Deception movies and TV shows – page 2
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19K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The teenage girls of Vestalis Academy are meticulously trained in the art of being “clean girls,” practicing the virtues of perfect femininity. But what exactly are they being trained for? Vivien intends to find out.
Style:
suspenseful, suspense, mysterious, melancholic, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, boys' night
Plot:
dark secret, boarding school, punishment, female protagonist, distopia, discipline, isolation, girls' boarding school, obedience, imprisonment, pervert, vaccine ...
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46K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie discovers her friend is not who he originally claimed to be. Shocked into disbelief, her ...
Style:
teen, sexy, controversial, emotional, realistic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot:
sexual abuse, bullying, teenager, father daughter relationship, child abuse, teenage life, youth, rape, innocence lost, child sexual abuse, rape and revenge, pedophile ...
Time:
year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
california, usa, milwaukee wisconsin, cleveland ohio, chicago ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
When Daniel Glass is misdiagnosed with a fatal disease he begins to notice how everyone around him treats him better. But then he finds out he was misdiagnosed by the most incompetent oncologist on Earth and now he has a big decision to make: come ...
Style:
absurd, dark comedy, semi serious, black comedy, sitcom ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
deception, terminal illness, misfit partners, corporate world, office, lie, nothing goes right, coworker relationship, workplace, employer employee relationship, british, relationship problems ...
Time:
future
Place:
britain
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1.2M
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.
Style:
psychological, suspense, surprise ending, twist ending, clever ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens, boys' night ...
Plot:
twists and turns, psychology, murder mystery, missing person, manipulation, infidelity, investigation, marriage, femme fatale, revenge, missing wife, adultery ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place:
peru, america, usa, manhattan new york city, new york ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Julia moves in with her fiancé, David, but his ex-wife and her own haunting past join forces to rock her quiet suburban existence.
Style:
sexy, psycho sexual, psychosexual thriller, scary, intense ...
Plot:
obsession, insanity, jealousy, ex husband ex wife relationship, unrequited love, frame up, divorce, stalking, fear, ex husband, mentally unstable, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
california, san francisco
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129K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
When Emily Thorne moves to the Hamptons, everyone wonders about the new girl, but she knows everything about them, including what they did to her family. Years ago, they took everything from her. Now, one by one, she's going to make them pay.
Style:
captivating, serious, soap opera, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, adult
Plot:
high society, vengeance, hidden identity, pretense, strong female character, twists and turns, suspicion, enemy, revenge, haunted by the past, half sister, victim ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, new york
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Forced by poverty to seek support, the innocent Tess Durbeyfield seeks the help of the D'Urbervilles.
Style:
clever, sincere, costume drama, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
innocence, couples, society, poverty, master and servant, pregnancy, life is a bitch, unrequited love, dishonesty, village life, love and romance, family relations ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 50s
Place:
england, britain
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64K
Genre: Action, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Jen is enjoying a romantic getaway with her wealthy boyfriend which is suddenly disrupted when his friends arrive for an unannounced hunting trip. Tension mounts in the house until the situation abruptly — and viciously — intensifies, ...
Style:
suspense, sexy, tense, bloody, minimal cast ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
revenge, rape, survival, female protagonist, rape and revenge, female vigilante, manhunt, strong female character, brutality, desert, danger, chase ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Colombia
Duration: 40 min.
TV show
Story:
Camila creates a sexy profile on the online dating app Spice looking for the man of her dreams. But her dreams quickly turn into nightmares, and Camila ends up falling into a web of sex, lies, and deception.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, captivating, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
erotica, sex scene, male male relationship, deception, gay relationship, steamy romance, false identity, sex, dating, internet dating, dating show, online dating ...
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Genre: Drama, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story:
In the town of Podolsk, The Bears hockey club hires a new coach, Sergei Makeyev, a former National Hockey League player, who sets out to get the club to the Junior Hockey League and make The Bears a successful team.
