Movies like The Limits of Control

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The Limits of Control (2009)
 6.2
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The Limits of Control (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlike all at once, he embarks on a journey that not only takes him across Spain, but also through his own consciousness.
Style: art house, psychological, talky, stylized, aesthetic, surreal, neo noir, deviant, cult classic, slow cinema ...
Plot: poetry, tai chi, dialogue, desert, murderer, addiction, african, mind control, self control, character study, traveler, sex, loner, trap, architecture, meditation, weirdo, zen, minimal dialogue, hipster, criminal mind, on the road, profanity, code, one last job ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: spain, tokyo, europe, africa, madrid
Keyword: gangsters, dreams, retrospective

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Most similar movies to The Limits of Control

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out neo noir, realistic, serious and psychological films with plots about murder, killer, sex scene, deadly, female nudity, blood and death mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Limits of Control: Man on the Train (2002), The Element of Crime (1984), Mystery Train (1989), The Man from London (2007), Trance (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Germany, USA, Japan
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
Style: art house, stylized, atmospheric, cult classic, hood ...
Plot: african american, mafia, samurai, hitman, hip hop, loneliness, loner, racial slur, friendship, assassin, martial arts, lone wolves ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, future, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, new jersey, brooklyn new york city, japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Man on the Train (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, UK, Germany, Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man, Milan (played by Johnny Hallyday) steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier (Jean Rochefort). The two men strike up a ...
Style: touching, emotional, atmospheric, sincere, humorous ...
Plot: train, friendship, teacher, odd couple, loneliness, character study, mysterious character, human nature, buddies, criminal heroes, heist, small town ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Element of Crime (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the ...
Style: surreal, bleak, neo noir, art house, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, hypnosis, police investigation, surrealism, mentor, dystopia, society, memory loss, distopia, dialogue, psychoanalysis ...
Time: future
Place: middle east, cairo egypt, europe, egypt, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
 7.5
 31K
Mystery Train (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.
Style: independent film, anthology, humorous, stylized, atmospheric ...
Plot: hotel, tourist, train, hotel room, ghost, rock and roll, robbery, cafe, recording studio, hotel desk clerk, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, armed robbery ...
Time: year 1989, 80s, 20th century
Place: memphis, tennessee, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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The Man from London (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Hungary, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 139 min.
Story: One night Maloin, a switchman at a seaside railway station situated by a ferry harbour, witnesses a terrible event...
Style: neo noir, serious, black and white, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: murder, witnessing a crime, introspection, moral dilemma, redemption, european, escapades, danger, rivalry, underground, minimalism, seaside ...
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 6.9
 117K
Trance (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.
Style: surprise ending, psychological, neo noir, twist ending, clever ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, adult
Plot: hypnosis, memory loss, heist, twists and turns, manipulation, amnesia, art thief, plot twist, art theft, dishonesty, torture, mind control ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: london, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 7.7
 214K
Blue Velvet (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.
Style: neo noir, surreal, detective, dark, disturbing ...
Audience: adult
Plot: surrealism, small town, voyeurism, kidnapping, sadomasochism, sex scene, serial killer, violence, dark humor, sexual humiliation, nightclub, femme fatale ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1986
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 7.1
 110K
Brick (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
Style: neo noir, independent film, cerebral, noir, detective ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: high school, twists and turns, investigation, murder, murder mystery, drug lord, teenager, whodunit, coming of age, adolescence, youth, drug dealing ...
Time: year 2005, y2k, 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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 6.6
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Ripley's Game (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. ...
Style: suspense, tense, stylized, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, greed, vengeance, redemption, cons and scams, danger, intrigue, rivalry, assassin, villa, murderer ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: italy, milan italy, berlin germany, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: The intriguing relationship between three desperados, who try to kidnap a wealthy child in hope of turning their lives around.
Style: neo noir, sexy, surreal, cynical, tense ...
Audience: manly
Plot: mental illness, kidnapping, drifter, crime gone awry, murder, boxer, femme fatale, psychology, killer, haunted by the past, addiction, boxing ...
Time: year 1990, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.7
 593K
Zodiac (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, murder mystery, maniac, journalism, mind game, journalist, paranoia, killings, killer, true crime ...
Time: 70s, year 2007, 60s, 20th century, year 1970 ...
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa, oakland california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.2
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Femme Fatale (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A woman tries to straighten out her life, even as her past as a con-woman comes back to haunt her.
Style: sexy, erotic, suspenseful, suspense, sensual ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, voyeurism, paparazzi, lesbian sex, haunted by the past, twists and turns, attempted rape, voyeur, lesbian relationship, lesbian, manipulation, redemption ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, cannes, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.5
 2K
Siesta (1987)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Claire (an American) wakes up in a terrible state at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state (blood-soaked and bruised), she has flashbacks from the past few days. She thinks she's killed someone, but isn't ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: murder, stalking, uncover truth, memory loss, female protagonist, who done it, dishonesty, danger, protagonist as suspect, dangerous attraction, sexual relations, haunted by the past ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: spain, europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.3
 68K
