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The Origin of Evil (2022)
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Original name: L'Origine du mal
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Without a husband and without children, Stéphane, 45, a small worker in a fish cannery in Fos-sur-Mer, finally dares to reconnect with Serge, her father whom she has hardly ever known. The reunion is overwhelming but Serge is an aging man and Stéphane doesn't want to waste any more time; she immediately agrees to meet her family.
Plot:
telephone call, dog, prison, sea, fight, police, sex scene, murder, cell phone, secret passageway, fake identity, lawyer, island, hospital, maid, women in prison, boat, bare breasts, mother daughter relationship, photograph, dysfunctional family, funeral, piano, drawing, cafe ...
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Most similar movies to The Origin of Evil
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, psychological, realistic and suspense films with plots about murder, female nudity, cigarette smoking, sex scene, police, telephone call and shower mostly in Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Origin of Evil: Faultless (2016), Cross the Line (2020), Him (2021), Love in the Strangest Way (1994), The Things You Kill (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Constance, a 40-years-old real estate agent, gets fired from her job. With no options left, she contacts her former boss, from the small agency where she started her career. To her surprise, he is hiring, but explains he may have already found ...
Style:
serious, weird
Plot:
real estate agent, manipulative woman, fake identity, false friend, psychopath as protagonist, mental disorder, psychological manipulation, manipulation, femme fatale, restaurant, stalker, train station ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
france
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A good-natured man has an unexpected deadly confrontation. Instincts kick in to clean up the mess caused in the name of self-defense but does one really get away free after killing someone?
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, psychological, crying, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
mad woman, passion, crime scene, violent, murder, runaway, dying, prosecution, dead father, travel, evidence, judiciary ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s
Place:
barcelona, catalonia
Similarity:
71%
447
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A composer starts doubting and questioning his whole life and its meaning. Isolating himself in his house in Brittany where various important persons (his wife, his mistress, his best friend, his parents, his doctor...) will come and visit him.
Style:
horror musical, psychological thriller
Plot:
standing sex, alter ego, suicidal, parents, remote island, husband wife relationship, sailboat, cellist, unfaithful husband, love triangle, musician, marital infidelity ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Successful Julien sees his family off on holiday and at once becomes drawn into a risky relationship with Angela, whom he spies outside the cafe opposite his office. When he later finds she is to become his son's new nanny he rightly starts to ...
Style:
sensual, crying, neo noir, freeze frame, french noir
Plot:
insomnia, erotica, sexual attraction, con woman, woman urinating, woman peeing, scam, sex, female nudity, bare breasts, hairy chested man, mysterious man ...
Time:
90s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Poland, Canada, Turkey
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Questioning the suspicious death of his mother, a university professor and his enigmatic gardener descend into a hypnotic maze of mirrors and memories. As family secrets surface and painful truths emerge, they spiral toward a devastating reckoning ...
Style:
psychological thriller
Plot:
bare chested male, identity, death, police, surrealism, male protagonist, police investigation, hospital, loss of mother, night, death of mother, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Lithuania
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Mathieu, a member of the French institute in Irkutsk, is arrested overnight by the Russian authorities. Imprisoned and accused of sexual abuse on his own daughter, he realises he is a victim of a Kompromat. With the help of the FSB, someone has ...
Style:
non-linear
Plot:
supermarket, false accusation, gas station, hunting, woods, suicide by hanging, snow, flashback, restaurant, border crossing, telephone call, chase ...
Place:
russia, siberia, mongolia
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Kate lives a secluded life—until her troubled daughter shows up, frightened and covered in someone else's blood. As Kate unravels the shocking truth, she learns just how far a mother will go to try to save her child.
Style:
dramatic, psychological thriller, ambiguous ending
Plot:
lesbian, daughter, disposing of a dead body, mother daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, horse ranch, strained relationship, death of spouse, desperation, drug addict, young adult, money problems ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A mystery woman turns vengeful after a college athlete dumps her following a one-night stand.
Style:
erotic, psychological thriller, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
stalking, obsession, female nudity, voyeur, sex in car, making love, stalker, sex scene, woman seduces a man, infidelity, voyeurism, adultery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A vengeful widow is out to seduce the relatives of the man she blames for her husband's death.
