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Mulholland Falls (1996)
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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, rough, realistic, suspenseful, hood, thrilling ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: political corruption, murder, investigation, police, police investigation, conspiracy, revenge, betrayal, gangster, dishonesty, partners against crime, mafia, law enforcement, fighting crime, vigilante, cop, military, corruption, dirty cop, crime gone awry, violence, murder investigation, gunfight, erotica, ghetto ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1996, 50s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
Keyword: gangsters, partners, doctors

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and neo noir films with plots about murder, investigation, police, law enforcement, deadly, gangster and cop mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Mulholland Falls: L.A. Confidential (1997), The Black Dahlia (2006), Rising Sun (1993), Devil in a Blue Dress (1995), Twilight (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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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 ⇓
100%
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Rising Sun (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Conner and Web Smith are called in to investigate. Although Conner has previous experience working in Japan, cultural differences ...
Style: suspense, detective, intense, exciting, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, police, police investigation, surveillance, corruption, whodunit, murder mystery, buddy cop, 007, partner, playboy, japanese culture ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: japan, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
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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 ⇓
100%
To Live and Die in L.A. (1985)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: A fearless Secret Service agent will stop at nothing to bring down the counterfeiter who killed his partner.
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: car chase, revenge, investigation, murder, vengeance, police investigation, law enforcement, cop, male pubic hair, chase, hitman, organized crime ...
Time: 80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The General's Daughter (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 116 min.
Story: When the body of Army Capt. Elizabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details ...
Style: detective, tense, suspenseful, suspense, intense ...
Plot: army investigation, murder, rape, military, reluctant partners, gang rape, betrayal, investigation, military training, conspiracy, strangulation, army ...
Time: year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place: georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Internal Affairs (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Keen young Raymold Avila joins the Internal Affairs Department of the Los Angeles police. He and partner Amy Wallace are soon looking closely at the activities of cop Dennis Peck whose financial holdings start to suggest something shady. Indeed Peck ...
Style: suspense, neo noir, suspenseful, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot: police corruption, internal affairs, corrupt cop, police investigation, corruption, manipulation, psychopath, police, abusive husband, rivalry, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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, cynical ...
Audience: manly
Plot: private detective, murder, cat, betrayal, whodunit, investigation, mental institution, beach, alcoholic, private investigator, loneliness, gangster ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place: malibu california, california, los angeles, mexico, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 347K
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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Another 48 Hrs. (1990)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the "Ice Man". Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is ...
Style: black comedy, detective, neo noir, action comedy, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: buddy cop, prison, buddy, motorcycle, biker, bar fight, revenge, investigation, corrupt cop, ex convict, drug lord, police ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Breach of Faith: A Family of Cops II (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The family of cops is back, this time dealing with the murder of a priest tied in with the Russian Mafia, who proceed to try to draw the family off the case.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: buddy cop, cop, hitman, murder, gunfight, mafia, murder mystery, bad guy, nypd, guy, church, police detective ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Last of Sheila (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
Style: clever, suspenseful, tense, suspense, dark comedy ...
Plot: murder mystery, whodunit, yacht, murder, manipulation, mind game, game, paranoia, puzzle, danger, vengeance, disorder ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: south of france, mediterranean sea, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.8
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The Pledge (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer. Based on a story by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
Style: psychological, bleak, suspenseful, detective, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, child murder investigation, murder mystery, child murder, small town, plot twist, obsession, promise, psychology, murder investigation ...
Time: year 2001, 21st century
Place: turkey, nevada, reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Frozen Ground (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An Alaska State Trooper partners with a young woman who escaped the clutches of serial killer Robert Hansen to bring the murderer to justice. Based on actual events.
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, factual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, winter, police investigation, kidnapping, murder investigation, investigation, manhunt, sexual predator, drug overdose, rape and murder, rape ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, year 1983
Place: alaska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Mighty Quinn (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found decapitated in his Jacuzzi. Although the local political establishment, especially crooked Governor ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult classic, neo noir ...
