Movies like The Night of the Generals

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The Night of the Generals (1967)
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The Night of the Generals (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: UK, France
Duration: 148 min.
Story: An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and Seydlitz-Gabler – all three of whom, it seems, are also involved in a plot to kill Hitler
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, serious, captivating, detective, retro, neo noir, psychological ...
Plot: world war two, prostitute, investigation, murder, serial killer, war, conspiracy, nazi occupation, nazi, twists and turns, who done it, uncover truth, nazi occupied poland, world war, police investigation, justice, spy, mysticism, holocaust, politics, freedom, revolutionary, revolution, eastern front, machine gun ...
Time: 1940s, 60s, year 1967, year 1942, year 1944, year 1965, 20th century ...
Place: france, paris france, poland, warsaw poland, hamburg germany, europe, germany
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Most similar movies to The Night of the Generals

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about deadly, murder, law enforcement, investigation, serial killer, police investigation and dishonesty mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Night of the Generals: Brass Target (1978), In August of 1944 (2001), The General's Daughter (1999), Small Town Conspiracy (2002), Swallow, Cat, Rose, Death (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Brass Target (1978)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, War
Country: USA, West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 111 min.
Story: General George S. Patton died in a car accident in 1945. However, now speculates that his death was actually a murder carefully prepared by his staff to cover a large theft of gold.
Style: serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Plot: world war two, conspiracy, revolutionary war, freedom, struggle, revolution, revolutionary, ss, secret mission, gold, gay interest, violent content ...
Time: year 1978, 1940s, 20th century
Place: germany, europe
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100%
In August of 1944 (2001)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: Russia, Belarus
Duration: 109 min.
Story: The movie is set in Belarus, where a team of counter-intelligence officers is given only three days to find a German radio operator posing as a Soviet soldier, behind soviet lines, on the eve of a major offensive.
Style: atmospheric, serious, realistic, stylized, intense ...
Audience: boys' night, family outing
Plot: world war two, counter intelligence, war, spy, russian soldier, betrayal, patriotism, camaraderie, traitor, friendship between men, wartime, nazi ...
Time: 1940s, year 1944
Place: ussr, russia
⇓ 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%
Small Town Conspiracy (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, War
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Crime - Set in Florida at the close of 1941, this film noir follows small-town police chief John Haleran's (Zen Gesner) investigation of the murder of a young Japanese girl, a case that leads to a top secret government conspiracy. With the help ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, bleak
Plot: police detective, uncover truth, police investigation, who done it, frame up, wartime life, political conspiracy, injustice, life is a bitch, serial killer, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time: 1940s
Place: usa, florida, pearl harbor
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Swallow, Cat, Rose, Death (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min.
Story: What's in a name but murder? Münster comes across the strangled body of a young woman in her home and surprises the murderer who is still on the premises. Though the murderer escapes, a rare book is found at the scene with a dedication by the ...
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, law enforcement, investigation, police detective, murder mystery, evidence, twists and turns, danger, escapades, witnessing a crime, nypd ...
Time: 19th century, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Thorne: Scaredycat (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: D.I. Tom Thorne's latest case puts him on the hunt for not one, but two serial killers, who seem to be working together, yet killing separately.
Style: rough, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, police detective, murderous pair, law enforcement, murder mystery, strangulation, psychopath, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Murder on the Home Front (2013)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: At the height of the London blitz, Dr Lennox Collins, pioneer of the new forensic science, is enlisted by DI Wilkins after prostitute Mary Williams is strangled and a swastika carved on her tongue.
Style: realistic, stylized, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Plot: world war two, serial killer, investigation, forensics, partner, law enforcement, danger, life is a bitch, intrigue, murder mystery, world war, police investigation ...
Time: 20th century, year 1940, 1940s
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Message (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, War
Country: China
Duration: 118 min.
Story: 1942, Nanjing (Nanking). Following a series of assassination attempts on officials of the Japanese-controlled puppet government, the Japanese spy chief gathers a group of suspects in a mansion house for questioning. A tense game of "cat and ...
