murder, party, valentine's day, death, killing ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A famous inventor marries a beautiful but much younger woman. His son becomes romantically involved with her.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, crime drama, erotic, twist ending ...
Plot:
love triangle, infidelity, deception, psychological manipulation, betrayal of trust, family secret, father son estrangement, seduction, obsession, jealousy, conspiracy, domestic drama ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A struggling actor lands the part of a rapist in a TV reenactment for a "Crimebusters" segment. He soon meets a beautiful rich woman whom he begins an affair with, even though she is married. Her husband soon finds out and is accidently ...
Style:
crime drama, suspense, psychological thriller, tense, dark ...
Plot:
murder, crimes of passion, struggling actor, moral ambiguity, deception, cover up, infidelity, affair, erotica, manipulation, danger, psychological manipulation ...
Time:
year 1992, 90s
Similarity:
24%
854
Genre: Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The trip aboard a luxury yacht of three couples that will turn from an exciting experience to a terrible nightmare.
Style:
suspense, tense, thrilling, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A nightclub manager with financial problems accepts an offer to seduce another man's wife for money, and soon finds himself entwined in a web of double-crossing con artists.
Style:
neo noir, crime thriller, tense, crime drama, noir ...
Plot:
betrayal, deception, manipulation, con artists, seduction, betrayal of trust, scam, moral ambiguity, nightclub, mistrust, twists and turns, cat and mouse ...
Place:
puerto rico
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A teenage girl visits her mom on death row and gets lured into a dangerous trap to take the fall for her mother's crimes.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, guilt, false accusation, manipulation, death row, murder, trap, family problems, trapped, murderer, parents and children, teenage girl ...
Similarity:
23%
134
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Anna Bell is a successful, wealthy but burnt out rock singer. After breaking up with her boyfriend Craig Cane, she retreats to the country property that she's owned for several years, but never had time to visit. She wants to relax and write ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, intense, twist ending ...
Plot:
celebrity, female protagonist, psychological manipulation, murder mystery, manipulation, paranoia, isolation, pop star, intrigue, rock singer, betrayal, obsession ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
23%
894
Genre: Thriller
Country: Bulgaria, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A grieving mother lures her daughter's killer into her smart home in order to take revenge, becoming involved in a distorted game where life and death are at stake.
Style:
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Plot:
vengeance, revenge, trap, murder, cat versus mouse, killing, deathtrap, avenge, problem, murderer, intrigue, mind game ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Kristen decides to take a break from college and return home, she finds Jake, a handsome stranger, living in her old room. Her mother, Moira, explains that she invited Jake to live as a tenant to help with the house expenses. Soon, Kristen ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, psychological thriller, intense ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
22%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
detective, crime drama, neo noir, dark, tense ...
Plot:
investigation, femme fatale, murder mystery, private investigator, betrayal, seduction, deception, organized crime, madam, drug lord, manipulation, suspicion ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
22%
545
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A famous and successful TV prankster finds himself the victim of the ultimate prank when he is set up for a murder he did not commit.
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, crime thriller ...
Plot:
framed for murder, murder, prankster, wrongful accusation, changing lives, criminal, false accusation, framed for a crime, frame up, comedian, false accusation of murder, problem ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tension, sinister, psychological horror ...
Plot:
survival, wilderness, isolation, forest, danger, backpacking, man versus nature, couples, paranoia, camping, threat, fear ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, twisted, noir
Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, twisted, dark ...
Plot:
frame up, faked death, revenge, infidelity, false accusation, deception, betrayal, investigation, female protagonist, conspiracy, domestic drama, marital strife ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
21%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
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Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime drama, psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
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Place:
india
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
For three US Border Patrol agents, the contents of one car reveal an insidious plot within their own ranks. The next 24 hours may cost them their lives.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
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Place:
texas
Similarity:
20%
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159
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
amnesia, memory loss, investigation, murder, problem, uncover truth, memory lapse, murder mystery, murder investigation, memory, crime solving, amnesiac ...
Place:
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Similarity:
20%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological thriller, neo noir, tense, crime drama, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, obsession, love triangle, fatal attraction, infidelity, female protagonist, sexual tension, betrayal, seduction, jealousy, manipulation, suspicion ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jackie hires a mistress hunter to come between her husband and his mistress. But when the mistress and her husband wind up dead, Jackie becomes the number one suspect.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
murder, infidelity, suspicion, betrayal, family problems, mysterious character, murder suspect, adulterer, secret, murder investigation, murder mystery, mysterious girl ...
Time:
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Similarity:
20%
625
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, tense, crime drama, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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259
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Struggling actress accepts high paying job to play a rich heiress committed in a lunatic asylum, not knowing she's really being set up as a surrogate for the real girl who'd been murdered.
Style:
dark, suspense, psychological thriller, twisted, crime drama ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
20%
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, tense, crime drama, twisted, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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