Movies like Dying for a Good Grade
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Dying for a Good Grade (2021)
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
INSPIRED BY TRUE EVENTS - Wanting to ensure she gets in to a great college, a student becomes involved in an admission scandal. When the police start snooping around and begin to close in on the ring leader, things turn deadly.
Style:
captivating, suspense, realistic, disturbing
Plot:
criminal, mother daughter relationship, scandal, police investigation, intrigue, problem, police, gang, student, female protagonist, college student, threat, gang member, family in danger, woman in danger, money, party, hospital, missing person, father daughter relationship, best friend, danger, laptop, breaking the law, black detective ...
Place:
portland oregon
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Most similar movies to Dying for a Good Grade
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, suspense, disturbing and tense films with plots about female protagonist, problem, danger, murder, investigation, mother daughter relationship and threat mostly in Thriller, Action and Drama genres. Some movies like Dying for a Good Grade: Forget and Forgive (2014), Stage Fright (2017), Dangerous Cheaters (2022), A Stalker in the House (2021), Killing Your Daughter (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After being left for dead, Anna Walker awakes in the hospital to find she has full blown amnesia.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, tense
Plot:
amnesia, female detective, mother daughter relationship, uncover truth, police officer, family in danger, memory loss, policewoman, family relations, memory lapse, fighting crime, police investigation ...
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Years after a violent attack sent her into retirement, opera soprano Sarah Conrad has agreed to a comeback event. But when she steps back into the limelight, a series of new dangers threaten to keep her from ever singing again.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot:
opera singer, opera, kidnapping, singer, threat, fanatic, obsessed fan, threat to kill, fanaticism, female protagonist, problem, female singer ...
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
When star student Kaley gets suspicious of a group of underachievers’ high SAT scores, she unwittingly uncovers a cheating ring and puts her life in jeopardy.
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, investigation, female protagonist, student, crime investigation, deception, suspicion, corruption, threat, school, young adult, moral dilemma ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jen is single and looking to find her match with online dating. She connects with Mike, who appears handsome and charming. But some things are too good to be true, and all is not what it seems. When he becomes aggressive Jen pushes away and tries to ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
obsession, online dating, survival horror, male female relationship, problem, couple relations, death threat, stalker, relationship problems, romantic obsession, threat, threat to kill ...
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a DNA test helps Candace connect with her birth parents, she realizes some family histories are better left untold.
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, family relations, family secret, dysfunctional family, family problems, eccentric family, kids and family, mother daughter relationship, birth mother, female protagonist, threat, biological father ...
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When a new boy is employed to work in a coffee shop, he turns out to be a schizophrenic who refuses to take his medication, and makes the life of the popular young waitress who works there a misery.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
obsession, stalking, hunted, danger, woman in danger, psychopath, life turned upside down, stalker, threat, possessed human, mentally unstable, possessed ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
When Anna has a difficult time getting close to people, her sister creates a dating profile for her online. Anna starts to message a handsome man until she starts getting disturbing messages that a match is close by.
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Plot:
online dating, sister sister relationship, threat, problem, social network, sister, threatening telephone call, relationship problems, mysterious stranger, sisters, cell phone, stalker ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
When two female friends decide to try their hand at a storage locker auction, they unwittingly inherit a locker belonging to a dangerous serial killer. They soon find themselves in a desperate race to uncover the truth about the locker before the ...
Style:
suspense, tension, dark, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
evidence, threat, stalker, murder, female protagonist, locker, stalking, danger, problem, women, criminal, secrets ...
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A young woman uses geotagged pictures to help rescue her kidnapped brother.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
child abduction, kidnapping, investigation, crime solving, half brother, uncover truth, abduction, problem, kidnapped child, family problems, female protagonist, sleuth ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A police officer is forced to work for two warring crime syndicates while under an internal investigation.
Style:
captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot:
police, criminal syndicate, police investigation, fbi agent, arms dealer, double agent, bandit, criminal, feud, gang member, organized crime, investigation ...
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A serial killer walks the streets of Whitechapel, London, attacking and killing women, which later came to be known as the 'Whitechapel murders' stretching from 3 April 1888 to 13 February 1891 included in the London Metropolitan Police ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, homicidal maniac, serial murder, woman in danger, murder mystery, murder of a woman, forensics, sleuth, cat versus mouse, killing spree, criminal, police investigation ...
Time:
victorian era
Place:
london
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Below the streets of New York is a dark and dangerous world hidden in the shadows of abandoned subway tunnels and miles of forgotten infrastructure. When a young documentary filmmaker goes into these tunnels to uncover the unseen stories of the ...
Style:
bleak, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
gang, rivalry, danger, police, tunnel, secret place, murder, violence, found footage, homeless, imaginary, culture clash ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Emily joins a competitive wine academy that has a deadly curriculum.
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
murder mystery, investigation, female protagonist, family business, wine, revenge, framed for murder, murderer, murder, murder investigation, rivalry, vineyard ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Introverted Girona student Nacho meets two delinquents from the city's Chinatown and gets caught up in a summer onslaught of burglaries and hold ups that will change his life.
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, hood, suspense
Plot:
gang, juvenile delinquency, heist, teenager, criminal, gang member, partners in crime, lifestyle change, escapades, changing lives, gangster, friends ...
