Movies like The Right to Remain Silent
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The Right to Remain Silent (1996)
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Bright and eager to hit the streets in search of bad guys, rookie cop Christine Paly is disappointed when she's instead assigned to process criminals. Under the supervision of a tough but likable mentor, Christine quickly learns that hers is like no other desk job in the world.
Plot:
police, rookie, police station, police officer, ku klux klan, rally, hiv, racial slur, lapd, female police officer, crossdresser, transvestite, policewoman, gun, camera, pizza delivery, drunk driving, video camera
Time:
90s, 1990s
Place:
los angeles, california
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, serious and disturbing films with plots about police, police officer, murder, police station, african american, gun and female nudity mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like The Right to Remain Silent: The Removalists (1975), Twilight: Los Angeles (2000), Bar Girls (1994), The Bus Is Coming (1971), The Famous Joe Project (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
An adaptation of David Williamson's play; John Hargreaves and Peter Cummins star as a good and bad cop who assist a battered wife as she tries to escape her belligerent husband.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
police, police corruption, brutality, marital abuse, husband wife relationship, wife, escape, married couple, cafe, domestic violence, police station, van ...
Time:
70s
Place:
australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story:
Anna Deavere Smith transforms herself into scores of individuals -- using only their words and duplicating their speech patterns, mannerisms, dress, and attitudes -- in a mosaic set in the violent aftermath of the 1992 Rodney King trial and verdict. ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
trucker, assault, interview, lawyer, real estate agent, police, african american, activist, imitation, class differences, riot, lapd ...
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
92%
595
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The life and loves of gay women hanging out at a local tavern are examined in this slice of life film.
Style:
independent film, talky, realistic, semi serious, clever ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, lgbtq, lesbian relationship, nudity, bare breasts, couples, love triangle, looking for love, nightlife, love affair, self discovery ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A young black soldier returns home to Los Angeles from combat in Vietnam to find out that his brother had been killed by a gang of racist cops. Angered, he joins a black nationalist group to take his revenge.
Style:
black cinema
Plot:
blaxploitation, vietnam war, black, racial issues, african american, soldier, vietnam veteran, murder, police, harmonica, jukebox, small town ...
Time:
70s
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Joe, in the midst of dropping out of college and coming out as gay, decides to record the everyday activities of his life on a handheld mini-video and post the clips to the internet. Soon after he begins this experiment, Joe meets Jesus, a ...
Plot:
nudity, interracial relations, gay, gay lead character, porn star, hustler, internet, gay relationship, interview, male nudity, gay interest, film within a film ...
Place:
california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An academic obsessed with "roadside attractions" and his tv-star daughter finally discover the world's largest ice cream cone, the centerpiece for an old gold-rush town struggling to stay on the map. They end up staying longer than ...
Style:
independent film, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, black comedy ...
Plot:
small town, friendship, desert, drinking, death, fire, fbi, suburbs, bomb, toxic, friends, coming of age ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Christian is a young man growing up in Hollywood who dreams of following in his father's footsteps into show business. When he meets Tony, an industry insider with "connections," he is convinced that he has found his big break -- ...
Plot:
party, police, love, sex, interracial relations, actor, poetry, fight, drug, gunshot
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In 1998, three white men in the small town of Jasper, Texas, chained a black man to the back of their pickup truck and dragged him to his death. This film relates that story and how it affected all of the residents of the town, both black and white.
Style:
disturbing, sincere, serious, realistic, freeze frame
Plot:
african american, racism, small town, investigation, fighting the system, social decay, social differences, human spirit, society, life is a bitch, murder, injustice ...
Time:
90s
Place:
austin texas, midwest, texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A wealthy businessman Perry Krohn attempts to juggle the needs of his dedicated wife, demanding mistress and grown children while facing his own certain death from lung cancer.
Style:
realistic, talky, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot:
aids, hollywood, family relations, father son relationship, terminal illness, showbiz, infidelity, family problems, dealing with death, artists and showbiz, family in crisis, family life ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Mitchell, a Vietnam veteran, returns home to Minneapolis with his girlfriend Kathy and intends to write a novel about his war experiences, but is pushed by his overbearing father into a job selling pork bellies at a commodities firm. Quickly ...
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A screenwriter befriends a washed up teen idol.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, humorous
Plot:
hollywood, disorder, dark humor, dull life, friends, love and romance, artists and showbiz, rise and fall, unfulfillment, actor's life, buddies, ambition ...
