Best movies like Everybody Knows
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Plot Summary:
Laura, a Spanish woman living in Buenos Aires, returns to her hometown outside Madrid with her Argentinian husband and children. However, the trip is upset by unexpected events that bring secrets into the open.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, France, Italy, Argentina, Germany
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, thought provoking, realistic, independent film, compassionate, depressing, hispanic, suspense thriller, twisted
Best tv shows and movies like Everybody Knows (2018):
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Black Snow (2017)
Plot Summary:
Accused of killing his brother during adolescence, Salvador lives alone in the middle of Patagonia. Several decades later, his brother Marcos and his sister-in-law Laura, come to convince him to sell the lands they share by inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful, neo noir, disturbing, twisted, psychological
Similar in 84%
The 7th Floor (2013)
Plot Summary:
Like every day, Marcelo gathers her children on the floor of his ex-wife. As each day play "to see who gets there first" them down the stairs, him in the elevator, a diversion that your ex-partner does not like. But when one day Marcelo plays the downstairs children are not. They are not anywhere. The fear begins to emerge when a phone call will catapult the horror: a kidnapper puts a price for the release of their children.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, surprise ending, suspense, twisted
Similar in 83%
Intrigo: Death of an Author (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young author comes into possession of a manuscript sent by critically acclaimed writer, Germund Rein, shortly before he commits suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Sweden, UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, serious, suspense, realistic
Similar in 82%
The Salesman (2016)
Plot Summary:
Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, intense, atmospheric, harsh, stylized, cerebral, social, surprise ending
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Fireworks Wednesday (2006)
Plot Summary:
On the day before their holiday trip to Dubai, a wife who believes her husband is unfaithful enlists the help of Roohi, a young woman sent by an agency to clean the house. She asks Roohi to make an appointment and gather information at the salon of the woman she suspects. Roohi is betrothed, innocent of marital discord. Over the course of the day, she, the couple, their small son, the wife's sister and husband, and the beautician engage in a series of exchanges, confrontations, and prevarications. Are the wife's suspicions unwarranted; is her behavior imperiling her marriage? Acts of kindness may go awry. And the trip to Dubai?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, suspense, social, art house, islamic, clever, contemplative
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Stillwater (2021)
Plot Summary:
Bill Baker, an American oil-rig roughneck from Oklahoma, travels to Marseille to visit his estranged daughter, Allison, who is in prison for a murder she claims she did not commit. Confronted with language barriers, cultural differences, and a complicated legal system, Bill builds a new life for himself in France as he makes it his personal mission to exonerate his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: suspense, inspirational, dramatic, tense, captivating, disturbing, dark, anamorphic, cult classic, powerful
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The Past (2013)
Plot Summary:
After four years apart, Ahmad returns to his wife Marie in Paris in order to progress their divorce. During his brief stay, he cannot help noticing the strained relationship between Marie and her daughter Lucie. As he attempts to improve matters between mother and daughter Ahmad unwittingly lifts the lid on a long buried secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy, Belgium
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, emotional, sincere, captivating, art house, cerebral, realistic, inspirational, touching, depressing
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About Elly (2009)
Plot Summary:
The mysterious disappearance of a kindergarten teacher during a picnic in the north of Iran is followed by a series of misadventures for her fellow travelers.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, atmospheric, captivating, realistic, depressing, suspense, existential, inspirational, philosophical
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Nancy (2018)
Plot Summary:
Nancy becomes increasingly convinced she was kidnapped as a child. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing thirty years ago, reasonable doubts give way to willful belief.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, suspense, social
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American Woman (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young grandmother in a small Pennsylvania town raises her daughter's child after the girl disappears. All the while, a desperate search for her continues.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, social, detective
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The Dinner (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers and their wives meet up at a haute-cuisine restaurant to discuss what to do about a horrific crime that their sons committed together. As the quartet debate their options, the conversation reopens old wounds between the siblings.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: ambiguous ending, enigmatic, rough, suspenseful, cynical, psychological, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, novela
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All I See Is You (2016)
Plot Summary:
A blind woman's relationship with her husband changes when she regains her sight and discovers disturbing details about themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Thailand
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: disturbing, thought provoking, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful, erotic, suspense, independent film, anamorphic, exotic
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The Weight of Water (2000)
Plot Summary:
A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychological, tricky, tense, suspenseful, suspense, sexual, mystical, atmospheric, serious
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The Dancer Upstairs (2002)
Plot Summary:
A police detective in a South American country is dedicated to hunting down a revolutionary guerilla leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, political, psychological, suspense, disturbing, captivating, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Face of an Angel (2014)
Plot Summary:
Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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I'm Not Scared (2003)
Plot Summary:
While playing outside one day, nine-year-old Michele discovers Filippo, who is chained to the ground at the bottom of a hole. Michele witnesses town baddie Felice nearby and suspects something bad is happening. Michele is unsure whom he should tell about his discovery, eventually spilling the beans to his closest friend. Michele's parents learn of his discovery and warn him to forget what he saw.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, realistic, confusing, sad, art house, twisted
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Nine Queens (2000)
Plot Summary:
An Argentinian crime drama revolving around a sheet of rare stamps (the Nine Queens).
