Movies like The Reckoning 2003

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The Reckoning (2003)
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The Reckoning (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: In 14th Century England, this tale of murder and mystery follows a fugitive priest who falls in with a troupe of actors. As they Arrive in a small town, the actors encounter a woman bing sentenced to death for practicing witchcraft and murder. Discarding the expected bible stories, the actors stage a performance based on the crime. Through the performance of the play, they discover a mystery.
Style: atmospheric, scenic, stylized, psychological, bleak, costume drama, suspense, perverse, serious, realistic ...
Plot: medieval, murder, investigation, art, justice, brutality, culture clash, twists and turns, priest, monk, society, theatrical troupe, village, infidelity, life is a bitch, fugitives, clergy, actor's life, mute or deaf, small town life, dishonesty, religions or cults, witchcraft, supernatural ability, secret ...
Time: medieval times, middle ages, 14th century, year 2002
Place: england, europe, spain
Keyword: english

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Most similar movies to The Reckoning

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about murder, investigation, deadly, dishonesty, twists and turns, death and life is a bitch mostly in Drama, Mystery and Crime genres. Some movies like The Reckoning: The Name of the Rose (1986), Mystery!: Cadfael (1994), Gosford Park (2001), The Advocate (1993), Calvary (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Name of the Rose (1986)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Italy, France
Duration: 130 min.
Story: 14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference to find that several monks have been murdered under mysterious circumstances. To solve the crimes, William must rise up against the Church's ...
Style: intellectual, psychological, suspenseful, gloomy, clever ...
Plot: investigation, clergy, medieval, monastery, monk, murder mystery, murder, religion, whodunit, riddles and clues, uncover truth, abbey ...
Time: middle ages, 14th century, medieval times, year 1986, ancient times
Place: europe, south of france, france, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mystery!: Cadfael (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 983 min.
TV show
Story: Cadfael is the name given to the TV series of The Cadfael Chronicles adaptations produced by British television company ITV Central between 1994 and 1998. The series was broadcast on the ITV network in the UK, and starred Sir Derek Jacobi as the ...
Style: detective, serious, historical drama, costume drama, contemplative ...
Plot: monk, investigation, monastery, medieval, priest, clergy, murder, riddles and clues, murder investigation, male protagonist, religious, asexual ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 20th century, 12th century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Red Riding: The Year of Our Lord 1974 (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: It's Yorkshire in 1974, and fear, mistrust and institutionalised police corruption are running riot. Rookie journalist Eddie Dunford is determined to search for the truth in an increasingly complex maze of lies and deceit surrounding the police ...
Style: neo noir, bleak, suspenseful, detective, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, murder mystery, investigation, journalism, police brutality, conspiracy, strangulation, brutality, justice, violence, journalist ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 2009, year 1974
Place: yorkshire, england, britain, northern england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Faced with two false confessions and numerous suspects after a despised civil magistrate is found shot in the local vicarage, Detective Inspector Slack reluctantly accepts help from Miss Marple.
Style: detective, sexual, clever, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Plot: whodunit, murder, village, church, amateur detective, poacher, who done it, twists and turns, riddles and clues, village life, dishonesty, uncover truth ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Gosford Park (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Multiple storylined drama set in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in a country house in England.
Style: suspense, period piece, biting, detective, costume drama ...
Plot: murder, country estate, society, estate, high society, murder investigation, murder mystery, butler, servant, twists and turns, unrequited love, hunting ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1932, pre world war two, year 2001 ...
Place: england, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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The Advocate (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Bizarre black comedy about 15th-century Paris lawyer Richard Courtois (Firth) who decides to ply his trade in the country, only to find things stranger than he can imagine. His first case turns out to be defending a pig that's accused of ...
Style: tense, stylized, intense, realistic, clever ...
Plot: medieval, courtroom drama, investigation, murder, french countryside, prejudice, lawyer, twists and turns, disorder, legal, society, pig ...
Time: medieval times, 15th century, middle ages, year 1993
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.4
 64K
Calvary (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: After he is threatened during a confession, a good-natured priest must battle the dark forces closing in around him.
