Movies and TV shows like Save Me

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Save Me (2017)
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Save Me (2017)
Original name: 구해줘
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: 4 young men who don't have jobs face a woman in an alley. The woman says "save me."
Style: suspense, psychological, rough, disturbing, dorama
Plot: religious cult, brainwashing, friendship, suicide, ritual, abuse, scam, irrational behavior, psychological abuse, religion, church, deception, ex convict, bromance, school bullying, religious fanatic, pastor, small community, escape, friendship between men, male friendship, cult, crimes
Place: korea
Keyword: korean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, disturbing, psychological and captivating films and TV series with plots about investigation, murder, danger, friendship, uncover truth, society and death mostly in Mystery, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Save Me: Hometown (2021), Intruder (2020), The Chosen One (2019), Forgotten (2017), Sleepless Society: Nyctophobia (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Hometown (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A mystery evil thriller which finds the truth of a recording tape containing mysterious serial killings and unidentified sounds in a small city.
Style: suspense, disturbing, enigmatic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, guilt, murder mystery, dark secret, small town, puzzle, secret, siblings, missing person, tragic past, murder, trauma ...
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Intruder (2020)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Seo-jin is a widower still grieving his wife’s death. Then he receives the news that her long-lost younger sister, Yoo-jin, who went missing 25 years ago, has turned up. Unlike the rest of his family, who welcome her into their arms, Seo-jin feels ...
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, tense, atmospheric
Plot: father daughter relationship, death of wife, family relations, uncover truth, frame up, rivalry, danger, love, investigation, murder, caper, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea
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The Chosen One (2019)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story: Determined to bring a Zika vaccine to the remote Pantanal, three doctors clash with a faith healer and are pulled deeper into the mysteries of his cult.
Style: tense, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot: doctor, tribe, trap, religious cult, vaccine, religions or cults, problem, physician, occult, folklore, religion, epidemic
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 7.4
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Forgotten (2017)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jin-seok, 21-year-old, moves into a new house with his family. He suffers from a slight schizophrenia but he carries an ordinary life under the warm care of the family. His older brother Yu-seok is a decent college student, a mentor, and role model ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: plot twist, brother brother relationship, memory loss, uncover truth, home invasion, delusion, revenge, twists and turns, new house, deception, chase, childhood memory ...
Place: south korea, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Sleepless Society: Nyctophobia (2019)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Following the death of her child, a grief-stricken woman struggles to find peace until a mysterious boy appears, claiming to be her reincarnated son.
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating
Plot: death, reincarnation, grief, mother son relationship, bereavement, life is a bitch, social problems, family relations, loss of child, family problems
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The Envoys (2021)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Two Vatican officials with very different conceptions of what faith is are sent to different parts of the world to investigate and verify the veracity of alleged miracles and healings attributed to members of the church.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: religion, secret, faith, priest, mysterious disappearance, community, investigation, uncover truth, religious faith, female nudity, female full frontal nudity
Place: mexico
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33%
The King of Pigs (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 55 min.
TV show
Story: Two friends in the past were victims of serious school bulling. One could not resist his trauma, and becomes a serial killer, walking in the path of revenge. Another one tries his best to overcome the trauma and becomes a police detective. He now ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: child abuse, revenge, murder, childhood trauma, bullying, flashback, violence, social problems, life is a bitch, murder mystery, dark past, friendship ...
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32%
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Surface (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: A traumatic head injury leaves Sophie with extreme memory loss. In her quest to put the pieces of her life back together—with help from her husband and friends—Sophie begins to question the truth behind her picture-perfect life.
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: suicide attempt, suicide, life is a bitch, introspection, self discovery, suicide threat, problem, social problems, psychological trauma, female protagonist, psychological manipulation, apocalypse ...
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Solomon's Perjury (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: A male student's body is found at school. Authorities assume that the student killed himself in a fall. Other students at the school hold a trial to uncover the truth behind his death.
