Movies like Family 2006
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Family (2006)
129
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Eldon and Cole pick up a hitchhiker, Jean on their father-son trip to find perspective on the back roads of America, they quickly learn that everything is not what it seems. As the road unfolds in front of them, so do their lives begin to intertwine. A small-time crook on the run, an ex-cop and his quiet ten-year-old son begin to bond together - at least until the secrets begin slipping out. Before Jean can figure out what is really going on, she finds herself already trapped in a spiraling nightmare where she will have to make a choice between turning her back on a little boy who needs her help, or sacrificing herself and going back to jail.
Style:
serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
abduction, on the road, on the run, fugitives, hidden identity, under the surface, parents and children, escaped prisoner, child in peril, prison escape, hitchhiking, kidnapping, child abduction, boy, female protagonist, hitchhiker, woman in danger, chases and races, escaped convict, crimes
Time:
21st century, contemporary
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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 danger, suspense, chases and races, kidnapping, deadly, woman in danger and confined mostly in Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Family: Teenage Bank Heist (2012), Honour (2014), Venom (2011), House Under Siege (2010), Dark Blood (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Cassie works as a teller at the bank where her mother is the branch manager. When the bank is robbed, Cassie is taken hostage. She soon finds out that the bank robbers are teenage girls, one of whom is her best friend, Abbie. In this propulsive real ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, slasher ...
Audience:
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Plot:
investigation, heist, race against time, track down, confined, on the run, parents and children, friendship, abduction, suspense, woman with a gun, teen social issues ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, captivating, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
243
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
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Plot:
snake, desert, survival, chase, dangerous animal, on the run, crash, suspense, animal attack, child in peril, wrong place wrong time, parents and children ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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61%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Two young boys and a girl commit a diamond robbery on Halloween. During escape the girl is fatally shot. One of the boys knows a doctor (Jeremy London) who has a private clinic in his house. They decide to go to his house instead of the hospital ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, rough ...
Plot:
crime gone awry, on the run, confined, rivalry, fugitives, gang, chase, dishonesty, hostage situation, doctor, halloween, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the story of Boy, a young widower living on a nuclear testing site in the desert. Boy is waiting for the end of the world and carves Katchina dolls that ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
desert, captivity, couples, isolation, dangerous attraction, on the road, under the surface, suspense, nuclear testing, contamination, radiation, danger ...
Time:
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Place:
arizona, usa, utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A single mom and her child are carjacked by a bank robber who has no intention of letting them go.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic
Plot:
fugitives, hostage, woman in danger, manipulation, rivalry, on the road, single parent, car chase, burglar, kidnapping, hijacking, gang ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A hit man receives the assignment to kill a woman. But what seems as another job complicates when he is about to execute her, but does not. He will have to go after those who gave him the contract, for, in his profession, those who do not comply ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
7 minutes from now in Nogales, Arizona, Thomas Conrad's life will forever change when he gets caught up in a Mexican cartels poetic game of drug mule chess.
Style:
captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
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Plot:
drug dealing, race against time, rivalry, suspense, strong violent content, mexican, drug cartel, danger, chases and races
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The serenity of another quiet evening is shattered for an amateur photographer when a desperate woman takes refuge in his humble suburban home. Reluctantly, he is pulled into a cat and mouse game with her pursuers. Only dawn will reveal the ...
Style:
serious, tense, captivating, scary, realistic ...
Plot:
chase, on the run, mysterious character, rivalry, suburbs, revenge, murder, suspense, vengeance, unlikely partners, woman in danger, suburban life ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
86
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Andrew Cunanan started his murderous spree in Minnesota, continued through Chicago, and despite being the subject of an intense manhunt, was able to kill fashion great Gianni Versace, in Miami, before killing himself.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When Dawn, an overworked single mother, agrees to take her teenage daughter, Kayla, to a luxurious but isolated spa retreat, the women believe they have escaped to a paradise of spa treatments, yoga, and nature hikes until a series of disturbing ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A neglectful mother concocts a plan to kill her live-in nanny when she discovers the nanny is having an affair with her husband.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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861
Genre: Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young woman - Malin (Ledarp) - has recently gone through a family trauma. She decides to leave his hometown and start a new life in a city north. During his long drive, she meets a mysterious man (Bergqvist) that begins persecuting her. Before she ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, El Salvador
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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970
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After a shocking photo of a young woman is found inside the twisted metal of a fatal car crash, veteran detective Emory Lloyd must risk everything to identify and find the woman before it's too late.
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A reporter discovers a woman who is a suspected terrorist.
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Melissa, a happily married woman with an eight-year-old daughter, invites her husband's mother to live with them, only to realize that Grandma is unhinged and wants to kidnap Melissa's daughter to replace her own dead child.
Style:
tense, captivating
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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805
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
A young college is responsible for the care of an innocent little girl, but soon all he knows give a twist that will endanger his own life. All begin when crossing under the floor of the third floor to the left, a road without knowing directly the ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
824
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Drones begins in the Nevada desert, where new girl Sue Lawson joins airman Jack in a hot, windowless bunker from which they manoeuvre unmanned drones across the plains of Afghanistan. Their first day at work is awkward but polite, with Jack all too ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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