Style:
erotic, sexy, serious, realistic, psychosexual thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
femme fatale, erotica, sexual relations, first sexual experience, dysfunctional family, lesbianism, female villain, seductress, sex scene, seduction, rough sex, passionate sex ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
54%
734
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A woman, plastered in blood, is arrested by a grave, and a tale of loss, lust and jealousy slowly unfolds.
Style:
psychological, realistic, serious, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
losing-it hero, transplant, outdoor sex, passion, female nudity, heart transplant, unfaithful wife, obsession, hospital, murder, mind game, dealing with death ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This is a contemporary fable loosely based on Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Crime and Punishment". Roseanne is outwardly a perfect and popular teen. However, her image is hiding the abuse at her stepfather's hands, and she decides to ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, clever, teen ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
rape, obsession, sexualized violence, murder, suburbs, dysfunctional family, high school, guilt, crime and punishment, friendship, protective male, youth ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young medicine student observes his neighbour's love life through a hole in his apartment wall.
Style:
neo noir, suspense, suspense thriller
Plot:
voyeurism, obsession, medical student, unfaithfulness, grief, hairy chested man, sex, mystery woman, student, bare butt, dead body, spying ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe, amsterdam
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A massage therapist looking to overcome her addictions and reconnect with her son, whose father is an anthropologist in South America studying the Yanomani people, moves in with a wealthy ex-client.
Style:
realistic, serious, sentimental, erotic, disturbing ...
Plot:
single mother, female nudity, teenage boy, family relations, parents and children, social differences, teenage life, summer, life is a bitch, sex scene, making love, butler ...
Time:
year 2005, 80s, year 1980
Place:
new jersey, new york, usa
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
First-class fashion model Emanuelle Griffith is missing. Richard Tate knows exactly where she is and plans to keep her there until she knows her place: subordinate to men. But Emannuelle is waiting for her chance to turn his obsession. That one ...
Style:
psychosexual thriller, erotic, independent film
Plot:
kidnapped, sex scene, striptease, voyeur, erotica, private detective, female protagonist, dog, female nudity, held captive, male star appears nude, escape ...
Similarity:
48%
354
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Dead bodies are piling up, and the leads the two LA homicide cops have point to Barbara, business manager for a successful architectural firm she runs with her husband Lance. The dead men were interns at the firm, and each of them was Barbara's ...
Style:
exciting, detective, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, sex scene, erotica, sex, voyeur, murder suspect, investigation, murder, corpse, police, architect, bondage ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Two strangers refuse to leave the seaside home of a couple, which leads to sexual tension and crime.
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot:
rape and revenge, rape, couple relations, danger, couples, stranger, husband wife relationship, adultery, cuckolded husband, nudity, violent content, sexual content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
zimbabwe
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When his long-time disappeared father is entering his life again, Jean-Luc, a successful doctor, has no option but to face his own life story. Will he ever be able to forget and forgive?
Style:
atmospheric, serious, psychological, realistic, emotional ...
Plot:
murder, aging, family relations, homecoming, parents and children, clinic, family life, estrangement, resentment, family problems, siblings relations, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s
Place:
africa, europe, czechoslovakia, versailles
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Sébastien Nicolas, realtor, leads a dull existence and gets used to disguising himself to take on the appearance of the characters he meets.
Style:
tense, atmospheric, semi serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
switching roles, dull life, police, suicide, real estate agent, rivalry, danger, twists and turns, imposture, mental disorder, unfulfillment, voice over narration ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Turkey
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Paris, spring 2015. Faustine travels to Syria with her little son to join ISIS; but, once in Raqqa, she soon realizes the hell she is gotten herself into. Her husband Sylvain quickly understands that the French government is powerless to help him, ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
escape, border crossing, activist, attempted escape, life risking, mother child separation, rescue mission, risk, airport, islam, military, isis ...
