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Abandon (2002)
 4.8
 10K
Abandon (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A psychological thriller about a senior at one of America's most prestigious universities. Under enormous pressure to complete her thesis and earn a top job at one of the world's most competitive consulting firms, Katie is still coping with the sudden unexplained disappearance of her first love two years prior. As the investigation continues, Katie is forced to choose between past passions and new possibilities, even as new facts are uncovered.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, tricky, stylized, serious, detective, atmospheric, psychological thriller, surprise ending ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, missing person, obsession, investigation, student life, plot twist, police detective, uncover truth, boyfriend, twists and turns, paranoia, stalker, elite, dancing, chess, memory, unhappy ending, police investigation, gay, dancer, nightmare, fatal attraction, campus, cash, older man young girl relationship ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, amsterdam, cambodia, athens greece, sardinia
Keyword: brick, gangsters

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Most similar movies to Abandon

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, psychological, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about murder, investigation, psychopath, obsession, dishonesty, couples and cigarette smoking mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Abandon: New Best Friend (2002), Gone Girl (2014), Mirage (2018), Tangled (2001), Never Talk to Strangers (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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New Best Friend (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Alicia is a poor girl starting college. Hadley, Julianne and Sydney are three well-off girls in a row house. Classes begin and Alicia is paired with Hadley to work on a sociology class project. At first rejected, Alicia is finally accepted into ...
Style: intense, stylized, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: investigation, college, murder, betrayal, lesbian, teenage life, wealth, manipulation, youth, college student, divorce, menage a trois ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 1.1M
Gone Girl (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story: With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style: psychological, suspense, surprise ending, clever, twist ending ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder mystery, missing person, psychology, infidelity, manipulation, investigation, femme fatale, adultery, marriage, missing wife, psychopath ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: peru, america, usa, new york, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 64K
Mirage (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min.
Story: On November 9, 1989 (the same day that Wall of Berlin falls), Nico is a 12 years old boy passionate to videotape himself playing guitar, being care lovely by her single mother MarĂ­a. This same night, when starts a 72-hours storm, Nico watches a ...
Style: suspense, exciting, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: parallel universe, time travel, time paradox, time, uncover truth, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, fantasy world, alternate timeline, investigation, disappearance, alternate universe ...
Time: 2010s, 80s, year 1989, year 2001, 2000s ...
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
 3K
Tangled (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young man is found bruised, beaten and stumbling down a secluded road. As the police try to piece together what happened, the convoluted relationship between a young woman and her two suitors gradually emerges.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, teen horror ...
Audience: teens
Plot: dangerous attraction, couples, missing person, obsession, investigation, love triangle, uncover truth, police investigation, psychopath, mysterious character, teenage life, police detective ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Never Talk to Strangers (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Sarah Taylor, a police psychologist, meets a mysterious and seductive young man, Tony Ramirez, and falls in love with him. As a cause of this relationship, she changes her personality when she begins to receive anonymous telephone calls.
Style: erotic, suspenseful, sexy, tense, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, killer, fatal attraction, sexual tension, obsession, split personality, sex scene, love, dangerous attraction, strong sexual content, sexuality, erotica ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.0
 549
Fourth Story (1991)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Valerie's husband Darryl leaves for work as usual, but never returns. She hires private eye Shepard to find him. Soon he discovers that David had a second identity and obviously doesn't want to be found. But since Shepard is strongly ...
Style: detective, thrilling, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: fatal attraction, erotica, obsession, investigation, private detective, missing person, police detective, couples, hidden identity, love and romance, uncover truth, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.0
 69K
Dream House (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered ...
Style: surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Audience: teens
Plot: supernatural, haunted house, twists and turns, plot twist, memory loss, insanity, murder, family relations, mental patient, riddles and clues, nervous breakdown, danger ...
Time: year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Dead Man's Curve (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Two roommates plan to kill a third to take advantage of college policy giving a 4.0 grade to a suicide's roommates.