Style: suspense, captivating, realistic, tense, psychological ...
Plot: world war two, japanese occupation, code breaking, resistance, assassination, undercover, wartime life, medieval, espionage, rivalry, danger, agent ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s, year 1942
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Resurrection Man (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Belfast, in 1970s. Victor Kelly is a young protestant man who hates the Catholics so much that one night he begins to brutally murder them. A reporter soon tries to uncover the murder and obtained prestige for himself, while Victor sinks deeper into ...
Style: disturbing, serious, bleak, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, brutality, psychopath, journalism, investigation, master criminal, uncover truth, ira, trouble, violence, anglo irish relations ...
Time: 70s
Place: ireland, northern ireland, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Gone but Not Forgotten (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious
Plot: serial killer, danger, private detective, investigation, amateur detective, psychopath, rivalry, murder, police investigation, protagonist as suspect, law enforcement, police detective ...
Place: usa, new york, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Empire of the Wolves (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Turkey
Duration: 128 min.
Story: When the young detective Paul Nerteaux finds the third slashed female corpse of illegal Turkish immigrants, he decides to ask for support to the experienced dark retired detective Jean-Louis Schiffer to chase the serial killer. Together, they ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, realistic, serious, detective ...
Plot: uncover truth, memory loss, murder, serial killer, life is a bitch, master criminal, danger, terrorism, police detective, police officer, spy, female fighter ...
Time: 2000s
Place: france, paris france, istanbul turkey, europe, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Reversible Errors (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 173 min.
Story: A corporate lawyer's interest in a decade-old murder case is piqued by a new confession that could clear the convicted killer, who sits on death row.
Style: serious, psychological, bleak, tense, realistic ...
Plot: legal, false accusation, investigation, frame up, testimony, uncover truth, police investigation, lovers reunited, dedicated lawyer, police detective, law enforcement, fighting the system ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
He Died with His Eyes Open (1985)
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, brother sister incest ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: canada, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Archangel (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story: Set in contemporary Moscow and the frozen northern town of Archangel, the drama revisits the stark landscape of Communist Russia and takes place over four days in the life of academic Fluke Kelso. His fateful meeting with a former Stalinist ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, sensual ...
Plot: josef stalin, conspiracy, murder, prostitute, obsession, uncover truth, investigation, politics, soldier, state affairs, intrigue, missing person ...
Time: year 1953
Place: russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Rosary Murders (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A killer of Detroit clergy confesses to a priest (Donald Sutherland), who turns sleuth because he cannot tell the police.
Style: disturbing, serious, atmospheric, bleak, neo noir ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, moral dilemma, church, haunted by the past, clergy, society, uncover truth, legal, investigation, who done it ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
In the Electric Mist (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Lt. Dave Robicheaux, a detective in New Iberia, Louisiana, is trying to link the murder of a local hooker to New Orleans mobster Julie (Baby Feet) Balboni, who is co-producer of a Civil War film. At the same time, after Elrod Sykes, the star of the ...
Style: psychological, atmospheric, detective, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: police detective, police investigation, murder, ghost, uncover truth, deep south, dishonesty, life is a bitch, law enforcement, hallucination, civil war, conspiracy ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 60s, 21st century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Foyle's War (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, War
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
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Story: As WW2 rages around the world, DCS Foyle fights his own war on the home-front as he investigates crimes on the south coast of England. Foyle's War opens in southern England in the year 1940. Later series sees the retired detective working as an ...
Style: clever, serious, captivating, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: world war two, investigation, police investigation, police detective, war crime, spy, detective inspector, police, espionage, homicide detective, whodunit, murder investigation ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: england, europe, new mexico, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Chicago Joe and the Showgirl (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: During World War II, an American serviceman in London decides to impress his English girlfriend by acting as an American gangster, which soon turns deadly.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: world war two, gangster, investigation, soldier, heist, crime spree, dishonesty, criminal heroes, frame up, cons and scams, wartime life, serial killer ...
