Movies like The Long Goodbye

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The Long Goodbye (1973)
 7.5
 37K
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
Style: neo noir, detective, noir, dark, atmospheric, witty, cynical, stylized, funny, inspirational ...
Audience: manly
Plot: private detective, murder, cat, betrayal, whodunit, investigation, alcoholic, beach, mental institution, private investigator, loneliness, gangster, twists and turns, profanity, bribery, disfigurement, smoking, mafia, violence, murder mystery, spy, killer, time travel, politics, criminal ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place: malibu california, california, los angeles, mexico, usa, latin america, mexico city ...
Keyword: gangsters, oldies, jewish

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Most similar movies to The Long Goodbye

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out neo noir, realistic, serious and suspense films with plots about murder, dishonesty, investigation, deadly, violence, female nudity and gangster mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like The Long Goodbye: Chinatown (1974), Inherent Vice (2014), The Limey (1999), Night Moves (1975), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 8.1
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Chinatown (1974)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Private eye Jake Gittes lives off of the murky moral climate of sunbaked, pre-World War II Southern California. Hired by a beautiful socialite to investigate her husband's extra-marital affair, Gittes is swept into a maelstrom of double ...
Style: neo noir, detective, atmospheric, twist ending, bleak ...
Audience: date night
Plot: private detective, corruption, investigation, femme fatale, rape, police, murder, conspiracy, domestic violence, father daughter incest, incest, investigator ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1974, year 1937
Place: los angeles, california, usa, eastern europe, america ...
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 6.6
 110K
Inherent Vice (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
Style: surreal, neo noir, psychedelic, atmospheric, detective ...
Audience: adult
Plot: private investigator, investigation, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, drug trade, private detective, obsession, investigator, stoner, hippie, paranoia, betrayal, police investigation ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 2010s, year 2014, 90s ...
Place: los angeles, california, southern california, usa, beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 35K
The Limey (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The Limey follows Wilson, a tough English ex-con who travels to Los Angeles to avenge his daughter's death. Upon arrival, Wilson goes to task battling Valentine and an army of L.A.'s toughest criminals, hoping to find clues and piece ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, cult classic, non-linear, stylized ...
Plot: investigation, revenge, vengeance, father daughter relationship, ex convict, hitman, death of daughter, gangster, murder, shootout, englishman abroad, mansion ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 60s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, england, usa, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.1
 18K
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 ⇓
100%
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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 ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
 6.8
 11K
Harper (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
Style: neo noir, suspense, cynical, detective, psychological ...
Plot: private detective, murder, investigation, kidnapping, missing person, twists and turns, uncover truth, dishonesty, adultery, divorce, ransom, private investigator ...
Time: 60s, year 1966, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mulholland Falls (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, detective, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: political corruption, murder, investigation, police, police investigation, conspiracy, revenge, betrayal, gangster, dishonesty, partners against crime, mafia ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1996, 50s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.5
 65K
The Player (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Style: suspense, dark comedy, neo noir, clever, black comedy ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, film industry, murder, police investigation, blackmail, showbiz, writers, movie business, satire, murder mystery, manipulation ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, future, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, pasadena california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
100%
 7.4
 369K
The Nice Guys (2016)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
Style: neo noir, entertaining, buddy comedy, detective, suspense ...
Plot: private detective, investigation, corruption, conspiracy, father daughter relationship, private investigator, bare breasts, buddy cop, buddy, single father, murder, justice ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, 70s, 90s, year 1977 ...
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.
Style: neo noir, detective, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: femme fatale, private detective, missing person, uncover truth, suspicion of murder, who done it, dishonesty, life is a bitch, danger, murder, private investigator, planned murder ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1941
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 7.7
 17K
3 Women (1977)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: An awkward young teen working at a spa becomes overly attached to her fellow worker, a lonely outcast. They hang out at a bar owned by a strange pregnant artist and her has-been cowboy husband. Amid emotional crises, the three woman steal and trade ...
Style: surreal, stylized, art house, depressing, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: surrealism, insanity, psychology, women, loneliness, feminist, feminism, suicide attempt, identity, artist, psychotic, female psychopath ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 1977
Place: california, usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 14K
Twilight (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A retired ex-cop and private detective gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money and walks into a 20 year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of an actress' former husband.
Style: neo noir, suspense, clever, talky, detective ...
Plot: private detective, murder, bare breasts, female nudity, missing person, corruption, betrayal, police investigation, murder mystery, femme fatale, uncover truth, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.4
 4K
Marlowe (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Los Angeles private-eye Philip Marlowe is trying to locate the brother of his new client, a woman named Orfamay Quest. The trail leads to two men who deny any knowledge of the brother's existence. Both are soon killed by an ice pick, so Marlowe ...
Style: neo noir, detective, noir, mind bending, tense ...
Plot: private detective, blackmail, murder, femme fatale, investigation, gangster, missing person, philip marlowe, mysticism, love, private investigator, darkness ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.5
