Movies like The White Spider

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The White Spider (1963)
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The White Spider (1963)
Original name: Die weiße Spinne
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story: After an automobile accident, in which a man is unrecognizably burnt to a crisp, his wife's only able to confirm the corpse's identity by his talisman: a small, white spider. However, soon, there are more corpses walking around than at a comic con convention and every single one of them was a white spider sitting on or nearby the body.
Style: suspense, detective
Plot: police, assassin, murder, intrigue, fear, private detective, basement, assistant, secret, hanged woman, dead woman, landlady, stockings

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Most similar movies to The White Spider

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, suspense, serious and neo noir films with plots about murder, police, police officer, private detective, investigation, serial killer and police investigation mostly in Crime, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The White Spider: Room 13 (1964), The Inn on the River (1962), Arrest the Restless (1992), An Obsession (1997), A Very Missing Person (1972). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Room 13 (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Denmark, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again...
Style: slasher horror, slasher
Plot: serial killer, conspiracy, bare breasts, train robbery, mistress, suicide of mother, female serial killer, blackmail, murder, striptease, nightclub, private investigator ...
Place: scotland yard
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95%
The Inn on the River (1962)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway.
Plot: serial killer, underwater, conspiracy, criminal, assassination attempt, telephone call, dancing, police, ship, suicide, smuggler, scuba diver ...
Place: scotland yard
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95%
Arrest the Restless (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Two juveniles get mixed up in a street gang, resulting in the murder of a rival gang leader. A crooked cop pins the murder on the boy, but a detective who knows the truth risks his career to help the kid out.
Style: detective
Plot: murder, police, rivals, gang, street gang, police officer, sergeant
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78%
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An Obsession (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story: An Obsession is Aoyama's remake for the 1990s of Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog ("Nora inu," 1949). The basic plot situation is the same: a cop, after losing his gun to a killer, sets out on a search for the criminal who in the end ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, detective
Plot: police, wife, fistfight, shooting, heroin addict, murder, gun, gunshot wound, stolen gun
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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A Very Missing Person (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.
Style: detective
Plot: heiress, amateur detective, missing person, amateur sleuth, murder, spinster, commune, hippie, police, school teacher
Place: new york, greenwich village manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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65%
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Sweet Killing (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A business man decides to kill his wife but the plan sets off a chain of weird events that cause his life to become a living hell.
Style: suspense, dark comedy, black comedy, independent film
Plot: murder, perfect crime, crime scene, gay slur, wife, business, male female relationship, sex, marriage, bank, death, police ...
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64%
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Judy (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A depraved sex killer preys on women of ill repute in the red light district area of Boston, Massachusetts. Hard-nosed maverick private detective Gunner Sloan gets hired by the wealthy Fairchild to find the psycho after the creep attacks ...
Style: erotic, detective
Plot: private detective, sensuality, female nudity, industrialist, police, rape, sadism, murder, exploitation, black pantyhose, female stockinged legs, pantyhose ...
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59%
Angels of the Street (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Angels of the Street or The Angel of St. Pauli is a 1969 West German crime film directed by Jürgen Roland and starring Horst Frank, Herbert Fux and Werner Pochath. It is set in the St. Pauli red light district of the port of Hamburg.
Style: erotic, poliziottesco
Plot: illegal prostitution, murder investigation, police, fire, fight, gay, female nudity, torture, criminal, murder, blackmail, prostitute ...
Place: hamburg germany, northern germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Vares: Tango of Darkness (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The tango king Harry Koivikko was found dead six years ago in a sleazebag motel, with a knife is his back. The biggest manhunt in the county faded away without results. Jussi Vares gets a phone call from a down-and-out journalist; the informant ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, contemplative
Plot: private detective, murder investigation, prisoner, private investigator, murder, police, prison escape, nordic, car bomb, singer, flashback, beer ...
Place: finland
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53%
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The Preacher (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A boy finds a dead woman. When police move the corpse they find the skeletons of two women who disappeared in the seventies.
Style: suspense, serious, bleak, suspenseful
Plot: police investigation, family feud, murder, police, murder investigation, blackmail, pastor, danger, dead woman
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48%
Rikos ja Rakkaus (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min.
Plot: mental disorder, police corruption, sexual behavior, funeral home, priest, love, stolen money, hospital, funeral, murder, police, mentally challenged ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
City Under Siege (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A string of violent jewel robberies force Police Inspector Parrino to get rough with the city’s criminal scum. Things take a turn for the worse when he’s confronted with the murder of an prostitute.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police, suburbs, police officer, prostitution, murder, criminal
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Small Crime (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Cyprus, Greece
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Leonidas, a young, ambitious police officer, is assigned to a remote island in the Aegean Sea. He dreams of solving important crimes, but there are few to be found in the sleepy beach community where he is left to such menial chores. Each day at the ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, humorous, light
Plot: police, police officer, secret, dancing, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, dead man, police investigation, murder, danger, love and romance, youth, death ...
Place: greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Outsider (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Not so uncommon themes of the 1960's are used as dark backdrop for a hard-nosed, private eye/ex-con with a bone to pick with the Los Angeles police Dept. Darren McGavin plays David Ross the hired investigator to play a game of follow the money. ...
Style: detective, neo noir
