Movies like Five Miles to Midnight
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Five Miles to Midnight (1962)
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Original name: Le Couteau dans la plaie
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Immediately after Lisa (Loren) declares that she is leaving her immature, abusive, but easy-going husband Robert (Perkins), he is reported dead in a plane crash. Secretly still alive, he convinces her to collect his life insurance, although she knows that it's a bad idea. Lisa must contend with the complications of the scheme, which involve an aggressive suitor (Young), Robert's jealousy, and her own guilt.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, ambiguous ending
Plot:
insurance, italian woman, nightclub, airport, survival, airplane, twists and turns, betrayal, soldier, journalism, couples, infidelity, nightlife, family problems, crumbling marriage, woman in danger, dishonesty, domestic disturbance, couple relations, cons and scams, air disaster, prostitute, seduction, crash, blackmail ...
Time:
60s
Place:
paris france, france, italy, europe, belgium
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about dishonesty, murder, danger, deadly, couples, infidelity and rivalry mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Five Miles to Midnight: State of Mind (2003), Trapped (2009), Paris by Night (2012), Place Vendome (1998), Pasha (1968). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 134 min.
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Duration: 95 min.
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Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs, making sure once again that the owners don’t bend the rules too far. Weiss knows he’s ...
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Duration: 117 min.
Story:
The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through the bas-fond of Paris...
Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
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Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over his criminal empire to his three corrupt and power-hungry daughters. Kath runs a brothel down by the docks, Tracy owns a soccer team and Jo, a ...
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Plot:
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Story:
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Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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