Movies like Committed 1991
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Committed (1991)
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, independent film, offbeat, surprise ending
Plot:
mental institution, doctor, nurse, murder, mistaken identity, mentally unstable, dishonesty, power relations, misfit, patient, trap, woman in danger, mental patient, female protagonist, mental illness, strong female presence, suicide, tragedy, insanity, basement, trick, insane, grave, psychiatric patient, psychiatric hospital ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and tense films with plots about murder, deadly, dishonesty, danger, mentally unstable, mental institution and mental illness mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Committed: Two Shades of Blue (1999), A Table for One (1999), Lying in Wait (2001), Kill for Me (2013), A Sister's Secret (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Susan Price has written a #1 bestseller, a steamy novel about a woman's search for the ultimate sexual experience entitled, "The Dark Side of Judith." When Susan is framed for the murder of her fiance, billionare publisher Jack ...
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serious, suspenseful, suspense, enigmatic, surprise ending ...
Plot:
voyeurism, murder, undercover, danger, frame up, dishonesty, life turned upside down, woman in danger, protagonist as suspect, strong sexual content, deaf, sexual relations ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
erotic, sexual, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Rent’s a bitch. And that is why, six months after her best friend went missing, Amanda finally gives in to getting another roommate, Hailey. The two college students turn out to have something in common, however: abusive men. For Hailey, it’s ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, sexual, suspense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
roommate, abuse, uncover truth, danger, dishonesty, woman in danger, haunted by the past, lesbian sex, manipulation, friendship, gain trust, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A warped woman takes deadly measures to help a new roommate get rid of her problems.
Style:
suspense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
female psychopath, obsession, female killer, female assassin, psycho killer, dominatrix, murder, mentally unstable, possessed woman, stalking, murderer, serial killer ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When Katherine (Alexandra Paul) finds out her father's company is about to close the paper mill they own in her hometown in rural Pennsylvania, she comes up with a plan to save it. Needing the approval of the city council, she goes back and ...
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:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Robert wanted an escape from the big city. He thought a small town by the water's edge would give him a new start. He couldn't have been more wrong. This little town has dirty secrets, and Robert just found the worst of them...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, surprise ending
Plot:
femme fatale, murder, uncover truth, small town, investigation, dishonesty, life is a bitch, political corruption, betrayal, husband wife relationship, town mayor, skinny dipping ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Charlie is an introverted person getting out of prison. He feeds in an apartment and starts dreaming of the woman who died in this apartment. And his fantasies of this woman getting worse and worse.
Style:
independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, realistic, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family in danger, obsession, mentally unstable, stalking, family problems, dysfunctional family, family life, hidden identity, danger, murder, oedipus complex, peeping ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
35K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
In a prison for the criminally insane, deranged anthropologist Ethan Powell is set to be examined by a bright young psychiatrist, Theo Caulder. Driven by ambition and a hunger for the truth, Caulder will eventually risk everything -- even put his ...
Style:
philosophical, emotional, psychological, suspense, touching ...
Plot:
prison, estrangement, violence, murder, redemption, jungle, greed, survival, human animal relationship, corruption, psychologist, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, africa, florida, rwanda, cuba
Similarity:
100%
263K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, insanity, hostage, loneliness, psychopath, stephen king, kidnapping, snow, isolation, captivity, obsessed fan, female psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
colorado, persia, usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Dempsey Cain is an honored cop, a loving husband and father, and mentor to his handsome younger brother. Then a drug dealer's bullet paralyzes him for life and Dempsey's world is shattered. Suddenly, his wife and brother seem to care less ...
Style:
erotic, neo noir, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
100%
391
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A grieving family opens its household to an unknown women who claims to have been their dearly departed's girlfriend.
