Movies like Diva

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Diva (1981)
 7.2
 14K
Diva (1981)
Genre: Crime, Music, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Jules, a young Parisian postman, secretly records a concert performance given by the opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises. The following day, Jules runs into a woman who is being pursued by armed thugs. Before she is killed, the woman slips an audio cassette into his mail bag...
Style: surreal, lyrical, visual, visually stunning, atmospheric, stylized, tense, offbeat, epic, neo noir ...
Plot: opera singer, classical music, police corruption, music, car chase, chase, murder, opera, gangster, postman, prostitute, stalker, obsession, female nudity, prostitution, corruption, killer, food, subway, railway, singer, journey, legal, black, real world ...
Time: year 1981, 80s
Place: paris france, france, europe
Keyword: gangsters, new wave, french

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Most similar movies to Diva

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and neo noir films with plots about murder, gangster, police, dishonesty, violence, female nudity and cigarette smoking mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Diva: Subway (1985), Le Samurai (1967), King of New York (1990), Kansas City (1996), The Fighter (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 6.5
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Subway (1985)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a ...
Style: surreal, atmospheric, cult classic, stylized, neo noir ...
Plot: subway, gangster, train, fighting the system, chase, blackmail, love, murder, car chase, dystopia, hipster, alienation ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 8.0
 56K
Le Samurai (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Hitman Jef Costello is a perfectionist who always carefully plans his murders and who never gets caught.
Style: neo noir, tense, suspenseful, bleak, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: loner, hitman, gangster, assassination, police investigation, loneliness, assassin, betrayal, chase, anti hero, organized crime, character study ...
Time: 20th century, year 1967, 60s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
King of New York (1990)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A former drug lord returns from prison determined to wipe out all his competition and distribute the profits of his operations to New York's poor and lower classes in this stylish and ultra violent modern twist on Robin Hood.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, hood, intense, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, organized crime, drug lord, mob boss, gangster, murder, chase, violence, african american gangster, cocaine, drug, urban ...
Time: year 1990, 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: new york, italy, usa, bronx new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
 6.3
 5K
Kansas City (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Robert Altman's story is a riff on race, class, and power cross-cuts between the two kidnappings and the background of corrupt politics and virtuoso jazz music. It all takes place in Kansas City in 1934.
Style: talky, atmospheric, neo noir, realistic, serious ...
Plot: jazz, kidnapping, women, loneliness, music, addiction, gangster, politics, jazz musician, violence, political corruption, corruption ...
Time: 1930s, year 1996, 20th century, year 1934
Place: missouri, kansas city, usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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 6.3
 1K
The Fighter (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
Style: neo noir, tense, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, murder, ex convict, female pubic hair, diamond, dishonesty, law enforcement, criminal heroes, vengeance, chase, criminal's revenge, on the run ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 6.9
 3K
Flic Story (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, police detective, gangster, robbery, prison, law enforcement, police investigation, investigation, police corruption, psychopath, police station ...
Time: 1940s, year 1947, 1950s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Professional (1981)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: French secret agent Joss Baumont is sent to kill the president Njala of an African country. However, a counter-order is given before he can execute his mission and he is abandoned in the hands of foreign authorities. He escapes and seeks revenge by ...
Style: suspenseful, intense, suspense, harsh, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, assassination, female nudity, car chase, tough heroes, hitman, lone hero, on the run, fighting the system, chases and races, government agency, revenge ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: france, paris france, africa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Crime Insiders (2007)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A Parisian criminal gang fall apart after challenges to the gang's leader lessen his influence.
Style: realistic, rough, bleak, tense, serious ...
Plot: gangster, gang, criminal heroes, master criminal, danger, prison, real world, nudity, rivalry, hitman, right hand man, strong violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, africa, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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 7.7
 12K
The Finger Man (1962)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A stone-faced Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as enigmatic gangster Silien, who may or may not be responsible for squealing on Faugel (Serge Reggiani), just released from the slammer and already involved in what should have been a simple heist. By the end ...