Style: psychological, psychological thriller, teen horror, dark comedy, tense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: college, suicide, urban legend, murder, psychopath, killer, serial killer, misfit, freak, guts, con men, trouble ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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All Good Things (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
Style: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, intense, suspense ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: murder, disappearance, mentally unstable, overbearing parent, divorce, abusive husband, investigation, dysfunctional marriage, missing person, twists and turns, justice, obsession ...
Time: 80s, year 2010, future, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, usa, los angeles, vermont ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.4
 617
Apart (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Linked by a rare psychological disorder, Noah Greene and Emily Gates must uncover the mystery of a tragic past in order to find hope for the future.
Style: neo noir, tense, psychological, atmospheric, captivating ...
Plot: memory loss, mental illness, haunted by the past, uncover truth, destiny, couples, hopes, youth, foreknowledge, small town, profanity, deception ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.3
 11K
Enduring Love (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two strangers become dangerously close after witnessing a deadly accident. On a beautiful cloudless day a young couple celebrate their reunion with a picnic. Joe has planned a postcard-perfect afternoon in the English countryside with his partner, ...
Style: psychological, tense, disturbing, sexy, suspenseful ...
Plot: stalking, mental illness, obsession, guilt, haunted by the past, attempted murder, countryside, obsessive love, couple relations, dangerous attraction, lgbt, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.5
 209K
Secret Window (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mort Rainey, a writer just emerging from a painful divorce with his ex-wife, is stalked at his remote lake house by a psychotic stranger and would-be scribe who claims Rainey swiped his best story idea. But as Rainey endeavors to prove his ...
Style: psychological, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, dark ...
Plot: psychology, insanity, twists and turns, split personality, stephen king, losing-it hero, isolation, paranoia, macabre, murder, mental illness, plot twist ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: mississippi, usa, tennessee, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.7
 86K
Stay (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his ...
Style: surreal, psychological, surprise ending, confusing, gloomy ...
Plot: suicide, surrealism, twists and turns, obsession, mental illness, psychiatrist, suicide attempt, death, unfulfillment, parallel universe, mental institution, mentally unstable ...
Time: year 2005, future, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.3
 523
Victim of Love (1991)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: It's a romantic triangle with a lot of heat when a psychologist (JoBeth Williams) falls in love with a widowed professor (Pierce Brosnan) who's having an affair with one of her patients (Virginia Madsen). Williams turns a dangerous page ...
Style: psychosexual thriller, sexy, neo noir, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Plot: psychology, 007, seduction, woman in jeopardy, psychiatrist, paranoia, murder, fall in love, investigation, psychopath, patient, infidelity ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.2
 48K
The Hole (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Four teenagers at a British private school secretly uncover and explore the depths of a sealed underground hole created decades ago as a possible bomb shelter.
Style: psychological, scary, twist ending, tense, psychological thriller ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: claustrophobia, obsession, survival, psychology, school, bunker, underground bunker, twists and turns, danger, youth, trapped, male nudity ...
Time: year 2001
Place: wales, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.2
 26K
Color of Night (1994)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: When New York psychiatrist Bill Capa visits Los Angeles to take over his murdered colleague's therapy group, he finds himself embroiled in the thick of a mystery when he bumps into Rose and begins a torrid affair.
Style: sexy, erotic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: twists and turns, mental illness, erotica, psychiatrist, murder, voyeurism, fatal attraction, investigation, femme fatale, serial killer, uncover truth, nymphomania ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Stonehearst Asylum (2014)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A Harvard Medical School graduate takes a position at a mental institution and soon becomes obsessed with a female mental patient, but he has no idea of a recent and horrifying staffing change.
Style: twist ending, gothic, atmospheric, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot: mental illness, mental institution, twists and turns, insanity, mental patient, psychiatrist, plot twist, madhouse, doctor, doctors and patients, macabre, conspiracy ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, year 1900
Place: england, britain, usa, tuscany
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 5.9
 17K
Gossip (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: On a beautiful college campus, something ugly is about to be spread around. A bit of gossip that was told is starting to take a frightening turn. Who could it have offended and how far will the person on the other side of the gossip handle the ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, sexy, intense, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: college, gossip, psychology, rumor, investigation, secrets, manipulation, adaptation, dishonesty, teenage life, false accusation, college life ...
