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In a Child's Name (1991)
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In a Child's Name (1991)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 192 min.
TV show
Story: A true story about a woman who fights her brother-in-law's parents for custody of her deceased sister's baby upon learning that her brother-in-law murdered her sister.
Plot: woman killed, biopic, murder, baby, sister sister relationship, brother in law sister in law relationship, brother in law, custody battle, italian american

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, captivating, serious and realistic films and TV series with plots about murder, biopic, true crime, serial killer, police, deadly and trial mostly in Drama, Biography and Thriller genres. Some movies like In a Child's Name: Gone in the Night (1996), A Death in California (1985), Echoes in the Darkness (1987), Before He Wakes (1998), Super Pumped (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Gone in the Night (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 190 min.
Story: A couple is unjustly accused of the murder of their daughter. Based on a true story and book of the same title.
Style: dark
Plot: serial killer, false accusation, kidnapping, murder, parent child relationship, news reporter, intruder, daughter, child murder, private investigator, trial, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 80s
Place: illinois
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100%
A Death in California (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
TV show
Story: A Beverly Hills socialite embarks on a love/hate relationship with a psychotic businessman who murdered her fiance and then raped and terrorized her which leads to a bizarre trial.
Plot: lawyer, socialite, sociopath, murder, rape, trial
Place: beverly hills
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100%
Echoes in the Darkness (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 250 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the true life story that took place in the 1970s, this movie follows the murder of Susan Reinert and her two children in Upper Merion Township in Pennsylvania, a case that lasted seven years
Plot: serial killer, woman killed, murder of a family, murder, true crime, heart attack, murder of family, child murder, storm, dead woman, off screen murder, naked dead woman
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Before He Wakes (1998)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Initially cleared of "accidentally" killing her husband, an idyllic wife and mother comes under suspicion when police learn that her first husband also perished under similar circumstances. As the investigation unfolds, it becomes clear ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, love, black widow, basketball coach, extramarital affair, husband wife relationship, deception, money, divorce, christianity, life insurance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Super Pumped (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Each season of this anthology series explores a story that rocked the business world to its core and changed culture. The first season tells the story of Uber, one of Silicon Valley’s most successful and most destructive unicorns.
Style: disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, anthology
Plot: business, taxi, businessman, scandal, sex scandal, economist, driver, finance, real life, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, silicon valley ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 8.6
 39K
The Offer (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 586 min.
TV show
Story: Oscar-winning producer Al Ruddy’s never before revealed experiences of making the iconic 1972 film The Godfather that Francis Ford Coppola directed and adapted with Mario Puzo.
Style: period drama
Plot: mafia, biopic, cosa nostra, godfather, library, filmmaking, entertainment industry, film history, director, drinking alcohol, producer, cocaine ...
Time: year 1971, year 1972, 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
J.F.K.: Reckless Youth (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 183 min.
TV show
Story: Looks at the early years of America's most dashing president from his early childhood through his nomination for Congress.
Plot: president, u.s. president, intrigue, kennedy family, usa president, john f. kennedy, childhood
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Escape at Dannemora (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 440 min.
TV show
Story: The stranger-than-fiction account of a prison break in upstate New York in the summer of 2015, which spawned a massive manhunt for two convicted murderers who were aided in their escape by a married female prison employee with whom they both became ...
Style: melancholic, captivating, atmospheric, anthology, historical drama ...
Plot: prison escape, prison life, prison, love triangle, true crime, deception, prisoner, love affair, twists and turns, travel, organized crime, jail ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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WeCrashed (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 427 min.
TV show
Story: Inspired by actual events — and the love story at the center of it all. WeWork grew from a single coworking space into a global brand worth $47 billion in under a decade. Then, in less than a year, its valuation dropped $40 billion. What happened?
Style: exciting, disturbing, thought provoking, captivating
Plot: business, couples, escapades, relationships, couple relations, love, love affair, financial ruin, love interest, greed, startup, biopic ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.9
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The Act (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 425 min.
