Movies like Backfire 1987
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Backfire (1987)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mara McAndrew's marriage is falling apart. Her husband, Donnie, a Vietnam veteran, suffers troubling flashbacks about the war, leaving him unresponsive to her needs. Mara wants out, but she also wants Donnie's money. When Mara meets a mysterious stranger, Reed, at a local bar, she believes she has found the right person to help her out of her predicament. But Mara worries that Donnie's sister, Jill, is on to her.
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious, neo noir, independent film, surprise ending, tension, twist ending ...
Plot:
murder, female nudity, woman with a gun, vietnam veteran, cheating wife, inheritance, vietnam war, infidelity, family problems, couple relations, twists and turns, betrayal, manipulation, dangerous attraction, unsupportive spouse, ptsd, fight, sex scene, beer, affair, catatonic state, backfire, pistol, love, obsession ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
vietnam
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about dishonesty, couples, murder, deadly, infidelity, erotic thriller and obsession mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Backfire: Extramarital (1998), When Justice Fails (1999), Impulse (2008), Blind Terror (2001), Dream Lover (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An aspiring writer gets involved in the investigation of her best friend after she is killed while having an affair.
Style:
independent film, tense, realistic, serious, sexual ...
Plot:
writers, investigation, sex scene, female masturbation, extramarital affair, woman on top, investigative journalism, woman with a gun, infidelity, murder, journalism, love affair ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful, sexual ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Acting on impulse, Claire Dennison (Willa Ford), enjoys a brief fling with a sexy stranger (a dead ringer for her husband), only to realize that the object of her desire is a crazed, manipulative, and tenacious psychopath.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychological, tense, sexy ...
Plot:
dangerous attraction, sexual fantasy, stalking, femme fatale, love affair, danger, anal rape, sex, woman in danger, infidelity, dishonesty, sexual relations ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
los angeles, san francisco, new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After marrying a handsome man she barely knows, a woman experiences threatening calls and violent attacks from a mysterious woman who claims to be her new husband's former lover.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, suspense, serious ...
Plot:
private detective, dangerous attraction, woman in danger, dishonesty, danger, infidelity, family problems, couples, stalking, husband wife relationship, home invasion, abusive husband ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Netherlands
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Ray is young, charming, successful and the owner of a prosperous architect company. However, he has recently gone trough a very painful divorce. His friends try to cheer him up by showing him the positive sides of being single but for Ray marriage ...
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, sexual, erotic, serious ...
Plot:
femme fatale, adultery, paranoia, female psychopath, dangerous attraction, sexual content, extramarital affair, marriage, infidelity, murder, family problems, fatal attraction ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A woman discovers becoming attracted to the wrong man can have deadly consequences in this tense erotic thriller. Linda (Nastassia Kinski) is a woman whose life would seem ideal on the surface: she runs a thriving business and is happily married to ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, suspenseful, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
obsession, sexual relations, female nudity, cheating wife, adultery, love triangle, infidelity, couples, family problems, love and romance, destructive relationship, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Mark Cahill is a good family man with a loving wife and two wonderful children. Mark also happens to be a hit man who is haunted by his last victim, a blonde, who keeps appearing in his bedroom at the worst of times. His life becomes even more ...
Style:
erotic, surprise ending, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
unfaithful wife, sex scene, making love, hitman, ghost, femme fatale, woman with a gun, guilt, blonde, double life, erotica, murder ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
812
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, mind bending, tense, scary, serious ...
Plot:
supernatural, murder, performer's life, manipulation, estrangement, mental illness, addiction, urban, voyeurism, city life, protagonist as suspect, mind game ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sexy but unstable wife and mother Jude walked out on her family three years ago. Now, just as suddenly, she is back. But her husband, Robert, has fallen in love with Callie, an assistant principal at his sons' school. He asks Jude for a ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, realistic, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family in danger, obsession, mentally unstable, stalking, family problems, dysfunctional family, family life, hidden identity, danger, murder, oedipus complex, peeping ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
100%
27K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, mind bending ...
Plot:
manipulation, haunted by the past, psychic power, twists and turns, brutality, psychic, plot twist, mind game, teenage girl, false memory, murder, memory ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, california, spain, new jersey
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A scheming woman (Krista Errickson) seeks to kill her husband to collect the insurance money, and is willing to seduce anyone she can to do it - including her husband's brother.
