Movies like The Glass Cell

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The Glass Cell (1978)
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The Glass Cell (1978)
Original name: Die gläserne Zelle
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, Portugal
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventures outside of their marriage and becomes increasingly jealous.
Plot: released from prison, lawyer, murder, jealousy, architect, job seeking, bankruptcy, bookstore, birthday party, fraud, cheating, release from prison

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Most similar movies to The Glass Cell

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out psychological, independent film, tense and captivating films with plots about murder, lawyer, police, trial, revenge, female nudity and legal mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Glass Cell: Enough Rope (1963), Flag in the Mist (1965), The Stranger Within a Woman (1966), The Axe (1969), Death Benefit (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Enough Rope (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives.
Plot: murder, jealousy, suicide, guilt, bookstore, interrogation, psychopath, lie, insanity, mistress, marital strife, novel
Place: france
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95%
Flag in the Mist (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko (Chieko Baisho) travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately ...
Plot: courtroom, trial, murder, revenge, evidence, retribution, class differences, baseball player, witness, lawyer, flashback, french restaurant ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
The Stranger Within a Woman (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Tashiro (Keiju Kobayashi) coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto (Tatsuya Mihashi) in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is ...
Plot: murder, confession, strangulation, strangled to death, friend
Place: japan
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58%
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The Axe (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Romania, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A breathtaking story in which a woman goes in search of her husband.
Plot: murder, woman, dog, village, widow, peasant, winter, forest, axe
Place: romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Death Benefit (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Steven Keeney is a big corporate lawyer who decides to take on a small-time murder case to discover the true circumstances behind the death of a young girl. Virginia McGinnis is the one suspected of pushing the women off the cliff to collect on a ...
Style: psychological, independent film
Plot: serial killer, lawyer, love, true crime, investigation, murder, justice
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Paul (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 75 min.
Story: After 7 years spent in jail Paul (Paul Lyss) is free again. With his old crew he celebrates his return.Nothing really changes and soon he finds himself spaced out drunk at some posh party and eventually ends up wielding a big gun.Hand held Camera ...
Plot: revenge, drunkenness, machine gun, murder, prison, released from prison, prostitute, hooker, alcohol
Place: hamburg germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Friendships, Secrets and Lies (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Six former sorority sisters are suspected of murder when a baby's skeleton is found in the ruins of the sorority house.
Style: political
Plot: murder, sorority, female bonding, female friendship, all female cast, lesbian, abortion, reunion
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After a chance encounter with a wanted man, a woman is harassed by the police and press until she takes violent action.
Style: realistic, bleak, social, contemplative, thought provoking ...
Plot: journalism, terrorism, investigation, politics, social commentary, reporter, obsession, police investigation, police, surveillance, police chase, communism ...
Time: 70s, year 1975, 20th century
Place: germany, europe, west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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A Crime (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: "Un Crime" takes place over a single night, between 10pm and 6am. It takes place in a single setting - a millionaire's apartment in Lyon. The film is about the conflict between two men, alone, face to face in the closed world of the ...
Plot: law, male nudity, male objectification, murder of parents, high society, pianist, male pubic hair, guilt, lawyer, adultery, corpse, death ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Woman to be Hanged (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Directed by Basar Sabuncu.
Plot: voyeurism, murder, women, women's issues, dysfunctional marriage, young woman, old man
Place: turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Don't Tempt the Devil (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.
Style: detective
Plot: courtroom, nurse, murder, unfaithful wife, justice, criminal lawyer, woman, money, wife, femme fatale, cynicism, injection ...
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Indian Scarf (1963)
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: surprise ending
Plot: serial killer, twists and turns, lawyer, conspiracy, last will and testament, strangled to death, isolated place, dying and death, whodunit, pianist, murder, castle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Silent Witness (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Prominent defense attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend an old friend, a teacher accused of murdering one of his students. The case re-opens the heartache from Tony's own high school days, when he was a student falsely accused of ...
Style: realistic, captivating, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, courtroom drama, homecoming, courtroom, friendship, legal, lawyer, danger, rivalry, family relations, law, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
City Under Siege (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A string of violent jewel robberies force Police Inspector Parrino to get rough with the city’s criminal scum. Things take a turn for the worse when he’s confronted with the murder of an prostitute.
Style: poliziottesco
Plot: police, suburbs, police officer, prostitution, murder, criminal
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Father (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 96 min.
