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Opus (2025)
13K
Genre: Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young writer is invited to the remote compound of a legendary pop star who mysteriously disappeared thirty years ago. Surrounded by the star's cult of sycophants and intoxicated journalists, she finds herself in the middle of his twisted plan.
Style:
psychological thriller, psychological horror, absurd
Plot:
journalist, celebrity, female protagonist, being followed, isolated community, pop star, mysterious disappearance, prison, dancing, children, police, kidnapping, male nudity, profanity, car theft, massage, bus, blood, little girl, painting, coffee shop, comeback, fame, interview, fan ...
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Most similar movies to Opus
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological thriller, suspense, tense and psychological films with plots about female protagonist, murder, blood, obsession, psychological drama, violence and manipulation mostly in Drama, Thriller and Music genres. Some movies like Opus: Days of Power (2017), Lurker (2025), If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025), Dischord (2001), Die My Love (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On their 2010 tour, an International Pop Star and band mates mysteriously disappear. As past and present merge, they find themselves searching for answers and fighting for more than just their own lives when a concealed industry is revealed.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, dark, surreal ...
Plot:
music industry, disappearance, conspiracy, mysterious disappearance, pop star, celebrity, fame, entertainment industry, investigation, manipulation, identity, danger ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a twenty-something retail clerk meets a rising popstar, he takes the opportunity to edge his way into the in-crowd. But as the line between friend and fan blurs beyond recognition, access and proximity become a matter of life and death.
Style:
independent film, surprise ending, crying, learning
Plot:
backstage, group of friends, male protagonist, obsession, celebrity, asian woman, pop star, following someone, modeling, dancing, road trip, meeting ...
Place:
los angeles, london
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
With her life crashing down around her, Linda attempts to navigate her child's mysterious illness, her absent husband, a missing person, and an increasingly hostile relationship with her therapist.
Style:
tense, dark, suspense, bleak, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
female protagonist, absent husband, therapist, child illness, character study, emotional breakdown, missing person, trauma, mental health, isolation, betrayal, paranoia ...
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74%
Genre: Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
On the brink of her world tour, at the height of her success, alternative rock violinist, Gypsy, put down her violin and walked away... A man brutally beats his girlfriend to death and tosses her remains into a local river... A retired Boston PD ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, suspense, serious, horror musical
Plot:
musician, investigation, police detective, police, love triangle, murder, love, obsession, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, rock star, lie, gay cruising ...
Place:
boston, new england
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Described as an 'epic environmental horror' film. Plot TBA.
Style:
dark comedy, psychological horror, atmospheric, bleak, grim ...
Plot:
mental illness, postpartum depression, sexless marriage, car accident, emotional breakdown, hallucination, psychosis, isolation, desolation, character study, slow burn, claustrophobia ...
Place:
montana
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
A college professor finds herself at a personal and professional crossroads when a star pupil levels an accusation against one of her colleagues, and a dark secret from her own past threatens to come to light.
Style:
tense, realistic, psychological thriller, f word
Plot:
sexual assault, drinking, teacher, secret, mentor protege relationship, philosophy, generation gap, husband wife relationship, university, psychiatrist, student, morality ...
Time:
year 2019, 2010s
Place:
yale university
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Guatemala, USA, Mexico
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
After her sister goes missing, Sarita, a working-class girl from Guatemala City, travels to the seaside town of Puerto Barrios to infiltrate a group of young gang members. As she risks her life to join the gang, Sarita becomes involved with her ...
Style:
suspenseful, dramatic, serious
Plot:
female protagonist, family drama, fighting crime, spy, agent, human trafficking, rescue mission, captivity, children, child kidnapping, rescue, violence against women ...
Place:
guatemala
Similarity:
58%
21K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In 1999, teenage sisters Celeste and Eleanor survive a seismic, violent tragedy. The sisters compose and perform a song about their experience, making something lovely and cathartic out of a catastrophe - while also catapulting Celeste to stardom. ...
Style:
inspirational, thought provoking, visually stunning, rough, suspense ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
pop star, transformation, female singer, musician, mother daughter relationship, school massacre, illness, friendship, family relations, hopes, parents and children, music ...
