20 movies like Harper, ordered by similarity : The Reckless Moment(1949), Lapse of Memory(1991), Custody(2017), Shotgun Stories(2007), Fugue(2018), The Clovehitch Killer(2018), Shattered(1991), The Zodiac(2005), 13B(2009), Twilight(1998), Psycho(1960), Strange but True(2019) ...
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1966
121 Minutes
Paul Newman Lauren Bacall Shelley Winters Julie Harris Robert Wagner Janet Leigh Arthur Hill Pamela Tiffin Robert Webber Strother Martin Harold Gould
detective wife stepmother teenager lawyer guru cool intricate family home california office abduction divorce wealth family crime mystery 1960s
Lew Harper, a cool private investigator, is hired by a wealthy California matron to locate her kidnapped husband.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
1949
82 Minutes
James Mason Joan Bennett Geraldine Brooks Henry O'Neill Shepperd Strudwick David Bair Roy Roberts Frances E. Williams Paul E. Burns Danny Jackson Claire Carleton
wife daughter boyfriend gangster murder suspect police officer dark intricate intense family home boat crime scene police station southern california accidental death murder blackmail cover-up unlikely allies crime
After discovering the dead body of her teenage daughter's lover, a housewife takes desperate measures to protect her family from scandal.
Mystery & Thriller
France|Canada
1991
85 Minutes
teenager father mother mob boss girlfriend psychiatrist intricate suspenseful thrilling emotional canada family home new york city assumed identity witness protection amnesia family dark secrets journalism escape
After a terrible accident, a psychiatrist has to help Bruce to regain his memory. In flashbacks, we learn that his family had to flee from New York City, after his father uncovered a large ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France
2017
94 Minutes
Denis Menochet Léa Drucker Thomas Gioria Mathilde Auneveux Mathieu Saïkaly Florence Janas Saadia Bentaïeb Sophie Pincemaille Émilie Incerti-Formentini Jérome Care-Aulanier Coralie Russier
divorce divorce lawyer son mother father family member emotional intense tense disheartening office party bus house car apartment custody battle divorce family feud growing up
A broken marriage leads to a bitter custody battle with an embattled son at the centre.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
2007
92 Minutes
Michael Shannon Douglas Ligon Barlow Jacobs Natalie Canerday Glenda Pannell
son brother half brother girlfriend wife older brother brooding brutal arkansas cemetery family home farm family dysfunction feud family death violence crime rivalry revenge
Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
2018
100 Minutes
Gabriela Muskala Lukasz Simlat Malgorzata Buczkowska Piotr Skiba Halina Rasiakowna Zbigniew Walerys Dariusz Chojnacki Iwo Rajski Klara Bielawka Grzegorz Stelmaszewski
amnesiac mother daughter wife family member friend gripping raw emotional intricate tense forest hospital house beach train tracks train station amnesia starting over going home
Alicja suffers from memory loss and has rebuilt her own free-spirited way of life. Two years later, she returns to her former family to assume against her will her role as wife, mother, and daughter to people who are strangers to her.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2018
110 Minutes
Dylan McDermott Charlie Plummer Samantha Mathis Madisen Beaty Brenna Sherman Lance Chantiles-Wertz Kat Pérez Jonathan Riggs
family father son murder suspect killer chilling creepy dark disturbing eerie engaging frightful gripping intense shocking suspenseful thrilling tense uneasy america
A picture-perfect family is shattered when the work of a serial killer hits too close to home.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
1991
98 Minutes
Tom Berenger Bob Hoskins Greta Scacchi Joanne Whalley-Kilmer Corbin Bernsen Theodore Bikel Debi A. Monahan Bert Rosario Jedda Jones Scott Getlin Kellye Nakahara
husband wife fortuneteller private detective neighbor businessman gripping suspenseful tense california car hospital room family home bedroom amnesia car crash deception family dark secrets the past
After a horrific car wreck leaves him an amnesiac, a man slowly begins to unravel his shocking past.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
USA
2005
92 Minutes
Justin Chambers Robin Tunney Rory Culkin William Mapother Brad Henke Rex Linn Philip Baker Hall Marty Lindsey Shelby Alexis Irey Kris Palm Nate Dushku
police detective wife son police chief serial killer victim brooding gripping somber california san francisco police station house crime scene vallejo, calif. serial murders investigation obsession family zodiac killer
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama, Horror
India
2009
146 Minutes
Madhavan Neetu Chandra Poonam Dhillon Sachin Khedekar Dhritiman Chatterjee Deepak Dobriyal
tenant wife police officer friend tv personality mother tense chilling thrilling apartment police station india mysterious past mind games family danger television show violence discovery mystery
A man experiences a supernatural occurrence at his newly purchased apartment; a soap opera being telecast exclusively on his TV, which shows the future of his family.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
USA
1998
94 Minutes
Paul Newman Susan Sarandon Gene Hackman Reese Witherspoon Stockard Channing James Garner Giancarlo Esposito Liev Schreiber Margo Martindale John Spencer M. Emmet Walsh
private detective movie star friend daughter police officer chauffeur uneasy brooding cool intricate mexico los angeles california mansion malibu, calif. apartment aging friendship infidelity murder
A retired detective accepts a simple task, unaware that it will tear open old, forgotten, but deadly wounds.
