Movies like Corn

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Corn (2004)
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Corn (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young woman returns home to bear an illegitimate child, and witnesses an environmental accident involving a genetically modified crop of corn. Doubted by the community she has returned to, she questions her own sanity as she tries to discover what is happening. Her journey takes her on a trip down the food chain, as she tracks a potentially life threatening byproduct from the cornfield to the supermarket. Ultimately, she has to confront psychological demons that haunt her as she grows into motherhood, and comes to terms with her own biology. Tapping into cultural myths of food, fertility, birth and sacrifice, CORN is a chilling look at what we put in our mouths and our babies' mouths, and the convergence of Science and Mother Nature.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, slasher, tense, bleak, experimental
Plot: pregnancy, obsession, fighting the system, youth, family relations, parents and children, destiny, life is a bitch, society, single parent, environmentalism, babies and infants, science, research, genetics, illegitimate child, corporate crime, farm, cornfield, countryside, doctor, hospital, ranch, father daughter relationship, single mother ...
Time: contemporary
Place: pennsylvania, usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, tense and psychological films with plots about family relations, parents and children, life is a bitch, danger, society, family problems and youth mostly in Drama, Thriller and Sci-Fi genres. Some movies like Corn: Bypass (2014), Windcroft (2007), For the Good of Others (2010), Inhale (2010), The Wait (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Bypass (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Sweden
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Tim has no job, but Tim ‘works’, selling stolen goods...In the face of mounting internal and external pressure, how far will he go to keep his head above water and protect those he loves?
Style: touching, serious, suspenseful, gloomy, realistic ...
Plot: life is a bitch, juvenile delinquency, society, parents and children, family relations, youth, down on your luck, terminal illness, urban, working class, criminal
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 3.9
 320
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
For the Good of Others (2010)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Diego is a doctor so used to working in extreme situations that he has immunized himself to others' pain. He has switched off from his work, his partner and his commitment as a father. Over the course of a disturbing meeting, Diego is ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, psychological, social ...
Plot: supernatural, hospital, doctor, doctors and patients, memory loss, intrigue, healing power, estrangement, rivalry, couple relations, society, health ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.5
 7K
Inhale (2010)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A couple goes to dangerous lengths to find a lung donor for their daughter.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot: transplant, doctor, moral dilemma, child illness, parents and children, family problems, couple relations, escapades, society, street kid, male pubic hair, daughter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: mexico, usa, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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 4.5
 740
The Wait (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An enigmatic phone call from a psychic catapults a family into a state of suspended belief while waiting for their recently deceased mother to be resurrected.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, surreal, mumblecore ...
Plot: siblings relations, supernatural, family in crisis, death of mother, afterlife, faith, waiting, love, death, sexual content, profanity, dealing with death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Out of the Black (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two brothers struggle to uncover the truth behind the mining accident that killed their father and bankrupted the town.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: uncover truth, life is a bitch, redemption, siblings relations, social relations, parents and children, family in crisis, family relations, countryside, down on your luck, small town, small town life ...
Place: usa, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 4.0
 267
Roulette (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When three very different people (Mike Baldwin, Will Haza, Ali Lukowski) from three completely different worlds begin a deadly game of Russian Roulette, they soon discover that their pasts are a trilogy of overlapping events that have brought them ...
Style: tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: russian roulette, suicide, mind game, life is a bitch, destiny, down on your luck, game of death, danger, woman in danger, group, deadly, unreliable narrator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 4.7
 607
In Your Image (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Ridden by guilt for not being able to have a child, wife decides to conceive by cloning. The daughter she gives birth to is therefor almost identical to her. The child starts to grow rapidly and slowly replaces mom in the household.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic
Plot: incestuous relationship, cloning, experiment gone awry, family problems, dysfunctional family, family relations, disorder, parents and children, couple relations, family in crisis, psychopath, human clone ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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The Nightmare Nanny (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Stay-home mom Annie is reluctant to return to work, until she finds Amber, the perfect nanny for her 3-year-old daughter Jenny. But as Annie's young daughter grows closer and closer to Amber, Annie begins to feel like she's being pushed ...
