Manipulations movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant manipulations movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, suspense and clever films and TV shows about / with manipulation, dishonesty, mind game, twists and turns, deception, murder, rivalry, plot twist, conspiracy and betrayal plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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manipulations movies
TOP 10 movies tagged as manipulations: Obsessed (2002), Exam (2009), How to Get Away with Murder (2014), The Lincoln Lawyer (2011), Focus (2015), Inside Man (2006), Chatroom (2010), 13 Sins (2014), Persons Unknown (2010), Anna (2013).

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 5.6
 929
Obsessed (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A woman claims she had an affair with a married neurosurgeon and stands trial for allegedly harassing him.
Style: erotic, sensual, tense, bleak, serious ...
Plot: dangerous attraction, obsession, mind game, psychiatrist, doctor, mental illness, infidelity, manipulation, doctors and patients, medical, terrorizing, fatal attraction ...
Time: 21st century
Place: chicago
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 6.8
 125K
Exam (2009)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The final candidates for a highly desirable corporate job are locked together in an exam room and given a test so simple and confusing that tension begins to unravel.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, mind bending, twist ending ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: mind game, survival, plot twist, twists and turns, psychology, surveillance, confinement indoors, psychologist, ambition, intrigue, rivalry, pandemic ...
Time: year 2009, future
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How to Get Away with Murder (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become entangled in a murder plot and will shake the entire university and change the course of their ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder mystery, legal, hotshot lawyer, lawyer, murder, law student, defense attorney, court case, college, lgbt, teachers and students, courtroom ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, philadelphia, idaho, chicago
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The Lincoln Lawyer (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.
Style: clever, serious, captivating, psychological, twisted ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, court, courtroom drama, legal, twists and turns, trial, murder, legal investigation, hotshot lawyer, mind game, jury ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, peru, beverly hills ...
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 6.6
 273K
Focus (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Nicky, a veteran con artist, takes a novice named Jess under his wing. While Nicky teaches Jess the tricks of the trade, the pair become romantically involved; but, when Jess gets uncomfortably close, Nicky ends their relationship. Three years ...
Style: exciting, suspense, entertaining, unusual plot structure, sexy ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: heist, con artists, cons and scams, twists and turns, fall in love, mind game, interracial love, femme fatale, manipulation, black man white woman sex, gambling, swindle ...
Time: year 2015, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, argentina, peru, south america, new york ...
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 7.6
 395K
Inside Man (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Bank robber Dalton Russell enters a Manhattan bank, locks the doors and takes hostages, working methodically and without haste. Detective Frazier is assigned to negotiate, but his mind is occupied with the corruption charges he is facing. With an ...
Style: clever, detective, tense, suspense, surprise ending ...
Audience: adult
Plot: heist, hostage, bank, bank robbery, robbery, twists and turns, perfect crime, manipulation, police detective, police, criminal, master criminal ...
Time: year 2006, 2000s, 21st century
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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 5.4
 10K
Chatroom (2010)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When strangers Jim, Eva, Emily and Mo meet William online in his new 'Chelsea Teens!' chatroom, they're completely seduced by his fast-talking, charismatic character. But beneath the surface lies a much darker truth. William is a ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, cyber, independent film ...
Audience: teens
Plot: youth, friendship, mind game, teenage life, bullying, hacker, computers and web, friends, social network, internet, rivalry, self harm ...
Time: year 2010, future, 21st century
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 6.3
 39K
13 Sins (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A bright but meek salesman, drowning in debt as he's about to get married, receives a mysterious phone call informing him that he's on a hidden camera game show where he must execute 13 tasks to receive a multi-million dollar cash prize.
Style: psychological, suspense, twist ending, scary, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: game, greed, mind game, twists and turns, psychology, graphic violence, mysterious character, money, on the run, manipulation, brother brother relationship, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new orleans, usa
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Persons Unknown (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Persons Unknown is an American mystery drama television series that revolves around strangers who are imprisoned inside a small ghost town. The thirteen-episode summer series premiered on June 7, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. on NBC. On June 30, NBC moved the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, mind bending, offbeat ...
Plot: trapped, group of strangers, mysterious place, captivity, abduction, riddles and clues, confined, experiment, isolation, manipulation, twists and turns, mind game ...
Time: 21st century
Place: san francisco
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 6.4
 25K
Anna (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA, UK, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, mind bending, tense ...
Plot: manipulation, psychic power, haunted by the past, uncover truth, twists and turns, mind game, plot twist, brutality, teenager, life is a bitch, murder, false memory ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 8.6
 528K
House of Cards (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 3804 min.
TV show
Story: Set in present day Washington, D.C., House of Cards is the story of Frank Underwood, a ruthless and cunning politician, and his wife Claire who will stop at nothing to conquer everything. This wicked political drama penetrates the shadowy world of ...
