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Border (2018)
37K
Original name: Gräns
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.
Style:
art house, surreal, rough, disturbing, neurotic, dark comedy, psychological thriller, surprise ending, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
customs officer, sadistic psychopath, father daughter relationship, troll, sex scene, sexuality, childhood trauma, border guard, norse mythology, supernatural horror, body horror, forest, folk horror, baby, child molestation, female nudity, female warrior, child abuse, human becomes animal, deformity, animal cruelty, extreme, nordic, psychology, human animal relationship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
scandinavia, central europe, finland, eastern europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, suspense, psychological thriller and weird films with plots about female nudity, nude, nudity, blood, murder, storytelling and obsession mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Border: Let the Right One In (2008), Flocking (2015), The Element of Crime (1984), The Untamed (2016), Elle (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance
Country: Sweden, Norway, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor ...
Style:
creepy, gothic, cult classic, dark, dark fantasy ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, pre-teens, teen drama, adult
Plot:
vampire, supernatural, bullying, coming of age, loneliness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, school, friendship, boy, child vampire, fall in love, new neighbor ...
Time:
80s, 2000s, year 2008, year 2000, y2k ...
Place:
persia, united kingdom, europe, stockholm sweden, scandinavia ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
After a teenage girl reports a rape, her village ostracizes her and her family.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Plot:
youth, teenage life, life turned upside down, parents and children, society, social relations, rape victim, friendship, mother daughter relationship, young love, generation gap, child's point of view ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the ...
Style:
surreal, bleak, psychological, neo noir, art house ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, hypnosis, police investigation, surrealism, mentor, dystopia, society, memory loss, distopia, dialogue, psychoanalysis ...
Time:
future
Place:
middle east, cairo egypt, europe, africa, egypt
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Denmark, France, Germany, Norway, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Hypnotic, perturbing, and utterly enthralling, The Untamed combines a suspenseful family drama with truly bizarre elements of science fiction and horror. Desperate to flee but consumed by fear, Alejandra, a young mother and working housewife, is ...
Style:
disturbing, erotic, psychological horror, sensual, eros ...
Plot:
creature, interspecies sex, alien, unhappy marriage, sex with alien, animal sex, sex scene, masturbation, adultery, horniness, fetish, female nudity ...
Time:
distant future, 21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
When Michèle, the CEO of a gaming software company, is attacked in her home by an unknown assailant, she refuses to let it alter her precisely ordered life. She manages crises involving family, all the while becoming engaged in a game of cat and ...
Style:
disturbing, erotic drama, art house, psychological, controversial ...
Plot:
rape, rape and revenge, perversion, strong female character, older woman younger man relationship, masturbation, revenge, sexual abuse, female protagonist, car accident, video game, cat ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 90s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Greece, France, Netherlands, Belgium, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In a dystopian near future, single people, according to the laws of The City, are taken to The Hotel, where they are obliged to find a romantic partner in forty-five days or are transformed into beasts and sent off into The Woods.
Style:
surreal, art house, clever, absurd, ironic ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
absurdism, dystopia, distopia, solitude, blindness, love, manhunt, society, suicide attempt, hotel, relationships, secret relationship ...
Time:
year 2015, year 2016, 2010s, future, near future
Place:
ireland, greece, hellas, canada
Similarity:
41%
28K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A newlywed couple finds their lake-country honeymoon descend into chaos after Paul finds Bea wandering and disoriented in the middle of the night.
Style:
psychological, scary, suspenseful, creepy, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
woods, honeymoon, body horror, cabin in the woods, transformation, alien abduction, bondage, sleepwalking, mysterious event, woman in danger, danger, couple relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, canada
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Style:
surreal, creepy, dark, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien, extraterrestrial, human prey, disguise, femme fatale, nudity, seduction, nightclub, creature, deformity, arthouse horror, female nudity ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
Similarity:
41%
Movie in collections
121K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.
