Movies like Break Up
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Break Up (1998)
2K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jimmy is married to the abusive Frank, but she's building a nest egg so she can leave. For a year, she's been deaf as a result of one of his beatings. One night, he pushes her over the stairwell, and she ends up in the hospital. When a charred body in her husband's car is pulled from a pond, the cops want to talk to her, but she bolts for her sister's, loses her savings pass-book, and then learns someone has emptied her bank account. She's goes on the run, with the same cops on her trail, and eventually realizes Frank may not be dead. Getting back her money, facing Frank, satisfying the police, and finding her freedom may be more than she can handle. Written by
Style:
mystical, neo noir, independent film, psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller
Plot:
abusive relationship, domestic violence, violence against women, abusive husband, marital abuse, deaf, psychopath, hospital, dysfunctional relationship, disabled, bad boy, false accusation, investigation, murder, life is a bitch, chases and races, couples, rivalry, infidelity, danger, on the run, crumbling marriage, woman in danger, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect ...
Time:
90s, contemporary
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Most similar movies to Break Up
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and tense films with plots about murder, deadly, danger, dishonesty, woman in danger, law enforcement and police investigation mostly in Thriller, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Break Up: Enough (2002), Two Shades of Blue (1999), Sleeping with the Enemy (1991), Borderline (2002), Karla (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
51K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she discovers Mitch's hidden ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, psychological, intense, tense ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
domestic violence, abusive husband, violence against women, self defense, abusive relationship, violent husband, strong female character, woman in danger, stalking, life is a bitch, training, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
year 2002, 21st century
Place:
san francisco, usa, seattle, los angeles
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Susan Price has written a #1 bestseller, a steamy novel about a woman's search for the ultimate sexual experience entitled, "The Dark Side of Judith." When Susan is framed for the murder of her fiance, billionare publisher Jack ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, enigmatic, surprise ending ...
Plot:
voyeurism, murder, undercover, danger, frame up, dishonesty, life turned upside down, woman in danger, protagonist as suspect, strong sexual content, deaf, sexual relations ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.
Style:
suspense, psychological, sexy, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
obsession, domestic violence, stalking, violent husband, woman in danger, starting over, abusive husband, psychopath, marital abuse, abusive relationship, dangerous attraction, revenge ...
Time:
year 1990, 20th century, 90s
Place:
africa, usa, iowa, san francisco, boston
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, South Africa
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Psychiatrist Dr. Lila Colleti is divorcing her husband and is devastated when he wins custody of their two little girls, whom he gets largely because Lila's job, being a psychiatrist for the criminally insane at the local prison, is a ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, neo noir ...
Plot:
police investigation, obsession, murder, false accusation, ex husband ex wife relationship, prison, woman in danger, police detective, family problems, custody, dangerous attraction, custody battle ...
Similarity:
100%
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7K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Based on real events, Canada's most notorious serial killers, Paul Bernardo and wife Karla Homolka kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girls.
Style:
sexy, psychological, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
abusive husband, rape, serial killer, domestic violence, sister sister relationship, rape victim, sex scene, murder, rough sex, erotic scene, making love, true crime ...
Time:
90s, 2000s
Place:
ontario canada, canada
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Rick Stone is the world's biggest action star but unfortunately, he is also the prime suspect in his wife's death. He must enlist the help of a conniving tabloid reporter named Dana Fields and the trust of his mistress Stephanie to try and ...
Style:
suspense, crime thriller, tense, dark, twist ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
suspect, false accusation, murder mystery, investigation, suspicion, evidence, danger, investigative reporter, intrigue, moral ambiguity, mistress, fame ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
508
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After a drifter is struck by a car the driver offers to take him back from the hospital to her home in order to nurse him back to health...which turns out to be one of the biggest mistakes of her life.
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Plot:
dangerous attraction, danger, woman in danger, violence, male female relationship, police detective, murder, seduction, revenge, drifter, homeless, psychotic ...
Time:
90s
Place:
venice beach california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Glamorous fashion photographer Rebecca is getting even. Angered by her husband's infidelity, she takes a lover - a mysterious hunk she fist met during a photo shoot. He's exciting. He's handsome. And, after a night of lovemaking, he ...
