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The Mad Women's Ball (2021)
 6.7
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The Mad Women's Ball (2021)
Original name: Le Bal des folles
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Eugenie has a unique gift: she hears and sees the dead. When her family discovers her secret, at the end of the 19th century, she is taken by her father and brother to the neurological clinic at La Pitié Salpêtrière with no possibility of escaping her fate. Her destiny becomes entwined with that of Geneviève, a nurse at the hospital.
Style: suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, inspirational
Plot: psychiatry, psychological manipulation, rape, mental illness, mental institution, neurology, female nudity, brother sister relationship, self sacrifice, father daughter estrangement, dead sister, medical malpractice, paranormal, supernatural ability, supernatural power, female protagonist, family problems, secret, ghost, women, scientist, illness, soldier, inspiration, girl power ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century, 1880s
Place: france, paris france

Most similar movies to The Mad Women's Ball

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, captivating, disturbing and tense films with plots about secret, female protagonist, family problems, life is a bitch, murder, husband wife relationship and danger mostly in Thriller, Drama and Horror genres. Some movies like The Mad Women's Ball: The Mad Whale (2017), The Wrath of God (2022), The Silence of the Sky (2016), Samuel Bleak (2013), Next-Door Nightmare (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 349
The Mad Whale (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Inmates at a women's mental asylum stage a theatrical production of Herman Melville's 'Moby Dick.'
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot: delusional woman, mental institution, mental illness, women, insanity, female protagonist, treatment, cure, mentally unstable, theatre group, psycho
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Wrath of God (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Convinced the tragic deaths of her loved ones were orchestrated by a famous novelist she worked for, Luciana turns to a journalist to expose her truth.
Style: disturbing, enigmatic, tense, captivating, psychological thriller
Plot: boss, revenge, suspicion, problem, female protagonist, puzzle, murder mystery, secret, suspect, investigation, struggle, hindi ...
Place: argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Silence of the Sky (2016)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Brazil, Chile
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After being a victim of rape within their own home, Diana chooses to keep the trauma secret. Mario, her husband, also has something to hide. The silence takes the couple's account over the day turns gradually into a peculiar form of violence.
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological
Plot: rape, rape and revenge, aftermath, home invasion, violence, secret, family problems, family secret, husband wife relationship, marital problem, male female relationship, relationship problems ...
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 356
Samuel Bleak (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a quiet southern town, several lives are changed forever when an isolated mute with a dark secret is admitted to a mental institution.
Style: serious, disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: mental institution, small town life, isolation, family problems, small town, mute, suspect, society, danger, mental illness, autism, woods ...
Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Next-Door Nightmare (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When young couple Sarah and Kyle move next door to Helen, a charismatic older woman, they have no idea she's a deeply disturbed psychopath who will stop at nothing to become Sarah's surrogate mother, and grandmother to the child she is ...
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: husband wife relationship, mental illness, female psychopath, family problems, obsession, psychopath, surrogate mother, mental disorder, girl next door, mentally unstable, mental institution, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Poppy Shakespeare (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: N has been a day patient at north London's Dorothy Fish day hospital for 13 years - her ambition is never to leave. Then she meets glamourous new patient Poppy Shakespeare, an ad agency receptionist convinced she's not mad.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot: mental disorder, hospital, mental illness, public health, life is a bitch, mental institution, social problems, patient, mentally unstable, female protagonist, social work, recovery
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Above Suspicion (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Daphne seems to have the perfect marriage. Her loving husband Maxime seems to have it all: a brilliant education, an illustrious career. Above all, he is an attentive father to their two young girls; a man above suspicion. So much so that when his ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: unhappy marriage, abusive father, child abuse, husband wife relationship, mother daughter relationship, domestic violence, parents and children, mother and daughter, life is a bitch, family relations, violence, domineering father ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Man in the Basement (2021)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A Parisian couple decides to sell an unsanitary basement in their building. A very ordinary, nondescript man, Mr. Fonzic, shows up to buy it. Nothing unusual there, until the man moves into the cellar and makes it his permanent residence. The couple ...
