Movies like Empire of the Wolves
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Empire of the Wolves (2005)
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Original name: L'Empire des loups
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Turkey
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
When the young detective Paul Nerteaux finds the third slashed female corpse of illegal Turkish immigrants, he decides to ask for support to the experienced dark retired detective Jean-Louis Schiffer to chase the serial killer. Together, they infiltrate in the Turkish mafia trying to find the answer to the crimes. Meanwhile, the worker Anna Heymes is being submitted to a brain treatment and has severe headaches and glimpses of memories and visions. When these two parallel events collide, disclose that the Turkish organization "The Wolves" is behind them.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, realistic, gloomy
Plot:
police detective, police investigation, uncover truth, memory loss, serial killer, murder, mind game, terrorism, life is a bitch, master criminal, police officer, spy, female fighter, brainwashing, drugs, agent, investigation, religion, religious fanaticism, female fight, doctor, hallucination, professor, psychology, intelligence ...
Time:
contemporary
Place:
france, paris france, istanbul turkey, europe, turkey
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and rough films with plots about murder, deadly, law enforcement, serial killer, investigation, police investigation and psychopath mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Empire of the Wolves: The Crimson Rivers (2000), In the Electric Mist (2009), Shattered Soul (2006), Jo (2013), Talking to Heaven (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jean Reno, Benoit Magimel and Christopher Lee (The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars Trilogy) star in the riveting action-packed sequel to Crimson Rivers. No one is safe when seemingly random killings emerge as a deadly pattern intended to usher ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the ...
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police detective, police investigation, murder, ghost, uncover truth, law enforcement, life is a bitch, dishonesty, hallucination, civil war, gangsters, conspiracy ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, UK
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Jo is an English-language French police procedural television series created by Canadian/USA screenwriter René Balcer of Law & Order fame with French writing team Franck Ollivier & Malina Detcheva, known for the mini-series Lost Signs. It ...
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serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
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Genre: Action, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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100%
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Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A man begins to have disturbing visions of dead people, among whom are his mother and victims of a local serial killer. All telling their story of how they died, and how their murderer is still out there. The detective investigating the murders ...
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
A homicide inspector -- Lindsay Boxer -- who teams with three other professional women to catch an ingenious serial killer targeting newlyweds on their wedding nights.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, dark
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A police detective investigates the apparent serial killing of several children which is linked to an institutionalized, autistic child.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Country: UK, Germany, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Story:
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