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Drishyam (2013)
 8.3
 44K
Drishyam (2013)
Original name: ദൃശ്യം
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story: Georgekutty lives a happy life with his wife and daughters. Things take a turn when his daughter gets indecently filmed using a hidden camera, by the son of a police inspector.
Style: suspense, twisted, tense, suspenseful, suspense thriller, captivating, psychological thriller, surprise ending, epic, entertaining ...
Plot: family in danger, police investigation, family relations, police, murder, twists and turns, obsession, parents and children, law enforcement, family in crisis, life turned upside down, blackmail, murder mystery, who done it, plot twist, great escape, death, hidden camera, false evidence, family problems, dishonesty, criminal heroes, unlikely criminals, police officer, investigation ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: india

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, suspenseful and serious films with plots about murder, investigation, police, police investigation, plot twist, bollywood and murder mystery mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Drishyam: The Sight (2015), Talvar (2015), Sheep Without a Shepherd (2019), Evaru (2019), Perfect Sisters (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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 8.4
 41K
Drishyam 2 (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min.
Story: 7 years after the events of Drishyam, the family lives with the trauma from that fateful night. A gripping tale of an investigation and a family threatened by it. Will Georgekutty be able to protect his family this time?
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, twisted
Plot: investigation, dysfunctional family, family secret, father daughter relationship, neighbor, husband wife relationship, neighbor neighbor relationship, family relations, fish out of water, family problems, secret, criminal ...
Time: 2020s
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
 93K
The Sight (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 163 min.
Story: A simple, street-smart man tries to protect his family from a tough cop looking for his missing son.
Style: suspense, mind blowing, captivating, tense, suspense thriller ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick
Plot: murder, police, investigation, pursuit, accident, blackmail, great ending, danger, family relations, travel, rape, murder mystery ...
Time: year 2015, 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.1
 38K
Talvar (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story: A hardened cop deals with three conflicting perspectives involving a brutal double murder. The case is complicated as the prime suspects are the parents who supposedly killed their teenage daughter.
Style: suspense, suspense thriller, social, captivating, tense ...
Plot: murder, investigation, police detective, twists and turns, suspect, police, crime scene, domestic servant, planting evidence, danger, plot twist, murder mystery ...
Time: year 2015, year 2008
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Sheep Without a Shepherd (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Li Weijie, his wife Ayu and their two daughters Pingping and An-an, are a Chinese family living in northern Thailand since last 17 years. Weijie run an internet service providing shop and is a film enthusiast who likes to watch detective films and ...
Style: bleak, psychological thriller, serious, suspenseful, brutal ...
Plot: investigation, emotional blackmail, teenage rape, police investigation, blackmail, family relations, fighting the system, crime investigation, immigrant, physical abuse, suspicion of murder, aggression ...
Place: china, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 8.1
 7K
Evaru (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 118 min.
Story: When a high-ranking police officer is killed by his alleged rape victim, Sub-inspector Vikram Vasudev is entrusted with investigating what seems like an open-and-shut case. However, as he delves deeper, Vikram finds the case spiralling into a dark ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, rough, disturbing, suspense ...
Plot: murder, murder mystery, rape victim, murder investigation, murderer, police detective, police investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, death, evidence, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Perfect Sisters (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Tired of their mother's alcoholism and a string of her abusive boyfriends, two sisters plot to kill her.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, intellectual ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: teenager, murder, juvenile delinquency, teenage life, family relations, youth, rumor, investigation, girl, crime investigation, police investigation, murder investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: toronto ontario canada, canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 12K
Mom (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: The bliss of a biology teacher’s family life in Delhi is shattered when her daughter, Arya is physically assaulted by Jagan and gang. Does Devki Sabarwal wait for the law to take its course? Or does Devki become Maa Durga and hunt down the ...
Style: bleak, touching, dark, tense, suspense
Audience: chick flick
Plot: rape victim, police, rape, trial, teenage girl, aggression, stepmother, family relations, relationship problems, family problems, vigilantism, women ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 8.2
 5K
Drushyam (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Rambabu, a cable operator, lives with his beloved wife Jyothi and two daughters. One day, his family inadvertently gets involved in a grave crime and he must go to great lengths to protect them.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, twisted ...
