Movies like Based on a True Story 2017

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Based on a True Story (2017)
 5.7
 7K
Based on a True Story (2017)
Original name: D'après une histoire vraie
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A writer goes through a tough period after the release of her latest book, as she gets involved with an obsessive admirer.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, meditative, disturbing, suspense, art house, psychosexual thriller, erotic drama, inspirational, enigmatic
Audience: chick flick
Plot: female writer, writers, obsessed fan, mysterious character, loneliness, lgbt, deception, poisoning, atmosphere, novelist, plot twist, female friendship, party, cigarette smoking, laptop, ghost writer, schizophrenia, journalist, subway, illness, book, photograph, telephone call, blackmail, basement ...
Time: year 2017
Place: paris france
Keyword: metro

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, disturbing and psychological films with plots about telephone call, cigarette smoking, murder, blood, flashback, writers and female nudity mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Based on a True Story: Frantic (1988), Venus in Fur (2013), The Workshop (2017), Cracks (2009), The Woman in the Fifth (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 57K
Frantic (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ford plays an American doctor whose wife suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: espionage, kidnapping, missing wife, missing person, spy, hotel, investigation, chase, hotel room, illuminati, murder, greed ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 21K
Venus in Fur (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An enigmatic actress (Emmanuelle Seigner) may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's (Mathieu Amalric) play.
Style: erotic, stylized, sexual, psychological, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: bdsm, masochism, theater, femdom, dominatrix, power relations, audition, female nudity, flirting, fetish, sadomasochism, role playing ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.5
 2K
The Workshop (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Antoine has agreed to follow a writing workshop where some young people in insertion must write a black novel with the help of Olivia, a recognized novelist. The work of writing will bring to life the working-class past of the city. Its shipyard is ...
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, enigmatic
Plot: novelist, aspiring writer, summer, teenager, youth, sea, love interest, aggression, writer's life, society, teenage boy, cigarette smoking ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 6.6
 21K
Cracks (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Ireland, Spain, France, Switzerland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Jealousy flares after the headmistress of an elite boarding school for girls becomes obsessed with a new student.
Style: atmospheric, melancholic, serious, stylized, erotic ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, teen drama
Plot: boarding school, coming of age, obsession, lesbian, lesbian relationship, older woman younger woman relationship, lesbian love, boarding school life, lesbian interest, asthma, teenage crush, teenage girl ...
Time: 1930s, year 2009, 20th century, year 1934
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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The Woman in the Fifth (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, UK
Duration: 84 min.
Story: An American writer moves to Paris to be closer to his daughter and finds himself falling immediately on hard times.
Style: suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: waitress, ex husband ex wife relationship, divorce, widow, estrangement, power relations, artists and showbiz, twists and turns, writers, father daughter relationship, letter, translator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 7.2
 42K
Bitter Moon (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 139 min.
Story: An embittered husband, paralyzed and in a wheelchair, buttonholes a complete stranger and begins to tell him the story of his marriage. The stranger would like to escape, but cannot. For one thing he grows fascinated by the story. For another he is ...
Style: erotic, sexy, psychological, sexual, breathtaking ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, femme fatale, infidelity, bdsm, fatal attraction, husband wife relationship, destructive relationship, couples, sexual perversion, passionate interest, dangerous attraction, male nudity ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: eastern europe, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 7.3
 85K
Hidden (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Austria, Germany, Italy
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
Style: disturbing, psychological, psychological thriller, art house, surreal ...
Plot: suicide, childhood, haunted by the past, dysfunctional family, videotaping, hidden camera, family in crisis, lie, psychology, voyeurism, great ending, nightmare ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: paris france, france, algeria, iraq, germany ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
 6.3
 4K
Black Tide (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Dany, the Arnault family’s teenage son has disappeared. The case is assigned to François Visconti, a world-weary and disillusioned detective whose wife has just left him. The policeman investigates to find the missing teenager while he is ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, bleak, psychological ...
