Coercion movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant coercion movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out dark, psychological, suspenseful, tense, suspense and realistic films and TV shows about / with coercion, moral ambiguity, isolation, violence, kidnapping, manipulation, female nudity, obsession, survival and claustrophobia plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, France, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as coercion: To Take a Wife (2004), The Other Woman (2002), Night Fire (1994), I Smile Back (2015), 1BR (2019), Lovely Rita (2001), Quiz Show (1994), Bound to Vengeance (2015), Karmadonna (2025), Compulsions (2009).
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List of coercion movies
Genre: Biography, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The story takes place in Haifa, Israel, in 1979, during three days before the Shabbat. A young woman trying to raise three children, work from home, and observe the strict Moroccan traditions of her family finds herself at constant odds with her ...
Style:
serious, realistic, touching, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
lovers, extramarital affair, coercion, conflict, family feud, marriage, divorce, israeli, dysfunctional family, synagogue, husband wife relationship, family relations ...
Time:
year 2004, 70s
Place:
palestine, middle east, israel
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A wealthy lady can't find a satisfying physical relationship with her husband and she starts acting in porn films using a different identity supplied by a close friend. Soon things goes out of control as it turns out that she is driven by the ...
Style:
erotic, captivating, disturbing, psychological, hot
Plot:
porn actress, coitus, rough sex, cheating wife, sex shop, sexual fantasy, sexual desire, double life, infidelity, adultery, marital problem, sexual relations ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A wife with burning desire. A husband with dangerous motives. The quest for ecstasy can turn into a struggle for survival.
Style:
sexy, realistic, serious, erotic, sexual ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
coercion, sexual manipulation, sexual behavior, stockholm syndrome, watching sex, violent husband, erotica, manipulation, voyeurism, harassment, outdoor sex, submissive woman ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Laney is an attractive, intelligent suburban wife and devoted mother of two adorable children. She has the perfect husband who plays basketball with the kids in the driveway, a pristine house, and a shiny SUV for carting the children to their next ...
Style:
serious, realistic, erotic, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
mental illness, violence against women, slutty wife, slutty attitude, horny woman, addiction, housewife, alcoholism, knocked up, depressed woman, coitus, no bra ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new jersey
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Sarah lucks into a sweet one-bedroom at Asilo Del Mar Apartments in Los Angeles, she think she's hit the jackpot. It's got plenty of space, friendly tenants, group BBQs and even a cute neighbour next door. All is not what it seems: ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, brutal, suspenseful ...
Plot:
sect, community, father daughter relationship, apartment building, brainwashing, stockholm syndrome, widower, coercion, loneliness, murder, girl heroine, female warrior ...
Place:
los angeles
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Genre: Drama
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
Lovely Rita is a 2001 Austrian drama film directed by Jessica Hausner. It was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2001 Cannes Film Festival.
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual, sexy
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
father daughter relationship, teen angst, teenage rebellion, parent child relationship, friendship, older man young girl relationship, disco, classmate, middle class, coercion, loneliness, train ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
austria
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Quiz Show is a 1994 American historical drama film which tells the true story of the Twenty One quiz show scandal of the 1950s.
Style:
intellectual, period piece, game show, talky, intense ...
Plot:
greed, investigation, moral dilemma, fame, ethics, television, corruption, advertising, idealism, lawyer, fraud, professor ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1957, year 1994 ...
Place:
new york, usa, washington d.c., boston
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Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young woman, Eve, fights back and manages to escape a malicious abductor. However, after discovering she may not be the only victim, Eve unravels a darker truth and decides to turn the tables on her captor.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, captivating, bloody, scary ...
Plot:
revenge, female vigilante, serial rapist, female killer, kidnapping, vengeance, sex slave, captive, abduction, murder, human trafficking, vigilantism ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s
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Genre: Action, Horror, Thriller
Country: Serbia
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A pregnant woman receives ultimatums from a supernatural entity to commit murders or face the death of her unborn child.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, dark, noir ...