 11K
Shattered (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, erotic, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: memory loss, investigation, private detective, twists and turns, murder, suspicion, plastic surgery, infidelity, abusive husband, haunted by the past, car accident, uncover truth ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: san francisco, bay area, california, usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 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 ⇓
27%
 7.6
 291K
Gone Baby Gone (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: When 4 year old Amanda McCready disappears from her home and the police make little headway in solving the case, the girl's aunt, Beatrice McCready hires two private detectives, Patrick Kenzie and Angie Gennaro. The detectives freely admit that ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, detective, thought provoking, surprise ending ...
Audience: kids, adult
Plot: kidnapping, investigation, private detective, twists and turns, moral dilemma, police investigation, missing child, moral ambiguity, tragic event, murder mystery, immorality, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place: boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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The Black Dahlia (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, detective, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: femme fatale, dangerous attraction, police investigation, murder, obsession, police corruption, lesbian, danger, greed, hollywood, justice, lesbian sex ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2006, 2000s, post world war two ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
 6.9
 29K
Suicide Kings (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Christopher Walken shines in this cult-favorite dark comedy as Charlie, a former mobster who is abducted by five privileged young men (Sean Patrick Flanery, Johnny Galecki, Jay Mohr, Jeremy Sisto, Henry Thomas) desperate to raise a $2 million ransom ...
Style: dark comedy, tense, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, hostage, mafia, manipulation, gangster, twists and turns, mobster, organized crime, mansion, nothing goes right, confined, disorder ...
Time: 90s, year 1997, 20th century, 70s
Place: usa, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Big Sleep (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The classic Raymond Chandler tale retold with Mitchum taking over the Bogart role.
Style: neo noir, detective, suspense, talky, clever ...
Plot: private detective, murder, nymphomaniac, blackmail, investigation, gangster, forbidden love, private investigator, chase, machine gun, twins, philip marlowe ...
Time: year 1978, 70s
Place: london, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...
Style: neo noir, funny, black comedy, dark comedy, detective ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: private detective, investigation, murder, actor, dark humor, buddy, thief, gay, murder mystery, kidnapping, cheerleader, buddy cop ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place: venice beach california, los angeles, california, denver colorado, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.5
 7K
Deceiver (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot: murder, police investigation, twists and turns, investigation, guilt, law enforcement, prostitute, brutality, rivalry, dishonesty, secret, lie ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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The Late Show (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who had gotten himself involved in a case concerning a murdered broad, stolen stamps, a nickel-plated handgun, a cheating dolly, and a kidnapped ...
Style: neo noir, detective, offbeat, clever, funny ...
Plot: private detective, murder, cat, investigation, private investigator, partner, violent content, love and romance, elderly, dishonesty, odd couple, law enforcement ...
Time: year 1977, 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Drowning Pool (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a ...
Style: neo noir, detective, suspense, cult classic, thrilling ...
Plot: private detective, private investigator, political corruption, russian roulette, underwater, newspaper, deep south, murder, police corruption, investigation, guard dog, private investigation ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.5
 65K
Out of Time (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in ...
Style: twist ending, suspense, suspenseful, tense, neo noir ...
Audience: adult
Plot: twists and turns, murder, police investigation, murder mystery, police detective, betrayal, conspiracy, police, frame up, investigation, double murder, law enforcement ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century
Place: florida, miami, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.4
 4K
Hammett (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: "This is an entirely imaginary story about the writer Dashiell Hammett, who... in the words of one of his most gifted contemporaries... helped get murder out of the vicar's rose garden and back to the people who are really good at it. The ...
Style: neo noir, noir, metafiction, detective, stylized ...
Plot: femme fatale, private detective, writers, blackmail, murder, prostitute, private investigator, paranoid, criminal mind, investigation, porn actress, missing person ...
Time: 1920s, year 1982, 20th century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.4
 10K
Miami Blues (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Fred gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college student Susie. Opposing Fred is Sgt Hoke Moseley, a cop who is getting a bit old for the job, ...
Style: neo noir, harsh, stylized, bloody, witty ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prostitute, psychopath, brutality, undercover cop, hitman, twists and turns, police detective, storytelling, police corruption, loneliness, strong sexual content, law enforcement ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: miami, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Killing of a Chinese Bookie (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story: A proud strip club owner is forced to come to terms with himself as a man, when his gambling addiction gets him in hot water with the mob, who offer him only one alternative.
Style: neo noir, noir, art house, independent film, atmospheric ...
Audience: manly
Plot: nightclub, gambling, murder, mafia, gambling debt, great ending, female nudity, hitman, strip club, crime gone awry, gangster, mobster ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Miller's Crossing (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Set in 1929, a political boss and his advisor have a parting of the ways when they both fall for the same woman.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, tense, stylized, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: organized crime, corruption, irish mob, mafia, violence, blackmail, love triangle, gangster, mobster, betrayal, shootout, underworld ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 1930s, 1920s, year 1990
Place: usa, new york, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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