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The Mystery of the Yellow Room (2003)
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Original name: Le Mystère de la chambre jaune
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Joseph Rouletabille (Bruno Podalydès), a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson (Sabine Azéma), who uses the yellow room of the title as her bedroom. At the time of the revolver shots her room was locked and the windows were barred, but when her father (Michael Lonsdale) enters after having forced the door, there is no-one there except for Mathilde. So who did it and how did he get away?
Style:
atmospheric, rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, stylized, detective, mind bending
Plot:
murder, investigation, journalism, danger, law enforcement, mysterious past, mysterious event, locked room, mysticism, police officer, perfect crime, room, plot twist, millennial, media, inventions and discoveries, native american, train, stage magician, assassin, magician, journalist, death, photographer, castle ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century
Place:
france
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and humorous films with plots about murder, deadly, investigation, law enforcement, danger, dishonesty and who done it mostly in Crime, Mystery and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Mystery of the Yellow Room: Magic Man (2010), Carnival of Crime (1962), A Perfect Friend (2006), Deadline (2001), While My Pretty One Sleeps (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, clever ...
Plot:
amateur detective, mysterious character, missing person, uncover truth, investigation, who done it, odd couple, murder, danger, riddles and clues, dishonesty, silly humor ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
france
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In order to see magic idol Krell Darius perform his world-famous magic act, a beautiful aspiring young-magician, Tatiana, travels from New York to Las Vegas with her closest friends, BFFs, Elena and Vera. As the layers of illusion unfold, so too do ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious, independent film
Plot:
serial killer, police detective, investigation, haunted by the past, manipulation, murder, danger, dishonesty, magic, wizards and magicians, wizard, mysticism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Comedy
Country: Brazil, Spain, Argentina, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Mike, an architect, is married to Lin, a beautiful and unfaithful woman. Returning from a trip, he finds she's disappeared. When he tries to locate her, he also learns about her many affairs, and he gets closer to Marina, his efficient ...
Style:
cult classic, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, couples, frame up, infidelity, beach, love affair, who done it, law enforcement, love and romance, stalking, danger, dishonesty ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
brazil
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
"Julien Rossi wakes up in a hospital bed and finds he has no memory of the events that left him in a coma in the early hours of New Year's Day. Was he attacked? Or was his head injury caused in an accident? This is only the first of many ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspense, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
memory loss, journalism, danger, hospital, uncover truth, investigation, mysterious girl, love, murder, gays and lesbians, media, woman on top ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
37%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Holmes (Peter Cushing) and Dr. Watson (John Mills) ponder cases in which the victims seem to have been scared to death.
Style:
detective, realistic, serious, scary, rough ...
Plot:
private detective, investigation, murder, kidnapping, rescue, ego clash, amateur detective, danger, rivalry, aging, law enforcement, who done it ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The Victoriastadium is totally destroyed in a bomb attack and Christina Furhage, head-responsible for the Olympic Games in Stockholm, dies with it. Why did someone destroy the stadium and why is Christina murdered? The police desperately seek for ...
Style:
tense, rough, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
terrorist, journalism, terrorism, female reporter, female protagonist, bomb, media, danger, murder, journalist, newspaper, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When the fashion world meets the underworld, it's murder.
Style:
mind bending, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
fashion, murder, media, danger, dishonesty, journalism, criminal heroes, investigation, woman in danger, gangster, fashion industry, revenge ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Roy Marsden returns as author P.D. James's indefatigable gumshoe, Inspector Adam Dalgliesh. This time, he's investigating the murder of a famous mystery writer whose body is found in the bottom of a dinghy on the Suffolk coast. To add a ...
Style:
detective, crime thriller, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
mysticism, murder, violent content, manipulation, ocean, police detective, who done it, riddles and clues, cons and scams, police investigation, obsessive quest, amateur detective ...
Time:
90s
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
34%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Action, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Tabloid journalist Annika Bengtzon is writing about a murder in the port of Stockholm and she suspects that the Yugoslav mafia is involved. However, she also finds links to a foundation that runs a shelter for battered women, Paradiset. Looking for ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
journalism, murder, investigation, woman in danger, danger, haunted by the past, family problems, scoop, female reporter, reporter, investigative journalism, mysticism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
stockholm sweden, eastern europe
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Lacey Smithsonian is a stylish journalist who works as a television reporter. When interviewing a prestigious fashion designer Amanda Manville, it confesses that receives death threats from someone. Everything is complicated when the artist is shot ...
Style:
humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
female detective, partner, lifestyle, celebrity culture, false accusation, disorder, fashion, journalism, media, dishonesty, law enforcement, female reporter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A fashion reporter stumbles on a murder investigation in the Nation's Capitol, only to be thrown for a loop when her police detective former lover is assigned to the case.
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, humorous, crime thriller ...
Plot:
amateur detective, murder, fashion, journalism, riddles and clues, rivalry, hairdresser, dead woman, investigation, danger, investigative journalism, fashion magazine ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Prudence Beresford is investigating another murder. Her aunt had witnessed it, but no body was found, and nobody trusted her word. Nobody, except Prudence, of course!
Style:
semi serious, talky, humorous, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
private detective, amateur detective, murder, family relations, odd couple, uncover truth, investigation, partner, couple relations, master and servant, disorder, siblings relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In The Man With Bogart's Face, an affectionate send-up of the Bogart detective films of the 1940s, Robert Sacchi plays a man who idolizes Humphrey Bogart so much he has his features altered to look exactly like his idol. He then opens up a ...
Style:
neo noir, realistic, parody, semi serious, psychological ...
