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Mommy Is a Murderer (2020)
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Mommy Is a Murderer (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: When Karina becomes friends with Lena and her daughter Mallie, she begins to suspect that Mallie isn’t Lena’s daughter at all, but a girl named Emily who was kidnapped from her biological parents several years prior.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: kidnapping, little girl, criminal, kids and family, kidnapped, kidnapper, kidnapped girl, suspect, suspicion, woman with a gun, school, murderer, teacher, parents, girl, store, danger, daughter, married couple, shop owner, child abduction, clothing store, crimes
Place: los angeles
Keyword: reading

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, tense, suspense and suspenseful films with plots about kidnapping, abduction, murder, danger, murderer, kidnapped and investigation mostly in Thriller genres. Some movies like Mommy Is a Murderer: Dangerous Isolation (2006), Paranormal Abduction (2012), The Student (2017), Killer Grandma (2018), Deadly Lessons (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Dangerous Isolation (2006)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A weekend vacation turns terrifying when computer scientist Samantha (Alexandra Paul) and her daughter are lured into the hands of a killer. Kidnapped and held hostage, Samantha is given a choice: she must use her expertise to help her captors carry ...
Style: psychological thriller, tense, captivating, suspense
Plot: abduction, kidnapped woman, parents and children, kidnapping, criminal, hostage, murderer, kidnapped, mother daughter relationship, psycho killer, homicidal maniac, lesbian ...
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Paranormal Abduction (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A young women suffering memory loss and psychological issues after surviving a brutal attack, tries to piece together the clues surrounding her attack and its similarities to a series of recent murders. During the investigation, she struggles to ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: assault, violence, investigation, serial killer, danger, uncover truth, twists and turns, murder, handgun, african american, nurse, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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The Student (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After leading a jury to wrongly sentence a man, Abigail enters her new teaching job at the law school with a newfound commitment to ethics. When she takes over her new class, it includes Vincent, an intensely ambitious student who will do anything ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense, suspenseful
Plot: law student, teacher, threat, apprentice, hardcase students, attempted murder, obsession, murderer, conspiracy, murder, school, student ...
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Killer Grandma (2018)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Melissa, a happily married woman with an eight-year-old daughter, invites her husband's mother to live with them, only to realize that Grandma is unhinged and wants to kidnap Melissa's daughter to replace her own dead child.
Style: captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: mother in law daughter in law relationship, dysfunctional family, parents and children, kids and family, kidnapping, mother daughter relationship, grandmother granddaughter relationship, abduction, child abduction, family relations, illness, swimming ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Deadly Lessons (2018)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Under the guise as a math tutor, Tamara finds a way to reconnect with her abducted daughter but her father will do anything, even kill, to keep the truth hidden.
Style: serious, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful
Plot: kidnapped girl, tutor, teenage daughter, abduction, teenager, father, mother and daughter, kidnapping, kidnapped daughter, teenage girl, kidnapped, father and daughter ...
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Junction (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Junction follows four strung-out meth-addicts who discover a dark secret about a homeowner during a burglary, pitting them not only against the police but against each other.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, disturbing
Plot: heist gone wrong, junkie, bandit, gang, burglary, criminal gang, heist, drug, robbery, escapades, attempted robbery, nightmare ...
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64%
Secrets of My Stepdaughter (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A mother protects her stepdaughter after the teenager witnesses the murder of her best friend, but is soon forced to come to grips with the terrifying possibility that her stepdaughter may be the real killer.
Style: tense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: murder, suspicion, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, teenager, murder mystery, murder witness, witnessing a crime, witness, teenage girl, murderer, stepdaughter, life is a bitch ...
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63%
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Captors (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Alys - a human trafficking victim who narrowly escaped her captors ten years ago - confronts her traumatic past when a relative leaves her his remote, snowbound mansion. Although the new house first presents the promise of a new chapter in her life, ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: human trafficking, kidnapped, survival, threat, kidnapped woman, deathtrap, murderer, trapped, trap, kidnapping, struggle for survival, paranoid ...
