American films about deception

List of the best American films about deception, selected by visitors to our site: Every Breath You Take, The Little Things, Reminiscence, The Voyeurs, Things Heard & Seen, The Babysitter: Killer Queen, A Little Help, The Matchbreaker, Kill Switch, S.W.A.T.: Under Siege.

In the top there are new films of 2022, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 5.3
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA

A psychiatrist, whose client commits suicide, finds his family life disrupted after introducing her surviving brother to his wife and daughter.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrefantastic, thriller, melodrama, detective
CountryUSA

Nicolas Bannister, a rugged and solitary veteran living in a near-future Miami flooded by rising seas, is an expert in a dangerous occupation: he offers clients the chance to relive any memory they desire. His life changes when he meets a mysterious young woman named Mae. What begins as a simple matter of lost and found becomes a passionate love affair. But when a different client's memories implicate Mae in a series of violent crimes, Bannister must delve through the dark world of the past to uncover the truth about the woman he fell for.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA

A young couple, find themselves becoming interested in the sex life of their neighbors across the street. What starts as an innocent curiosity turns into an unhealthy obsession.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genrefantasy, drama
CountryUSA

Catherine Clare reluctantly trades life in 1980 Manhattan for a remote home in the tiny hamlet of Chosen, New York, after her husband George lands a job teaching art history at a small Hudson Valley college. Even as she does her best to transform the old dairy farm into a place where young daughter Franny will be happy, Catherine increasingly finds herself isolated and alone. She soon comes to sense a sinister darkness lurking both in the walls of the ramshackle property—and in her marriage to George.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, comedy, melodrama
CountryUSA

Two years after defeating a satanic cult led by his babysitter Bee, Cole's trying to forget his past and focus on surviving high school. But when old enemies unexpectedly return, Cole will once again have to outsmart the forces of evil.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

It's a movie for everyone whose life has been thrown off-course, out of whack, or simply not turned out the way they planned it. In other words, it's a movie for everyone, period. Set in suburban Long Island in the summer of 2002, with the psychic wounds of 9/11 still fresh, A Little Help is a story that takes a comic, searching and profoundly empathetic look at a few pivotal months in the life of dental hygienist Laura Pehlke (Jenna Fischer)-an ordinary woman whose life suddenly flies off the rails-and her heroic efforts to re-establish a sense of security and normalcy for herself and her son.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrecomedy, melodrama
CountryUSA
Duration02:03

When an idealistic romantic gets fired from his day job, he is offered a "one-time gig" to break up a girl's relationship for her disapproving parents. This "one-time" gig spreads through word-of-mouth and he ends up becoming a professional match-breaker. However, he ends up falling for one of his clients and must figure out how to balance his secret job with his love-life.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genrefantastic, action
CountryNetherlands, Germany, USA
Duration02:17

A pilot battles to save his family and the planet after an experiment for unlimited energy goes wrong.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genreaction, thriller, adventure, crime
CountryUSA

When a D.E.A. and S.W.A.T. cartel takedown ends in a shootout, S.W.A.T. Agent Travis Hall seizes a mysterious prisoner taking him into custody. Before long, the S.W.A.T. compound is under siege by wave-after-wave of assault teams attempting to recover the prisoner known as “The Scorpion” for the tattoo blazed across his back. When Travis discovers that his prisoner is a Secret Ops double agent planted within the cartel, it’s up to him and his expert S.W.A.T. team to keep “The Scorpion” and his billion dollar secrets safe.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrecomedy, crime, detective
CountryUSA

The ambitious friends come together during the holidays after a mystery assailant targets one of their own. A comedic thrill-ride follows, as the wild and unpredictable Psych team pursues the bad guys, justice … and, of course, food!

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime, detective
CountryUSA, France
Duration01:55

    An FBI agent and an Interpol detective track a team of illusionists who pull off bank heists during their performances and reward their audiences with the money.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountrySouth Africa, USA
    Duration02:04

    When Alex, an infiltration expert with a secret past, accidentally reveals her identity during what should have been a routine heist, she quickly finds herself mixed up in a government conspiracy and entangled in a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with a master assassin and his team of killers. Armed with her own set of lethal skills, Alex looks to exact revenge for her murdered friends while uncovering the truth.

