Movies like Deadly Secrets by the Lake

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Deadly Secrets by the Lake (2017)
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Deadly Secrets by the Lake (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A decorated NYPD detective returns to her hometown after her sister is charged with the murder of her boss and attempts to make amends with her estranged family while exposing the dark underbelly of a long-suppressed secret that threatens to tear the town apart.
Style: enigmatic, psychological, bleak, suspenseful, surreal, disturbing
Plot: murder, whodunit, supernatural, murder investigation, evil, murder mystery, who done it, mysterious place, secret, small town, suspicion, mysterious villain, paranormal investigation, small town life, investigation, macabre, evil spirit, hallucination, morality, manipulation, law enforcement, nightmare, manic, evidence, mysterious death ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, psychological, tense and suspense films with plots about murder, investigation, murder mystery, murder investigation, uncover truth, law enforcement and who done it mostly in Mystery, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Deadly Secrets by the Lake: Twin Peaks (1990), Hidden (2018), Stealing Paradise (2011), Skeletons in the Closet (2001), Evaru (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Twin Peaks (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 1505 min.
TV show
Story: The body of Laura Palmer is washed up on a beach near the small Washington state town of Twin Peaks. FBI Special Agent Dale Cooper is called in to investigate her strange demise only to uncover a web of mystery that ultimately leads him deep into ...
Style: atmospheric, psychological, mind bending, enigmatic, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, teen drama
Plot: serial killer, small town, surrealism, murder, nightmare, supernatural, investigation, secret, hallucination, mysterious death, mysterious villain, small town life ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 90s, year 1990, year 1989
Place: washington state, hawaii, washington d.c., usa
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95%
 7.3
 6K
Hidden (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: DI Cadi John and DC Owen Vaughan try to solve a case involving Mali Pryce, a young woman whose body was discovered in a stream in the woods.
Style: detective, enigmatic, psychological, crime thriller, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, police, father daughter relationship, twists and turns, family secret, mysterious death, small town, agent, mysterious character, macabre ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Stealing Paradise (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The story follows a brilliant engineer whose breakthrough design is stolen and patented by a colleague. When the colleague is found murdered, she becomes the prime suspect.
Style: suspense, psychological, talky, tense, suspenseful
Plot: murder, murder investigation, partner, rivalry, investigation, testimony, police detective, evidence, investigator, interrogation, death, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Skeletons in the Closet (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A father suspects his son to be a murderer...or is he just paranoid and trying to cover up his own past which involves his wife being killed in a fire?
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic
Plot: serial killer, murder, mind game, uncover truth, mysterious character, investigation, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, law enforcement, psychopath, who done it, protagonist as suspect ...
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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 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
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74%
 6.4
 3K
Rojo (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of a successful lawyer gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.
Style: suspense, contemplative, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: lawyer, small town, abduction, private detective, missing person, who done it, dictator, dictatorship, uncover truth, evidence, rivalry, murderer ...
Time: 70s
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.5
 20
Shenanigans (2012)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A famous novelist invites five friends for dinner. He prepared everything: good wine, small presents for everyone, a good meal and... his suicide as dessert.
Style: captivating, suspenseful
Plot: police detective, murder investigation, murder mystery, murder, suicide, police investigation, crime investigation, murder disguised as suicide, secret, homicide detective, justice, human nature ...
Place: quebec
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 5.4
 6K
Eight by Ten (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story: 8X10 Tasveer is a story about young man named Jai Puri, (Akshay Kumar), who possesses supernatural powers. Jai is of Indian origin who works as a forest ranger in Canada. His life is shattered by a loss of a very important person in his life. This ...
Style: suspense, suspense thriller, enigmatic, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: murder mystery, murder, supernatural, paranormal investigation, murder investigation, supernatural ability, supernatural power, uncover truth, crime solving, crime investigation, cat versus mouse, mysterious villain ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Jericho Mansions (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A murder in an old apartment building leads the superintendent to suspect everyone, and eventually himself, of the murder.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense
Plot: murder, investigation, uncover truth, amateur detective, mind game, mysterious character, psychopath, memory loss, who done it, life is a bitch, protagonist as suspect, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.1
 170
Angels (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Hameem Haider (Indrajith) is a police officer who meets with an accident while investigating a series of murders and is forced to take a break from his duties. Years later the unsolved murders are picked up by a reality TV show.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot: police, priest, serial killer, medical research, investigation, murder investigation, murder, partner, death, who done it, murderer, escapades ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
 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 ⇓
55%
 5.8
 159
Chorabali (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Sumon is compelled to grow up in the city's underworld as mafia lord Osman Ali's killer machine. After killing a pregnant woman carrying Osman Ali's illegitimate child, Sumon's conscience leads him to defy Ali's order.
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, captivating, detective
Plot: murder investigation, murder mystery, overdose, blackmail, whodunit, partner, society, who done it, investigation, police investigation, partners against crime, police detective ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kolkata
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 4.0
 332
Posers (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Four Hardcore party posers are suddenly facing an unknown killer when one of them disappears.
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, suspense, bleak ...
