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Sweet River (2020)
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Hannah's search for her son's body leads her to sleepy Billins, where her investigations uncover more than she expected and threaten to expose towns dark secrets....secrets that both the living and the dead will fight to protect.
Style:
mysterious, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, detective
Plot:
mysterious death, traumatized man, love, small town, town with a secret, twists and turns, revenge, investigation, death, morgue, murder, murder investigation, past, doctor, missing person, family relations, motherhood, murder mystery, disappearance, mother son relationship, vengeance, corpse, perfect crime, mind game, secret ...
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Most similar movies to Sweet River
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, tense and psychological films with plots about murder, investigation, uncover truth, death, revenge, supernatural and murder mystery mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Sweet River: The Last Thing Mary Saw (2021), The Body (2012), Awakened (2013), Veil (2017), Iruttu (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Winter, 1843. A young woman is under investigation following the mysterious death of her family's matriarch. Her recollection of the events sheds new light on the ageless forces behind the tragedy.
Style:
suspense, suspense thriller, enigmatic, dark, suspenseful ...
Plot:
vow of silence, death of grandmother, farmhouse, supernatural, witch, punishment, death, lesbian, violent content, a vision, twists and turns, revenge ...
Time:
1800s, 19th century
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
Style:
surprise ending, tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
twists and turns, murder, investigation, missing person, uncover truth, corpse, adulterous husband, haunted by the past, vengeance, morgue, spouse killer, adultery ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, barcelona
Similarity:
51%
519
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, twists and turns, parents and children, haunted by the past, small town life, small town, mental illness, ghost, afterlife ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
29
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
The temptation to have a one night stand leads a man to a distant town and a woman with a dark agenda. When he doesn't return, it falls upon his black sheep sister to uncover the truth of what happened.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, one night stand, murder mystery, unsolved crime, crime investigation, uncover truth, forensics, city life, crime solving, killing, criminal ...
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A drifter is picked up by police in connection with the disappearance of a young couple on a remote, windswept island months before. But the drifter turns the table on their investigation and relates a tale of madness and the supernatural.
Style:
psychotronic, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
curse, police investigation, monk, supernatural power, supernatural, tragic event, ghost, violence, investigation, curses spells and rituals, who done it, rescue ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
32%
511
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A cop who takes charge at a police station in a hill station goes after the reasons behind a few unnatural deaths which seem mysterious like never before.
Style:
tense, scary, suspense, psychotronic, psychological ...
Plot:
police, murder, who done it, murder investigation, police officer, murderer, testimony, society, corpse, vengeance, police investigation, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
30%
288
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After her father dies in an eerie accident at the family's winery, Ellia returns home from the big city to tend to the remaining members of her disaffected family. The death is eventually ruled a homicide, with Ellia’s mother emerging as the ...
Style:
enigmatic, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
murder mystery, winery, amateur detective, small town, death of father, uncover truth, family secret, suspect, homecoming, investigation, female protagonist, mother daughter conflict ...
Place:
australia
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Ziyi has been haunted by the same dream for years: In the dream, she would stand alone on a wasteland, knowing that something is buried underneath. The only one who could give her comfort is her designer friend Eric, to whom she would reveal her ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, contemplative, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
murder investigation, police detective, murder, partner, police officer, murder mystery, police investigation, couples, murderer, revenge, husband wife relationship, law enforcement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
hong kong
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Indonesia, Philippines
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Witness tells the story about the girl "Angel Williams" who is having nightmares about a boy who is commiting suicide. One day Angel is invited by her family to a dinner in their house because Angel is quite busy so she missed their ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychotronic, scary, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder investigation, vengeance, revenge, maniac, kidnapping, violence, psychopath, investigation, uncover truth, evidence, child murder, murderer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
indonesia
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Early summer, Keiichi had just moved to a remote mountain village. As he becomes close friends with a group of girls, he was enjoying his life in the village. However when he starts to become suspicious that his friends may be deeply involved in ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
curse, disappearance, murder, summer, village, obsession, danger, uncover truth, twists and turns, teenager, dark past, violence ...
Time:
80s, year 1983
Place:
japan
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A young couple awakens a terrible force when they attempt to socialize their reclusive neighbor.
Style:
scary, psychotronic, disturbing, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
paranormal, recluse, supernatural horror, supernatural power, house, couple relations, supernatural, characters in danger, ghost, violence, paranormal phenomena, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A mother reports her student daughter Lisa missing, but detective Aslak Eira is getting too little information, and she is found in a lake. The more they investigate, the less they seem to understand. Then Lisa's best friend goes missing too.
Style:
tense, suspense, detective, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
disappearance, investigation, murder, police investigation, missing person, sleuth, father son relationship, crime solving, uncover truth, forensics, police, race against time ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The Sloan's young son Daniel has been in coma for an extended period of time following a car accident. Hannah, who was driving at the time of the accident, is suffering a great deal of guilt and depression. Shortly after moving into a newly ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
ghost, supernatural, danger, family relations, haunted by the past, farm, mentally unstable, uncover truth, relocation, paranormal, dealing with death, haunted house ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A 911 operator receives a ghostly call from a child murdered thirty years before and becomes obsessed with unraveling the crime. What she discovers shatters her.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, emotional, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Plot:
supernatural, riddles and clues, haunted by the past, danger, nightmare comes true, murder, uncover truth, grief, murder mystery, haunting, twists and turns, ghost ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
27%
170K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico, France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A woman brings her family back to her childhood home, which used to be an orphanage, intent on reopening it. Before long, her son starts to communicate with a new invisible friend.
Style:
twist ending, scary, surprise ending, psychological, gothic ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, supernatural, twists and turns, macabre, fear, haunted, death, missing child, tragic event, haunted by the past, imaginary friend ...