Story: "Baba" is a bitter melodrama set in Istambul. A father is not able to earn enough money to feed his family. He is waiting to emigrate to Germany. When his landlord's son kills a man while drunk, the father is prepared to answer for ...
Plot: poverty, father, emigration, breast feeding, rape, murder, prison, revenge, prostitution, family relations
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 5.8
 67
One Way Out (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: After a man gets out of prison, he decides to go straight and leave his life of crime behind him. However, when he gets home he finds that his brother is in danger and the family farm is in foreclosure. He plans to take revenge on those responsible, ...
Style: independent film
Plot: gangster, revenge, murder, released from prison, ex convict, heist gone wrong, one last job, heist, caper, garage
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44%
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Midwives (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: It's a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together with the father and an assistant, in the middle of a homebirth. As time passes, the woman in labor meets with difficulties and Sibyl concludes ...
Style: detective
Plot: narration, midwife, childbirth, lawyer, labor, death in childbirth, trial, snow, caesarean birth, knife
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Naakaa (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Nepal
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Goldie, a small time smuggler of Barhabise who is in need of a profiting consignment to recover from his current bankruptcy. He gets an emergency call from a local smuggler and businessman of the area to rescue a Tibetan girl and her transporter ...
Plot: border, jealousy, revenge, fight, chase, murder, violence, blood, police
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40%
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Crime and Punishment (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min.
Story: John Simm stars in this adaptation of Dostoyevsky's tragic masterpiece - a profound drama of redemption and a thrilling detective story of the soul.
Style: thought provoking, psychological, disturbing, captivating, period piece ...
Plot: murder, crime and punishment, murderer, criminal, american civil war
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: st. petersburg russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Kill-Off (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film is set in a small coastal community in New Jersey where the only action in town is a nightclub called The Pavilion. The owner, Pete (played by Jackson Sims), can barely make the payroll so in an effort to bring in more business, he hires a ...
Style: neo noir, independent film, eighties
Plot: bartender, gossip, murder, janitor, stripper
Time: year 1989
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Proof of the Man (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
Style: neo noir
Plot: killer, police detective, police, fashion show, dying words, murder, witness, police investigation, elevator, multiple murder, straw hat, killed in a car accident
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Apple Tree of Paradise (1986)
Genre: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.
Plot: politician, poison, jealousy, marriage, female nudity, sex, accident, murder, affair, trial
Time: 1920s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Inn on the River (1962)
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, underwater, conspiracy, criminal, assassination attempt, telephone call, dancing, police, ship, suicide, smuggler, scuba diver ...
Place: scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Black Sun (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Yugoslavia
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A German artist in Spain decides to revenge the death of two Nordic tourists and to defend the strikers in a bloody conflict.
Plot: police officer, rape and revenge, village, fisherman, mass murder, smuggling, secret agent, fishing, arms smuggling, factory, labor strike, police corruption ...
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36%
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Maigret (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify him and then understand what happened to the victim.
Style: tense, captivating
Plot: commissioner, police investigation, medical examiner, murder, police commissioner, investigation, murder investigation, uncover truth, crime solving, sleuth, puzzle, forensics ...
Time: 1950s
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Sleeping Waters (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Whatever happened to my father?
Plot: family secret, little sister, secret, prostitute, murder, brother sister relationship, swamp, servant, family relations
Place: brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Dictator's Guns (1965)
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 ...
Plot: boat, yacht, police officer, police, murder, ex husband, wound, diving, sailor, captain, sailboat, arms smuggling ...
Place: france, caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Crime of the Century (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, serial killer, trial, kidnapping, confined, babies and infants, rebellion, life is a bitch, dishonesty, rivalry, uncover truth ...
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Breaking the Silence (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Sophie Humbert - a famous criminal attorney who heads a prestigious law firm that does a good deal of work for the Police Commission - decides to take over the pro bono defense of Gabriel Etchegaray, a petty criminal who's just confessed to ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, suspense
Plot: lawyer, court case, legal, defense attorney, hotshot lawyer, society, legal system, murder suspect, female protagonist, affair, manipulation, courtroom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Pan (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: Norway, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 115 min.
Story: When Edvarda arrives at the little Norwegian village, to stay with some family, she find the Lt., Thomas Glahn, very interesting. Soon they fall in love. It's a very passionate relationship, but this leads to problems. Both of them are very ...
Plot: scandinavian culture, murder, love, unfaithfulness, forest
Place: arabia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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