Manipulation movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant manipulation movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out psychological thriller, realistic, suspense, serious, twisted and psychological films and TV shows about / with manipulation, deception, dishonesty, murder, twists and turns, obsession, investigation, mind game, psychopath and revenge plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, France and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as manipulation: Cruel Intentions (1999), Compliance (2012), Hard Candy (2005), To Die For (1995), House of Cards (2013), Now You See Me 2 (2016), Basic Instinct (1992), The Game (1997), Sound of My Voice (2011), The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999).

List of manipulation movies

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Cruel Intentions (1999)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Slaking a thirst for dangerous games, Kathryn challenges her stepbrother, Sebastian, to deflower their headmaster's daughter before the summer ends. If he succeeds, the prize is the chance to bed Kathryn. But if he loses, Kathryn will claim his ...
Style: sexual, romantic, erotic, sensual, sexy ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, kids, chick flick, teen drama ...
Plot: seduction, manipulation, teenager, bad girl, femme fatale, bet, sex, incest, teenage life, virginity, sexual activity, virgin ...
Time: y2k, year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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 6.4
 37K
Compliance (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Sandra is the manager at a fast-food restaurant, and Becky is her teenaged counter girl who really needs the job. One stressful day, a police officer telephones and accuses Becky of stealing money from a customer’s purse, which Becky vehemently ...
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, sexy, brutal ...
Audience: adult
Plot: manipulation, psychology, twists and turns, false accusation, police investigation, human nature, moral dilemma, power relations, blonde, confined, workplace situations, obsession ...
Time: year 2012, 21st century
Place: usa, ohio
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 168K
Hard Candy (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A mature 14-year old girl meets a charming 32-year old photographer on the Internet. Suspecting that he is a pedophile, she goes to his home in an attempt to expose him.
Style: disturbing, psychological, twist ending, suspenseful, independent film ...
Audience: teens, teen drama, adult
Plot: vengeance, torture, manipulation, age difference, pedophilia, sexual abuse, revenge, kidnapping, psychopath, pedophile, child abuse, justice ...
Time: year 2005, y2k, year 2016, 2000s, 21st century
Place: california, usa, los angeles
Is relevant ?
 6.8
 52K
To Die For (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Suzanne Stone (Maretto) wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with ...
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, satirical, sexy, disturbing ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick, adult
Plot: journalism, femme fatale, female protagonist, older woman younger man relationship, murder, manipulation, oral sex, erotic fantasy, television, adultery, teenage girl, age difference ...
Time: 90s, year 1995
Place: new hampshire, 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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Now You See Me 2 (2016)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France, Hong Kong
Duration: 129 min.
Story: One year after outwitting the FBI and winning the public’s adulation with their mind-bending spectacles, the Four Horsemen resurface only to find themselves face to face with a new enemy who enlists them to pull off their most dangerous heist yet.
Style: entertaining, surprise ending, suspense, clever, exciting ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, adult
Plot: heist, illusionist, con artists, con men, magic, manipulation, caper, twists and turns, illusion, chase, magician, card trick ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 1984, 80s
Place: london, macau, china, new york, new jersey ...
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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 ...
Is relevant ?
 7.7
 426K
The Game (1997)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In honor of his birthday, San Francisco banker Nicholas Van Orton, a financial genius and a coldhearted loner, receives an unusual present from his younger brother, Conrad -- a gift certificate to play a unique kind of game. In nearly a nanosecond, ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: twists and turns, mind game, manipulation, psychology, game, uncover truth, life turned upside down, existentialism, scheme, disorder, life & death, surveillance ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: san francisco, usa, bay area, california, seattle ...
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Sound of My Voice (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A journalist and his girlfriend get pulled in while they investigate a cult whose leader claims to be from the future.
Style: thought provoking, surreal, tense, cerebral, suspenseful ...
Plot: manipulation, cult leader, sect, religions or cults, brainwashing, amnesia, investigation, journalist, twists and turns, time travel, uncover truth, exploitation ...
Time: year 2011, distant future, future, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie. Ripley ...
Style: suspense, psychological, psychological thriller, enigmatic, cerebral ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: obsession, manipulation, serial killer, psychopath, secret identity, gay, homosexuality, envy, murder, bisexuality, murder mystery, literary ...
