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Double Life (2016)
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Original name: 二重生活
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
Tama is a graduate student. She lives with her boyfriend Takuya. She becomes influenced by lectures about French writer Sophie Calle and begins to follow her neighbor Ishizaka. Tama soon discovers that her neighbor Ishizaka is having an affair. She becomes excited about discovering his secret. Her relationship with her boyfriend Takuya and her professor Shinohara changes.
Style:
tense, captivating, philosophical, art house, existential, moody
Plot:
affair, obsession, double life, surveillance, relationships, life is a bitch, male female relationship, teacher student relationship, lifestyle, secret, love story, secret identity, stalking, infidelity, female protagonist, voyeurism, character study, romantic relationship, neighbor, urban, adaptation, identity, moral ambiguity, private vs public, ethical dilemma ...
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Most similar movies to Double Life
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, psychological, tense and suspense films with plots about obsession, relationships, male female relationship, psychological drama, slow burn, moral ambiguity and character study mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Double Life: Oki - okeāna vidū (2014), Culling Hens (2016), Until We Fall (2018), Never Here (2017), The Name (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Latvia, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Psychological thriller connecting three different people in the mysterious vortex, trying to untangle the dramatic fight of border between the truth and fantasy. Rob, a former real estate broker, unemployed, starts following a strange Japanese ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, love affair, multiple storylines, relationships, male female relationship, hidden truth, uncover truth, social problems, secret, couple relations, relationship problems, obsession ...
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95%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Story:
A naive young farmhand stumbles upon a terrible scene after suspecting her husband of an affair. Unable to comprehend what she has seen, the woman resolves to confront her husband and discover what happens in the stables at night.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, grim ...
Plot:
infidelity, bestiality, farm, male female relationship, family secret, relationship problems, family problems, husband wife relationship, female protagonist, confrontation, betrayal, investigation ...
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65%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Louise loved Adam. Adam loved Louise. That is how it used to be. But a child has disappeared. Their child. The police said it was a drowning accident. Yet the truth is that their little boy’s body was never found. Lucas, ten years old. How easy it ...
Style:
thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional, suspense ...
Plot:
grief, bereavement, family tragedy, missing child, loss, relationship problems, family relations, disappearance, relationships, life is a bitch, family problems, loss of child ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
An artist whose work involves capturing images of strangers begins to believe she herself is being observed.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
stalking, murder mystery, art, female protagonist, paranoia, obsession, photography, voyeurism, privacy invasion, female artist, fantasy becomes reality, secretly observing ...
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Having failed with his business and gone absolutely penniless, Masao (45) divorced with his wife, and is currently leading a hopeless life in Ibaraki. One day, a mysterious high school girl, going by the name Emiko, showed up before Masao. Every now ...
Style:
melancholic, captivating, psychological, art house, tension ...
Plot:
schoolgirl, japanese teenager, divorce, loneliness, midlife crisis, character study, relationships, family relations, family problems, drastic change of life, life, couple relations ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Norway
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
When Lene seeks out her estranged husband in hope of reconciliation she finds him in bed with a new lover. Shocked, she flees the scene and embarks on a journey through the night that takes her on an existential rollercoaster ride of dreamlike ...
Style:
existential, dark, disturbing, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
infidelity, introspection, female protagonist, family drama, crush, marital infidelity, unfulfilled love, life is a bitch, family problems, tragic love, marital problem, relationship problems ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Strangers in a waiting room become the characters in Claire's recounting of her troubled life and the secrets of a turbulant marriage.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, tense, melancholic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
character study, talking about love, marriage, love story, married couple, love interest, couple relations, spoken inner thoughts, philosophical conversation, love and romance, male female relationship, romantic relationship ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 201 min.
Story:
Omnibus film "Bungo Sasayakana Yokubo" features 6 different short stories set under 2 different themes ("Mitsumerareru Shukujotachi" & "Kokuhaku Suru Shinshitachi").
Style:
anthology, psychological, captivating, thrilling, art house ...
Plot:
omnibus, male female relationship, relationships, lifestyle, multiple storylines, unrequited love, confession, sexual desire, realism, bittersweet, obsession, urban ...
Place:
japan
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The relationship between a director and an actress takes a turn when the lines between art and life are crossed.
Style:
independent film, captivating, psychological, disturbing, art house ...
Plot:
love affair, director, longing, male female relationship, couple relations, love interest, romantic relationship, couples, love and romance, relationships, infatuation, love story ...
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45%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Richio, a young DJ, is as emotionally non-existent as no other man on the planet. He uses his tough exterior to avoid attachments to people and society.
Style:
psychological, captivating, disturbing, melancholic, art house ...
Plot:
love triangle, trauma, character study, relationships, romantic relationship, love affair, love story, physical appearance, male female relationship, relationship problems, social problems, love interest ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Georgia
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The life of a young architect is thrown into turmoil when he's diagnosed with a rare eye disease. As his condition worsens, he questions his life and career choices, and his relationship to his frustrated wife becomes more strained.
Style:
psychological, surreal, enigmatic, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
self discovery, architect, truth, identity, identity crisis, love story, relationships, male female relationship, problem, mysterious girl, in love, love affair ...
Place:
middle east
Similarity:
45%
170
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
After his cousin commits suicide, journalist Stewart Cooper begins to unravel a web of shaming, lies, and secrets. Following the leads he discovers the involvement of the police, his cousin’s ex and the man she had an affair with – her church ...
