Movies like Perfect Witness
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Perfect Witness (1989)
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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, kidnapping, prison, gangsters, murder, restaurant, life is a bitch, rebellion, injustice, legal, law enforcement, confined, on the run, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, dedicated lawyer, power relations, blackmail, murder witness, restaurant owner, chases and races, danger, deadly, woman shot ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and rough films with plots about murder, deadly, rivalry, law enforcement, dishonesty, danger and gangsters mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Perfect Witness: Night of the Wilding (1990), Reversible Errors (2004), Breaking Point (1976), Jack Reed: One of Our Own (1995), Good Chemistry (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, 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 ...
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Plot:
gangsters, track down, on the run, rivalry, special agents, police corruption, law enforcement, vengeance, swat team, armed forces, graphic violence, survival ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles, latin america, mexico
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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:
realistic, serious, rough, disturbing
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courtroom, gang, gang rape, power relations, law enforcement, rivalry, dedicated lawyer, legal, dishonesty, legal action, life is a bitch, city life ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new york
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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.
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serious, psychological, bleak, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
legal, false accusation, investigation, frame up, uncover truth, police investigation, lovers reunited, testimony, haunted by the past, state affairs, rebellion, life is a bitch ...
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84%
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:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, mafia, exploitation, murder, gang, dishonesty, on the run, witnessing a crime, legal, rebellion, law enforcement, rivalry ...
Time:
70s
Place:
usa, philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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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:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
nypd, murder, woman in danger, dishonesty, law enforcement, rivalry, witnessing a crime, fugitives, corruption, police, runaway, true crime ...
Time:
90s
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66%
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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, on the run, drug dealing, dishonesty, drug abuse, suspense, chemistry, graphic violence, farm, confined, forced into action ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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:
serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, undercover, witnessing a crime, gangsters, working undercover, introspection, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, rivalry, dishonesty, chase, vengeance ...
Place:
usa, miami, florida, new york
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59%
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:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot:
on the run, witness protection, gangsters, redemption, murder, violence, woman in danger, graphic violence, u.s. marshal, district attorney, new identity, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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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, false accusation, murder, law enforcement, hotshot lawyer, legal investigation, who done it, police corruption, legal action ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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, rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
chase, gang, murder, dishonesty, heist, disorder, on the run, crime gone awry, law enforcement, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, gangsters ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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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, psychological, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
rivalry, legal action, murder, legal investigation, law enforcement, legal, dedicated lawyer, courtroom drama, hotshot lawyer, criminal, power relations, gangsters ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
vengeance, rivalry, law enforcement, murder, unlikely couple, suspense, religious fanaticism, brainwashing, gangsters, murderous pair, romancing a criminal, strong violent content ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
district attorney, witness, police detective, law enforcement, on the run, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, chase, legal, life is a bitch, couple relations, woman in danger ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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:
suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot:
murder, courtroom, intelligence agency, lawyer, frame up, false accusation, courtroom drama, righting the wronged, who done it, life is a bitch, legal investigation, rivalry ...
Time:
80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
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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 ...
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Plot:
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Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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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 ...
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boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A group of thieves attempt to rob an art gallery, but when plans backfire and one of the men winds up dead, the group head down south, running afoul of the law. Along the way, they meet up with a seductive con artist with ideas of her own.
Style:
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boys' night
Plot:
heist, art theft, murder, gangsters, on the road, cons and scams, on the run, partners, law enforcement, dishonesty, rivalry, misfit partners ...
Time:
90s
Place:
boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Boston Strangler: The Untold Story is an intense true-crime thriller about Albert De Salvo, a wise cracking, small time criminal with an unrelenting sex drive, who ultimately falsely confesses to being the strangler that wreaked havoc in Boston ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
"Breaking Point" is a dramatic tale of corruption and self-realization, in which one man has to overcome a deep seeded conspiracy and his own lingering past in order to gain the redemption he desires.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
usa, new york
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42%
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, tense, suspenseful, serious, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Time:
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38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A psychological thriller that takes you through the mind of convicted killer, Michael Raine, and his experiences on death row. Was he guilty of killing his girlfriend or was he a victim of a conspiracy to frame him for a crime he didn't commit? ...
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Eighteen-year-old Amy is having a bad day. Not only has she been kidnapped by a deranged gunman, but as a diabetic without her insulin, her chances of survival are diminishing with each tick of the clock. FBI agent Megan Saunders isn't walking ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Forced to work under slave-like conditions in a "prison for profit" program, the inmates of a mostly-African-American female prison, Whitehead Correctional, try to take over the institution. At the core of the story is Frances, who finds ...
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