Movies like The Dry

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The Dry (2020)
 6.9
 32K
The Dry (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, anamorphic, perverse, detective, surprise ending
Audience: date night
Plot: murder, haunted by the past, murder mystery, investigation, murder investigation, police, small town, heroes, violence, death, family relations, male female relationship, evidence, suicide attempt, elderly man, funeral, uncover truth, murderer, chase, society, who done it, danger, police investigation, police detective, twists and turns ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, melbourne, new zealand
Keyword: australian, melbourne australia, challenge

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, detective, suspenseful and psychological films with plots about murder, investigation, murder investigation, murder mystery, police officer, police and violence mostly in Drama, Mystery and Crime genres. Some movies like The Dry: Mystery Road (2013), The Invisible Guest (2016), The Weekend Away (2022), Mystic River (2003), The Little Things (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mystery Road (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 121 min.
Story: An indigenous detective returns to the Outback to investigate the murder of a young girl.
Style: detective, serious, captivating, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: desert, investigation, murder investigation, small town, murder, who done it, police, estrangement, outback, heroes, law enforcement, australian aboriginal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania
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100%
The Invisible Guest (2016)
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, suspense, psychological, twist ending, mind blowing ...
Plot: uncover truth, lawyer, infidelity, lie, interrogation, murder suspect, evidence, death, blackmail, moral dilemma, strong female character, suspect ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
Place: iberian peninsula, barcelona, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Weekend Away (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When her best friend vanishes during a girls' trip to Croatia, Beth races to figure out what happened. But each clue yields another unsettling deception.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense ...
Plot: murder, murder mystery, weekend, mysterious disappearance, disappearance, murder investigation, victim, girlfriend, accused of murder, woman, investigation, vacation gone wrong ...
Time: 2020s
Place: croatia, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.9
 483K
Mystic River (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style: psychological, suspense, emotional, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: vengeance, police investigation, murder, sexual abuse, murder mystery, investigation, death in the family, child abuse, loss of child, revenge, tragic event, grief ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: boston, massachusetts, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Little Things (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, action thriller, neo noir ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, serial murder, cold case, police, investigation, police station, police detective, murder mystery, mysterious man, missing person, murder investigation ...
Time: 2020s, year 1990, year 1985, 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.2
 317K
Insomnia (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Style: neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, detective, psychological thriller ...
Plot: small town, police investigation, murder, investigator, investigation, character study, police, police corruption, insomnia, guilt, psychopath, snow ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.6
 291K
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, detective, thought provoking, surprise ending ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, private detective, twists and turns, moral dilemma, police investigation, missing child, moral ambiguity, tragic event, murder mystery, immorality, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Bone Collector (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The ...
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, tense, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, police investigation, policewoman, mind game, murder, twists and turns, master criminal, crime scene, forensics, race against time ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, persia, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.7
 279K
Wind River (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Western
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An FBI agent teams with the town's veteran game tracker to investigate a murder that occurred on a Native American reservation.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, neo western, neo noir, surprise ending ...
Plot: investigation, murder, snow, rape, winter, fbi, murder investigation, native american reservation, violence, fbi agent, native american, forest ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, 21st century
Place: wyoming, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.2
 48K
Dark Places (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, intense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: stripper, serial killer, investigation, murder, murder of family, farm, private investigator, psychiatry, justice, brutality, police investigation, sibling relationship ...
Time: year 2015, year 1985, year 1999, 80s, year 1968 ...
Place: kansas, chicago, ireland, missouri, texas ...
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100%
Every Secret Thing (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: One clear summer day in a Baltimore suburb, a baby goes missing from her front porch. Two young girls serve seven years for the crime and are released into a town that hasn't fully forgiven or forgotten. Soon, another child is missing, and two ...
Style: disturbing, enigmatic, suspense, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: missing child, kidnapped, hostage, teenage girl, suspect, manipulation, police detective, interrogation, child murder, uncover truth, life is a bitch, ex convict ...
Place: baltimore
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.5
 58K
Tell No One (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, detective, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, murder, serial killer, frame up, twists and turns, torture, loss of wife, surveillance, brutality, grief, corpse, disappearance ...
Time: year 2006, 90s, 2000s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.7
 71K
Mother (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, disturbing ...
Plot: investigation, murder, revenge, family relations, determination, amateur detective, uncover truth, murder mystery, asian, mother, mentally challenged, character study ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
 67K
The Pledge (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer. Based on a story by Swiss writer Friedrich DĂĽrrenmatt.
Style: psychological, bleak, suspenseful, detective, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, child murder investigation, murder mystery, child murder, small town, plot twist, obsession, promise, psychology, murder investigation ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: turkey, nevada, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 57K
Stillwater (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a ...
Style: suspense, dramatic, inspirational, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: father daughter relationship, mother in law son in law relationship, father, prisoner, american football, prison visit, murder, investigation, hopes, framed for murder, accused of murder, society ...
Place: france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Promising Young Woman (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A young woman haunted by a tragedy in her past takes revenge on the predatory men unlucky enough to cross her path.