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: basement, anti semitism, confronting the past, dark past, tragic past, troubled past, changing lives, problem, life is a bitch, lawyer, brother brother relationship, secret ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Disorder (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An ex-soldier with PTSD is hired to protect the wife and child of a wealthy Lebanese businessman while he's out of town.
Style: neo noir, tense, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: soldier, hallucination, bodyguard, anxiety, surveillance camera, thunderstorm, rich man, swimming pool, beach, army, party, video surveillance ...
Time: 2010s
Place: afghanistan, maryland, france, mediterranean sea, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.2
 303
Twin Betrayal (2018)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A struggling single mother, in the midst of a fierce custody battle, is framed for the murder of her wealthy father by her ambitious identical twin
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, disturbing, suspense
Plot: psychological manipulation, sister, blackmailer, female protagonist, blackmail, women, family problems, sister sister relationship, female blackmailer, sisters, twins, twin sister ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.3
 727
24 Days (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
Style: disturbing, realistic, sincere, psychological, serious ...
Plot: investigation, family in crisis, missing child, family problems, life is a bitch, abduction, ransom, judaism, israeli, kidnapping, police, confined
Time: 21st century
Place: israel, paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.6
 47K
The Tenant (1976)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 126 min.
Story: A quiet and inconspicuous man (Trelkovsky) rents an apartment in France where the previous tenant committed suicide, and begins to suspect his landlord and neighbors are trying to subtly change him into the last tenant so that he too will kill ...
Style: psychological, offbeat, black comedy, surreal, atmospheric ...
Plot: surrealism, paranoia, insanity, mental illness, dark humor, nightmare, apartment building, suicide, conspiracy, obsession, landlord tenant relationship, mental disorder ...
Time: near future, year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Immaculate Room (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Mike and Kate, a young couple, get the once-in-a lifetime chance to win a cool five million dollars. The challenge: Live for 50 days in a blank space. Sticking it out for thirty days, and the five million are theirs. How difficult can it be?
Style: suspense, psychological, social, disturbing, thought provoking ...
Plot: locked in a room, social experiment, female nudity, boredom, isolated place, psychoanalysis, couples, secret, locked room, relationships, relationship problems, family problems ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 5.2
 2K
Ghost Lab (2021)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 117 min.
Story: After witnessing a haunting in their hospital, two doctors become dangerously obsessed with obtaining scientific proof that ghosts exist.
Style: disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating, dark fantasy ...
Plot: paranormal investigation, ghost, laboratory, afterlife, experiment, paranormal investigator, belief in the afterlife, supernatural power, paranormal, supernatural, death, doctor ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 3.9
 401
Fatal Secrets (2009)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: "BALANCING THE BOOKS" is a character-driven suspense drama about an attractive woman who enlists the help of her two best friends to confront a traumatic experience she can no longer deny. Julia, divorced and successfully self-employed, ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, independent film ...
Plot: danger, dishonesty, rivalry, secret, couple relations, uncover truth, maniac, murder, best friend, violent content, profanity, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.4
 438
Double Cross (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Two women jokingly agree to kill each others' husbands. Then one really does and blackmails the other into killing her own.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: blackmail, murder, murder mystery, threat to kill, female assassin, conspiracy, women, life is a bitch, murderer, killings, female protagonist, problem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
We Take the Low Road (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A Wiki-Leaks release illuminates the collusion amongst politicians and the medical industry that drives the cost of medical care to an unattainable price for the middle class. With the guilty parties' names and addresses being released, a ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
Plot: lynching, conspiracy, revenge plot, terminal illness, corruption, political conspiracy, bandit, medical malpractice, loss of father, gang
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.4
 1K
Corporate (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Emilie is a bright young workaholic manager in Human Ressources, working for a huge French agro-food company. Ambitious and dedicated to her job, she is a good soldier, ready to put ruthless methods of management into practice to meet the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: suicide, psychological trauma, corporation, manager, guilt, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, business, rivalry, danger, adaptation, life philosophy ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 4.5
 176
The Nurse (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A young woman takes in her estranged father after he suffers a stroke, but his home-care nurse's attentive dedication may be masking a dark and dangerous secret.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense, erotic
Plot: father daughter estrangement, family problems, father daughter relationship, estrangement, secret, life is a bitch, female protagonist, family secret, family relations, woman
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.7
 640
Revenge (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Rebekka travels back to a hotel by the Norwegian fjords seeking revenge on the man who ruined her sister's life. Under false identity, she seeks out her deceased sister's violator and embeds herself into his idyllic family to destroy his ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: vengeance, rape and revenge, rape, revenge, retribution, suicide, sister, murder, secret identity, injustice, vendetta, violent ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Escape From Raqqa (2019)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Turkey
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Paris, spring 2015. Faustine travels to Syria with her little son to join ISIS; but, once in Raqqa, she soon realizes the hell she is gotten herself into. Her husband Sylvain quickly understands that the French government is powerless to help him, ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot: escape, border crossing, life risking, attempted escape, rescue mission, activist, risk, mother child separation, islam, military, airport, isis ...