Plot:
fear, moral ambiguity, coercion, pregnancy, psychological manipulation, murder, moral dilemma, motherhood, paranoia, blackmail, guilt, existential crisis ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Compulsions is the internal character story of Mark Sandler (Craig Frank), an admitted Sadist leading a life with a dull desk job. At night, he channels his inner compulsions as a professional interrogator, brutally and psychological extracting bits ...
Style:
tense, serious, rough, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
voyeurism, workplace situations, computer virus, captivity, confined, workplace, torture, sadist, hacking, sadism, interrogation, character study ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min.
Story:
A noble businessman who has a sexual affair with a prostitute. Some thugs are trying to blackmail him and making him agree to pay a large sum of money. They viciously rape his sexy wife too. Of course the woman becomes sexually aroused by the act of ...
Style:
controversial, erotic drama, tense, dramatic, crime thriller ...
Plot:
cuckold, older man younger woman sex, infidelity, rape, pink film, sexual abuse, forced sex, wife, sexual content, blackmail, coercion, murder ...
Time:
70s
Place:
japan
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Czech Republic
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
On a trip to Europe, a woman gets abducted and soon finds herself in a training facility for female mercenaries...
Style:
dark, suspenseful, action thriller, neo noir, independent film ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
woman with a gun, female protagonist, female fighter, erotica, kidnapping, mind control, coercion, abduction, manipulation, survival, psychological manipulation, hostage situation ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
CAPTIVE AUDIENCE, the most depraved of this trilogy, shows the horror of compliance.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, psychotronic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
abduction, isolation, maniac, woman in danger, violence, victim, exploitation, captivity, sexual abuse, coercion, female victim, depravity ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A 16 year-old society girl is kidnapped and exploited by a group of people including one of her high school teachers. One by one Virginia seduces her captors and is able to gain the upper hand.
Style:
disturbing, dark, controversial, intense, erotic drama ...
Plot:
sexploitation, kidnapping, rape, seduction, coercion, loss of innocence, sexual abuse, ransom, moral ambiguity, taboo, manipulation, captivity ...
Time:
70s, year 1970
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
A disgruntled Batman finally retires. While adjusting to a normal life and dating Catwoman, the Dark Knight's happiness is threatened not only by supervillains, but his own compulsive need to be a hero.
Style:
psychological, humorous, captivating, tense, sincere ...
Plot:
secret identity, batman, superhero, dating, reluctant hero, heroism, retirement, masked vigilante, vigilante, coercion, millionaire, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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153
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Norway
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A teenager wakes up near a cliff, injured and unable to remember how he got there. He is chained to a man in a suit and there is a gun gaffer-taped to each of their hands. An unknown person soon sends them shocking instructions of what they must do ...
Style:
disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, thought provoking, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, desperation, kidnapping, coercion, social problems, suicidal thoughts, unhappy, trapped, grieving mother, captivity, terminal illness, loss of child ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young criminal kidnaps a couple's young son and then blackmails them into committing his crime instead of asking for a ransom.
Style:
suspense, captivating, crime thriller, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
kidnapping, blackmail, psychological abuse, coercion, criminal, moral ambiguity, hostage situation, desperation, family drama, moral dilemma, sacrifice, home invasion ...
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A drone pilot in Mali whose wife and daughter are kidnapped by terrorists. They will be executed if he doesn't derail the capture by his team of the head of a jihadist network.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, thrilling, psychological ...
Plot:
kidnapping, terrorism, terrorist, mission, coercion, problem, abduction, pilot, fight, terrorist group, kidnapped woman, kidnapped girl ...
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Genre: Action
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Following a series of unsolved robberies, the authorities decide to give carte blanche to commander Clara Damico to neutralize a particularly organized gang. Manual Makarov, a well-known figure in organized crime, is currently serving a sentence of ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, exciting, bleak, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, law enforcement, investigation, police investigation, working undercover, confined, heist, escape, organized crime, coercion, underworld, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, france
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A weekend vacation turns terrifying when computer scientist Samantha (Alexandra Paul) and her daughter are lured into the hands of a killer. Kidnapped and held hostage, Samantha is given a choice: she must use her expertise to help her captors carry ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, captivating, crime thriller ...
