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Close Enemies (2018)
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Original name: Frères ennemis
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Driss and Manuel both grew up on the same council estate. An estate where the sense of belonging to your patch is much stronger than the sense of belonging to a country, a nation or a culture... Manuel has assimilated this belonging, and he has even benefited from it and built his life on it. Driss, meanwhile, has shunned it. They will both have to face up to the consequences of their decisions – because they will each have a price to pay…
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense, crime drama
Plot:
police, death, father daughter relationship, drug, brother brother relationship, friendship, family relations, danger, murder, party, photograph, funeral, blood, cafe, childhood friend, son murders father, brotherhood, gangster, rooftop, shot in the head, parisian suburb, telling a joke, playing soccer, childhood friends, drugs ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
paris france
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Most similar movies to Close Enemies
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, captivating, suspense and suspenseful films with plots about murder, danger, family relations, friendship, rivalry, police and death mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Close Enemies: Psycho BFF (2019), A Violent Life (2017), Nobody from Nowhere (2014), Marseille (2014), Windcroft (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Renee's shy teenage daughter Deandra finally makes a friend, Olivia, she is thrilled. After Olivia's initial bossiness turns into emotional abuse, Renee forbids the relationship from continuing, prompting the girls to run away ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, best friend, female antagonist, female protagonist, psychopath, high school, murder, friendship, danger, couples, youth, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Despite the life threat hanging over his head, Stéphane decides to go back to Corsica for the funeral of Christophe, a childhood friend and companion in arms, murdered the day before. On this occasion, the chain of events which made him, the ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating
Plot:
funeral, radicalism, nationalist, radical, murder, death, prison, violence, life is a bitch, criminal, confronting the past, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 2017
Place:
corsica
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Sébastien Nicolas, realtor, leads a dull existence and gets used to disguising himself to take on the appearance of the characters he meets.
Style:
tense, atmospheric, semi serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
switching roles, dull life, police, suicide, real estate agent, rivalry, danger, twists and turns, imposture, mental disorder, unfulfillment, voice over narration ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
363
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Alex, the son of a gang boss from Marseilles, joins the French Foreign Legion to avoid a hit put out on him by the Corsican Mafia. Four years later, Alex deserts and returns to Marseilles to get back together with Katia, his former girlfriend. But ...
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
gang, danger, family relations, parents and children, mafia, murder, father son relationship, lawyer, reprisal, rivalry, black, violent content ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
marseille, france
Similarity:
57%
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338
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
On a remote farm in the sweeping hills of Pennsylvania, three lives are torn apart by love, abandonment, deception and murder.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, psychological, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, estate, tragic love, destiny, countryside, family farm, inheritance, danger, sex with sister, sex crime, farm, friendship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Dans la région de Marseille, un patron prépare à l’insu de ses ouvriers la délocalisation de son usine, couplée d’un détournement de 2 millions d’euros. Franck, l’un de ses salariés l’apprend et, sans en parler à sa femme Hélène, ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
crime gone awry, working class, social decay, society, workplace, injustice, factory worker, factory, danger, rivalry, friendship, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, south of france
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A Chicago lawyer embraces his undying faith when his teenage son is accused of murdering a classmate.
Style:
captivating, exciting, rough, suspense, thought provoking ...
Plot:
father son relationship, society, murder, rivalry, death, hopes, parents and children, violence, vengeance, friendship, heroes, redemption ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Based on a true story- A group of robbers broke into a house at night with the intention of committing robbery. The house was inhabited by two young girls and a disabled child and their mother. Not getting the desired money, the robbers started ...
Style:
captivating, realistic, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, gangster, danger, criminal, bandit, family relations, rivalry, youth, friends, society, gang, vengeance ...
Place:
bangladesh
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam (Sam Claflin), an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen (Spall), who has ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, tense, psychological, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
corruption, society, murder, friendship, danger, escapades, rivalry, small town, police, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, year 2012, year 2002
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Unable to repay their debts, Milan and Victor, best friends and co-owners of a Paris nightclub, are lured into a drug deal that goes bad. Tortured by police, they negotiate their freedom against an overwhelming testimony that condemns their ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, exciting ...
Plot:
psychopath, survival, race against time, friendship, danger, on the run, betrayal, murder, police, chase, friends, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, mexico
Similarity:
54%
712
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
It's summer, somewhere in the Dordogne, young people disappear. The wildest rumors circulate, we are talking about a feline prowling. Laura, seeks to elucidate the mystery and meets Paul, a strange writer who attracts him as much as he scares ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
camping, sex scene, missing person, police, flashback, murder, mysterious stranger, danger, suspicion, friendship, death, women ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After 10 years, Eddie Franks is out of prison and trying to stay on the straight and narrow, but his drug-mule brother, Sean has other ideas. Rival gangster brothers demand Sean repay his debt to them, causing Eddie to get tangled in the crossfire, ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rivalry, danger, violence, society, police, debt, murder, family relations, escapades, gangster, ghetto, gang ...
Place:
london
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Vincent, a former air rifle champion lives a quiet life with his wife and his daughter. Despite his happy family life he ends up with economic problems. One day at the shooting range he meets the mysterious Renaud who promises him a solution to his ...
