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Movies like Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter (2019)

The best movies like Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter (2019) are Garage Sale Mystery: A Case Of Murder (2017), Riddled with Deceit: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (2020) and Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1992). If Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter hooked you with its crime and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Garage Sale Mystery: A Case Of Murder (2017)

    Jenn buys an old reel-to-reel recorder at a garage sale only to find that it includes the sound of a man pleading for his life. When the former owner of the recorder, a retired therapist, is found murdered in a patient’s apartment, Jenn’s investigation leads to other patients whose love lives are more entangled than she was first led to believe.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama

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  2. Riddled with Deceit: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (2020)

    Former detective Jeff Jackson teams up with Dr. Zee Madieras to track down their friend's missing emerald brooch, a thief, and also... a murderer.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime

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  3. Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1992)

    At the insistence of Ruth Van Rydock, an old schoolfriend who is convinced that there is something wrong, Miss Marple agrees to visit 'Stonygates', the country house of Ruth's sister.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime

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  4. Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly (2020)

    Aurora's high school reunion turns deadly when a body is found in the hotel pool. Aurora and her Real Murders Club help investigate which classmate was most likely to kill.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama

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  5. Gourmet Detective: A Healthy Place to Die (2015)

    When Henry is invited as a guest speaker at a luxury resort spa, he quickly finds himself at the center of another murder. With Maggie at his side, our favorite duo must not only find the killer but be careful they don't become his latest victim.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime

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  6. Crossword Mysteries: Riddle Me Dead (2021)

    Tess gets invited to be a part of a popular game show, but when the host is unexpectedly murdered, she and Detective Logan O'Connor seek to uncover who was behind it all.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama

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  7. TalhotBlond (2012)

    Thomas Montgomery, a married father of two young daughters, gets seduced by the world of online gambling and chat rooms where a virtual romance and sexual obsession ultimately leads to the murder of an innocent man.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  8. Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part (2021)

    Just days before Aurora’s wedding, a body is discovered, and she fears her father may be a suspect. She and Nick race to solve the cold case before they walk down the aisle.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime

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  9. Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: How to Con A Con (2021)

    When Aida Teagarden's real estate client is found murdered, her sleuthing daughter Aurora sets out with her fiancé Nick and the Real Murders Club to solve the murder.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime

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  10. Cheaters (2000)

    In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  11. Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Heist and Seek (2020)

    When a priceless crown is stolen during a benefit gala held by the Lawrenceton library, Aurora and the Real Murders Club must investigate who would kill to get their hands on it.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime

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  12. Winged Creatures (2009)

    A psychotic man opens fire in a diner, murdering numerous people before killing himself. The survivors struggle in different ways following this horrendous event: a doctor doubts his own instincts and elects to use an experimental medical procedure on his wife, while a gambler believes he's on a lucky streak. A waitress begins engaging in promiscuous sex, and a young girl whose father is among the dead gains unexpected fame.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime & drama

  13. Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Very Foul Play (2019)

    At a gathering of mystery and true crime fans, Aurora Teagarden’s nephew, Phillip, is accused of murder when an unplanned onstage blackout during the play in which he is performing ends, revealing Phillip holding the bloody knife that has just killed one of the other performers. 12th installment in Aurora Teagarden Mysteries

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime

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  14. Normal (2003)

    A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  15. The Quiller Memorandum (1966)

    After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & crime

  16. Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: An Inheritance to Die For (2019)

    A matriarch is poisoned during a family wedding reception and Aurora Teagarden vows to get to the bottom of the crime, especially when her mother, a friend of the dead woman, stands to inherit the bulk of the massive estate. 11th installment in Aurora Teagarden Mysteries.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime

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  17. Crossword Mysteries: Proposing Murder (2019)

    When an old friend of New York Sentinel Crosswords editor Tess Harper is found murdered on the very day her puzzle includes his proposal of marriage, Tess unofficially teams up with Detective Logan O’Connor to find the killer.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime

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  18. Meltdown: Days of Destruction (2006)

    Despite scientist Nathan's warnings, his boss continues an experiment meant as publicity for his satellite firm: exploding an asteroid. Instead it splits, and the major piece, the size of Iceland, changes course to earth. It is deflected but so close that it shift our course closer to the sun, causing rapid extreme heating, hopefully only mid-term. Nathan warns his sister, TV journalist Carly, and she her lover, police detective Tom. He brings his unruly daughter Kim, her ex-con lover C.J. and her mother, nurse Bonnie, when Nathan offers a flight to a friend's Arctic weather station. Tom takes charge of a dangerous trip to the airport, as everywhere on earth things catch fire and people fight for water, transport and sheer looting.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  19. Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Game of Cat and Mouse (2019)