TV show
Story: Dee Dee Blanchard is overprotective of her daughter, Gypsy, who is trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her mother. Gypsy's quest for independence opens up a Pandora's box of secrets, which ultimately leads to murder. The ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, rough, anthology, thought provoking ...
Plot: overprotective parent, true crime, treatment, pretense, fake illness, mother daughter relationship, murder of mother, manipulation, mental illness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, murder investigation ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: usa, syria
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Little Gloria... Happy at Last (1982)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: The story deals with Gloria Vanderbilt's difficult coming-of-age when, at eleven, she was a pawn in a custody battle between her sybaritic mother and her aunt.
Plot: family relations, depression era, matriarchy, biopic, voice over narration, family drama, mother daughter conflict, newspaper columnist, family conflict, party, sister in law sister in law relationship, greed ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s
Place: french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Extraordinary Siamese Story: Eng and Chang (2021)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Thailand
TV show
Story: The story of the Siamese twins, Eng and Chang Bunker, who live extraordinary lives with their wives and children in Mount Airy, North Carolina.
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot: twins, biopic, twin brother, family relations, relationships, husband wife relationship, lifestyle, family life, siamese twins, kids and family, large family
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Laser Man (2005)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 270 min.
TV show
Story: Follows the Swedish serial killer and bank robber John Ausonius, nicknamed "Lasermannen", because he used a red laser aiming for his rifle.
Plot: serial killer, murder mystery, european, murder, shooting, bank robbery, racism, police procedural, true crime, multiple time frames, archive footage
Time: 20th century, 70s, 90s, 80s, year 1992
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Murder of Innocence (1993)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In this shocking account based on a true story, newlywed Laurie Wade finds her marriage, and eventually the rest of her life, shattered by her deep-rooted psychotic behavior. The young woman soon begins a terrifying descent into insanity and brings ...
Style: serious, realistic, disturbing, rough, bleak ...
Plot: mental illness, self mutilation, psychopath, murder, misfit, mentally unstable, insanity, babysitter, fired from the job, mother daughter relationship, flashback, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Body Collector (2016)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
TV show
Story: The mini-series is based on the true story of journalist Hans Knoop, who attempts to find the truth behind the then not yet prosecuted war criminal Pieter Menten. In the seventies, the case caused uproar in the media and in the political landscape ...
Style: period piece
Plot: resistance, war crime, law, lawyer, world war two, murder, trial, threat, war criminal
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Love & Death (2023)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 378 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of Candy and Pat Montgomery and Betty and Allan Gore – two churchgoing couples enjoying their small town Texas life… until an extramarital affair leads somebody to pick up an axe.
Style: psychological thriller, serious, suspenseful, captivating, psychological
Plot: true crime, brutality, murder, violence, courtroom drama, extramarital affair, self defense, violent, police, criminal, friend, daughter ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Alias Grace (2017)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 267 min.
TV show
Story: Based on the true story of Grace Marks, a housemaid and immigrant from Ireland who was imprisoned in 1843, perhaps wrongly, for the murder of her employer Thomas Kinnear. Grace claims to have no memory of the murder yet the facts are irrefutable. A ...
Style: period piece, costume drama, historical drama, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: female prisoner, psychiatrist, female assassin, female murderer, murder investigation, maid, life is a bitch, women, women in society, feminist, amnesia, historical figure ...
Time: 19th century, 1840s, year 2017, 1850s
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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A Confession (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Detective Superintendent Steve Fulcher intends on catching a killer of a missing woman, even if that may cost him his career and reputation.
Style: detective, suspenseful, tense, suspense, crime drama ...
Plot: true crime, murder, police, murder investigation, police investigation, police detective, investigation, hopes, danger, dialogue, life philosophy, police officer ...
Time: future, year 2016, year 2014, year 2011, year 2012
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Five Days at Memorial (2022)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 376 min.
TV show
Story: Based on actual events from Hurricane Katrina. When the floodwaters rose, power failed, and heat soared, exhausted caregivers at a New Orleans hospital were forced to make profound, heart-wrenching decisions.
Style: thrilling, suspenseful, tense, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: hurricane katrina, flood, hospital, medicine, disaster, natural disaster, nurse, medical, rescue, doctor, health, moral dilemma ...
