Movies like The Nightmare Nanny
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The Nightmare Nanny (2013)
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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
Audience:
toddlers
Plot:
missing child, nanny, family relations, parents and children, couples, danger, single parent, woman in danger, twists and turns, suspicion, woman seduces a man, kidnapping, youth, gory, babies and infants, child in peril, child abduction, suicide, time jump, mother daughter relationship, car accident, pregnant woman, stolen identity, false identity, grandparents ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to The Nightmare Nanny
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and suspense films with plots about danger, family relations, parents and children, woman in danger, kidnapping, deadly and couples mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Nightmare Nanny: Taken Back: Finding Haley (2012), The Cottage (2012), Blood and Ties (2013), Nanny Cam (2014), Missionary (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, suspense ...
Plot:
missing child, overprotective mother, abduction, uncover truth, parents and children, twists and turns, family problems, child abduction, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, danger, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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:
skinny dipping, psychopath, family in danger, couples, twists and turns, suburbs, parents and children, male nudity, cabin in the woods, kidnapping, writers, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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, captivating, realistic ...
Plot:
kidnapping, uncover truth, murder, investigation, danger, moral dilemma, hidden identity, woman in danger, parents and children, single parent, reporter, life turned upside down ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, korea, east asia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
After her daughter is abducted in Russia, an NYPD detective goes out of her way to find and save her.
Style:
semi serious, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
partner, danger, misfit partners, missing child, rescue, kidnapping, reluctant partners, fighting crime, disorder, odd couple, sexual relations, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
russia, new york
Similarity:
100%
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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:
sexy, enigmatic, disturbing, suspense, bleak
Plot:
female psychopath, female on male rape, kidnapping, obsession, manipulation, husband wife relationship, sex with a minor, age difference, babysitting, bad girl, woman seduces a man, babysitter ...
Similarity:
100%
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:
sex scene, stalking, obsession, infidelity, dangerous attraction, danger, parents and children, single parent, couples, love triangle, forbidden love, cheating wife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
35%
864
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, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
captive, neighbor, captivity, woman in danger, couples, family relations, dishonesty, psychopath, basement, relocation, crazy neighbor, chamberplay ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
33%
265
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Sixteen years after the Drakes' young daughter was kidnapped by her nanny, a woman appears claiming to be the long-lost child.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
amateur detective, danger, police investigation, investigation, law enforcement, orphan, family relations, criminal heroes, parents and children, dishonesty, child abduction, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
30%
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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, suspenseful, captivating, tense, emotional ...
Plot:
abduction, kidnapping, suspicion, kidnapped, missing person, mother daughter relationship, kidnapped daughter, woman in danger, mother, daughter, kidnapped girl, child in peril ...
Similarity:
27%
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, tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
adoption, rescue, danger, parents and children, life turned upside down, family relations, woman in danger, abduction, runaway teen, mother daughter conflict, search and rescue, family reunited ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
27%
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, family relations, danger, siblings relations, forced into action, woman in danger, nypd, confined, strong female presence, hostage negotiator, two sisters, hostage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, michigan, detroit
Similarity:
27%
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, manipulative person, danger, couples, stalking, jealousy, intrigue, hit and run, strong female presence, manipulation, dishonesty, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
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:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
missing person, amateur detective, investigation, mind game, uncover truth, haunted by the past, estrangement, family relations, private detective, obsessive quest, missing child, riddles and clues ...
Place:
usa, russia, los angeles, st. petersburg russia
Similarity:
25%
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, fortune telling, losing-it hero, woman in danger, book publishing ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
25%
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:
kidnapped child, adoption, kidnapping, adopted daughter, suspicion, investigation, uncover truth, couples, family relations, family problems, danger, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Michelle a single mother is kidnapped by three masked men and held hostage until she is forced to rob a bank which is the only option she has to saving her only child's life while they are both wired to explode.
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
confined, heist, woman in danger, single parent, danger, unlikely criminals, isolation, crime gone awry, parents and children, bank, kidnapping, child in peril ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, 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:
suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, serious ...
Plot:
infidelity, danger, couple relations, stalking, twists and turns, classmate, jealousy, murder, rivalry, violence, stalker, marriage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When hotel event planner Rachel breaks up with her boyfriend John for cheating on her, she decides to go looking online for a new boyfriend. In the expanse of cyberspace, she meets a charming, wealthy man named Craig, who at first, seems perfect. ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
obsession, dangerous attraction, couples, danger, destructive relationship, internet dating, social network, stalking, love, manipulation, woman in danger, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada, pennsylvania, usa, philadelphia
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After losing hope of conceiving a child on their own, Christy and Mitch turn to surrogacy in hopes of creating the perfect family. However, their confidence is quickly shaken when they discover that the young woman might not be as perfect as they ...
Style:
sexy, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
surrogate mother, pregnancy, obsession, psychopath, family relations, under the surface, woman in danger, danger, mentally unstable, couples, dishonesty, stalking ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
23%
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:
family in danger, amateur detective, murderous pair, garden, family relations, cons and scams, parents and children, dishonesty, held captive, stalker, adopted son, parent child relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
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, psychological, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
college, custody, surrogate mother, pregnancy, friendship, youth, rivalry, family problems, family relations, danger, on the run, dilemma ...
Time:
future
Place:
canada
Similarity:
23%
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, tense ...
Plot:
uncover truth, life is a bitch, redemption, social relations, siblings relations, countryside, family relations, parents and children, family in crisis, small town, down on your luck, small town life ...
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A wealthy high powered woman suffers a horrible tragedy after which she descends into substance abuse,turning her back on her family. She later discovers that someone close to her may be behind her subsequent abduction and kidnapping.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
twists and turns, life turned upside down, addiction, home invasion, car accident, faked death, husband wife relationship, abduction, kidnapping, alcohol abuse, life is a bitch, crime gone awry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, 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:
sexy, suspenseful, serious, scary, suspense ...
Plot:
nanny, obsession, murder, under the surface, parents and children, danger, family relations, femme fatale, self harm, strong female lead, woman with a gun, woman seduces a man ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Restaurant hostess and mom Joanne Sanders has to work late one night. After she leaves the restaurant she accidentally cuts a car off on the highway. This driver takes it personally and he begins to stalk and harass Joanne.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
woman in danger, stalking, danger, chases and races, stalker, violence, police detective, ex husband ex wife relationship, female protagonist, mother daughter relationship, threatening telephone call, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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, suspense, rough, scary ...
Plot:
resort, woman in danger, kidnapping, danger, murder, family relations, isolation, single parent, witnessing a crime, parents and children, weekend, guru ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When Katherine (Alexandra Paul) finds out her father's company is about to close the paper mill they own in her hometown in rural Pennsylvania, she comes up with a plan to save it. Needing the approval of the city council, she goes back and ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
homecoming, murder, family relations, vengeance, workplace, dishonesty, betrayal, parents and children, family business, mother daughter relationship, strong female lead, power relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pennsylvania
Similarity:
22%
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:
tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
Plot:
woman in danger, dangerous attraction, obsession, parents and children, family relations, couples, sociopath, murder, store, danger, woman, art exhibition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
21%
519
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, twists and turns, parents and children, haunted by the past, small town life, small town, mental illness, ghost, afterlife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
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, scary, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
family in danger, mentally unstable, pregnancy, danger, parents and children, nanny, family problems, suburbs, isolation, obsession, curses spells and rituals, supernatural ability ...
Similarity:
21%
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