Style: serious, captivating, enigmatic, suspense, tense ...
Plot: missing child, family relations, parents and children, nanny, couples, woman in danger, single parent, danger, suspicion, twists and turns, woman seduces a man, child in peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 4.7
 3K
First Born (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Laura's expecting. Her husband, Steven's a loving guy but has little time for her. Her mom lives thousands of miles away. Forced to give up on her dreams, she's always been a bit edgy. A C-section drives her over the edge, making her ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, psychological, tense ...
Plot: family in danger, mentally unstable, nanny, danger, parents and children, family problems, isolation, suburbs, obsession, supernatural ability, pregnancy, curses spells and rituals ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 5.7
 2K
Baby Blues (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: On a secluded family farm, a mother suffers a psychotic break due to postpartum depression, forcing the eldest son to protect his sibling from the mother they have always known and loved.
Style: slasher, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: mental illness, survival, siblings relations, danger, family relations, babies and infants, isolation, survival horror, mother kills own child, illness, depression, struggle for survival ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 4.2
 252
Norfolk (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Set in Norfolk, amidst an idyllic, brooding landscape, an innocent teenage boy and his battle-weary father live a simple life. Days are spent hunting, fishing and daydreaming. Out-of-nowhere, disrupting this tranquility, a mysterious intense figure ...
Style: captivating, tense, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: teenage life, hitman, family problems, parents and children, single parent, family in crisis, youth, life is a bitch, family relations, isolation, father son relationship, mercenary ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 1.4
 423
C Me Dance (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A teenage dancer in training for the Los Angeles ballet discovers that she is dying of cancer, only to discover that the Devil is real after getting the miracle that she and her father both prayed for. Shortly after discovering that her dream of ...
Style: serious, touching, suspenseful, suspense, gloomy ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, good versus evil, society, youth, danger, imaginary, dancer's life, parents and children, family relations, life is a bitch, hopes, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 4.8
 454
Deadline (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an ...
Style: realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful, independent film
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, murder, interracial relations, idealism, dishonesty, parents and children, society, redemption, life is a bitch, family relations, hopes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alabama, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Algorithm: BLISS (2020)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Vic Beckett, a brilliant researcher, creates the ultimate App that taps into the pleasure center of the brain and transmits a feeling of nirvana to the user.
Style: unusual plot structure, tense, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: brain, scientist, research, science, society, psychology, internet, youth, computers and web, male protagonist, danger, psychological manipulation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
I'm Not Jesus Mommy (2010)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Kimberly will stop at nothing to have a child of her own. Recovering from cancer her possibilities seemed slim. However, the world's first successful human cloning project brings an opportunity and a son named David. Seven years after ...
Style: tense, bleak, disturbing, serious
Plot: religion, cloning, dystopian future, obsession, danger, haunted by the past, coming of age, imaginary, life is a bitch, jesus, husband wife relationship, christianity ...
Time: future
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 6.4
 388
About Sunny (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: As things unravel for a struggling single mother in Las Vegas, she must decide what she's willing to give up to get by.
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, emotional, psychological ...
Plot: poverty, life is a bitch, moral dilemma, society, working class, parents and children, family problems, down on your luck, single mother, youth, homeless, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Blood of My Blood (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A Mexican boy smuggles himself to Brooklyn to meet his long-lost father - only to have his identity stolen upon arrival by an impostor who seeks to steal the fathers' fortune.
Style: suspenseful, serious, psychological, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: family relations, starting over, estrangement, parents and children, hopes, on the road, criminal heroes, mexican immigrant, boy, coming of age, border, immigrant ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Errors of the Human Body (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Canadian scientist Dr Geoff Burton takes up a position at a new institute in wintry Dresden, Germany. His contribution to their most important project - a human regeneration gene-has the potential to make something miraculous out of a personal ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, bleak, captivating ...