Sexy Beast (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The idyllic life of retired safecracker Gal is put at risk when a psychotic gangster from his past arrives at his villa in southern Spain, intent on bringing him out of retirement for one last job.
Style: dark comedy, neo noir, talky, psychological, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: heist, robbery, retired, mafia, safecracker, caper, organized crime, one last job, british gangster, bank robbery, psychopath, character study ...
Time: year 2000, year 2001, 20th century, 90s
Place: spain, england, mediterranean sea, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 7.7
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Down by Law (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
Style: independent film, road movie, black and white, humorous, atmospheric ...
Plot: prison, friendship, prison escape, on the road, pimp, swamp, misfit, fight, character study, gangster, crime gone awry, escape ...
Time: 20th century, year 1986, 80s
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 7.5
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Following (1998)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min.
Story: A struggling, unemployed young writer takes to following strangers around the streets of London, ostensibly to find inspiration for his new novel.
Style: neo noir, psychological, suspense, black and white, tense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: plot twist, manipulation, voyeurism, character study, breaking and entering, stranger, friendship, framed for murder, whodunit, buddies, dishonesty, gangster ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1998
Place: england, persia, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
No Country for Old Men (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, serious, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: hitman, psychopath, shooting, desert, serial killer, peril, greed, brutality, human nature, sheriff, death, murder ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 20th century, year 1980, 80s
Place: texas, el paso texas, mexico, austin texas, america ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.8
 57K
Frantic (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ford plays an American doctor whose wife suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: espionage, kidnapping, missing wife, missing person, spy, hotel, investigation, chase, hotel room, illuminati, murder, greed ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Night Moves (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, psychological, detective ...
Audience: manly
Plot: private detective, investigation, murder, missing person, espionage, infidelity, female nudity, manipulation, loneliness, complex characters, crime gone awry, uncover truth ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: florida, usa, los angeles, key west florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Style: neo noir, tense, noir, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: corruption, police corruption, murder, murder mystery, police, police detective, organized crime, fighting the system, call girl, dangerous attraction, police brutality, twists and turns ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, persia, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.3
 156K
Mr. Brooks (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
Style: psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, serious, intense ...
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, split personality, police investigation, murder, imaginary friend, macabre, killer, schizophrenia, maniac, murder mystery, double life ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: usa, oregon, palo alto california, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 7.7
 71K
Mother (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, disturbing ...
Plot: investigation, murder, revenge, family relations, determination, amateur detective, uncover truth, murder mystery, asian, mother, mentally challenged, character study ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.8
 38K
Body Double (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous blonde dancing ...
Style: erotic, sexy, sensual, atmospheric, cult classic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: voyeurism, obsession, sex, exhibitionist, twists and turns, sexual intercourse, porn star, voyeur, peeping tom, serial killer, stalking, police investigation ...
Time: 80s, year 1984
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Blow Out (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Jack Terry is a master sound recordist who works on grade-B horror movies. Late one evening, he is recording sounds for use in his movies when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot: political conspiracy, conspiracy, serial killer, conspiracy theory, investigation, murder, assassination, politics, witnessing a crime, murder mystery, hitman, whodunit ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1981
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.2
 9K
Blink (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, psychological, exciting, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, blindness, murder, psychopath, stalking, investigation, murder mystery, police investigation, woman in danger, police detective, strong female character, female protagonist ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.0
 41K
Deception (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's introduction to The ...
Style: sexy, suspense, suspenseful, serious, sensual ...
Plot: sex, betrayal, lawyer, hotel, heist, murder, police investigation, twists and turns, life turned upside down, conspiracy, manipulation, deception ...
Time: year 2008
Place: new york, europe, spain, usa, madrid ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The American Friend (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, talky, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot: murder, gangster, assassination, friendship, hitman, betrayal, art, good versus evil, loneliness, police investigation, race against time, life is a bitch ...
Time: 20th century, year 1977, 70s, year 1976
Place: paris france, germany, new york, hamburg germany, west germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Under the Silver Lake (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: Young and disenchanted Sam meets a mysterious and beautiful woman who's swimming in his building's pool one night. When she suddenly vanishes the next morning, Sam embarks on a surreal quest across Los Angeles to decode the secret behind ...
Style: neo noir, black comedy, atmospheric, surreal, dark comedy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: obsession, surrealism, swimming pool, conspiracy theory, conspiracy, secret society, dog, parrot, disappearance, missing person, party, secret message ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman ...
Style: neo noir, detective, dark, stylized, clever ...
Plot: private detective, african american, missing person, jazz club, black, gangster, murder, jazz, racism, home invasion, private investigator, cop ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1948
Place: los angeles, california, usa, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Mulholland Drive (2001)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
Style: surreal, psychological, art house, neo noir, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: surrealism, twists and turns, lesbian, amnesia, obsession, hollywood, nightmare, hallucination, doppelganger, alternate reality, filmmaking, dream ...
Time: 2000s, year 2001, future, 20th century, 21st century
Place: los angeles, persia, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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