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Now It's Dark (2018)
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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 encounters and into some very dark places.
Style:
dark, existential, psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, bleak, emotional, melancholic, surreal ...
Plot:
infidelity, introspection, female protagonist, family drama, unrequited love, adultery, life is a bitch, tragic love, dysfunctional family, male female relationship, night, relationship problems, marital infidelity, family problems, unfaithful husband, unfulfilled love, crush, marital problem, journey, isolation, grief, loss, guilt, trauma, memory ...
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Most similar movies to Now It's Dark
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, captivating, suspense and melancholic films with plots about isolation, slow burn, grief, investigation, psychological drama, female protagonist and loss mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Now It's Dark: Until We Fall (2018), We Don't Belong Here (2017), Culling Hens (2016), Nerve (2013), Violent (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
95%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A matriarch of a dysfunctional family is pushed to her tipping point by the disappearance of her son.
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, bleak
Plot:
dysfunctional family, disappearance, mental illness, family relations, missing child, family drama, tragic event, family tragedy, female protagonist, matriarchy, mysterious disappearance, family problems ...
Similarity:
75%
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 ...
Similarity:
74%
181
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Jakob Evans suffers an emotional breakdown after the death of his wife in a car accident. His loss and pain runs deep as he claims to have found her in bed with another man just before she died. Unable to accept her death and her infidelity, Jakob ...
Style:
emotional, disturbing, captivating, psychological, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, emotional breakdown, infidelity, grief, mental disorder, character study, obsession, loss, introspection, cheating on husband, adultery, lovers ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Norway
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A young woman, and her last memories of the five people who loved her most, recalled while experiencing a catastrophic event.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, art house ...
Plot:
memories, female protagonist, death, memory, relationships, love story, male female relationship, love affair, lifestyle, trauma, loss, grief ...
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Atticus (James Coburn) goes to the small Mexican town where his estranged son (Paul Kersey) was a resident to discover how he died.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, investigation, suicide, murder mystery, private investigation, sleuth, loss of child, life is a bitch, uncover truth, bereavement, family drama, grief ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
BLIND SPOT is a story about the grey zones in mental illness; the blind spots hard to discover, as experienced by a mother realizing her daughter struggling with far worse issues than she realized.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, tense
Plot:
childhood trauma, mental illness, depression, psychological trauma, mother daughter relationship, psychotic, psychology, mother and daughter, relationship problems, family problems, parents and children, social problems ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman breaks things off with her boyfriend but finds out the universe has other plans. Desperate to move on, she is forced to literally relive the memories they’ve shared together. Pin-balling through time and space, she attempts to ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
relationship problems, marital problem, life is a bitch, husband wife relationship, marital crisis, family relations, tragic love, dysfunctional family, breakup, male female relationship, relationships, travel ...
Similarity:
54%
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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 ...
Similarity:
54%
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:
49%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A former alcoholic returns home after ten years in prison for the murder of her husband. As her recollection of the murder returns, things take a different turn.
Style:
crime drama, psychological thriller, suspense, disturbing, psychological ...
Plot:
alcoholism, female protagonist, ex convict, tragic event, social problems, tragic past, problem, murder, dark past, recovering alcoholic, life is a bitch, confronting the past ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
When their son drowns while saving the life of a friend, the couple offer to take the boy in. What can they do with the kid who outlived their own son? The father tries to teach him work and looks after him like family. The mother is distant to him ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, emotional, realistic ...
Plot:
bereavement, grief, loss, mourning, family drama, social problems, kids and family, family problems, life is a bitch, relationships, family relations, loss of child ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama
Country: Bangladesh
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
As a noted filmmaker’s infidelity becomes a media firestorm, his fractured family privately navigates the fallout of his actions for years to come.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, melancholic, emotional ...
Plot:
family drama, infidelity, extramarital affair, family relations, social problems, family reunited, love affair, life is a bitch, love interest, lifestyle, eccentric family, male protagonist ...
Place:
bangladesh
Similarity:
46%
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:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
An unexpected letter forces siblings Bernhard and Lydia to confront each other and to deal with their family history.
Style:
captivating, psychological, emotional, disturbing, dark ...
Plot:
family relations, prostitute, family history, brother sister relationship, guilt, trauma, family secret, family problems, parents and children, family drama, shame, self discovery ...
Similarity:
45%
656
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Astrid is the wife of an acclaimed lawyer. Silenced for 25 years, her family balance suddenly collapses when her children initiate their search for justice.
Style:
psychological, bleak, captivating, thrilling, melancholic ...
