Movies like Under the Silver Lake
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Under the Silver Lake (2018)
59K
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night. When she suddenly vanishes the next morning, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind her disappearance, leading him into the murkiest depths of mystery, scandal and conspiracy.
Style:
neo noir, atmospheric, black comedy, surreal, dark comedy, psychological, captivating, cult classic, post-horror, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, disappearance, conspiracy, conspiracy theory, swimming pool, sect, secret society, secret message, obsession, skinny dipping, male nudity, lake, investigation, occult, pop culture, moral ambiguity, swimming, dog, harem, parrot, missing girl, cave, female nudity, cemetery, drone ...
Time:
2010s, year 2019, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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Most similar movies to Under the Silver Lake
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, interesting, complex and neo noir films with plots about twists and turns, dialogue, storytelling, murder, obsession, investigation and death mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Under the Silver Lake: Inherent Vice (2014), Mulholland Drive (2001), Brick (2005), The Long Goodbye (1973), Gone Baby Gone (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
119K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
Style:
detective, atmospheric, surreal, sexy, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
private investigator, investigation, private detective, marijuana, conspiracy, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, hippie, drug trade, paranoia, obsession, betrayal, teeth ...
Time:
70s, year 2014, year 1967, year 1970, 90s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, southern california, usa, beverly hills
Similarity:
97%
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, neo noir, art house, disturbing ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
surrealism, twists and turns, amnesia, lesbian, obsession, dream, alternate reality, parallel universe, hollywood, filmmaking, lesbian sex, nightmare ...
Time:
2000s, year 2001, 20th century, future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, persia, usa, california, mulholland drive
Similarity:
86%
114K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
Style:
neo noir, cerebral, detective, teen, stylized ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
high school, twists and turns, murder mystery, loner, murder, investigation, teenager, amateur detective, whodunit, coming of age, adolescence, drug dealing ...
Time:
year 2005, y2k, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
Style:
neo noir, detective, dark, cynical, atmospheric ...
Audience:
manly
Plot:
private detective, murder, cat, profanity, whodunit, investigation, beach, mental institution, supermarket, alcoholic, private investigator, loneliness ...
Time:
70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, malibu california, california, mexico, usa ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that ...
Style:
twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, neo noir, thought provoking ...
Audience:
kids, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, private detective, twists and turns, investigation, conspiracy, violence, moral dilemma, police investigation, death, murder mystery, moral ambiguity, missing child ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
boston, massachusetts, usa
Similarity:
83%
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:
girls' night, teens, pre-teens, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, obsession, swimming pool, swimming, murder, writers, voyeurism, sex, frenchwoman, lust, murder mystery, self discovery ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
france, cote d'azur, europe, south of france, london ...
Similarity:
100%
409K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
Style:
neo noir, action comedy, funny, buddy comedy, entertaining ...
Plot:
private detective, conspiracy, investigation, corruption, murder, teenage girl, party, private investigator, father daughter relationship, bare breasts, buddy cop, revenge ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 70s, year 1977, 90s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous blonde dancing ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, cult classic, sensual, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
voyeurism, obsession, sex, nudity, peeping tom, sexual intercourse, twists and turns, doppelganger, voyeur, sexual content, exhibitionist, porn star ...
Time:
80s, year 1984
Place:
los angeles, usa
Similarity:
80%
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192K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
The debut film from Darren Aronofsky in which a mathematical genius Maximilian Cohen discovers a link in the connection between numbers and reality and thus believes he can predict the future.
Style:
surreal, atmospheric, mind bending, cerebral, cult classic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
mathematics, insanity, obsession, paranoia, computer, conspiracy, surrealism, alienation, psychology, eye, cyberpunk, mental illness ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1998, future
Place:
new york, america, middle east, usa, coney island brooklyn new york city ...
Similarity:
100%
236K
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, clever ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
doppelganger, obsession, mental illness, symbolism, paranoia, nightmare, lookalikes, infidelity, disturbed individual, spider, surrealism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 2013, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
100%
466K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, mind game, manipulation, psychology, puzzle, uncover truth, existentialism, surveillance, life & death, game, life turned upside down, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place:
san francisco, usa, bay area, california, seattle ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes ...
Style:
suspense, twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
train, murder mystery, obsession, infidelity, police investigation, adultery, psychopath, investigation, missing person, female protagonist, flashback, learning the truth ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, america, usa, london
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...
Style:
detective, neo noir, funny, black comedy, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
private detective, dark humor, satire, actor, thief, murder mystery, cheerleader, buddy, accidental killing, violent, buddy cop, kidnapping ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 80s, year 1980, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, venice beach california, california, denver colorado, usa ...
Similarity:
67%
75K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jack Terry is a master sound recordist who works on grade-B horror movies. Late one evening, he is recording sounds for use in his movies when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him ...
Style:
neo noir, political thriller, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
conspiracy, political conspiracy, serial killer, murder mystery, murder, investigation, politics, conspiracy theory, assassination, witnessing a crime, amateur detective, damsel in distress ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place:
philadelphia, pennsylvania, california
Similarity:
67%
296K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
For 19-year-old Jay, fall should be about school, boys and weekends out at the lake. But a seemingly innocent physical encounter turns sour and gives her the inescapable sense that someone, or something, is following her. Faced with this burden, Jay ...
Style:
scary, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, macabre, being followed, evil, teenage girl, voyeurism, coming of age, supernatural being, peeping tom, swimming pool, death ...