Style: tense, psychological, contemplative, suspense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: bullying, investigation, death, school, student, youth, police investigation, teenager, danger, dishonesty, suicide, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
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31%
We Still Say Grace (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The teenage daughter of a religious fanatic attempts to escape her twisted family life when three strangers break down near their remote farmhouse and interrupt her father's delusional family suicide pact.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, tense
Plot: suicide, religions or cults, religious fanaticism, problem, faith, father daughter relationship, mass suicide, religious cult, family relations, religious fanatic, religion, stranger ...
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Distorted (2018)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A married couple suspect that the 'smart apartments' in their high tech residence are being used by its owner for sinister reasons.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, surreal, suspense ...
Plot: brainwashing, fear, female protagonist, bipolar disorder, ghost, country house, mind control, mental health, conspiracy, nightmare, anxiety, telepathy ...
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31%
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Justice (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: Lee Tae Kyung is a star lawyer with the best win rate. He is able to win cases by using his sharp logic and intelligent speeches. He amasses power and wealth by dealing with clients who are part of the elite class. His cases are usually referred ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, realistic, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: hotshot lawyer, courtroom drama, court case, murder mystery, courtroom, escapades, true crime, power relations, murder, defense attorney, society, legal system ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
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31%
House of the Disappeared (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After 25 years of imprisonment for familicide, a mother comes back home where her son disappeared.
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot: time travel, mysticism, mysterious disappearance, dysfunctional family, paranormal phenomena, house, female protagonist, secret, family secret, disappearance, getting home, time loop ...
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31%
The Village: Achiara's Secret (2015)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: Achiara is a quiet, peaceful village with hardly any crime. But on her first day of school there, English language instructor Kim So-yoon discovers a buried corpse. As the townspeople speculate on the identity of the dead person and the reason she ...
Style: sexy, disturbing, tense, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: murder mystery, murder investigation, village, secret, murder, mysterious villain, burial, supernatural, hidden corpse, uncover truth, police investigation, crime solving ...
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Mr. Hiiragi's Homeroom (2019)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
TV show
Story: With graduation 10 days away, homeroom teacher Hiiragi gathered all 29 students of class 3-A and proclaims them his hostages. His last lesson regards the death of a student that passed away a few months before. Nobody will be able to graduate until ...
Style: unusual plot structure, contemplative, tense, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: school, teacher, murder, who done it, revenge, mass suicide, suicide, uncover truth, youth, society, hostage, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Meteorite (2015)
Genre: Mystery
Country: Russia
TV show
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, rough, tense
Plot: police, missing person, clairvoyant, investigation, suspicion, colleague, help, extrasensory perception, partner, friendship, danger, meteorite ...
Place: russia
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30%
White Christmas (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story: Kim Yo Han is a psychiatrist who gets involved in a serial murder when his car broke down on Christmas Eve during a sudden storm and he is forced to take shelter at a private high school. Seven students and a teacher are also there over the winter ...
Style: psychological thriller, psychological, enigmatic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: murderer, christmas, high school, serial killer, school, suicide, drug, student, isolated place, boarding school, puzzle, isolation ...
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Flower of Evil (2020)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: Baik Hee Sung, an ordinary family man, is actually a psychopath whose past is dotted with crime and violence. His hopeless life changes completely after he meets his wife. He had to falsify everything about himself to marry her. His wife, Cha Ji ...
Style: dorama, psychological, detective, unusual plot structure, tense ...
Plot: hidden identity, female detective, investigation, murder, father daughter relationship, serial murder, dark secret, psychopath, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, family conflict, dual identity ...
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30%
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Vagabond (2019)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Stuntman Cha Dal-geon gets involved in a tragic airplane crash and ends up discovering a national corruption scandal in the process. Go Hae-ri, the oldest daughter of a deceased marine, decides to work for the National Intelligence Service as a ...
Style: dorama, captivating, tense, disturbing, sincere
Plot: agent, corruption, revenge, investigation, dishonesty, government, asian, uncover truth, crime solving, friendship, murder, danger ...
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30%
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Evil Minds (2015)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: A gifted criminal profiler lost someone important to him while he was helping the police solve a bizarre campus serial killing. The lost crippled his mind and left him unable to profile again. But when another serial killing threatened the city, he ...
