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Judex (1963)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the plot of Feuillade's lengthy serial of the same name, about an adventurer named Judex (Channing Pollock) whose revenge against the corrupt banker Favraux (Michel Vitold) unleashes a complicated series of schemes.
Style:
surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, neo noir, black and white, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
superhero, secret lover, masquerade, swing, traveler, adventurer, anti hero, fantomas, kidnapping, heroes, undercover, injustice, escapades, vengeance, rivalry, danger, fighting crime, dishonesty, mysterious character, righting the wronged, escape, magician, nanny, beach, ambulance ...
Time:
year 1963, 60s, 20th century, 1910s
Place:
france, paris france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and neo noir films with plots about dishonesty, danger, murder, deadly, rivalry, vengeance and chases and races mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Judex: Anthony Zimmer (2005), Hotel Noir (2012), Joy House (1964), The Fighter (1983), The Upper Hand (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In Paris, the international police force and the Russian mafia are chasing Anthony Zimmer, an intelligent man responsible for laundry of dirty money in France. Zimmer had extensive plastic surgery, and his new face and voice are completely unknown. ...
Style:
clever, tense, suspenseful, rough, surprise ending ...
Plot:
femme fatale, mafia, money laundering, mistaken identity, manhunt, master criminal, mysterious character, life turned upside down, dishonesty, mind game, manipulation, bait ...
Time:
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Place:
nice france, somalia, paris france, france, europe ...
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95%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occupants of the hotel and the truth of how he came to be in his present situation will be revealed.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
private detective, sex scene, haunted by the past, hitman, femme fatale, danger, seduction, uncover truth, male nudity, killer, hotel guest, power relations ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, california, los angeles
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95%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A small-time con man on the run from the gangster husband of his girlfriend hides out in a strange, brooding mansion run by two mysterious women. There he finds himself trapped in deception between the two women. Shot on location in the French ...
Style:
neo noir, manga, psychological, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, french riviera, paris france, cote d'azur, monte carlo ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, ex convict, female pubic hair, diamond, murder, crime and punishment, coldhearted, vengeance, criminal's revenge, law enforcement, chases and races, on the run ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggle business.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
organized crime, gangster, special agent, disorder, journalism, danger, rivalry, undercover, government agency, criminal heroes, rescue, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 1966, 20th century, 60s
Place:
cuba, europe, france, paris france
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
spy, espionage, cold war, kidnapping, scientist, violent content, state affairs, heroes, danger, chases and races, rescue, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 1967, 60s, 20th century
Place:
china
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Style:
road movie, surreal, art house, atmospheric, visual ...
Plot:
on the road, surrealism, lovers on the run, road trip, smuggling, on the run, vietnam war, couples, infidelity, lovers, couple relations, tragic love ...
Time:
20th century, near future, year 1965, 60s
Place:
france, mediterranean sea, paris france, europe, africa ...
Similarity:
71%
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:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
68%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.
Style:
metafiction, realistic, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot:
male male relationship, urbanization, fantomas, conspiracy, theater, mental illness, femme fatale, cold war era, paranoia, theatrical troupe, expatriate, danger ...
Time:
year 1961, 20th century, 50s, year 1957
Place:
paris france, france
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
An American government hit man on the run makes a pact with two travelers to help him disappear in the Mexican jungle.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, on the run, undercover, danger, vengeance, rivalry, chases and races, dishonesty, psychopath, road trip, voyeur, female nudity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico, latin america, oregon
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A cop is looking for the killer of his friend.
Style:
rough, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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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:
62%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Karsten Aslaksen, chief engineer of a large chemical company, disappears without trace. His married lover, a successful politician named Vibeke Farang, approaches private investigator Varg Veum to track him down discreetly.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense, neo noir ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Duration: 129 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France, Italy
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Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
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Style:
neo noir, suspense, anthology, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After bagging his latest victim, a murderous sociopath (Kiefer Sutherland) decides to steal the dead man's identity and pose as the deputy of a remote coastal town, where the local sheriff (Beau Bridges) and his lover (Camelia Kath) are cooking ...
Style:
tense, realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, small town, frame up, disorder, hidden identity, investigation, mistaken identity, betrayal, law enforcement, dishonesty, love triangle, small town life ...
Time:
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Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Engaging, emotional and riveting, FAREWELL is an intricate and highly intelligent thriller pulled from the pages of history— about an ordinary man thrust into the biggest theft of Soviet information of the Cold War. Ronald Reagan called this piece ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, political ...
Plot:
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Time:
year 2009, 80s, 20th century
Place:
soviet union, france, russia, ussr
Similarity:
50%
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Out of work and driving aimlessly, a man pulls into the "Wolf Lodge" and ends up with a job. When he wakes nightly to the sounds of icy voices and screams he decides he can no longer be an innocent bystander.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
49%
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Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
germany
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, neo noir, tense, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, passionate sex, vengeance, danger, disorder, dishonesty, secret movement, frame up, sex, assassination, professional killer, killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand, asia
Similarity:
46%
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Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois, a French murder mystery based upon a novel of the same name, is an unusual, involving film with excellent performances by its entire cast. Police Inspector Staniland (Michel Serrault) is investigating the death of a ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
femme fatale, murder, seduction, police detective, investigation, who done it, couples, law enforcement, dishonesty, crime investigation, jealousy, forbidden sex ...
Time:
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Place:
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795
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is helped by a ghost of an actress who died 30 years ago, or is he slowly going insane?
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, mind bending, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
normandy, europe, france
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of Juliette and Patrick and watch her cook. She thinks he's a prowler and confronts him, then ...
Style:
neo noir, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
voyeurism, injustice, impossible love, dead woman, murder, vengeance, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, mentally unstable, love and romance, unfulfillment, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, france, vichy
Similarity:
45%
190
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, sincere, neo noir ...
Plot:
violence against women, police investigation, working class, law enforcement, missing child, police station, murder, policewoman, danger, family relations, dishonesty, working conditions ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
44%
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 ...
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Place:
france, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
An unconventional undercover Chicago cop and his partner are recruited to commit the murder of a New Orleans criminal kingpin.
Style:
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Audience:
boys' night, girls' night
Plot:
vengeance, chase, vigilante, murder, contract killing, danger, fighting crime, revenge, death of partner, pursuit, crime boss, swamp ...
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, suspense, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
42%
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