Movies like Sherlock Holmes 2010
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Sherlock Holmes (2010)
2K
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Sherlock Holmes and Watson are on the trail of a criminal and scientific mastermind who seems to control monsters and creations which defy belief.
Style:
suspense, visually appealing, thought provoking, exciting, rough, suspenseful, mockbuster, romantic, intense, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
sherlock holmes, prodigy, transformation, adaptation, storytelling, investigation, uncover truth, private detective, deadly creature, riddles and clues, master criminal, escapades, vengeance, rivalry, danger, partner, dinosaur, police investigation, twists and turns, machine, machinery, heroes, friends, conspiracy, chases and races ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, victorian
Place:
england, london, europe
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Most similar movies to Sherlock Holmes
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, detective and suspense films with plots about danger, deadly, rivalry, murder, investigation, private detective and escapades mostly in Mystery, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Sherlock Holmes: Sherlock (2010), The Hound of the Baskervilles (2000), Sherlock: Case of Evil (2002), Hands of a Murderer (1990), Dark Planet (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
1.1M
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
A modern update finds the famous sleuth and his doctor partner solving crime in 21st century London.
Style:
clever, detective, witty, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
sherlock holmes, investigation, murder mystery, private detective, genius, friendship, mastermind, deduction, murder, british, mind game, riddles and clues ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
london, england, wales, afghanistan, scotland yard ...
Similarity:
89%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The scene of the crime is Whitechapel, the same London district notorious for the recent attacks of Jack the Ripper. Three monks are found dead, the apparent victims of a vampire - now, someone else is out for blood. Or is it something else? As ...
Style:
serious, atmospheric, suspenseful, suspense, gothic ...
Plot:
sherlock holmes, private detective, curse, vampire, dracula, uncover truth, investigation, riddles and clues, escapades, partners against crime, danger, partner ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
london, england, europe, scotland yard
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The mysterious death of Sir Charles Baskerville is blamed on a longstanding curse that has followed the Baskerville family for two hundred years. Enigmatic sleuth Sherlock Holmes is on the case to uncover the truth about a monstrous, supernatural ...
Style:
tense, atmospheric, suspenseful, detective, suspense ...
Plot:
sherlock holmes, private detective, swamp, curse, who done it, monster, investigation, mysterious character, uncover truth, murder, rivalry, deadly creature ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
76%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Early in his crime-solving career, Sherlock Holmes attempts to prevent Moriarty from cornering the heroin market.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, psychedelic, mind bending ...
Plot:
sherlock holmes, private detective, serial killer, murder, drug dealing, investigation, mind game, riddles and clues, criminal heroes, chase, rivalry, obsessive quest ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
london, europe, england, big ben london
Similarity:
69%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
Holmes (Peter Cushing) and Dr. Watson (John Mills) ponder cases in which the victims seem to have been scared to death.
Style:
detective, realistic, serious, scary, rough ...
Plot:
private detective, investigation, murder, kidnapping, rescue, ego clash, amateur detective, danger, rivalry, aging, law enforcement, who done it ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
69%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The corpse of a shabbily dressed young woman has been discovered in the mud flats of the Thames at low tide. Police assume she's a prostitute, but Dr. Watson suspects something more and goes to his old friend Holmes, now retired and at very ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective, mind bending
Plot:
sherlock holmes, private detective, murder mystery, lookalikes, serial killer, murder, investigation, mastermind, who done it, life is a bitch, hotshot hero, prodigy ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, edwardian era
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Mystery, Action, Adventure
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Sherlock Holme must track down his nemesis Professor Moriarty after the villain kidnaps Holme's brother Mycroft. The evil doctor is forcing his captive to decode highly classified military documents.
Style:
realistic, serious, stylized, suspenseful
Plot:
sherlock holmes, private detective, master criminal, partner, conspiracy, rescue, undercover, danger, uninhibited rivalry, law enforcement, criminal heroes, mind game ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, year 1900, 1900s
Place:
england, london
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Two sides, one known as the Alphas and the other the Rebels, struggle in a brutal war on Earth and in outer space. When a habitable planet is discovered in orbit around a star that is on the far side of a dangerous wormhole, the two sides ...
Style:
independent film, futuristic, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
space exploration, space travel, reluctant partners, monster, space opera, outer space, violent content, partner, dystopian future, heroic mission, political intrigue, space wars ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
60%
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708
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A spy is brought back from cryogenic suspension after being almost killed in a plane crash returning from a mission to learn about a deadly new weapon being developed in the East. But the vital memories are being suppressed, so the authorities use ...