Time: 90s, year 2000
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Before I Go to Sleep (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France, Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman wakes up every day, remembering nothing as a result of a traumatic accident in her past. One day, new terrifying truths emerge that force her to question everyone around her.
Style: twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, obsession, psychiatrist, uncover truth, life turned upside down, investigation, psychology, power relations, doctors and patients, false identity, domestic violence ...
Time: 90s, year 2014, year 2000, year 2007, year 2013 ...
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.5
 12K
The Deep End (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their ...
Style: neo noir, tense, suspenseful, suspense, emotional ...
Plot: gay, murder, lgbt, gay teenager, danger, life is a bitch, conspiracy, tragedy, plot twist, police investigation, murder mystery, fight ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Mortal Thoughts (1991)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A loathsome man ends up dead, but it's not clear who's to blame. If ever a person got what he deserved, it's James Urbanksi, an abusive drunk who steals from his wife, Joyce, and promises her close friend Cynthia Kellogg that ...
Style: suspense, psychological, clever, tense, talky ...
Plot: murder, police investigation, twists and turns, character study, redemption, obsession, unlikely criminals, crumbling marriage, law enforcement, murder mystery, friendship, betrayal ...
Time: 90s
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.2
 317K
Insomnia (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Style: neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, detective, psychological thriller ...
Plot: small town, police investigation, murder, investigator, investigation, character study, police, police corruption, insomnia, guilt, psychopath, snow ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
What Lies Beneath (2000)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Plot: ghost, haunted house, couple relations, adultery, supernatural horror, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, infidelity, supernatural, woman in danger, danger, spiritualism ...
Time: year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place: vermont, persia, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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The Perfect Guy (2015)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After a painful breakup, Leah seems to meet the perfect guy. But she soon discovers his violent side that disrupts her life.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, fatal attraction, stalker, woman in danger, stalking, psychopath, couple relations, danger, fear, black, female protagonist, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.9
 58K
Wicker Park (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who left him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a restaurant one day.
Style: sexy, romantic, emotional, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: obsession, love story, fall in love, unrequited love, love at first sight, love triangle, relationships, secrets, dating, destiny, life philosophy, love ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Double Hour (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A chambermaid and a former cop meet at a speed dating event and a romance develops. But during a romantic getaway things suddenly take a turn for the worse when her mysterious past is revealed.
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot: psychology, twists and turns, death of lover, investigation, haunted by the past, uncover truth, maid, life is a bitch, male female relationship, strong female lead, girl, plot twist ...
Time: year 2009
Place: europe, italy, turin italy, argentina, buenos aires argentina
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.8
 45K
Sea of Love (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to ...
Style: sexy, tense, erotic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, femme fatale, strong sexual content, erotica, police investigation, newspaper, sexual relations, police, partners against crime, law enforcement, danger, twists and turns ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 7.2
 20K
Lantana (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Plagued with grief over the murder of her daughter, Valerie Somers suspects that her husband John is cheating on her. When Valerie disappears, Detective Leon Zat attempts to solve the mystery of her absence. A complex web of love, sex and deceit ...
Style: emotional, psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: infidelity, therapist, nylons, therapy, adultery, police investigation, divorce, police, sexuality, unfaithfulness, betrayal, jealousy ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.5
 584
For Sale (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A Private detective is hired to trace a woman who ran away and disappeared on her wedding day. The movie follows him and recounts the story of her life through her eyes and the eyes of those interviewed by the detective.
Style: detective, erotic, contemplative, mind bending, serious ...
Plot: wedding, sex scene, private investigator, making love, erotic scene, prostitute, investigation, private detective, nightclub, missing person, on the road, female nudity ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1997
Place: france, paris france, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 4.6
 5K
The In Crowd (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A mentally disturbed young woman takes a job at a posh country club and falls in with a clique of wealthy college kids where she's taken under the wing of the clique's twisted leader, who harbors some dark secrets too terrifying to tell.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, entertaining, intense, suspense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: lesbian, psychopath, obsession, murder, mentor, female protagonist, mind game, social differences, storytelling, redemption, lifestyle, youth ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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