Movies like Unrequited

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Unrequited (2010)
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Unrequited (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: UNREQUITED is a psychological thriller and tells the story of Ben Jacobs, a troubled young man who, on his 18th birthday, has to leave the group home for "troubled teens" where he has been living for the past several months and move back in with his alcoholic mother. Upon his return, Ben soon discovers that his girlfriend, Jessica Morgan, has moved on with her life and is now dating an older college guy. Desperate for love and unable to cope with losing Jessica, Ben's troubled past catches up with him as he kidnaps her in an attempt to regain her affection. Spiraling out of control and on a very dangerous path, Ben must ultimately decide whether to let her go, or hold on to the one person he loves, even if it means destroying them both in the process.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, captivating, contemplative, independent film, realistic, bleak
Audience: adult
Plot: love and romance, unrequited love, kidnapping, unfulfilled love, teenage love, danger, adaptation, abduction, teenager, loner, youth, dysfunctional family, confined, girl, haunted by the past, family problems, homecoming, unfulfillment, young, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa

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Most similar movies to Unrequited

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, tense, serious and suspenseful films with plots about danger, confined, kidnapping, dishonesty, family relations, abduction and murder mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Unrequited: Born Bad (2011), Abandoned (2010), My Teacher, My Obsession (2018), Bloodline (2015), Megachurch Murder (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Born Bad (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young woman (Bonnie Dennison) falls for a mysterious man (Michael Welch) who reveals his dark side.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, crime drama
Plot: father daughter relationship, psychopath, murder, dishonesty, hidden identity, danger, dangerous attraction, family relations, abusive boyfriend, confined, disorder, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Abandoned (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mary Walsh delivers boyfriend Kevin to a hospital for routine outpatient surgery. But when Mary returns to take him home, he's mysteriously vanished.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: female protagonist, hospital, danger, race against time, confined, rivalry, uncover truth, investigation, intrigue, doctors and patients, abduction, mind game ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
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100%
My Teacher, My Obsession (2018)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Riley is struggling to make friends after transferring to a new high school where her father, Chris, is an English teacher. When she meets Kyla, they quickly becomes close friends. However, the friendship takes a strange turn when Riley learns that ...
Style: captivating, romantic, semi serious, talky, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: teacher student relationship, older man younger woman relationship, male teacher female student affair, high school teacher, teenage girl, obsession, high school, loneliness, unrequited love, school, teenage love, female protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 58K
Bloodline (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: A dramatic thriller that explores the demons lurking beneath the surface of a contemporary American family. The Rayburns are hard-working pillars of their Florida Keys community. But when the black sheep son comes home for the 45th anniversary of ...
Style: psychological thriller, psychological, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: dysfunctional family, family relations, wealthy family, siblings relations, haunted by the past, sibling relationship, homecoming, family life, secret, dark secret, police detective, police investigation ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: florida, usa
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100%
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Megachurch Murder (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: murder, investigation, uncover truth, amateur detective, clergy, youth, dishonesty, society, danger, teenager, soul, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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21%
We Have Your Husband (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: American-born Jayne Valseca, her husband Eduardo, the son of a legendary Mexican newspaper publisher, and their two children live an idyllic life on their 1,000 acre ranch outside of a peaceful Mexico town. But in the summer of 2007, their peaceful ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, disturbing ...
Plot: captivity, danger, kidnapping, confined, abduction, kidnapped, ambush, family problems, changing lives, strong female presence, true crime
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, usa
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20%
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Final Recourse (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A wealthy high powered woman suffers a horrible tragedy after which she descends into substance abuse,turning her back on her family. She later discovers that someone close to her may be behind her subsequent abduction and kidnapping.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot: twists and turns, addiction, life turned upside down, home invasion, faked death, car accident, husband wife relationship, abduction, kidnapping, life is a bitch, crime gone awry, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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20%
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Windcroft (2007)
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, tense, captivating, psychological, independent film ...
Plot: murder, estate, tragic love, destiny, countryside, family farm, inheritance, danger, sex crime, farm, gory, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
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20%
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Missing Pieces (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A heartbroken man kidnaps two strangers in hopes they will fall in love.
Style: serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, surreal, suspense ...
Plot: redemption, teenage love, love and romance, obsession, youth, confined, mentally unstable, wilderness, captivity, breakup, teen romance, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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20%
Mummy An' the Armadillo (2004)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Secrets, murders and lies... all in the name of family. In the middle of nowhere sits the Armadillo Café.The once popular, but now desolate, café is run by a strange family led a troubled, booze-addled mother (Betty Buckley) and a disturbed family ...
Style: tense, psychological, scary, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: mind game, psychopath, family problems, haunted by the past, curses spells and rituals, family relations, woman in danger, missing person, mysterious character, danger, diner, hostage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa
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20%
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Clean Break (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, obsession, twists and turns, danger, investigation, betrayal, infidelity, stalking, love, crumbling marriage, corrupt officer, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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19%
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Nor'easter (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young and inexperienced priest encourages a family to declare their long-missing son dead, but once they do, the boy mysteriously returns, testing the priest's commitment to church doctrine over the laws of the natural world.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot: moral dilemma, missing child, clergy, religions or cults, social relations, church, small town, priest, brainwashing, winter, danger, gay ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, maine
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19%
Under Still Waters (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young married couple encounters a stranger who threatens their marriage and their lives.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: stranger, couples, sex scene, family problems, danger, mysterious character, drinking, drinking alcohol, marriage, alcohol abuse, isolation, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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19%
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Fatal Secrets (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: "BALANCING THE BOOKS" is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: danger, dishonesty, rivalry, secret, couple relations, uncover truth, maniac, murder, best friend, violent content, profanity, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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19%
