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Hatchet Hour (2016)
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Secrets test a friendship in this crime drama. A lawyer at a top firm accidentally kills her gardener. Fearing for her career, she asks her best friend to help her get rid of the body.
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, thrilling, dark, black comedy, crime drama, suspense, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot:
cover up, lawyer, murderer, murder, murder mystery, female lawyer, problem, corpse, secret, disposing of a dead body, hidden corpse, advocate, accidental death, guilt, homicide, fear, mature, moral dilemma, ethics, panic, paranoia, social climbing, betrayal, conspiracy, corruption ...
Time:
2010s, contemporary
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Most similar movies to Hatchet Hour
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspense, psychological and tense films with plots about investigation, murder, murder mystery, betrayal, murderer, conspiracy and corruption mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Hatchet Hour: Cheer Squad Secrets (2020), Room No. 7 (2017), Thirteen Steps (2003), Dearest Brother (2016), Favor (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A mother helps her daughter become captain of the cheerleading squad only to discover that someone is giving the daughter steroids and will do anything, including murder, to cover it up.
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, thrilling, tension ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
cheerleading, steroids, murder, mother daughter relationship, high school, secrets, doping, problem, teenage life, athlete and trainer, teenager, murder mystery ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In a DVD-themed sex hotel, a young employee has hidden drugs in room #7 for criminals in exchange for wiping off his debt. But then his boss hides a dead body in the same room and locks the door. And a dangerous battle of wits ensues between a man ...
Style:
suspense, crime drama, tension, captivating, satirical ...
Plot:
locked room, corpse, locked door, drug, hidden corpse, problem, battle of wits, disposing of a dead body, satire, moral ambiguity, deception, single ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
A released inmate is hired to solve a murder case.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
murder, ex convict, investigation, secret, who done it, uncover truth, murderer, murder mystery, crime solving, homicide detective, sleuth, murder investigation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Would you help your brother ditch a dead body? Etienne Leroy must make this snap decision when his younger brother Mathias admits to having accidentally killed his young mistress. The decision is pressing, as the body is lying on Etienne's ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
brothers, murder, moral dilemma, betrayal, cover up, family relations, hidden truth, family problems, guilty conscience, murder mystery, disposing of a dead body, crime investigation ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Kip's perfect life is put in jeopardy when the waitress with whom he's having a casual fling is accidentally killed in their motel room. Desperate, he turns to childhood friend and loser, Marvin, to help get rid of the body. Marvin agrees ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, disposing of a dead body, friends, life turned upside down, dishonesty, danger, death, dark humor, cover up, accidental death, anti hero, violence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Thriller, Crime
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A killer thought behind bars is killing again. It's up to John Lawless (Kevin Smith) and Jodie Keane (Angelina Dotchin) to stop the murders.
Style:
detective, tense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, serial killer, private investigator, sleuth, crime solving, who done it, police investigation, murder investigation, murderer, murder mystery, crime investigation ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Inspector Manuel Bianquetti is forced to accept a transfer to a police precinct in Cádiz. His initially peaceful move will soon be shattered with the discovery of the body of a young girl who reminds him of a terrible past. Despite the opposition ...
Style:
tense, detective, thrilling, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
investigation, homicide detective, police detective, killing, murder mystery, police officer, murder investigation, sleuth, murderer, secret, crime investigation, police investigation ...
Place:
spain
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A high-profile defense attorney determined to change her image takes on a pro bono case, which soon threatens both her and her family.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
defense attorney, lawyer, teenager, suspect, guilty, problem, dedicated lawyer, murder mystery, murderer, advocate, female lawyer, social problems ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
1983. In a quiet Midwestern town, a young deputy covers up a murder at the hands of his brother triggering a series of events that sends them and the victim's family towards a shattering climax.
Style:
suspense, dark, suspenseful, disturbing, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
investigation, moral dilemma, accidental death, secret, family secret, cover up, small town, murder, life turned upside down, couples, brother brother relationship, accidental killing ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
midwest
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On the eve of legalization a marijuana grower is brutally murdered. His best friend, against the advice of his mentor, teams up with a suspended narcotics investigator to find the killer.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot:
violence, marijuana, psychopath, psycho killer, murder investigation, investigation, crime solving, uncover truth, murderer, murder mystery, murder, drug traffic ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Lori's fiancee Jack disappears after she accompanies him on a business trip. After she discovers he was about to expose a corruption scandal, all traces of Jack's existence vanish as well. Does Jack really exist or is he a fragment of ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, male female relationship, problem, vanished man, undercover, private investigation, intrigue, mysterious character, secret, mysterious disappearance, corporate corruption, cover up ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
A pianist pretends to be blind for inspiration, witnesses a murder. He suddenly finds himself in a blind spot with the victim's wife, the murderer. During this ordeal, he loses his eyesight for real. Will his girlfriend believe him?
Style:
crime drama, psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
blindness, murder, deception, visual impairment, murder mystery, blind man, changing lives, problem, investigation, identity, guilt, isolation ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Harish Madhav a straightforward cop and Nishanth a college professor get entangled in a crime and one has to fight for his integrity and other has to fight for justice.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, crime drama, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, fight for justice, justice, crime solving, uncover truth, fighting crime, murder investigation, criminal, crime investigation, integrity, law enforcement, corruption ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Romanced by a charismatic professor, a college girl quits school to run away with and marry him. While her mother tries to convince her to come home, she slowly learns that he is a controlling husband with a shady past... and soon realizes that if ...
