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Ruby Cairo (1992)
3K
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan, UK, Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Baseball cards and a food-aid worker help a woman follow her shady husband's money trail around the world.
Style:
serious, captivating, realistic, suspense, independent film, psychological, psychological thriller, crying
Plot:
faked death, amateur detective, investigation, journey, female protagonist, grief, husband wife relationship, death of husband, embezzlement, voice over narration, bank, rescue, danger, dishonesty, arms smuggling, plane crash, love, airplane, ship, money, sex scene, murder, single mother, financial crisis, mother daughter relationship ...
Time:
year 1960, 90s, year 1992
Place:
cairo egypt, mexico, greece, egypt, africa, middle east, latin america ...
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Most similar movies to Ruby Cairo
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and suspense films with plots about deadly, investigation, murder, danger, dishonesty, amateur detective and uncover truth mostly in Mystery, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Ruby Cairo: Access Denied (1996), Deceived (1991), The Two Faces of January (2014), After Midnight (2014), The Truth About Charlie (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A beautiful computer programmer is framed by her fraudulent lover and sent to prison. When she gets out she agrees to cooperate with a scheme of a fellow-inmate to defraud a bank, in order to have enough money to escape from her (by then) ex-lover.
Style:
crime drama, crime thriller, suspense, tense, dark ...
Plot:
programmer, fraud, embezzlement, prison, false accusation, betrayal, female protagonist, conspiracy, con artists, bank robbery, manipulation, scheming ...
Time:
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Similarity:
100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A marriage that seemed perfect comes crashing down after the supposed death of Jack Saunders, husband of Adrienne Saunders. After his supposed death, strange developments begin to be discovered by Adrienne regarding Jack's past. Developments ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, suspense, crying, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
bigamy, faked death, investigation, murder, female protagonist, deception, psychopath, woman in jeopardy, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, love, identity theft ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A thriller centered on a con artist, his wife, and a stranger who try to flee a foreign country after one of them is caught up in the murder of a private detective.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, period piece, romantic, suspense ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
murder, on the run, tour guide, ruins, love triangle, american abroad, greed, cons and scams, dishonesty, fugitives, criminal heroes, escapades ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, 2010s, year 2014, year 1962
Place:
greece, athens greece, somalia, europe, turkey ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When an exotic dancer is murdered at a seedy strip club, her sister Constance, a TV newscaster, goes undercover to find the killer. While working at the club, she quickly realizes that everyone is a suspect and that other dancers are being targeted. ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, enigmatic, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, strip club, serial killer, undercover, working undercover, uncover truth, amateur detective, vengeance, rivalry, loss of sister, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
The Truth About Charlie is a 2002 remake of the 1963 film Charade (which starred Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn). It is also an homage to François Truffaut's Shoot the Piano Player and that film's star Charles Aznavour appeared as himself ...
Style:
suspense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, clever ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
murder, hidden identity, family problems, dishonesty, danger, death in the family, chase, interracial couple, husband wife relationship, twists and turns, death, spy ...
Time:
year 2002
Place:
paris france, europe, france
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Recently widowed estate agent Val Spencer's hopes of a big sale are interrupted when the house owner disappears and she becomes embroiled in a murder hunt.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, psychological, captivating, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
single mother, family problems, mother and son, real estate agent, murder mystery, widow, parents and children, female protagonist, social problems, life is a bitch, family relations, missing person ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Beautiful and wealthy young socialite Iris Carr is used to being at the heart of her social group, but when her friends' raucous and unsociable behaviour escalates whilst on holiday in the Balkans she resolves to seek out some tranquillity and ...
Style:
psychological, tense, atmospheric, serious, period piece ...
Plot:
female protagonist, missing person, disappearance, amateur detective, twists and turns, investigation, fall in love, danger, dishonesty, mind game, train, missing woman ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
22%
12K
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Dexter Cornell, an English Professor becomes embroiled in a series of murders involving people around him. Dexter has good reason to want to find the murderer but hasn't much time. He finds help and comfort from one of his student, Sydney ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, suspenseful, mystical, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
race against time, poison, divorce, murder, sex with sister, police investigation, destiny, xmas, hospital, incest, alcoholic, pun ...
