Movies like The Nightmare Nanny

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The Nightmare Nanny (2013)
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The Nightmare Nanny (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Stay-home mom Annie is reluctant to return to work, until she finds Amber, the perfect nanny for her 3-year-old daughter Jenny. But as Annie's young daughter grows closer and closer to Amber, Annie begins to feel like she's being pushed out of her own life. When Jenny suddenly vanishes one day,Annie's search for her missing daughter leads her to the terrifying truth about the dark past of the woman she trusted with her child.
Style: serious, enigmatic, captivating, tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: missing child, nanny, family relations, parents and children, couples, danger, single parent, woman in danger, twists and turns, suspicion, woman seduces a man, youth, kidnapping, gory, babies and infants, child in peril, lifetime, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa

Most similar movies to The Nightmare Nanny

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and tense films with plots about danger, family relations, woman in danger, parents and children, deadly, couples and kidnapping mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Nightmare Nanny: The Cottage (2012), Blood and Ties (2013), Missionary (2013), Missing at 17 (2013), Confined (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Cottage (2012)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A romance novelist (David Arquette) moves into a "cottage" behind the home of a composer and his family. He seems sweet, but what do they really know about him?
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: tenant, psychopath, family in danger, couples, parents and children, twists and turns, suburbs, cabin in the woods, kidnapping, writers, family relations, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Blood and Ties (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Da-eun lives a happy life with her single father, a man who sacrificed everything in his life for her. She loved her father very dearly. However, their relationship is about to take an unexpected turn. Da-eun becomes suspicious that her father might ...
Style: tense, psychological, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: kidnapping, murder, uncover truth, investigation, moral dilemma, danger, hidden identity, woman in danger, parents and children, single parent, reporter, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea, east asia
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100%
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Missionary (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A wife and mother starts an affair with a young missionary... with disastrous consequences.
Style: suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: obsession, infidelity, dangerous attraction, danger, stalking, couples, parents and children, single parent, love triangle, sex scene, bad boy, dysfunctional relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
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61%
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Missing at 17 (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman tries to save her adopted daughter from a criminal, with help from the girl's biological mother.
Style: emotional, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: rescue, adoption, danger, parents and children, family relations, woman in danger, life turned upside down, age difference, strong female presence, estrangement, teenage life, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
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58%
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Confined (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A couple moves into a quiet neighborhood. With too much time on her hands, the woman begins to suspect that someone is confined in the basement next door.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: neighbor, captivity, woman in danger, couples, family relations, dishonesty, psychopath, captive, basement, relocation, crazy neighbor, chamberplay ...
Time: 21st century
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Nanny Cam (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Linda has a seemingly perfect marriage with her rugged and handsome husband Mark and an adorable 8 year old daughter, Chloe. But when Chloe is injured by an elderly babysitter who has slipped into dementia, Linda wants to ensure that her child is ...
Style: disturbing, enigmatic, bleak, suspense, sexy
Plot: kidnapping, obsession, manipulation, husband wife relationship, female psychopath, bad girl, babysitting, age difference, woman seduces a man, stalker, babysitter, teenage sex ...
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100%
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Crisis Point (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Criminal psychologist Cameron Grainger is Detroit’s go-to hostage negotiator. Blaming herself when a crisis she’s handling goes wrong and a young man is killed, she removes herself from service. But she is called back into sudden and terrifying ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Plot: criminal psychologist, siblings relations, kidnapping, danger, family relations, forced into action, woman in danger, nypd, confined, strong female presence, hostage, hostage negotiator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, detroit, michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Perfect Nanny (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Upon her release from a mental institution where she was recovering from a suicide attempt, Andrea McBride applies for the position of nanny for a handsome, wealthy surgeon, Dr. James Lewis, a widower with two children. Another applicant is hired, ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: nanny, obsession, under the surface, danger, murder, parents and children, family relations, femme fatale, woman with a gun, strong female lead, stalker, woman seduces a man ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa
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43%
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Tommy (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Sri Lanka
Duration: 92 min.
