Movies like Perfect Witness

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Perfect Witness (1989)
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Perfect Witness (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A witness to a mob killing has second thoughts about testifying when he realizes his family might become a target.
Style: psychological, tense, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
Audience: boys' night
Plot: witness, courtroom, law, kidnapping, prison, murder, restaurant, life is a bitch, rebellion, chases and races, injustice, legal, danger, law enforcement, confined, on the run, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, dedicated lawyer, power relations, gangster, blackmail, murder witness, restaurant owner, deadly ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
Keyword: gangsters

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Most similar movies to Perfect Witness

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about murder, deadly, law enforcement, dishonesty, rivalry, life is a bitch and legal mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Perfect Witness: Red Letters (2000), The Pursuit of Happiness (1971), Reversible Errors (2004), Night of the Wilding (1990), Jack Reed: One of Our Own (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Red Letters (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A college professor reluctantly hides an escaped female convict who tries to get him to help prove her innocent of a murder.
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious, tense ...
Plot: college, prison, law enforcement, dishonesty, obsession, destructive relationship, amateur detective, murder, escaped prisoner, nudity, life is a bitch, chases and races ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, mojave desert
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The Pursuit of Happiness (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: William Popper is the son of a stockbroker and is thoroughly disenchanted with "the system." So much so that even though he can prove that he ran over a woman in his car entirely by accident, he accepts a sentence for manslaughter.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, thought provoking, bleak
Plot: prison, escape, college, car accident, manslaughter, courtroom, on the run, fugitive, girlfriend, injustice, stock broker, estrangement ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, canada
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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 ...
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48%
Night of the Wilding (1990)
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Joseph Gainer is a high priced attorney, notorious for getting guilty criminals off the hook. But Gainer is forced to take another look at the price you pay for defending the guilty when he takes on a case of three young men accused of a heinous ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, disturbing, rough
Plot: gang rape, courtroom, gang, power relations, life is a bitch, dishonesty, dedicated lawyer, legal, law enforcement, legal action, rivalry, urban ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Jack Reed: One of Our Own (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Jack Reed investigates a young woman whom he and his wife take into their household when she turns out to be targeted by unknown assassins.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough
Plot: nypd, murder, law enforcement, fugitives, chases and races, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, danger, rivalry, woman in danger, true crime, fugitive ...
Time: 90s
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42%
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Breaking Point (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The Mafia tries to take revenge against a man who testified against them in court.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, vigilante, exploitation, murder, law enforcement, dishonesty, rivalry, on the run, legal, blind ambition, vengeance, criminal heroes ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: usa, philadelphia
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41%
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Good Chemistry (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, kidnapping, drug dealing, on the run, dishonesty, danger, drug abuse, chemistry, farm, confined, cons and scams, forced into action ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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41%
Across the Line: The Exodus of Charlie Wright (2010)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The story centers on Charlie, a Los Angeles billionaire financial whiz who goes into self-imposed exile in Tijuana after his empire is revealed to have been a Ponzi scheme. While looking for the woman he abandoned there 25 years before, Charlie is ...
Style: serious, exciting, captivating, tense, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, on the run, danger, rivalry, special agent, police corruption, law enforcement, vengeance, swat team, armed forces, violent content, profanity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, latin america, mexico
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40%
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Absolute Killers (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Thriller - Johnny Graham, raised by the Torino crime family after the death of his parents, is repeatedly torn between loyalty to his adoptive family and his conscience. - Edward Furlong, Grace Johnston, Meat Loaf
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, independent film
Plot: witness protection, on the run, chases and races, danger, gangster, murder, redemption, violence, woman in danger, violent content, u.s. marshal, district attorney ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Ready 2 Die (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gang, chase, murder, dishonesty, heist, profanity, gangster, disorder, on the run, crime gone awry, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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40%
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Mistrial (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.
Style: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, hostage, injustice, legal investigation, law enforcement, hotshot lawyer, murder, false accusation, legal, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
In the Shadows (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, witnessing a crime, undercover, gangster, criminal heroes, rivalry, danger, working undercover, introspection, crime gone awry, dishonesty, assassin ...
Place: usa, cuba, miami, new york, florida
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39%
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Throwdown (2014)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A young criminal defense attorney struggles with a homicide case that is not as cut and dry as it appears while battling a drinking habit. The story goes beyond the lives of those directly related to the case and shines a much needed spotlight on ...
Style: serious, captivating, psychological, tense, action adventure ...
Plot: murder, law enforcement, legal action, legal investigation, rivalry, courtroom drama, legal, hotshot lawyer, dedicated lawyer, criminal, gangster, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Witness Files (1999)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A former actress, unjustly sent to prison eight years earlier, is forced to testify against a mafia hit man.
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: witness, trial, district attorney, police detective, danger, chase, life is a bitch, chases and races, legal, law enforcement, couple relations, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Ministers (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A NYPD detective attempts to avenge the death of her father, but unwittingly becomes involved with one of his killers.
