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The Letter (2012)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality.
Style:
tense, psychological, atmospheric, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense, mind bending, surreal, art house ...
Plot:
paranoia, woman in danger, mentally unstable, couples, conspiracy, mental breakdown, emotional manipulation, murder, obsession, hallucination, nervous breakdown, identity crisis, character study, claustrophobia, isolation, manipulation, female protagonist, slow burn, intimate, writers, backstage, urban, writer's life, dishonesty, playwright ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to The Letter
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller and psychological films with plots about paranoia, isolation, obsession, slow burn, claustrophobia, character study and urban mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Letter: Her Name Is Carla (2005), Ultrasonic (2012), Never Here (2017), Cherry Crush (2007), Living in Fear (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two strangers refuse to leave the seaside home of a couple, which leads to sexual tension and crime.
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot:
rape and revenge, rape, couple relations, danger, couples, stranger, husband wife relationship, adultery, cuckolded husband, nudity, violent content, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
zimbabwe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A musician with hyper-sensitive hearing goes in search of an ominous sound that plagues him, but is inaudible to everyone else.
Style:
stylized, serious, tense, independent film, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
obsession, paranoia, musician, conspiracy, isolation, mental breakdown, obsessive quest, slow burn, investigation, claustrophobia, mind control, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An artist whose work involves capturing images of strangers begins to believe she herself is being observed.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
stalking, murder mystery, art, female protagonist, paranoia, obsession, photography, voyeurism, privacy invasion, female artist, fantasy becomes reality, secretly observing ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A High school Photographer breaks his own rules and falls in love with his teenage model
Style:
sexy, psychosexual thriller, realistic, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
female nudity, dangerous attraction, murder, investigation, high school life, twists and turns, teenage life, love and romance, father son relationship, photographer, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, golf ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man returning to his childhood home for the reading of a will is met with hostility. Do the townsfolk know more about him than his new wife?
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
small town, woman in danger, who done it, danger, haunted by the past, dishonesty, homecoming, murder, twists and turns, family secret, murder investigation, deception ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
The harrowing story of a disturbed young man's attempts to win the affections of an unsuspecting young woman. When Doug first sees Amy, he instantly falls for her and begins to watch her every move, going so far as to set up spy cameras in her ...
Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
found footage, obsession, sexual dysfunction, strangulation, sex, hidden camera, stalker, pervert, female nudity, murder, danger, psychopath ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Based on Chris Bohjalian’s New York Times best-selling novel, “Secrets of Eden” centers on Stephen Drew, an adored small-town minister, and the brutal and sadistic murder-suicide of Alice and George Hayward, the town’s most beloved ...
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological, serious, captivating
Plot:
murder, small town, murder investigation, pastor, clergy, social relations, under the surface, religions or cults, society, minister, small town life, unfaithful wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
vermont, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Haunted by the death of her young daughter, a distraught woman develops an all-consuming obsession with a girl she believes is her reincarnated child.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female protagonist, obsession, grief, motherhood, loss, lifestyle, mentally unstable, new neighbor, tragic past, neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, supernatural ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story:
The dark twisted tale of a man who's accused of murdering his girlfriend, told from his shadow's perspective.
Style:
dark, psychological thriller, crime drama, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot:
guilt, character study, alienation, obsession, mental breakdown, paranoia, isolation, claustrophobia, identity crisis, morality, slow burn, surveillance ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When documentary filmmaker Danny Hart boards a train at Grand Central Station he has no reason to expect anything more than a pleasant ride to upstate New York to interview the subjects for his latest project. But a chance encounter with a ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, realistic, tense, detective ...
Plot:
train, witnessing a crime, investigation, twists and turns, disappearance, adultery, murder, mystery woman, obsession, chance meeting, identity crisis, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Meg is trying to readjust to normalcy after surviving a traumatic kidnapping — but her grounded sense of reality soon starts to deteriorate when she travels with her husband to his wealthy family’s isolated compound.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
female protagonist, isolation, post traumatic stress, life is a bitch, kidnapped woman, kidnapping, claustrophobia, slow burn, paranoia, introspection, macabre, identity crisis ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The storyline is a thought-provoking drama of two lost and troubled individuals who are forever entwined after a traumatic event occurs. Janis, a twenty-year-old woman who is struggling with depression, takes the blame for Peter, who works as a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
surrealism, depression, crime and punishment, conundrum, death, murder, guilty conscience, introspection, traumatic past, character study, guilt, redemption ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Gemma moves to LA, hoping to become an actress. She takes an overnight gig at a sleep clinic that promises to make their clients’ dreams come true. But the longer she spends there, the more it becomes clear that something sinister is going on.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, mind bending, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
dream, nightmare, paranoia, female protagonist, hallucination, insomnia, identity crisis, obsession, isolation, character study, claustrophobia, slow burn ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Georgia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The life of a young architect is thrown into turmoil when he's diagnosed with a rare eye disease. As his condition worsens, he questions his life and career choices, and his relationship to his frustrated wife becomes more strained.
Style:
psychological, surreal, enigmatic, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, architect, truth, identity, identity crisis, love story, relationships, male female relationship, problem, mysterious girl, in love, love affair ...
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A novelist realizes that her neighbors may be under the control of unknown forces. Little does she realize how close and sinister its influence has become. A harrowing, darkly humorous journey through the depths of the human psyche.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, creepy, dark ...
