Movies like South of Heaven

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South of Heaven (2021)
 5.8
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South of Heaven (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Convicted felon Jimmy gets early parole after serving twelve years for armed robbery. Upon his release, he vows to give Annie, his childhood love, now dying from cancer, the best last year of her life – unfortunately it’s not that simple.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing, perverse
Plot: ex convict, criminal, life is a bitch, cancer patient, love affair, male female relationship, social problems, couple relations, relationships, prisoner, cancer, sick, terminal illness, love story, nursing, money problems, parole officer, wedding, kidnapping, torture, bowling, childhood, decapitation, lung cancer, punched in the face ...
Place: mexico

Most similar movies to South of Heaven

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing and suspense films with plots about male female relationship, relationships, relationship problems, love affair, life is a bitch, couple relations and social problems mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like South of Heaven: Death of a Vegas Showgirl (2016), Dixieland (2015), World War III (2022), Echoes of Violence (2021), April Bride (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Death of a Vegas Showgirl (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Two talented dancers become swept up in a tumultuous association that spirals into compulsion.
Style: suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing
Plot: dancer, love affair, life is a bitch, male female relationship, dancehall girl, problem, relationship vs career, dancer's life, relationships, love interest
Place: las vegas
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95%
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Dixieland (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A young, recently-released and unpredictable ex-con with bad luck, and a sexy, listless girl-next-door with a troubled family, become trapped in a downward spiral of crime and obsessive love, as they try to ditch their dead-end town for a better ...
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, disturbing
Plot: ex convict, male female relationship, love story, criminal, social misfits, girl next door, family problems, life is a bitch, tragic love, trap, neighbor neighbor relationship, love affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
World War III (2022)
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Shakib is a homeless day laborer who never got over the loss of his wife and son in an earthquake years ago. Over the last couple of years, he has developed a relationship with a deaf and mute woman, Ladan. The construction site on which he works ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, psychological
Plot: male female relationship, relationships, social problems, couple relations, life is a bitch, love affair, actor's life, relationship problems, social issues, filmmaking, actor, sign language ...
Place: iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Echoes of Violence (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An immigrant travels from Sedona to Los Angeles to seek revenge against the immigration lawyer who ruined her life.
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, psychological
Plot: revenge, vengeance, social problems, life is a bitch, attorney, criminal, broken family, threat to kill, female protagonist, immigrant, lawyer, feminist
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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April Bride (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: On April 5, 2007, a couple married in a church. At first glance, it was a typical wedding. The bride, however, was suffering from late-stage breast cancer and had been given only a month to live. A young woman is diagnosed with breast cancer but ...
Style: romantic, captivating, sincere
Plot: love story, terminal illness, wedding, relationships, male female relationship, couple relations, true love, couples, love and romance, wedding preparations and rituals, arranged marriage, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
What The Nanny Saw (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When nanny Kim accidentally discovers that her employer, Steven, is having an affair with his kids’ Spanish tutor, she decides to keep it to herself so as not to risk splitting his family apart. But when Steven’s mistress is murdered and he ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: social problems, husband wife relationship, family problems, life is a bitch, relationship problems, affair, marital infidelity, family relations, intrigue, male female relationship, infidelity, relationships ...
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64%
 5.3
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The Man in 3B (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Daryl Graham (Lamman Rucker) has just moved into a Jamaica, Queens, apartment building and his neighbors, both male and female alike, can't stop talking about him. From his extreme attractiveness to his undeniable swag, Daryl is the man every ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: black, family problems, suspicion, murder suspect, marital problem, male female relationship, murder mystery, new neighbor, social problems, multiple suspects, family relations, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Pet Shop Days (2023)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA, Mexico
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In an act of desperation, impulsive black sheep Alejandro flees his home in Mexico. On the run from his unforgiving father, Alejandro finds himself in New York City where he meets Jack, a college age pet store employee with similar parental baggage. ...