Plot: sergeant, private detective, lsd, nostalgia, drug use, strangulation, private investigator, jazz club, club, murder, drug abuse, woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Death of Dick Long (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Dick died last night, and Zeke and Earl don’t want anybody finding out how. That’s too bad though, cause news travels fast in small-town Alabama.
Style: serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, black comedy ...
Plot: zoophilia, bestiality, investigation, police investigation, police, small town, secret, buddies, cover up, hidden corpse, death, hidden truth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Little Virtuous (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Ferdinand, a young photographer, meets Claire, a supposed cover girl, in a cafe. Although he is instantly attracted towards her, Ferdinand soon learns that she is a professional thief, working for a thug named Brady.
Plot: female thief, imprisonment, thug, arrested, arrest, jailed, photographer, police, love interest, husband wife relationship, love triangle, abusive husband ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Without Compassion (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Peru, Mexico, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Lima, 1980s. Based upon Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.
Plot: death, punishment, student, hate, landlord, college student, religion, suspicion, landlady, double murder, catholic, torment ...
Place: peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Only the Wind Knows the Answer (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that ...
Plot: insurance fraud, insurance agent, villa, yacht, mysterious death
Time: 70s
Place: riviera, mediterranean sea, cote d'azur, french riviera, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Juego peligroso (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two stories set in Río de Janeiro. The first one (HO) is about a man who picks up a couple of newlyweds on the highway to Río. The couple's car is wrecked and the man offers his help to take the bride to their honeymoon bungalow. Everything ...
Style: neo noir
Plot: blackmail, newlywed, dead woman, blonde, murder, poison, car accident, boat, lovers, black widow, handsome man, woman in a bikini ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Case G (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Van Veeteren's only unsolved case comes back to haunt him when the daughter of a murdered private detective comes to see him. A brutal wife killer, who went into hiding years before, has resurfaced under an assumed name; or so it seems, and Van ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, detective
Plot: manhunt, private detective, haunted by the past, chases and races, law enforcement, murder, police procedural, nypd, snow, fictional country, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Murder She Said (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Miss Marple believes she’s seen a murder in a passing by train yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own. Her inquisitions lead her to a mountain top. The first of four films starring Margaret Rutherford as Miss ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, clever, black and white ...
Plot: private detective, whodunit, amateur detective, strangulation, murder, murder mystery, police investigation, dishonesty, uncover truth, woman strangled to death, serial killer, law enforcement ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Heads or Tails (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others. His period of mournful contemplation is broken when he is called out to look into the ...
Style: detective
Plot: murder, police, death, suspect, false accusation, sex, suspicion, police inspector, police officer
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Proof of the Man (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
Style: neo noir
Plot: killer, police detective, police, fashion show, dying words, murder, witness, police investigation, elevator, multiple murder, straw hat, killed in a car accident
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Murder Can Hurt You (1980)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Spoof of TV crime dramas. Someone is murdering all the great detectives and cops, and it's up to the remaining few to find the killer and stop him.
Style: parody, detective, spoof
Plot: law enforcement, television, murder, police, serial killer, police detective, private detective, investigation, satire
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Happy Birthday, Türke! (1992)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Kemal Kayankaya, a private detective, was hired by a Turkish women, Ilter, to search for his husband, Amend, who has been missing since the death of her father, Vassif. Unknownst to him, he was about to unravel the secrets of his client's ...
Style: detective, neo noir
Plot: private investigator, foster home, turk, private detective, police, secret, missing person, male nudity, male pubic hair, underworld, pubic hair
Place: europe, germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Beyond the Law (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Takes place over the course of one feverish night in a Manhattan police precinct and neighboring bar.
Style: detective, independent film, cinema verite, fake documentary
Plot: night, mayor, interrogation, police station, criminal, husband wife relationship, police, improv, abandoned, police officer, police lieutenant, irish american
Place: manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Double Whammy (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Ray Pluto has many problems. He is satirized in the tabloids as the "loser cop." His partner is starting to seem suspiciously attracted to him. A pair of screenwriters across the hall keep bugging him for help. The superintendent of his ...
Style: humorous, suspense, entertaining, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: murder, violence, serial killer, adaptation, investigation, couple relations, police detective, law enforcement, doctors and patients, power relations, hitman, heist ...
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Killer Hair (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A fashion reporter stumbles on a murder investigation in the Nation's Capitol, only to be thrown for a loop when her police detective former lover is assigned to the case.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, humorous, realistic
Plot: amateur detective, murder, riddles and clues, journalism, rivalry, fashion, hairdresser, dead woman, reporter, media, woman, female reporter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Jai Gangaajal (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story: The film features SP Abha Mathur who is appointed the first female SP of Bankipur district, Bihar. She then goes against the Local MLA of Bankipur and henchmen of Lakhisarai district.
Style: suspense, captivating
Plot: gang, police officer, female protagonist, police, organized crime, hand to hand combat, sexism, tough girl, murder, corrupt cop, policewoman, fistfight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Vares: The Path of the Righteous Men (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The body of a young woman whose heart has been ripped out of her chest is found in a remote are in Finland. The finder of the body, a dismissed pastor, hires private investigator Jussi Vares to investigate the crime. Vares uncovers a criminal ring ...
Style: enigmatic, suspense, captivating, rough
Plot: preacher, murder, private investigator, sect, secret, psychiatrist, police, village idiot, religious fundamentalism, religious cult, private detective, nordic ...
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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