Movies like Shirley
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Shirley (2020)
14K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A famous horror writer finds inspiration for her next book after she and her husband take in a young couple.
Style:
suspense, period piece, psychological, psychological thriller, absurd, independent film, visual, mind blowing, historical drama, aesthetic ...
Plot:
drunkenness, adultery, marriage, unhappy marriage, unfaithful, husband wife relationship, mad love, neighbor neighbor relationship, marriage crisis, young couple, women, depression, craziness, train, pregnancy, party, baby, professor, manipulative woman, nurse, based on real people, strong female lead, murder, poet, feminist ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
vermont
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Most similar movies to Shirley
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, suspense, psychological thriller and tense films with plots about drinking, drinking alcohol, cigarette smoking, husband wife relationship, flashback, kiss and drink mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Shirley: Wetherby (1985), Gone Girl (2014), Intrigo: Death of an Author (2018), Queen of Earth (2015), Lizzie (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
Style:
independent film, psychological, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot:
loneliness, adultery, angst, heartache, memory, world war two, obsession, investigation, solitude, dinner party, school teacher, haunted by the past ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
england, yorkshire
Similarity:
100%
1.2M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style:
psychological, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, boys' night ...
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, murder mystery, missing person, manipulation, infidelity, investigation, marriage, femme fatale, revenge, missing wife, adultery ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
peru, america, usa, manhattan new york city, new york ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Sweden, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young author comes into possession of a manuscript sent by critically acclaimed writer, Germund Rein, shortly before he commits suicide.
Style:
serious, realistic, enigmatic, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
private detective, investigation, husband wife relationship, dual identity, revenge, guilt, suspicion, being followed, publisher, breakup, assassination plot, marital problem ...
Place:
amsterdam, stockholm sweden, berlin germany
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two women retreat to a lake house to get a break from the pressures of the outside world, only to realize how disconnected from each other they have become, allowing their suspicions to bleed into reality.
Style:
cerebral, captivating, tense, enigmatic, suspense ...
Plot:
lesbian subtext, mental breakdown, jealousy, friendship, vacation, depression, promise, party, mental disorder, memory, doctor, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
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10K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young woman goes on a notorious ax-murdering rampage in Massachusetts at the turn of the century.
Style:
costume drama, suspense, queer horror, historical drama, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lesbian, sex scene, maid, last will and testament, father daughter relationship, lesbian sex, lizzie borden, friendship, caught having sex, tragic event, extramarital affair, attorney ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
massachusetts, new england
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Alice and Jack are lucky to be living in the idealized community of Victory, the experimental company town housing the men who work for the top-secret Victory Project and their families. But when cracks in their idyllic life begin to appear, ...
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, psychedelic, surreal, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
housewife, women, undercover, social satire, feminism, passionate sex, orgasm, male female relationship, family life, oral sex, egg, captive ...
Time:
1950s, 2020s, 50s
Place:
palm springs california, california
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Amy is ravaged by the notion that she is going to die tomorrow, which sends her down a dizzying emotional spiral. When her sceptical friend Jane discovers Amy’s feeling of imminent death to be contagious, they both begin bizarre journeys through ...
Style:
suspense, ambiguous ending, psychological, mumblecore, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
suicidal, dying, female friendship, photograph, depression, female protagonist, surrealism, doctor, women, fear, life & death, swimming pool ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
denmark, new york
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Hired to steal a rare painting from one of most enigmatic painters of all time, an ambitious art dealer becomes consumed by his own greed and insecurity as the operation spins out of control.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
art, art critic, museum, female nudity, forgery, painting, villa, male nudity, painter, murder, art collector, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
future, year 1968, year 1955
Place:
italy, minnesota, new york, milan italy
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, India
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes ...
Style:
suspense, twist ending, psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
train, murder mystery, obsession, infidelity, police investigation, adultery, psychopath, investigation, missing person, female protagonist, flashback, learning the truth ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, america, usa, london
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
On the brink of separation, Ethan and Sophie escape to a beautiful vacation house for a weekend getaway in an attempt to save their marriage. What begins as a romantic and fun retreat soon becomes surreal, when an unexpected discovery forces the two ...
Style:
surreal, emotional, tricky, cerebral, suspenseful ...