Time: 1940s
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Skeletons in the Closet (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A father suspects his son to be a murderer...or is he just paranoid and trying to cover up his own past which involves his wife being killed in a fire?
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, bleak, realistic
Plot: serial killer, murder, mind game, uncover truth, mysterious character, investigation, haunted by the past, life is a bitch, law enforcement, psychopath, who done it, protagonist as suspect ...
Place: usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Thorne: Sleepyhead (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Australia, Canada, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: Thorne Sleepyhead: follows DI Tom Thornes investigation into a mysterious serial killer. His first three victims ended up dead. His fourth was not so fortunate. Alison Willetts is unlucky to be alive. She has survived a stroke, deliberately induced ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, psychological, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, police detective, police investigation, murder, hunt down, danger, society, conspiracy, murder mystery, murder investigation, law enforcement, male protagonist ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Inspector Lavardin (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: murder, investigation, life is a bitch, uncover truth, who done it, friendship, law enforcement, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty, legal, legal investigation, mind game ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Ricochet (2011)
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, dishonesty, law enforcement, betrayal, partner, high society, danger, couples, twists and turns, deep south ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Code Name: Emerald (1985)
Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In april 1944, an allied agent is sent to France in order to rescue an "overlord" captured by the Germans. (An "overlord" is one of the few men who knew the date and place of the "D" day). To achieve this goal, he will ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot: world war two, world war, spy, revolutionary war, man on a mission, revolutionary, revolution, struggle, freedom, secret mission, espionage, secret agent ...
Time: 1940s, year 1985, year 1944, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Adversary (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Switzerland, Spain
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, rough, psychological thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, mysterious character, hidden identity, police investigation, hidden truth, dishonesty, cons and scams, deception, impostor, husband wife relationship, true crime ...
Time: year 2002, 90s, 20th century
Place: switzerland, france, europe, paris france, geneva switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
I Know What I Saw (2007)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Mourning the loss of her father, who committed suicide, Mackenzie starts having hallucinations of killing people. They seem so real that she's convinced she's been committing these crimes; however, she can find no evidence to support this. ...
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, investigation, danger, losing-it hero, serial killer, uncover truth, rivalry, dishonesty, twists and turns, suspicion, youth, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Extreme Measures (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Thriller about Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant), a British doctor working at a hospital in New York who starts making unwanted enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. The trail leads Luthan to the door of the eminent ...
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, sexy, serious ...
Plot: hospital, medical, doctor, investigation, medical research, plot twist, doctors and patients, uncover truth, cure, morgue, corruption, conspiracy ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Uprising (2001)
Genre: Drama, War
Country: USA
Duration: 177 min.
Story: Jews rise up in the Warsaw Ghetto against the Nazis in 1943.
Style: uplifting, captivating, rough, serious, political ...
Plot: holocaust, world war two, jewish ghetto, resistance, anti semitism, nazi, ghetto, heroism, rebellion, human spirit, shoah, survival ...
Time: year 2001, 1940s, year 1943, 20th century
Place: germany, warsaw poland, europe, poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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Complicity (2000)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, journalism, murder, protagonist as suspect, uncover truth, investigation, police detective, false accusation, frame up, legal, dishonesty, media ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Illustrious Corpses (1976)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A detective (inspector Rogas) is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges. During the investigation he discovers a complot that involves the Italian Communist Party. (IMDb)
Style: poliziottesco, detective, gloomy, tense, realistic ...
Plot: italian politics, conspiracy, police, politics, serial killer, rebel, trust, jazz, city, organized crime, italian mafia, murder ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.4
 76K
Child 44 (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, UK, USA, Russia, Romania
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, detective, serious, factual ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, murder mystery, child murder, stalinism, investigation, child murder investigation, murder investigation, politics, fighting the system, betrayal, justice ...
Time: 1940s, 1930s, 1950s, year 2015, 20th century ...
Place: soviet union, moscow russia, russia, ukraine, berlin germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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