Style:
surprise ending
Plot:
money, paranoia, downbeat ending, bad guy wins, mental patient, unrequited love, hitman, unhappy wife, affair, best friend, death of protagonist, unfaithful husband ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Confusing realities surface in this paranoid film dealing with the fragile nature of a young woman (Anne Parillaud) recovering from rape and an apparent attempted suicide. In one reality, she is a killer destroyer of men. In another she is the new ...
Style:
psychological thriller, independent film, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
assassin, surrealism, wizards and magicians, honeymoon, professional killer, female assassin, voodoo, psychology, erotica, nightmare, serial killer, betrayal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
seattle, jamaica
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A loathsome man ends up dead, but it's not clear who's to blame. If ever a person got what he deserved, it's James Urbanksi, an abusive drunk who steals from his wife, Joyce, and promises her close friend Cynthia Kellogg that ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, talky, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
murder, crime gone awry, twists and turns, police investigation, character study, obsession, redemption, domestic violence, crumbling marriage, unlikely criminals, law enforcement, murder mystery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
After her Montreal apartment burns down and her possessions are reduced to ash, Claire Beaucage heads to her boyfriend's place in Toronto, only to find that he's missing. Then the police mistake her for Lily Warden, a sinister woman who ...
Style:
serious, rough, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mistaken identity, chase, theft, murder, dishonesty, arson, investigation, police, photographer, murder suspect, police investigation, gangster ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
toronto ontario canada, canada, montreal, bahamas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A woman discovers her new husband wants to keep her all to himself.
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense
Plot:
woman in danger, psychopath, delusion, husband wife relationship, hidden identity, captivity, couple relations, dishonesty, mentally unstable, possessiveness, murder, miscarriage ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A washed-up detective discovers his own psychic ability when assigned to investigate a serial murder case. The killer has a deranged obsession with the novel "Alice in Wonderland." As the psychopath's bloody reign of terror continues, ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, detective, surprise ending ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, mind game, police investigation, supernatural ability, riddles and clues, rivalry, law enforcement, danger, murder, killer, haunted house ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The sins of the past are not forgotten in this chilling suspense thriller. When the first body was discovered, it seemed a coincidence. But now homicide detective Jack Verdon has cause to worry: the victims of a series of brutal sex murders are all ...
Style:
tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot:
serial killer, cop as target, murder, uncover truth, woman in danger, law enforcement, life is a bitch, dishonesty, false accusation, police investigation, strong violent content, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, seattle
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man (Phillips) who wakes up with amnesia also finds his supposed friend has accused him of murder.
Style:
psychological, realistic, exciting, mind bending, tense ...
Plot:
murder, amnesia, woods, rock, puzzle, memory loss, best friend, on the run, chases and races, protagonist as suspect, law enforcement, life is a bitch ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two men, both hiding a deadly secret, are on a murderous rampage through the desert.
Style:
psychological, scary, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, mind game, police investigation, evil wins, on the run, danger, chase, law enforcement, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, nevada
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A former cop who is now a novelist notices an attractive young woman move in next door to him. He strikes up a conversation, one thing leads to another and he spends the night. She asks him to come back the next evening, but when he does he ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, sexual, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
time travel, hospital, murder, sexual relations, riddles and clues, woman in danger, cons and scams, twists and turns, love affair, dangerous attraction, twins, police investigation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
persia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Recently widowed Shelby Naylor (Sherilyn Fenn) listening to her husbands police scanner overhears a husband and wife arguing on the phone. The wife ends up dead and Widow Naylor points the finger endangering herself.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
amateur detective, murder, haunted by the past, false accusation, woman in danger, couples, family problems, couple relations, danger, hitman, who done it, infidelity ...
Place:
usa, boston
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Detective Carrie Macklin and her little sister Elle had always been the closest of friends. But when Elle goes missing after a run-in with a relocated sex offender, it is up to Carrie to find her little sister...who is nine months pregnant. Carrie ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, detective
Plot:
murder, police investigation, law enforcement, missing person, police detective, danger, dishonesty, vengeance, infidelity, woman in danger, missing child, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Between 11:50 and 12:00 noon, a crime is commited. In the same ten minute period, we follow the lives of the ten people, all connected to this crime. As we see each person's point of view, we are propelled closer and closer to the truth of what ...