Plot:
marriage, couples, twists and turns, character study, family problems, doppelganger, infidelity, swimming pool, husband wife relationship, therapist, relationships, moral dilemma ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
22%
18K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On a beautiful college campus, something ugly is about to be spread around. A bit of gossip that was told is starting to take a frightening turn. Who could it have offended and how far will the person on the other side of the gossip handle the ...
Style:
sexy, suspense, suspenseful, teen, intense ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
college, gossip, rumor, psychology, investigation, manipulation, drinking, adaptation, dishonesty, college life, teenage life, false accusation ...
Time:
90s, year 2000
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an ...
Style:
sexy, psychological, sexual, tricky, suspenseful ...
Plot:
dangerous attraction, murder, investigation, infidelity, amateur detective, incest, photograph, women, family problems, couples, sexual relations, isolation ...
Time:
19th century, 90s, 1870s, 2000s, victorian era
Place:
maine, new hampshire, europe, usa, new england ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
Lucille Ball and Desi Arnaz face a crisis that could end their careers and another that could end their marriage.
Style:
historical drama, satirical, independent film, period drama
Plot:
marriage, biopic, hollywood, infidelity, adultery, communist, singing, redheaded woman, comedian, writers, trailblazer, urban ...
Time:
1950s, 2020s, year 1960, year 1952, 50s
Similarity:
21%
104K
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
1930s Hollywood is reevaluated through the eyes of scathing social critic and alcoholic screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz as he races to finish the screenplay of Citizen Kane.
Style:
black and white, period piece, historical drama, intense, emotional ...
Plot:
screenwriter, beach, filmmaking, wealth, writers, biopic, movie business, politics, friendship, loneliness, movie studio, film history ...
Time:
1940s, 1930s, year 1941, year 1942, year 1936 ...
Place:
los angeles, mojave desert, california, usa, berlin germany
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Alex Linden is a psychiatrist living in Vienna who meets Milena Flaherty though a mutual friend. Though Alex is quite a bit older than Milena, he's attracted to her young, carefree spirit. Despite the fact that Milena is already married, their ...
Style:
erotic drama, erotic, disturbing, sexual, non-linear ...
Plot:
female nudity, erotica, rape victim, voyeurism, rape, public sex, extramarital affair, perversion, obsession, infidelity, wedding ring, sexual promiscuity ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1980
Place:
vienna, britain, austria, europe, new york ...
Similarity:
20%
4K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.
Style:
touching, psychological, suspense, social, psychological thriller
Plot:
missing child, childhood trauma, mother daughter relationship, unsolved mystery, life philosophy, uncover truth, parents and children, twists and turns, fighting illness, psychology, parent child relationship, loss of child ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Vic and Melinda Van Allen are a couple in the small town of Little Wesley. Their loveless marriage is held together only by a precarious arrangement whereby, in order to avoid the messiness of divorce, Melinda is allowed to take any number of lovers ...
Style:
dark, sexy, psychological, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder, cheating wife, infidelity, sex scene, cuckold, unfaithful wife, promiscuous woman, dysfunctional marriage, relationships, erotica, small town, marriage ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
louisiana, new orleans
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A journalist starts an investigation into the disappearance of famed poet and political agitator, Garcia Lorca, who disappeared in the early days of the Spanish Civil War in the the 1930's.
Style:
tense, gloomy, realistic, serious, independent film ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, writers, politician, poet, francisco franco, totalitarian state, spanish history, injustice, investigation, murder, biopic, society ...
Time:
year 1996, 1930s, 50s, 60s, 1950s
Place:
spain, europe, madrid, puerto rico
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
memory loss, amnesia, obsession, psychology, investigation, power relations, uncover truth, domestic violence, memory, psychiatrist, life turned upside down, amnesiac ...
Time:
90s, year 2014, year 2007, year 2000, 2010s ...
Place:
london, england
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A young grandmother in a small Pennsylvania town raises her daughter's child after the girl disappears. All the while, a desperate search for her continues.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense, social ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
abuse, abusive husband, female protagonist, single mother, serial killer, police investigation, life is a bitch, parents and children, hopes, danger, disorder, love ...
