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Cortex (2008)
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Cortex (2008)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Trapped in an old folks home where people keep going missing, an ex-cop must overcome his Alzheimers to find out who is killing people in this jigsaw thriller.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, mind bending
Plot: investigation, law enforcement, elderly, clinic, death, alzheimer's disease, serial killer, mental illness, police, old man, memory, old age, old woman, suspicion, retired cop, pistol, retirement home, deadly, gun, mystery, golden years, crime, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: france, europe

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and tense films with plots about deadly, investigation, murder, law enforcement, serial killer, danger and dishonesty mostly in Thriller, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Cortex: Counter Investigation (2007), Off Limits (2010), I Know What I Saw (2007), The Killing Game (2011), State Affairs (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Counter Investigation (2007)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, rough, mind bending, bleak ...
Plot: investigation, sexual abuse, serial killer, revenge, death of daughter, pedophile, law enforcement, death in the family, convict, murder trial, murder confession, police officer ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: europe, paris france, france
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67%
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Off Limits (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: During a patrol, Julie and Simon, two police constables, injure a wealthy man who pointlessly killed their partner. This wealthy man in question turns out to be the son of a politician. This is why the two police constables are accused of brutality ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious
Plot: investigation, dishonesty, law enforcement, working undercover, police, drug, chase, criminal, politician, duty, nightclub, patrol ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
I Know What I Saw (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mourning the loss of her father, who committed suicide, Mackenzie starts having hallucinations of killing people. They seem so real that she's convinced she's been committing these crimes; however, she can find no evidence to support this. ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, investigation, danger, losing-it hero, serial killer, uncover truth, rivalry, dishonesty, twists and turns, suspicion, youth, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Killing Game (2011)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Eve Duncan is contacted, 10 years after the disappearance and murder of her 7-year-old daughter Bonnie, by a man claiming to be her killer. Taunted by his clues about Bonnie's case and his threats to kill again, she throws herself into her ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, haunted by the past, murder, danger, death, mind game, strong female presence, riddles and clues, foster home, child abduction, deadly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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State Affairs (2009)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A plane explodes above the Gulf of Guinea. An escort girl is murdered in a Parisian park. Thousands of miles separate these two events, and yet Nora Chahyd, believes there's a connection between them, much to his superiors chagrin. As Nora ...
Style: political thriller, serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Plot: investigation, law enforcement, undercover, police detective, hitman, betrayal, dishonesty, politics, political corruption, murder, spy, agent ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Other Side of the Street (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Brazil, France
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Regina, a lonely 65 year old who works on the neighborhood watch for the police in Copacabana, believes to have witnessed a murder in the building across the street, and ends up getting involved with the suspect in a potentially dangerous chain of ...
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot: murder, couple relations, obsession, life is a bitch, terminal illness, murder witness, love and romance, fall in love, amateur detective, aging, elderly, investigation ...
Place: rio de janeiro, brazil, former yugoslavia, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Class of '76 (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Inspector Tom Monroe (Robert Carlyle) investigates the mysterious death of several people that the only thing they have in common is being classmates. In addition, the deaths appear to be related to a mysterious "faceless child."
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: investigation, amateur detective, obsession, murder, riddles and clues, law enforcement, kidnapping, mentally unstable, mystery killer, classmate, serial killer, school ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Lucky Day (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Nora Barkin is an aspiring actress who supports herself by working for a courier service. No sooner has Nora's friend and coworker Bill Reagan jubilantly announced that he possesses a lottery ticket worth 13 million dollars than Bill is killed ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending
Plot: fish out of water, amateur detective, investigation, riddles and clues, couple relations, who done it, best friend, murder, danger, law enforcement, lottery, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Shattered Soul (2006)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 137 min.
Story: No overview found.
Style: psychological, tense, suspense, captivating, mind bending ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, murder, investigation, danger, uncover truth, suspicion, twists and turns, memory lapse, losing-it hero, women's issues, psychology ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Gone but Not Forgotten (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious
Plot: serial killer, danger, private detective, investigation, amateur detective, psychopath, rivalry, murder, police investigation, protagonist as suspect, law enforcement, police detective ...
Place: usa, new york, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Skeletons in the Closet (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A father suspects his son to be a murderer...or is he just paranoid and trying to cover up his own past which involves his wife being killed in a fire?
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic
Plot: serial killer, murder, mind game, uncover truth, mysterious character, investigation, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, law enforcement, psychopath, who done it, protagonist as suspect ...
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Swallow, Cat, Rose, Death (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story: What's in a name but murder? MÃŒnster comes across the strangled body of a young woman in her home and surprises the murderer who is still on the premises. Though the murderer escapes, a rare book is found at the scene with a dedication by the ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, law enforcement, investigation, police detective, murder mystery, evidence, twists and turns, danger, escapades, witnessing a crime, nypd ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
A Private Affair (2002)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearance of Rachel, a young student who has been missing for six months. After interviewing Rachel's family, friends and classmates, Francois is ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense ...
Plot: missing person, obsession, murder, private investigator, female nudity, male pubic hair, murder investigation, missing girl, nudity, sexual content, bare breasts, femme fatale ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
6th Commandment Cross (2012)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Meet Leonard, a man who will help you die with a smile on your face. A young attorney meets his client for the first time, a serial killer known as the "Smiley Face Killer", whose victims all died with a smile on their faces.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, danger, euthanasia, mercy killing, lawyer, suicide, murder, rivalry, angel of death, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 4.8
 2K
The Riddle (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A journalist investigates a series of murders that follows the discovery of an unpublished novel by Charles Dickens in the cellar of an old Thames-side-pub.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious ...
