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Crime and Punishment (1983)
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Crime and Punishment (1983)
Original name: Rikos ja rangaistus
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions...
Style: serious, realistic, neo noir, intercultural, bleak, suspenseful
Plot: murder, guilty conscience, life is a bitch, law enforcement, down on your luck, guilt, loneliness, police, friendship, morality, friend, russian empire, loner, literary, factory worker, crime and punishment, prison, revenge, police officer, prisoner, vigilante, conscience, male female relationship, interrogation, police station ...
Time: 80s
Place: europe, finland, helsinki finland

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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, police, dishonesty, police investigation and vengeance mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Crime and Punishment: The Match Factory Girl (1990), So Long, Stooge (1983), Lights in the Dusk (2006), Brass (1985), The Young Lieutenant (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Match Factory Girl (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 69 min.
Story: Iris (Kati Outinen) has a soul-deadening job as a quality-control worker watching boxes of matches go by on an assembly line all day. At night, she eats silently with her dour mother (Elina Salo) and stepfather (Esko Nikkari). One weekend, wearing ...
Style: bleak, serious, art house, disturbing, atmospheric ...
Plot: working class, loneliness, murder, character study, redemption, pregnancy, parent child relationship, mother daughter relationship, unwanted pregnancy, young woman, bullying, revenge ...
Time: 80s, year 1990, 90s, year 1989
Place: finland, helsinki finland
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95%
So Long, Stooge (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Lambert, a burned-out case, works the night shift at a gas station, rarely speaking, living alone, drinking. Bensoussan, raised in foster homes, now a small-time pusher for a bar owner named Rashid, comes to the station needing a spark plug for a ...
Style: neo noir, noir, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: drug addiction, female nudity, anarchist, revenge, motorcycle, drug dealing, haunted by the past, punk rock, law enforcement, police investigation, life is a bitch, vengeance ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Lights in the Dusk (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany, France, Italy, Sweden
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Koistenin is a sad sack, a man without affect or friends. He's a night-watchman in Helsinki with ideas of starting his own business, but nothing to go with those intentions. He sometimes talks a bit with a woman who runs a snack trailer near ...
Style: bleak, melancholic, sincere, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: existentialism, betrayal, down on your luck, loneliness, femme fatale, night watchman, cons and scams, misfit, gem, regret, homeless, loser ...
Time: 90s, 21st century
Place: finland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Brass (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The Chief of Detectives of the New York Police Department, is a tough cop who has worked his way up the ladder from being on a beat.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, detective
Audience: boys' night
Plot: kidnapping, partner, police detective, society, fighting crime, police investigation, partners against crime, amateur detective, dishonesty, law enforcement, murder, police station ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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The Young Lieutenant (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, neo noir, captivating ...
Plot: alcohol abuse, policewoman, murder investigation, female boss, job, workplace situations, police officer, police academy, homicide, recovering alcoholic, law enforcement, investigation ...
Time: year 2005, 2000s
Place: france, paris france, europe, nice france
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The Girls of April (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Tough Finnish detective Jussi Vares gets hired by a friend at a newspaper to investigate a 15 year old mystery regarding the disappearance of 3 girls.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak, rough
Plot: private detective, missing person, private investigator, law enforcement, journalism, murder, violence against women, mysticism, bookstore, dead woman, serial killer, stray cat ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Onion Field (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Greg Powell, a disturbed ex-con, recruits Jimmy Youngblood (Smith) a petty thief, as partner in crime. Powell panics when they two of are pulled over by two cops for tail lights. Powell decides to kidnap the cops and Smith goes along with his crazy ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: courtroom drama, murder, police investigation, true crime, legal, moral ambiguity, manipulation, brutality, courtroom, trial, law enforcer killer, haunted by the past ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979, 60s, year 1963
Place: los angeles, california, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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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 ⇓
53%
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Bloodlines (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: After Elaine Hopkin is found dead, apparent an OD suicide, her firstborn Mark wouldn't even inform his dad James Hopkin, who was locked up for murder. Kid sister Justine, a cocky uniformed cop, goes visit him, only to learn he was just ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough
Plot: investigation, murder, dishonesty, intrigue, rivalry, law enforcement, danger, righting the wronged, parents and children, police, family relations, ritual ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Moreno and the Silence (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When a girl is murdered soon after leaving a closed religious community, Moreno faces a difficult investigation as the community closes ranks and refuses to cooperate. When another girl is abducted and her bloody fingernails mailed to the police, ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: murder, police investigation, partner, kidnapping, private detective, society, law enforcement, religions or cults, nypd, police procedural, fictional country, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Jesse Stone: No Remorse (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Police Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, by investigating a series of murders in Boston, leaving Rose and Suitcase to handle a crime spree in ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Plot: murder, jesse stone, investigation, law enforcement, police investigation, small town, murder investigation, serial killer, die hard, secret service, cop, chief of police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, boston, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Fighter (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
Style: neo noir, tense, exciting, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, murder, ex convict, female pubic hair, diamond, dishonesty, law enforcement, criminal heroes, vengeance, chase, criminal's revenge, on the run ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Vares: Gambling Chip (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Jussi Vares falls in love with a beautiful brunette - only to lose her in a horrible way. After dating Sole a few weeks, her body is found in a bird-watching tower. The investigations come to a standstill, until Vares promises to solve a mystery of ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending
Plot: hitman, private detective, danger, love and romance, fall in love, investigation, law enforcement, murder investigation, assassin, private investigator, missing person, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Ginostra (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: An FBI Agent from America and his bride and young child travel to the Sicilian island of Ginostra to solve the murder of a key witness.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, island, orphan, life is a bitch, investigation, law enforcement, coming of age, sexual content, family in danger, dishonesty, danger, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, sicily, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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Straight Time (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After being released on parole, a burglar attempts to go straight, get a regular job, and just go by the rules. He soon finds himself back in jail at the hands of a power-hungry parole officer.