Style:
crime drama, psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, crime investigation, relationships, private investigation, brother, religious faith, crime solving, uncover truth, secret, affair, faith, male female relationship ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
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Story:
M, a mystery writer, has a girlfriend of five years named F, who disappeared on Halloween night. When a woman comes and claims to be her sister, M begins the search for his girlfriend. Along the way, the people he meets describe a woman very unlike ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, atmospheric ...
Plot:
investigation, mysterious character, mysterious disappearance, memory, missing person, searching for the truth, problem, private investigation, uncover truth, family problems, life is a bitch, vanished man ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Sabine is looking for the truth behind the disappearance of her best friend twenty years ago. An encounter with the handsome Olaf, a man she remembers from her teenage years, and the announcement of a high school reunion turn her life upside down.
Style:
tense, suspense, melancholic, atmospheric, noir ...
Plot:
high school reunion, secrets, dark past, missing person, flashback, female protagonist, obsession, high school, memory, investigation, relationships, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
year 1995
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: China, France
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Wu Hongyan is a female bailiff in a regional court in West China dealing with women awaiting execution—more often than not, sentenced for crimes of passion. Every weekend, without much luck, she looks for love at the Good Luck Matchmaking dance, ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
affair, social realism, female protagonist, revenge, loneliness, love affair, life is a bitch, social problems, relationship problems, secret, male female relationship, death sentence ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany, Netherlands
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Karsten apparently has it settled. However, in this provincial German town, a moment of weakness turns to disaster, disappointment soon fuels anger, justice hides behind hypocrisy, and evil gradually unfolds.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, bleak, independent film ...
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
adultery, seduction, blackmail, suspicion of adultery, affair, infidelity, temptation, mature, husband wife relationship, seductress, cheating boyfriend, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Place:
seoul
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42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, thrilling, psychological, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
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Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
A major newspaper has informally decided to employ a female university student. However, shock ripples within the newspaper because of a weekly magazine’s scoop that she is the daughter of the criminal in a serious case. This was the kidnapping of ...
Style:
tense, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, tense, sinister, suspense ...
Plot:
disappearance, paranoia, dream, obsession, psychiatry, family secret, fate, isolation, investigation, slow burn, neurology, supernatural ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
1989 is the 64 Shouwa year in the Japanese calendar, thus the unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in the Prefectural Police Department. And 14 years ...
Style:
detective, enigmatic, thrilling, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, police investigation, cop, japanese police, police procedural, secret, abduction, puzzle, crime investigation, cold case, missing daughter ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
40%
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:
39%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Estonia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
female protagonist, self discovery, motherhood, divorce, supernatural, loneliness, midlife crisis, infertility, character study, isolation, identity, haunting ...
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Portugal
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Director Jorge Silva Melo has developed a viable, though highly intellectual mystery story about the world of art and culture and murder in this somewhat theatrical presentation. When German artist Bernd Hoffmann (Michael König) arrives in Lisbon ...
Style:
art house, atmospheric, psychological, intellectual, dark ...
Plot:
painter, theater, artist, murder, gallery, investigation, obsession, missing person, slow burn, identity, memory, literary ...
Time:
80s
Place:
lisbon portugal, portugal
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Tied to a mountain between her brutalizing spouse and her secret lover, disaster strikes; the authorities accuse her of murder and prompt a confession.
Style:
tense, black and white, suspense, period drama
Plot:
courtroom, mountain climbing, courtroom drama, love triangle, lawyer, murder, confession, trial, adultery, female protagonist, guilt, infidelity ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Anna Davati is a very beautiful woman of about forty years who moves from the big city where she lives to a small provincial town to answer a job advertisement published in a newspaper. She appears, therefore, at the home of Carlo Silvio, a writer ...
Style:
romantic, captivating, psychological, art house, intellectual ...
Plot:
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36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Oslo in beautiful autumn. Ingvild is a stage manager at the National Theatre, and trying to make a life change, with her artistic ambitions. Not liking actors, she still manages to get into two very different affairs.
Style:
disturbing, romantic, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
relationships, actor, theater, autumn, couples, couple relations, romantic relationship, love affair, love and romance, love story, male female relationship, actor's life ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
On a remote island off the coast of Maine, Liv, after years of silence, begins to weave a language out of Shakespeare's words. A driven neurologist, brought to the island to protect her, commits her to a psychiatric hospital. She becomes a ...
Style:
enigmatic, psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychiatric ward, female protagonist, revolution, explorer, mental health, character study, mental illness, isolation, psychiatric hospital, puzzle, problem, silence ...
Place:
maine
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A College professor finds his life unraveling when a new student joins his class, a student who may or may not be the very subject of his darkest secret. His obsession could kill him and his family.
Style:
suspense, erotic, sexy
Plot:
obsession, college professor, sexual obsession, voyeurism, double life, infidelity, coercion, college, midlife crisis, jealousy, paranoia, sexual tension ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
It all starts with a simple lie. Lee Yu-mi takes on a privileged young woman's identity, leading her to a completely different life. When she marries a wealthy man whose ambitions gradually put them in the public eye, her perfectly-built ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, unpredictable, tense ...
Plot:
lie, deception, female protagonist, identity crisis, relationships, relationship problems, couple relations, identity, impostor, life is a bitch, couples, fighting illness ...
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