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Arrest Me (2013)
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Original name: Arrêtez-moi
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
One evening, a woman enters a police station and confesses to having killed her violent husband several years ago. As she listens to her fantastic story, the policewoman is increasingly less inclined to arrest her. Just why is the woman so eager to confess her crime, and why is the policewoman so reluctant to take her into custody?
Style:
suspense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, intense, dark, art house, twisted, noir ...
Plot:
police station, murder, unsupportive spouse, couples, family problems, law enforcement, haunted by the past, unlikely criminals, confession, police, domestic violence, female protagonist, interrogation, moral ambiguity, guilt, character study, trauma, ethical dilemma, memory, intimate, revenge, obsession, minimalism, claustrophobia, urban ...
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, tense, suspense and realistic films with plots about obsession, murder, urban, moral ambiguity, investigation, revenge and character study mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Arrest Me: The Letter (2012), Guilt & Sentence (2010), Hide (2011), Case G (2006), Tucked Away (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A playwright who begins to mentally unravel before premiere night. She is plagued by dreams and visions of being watched, but cannot decide if she is at the center of a manipulative plot or simply losing her grip on reality.
Style:
tense, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
paranoia, mentally unstable, woman in danger, couples, conspiracy, mental breakdown, emotional manipulation, murder, obsession, hallucination, character study, identity crisis ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The storyline is a thought-provoking drama of two lost and troubled individuals who are forever entwined after a traumatic event occurs. Janis, a twenty-year-old woman who is struggling with depression, takes the blame for Peter, who works as a ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
surrealism, depression, crime and punishment, conundrum, death, murder, guilty conscience, introspection, traumatic past, character study, guilt, redemption ...
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Boston detective investigates the mummified remains of six women, based on a novel by Lisa Gardner.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, detective, enigmatic ...
Plot:
serial killer, danger, uncover truth, police investigation, riddles and clues, law enforcement, murder mystery, investigation, crime scene, police procedural, evidence, cold case ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
boston, usa
Similarity:
73%
389
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Van Veeteren's only unsolved case comes back to haunt him when the daughter of a murdered private detective comes to see him. A brutal wife killer, who went into hiding years before, has resurfaced under an assumed name; or so it seems, and Van ...
Style:
realistic, suspense, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, private detective, police procedural, manhunt, haunted by the past, chases and races, law enforcement, investigation, investigator, cold case, evidence, suspect ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the surface, Ray Ryan has it all. He's a successful advertising executive with a new promotion. He has a nice home and a beautiful fiancée. Underneath it all is a dark secret he's finding harder to hide. Ray's nightmares are ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, life is a bitch, murder, secret, family secret, trauma, murder mystery, character study, nightmare, domestic drama, violent outburst, guilt ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
D.I. Tom Thorne's latest case puts him on the hunt for not one, but two serial killers, who seem to be working together, yet killing separately.
Style:
tense, detective, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, police investigation, murderous pair, law enforcement, fighting crime, police detective, psychopath, police procedural, investigation, female victim, cat and mouse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark. Under hypnosis, a mental patient admits to several recent murders. He also offers a strange defense when he claims that he is the reincarnation of a 19th century man who was wrongly executed.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, detective, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
reincarnation, serial killer, police detective, woman in danger, law enforcement, murder, investigation, revenge, psychosis, hypnosis, trauma, mental institution ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When a man is involved in a car wreck that kills his former lover, his life is derailed and his mind is splintered with guilt and the subsequent uncertainty about what exactly happened.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
memory loss, haunted by the past, losing-it hero, uncover truth, life turned upside down, life is a bitch, tragedy, car crash, guilt, fatal accident, trauma, grief ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
58%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young man and his friends react to a sudden, unexpected tragedy during their annual all-weekend summer party.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, vengeance, rivalry, prison, tragedy, danger, guilt, grief, youth, moral ambiguity, trauma, secrets ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Sweden, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
What is a human life worth? How is it possible that a woman like Agnes could agree to kill another human being? Is it the money? Or are there other forces at play?
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, female protagonist, moral dilemma, secrets, relationship problems, female assassin, assassination plot, conspiracy, murder mystery, murderer, girlfriend, female villain ...
Place:
bruges
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When documentary filmmaker Danny Hart boards a train at Grand Central Station he has no reason to expect anything more than a pleasant ride to upstate New York to interview the subjects for his latest project. But a chance encounter with a ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, realistic, tense, detective ...
Plot:
train, witnessing a crime, investigation, twists and turns, disappearance, adultery, murder, mystery woman, obsession, chance meeting, identity crisis, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Detective Ben Nolan is sent to investigate the story of a convicted prostitute and known drug dealer Linda Grossel. Linda explains that she was kidnapped and held captive for weeks. As the investigation unfolds, Linda's sanity is put to ...
Style:
tense, suspense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
investigation, uncover truth, danger, law enforcement, captivity, isolation, abduction, police detective, trauma, kidnapping, moral ambiguity, sanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
54%
273
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
When three very different people (Mike Baldwin, Will Haza, Ali Lukowski) from three completely different worlds begin a deadly game of Russian Roulette, they soon discover that their pasts are a trilogy of overlapping events that have brought them ...
Style:
tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
russian roulette, game of death, suicide, life is a bitch, mind game, destiny, down on your luck, danger, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, character study, claustrophobia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An alcoholic spends all his time spying on his neighbor, waiting for the right moment to kill him.