    Markimdb: 4.4
    Genreaction, thriller, crime
    CountryUSA, Bulgaria
    Duration01:30

    Former race car driver Brent Magna (Hawke) is pitted against the clock. Desperately trying to save the life of his kidnapped wife, Brent commandeers a custom Ford Shelby GT500 Super Snake, taking it and its unwitting owner (Gomez) on a high-speed race against time, at the command of the mysterious villain holding his wife hostage.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genrethriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    Two brothers, down on their luck, fake a disappearance in the Alaskan wilderness so they'll have a great survival story to sell, but the hoax turns out to be more real than they planned.

    Markimdb: 7.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:24

      The men who made millions from a global economic meltdown.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:23

      In his funky California beach enclave, Chip's the go-to guy for personal insights. But he isn't quite as enlightened when it comes to his own baggage.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrethriller, drama, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:16

      Led by their fellow preppie friend Joe Hunt, a group of wealthy boys in Los Angeles during the early 1980s establish a get rich quick scam that turns deadly.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrecomedy, family
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

      While trying to save their childhood orphanage, Moe, Larry and Curly inadvertently stumble into a murder plot and wind up starring in a reality TV show.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

      An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes from having a missing husband. But she quickly finds herself in over her head, dodging cops and criminals, all while trying to keep the truth from her sister, a local news anchor who’s desperate for a story.

      Markimdb: 8.2
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration03:00

        A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

        Markimdb: 4.2
        Genrehorror
        CountryUSA

        In the fall of 1987, a group of small-town friends must survive the night in the home of a sinister couple after a tragic accident occurs. Needing only to make a single phone call, the request seems horribly ordinary until they realize that this call could change their life…or end it.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrecomedy, drama
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:32

        A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

        Markimdb: 4.3
        Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, drama, detective
        CountryUSA, China
        Duration02:22

        When three college students move into an old house off campus, they unwittingly unleash a supernatural entity known as The Bye Bye Man, who comes to prey upon them once they discover his name. The friends must try to save each other, all the while keeping The Bye Bye Man's existence a secret to save others from the same deadly fate.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genredrama
        CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
        Duration02:08

        Pushed to the brink after losing her job, a woman struggles to survive. As the months pass and her troubles deepen, she embarks on a perilous and mysterious journey that threatens to usurp her life.

        Markimdb: 4.9
        Genreaction, adventure, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:42

        International master thief, Simon Templar, also known as The Saint, is asked by a desperate rich man to find his kidnapped daughter. However, in addition to evading the authorities, Simon must face a dangerous adversary from his past.

        Markimdb: 6.7
        Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime, detective
        CountryChina, USA
        Duration01:55

          Ray Breslin is the world's foremost authority on structural security. After analyzing every high security prison and learning a vast array of survival skills so he can design escape-proof prisons, his skills are put to the test. He's framed and incarcerated in a master prison he designed himself. He needs to escape and find the person who put him behind bars.

          Markimdb: 7.1
          Genrefantastic, action, adventure
          CountryUSA, Canada
          Duration02:11

          When Tony Stark's world is torn apart by a formidable terrorist called the Mandarin, he starts an odyssey of rebuilding and retribution.

          Markimdb: 5.1
          Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
          CountryUSA
          Duration02:36

          A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is expecting to raise her child.

          Markimdb: 7.2
          Genrecomedy, drama
          CountryUSA, China
          Duration02:18

            A con man, Irving Rosenfeld, along with his seductive partner Sydney Prosser, is forced to work for a wild FBI agent, Richie DiMaso, who pushes them into a world of Jersey powerbrokers and mafia.

            Markimdb: 6.9
            Genredrama, western, crime
            CountryFrance, Spain, Romania, Belgium, USA
            Duration01:56

            Oregon, 1851. Hermann Kermit Warm, a chemist and aspiring gold prospector, keeps a profitable secret that the Commodore wants to know, so he sends the Sisters brothers, two notorious assassins, to capture him on his way to California.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genreaction, adventure, western
            CountryUSA, Australia
            Duration02:10

            Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves.

            Markimdb: 7.3
            Genrethriller, drama, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:05

            The Path explores the unknown and mysterious world of the cult-like Meyerist Movement in upstate New York. At the center of the movement lies Eddie, a conflicted husband; Sarah, his devoted wife; and Cal, an ambitious leader. We follow each as they contend with deep issues involving relationships, faith, and power.