Time:
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Place:
california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
feature film written, produced by, and starring Ralph Waite (best known as John Walton, Sr., on the long-running CBS television series, "The Waltons"). The film tells the story of Sam (Donald Moffat), a recovering alcoholic who feels ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
friend, alcoholism, drunkenness, monologue, police, judge, friendship, homelessness, bum, street life, alcoholic, slum ...
Time:
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Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two Vietnam vets, Tom and Nordi, live sad lives in a crumbling New Jersey town. Sharing a one room apartment, they talk about their inability to hold down real work, struggle to get noticed at the VA and fail to connect with women. This changes for ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Three black revolutionaries gun down two New York City police officers. The subsequent investigation puts a white assistant DA and a black police detective on the trail of the killers that leads from New York to San Francisco and down to New Orleans.
Style:
crime drama
Plot:
black, police investigation, nypd, murder investigation, police officer, cop killer, racism, buddy cop, black cop, murder, police, assistant district attorney
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Robert is an art photographer who is totally controlled by his wife Hallie. When they go on vacation in New York, they leave their house to their friends, Zack and Sophie. When they return, they find their house a total mess, but Zack and Sophie ask ...
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. When his son gets involved in the anti-apartheid ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Yusaku Hayakawa dreams of becoming a detective, but works as a trainer for police dogs. When Yusaku gets an albino shepherd named Shiro, he forms a special bond with him. Everyone says that Shiro does not have the abilities to become a police dog, ...
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tense, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
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japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, gay cinema
Plot:
woman with a gun, police officer killed, revenge, tough cop, car chase, policewoman, female nudity, cartel, police officer, drug dealer, lapd, police ...
Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young policewoman is transferred from her provincial police base in Lower Saxony to a city police station in Hamburg. At first she is very happy, meeting nice colleagues and having a lot of exciting jobs to do. But then her boss comes on to her ...
Style:
suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, sadistic
Plot:
sexual harassment, psycho terror, machismo, desperation, suicide, police station, police, sexism, policewoman, violence, infidelity, society ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After an innocent country girl is violently raped, her family is killed in a car accident before she can come to terms with what happened. As her feelings of shame grow into self-degradation, she turns to prostitution
Style:
serious, realistic, sexual, independent film
Plot:
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Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
He was a violent man...trouble was--he was also a cop.
Style:
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Plot:
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39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When an L.A. cop gets called to a crime scene on his anniversary, he is forced into a shootout that leaves both a criminal and his hostage dead. Soon after, with a troubled yet clear conscience, the officer and his family go on a camping weekend. ...
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
In a drab desert town, some 200 miles south of Reno, an indecisive man with an unfaithful wife dreams of someday, someday, taking charge of his drifting life.
Style:
independent film
Plot:
rural area, bare chested male, going insane, husband wife relationship, dysfunctional marriage, gossip, motel, loneliness, wife leaves husband, loser, cheating wife, boredom ...
Place:
reno nevada
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
104
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
In the outskirts of the city, where crime is a way of life, the paths of four desperate people collide. Jordan Coleman, a local drug dealer, finds himself at a crossroads when his friend and mentor gets in too deep with a ruthless gangster and club ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
drug addiction, criminal, murder, gangster, drug, police officer, robbery, policewoman, drug dealer, junkie, diner, female police officer ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In Los Angeles, two rival gang leaders are also trying to be music producers. When DJ's equipment shorts out and Lonzo is cut out of the action by a record producer, the two join forces, which also requires a tentative peace between gangs. With ...
Style:
hood, independent film, realistic, serious, cynical ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, new orleans, california, usa, south central los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama
Country: Sudan, Sweden, Germany, Saudi Arabia, France, Egypt
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Wracked by guilt after covering up a murder, Mona — a northern Sudanese retired singer in a tense marriage — tries to make amends by taking in the deceased’s southern Sudanese widow, Julia, and her son, Daniel, into her home.
Unable to ...
Plot:
singer, police corruption, choir, death, female protagonist, husband wife relationship, school, police, murder, concert, dancing, lie ...
Time:
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Place:
sudan
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A serial killer is after hookers and strippers. A male detective and his female partner are assigned to stop him.
Style:
grindhouse, erotic, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, woman with a gun, nudity, murder, prostitute, murder of a prostitute, lesbianism, partner, violent content, strong sexual content, hollywood, partners against crime ...
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Place:
california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
25K
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, intense, rough, psychological, neo noir ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A socially inept man's amateur porn film wins him a contract with a small-time pornography distribution company, where he faces a series of moral crises and is forced to face his own porn addiction.
Style:
sensual, erotic, contemplative, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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