Movies like Adam 1983

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Adam (1983)
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Adam (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: After their child is abducted, John and Reve Walsh are trying to find him. But, shortly after that, Adam is found dead.
Style: depressing, crying
Plot: pedophile, missing person, child abuse, abused child, child kidnapping, kidnapping, abduction, law enforcement, u.s. senator, psychopath, police, murder, church, singing, sadist, photograph, choir, funeral, telephone call, reporter, grief, suburbs, death of child, department store, children's choir ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: florida

Most similar movies to Adam

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about murder, true crime, kidnapping, police, child abuse, deadly and law enforcement mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Adam: Cleveland Abduction (2015), Adam: His Song Continues (1986), Murder Ordained (1987), Keys (1994), I Know My First Name Is Steven (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Cleveland Abduction (2015)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A single mother becomes Ariel Castro's first kidnapping victim, and finds herself trapped in his home with two other women for 11 years.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot: kidnapping, true crime, captivity, life is a bitch, violence, isolation, sexual abuse, woman in danger, rape, missing person, cruelty, abduction ...
Time: 2010s, year 2002, 2000s, year 2013, 21st century
Place: ohio, usa, cleveland ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Adam: His Song Continues (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Follows the true story of John and Reve Walsh who, after their child was murdered, fought to raise national awareness of the problem of missing children.
Style: serious, realistic, captivating, emotional
Plot: child abuse, missing child, missing person, family problems, obsessive quest, dealing with death, society, kidnapping, death in the family, haunted by the past, child in peril
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Murder Ordained (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 185 min.
Story: This is the story of a minister who's feeling unhappy in his marriage who then has an affair with a church employee, who is also married, and who also has affairs, and whose husband is unwilling to divorce her. One day the minister's wife ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: true crime, woman killed, church, murder, small town, abusive husband, manipulation, love and romance, protagonist as suspect, investigation, media, life is a bitch ...
Time: 80s
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Cry in the Wild: The Taking of Peggy Ann (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: True story of a young woman's abduction by a deranged loner that led to the largest manhunt in the history of Pennsylvania.
Plot: stockholm syndrome, kidnapping, abduction, nature, child abuse, missing child, manhunt, ex convict, murder, missing daughter, mountain man, kidnapped child ...
Time: 60s
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Judgment Day: The John List Story (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The pious John List regularly goes to church and is respected by his neighbours. But one day the police finds his wife Helen and their three children slayed in their house - obviously by John, who left two letters for the police and his priest and ...
Plot: serial killer, child abuse, killer, murder, police, church, true crime, fugitive, murder of a family, husband wife relationship, fired from the job, filicide ...
Time: 80s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 5.7
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Keys (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A one-time investigator gets back in the game when a family suffers a trauma similar to her own.
Plot: child kidnapping, interracial relations, african american, black american, missing person, female protagonist, police detective, disappearance, haunted by the past, missing child, investigation, kidnapping ...
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
I Know My First Name Is Steven (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: 7-year old Steven Stayner is kidnapped a few days before Christmas by Kenneth Parnell. Under the belief that Parnell has been given legal custody of him, and that his family has moved away, he stays with Parnell for seven years, enduring repetitive ...
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, emotional, sad ...
Plot: kidnapping, missing child, child abuse, pedophile, child molestation, captivity, starting over, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, danger, parents and children, coming of age ...
Time: 80s, 70s, year 1980, year 1974, year 1972
Place: northern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Onion Field (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Greg Powell, a disturbed ex-con, recruits Jimmy Youngblood (Smith) a petty thief, as partner in crime. Powell panics when they two of are pulled over by two cops for tail lights. Powell decides to kidnap the cops and Smith goes along with his crazy ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: courtroom drama, murder, police investigation, true crime, legal, moral ambiguity, manipulation, brutality, courtroom, trial, law enforcer killer, haunted by the past ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979, 60s, year 1963
Place: los angeles, california, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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By The Grace of God (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Alexandre lives in Lyon with his wife and children. One day, he discovered by chance that the priest who abused him to scouts always officiates with children. He then starts a fight, quickly joined by François and Emmanuel, also victims of the ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, psychological, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: pedophilia, religion, pedophile priest, child abuse, children, cardinal the priest, church, husband wife relationship, childhood memory, female nudity, sexual abuse, gay ...
Time: year 2014, year 2019, year 2015, year 2016, 2010s
Place: france, portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Crime of the Century (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, serial killer, trial, kidnapping, confined, babies and infants, rebellion, life is a bitch, dishonesty, rivalry, uncover truth ...
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
They've Taken Our Children: The Chowchilla Kidnapping (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Three young men decide to make easy money by mass kidnapping. After careful preparations, they hijack the school bus and take 26 children and the driver as hostages. However, the bravery and the wit of the old driver could spoil their plan for the ...
Style: realistic, serious
Plot: kidnapping, daring rescue, bus, school, child kidnapping, rivalry, crime gone awry, rescue, escapades, danger, heroes, confined ...
Time: 90s, year 1976
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story: After a very messy divorce, a man starts suspecting his ex-wife and her new boyfriend of various crimes.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, bleak, suspenseful
Plot: family relations, funeral, revenge, rivalry, mentally unstable, custody, parents and children, family problems, couples, vendetta, marriage, death of child ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Lindbergh Kidnapping Case (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Fact-based story of the kidnapping of Charles Lindbergh Jr., son and namesake of the famed pilot, and ensuing trial of accused and convicted killer, Bruno Hauptmann.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, bleak, thought provoking ...
Audience: toddlers
Plot: true crime, serial killer, violent, kidnapping, murder, child kidnapping, missing child, folk hero, death in the family, media, dealing with death, life is a bitch ...
Time: 1930s
Place: new jersey, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Doomsday Mom (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Lori Vallow gained national attention when her children, JJ and Tylee, were reported missing from their Idaho home.