Time: 20th century, 50s, 90s, year 1999, year 1959 ...
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, america, mediterranean sea ...
Is relevant ?
 8.1
 1.1M
Gone Girl (2014)
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, clever, twist ending ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, teens, girls' night, boys' night ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder mystery, missing person, psychology, infidelity, manipulation, investigation, femme fatale, adultery, marriage, missing wife, psychopath ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 2000s, year 2012, 21st century
Place: peru, america, usa, new york, manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant ?
 7.7
 582K
Ex Machina (2014)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Caleb, a 26 year old coder at the world's largest internet company, wins a competition to spend a week at a private mountain retreat belonging to Nathan, the reclusive CEO of the company. But when Caleb arrives at the remote location he finds ...
Style: psychological, futuristic, philosophical, twist ending, mind bending ...
Audience: girls' night, adult
Plot: artificial intelligence, robot, androids, existentialism, technology, cyberpunk, isolation, cyborgs, manipulation, androids and robots, female robot, psychology ...
Time: future, 2010s, year 2015, year 2014, year 2016 ...
Place: england
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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
Is relevant ?
 7.2
 218K
Fracture (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of ...
Style: suspense, psychological, intellectual, twist ending, psychological thriller ...
Plot: twists and turns, courtroom drama, lawyer, murder, adultery, manipulation, investigation, murder mystery, mind game, obsession, perfect crime, police investigation ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 1900s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, persia, usa, california
Is relevant ?
 6.6
 200K
Red Sparrow (2018)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Prima ballerina, Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people to use their minds and bodies ...
Style: suspense, surprise ending, sexy, rough, brutal ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, adult
Plot: spy, uncle niece relationship, female spy, female agent, russian spy, female assassin, secret agent, deception, femme fatale, secret mission, torture, strong female character ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: russia, budapest, ussr, hungary, chechnya ...
Is relevant ?
 7.1
 197K
Side Effects (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.
Style: psychological, surprise ending, suspense, captivating, clever ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: mental illness, psychiatrist, depression, murder, patient, sleepwalking, deception, twists and turns, mental institution, life turned upside down, psychiatry, doctor ...
Time: year 2013, future, 2010s, year 2004, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Is relevant ?
 7.8
 688K
Get Out (2017)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Chris and his girlfriend Rose go upstate to visit her parents for the weekend. At first, Chris reads the family's overly accommodating behavior as nervous attempts to deal with their daughter's interracial relationship, but as the weekend ...
Style: suspense, twist ending, psychological thriller, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: racism, hypnosis, kidnapping, brainwashing, interracial romance, survival, paranoia, missing person, african american, female villain, revenge, african american protagonist ...
Time: 2010s, year 2017, future, 21st century
Place: indiana, brooklyn new york city, new york
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 62K
Breach (2007)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Eric O'Neill, a computer specialist who wants to be made an agent is assigned to clerk for Robert Hanssen, a senior agent with 25 years in the FBI, and to write down everything Hanssen does. O'Neill's told it's an investigation ...
Style: political thriller, tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: espionage, investigation, spy, cia, double agent, betrayal, fbi, surveillance, manipulation, cold war, conspiracy, suspicion ...
Time: 2000s, year 2007, year 2001, 21st century
Place: usa, moscow russia, soviet union, ussr, washington d.c.
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The Good Son (1993)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young boy stays with his aunt and uncle, and befriends his cousin who's the same age. But his cousin begins showing increasing signs of psychotic behavior.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, psychological, scary, serious ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: children, manipulation, evil child, killer child, psychopath, problem child, brutality, disbelieving adult, creepy child, murder, death, parents and children ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: maine, japan, usa, asia, new england
Is relevant ?
 6.9
 44K
Trust (2010)
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: realistic, emotional, teen, serious, sexy ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: sexual abuse, investigation, bullying, father daughter relationship, teenager, teenage girl, rape and revenge, child abuse, sex, internet, innocence lost, teenage life ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: california, usa, cleveland ohio, milwaukee wisconsin, chicago ...
Is relevant ?