Plot: genetic engineering, medical, deadly virus, confined, laboratory, plague, isolation, body horror, human host, experimenting, obsession, workplace ...
Time: distant future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.3
 767
Missionary (2013)
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: obsession, infidelity, dangerous attraction, danger, stalking, couples, parents and children, single parent, love triangle, sex scene, bad boy, dysfunctional relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 4.8
 436
Hindsight (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Unexpectedly pregnant with no means to raise a child, Dina and Ronnie decide to sell their unborn baby over the Internet. Their plan begins to unravel when the couple they've chosen, Paul and Maria, turn out to have an agenda of their own.
Style: disturbing, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: couples, pregnancy, psychopath, computers and web, youth, cons and scams, suburbs, family relations, suburban life, babies and infants, black market, pregnant woman ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Absence (2013)
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Doctors are baffled when an expectant mother wakes to find her nearly-to-term pregnancy apparently disappear overnight. Police investigate the situation as a missing child, and only her husband and brother trust her version of events.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, scary ...
Audience: teens
Plot: alien abduction, found footage, pregnancy, missing child, danger, family relations, investigation, uncover truth, babies and infants, alien, witch, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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45%
 4.9
 857
Angelica (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A couple living in Victorian London endure an unusual series of psychological and supernatural effects following the birth of their child.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, serious, gothic, psychosexual thriller ...
Plot: victorian england, couples, supernatural, ghost, couple relations, family relations, haunted house, danger, family problems, disorder, family in crisis, life turned upside down ...
Time: victorian era, 1880s
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.1
 7K
Fast Color (2018)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A woman is forced to go on the run when her superhuman abilities are discovered. Years after having abandoned her family, the only place she has left to hide is home.
Style: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, sincere, touching ...
Audience: adult
Plot: mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship, countryside, daughter, family home, mother, black girl, black history, family relations, runaway, supernatural power, supernatural ...
Time: 21st century
Place: midwest
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 6.9
 2K
Ballast (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A single mother and her embattled son struggle to subsist in a small Mississippi Delta township. An act of violence thrusts them into the world of an emotionally devastated highway store owner, awakening the fury of a bitter and longstanding ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, emotional, captivating ...
Plot: small town, single parent, family relations, life is a bitch, parents and children, danger, suicide, juvenile delinquent, robbery, society, poverty, mother son relationship ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.7
 964
Tribulation (2000)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Tom Canboro is a police detective with a Christian sister, Eileen, a brother, Calvin, a wife, Susan, and eccentric brother-in-law, Jason. One night, Jason seemingly goes insane and tries to kill Eileen, calling her a "hater". Tom soon ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, serious, psychological, apocalyptic ...
Plot: christian, bible prophecy, virtual reality, christianity, mind control, messiah, supernatural, mind game, police detective, haunted by the past, fighting the system, danger ...
Time: future, 90s, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 5.5
 1K
Zenith (2010)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In a hellish future where human beings have become stupefied by the state of permanent happiness they have been genetically altered to experience, Jack offers relief via drugs that cause his customers the welcome phenomenon of pain. But when Jack ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, suspenseful, experimental, serious ...
Plot: mind game, conspiracy, obsession, uncover truth, investigation, fall in love, life is a bitch, dishonesty, love and romance, society, psychology, underground ...
Time: future, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.5
 569
Five Star (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: After John’s absent father is struck by a stray bullet, Primo takes it upon himself to verse the young boy in the code of the streets—one founded on respect and upheld by fear. A member of the Bloods since the age of twelve—both in the film ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, psychological, sexy ...
Plot: gang, juvenile delinquency, haunted by the past, urban ghetto life, teaching the ways of the world, adolescence vs adulthood, coming of age, society, ghetto, gangster, violent content, drug dealing ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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