Style:
realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, kinky sex, female assassin, vengeance, crime gone awry, couples, disorder, rivalry, dishonesty, betrayal, danger, twists and turns ...
Time:
year 2006, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A man is falsely convicted of the murder of his wife. During his time in jail, he finds comfort from four women with whom he corresponds. After his second court appearance, he is finally freed from prison only to be framed for yet 2 more murders ...
Style:
psychological thriller, independent film, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, fugitives, wrongful conviction, serial murder, stalking, frame up, false accusation, death row, murder, best friend, police investigation, on the run ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new orleans
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Addison Terrill, a former district attorney now in a lucrative private practice, has what seems to be the perfect life. But life as he knows it is turned upside down when he arrives home from work late one night to find his wife brutally murdered ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, serious, rough, psychological ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, husband wife relationship, murder, who done it, dishonesty, legal, law enforcement, legal action, false accusation, murder investigation, female bartender, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
19%
389
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The nature and lure of power: in Dallas, a councilman is on trial for corruption, the D.A. is running for the US Senate, a serial killer is slashing prostitutes, and a professor is murdered. Amanda Reeve is assigned to investigate the law-school ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, dangerous attraction, who done it, lesbianism, politician, life is a bitch, investigation, uncover truth, police corruption, protagonist as suspect, partners against crime ...
Similarity:
19%
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101K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is ...
Style:
psychological thriller, twist ending, surprise ending, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, psychopath, murder investigation, murder mystery, dangerous attraction, fatal attraction, tough girl, female agent, strong female character, police investigation, strong female lead ...
Time:
2000s, year 2004, 80s, year 1983, 21st century
Place:
usa, canada, montreal, pennsylvania
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A drifter comes to the town of Deepwater and is seduced into a twisted game of deceit and murder.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, rough ...
Plot:
sexually dissatisfied wife, criminal's revenge, disorder, haunted by the past, crime gone awry, farm, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, murder, investigation, danger, hitchhiking ...
Place:
wyoming, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A stranger armed with a shotgun takes seven patrons hostage in a remote roadside diner. But as the body count increases, the desperate survivors discover that one of the hostages may be even more dangerous than their captor.
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, rough, atmospheric ...
Plot:
closeted homosexual, serial killer, isolation, murder, crime gone awry, rivalry, danger, diner, criminal, locked in a room, gory, captive ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A young smalltown reporter, Jessie St. Claire, begins investigating a killer stalking his victims making video tapes. This might just be the career opportunity, which she has hoped for. When she herself becomes a target and suddenly disappears, the ...
Style:
serious, scary, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, amateur detective, murder, psychopath, stalking, mind game, investigation, uncover truth, who done it, boss and employee, protagonist as suspect, police investigation ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Socialite Molly Lasch is released from prison after serving a six-year sentence for the murder of her husband, Dr. Gary Lasch. Now, with the help of Fran, an investigative reporter, Molly sets out to prove her innocence. Together they uncover a ...
Style:
serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, amateur detective, uncover truth, righting the wronged, woman in danger, false accusation, partner, law enforcement, life is a bitch, dishonesty, danger, frame up ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Detective Kyle Bodine falls for Rachel Munro who is trapped in a violent marriage. After shooting her husband, Kyle relucantly agrees to help hide the body, but Kyle's partner is showing an unusual flair for finding clues.
Style:
neo noir, psychological, suspenseful, noir, serious ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, murder, sex scene, twists and turns, unfaithful husband, domineering husband, female nudity, marital infidelity, dishonesty, plot twist, illicit affair, affair ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place:
florida, persia
Similarity:
18%
31K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.
Style:
suspense, sexy, psychological, clever, suspenseful ...
Plot:
femme fatale, twists and turns, couple relations, murder, investigation, insurance scam, voyeur, nudity, serial killer, infidelity, surgeon, god complex ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, victorian era
Place:
massachusetts, boston
Similarity:
18%
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