Time:
year 2007, 2000s, y2k, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
26%
370
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The story of how social networks and instant messengers are changing the life of a modern person. It has been several years since a 16-year-old teenager posted a photo of his girlfriend in the general chat, hoping to boast to friends. Now he has a ...
Style:
enigmatic, suspense, mystical, captivating, rough ...
Plot:
ghost, ex girlfriend, social network, murder, confronting the past, mysticism, haunted by the past, cyberspace, fear, terror, dark web, revenge ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Stênio, the nightshifter of a morgue, has the ability to communicate with the cadavers that are brought to him every night.
Style:
suspense, bleak, suspenseful, creepy, mysterious ...
Plot:
morgue, macabre, mysticism, ghost, revenge, doctor, death, supernatural ability, job, corpse, nightshift, adultery ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
When her grandmother is brutally murdered, Regine, a fragile young woman must return to the countryside she has struggled to escape in order to engage with the family guilt she’s tried to shut out of her life - and to connect with the brother she ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, gothic horror, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, secret, murder investigation, death of grandmother, death, dysfunctional family, guilt, confronting the past, female protagonist, family problems, getting home, family relations ...
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
After his colleague Schweitzer goes missing during a drug raid, undercover cop Till Hager is tasked with tracking down a mysterious new drug called "Abaddon" - a substance which supposedly drags it's users down the deepest depths of ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, psychotronic, scary ...
Plot:
police, drug, free will, suicide, police officer, partner, investigator, murder investigation, disorder, heroes, law enforcement, revenge ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A young woman inherits her grandmothers home, despite never having met her and never been to her house. Her mother tells her to make a journey to her grandmothers home as a way to deal with grief, but she gets more than she bargained for.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
inheritance, deception, evidence, death, secret, house, lie, estate, strong female character, uncover truth, grief, family secret ...
Place:
iceland
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When the beautiful Leonor arrives at the architecture studio Borla y Asociados looking for Nelson Jara, both Mario Borla and his partner Marta Hovart and Pablo Simó, the building's oldest architect, claim to ignore that name completely. But ...
Style:
suspenseful, contemplative, psychological, suspense, unusual plot structure ...
Plot:
architecture, architect, construction, murder investigation, murder, murderer, investigator, revenge, interrogation, partner, police investigation, law enforcer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France, Netherlands, Germany, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A small town in an Argentinian province, 1975. The life of a successful lawyer gets complicated when he has a stupid quarrel with a stranger in a crowded restaurant.
Style:
suspense, unusual plot structure, contemplative, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
lawyer, small town, abduction, private detective, missing person, dictator, dictatorship, who done it, partner, police detective, police officer, rivalry ...
Time:
70s
Place:
argentina
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
In 2018 a string of tragedies unfold in the high desert of North Eastern Nevada. A woman was found dead and another would vanish along the same stretch of remote highway. Could these events be linked to the infamous 2017 disappearance of outdoorsman ...
Style:
atmospheric, bleak, serious, disturbing, scary ...
Plot:
found footage, missing person, investigation, supernatural, missing woman, desert, isolation, missing man, death, corpse, danger, disappearance ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
nevada
Similarity:
24%
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2K
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
There are terrible things happening in the desert...unexplainable, frightening things. Tragic, inexplicable incidents… ever since she arrived.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
rescue, ghost, supernatural, desert, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, eye, murder, uncover truth, dark secret, american horror, child ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
arizona, usa, canada
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A mummified corpse has been found by workers who were knocking down a wall. Ariane Sallès and Gaspard Lesage are in charge of the investigation.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, suspenseful
Plot:
inheritance, police officer, french police, crime investigation, childbirth, wealthy family, who done it, murder, police investigation, peril, murder mystery, uncover truth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
When Claire Spencer starts hearing ghostly voices and seeing spooky images, she wonders if an otherworldly spirit is trying to contact her. All the while, her husband tries to reassure her by telling her it's all in her head. But as Claire ...
Style:
suspense, surprise ending, sexy, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
haunted house, ghost, couple relations, supernatural horror, woman in danger, danger, haunted by the past, infidelity, supernatural, couples, adultery, psychology ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
vermont, persia, usa, boston
Similarity:
23%
165
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Sumon is compelled to grow up in the city's underworld as mafia lord Osman Ali's killer machine. After killing a pregnant woman carrying Osman Ali's illegitimate child, Sumon's conscience leads him to defy Ali's order.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, detective
Plot:
murder mystery, murder investigation, overdose, whodunit, blackmail, law enforcement, who done it, death, society, police officer, serial killer, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kolkata
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, Ireland
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Publisher, Will Atenton quits a lucrative job in New York to relocate his wife, Libby and their daughters to a quaint town in New England. However, as they settle into their home the Atentons discover that a woman and her children were murdered ...
Style:
surprise ending, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological, tense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
haunted house, twists and turns, supernatural, plot twist, memory loss, nervous breakdown, murder, mental patient, danger, riddles and clues, haunted by the past, insanity ...
Time:
year 2011, year 2000, 21st century
Place:
new england, usa
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young woman tries to find her origins after having been abandoned as an infant at a cemetery wrapped in a cloth with satanic symbols, but as she gets closer to answers a malevolent spirit is telling her to leave.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
ghost, female protagonist, supernatural horror, abandoned baby, abandoned, supernatural, satanist, secret, undercover, obsessive quest, identity, occult ...
Similarity:
22%
315
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
With the police stalling the investigation into her husband's murder, Deeksha decides to set up an investigation of her own to find the killers. However, as she gets closer to the truth, she invites trouble from some dangerous people
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense
Plot:
murder investigation, death of husband, police, murder, who done it, murderer, law enforcement, vengeance, graphic violence, husband wife relationship, evidence, couples ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
22%
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