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The Horse (1970)
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Original name: La Horse
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things go awry the day he discovers one of his grandsons is involved in drug traffic. To make matters worse, the reckless youth has hidden the white powder in the Maroilleur farm. Without a moment's hesitation, Auguste gets rid of the toxic substance but, of course, the mob has different views...
Plot:
rape, murder investigation, hunting, farmer, heroin, farm, war veteran, basement, isolated house, landlord, rural setting, rape of a girl, drug traffic, cow, family conflict, hiding place, uncle nephew relationship, grandfather grandson relationship, cattle, ultimatum, countryside, digging a grave, car on fire, car in water, drug trafficking
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
france, normandy
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Most similar movies to The Horse
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, suspense, tense and realistic films with plots about murder, murder investigation, police officer, revenge, police, investigation and police detective mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Horse: Bloody Milk (2017), Murder In Aveyron (2014), Without Apparent Motive (1971), Action Man (1967), Paydirt (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Pierre, in his thirties, is a breeder of dairy cattle. His life revolves around his farm, his veterinarian sister and his parents whose livestock he took over. As the first cases of a zoonotic outbreak are reported in France, Pierre discovers that ...
Style:
captivating, touching, sincere, sentimental, light ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
farmer, calf, youth, farm, legacy, friendship, parents and children, cow, rural setting, dairy farm, blood, night ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s
Place:
france
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A man is murdered in Laguiole, Aveyron, Aubrac country. The young Elisabeth Richard, deputy prosecutor of Rodez, is handling the case. She has to deal with the hostility of a police officer, promoted on his own strength and not keen on the idea of ...
Style:
suspense, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
love affair, father son relationship, family secret, death of wife, police captain, murder, murder investigation, liberation, crime investigation, old love, mental institution, twists and turns ...
Place:
france, south of france
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90%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A serie of murders is comitted in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
Style:
detective, poliziottesco
Plot:
serial killer, rape and revenge, murder investigation, notebook, death of husband, police detective, cemetery, murder, female nudity, sniper, playwright, police interrogation ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
cote d'azur, nice france, french riviera, south of france, france
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
An American (Robert Stack) talks a retired French crook (Jean Gabin) into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom.
Style:
cynical, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bank robbery, restaurant, bank, kidnapping, criminal heroes, dishonesty, confined, rivalry, adventurer, drug dealing, clergy, criminal's revenge ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
france
Similarity:
70%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Puck’s new boss turns out to be a control freak, who isolates everyone from the outside world. After a strange death, Puck calls on detective Wijk.
Style:
suspense, captivating, period piece, detective, contemplative
Plot:
father son relationship, police detective, murder investigation, revenge, writers, nobel prize winner, family relations, swedish, manor, despot, stenographer, poisoning ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A murder investigation takes detective Christer Wijk to a small village, where he needs to separate rumors and facts to trail the murderer.
Style:
suspenseful, detective, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder investigation, murder, police detective, whodunit, church, winter, priest, christmas eve, crime investigation, storytelling, husband wife relationship, danger ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Cash-strapped Oregon winemakers turn to growing pot in order to finance their vineyard in this low-key thriller. Unsung director and environmental activist Penny Allen (who gave Gus Van Sant his first film credit doing sound on her 1979 feature ...
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, crime thriller, tense, indie film ...
Plot:
vineyard, desperation, ethical dilemma, moral ambiguity, small town, working class, covert operation, drug traffic, betrayal, smuggling, family business, suspicion ...
Time:
80s
Place:
oregon
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story:
Harish Madhav a straightforward cop and Nishanth a college professor get entangled in a crime and one has to fight for his integrity and other has to fight for justice.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, crime drama, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, fight for justice, justice, crime solving, uncover truth, fighting crime, murder investigation, criminal, crime investigation, integrity, law enforcement, corruption ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
51%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two juvenile delinquents break into a luxury house where they rape two women. They settle in the house, sell the valuables and kill a curious neighbour.
Style:
cult classic, independent film
Plot:
rape, biker, rape and revenge, motorcycle, biker gang, bike, motorcycle gang, outlaw biker, revenge, blood, telephone call, swimming pool ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.
Style:
serious, realistic, cynical, tense, stylized ...
Plot:
ransom demand, kidnapper kidnapped relationship, robbery, hustler, criminal, organized crime, european, child kidnapping, kidnapping, disorder, failed attempt, cons and scams ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe, brussels, brussels belgium
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A big shot prosecutor Teodor Szacki divorces his wife and leaves Warsaw to “start a new life” in picturesque town in southeast Poland Sandomierz. After a short while he is called in to investigate a strange and mysterious murder case. ...
Style:
suspense, tense, disturbing, captivating, neo noir
Plot:
ritual murder, unsolved crime, killing, investigation, murder investigation, killing spree, murder mystery, crime solving, cold case, crime investigation, uncover truth, puzzle ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A stone-faced Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as enigmatic gangster Silien, who may or may not be responsible for squealing on Faugel (Serge Reggiani), just released from the slammer and already involved in what should have been a simple heist. By the end ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
gangster, betrayal, frame up, cons and scams, vengeance, friendship, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, tough heroes, spy, renaissance ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, year 1962, 60s
Place:
europe, france, paris france
Similarity:
43%
594
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The story of a woman who is suddenly visited by her estranged ex-husband. The ex-hubby wants to buy her country house, which she received in the divorce settlement. Instead he finds himself locked in a cage in the cellar.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
revenge, mind game, power struggle, captivity, ex husband, manipulation, confined, control, claustrophobia, psychological torture, cat and mouse, basement ...
