Movies like The Shadow 2008
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The Shadow (2008)
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Original name: Gölge
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Adapted from Peyami Safa’s novel Selma and Her Shadow, the movie tells the story of Selma. Selma (Görkem Yeltan) is the ultimate femme fatale whose alluring and seductive nature and irresistible charms exude an aura of death for men.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, sinister, atmospheric, melancholic, twist ending, neo noir, period drama
Plot:
femme fatale, seduction, suicide, obsession, fatal attraction, character study, love triangle, betrayal, femininity, jealousy, tragedy, anxiety, sexual tension, slow burn, urban, guilt, adaptation, fate, male friendship, intimate, revenge, mourning, literary, class conflict, love ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
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Most similar movies to The Shadow
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out atmospheric, suspense, melancholic and psychological films with plots about betrayal, jealousy, obsession, character study, love triangle, urban and moral ambiguity mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Shadow: Pan (1995), Seaburners (2014), Jackie Boy (2015), S&M (2010), Shivan (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When Edvarda arrives at the little Norwegian village, to stay with some family, she find the Lt., Thomas Glahn, very interesting. Soon they fall in love. It's a very passionate relationship, but this leads to problems. Both of them are very ...
Style:
bleak, romantic drama, tragic ending, period drama
Plot:
emotional manipulation, tragic romance, obsessive love, regret, melancholy, character study, heartbreak, jealousy, loneliness, male protagonist, mature, isolation ...
Place:
arabia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Denise, a botanist, is working in the swamps in a part of Turkey, planting and researching local flora. In her evenings she sometimes meets with her lover Hamit, a simple man at first glance. But he is making his living with human trafficking which ...
Style:
melancholic, atmospheric, tense, crime drama, bleak ...
Plot:
human trafficking, secrets, moral ambiguity, exploitation, desperation, smuggling, poverty, betrayal, social realism, survival, isolation, character study ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey, black sea
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A self-destructive womanizer falls for a girl with mysterious intentions.
Style:
romantic drama, intense, independent film, disturbing, twisted ...
Plot:
self destructing, toxic relationship, anti hero, obsession, manipulation, sexual tension, femme fatale, psychological manipulation, character study, infidelity, betrayal, ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Makoto Toda was an earnest man who had lived an ordinary life, working as an ordinary company employee. He had built himself an average, but happy home along with his wife and his daughter. Things change however, when a new female recruit named Saya ...
Style:
tense, realistic, melancholic, dark, psychological thriller
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, extramarital affair, obsession, jealousy, seduction, sexual obsession, office romance, sexual tension, domestic drama, secret relationship, loss of control ...
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Shivan revolves around a couple who are very much in love but one day the woman is found dead and the man is found guilty and imprisoned. But once he is in jail he recollects certain memories that change everything.
Style:
tense, suspense, intense, psychological, emotional ...
Plot:
love, innocence, flashback, memory, murder, wrongful conviction, investigation, prison, justice, moral ambiguity, guilt, character study ...
Similarity:
24%
322
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Chelo Zamora, middling singer, agreed to spend the summer working in restaurants in the Valencian beach Cullera, could not imagine being reunited with Toni, a guy who shares a dark past. Moved by his desire for revenge, Chelo attempt to ruin ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, sincere, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
revenge, singer, relationships, in love, couple relations, love interest, love story, star crossed lovers, love affair, love and romance, female singer, obsessive love ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
spain
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A penniless countess falls in love with a cad, unaware that he is also involved on the side with her beautiful daughter.
Style:
art house, dread, black and white, period drama
Plot:
love triangle, betrayal, high society, romantic rivalry, jealousy, adultery, seduction, tragic romance, decadence, manipulation, literary, social satire ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Hozumi is a doctor and he is friends with manga artist Soeda. They both like Asako who works at a tropical fish shop. Hozumi eventually gives up Asako for his friend Soeda. Soeda and Asako decide to get married, but, after they get married, Soeda ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic
Plot:
love triangle, problem, love and romance, male female relationship, love affair, rich and poor, relationships, love story, relationship problems, love, love interest, jealousy ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
23%
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251
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Things heat up when a promising young actor begins an affair with a glamorous model in order to advance his career.
