Movies like The Guilty 2000
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The Guilty (2000)
4K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A young person gets hired to kill someone completely unknown, by someone equally unknown. Or is that true? Nothing is what it seems.
Style:
psychological, tense, rough, suspenseful, surprise ending, crime drama, serious, realistic, psychological thriller, suspense ...
Plot:
law firm, false accusation, love affair, sexual abuse, life is a bitch, rivalry, social differences, society, infidelity, danger, legal, dishonesty, secret, irony of fate, elevator, secretary, villain played by lead actor, erotica, killer, lawyer, perfume, court case, sex crime, plot twist, murder ...
Time:
90s
Place:
pacific ocean
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Most similar movies to The Guilty
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about murder, dishonesty, betrayal, police investigation, rivalry, corruption and chase mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Guilty: Derailed (2005), Guilty as Sin (1993), Disclosure (1994), Law Abiding Citizen (2009), Fracture (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
79K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
Style:
suspenseful, surprise ending, serious, tense, twist ending ...
Plot:
twists and turns, infidelity, blackmail, dangerous attraction, couples, disorder, police investigation, danger, adultery, rape, violence, betrayal ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
chicago, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Before a criminal lawyer knows what has happened, she is forced to defend a wife killer she knows is guilty.
Style:
erotic, tense, suspenseful, psychological, neo noir ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom, sex in office, psychopath, womanizer, lawyer, legal investigation, murder, obsession, law, courtroom drama, woman in danger, uncover truth ...
Time:
year 1993, 90s, 80s
Place:
chicago, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
A computer specialist is sued for sexual harassment by a former lover turned boss who initiated the act forcefully, which threatens both his career and his personal life.
Style:
sexy, suspenseful, psychosexual thriller, sexual, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, adult
Plot:
sexual harassment, obsession, manipulation, femme fatale, lawyer, conspiracy, oral sex, lust, false accusation, sex, workplace, race against time ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
seattle, washington state, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, tense ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
vengeance, vigilantism, justice, prison, vigilante, revenge, master criminal, lawyer, retribution, fighting the system, twists and turns, murder ...
Time:
year 2009, 21st century
Place:
philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
100%
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234K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, twist ending, intellectual, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, twists and turns, courtroom drama, lawyer, adultery, investigation, murder mystery, manipulation, mind game, courtroom, trial, police investigation ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 1900s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, persia, california, usa
Similarity:
100%
120K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.
Style:
clever, suspense, captivating, political, cynical ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom drama, court, corruption, courtroom, trial, jury, legal, justice, twists and turns, manipulation, court case ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, cincinnati ohio, indiana, ohio, new orleans ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A Miami hotel owner finds danger when be becomes romantically involved with the wife of a deposed general from the Dominican Republic where he fought many years back.
Style:
sexy, neo noir, sexual, noir, tense ...
Plot:
sex scene, abusive husband, voyeur, rape, prostitute, female nudity, unhappy marriage, hitman, psychopath, blonde, swimming pool, extramarital affair ...
Time:
year 1989, 80s
Place:
dominican republic, florida, miami, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Romania, UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a young drifter is forced to stay the winter in a small seaside town, he inadvertently becomes the catalyst for deceit, double crossings and murder amongst the locals.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
contract killing, hitman, dangerous attraction, murder, manipulation, crime gone awry, hidden identity, femme fatale, couples, dishonesty, law enforcement, danger ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Bobby Earl is facing the electric chair for the murder of a young girl. Eight years after the crime he calls in Paul Armstrong, a professor of law, to help prove his innocence. Armstrong quickly uncovers some overlooked evidence to present to the ...
Style:
tense, psychological, entertaining, suspense, rough ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, murder, death row, serial killer, psychopath, legal, swamp, revenge, courtroom, legal investigation, lawyer, fighting the system ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
florida, everglades, harvard university, usa, miami ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After accidentally killing one of her victims with an overdose, Nikki and Al are on the run.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
lovers on the run, murder, desert, young couple, outlaw, sex crime, hotel room, scam, on the road, hotel, nuclear testing, road trip ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
australia, south australia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, clever, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, prison, vengeance, revenge, false accusation, buried alive, wrongful conviction, courtroom, murder, women's prison, perfect crime, manipulation ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new orleans, seattle, southern usa, georgia, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But ...
Style:
suspense, sexy, clever, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
murder, infidelity, betrayal, blackmail, twists and turns, jealousy, love affair, perfect crime, love triangle, adultery, greed, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Looking to escape her unhappy marriage, villainous femme fatale Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) convinces her husband, Clay (Bill Pullman), to sell cocaine, then steals the profits and runs out on him. She stops in a small town en route to ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, neo noir, black comedy, suspense ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
femme fatale, small town, couples, private detective, manipulation, murder, profanity, greed, sociopath, love triangle, infidelity, betrayal ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
new york, usa, miami, boston, chicago ...
Similarity:
29%
240K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? Fourteen years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, creepy ...