Plot: missing child, police officer, alcoholic, disappearance, father son relationship, forest, police, mother daughter relationship, investigation, suspicion, kidnapping, danger ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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 5.9
 6K
Demonlover (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Mexico
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Two corporations compete for illicit 3D manga pornography, sending spies to infiltrate each other's operations.
Style: erotic, art house, cerebral, intense, psychological ...
Plot: espionage, bare breasts, voyeur, spy, murder, rivalry, internet, workplace situations, dishonesty, rise and fall, danger, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time: year 2002
Place: paris france, tokyo
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Is There a Killer in My Family? (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: True-crime author, Carly, and her husband Kevin take a vacation at a historical mansion on Crawford Island. Kevin thinks it will be a chance for them to reconnect, but Carly plans to research the puzzling unsolved murder of Diana Crawford.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: murder investigation, female writer, homicide detective, secret, undercover, female detective, murder, male female relationship, writers, couple relations, woman with a gun
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 8.1
 1.1M
Gone Girl (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style: psychological, suspense, surprise ending, clever, twist ending ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder mystery, missing person, psychology, infidelity, manipulation, investigation, femme fatale, adultery, marriage, missing wife, psychopath ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: peru, america, usa, new york, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 7.6
 47K
The Tenant (1976)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A quiet and inconspicuous man (Trelkovsky) rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill ...
Style: psychological, offbeat, black comedy, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, paranoia, insanity, mental illness, dark humor, nightmare, apartment building, suicide, conspiracy, obsession, landlord tenant relationship, mental disorder ...
Time: near future, year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 6.9
 212K
Enemy (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, Spain, France
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mild-mannered college professor discovers a look-alike actor and delves into the other man's private affairs.
Style: surreal, psychological, twist ending, mind bending, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: doppelganger, infidelity, symbolism, paranoia, mental illness, lookalikes, obsession, nightmare, surrealism, disturbed individual, actor, existentialism ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Translators (2019)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nine translators have been picked by a ruthless publisher and locked in a luxury bunker to translate the highly anticipated book of a famous author in record time. Although the translators are confined to prevent any kind of leak because of the high ...
Style: suspense, non-linear, clever, serious, surprise ending ...
Plot: translator, secret, publisher, sleeping, new job, bunker, death, library, rivalry, writers, job interview, nightmare ...
Place: paris france, frankfurt germany, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style: surreal, psychological, art house, neo noir, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: surrealism, twists and turns, lesbian, amnesia, obsession, hollywood, nightmare, hallucination, doppelganger, alternate reality, filmmaking, dream ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: los angeles, persia, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 7.3
 34K
In the House (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his ...
Style: suspense, enigmatic, psychological, witty, disturbing ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: writers, teacher, high school, obsession, student, literature, art, school, privacy invasion, teen angst, mind game, voyeurism ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 6.7
 48K
Swimming Pool (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In the middle of this amusing thriller is a relationship between two different types of females, one is a well know British author and the other is a sex-crazed French teen. The two get into some relationship trouble while living together in this ...
Style: sexy, sensual, ambiguous ending, art house, suspense ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: murder, twists and turns, swimming, swimming pool, writers, sex, obsession, porn, self discovery, writer's life, lust, voyeurism ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: france, cote d'azur, europe, south of france, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 6.5
 209K
Secret Window (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, dark ...
Plot: psychology, insanity, twists and turns, split personality, stephen king, losing-it hero, isolation, paranoia, macabre, murder, mental illness, plot twist ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Secrets in a Small Town (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A mother's worst nightmare comes true when her teenage daughter goes missing.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, bleak, suspense
Plot: small town, mother daughter relationship, danger, investigation, rescue, police investigation, survival, life & death, hopes, teenager, missing daughter, mother ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Strange But True (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child.
Style: suspense, enigmatic, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: teenage pregnancy, pregnancy, pregnant woman, woman, pregnant girlfriend, family problems, unplanned pregnancy, relationships, family secret, secret, mysterious girl, unwed pregnancy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
White Bird in a Blizzard (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Kat Connors is 17 years old when her perfect homemaker mother, Eve, disappears. Having lived for so long in an emotionally repressed household, she barely registers her mother's absence and certainly doesn't blame her doormat of a father, ...