Plot:
justice, trauma, female protagonist, family secret, silence, woman, family drama, secrets, lawyer, female lawyer, advocate, relationship problems ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
france
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
An American student living a privileged existence at Glasgow School of Art faces the unexpected death of her father. Consumed with her loss, she finds herself re-examining both her life and inner circle.
Style:
suspense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
bereavement, self discovery, loss, grief, female protagonist, loss of family, changing lives, life is a bitch, loss of father, dysfunctional family, family problems, lifestyle change ...
Place:
scotland
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines, UK
Duration: 30 min.
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Story:
It is about a married couple whose family is rocked by her husband’s affair.
Style:
psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, dramatic, disturbing ...
Plot:
adultery, infidelity, couple relations, female protagonist, life is a bitch, male female relationship, extramarital affair, mother son relationship, marriage, betrayal, affair, trust ...
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Three childhood friends reunite over a murder case.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, detective, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder, childhood friend, investigation, reminiscence, murderer, reunited friends, murder mystery, murder investigation, friends, problem, group of friends, old friends reunited ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Despite her disabled leg, the Ph.D. student Jae-yeon is a brilliant researcher with a rare ability to communicate with nature. Having been hurt by her hypocrite colleague and lover, she turns her back to the world and goes deep into the forest to ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, meditative ...
Plot:
female protagonist, isolation, forest, biologist, nature, physical disability, scientist, relationship problems, life is a bitch, handicapped, wildlife, disability ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A forest ranger is haunted by the disappearance of his four-year-old daughter, and the subsequent breakup of his marriage. He discovers his ex-wife Ana is pregnant to the policeman in charge of his missing daughter's case.
Style:
psychological, suspense, emotional, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
cheating wife, cheating on husband, relationships, grief, infidelity, fatherhood, loss, missing child, male female relationship, relationship problems, marital problem, forest ...
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After 27-year-old Karmen's father dies, the security structures of her previous life start falling apart, as her relationship with her half-brother Viktor also deteriorates, and she faces the darkness and emptiness of the universe.
Style:
psychological, melancholic, poignant, existential, dark ...
Plot:
grief, female protagonist, loss, dysfunctional family, mourning, young adult, character study, secrets, identity crisis, betrayal, isolation, trauma ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
41%
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:
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
A flat in Ladbroke Grove, West London. 1952. When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court ...
Style:
psychological, emotional, disturbing, captivating, poignant ...
Plot:
unfulfilled love, life is a bitch, identity crisis, tragic love, unrequited love, suicide attempt, suicidal tendency, love, relationship problems, suicidal thoughts, female protagonist, suicide threat ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
london
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Haunted by the death of her young daughter, a distraught woman develops an all-consuming obsession with a girl she believes is her reincarnated child.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, disturbing, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
female protagonist, obsession, grief, motherhood, loss, lifestyle, mentally unstable, new neighbor, tragic past, neighbor, neighbor neighbor relationship, supernatural ...
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A famous photographer with the ability to mind read returns after leaving due to his lover's suicide as she became aware of his ability. He becomes a guardian for a young girl, in midst of a serial killer's hunt.
Style:
detective, twisted, psychological, emotional, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, killer, murder, suicide, photographer, murderer, murder mystery, murder investigation, mysterious disappearance, serial murder, vanished man, trauma ...
Similarity:
37%
62
Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A troubled young man's father resurfaces fifteen years after his unexplained disappearance, forcing the son to piece together a disjointed past that could destroy what's left of his fragile sanity.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, thrilling, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
amnesia, father son relationship, father, memory loss, family drama, amnesiac, family problems, family relations, vanished man, memory lapse, mysterious disappearance, secret ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
20 years after going MIA in Desert Storm, Aaron returns home under mysterious conditions, not having aged since his disappearance, and must reestablish relationships with loved ones before an imminent return to an ambiguous other-worldly existence.
Style:
suspense, mystical, tense, enigmatic, psychological ...
Plot:
mourning, presumed dead, conspiracy theory, secret, mysticism, conspiracy, soldier, paranormal, veteran, homecoming, supernatural, alienation ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A girl awakes from a coma to find her world has collapsed around her and she remembers nothing. But as she does remember she finds out all is not how it should be and someone is out to get her.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, twist ending, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
amnesia, flashback, paranoia, betrayal, female protagonist, identity crisis, coma, deception, conspiracy, danger, confusion, isolation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany, Denmark
Duration: 467 min.
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Story:
Two families have created an idyllic life for themselves on one of the Oxen Islands. But when tragedy strikes, long-buried secrets come to light, friendships are undermined, and the paradise they built begins to fall apart.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, emotional ...
Plot:
family secret, disappearance, multiple perspectives, family drama, lost at sea, family relations, loss, missing child, grief, secrets, dysfunctional family, manipulative behavior ...
Similarity:
33%
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