Style:
neo noir, psychosexual thriller, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
sex scene, lust, femme fatale, inheritance, nudity, infidelity, seduction, fatal attraction, husband wife relationship, psychiatrist, extramarital affair, brother brother relationship ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A yacht captain, Jack Lynch, is accused of murdering his boss and raping the victim's wife, Christina Ford. Nothing is how it first appears. Jack seeks the help of veteran attorney Walter J. Hill to help prove his innocence.
Style:
erotic, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s, year 1994
Similarity:
36%
549
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A man returns to his hometown after his father's death and soon enters into an affair with the wife of his old best friend.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, erotic ...
Plot:
sexual relations, infidelity, dangerous attraction, obsession, destructive relationship, friendship, love affair, manipulation, love and romance, stalking, dishonesty, couples ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A beautiful woman doesn't know if the killer is her lover ... or her husband ... or someone else!
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, seduction, dangerous attraction, manipulation, who done it, love affair, obsession, couples, power relations, infidelity, murder, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
34%
402
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, tense, captivating, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, san francisco
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexual, erotic, sexy, sensual, slasher ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
33%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, erotic, psychological, tense, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york, new jersey
Similarity:
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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, sexy, sensual, suspenseful, psychosexual thriller ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, dangerous attraction, sexual tension, love, serial killer, sex scene, split personality, sexual awakening, killer, woman in danger, stalking, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, puerto rico, san francisco
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Motive is an edgy thriller that centers around Emery Simms, a highly educated and successful business tycoon who happens to be married to the quintessential wife Constance. Things go dangerously awry when the thrill seeking Emery engages in an ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, sexual, tense ...
Plot:
desire, sensuality, dangerous attraction, attraction, murder, manipulation, fatal attraction, danger, couples, infidelity, sexual relations, black ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
older man younger woman romance, small town life, infidelity, extramarital affair, investigation, couples, who done it, family problems, couple relations, obsession, dangerous attraction, journalism ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
31%
790
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
pennsylvania
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
sex scene, outdoor sex, murder, investigation, false accusation, police detective, law enforcement, murder investigation, call girl, black bra, bare breasts, prostitute ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, romantic drama ...
Plot:
adultery, secret lover, betrayal, secret relationship, family problems, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, obsession, chess, love triangle, husband wife relationship, loss of wife ...
Time:
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Place:
italy, milan italy, england
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Jessica is a housewife, unhappy in her marriage, who decides to "spice it up" a little bit. But she gets more than she bargained for when she contacts an old high school classmate she once had a crush on.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, serious ...
Plot:
infidelity, danger, couple relations, stalking, twists and turns, classmate, jealousy, murder, rivalry, violence, stalker, marriage ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Stuck in a dull marriage, successful shrink Mia DuBois follows a patient's advice and exposes her wild side at a private underground club, where she meets a handsome stranger and begins an affair that may cost her more than just her husband.
Style:
sexy, erotic, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
extramarital affair, infidelity, murder, nightclub, manipulation, who done it, love affair, love and romance, dangerous attraction, femme fatale, mysterious character, couples ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A hotel cabana boy falls for the wife of a powerful politico. But when she confesses to the affair, her husband determines to end it forever.
Style:
sexy, psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
unfaithful wife, lovers reunited, betrayal, couple relations, love triangle, haunted by the past, love affair, dishonesty, unfulfillment, hidden identity, infidelity, murder ...
Time:
90s, year 1999
Place:
florida, new york, usa, miami
Similarity:
31%
498
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A would-be actress uncovers horrifying files on other starlets.
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
manipulation, power relations, mentally unstable, rivalry, murder, actress, mentor, twists and turns, love affair, danger, faked death, psychological manipulation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A Beverly Hills home-security guard is seduced by a rock star's wife he monitors by video.
Style:
sexy, realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
femme fatale, rock star, investigation, crumbling marriage, law enforcement, love and romance, dishonesty, couple relations, obsession, love affair, strong sexual content, nudity ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A wife, her two-timing husband and a flirting neighbor are unpredictable competitors in a warped game that turns into a life-or-death affair.
Style:
erotic, sexual, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
erotica, passion, bigamy, home invasion, murder, infidelity, mind game, couples, family problems, love triangle, love affair, unfulfillment ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
31%
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