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Fatal Justice (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Karen is shopping at a convenience store during which a robbery occurs. Her niece is kidnapped and left seriously injured in hospital. When one of the perpetrators is released, Karen decides to go on a murderous trail of revenge.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, exciting ...
Plot: rivalry, vigilantism, heist, store, hospital, revenge, murder, abduction, investigation, paralysis, danger, twins ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Her Worst Nightmare (2018)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young woman, Dakota, is trying to move on with her life and get away from her past after being rescued from a grim basement, where she was kidnapped and abused by a monstrous man. However, when the normal life she had starts to unravel, Dakota ...
Style: thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot: stalker, kidnapped woman, abduction, who done it, problem, threat, female protagonist, investigation, kidnapping, kidnapped, private investigation
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55%
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Relentless (2018)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, El Salvador
Duration: 95 min.
Story: An American mother searches for her daughter who was kidnapped by human traffickers in Central America.
Style: captivating, suspenseful, serious, suspense
Plot: human trafficking, kidnapping, gang, rescue, child in peril, determination, danger, female protagonist, anger, single mother, chase, little boy ...
Place: central america
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53%
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Two Wrongs (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Sarah, a single mother working as an in-home nurse, confronts a parents worst nightmare when her daughter is abducted and she has to do the unthinkable to find her.
Style: tense, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot: child abduction, child hostage, mother daughter relationship, female doctor, blackmail, murder, single parent, unlikely criminal, moral dilemma, abduction, single mother, mother and daughter ...
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The Devil's in the Details (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 7 minutes from now in Nogales, Arizona, Thomas Conrad's life will forever change when he gets caught up in a Mexican cartels poetic game of drug mule chess.
Style: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: drug dealing, danger, rivalry, chases and races, strong violent content, drug cartel, race against time
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa, sonora, mexico
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Mississippi Murder (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An amazing murder mystery taking place in a setting that no one would expect the coast of Mississippi. A young woman tried to live a normal life despite a horrible upbringing. But she will learn her past will haunt her once more.
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, enigmatic ...
Plot: murderer, murder, female protagonist, murder investigation, murder mystery, dark secret, haunted by the past, tragic past, female nudity, female full frontal nudity
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49%
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Fatal Fiancé (2021)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When Leah is kidnapped on the day of her wedding by her fiance’s delusional ex-girlfriend Faith, she does everything within her power to escape. But once she does, she begins to question whether Faith was ever really delusional or if she was just ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological, tense
Plot: kidnapping, jealousy, female protagonist, abduction, kidnapped, problem, bridesmaid, kidnapped woman, secret, fiancee, nightmare, ritual ...
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Deadly Excursion (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A woman and her daughter charter a sail boat while on spring break only to discover the captain has plans to make sure they never return home.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot: struggle for survival, kidnapping, mother daughter relationship, family relations, abduction, sea voyage, kidnapped, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, sea adventure, family problems, island ...
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Locked In (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Story: Ever since her father was murdered, Taylor has had to take care of her agoraphobic mother, Ann Marie, and tend to the family farm. Ready to start her own life, she prepares to tell her mother that she is going to move away with her boyfriend Blake ...
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, thrilling, suspenseful
Plot: hidden money, stolen money, escaped prisoner, money, intrigue, burglar, criminal, robbery, prisoner, jailed, woman with a gun
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Goodbye, Butterfly (2021)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After his five-year-old daughter is murdered, a loving family man becomes convinced that the oddball down the street is guilty.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot: vengeance, price of justice, bereavement, lynching, loss of family member, loss of child, murder mystery, revenge, neighbor, loss of daughter, murder, murderer ...
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Deviation (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Told over one horrifying night, Deviation will take you on a white-knuckle journey into the mind of Frank Norton, a dangerous schizophrenic murderer as he escapes from Broadmoor Hospital and embarks on a murderous rampage across London. But when ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating, tense ...