Style: captivating, romantic drama, psychological, romantic, thrilling
Plot: male female relationship, in love, problem, couple relations, star crossed lovers, love interest, relationship problems, social problems, love affair, couples, life is a bitch, relationships ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
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Miss Baek (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A woman's past as a convict follows her everywhere and because of this she doesn't open up to others. But then she strikes up a friendship with a broken child who has suffered from domestic violence and decides to save the girl from the ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense
Plot: life is a bitch, confronting the past, male female relationship, family problems, social problems, rescue, child custody, violence, domestic violence, adult child friendship, tragic past, protector ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Under His Influence (2023)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A social media influencer falls for an inmate and starts a crusade to prove his innocence, but after they win his appeal, she uncovers a dark secret that changes her life.
Style: captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological
Plot: prisoner, forbidden love, secret, dark secret, undercover, relationship problems, social problems, ex convict, couple relations, male female relationship, relationships
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Betrayed by My Bridesmaid (2022)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Katie and Tom are getting married. With Katie's troubled sister in rehab, her best friend steps in as bridesmaid to plan everything. But will the wedding go as planned? A Lifetime Movie Club Exclusive Premiere.
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot: fiancee, jealousy, bridesmaid, male female relationship, relationship problems, relationships, love and romance, tragic love, love story, love affair, love triangle, life is a bitch ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Arrangement (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A Colombian woman moves to Miami to marry an ambitious politician, in an attempt to leave her troubled past behind.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological
Plot: couple relations, love affair, relationships, troubled past, politician, male female relationship, ambition, love story, couples, changing lives, political activism
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
A Woman Deceived (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: It’s been one year since Elizabeth’s husband, Bill, died in a tragic horseback riding accident and she is starting to move on. When she runs into Travis Brown, the cowboy she met the same weekend Bill died, the two immediately hit it off. Travis ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, psychological
Plot: family problems, money problems, family relations, widow, male female relationship, intrigue, life is a bitch, couples, love interest, financial problem, love affair, tragic love ...
Place: california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 4.3
 212
Saving My Baby (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: After she's run off the road, an expectant mother barely survives a harrowing crash. When she awakens days later, she discovers that her baby has been taken.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: relationship problems, marital problem, plan, race against time, threat, love interest, relationships, tragic love, male female relationship, family relations, love triangle, pregnant woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
An Organized Killer (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Grace's life begins to unravel when a woman with sinister intentions moves into her guest house.
Style: captivating, tense
Plot: love story, couple relations, relationships, male female relationship, family problems, employer employee relationship, family relations, love affair, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, secret, businesswoman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.2
 346
8 Times Up (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Elsa makes a living from little jobs, struggling to gain custody of his son. Mathieu, who lives next door, also keeps getting job interviews only to polish his art of failure. Their situation is increasingly precarious, but both are trying to bounce ...
Style: disturbing, touching, captivating, sincere, psychological
Plot: job seeking, neighbor neighbor relationship, neighbor, relationships, romantic relationship, love story, love affair, male female relationship, social problems, love and romance, couple relations, loss of job ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
False Pretenses (2004)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Falling victim to a glib con artist named Michael (Stewart Bick), Texas housewife Diane (Peta Wilson) loses all her money, a disaster that drives her husband Randal (Anthony Lemke) to suicide. Unable to get justice through the official channels, ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, psychological
Plot: suicide, stolen money, money problems, male female relationship, disappearance, revenge, financial problem, social problems, romantic relationship, relationship problems, couple relations, dancing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Devil Inside (2020)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Catherine Borowiak, 50 years old, is the head of a conditional release agency. Being in charge of 20 years old Hugo's case, recently released from jail on parole, she starts a relationship with him, a highly risky one.
Style: psychological, captivating, sexy, suspenseful
Plot: parole, manipulative behavior, manipulative person, ex convict, passion, couple relations, love affair, in love, love interest, female protagonist, life is a bitch, love story ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Into the Deep (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Follows a woman desperate to escape her town, she meets a stranger who promises a romantic escape, but it results in deceit, mistrust, and violence.
