Movies like The Contractor 2013
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The Contractor (2013)
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Elizabeth Chase is busy remodeling her new home with her lawyer husband, Paul and daughter, McKenzie. To make sure it's finished before a charity event they're hosting, the couple hire a contractor, Javier, to help. However Elizabeth starts to grow suspicious of Javier and learns that he'd targeted the family all along. Now, to save her family, Elizabeth will have to take matters into her own hands.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
stalking, obsession, family in danger, danger, dishonesty, chases and races, couples, vengeance, strong female presence, woman in danger, violent content, horse, revenge, fight, violence, family relations, father daughter relationship, happy ending, chase, hide and seek, telephone call, night, husband wife relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, serious and realistic films with plots about danger, deadly, murder, dishonesty, vengeance, violent content and woman in danger mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like The Contractor: Dark Desire (2012), Betrayal (2013), Wrong Side of Town (2010), Breakout (2013), Safehouse (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young man desperate to be connected to the people close to him resorts to devious measures to achieve that desire
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Vazgen "Vaz", a Mobster turned businessman, is pulled back into his past life, when his eldest son is accused of killing a Russian gangster. Now he must find a way to save his family and all that he's built.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mafia, gangster, danger, rivalry, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, family in danger, revenge, violence, profanity, violent content, forced into action ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ex-Navy Seal Bobby Kalinowski lives a quiet, peaceful life as a landscape architect in an LA suburb with his wife Dawn and 16 year old daughter Brianna. Tonight they are invited out for an evening on the town by new neighbors clay and Elise Freeman ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, fast ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, survival, dishonesty, danger, kidnapping, self defense, nightclub owner, architect, abduction, wrestler, nudity, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana, los angeles
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A pair of criminals try to track down the kids who witnessed them commit a murder in the woods.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, wilderness, murder, parents and children, danger, rescue, siblings relations, family relations, death, youth, prison, killing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
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186
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Ex-FBI agent Cooper O'Neil thinks the dangerous times in his life are in the past; that is, until his former partner shows up dead at his marina home. O'Neil's old partner had a coveted thumb drive in his possession when he died, and ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, tense, independent film ...
Plot:
rescue, special agent, danger, intrigue, law enforcement, chases and races, dishonesty, vengeance, mafia, kidnapping, revenge, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Brad Sterling arrives by yacht as a handsome dream prince, and the discrete favorite nephew and brilliant investor of his tycoon uncle Wade. Charles Colton's ingrate heiress Laura eagerly dates him and puts him in the guest-house, partially as ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
sex scene, manipulative person, danger, couples, stalking, jealousy, intrigue, hit and run, strong female presence, manipulation, dishonesty, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young heiress has her life turned upside down after her business partner's wife is killed and foul play is suspected.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, enigmatic, realistic
Plot:
amateur detective, woman in danger, investigation, dishonesty, danger, murder, couples, who done it, estate, inheritance, adultery, murder investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
496
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When ruthless drug lord Raffaello murders the family of the little girl named Angel in a gangland hid in Spain, he makes one fatal mistake : Letting her live. Thus Raffaello sets in motion a bloody chain of events in this gritty street tale of ...
Style:
exciting, tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
drug lord, death, vengeance, murder, danger, gangster, battles, chase, obsession, violence, criminal, drug dealer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
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864
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A couple moves into a quiet neighborhood. With too much time on her hands, the woman begins to suspect that someone is confined in the basement next door.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
captive, neighbor, captivity, woman in danger, couples, family relations, dishonesty, psychopath, basement, relocation, crazy neighbor, chamberplay ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A wife and mother starts an affair with a young missionary... with disastrous consequences.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
sex scene, stalking, obsession, infidelity, dangerous attraction, danger, parents and children, single parent, couples, love triangle, forbidden love, cheating wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Between 11:50 and 12:00 noon, a crime is commited. In the same ten minute period, we follow the lives of the ten people, all connected to this crime. As we see each person's point of view, we are propelled closer and closer to the truth of what ...
Style:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, kinky sex, female assassin, vengeance, crime gone awry, couples, disorder, rivalry, dishonesty, betrayal, danger, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A controversial therapist assembles a group of discontented wives and prescribes using adultery to save their failing marriages, only to have her patients killed off one by one.
Style:
captivating, tense, exciting, sentimental, melancholic ...
Plot:
murder, infidelity, danger, stalking, woman in danger, law enforcement, housewife, therapy, wife, strong female presence, husband wife relationship, police detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Follow three individuals who served on the jury for one of San Francisco's most high profile serial killer cases. Now someone, or something, is killing them off one by one.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
police detective, serial killer, murder, uncover truth, haunted by the past, mysterious character, danger, stalking, woman in danger, law enforcement, lawyer, riddles and clues ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco, cuba
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Plagued by flashbacks of a violent home invasion, Laura Benson is on the brink of a nervous breakdown. Looking for a fresh start, she and her husband sell their house and relocate to a seemingly idyllic gated community. But, little do the Bensons ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
obsession, stalking, neighbor, mind game, family in danger, haunted by the past, family problems, vengeance, dishonesty, rivalry, mentally unstable, amateur detective ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own hands to track down her son’s killers.