Plot: family relations, hidden truth, life turned upside down, police investigation, family in crisis, police corruption, law enforcement, unlikely criminals, danger, dishonesty, parents and children, family problems ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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 6.5
 2K
Innocence (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A lawyer tries to prove her mother’s innocence and uncover the secrets of a small village with the help of the local mayor. Her mother was accused of murder after the rice wine was poisoned at her husband’s funeral, but she is suffering from ...
Style: intense, psychological, suspense, tense, compassionate
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lawyer, court, alzheimer's disease, false accusation, investigation, family bonds, family in crisis, memory loss, parenthood, family relations, terminal illness, parents and children ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.1
 170
Angels (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Hameem Haider (Indrajith) is a police officer who meets with an accident while investigating a series of murders and is forced to take a break from his duties. Years later the unsolved murders are picked up by a reality TV show.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing
Plot: police, priest, serial killer, medical research, investigation, murder investigation, murder, partner, death, who done it, murderer, escapades ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 8.0
 8K
Memories (2013)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min.
Story: Sam Alex, an ex-police officer, resorts to alcohol to ease the pain of his family loss. His life turns around when he is called to investigate a series of murders executed in a similar fashion.
Style: suspense, suspense thriller, tense, slasher, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, revenge, alcoholic, murder mystery, police, police officer, violent, obsession, brutality, psychopath, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 8.4
 9K
Papanasam (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 179 min.
Story: A cinephile tries to protect his family by hiding a heat-of-the-moment murder committed by his daughter by taking cues from the films he has watched. With the victim the son of a cop, can he get away with it?
Style: disturbing, captivating, suspense, suspense thriller
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, murder, husband wife relationship, father daughter relationship, criminal, family problems, life is a bitch, social problems, plot twist, innocence, revenge ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Dhuruvangal Pathinaaru (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A former cop looks back on the case which left him disabled and forced him to quit the force.
Style: suspense, suspense thriller, tense, captivating, intense ...
Plot: investigation, murder mystery, police, murder, serial killer, murder investigation, police officer, constable, crime solving, police investigation, crime investigation, uncover truth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 7.9
 23K
Ugly (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A team of the best cops in Mumbai is dispatched to find a girl who has gone missing from her father's car. As the hunt for the kidnapper begins, fingers suspiciously point to closer home.
Style: suspenseful, tense, realistic, serious, suspense thriller ...
Plot: kidnapping, missing child, parents and children, danger, couple relations, life is a bitch, investigation, ex husband ex wife relationship, police, child, murder, cosa nostra ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, mumbai india, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 8.2
 50K
Vikram Vedha (2017)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 147 min.
Story: A notorious gangster Vedha surrenders himself to encounter specialist Vikram whom he challenges every step of the way by narrating his life events in the form of riddles that needs to be solved in order to capture him.
Style: suspense, suspense thriller, serious, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, showdown, betrayal, murder, death, moral dilemma, police, danger, police investigation, brutality, crime scene ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Train: Some Lines Should Never Be Crossed... (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Vishal Dixit leads an ordinary life with his wife and daughter but his once idyllic marriage is crumbling. When he meets a beautiful married woman en route to work on the train, it sparks a torrid adulterous affair. Vishal soon finds that an ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, surprise ending ...
Plot: couples, infidelity, murder, love and romance, couple relations, family problems, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, disorder, danger, life turned upside down, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.2
 913
True Blue (2001)
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 ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, suspense, intense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blackmail, murder, uncover truth, tough law enforcer, mind game, investigation, law enforcement, rivalry, police corruption, gang, life is a bitch, dishonesty ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.5
 12K
Lucifer (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 175 min.
Story: In God's own country, the supreme leader of the ruling party dies, leaving a huge vacuum, not only in the electoral and leadership sphere of the party but also that of the state. In the inevitable succession squabble and the power struggle that ...
Style: serious, exciting, suspenseful, tense, political ...
Plot: politics, fight, revenge, murder, betrayal, police officer, husband wife relationship, violence, family relations, fire, father daughter relationship, father son relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Interview (1998)
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A duel between a suspected murderer and a detective pressed by people who want results. But whose skin is really wanted.