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: unrequited love, relationships, life is a bitch, problem, love story, violence, deception, relationship problems, tragic love, female protagonist, love affair, betrayal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Laugh Killer Laugh (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A jewel thief named Frank Stone is a very deeply disturbed, anti social, milquetoast who finds no joy or humor in anything - until he awakens from a deep coma.
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological
Plot: thief, socially awkward, social problems, waking up from a coma, lifestyle, personality change, change of heart, antisocial behavior, character change, criminal, changing lives, bank robbery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Deadly Vows (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Pastry chef Helena poisons men who don't meet her high standards. Her fiancé Charlie has nothing to worry about, at least until his sister Becca becomes suspicious of Helena's culinary killing past. It's up to Becca to save Charlie ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, captivating, tense
Plot: female killer, female serial killer, murder, cookery, relationship problems, murder mystery, family problems, chef, criminal, relationships, male female relationship, wedding ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
All Roads to Pearla (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A Texas town awakes when a high school wrestler gets entangled with a drifter and her psychopathic lover. Lives then intertwine and spiral violently out of control once he becomes her escort driver.
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological, independent film
Plot: love affair, male female relationship, relationships, psychopath, love and romance, relationship problems, tragic love, bonding, mentally unstable, couples, love triangle, problem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Stalked by My Ex (2017)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: After learning that her abusive ex-husband is about to be released from prison, a woman flees with her teenage daughter back to her old hometown.
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: stalker, abusive husband, relationship problems, ex husband ex wife relationship, family problems, ex couple relations, mother daughter relationship, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, ex convict, husband wife relationship, obsessive quest, getting home ...
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43%
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Ocean Flame (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A turbulent love affair between a punk and a youthful waitress.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling
Plot: love interest, in love, relationship problems, relationships, couple relations, fall in love, couples, love affair, life is a bitch, mental disorder, male female relationship, outcast ...
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42%
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 400
American Bully (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A middle-American teenage boy who is affected by 9/11, terrorism, and the war in Iraq becomes involved in an isolated high school altercation that escalates into a hate crime that shocks the entire nation.
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: changing lives, criminal, juvenile delinquency, terrorism, psychological trauma, terrorizing, teenager, life is a bitch, teenage life, terrorist attack, violent content, mind control ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 69
Eun-ha (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Eunha, who is a stateless person, is imprisoned for charged with murder. A warmhearted, coolheaded correctional officer goes through turbulent changes of his emotions after he meets the woman. The movie depicts the extraordinary love between the two ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, psychological, captivating
Plot: jail, prison life, love story, male female relationship, confined, love affair, relationships, prisoner, prison warden, prison sentence, tragic love, jailed ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 5.5
 616
Hostile Border (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When she’s deported to México, Claudia must choose between reconciling with her estranged father or partnering with a dangerous smuggler to return to the U.S.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: drug smuggling, social problems, drug smuggler, father daughter relationship, money problems, illegal immigrant, smuggling, family problems, criminal gang, dysfunctional family, illegal drugs, male female relationship ...
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40%
 5.1
 691
Out of Exile (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Recently paroled thief Gabriel Russell tries to balance his life and mend a troubled family as an FBI agent hunts him down, along with his crew after a botched armored car robbery.
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful, thrilling
Plot: agent, manhunt, burglar, ex convict, armed robbery, hunting, life is a bitch, heist, criminal, organized crime, fbi agent, cat versus mouse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The House Sitter (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Elise's dream to become a painter isn't going anywhere, so she eagerly accepts to house-sit the wealthy eccentric Frank's villa, while he is in Boston for business. A leaky pipe makes her call a plumber not from Frank's ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense
Plot: casual sex, sex, relationships, social problems, male female relationship, family problems, relationship problems, couple relations, bare chested male, cat, van, artist ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
High Resolution (2018)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An adaptation of Tao Lin’s beloved cult novel "Taipei". As one relationship collapses, another blooms for Erin, swept into the world of Paul Chen, a mysterious, charismatic author. When he proposes documenting every aspect of their ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, captivating
Plot: couples, love interest, relationships, relationship problems, romantic relationship, wooing, romantic obsession, love affair, couple relations, love and romance, in love, seduction ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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