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The Perfect Cheerleader (2019)
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Original name: The Cheerleader Escort
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When college freshman Cassie earns a spot on the cheerleading squad, she is overjoyed about the new friendships, status, and access to social events that come along with being on the team. When she meets Terry, the charismatic President of the Alumni Association, at an event, Cassie finds herself falling for this older man despite their age difference. Terry even helps her out by paying part of her tuition when she falls on hard times. But all is not as it seems when Cassie finds out that members of the team moonlight as escorts with rich alumni, and that the man she’s falling in love with is part of that group. When a friend from the team becomes pregnant and ends up dead under mysterious circumstances, Cassie vows that nothing will stop her from exposing the dark world that surrounds her.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, dark, crime drama, intellectual, noir
Plot:
cheerleader, cheerleading, prostitution, female protagonist, college, forced prostitution, college student, sexual attraction, seduction, deception, scandal, exploitation, betrayal, corruption, student life, manipulation, cover up, moral ambiguity, peer pressure, forbidden romance, survival, revenge, investigation, friendship, coming of age ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, captivating, disturbing and tense films with plots about female protagonist, murder, investigation, revenge, moral ambiguity, urban and social problems mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Perfect Cheerleader: Death of a Cheerleader (2019), Sabotaging the Squad (2023), Criminal Desires (2013), Glamour Girls (2022), A Daughter's Revenge (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A remake of the cult classic, inspired by Randall Sullivan’s Rolling Stone article of the same name about the real life murder of a popular, affluent and beautiful Northern California high school cheerleader at the hands of a classmate.
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, crime drama ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleader, cheerleading, murder, school, revenge, high school, relationship problems, antisocial behavior, socially awkward, social outcast, social problems, high school life ...
Place:
northern california
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Missy discovers the coveted role she's scored as head coach of her daughter's cheer squad comes with a deadly price.
Style:
suspense, thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A beautiful reporter gets caught up in the deadly and erotic world of an online 'murder club' in this red-hot thriller.
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense, sexy
Plot:
strip club, erotica, murder, murderer, hitman, reporter, seduction, eroticism, online dating, private club, police, female nudity ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Their life as luxury escorts offered these women glamour, money and a chance to reinvent themselves…until a murder and a robbery ruined everything.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, crime drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Elle Spencer has devised a terrifying plan. Soon her friend, Anna Bellcroft will be released from jail, where she served time for a DUI. Anna has nothing. No family, no money, no job...BUT Elle is there for her. What Elle does not reveal, is that ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
female protagonist, revenge, vengeance, stepfather, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, dysfunctional family, intrigue, secret, women, plan, girlfriend, criminal's revenge ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A woman's past comes back to haunt her when the pimp she helped put behind bars is released and after revenge.
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
blackmail, revenge, woman in danger, prostitution, pimp, female protagonist, escort, confronting the past, forced prostitution, vengeance, criminal, dark past ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Thanks to a roommate's practical joke, bookish college student Joanna Halbert finds herself signed up with a Malibu-based escort service which promises her big money and an easy ride. Instead, she becomes entangled in a web of corruption, ...
Style:
period piece, detective
Plot:
escort, college student, prostitution, female protagonist, sexploitation, exploitation, loss of innocence, manipulation, prostitute, call girl, secret life, double life ...
Time:
90s
Place:
malibu california, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A high school girl’s spirits are crushed as she suffers through a humiliating “Cheerleader Initiation Week,” but her dreams aren’t the only thing in danger when another girl on the squad turns up dead, and when she disappears herself, her ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, intense ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
cheerleading, school, female protagonist, murder, bullying, high school, killing, problem, high school student, undercover, puzzle, secret ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sophia is the perfect 17-year-old girl. She studies hard, stays out of trouble, and is a promising pianist. The only problem is that she’s always been quiet and keeps to herself, so when she strikes up a friendship with Grace, the new girl in ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological thriller, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
female protagonist, stalker, school, female friendship, girlfriend, problem, relationship problems, teenage life, schoolgirl, secret, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, manipulation ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
On their way home through an unknown city, Alexander and his father are attacked and seriously injured by some drunken juvenile delinquents. The father dies, and Alexander becomes a dangerous witness, which must be eliminated.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
murder, revenge, witness, crime victim, murder witness, witnessing a crime, criminal's revenge, loss of father, victim, hunted, manhunt, murderer ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Euphoria brings together two intersecting road stories about the same person - a little girl called Lily who is taken away from home by her mother Celeste, and a young woman, Michelle, who journeys home to unravel the truth about her mysterious past.