Style: clever, suspense, dark, independent film, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, obsession, plot twist, police, police investigation, mind game, psychology, police station, nypd, politics, life changing, supernatural horror ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.1
 20K
64 Squares (2016)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 103 min.
Story: 'Wazir' is a tale of two unlikely friends, a wheelchair-bound chess grandmaster and a brave ATS officer. Brought together by grief and a strange twist of fate, the two men decide to help each other win the biggest games of their lives. But ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot: chess, murder, friendship, race against time, police, father daughter relationship, revenge, twists and turns, murder mystery, conspiracy, shootout, interrogation ...
Place: kashmir
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.2
 218K
Fracture (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of ...
Style: suspense, psychological, intellectual, twist ending, psychological thriller ...
Plot: twists and turns, courtroom drama, lawyer, murder, adultery, manipulation, investigation, murder mystery, mind game, obsession, perfect crime, police investigation ...
Time: year 2007, 20th century, 1900s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, persia, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
As Seen by the Rest (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min.
Story: Malpe, a small fishing town on the Arabian Coast. Located 6 kms to the west of the temple town, Udupi. Malpe's beaches are washed clean everyday by the sea. The waves ensure that nothing gets left behind on the sands. But then, the waves cannot ...
Style: kannada, realistic, humorous, semi serious, stylized ...
Plot: criminal heroes, love and romance, journalism, disorder, twists and turns, parents and children, family relations, uncover truth, murder, memory, murder mystery, fall in love ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.9
 2K
Grandmaster (2012)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Chandrashekhar lives alone in a dark and violent city. Even with crime occurring all around him, he withdraws from all responsibility and lives quietly. Soon, change is forced upon him in order to catch a serial killer. Like a grandmaster who ...
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, suspense, suspense thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, chess, police detective, law enforcement, rivalry, police, murder, danger, police officer, genius, whodunit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Perfect Number (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Based on the series by the popular Japanese novelist Keigo Higashino, this is a mystery drama that 'faithfully but freely' adapts the 3rd part in the series, . The story revolves around 3 characters: a woman who unwittingly killed her ...
Style: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Plot: murder, hidden truth, investigation, under the surface, moral dilemma, teacher, plot twist, death, friendship, perfect crime, twists and turns, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 8.1
 9K
Thadam (2019)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 138 min.
Story: The murder of a youngster creates confusion among a few cops when they find out that the one accused in the crime has a look-alike!
Style: suspense, suspense thriller, exciting, suspenseful, unusual plot structure ...
Plot: murder mystery, whodunit, murder, brother brother relationship, dual role, identical twins, who done it, murder investigation, police detective, partner, death, partners against crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.6
 76K
Derailed (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
Style: suspenseful, surprise ending, serious, rough, twist ending ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, blackmail, dangerous attraction, twists and turns, police investigation, couples, rape, danger, betrayal, disorder, femme fatale ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Chronicles of Evil (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A detective accidentally kills a man and disposes of the body to protect his career. The next day he sees that someone has hanged the corpse from a crane for all to see. He takes charge of the murder investigation to protect himself and find out who ...
Style: crime thriller, tense, suspense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot: police investigation, murder, police detective, life turned upside down, hidden truth, twists and turns, rivalry, danger, law enforcement, law enforcer, death
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 3.0
 242
Red Swastik (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 131 min.
Story: Bollywood version of Basic Instinct - has to be seen to be believed!!!
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, psychological, serious ...
Audience: adult
Plot: female killer, femme fatale, police investigation, serial killer, police detective, psychopath, murder, dishonesty, danger, law enforcement, rivalry, infidelity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india, new delhi
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
 8.3
 50K
Raatchasan (2018)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: A serial killer is murdering school girls, and a newbie cop has to track him down before the victim count increases.
Style: suspense thriller, brutal, tense, psychological, feel good ...
Plot: serial killer, police, spy, life & death, hate, intrigue, murder, psycho, entertainment, secret service, murder mystery, plot twist ...
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.6
 7K
Anjaam (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Vijay Agnihotri is a wealthy, spoilt man who lives with his mother in the city of Mumbai. His mother has allowed him everything and more than that he wants. One day on a mishap Vijay manages to reach up with an air-hostess named Shivani Chopra, he ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot: obsessive love, vengeance, obsession, murder, stewardess, love triangle, psychopath, women's prison, life is a bitch, life turned upside down, danger, frame up ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: india, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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