Time: year 2015
Place: syria, paris france, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.1
 244
The Lost Door (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Obsession, sex and illusion are exposed in a series of stories.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: mental institution, threesome, insanity, sexual fantasy, lesbian seduction, female psychiatrist, erotica, obsession, lesbianism, polyamory, lesbian, disturbed individual ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.9
 430
Early Release (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Taylor Reynolds, a typical suburban mom, who made some bad life decisions and was sentenced to three years in jail for a DUI and possession of drugs. After her release, Taylor fights the stigma of her past misdeeds, works to regain the support of ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense
Plot: criminal, criminal underworld, dark past, female protagonist, bandit, confronting the past, partners in crime, family problems, gang, husband wife relationship, ex convict, jail ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 4.5
 401
Psycho Granny (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After Samantha's mother passes away, her spirits are lifted with the sudden appearance of her long lost Grandmother, Colleen. All is well until Colleen's dark past reveals itself and Sam is forced to fight for her life.
Style: suspense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: family problems, pregnant woman, female ghost, ghost, family secret, dysfunctional family, family relations, pregnancy, mental illness, illness
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.8
 2K
My Son (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The story of a busy man, who fills his time travelling to Africa, South America and the Middle East. His passion for his job has distanced him from his loved ones. He’s been divorced for three years and has since seen his son very little. When the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense, touching ...
Plot: kidnapping, divorced couple, missing child, ex husband ex wife relationship, investigation, aggression, breaking and entering, torture, snow, mountain, kidnapper, missing son ...
Time: year 2017
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.8
 185
In Turmoil (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Dans la région de Marseille, un patron prépare à l’insu de ses ouvriers la délocalisation de son usine, couplée d’un détournement de 2 millions d’euros. Franck, l’un de ses salariés l’apprend et, sans en parler à sa femme Hélène, ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: working class, crime gone awry, society, social decay, workplace, injustice, factory, factory worker, rivalry, danger, friendship, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, south of france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Sadistic Yoga (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The female instructor Mariko gives yoga classes at a high-class club in Tokyo. She has a crush on Rika whom she gives private lessons to. When she notices bruises on Rika's body, Mariko learns that the young woman is involved in a highly ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: bondage, yoga, sadism, torture, sadomasochism, violence, life is a bitch, female protagonist, relationship problems, yoga instructor, revenge, family problems ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
A Sight for Sore Eyes (2003)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 137 min.
Story: When she was seven, Elise Gardet witnessed her mother’s brutal murder. Ever since, she has tried to forget this unsolved crime. Now she’s 18 and beautiful, but her bourgeois family and her stepmother’s anxiety are suffocating her.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, realistic
Plot: dangerous attraction, obsession, woman in danger, family relations, couples, parents and children, murder, sociopath, store, danger, ambulance, suffocated to death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 3.8
 1K
Hope Lost (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A Romanian girl dreams of living the glamorous life she sees in Italian soap operas.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, disturbing, sexy ...
Plot: forced prostitution, teenage prostitute, italian mafia, illegal prostitution, torturer, prostitution, prostitute, sadist, nude model, sadism, female protagonist, model ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
The Library Suicides (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Twin sister librarians Nan and Ana plan revenge when their author mother commits suicide, with her final words suggesting her biographer murdered her.
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing
Plot: library, twins, secret, murder, female protagonist, twin sister, criminal's revenge, revenge, women, lesbian, female nudity
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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