Time:
90s, 1940s, year 2017, year 1999, 2000s ...
Place:
usa, los angeles, eastern europe, new york, europe ...
Similarity:
53%
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575
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An ambitious reporter stationed in the Middle East who is taken captive after her convoy is ambushed. She is confronted by the trauma of her past and must find a way to bring down the militants who incarcerated her.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspense, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
female protagonist, held captive, captive, journalist, survival, hostage, investigative reporter, female journalist, abduction, trapped, investigative journalism, journalism ...
Place:
middle east, iraq
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A journalist duo go on a tour of serial killer murder sites with two companions, unaware that one of them is a serial killer himself.
Style:
bleak, sexy, neo noir, road movie, cult classic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, road trip, lovers on the run, psychopath, strong sexual content, gas station, motel, journalism, on the road, hostage, murderous pair, killing ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
california, los angeles, texas, pittsburgh
Similarity:
50%
263K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Novelist Paul Sheldon crashes his car on a snowy Colorado road. He is found by Annie Wilkes, the "number one fan" of Paul's heroine Misery Chastaine. Annie is also somewhat unstable, and Paul finds himself crippled, drugged and at her ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, atmospheric, scary ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, insanity, hostage, loneliness, psychopath, stephen king, kidnapping, snow, isolation, captivity, obsessed fan, female psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1990, 80s
Place:
colorado, persia, usa, new york
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
20 men are chosen to participate in the roles of guards and prisoners in a psychological study that ultimately spirals out of control.
Style:
psychological, rough, visually appealing, reflective, clever ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
psychology, prison, prison life, confined, gay rape, violence, brutality, experiment gone awry, bullying, prison rape, sadism, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
india
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young woman, Dakota, is trying to move on with her life and get away from her past after being rescued from a grim basement, where she was kidnapped and abused by a monstrous man. However, when the normal life she had starts to unravel, Dakota ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stalker, kidnapping, female protagonist, threat, investigation, private investigation, trauma, fear, survivor, problem, abduction, kidnapped woman ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A young paramedic is paired with a seasoned partner on the night shift in New York revealing a city in crisis. Discovering the chaos firsthand, he is tested with the ethical ambiguity that can be the difference between life and death.
Style:
medical drama, psychological thriller
Plot:
male nudity, bare chested male, trauma, paramedic, male star appears nude, male protagonist, medical school, female nudity, health, female pubic hair, medical, blood ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Elle Overton, a college student, becomes obsessed with Katie Kampenfelt, the mysterious heroine of a novel she's just finished reading. When Elle, battling depression, becomes convinced that Katie is actually a flesh-and-blood human being, it ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, thrilling, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
obsession, depression, mental illness, obsessed fan, possessed woman, female protagonist, problem, paranoia, character study, internet culture, identity crisis, stalking ...
Similarity:
48%
477K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Jack is a young boy of 5 years old who has lived all his life in one room. He believes everything within it are the only real things in the world. But what will happen when his Ma suddenly tells him that there are other things outside of Room?
Style:
sentimental, heartbreaking, emotional, sad, thought provoking ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, isolation, kidnapped, captive, room, mother son relationship, child born of rape, female protagonist, child protagonist, rape, boy, childhood ...
Time:
year 2015, 2010s, near future, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
ireland, persia, canada
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Not less than 3 men and 40 animals were found dead on the Breton beaches. The identity of the killer is an open secret: green algae. Inès Léraud is still a young journalist when, driven by an ecological conscience, she decides to go to Brittany to ...
Plot:
lesbian couple, environmental issue, cycling, radio, female protagonist, peasant, gendarme, cafe, flashback, lesbian, farmer, accidental death ...
Time:
year 2009, year 2016, 2000s, year 2014, 2010s ...
Place:
brittany
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
On a lavish yacht for an assignment, a journalist sees a passenger go overboard. But when no one believes her, she risks her life to uncover the truth.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, twist ending, psychological horror, intense ...
Plot:
murder, yacht, leukemia, murder mystery, cruise, journalist, paranoia, investigation, isolation, danger, claustrophobia, survival ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, China
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Susan Morrow receives a book manuscript from her ex-husband – a man she left 20 years earlier – asking for her opinion of his writing. As she reads, she is drawn into the fictional life of Tony Hastings, a mathematics professor whose family ...
