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The Widows of Thursdays (2009)
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The Widows of Thursdays (2009)
Original name: Las viudas de los jueves
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The closed community of "Altos de la Cascada", a private neighborhood of high-priced houses, is moved by the discovery of three corpses that appear floating in a pool and rushes to frame it as an accident. It is the starting point so that through the life of some married couples who live there, Tano (Pablo Echarri) -manager of a multinational- and Teresa (Ana Celentano), Ronnie (Leonardo Sbaraglia) who lives at the expense of his wife Mavy , a real estate agent (Gabriela Toscano), the pusillanimous Martin (Ernesto Alterio) and his dissatisfied wife Lala (Gloria Carrá) and the newcomers Gustavo (Juan Diego Botto) and Carla (Juana Viale), the film attempts a description of the social sector that makes up that type of community and, by extension, to a broader sector of society at the time.
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, tense, realistic
Plot: murder, lifestyle, widow, marriage, investigation, tennis, economic crisis, swimming pool, dead body, society, social relations, sex, rape, poker, violence, life, criminal, domestic violence, jealousy, suicide, teenage girl, security guard, funeral, teenage boy, victim ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, 21st century, contemporary
Place: latin america, argentina

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and suspense films with plots about murder, deadly, investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, serial killer and danger mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like The Widows of Thursdays: Carambole (2005), The Killing Game (2011), Perfect Number (2012), Case G (2006), Moreno and the Silence (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jessica Fletcher is off to solve another murder mystery, this time in Ireland.
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Carambole (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: This film is based upon the book with the same name, by Håkan Nesser, one of Swedens most appreciated "crime-authors".
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense
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Place: europe, eastern europe
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The Killing Game (2011)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Eve Duncan is contacted, 10 years after the disappearance and murder of her 7-year-old daughter Bonnie, by a man claiming to be her killer. Taunted by his clues about Bonnie's case and his threats to kill again, she throws herself into her ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Based on the series by the popular Japanese novelist Keigo Higashino, this is a mystery drama that 'faithfully but freely' adapts the 3rd part in the series, . The story revolves around 3 characters: a woman who unwittingly killed her ...
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Case G (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Van Veeteren's only unsolved case comes back to haunt him when the daughter of a murdered private detective comes to see him. A brutal wife killer, who went into hiding years before, has resurfaced under an assumed name; or so it seems, and Van ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, detective
Plot: manhunt, private detective, haunted by the past, chases and races, law enforcement, murder, police procedural, nypd, snow, fictional country, deadly
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Place: europe
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Moreno and the Silence (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a girl is murdered soon after leaving a closed religious community, Moreno faces a difficult investigation as the community closes ranks and refuses to cooperate. When another girl is abducted and her bloody fingernails mailed to the police, ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: murder, police investigation, partner, kidnapping, private detective, society, law enforcement, religions or cults, nypd, police procedural, fictional country, deadly
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Place: europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story: What's in a name but murder? Münster comes across the strangled body of a young woman in her home and surprises the murderer who is still on the premises. Though the murderer escapes, a rare book is found at the scene with a dedication by the ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Roberto is a specialist in Criminal Law whose life is thrown into chaos when he becomes convinced that Gonzalo, one of his best students, has committed a brutal murder right in front of the Faculty of Law. Determined to uncover the truth he begins a ...
Style: realistic, suspense, suspenseful, tense, mind bending ...
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Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: argentina, buenos aires argentina, latin america
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
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Borkmann's Point (2005)
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
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Duration: 80 min.
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Ashes of Paradise (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 116 min.
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Country: USA
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The Kiss of Evil (2011)
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The Coverup (2008)
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Country: USA
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