Style: neo noir, bleak, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gangster, betrayal, frame up, cons and scams, vengeance, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, friendship, crime gone awry, tough heroes, spy, criminal ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, year 1962, 60s
Place: europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 8.1
 722K
Fargo (1996)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Jerry, a small-town Minnesota car salesman is bursting at the seams with debt... but he's got a plan. He's going to hire two thugs to kidnap his wife in a scheme to collect a hefty ransom from his wealthy father-in-law. It's going to ...
Style: neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy, atmospheric, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: snow, dark humor, small town, kidnapping, police, murder, greed, crime gone awry, police investigation, violence, satire, winter ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s, year 1996, year 1987
Place: minnesota, north dakota, usa, minneapolis minnesota, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
24 Hours in London (2000)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: London gangster Christian has a plan to kill off the opposition, but things get messy when a witness survives.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, stylized, surprise ending
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police, criminal's revenge, hitman, gangster, murder, witnessing a crime, fighting crime, police investigation, rivalry, dishonesty, danger, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Paris Countdown (2013)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Unable to repay their debts, Milan and Victor, best friends and co-owners of a Paris nightclub, are lured into a drug deal that goes bad. Tortured by police, they negotiate their freedom against an overwhelming testimony that condemns their ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: psychopath, survival, race against time, friendship, betrayal, danger, on the run, murder, police, chase, friends, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.9
 28K
The Red Circle (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Master thief Corey is fresh out of prison. But instead of toeing the line of law-abiding freedom, he finds his steps leading back to the shadowy world of crime, crossing those of a notorious escapee and alcoholic ex-cop. As the unlikely trio plots a ...
Style: neo noir, tense, stylized, suspense, noir ...
Plot: heist, gangster, robbery, caper, organized crime, nightclub, mafia, great ending, thief, prison, gunfight, existentialism ...
Time: year 1970, 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, europe, marseille, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.8
 57K
Frantic (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ford plays an American doctor whose wife suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: espionage, kidnapping, missing wife, missing person, spy, hotel, investigation, chase, hotel room, illuminati, murder, greed ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.0
 804
Max & Jeremie (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Even among bombers and murderers, there is a social ladder, a hierarchy to climb. Jeremie is a mere bomber who blows up people and places for mobsters in Paris. He may not look it, scruffy lad that he is, but he is a sensitive fellow, and he feels ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, stylized
Plot: killer, gangster, violent content, danger, criminal heroes, retiring, hitman, swimming pool, police brutality, immaturity, police, murder ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Brigade of Death (1985)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A crime ring is kidnapping women to sell them to the harems of rich Emirs, but the Vice squad put an end to it.
Style: perverse, detective, poliziottesco
Plot: homosexual, serial killer, prostitute, shooting, bare chested male, dead woman, dirty cop, motorcycle gang, multiple deaths, beefcake, drug, accidental death ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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 ⇓
39%
 6.7
 37K
Cold in July (2014)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: How can a split-second decision change your life? While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of low-life burglar Freddy Russell. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, tense, realistic, suspense ...
Plot: twists and turns, investigation, private detective, murder, home invasion, vigilantism, father son relationship, violence, small town, intruder, unlikely partners, vengeance ...
Time: year 2014, 80s, 20th century, year 1989
Place: texas, midwest, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 6.8
 15K
Point Blank (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Samuel Pierret is a nurse who saves the wrong guy – a thief whose henchmen take Samuel's pregnant wife hostage to force him to spring their boss from the hospital. A race through the subways and streets of Paris ensues, and the body count ...
Style: suspenseful, intense, unusual plot structure, suspense, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: survival, hospital, race against time, hostage, on the run, twists and turns, danger, life turned upside down, unlikely partners, confined, wanted, ransom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 7.2
 2K
L.627 (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Lulu is a tough streetwise narcotics cop who, like a Frank Serpico or a Dirty Harry Callahan, doesn't play by the rules or kowtow to his weak and/or corrupt superiors. Lulu thrives in this violent world, where sheer guts can overcome his ...
Style: anthology, tense, serious, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: police officer, drug abuse, aids, racism, organized crime, time travel, cop, prostitute, police surveillance, tough heroes, addiction, police corruption ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 6.4
 21K
Killing Zoe (1993)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Zed (Eric Stoltz) is an American vault-cracker who travels to Paris to meet up with his old friend Eric (Jean-Hugues Anglade). Eric and his gang have planned to raid the only bank in the city which is open on Bastille day. After offering his ...