Time:
80s, year 1988
Place:
austin texas, los angeles, australia
Similarity:
21%
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265
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Sixteen years after the Drakes' young daughter was kidnapped by her nanny, a woman appears claiming to be the long-lost child.
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, exciting, tense ...
Plot:
amateur detective, danger, police investigation, investigation, law enforcement, orphan, family relations, criminal heroes, parents and children, dishonesty, child abduction, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A woman investigates when her teenage son is arrested for his married lover's murder.
Style:
psychological, realistic, tense, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot:
murder, infidelity, investigation, false accusation, amateur detective, legal, law enforcement, dishonesty, parents and children, jail, model, alibi ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An attorney (Melanie Griffith) uncovers a political conspiracy in the brutal killing of a wealthy young woman.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, tense, mind bending, realistic ...
Plot:
dedicated lawyer, lawyer, skinny dipping, erotica, nypd, women, law, courtroom, murder, politics, legal, rapist ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
21%
498
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A would-be actress uncovers horrifying files on other starlets.
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
manipulation, power relations, mentally unstable, rivalry, murder, actress, mentor, twists and turns, love affair, danger, faked death, psychological manipulation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, clergy, amateur detective, uncover truth, youth, society, dishonesty, danger, teenager, soul, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, Serbia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Still reeling from the painful breakup of his marriage to screen siren Rita Hayworth, iconic filmmaker Orson Welles (Danny Huston) makes his way to Rome, where he gets pulled into a tangled political plot involving murder and mysterious motives. A ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, serious, suspense, neo noir ...
Plot:
filmmaking, murder, starting over, investigation, movie business, manipulation, femme fatale, showbiz, dishonesty, private detective, life is a bitch, danger ...
Time:
1940s, year 1942, post world war two, year 1948
Place:
italy, europe, usa, rome italy
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Bernard Salzmann's thriller Assumed Killer tells the tale of a reporter investigating a serial killer. After she suffers an accident and becomes an amnesiac, she begins to suspect her husband may be the person responsible for the brutal slayings
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense
Plot:
serial killer, amateur detective, memory loss, investigation, murder, uncover truth, danger, life is a bitch, deep south, media, journalism, television reporter ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, florida
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Holly & Nathan Teller live in a small town in Pennsylvania. Holly is on the cheerleading team and has a close relationship with her younger brother Nathan, who is subjected to bullying at school. Nathan is taken for a car ride one day by ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
missing person, amateur detective, uncover truth, investigation, small town, haunted by the past, social relations, danger, riddles and clues, secret place, woman in danger, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A writer named Adrian Messenger believes a series of apparently unrelated "accidental" deaths are actually linked murders. He asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, recently retired from MI5, to help clear up the mystery. However, ...
Style:
suspense, serious, realistic, enigmatic, captivating ...
Plot:
disguise, serial killer, multiple murder, crime investigation, murder, british intelligence, british, danger, hidden identity, world war two veteran, airport, spy ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, year 1963
Place:
england, burma
Similarity:
21%
374
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman searches for many years to exact revenge on a kidnapper. A psychological thriller that examines how far a person would go if pushed to the extreme.
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
vengeance, rivalry, danger, hostage, husband wife relationship, murder, fight, secret, abduction, kidnapping, murderer, serial murder ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
australia
Similarity:
20%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Hope finds herself leaving the comfort of her suburban life for New York City in order to settle the affairs of her best friend Rachel who has just been murdered. Little does she know that she is being sucked into a vortex of intrigue, where nothing ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, crime drama ...
Plot:
amateur detective, murder, investigation, danger, intrigue, twists and turns, rivalry, criminal, woman with a gun, strong female presence, dishonesty, woman in danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The story of a husband who suspects his wife of adultery, and sets out to track down the other man in her life.