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychological
Plot: child abduction, law enforcement, police investigation, kidnapping, missing person, investigation, abduction, police detective, partner, evidence, uncover truth, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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In the Bedroom (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music teacher. He is involved ...
Style: realistic, bleak, heartbreaking, depressing, suspense ...
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, age difference, family in crisis, dysfunctional family, revenge, grief, family drama, small town, jealousy, family relations, character study, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: maine, detroit, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Nightmare in Columbia County (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The recounting of a terrible crime that wracked a family and galvanized police in South Carolina in the 1980's. Southern beauty pageant winner Dawn Smith is targeted by a sadistic stalker whose obsession with her leads him to kidnap her younger ...
Style: tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: serial killer, kidnapping, child abuse, love, murder, beauty pageant, law enforcement, psychopath, small town, riddles and clues, small town life, woman in danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Howard Beach: Making a Case for Murder (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In December, 1986, 3 black men ran into car trouble in Howard Beach, a middle-class neighborhood in New York City. Unable to start their car, they sought refuge in a nearby restaurant. What happened later that night shocked the entire city.
Style: controversial, realistic, serious, thought provoking, tense ...
Plot: photograph, photography, racism, courtroom, society, legal, courtroom drama, social decay, working class, murder, justice, african american ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The true chilling story of the "two of a kind", killing cousins Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers, is told in this TV drama.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: murder, serial killer, two killers, true crime, psychopath, criminal, killer, violent, police detective, homicide, strangler, cousin ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Innocent Victims (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: Army Sergeant Tim Hennis is wrongly convicted of killing the wife and children of an Air Force captain. Based on a true story.
Plot: love, true crime, sergeant, military, mother daughter relationship, child murder, investigation, u.s. army, multiple murder, captain, testimony, u.s. air force ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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3096 Days (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A young Austrian girl is kidnapped and held in captivity for eight years. Based on the real-life case of Natascha Kampusch.
Style: realistic, rough, twisted, teen, controversial ...
Audience: teens
Plot: kidnapping, child abuse, rape, psychological torture, abduction, life is a bitch, basement, pedophile, violence against women, missing child, hostage, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: germany, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Taken in Broad Daylight (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Every 24 hrs. after a child's been kidnapped by a stranger, chances of finding them alive diminishes to almost 100% ... The true and inspiring survival story of kidnapped teen, Anne Sluti, and how she manages to stay alive by manipulating her ...
Style: realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot: kidnapping, kidnapped, survival, rescue, missing person, danger, confined, hostage, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, rape, showdown, stockholm syndrome ...
Time: 21st century
Place: nebraska, montana, wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Brass (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up the ladder from being on a beat.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, detective
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, partner, police detective, society, fighting crime, police investigation, partners against crime, amateur detective, dishonesty, law enforcement, murder, police station ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Jack Reed: One of Our Own (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Jack Reed investigates a young woman whom he and his wife take into their household when she turns out to be targeted by unknown assassins.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough
Plot: nypd, murder, law enforcement, fugitives, chases and races, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, danger, rivalry, woman in danger, true crime, fugitive ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Untouched (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Untouched is the story of a reluctant attorney's struggle with inner demons while defending a teenage girl accused of murdering her newborn. When the "Hostess City of the South" is rocked by the horrific crime, Mitchell Thomas III ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspense, grindhouse ...
Plot: dedicated lawyer, uncover truth, haunted by the past, courtroom drama, legal investigation, life is a bitch, legal, courtroom, murder, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Right to Kill? (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Based on true story of teens Richard and Deborah Jahnke charged in Wyoming for the killing of their abusive father.
Plot: incest, patricide, true crime, son murders father, teenage boy, murder, child abuse, death, father son relationship, child molester, child molestation, shot to death
Place: wyoming
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Awakening of Candra (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Based on the true-life story of teenage bride Candra Torres who was abducted in 1975 while on a honeymoon camping trip in the High Sierras.
Style: psychological thriller
Plot: vacation, wilderness, fisherman, woman in jeopardy, fiancee, police officer, police, violence, rape, psychopath, murder, honeymoon ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother's Hunt for Justice (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Story: The Long Island Serial Killer: A Mother’s Hunt for Justice tells the story of Mari Gilbert’s search for the truth behind what happened to her daughter Shannan, a sometime escort who disappeared after a ‘date’ on Long Island. After Shannan ...
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial murder, missing child, mysterious disappearance, missing person, evidence, serial killer, who done it, murder mystery, unsolved crime, murder investigation, chase, society ...
Place: usa, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Bad to the Bone (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A bad girl uses her brother to kill her lover.
Plot: brother sister relationship, femme fatale, murder
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Dead Man Walking (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A justice drama based on a true story about a man on death row who in his last days forms a strong relationship with a nun who teaches him forgiveness and gives him spirituality as she accompanies him to his execution.
Style: touching, thought provoking, sad, emotional, atmospheric ...
Plot: prison, death row, death penalty, nun, rape, court, death sentence, murder, confession, lethal injection, execution, justice ...
Time: 20th century, year 1995, 90s
Place: louisiana, new orleans, united kingdom, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Do You Know the Muffin Man? (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Roger Dollison, a police officer, and his wife Kendra are living the American dream. They have two children, Teddy and Sandy, a lovely home, and a dog named Rex. What they know and how they live as a family is irreparably changed one day when it is ...
Style: psychological
Plot: pedophile, children, abuse, sexual abuse, pedophilia, social problems, stereotypes, criminal, suspect, shock, police, teacher ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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