Style:
noir, erotic drama, neo noir, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
femme fatale, seduction, infidelity, lesbian sex, erotica, betrayal, obsession, deception, ambition, moral corruption, love affair, film industry ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
There is no single truth in love. Each treads their own path. Which should take precedence – passion or duty? How do we choose? And who gets to judge? These are the eternal questions, remorselessly thrust upon us by life. Anna Karenina made her ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, bleak, reflective ...
Plot:
unrequited love, tragedy, tragic romance, forbidden love, tragic love, unfulfilled love, officer, life is a bitch, countess, suicide, love affair, love and romance ...
Time:
victorian era
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Hannah is a young woman who lives on her own. She starts to get this feeling that she is being watched. The phone starts ringing at night and when she answers, no one is there. Is she imagining everything or is it for real?
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, atmospheric, teen
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
female protagonist, stalker, coming of age, young adult, hidden identity, paranoia, obsession, surveillance, obsessive love, isolation, cat and mouse, investigation ...
Place:
copenhagen, eastern europe
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Caught in a seedy underworld of lies, lust and murder, Antonelli, the local mob boss, and his sultry young wife, Michelle, share a game of deception and jealousy that soon turns deadly.
Style:
crime drama, dark, suspense, neo noir, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, deception, mob boss, seduction, lust, betrayal, jealousy, organized crime, manipulation, sexual tension, moral ambiguity, violence ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
22%
660
Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the warnings of the surrounding community and his own religious ...
Style:
romantic drama, atmospheric, melancholic, historical drama, period drama
Plot:
priest, love triangle, forbidden love, moral dilemma, seduction, temptation, passion, island, mystery woman, religious conflict, moral ambiguity, isolation ...
Time:
18th century
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Turkey, Germany, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In the heart of Istanbul's prison, Zakir controls the letters prisoners receive. His average day is spent between the censorship office, his colleagues and his evening writing class. For a writing assignment, he steals a photo from one of the ...
Style:
psychological thriller, atmospheric, tense, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
prison, obsession, character study, isolation, loneliness, bureaucracy, surveillance, confined, obsessive love, privacy invasion, power, secret life ...
Place:
istanbul turkey
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, UK, Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Dostoevsky-inspired drama set in 1900s Prague about a bored arrogant playboy who spends time seducing other men's wives and dueling. He begins an affair with his friend's wife, but falls in love with her.
Style:
intense, romantic drama, atmospheric, tense, melancholic ...
Plot:
love triangle, seduction, affair, infidelity, jealousy, forbidden love, character study, duel, obsession, guilty, lonely, literary ...
Time:
turn of the century, 90s
Place:
prague
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When the man who seduced the famous painter Otoko as a teenager--and then wrote a bestselling novel about it--reappears in her life, her pupil--and lesbian lover--hatches a plot to destroy the man and his family.
Style:
psychological, intense, atmospheric, twisted, period drama
Plot:
lesbian, revenge, murder, jealousy, trauma, loss, tragedy, lgbt, betrayal, obsession, guilt, seduction ...
Time:
60s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with a fop named Alfred who, however, has no serious interest in ...
Style:
melancholic, period piece, art house, sentimental, atmospheric
Plot:
tragedy, downfall, tragic romance, female protagonist, family drama, poverty, character study, abandonment, single mother, betrayal, intimate, urban ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
vienna
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Film director Jin Young walks out the door after presenting a screenplay that he hopes will be turned into a film. On his way to the parking lot, he meets an attractive woman named In Ae and spends the night with her. Next day, he receives a phone ...
Style:
captivating, suspense, psychological, romantic drama, suspenseful ...
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, stalking, black ops, producer, one night stand, disability, physical disability, wheelchair bound, cheating wife, suspicion of adultery, marital infidelity ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Carmilla falls for her stepfather and seduces him. When he is killed in a car accident, she decides to take revenge against the driver, but this only leads to a deeper tragedy.
