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Physical Evidence (1989)
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A police officer suspended and now accused of murder is forced to join forces with his court-appointed attorney to assemble the pieces of a deadly puzzle to find the missing link before time runs out.
Style:
tense, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, false accusation, courtroom drama, police, crimes, riddles and clues, heroes, courtroom, legal action, crime, life is a bitch, legal investigation, frame up, legal, who done it, dishonesty, law enforcement, deadly, rivalry, dedicated lawyer, hotshot lawyer, protagonist as suspect, power relations, mystery, lawyer ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, europe, boston
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and tense films with plots about crimes, murder, deadly, crime, dishonesty, false accusation and legal mostly in Crime, Mystery and Drama genres. Some movies like Physical Evidence: The Advocate (2013), Deadlocked (2000), Perry Mason Returns (1985), The Lawyer (1970), Naked Lie (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A grieving defense attorney gets caught in a twisted game of who-done-it when he takes on the case of a beautiful socialite who is accused of murder.
Style:
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Time:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama, Mystery
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 ...
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Time:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When his former secretary (Barbara Hale) is accused of a murder, Perry Mason (Raymond Burr) gives up a judgeship to defend her.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, mind bending, realistic, tense
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Ken Malansky, a law student of Perry Mason's, is accused of murdering a fellow student. Perry is reluctant to take on his case as the victim was the son of a close friend.
Style:
suspenseful, witty, realistic, serious
Plot:
courtroom, murder, college, rivalry, friendship, university, false accusation, legal, power relations, deadly, dishonesty, courtroom drama ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Wilma Harrison had it all. A wealthy doctor for a husband. A big playboy for a lover. A beautiful home. And a horrible death.
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suspenseful, realistic, serious, bleak, mind bending ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
They are the perfect, and politically correct, couple. He is a judge, she is a high profile attorney. When she takes on a sensational murder case, the trail leads right to her own front door.
Style:
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Time:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Perry investigates the murder of a former madam and uncovers a multimillion dollar banking fraud in the process.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A juror on a murder case begins to believe that the man on trial is innocent of the crime - and then discovers that the real killer is her own husband.
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Perry must defend the husband of an old flame from a murder charge.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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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.
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Time:
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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 ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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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.
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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