Movies like Hollywood Confidential

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Hollywood Confidential (1997)
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Hollywood Confidential (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A former LA cop runs a top-flight private detective agency that caters to spoiled Hollywood types.
Style: tv series pilot
Plot: nypd, hollywood, private investigator, ex cop
Place: los angeles

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and independent film films with plots about murder, hollywood, nypd, law enforcement, private investigator, deadly and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Hollywood Confidential: Go for Sisters (2013), Gemini (2017), Partners in Action (2002), Splinter (2006), Where the Day Takes You (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hijacking, hostage, train, save the day, race against time, danger, ransom, tunnel, confined, mind game, law enforcement, subway ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york
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100%
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Go for Sisters (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Bernice and Fontayne grew up so tight they could ‘go for sisters’. After twenty years apart, they are reunited when Bernice is assigned to be Fontayne’s parole officer- just when she needs help on the wrong side of the law.
Style: serious, sincere, realistic, tense, independent film ...
Plot: friends, family problems, friendship, strong female presence, missing child, addiction, missing person, murder, missing boy, african, black girl, disgraced ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, mexico, california
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Gemini (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant travels across Los Angeles to unravel the mystery, she must stay one step ahead of a determined policeman and ...
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, mumblecore, stylized, twisted ...
Plot: murder mystery, starlet, police officer, hollywood, boss, twins, murder investigation, female protagonist, lesbian, lgbtq, lgbt, women ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Partners in Action (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Drama about a former police officer who's framed for murder and a young boy who attempts to help him clear his name.
Style: thrilling, psychological, captivating
Plot: ex cop, police corruption, criminal, accusation, corruption, teamwork, drug dealing, drug, drug traffic, framed for murder, nypd, drug cartel ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Splinter (2006)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A gang member, suffering from severe memory loss, searches for his brother's murderer. He secretly enlists the aid of the investigating Detective, while other members of his gang are mysteriously and sadistically murdered.
Style: psychological, rough, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, serial killer, police investigation, vengeance, life is a bitch, police corruption, uncover truth, wrestler, urban, gory, city life, violence spree ...
Place: california, usa, los angeles
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Where the Day Takes You (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A group of teen-age runaways try to survive in the streets of Los Angeles. Drugs, prostitution, violence and bureaucratic indifference all pose threats to the kids, who nevertheless prefer this harsh life to going back to their families. King, ...
Style: neo noir, cult classic, independent film, thought provoking, serious ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
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Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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100%
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The Informers (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A collection of intersecting short stories set in early 1980s Los Angeles, depicts a week in the lives of an assortment of socially alienated, mainly well-off characters who numb their sense of emptiness with casual sex, violence, and drugs.
Style: sexy, stylized, bad ending, serious, realistic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: nudity, drug abuse, kidnapping, dysfunctional family, bare breasts, hollywood, nude, drug, female nudity, sex, couples, couple relations ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa, hawaii
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100%
Rampage: The Hillside Strangler Murders (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Kenneth Bianchi, one of the two serial rapists and killers who terrorized the Los Angeles area in the late 1970s, is giving police station interviews to psychiatrist Samantha Stone, who has disquieting lifestyle issues of her own. It falls to her to ...
Style: psychological, rough, suspenseful, realistic, bleak ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, mind game, police investigation, who done it, mental illness, life is a bitch, killer, misogynist, serial rapist, strangler ...
Time: 70s, year 1978
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Brown's Requiem (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Fritz Brown is an ex-LAPD, recovering alcoholic who now splits his time repossessing cars for a used car lot and staffing his one-man private detective agency. When a filthy caddie named Freddy "Fat Dog" Baker wanders into Fritz's ...
Style: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: private detective, investigation, gangster, fighting crime, rivalry, life is a bitch, tough heroes, mafia, father daughter incest, pervert, dishonesty, partners against crime ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: usa, los angeles, california, tijuana mexico
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100%
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Fatal Pursuit (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A rugged P.I. and a gorgeous insurance investigator search for diamonds stolen in a brutal robbery
Style: erotic, independent film
Plot: woman with a gun, double barreled shotgun, private investigator, insurance investigator, insurance fraud, diamonds, murder, police corruption, sex, female nudity, prostitute, diamond ...