Plot:
kidnapping, mother daughter relationship, psycho killer, abduction, danger, hostage situation, coercion, hacking, kidnapped, murderer, kidnapped woman, hostage ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Pratigya, an educated girl has to stand up against various atrocities in her marital home, even as she falls in love with her husband Krishna, a local goon.
Style:
romantic, thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot:
ambitious woman, love affair, husband wife relationship, love story, female protagonist, forced marriage, couple relations, romantic relationship, family relations, relationships, fall in love, couples ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Seizou, a tattoo artist, dreams of creating lasting works of art that exist long after he passes. One day, he sees the perfect canvas: the unblemished back of a female grad student. A genius in color theory, the young woman studies and experiments ...
Style:
serious, realistic, psychological, captivating, offbeat ...
Plot:
tattoo, obsession, confined, odd couple, abduction, sexuality, captivity, coercion, art, violence, exploitation, kidnapping ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
japan
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Based on Harold Pinter's enigmatic play about a border in a British seaside dwelling who is visited by two strangers. They torment him verbally, ask him idiotic unanswerable questions, force him to sit down and stand up, and give him a ...
Style:
enigmatic, existential, surreal, tension, psychological ...
Plot:
boarding house, absurdism, psychological torment, character study, claustrophobia, coercion, paranoia, isolation, identity crisis, breakdown, moral ambiguity, minimalism ...
Time:
60s
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When a 12-year-old boy escapes from the home he's been raised in by a popular parent influencer, police discover that viral fame was a cover for a house of horrors.
Style:
intense, suspenseful, controversial
Plot:
child abuse, trauma, true crime, betrayal of trust, police investigation, coercion, manipulation, investigation, escape, isolation, small town, interview ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
In 1991 Miami, Dexter Morgan transitions from student to avenging serial killer. When his bloodthirsty urges can't be ignored any longer, Dexter must learn to channel his inner darkness. With the guidance of his father, Harry, he adopts a Code ...
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, crime drama, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, vigilante, anti hero, moral ambiguity, serial murder, psychopath, coercion, father son relationship, secret identity, double life, mentor, forensics ...
Time:
90s
Place:
miami
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Genre: Drama
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Jonathan, a kind-hearted young man, is released from prison due to lack of evidence. He returns to his mother who lives in a small house by the dunes. Jonathan wants to forget the past and is determined to become a different and better person. But ...
Style:
suspense, controversial, psychological, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
pedophilia, pedophile, forbidden sex, coming of age, mature, character study, longing, sexual desire, relationship problems, branding iron, coercion, temptation ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Paramedic Vincentas is a passionate gambler, who is forced to make radical decisions to return the debts. An idea strikes Vincentas to create an illegal game related to his profession. Love, life and death will be at stake.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, stylized, realistic ...
Plot:
gambling, workplace, workplace romance, life is a bitch, workplace intrigue, love and romance, disorder, dishonesty, unsupportive coworkers, loan shark, risk, addiction ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
A College professor finds his life unraveling when a new student joins his class, a student who may or may not be the very subject of his darkest secret. His obsession could kill him and his family.
Style:
suspense, erotic, sexy
Plot:
obsession, college professor, sexual obsession, voyeurism, double life, infidelity, coercion, college, midlife crisis, jealousy, paranoia, sexual tension ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Under orders from a ruthless crime boss, a getaway driver must battle his conscience and drive an unsuspecting crew member to an ambush execution. There is a long drive ahead.
Style:
crime thriller, tense, suspense, psychological, road movie ...
Plot:
organized crime, crime boss, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, conscience, betrayal, assassination, passenger, ambush, loyalty, violence, driver ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Czech Republic, Netherlands, Latvia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
While working abroad, young au pair Mia unwittingly surrenders her reason, her heart and her dreams to a radical family community.
Style:
suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
female protagonist, bullying, emotional manipulation, indoctrination, emotional abuse, control, manipulation, brainwashing, life is a bitch, religious sect, coercion, household ...
Place:
czech republic, latvia, netherlands
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