    Someone begins taunting Aurora Teagarden with cryptic clues left at crime scenes, so the librarian-turned-crime buff attempts to figure out who is behind the creepy “game.” But when the people closest to Aurora become targets, the game takes on a much more dangerous edge as it points to a planned murder. The 10th installment in Aurora Teagarden Mysteries.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both crime

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  20. How Sarah Got Her Wings (2015)

    Good Samaritan Sarah Fitzpatrick has a fatal accident just before Christmas, and finds herself in the lobby before the gates of Heaven. Certain that she will be let in, she is shocked to find that her name is not on the reservation list. However, she is granted the chance to return to Earth as an "angel in training" with the requirement to help a soul in need. Sarah has the 12 days before Christmas to secure her place on the list leaving her in the race for her after-life.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

  21. In the Line of Duty: Ambush in Waco (1993)

    Religious fanatics are barricaded in a building and surrounded by police. But they're not going to surrender; they prefer to die.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  22. Wayúu: La Niña de Maracaibo (2012)

    A detective, goes from Spain to the Venezuelan Guajira, hired by the king of Wuayuus, to protect her, Niña de Maracaibo (wife of King, who belongs to an aristocratic family in the city) the detective tries to discover a conspiracy greater than initially imagined. Where he is only one piece in a plot which mixes smuggling, power struggles and tribal magic. The clash of two opposite visions, the 'Western' Spanish researcher, and the 'native' the Wuayuu original owners of Caribbean, converts this format film apparently 'police' in a thesis film revealing the mystery of the still existing singular South American identity.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & crime

  23. Nights of a Shemale: A Mad Man Trilogy 1/3 (2020)

    Ah Fat, a lonely man arrives in a strange country, escaping from his past and seeking salvation. Living in a constant state of psychological turmoil, redemption was never quite in reach. Making friends with Miumiu, a coworker who is a gogo girl and a male gigolo Pumpkin turns Ah Fat's life around; he finds a strange, unique sort of happiness in friendship that had evaded him for a long time. Then comes a turn of events that changes everything; Ah Fat will have to choose between saving his friends by killing the evil shop owner, and standing idly by. This is the final straw; Ah Fat is pushed to the brink, all hell breaks loose...

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & crime

  24. Artemis '81 (1981)

    Paranormal novelist Gideon Harlax is drawn into a battle between the forces of good, represented by alien angel Helith, and the forces of evil, represented by Helith's evil brother Asrael. Ranging from Oxford to Denmark, a North Sea ferry to an alien planet, Harlax unwittingly becomes part of an ancient plot that may result in the destruction of Earth...

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

  25. Eagle Rock (2019)

    In the early 1970s, a young woman in prison for murder reflects on what led her to the crime, the cult she was a part of, and her relationship with its leader.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both crime & drama

  26. The End of the World Cult (2007)

    An inside look at the Lord Our Righteousness Church, an American cult based in New Mexico.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style

  27. Agora (2009)

    A historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her relationship with her slave Davus, who is torn between his love for her and the possibility of gaining his freedom by joining the rising tide of Christianity.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

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  28. The Art of Self-Defense (2019)

    Casey is attacked at random on the street and enlists in a local dojo led by a charismatic and mysterious Sensei in an effort to learn how to defend himself. What he uncovers is a sinister world of fraternity, violence and hypermasculinity and a woman fighting for her place in it.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

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  29. The Banker (1990)

    High-priced prostitutes are being systematically murdered, their corpses mutilated, and a bizarre South American symbol painted in blood is found at the scene. The cop investigating is out to solve the crime before his ex wife, a reporter, becomes the next victim.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both crime

  30. Mask of the Evil Apparition (2021)

    A young woman lost in a nocturnal, dreamlike city, with her twin psychic brothers who try to help her find her way home as she is pursued by a shadowy cult known as The Mysterious Ones.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

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What are the best movies like Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter?

The closest matches to Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter are Garage Sale Mystery: A Case Of Murder (2017), Riddled with Deceit: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (2020) and Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1992). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter?

Start with Garage Sale Mystery: A Case Of Murder (2017), the closest match to Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter.

What is the highest-rated movie like Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter?

Agora (2009), rated 7.0/10 by 1,632 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter?

Mask of the Evil Apparition (2021) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter?

Yes: Garage Sale Mystery: A Case Of Murder (2017), Riddled with Deceit: A Martha's Vineyard Mystery (2020) and Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors (1992).

How are movies similar to Escaping the NXIVM Cult: A Mother's Fight to Save Her Daughter chosen?

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