Movies like Quid Pro Quo
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Quid Pro Quo (2008)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A semi-paralyzed radio reporter is sent out to investigate a story that leads him into an odd subculture and on a journey of disturbing self-realization.
Style:
realistic, psychological, serious, emotional, disturbing, controversial, twisted, neo noir, gloomy
Plot:
paraplegic, disability, doctors and patients, switching roles, obsessive quest, mother daughter relationship, art, mental illness, disappearance, forgiveness, blind date, physical disability, illness, self discovery, cheerleader, paralysis, obsession, journalism, perversion, sex, basketball, truck, blonde, alcoholic, miraculous event ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
usa, new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, psychological and gloomy films with plots about murder, couples, obsession, mental illness, psychology, flashback and suspense mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres. Some movies like Quid Pro Quo: Stay (2005), Separate Lives (1995), Boxing Helena (1993), Never Forever (2007), Keane (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, surprise ending, confusing, twist ending ...
Plot:
suicide, mental illness, mentally unstable, obsession, twists and turns, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, mental institution, unfulfillment, surrealism, death, doctors and patients ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The e-cop Tom Beckwith has just quit his police job in order to study psychology. But his professor, Lauren Porter, is more interested in his criminology abilities than in his progress in psychology. Because of traumatic circumstances during her ...
Style:
neo noir, mind bending, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
erotica, schizophrenia, psychology, professor, police, ex-cop, woman seduces a man, mental illness, murder, repression, obsession, split personality ...
Time:
90s
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86%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A top surgeon is besotted with a beautiful woman who once ditched him. Unable to come to terms with life without her, he tries to convince her that they need each other. She has other ideas, but an horrific accident leaves her at his mercy. The plot ...
Style:
disturbing, erotic, sexual, psychological, surprise ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, crimes of passion, captivity, obsessive love, amputation, unfulfilled love, estate, confined, power relations, sexual dysfunction, doctor, kidnapping ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
georgia, usa, atlanta georgia
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82%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When an American woman begins a dangerous relationship with an attractive immigrant worker, in order to save her marriage, she finds her true self.
Style:
erotic, emotional, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, asian man white woman relationship, trying to get pregnant, deportation, horny wife, illegal immigrant, family relations, blonde, self discovery, love and romance, dishonesty ...
Place:
new york, usa, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A mentally ill man searches New York for his missing eight year old daughter. He recreates her steps each day hoping for some clue to her disappearance, until he meets and befriend a woman with a daughter the same age. Could she help him with the ...
Style:
sincere, touching, psychological, serious, mind bending ...
Plot:
kidnapping, mental illness, missing child, missing person, paranoia, delusion, little girl, parents and children, life is a bitch, self destructing, drug abuse, poverty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, murder, mental institution, psychopath, mentally unstable, confined, redemption, crime and punishment, woman in danger, haunted by the past, criminal psychologist, prison ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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65%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Bruce Pritchard is paralysed in a soccer game and is confined to a wheelchair in a convalescence home. But this doesn't slow his lust for life. Then he meets Jill and has to think about the effects of disability.
Style:
realistic, serious, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
disability, physical disability, paraplegic, wedding, life is a bitch, hopes, human nature, unfulfillment, misfit, love and romance, athlete's life, destiny ...
Time:
70s
Place:
europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A psychological drama about an unstable man, tormented by nightmares, who seeks help from a shrink but is pushed over the edge into increasingly dangerous, psychotic territory by a relationship he is unable to control.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
nightmare, obsession, dangerous attraction, losing-it hero, doctors and patients, psychopath, mentally unstable, male female relationship, mental illness, paranoia, therapy, mental patient ...
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Modern remake of Rear Window in which the lead character is paralyzed and lives in a high-tech home filled with assistive technology.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot:
murder, disability, psychopath, investigation, uncover truth, mind game, who done it, law enforcement, amateur detective, obsession, dangerous attraction, manipulation ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, ...
Style:
psychological, tense, disturbing, sexy, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stalking, mental illness, obsession, guilt, haunted by the past, attempted murder, countryside, couple relations, dangerous attraction, suspense, lgbt, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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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, surprise ending, clever, twist ending, suspenseful ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night, boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, suspense, missing person, investigation, infidelity, murder mystery, marriage, manipulation, psychology, adultery, missing wife, disappearance ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york, missouri, st. louis missouri
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
613
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Linked by a rare psychological disorder, Noah Greene and Emily Gates must uncover the mystery of a tragic past in order to find hope for the future.
Style:
neo noir, tense, psychological, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot:
memory loss, mental illness, haunted by the past, couples, uncover truth, destiny, youth, hopes, foreknowledge, small town, deception, suspense ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
usa
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51%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
When New York psychiatrist Bill Capa visits Los Angeles to take over his murdered colleague's therapy group, he finds himself embroiled in the thick of a mystery when he bumps into Rose and begins a torrid affair.
Style:
sexy, erotic, suspenseful, psychological, sexual ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, mental illness, erotica, psychiatrist, murder, voyeurism, suspense, investigation, femme fatale, mysterious character, secret identity, serial killer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
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50%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman starts a new life in a small Wyoming mountain town after suffering a traumatic event on the other side of the country - but one day, she witnesses a murder in the woods......
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, exciting, emotional ...
Plot:
restaurant, murder, woman in danger, dishonesty, hidden identity, small town, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, extramarital affair, chef, adultery, disability, writers ...