Style: political, serious, clever, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: politics, political intrigue, political corruption, manipulation, state affairs, intrigue, blind ambition, u.s. president, lobbyist, journalism, journalist, media ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., syria
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 5.4
 13K
Hush (1998)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jackson and Helen are in love and about to have their first child when they move in with Jackson's mother, Martha, in order to take care of the family estate. But all is not well in this household. Martha is jealous of her son's affection ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, scary, emotional, serious ...
Plot: domineering mother, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mentally unstable, dysfunctional family, pregnancy, borderline personality disorder, family problems, parents and children, manipulation, female nudity, pregnant wife, danger ...
Time: 20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place: kentucky, new york, usa
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 6.8
 269K
Unknown (2011)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, France, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: An American biologist attending a conference in Berlin awakens from a coma after a car accident, only to discover that someone has taken his identity and that no one, not even his wife, believes him. With the help of an illegal immigrant and a ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, twist ending, tense, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, teens, boys' night
Plot: twists and turns, memory loss, investigation, amnesia, uncover truth, assassin, conspiracy, secret service, chase, disorder, danger, mysterious character ...
Time: year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: berlin germany, germany
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 6.6
 22K
Easy Virtue (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A young Englishman marries a glamorous American. When he brings her home to meet the parents, she arrives like a blast from the future - blowing their entrenched British stuffiness out the window.
Style: witty, sexy, stylized, period piece, light ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: family relations, high society, culture clash, dysfunctional family, fish out of water, father in law daughter in law relationship, manipulation, parents and children, love and romance, marriage, disorder, meet the parents ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century, year 2008, future
Place: england, britain, europe, france
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 7.2
 703K
Now You See Me (2013)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.
Style: surprise ending, clever, entertaining, suspense, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, boys' night, adult
Plot: heist, twists and turns, fbi, scheme, perfect crime, outsmarting, bank robbery, con artists, teamwork, cons and scams, mind game, thief ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: las vegas, new orleans, new york, paris france, usa ...
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 6.9
 58K
Wicker Park (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Matthew, a young advertising executive in Chicago, puts his life and a business trip to China on hold when he thinks he sees Lisa, the love of his life who left him without a word two years earlier, walking out of a restaurant one day.
Style: sexy, romantic, emotional, psychological, contemplative ...
Audience: chick flick, date night
Plot: obsession, love story, fall in love, unrequited love, love at first sight, love triangle, relationships, secrets, dating, destiny, life philosophy, love ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
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 7.9
 277K
The Blacklist (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story: Raymond "Red" Reddington, one of the FBI's most wanted fugitives, surrenders in person at FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C. He claims that he and the FBI have the same interests: bringing down dangerous criminals and terrorists. In ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, captivating, clever ...
Audience: family friendly, boys' night, adult
Plot: fbi, investigation, unlikely partners, master criminal, law enforcement, danger, intrigue, secret, mind game, killings, murder investigation, criminal ...
Time: future, 2010s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, washington d.c.
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 7.3
 25K
Loft (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Belgium
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Five close friends, all of them married, share a loft to meet their mistresses. One day they find the body of a young woman in the loft. Since there are only five keys to the loft, the five men begin to suspect each other of murder.
Style: psychological, cynical, realistic, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: investigation, surveillance, mistress, adultery, betrayal, infidelity, uncover truth, twists and turns, murder, architect, friendship, multiple suspects ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: france, belgium, europe
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Of Freaks and Men (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Russia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Dariya the maid getting a boy to touch her large breast is just one incident that occurs when Yohan and Victor infiltrate two families, forcing young Liza and blind Ekaterina to appear in porn, but they are not so innocent themselves.
Style: serious, captivating, disturbing, sexual, sex comedy ...
Plot: depravity, female nudity, voyeurism, obsession, corporal punishment, porn, freak, society, manipulation, sexual perversion, sexual harassment, submissive woman ...
Time: year 1998, victorian era, 19th century, 1900s, turn of the century
Place: russia, soviet union, st. petersburg russia
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 6.4
 221K
What Women Want (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Advertising executive Nick Marshall is as cocky as they come, but what happens to a chauvinistic guy when he can suddenly hear what women are thinking? Nick gets passed over for a promotion, but after an accident enables him to hear women's ...
Style: romantic, feel good, funny, clever, light ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: women, workplace romance, love and romance, fall in love, womanizer, love story, battle of the sexes, telepathy, psychic power, life philosophy, seducer, initially antagonists ...
Time: year 2000, 2000s, 20th century, 90s
Place: chicago, america, usa
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 8.8
 2.5M
Inception (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Cobb, a skilled thief who commits corporate espionage by infiltrating the subconscious of his targets is offered a chance to regain his old life as payment for a task considered to be impossible: "inception", the implantation of another ...