Style:
exciting, serious, psychological, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
mind power, psychic power, cyberpunk, exploitation, psychokinesis, brain, spy, double agent, secret agent, dystopian future, disorder, dishonesty ...
Time:
future, 22nd century
Place:
asia
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Sherlock Holmes comes to the aid of his friend Henry Baskerville, who is under a family curse and menaced by a demonic dog that prowls the bogs near his estate and murders people.
Style:
detective, natural horror, serious, scary, tense ...
Plot:
sherlock holmes, animal attack, private detective, investigation, dog, murder, curse, swamp, undercover, ghost, estate, supernatural ability ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Sir Charles Baskerville dies on the moor under mysterious circumstances and rumors abound about a demonic hound. When the American heir arrives to take charge, a family friend calls in Holmes and Watson to get to the heart of the mystery.
Style:
detective, gothic, spooky, tense, serious ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
sherlock holmes, curses spells and rituals, dog attack, folk horror, whodunit, supernatural, private detective, riddles and clues, who done it, estate, danger, mysterious character ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
An aging detective comes out of retirement when the events around his grandson's suicide suggest foul play.
Style:
unusual plot structure, suspenseful, suspense, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot:
suicide, police investigation, murder investigation, murder, elderly man, friendship, vengeance, heroes, law enforcement, revenge, graphic violence, chase ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson are called in to unravel a mysterious curse that has plagued the Baskerville family for generations. When Sir Charles Baskerville is found dead, his heir, Sir Henry, begs Holmes to save him from the terrifying ...
Style:
gothic, scary, atmospheric, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
sherlock holmes, private detective, murder, heir, nosy, mysterious character, supernatural, deadly creature, danger, partners against crime, curses spells and rituals, winter ...
Time:
19th century, edwardian era, turn of the century, victorian era
Place:
england, london, europe
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Welcome to Elliotsville. It’s like your typical American small town, except the residents are kinda robots. Okay, they’re not so much kinda, they’re pretty much robots. So what happens when you take that set-up and add a gang of sexy female ...
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, retro ...
Plot:
androids and robots, gang, rescue, danger, rivalry, small town, chase, chaos, imaginary, conspiracy, machine, partner ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Action, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In the near future, everything has changed. Basic human rights have become the rarest of luxuries. No one knows when this started but everyone knows how. The VXII, the deadliest virus ever created, spread like wildfire and decimated the majority of ...
Style:
serious, futuristic, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
chaos, survival, danger, rivalry, dystopian future, heroes, escapades, secret, post apocalypse, virus, post apocalyptic, distopia ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Mary Morstan has received a pearl in the post every year since her father's disappearance; this leads Holmes and Watson to the truth about a secret pact between four convicts during the Indian Rebellion of 1857.
Style:
detective, realistic, exciting, mind bending, serious ...
Plot:
sherlock holmes, chase, british empire, murder, police detective, spy, writers, river, doctor, private detective, ego clash, investigation ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
england, india, london
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Sherlock Holmes is drawn into the case of Jack the Ripper who is killing prostitutes in London's East End. Assisted by Dr. Watson, and using information provided by a renowned psychic, Robert Lees, Holmes finds that the murders may have its ...
Style:
disturbing, suspense, gothic, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
sherlock holmes, conspiracy, jack the ripper, private detective, serial killer, secret society, murder, danger, anarchist, politics, killer, psychic ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, turn of the century, year 1979, 1800s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, scotland
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
In a galaxy far away, alien criminals organize a spectacular prison break. Pursued by their home planet's authorities, their leader Zin decides there's only one place to go: through a wormhole that allows instantaneous travel to Earth. ...
Style:
serious, exciting, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
bounty hunter, heroes, rivalry, danger, escapades, chases and races, government agency, evil alien, disorder, space and aliens, alien, invasion ...
Place:
usa
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In a top secret Cold War military project an unstoppable, malignant organism who feeds on light and energy is unleashed threatening to destroy everything in it's path.
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, rough, apocalyptic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
mythical creature, eye, heroic mission, supernatural, heroes, survival, rivalry, race against time, experiment gone awry, danger, escapades, government agency ...
