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If I Tell You I Have to Kill You (2015)
96
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a professor of religious studies is forced to investigate why his students are being murdered, he discovers what ended his own life and is then reborn.
Style:
tense, psychological, psychological thriller, captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, dark, twist ending, detective, mystical ...
Plot:
occult, professor, murder, satanism, murderer, mysticism, puzzle, undercover, problem, secret, investigation, supernatural, paranormal, faith, rebirth, college campus, obsession, redemption, identity crisis, moral ambiguity, supernatural horror, campus, revenge, secret society, claustrophobia ...
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Most similar movies to If I Tell You I Have to Kill You
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, psychological, captivating and suspenseful films with plots about investigation, revenge, secret, obsession, slow burn, moral ambiguity and murder mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like If I Tell You I Have to Kill You: Gaslight (2019), The Trainer (2013), Root Letter (2022), The Lost Patient (2022), Vasantha Mullai (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
148
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 13 min.
Story:
Everyone thought Danny had gone missing. Towards the end of senior year she vanished, leaving family and friends devastated and confused including her closest friend in the world, Becca. Gaslight picks up years later when Becca and her new husband ...
Style:
enigmatic, detective, psychological, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
visitor, manipulation, psychological abuse, problem, mysterious character, secrets, undercover, secret, mysterious disappearance, puzzle, lifestyle, paranoia ...
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100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Annie, 28 and recently divorced, is doing everything she can to get her life back on track. When she decides to join the New Life Fitness gym she's inspired and excited about her new trainer Alex, 20-something, who quickly becomes a friend. ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
female protagonist, stalker, serial killer, personal trainer, psycho killer, killing, murderer, murder, mental patient, homicidal maniac, mentally unstable, psychopath ...
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30%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After Carlos, an impoverished teen from a fractured home, receives a desperate note from Sarah, a pen pal he lost touch with a year ago, he uses her letters to solve the mystery of her disappearance and crimes she may have been a part of.
Style:
tense, enigmatic, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
investigation, secrets, private investigation, crime solving, mysterious girl, uncover truth, undercover, criminal, crime investigation, secret, puzzle, missing person ...
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26%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The 19 years old Thomas wakes up in a hospital after three years in a coma. He doesn't remember anything. The psychologist Anna tells him that his family has been murdered and that he is the only survivor of the massacre while his sister Laura ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological thriller, psychological, captivating, crime drama ...
Plot:
memory loss, psychiatry, waking up from a coma, memory lapse, amnesia, problem, coma, repressed memory, mental illness, memory, psychology, hospital ...
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Rudhra, who works tirelessly for a successful career and money, and suffering from blackout disorders, goes on a romantic journey to a hill station with his girlfriend Nita, trying to spend some quality time . On the way, he stays at the Vasantha ...
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, psychological thriller, tense, thrilling ...
Plot:
battles, problem, gang, secret, fight, mental breakdown, road trip, motel, paranoia, memory loss, identity crisis, claustrophobia ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ben wakes up from an artificial coma after a failed mission. The personal protector has to deal with the fact that he could not prevent the death of a little girl. In order to recover, the BKA officer takes a break from the police service and drives ...
Style:
crime drama, psychological thriller, captivating, thrilling, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coma, life is a bitch, problem, troubled past, deception, confronting the past, police investigation, police officer, cold case, investigation, guilt, family drama ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A young woman is committed to a psychiatric hospital and claims her newborn was stolen by a dark cult.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, dark, suspenseful, psychological ...
Plot:
mental illness, supernatural, schizophrenia, occult, revenge, psychiatric hospital, kidnapping, supernatural horror, mental patient, child abduction, mentally unstable, female psychopath ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Beautiful wife and expectant mother Lola Winters (Sherilyn Allen) seems to have it all—the big house, a dashing husband Leo Winters (Jamall Johnson), and a thriving restaurant business. But Lola’s seemingly perfect life is interrupted when a ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
love triangle, missing woman, secrets, domestic drama, problem, changing lives, relationships, love affair, male female relationship, couple relations, secret, undercover ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On the surface, Ray Ryan has it all. He's a successful advertising executive with a new promotion. He has a nice home and a beautiful fiancée. Underneath it all is a dark secret he's finding harder to hide. Ray's nightmares are ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, life is a bitch, murder, secret, family secret, trauma, murder mystery, character study, nightmare, domestic drama, violent outburst, guilt ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Soo Jin, a woman suffering from post-traumatic memory loss, returns to her daily life with her husband after an accident. But her recovery takes an unexpected turn when she starts experiencing eerie visions: One day, she sees a vision of a child ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
a vision, investigation, amnesia, supernatural power, memory lapse, uncover truth, repressed memory, confronting the past, tragic past, memory, supernatural, secret past ...
Similarity:
23%
2K
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:
23%
200
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When an ex-cop arrives in a small town searching for answers to a murdered ranch owner and his missing daughter, it slowly becomes clear he has his own personal agenda to finding the truth.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, psychological, crime drama, thrilling ...
Plot:
investigation, small town, ex cop, missing person, murder, crime solving, disappearance, secret, small town life, police, eccentric family, police officer ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Story:
Following the showdown with his arch nemesis Ando, Detective Ango Ishikawa takes on a new case with his uncanny ability to communicate with the dead.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, detective, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
supernatural, haunting, ghost, macabre, guilt, good versus evil, moral ambiguity, medium, redemption, investigation, police procedural, revenge ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Turkey, Italy, India
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Matters turn violent after an ex-police detective (Richard Tyson) and psychiatrist (Kurt Sinclair) manipulate a grieving father (Matt Cinquanta) in pursuit of justice.