Style: meditative, atmospheric, psychological, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot: death threat, confession, priest, catholic priest, small town, existentialism, death, character study, clergy, catholic church, human nature, goodhearted ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
22%
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Dogville (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Netherlands, Sweden, Germany, UK, France, Finland, Norway, Italy
Duration: 178 min.
Story: A barren soundstage is stylishly utilized to create a minimalist small-town setting in which a mysterious woman named Grace hides from the criminals who pursue her. The town is two-faced and offers to harbor Grace as long as she can make it worth ...
Style: art house, psychological, bleak, cerebral, thought provoking ...
Plot: rape, society, twists and turns, female protagonist, morality, rocky mountains, victim, vengeance, haunted by the past, brutality, storytelling, gangster ...
Time: 1930s, year 2003, 90s, year 2004, near future ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.8
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Father Brown (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 52 min.
TV show
Story: Father Brown is based on G. K. Chesterton's detective stories about a Catholic priest who doubles as an amateur detective in order to try and solve mysteries.
Style: serious, captivating, intellectual, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: investigation, who done it, amateur detective, clergy, danger, murder, uncover truth, priest, riddles and clues, friendship, social relations, law enforcement ...
Time: 50s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Deceiver (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can ...
Style: surprise ending, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot: murder, police investigation, twists and turns, investigation, guilt, law enforcement, prostitute, brutality, rivalry, dishonesty, secret, lie ...
Time: 20th century, year 1997, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Blood (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Thriller charting the moral collapse of a police family. Two cop brothers, smothered by the shadow of their former police chief father, must investigate a crime they themselves have committed.
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, psychological, detective ...
Plot: investigation, police, murder, secret, moral dilemma, lie, guilt, police brutality, island, law enforcement, haunted by the past, family relations ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Malice Aforethought (2005)
Genre: Mystery, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Dr. Edmund Bickleigh is married to a particularly overbearing woman who reminds him at every turn that he is living in her house. But the good doctor has outside interests to help him cope.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: investigation, mysterious character, unhappy marriage, crumbling marriage, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, rivalry, obsession, danger, serial killer, couple relations, infidelity ...
Time: future, 1920s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Mississippi Burning (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Two FBI agents investigating the murder of civil rights workers during the 60s seek to breach the conspiracy of silence in a small Southern town where segregation divides black and white. The younger agent trained in FBI school runs up against the ...
Style: suspense, political, disturbing, realistic, political thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: racism, small town, civil rights, african american, police, ku klux klan, investigation, murder, deep south, racial slur, discrimination, violence ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1988, year 1964
Place: mississippi, america, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Walker (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An escort who caters to Washington D.C.'s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case.
Style: serious, suspenseful, contemplative, tense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, lobbyist, investigation, politics, hypocrisy, state affairs, dishonesty, law enforcement, twists and turns, false accusation, conspiracy, lgbt ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, washington d.c., virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Feast of July (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: After an abandoned young woman in late 19th Century England is taken in by a rural couple with three handsome sons, tragic consequences result.
Style: stylized, talky, realistic, tense, serious ...
Plot: pregnancy, dysfunctional family, soldier, family relations, tragic hero, couple relations, love triangle, down on your luck, wartime life, love and romance, parents and children, family life ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: england, britain, europe, dublin ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Agatha Christie's Miss Marple: Sleeping Murder (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Australia, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: When a young bride moves into a country manor, long repressed childhood memories of witnessing a murder come to the surface.
Style: detective, spooky, mind bending, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: amateur detective, investigation, riddles and clues, whodunit, mysticism, murder, witnessing a crime, estate, twists and turns, a vision, haunted by the past, manor ...
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
The Weight of Water (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an ...
Style: sexy, psychological, tricky, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: investigation, murder, infidelity, dangerous attraction, incest, women, amateur detective, family problems, couples, sexual relations, isolation, photograph ...
Time: 19th century, 90s, 1870s, 2000s, victorian era
Place: maine, new hampshire, europe, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Murder on the Orient Express (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Genius Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an American tycoon aboard the Orient Express train.