 6.4
 13K
Fat Girl (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Elena is 15, beautiful and flirtatious. Her less confident sister, Anais, is 12, and constantly eats. On holiday, Elena meets a young Italian student who is determined to seduce her. Anais is forced to watch in silence, conspiring with the lovers, ...
Style: bleak, erotic, psychological, sexy, tense ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: coming of age, innocence lost, rape, sexuality, virginity, first love, virgin, defloration, female nudity, sexual abuse, first time, rapist ...
Time: 90s, year 2001, 2000s
Place: france, south of france, rome italy, paris france
Is relevant ?
 7.7
 245K
Primal Fear (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, tense, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: mental illness, twists and turns, plot twist, trial, courtroom drama, psychology, lawyer, murder, courtroom, psychopath, corruption, manipulation ...
Time: 90s, future, year 1996, 20th century
Place: chicago, usa
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 250K
Orphan (2009)
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, Germany, France
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A married couple with a rocky past adopt 9-year old, Esther to fill the void created by a recently-stillborn baby. However, Esther is not quite who she seems.
Style: scary, psychological, twist ending, suspense, suspenseful ...
Audience: girls' night, teens, adult
Plot: adoption, orphan, killer child, murder, serial killer, fear, female psychopath, mysterious character, twists and turns, family in danger, insanity, murderer ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, connecticut, estonia
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Heartbreakers (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Max and Page are a brilliant mother/daughter con team who have their grift down to a fine science. Max targets wealthy, willing men and marries them. Page then seduces them, and Max catches her husband in the act. Then it's off to palimony city ...
Style: romantic, funny, light, hilarious, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, teen drama
Plot: women, con artists, love story, female criminal, manipulation, cons and scams, mother daughter relationship, wedding, farce, marriage, one last job, divorce ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: florida, usa, new york
Is relevant ?
 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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 7.0
 115K
Filth (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, Sweden, Belgium, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A bigoted junkie cop suffering from bipolar disorder and drug addiction manipulates and hallucinates his way through the festive season in a bid to secure promotion and win back his wife and daughter.
Style: dark comedy, surreal, cynical, black comedy, sexual ...
Plot: addiction, insanity, dark humor, drug abuse, antisocial behavior, losing-it hero, corrupt cop, hallucination, murder, self destructing, cocaine, drug ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: scotland, hamburg germany, britain, edinburgh scotland
Is relevant ?
 8.4
 1.3M
Memento (2000)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Suffering short-term memory loss after a head injury, Leonard Shelby embarks on a grim quest to find the lowlife who murdered his wife in this gritty, complex thriller that packs more knots than a hangman's noose. To carry out his plan, Shelby ...
Style: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: memory loss, amnesia, vengeance, plot twist, memory, murder, twists and turns, revenge, paranoia, whodunit, psychology, haunted by the past ...
Time: year 2000, future, year 2001, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, iran, america, usa
Is relevant ?
 7.9
 37K
The Act (2019)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 425 min.
TV show
Story: Dee Dee Blanchard is overprotective of her daughter, Gypsy, who is trying to escape the toxic relationship she has with her mother. Gypsy's quest for independence opens up a Pandora's box of secrets, which ultimately leads to murder. The ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, rough, anthology, thought provoking ...
Plot: overprotective parent, true crime, treatment, pretense, fake illness, mother daughter relationship, murder of mother, manipulation, mental illness, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage life, murder investigation ...
Time: 2010s, 2000s, year 2015, 21st century
Place: usa, syria
Is relevant ?
 8.7
 43K
Monster (2004)
Genre: Animation, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan, Poland
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Kenzou Tenma, a Japanese brain surgeon in Germany, finds his life in utter turmoil after getting involved with a psychopath that was once a former patient.
Style: anime, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: moral dilemma, false accusation, doctor, hospital, murder, mastermind, protagonist as suspect, manipulation, life is a bitch, choice, guilt, society ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century, 90s, 21st century
Place: germany, europe, czech republic
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Notes on a Scandal (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.
Style: sexual, psychological, sexy, suspense, tense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: teacher, lesbian, forbidden love, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, obsession, teachers and students, adultery, older woman teenage boy sex, older woman younger man sex, blackmail, older woman teenage boy relationship ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: london, united kingdom, europe, england
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