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, thrilling, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
age difference, professor, affair, murder, domestic abuse, toxic relationship, problem, confronting the past, murderer, relationship problems, tragic past, murder mystery ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime
Country: South Africa
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In 2012, Deon Steenkamp was murdered along with his wife Christel and their teenage daughter Marthella on their farm Naauwhoek. GRIEKWASTAD, based on the bestselling true crime novel by Jacques Steenkamp, tells the tale of the search to find the ...
Style:
tense, crime drama, psychological, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
murder mystery, investigation, true crime, problem, uncover truth, murderer, crime solving, sleuth, secret, crime investigation, murder, murder investigation ...
Place:
south africa, africa
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jackie hires a mistress hunter to come between her husband and his mistress. But when the mistress and her husband wind up dead, Jackie becomes the number one suspect.
Style:
psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
murder, infidelity, suspicion, betrayal, family problems, mysterious character, murder suspect, adulterer, secret, murder investigation, murder mystery, mysterious girl ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Devon Major thought that his share of difficulties were over. Having gone through a difficult divorce with his wife he was now on the way to rebuilding his life when tragedy strikes leaving him in a fight for his freedom and his innocence. ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, betrayal, deception, divorce, murder, courtroom, murder mystery, courtroom drama, defense attorney, advocate, accusation, murder investigation ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Wisper, a successful bar owner, comes home to find his wife and children murdered. As the only black man in a white neighborhood, the police consider him a prime suspect, and Wisper is forced to try to solve the crime on his own.
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, captivating, crime drama
Plot:
found footage, private investigation, murder mystery, bereavement, murderer, who done it, businessman, loss of child, investigation, loss of wife, uncover truth, crime solving ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A greedy police chief learns that a wealthy businesswoman has been wrongly accused of murder and strikes a deal with her – her freedom for a large sum of money. As the case progresses, a revelation that a sadistic politician and the businesswoman ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, female protagonist, deception, murder, corruption, who done it, murder investigation, police investigation, crime solving, secret, police detective, problem ...
Similarity:
22%
133
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
Farida, a photographer, goes to a hotel to meet her friend and husband, who works at the hotel's Vertigo bar. She finds herself the only witness to the murder of two businessmen and their guards, as well as the lives of her close friends.
Style:
tense, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, crime drama ...
Plot:
conspiracy, murder, witness, photographer, problem, witnessing a crime, murder mystery, secret, female protagonist, intrigue, conspiracy theory, danger ...
Place:
egypt, cairo egypt
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
One livid dawn, a cold and damp wind blows as a man walks alone through the darkness. Deputy Police Superintendent Francesco Prencipe is on his way to meet his best friend, Judge Giovanni Mastropaolo whom he hasn't seen for almost two years. ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
investigation, suspect, suspicion, uncover truth, murder investigation, fighting crime, accused of murder, criminal, murderer, law and order, framed for murder, murder mystery ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Argentina, UK, USA, Uruguay
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An experienced commercial pilot is forced to collaborate with his country's intelligence services to avoid being punished for a serious fault he committed on the job. He is quickly plunged into an underworld of intrigue and extortion that will ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
extortion, blackmail, intelligence agency, flight attendant, blackmailer, danger, intrigue, pilot, peril, airport, problem, aviation ...
Place:
spain, latin america, madrid
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Circle Inspector Das is so obsessed with music that he plays the game of Antakshari with anyone, anywhere; whether it be for fun with his wife or to punish the culprits he arrests. However, things take a turn for the worse when Das has to dance to ...
Style:
psychological thriller, action thriller, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
game, problem, corrupt politician, corruption, serial killer, nostalgia, moral ambiguity, investigation, police procedural, cat and mouse, claustrophobia, vigilante justice ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A murder case reveals unknown secrets of the killer and the victim.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime drama, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
murder mystery, family secret, investigation, female victim, family drama, murderer, murder, guilt, loss, revenge, grief, tragedy ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A detective investigates the disappearance of a woman's corpse from a morgue and tries to uncover the cause of her death.
Style:
suspense, serious, captivating, detective, enigmatic ...
Plot:
investigation, lovers, husband, husband wife relationship, twists and turns, uncover truth, deception, death, corpse, revenge, infidelity, murder ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Following the death of a co-worker, a young woman working for a private airline learns the owner's secret and becomes the next target.
Style:
tense, suspense, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, flight attendant, female protagonist, death, secret, airline, woman in danger, secrets, murder mystery, murderer, threat, dark secret ...
Similarity:
21%
248
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A single mom moves to a small town hoping for a fresh start. Soon she discovers dark secrets hidden in this quaint town that she may not be able to escape.
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
small town, female protagonist, single parent, undercover, secret, puzzle, threat, problem, small town life, murder, investigation, deception ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
A group of 11 friends go away to a resort for a weekend bachelor party, but the day ends in a death.
Style:
suspense, tense, dark, twist ending, crime thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
whodunit, investigation, bachelor party, murder mystery, suspicion, secrets, weekend getaway, resort, interrogation, cover up, friendship, panic ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Police chief Fernándo Gomez Miranda kills his friend, the well-respected lawyer and likely candidate for Attorney General, Raúl de Los Reyes and his youngest daughter of only thirteen in a vehicle ambush. Gomez' son, Luis Mario – a sad-eyed ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, crime drama, political thriller ...
Plot:
murder, witness, witnessing a crime, murder witness, corruption, conspiracy, witness protection, police, crime solving, murderer, intrigue, police officer ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The Man Behind the Scissors centers around two serial killers: mastermind Yasunaga and helper Chinatsu. The two risk being found out when the police question them as witnesses to a gruesome murder they themselves may have committed. A quirky and ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, dark, crime drama ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, killing spree, murder, police investigation, crime investigation, crime solving, secret, murderer, serial murder, murder investigation, unsolved crime ...
Similarity:
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