Style:
suspense, tense, serious, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
vengeance, murder, female protagonist, violent content, dishonesty, hidden identity, organized crime, police, witness, conspiracy, loss of daughter, manipulation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
265
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
amateur detective, danger, police investigation, investigation, law enforcement, orphan, family relations, criminal heroes, parents and children, dishonesty, child abduction, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When hotel event planner Rachel breaks up with her boyfriend John for cheating on her, she decides to go looking online for a new boyfriend. In the expanse of cyberspace, she meets a charming, wealthy man named Craig, who at first, seems perfect. ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
obsession, dangerous attraction, couples, danger, destructive relationship, internet dating, social network, stalking, love, manipulation, woman in danger, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A corporate assassination forces opportunistic double agents from three nations to fight to retrieve a high-tech computer disk containing schematics for a deadly weapon.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
espionage, hitman, working undercover, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, undercover, vengeance, spy, woman with a gun, covert operation, haunted by the past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Following the murder of hotel heir Ben Novack Jr., police focus their investigation on his wife, Narcy.
Style:
realistic, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, femme fatale, danger, couples, psychopath, husband wife relationship, investigation, rivalry, death, skinny dipping, true crime, mother in law ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa, miami
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A man forced to abandon his wife and daughter years earlier must risk his life to settle an old score and reunite his family.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
family in danger, rivalry, vengeance, homecoming, parents and children, gang, forced into action, small town, save the day, murder, violent content, cafe ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Two briefcases with mysterious contents are stolen from top Presidential candidate Squire Parks, setting off a deadly series of double-crosses and betrayals. Desperate warring factions of subterranean organizations will stop at nothing to gain ...
Style:
serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
betrayal, vengeance, working undercover, danger, rivalry, secret agent, undercover, espionage, revenge, murder, investigation, covert operation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, wisconsin
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
homecoming, murder, family relations, vengeance, workplace, dishonesty, betrayal, parents and children, family business, mother daughter relationship, strong female lead, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Detective Carrie Macklin and her little sister Elle had always been the closest of friends. But when Elle goes missing after a run-in with a relocated sex offender, it is up to Carrie to find her little sister...who is nine months pregnant. Carrie ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, detective
Plot:
murder, police investigation, law enforcement, missing person, police detective, danger, dishonesty, vengeance, infidelity, woman in danger, missing child, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Mexico, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A former guerrilla is reluctantly drawn into the vengeance scheme of one of his victims.
Style:
exciting, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, danger, rivalry, forced into action, race against time, colombian drug cartel, murder, conflict, violent content, tough heroes, chases and races, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
latin america, colombia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bloom Towne is a small-town sheriff under the thumb of the well-established, deeply influential Mayor Dick Cavanaugh's family. When Bloom's two teenage sons, Nate and Skylar accidentally shoot and kill Dick during a deer-hunt, Bloom's ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
small town, manhunt, chase, escape, on the run, violent content, woods, parents and children, murder, revenge, brother brother relationship, police ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Seagal stars as mob kingpin Mr. Alexander, an old-school boss who rules his criminal empire with both nobility and brutality. For a simple prison hit, he sends his best enforcer and protégé Roman Hurst (Foster). When the hit goes wrong, Hurst is ...
Style:
serious, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, drug dealing, danger, going straight, criminal heroes, hitman, tough heroes, prison, violence, prisoner, organized crime, martial arts ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A man is found to be murdered and the investigating officer believes that he was killed by a young woman and her mother. But their neighbour claims that he is the murderer! Who is lying?
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, psychological
Plot:
murder, psychopath, murder investigation, police officer, delusion, killer, interrogation, fight, heroes, murderer, police detective, police investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
A group of elitists recruit a freelance agent in an attempt to bring down the worlds biggest human trafficking network.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, suspense
Plot:
murder, violence, revenge, kidnapping, death, sex trafficking, gangster, vengeance, chase, criminal underworld, group, agent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Three assassins deal with life, love, addiction and trust as each tries to find the answers to a better life. Together, they prove to be the most trustworthy in this tangled web of murder, greed, friendship and betrayal.
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
medieval, dishonesty, destiny, danger, murder, violence, woman with a gun, assassin, mobster, loyalty, lone wolves, legends and myths ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
441
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Israel
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A failed businessman must kill himself to pay off a loan shark or his family will die, but a detective discovers the case turns on a shocking secret.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, exciting ...
Plot:
family in danger, forced into action, save the day, psychotic, loan shark, lawyer, escapades, blackmail, violent content, strong female presence, unlikely criminals, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
israel, middle east
Similarity:
25%
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