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Lucid Dream (2017)
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Lucid Dream (2017)
Original name: 루시드 드림
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Dae-ho, an investigative journalist, seeks to track down the whereabouts of his son who was abducted three years ago. With the help of a detective and a psychiatrist friend, he will retrace his memory of the incident through the use of lucid dreaming techniques.
Style: psychological, exciting, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, surreal, disturbing, tricky, detective, cyber ...
Plot: lucid dream, time travel, reporter, dream, investigation, child abduction, kidnapping, a vision, twists and turns, revenge, abduction, puzzle, sleeping, alternate reality, father and son, imagination, vengeance, police investigation, loss of son, surveillance, criminal's revenge, riddles and clues, characters in danger, plot twist, child kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: south korea, korea
Keyword: korean, dreams, lucid dreaming

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, suspense, suspenseful and serious films with plots about twists and turns, time travel, plot twist, murder, danger, investigation and kidnapping mostly in Thriller, Sci-Fi and Mystery genres. Some movies like Lucid Dream: Inception (2010), The Butterfly Effect (2004), The Jacket (2005), No Mercy (2010), Butt Boy (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Inception (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another ...
Style: psychological, mind bending, clever, cerebral, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: dream, virtual reality, memory, alternate reality, twists and turns, imagination, subconscious, philosophy, existentialism, fictional reality, heist, puzzle ...
Time: year 2010, future, 2000s, 2010s, near future
Place: paris france, japan, los angeles, iran, tokyo ...
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The Butterfly Effect (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young man struggles to access sublimated childhood memories. He finds a technique that allows him to travel back into the past, to occupy his childhood body and change history. However, he soon finds that every change he makes has unexpected ...
Style: psychological, mind bending, philosophical, suspense, dramatic ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: time travel, memory, time loop, butterfly effect, memory loss, twists and turns, alternate reality, psychology, time traveler, changing the past or future, mind control, destiny ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
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100%
 7.1
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The Jacket (2005)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.
Style: psychological, surreal, enigmatic, mind bending, tricky ...
Audience: girls' night, boys' night
Plot: time travel, psychology, time loop, mental institution, supernatural, murder, hallucination, mental illness, memory loss, butterfly effect, supernatural ability, parallel universe ...
Time: year 2005, 90s, 2000s, 20th century, year 1992 ...
Place: iraq, vermont
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100%
 7.4
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No Mercy (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Forensic pathologist Kang (Seol Kyeong-gu) is assigned to examine the dismembered corpse of a female murder victim. Detective Min (Han Hye-jin) points to a fanatic environmentalist, Lee Sung-ho (Ryoo Seung-beom), as the primary suspect. But when ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: revenge, murder, police investigation, autopsy, forensics, tragic hero, daughter, arrest, regret, threat, vengeance, professor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea
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Butt Boy (2019)
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Detective Fox loves work and alcohol. After he goes to AA, his sponsor, Chip, becomes a suspect in his investigation for a missing kid. Fox believes people are disappearing up Chip’s butt.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense, avant garde ...
Plot: investigation, missing person, uncover truth, child abduction, crime investigation, troubled past, abduction, criminal, kidnapping, unsolved crime, police detective, disappearance ...
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52%
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Montage (2013)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A woman's child is kidnapped and killed after paying the ransom. 15 years later, a mysterious figure is seen visiting the site of killing and another kidnapping occurs using the same methods. The woman teams up with a detective to catch the ...
Style: suspense, psychological, twisted, surprise ending, neo noir ...
Plot: investigation, twists and turns, rescue, police detective, parents and children, unsolved crime, serial killer, revenge, plot twist, asian, child abduction, justice ...
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 7.1
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Deja Vu (2006)
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help ...
Style: exciting, suspenseful, tricky, confusing, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night, date night, family friendly, teens ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, twists and turns, investigation, terrorism, deja vu, time, police investigation, danger, changing the past or future, parallel universe, shooting ...
Time: year 2006, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
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51%
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 68K
Timecrimes (2007)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.
Style: twist ending, enigmatic, suspense, psychological, cerebral ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: time travel, time loop, time machine, twists and turns, plot twist, problem solving, mysterious character, surrealism, distopia, memory, insanity, puzzle ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: iberian peninsula, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Reversion (2015)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The daughter of a billionaire tech mogul questions her own memories about her mothers death after being kidnapped by a stranger.