Story: After a year abroad Estelle returns home to collect her husband's share of the loot from a major robbery.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: family relations, siblings relations, parents and children, couples, danger, rivalry, nordic, violent content, strong female presence, criminal heroes, heist
Time: 21st century
Place: stockholm sweden
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42%
Seduced by Lies (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Brad Sterling arrives by yacht as a handsome dream prince, and the discrete favorite nephew and brilliant investor of his tycoon uncle Wade. Charles Colton's ingrate heiress Laura eagerly dates him and puts him in the guest-house, partially as ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: sex scene, danger, couples, manipulative person, stalking, jealousy, intrigue, hit and run, strong female presence, manipulation, dishonesty, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Clean Break (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, obsession, twists and turns, danger, investigation, betrayal, infidelity, stalking, love, crumbling marriage, corrupt officer, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Taken Back: Finding Haley (2012)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Unable to get over the abduction of her daughter, a mother is convinced she has finally found her, but is she simply a mother obsessed?
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot: missing child, uncover truth, parents and children, overprotective mother, child abduction, twists and turns, family problems, danger, life is a bitch, obsessive quest, nobody believes, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Iris Effect (2005)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In Los Angeles, Dr. Sarah Hathaway hired private eyes trying to find her missing son, the painter Thomas, who ran away from their home ten years ago after a quarrel with her. She finds a clue in a catalog of a panting exhibition in San Petersburg ...
Style: serious, psychological, tense, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: missing person, mind game, investigation, uncover truth, haunted by the past, amateur detective, obsessive quest, private detective, estrangement, family relations, riddles and clues, parents and children ...
Place: russia, los angeles, usa, st. petersburg russia
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37%
A Mother's Sacrifice (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A mother fear that her daughter has been abducted when a phone call is interrupted by something suspicious
Style: suspense, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: kidnapped daughter, abduction, suspicion, mother daughter relationship, woman in danger, family relations, parents and children, threat, child in peril, kidnapped, kidnapped girl, child abduction ...
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36%
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Stolen Child (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Amanda and Jason are happy marriage now, after years of frustration have finally managed to take a beautiful girl from a country in Eastern Europe through an international adoption agency. But when the doctor will perform a DNA test to small, finds ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot: adoption, kidnapping, kidnapped child, uncover truth, investigation, suspicion, couples, family problems, family relations, life is a bitch, danger, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
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35%
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Zephyr Springs (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Dawn, an overworked single mother, agrees to take her teenage daughter, Kayla, to a luxurious but isolated spa retreat, the women believe they have escaped to a paradise of spa treatments, yoga, and nature hikes until a series of disturbing ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, suspense, scary ...
Plot: resort, woman in danger, single parent, witnessing a crime, kidnapping, danger, isolation, family relations, murder, parents and children, weekend, guru ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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34%
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Hindsight (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Unexpectedly pregnant with no means to raise a child, Dina and Ronnie decide to sell their unborn baby over the Internet. Their plan begins to unravel when the couple they've chosen, Paul and Maria, turn out to have an agenda of their own.
Style: disturbing, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: couples, pregnancy, psychopath, computers and web, youth, cons and scams, suburbs, family relations, suburban life, babies and infants, black market, pregnant woman ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Terrible Angels (2012)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Detective Ben Nolan is sent to investigate the story of a convicted prostitute and known drug dealer Linda Grossel. Linda explains that she was kidnapped and held captive for weeks. As the investigation unfolds, Linda's sanity is put to ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: uncover truth, danger, law enforcement, abduction, police detective, investigation, violent content, confined, isolation, woman in danger, life is a bitch, captivity
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Hunt for the Labyrinth Killer (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Young, ace assistant DA, Shelby Cook, works with driven cop, Mike Holland, to catch Daedalus, a serial killer infamous for luring his victims to their deaths through labyrinth traps. Three innocent men have already taken the fall for Daedalus and ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, law enforcement, police investigation, legal investigation, twists and turns, dedicated lawyer, rivalry, legal, parents and children, lawyer, power relations, courtroom drama ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Murder on the 13th Floor (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A neglectful mother concocts a plan to kill her live-in nanny when she discovers the nanny is having an affair with her husband.