Plot:
private detective, private investigator, surgery, plastic surgeon, lookalikes, doppelganger, face, transgender, hollywood, plastic surgery, murder, violent content ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jane Doe sets out to track down a killer who is targeting fellow CSA agents.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, exciting
Plot:
investigation, murder, secret agent, law enforcement, assassination, hidden identity, undercover, dishonesty, danger, who done it, memory loss, family relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In this comedy-drama set in Washington, D.C., an ex-burglar and a dumbbell detective must team up to solve several puzzling murders.
Style:
mind bending, serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
cat burglar, serial killer, dishonesty, law enforcement, rivalry, goofy hero, misfit partners, investigation, partners against crime, private detective, murder, partner ...
Time:
80s
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
Style:
black and white, not serious, realistic, parody, humorous ...
Plot:
private detective, murder mystery, serial killer, hercule poirot, mysticism, investigation, murder, female serial killer, danger, law enforcement, who done it, riddles and clues ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
england, london, scotland yard, europe
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Sandra Brown’s “Smoke Screen” follows newswoman Britt Shelley (Jaime Pressly), who shockingly wakes up in bed next to the dead body of Detective Jay Burgess and is suspected of foul play. Five years prior, Jay’s lifelong friend Raley Gannon ...
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, mind bending
Plot:
politics, journalism, journalist, dishonesty, law enforcement, society, media, female protagonist, female reporter, husband wife relationship, reporter, cabin in the woods ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
southern usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Paula Nelson (Anna Karina), a female version of Humphrey Bogart's hard boiled detectives, goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, at an unknown point in the future (maybe 1969). Once there, she learns that Richard is dead and ...
Style:
surreal, art house, neo noir, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
nixon, amateur detective, writers, serial killer as protagonist, strong female lead, modernism, woman with a gun, social satire, politics, investigation, murder, gangster ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, paris france
Similarity:
28%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
In the seedy world of 1940s Los Angeles, Private Detective Stone Evergreen investigates the suspicious suicide of a young actress.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, humorous, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot:
private detective, investigation, police investigation, murder mystery, murder investigation, graphic violence, murderer, danger, law enforcement, law enforcer, murder, dishonesty ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
28%
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:
20th century, 80s
Place:
canada, france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In Cape Town, a police inspector named September color discovers that the dreaded Mabasha, hired murderer, is in talks with a right-wing organization. In Skåne, southwest of Sweden, is given to the real estate agent Louise Åkerblom by missing and ...
Style:
mind bending, serious, realistic, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, conspiracy, violent content, fish out of water, kgb, political conspiracy, political corruption, who done it, police corruption, danger, intrigue, terrorism ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1993
Place:
south africa, russia, africa, eastern europe
Similarity:
27%
235
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, and reluctantly gets involved with the nutty daughter of his editor. Before long he discovers that he is the prime suspect in the murders.
Style:
dark comedy, parody, realistic, semi serious, offbeat ...
Plot:
small town, newspaper, decapitation, serial killer, murder, law enforcement, journalism, media, psychopath, dark humor, social relations, small town life ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The sleepy little village of Loubressac is well on its way to becoming a ghost town. To save the town, the local citizenry hatch a plan to attract tourists. To their horror, the plan misfires when a group of hippies are the first to move in. The ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, rough, suspenseful, humorous
Plot:
nudism, hippie, tractor, murder, gangster, village life, social relations, estate, ghost, criminal heroes, female nudity, hippie commune ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
south of france, france
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Socialite Molly Lasch is released from prison after serving a six-year sentence for the murder of her husband, Dr. Gary Lasch. Now, with the help of Fran, an investigative reporter, Molly sets out to prove her innocence. Together they uncover a ...
Style:
serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, amateur detective, uncover truth, righting the wronged, woman in danger, false accusation, partner, law enforcement, life is a bitch, dishonesty, danger, frame up ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
25%
547
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Two homicide detectives find their careers - and lives - on the line when they get caught up in a case of murder and betrayal in high-society Savannah.
Style:
atmospheric, detective, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, police detective, betrayal, dishonesty, law enforcement, partner, high society, danger, couples, twists and turns, deep south ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, georgia
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
It is Midsummer's Eve and ten people are on a deserted castle for a TV recording. The next morning the program leader is shot dead. Kvällspressens Annika Bengtzon a mandate to monitor the murder, but she soon learns that her best friend Anne ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense
Plot:
journalism, murder, investigation, law enforcement, multiple suspects, false accusation, dishonesty, estate, who done it, nordic, swedish, investigative journalism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
24%
540
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A murder mystery set in the world of illegal teenage gambling. A 17-year old must find his best friends' killer before the game is exposed.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poker, gambling, murder, investigation, youth, uncover truth, dishonesty, amateur detective, suburbs, rivalry, danger, handgun ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman.
Style:
dark comedy, spoof, independent film, parody, realistic ...
Plot:
private investigator, investigation, murder, small town, social relations, disorder, danger, law enforcement, goofy hero, private detective, small town life, milkman ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel (Jean-Louis Trintignant), an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discover that Marie-Christine Vercel ...
Style:
black and white, neo noir, noir, art house, detective ...
Plot:
investigation, lawyer, jealousy, office, police interrogation, unrequited love, accused of murder, female empowerment, empowerment, women, murder, false accusation ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s
Place:
france, europe, marseille, nice france
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe (William H. Macy) accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers his tracks, he raises the suspicions of a private investigator (James Cromwell), who then tries to blackmail him. Thorpe also falls ...
Style:
detective, crime thriller, neo noir, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
murder, private detective, film critic, investigation, blackmail, courtroom, filmmaking, hollywood, who done it, police investigation, uncover truth, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
24%
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