Style: suspenseful, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: dead mother, billionaire, kidnapping, dysfunctional family, life is a bitch, family secret, abduction, family problems, kidnapped woman, uncover truth, wealthy family, murder ...
Time: future
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51%
 6.5
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Time Lapse (2014)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Three friends discover a mysterious machine that takes pictures 24 hours into the future and conspire to use it for personal gain, until disturbing and dangerous images begin to develop.
Style: twist ending, psychological, tense, cerebral, clever ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time travel, parallel universe, time machine, time paradox, plot twist, time loop, paranoia, twists and turns, blackmail, murder, brutality, death threat ...
Time: future, year 2014, 2010s, near future
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51%
 7.6
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Duel (2017)
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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Story: Jang Deuk-Cheon is the chief of a crime squad. At home, he is kind and friendly father to his daughter. He meets a human clone and gets involved in a shocking case. A battle takes place between human clones.
Style: suspense, sincere, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, police detective, perseverance, law enforcement, missing child, police investigation, danger, rescue, abduction, riddles and clues, determination ...
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51%
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Haunters (2010)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Cho-In can control other people's minds when they are within his field of sight. Except one man.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, psychological, rough, gloomy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: haunted by the past, ambition, rivalry, life turned upside down, uninhibited rivalry, supernatural, life is a bitch, social misfits, battles, disorder, survival horror, propaganda ...
Time: year 1991, 21st century
Place: asia, korea
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50%
 6.5
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Enter Nowhere (2011)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three strangers arrive one by one to a mysterious cabin in the middle of nowhere after enduring separate life-altering predicaments. Searching for a way out of the woods, frustrated, hungry and battling to stay warm they discover their mysterious ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot: time paradox, group of strangers, time travel, cabin in the woods, time loop, alternate reality, woods, danger, isolation, stranger, mind game, escape attempt ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa
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50%
The Gifted Hands (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story: While investigating the kidnapping and murder of a little girl, a detective spots a piece of graffiti that depicts the crime scene perfectly—but the graffiti was drawn a month before the crime took place, and that the artist knows more than he is ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, exciting, detective, twisted
Plot: crime investigation, police investigation, unlikely friendships, mind reading, disorder, society, twists and turns, protagonist as suspect, friendship between men, destiny, memory, murder suspect ...
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49%
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Fatal Justice (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Karen is shopping at a convenience store during which a robbery occurs. Her niece is kidnapped and left seriously injured in hospital. When one of the perpetrators is released, Karen decides to go on a murderous trail of revenge.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, exciting ...
Plot: rivalry, vigilantism, heist, store, hospital, revenge, murder, abduction, investigation, paralysis, danger, twins ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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49%
 6.0
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Rewind (2013)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Revolves around a team of military field operatives and civilian scientists who must use untested technology to travel back in time to alter past events in order to change the future and avoid a devastating terrorist attack. Feature length pilot for ...
Style: intense, captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: time travel, time machine, changing the past or future, terrorism, danger, heroic mission, special agent, twists and turns, foreknowledge, catastrophe, investigation, virtual reality ...
Time: future, 21st century
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49%
Killer Night Shift (2018)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A pregnant woman forced to bedrest, gets the additional help she needs from two home care nurses. Unbeknownst to her, one of them has a vendetta against her husband and is out to steal their baby!
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, serious, tense
Plot: child abduction, nurse, pregnant woman, revenge, kidnapping, abduction, pregnancy, threat, relationship problems, family problems, pregnant wife, plan ...
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49%
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Parallel Life (2010)
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Kin Suk-hyun is Korea’s youngest appointed criminal court head judge, very famous for his rational rulings. It is before his court that the case of distinguished mathematics professor Sohn Ki-chul’s murder of his wife is presented. While ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: psychopath, vengeance, deja vu, danger, law enforcement, haunted by the past, judge, husband wife relationship, murder, lawyer, threat to kill, murder mystery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, asia
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49%
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ARQ (2016)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two old friends living in a dystopic future become trapped in a mysterious time loop — one that may have something to do with an ongoing battle between an omnipotent corporation and a ragtag band of rebels.
Style: tense, psychological, twist ending, suspense, enigmatic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: time loop, time travel, twists and turns, survival, post apocalypse, life & death, distopia, creativity, memory, dystopia, parallel universe, post apocalyptic ...