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, alcoholic, obsession, alcoholism, death threat, plan, murderer, neighbor neighbor relationship, neighbor, espionage, criminal, character study ...
Similarity:
53%
773
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A once famous and now a washed-up Hollywood screenwriter fighting to finish his latest script with an unrealistic deadline. He finds himself in the center of a murder investigation involving a prominent politician's wife. The surrounding events ...
Style:
suspense, neo noir, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hollywood, writer's life, murder, police investigation, life is a bitch, protagonist as suspect, creative block, screenwriter, murder investigation, film industry, character study, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance exam with the help of a private tutor. One night, one of the wives confesses to her husband that ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, relationships, confession, secrets, relationship problems, family problems, couples, male female relationship, tragic love, mistress, murderer, family relations ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Soo Jin, a woman suffering from post-traumatic memory loss, returns to her daily life with her husband after an accident. But her recovery takes an unexpected turn when she starts experiencing eerie visions: One day, she sees a vision of a child ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
a vision, investigation, amnesia, supernatural power, memory lapse, uncover truth, repressed memory, confronting the past, tragic past, memory, supernatural, secret past ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
After a party amongst a theatre group, their sole actress, Anjali is subjected to a crime from one of the men in the group. A meeting is called for. In trying to reach a consensus, stories unravel, suspicions surface and clamour ensues.
Style:
intense, tension, suspense, psychological, dark ...
Plot:
theater, suspicion, sexual assault, trauma, secrets, accusation, moral dilemma, interrogation, deception, lie, guilt, social commentary ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Logan, a cynic with a photographic memory, follows his sister's killer onto a night-rider bus. As the line between past and present begins to blur on the journey, Logan uncovers he has a complex past with much more than one passenger.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
photographic memory, memory, revenge, memories, killer, grief, trauma, confronting the past, fantasy becomes reality, false memory, investigation, murder investigation ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Professor Alberto Sajevo sees a woman walking in downtown Turin and starts following her for days; he finally meets her and they start talking, but they both give fake names. She is not the common secretary she pretends to be, but ex-terrorist Lisa ...
Style:
art house, suspense, existential, psychological thriller, tense ...
Plot:
terrorism, stalking, character study, obsession, guilt, secrets, moral ambiguity, identity, regret, deception, realism, cat and mouse ...
Time:
90s, 70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, turin italy
Similarity:
50%
407
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Nora Barkin is an aspiring actress who supports herself by working for a courier service. No sooner has Nora's friend and coworker Bill Reagan jubilantly announced that he possesses a lottery ticket worth 13 million dollars than Bill is killed ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, psychological, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
investigation, danger, amateur detective, riddles and clues, fish out of water, law enforcement, couple relations, murder, who done it, best friend, murder mystery, aspiring actress ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
French filmmaker Claude Miller's This Sweet Sickness is based on a suspense novel by Patricia Highsmith, of Strangers on a Train fame. In the original, the murder-protagonist was a psychotic, pure and simple (if such words are appropriate ...
Style:
noir, realistic, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot:
love, insanity, renovation, castle, jealousy, love of one's life, unfulfillment, misfit, destructive relationship, love and romance, obsession, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A lawyer begins a sordid fling with an attractive young woman whom he slowly begins to suspect to be a serial killer of men.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, crime thriller, crime drama ...
Plot:
femme fatale, investigation, murder, fall in love, psychopath, murder mystery, seduction, serial killer, danger, deception, psychological manipulation, female antagonist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Story:
Babji is a murder suspect who also is an emotionally unstable man. He describes the modes operandi behind the crime he committed that eventually helps the cops disclose unfolded facts.
Style:
crime drama, tense, suspenseful, intense, dark ...
Plot:
murder, character study, interrogation, suspect, investigation, ethical dilemma, motive, conflict, justice, confession, mental health, evidence ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
obsession, murder, law enforcement, anniversary, insomnia, death of son, women, serial killer, nightmare, paranoia, woods, gays and lesbians ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Brussels homicide cop (Jérémie Renier) begins to lose control of his life as he tries to solve a bizarre murder.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, neo noir ...
Plot:
murder, pregnancy, police detective, life turned upside down, police investigation, law enforcement, mental illness, investigation, homicide, moral ambiguity, guilt, obsession ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
brussels, belgium
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Story:
With the odds already not in her favor, Araya tells her side of the story while being interrogated for possibly killing the man who was responsible for her father's death.
Style:
tense, intense, suspense, psychological, dramatic ...
Plot:
interrogation, investigation, moral ambiguity, female protagonist, suspect, character study, murder, revenge, accusation, claustrophobia, guilt, police procedural ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, investigation, infidelity, betrayal, murder, danger, twists and turns, love, stalking, surveillance, deception, adultery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A woman, looking after her ailing mother-in-law is at breaking point. What happens when she can't take any more?
Style:
psychological, captivating, psychological thriller, thrilling, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, breaking point, problem, family problems, murderer, domestic drama, moral dilemma, character study, family conflict, female protagonist, intimate, claustrophobia ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
When she was seven, Elise Gardet witnessed her mother’s brutal murder. Ever since, she has tried to forget this unsolved crime. Now she’s 18 and beautiful, but her bourgeois family and her stepmother’s anxiety are suffocating her.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, realistic
Plot:
woman in danger, dangerous attraction, obsession, parents and children, family relations, couples, sociopath, murder, store, danger, woman, art exhibition ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
43%
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