Style: tense, serious, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: vengeance, danger, rivalry, profanity, law enforcement, unlikely couple, murder, brainwashing, religious fanaticism, strong violent content, violent content, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Wild Card (2004)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young, beautiful wife cheating on her rich, older husband amidst the neon lights of Las Vegas. Four men hired to do a job, but there is a traitor in their midst. Adultery, betrayal, kidnapping and murder lead to the ultimate double cross and no ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, rough, realistic
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hostage, gangster, tough heroes, dishonesty, law enforcement, betrayal, confined, danger, woman in danger, gambling, disorder, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, nevada
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37%
Trial by Jury (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Valerie is a juror in the trail of a mob boss. When her young son's life is threatened, she has no option other than to see that justice isn't done.
Style: tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, legal investigation, who done it, lawyer, legal, gangster, law, law enforcement, society, idealism, rivalry ...
Time: year 1994, 90s, 1940s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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True Blue (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Rembrandt Macy (Tom Berenger) is a maverick cop assigned to a case where the primary evidence is a woman's hand found in a pond. Investigators identify the dead, and Macy is lead into a young woman's past. Macy's primary path to ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, intense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blackmail, murder, uncover truth, tough law enforcer, mind game, investigation, law enforcement, rivalry, police corruption, gang, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Place: usa, new york
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37%
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Maligned Mobster (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A gangster who has commited all kinds of crimes is accused to have killed his wife. As he was not the murderer in this case Perry Mason intents to find the killer...
Style: serious, realistic, mind bending, suspenseful, detective
Plot: advocate, law, intelligence agency, lawyer, murder, courtroom, gangster, dishonesty, legal action, uncover truth, investigation, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 90s
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37%
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The Gunman (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Detective Ben Simm's wife is killed, he has to learn to be both father and mother to his little girl while searching for a Vigilante that has his own sense of justice.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilantism, vigilante, investigation, vengeance, police detective, haunted by the past, serial killer, law enforcement, danger, psychopath, murder, who done it ...
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37%
An Innocent Man (1989)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Jimmie Rainwood was minding his own business when two corrupt police officers (getting an address wrong) burst into his house, expecting to find a major drug dealer. Rainwood is shot, and the officers frame him as a drug dealer. Rainwood is ...
Style: tense, suspense, intense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prison, police corruption, gang, frame up, gunfight, mistaken identity, drug dealing, law enforcement, criminal heroes, tough law enforcer, prison life, prison escape ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
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37%
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Mason defends a man he had sentenced to prison when he was an appellate-court judge. Now, 18 months after the sentencing, a new witness turns up to prove the man's innocence. Mason steps in to defend the man.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective
Plot: murder, courtroom, lawyer, advocate, intelligence agency, false accusation, frame up, legal action, courtroom drama, legal, rivalry, army investigation ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Perry Mason ventures to Paris to defend a U.S. Marine Corps Captain accused of murdering a man suspected of being a Nazi SS Officer.
Style: detective, mind bending, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: courtroom, murder, amateur detective, intelligence agency, lawyer, advocate, law, courtroom drama, false accusation, who done it, legal, private detective ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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
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37%
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Silent Witness (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Prominent defense attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend an old friend, a teacher accused of murdering one of his students. The case re-opens the heartache from Tony's own high school days, when he was a student falsely accused of ...
Style: realistic, captivating, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, courtroom drama, homecoming, courtroom, friendship, legal, lawyer, danger, rivalry, family relations, law, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Prophet's Game (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The Prophet has arrived in the ultimate playing ground... Los Angeles. It has taken an innocent childhood game and twisted it into a deadly match of wits, where the only prize is survival. Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, realistic ...
Plot: murder, riddles and clues, investigation, chases and races, vengeance, danger, obsession, death of daughter, uncover truth, ex cop, judiciary, psychopath ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Pride & Loyalty (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Jake DeMitro cannot maintain his relationship with his girlfriend Kelly Francini or concentrate on his prestigious position with the Prosecutor's Office. He suffers from an obsessive-compulsive personality and fights on a regular basis with his ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: murder, courtroom drama, introspection, hotshot lawyer, moral dilemma, injustice, life is a bitch, drug dealing, rivalry, obsession, parallel world, legal ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Marked Man (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A jailed auto mechanic must run for his life after he witnesses the murder of a fellow inmate by two prison guards.
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: frame up, murder, wrestling, chase, law enforcement, dishonesty, chases and races, on the run, life is a bitch, confined, criminal heroes, wrongfully committed ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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Deadlocked (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Portugal, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A young man is accused of rape and murder and placed on trial. His father doesn't believe that he is guilty, so in act of desperation he grabs the bailiff's guns and takes the whole jury hostage and insists that the prosecuting attorney ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: hotshot lawyer, hostage, courtroom, uncover truth, false accusation, legal action, legal investigation, injustice, price of justice, legal, dishonesty, society ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Three Blind Mice (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A lawyer defends a man he's known since serving together in Vietnam, who has been accused of murdering three Vietnamese immigrants. Now he'll have to fight against a tenacious District Attorney, and evidence connected to the man's ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: legal investigation, courtroom drama, murder, frame up, vietnam veteran, protagonist as suspect, false accusation, dishonesty, law enforcement, life is a bitch, legal action, legal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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