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: vengeance, love affair, family relations, danger, nanny, attempted murder, adultery, urban, couple relations, crime gone awry, captivity, child in peril ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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32%
Sorority Surrogate (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A surrogate mother faces an uncertain future when the couple who hires her dies in an accident.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: college, custody, surrogate mother, pregnancy, friendship, rivalry, family problems, family relations, youth, danger, on the run, parents ...
Time: future
Place: canada
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Non-Stop (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mysterious emotional thriller about a woman who, after being left at the altar, has a brief liaison with a handsome stranger on a plane which ultimately puts her – and everyone else on the flight – in terrible danger.
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot: airplane, danger, dangerous attraction, false identity, missing person, theft, ritual, psychic, losing-it hero, woman in danger, book publishing, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
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31%
Out of the Black (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two brothers struggle to uncover the truth behind the mining accident that killed their father and bankrupted the town.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, suspense ...
Plot: uncover truth, life is a bitch, redemption, siblings relations, social relations, parents and children, family in crisis, family relations, countryside, down on your luck, small town, small town life ...
Place: usa, pennsylvania
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31%
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Secrets From Her Past (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Ten years ago, Kate Collins (Ashley Jones) was a different person. Literally. She was living in Chicago, working as a bartender, and going by her real name ‘Stephanie Wickers.’ That all changed when she witnessed the murder of her boss by a ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: hidden identity, murder, witnessing a crime, danger, gangster, haunted by the past, on the run, woman in danger, dishonesty, hitman, chases and races, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, pennsylvania
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31%
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Living in Fear (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man returning to his childhood home for the reading of a will is met with hostility. Do the townsfolk know more about him than his new wife?
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot: woman in danger, who done it, homecoming, murder, haunted by the past, dishonesty, danger, twists and turns, small town, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
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31%
The 7th Floor (2013)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Like every day, Marcelo gathers her children on the floor of his ex-wife. As each day play "to see who gets there first" them down the stairs, him in the elevator, a diversion that your ex-partner does not like. But when one day Marcelo ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, surprise ending ...
Plot: missing child, twists and turns, apartment building, family relations, chases and races, parents and children, lawyer, divorced parents, kidnapping, vanished man, ex husband ex wife relationship, elevator ...
Time: 21st century
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31%
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First Born (2007)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Laura's expecting. Her husband, Steven's a loving guy but has little time for her. Her mom lives thousands of miles away. Forced to give up on her dreams, she's always been a bit edgy. A C-section drives her over the edge, making her ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, scary, psychological, tense ...
Plot: family in danger, mentally unstable, nanny, danger, parents and children, family problems, isolation, suburbs, obsession, supernatural ability, pregnancy, curses spells and rituals ...
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30%
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Fatal Reunion (2005)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jessica is a housewife, unhappy in her marriage, who decides to "spice it up" a little bit. But she gets more than she bargained for when she contacts an old high school classmate she once had a crush on.
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, tense, realistic ...
Plot: infidelity, couple relations, danger, stalking, twists and turns, classmate, jealousy, murder, rivalry, violence, stalker, marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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29%
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InSight (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Kaitlyn, an ER nurse who is tending to a young stabbing victim, is accidentally electrocuted by the defibrillator that is used in an effort to save the woman's life. Almost immediately Kaitlyn starts to experience the victim's memories. ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: uncover truth, victim, supernatural, investigation, twists and turns, danger, cognitive science, criminal, memories, a vision, electrocution, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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29%
Stranger at the Door (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Katherine "Kathy" is happily married to businessman Greg Norris and lives in his beautiful home with his about 18-year old daughter Tara. When suddenly a charming young man, who Tara first saw lurking around in the garden, turns up on ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: murderous pair, garden, family in danger, amateur detective, family relations, parents and children, adoption, cons and scams, dishonesty, held captive, stalker, adopted son ...
Time: 21st century
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