Time: 2020s, 2000s, year 2005
Place: new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story (1993)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story: The true story of a woman who is sentenced to life imprisonment for murdering her husband's ex-wife.
Plot: serial killer, lovers on the run, female police officer, police corruption, murder, police, policewoman, frame up, trial
Place: canada, ontario canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Grim Sleeper (2014)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Journalist Christine Pelisek helps law enforcement investigate the alleged serial killer known as the Grim Sleeper.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, danger, journalism, murder, riddles and clues, stalking, law enforcement, biopic, partners against crime, twins, murderous pair ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Unsolved: The Murders of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G. (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Music, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A chronicle of the two major police investigations by LAPD Detective Greg Kading into the deaths of Tupac and The Notorious B.I.G.
Style: factual, tense, suspense, captivating, detective ...
Plot: rapper, police, murder investigation, murder, conspiracy, friendship, corruption, uncover truth, feud, police investigator, interview, shooting ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, los angeles, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Sybil (1976)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 198 min.
TV show
Story: The true story of a young woman named Sybil, whose childhood was so harrowing to her that she developed at least 13 different personalities.
Style: psychological, touching, disturbing, emotional, depressing ...
Plot: mental illness, dissociative identity disorder, split personality, psychology, mental disorder, psychiatrist, children, child abuse, women, psychiatry, illness, mental health ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Fatal Vision (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min.
TV show
Story: A retiree spends nine years relentlessly seeking to prove that his son-in-law, a former Green Beret Army doctor, murdered his pregnant wife and two children
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot: true crime, murder, child abuse, serial killer, infidelity, courtroom drama, vietnam war, woman killed, pregnancy, journalism, life is a bitch, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 70s, 80s
Place: usa, north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Capture of the Green River Killer (2008)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
TV show
Story: A pair of girls seeking adventure beyond the their Western Washington trailer park encounter the area's most ruthless serial killer. Based on Sheriff David Reichert's book, "Chasing the Devil: My Twenty-Year Quest to Capture the Green ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, manhunt, strangulation, psychopath, law enforcement, danger, notoriety, bodies, murder, teenage girl, missing person ...
Time: 80s, 90s, 21st century
Place: washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
To Catch a Killer (1992)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 182 min.
TV show
Story: "To Catch a Killer" tells the true gruesome story of John Wayne Gacy - a good friend and helpful neighbour, a great child entertainer, a respectful businessman, and a violent serial killer who raped and murdered over 30 young boys.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, scary, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, killing, killer clown, true crime, psychopath, killer, police investigation, biopic, gay, politics, criminal, misfit ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
A Woman Named Jackie (1991)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 246 min.
TV show
Story: A film about the life of Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy Onassis.
Plot: president, u.s. president, first lady, john f. kennedy, famous people, price of fame, usa president
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.2
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The New Look (2024)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
TV show
Story: The shocking story of how fashion icon Christian Dior and his contemporaries including Coco Chanel, Pierre Balmain, and Cristóbal Balenciaga navigated the horrors of World War Il and launched modern fashion.
Plot: fashion, gay, based on real people, gay interest, biopic, fashion industry, fashion designer, world war two, life, career, business
Time: 1940s, year 1947
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Sophia Loren: Her Own Story (1980)
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Dramatization of the life of Italian actress Sophia Loren who plays herself during adulthood and also that of her mother Romilda Villani.
Plot: hollywood, biopic, glory, mother daughter relationship, world war two, father daughter relationship, extramarital affair, italian woman, air raid, poverty, actress, miscarriage ...
Place: rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Bonnie & Clyde (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 174 min.
TV show
Story: Bonnie and Clyde is a two-part film about two Depression-era outlaws, starring Emile Hirsch as Clyde Barrow and Holliday Grainger as Bonnie Parker. It is based on the true story of Clyde Barrow, a charismatic convicted armed robber who sweeps Bonnie ...
Style: stylized, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: outlaw, lovers on the run, robbery, murderous pair, partners in crime, love and romance, partner, violence spree, gang, couples, notoriety, heist ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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