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100%
The Hollywood Detective (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An actor at the end of the line who used to play a PI on TV turns to real detective work when a fan of his begs him to help her.
Style: tv series pilot
Plot: false accusation, suicidal, private investigator, washed up star, actor, murder investigation, hollywood, alcoholism
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42%
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The Innocent (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The owner of a drugstore is killed in a hold-up. The only witness who saw one of the murderers without his mask is Gregory, a nine year old autistic boy. Cop Barlow is sure they'll try to silence him. He tries to get him to draw a picture of ...
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Plot: autism, nypd, youth, police detective, multiple murder, murder, scientist, witness, mask
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Third Degree Burn (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A down-and-out private eye (Treat Williams) gets too close to the wife (Virginia Madsen) of a rich man (Richard Masur) soon found dead.
Style: erotic drama, eighties
Plot: private investigator, private detective, femme fatale, car trouble, ex cop, escape, adultery, murder, false accusation, frame up
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33%
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Private Eye (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Private Eye is an American crime drama that aired from September 13, 1987 until January 8, 1988.
Style: detective
Plot: private investigator, ex-cop, layoff, police corruption, police lieutenant, partner, informant, fired from the job, murder, dead brother, frame up, investigation
Time: 1950s
Place: los angeles
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27%
Smile Jenny, You're Dead (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Harry Orwell has been retired from the force ever since he caught a bullet that lodged inoperably in his back. But that doesn’t mean the man called Harry O is out of the action. Moonlighting as a private sleuth, fighting off daily back pain and ...
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Angel's Flight (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A series of murders involving a stripper (Indus Arthur) are investigated by a hard-drinking reporter (William Thourlby) in this late-entry film-noir.
Style: independent film, neo noir, slasher
Plot: serial killer, stripper, reporter, drug addiction, psychopath, rape, rape and revenge, alcoholism, wrestler
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⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Nightingales (1988)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 120 min.
Story: Five pretty nurse students and their boss Leonore are the focus of this TV series. They are all living together in a villa called "Nightingale House" located in Los Angeles. Leonore has a complicated private relation to one of the ...
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24%
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Caught (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A middle-aged couple has a drifter enter their lives. The fish-store owners find that the mysterious young man awakens the couple in ways they didn't expect. Things get tense when the drifter begins an affair with the woman of the house.
Style: psychological, erotic, tense, serious, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: unfaithful wife, adultery, cheating wife, older woman younger man, stepmother stepson relationship, betrayal, erotica, older woman younger man relationship, family problems, infidelity, twists and turns, murder ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, future
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⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Story: Framed for the murder of a record company president in 1952 Hollywood, young, aspiring singer Aggie O'Hanlon is sentenced to life in prison and tries to adjust to her life life behind bars in a hellish womens prison where she is befriended by ...
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An ex-Hollywood screenwriter now teaching an evening class in New York finds himself in a battle of wits with a devious screenwriter student.
Style: suspense, unusual plot structure, contemplative, psychological, detective
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23%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
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Story: The Prophet has arrived in the ultimate playing ground... Los Angeles. It has taken an innocent childhood game and twisted it into a deadly match of wits, where the only prize is survival. Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting ...
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22%
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Dead Badge (1995)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Policeman Dan Sampson happens to have the same badge # as deceased policeman Manny Torres, who died while on duty. The circumstances surrounding Torres' death, officially ruled a drug overdose, become Sampson's obsession. After Sampson ...
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Style: detective
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21%
City of Industry (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Style: neo noir, suspenseful, perverse, hood, independent film ...
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21%
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21%
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Duration: 85 min.
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21%
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Style: disturbing, controversial, road movie, psychological, cult classic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Blindfire (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A police officer who while responding to a violent hostage call, kills the African American suspect only to later learn of his innocence. Sensing this was a set-up, and facing repercussions, he must track down the person responsible while examining ...
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