Plot: murder, investigation, friendship, dishonesty, femme fatale, betrayal, female killer, suspicion, twentysomething life, power relations, crime gone awry, killer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 5.5
 5K
Grudge (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ahead of a promotion, a police chief becomes entangled in a deadly incident and uncovers an intrigue fueled by grudge that threatens his colleagues.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot: female police detective, criminal, murderer, murder, secret, killings, homicide detective, investigation, murder mystery, murder investigation, uncover truth, cold case ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 5.2
 584
Wandering Eye (2011)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Neglected by her workaholic husband, a young wife, Maren Abbott, meets a man through Wandering Eye - a networking website designed to facilitate extramarital liaisons. Charming as he is, she realizes she can't go through with the affair. When ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful
Plot: murder, husband wife relationship, police officer, serial killer, murder investigation, partner, interrogation, testimony, investigation, love and romance, escapades, evidence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 3.4
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Awakened (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, parents and children, twists and turns, haunted by the past, small town, small town life, afterlife, mental illness, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 4.6
 20K
Dark Crimes (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Poland, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A Polish detective becomes suspicious of a controversial author when the incidents described in his unpublished novel resemble the inner workings of an unsolved murder.
Style: captivating, melancholic, enigmatic, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder investigation, writers, sexual perversion, violent sex, rape, clue, police detective, male protagonist, criminal, murder suspect, murder, threat ...
Time: 2000s
Place: europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Loves Music, Loves To Dance (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In order to solve the mystery of her best friend's murder, Darcy decides to date each one of her friend's on-line pals to see which one of them might have something to do with it.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling
Plot: murder, murder mystery, crime solving, crime investigation, female protagonist, murderer, murder investigation, investigation, problem, who done it, uncover truth, serial killer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Twenty One Grams (2022)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story: DySP Nanda Kishore is investigating a murder case soon after a death in his family. As he proceeds, he is surprised to see how certain connections emerge that hint the case is linked to his own life as well.
Style: thrilling, tense, psychological, captivating, detective ...
Plot: whodunit, investigation, police detective, undercover, murderer, homicide detective, murder investigation, moral dilemma, killings, police officer, forensics, uncover truth ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
A Beautiful Place to Die: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After being forced into early retirement, former detective Jeff Jackson returns to a quiet life on Martha's Vineyard. Quiet, at least, until a body washes up and he's drawn back into crime solving.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, captivating, stylized
Plot: crime investigation, murder, romancing partners, uncover truth, investigation, puzzle, who done it, law enforcement, police detective, professional, murder mystery, police ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.0
 69K
Dream House (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered ...
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, twists and turns, plot twist, memory loss, insanity, murder, family relations, mental patient, riddles and clues, nervous breakdown, danger ...
Time: year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new england, usa
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42%
An Imperfect Murder (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Successful actress Vera Lockman thrashes during a nightmare in which she struggles with, shoots and kills her drug-dealer ex-boyfriend. Jolted awake, she reveals in her journal that the killing actually occurred the day before and that Sal, dead, ...
Style: psychological, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating
Plot: mental health, actress, nightmare, drug dealer, ex boyfriend, nightmare comes true, murder, disposing of a dead body, classmate, death, corpse, police ...
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42%
That Beautiful Somewhere (2006)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A detective teams up with a young female archaeologist to unravel the mysterious death of a 'bog body' found in a native swamp rumoured to have curative powers. It is the story of two wounded souls searching for healing and redemption
Style: rough, psychological, suspenseful, bleak, detective ...
Plot: swamp, redemption, investigation, police detective, murder, rivalry, opposites attract, law enforcement, female corpse, secret, winter, snow ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 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 ⇓
40%
The Last Thing Mary Saw (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Winter, 1843. A young woman is under investigation following the mysterious death of her family's matriarch. Her recollection of the events sheds new light on the ageless forces behind the tragedy.
Style: suspense, dark, enigmatic, suspense thriller, captivating ...
Plot: farmhouse, witch, supernatural, punishment, death of grandmother, vow of silence, death, lesbian, graphic violence, life is a bitch, revenge, uncover truth ...
Time: 1800s, 19th century
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38%
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 8K
Hit (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Vikram Rudraraju is a 30-year-old cop working for the Telangana State Police. While Vikram is battling with his own traumatic past, the stakes get high when a girl called Preethi mysteriously disappears in Hyderabad and Vikram has to solve the case ...
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, exciting, psychological, tense ...
Plot: girl, missing girl, uncover truth, escapades, society, clue, heroes, chase, suspicion, missing person, police officer, victim ...
Time: 2020s, 21st century
Place: india
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38%
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Paralytic (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A contract killer takes vengeance against a ruthless drug cartel, resulting in a mysterious puzzle that a small town sheriff must solve in order to stop untold horrors.
Style: suspenseful, tense, psychological, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot: sheriff, murder mystery, hitman, organized crime, murderer, drug cartel, killings, murder, vengeance, criminal's revenge, puzzle, undercover ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Hollow in the Land (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: With their father in prison for murder, siblings Alison and Brandon are instantly considered suspects when a string of killings plagues their town, and they must fight to clear their names.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: brother sister relationship, murder investigation, police, mysterious disappearance, murder, accused of murder, murder mystery, disappearance, female protagonist, framed for murder, homeless, poverty ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Twin Peaks: The Missing Pieces (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The long-awaited missing pieces from the original version of the film – nearly an hour-and-a-half of deleted/alternate scenes from Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me – often referred to as the “holy grail” of Twin Peaks fandom.
Style: enigmatic, psychological, disturbing, scary, cult classic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, dead girl, another dimension, investigation, surrealism, secret, sheriff, fbi, salvation, small town, corpse ...
Time: 90s, 80s
Place: washington state
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 4.7
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What Remains (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A small town pastor is forced to reckon with an act of forgiveness when the convict he forgave for murdering his wife returns to town five years later.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, thrilling
Plot: murder, pastor, faith, forgiveness, murder investigation, investigation, social problems, killings, small town, police investigation, small town life, town ...
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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