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Slipping Into Darkness (1988)
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Three spoiled college girls are held responsible for a handicapped boys death.
Style:
rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
Plot:
rural setting, train, murder, nudity, school, gang, youth, college, misfit, family relations, family life, life is a bitch, mental illness, vengeance, rivalry, mentally challenged, false accusation, mistaken identity, disorder, dishonesty, violent content, sex, biker, cemetery, strangulation ...
Time:
80s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about murder, deadly, rivalry, dishonesty, danger, violent content and vengeance mostly in Thriller and Action genres. Some movies like Slipping Into Darkness: The Confidant (2010), From the Inside (2010), Harm's Way (2008), Jury of Our Peers (2008), White as Snow (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
95%
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Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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93%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Darlene and her daughter Victoria seek refuge at a remote rural safe house for abused women that's run by the strict and tough, but folksy and supportive Bea. Things turn sour when Bea proves to be a total lunatic with an especially dangerous ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
86%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The story of a group of friends whose devotion to each other is tested when one of them is raped, and another one is murdered at a weekend party. Now they are forced to take the law into their own hands.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, independent film
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, north carolina
Similarity:
82%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Director Christophe Blanc delivers a fast-past thriller set to a background of Finland's stunning landscape. High-end car dealership owner Maxime is pursued by Finnish gangsters over unsatisfactory cars his dead partner sold them.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
81%
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Sibling rivalry turned into betrayal between two brothers. One a prime candidate for Prime Minister, the other a henchman for a successful, yet shady businessman. Presented with an opportunity to take revenge against his brother, our anti-hero must ...
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
gangster, betrayal, sibling rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, dishonesty, vengeance, violence, mafia, gang, violent content, rivalry, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jonas Bechmann, a defense attorney, is a man of the system. Until the day he himself is accused of murder. Taking matters into his own hands, he throws himself into the hunt for a group of blackmailers who threaten to expose him as the killer. But ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
72%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
71%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Twenty two years earlier, Karen helped convict her father, Frank, for the murder of her mother. With his new freedom, thanks to parole, Frank returns home to seek revenge. Having always pleaded his innocence, Frank soon works his way back into ...
Style:
independent film, psychological thriller, tense, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An undercover cop infiltrates an illegal labor racket on a remote, Texas/Mexican border farm. After falling for the farm owner's mistress, the two discover the tables have been turned and they are the hunted.
Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Place:
texas, mexico
Similarity:
71%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Ray Liotta stars as Jack Malloy, a hardcore career criminal until a near-death experience causes him to turn his world around. But when his former partner Drake is released from prison, he tracks Jack down to blackmail him into one last job. Jack is ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, criminal, revenge, vengeance, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, going straight, frame up, husband wife relationship, ex convict, robbery, drug use ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, serious ...
Plot:
gangster, vengeance, partner, dishonesty, rivalry, murder, danger, car accident, car, son, revenge, friend ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
69%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Anna has a bad week. Her boss is a pain to her, as is the grocery store clerk. Her friend was bad to her, her husband couldn't take his eyes off a waitress, and her babysitter annoyed her. One night at the local pub, she tells a man about her ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman flies from Los Angeles to Montreal to investigate the supposed death of her identical twin. What she finds out could get her killed.
Style:
independent film, serious, realistic, tense, mind bending ...
Plot:
twins, serial killer, murder, estrangement, disorder, amateur detective, prostitute, switching roles, dishonesty, law enforcement, investigation, undercover ...
Time:
90s
Place:
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Similarity:
64%
570
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
When Anna Carter is diagnosed with a terminal illness, she sees her final three months as an opportunity to enact some vigilante justice. Racing her deteriorating health and trying to stay one step ahead of the police, Carter furiously tracks down ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A retired FBI profiler is called in on a last case - only to find himself at the mercy of a teenage killer's deadly game. He must use all his skills and experience to save lives, including his own.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
61%
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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59%
738
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A detective suspects that his wife murdered a gangster's brother. As he tries to misdirect the police and the bloodthirsty gangster while independently investigating his wife, terrible secrets slowly begin to surface.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
state affairs, infidelity, mentally unstable, unsupportive spouse, dishonesty, police detective, murder, suspicion of murder, protagonist as suspect, unfulfillment, who done it, dealing with death ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
58%
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93
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Holly is a struggling singer whose life is torn apart when she loses custody of her daughter, Chloe. When she travels to her soon to be ex-husbands estate in the country, for a weekend visit with Chloe, she is shocked to discover that he is missing. ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Some students at Runcie prep school form an elite club. The group is implicated in a cheating scandal and one of the club members dies mysteriously. Another member decides to try and discover the dangerous truth about Runcie.
Style:
realistic, serious, bleak, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
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Similarity:
57%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young college co-ed tries joining the elite, all-male, secret society, the Skulls, and in so doing, she uncovers some unscrupulous methods used by some of the members to get what they want.
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, college life, investigation, uncover truth, woman in danger, danger, dishonesty, youth, mind game, college, suspicion of murder, brotherhood ...
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
55%
494
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Julia Kerrbridge is working hard to become a doctor. Suddenly, Julia finds herself the guardian of her young niece, Amanda, after her parents were found murdered.
Style:
independent film, realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
54%
289
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
It should have been a simple murder. But a botched job, an old flame, and too many loose ends can spell just one thing for businessman Colin Wentworth: chaos!
Style:
rough, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, hitman, vengeance, rivalry, danger, dishonesty, skinny dipping, nudity, profanity, couples, clergy, sexual relations ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Harvey Keitel plays Penfield Gruber, a once great scientist, reduced to managing a sleazy hotel. Gruber monitors the daily comings and goings of his tenants, mainly for his own interest, until underworld figures ask him to spy on a suspected ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
80s
Similarity:
52%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
They are the perfect, and politically correct, couple. He is a judge, she is a high profile attorney. When she takes on a sensational murder case, the trail leads right to her own front door.
Style:
sexual, suspenseful, tense, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In order to get her husband back, an architect's psycho ex-wife kills everybody she can get her hands on.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, bleak, scary ...
Plot:
psychopath, obsession, vengeance, danger, family in danger, obsessive love, murder, family life, manipulation, female psychopath, wife, architecture ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
50%
507
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After joining the Skulls, Ryan Sommers (Robin Dunne) is warned not to betray any secrets about the organization or its high-powered members. However, when Ryan witnesses a murder within the Skulls' private chambers, he finds that the closer he ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, slasher, independent film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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