Style:
erotic drama, intense, dark, art house, period piece
Plot:
revenge, stepfather, seduction, car accident, tragedy, forbidden love, female protagonist, obsession, jealousy, love triangle, moral ambiguity, sexual awakening ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
This enticing period melodrama depicts a long-suffering woman's relationship with her brilliant but self-destructive writer husband in postwar Tokyo. Based on a semi-autobiographical 1947 novel by Osamu Dazai, the story centers less on the ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, psychological, thrilling, captivating, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family relations, male female relationship, writers, female protagonist, alcoholism, marital strife, character study, man-woman relation, family problems, social problems, family life, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When the coffin of Etta Rose Callahan, a charismatic dance student, is uprooted from the earth after days of rain, the small college town of Remington is haunted with questions involving the young girl's sudden suicide. Jeremiah Mouthy, a ...
Style:
suspense, gothic
Plot:
obsession, suicide, small town, tragedy, character study, jealousy, haunting, loss of innocence, mourning, scandal, grief, funeral ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Miss Julie has power over Jean because she's an aristocrat but he has power over her because he's a man. On Midsummer Eve this power battle turns to love which is consummated. But as each one battles for power, Jean convinces Miss Julie ...
Style:
tense, tragic ending, art house, period drama
Plot:
class conflict, sexual tension, forbidden romance, gender roles, tragedy, manipulation, character study, suicide, claustrophobia, literary, moral ambiguity, obsession ...
Time:
19th century
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Six dark-themed gay short films, including: SPRING: A young man meets a stranger for S&M sex, an experience that will change his life forever. REMISSION: As a man awaits the results of a biopsy at his secluded cabin, his dread amplifies when ...
Style:
anthology, thrilling, semi serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
gay, lgbt, lgbtq, love interest, couple relations, love affair, multiple storylines, relationships, isolation, manipulation, sexual tension, betrayal ...
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Bruno is a cynical but attractive business man, owner of a strip-club. He has to replace his best dancer, Katy, after her suicide. Applicants would do anything to get this job, but only Damy, gorgeous and mysterious girl, catches his attention. What ...
Style:
dark, suspense, intense, sensual, erotic ...
Plot:
suicide, revenge, femme fatale, nightlife, mystery woman, seduction, deception, sexuality, cat and mouse, manipulation, female protagonist, obsession ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Filmmaker Gregory Hatanaka fashions a stunning film about love and excess. Robert (Norman Reedus) is a writer who hasn't done much writing lately; instead, he's busy pushing the envelope with his toxic mix of boredom, drugs and a dalliance ...
Style:
psychological, existential, erotic, independent film, moody
Plot:
writers, obsession, making love, infidelity, affair, toxic relationship, character study, cheating, boredom, self destructing, marriage, sexual tension ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
20%
127
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Style:
dark, atmospheric, bleak, tension, art house ...
Plot:
shakespeare, murder, tragedy, power, adaptation, tragic hero, witch, ambition, supernatural, literary, prophecy, madness ...
Place:
scottish highlands
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Wu Hongyan is a female bailiff in a regional court in West China dealing with women awaiting execution—more often than not, sentenced for crimes of passion. Every weekend, without much luck, she looks for love at the Good Luck Matchmaking dance, ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
affair, social realism, female protagonist, revenge, loneliness, love affair, life is a bitch, social problems, relationship problems, secret, male female relationship, death sentence ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Caught Between the Two A very successful black woman named Taliyah finds out that she is in control of everything in her life except one thing. Just when Taliyah thinks her life is in the perfect place she happens to get an unexpected surprise that ...
Style:
romantic drama, independent film, amateur film
Plot:
love triangle, obsession, infidelity, female protagonist, fatal attraction, lust, betrayal, temptation, best friend, self discovery, identity, girlfriend ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In the decadent Roaring Twenties, a beautiful woman engages in affairs with two men, playing them against each other.
Style:
romantic drama, period piece, tragic ending, sensual, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female nudity, erotica, love triangle, seduction, femme fatale, passion, romantic rivalry, fascism, jealousy, obsession, manipulation, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
1920s, year 1975
Place:
italy
Similarity:
20%
248
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A tale of revenge that has stood the test of time, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is reimagined for the modern day as a gripping psychological thriller! Transcending the confines of the stage, the film utilises nearly every room of the Theatre ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
revenge, shakespeare, tragedy, problem, life is a bitch, madness, theater, betrayal, character study, literary, family conflict, obsession ...
Similarity:
20%
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