Style: detective, surprise ending, suspense, artsy, clever ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: murder mystery, whodunit, investigation, train, murder, vengeance, snow, private detective, twists and turns, conspiracy, suspect, deduction ...
Time: 1930s, year 2017, 2010s, year 1934, 1920s ...
Place: turkey, alps, venice, former yugoslavia, istanbul turkey ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
10%
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Day of Wrath (2006)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Hungary
Duration: 109 min.
Story: At the height of the Spanish Inquisition, high-ranking noblemen begin dropping like flies, with alarming frequency and unexplained violence. But can local 16th-century sheriff Ruy de Mendoza (Christopher Lambert) discern who's responsible when ...
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, serious, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot: serial killer, medieval, anti semitism, love triangle, murder, investigation, life is a bitch, dishonesty, rivalry, family secret, catholic, legion ...
Time: medieval times, 16th century, middle ages
Place: spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Zift (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Bulgaria
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Moth is freed on parole after spending time in prison on wrongful conviction of murder. Jailed shortly before the Bulgarian communist coup of 1944, he now finds himself in a new and alien world - the totalitarian Sofia of the 60s. His first night of ...
Style: neo noir, bleak, atmospheric, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot: dark humor, sex, dictatorship, jail, prison, injustice, fish out of water, society, confined, misfit, life is a bitch, perky breasts ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, year 1944
Place: europe, bulgaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Unnatural Causes (1993)
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, mind bending, tense, psychological ...
Plot: mysticism, murder, legal investigation, law enforcement, danger, obsession, dishonesty, private detective, police investigation, amateur detective, reluctant partners, obsessive quest ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Before and After (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.
Style: suspense, melancholic, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot: small town, murder, accidental death, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder investigation, courtroom drama, investigation, parents and children, teenage life, lawyer, family problems, dysfunctional family ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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We Still Kill the Old Way (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.
Style: poliziottesco, neo noir, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: police, mafia, italian mafia, investigation, love triangle, gangster, violent content, danger, dishonesty, society, amateur detective, fighting the system ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: italy, sicily, europe, palermo italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.7
 71K
Mother (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, disturbing ...
Plot: investigation, murder, revenge, family relations, determination, amateur detective, uncover truth, murder mystery, asian, mother, mentally challenged, character study ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.3
 193
The Quarry (1998)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France, Netherlands, Spain
Duration: 112 min.
Story: This thriller investigates the mysterious assassination of a gay pastor in rural South Africa. Without witnesses or explanations, the crime appears to the police and others as a jigsaw puzzle without enough pieces. The police then suspect and arrest ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, gloomy, suspenseful ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, escape, small town, interracial relations, mistaken identity, gay subtext, violent content, disorder, religions or cults, clergy, society ...
Time: 90s
Place: south africa, belgium, europe, holland, canada ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Shepherds and Butchers (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: South Africa, USA, Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A lawyer takes on a case of a prison guard in South Africa who is traumatized by the executions he's witnessed.
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: death penalty, courtroom, death sentence, life & death, executioner, life is a bitch, culture clash, lifestyle, brutality, redemption, hopes, society ...
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.8
 4K
The Monk (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A well respected monk, Capucino Ambrosio compromises himself with his carnal lust for a pupil, a woman disguised as a monk (Matilda), she tempts the monk to transgress and he is soon found desiring another, the innocent Antonia. Matilda uses magic ...
Style: gothic, psychological, atmospheric, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: monastery, nun, murder, femme fatale, temptation, seduction, downfall, lust, confession, life is a bitch, religions or cults, male nudity ...
Time: 17th century, middle ages, 18th century
Place: spain, madrid, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Face of an Angel (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: journalism, murder investigation, murder, filmmaking, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, justice, innocence, delusion, forensics, interview, writers, secrets ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, europe, baltimore, florence, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.5
 58K
Tell No One (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, detective, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, murder, serial killer, frame up, twists and turns, torture, loss of wife, surveillance, brutality, grief, corpse, disappearance ...
Time: year 2006, 90s, 2000s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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