Time:
year 2015
Place:
syria, paris france, turkey
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
In the midst of a divorce, Miriam Besson decides to ask for exclusive custody to her son, in order to protect him from a father that she is accusing of violence. The judge-in-charge of the file grants a shared custody to the father whom it considers ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, captivating, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
custody battle, divorce, lie, child custody, lawyer, violent father, boy, divorced parents, parent child relationship, child, sexualized violence, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
2010s, year 2017, year 2013
Place:
france
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A former Weather Underground activist goes on the run from a journalist who discovers his identity.
Style:
sexy, suspense, captivating, light, serious ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
newspaper, special agent, journalism, fbi, journalist, twists and turns, runaway, reporter, politics, terrorism, robbery, fbi agent ...
Time:
70s, year 2012, year 1971, year 1979, year 1972 ...
Place:
usa, michigan, new york, canada, vermont ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A psycho escort (Shauna O'Brien) sets her sights on a married woman (Landon Hall). Revenge, blackmail and murder follow in this steamy late night thriller. There were several sequels.
Style:
sexy, sexual, neo noir, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
erotica, unrequited love, skinny dipping, sex in a hot tub, tenant, husband wife sex, sex with secretary, female voyeur, woman with a gun, passionate sex, couples, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Insurance executive Charles suspects his wife Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala. Confronting Victor, Charles tries to adopt an air of indifference, but the conversation ...
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, cynical ...
Plot:
infidelity, unfaithful wife, husband wife relationship, cheating wife, investigation, adultery, murder, marriage, dysfunctional marriage, extramarital affair, family problems, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
france, paris france, versailles
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Voyoucratie is FGKO’s new film project. It’s a dramatic fiction about a young gangster’s chaotic path into life crushed by a criminal universe that he can’t escape from. It’s also about a frozen portrait of a youth trapped by a system that ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, contemplative, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
father son relationship, money, murder, police, heist, drug dealer, family relations, heroes, going straight, chase, violence, society ...
Time:
year 2015, 21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Jack Hart lives with his lawyer wife and yound daughter and enjoys a wonderful life. Jack's old girlfriend, Lisa, comes into town and they have an affair. Lisa kills her current boyfriend in self-defense and Jack witnesses the whole thing. Lisa ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, erotic, psychological ...
Plot:
femme fatale, investigation, murder, betrayal, love and romance, legal investigation, manipulation, power relations, legal, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty, dedicated lawyer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
utah, salt lake city utah
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Attractive Manhattanite Allison Jones has it all: a handsome beau, a rent-controlled apartment, and a promising career as a fashion designer. When boyfriend Sam proves unfaithful, Allison strikes out on her own but must use the classifieds to seek ...
Style:
sexy, suspense, erotic, psychosexual thriller, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, psychopath, femme fatale, stalker, mental illness, sex scene, jealousy, sexual harassment, nudity, stalking, murder, dangerous friend ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But ...
Plot:
violent husband, rape, forest, telephone call, mirror, flashback, same actor playing two characters simultaneously on screen, hospital, sea, female protagonist, pregnant woman, unplanned pregnancy ...
Place:
normandy
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
When their father dies, the ambitious police officer Guillaume offers the management of the bowling alley he inherited to his outcast half-brother Armand. The inheritance is cursed, and the two men wind up in a world of violence.
Plot:
bowling, hunter, police investigation, rain, female nudity, serial killer, rape and murder, estranged brother, brother vs brother, disposing of a dead body, police inspector, investigation ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
france
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
"A woman is born to give her body to men; her father or strangers should make no difference." Respectable Police Commissioner Josephine reinvestigates an insignificant murder case of a 11 years old girl. The murderer is the mother of the ...
Style:
rough, psychological, suspense, tense, bleak
Plot:
murder, little girl, mother daughter relationship, child abuse, policewoman, pedophilia, compassion, guilt, death of child, death of daughter, police investigation, crime investigation ...
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A young woman takes off with a charming stranger in Australia, then begins to think he's a killer.
Style:
erotic, independent film
Plot:
passionate sex, murder, fatal attraction, sex scene, female nudity, murderer, maniac, hairdresser, stranger, police, bare chested male, bad boy ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
36%
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