Time:
2010s, year 2014, 80s, 21st century
Place:
detroit, michigan, usa, california
Similarity:
50%
661K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When Lou Bloom, desperate for work, muscles into the world of L.A. crime journalism, he blurs the line between observer and participant to become the star of his own story. Aiding him in his effort is Nina, a TV-news veteran.
Style:
neo noir, psychological, disturbing, suspense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
character study, sociopath, journalism, obsession, cynicism, psychopath, manipulation, morality, journalist, violence, deception, ethics ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, near future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, venice beach california, america ...
Similarity:
67%
15K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A retired ex-cop and private detective gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money and walks into a 20 year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of an actress' former husband.
Style:
neo noir, clever, suspense, talky, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
private detective, bare breasts, murder, murder mystery, femme fatale, amateur detective, swimming pool, voyeurism, missing person, corruption, betrayal, police investigation ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, mexico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In 1960s New York, Walter Stackhouse is a successful architect married to the beautiful Clara who leads a seemingly perfect life. But his fascination with an unsolved murder leads him into a spiral of chaos as he is forced to play cat-and-mouse with ...
Style:
psychological thriller, disturbing, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
unhappy marriage, death of wife, architect, investigation, police brutality, revenge, danger, police investigation, disorder, dishonesty, winter, brutality ...
Time:
year 2016, year 1960, 60s
Place:
new york, columbus ohio, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
After Dr. Bill Hartford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly ...
Style:
sexual, sexy, psychological, artsy, creepy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
marriage, secret society, christmas, orgy, voyeurism, obsession, sex, disguise, dream, adultery, doctor, nudity ...
Time:
90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place:
new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, seattle, usa
Similarity:
50%
242K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Style:
neo noir, surreal, dark, cerebral, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
surrealism, small town, voyeurism, sadomasochism, sex scene, violence, dark humor, abuse, sex, nightclub, sexual humiliation, serial killer ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1986
Place:
canada
Similarity:
50%
665K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story:
The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are ...
Style:
atmospheric, tense, suspense, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, journalism, maniac, murder mystery, mind game, journalist, true crime, paranoia, killer, uncover truth ...
Time:
70s, year 2007, year 1971, year 1969, year 1979 ...
Place:
san francisco, california, bay area, usa, oakland california ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspense, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
corruption, police corruption, organized crime, police, murder, police detective, twists and turns, murder mystery, police brutality, justice, shootout, gunfight ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1997, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, arizona, persia ...
Similarity:
50%
103K
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The down-and-out private detective Harry Angel is ordered, by a mysterious man named Louis Cyphre, to go on a mission to find a missing person. His routine failure soon leads to a bloody spar with himself as Harry Angel goes on a supernatural ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, sexy, satanic, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
private detective, investigation, twists and turns, satan, devil, voodoo, amnesia, satanic ritual, incest, supernatural, occult ritual, sex scene ...
Time:
year 1987, 50s, 20th century, year 1918, year 1942 ...
Place:
new orleans, southern usa, new york, louisiana, usa ...
Similarity:
28%
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33K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
This acclaimed thriller stars Jane Fonda as Bree Daniel, a New York City call girl who becomes enmeshed in an investigation into the disappearance of a business executive. Detective John Klute is hired to follow Daniel, and eventually begins a ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, psychological, suspenseful, cynical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
private detective, prostitute, obsession, conspiracy, call girl, missing person, private investigator, investigation, brutality, murder mystery, pimp, prostitution ...
Time:
70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place:
new york, pennsylvania, usa, manhattan new york city, new york state ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tricky, detective, stylized ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, murder mystery, vigilantism, psychic, police investigation, psychic power, mental illness, fbi, profiler, vigilante, obsession ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s
Place:
new mexico, usa, arizona, dallas texas, oklahoma ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Big money artists and mega-collectors pay a high price when art collides with commerce. After a series of paintings by an unknown artist are discovered, a supernatural force enacts revenge on those who have allowed their greed to get in the way of ...
Style:
surreal, scary, perverse, visually stunning, psychological horror ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
art collector, supernatural horror, supernatural, gay, painting, satire, art dealer, blood, art theft, art critic, male nudity, social satire ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, miami
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Five college friends spend the weekend at a remote cabin in the woods, where they get more than they bargained for. Together, they must discover the truth behind the cabin in the woods.
Style:
scary, bloody, mind bending, slasher, lovecraft ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
monster, creature, supernatural, woods, cabin in the woods, survival, trapped, cosmic horror, fear, zombie, death, werewolf ...
Time:
year 2012, 20th century, year 2000, year 2009, 2000s ...
Place:
usa, seattle
Similarity:
27%
109K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
A struggling, unemployed young writer takes to following strangers around the streets of London, ostensibly to find inspiration for his new novel.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, psychological, clever, black and white ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
burglar, plot twist, manipulation, voyeurism, framed for murder, character study, breaking and entering, stranger, heist, whodunit, friendship, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place:
england, london, persia, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Denmark, USA, Belgium
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When aspiring model Jesse moves to Los Angeles, her youth and vitality are devoured by a group of beauty-obsessed women who will take any means necessary to get what she has.
Style:
art house, sexy, disturbing, dark, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick
Plot:
fashion, teenage girl, cannibalism, model, beauty, lesbian, obsession, jealousy, murder, rivalry, fashion model, surrealism ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, pasadena california
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
In the questionable town of Deer Meadow, Washington, FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, ...
Style:
surreal, dark, atmospheric, psychedelic, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
serial killer, incest, investigation, surrealism, small town life, murder, rape, double life, small town, mental illness, sexual abuse, teenage girl ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, near future, 20th century, year 1988 ...
Place:
washington state, canada, philadelphia, portland oregon
Similarity:
27%
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