Style:
romantic, captivating, touching, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
ice hockey, sport team, team, friendship, youth, parent child relationship, couples, athlete and trainer, love, cheerleading, coach, first love ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Italian gambler who is well-skilled in the card trade owes people in authority, and leaves his country to win the money. Arriving in a small Russian town, he tries to show off his tricks to the local card swindlers but is caught and ends up agreeing ...
Style:
cynical, semi serious, humorous, suspense, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
deception, con artists, betrayal, confidence artist, foreigner, gambling, card playing, trick, trap, partner, dishonesty, buddies ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A deep pool of family secrets overruns its banks as two young lovers decide to tie the knot. But, sorting truth from deception leaves everyone gasping for breath.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, semi serious, emotional ...
Plot:
deception, satire, family drama, family secret, love interest, couples, con trick, love, secret, love and romance, relationships, couple relations ...
Time:
2000s
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379
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A group of professional con artists scam poor, unsuspecting citizens with fraudulent bank loans. The scams go well for a while, but then they begin to distrust each other.
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, crime drama, crime thriller ...
Plot:
deception, con artists, heist, bank, scam, fraud, credit card fraud, criminal, gang, robbery, stolen money, burglar ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A woman agrees to help her husband pay off an extortionist, but when the blackmailer is murdered she becomes the prime suspect, and discovers that the man she married has been leading a deadly double life.
Style:
suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, tension ...
Plot:
blackmail, deception, frame up, murder mystery, female protagonist, framed for murder, murder, betrayal, marriage, secrets, writers, problem ...
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551
Genre: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Madarame Baku is a mysterious gambler. His nickname is Usogui (literally The Lie Eater). Club Kakerou is the top illegal gambling den, where gamblers vie to become the best in their profession. Seeing through the lies of others, Madarame Baku ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, captivating, intense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gambling, deception, mind game, risk, game of death, gambler, illegal gambling, lie, con trick, mysterious character, game, criminal gang ...
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Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
Invasion Iowa is a television series that aired on Spike TV beginning on March 29, 2005, on ITV4 beginning on 3 November 2005 and The Comedy Channel in April 2007. The series depicts events from September 2004, in which William Shatner played a hoax ...
Style:
mockumentary, captivating, satirical, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
deception, satire, hoax, filmmaking, small town, countryside, con trick, hidden camera, awkwardness, culture clash, social experiment, embarrassment ...
Place:
iowa, midwest
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 36 min.
TV show
Story:
The Liar Game is a Japanese manga series originally written and illustrated by Shinobu Kaitani. The manga was first serialized in 2005 in the Japanese manga magazine Weekly Young Jump, published by Shueisha. It was adapted into a TV series, which ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Plot:
mind game, betrayal, genius, gambling, game, scam, deception, lie, psychology, greed, con men, revenge ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A con artist in dire need of cash and a woman with a crypto fortune hit it off. Is she the target of his dreams, or is the scammer about to get scammed?
Style:
feel good, captivating, satirical, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cryptocurrency, deception, wealth, satire, couples, scam, con artists, money problems, escapades, money, con trick, fraud ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
europe
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123
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A father, a mother, an elder son, a daughter and a younger son. A family of five. For all appearances, a perfectly normal, happy family. But none them related
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, suspense, black comedy ...
Plot:
deception, scoundrel, con artists, relationships, family relations, changing lives, family problems, kidnapped woman, relationship problems, robbery, abduction, marital problem ...
Place:
japan
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505
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A young ad executive's life has been turned upside down when a vicious client ruins his three billion yen project. Through his chance meeting with the disgruntled daughter of his enemy, he plans a vengeance scheme. The young woman agrees to ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
kidnapping, ransom, ransom demand, deception, businessman, hostage situation, relationship vs career, kidnapped, abduction, fight, money, business ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Yu Hai's game studio runs into divestment from investor Shen Hui. Yu encounters Shen's bastard daughter Lu Jie. The two plot together a fake kidnapping case and falls in love. Real Lu Jie is found dead days after and cops reveal greater ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, crime drama, tension, captivating ...