Style: psychological, mind bending, clever, cerebral, surreal ...
Audience: teens, date night, adult
Plot: dream, virtual reality, memory, alternate reality, twists and turns, imagination, subconscious, philosophy, existentialism, fictional reality, heist, puzzle ...
Time: year 2010, future, 2000s, 2010s, near future
Place: paris france, japan, los angeles, iran, tokyo ...
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 3.4
 3K
Bound (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The daughter of a wealthy real estate mogul falls in love with a younger man, and she is introduced to the world of BDSM. With her newly awakened sexual prowess, she is finally able to take control of her life.
Style: erotic, sexual, semi serious, suspense, light ...
Plot: bdsm, erotica, dangerous attraction, erotic fantasy, older woman younger man, older woman younger man sex, milf, female nudity, dominatrix, mysterious character, older woman younger man relationship, stalker ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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 7.9
 54K
The Borgias (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, Hungary, Ireland, Canada
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Set in 15th century Italy at the height of the Renaissance, The Borgias chronicles the corrupt rise of patriarch Rodrigo Borgia to the papacy, where he proceeds to commit every sin in the book to amass and retain power, influence and enormous wealth ...
Style: serious, clever, captivating, epic, costume drama ...
Plot: historical character, intrigue, siblings relations, greed, brother sister incest, sex scene, ambition, lust, clergy, medieval, catholic church, sin ...
Time: 15th century, middle ages, ancient times, medieval times
Place: rome italy, italy, ireland, europe
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The Adjustment Bureau (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman ...
Style: mind bending, philosophical, romantic, surreal, suspense ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot: destiny, politics, alternate reality, love story, power of love, fall in love, fictional reality, changing the past or future, twists and turns, creator, mind control, forbidden love ...
Time: future, year 2011, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
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 8.4
 473K
Suits (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: While running from a drug deal gone bad, Mike Ross, a brilliant young college-dropout, slips into a job interview with one of New York City's best legal closers, Harvey Specter. Tired of cookie-cutter law school grads, Harvey takes a gamble by ...
Style: stylized, captivating, witty, serious, talky ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, date night, family outing
Plot: lawyer, legal, law firm, photographic memory, hotshot lawyer, ambition, boss, success, corporate world, workplace situations, lawsuit, ambitious ...
Time: 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, chicago, syria
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 8.2
 1.2M
The Truman Show (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Truman Burbank is the star of "The Truman Show", a 24-hour-a-day "reality" TV show that broadcasts every aspect of his life -- live and in color -- without his knowledge. His entire life has been an unending soap opera for ...
Style: philosophical, thought provoking, psychological, surreal, touching ...
Audience: teens, family outing, teen drama
Plot: self discovery, simulated reality, alternate reality, freedom, video surveillance, small town, fictional reality show, hidden camera, utopia, dystopia, paranoia, god complex ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1998, future
Place: florida, persia, america, usa
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Careful What You Wish For (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A guy gets more than he bargained for after entering into an affair with the wife of an investment banker. Soon, a suspicious death and substantial life insurance policy embroil him in a scandal.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, sexy, psychological thriller, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: older woman younger man relationship, adultery, infidelity, seduction, dangerous attraction, twists and turns, fatal attraction, murder, extramarital affair, greed, blonde, abusive husband ...
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 6.8
 265K
21 (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Ben Campbell is a young, highly intelligent, student at M.I.T. in Boston who strives to succeed. Wanting a scholarship to transfer to Harvard School of Medicine with the desire to become a doctor, Ben learns that he cannot afford the $300,000 for ...
Style: suspense, clever, inspirational, surprise ending, exciting ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, kids
Plot: gambling, casino, mathematics, prodigy, youth, talented, professor, cheating, blackjack, genius, manipulation, card playing ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: las vegas, boston, harvard university, usa, massachusetts
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 7.0
 217K
Basic Instinct (1992)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.
Style: sexy, erotic, neo noir, sexual, detective ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, obsession, sex, manipulation, serial killer, nudity, seduction, murder, sexual tension, dangerous attraction, hot and sexy, strong sexual content ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: san francisco, bay area, persia, california, oakland california ...
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 5.2
 929
The Watch (2008)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Cassie, a psych student, was kidnapped and traumatized as a child by a disturbed person. To exorcise her demons and to finish her thesis, she decides on an experiment in isolation, working at a secluded watch tower as a fire lookout. But once ...
Style: scary, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, realistic ...
Plot: mind game, danger, female protagonist, manipulation, isolation, haunted by the past, rivalry, alone, woods, strong female presence, dishonesty, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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