Time:
year 2012
Place:
pennsylvania, boston, usa
Similarity:
20%
220K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style:
psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
psychology, twists and turns, insanity, split personality, stephen king, isolation, losing-it hero, obsession, plot twist, haunted house, macabre, writer's life ...
Time:
year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
Similarity:
20%
18K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Thriller
Country: Poland, UK, Ukraine
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
In 1933, Welsh journalist Gareth Jones travels to Ukraine, where he experiences the horrors of a famine. Everywhere he goes he meets henchmen of the Soviet secret service who are determined to prevent news about the catastrophe from getting out. ...
Style:
period piece, cult classic, informative, sinister, period drama
Audience:
date night
Plot:
journalist, cannibalism, hunger, communism, genocide, journalism, anti communist, stalinism, reporter, writers, spy, kidnapping ...
Time:
1930s, year 2019, year 1957, 20th century, year 1933 ...
Place:
ukraine, soviet union, berlin germany, london, germany ...
Similarity:
19%
18K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In 1920s New York City, a Black woman finds her world upended when her life becomes intertwined with a former childhood friend who's passing as white.
Style:
black and white, anamorphic, feel good, period drama
Plot:
racism, childhood, friend, jealousy, african american, lesbian, best friend, lesbian subtext, ambiguity, friends, feeling, black ...
Time:
1920s, year 1929, 2020s
Place:
harlem, new york city, chicago, new york, harlem, hawaii
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The story of the five-day interview between Rolling Stone reporter David Lipsky and acclaimed novelist David Foster Wallace, which took place right after the 1996 publication of Wallace's groundbreaking epic novel, 'Infinite Jest.'
Style:
philosophical, meditative, psychological, serious, sincere ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
loneliness, journalism, writers, book, friendship, existentialism, writer's block, dog, poet, biopic, novelist, depression ...
Time:
90s, 2010s, year 2015, 20th century, year 1996 ...
Place:
minneapolis minnesota, illinois, nebraska, new york, usa ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A married man's one night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.
Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological thriller, tense, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, infidelity, stalker, adultery, husband wife relationship, sexual obsession, femme fatale, family in danger, crimes of passion, extramarital affair, fatal attraction, mental illness ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
Style:
sexy, suspense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
murder, missing person, disappearance, childhood trauma, dysfunctional marriage, abusive husband, mentally unstable, overbearing parent, divorce, twists and turns, investigation, violent ...
Time:
80s, year 2000, year 1982, future, year 2010 ...
Place:
new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, vermont, usa, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
At Princeton University, John Nash struggles to make a worthwhile contribution to serve as his legacy to the world of mathematics. He finally makes a revolutionary breakthrough that will eventually earn him the Nobel Prize. After graduate school he ...
Style:
psychological, touching, cerebral, dramatic, intellectual ...
Audience:
teens, date night, chick flick, family friendly
Plot:
mathematics, mental illness, schizophrenia, genius, paranoia, insanity, imagination, scientist, prodigy, nobel prize, imaginary friend, mathematician ...
Time:
year 2001, 60s, 1940s, 20th century, 2000s ...
Place:
harvard university, boston, new jersey, detroit, persia ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A murder in 1944 draws together the great poets of the beat generation: Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
Style:
intellectual, bleak, captivating, serious, sexual ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poet, gay, obsession, friendship, youth, gay interest, lgbtq, writers, coming of age, sexual tension, lgbtqi, friends ...
Time:
1940s, year 1944, 20th century, 2000s, post world war two ...
Place:
usa, harlem, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city, chicago ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
Style:
psychological, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, violence, maniac, serial murder, death penalty, serial killer as protagonist, killer as protagonist, ted bundy, police investigation, murder, prison, sociopathy ...
Time:
70s, year 1989, year 2019, 80s, year 1976 ...
Place:
usa, seattle, cincinnati ohio
Similarity:
19%
16K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A star athlete and top student, Luce's idealized image is challenged by one of his teachers when his unsettling views on political violence come to light, putting a strain on family bonds while igniting intense debates on race and identity.
Style:
psychological, thought provoking, suspense, non-linear, art film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
social problems, track and field, cheerleader, interracial, african american, trust, doubt, politics, injustice, drinking, promise, teenager ...
Place:
middle east, ohio
Similarity:
19%
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