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Commissaire Edouard Coleman is a Paris police chief whose life investigating violent crimes has left him despondent. After beginning an affair with a beautiful but cold woman named Cathy, he befriends her boyfriend, Simon, a local nightclub owner. ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, visually appealing, hood, cynical ...
Plot:
french police, gang, police inspector, gangster, train robbery, bank, corruption, robbery, criminal, driver, police, double life ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A policeman from Stockholm come to Norrbotten in Sweden, to join his brother, now when their father is dead. While there he starts to work on a long-running case where reindeers have been poached and soon discovers that his brother is involved...
Style:
thrilling, neo noir, action thriller, dark, detective ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
europe, eastern europe
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Omar Petit would be able to live a perfectly happy life with his wife and daughter if it weren’t for a number of farmers from the vineyard who have decided to make life miserable for them because of where Omar comes from. One night, one of them ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, serious, tense, hood
Plot:
killer, murder, farm, revenge, criminal's revenge, protector, brutality, gunfight, violence, female pubic hair, female nudity, gang ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, detective, captivating, suspenseful
Plot:
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Similarity:
40%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
love triangle, impotent husband, sexually dissatisfied wife, older man younger woman sex, murder, uncover truth, betrayal, mind game, couples, dangerous attraction, crime gone awry, dishonesty ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
france, saint tropez, riviera, provence
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Valentin Karlberg is reported missing in Stockholm and Detective Roland Hassel must find him before it's too late.
Style:
detective, suspenseful, crime drama, tense, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
missing person, police procedural, investigation, kidnapping, interrogation, urban, secrets, justice, murder investigation, male protagonist, surveillance, corruption ...
Time:
80s
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tension, crime drama, period piece ...
Plot:
suspicion, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, character study, cold, paranoia, slow burn, adaptation, claustrophobia, psychological manipulation, marital discord, investigation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
france
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then ...
Style:
neo noir, anthology, twisted, contemplative, tense ...
Plot:
revenge, driver, death of son, dealing with death, hate, actress, swing, justice, time travel, serial killer, beach, seaside ...
Time:
year 1969, 60s
Place:
france, europe, brittany, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An escort composed of three people transports a huge amount of new one-hundred crown banknotes in a special railway car. At the 196th kilometer, a village girl is waiting at the railway crossing and spots two men removing some packages from the ...
Style:
detective, poliziottesco
Plot:
banker, hospital, widow, shooting, police detective, safe, helicopter, investigation, police station, amnesia, bank manager, murder investigation ...
Place:
central europe
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After she leaves her cheating husband, Susan Reed (Ally Sheedy) embarks on a cross-country road trip where she falls victim to a series of mishaps that land her behind bars in the redneck Macon County Jail. Once inside, she's subjected to ...
Style:
independent film
Audience:
adult
Plot:
rape, rape and revenge, revenge, murder, on the run, hitchhiker, woman, sex toy, heterosexuality, girl, prison break, making love ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A girl from an asylum is engaged as nurse to a small, spoiled orphan boy, whose uncle has evil designs on him, and who hopes to kill him and cast the blame on the girl.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, poliziottesco ...
Plot:
kidnapping, danger, law enforcement, confined, dishonesty, nanny, woman in danger, frame up, family relations, child in peril, male protagonist, isolated house ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The Man Behind the Scissors centers around two serial killers: mastermind Yasunaga and helper Chinatsu. The two risk being found out when the police question them as witnesses to a gruesome murder they themselves may have committed. A quirky and ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, suspense, dark, crime drama ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, killing spree, murder, police investigation, crime investigation, crime solving, secret, murderer, serial murder, murder investigation, unsolved crime ...
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Criminal takes hostages on the Eiffel Tower in Paris
Style:
action thriller
Plot:
hostage situation, female nudity, millionaire, money, criminal, ransom, bomb, revenge, master criminal, terrorist, fistfight, hostage ...
Place:
europe, france, paris france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A hatter in a provincial town (Michel Serrault) leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour the tailor (Charles Asnavour).
Style:
anthology, neo noir
Plot:
serial killer, small town, literary, time travel, police officer, hidden corpse, death, strangulation, psychopath, neighbor, cafe, card playing ...
Time:
year 1982
Place:
france, brittany
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt ...
Style:
suspense, disclosure, political, political thriller
Plot:
murder, disco, diary, mistress, chase, fear, car chase, machine gun, police, corruption, photograph, evil ...
Time:
70s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers (Rose and Pierre) have a link with the murder.
Plot:
murder, farm, weather, coroner, cow, financial problem, infidelity, snow, death, hotel, extramarital affair, police ...
Place:
france
Similarity:
32%
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