Style: disturbing, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: revenge, rape, rape and revenge, revenge from beyond the grave, medical school, feminist, unpunished crime, violence, death of friend, chauvinism, sexual predator, oral sex ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: ohio, nebraska, new york
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75%
 6.3
 7K
Jindabyne (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Stewart Kane, an Irishman living in the Australian town of Jindabyne, is on a fishing trip in isolated hill country with three other men when they discover the body of a murdered girl in the river. Rather than return to the town immediately, they ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, realistic, serious, intense ...
Plot: fishing, murder, serial killer, friendship, aborigine, self discovery, police detective, small town, complex characters, mental illness, investigation, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2006
Place: australia, new south wales
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Death on the Nile (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Almost everyone on the S.S.Karnak, cruising the Nile, has a reason to want heiress Linnet Ridgeway dead. Her jewels are coveted by elderly Mrs. van Schuyler, her maid is upset because Linnet won't give her a promised dowry, writer Salome ...
Style: detective, captivating, costume drama, artsy, non-linear ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder mystery, whodunit, murder, murder investigation, honeymoon, investigation, boat, investigator, private detective, ship, secret, heiress ...
Time: 1930s, pre world war two, 2020s, 1910s, year 1914 ...
Place: egypt, london, belgium
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100%
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L.A. Confidential (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Style: neo noir, tense, noir, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: corruption, police corruption, murder, murder mystery, police, police detective, organized crime, fighting the system, call girl, dangerous attraction, police brutality, twists and turns ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, persia, arizona
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100%
Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
Style: detective, surprise ending, suspense, artsy, clever ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: murder mystery, whodunit, investigation, train, murder, vengeance, snow, private detective, twists and turns, conspiracy, suspect, deduction ...
Time: 1930s, year 2017, 2010s, year 1934, 1920s ...
Place: turkey, alps, venice, former yugoslavia, istanbul turkey ...
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100%
The Kid Detective (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A once-celebrated kid detective, now 31, continues to solve the same trivial mysteries between hangovers and bouts of self-pity. Until a naive client brings him his first 'adult' case, to find out who brutally murdered her boyfriend.
Style: neo noir, detective, suspense, dark, funny ...
Audience: date night, kids
Plot: private detective, small town, private investigator, investigation, murder mystery, kidnapping, murder investigation, evidence, murder, who done it, chase, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
American Woman (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, Canada
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: psychological, disturbing, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: single mother, female protagonist, family drama, abusive husband, serial killer, police investigation, life is a bitch, hopes, parents and children, danger, love, disorder ...
Time: year 2012
Place: pennsylvania, boston
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100%
 7.4
 105K
The Undoing (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 337 min.
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Story: Grace and Jonathan Fraser are living the only lives they ever wanted. Overnight a chasm opens in their lives: a violent death and a chain of terrible revelations. Left behind in the wake of a spreading and very public disaster, Grace must dismantle ...
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, detective, thrilling ...
Plot: adultery, murder investigation, murder, life turned upside down, lie, mysterious disappearance, affair, family relations, father son relationship, lawyer, murder mystery, family drama ...
Time: 2020s, year 2019
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
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100%
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 7.7
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Zodiac (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, murder mystery, maniac, journalism, mind game, journalist, paranoia, killings, killer, true crime ...
Time: 70s, year 2007, 60s, 20th century, year 1970 ...
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa, oakland california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.3
 27K
Crooked House (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.
Style: suspense, enigmatic, detective, captivating, surprise ending ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: whodunit, murder mystery, private detective, mansion, murder, family secret, twists and turns, investigation, servant, poison, secret, spy ...
Time: 50s, year 1957, 1950s
Place: london, cairo egypt, scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 8.1
 7K
Evaru (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When a high-ranking police officer is killed by his alleged rape victim, Sub-inspector Vikram Vasudev is entrusted with investigating what seems like an open-and-shut case. However, as he delves deeper, Vikram finds the case spiralling into a dark ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: murder, murder mystery, rape victim, murder investigation, murderer, police detective, police investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, death, evidence, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
I Killed My BFF (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A friendship between two young mothers results in murder when one develops an attraction to the other's boyfriend.
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, tense, suspenseful
Plot: true crime, murder, police investigation, who done it, love, husband wife relationship, murder mystery, society, uncover truth, partners against crime, revenge, mysterious man ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.6
 19K
Ripley's Game (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. ...
Style: suspense, tense, stylized, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, greed, vengeance, redemption, cons and scams, danger, intrigue, rivalry, assassin, villa, murderer ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: italy, milan italy, berlin germany, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Death in the Soul (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Marc Lagnier confesses to the murder of his adored son, but refuses to explain.
Style: unusual plot structure, disturbing, psychological, suspense, tense ...
Plot: murder, father son relationship, father, husband wife relationship, half sister, confession, young woman, lawyer, murderer, murder investigation, death, investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.9
 367
The Suffering (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Pablo Rouviot is a renowned psychoanalyst. His life changes completely when Paula arrives to his office and asks him to prove that his brother, a man with serious psychological problems and accused for the murder of his father, is in no able ...
Style: disturbing, tense, psychological, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: police investigation, murder investigation, chase, mysterious man, testimony, who done it, police detective, name calling, buddy cop, investigator, police officer, clue ...
Time: 21st century
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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