Style: sexy, surreal, independent film, stylized, cynical ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: missing person, coming of age, teenage girl, dysfunctional family, recurring dream, female nudity, mysterious disappearance, teenage life, mother daughter relationship, gay interest, disappearance, 17 year old ...
Time: year 1988, 20th century, 80s, year 1991, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.8
 41K
Spider (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A mentally disturbed man takes residence in a halfway house. His mind gradually slips back into the realm created by his illness, where he replays a key part of his childhood.
Style: psychological, surreal, disturbing, bleak, offbeat ...
Plot: mental illness, schizophrenia, childhood trauma, haunted by the past, paranoia, misfit, insanity, psychopath, mental patient, murder, twists and turns, surrealism ...
Time: 2000s, 1950s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, britain, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 7.5
 75K
Burning (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea, Japan
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Deliveryman Jongsu is out on a job when he runs into Haemi, a girl who once lived in his neighborhood. She asks if he'd mind looking after her cat while she's away on a trip to Africa. On her return she introduces to Jongsu an enigmatic ...
Style: suspense, art house, ambiguous ending, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: class differences, metaphor, suspicion, stalking, arson, anger, aspiring writer, rural setting, childhood friend, tragic love, asian, fire ...
Time: 2010s
Place: south korea, seoul, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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The Infernal Machine (2022)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Portugal, UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Reclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his bestseller decades earlier. ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, tense ...
Plot: writers, obsession, letter, best selling author, obsessed fan, manipulation, fanaticism, lie, psychological manipulation, fear, ant, coin ...
Place: southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.1
 467
Blast (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a Parisian parking lot Sonia finds herself trapped in her car with her son and the daughter of her boyfriend Fred, who has been left outside, powerless to deal with the situation: an anti-tank mine has been set under the car. Sonia is a ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot: bomb, race against time, bomb squad, bomb threat, death threat, risk, deathtrap, trapped, family in danger, explosions, die hard, panic ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Lives of Others (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: A tragic love story set in East Berlin with the backdrop of an undercover Stasi controlled culture. Stasi captain Wieler is ordered to follow author Dreyman and plunges deeper and deeper into his life until he reaches the threshold of doubting the ...
Style: political thriller, gloomy, political, sincere, suspense ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: surveillance, cold war, berlin wall, spy, stasi, communism, iron curtain, secrets, loneliness, voyeurism, politics, suicide ...
Time: 80s, year 2006, 20th century, 2000s, year 1984 ...
Place: east germany, germany, berlin germany, europe, soviet union ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 6.4
 1K
Corporate (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Emilie is a bright young workaholic manager in Human Ressources, working for a huge French agro-food company. Ambitious and dedicated to her job, she is a good soldier, ready to put ruthless methods of management into practice to meet the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: suicide, psychological trauma, corporation, manager, guilt, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, business, rivalry, danger, adaptation, life philosophy ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Tom at the Farm (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A young man travels to an isolated farm for his lover's funeral where he's quickly drawn into a twisted, sexually charged game by his lover's aggressive brother.
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, gloomy, sexual ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, male homosexuality, family problems, gays and lesbians, closeted homosexual, manipulation, farm, grief, chase, psychopath, lgbt teen ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 2000s, year 1997, 21st century
Place: quebec, canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Taken Back: Finding Haley (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Unable to get over the abduction of her daughter, a mother is convinced she has finally found her, but is she simply a mother obsessed?
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: missing child, uncover truth, parents and children, overprotective mother, child abduction, twists and turns, family problems, danger, life is a bitch, obsessive quest, nobody believes, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Ghost Beyond (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A struggling novelist moves his wife and young son to an old country home, but when a presence begins to communicate with his son, the family must escape an evil that threatens to doom them to the house for eternity.
Style: dramatic, disturbing, scary, bleak, suspenseful
Plot: writers, ghost, evil, novelist, country house, son, supernatural being, haunted house, paranormal phenomena, supernatural, paranormal, fear ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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