Style:
tense, psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, a powerful study of the dysfunction and disorder in the police and criminal justice systems that allowed a wily psychopath to murder nearly 50 marginalised women from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Africa
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When sex worker Tess falls pregnant, she has to fight to keep her past from swallowing her whole.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
pregnancy, afrikaans, female protagonist, sex worker, prostitute, motherhood, sex work, unwanted pregnancy, troubled past, changing lives, prostitution, unplanned pregnancy ...
Place:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Monika, a middle-aged wealthy woman, goes through a marriage crisis with her younger husband Linas. A car accident leads Monika to meeting three young girls, Kristina, Egle and Gitana, who happen to be ex-prostitutes extradited from Germany. The ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
middle aged woman, car accident, friendship, female protagonist, marriage crisis, society, family crisis, midlife crisis, women, relationship problems, unlikely friendships, suicide ...
Place:
lithuania
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
The destinies of five young women from all over the world intertwine in Paris as they embark on a roller-coaster ride of extremes in their search for love, sex and money. Based upon true stories, Shanghai Belle tells the destiny of five young women ...
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, suspense
Plot:
lesbian love, nightclub, women, social problems, prostitution, female protagonist, sex, seduction, forced prostitution, life is a bitch, sexual relations, model ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Valeria, young secretary of a producer, lives with an eccentric mother and secretly writes for a successful screenwriter, Alessandro. One day, she receives an unusual present from a stranger: it’s the plot of a movie about the mysterious but ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Germany, Poland
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia, Canada, Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A drama set during the failed coup against President Mikhail Gorbachev.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, art house ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Paloma, the new girl at an esteemed prep school, is drawn into the daily aggressions of warring senior class factions. She joins the Spades and becomes friends with the Spades’ leader, an enigmatic and scheming cheerleader named Selah.
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense, psychological ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cheerleader, boarding school, school, black, high school life, teenager, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, drug use, teenage girl, power struggle, fight for supremacy, underage drinking ...
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, psychological thriller, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young Russian woman, trying to make it in the big city, is hired for an off-the-books government operation, which involves seducing and later exposing a number of prominent political opposition figures.
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, disturbing
Plot:
older man younger woman sex, terrorist, seductress, spy, scandal, assassin, attempted seduction, entrapment, political intrigue, seduction, expose, female protagonist ...
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Writer-director Gu Su-yeon's new film draws on his own semiautobiographical account of growing up as a delinquent zainichi Korean (Japanese-born, but of Korean ancestry) in the seaside city of Shimonoseki in Yamaguchi Prefecture, a ...
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tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, semi autobiographical ...
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violence, delinquent, identity, accused of murder, murder, accusation, framed for murder, bandit, criminal, competitor, hooliganism, assault ...
Place:
japan
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100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Switzerland, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Passionate for climbing, Allegra is victim of a terrorist attack, in which her friends lose their lives. She isolates herself after crushing fear towards people and a burning desire for revenge start devouring her. Her beloved ones are helpless. In ...
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense
Plot:
terrorist attack, revenge, female protagonist, terrorism, rock climbing, trauma, survivor, guilty conscience, terrorizing, sole survivor, mountaineer, changing lives ...
Place:
europe
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
family secret, father son relationship, guilt, family drama, uncover truth, murder mystery, changing lives, family relations, character change, family problems, family tragedy, murder ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
eastern europe, russia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, bleak ...
Plot:
tsunami, moral dilemma, fukushima, disaster, nuclear threat, nuclear holocaust, problem, female protagonist, threat, choice, uncertainty, panic ...
Time:
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Place:
tokyo, japan
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, psychological, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
2000s
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100%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.
Style:
sexy, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot:
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