Style:
psychological, neo noir, surprise ending, sexy, twist ending ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
hypnosis, plot twist, twists and turns, amnesia, heist, memory loss, manipulation, dishonesty, disorder, art theft, skinny dipping, hot and sexy ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 70s, 21st century
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
40%
348K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In 1630s New England, William and Katherine lead a devout Christian life with five children, homesteading on the edge of an impassable wilderness, exiled from their settlement when William defies the local church. When their newborn son vanishes and ...
Style:
dark, atmospheric, disturbing, scary, satanic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
witch, supernatural, folk horror, curses spells and rituals, witchcraft, religion, wilderness, black magic, paganism, family bonds, isolation, sacrifice ...
Time:
17th century, 2010s, year 2015, year 2016, 19th century
Place:
new england, america, new hampshire, usa, canada
Similarity:
40%
920K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story:
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. But just how far will this desperate father go to protect his family?
Style:
twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, atmospheric, neo noir ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, revenge, serial killer, torture, twists and turns, vigilantism, police investigation, plot twist, brutality, vigilante, cop ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, bolivia, georgia, usa, boston
Similarity:
40%
39K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Norway, France, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A college student starts to experience extreme seizures while studying at a university in Oslo, Norway. She soon learns that the violent episodes are a symptom of inexplicable, and often dangerous, supernatural abilities.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, twisted, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lesbian love, bird, university, teenage girl, faith, lesbian attraction, healing power, hysteria, disappearance, lesbian relationship ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, oslo norway, indiana, eastern europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
On the brink of separation, Ethan and Sophie escape to a beautiful vacation house for a weekend getaway in an attempt to save their marriage. What begins as a romantic and fun retreat soon becomes surreal, when an unexpected discovery forces the two ...
Style:
surreal, emotional, tricky, cerebral, suspenseful ...
Plot:
marriage, couples, twists and turns, character study, family problems, doppelganger, infidelity, swimming pool, husband wife relationship, therapist, relationships, moral dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
40%
476K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
A young couple travels to Sweden to visit their friend’s rural hometown and attend its mid-summer festival. What begins as an idyllic retreat quickly descends into an increasingly violent and bizarre competition at the hands of a pagan cult.
Style:
disturbing, psychedelic, brutal, frightening, spooky ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
paganism, ritual, religious cult, folk horror, community, rite, isolated community, pagan, sect, female protagonist, burned alive, human sacrifice ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
scandinavia, europe, new york, eastern europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected ...
Style:
psychological, mind bending, suspense, philosophical, reflective ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
time travel, twists and turns, memory, time loop, butterfly effect, psychology, mind control, alternate reality, changing the past or future, destiny, memory loss, time ...
Time:
year 2004, 2010s, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Inspector Nick Cafmeyer seems to have it all - looks, brains and a successful career. But a dark cloud hangs over his life: since the age of nine, he has been haunted by the unsolved disappearance of his younger brother, Bjorn. Plettinckx, a known ...
Style:
disturbing, biting, sexy, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
child abuse, police, pedophile, child killer, missing child, kidnapping, police investigation, uncover truth, haunted by the past, serial killer, investigation, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
germany, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Virgil Oldman is a world renowned antiques expert and auctioneer. An eccentric genius, he leads a solitary life, going to extreme lengths to keep his distance from the messiness of human relationships. When appointed by the beautiful but emotionally ...
Style:
twist ending, surprise ending, psychological, atmospheric, enigmatic ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, art, painting, art collector, loneliness, forgery, art theft, collector, obsession, age difference, solitude, young woman ...
Time:
year 2013, y2k, 2010s, 18th century, 21st century
Place:
vienna, europe, berlin germany, prague, italy
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Two introverted people find out by pure chance that they share the same dream every night. They are puzzled, incredulous, a bit frightened. As they hesitantly accept this strange coincidence, they try to recreate in broad daylight what happens in ...
Style:
romantic drama, erotic, captivating, disturbing, sincere ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
sex scene, disability, dream, love, suicide attempt, slaughterhouse, betrayal by friend, female nudity, autism, penetration, food, sleeping ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 90s
Place:
eastern europe, hungary, budapest
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Vic and Melinda Van Allen are a couple in the small town of Little Wesley. Their loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers ...