Plot: whodunit, murder, childhood friend, police investigation, partners against crime, investigation, justice, crime gone awry, resort hotel, cia agent, frame up, false accusation ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, future
Place: jamaica, caribbean, nicaragua, west indies
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.3
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Jade (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Someone does a nasty hatchet job on a San Fransisco big noise and the Assistant D.A. takes charge of the investigation. Through a web of blackmail and prostitution involving the Governor, an old lover of the law man emerges as a prime suspect and he ...
Style: erotic, suspense, sexy, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: serial killer, murder, femme fatale, adultery, investigation, nudity, murder mystery, manipulation, sex, femdom, prostitution, seduction ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
True Confessions (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A cop clashes with his priest brother while investigating the brutal murder of a young prostitute
Style: neo noir, detective, intelligent, talky, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, catholic priest, cop, priest, politics, serial killer, redemption, clergy, political corruption, police corruption, desert, catholic ...
Time: 1940s, year 1981, 20th century, 1950s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Firm (1993)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Mitch McDeere is a young man with a promising future in Law. About to sit his Bar exam, he is approached by 'The Firm' and made an offer he doesn't refuse. Seduced by the money and gifts showered on him, he is totally oblivious to the ...
Style: suspense, tense, surprise ending, clever, psychological ...
Plot: lawyer, corruption, law firm, murder, conspiracy, surveillance, investigation, legal, chase, seduction, blackmail, courtroom ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: memphis, boston, tennessee, usa, harvard university ...
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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
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100%
Streets of Blood (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A police officer's partner has died during Hurricane Katrina, but he later discovers that his partner may have been murdered. An investigation follows, taking the officer and his new partner into the depths of the criminal underworld.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, rough, hood ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: ghetto, murder, investigation, police detective, undercover, law enforcement, chaos and mayhem, gunfight, cop, urban, gangster, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
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Q & A (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A young district attorney seeking to prove a case against a corrupt police detective encounters a former lover and her new protector, a crime boss who refuse to help him.
Style: talky, intense, neo noir, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, corruption, murder, investigation, police brutality, lawyer, fighting the system, life is a bitch, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect, legal, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, new york, puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Cop (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.
Style: neo noir, detective, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, cop, police corruption, vigilante, investigation, psychopath, killer, blood, police officer, vigilantism, violence ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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A Stranger Among Us (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Detective Emily Eden is a tough New York City cop forced to go undercover to solve a puzzling murder. Her search for the truth takes her into a secret world of unwritten law and unspoken power, a world where the only way out is deeper in!
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, tense, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, police investigation, orthodox jew, police, judaism, police corruption, brutality, conspiracy theory, unlikely friendships, investigation, who done it, master criminal ...
Time: 90s, year 1992
Place: new york, israel, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Caught in the Crossfire (2010)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Two detectives investigating a gang-related find themselves targeted by both gang members and crooked cops.
Style: suspenseful, exciting, serious, hood, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: partners against crime, partner, gang, police detective, police investigation, law enforcement, police corruption, friendship, rivalry, danger, mafia, cop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Sharky's Machine (1981)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Sharky gets busted back to working vice, where he happens upon a scandalous conspiracy involving a local politician. Accompanied by an all-star jazz soundtrack, Sharky's new "machine" gathers evidence while Sharky falls in love with a ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, tense, sexy, suspense ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: prostitute, corruption, murder, gangster, police investigation, law enforcement, police, fighting crime, partner, shootout, assassin, investigation ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.6
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Dark Blue (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
Style: neo noir, tense, detective, harsh, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, police investigation, police brutality, cop, police, corruption, investigation, police officer, rookie, robbery, partner, fighting the system ...
Time: 20th century, y2k, 90s, year 1992
Place: los angeles, california, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.2
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City Hall (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
Style: political, tense, suspense, thought provoking, realistic ...
Plot: investigation, corruption, police, political corruption, murder, mafia, lawyer, mayor, society, uncover truth, american politics, conspiracy ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: new york, usa, harlem, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 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 ⇓
18%
 7.1
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Narc (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly ...
Style: bleak, suspense, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: police investigation, police corruption, investigation, drug addiction, police, murder, drug, police brutality, addiction, drug addict, drug overdose, dark humor ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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