            Markimdb: 3.9
            Genrehorror, thriller
            CountryUSA

            When a capricious young author with a dark secret returns home for her brother's graduation, she finds herself haunted by the past and tormented by night terrors.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genreaction, comedy, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:27

            Jean-Claude Van Damme is a global martial arts & film sensation, also operating under the simple alias of "Johnson" as the world's best undercover private contractor. Retired for years, a chance encounter with a lost love brings him back to the game. This time, he'll be deadlier than ever. Probably.

            Markimdb: 5.3
            Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama
            CountryUSA, Canada
            Duration01:42

            When his best friend and podcast co-host goes missing in the backwoods of Canada, a young guy joins forces with his friend's girlfriend to search for him.

            Markimdb: 5
            Genrehorror, thriller, drama
            CountryUSA

            When a young family moves into a foreclosed house, the previous owner begins a campaign of intimidation and terror. The deranged man will stop at nothing to get his home back.

            Markimdb: 5.4
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:45

            Parole officer Jack Mabry has only a few weeks left before retirement and wishes to finish out the cases he's been assigned. One such case is that of Gerald 'Stone' Creeson, a convicted arsonist who is up for parole. Jack is initially reluctant to indulge Stone in the coarse banter he wishes to pursue and feels little sympathy for the prisoner's pleads for an early release. Seeing little hope in convincing Jack himself, Stone arranges for his wife to seduce the officer, but motives and intentions steadily blur amidst the passions and buried secrets of the corrupted players in this deadly game of deception.

            Markimdb: 6.6
            Genredrama, military, history
            CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

            During WWII, two intelligence officers use a corpse and false papers to outwit German troops.

            Markimdb: 5
            Genrethriller, drama
            CountryUSA

            A gallerist risks her family and flourishing career when she enters into an affair with a talented painter and slowly loses control of her life.

            Markimdb: 7.5
            Genrecomedy, drama, biography, history
            CountryUnited Kingdom, Republic of Ireland, USA
            Duration01:55

            England, early 18th century. The close relationship between Queen Anne and Sarah Churchill is threatened by the arrival of Sarah's cousin, Abigail Hill, resulting in a bitter rivalry between the two cousins to be the Queen's favourite.

            Markimdb: 5.8
            Genrethriller, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration02:10

            Four young men make a risky investment together that puts them in trouble with the mob.

            Markimdb: 6.8
            Genrecomedy, drama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:45

            Chronicles Jack Harris, one of the pioneers of internet commerce, as he wrestles with his morals and struggles not to drown in a sea of conmen, mobsters, drug addicts, and pornstars.

            Markimdb: 7.4
            Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:44

            The Rizzos, a family who doesn't share their habits, aspirations, and careers with one another, find their delicate web of lies disturbed by the arrival of a young ex-con brought home by Vince, the patriarch of the family, who is a corrections officer in real life, and a hopeful actor in private.

            Markimdb: 5.1
            Genredrama, crime
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:43

            She was running from her past , He was walking to his future... everything after that was destiny.

            Markimdb: 6.1
            Genrefantastic, thriller, drama
            CountryUSA, Canada, Germany
            Duration01:45

            Set in a world with memory implants, Alan Hakman is a 'cutter'—someone with the power of final edit over people's recorded histories—but his latest assignment puts him in great danger.

            Markimdb: 3.8
            Genrecomedy, adventure, family
            CountryUSA

            Larry's daughter wants only one thing for Christmas - a talking bear. His daughter's step-dad intends to make sure that Larry can't get one.

            Markimdb: 5.8
            Genredrama, sport
            CountryUSA

            Upon learning of his girlfriend's infidelity, Greg, the star player of his elite private school’s rugby team, suffers an emotional breakdown, leaving his friends and teammates to pick up the pieces and deal with the crisis in their own ways, ranging from heroic to apathetic to downright horrifying.

            Markimdb: 6.2
            Genrethriller, detective
            CountryUSA
            Duration01:20

            A group of people trapped in a elevator realizes that the devil is among them.

            Markimdb: 4.9
            Genrehorror, action, military
            CountryNew Zealand, USA

            A WWII pilot traveling with top secret documents on a B-17 Flying Fortress encounters an evil presence on board the flight.




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