Movies like The Son 2019
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The Son (2019)
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Original name: El hijo
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Painter Lorenzo's life spirals out of control as he fears his wife is trying to isolate him from their infant son.
Style:
non-linear, interesting
Plot:
paranoia, painter, doctor, laboratory, husband wife relationship, little boy, marital crisis, female scientist, boy, painting, female psychopath, lawyer, psychopath, police officer, scientist, pregnancy, female nudity, storm, sex scene, nanny, death, murder, criminal, alcoholic, hospital ...
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Most similar movies to The Son
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out neo noir, psychological, surprise ending and suspenseful films with plots about screaming woman, murder, crying, corpse, barefoot male, crying woman and male objectification mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Son: We Need to Talk About Kevin (2011), Marrowbone (2017), Greta (2018), Under Your Bed (2019), The Corruption of Chris Miller (1973). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
After her son Kevin commits a horrific act, troubled mother Eva reflects on her complicated relationship with her disturbed son as he grew from a toddler into a teenager.
Style:
psychological, disturbing, bleak, depressing, gloomy ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
psychopath, evil child, depression, high school, guilt, mother son relationship, mental illness, prison visit, school shooting, family problems, childhood, parents and children ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
connecticut, usa, new york
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A young man and his four younger siblings, who have kept secret the death of their beloved mother in order to remain together, are plagued by a sinister presence in the sprawling manor in which they live.
Style:
scary, surprise ending, tense, slasher, clever ...
Plot:
ghost, suspense, mental illness, twists and turns, sibling relationship, plot twist, abandoned house, murder, death of mother, schizophrenic, split personality, attic ...
Time:
60s, year 1969
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100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A young woman returns an elderly widow’s lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers her elder might not be all that she seems.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
kidnapping, trapped, female villain, held captive, stalker, obsessive love, murder, obsession, psychopath, trap, stalking, roommate ...
Place:
new york, usa, paris france, france
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38%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Naoto was ignored by other people. During his school days, Chihiro was the first person who called his name. Naoto dreams of seeing her again and tries to find her. Finally, after 11 years, he locates her, but she is a totally different person now. ...
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot:
peeping tom, sexual humiliation, violent husband, platonic, visitor, uninvited guest, awkward situation, visit, socially awkward, obsession, following someone, possessed human ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A serial killer uses a scythe to slash his murder victims--or maybe it's *her* murder victims?
Style:
slasher, gothic, neo noir
Plot:
murder, serial killer, terror, woman with a gun, killing spree, female psychopath, love triangle, female sexist, rabbit, horse, dog, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iceland, Poland, Denmark, Germany, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When Baldwin and Inga's next door neighbours complain that a tree in their backyard casts a shadow over their sundeck, what starts off as a typical spat between neighbours in the suburbs unexpectedly and violently spirals out of control.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, humorous, surprise ending, weird
Plot:
husband wife relationship, tree, suspense, marital separation, revenge, husband wife conflict, father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, unhappy marriage, adultery, missing person, small town ...
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35%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who ...
Style:
sexy, neo noir, mind bending, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, murder, police detective, mentally unstable, femme fatale, dangerous attraction, false accusation, fall in love, resort, drug abuse, addiction, couples ...
Time:
70s
Place:
france, riviera, south of france, nice france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When teacher Simon arrives in a small, secluded village to take over the local school, he is surprised to discover that his predecessor has disappeared without a trace - and that nobody seems too concerned about it. As Simon probes deeper into the ...
Style:
slasher, surprise ending
Plot:
incest, disease, island, disappearance, incestuous relationship, brother sister incest, small village, discovery, teacher, corpse, girl man relationship, castle ...
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The owner of a failing cinema and his mysterious boarder are caught up in the political intrigue of Argentina.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
gay, neighbor, dark humor, serial killer, homosexual subtext, loneliness, mental illness, murder, twists and turns, lgbt, gender, suspicion ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place:
argentina, buenos aires argentina, latin america, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A man is shot in an underground car-park by a mysterious bearded man. As he dies he recollects the events that led him to this situation, including adulterous liaisons and jealous envy.