Style:
sexual, realistic, serious, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
incest, incestuous sex, female nudity, sex in car, bisexual woman, half sister, psychotic, woman seduces a man, brother sister incest, lgbt, nudity, family relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Addison Terrill, a former district attorney now in a lucrative private practice, has what seems to be the perfect life. But life as he knows it is turned upside down when he arrives home from work late one night to find his wife brutally murdered ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, serious, rough, psychological ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, husband wife relationship, murder, who done it, dishonesty, legal, law enforcement, legal action, false accusation, murder investigation, female bartender, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Dr Sánchez Blanch owns and operates a psychiatric hospital where he specializes in hypnotizing his severely emotionally disturbed patients.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, scary, unpredictable ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
belgium, brussels, europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
amateur detective, murder, investigation, undercover, police corruption, journalism, media, law enforcement, uncover truth, legal, working undercover, political conspiracy ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
puerto rico
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
hitman, partner, murder, crime gone awry, social differences, cons and scams, dishonesty, society, betrayal, blackmail, friends, workplace intrigue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south america, brazil, latin america, sao paulo brazil
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Within the confines of an insane asylum languish many would-be seers and messiahs. Medical students meet them day in, day out. But when Eve meets Don Wake, she discovers he's not your run-of-the-mill paranoic. In fact, his visions of her life ...
Style:
psychological, bleak, suspenseful, serious, mind bending ...
Plot:
mental institution, paranoia, losing-it hero, mental illness, mentally unstable, investigation, murder, hospital, stalking, uncover truth, obsession, mind game ...
Similarity:
100%
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266
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychotronic
Plot:
army investigation, murder, psychiatrist, dangerous attraction, uncover truth, military life, life is a bitch, politics, military, danger, state affairs, femme fatale ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A witness to a mob killing has second thoughts about testifying when he realizes his family might become a target.
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
femme fatale, rock star, investigation, crumbling marriage, law enforcement, love and romance, dishonesty, couple relations, obsession, love affair, strong sexual content, nudity ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Similarity:
100%
260
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark comedy, independent film, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
seattle, washington d.c.
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 46 min.
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Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, serious, bleak, psychological thriller, disturbing ...
Plot:
mentally unstable, dishonesty, female protagonist, switching bodies, woman in danger, doctor, sister sister relationship, social problems, survival, mistaken identity, mental illness, hospital ...
Place:
europe
Similarity:
67%
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523
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Robert Patrick stars as a private investigator traumatized by his father's suicide who goes undercover in a mental institution to uncover the murderer of his psychiatrist.
Style:
independent film, scary, mind bending, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, psychology, psychiatric ward, cons and scams, mental institution, murder, working undercover, hospital, clinic, power relations, dishonesty, doctors and patients ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A private investigator endures the rigors of an insane asylum in order to locate $1 million in stolen loot.
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, offbeat, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, beverly hills
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Marguerite Sydney is a celebrated Hollywood star attempting a comeback after a stay in a mental hospital, as well as trying to re-establish a relationship with her teenage son, and risking a romance with a mysterious stranger.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, stylized, touching
Plot:
parent child relationship, artists and showbiz, hopes, love and romance, mentally unstable, starting over, misfit, mysterious character, teenage life, mental illness, mental institution, hospital ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, independent film ...
Plot:
mental institution, murder, psychopath, redemption, mentally unstable, criminal psychologist, woman in danger, crime and punishment, haunted by the past, prison, love, prison life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A famous psychiatrist (Ty Adams) takes on the job of trying to cure patients at the Sedah State Hospital, run by it's folksy doctor (Sam Delazo). All this takes a strange turn when a mysterious patient (Satan, he calls himself) enters the ...
Style:
serious, psychological, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
devil, mental institution, mental illness, supernatural ability, doctors and patients, psychiatrist, black, satan, video surveillance, obsession, research, blaxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
619
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Dr. Dupont arrives at a mental facility to apply for a staff position. World famous Dr. Quilly interviews her, and has her sign papers. She is thrilled to get the job, and is shown her room. However, confusion with her room being on the same floor ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, mental institution, uncover truth, danger, rescue, rehabilitation, mentally unstable, doctors and patients, wrongfully committed, mind game, psychiatric hospital, illness ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
20%
124
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A lonely widow hires a young woman as her companion. What she doesn't know is that the woman and her boyfriend are extortionists, who are planning on making her their next victim, then killing her when they get her money.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tension ...
Plot:
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Time:
70s
Similarity:
20%
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