Time:
70s
Place:
iberian peninsula, spain
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
This gripping thriller follows Anna who moves to a remote island as the new bride of a famous mystery writer. Once there, she uncovers secrets about her new husband's dead former wife and fears she may be the next victim.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
murder mystery, female protagonist, life is a bitch, uncover truth, relationships, writers, problem, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, secret, threat, island ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A rural entertainer laced with action, drama.
Style:
captivating, tense, suspenseful, serious, disturbing ...
Plot:
danger, family relations, criminal gang, peril, criminal underworld, gang, bandit, family in danger, family problems, organized crime, family drama, criminal ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When an emotionally-fragile young woman takes a job as nanny to two troubled children at a remote summer cottage, she falls in love with the children's father, while becoming enmeshed in the mystery of their estranged mother - with whom, it ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, tense
Plot:
musician, family secret, nanny, female protagonist, employer employee relationship, marital problem, student, husband wife relationship, relationship problems, star crossed lovers, male female relationship, family problems ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Unable to get over the abduction of her daughter, a mother is convinced she has finally found her, but is she simply a mother obsessed?
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
missing child, overprotective mother, abduction, uncover truth, parents and children, twists and turns, family problems, child abduction, obsessive quest, life is a bitch, danger, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min.
Story:
While investigating the disappearance of several high school girls, an undercover cop posing as a student finds herself fighting for her life.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, thrilling, suspenseful, psychosexual thriller ...
Plot:
pretense, mysterious disappearance, sleuth, investigation, crime investigation, police investigation, survival, student, violence, crime solving, female student, undercover police officer ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Just when their separation is coming to an end, and Kyle and Sophia have recommitted to each other, Sophia is accused of assaulting her husband's "friend," Claire, a woman he slept with once. In reality, however, Claire is engineering ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing
Plot:
husband wife relationship, female rivalry, love triangle, intrigue, relationship problems, frame up, male female relationship, love affair, rivalry, feminine wiles, relationships, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A troubled patient mistakes a doctor's compassion for adoration and becomes obsessed, willing to do whatever it takes to keep her in his life.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, psychological thriller
Plot:
romantic obsession, obsession, female doctor, problem, relationship problems, male female relationship, doctors and patients, doctor patient relationship, doctor, female protagonist, stalker, computer hacking ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Pretty and likable Jennifer arrives as a freshman at Whittendale University and is greeted by pledge-seeker Carly of the Beta Sigma Eta Sorority. Once warmly embraced by the sorority, Jennifer soon realizes trouble is lurking beneath the happy ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, crime drama, noir
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
murder mystery, female protagonist, sorority, suspicion, murder, framed for murder, college campus, college student, problem, suspect, murder suspect, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Members of a drug ring and a bloodthirsty bear pursue a man and a woman through the Alaskan wilderness.
Style:
exciting, disturbing, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
grizzly bear, wilderness, parent child relationship, drug dealer, marijuana, mother daughter relationship, female protagonist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, corruption, small town, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, criminal ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
los angeles, alaska, canada
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Riley wants to rebuild her relationship with her mother and little sister, who are shut-ins due to her sister's illness. When Riley realizes her sister may not be sick, her mother will stop at nothing to keep her daughters with her forever.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
child murderess, mother daughter relationship, murder, psychopath, female antagonist, violence, emotional manipulation, psychological abuse, control, family drama, motherhood, vengeance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A mother protects her stepdaughter after the teenager witnesses the murder of her best friend, but is soon forced to come to grips with the terrifying possibility that her stepdaughter may be the real killer.
Style:
psychological, suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
murder, suspicion, teenager, murder mystery, murder witness, stepdaughter, witnessing a crime, teenage girl, life is a bitch, murderer, suspect, murder investigation ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Dark Harbor tells the story of Olivia, a young mother on the verge of childbirth who finds her future threatened by a hidden darkness from her family's past.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot:
pregnant woman, family secret, father and daughter, secret, getting home, dark past, mother daughter relationship, family relations, secret past, religious fanatic, teenage mother, missing father ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Psychological thriller. A police profiler who quit after a horrific case is terrorised by the escaped serial killer she sent to prison.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, slasher ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, brutality, violence, policewoman, violent, who done it, private detective, obsession, female protagonist, female detective ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When Isabelle Wagner takes the plunge to attend her twenty-year high school reunion with her daughter, Sierra, she comes face to face with her past when she is reunited with her former classmate rival, Andrea Turner. When a seemingly changed Andrea ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
female protagonist, problem, manipulation, revenge, high school reunion, female rivalry, lifestyle change, couple relations, relationships, changing lives, male female relationship, reunited friends ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Ecuador, Spain, Colombia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A precarious con artist manipulates the family of a “miracle girl” and creates a business so large and lucrative that it will inevitably get out of hand.
Style:
tense, psychological, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
con artists, manipulation, religion, deception, manipulative person, organized crime, criminal underworld, problem, escapades, threat, criminal, life is a bitch ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Amber and Kyle are ready to move on after a car accident two years ago. But their world turns upside down when Jessica, the other driver who lost her unborn baby in the accident, moves in next door and gets a job with Amber's doctor -- all in a ...
Style:
psychological, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense
Plot:
female protagonist, problem, life is a bitch, neighbor, revenge, girl next door, neighbor neighbor relationship, bereavement, accident, family problems, pregnant woman, child ...
Similarity:
29%
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