Time:
60s, year 1969
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When an elderly client loses a fortune on an investment, fearless Sally Lockhart will stop at nothing to rectify the situation — even if it means risking everything important to her in the process. As Sally sorts out the threads of the mystery — ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
victorian england, murder, amateur sleuth, detective agency, amateur detective, marriage proposal, uncover truth, investigation, partners against crime, partner, friends, danger ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1870s
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An anthropologist must unlock the code hidden in the works of Leonardo Da Vinci in order to find the greatest treasure ever, one that could change Christianity forever.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, mockbuster, enigmatic, disturbing ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, uncover truth, riddles and clues, investigation, rivalry, escapades, danger, cardinal the priest, leonardo da vinci, murder, symbolism, conspiracy ...
Place:
afghanistan, italy
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A computer whiz named 'Bean' is among several people found dead with strange striations, odd puncture wounds and missing internal organs. Bean's brother Ted teams up with detective Gina to get to the bottom of it. With the help of a ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, suspense, tense, scary ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
investigation, experiment gone awry, danger, plague, supernatural, rivalry, deadly creature, murder, monster, creature feature, insect, creature ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
The actual sword of Excalibur has been stolen in London, and futuristic detectives Jake Cardigan and Sid Gomez are assigned to track it down and to find out who is trying to block the British reign from its rightful heir.
Style:
detective, futuristic, suspense, dark, tense ...
Plot:
conspiracy, law enforcement, amateur detective, excalibur, investigation, power, cyberpunk, corruption, monarchy, royalty, heist, heir ...
Time:
near future, future, 2040s, 21st century
Place:
london, united kingdom, usa, england
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Hajime finds it difficult to graduate to the next grade at school. His friend Miyuki tells Hajime to study at a private school which is famous for its strictness. At that school, Hajime uncovers a death caused by non-natural reasons. He's ...
Style:
detective, suspense, enigmatic, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, who done it, prodigy, whodunit, school, danger, secret identity, riddles and clues, high school, law and order, rivalry ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson meet as boys in an English Boarding school. Holmes is known for his deductive ability even as a youth, amazing his classmates with his abilities. When they discover a plot to murder a series of British business men by ...
Style:
clever, detective, stylized, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids
Plot:
sherlock holmes, private detective, boarding school, friendship, amateur detective, school, who done it, investigation, danger, murder, high school friend, friends ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, year 1985, 1870s, victorian era ...
Place:
england, london, europe, britain, united kingdom ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An affectionate bow to the master sleuth in this lavishly produced original that has Holmes rushing to New York City after discovering that his old nemesis, Moriarty, has kidnapped the son of the detective's long-time love, actress Irene Adler.
Style:
detective, suspense, heroic, noir, psychotronic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
bank robbery, kidnapping, sherlock holmes, investigation, cat and mouse, master criminal, urban, whodunit, 007, private detective, adaptation, respect ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century
Place:
new york, london
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Grisly strangulations in London alert Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard to the possibility that fiendish Fu Manchu may not after all be dead, even though Smith witnessed his execution. A killer spray made from Tibetan berries seems to be involved and ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, suspense, cult classic ...
Plot:
master criminal, danger, terrorism, heroes, escapades, chases and races, rivalry, riddles and clues, faked death, private detective, fu manchu, exploitation ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard, england, london, shanghai, europe ...
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
After the sheriff of the small town of Boggy Creek receives reports of attacks from a vicious beast bearing resemblance to the legendary Sasquatch, he enlists the help of an expert survivalist (The Outsider's C. Thomas Howell) and sets out to ...
Style:
exciting, tense, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
bigfoot, danger, escapades, battles, small town, sasquatch, human versus animal, showdown, monster, murder, rivalry, creature feature ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An ancient pestilence called The Scourge has been set free in a small town after being entombed in a church's masonry for a century and a half. As bodies rapidly pile up, nothing stands between the spawning Scourge and the rest of the town ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, scary, serious, offbeat
Plot:
parasite, survival, danger, supernatural, violence spree, small town, deadly creature, creature feature, chases and races, escapades, gory, small town life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, washington d.c.
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Lifepod cronicles the trip of eight passengers after the ship they were traveling on blew up on Christmas Eve. Immediately people start dying. The passengers begin to investigate why the ship blew up and how it relates to them
Style:
suspenseful, futuristic, serious, exciting
Plot:
trapped in space, spacecraft, terrorism, survival, rescue, space and aliens, escapades, danger, disaster, outer space, murder, evil corporation ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
52%
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