Style:
dark, sexy, psychological, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder, cheating wife, infidelity, sex scene, cuckold, unfaithful wife, promiscuous woman, dysfunctional marriage, relationships, erotica, small town, marriage ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
louisiana, new orleans
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A brilliant plastic surgeon creates a synthetic skin that withstands any kind of damage. His guinea pig: a mysterious and volatile woman who holds the key to his obsession.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, clever, sexy, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, twists and turns, kidnapping, rape, revenge, isolation, gender, abuse, skin, lgbtq, insanity, mad scientist ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2006, year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, ancient greece, europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, talky, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, hospital, murder, journalist, policewoman, conspiracy, corruption, trial, rape, lawyer, journalism, serial killer ...
Time:
2000s, year 2010, year 2009, 21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, scandinavia, europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Dr. Steven Murphy is a renowned cardiovascular surgeon who presides over a spotless household with his wife and two children. Lurking at the margins of his idyllic suburban existence is Martin, a fatherless teen who insinuates himself into the ...
Style:
suspense, sexy, tense, philosophical, homoerotic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, obsession, dysfunctional family, mysterious stranger, husband wife relationship, recovering alcoholic, surgeon, psychopath, blackmail, desperation, dead father, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
ancient greece, ireland, columbus ohio
Similarity:
40%
124K
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Style:
psychological, surreal, mind bending, enigmatic, tricky ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
time travel, psychology, mental institution, time loop, amnesia, supernatural, hallucination, destiny, memory loss, disorder, haunted by the past, life is a bitch ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 90s, 20th century, year 1992 ...
Place:
vermont, iraq
Similarity:
39%
Movie in collections
260
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A strange nobleman returning after years abroad to a small Bohemian village in the beginning of 19th century. The nobleman feels closer to animals despite looking like a human.
Style:
enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, bleak, dark comedy ...
Plot:
loneliness, collector, tragic romance, priest in love, unrequited love, secret, fish out of water, love triangle, supernatural power, mythology, murder, hiding place ...
Time:
1830s, 19th century
Place:
central europe, europe
Similarity:
39%
140K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
I Origins follows a molecular biologist studying the evolution of the human eye. He finds his work permeating his life after a brief encounter with an exotic young woman who slips away from him. As his research continues years later with his lab ...
Style:
thought provoking, mind bending, spiritual, philosophical, enigmatic ...
Plot:
reincarnation, eye, metaphysics, genetics, buddhism, religion, atheism, death, spirituality, love story, sex scene, elevator ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 90s, year 1998, year 2005 ...
Place:
india, usa, new york, asia, delhi ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Louise and Kasper want to become parents, but Louise cannot have children. She seals a pact with her Romanian maid, Elena, to bear her child, but things don't turn out quite as planned...
Style:
disturbing, demonic, spooky, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
pregnancy, lake, nightmare, childlessness, blonde, self harm, dream, supernatural horror, housekeeper, dog, forest, baby ...
Place:
scandinavia
Similarity:
39%
20K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, Denmark
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Borgman is the central character of this dark, malevolent fable. Is he a dream or a demon, a twisted allegory or an all-too-real embodiment of our fears? Borgman is a sinister arrival in the sealed-off streets of modern suburbia. His presence ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, disturbing, bleak, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
nightmare, dog, family crisis, male nudity, american horror, surrealism, husband wife relationship, garden, dark humor, good versus evil, manipulation, hidden identity ...
Time:
2010s, year 2013, 21st century
Place:
europe, holland
Similarity:
39%
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:
39%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A hotshot lawyer gets more than he bargained for when he learns his new boss is Lucifer himself.
Style:
psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, surprise ending, atmospheric ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
devil, lawyer, supernatural, pact with the devil, deal with the devil, satan, law firm, plot twist, trial, courtroom, demon, courtroom drama ...
Time:
year 1997, 20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, florida, southern usa, madison square garden manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
39%
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:
39%
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