Style:
detective, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
revenge, murder, manipulation, secret, justice, vigilante, grief, violence, problem, police detective, manipulative person, detective inspector ...
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22%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A prosecutor is building a case against a suspected serial killer. She receives death threats, but ignores them at first. When her husband disappears and someone blackmails her, she turns to her ex, a suspended homicide detective.
Style:
crime drama, detective, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
husband and wife, prosecutor, blackmail, betrayal, investigation, suspicion, missing person, obsession, love triangle, serial killer, city, alcoholism ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy, UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Wealthy wine maker Jonathan Bragg (Keith Carradine) hires Tuscan wine detective (Gaetano Guarino) to discover the source of a mysterious bottle of wine. Based on Edgar Allan Poe's "The Cask of Amontillado".
Style:
detective, atmospheric, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
wine, edgar allan poe, vineyard, revenge, basement, murder, obsession, betrayal, adaptation, claustrophobia, investigation, european ...
Place:
tuscany, italy
Similarity:
21%
248
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A single mom moves to a small town hoping for a fresh start. Soon she discovers dark secrets hidden in this quaint town that she may not be able to escape.
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
small town, female protagonist, single parent, undercover, secret, puzzle, threat, problem, small town life, murder, investigation, deception ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
Set against the backdrop of The Partition, Byomkesh Bakshi and his assistant Ajit must solve the murder of the head of the dysfunctional Halder family.
Style:
detective, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, uncover truth, problem, teamwork, murder investigation, crime solving, crime investigation, sleuth, who done it, whodunit, literary ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
kolkata, india
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Convinced the tragic deaths of her loved ones were orchestrated by a famous novelist she worked for, Luciana turns to a journalist to expose her truth.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, disturbing, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot:
revenge, investigation, female protagonist, boss, problem, murder mystery, puzzle, suspicion, secret, suspect, conspiracy, murder ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
21%
258
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A contract killer takes vengeance against a ruthless drug cartel, resulting in a mysterious puzzle that a small town sheriff must solve in order to stop untold horrors.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
sheriff, murder, hitman, vengeance, murderer, organized crime, criminal's revenge, drug cartel, murder mystery, killing, changing lives, assassin ...
Similarity:
20%
190
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Serial killers have plagued the American landscape for decades, committing gruesome atrocities, and providing some tough cases for criminal investigators to crack. This thriller follows the travails of two detectives who are on the trail of a ...
Style:
tense, detective, crime thriller, captivating, thrilling ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, homicide detective, murder investigation, crime investigation, who done it, uncover truth, crime solving, murderer, sleuth, killing ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
Lorna Brady wakes one morning to find a corpse in her house. Brady has no idea who the dead woman is or if she herself might be responsible for the apparent murder, because she has long suffered from extreme bouts of sleepwalking.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
female protagonist, sleepwalking, dark secret, trauma, sleepwalker, problem, memory lapse, secret, investigation, identity crisis, isolation, haunting ...
Time:
2010s, 80s, year 1986, year 2015
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A former nun turned criminal profiler is called in to investigate the horrific ritualistic murders of two middle aged women. Her unorthodox approach means that she has to deal not only with solving a murder but also winning the trust of her ...
Style:
tense, detective, psychological thriller, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
investigation, serial killer, mind game, crime investigation, secret, homicide detective, ritual, murderer, uncover truth, police investigation, murder, serial murder ...
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Shivaji Surathkal, who is the Sherlock Holmes of the Karnataka Police Department, is handed over a high-profile case – the murder of the Home Minister's son. This brings him to an eerie resort in Ranagiri, near Madikeri, which seems to throw ...
Style:
detective, suspense, atmospheric, tense, intense ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, police procedural, evidence, whodunit, interrogation, isolation, slow burn, claustrophobia, cold case, secret
Place:
kannada
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
In order to solve the mystery of her best friend's murder, Darcy decides to date each one of her friend's on-line pals to see which one of them might have something to do with it.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, female protagonist, murder mystery, online dating, internet dating, problem, crime solving, murderer, murder investigation, uncover truth, crime investigation ...
Similarity:
20%
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:
20%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
While searching for his missing brother, Max Kovak stumbles upon a secret society that seems to be preparing for a catastrophic event.
Style:
dark, suspense, detective, crime thriller, tense ...
Plot:
missing person, conspiracy, secret society, investigation, night, paranoid, underground, obsession, catastrophe, urban, moral ambiguity, private detective ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A young woman returns to her birthplace after her father's death and unearths distant memories and long-buried secrets that change everything she thought she knew about her family, past and herself.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, suspense ...
Plot:
female protagonist, investigation, family secret, rural area, life is a bitch, getting home, secret, countryside, crime solving, private investigation, murder investigation, sleuth ...
Place:
new england
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Madison Taylor (Merrin Dungey) is a forensic psychiatrist, spending her days interviewing prison inmates and her evenings with her husband Jeremy. When Jeremy is killed in a home invasion by Francis Tate (Devon Graye), her world begins to turn ...
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, captivating, psychological, thrilling ...
Plot:
murder, mental disorder, obsession, relationships, relationship problems, murder mystery, problem, threat, attempted murder, murder investigation, male female relationship, stalking ...
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
After the death of her policeman father, Xiaomai begins to look over his old journals filled with notes about the cases he investigated over the years. The mention of a purple scarf in the notes particularly catches her attention, prompting her to ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, enigmatic, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, serial killer, love, female protagonist, murder investigation, secret, murder mystery, puzzle, disappearance, murderer, mysterious disappearance ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
20%
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