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The Inn on the River (1962)
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Original name: Das Gasthaus an der Themse
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway.
Plot:
serial killer, conspiracy, underwater, dancing, ship, police, murder, criminal, suicide, smuggling, smuggler, scuba diver, telephone call, river, assassination attempt, scuba diving, harpoon, deep sea diving, bar, rowing, manhole, underwater scene
Place:
scotland yard, london
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, suspense, period piece and tense films with plots about murder, serial killer, conspiracy, investigation, police, betrayal and death mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Inn on the River: The Man with the Glass Eye (1969), The Indian Scarf (1963), The Mysterious Magician (1964), Curse of the Hidden Vault (1964), The Hunchback of Soho (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A pool-hall is used as the front for a white slavery ring.
Style:
detective, dark, suspense, tension, atmospheric ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, investigation, white slavery, whodunit, suspect, group of criminals, theater, human trafficking, suspicion, underworld, poisoning ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle ...
Style:
suspense, tense, sinister, atmospheric, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lawyer, serial killer, whodunit, murder, castle, strangulation, isolation, greed, killer, inheritance, secrets, betrayal ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
94%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture ...
Style:
black and white, detective
Plot:
murder, disguise, mastermind, crime investigation, submarine, magic, twists and turns, conspiracy, brothel, inspector, clerk, airport ...
Place:
australia, london, britain, scotland yard, united kingdom ...
Similarity:
86%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.
Style:
suspense, tension, thrilling, noir, twisted ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
treasure, mobster, heist, organized crime, gangster, criminal underworld, betrayal, conspiracy, scheming, treasure hunt, locked room, claustrophobia ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance.
Plot:
conspiracy, serial killer, woman, fraud, police officer, police, female police officer, dead brother, murder, death, inheritance, reverend ...
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas
Style:
slasher, splatter, independent film, eurospy
Plot:
serial killer, mystery killer, unknown killer, twists and turns, conspiracy, monk, girls' boarding school, hired killer, girl man relationship, murder, crazy, man kills a woman ...
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
Style:
suspense, crime drama, tense, suspenseful, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heist, caper, stealing, british, escape, mastermind, planning, ruse, intrigue, betrayal, conspiracy, loot ...
Time:
60s
Place:
london
Similarity:
73%
620
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Denmark, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again...
Style:
crime thriller, dark, detective, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
serial killer, conspiracy, murder investigation, nightclub, whodunit, female victim, suspicion, peril, urban, police procedural, stalking, gangster ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, detective, tense, crime drama, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, murder mystery, investigation, mascot, insurance fraud, whodunit, symbolism, suspicion, motive, moral ambiguity, urban, conspiracy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Jacques Cournot, a freelance skipper, is hired by Mr Hendrix in Santo Domingo, first of all to advise him regarding the acquisition of a sailing boat. After a thorough inspection of a prospective vessel, the "Dragoon", Cournot reports his ...
Style:
suspense, crime drama, tense, detective, atmospheric ...
Plot:
murder, falsely accused, mysterious disappearance, frame up, espionage, smuggling, seafaring, sailing, investigation, conspiracy, island, law enforcement ...
Time:
60s
Place:
caribbean, france
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A serial killer who calls himself "The Laughing Corpse" dresses up in a skeleton costume and kills his victims with a poison-filled scorpion-shaped ring.
Style:
detective, suspense, creepy, atmospheric, sinister ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, whodunit, investigation, masked villain, macabre, poison, cat and mouse, vengeance, manor, living dead, twists and turns, conspiracy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A teenager mysteriously disappears from a German boys' school. Also known by the title "School of Fear".
Plot:
boarding school, brothel, seaside, coming of age, dark past, murder, criminal, generation gap, teenage boy, bully, awkward situation, bullying ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.
Style:
detective, suspense, grim, twisted, period piece ...
Plot:
conspiracy, murder, investigation, poisoning, whodunit, police procedural, underworld, master criminal, cat and mouse, urban, serial killer, cold case ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The detective comes to ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
serial killer, family relations, criminal gang, mother superior, strangulation, murder, convent, nun, man hits a woman, man punching a woman, damsel in distress, mentally challenged ...
Time:
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Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, crime thriller, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
organized crime, lawyer, police officer, criminal, corruption, fighting crime, police detective, murder investigation, arms dealer, murder mystery, murder, police ...
Place:
new orleans
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Peru, Mexico, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Lima, 1980s. Based upon Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
poliziottesco, grindhouse, neo noir, freeze frame, surprise ending
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
poliziottesco, grindhouse, cult classic, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, diamond theft, caper, robbery, criminal, carnival, twins, bank robber, professor, gang, chase, betrayal ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s
Place:
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Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that ...
Style:
crime drama, suspense, detective, period piece, tense ...
Plot:
insurance fraud, investigation, villa, blackmail, evidence, secrets, mediterranean, deception, millionaire, conspiracy, paranoia, betrayal ...
Time:
70s
Place:
cote d'azur, mediterranean sea, riviera, france, french riviera
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
detective, gothic, suspense, mind bending, scary ...
Plot:
blind man, serial killer, murder, nurse, blindness and impaired vision, danger, amateur detective, investigation, criminal heroes, dishonesty, clergy, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place:
london, united kingdom, britain, scotland yard, england
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, Portugal
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
dark, suspense, psychological thriller, tense, crime drama ...
Plot:
jealousy, murder, frame up, wrongful imprisonment, false accusation, obsession, betrayal, blackmail, moral ambiguity, corruption, infidelity, conspiracy ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
west germany
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
The pious John List regularly goes to church and is respected by his neighbours. But one day the police finds his wife Helen and their three children slayed in their house - obviously by John, who left two letters for the police and his priest and ...
Plot:
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Time:
80s, 70s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle.
Style:
gothic, suspenseful, creepy, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
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Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
rough, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
naples italy
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The true chilling story of the "two of a kind", killing cousins Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers, is told in this TV drama.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, two killers, serial killer, true crime, psychopath, cousin, strangler, homicide, killing spree, killer, criminal, violent ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Algeria
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Plot:
hearing, murder, police raid, prison, police, confession, police interrogation, marriage of convenience, burglar, psychological manipulation, circus, psychological torture ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two Chinese miners, who make money by killing fellow miners and then extorting money from the mine owner to keep quiet about the "accident", happen upon their latest victim. But one of them begins to have second thoughts.
Style:
realistic, psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot:
miner, murder, disaster, teenage life, rich and poor, cons and scams, dishonesty, hidden identity, investigation, serial killer, father son relationship, teenage boy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia
Similarity:
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