Horror, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1960
109 Minutes
Anthony Perkins Janet Leigh Vera Miles John Gavin Martin Balsam John McIntire Simon Oakland John Anderson Frank Albertson Patricia Hitchcock
secretary norman bates police officer boyfriend mother creative creepy thrilling motel california highway phoenix office theft mental illness mystery 1960s
A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run, and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.
Mystery & Thriller
Canada
2019
96 Minutes
Amy Ryan Nick Robinson Margaret Qualley Blythe Danner Brian Cox Greg Kinnear Mena Massoud Connor Jessup Vanessa Burns
boyfriend girlfriend high-school sweetheart family parent adoptive parent creepy dark eerie melodramatic uneasy tense family home school dance suburb united states forest home pregnancy supernatural
A woman surprises the family of her deceased boyfriend by telling them she's pregnant with his child.
Comedy, Mystery & Thriller
USA
1963
114 Minutes
Cary Grant Audrey Hepburn Walter Matthau James Coburn George Kennedy Ned Glass Jacques Marin Paul Bonifas Dominique Minot Thomas Chelimsky
widow boyfriend thief police officer cool suspenseful charming paris french alps ski resort office hideout street crime heist investigation money world war ii mystery pursuit
Romance and suspense ensue in Paris as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Whom can she trust?
Mystery & Thriller
Spain
2014
105 Minutes
Raúl Arévalo Javier Gutiérrez Antonio de la Torre Nerea Barros María Varod Perico Cervantes Jesús Ortiz Jesús Carroza
detective teen girl teenager father missing girl murder victim bleak thrilling intense disturbing suspenseful gripping marsh spain madrid countryside missing persons rape murder relationships
Two cops lost in the deep south of Spain. One serial killer to catch. A lot of secrets and lies to disclose.
Mystery & Thriller, Action, Crime, Drama
China|USA
2019
99 Minutes
Chadwick Boseman Sienna Miller J.K. Simmons Stephan James Taylor Kitsch Keith David Alexander Siddig Louis Cancelmi Victoria Cartagena Gary Carr Morocco Omari
police officer criminal detective murderer family member murder suspect cool confident thrilling suspenseful intense intricate new york city subway apartment crime scene police station car murder manhunt
An embattled NYPD detective is thrust into a citywide manhunt for a pair of cop killers after uncovering a massive and unexpected conspiracy.
Mystery & Thriller, Comedy
Canada|USA
1989
82 Minutes
Randy Quaid Mary Beth Hurt Sandy Dennis Bryan Madorsky Juno Mills Cockell Kathryn Grody Deborah Rush Graham Jarvis
mother father counselor son housewife mortician hilarious offbeat dark gory suburb family home massachusetts kitchen school cannibalism parent/child relationship family dysfunction coming of age family secrets
A young boy living in 1950s suburbia suspects his parents are cannibalistic murderers.
Mystery & Thriller
USA
2019
95 Minutes
Nicky Whelan Alexandria Deberry Anna Hutchison Trevor Stines Kara Royster Ricky Garcia Giullian Yao Gioiello Kim DeJesus Sarah Cleveland Stacie Conard Jou Jou Papailler
mother family grieving mother teenager dark emotional eerie shocking somber tense lake vacation home grief secrets family vacation plot mystery 2010s
A group of teens make a pact that has deadly consequences.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
1961
110 Minutes
Burt Lancaster Dina Merrill Shelley Winters Edward Andrews Vivian Nathan Larry Gates Telly Savalas Pilar Seurat Jody Fair Roberta Shore Milton Selzer
assistant district attorney district attorney teen boy wife mother gripping intense powerful disheartening office spanish harlem new york city gangs lawyers turf war paternity juvenile crime mystery pursuit growing up
An assistant district attorney discovers one of the hoodlums he must prosecute is the son of a former love.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama
Australia
2014
86 Minutes
Luke Hemsworth Viva Bianca Hanna Mangan Lawrence Jonathan LaPaglia Alex Williams Amanda Dow Tom O'Sullivan Chelsea Williamson
teenager runaway family sister detective partner thrilling frightening gritty office family home flat street big city settling the score obsession hostage situation investigation witnessing murder judgment
After his partner is murdered, a detective must track down two teenage runaways whose video footage contains the identity of the killer.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Canada|USA
2005
96 Minutes
Viggo Mortensen Maria Bello William Hurt Ashton Holmes Stephen McHattie Peter MacNeill Ed Harris Heidi Hayes Greg Bryk Steve Arbuckle Sumela Kay
husband wife son daughter brother mobster chilling diner indiana small town family home philadelphia murder organized crime family violence transformation revenge 2000s
A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.