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, psychological, thought provoking ...
Plot: prison, parole officer, robbery, bank robbery, murder, friendship, crime gone awry, going straight, dishonesty, life is a bitch, bank, betrayal ...
Time: 20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place: beverly hills, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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8-Ball (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 107 min.
Story: 8-Ball tells the story of single mother Pike who, having just been released from prison, is trying to start her life anew. When her former boyfriend Lalli comes back from abroad, it opens a window into a past that Pike wants to put behind her.
Style: serious, realistic, sincere, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot: hopes, drug addict, starting over, going straight, one more chance, haunted by the past, family relations, single parent, parents and children, love, jail, motherhood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
A Killing Affair (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Peter Weller (Robocop) stars as Baton Morris, a drifter suspected of murder, in this crime drama. A widow (Kathy Baker) living in West Virginia takes in the man (Weller) whom she believes murdered her husband. As she spends more time with him, she ...
Style: independent film, suspense, neo noir, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: mountain, collision, widow, murder, drifter, small town, underdog, intrigue, danger, vengeance, rivalry, fall in love ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
Place: west virginia, virginia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 5.7
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Cement (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: What's the bond between partners, between brothers, and between spouses? In L.A., Bill Holt handcuffs Sean Rickhart inside a rebar frame for a freeway pillar at a construction site; Bill's going to bury Sean in quick-drying cement. Guided ...
Style: neo noir, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, gangster, criminal's revenge, life is a bitch, rivalry, criminal heroes, law enforcement, dishonesty, police investigation, drug dealing, addiction, showbiz ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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A Short Film About Killing (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jacek climbs into the taxi driven by Waldemar, tells him to drive to a remote location, then brutally strangles him, seemingly without motive.
Style: disturbing, bleak, contemplative, social, psychological ...
Plot: lawyer, murder, prison, execution, death, dialogue, politics, fighting the system, legal, death row, unrequited love, trial ...
Time: year 1988, 80s, year 1987
Place: poland, eastern europe, warsaw poland
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Crown Witness (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A movie by Jon Lindström
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: police investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, missing person, twists and turns, murder, childlessness, missing girl, courtroom, scientist, unfaithfulness, girl ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Kojak: Ariana (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: One of Kojak's old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York detective. Meanwhile, Kojak finds himself a brash young associate.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty, clever ...
Plot: tough law enforcer, law enforcement, fighting crime, police investigation, who done it, urban, riddles and clues, murder, police, criminal, city, reunion
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
See How They Fall (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Two years before, Marx, an old gambler, met Frederic, a young man that does not look very smart and started to ...
Style: disturbing, realistic, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lgbt, vigilantism, murder, obsessive quest, midlife crisis, danger, vengeance, rivalry, dark humor, law enforcement, friendship, amateur detective ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Three Walls (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Three men are on death row. Jaggu (Jackie Shroff), a lawyer and a poet, is serving a sentence for murdering his wife because she was cheating on him with another man. Nagya (Nagesh Kukunoor), a man angry with the whole world, is arrested for ...
Style: serious, contemplative, tense, bleak, touching ...
Plot: prison, introspection, prison life, criminal heroes, hopes, redemption, twists and turns, murder, death row, family problems, prisoner, escaped prisoner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Carambole (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 102 min.
Story: This film is based upon the book with the same name, by HÃ¥kan Nesser, one of Swedens most appreciated "crime-authors".
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: hit and run, murder, life turned upside down, investigation, uncover truth, law enforcement, private detective, blackmail, doctor, european, serial killer, nypd ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Man on the Balcony (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A serial-killer attacks and murders young girls in the parks of Stockholm. The police have trouble finding any evidence to find the killer. But when a newsstand is robbed in one of the parks while the murderer strikes again, police inspector Martin ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, bleak, realistic
Plot: serial killer, child murder investigation, child murder, law enforcement, dishonesty, murder, vigilante, police, criminal heroes, dead children, sex maniac, dead child ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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 ⇓
36%
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Hard Choices (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A teenaged boy goes for a ride with his brother and the brother's friends, who proceed to rob a store and murder the clerk. They are caught and, despite the young boy's protestations, he is convicted of murder and sent to prison. A female ...
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: prison, escape, on the run, murder, kids in trouble, drug dealing, love and romance, law enforcement, fall in love, youth, chases and races, society ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa, tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.5
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Borkmann's Point (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Van Veeteren finds retiring from the police force is easier said than done when two decapitated bodies are found in quick succession. The matching MO in the two grisly murders brings the investigation teams of Maardam and Kaalbringen together - a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, realistic
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, partners against crime, partner, murder, private detective, law enforcement, nypd, police procedural, fictional country, deadly, decapitated body
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Blue City (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Returning to the small Florida town where he grew up, Billy Turner (Nelson) learns that his father has been killed. With little help from the police, Billy will take matters into his own hands and go up against a ruthless local mob boss in a ...
Style: serious, realistic, clever, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: brat pack, teenager, friendship, investigation, small town life, teenage life, murder, small town, parents and children, homecoming, family relations, kids in trouble ...
Time: 80s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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