Plot:
rape, fear, family in danger, revenge, violence, lawyer, serial killer, sexualized violence, dangerous attraction, psychology, justice, prison ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1991
Place:
north carolina, georgia, florida, southern usa, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Terry Lambert is sleeping with Sylvia, the wife of his boss. One night, while in Terry's apartment, Sylvia witnesses a man assault a young woman, Denise, on the road below. Not wanting to reveal her affair with Terry, she keeps quiet. Terry ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, sexy, tense, psychosexual thriller ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
legal, obsession, femme fatale, rapist, false accusation, voyeurism, revenge, murder, secret relationship, investigation, infidelity, dangerous attraction ...
Time:
80s
Place:
maryland, baltimore, san francisco
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Valerie is a juror in the trail of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, legal investigation, who done it, lawyer, legal, gangster, law, society, idealism, rivalry, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 1940s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A chilling tale based on a real event in which a doctor stepped out of line and sexually assaulted a patient when drugged.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot:
rape victim, courtroom drama, rapist, small town, mind game, obsession, private detective, life is a bitch, society, fighting the system, murder, legal ...
Similarity:
26%
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:
26%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story:
A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.
Style:
bleak, serious, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
legal, frame up, false accusation, investigation, lovers reunited, testimony, uncover truth, police investigation, rebellion, power relations, state affairs, murder ...
Similarity:
26%
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 ...
Plot:
murder, justice, police investigation, twists and turns, investigation, guilt, law enforcement, prostitute, brutality, dishonesty, rivalry, secret ...
Time:
20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
A young lawyer defends a black man accused of murdering two men who raped his 10-year-old daughter, sparking a rebirth of the KKK.
Style:
thought provoking, sincere, tense, sexy, realistic ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
racism, courtroom drama, court, justice, trial, courtroom, small town, lawyer, rape, revenge, murder, legal ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa, america, canada
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, political, thought provoking, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, courtroom, death penalty, frame up, justice, political corruption, murder mystery, lawyer, male victim, court, conspiracy theory, false accusation ...
Time:
year 1997, 90s
Place:
china, asia, california
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Ash Wednesday is set in the Manhattan of the early 1980's and is about a pair of Irish-American brothers who become embroiled in a conflict with the Irish Mob.
Style:
intense, rough, suspenseful, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
organized crime, betrayal, gangster, hitman, vengeance, violence, love triangle, murder, couple relations, haunted by the past, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time:
80s, year 2002, year 1983, year 1980
Place:
new york, ireland, usa, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Nelson Crowe is a CIA operative under the thumb of the Company for a disputed delivery of $50,000 in gold. They blackmail him into working for the Grimes Organization, which is set up as a private company for hire, to blackmail prominent ...
Style:
suspenseful, clever, psychological, neo noir, stylized ...
Plot:
murder, cons and scams, black man white woman relationship, manipulation, blackmail, judge, uncover truth, protagonist as suspect, femme fatale, rivalry, undercover, dangerous attraction ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Bobby O'Grady a low level member of a Boston Irish gang run by Jackie O'Hara. Jackie demands absolute, total loyalty to him. When Jackie kills one of Bobby's buddies, Teddy, Bobby and others have to keep it an absolute secret, even ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, murder, vengeance, police investigation, criminal's revenge, investigation, best friend, police corruption, juvenile delinquency, drug dealing, dishonesty, witnessing a crime ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
boston, ireland, massachusetts, connecticut, usa ...
Similarity:
25%
716
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
N-Secure is a no holds-barred thrilling drama mixed with murder, mayhem and manipulation among affluent professionals. This film sheds light on a man's downfall from the pinnacles of success into the depths of his damaged character. His ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, erotic ...
Plot:
betrayal, murder, infidelity, breakup, couples, couple relations, rivalry, obsession, danger, jealousy, sex scene, african american ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. "This will only take ten minutes", they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is ...
Style:
psychological, detective, suspense, enigmatic, twist ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police investigation, twists and turns, lawyer, rape, murder mystery, pedophile, murder, secret relationship, plot twist, marriage of convenience, dysfunctional marriage, christmas ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place:
puerto rico, latin america
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Alan and Wendy Barnet have been married just long enough for the excitement to have gone out of their relationship, and they're looking for a way to put some spice back in their lives. After placing a personal ad looking for another couple ...
Style:
erotic, sexy, sexual, sensual, suspenseful ...
Plot:
swinger, mate swapping, wife swapping, couples, crumbling marriage, erotica, love affair, sexual fantasy, sexual relations, swinger couple, sex, swingers ...
Similarity:
25%
967
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Stunning trophy wife Rachel Avery is stuck in a cold, loveless marriage with her millionaire husband, Holden. So when Holden goes away on a trip, Rachel hooks up with her close friend Carla, and the two hatch a plan to murder Holden and collect on ...
Style:
erotic, rough, tense, sexy, suspenseful ...
Plot:
private detective, murder, betrayal, sex, power relations, couples, lesbian, female nudity, home invasion, private investigator, blackmail, law enforcement ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin (Ed Harris) tries to protect his empire.
Style:
clever, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
shakespeare, law enforcement, family relations, gang, uninhibited rivalry, infidelity, master criminal, police corruption, betrayal, parents and children, rivalry, biker ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
Similarity:
25%
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