Movies like Whispers Behind the Wall

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Whispers Behind the Wall (2013)
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Whispers Behind the Wall (2013)
Original name: Die Frau hinter der Wand
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Martin leaves his protective parents’ home and comes to Berlin as a law student with high hopes. He finds a tiny, run-down flat in a strange, dark apartment block, from which the previous tenant has disappeared without a trace. Having no luck with social contacts at the university, Martin quickly falls for his mysterious landlady Simone, who lives just next door behind a thin wall. Hoping to find trust and intimacy, Martin loses himself in the house’s disturbing world of sex and violence. Deep in the walls, Martin discovers the true horror of his first love.
Style: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: landlord tenant relationship, landlady, tenant, student, missing person, mysterious disappearance, girl next door, dark secret, violence, espionage, neighbor, fall in love, in love, sexual relations, roommate, sexual desire, flatmate, sex with neighbor, older woman younger man relationship, sex scene, bare breasts, shy man, male objectification, female objectification, nudity ...
Place: berlin germany

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, tense and disturbing films with plots about female nudity, murder, danger, violence, bare breasts, deadly and male nudity mostly in Horror, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Whispers Behind the Wall: Circle (2010), Luster (2010), Open House (1987), Penance (2009), Cracked (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Circle (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Luster (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
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Open House (1987)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Someone is killing off nubile real estate agents. A psychologist doing a therapy talk show begins getting calls from the perpetrator, and cooperates with the police to try and stop him. Unfortunately, his lover is a real estate agent, and when it ...
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Time: 80s
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 3.4
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
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Country: Thailand
Duration: 93 min.
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Duration: 98 min.
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Style: captivating, suspense, minimal cast
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Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Airi is a high school student. On the way home from school, Airi is kidnapped by someone. Then, 9 more high school students are all kidnapped like Airi. Those kidnapped students are forced to participate in Jinroh Game, with their lives at stake.
Style: captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense, suspenseful
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Style: sexy, sensual, erotic, suspense, cult classic ...
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Cold Sweat (2010)
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Duration: 83 min.
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*69 (2016)
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Manhole (2014)
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 300
Snuff Trap (2003)
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