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: tense, mindfuck, suspenseful, atmospheric, tricky, light, suspense, entertaining, cerebral, neo noir
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Promising Young Woman (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young woman haunted by a tragedy in her past takes revenge on the predatory men unlucky enough to cross her path.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 201000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, disturbing, suspense, realistic, twist ending, dark, mindfuck, detective, scary, psychological
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Mother (2009)
Plot Summary:
A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, tense, psychological, neo noir, disturbing, mind bending, serious, cerebral, suspenseful
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The Snowman (2017)
Plot Summary:
Detective Harry Hole investigates the disappearance of a woman whose pink scarf is found wrapped around an ominous looking snowman.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Sweden, China
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: serious, surprise ending, detective, neo noir, suspense, exciting, scary, psychological thriller, atmospheric, slasher
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In the Fade (2017)
Plot Summary:
Katja's life collapses after a senseless act impacts her life. After a time of mourning and injustice, she seeks revenge.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, art house, captivating, suspenseful, surprise ending, heartbreaking, social, political thriller, grim
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The Dry (2020)
Plot Summary:
Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: suspense, surprise ending, psychological, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, dark, anamorphic, perverse, detective
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Dark Places (2015)
Plot Summary:
A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, psychological, intense, serious, realistic, surprise ending, detective
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Crooked House (2017)
Plot Summary:
A private investigator helps a former flame solve the murder of her wealthy grandfather, who lived in a sprawling estate surrounded by his idiosyncratic family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense, enigmatic, detective, captivating, surprise ending, tense, disturbing, light, clever, gothic
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The Body (2012)
Plot Summary:
A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, suspense, mind blowing, detective, serious, psychological thriller, mind twisting
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A Separation (2011)
Plot Summary:
A married couple are faced with a difficult decision - to improve the life of their child by moving to another country or to stay in Iran and look after a deteriorating parent who has Alzheimer's disease.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 255000
Genere: Drama
Country: Iran, France, Australia
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: heartbreaking, emotional, realistic, tense, talky, bleak, suspense, compassionate, sad, contemplative
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Awake (2007)
Plot Summary:
While undergoing heart surgery, a man experiences a phenomenon called ‘anesthetic awareness’, which leaves him awake but paralyzed throughout the operation. As various obstacles present themselves, his wife must make life-altering decisions while wrestling with her own personal drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 80000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: twist ending, suspense, psychological, disturbing, psychological thriller, intense, surprise ending, clever, suspenseful, depressing
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The Ghost Writer (2010)
Plot Summary:
A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident. In director Roman Polanski's tense drama, the author realizes that his discovery threatens some very powerful people who will do anything to ensure that certain episodes from Lang's past remain buried.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 169000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, UK
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, atmospheric, political thriller, captivating, political, tricky, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, psychological thriller
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The Invisible Guest (2016)
Plot Summary:
"The Invisible Guest” turns on a young businessman who wakes up in a hotel room locked from the inside with the dead body of his lover next to him. He hires a prestigious lawyer, and over one night they work together to clarify what happened in a frenetic race against time.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 189000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, psychological, twist ending, mind blowing, psychological thriller, mindfuck, detective, suspense thriller, psychotronic
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Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Plot Summary:
Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 285000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: detective, surprise ending, suspense, artsy, clever, twist ending, costume drama, suspense thriller, period piece, psychological