Plot: murder, amateur sleuth, policewoman, serial murder, riddles and clues, journalism, amateur detective, law enforcement, supernatural ability, serial killer, police inspector, pub ...
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Carambole (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: This film is based upon the book with the same name, by HÃ¥kan Nesser, one of Swedens most appreciated "crime-authors".
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: hit and run, murder, life turned upside down, investigation, uncover truth, law enforcement, private detective, blackmail, doctor, european, serial killer, nypd ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Thorne: Scaredycat (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: D.I. Tom Thorne's latest case puts him on the hunt for not one, but two serial killers, who seem to be working together, yet killing separately.
Style: rough, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, police detective, murderous pair, law enforcement, murder mystery, strangulation, psychopath, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Cry in the Woods (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An unfortunate bank robber takes an escaped mental patient, wanted for murder, as hostage.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, exciting ...
Plot: mental illness, investigation, crime gone awry, disorder, dishonesty, confined, law enforcement, murder, heist, robbery, hostage, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Haven't We Met Before? (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on the novel by Mary Higgins Clark. Under hypnosis, a mental patient admits to several recent murders. He also offers a strange defense when he claims that he is the reincarnation of a 19th century man who was wrongly executed.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, detective, realistic
Plot: reincarnation, woman in danger, police detective, serial killer, law enforcement, assault, college student, danger, memories, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Three Blind Mice (2003)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Thomas is a talented computer programmer living in a vibrant, urban metropolis. Lonely and unsure about life, he finds solitude in the world of internet chat rooms, webcam sites and virtual communication. One evening, Thomas witnesses the brutal ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, realistic
Plot: murder, mind game, investigation, fighting the system, false accusation, witnessing a crime, law enforcement, fall in love, protagonist as suspect, danger, psychopath, dishonesty ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Perfect Student (2011)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A criminology professor becomes a target herself when she tries to establish the innocence of her star student in a murder.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological, psychological thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: college life, murder, deception, courtroom, police, seduction, investigation, danger, amateur detective, fight club, wrestling, college ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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First Degree (1995)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: When prominent businessman Andrew Pyne is found shot in a New York alley, one of the NYPD's best, Rick Mallory, suspects a Galeno Mob hit. When he and his partner, Amos Turzo try to question Pyne's widow, Hadley, they are quickly ushered ...
Style: independent film, tense, mind bending, realistic, serious ...
Plot: murder, righting the wronged, power relations, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect, witnessing a crime, fighting crime, police investigation, couple relations, femme fatale, amateur detective, serial killer ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 2.2
 1K
Magic Man (2010)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In order to see magic idol Krell Darius perform his world-famous magic act, a beautiful aspiring young-magician, Tatiana, travels from New York to Las Vegas with her closest friends, BFFs, Elena and Vera. As the layers of illusion unfold, so too do ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough, independent film
Plot: serial killer, investigation, haunted by the past, police detective, manipulation, danger, murder, dishonesty, magic, wizards and magicians, wizard, mythical creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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R.I.F. (2011)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A policeman takes his family on a holiday, and after almost hitting a wild hog, the car won't start. They get hike with a guy scrutinizing his pretty wife. Shortly after, she disappears.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: missing person, uncover truth, on the run, police investigation, police detective, chase, cop, revenge, violent content, who done it, law enforcement, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Murder Eleven (2013)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A serial killer is loose on the streets of Atlantic City. His ten victims are prostitutes, his methods are ruthless and yet his motives are unknown. Two embattled homicide detectives, Mayfield and Jesse, are in a race against time to catch this ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, slasher ...
Plot: serial killer, homicide detective, race against time, police investigation, law enforcement, amateur detective, murder, who done it, tough heroes, partners against crime, police officer, prostitute ...
Time: 21st century
Place: atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Sketches of a Strangler (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An art student living with his sister is actually a maniac strangling dancers and prostitutes. One victim's sister starts looking for him...
Style: slasher, grindhouse, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, art student, strangler, murder, obsession, prostitute, investigation, mental illness, psychopath, student, strangulation, brother ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
He Died with His Eyes Open (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois, a French murder mystery based upon a novel of the same name, is an unusual, involving film with excellent performances by its entire cast. Police Inspector Staniland (Michel Serrault) is investigating the death of a ...
Style: neo noir, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: femme fatale, murder, seduction, police detective, investigation, who done it, couples, law enforcement, dishonesty, crime investigation, jealousy, brother sister incest ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: canada, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Hidden Child (2013)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Erica's parents are killed in a traffic accident. She moves to FjÀllbacka and discovers she has a brother.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, serious, tense
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, nordic, serial killer, writers, intrigue, dishonesty, against humanity, murder, adolescence ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
My Nanny's Secret (2009)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After the house is robbed and the nanny's brother is a suspect, she lies to protect him, but she then realizes he isn't the only one with a secret.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, captivating, tense ...
Plot: estrangement, investigation, family relations, nanny, dishonesty, heist, employer employee relationship, child in peril, husband wife relationship, little boy, false accusation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Terrible Angels (2012)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Detective Ben Nolan is sent to investigate the story of a convicted prostitute and known drug dealer Linda Grossel. Linda explains that she was kidnapped and held captive for weeks. As the investigation unfolds, Linda's sanity is put to ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: uncover truth, danger, law enforcement, abduction, police detective, investigation, violent content, confined, isolation, woman in danger, life is a bitch, captivity
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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