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, sincere, romantic drama ...
Plot:
adultery, secret lover, betrayal, secret relationship, family problems, dishonesty, crumbling marriage, obsession, chess, love triangle, husband wife relationship, loss of wife ...
Time:
year 2008, future, 21st century
Place:
italy, milan italy, england
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed for the murder of his mother. Calgary can prove that Jack was innocent. In spite of opposition from ...
Style:
realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, grindhouse ...
Plot:
amateur detective, murder, uncover truth, injustice, frame up, death row, false accusation, legal, law enforcement, murder mystery, incest, investigation ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
england, canada, antarctica
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Spain, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
While restoring a fifteenth-century painting Julia reveals a hidden Latin phrase. A series of murders begin to rock her small world of art experts, patrons and restorers, and she finds that the mystery of the painting is interwoven with the mystery ...
Style:
sexy, serious, psychological, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
chess, inheritance, murder, investigation, amateur detective, art, uncover truth, danger, mind game, dishonesty, race against time, prostitute ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages, 20th century, 90s, year 1993
Place:
barcelona
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Charles Lattimore, an author of a book about a famous murder trial, arranges to meet with one of his students one night. When the student is found murdered and Lattimore has no alibi, he suspects he is being framed by the subject of his book.
Style:
realistic, psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot:
amateur detective, police investigation, uncover truth, dishonesty, police corruption, who done it, frame up, mind game, protagonist as suspect, law enforcement, false accusation, writers ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The annual LA Kennel Club Dog Show gets treated to an unexpected surprise when a backstage murder incriminates the winning canines' handler.
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, dedicated lawyer, courtroom drama, riddles and clues, legal investigation, legal, partner, danger, crime scene, murder investigation, murder mystery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A woman accused of murdering her husband is found innocent, only to be terrorized by the real killer once she is set free.
Style:
serious, psychological, captivating, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
murder, dishonesty, legal, uncover truth, who done it, danger, legal action, suspect, acquittal, husband, couple relations, tabloid journalism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A loathsome man ends up dead, but it's not clear who's to blame. If ever a person got what he deserved, it's James Urbanksi, an abusive drunk who steals from his wife, Joyce, and promises her close friend Cynthia Kellogg that ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, talky, suspenseful, stylized ...
Plot:
murder, crime gone awry, twists and turns, police investigation, character study, obsession, redemption, domestic violence, crumbling marriage, unlikely criminals, law enforcement, murder mystery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The opening titles explain that American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rape, protagonist as suspect, murder, journalist, corruption, investigation, uncover truth, police corruption, serial killer, survival, sex slave, rape victim ...
Time:
90s, year 2006
Place:
mexico, latin america, chicago, usa
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Evidence of mutilated housewives points to a sound expert (David Keith) living unhappily with his wife (Cathy Moriarty) in Arizona.
Style:
slasher, scary, psychological, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, police investigation, dangerous attraction, mistaken identity, woman in danger, police detective, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, danger, amateur detective ...
Time:
80s
Place:
arizona, phoenix arizona, tucson arizona
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
New York City. David Stillwell struggles to recover his memory before the people who are trying to kill him succeed. Who is he, who are they, and why is he surrounded by murder?
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
amnesia, private detective, police detective, manhunt, chase, investigation, murder, dishonesty, mind game, uncover truth, spy, russian roulette ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, california
Similarity:
19%
3K
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Detective Catherine Palmer (Ellen Barkin) is on the trail of an elusive serial killer. During her investigation she meets Vickie Kittrie (Peta Wilson), who belongs to an exclusive club of women who engage in secret sessions of bondage and ...
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, erotic, sexual ...
Plot:
femme fatale, voyeurism, serial killer, serial rape, murder, dangerous attraction, rough sex, lesbianism, obsession, law enforcement, danger, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
19%
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