Plot: psychopath, isolation, confined, split personality, kidnapping, killing spree, danger, serial killer, hostage, violence spree, woman, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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The Cheerleader Murders (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A high school student whose father and sister were recently murdered begins her own investigation after two of her fellow cheerleaders are kidnapped. She sets out on a rescue mission, but the killer may already be hot on her trail.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense
Plot: cheerleader, murder investigation, crime solving, uncover truth, killings, kidnapping, murderer, investigation, murder, murder mystery, crime investigation, serial killer ...
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45%
Teenage Bank Heist (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Cassie works as a teller at the bank where her mother is the branch manager. When the bank is robbed, Cassie is taken hostage. She soon finds out that the bank robbers are teenage girls, one of whom is her best friend, Abbie. In this propulsive real ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: investigation, heist, danger, confined, race against time, parents and children, friendship, on the run, abduction, woman with a gun, teen social issues, wrestling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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45%
Borderline Murder (2011)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young law student, Abby Porter, suspects that her sister, a stripper, may have been murdered. She discovers an illegal network of cross border plastic surgery centers providing crude, but inexpensive cosmetic surgery to young women in the United ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: uncover truth, amateur detective, doctors and patients, dishonesty, society, journalist, missing person, plastic surgery, danger, kidnapping, theft, against the rules ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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A Daughter's Plan to Kill (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Katie and Greg Carlyle invited Greg's estranged daughter to live with them, they had no idea that they would be inviting jealousy, violence, and deceit into their home to wreak havoc on their perfect life.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: estranged daughter, family problems, life is a bitch, deception, father daughter relationship, living together, violence, relationship problems, domestic violence, estrangement, family relations, daughter
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Fatal Intuition (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Jang-woo had only his sister to live for until she is brutally murdered. During a ritual to send her spirit to heaven, he comes across a suspicious man, who manages to escape from the scene. He begins to suspect a local pharmacist and keeps an eye ...
Style: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: medium, killer, murderer, murder investigation, revenge, loss of sister, investigation, murder mystery, murder, criminal, psychic, unsolved crime ...
Place: china
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The Black Widow Killer (2018)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A single mother fears for her life and that of her daughter when they become targets of a serial killer.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating
Plot: murder investigation, murder mystery, school teacher, crime solving, teacher, criminal, murder, uncover truth, private investigation, crime investigation, investigation, murderer ...
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41%
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The Employer (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Five highly qualified applicants interview for a coveted job with the Carcharias Corporation, a powerful conglomerate whose business practices are shrouded in mystery. On the night before the last round of interviews, they are all kidnapped and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: trap, kidnapping, twists and turns, danger, rivalry, contests and competitions, mind game, struggle for survival, trapped, new job, rivals, secret identity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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41%
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Abducted (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When 7-year-old Jocelyn Shaker is mysteriously abducted from a resort in the Colombian rainforest, her rich Columbian stepfather and American mother are accused of being involved.
Style: captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller
Plot: kidnapped, kidnapping, villainess, child abduction, kidnapped child, framed for a crime, accusation, mysterious disappearance, kidnapped girl, abduction, kidnapped daughter, female villain ...
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41%
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Girl Followed (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A resentful 14-year-old girl is drawn into a seemingly innocent friendship with an older man, but the relationship turns sinister.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating
Plot: stalker, relationships, male female relationship, relationship problems, forbidden love, love interest, tragic love, teenager, teenage girl, older man younger woman relationship, age difference, tied feet ...
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40%
The Wrong Crush (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A high school girl must try to keep her past life of killing her best friend a secret from a guy who likes her.
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot: stalker, high school, troubled past, confronting the past, tragic past, obsession, hunted, haunted by the past, school, life is a bitch, age difference, library ...
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39%
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Betrayed (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Julie, six months pregnant, and her boyfriend Trent arrive at a tiny Cape Cod cabin for some time to relax. The town is quiet and deserted during the off season… except for Sully, the creepy guy who’s keeping an eye on the couple from a ...
Style: captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: betrayal, couples, pregnancy, couple relations, dishonesty, blackmail, abduction, ransom, danger, kidnapping, family relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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