Fishing Without Nets (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Kenya, Somalia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In Somalia, principled, young husband and father Abdi turns to piracy to support his family. While his wife and child wait for him in Yemen, an outdated and fragile satellite phone is his only connection to all he truly values. Abdi and his fellow ...
Style: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: pirate, piracy, moral dilemma, hijacking, surrender, danger, confined, escape, rivalry, international relations, violent content, hostage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, somalia
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The Cheating Pact (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Three high school students that are under pressure from their parents to get into good colleges convince a shy but very smart girl to take the College Entrance Test for them.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, tense, suspenseful
Plot: false accusation, murder, legal investigation, witnessing a crime, frame up, teenage love, high school, dishonesty, college, danger, woman with a gun, best friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Stockholm, Pennsylvania (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A young woman is returned home to her biological parents after living with her abductor for 17 years.
Style: psychological, realistic, tense, serious, independent film ...
Plot: kidnapping, stockholm syndrome, family problems, homecoming, parents and children, hopes, redemption, child abuse, teenage girl, isolation, fish out of water, starting over ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, pennsylvania
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Teenage Bank Heist (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Cassie works as a teller at the bank where her mother is the branch manager. When the bank is robbed, Cassie is taken hostage. She soon finds out that the bank robbers are teenage girls, one of whom is her best friend, Abbie. In this propulsive real ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: investigation, heist, danger, confined, race against time, parents and children, friendship, on the run, abduction, woman with a gun, teen social issues, wrestling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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19%
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Visible Scars (2012)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Seventeen years ago, Mike kills a new mother of twin girls and took the babies to a house in the woods, claiming them as his own to appease his wife's desire for kids. 10 years later Stacy flees to her uncle's old secluded cabin in those ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot: kidnapping, confined, isolation, ghost, law enforcement, danger, woman in danger, youth, violent content, mountain, supernatural, haunted house ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
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Rapt (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A rich industrialist is brutally kidnapped. While he physically and mentally degenerates in imprisonment, the kidnappers, police and the board of the company of which he is director negotiate about the ransom of 50 million euro.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, life turned upside down, dishonesty, danger, confined, uncover truth, captivity, abduction, double life, ransom, liberation ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: belgium, europe, paris france
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Killer by Nature (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The troubled teenager Owen Whitmore has a sleep disorder and occasionally sleepwalks. Owen is having therapy sessions with Dr. Katherine Ramos. Having just joined the medical school, he has to move to another town, but he is divided between the ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, serious, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, nightmare comes true, murder, investigation, who done it, doctors and patients, danger, couples, love and romance, death row, nightmare, protagonist as suspect ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Betrayed (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Julie, six months pregnant, and her boyfriend Trent arrive at a tiny Cape Cod cabin for some time to relax. The town is quiet and deserted during the off season… except for Sully, the creepy guy who’s keeping an eye on the couple from a ...
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: betrayal, couples, pregnancy, couple relations, dishonesty, blackmail, abduction, ransom, danger, kidnapping, family relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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18%
Blood and Ties (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Da-eun lives a happy life with her single father, a man who sacrificed everything in his life for her. She loved her father very dearly. However, their relationship is about to take an unexpected turn. Da-eun becomes suspicious that her father might ...
Style: tense, psychological, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: kidnapping, murder, uncover truth, investigation, moral dilemma, danger, hidden identity, woman in danger, parents and children, single parent, reporter, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, east asia
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18%
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Infinite Justice (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An American reporter is held hostage by Muslim fundamentalists in Karachi against the release of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
Style: realistic, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: hostage, captivity, politics, terrorism, journalism, prison, confined, rebellion, danger, kidnapping, state affairs, media ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pakistan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Green (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: A New Yorker moves to the country with her boyfriend, where her new friendship causes a problem as her partner also takes an interest in the woman.
Style: tense, mumblecore, captivating, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: infidelity, jealousy, love triangle, couples, couple relations, suspicion, women, danger, rivalry, coming of age, male full rear nudity, young couple ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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18%
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24 Days (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
Style: disturbing, realistic, sincere, psychological, serious ...
Plot: investigation, family in crisis, missing child, family problems, life is a bitch, abduction, ransom, judaism, israeli, kidnapping, police, confined
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, paris france, france
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18%
Stolen by Their Father (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The story of a mother whose two young daughters are kidnapped by her abusive ex-husband—and her all-consuming fight to get them back.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: kidnapping, abduction, marital problem, female protagonist, kidnapped child, mother and daughter, despot, family relations, parents and children, mother child separation, mother, child kidnapping ...
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Prisoner (2007)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A Hollywood director is taken prisoner while scouting a remote prison.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: prison, captivity, danger, isolation, curses spells and rituals, confined, filmmaking, abduction, kidnapping, hollywood, electric chair, prison life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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18%
Enemies Among Us (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: It's not politics as usual, or is it? The governor of Louisiana is about to become the vice-presidential candidate for his party but a murder and an international web spanning from South Africa to Pakistan and North Korea might just get in the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot: assassination, campaign, danger, politics, political corruption, haunted by the past, dishonesty, rivalry, violent content, profanity, state affairs, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Locked in a Room (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: "Locked in a Room" is a story about three teenagers that are trapped in three separate rooms. They are monitored and watched by a masked man who takes notes on paper as to their every move and emotion. They are further tormented by an ...
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: vengeance, danger, trapped, teenager, room, survival, isolation, murder, violence, teenage life, confined, mysterious character ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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