Plot:
paranoia, mind control, manipulation, super powers, supernatural power, neighbor, supernatural, superhuman powers, writer's life, neighbor neighbor relationship, supernatural ability, writers ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A psych-patient, accused of a violent murder, turns to her court-appointed psychiatrist to prove her innocence and sanity. Her psychiatrist must help her decipher delusion from truth to unravel the mystery of her reality.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot:
female protagonist, psychiatrist, psychopath, patient, mental illness, doctor patient relationship, psychiatrist patient relationship, female psychopath, danger, woman in danger, murder, society ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
812
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A struggling artist is implicated in a string of macabre murders.
Style:
independent film, mind bending, tense, scary, serious ...
Plot:
supernatural, murder, performer's life, manipulation, estrangement, mental illness, addiction, urban, voyeurism, city life, protagonist as suspect, mind game ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
26%
604
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
One evening, a woman enters a police station and confesses to having killed her violent husband several years ago. As she listens to her fantastic story, the policewoman is increasingly less inclined to arrest her. Just why is the woman so eager to ...
Style:
suspense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot:
police station, unsupportive spouse, murder, haunted by the past, law enforcement, family problems, couples, unlikely criminals, confession, police, domestic violence, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a man is involved in a car wreck that kills his former lover, his life is derailed and his mind is splintered with guilt and the subsequent uncertainty about what exactly happened.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
memory loss, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, uncover truth, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, tragedy, car crash, guilt, fatal accident, trauma, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A woman finds herself in the midst of a dark mystery after the unexplained loss of a loved one. Her mind begins to unravel as her sense of reality begins to slip away.
Style:
bleak, tense, psychological, psychological thriller, dark ...
Plot:
isolation, survival horror, survival, death of loved one, trauma, female protagonist, loss, grief, death, danger, mind game, trap ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young woman is committed to a psychiatric hospital and claims her newborn was stolen by a dark cult.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, dark, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, supernatural, schizophrenia, occult, revenge, psychiatric hospital, kidnapping, supernatural horror, mental patient, child abduction, mentally unstable, female psychopath ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Anxious dreams, hallucinations, and paranoid reality torment a young math professor in the aftermath of his wife's death in a car accident. As madness, addiction and affairs send the story spiraling towards its conclusion, the truth about what ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
obsession, haunted by the past, couple relations, life is a bitch, couples, dealing with death, mental illness, hallucination, grief, mathematics, addiction, paranoia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, usa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Annie, 28 and recently divorced, is doing everything she can to get her life back on track. When she decides to join the New Life Fitness gym she's inspired and excited about her new trainer Alex, 20-something, who quickly becomes a friend. ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, stalker, serial killer, personal trainer, psycho killer, killing, murderer, murder, mental patient, homicidal maniac, mentally unstable, psychopath ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
ENTRANCE is about the limits of our perception, how the things lurking on the periphery of our lives can lead to horrific conclusions; about how she fell out of love with the city, but it wouldn't let her go.
Style:
slasher, psychological thriller, mumblecore, realistic, scary ...
Plot:
danger, isolation, loneliness, paranoia, female protagonist, alienation, character study, slow burn, minimal dialogue, haunting, urban decay, uncertainty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
23%
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, suspense, psychological, captivating, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, investigation, infidelity, betrayal, murder, danger, twists and turns, love, stalking, surveillance, deception, adultery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Amy is the Mannings only daughter. After the death of her rich father, she lives together with her stepmother. Recently she sees a man in black following her, waiting for her in her car, wanting to kill her. The police can't help her. But who ...
Style:
slasher, psychological thriller, psychological horror, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
stalker, paranoia, psychiatrist, obsession, female protagonist, isolation, stepmother, mental illness, family conflict, urban, slow burn, woman in danger ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A girl awakes from a coma to find her world has collapsed around her and she remembers nothing. But as she does remember she finds out all is not how it should be and someone is out to get her.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, twist ending, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
amnesia, flashback, paranoia, betrayal, female protagonist, identity crisis, coma, deception, conspiracy, danger, confusion, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
While vacationing with her husband in Italy, a middle-aged woman wakes up one morning to find that the man in bed with her is not her husband but an imposter. He, however, claims he is her husband, and she cannot get anyone to believe her.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, twist ending, tense, crime drama ...
Plot:
impostor, whodunit, paranoia, female protagonist, identity crisis, manipulation, claustrophobia, cat and mouse, isolation, vanished man, honeymoon, slow burn ...
Place:
spain, america, italy
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A woman is plagued by constant nightmares after moving into a large, suspiciously cheap apartment. The apartment’s terrible secret soon reveals itself through her dreams.
Style:
psychological thriller, creepy, tension, suspenseful, surreal ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
nightmare, insomnia, haunted house, claustrophobia, psychological trauma, female protagonist, isolation, paranoia, slow burn, obsession, mental illness, mental breakdown ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Donna May is a grief counselor who suddenly finds herself grieving and alone after the hit-and-run death of her husband, Robert. Soon after Robert's death, Donna's estranged adopted son, Kevin, appears at her house, claiming he has cleaned ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, escape attempt, adopted son, psychopath, secret, mother son conflict, grief, rescue, manipulation, woman in danger, family relations, family drama ...
Similarity:
21%
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