Style:
psychological, tense, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot:
contract killing, parents and children, moral dilemma, conspiracy, couples, danger, family problems, family in crisis, contract killer, pig, money, train ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain, Germany, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Following the death of his identical twin brother Pedro, Agustín sets out to begin his life anew by assuming Pedro’s identity and returning to the mysterious Tigre Delta region where the brothers had spent their childhood. Soon after his ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
starting over, hidden identity, twin brother, danger, homecoming, haunted by the past, dishonesty, family relations, death, siblings, brother brother relationship, river ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
argentina, south america, buenos aires argentina
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A dutiful Liverpool beat cop discovers what he is truly capable of after his partner is brutally murdered in a targeted attack by a local gang.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, crime drama ...
Plot:
police, rivalry, loss of friend, life turned upside down, law enforcement, vigilantism, revenge, murder, investigation, danger, friendship, nypd ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, liverpool
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A Neo-Noir film told in three interlacing chapters: Eric is a dead man and he knows it. Death is imminent and he must make amends for his past sins, by killing those who wronged him, no matter the price: A wiseguy willing to do anything to move up ...
Style:
dark, neo noir, suspense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
gangster, criminal, revenge, police, city, mob boss, murder, family relations, stripper, violence, death, mexican standoff ...
Place:
boston
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Voyoucratie is FGKO’s new film project. It’s a dramatic fiction about a young gangster’s chaotic path into life crushed by a criminal universe that he can’t escape from. It’s also about a frozen portrait of a youth trapped by a system that ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
father son relationship, money, murder, police, heist, drug dealer, family relations, heroes, going straight, chase, violence, society ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is pursued by Finnish gangsters over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
gangster, danger, vengeance, life turned upside down, family relations, loss of partner, murder, disorder, family in danger, brother brother relationship, skinny dipping, mafia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland, europe
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
The daughter of one of the architects who built the Eiffel Tower gets framed for a murder that has taken place there, so she and her girlfriend embark on a quest across Paris to solve the mystery.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, tense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
lesbian, interracial relations, love and romance, couples, love, murder, youth, friendship, couple relations, friends, fall in love, family relations ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
When she was seven, Elise Gardet witnessed her mother’s brutal murder. Ever since, she has tried to forget this unsolved crime. Now she’s 18 and beautiful, but her bourgeois family and her stepmother’s anxiety are suffocating her.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
Plot:
woman in danger, dangerous attraction, obsession, parents and children, family relations, couples, sociopath, murder, store, danger, woman, art exhibition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Dolores lived the life of a higher-class student until her best friend was found brutally murdered. Two years later, she’s the only indicted suspect for a crime that attracts a lot of media attention and has placed her in the center of the public ...
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense
Plot:
teenage girl, murder, dark secret, murder investigation, hot and sexy, suspicion of murder, friendship, friendship between girls, violence, false accusation, danger, courtroom drama ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
An ordinary guy escapes his turbulent home life when he is invited to an exclusive Hollywood party by his movie star friend, only to discover that there's more to the glamorous world than meets the eye.
Style:
captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot:
hollywood, social decay, couples, unfulfillment, nightlife, family problems, drug, movie star, party, danger, crumbling marriage, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Gabriel Chevalier, 45 years old, is an ex-policeman. Unemployed, lonely and depressed,he lives like a ghost and hardly takes care of his only teenage child Juliette. One day, by pure chance, he finds a suspicious but extremely well paid job: his ...
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
danger, gangster, secret, money problems, delivery, mission gone awry, workplace situations, financial problem, delivery man, chase, escapades, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
As a killer stalks the streets, a troubled young courier suspects that a doctor may be the long-lost sister he hasn't seen since childhood.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, realistic
Plot:
suspicion, fight, murderer, delivery man, private investigation, uncover truth, friends, investigation, fighting crime, law enforcement, friendship, showdown ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A military veteran comes home to find her father harassed by a sheriff intent on confiscating the livestock on their ranch under shady pretenses.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
father daughter relationship, military, rancher, farm, corrupt official, corruption, family relations, problem, ranch, homecoming, determination, injustice ...
Place:
north dakota, midwest
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
18 year old Jason Dorkel belongs to a community of gypsies. He is about to celebrate his baptism when his half-brother Fred returns after fifteen years in prison. Together, with their last brother, the violent, hot-headed Michael and their Christian ...
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
on the road, crime gone awry, youth, coming of age, profanity, on the run, running from police, thief, rivalry, murder, danger, chase ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
To help out a friend, and to enjoy a glamorous and fast-paced life for awhile, a guy assumes the identity of his busy and mysterious friend...and ends up being pursued by murderous drug dealers.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
deception, attempted murder, missing friend, problem, disappearance, pretense, pretending to be someone else, mysterious disappearance, friend, con trick, identity, impersonation ...
Place:
california
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Towing a submerged torpedo in the wake of their battered fishing boat, a desperate fisherman and a naive kid embark on a journey trafficking millions of dollars worth of cocaine. Shot entirely on location along the Pacific coast of Colombia—in ...
Style:
suspense, serious, tense, suspenseful, social ...
Plot:
drug dealing, crime gone awry, family relations, disorder, chases and races, escapades, ocean, murder, drug, mafia, blaxploitation, conflict ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
colombia, africa
Similarity:
49%
511
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the midst of a personal crisis, junior senator Maggie Davidson (Holly) ascertains that she's the subject of a terrorist plot.
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
save the day, political conspiracy, politics, danger, undercover, terrorism, rivalry, state affairs, dishonesty, murder, terrorist, propaganda ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
49%
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:
49%
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