Style:
neo noir, non-linear, neurotic
Plot:
beach, seduction, impotence, doppelganger, woman in a bikini, chambermaid, secret relationship, marketplace, visit, corpse, lust, assassination attempt ...
Place:
north africa, rome italy, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
"The Invisible Guest” turns on a young businessman who wakes up in a hotel room locked from the inside with the dead body of his lover next to him. He hires a prestigious lawyer, and over one night they work together to clarify what happened ...
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, twist ending, mind blowing, twisted ...
Plot:
suspense, uncover truth, lawyer, evidence, interrogation, lie, infidelity, suspect, death, murder suspect, female lawyer, blackmail ...
Place:
barcelona, iberian peninsula, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, most untrustworthy and most troubling of heroines. The lady in the car has never seen the sea. On the run from the police, she keeps telling herself ...
Style:
sexy, enigmatic, captivating, tense, road movie ...
Plot:
female objectification, murder, suspense, amnesia, impersonation, secretary, car theft, sexual attraction, car, sexy woman, blackmailer, memory lapse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
marseille, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Poland
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Jacob, a man who believes he is a wolf trapped in a human body, is sent to a clinic by his family where he is forced to undergo increasingly extreme forms of "curative" therapies at the hands of The Zookeeper. Jacob’s only solace is the ...
Style:
slasher, allegory, controversial, psychological thriller
Plot:
masturbation, mental illness, suspense, new year, mental health, winter, woman, doctor patient relationship, single woman, unpunished crime, fat woman, punishment ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The attractive widow of a wealthy lawyer invites to her luxurious house the thirteen best friends of her late husband, with the purpose of finding out if her husband's killer is one of them. But, over the next few days, a series of mysterious ...
Style:
neo noir
Plot:
sex with a maid, suspense, murder, guest, house, stalker, whodunit, playboy, air disaster, drug dealer, snobbism, snob ...
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29%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A vengeful widow is out to seduce the relatives of the man she blames for her husband's death.
Style:
erotic, sexy, serious, realistic, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
erotica, widow, sexual relations, dysfunctional family, female rapist, femme fatale, seduction, older woman younger man relationship, older woman teenage boy relationship, woman rapes man, older woman younger man sex, psychopath ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A race-car driver who's down on her luck is invited by her ex-husband's wife to stay at their plush villa. The two women form a bond, and it's not long before their mutual dislike for the husband culminates into a plan to kill him. As ...
Style:
slasher, surprise ending, neo noir, twist ending, psychotronic ...
Plot:
stepfather stepdaughter relationship, gigolo, ex husband ex wife relationship, older woman younger man relationship, mother daughter relationship, greedy man, stealing a car, womanizer, pigeon, american abroad, car accident, overheard conversation ...
Place:
mallorca, spain, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain, UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young woman is accused of murdering her debauched neighbor after dreaming it. Was she set up, or did she really do it?
Style:
slasher, surprise ending, twisted, psychedelic, experimental ...
Plot:
lesbian lover, nightmare, erotic dream, murder, lesbian, female nudity, serial killer, female psychopath, rape, real sex, voyeurism, parallel universe ...
Time:
70s
Place:
london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
After a whirlwind romance with a wealthy widower, a naïve bride moves to his family estate but can't escape the haunting shadow of his late wife.
Style:
psychological, enigmatic, lgbt cinema, gothic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
estate, widower, aristocrat, investigation, manipulation, suspense, second wife, obsession, haunted by the past, incestuous relationship, incest, housekeeper ...
Time:
20th century, victorian era, 1930s
Place:
cornwall, england, french riviera, monte carlo
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
Style:
surprise ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, serious ...