Style: brutal, cult classic, neo noir, indie film, crime thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: robbery, heist, safecracker, bank, caper, bank robber, drug, murder, kidnapping, drug abuse, friendship, crime gone awry ...
Time: year 1993, 90s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Beat That My Heart Skipped (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Music
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Like his father, Tom is a real estate agent who makes his money from dirty, and sometimes brutal, deals. But a chance encounter prompts him to take up the piano and become a concert pianist. He auditions with the help of a beautiful, young virtuoso ...
Style: tense, neo noir, lyrical, stylized, talky ...
Plot: piano, male nudity, going straight, violence, father son relationship, storytelling, dysfunctional family, pianist, hopes, follow your dream, teachers and students, gang war ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.4
 9K
Super Fly (1972)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Music, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Super Fly is a cocaine dealer who begins to realize that his life will soon end with either prison or his death. He decides to build an escape from the life by making his biggest deal yet.
Style: grindhouse, hood, cult classic, grim, stylized ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blaxploitation, urban, gangster, hip hop, black, exploitation, ghetto, black history, african american, corruption, fight, drug ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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 8.0
 792K
Sin City (2005)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Welcome to Sin City. This town beckons to the tough, the corrupt, the brokenhearted. Some call it dark… Hard-boiled. Then there are those who call it home — Crooked cops, sexy dames, desperate vigilantes. Some are seeking revenge, others lust ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, surreal, dark, anthology ...
Audience: boys' night, kids, adult
Plot: corruption, vengeance, justice, gory, hitman, revenge, dark hero, comic book, redemption, vigilante, killings, distopia ...
Time: year 2005, y2k, 80s, 90s, 2000s ...
Place: texas, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.6
 3K
The Burglars (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship by which they planned their escape; a police chief pursues Azad while he waits for the next ship to ...
Style: suspenseful, exciting, cynical, serious, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, police corruption, chase, gangster, partner, police investigation, dishonesty, criminal heroes, investigation, heist, criminal, safecracker ...
Time: 20th century, year 1971, 70s
Place: greece, athens greece, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Red Siren (2002)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Action
Country: France
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no evidence; her mother, Eva, rich and powerful, avoids charges. Alice promptly runs away, determined to find her dad whom she claims lives in Portugal. The ...
Style: serious, rough, realistic, stylized, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police station, hitman, on the run, rivalry, law enforcement, police investigation, danger, coming of age, manhunt, gang, good versus evil, chase ...
Place: europe, paris france, france, asia, lisbon portugal
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Three Men to Destroy (1980)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped him, in order to eliminate him as a potential witness. Soon they are killing everyone he even comes ...
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: nudity, manhunt, chase, hitman, car chase, accident, strong violent content, gangster, law enforcement, witnessing a crime, betrayal, lone wolves ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 6.7
 4K
Black's Game (2012)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Iceland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In the mid to late 90's, the Reykjavik crime and drug scene saw a drastic change from a relatively small and innocent world into a much more aggressive and violent one.. The film tells the story of this change through the fictional gang of ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: drug dealing, orgy, violence, psychopath, police corruption, drug dealer, male nudity, corrupt law enforcer, gang, suicide, nightclub, new year's eve ...
Time: 90s, year 2012, 20th century
Place: iceland, scandinavia, europe, reykjavik iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 7.0
 11K
A Cop (1972)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Commissaire Edouard Coleman is a Paris police chief whose life investigating violent crimes has left him despondent. After beginning an affair with a beautiful but cold woman named Cathy, he befriends her boyfriend, Simon, a local nightclub owner. ...
Style: neo noir, visually appealing, hood, noir, suspense ...
Plot: gang, caper, french police, gangster, train robbery, heist, criminal, corruption, robbery, police inspector, driver, bank robbery ...
Time: year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.8
 2K
Dirty Hands (1975)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following ...
Style: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: love triangle, murder, betrayal, uncover truth, mind game, couples, dangerous attraction, love and romance, crime gone awry, legal investigation, dishonesty, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: france, saint tropez, provence, riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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