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Bloodlines (2005)
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
After Elaine Hopkin is found dead, apparent an OD suicide, her firstborn Mark wouldn't even inform his dad James Hopkin, who was locked up for murder. Kid sister Justine, a cocky uniformed cop, goes visit him, only to learn he was just released. After the autopsy concludes asphyxiation, she comprises friendly DC Jake Bannerman's official investigation by rash actions against procedure.
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, psychological, dark, detective, grim, noir ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, law enforcement, intrigue, rivalry, danger, dishonesty, righting the wronged, parents and children, police, father daughter relationship, family secret, female protagonist, family drama, justice, police procedural, moral ambiguity, wrongful conviction, obsession, grief, suffocation, ethical dilemma, revenge, violence, autopsy ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century, contemporary
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, realistic, suspenseful and serious films with plots about murder, law enforcement, investigation, deadly, revenge, moral ambiguity and corruption mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Bloodlines: Written In Blood (2003), Code 37 (2011), One Way Out (2002), Jesse Stone: No Remorse (2010), Red Letters (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Detective John Traveller (Peter Coyote) is convicted of the murder of his wife and her lover. His partner and friend, Detective Matthew Ransom, becomes very upset, affecting his marriage that was not working well. The lover of John's wife was ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, detective ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, protagonist as suspect, riddles and clues, manipulation, law enforcement, danger, who done it, dishonesty, graphic violence, investigation, guilt ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
791
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A famous writer is violated in a sex-movie-theatre. He had a date with Roos, a young student who works also as a prostitute. Quickly it becomes clear that more students are active in the prostitution. Enough reason for Hannah and her team to go ...
Style:
tense, psychological, atmospheric, captivating, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, police investigation, haunted by the past, gain trust, parents and children, law enforcement, college, prostitution, rivalry, danger, urban, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ghent, europe, belgium
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Harry Woltz is a homicide cop with a gambling problem; a problem that leaves him owing a great deal of money to the Russell brothers. To clear the debt they ask him to train John Farrow to murder his wife, Evans, without leaving the usual clues or ...
Style:
suspense, serious, realistic, crime thriller, detective ...
Plot:
murder, gambling, addiction, police investigation, police corruption, investigation, dishonesty, law enforcement, sex, homicide, winter, deception ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Police Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, by investigating a series of murders in Boston, leaving Rose and Suitcase to handle a crime spree in ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, tense
Plot:
murder, jesse stone, investigation, law enforcement, police investigation, small town, murder investigation, serial killer, die hard, secret service, cop, chief of police ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, boston, new england
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A college professor reluctantly hides an escaped female convict who tries to get him to help prove her innocent of a murder.
Style:
realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot:
prison, amateur detective, dishonesty, law enforcement, destructive relationship, obsession, murder, escaped prisoner, nudity, righting the wronged, life is a bitch, chases and races ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, usa, mojave desert
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Jack Reed investigates a young woman whom he and his wife take into their household when she turns out to be targeted by unknown assassins.
Style:
tense, realistic, crime drama, detective, suspense ...
Plot:
law enforcement, murder investigation, murder mystery, police procedural, investigation, suspect, assassination attempt, woman, whodunit, nypd, murder, small town ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The only difference between a cop and a criminal is The Badge. Detective Vince McKinley and his partner Martin Goulet have to solve the biggest case of their careers: a series of evidence have been stolen from their own precinct. Through out the ...
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, crime drama ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
partner, tough law enforcer, police investigation, dishonesty, police corruption, law enforcement, corruption, police station, trust, investigation, betrayal, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
canada
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Point Blank
Style:
tense, detective, suspense, psychological, twist ending ...
Plot:
murder, evidence, serial killer, investigation, police procedural, law enforcement, violence, obsession, cat and mouse, forensics, interrogation, urban ...
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Overdomineering female police detective Jamie McDowell still tries to run her 19-year old only son Peter's life although he is a builder who lives alone. She strongly opposes his engagement to Kelly Shaw, who he doesn't know very long, and ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense
Plot:
domineering mother, burned alive, uncover truth, police detective, police investigation, family problems, life is a bitch, family relations, parents and children, single parent, murder, law enforcement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Peter Weller (Robocop) stars as Baton Morris, a drifter suspected of murder, in this crime drama. A widow (Kathy Baker) living in West Virginia takes in the man (Weller) whom she believes murdered her husband. As she spends more time with him, she ...
Style:
independent film, suspense, neo noir, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
widow, drifter, murder, mountain, collision, underdog, small town, intrigue, isolation, haunted by the past, woman in danger, confined ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa
Similarity:
100%
3K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killer.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
police investigation, serial killer, murder, law enforcement, murder of a girl, murder trial, obsession, uncover truth, riddles and clues, danger, true crime, courtroom ...
Time:
year 2014, 90s, 20th century, year 2001, year 1995 ...
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
iggy Banks tells the story of two charming and brilliant brothers who finance their lifestyle by robbing and murdering pretty much anyone foolish enough to get in the car with them. They learn the business from their sociopath father (Tom Sizemore) ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, murder, criminal heroes, introspection, danger, parents and children, gory, chess, father son relationship, violence, brother brother relationship ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Norway, Sweden, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A college professor abandons his family and his career in order to champion his mistress, a student radical accused of killing a policeman.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, psychological, bleak ...