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: death, murder, investigation, partners against crime, police investigation, partner, rivalry, society, revenge, chase, murderer, coworker ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china
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The Pack (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Chile
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Story: Blanca, student leader of the feminist movement in an occupied school, goes missing: hours later, a video of a group raping the girl goes viral. In their aim to find her, a police squad formed by three women puts their lives and that of their ...
Style: rough, unusual plot structure, disturbing, suspense, bleak ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: girl, kidnapper, partner, kidnapping, abduction, disorder, rescue, friendship, chase, investigation, danger, disappearance ...
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I Know Who You Are (2017)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min.
TV show
Story: A man ends up in hospital after a car accident. He does not remember his name, but it is soon discovered he is a famous attorney. To make things worse, the police start to suspect him of having murdered his missing niece.
Style: exciting, tense, suspenseful, sincere, psychological ...
Plot: lawyer, disappearance, niece, investigation, police, danger, family relations, memory, murder suspect, memory loss, suspicion, suspicion of murder ...
Place: spain
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Strangers From Hell (2019)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Yoon Jong-Woo is a man in his 20's. He has lived in a small town for all of his life, but he gets a job at a small office in Seoul. Yoon Jong-Woo moves out to Seoul and stays at a cheap apartment which shares its kitchen and bathroom with other ...
Style: scary, dorama, suspense, disturbing, psychotronic ...
Plot: murderer, psychopath, murder, victim, murder investigation, graphic violence, sociopath, investigation, society, uncover truth, who done it, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seoul
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Messiah (2020)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A wary CIA officer investigates a charismatic man who sparks a spiritual movement and stirs political unrest. Who exactly is he? And what does he want?
Style: suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, spiritual ...
Plot: religion, messiah, cia, jesus christ, prophet, cia agent, faith, jesus, police, politics, religious, investigation ...
Place: middle east, israel, texas, jerusalem
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29%
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The Glory (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: After a childhood marked by pain and violence, a woman puts a carefully planned revenge scheme in motion.
Style: dorama, psychological, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: revenge, bullying, female protagonist, victim, vengeance, life is a bitch, childhood memory, childhood trauma, self destructing, childhood, traumatic childhood, high school student ...
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Grid (2022)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: In 1997, a mysterious ghost saved humankind and then disappeared. The mysterious ghost appears again 24 years later and helps a serial killer escape. Kim Sae Ha, Jung Sae Byeok and Song Eo Jin pursue the ghost for different reasons.
Style: psychological, disturbing, tense, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot: mysterious character, mysticism, inspector, who done it, murder investigation, police detective, time travel, murderer, investigation, female detective
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The Anchor (2022)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A mysterious informant calls a broadcast news anchor to request that the anchor report on the informant’s inevitable death.
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: murder, fear, murderer, investigation, hallucination, anonymous telephone call, threatening telephone call, problem, race against time, radio announcer, motherhood, news anchor ...
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MosGaz. Delo N3: Pauk (2015)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: The third film of the project about Cherkasov's task force is "Goznak". Based on another famous story - the robbery of the State Bank of the Armenian SSR in 1977, when the Kalachyan brothers swept the treasury for one and a half ...
Style: bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense
Plot: maniac, investigation, police detective, justice, murder, friendship, law enforcement, working undercover, society, serial murder, danger, peril ...
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29%
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Sign (2011)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A medical investigation drama about forensic doctors solving murder cases. Go Da Kyung is an eager rookie investigator who gets paired with the famous forensic doctor, Yoon Ji Hoon. They initially clash due to their different styles of investigation ...
Style: talky, stylized, disturbing, suspense, intellectual
Plot: crime investigation, murder investigation, murder, law enforcer, riddles and clues, expert, partners against crime, heroes, escapades, law enforcement, mysterious man, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Amazing Grace of Σ (2021)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
TV show
Story: Muqi, a young pop star becomes more and more arrogant, especially with his manager Nagatsuki, a long-time friend who suddenly commits suicide. Muqi finds himself crushed by sadness and guilt. At the funeral, he meets Master Bensheng, guru of a cult ...
Style: spiritual, thrilling, realistic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: investigation, entity, faith, religious faith, criticism of religion, secret, undercover, religious education, religious sect, abuse, true crime, corruption
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