Plot:
kidnapping, deception, police investigation, investigation, male female relationship, relationships, love story, romantic relationship, fall in love, love and romance, crime solving, in love ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When money, affairs, power and lies collide, Nicole Wright, a beautiful and successful music CEOs life is about to crumble in front of her. While leaving her husband and son, the lies that have built her music empire is threatening to tear her down. ...
Style:
tense, psychological, suspenseful, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
music industry, deception, infidelity, cheating wife, affair, lie, betrayal, secrets, lifestyle change, problem, social problems, changing lives ...
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2K
Genre: Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
It all starts with a simple lie. Lee Yu-mi takes on a privileged young woman's identity, leading her to a completely different life. When she marries a wealthy man whose ambitions gradually put them in the public eye, her perfectly-built ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, unpredictable, tense ...
Plot:
lie, deception, female protagonist, identity crisis, relationships, relationship problems, couple relations, identity, impostor, life is a bitch, couples, fighting illness ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Katie and Greg Carlyle invited Greg's estranged daughter to live with them, they had no idea that they would be inviting jealousy, violence, and deceit into their home to wreak havoc on their perfect life.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
deception, estranged daughter, jealousy, manipulation, house, psychological manipulation, domestic drama, family conflict, family problems, life is a bitch, father daughter relationship, estrangement ...
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Genre: Crime, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
TV show
Story:
Based loosely on the story of a discredited Dongguk University professor who falsified her educational background, Miss Ripley is the story of orphan Jang Mi Ri who, like the Talented Mr. Ripley, lives her life from one lie to the next. At a job ...
Style:
psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
lie, deception, manipulation, manipulative behavior, manipulative person, male female relationship, problem, female protagonist, female villain, romantic rivalry, obsession, love triangle ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea, south korea, seoul
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Ruby Ring is a 2013 South Korean television daily drama series starring Lee So-yeon, Im Jung-eun, Kim Suk-hoon and Park Kwang-hyun. It airs on KBS2 on Mondays to Fridays at 19:45 beginning August 19, 2013.
Style:
suspense, dramatic, disturbing, captivating, tense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
deception, sisters, stolen identity, personality change, new identity, female protagonist, impersonation, identity theft, family drama, body swapping, changing lives, switching roles ...
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A wealthy young man is conned into staging a fake kidnapping in order to be a hero and win the affection of a girl he's madly in love with. But when one of the hired kidnappers is accidentally killed during the charade, he's forced to ...
Style:
entertaining, disturbing, captivating, semi serious, dark comedy ...
Plot:
accidental killing, deception, murder, fake kidnapping, problem, murder mystery, abduction, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, awkward situation, rescue, love interest, secret ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Russian Empire, 1919. By a twist of fate, young idealist Osip Zadunaisky meets an infamous con artist and self-proclaimed Turkish subject Ibrahim Bender. A man of pure thought and aristocratic upbringing, Osip would never have associated with a ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, exciting, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
con artists, deception, treasure hunt, scam, con men, scheming, russian empire, couple relations, male female relationship, escapades, criminal, cons and scams ...
Time:
year 1919
Place:
eastern europe
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Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Story:
the story of two former drug addicts who come together in a story of self-improvement.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, disturbing, epic ...
Plot:
lie, deception, loneliness, bowling, lonely, identity crisis, self discovery, revelation, family drama, family secret, conspiracy, betrayal ...
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Genre: Animation, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Japan
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story:
Taking place in the year 1937 on the eve of World War II, the story involves a mysterious spy training organization known as the "D Agency." The organization is established by Lieutenant Colonel Yuuki from the Imperial Japanese Army. His ...
Style:
anime, suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
spy, deception, conspiracy, manipulation, military, secret society, secret mission, training, martial arts, assassin, espionage, intelligence agency ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
tokyo
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