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The Spreading Ground (2000)
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Original name: Spreading Ground
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Veteran Detective Ed Delopre (Dennis Hopper) and partner Mike McGivern (Fredric Forrest) have their hands full when they hit the pavement in search of a dangerous killer with five dead bodies already on his record. The mayor, in a rush to see peace restored in her city, makes a deal with the mob instead of waiting for Delopre and McGivern's results. Now that both sides of the law are involved in the killer's capture, the city is turned upside down.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, suspenseful, stylized, mind bending, realistic
Plot:
psychopath, gangsters, investigation, rivalry, law enforcement, track down, riddles and clues, dishonesty, killer, serial killer, kidnapping, american football, parents and children, police detective, estrangement, cons and scams, football, bandit, murderer, police, murder, father daughter relationship, irish, mother daughter relationship, old age ...
Time:
90s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and rough films with plots about deadly, murder, law enforcement, serial killer, investigation, rivalry and danger mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Spreading Ground: The Detective 2 (2011), The Gunman (2004), The Prophet's Game (2000), Double Bang (2001), Bone Daddy (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 104 min.
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Duration: 90 min.
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Duration: 106 min.
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The Prophet has arrived in the ultimate playing ground... Los Angeles. It has taken an innocent childhood game and twisted it into a deadly match of wits, where the only prize is survival. Moving from city to city, The Prophet lures unsuspecting ...
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An honest cop enters the dark world of murder and corruption.
Style:
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Doctor Palmer, a former pathologist, wrote a fictional book based on his real cases. In the book, the madman gets caught, but in reality he is still uncaught. After the book is released, Palmer's editor is kidnapped. Palmer soon is sent a ...
Style:
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Plot:
serial killer, medical examiner, kidnapping, pathologist, law enforcement, writer's life, parents and children, corpse, psychopath, psycho killer, investigation, amateur detective ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An elusive serial killer known as the Zodiac terrorizes the San Francisco Bay in the late 1960s, while detectives aim to stop him before he claims more victims. Based on a true story.
Style:
rough, psychological, bleak, scary, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
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Duration: 88 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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