Plot:
false accusation, legal, law enforcement, crime and punishment, injustice, ultimatum, society, murder, extramarital affair, teacher, political activism, school teacher ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
copenhagen, denmark
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
When an unknown assailant viciously murders the participants in a bank robbery and murder case, it could be a case of vigilante justice - that is, if the two cases are connected. That's for the police to decide - and it's a puzzle that ...
Style:
realistic, suspense, detective, tense, dark ...
Plot:
murder, law enforcement, bank robbery, investigation, crime investigation, justice, vigilante justice, police procedural, courtroom, suspect, revenge, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Varg Veum investigates the murder of a married couple; prime suspect is the stepson, but Veum does not think he is guilty. Not even when he confesses.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, detective, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, private investigator, private detective, uncover truth, law enforcement, race against time, life is a bitch, twists and turns, danger, moral ambiguity, drug abuse ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Young police chief Sandra Mohr returns to her hometown of Graz with a bad feeling. Together with her new boss, Sascha Bergmann, she is tasked with solving the death of a journalist who was planning to write an article on abuse of office and nepotism.
Style:
psychological, captivating, tense, thrilling, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, murder investigation, crime investigation, police investigation, crime solving, problem, uncover truth, sleuth, police procedural, corruption, murder, abuse of power ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A small town sheriff who's investigating a murder at the local diner ends up finding more than he bargained for in the town and in himself.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, small town, diner, murder, law enforcement, small town life, social relations, murder mystery, sheriff, self discovery, danger, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
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Place:
texas
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The tale of a gang killing near a south-east London council estate.
Style:
realistic, rough, slasher, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
gang, chaos and mayhem, life is a bitch, injustice, city life, estate, teenage life, gang violence, murder, investigation, loss, street life ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An Obsession is Aoyama's remake for the 1990s of Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog ("Nora inu," 1949). The basic plot situation is the same: a cop, after losing his gun to a killer, sets out on a search for the criminal who in the end ...
Style:
detective, suspense, dark, crime drama, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, obsession, investigation, trauma, violence, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, police procedural, loss, crime spree, guilt, revenge ...
Time:
90s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Tearing himself away from the bedside of his coma-bound wife, a police Sergeant investigates a series of age-related murders, only to discover that time can be far more destructive and cruel than the idealistic killer........
Style:
tense, serious, psychological thriller, detective, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, coma, murder, husband wife relationship, police protagonist, serial murder, accident, police investigation, law enforcement, investigation, guilty conscience, police ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Gene Reardon (Hauer) is a twice-divorced police detective who lives with his daughter. When a well-heeled local man is kidnapped, the FBI is called in, which introduces Longsworth (played by Paulina Porizkova). Longsworth happens to have been ...
Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
private detective, murder, special agent, uncover truth, investigation, who done it, law enforcement, dishonesty, small town, fbi agent, ex husband ex wife relationship, frame up ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
23%
121
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Two brothers are forced to confront a terrible crime that was hidden in their past.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, rough, serious, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, false accusation, haunted by the past, murder, dishonesty, law enforcement, legal, injustice, life is a bitch, family relations, dedicated lawyer, clergy ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A grieving Chinese father travels to America to collect his daughter and stays to catch the killer.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, murder, father, murder mystery, murderer, who done it, secret, family relations, murder investigation, grief, family bonds, investigation ...
Place:
america
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A provincial war vet arrives in Moscow and subsequently takes on a gang of bad cops.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, dishonesty, vengeance, danger, obsession, life philosophy, vigilantism, betrayal, law enforcement, murder, death, police ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
D.I. Tom Thorne's latest case puts him on the hunt for not one, but two serial killers, who seem to be working together, yet killing separately.
Style:
tense, detective, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, police investigation, murderous pair, law enforcement, fighting crime, police detective, psychopath, police procedural, investigation, female victim, cat and mouse ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Reeling from the discovery of her husband's adultery, Grace moves back to her family home with her son. Amidst all this emotional turmoil, forensic psychologist Grace is asked by police to determine the guilt or innocence a man who killed his ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, mind bending ...
Plot:
murder, infidelity, investigation, false accusation, family problems, couples, law enforcement, legal, dishonesty, memory loss, single parent, who done it ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
In Telugu State, influential politician J.C. Dharmendra Reddy is brutally murdered in his residence. Fearless cop Sudha takes on the case, diving into a web of secrets, deception, and lies. Can she uncover the truth, or will the system thwart her ...
Style:
political thriller, suspense, detective, tense, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, corruption, deception, justice, police procedural, female protagonist, cover up, conspiracy, secrets, law enforcement, corrupt politician ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
Style:
tense, serious, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
profanity, vengeance, danger, rivalry, law enforcement, murder, unlikely couple, brainwashing, religious fanaticism, violent content, romancing a criminal, urban ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
21%
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 ...
Style:
tense, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot:
rivalry, dishonesty, vengeance, betrayal, drug dealing, family relations, murder, parents and children, prostitute, shakespeare, tragic love, gangster ...
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
21%
181
Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Martha Barlow, a modern day outlaw, must reconcile her dark past after her teenage son commits a horrible crime.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
small town, survival, haunted by the past, murder, on the run, danger, parents and children, teenage son, family relations, mother son relationship, dark past, motherhood ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
21%
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