Time: future
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49%
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Cyber Case (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young woman uses geotagged pictures to help rescue her kidnapped brother.
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: child abduction, investigation, family problems, crime solving, female protagonist, half brother, kidnapping, sleuth, cat versus mouse, crime investigation, kidnapped child, abduction ...
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49%
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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49%
Confession of Murder (2012)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: On the day the 15-year statute of limitations expired on a high profile serial murder case that claimed the lives of 10 women, a family member of the victim throws himself off the building in front of Choi Hyeong-goo, the detective in charge of the ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, rough, detective, stylized ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, vengeance, law enforcement, chases and races, dark humor, revenge, killer, plot twist, asian, frame up, trap ...
Time: 21st century
Place: east asia, asia, korea, south korea
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49%
The Negotiation (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min.
Story: An ace police crisis negotiator, Chae-yoon, is called to the scene where her supervisor is taken hostage. Through the control room monitor, she is faced with the cold-blooded hostage taker, Tae-gu, whose demeanors are difficult to interpret. Against ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, exciting ...
Plot: negotiation, hostage, abduction, criminal, manipulation, rescue, twists and turns, danger, police investigation, confined, conspiracy, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
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Primer (2004)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: Friends and fledgling entrepreneurs invent a device in their garage which reduces the apparent mass of any object placed inside it, but they discover that it has some highly unexpected capabilities - ones that could enable them to do and to have ...
Style: philosophical, surreal, independent film, confusing, mind bending ...
Plot: time travel, time loop, parallel universe, time machine, changing the past or future, changing the future, science, inventor, paradox, time traveler, twists and turns, scientist ...
Time: future, year 2004, distant future, 2000s, 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Butterfly Effect 3: Revelations (2009)
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The story revolves around a man trying to uncover the mysterious death of his girlfriend and save an innocent man from the death chamber in the process, by using his unique power to time travel. However in attempting to do this, he also frees a ...
Style: mind bending, suspense, mindfuck, psychological thriller, intense ...
Plot: time travel, changing the past or future, investigation, supernatural, serial killer, twists and turns, sent to the past, police investigation, violence, storytelling, alternate reality, profanity ...
Time: 2000s, 90s, 21st century
Place: usa, detroit
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48%
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The Call (2020)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Connected by phone in the same home but 20 years apart, a serial killer puts another woman’s past — and life — on the line to change her own fate.
Style: suspense, scary, suspenseful, psychological thriller, slasher ...
Plot: time travel, psychopath, serial killer, borderline personality disorder, time, xmas, couples, husband wife relationship, death, danger, violence, chase ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Cruel & Unusual (2014)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Wrongly condemned for killing his wife, a man finds himself in a mysterious institution where he is sentenced to relive her death for eternity.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, retro ...
Plot: time loop, false accusation, life is a bitch, dishonesty, danger, violence, afterlife, mental health, time travel, paradox, twists and turns, sexual abuse ...
Time: near future, 21st century
Place: canada
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48%
 8.0
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Twelve Monkeys (1995)
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In the year 2035, convict James Cole reluctantly volunteers to be sent back in time to discover the origin of a deadly virus that wiped out nearly all of the earth's population and forced the survivors into underground communities. But when ...
Style: psychological, surreal, twist ending, non-linear, atmospheric ...
Plot: time travel, insanity, post apocalyptic, apocalypse, virus, time loop, post apocalypse, paranoia, psychology, end of the world, twists and turns, epidemic ...
Time: future, 90s, 20th century, year 1995, distant future ...
Place: philadelphia, maryland, baltimore, usa, pennsylvania ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Infinity Chamber (2016)
Genre: Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A man trapped in an automated prison must outsmart a computer in order to escape and try and find his way back to the outside world that may already be wiped out.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, touching, disturbing ...
Plot: artificial intelligence, time paradox, subconscious, escape attempt, mind game, man versus machine, father son relationship, prisoner, computer, political prisoner, mistaken identity, plot twist ...
Time: near future
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Fatal Intuition (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jang-woo had only his sister to live for until she is brutally murdered. During a ritual to send her spirit to heaven, he comes across a suspicious man, who manages to escape from the scene. He begins to suspect a local pharmacist and keeps an eye ...
Style: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: medium, killer, murderer, murder investigation, revenge, loss of sister, investigation, murder mystery, murder, criminal, psychic, unsolved crime ...
Place: china
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48%
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