Place:
usa, wyoming
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49%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A troubled loner, Bob Maconel, imagines blowing up the tower in Los Angeles where he works. He takes a revolver to his office intent on killing colleagues, and then himself. At home, he holds conversations with his fish, who encourage him to do it. ...
Style:
surreal, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, depressing ...
Plot:
loner, disability, loneliness, surrealism, workplace, paranoia, drunken sex, creativity, obsession, insanity, psychiatry, self discovery ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A man, Joseph, loses his wife at sea, then spirals deep into a world of confusion. The wife's brothers' need revenge! Joseph tries to tell anyone who will listen that a whale killed his beautiful Annabel Lee, but even he doesn't quite ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, false accusation, uncover truth, missing person, life is a bitch, vengeance, social relations, psychology, bipolar disorder, small town life, small town
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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:
disturbing, tense, enigmatic, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot:
murder, disappearance, overbearing parent, divorce, twists and turns, investigation, dysfunctional marriage, mentally unstable, missing person, suspense, obsession, justice ...
Time:
80s, future, year 2000, 20th century, year 1971 ...
Place:
new york, new jersey, california, empire state building manhattan new york city, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has been in prison for a heinous crime. Sarah comes to the attention of Fr. Joachim, a priest and ...
Style:
suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, tense, serious ...
Plot:
investigation, obsessive quest, supernatural ability, uncover truth, mentally unstable, psychopath, obsession, hidden identity, life is a bitch, clergy, dishonesty, woman in danger ...
Place:
brazil, paris france, france, latin america, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A former policeman-turned college professor of forensics, is asked by a widow to solve the murder of her unfaithful husband and the disappearance of his mistress who may have been linked to some drug dealers.
Style:
erotic, mind bending, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
murder, widow, investigation, infidelity, disappearance, haunted by the past, murder investigation, car chase, humiliation, femme fatale, voyeur, sex in car ...
Time:
90s
Place:
south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspenseful, emotional, psychological ...
Plot:
gay, murder, twists and turns, suspense, gay teenager, life is a bitch, plot twist, tragedy, police investigation, murder mystery, conspiracy, lgbt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms, Katie is still coping ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, tricky, stylized ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
college, missing person, obsession, investigation, twists and turns, student life, plot twist, police detective, uncover truth, boyfriend, paranoia, police investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, athens greece, cambodia, sardinia, amsterdam
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43%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When his dancer partner, Mia, lands in the hospital after an accident, Armando persuades her to train for an upcoming wheelchair ballroom dancing contest
Style:
emotional, realistic, sentimental, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
disability, human spirit, follow your dream, lifestyle, couples, dance school, against the odds, hopes, ambition, contests and competitions, society, dancing ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, bronx new york city
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40%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Claire (an American) wakes up in a terrible state at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state (blood-soaked and bruised), she has flashbacks from the past few days. She thinks she's killed someone, but isn't ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot:
murder, stalking, uncover truth, memory loss, female protagonist, mysterious character, who done it, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect, sexual relations, infidelity, haunted by the past ...
Time:
80s
Place:
spain, europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A Japanese-American fisherman may have killed his neighbor Carl at sea. In the 1950s, race figures in the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.
Style:
emotional, sentimental, meditative, breathtaking, captivating ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, racism, murder, culture clash, world war two, prejudice, murder mystery, justice, forbidden love, fisherman, betrayal, jury ...
Time:
50s, 1940s, 1930s, 20th century
Place:
washington state, japan, asia, seattle, pearl harbor ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Emily Delahunty (Maggie Smith) is an eccentric British romance novelist who lives in Umbria in central Italy. One day while travelling, the train she is on is bombed by terrorists. After she wakes up in a hospital, she invites three of the other ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, sentimental, emotional, talky ...
Plot:
politics, orphan, hopes, life is a bitch, redemption, estate, solace, coldhearted, countryside, secret, uncle niece relationship, terrorist ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, europe, tuscany, idaho, pennsylvania ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Daryll Deever is a janitor in an office building in New York, and a big fan of TV news reporter, Tony Sokolow. When a rich man is murdered in Daryll's building, Tony comes to cover the story and Daryll introduces himself to her. Thinking he may ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, sexy, clever, tricky ...
Plot:
murder, janitor, female reporter, love story, investigation, jewish, suspense, reporter, runaway, divorce, greed, brutality ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, california, usa, vietnam, manhattan new york city
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38%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When shooting the dawn one morning, photographer Alex Santiago looks into the rising sun and hurts his eyes. As a result, he begins to see spots and blurs. When the spots become a face - an apparition of a woman - he embarks on a journey to discover ...
Style:
atmospheric, psychological, captivating, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
obsession, hopes, miraculous event, journey, hallucination, spirit, love, obsessive quest, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, nightlife, city life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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37%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, emotional, sentimental ...
Plot:
friendship, mental illness, amusement park, misfit, self discovery, best friends, social misfits, betrayal, buddies, life is a bitch, missing person, down on your luck ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert ...
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, thought provoking, suspenseful ...
Plot:
journalism, cia, reporter, lawyer, suspense, courtroom drama, media, investigation, corruption, journalist, courtroom, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
433
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Haunted by memories of his ex-girlfriend Alice, a heartbroken Billy returns home to Northern Virginia seeking solace from old friends. But what he finds there is more disconcerting: his best friend Stanley has become unstable, mysterious and ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, slasher ...
Plot:
murder, homecoming, best friends, couples, breakup, missing person, friendship, graphic violence, mentally unstable, life is a bitch, downfall, friends ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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