Movies like Farewell, My Lovely

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Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
 7.0
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Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.
Style: neo noir, detective, tense, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, cult classic, independent film, clever ...
Plot: private detective, femme fatale, crime boss, missing person, murder, voice over narration, baseball, alcoholic, motel, interrogation, ex convict, investigation, uncover truth, suspicion of murder, life is a bitch, who done it, danger, dishonesty, private investigator, planned murder, lesbian, jazz, philip marlowe, female nudity, brothel ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1941, year 1975, 40s
Place: los angeles, usa, california

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Most similar movies to Farewell, My Lovely

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and neo noir films with plots about murder, investigation, dishonesty, deadly, private detective, betrayal and twists and turns mostly in Drama, Mystery and Crime genres. Some movies like Farewell, My Lovely: Chinatown (1974), L.A. Confidential (1997), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), Twilight (1998), Mulholland Falls (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Chinatown (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double ...
Style: neo noir, detective, atmospheric, cult classic, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: private detective, corruption, femme fatale, investigation, police, whodunit, murder, twists and turns, conspiracy, murder mystery, father daughter incest, domestic violence ...
Time: 20th century, year 1937, 1930s, year 1974
Place: los angeles, california, usa, eastern europe, pacific ocean ...
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L.A. Confidential (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Style: neo noir, tense, suspense, captivating, atmospheric ...
Audience: adult
Plot: corruption, police corruption, organized crime, police, murder, police detective, twists and turns, murder mystery, police brutality, justice, shootout, gunfight ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1997, 90s, 20th century ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa, arizona, persia ...
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100%
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman ...
Style: neo noir, clever, stylized, atmospheric, suspense ...
Plot: private detective, african american, missing person, jazz club, black, racism, gangster, jazz, private investigator, cop, home invasion, urban ...
Time: 1940s, year 1948, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, malibu california, africa ...
Similarity:
100%
 6.2
 15K
Twilight (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A retired ex-cop and private detective gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money and walks into a 20 year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of an actress' former husband.
Style: neo noir, clever, suspense, talky, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: private detective, bare breasts, murder, murder mystery, femme fatale, amateur detective, swimming pool, voyeurism, missing person, corruption, betrayal, police investigation ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: california, los angeles, usa, mexico
Similarity:
100%
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Mulholland Falls (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Style: neo noir, tense, suspense, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, political corruption, police, police investigation, conspiracy, revenge, betrayal, gangster, dishonesty, partners against crime, mafia, law enforcement ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1996, 50s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, mulholland drive
Similarity:
100%
 6.5
 4K
Tony Rome (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD.
Style: detective, neo noir, retro, noir, thrilling ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, private investigator, murder, redheaded woman, boat, lesbian, mysticism, sea, deep south, beach, investigation, law enforcement ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: miami, florida, usa, miami beach
Similarity:
100%
 6.4
 4K
Marlowe (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Los Angeles private-eye Philip Marlowe is trying to locate the brother of his new client, a woman named Orfamay Quest. The trail leads to two men who deny any knowledge of the brother's existence. Both are soon killed by an ice pick, so Marlowe ...
Style: neo noir, detective, mind bending, tense, realistic ...
Plot: private detective, blackmail, femme fatale, investigation, gangster, missing person, murder, stripper, karate, striptease, police detective, destruction of property ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: los angeles, usa
Similarity:
100%
 6.8
 12K
Harper (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
Style: neo noir, suspense, noir, cynical, detective ...
Plot: private detective, murder, missing person, investigation, kidnapping, twists and turns, uncover truth, dishonesty, divorce, adultery, swimming pool, ransom ...
Time: 60s, year 1966, 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, california, las vegas, usa
Similarity:
100%
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The Black Dahlia (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, noir, period piece, erotic ...
Plot: femme fatale, dangerous attraction, police investigation, murder, lesbian, obsession, lesbian sex, police corruption, death, danger, greed, voyeur ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2006, year 1946, 2000s ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
 6.5
 13K
Shattered (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet ...
Style: neo noir, erotic, disturbing, sexy, psychological ...
Plot: private detective, murder, investigation, twists and turns, memory loss, amnesia, suspicion, plastic surgery, haunted by the past, infidelity, female killer, car accident ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 70s, 80s
Place: san francisco, oregon, bay area, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
Appointment with Death (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Emily Boynton, stepmother to the three Boynton children -- Lennox, Raymond and Carol -- and mother to Ginevra, blackmails the family lawyer, Jefferson Cope, into destroying a second will of her late husband that would have freed the children from ...
Style: talky, independent film, slasher, realistic, serious ...
Plot: private detective, murder mystery, whodunit, passionate kiss, investigation, murder, hercule poirot, dysfunctional family, lawyer, conspiracy, blackmail, ship ...
Time: year 1937, 1930s, 20th century, 80s
Place: new jersey, holy land, italy, europe, jerusalem ...
Similarity:
100%
The Big Sleep (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The classic Raymond Chandler tale retold with Mitchum taking over the Bogart role.
Style: neo noir, detective, suspense, talky, clever ...