Plot:
twists and turns, murder, investigation, missing person, uncover truth, adulterous husband, morgue, vengeance, haunted by the past, car accident, disappearance, infidelity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, barcelona
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, intense ...
Plot:
insanity, haunted by the past, murder, hagsploitation, suspense, twists and turns, mental disorder, woman in danger, female villain, aging, women, whodunit ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, 60s, year 1964, 1920s
Place:
louisiana, southern usa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers (Rose and Pierre) have a link with the murder.
Plot:
farm, murder, hotel receptionist, matriarchy, bossy wife, bossy woman, secretly observing, wine, woman hits a man, italian abroad, female murderer, teenage murderer ...
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27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Successful Julien sees his family off on holiday and at once becomes drawn into a risky relationship with Angela, whom he spies outside the cafe opposite his office. When he later finds she is to become his son's new nanny he rightly starts to ...
Style:
neo noir, french noir
Plot:
erotica, artist, female nudity, sex, coma, stalking, moving, female sociopath, nanny, unpunished antagonist, stalker, older man younger woman relationship ...
Place:
paris france
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27%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Bizarre events keep occurring in an old mansion, and it's soon become obvious that something mysterious is up in the attic.
Style:
gothic, slasher, surprise ending
Plot:
children, female nudity, female psychopath, exploitation, psychiatry, family secret, locked room, uncle nephew relationship, nude model, teenage boy, drawing, engineer ...
Place:
venice, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young medicine student observes his neighbour's love life through a hole in his apartment wall.
Style:
neo noir
Plot:
voyeurism, obsession, suspense, investigative reporter, nude, corpse, death of boyfriend, repeated event, violent behavior, mistrust, private investigation, caught cheating ...
Place:
amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Desire torments a former cultist taking refuge at the home of a scantily clad woman whose husband is away.
Style:
psychological, serious, atmospheric, sexy, perverse ...
Plot:
obsession, psychopath, love triangle, countryside, forest, self discovery, isolation, masturbation, erotica, schizophrenic, jealousy, friendship between men ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder ...
Style:
surprise ending, sexy, social, erotic, slasher ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, rape and revenge, small town, exhibitionist, summer, rape victim, exhibitionism, traumatic childhood, sexual manipulation, revenge motive, erotica, female nudity ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 50s, 60s, year 1955 ...
Place:
france, europe, south of france, provence
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27%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, China, Canada, Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After a family moves into the Heelshire Mansion, their young son soon makes friends with a life-like doll called Brahms.
Style:
scary, suspenseful, tense, psychological
Plot:
supernatural, evil, death, murder, doll, devil, haunted house, suspense, violence, curses spells and rituals, mansion, puppet ...
Place:
london
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26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Story:
Taxi 121 is a feature film inspired by true events, where a serial killer took lives of three Prague taxi drivers. Story is focused on one of the victims, the young driver Matej. His one last ride will change life of many people around forever.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, exciting, captivating, touching ...
Plot:
kidnapped man, serial killer, violence, getting away with murder, saving a life, boy, psychopath, husband wife relationship, death, american tourist, traffic policeman, drunkenness ...
Place:
prague, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A young newlywed couple from America returns to Geneva to visit Marcel's home town. Once there he is informed of his former lover's suicide and in turn is subjected to threats that accuse him of being responsible for her death and further, ...
Style:
sexy, psycho sexual, neo noir
Plot:
female nudity, female orgasm, dancing, sex, erotica, fear, joy, desire, sexual attraction, female victim, blonde, attraction ...
Place:
geneva switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Hungary
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A police detective investigates the murder of a man found dismembered in a washing machine and is drawn into a web of deceit and murder by the dead man's lover, Vida, and her two sisters, Sissy and Ludmilla.
Style:
neo noir, psychotronic, surprise ending, weird
Plot:
unpunished rape, female psychopath, masturbation, exploitation, woman rapes man, sister sister relationship, electrocution, dismemberment, pimp, investigation, female rapist, sex scene ...
Place:
budapest
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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