Style:
neo noir, psychological thriller, suspense, sexy, visually stunning ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, writers, husband wife relationship, abortion, murder, divorce, rape, loss of family, infidelity, flashback, rape and murder, art ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
Place:
texas, los angeles, new york
Similarity:
44%
134K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending, psychological ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, girls' night, adult
Plot:
kidnapping, serial killer, danger, investigation, woman in danger, 911, youth, psycho, murder, kidnapped, chase, child abduction ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
First-class fashion model Emanuelle Griffith is missing. Richard Tate knows exactly where she is and plans to keep her there until she knows her place: subordinate to men. But Emannuelle is waiting for her chance to turn his obsession. That one ...
Style:
psychosexual thriller, erotic, independent film
Plot:
kidnapped, sex scene, striptease, voyeur, erotica, private detective, female protagonist, dog, female nudity, held captive, male star appears nude, escape ...
Similarity:
43%
882K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style:
psychological, cerebral, atmospheric, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, character study, dancing, insanity, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, ballerina, surrealism, schizophrenia ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
bolivia, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
40%
240K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, creepy ...
Plot:
rape, fear, family in danger, revenge, violence, lawyer, serial killer, sexualized violence, dangerous attraction, psychology, justice, prison ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place:
north carolina, georgia, florida, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Emma's quiet beach retreat takes an unsettling turn with the arrival of an enigmatic artist out of her mother's past. He challenges, enthralls, and frightens her, as she comes to suspect him of a terrible crime.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, creepy, atmospheric, psychological horror ...
Plot:
beach house, slow burn, obsession, suspicion, manipulation, female protagonist, family secret, mature, intimate, coming of age, isolation, sexual attraction ...
Similarity:
40%
37K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A woman moves into an apartment in Manhattan and learns that the previous tenant's life ended mysteriously after they fell from the balcony.
Style:
erotic, sexy, suspenseful, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
obsession, serial killer, voyeurism, murder, hidden camera, video surveillance, surveillance, sex, dangerous attraction, sex scene, apartment building, secret ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
39%
467
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Haunted by memories of his ex-girlfriend Alice, a heartbroken Billy returns home to Northern Virginia seeking solace from old friends. But what he finds there is more disconcerting: his best friend Stanley has become unstable, mysterious and ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, slasher ...
Plot:
murder, homecoming, best friend, couples, breakup, missing person, danger, friendship, campus, serial killer, suicide by gun, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
virginia, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.
Style:
cult classic, disturbing, cerebral, cynical, surreal ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hollywood, female nudity, movie business, filmmaking, great depression, art, satire, showbiz, accountant, politics, actor, surrealism ...
Time:
1930s, year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, glendale california
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A promising up-and-coming country duo seek out the secluded mansion of their idol Harper Dutch, a former country music star and Nashville royalty turned recluse. What starts out as a friendly visit devolves into a twisted series of horrors forcing ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological horror, captivating ...
Plot:
country music, musician, trapped in a building, supernatural horror, trap, trapped, problem, music band, obsession, ambition, psychological manipulation, murder ...
Place:
nashville tennessee
Similarity:
37%
60K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
When an Egyptian terrorism suspect "disappears" on a flight from Africa to Washington DC, his American wife and a CIA analyst find themselves caught up in a struggle to secure his release from a secret detention facility somewhere outside ...
Style:
sexy, serious, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
terrorism, politics, terrorist, conspiracy, islamic terrorism, war on terror, kidnapping, spy, espionage, islam, cia, intelligence ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
middle east, iraq, washington d.c., illinois, chicago ...
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Wanting to escape city life for the countryside, New Yorkers Cooper Tilson (Quaid), his wife Leah (Stone) and their two children move into a dilapidated old mansion still filled with the possessions of the previous family. Turning it into their ...
Style:
scary, tense, horrifying, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
haunted house, danger, twists and turns, country house, unfaithful wife, police investigation, nudity, family problems, snake, murder, hospital, supernatural ...
Time:
year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
36%
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