Plot: private detective, forbidden love, murder, nymphomaniac, blackmail, investigation, gangster, private investigator, chase, female pubic hair, nudity, female nudity ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: london, england, europe, california, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
 7.1
 21K
Night Moves (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return ...
Style: neo noir, tense, suspense, psychological, surprise ending ...
Audience: manly
Plot: private detective, murder, missing person, investigation, espionage, infidelity, loneliness, actress, dysfunctional marriage, female criminal, extramarital affair, death of daughter ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: florida, usa, los angeles, key west florida, california
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50%
Varg Veum - Yours Until Death (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Private eye Varg Veum is on a routine mission searching for his client Jonas Andresen's stolen car. The car is found having been used in a brutal robbery and not long after that the client himself turns up dead.
Style: suspenseful, tense, realistic, neo noir, detective ...
Plot: private investigator, who done it, robbery, murder, investigation, dishonesty, private detective, uncover truth, woman in danger, new love, law enforcement, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Similarity:
100%
 6.3
 9K
China Moon (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Detective Kyle Bodine falls for Rachel Munro who is trapped in a violent marriage. After shooting her husband, Kyle relucantly agrees to help hide the body, but Kyle's partner is showing an unusual flair for finding clues.
Style: neo noir, psychological, suspenseful, noir, serious ...
Plot: skinny dipping, murder, sex scene, twists and turns, unfaithful husband, domineering husband, female nudity, marital infidelity, dishonesty, plot twist, illicit affair, affair ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place: florida, persia
Similarity:
100%
 6.6
 150K
8MM (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, psychological, erotic, brutal ...
Audience: adult
Plot: private detective, obsession, male nudity, videotaped sex, revenge, murder mystery, private investigator, sexual abuse, investigation, violent, serial killer, sex ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, new york, usa, pennsylvania ...
Similarity:
100%
 6.5
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Ice Blues (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: This new installment in the popular and critically-acclaimed Donald Strachey Mystery series finds America’s favorite gay private investigator, Donald Strachey (Chad Allen), taking on the most complicated case of his career. After his long-time ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, private investigator, law firm, investigation, danger, private detective, uncover truth, law enforcement, partner, senator, missing person ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.7
 56K
Veronica Mars (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France, Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Years after walking away from her past as a teenage private eye, Veronica Mars gets pulled back to her hometown - just in time for her high school reunion - in order to help her old flame Logan Echolls, who's embroiled in a murder mystery.
Style: teen, witty, exciting, melancholic, intense ...
Audience: chick flick, pre-teens, teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: private detective, amateur detective, who done it, murder, investigation, twists and turns, happy ending, brutality, female protagonist, secrets, storytelling, chase ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
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Hammett (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: neo noir, detective, noir, metafiction, stylized ...
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Time: 1920s, year 1982, 20th century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
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33%
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
Style: neo noir, detective, dark, cynical, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly
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Time: 70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place: los angeles, malibu california, california, mexico, usa ...
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33%
The Drowning Pool (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a ...
Style: neo noir, detective, suspense, thrilling, cult classic ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Style: sexy, neo noir, psychological, serious, realistic ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
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Style: clever, realistic, captivating, detective, serious ...
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After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The intriguing relationship between three desperados, who try to kidnap a wealthy child in hope of turning their lives around.
Style: neo noir, sexy, erotic, tense, cynical ...
Audience: manly
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 7.6
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Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, surprise ending, neo noir, thought provoking ...
Audience: kids, adult
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 6.4
 8K
Deceiver (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, neo noir ...
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A Private Affair (2002)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
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Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense ...
Plot: missing person, obsession, murder, missing girl, female nudity, male pubic hair, private investigator, murder investigation, nudity, sexual content, bare breasts, femme fatale ...
Time: 21st century
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 6.8
 9K
Cutter's Way (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, suspense, psychological, captivating ...
Audience: manly
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Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: california, vietnam, los angeles, asia, southern california ...
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The Two Jakes (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story: This sequel to the classic Chinatown finds private detective Jake Gittes still haunted from the events of the first film. Hired by a man to investigate his wife's infidelities, Jake once again finds himself involved in a complicated plot ...
Style: neo noir, period piece, stylized, visually stunning, clever ...
Plot: private detective, murder, infidelity, gangster, betrayal, investigation, mafia, law, courtroom, private investigator, blackmail, haunted by the past ...
Time: 1940s, year 1948, year 1946, 20th century, 1930s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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