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Tennessee Waltz (1989)
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Tennessee Waltz (1989)
Original name: Tennessee Nights
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When entertainment lawyer Wolfgang Leighton decides to take a break from business for some fishing in Tennessee's backwoods, he ends up embroiled in a bank robbery and murder. Pursued by the killers, he's running from the police and a young hitchhiker appears to be his only friend.
Style: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: law, fishing, interracial, bank robbery, manhunt, recording studio, room service, heroes, legal action, murder, life is a bitch, intrigue, law enforcement, false accusation, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect, nudity, female nudity, seduction, interracial love, interracial relations, interracial sex, hitchhiker, interracial romance, white male black female relationship ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, tennessee

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and rough films with plots about deadly, dishonesty, murder, law enforcement, life is a bitch, female nudity and false accusation mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Tennessee Waltz: A Killer Within (2004), Lying in Wait (2001), Blood Crime (2002), Tucked Away (2007), Sea of Lies (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Killer Within (2004)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Addison Terrill, a former district attorney now in a lucrative private practice, has what seems to be the perfect life. But life as he knows it is turned upside down when he arrives home from work late one night to find his wife brutally murdered ...
Style: suspenseful, mind bending, tense, serious, rough ...
Plot: murder, husband wife relationship, who done it, legal, dishonesty, law enforcement, legal action, false accusation, murder investigation, female bartender, female nudity, skinny dipping ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 4.5
 529
Lying in Wait (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Young bachelor Babee is looking after his dead mother's estate when married couple Keith and Vera move in. Babee becomes attracted to them by the beautiful Vera and the risk taking Keith. However at a party Vera crashes her car, putting Keith ...
Style: suspenseful, sexy, independent film, realistic, serious ...
Plot: murder, twists and turns, vengeance, nudity, violent content, estate, cons and scams, hollywood, rivalry, sexual content, female nudity, drowning ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Blood Crime (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: For burned-out Seattle cop Daniel Pruitt, a camping trip turns hellish when his wife, Jessica, is savagely attacked in the forest. En route to the hospital, the Pruitts collide with a semi, and Jessica identifies the driver as her assailant. ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, suspense
Plot: vengeance, rivalry, dishonesty, police investigation, murder, law enforcement, life is a bitch, small town, mistaken identity, nypd, violent content, small town life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 5.3
 29
Tucked Away (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: On the surface, Ray Ryan has it all. He's a successful advertising executive with a new promotion. He has a nice home and a beautiful fiancée. Underneath it all is a dark secret he's finding harder to hide. Ray's nightmares are ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, independent film
Plot: investigation, life is a bitch, murder, secret, aging, abusive father, deadly
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Sea of Lies (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 180 min.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense
Plot: murder, false accusation, escape, prison life, life is a bitch, frame up, confined, dishonesty, prison, disappearance, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Illegal in Blue (1995)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A cop taking personal leave after he witnesses money stolen from the police property room becomes involved with a beautiful singer who may have killed her husband.
Style: sexy, serious, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dangerous attraction, who done it, police corruption, police investigation, femme fatale, uncover truth, fall in love, couples, police detective, murder, workplace situations, protagonist as suspect ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Without Evidence (1995)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: It is based on the true story of Michael Francke, who was the Head of Corrections for the state of Oregon before being murdered. Just before his murder, Francke visits his brother and informs him of a drug ring involving his prison colleagues. When ...
Style: spectacular, independent film, realistic, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, prison, conspiracy, murder, law enforcement, political conspiracy, rivalry, police investigation, dedicated lawyer, life is a bitch, legal, heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
A Show of Force (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this thriller, television reporter Kate Ryan de Meléndez investigates the death of two radical Puerto Rican activists, whom she begins to believe may have been framed and murdered by undercover American agents.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot: murder, investigation, undercover, police corruption, media, legal, journalism, amateur detective, law enforcement, uncover truth, price of justice, working undercover ...
Time: 70s, 20th century
Place: puerto rico
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Complicity (2000)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, bleak, realistic, serious ...
Plot: serial killer, journalism, murder, protagonist as suspect, uncover truth, investigation, police detective, false accusation, frame up, legal, dishonesty, media ...
Time: 90s
Place: scotland, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 3.9
 1K
Jill Rips (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A tough guy goes undercover on a personal mission of vengeance into the hardcore world of S&M, to find out who's responsible for the death of his brother.
Style: tense, suspenseful, scary, serious, realistic ...
Plot: dominatrix, tough heroes, serial killer, vengeance, investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, death of brother, violent, prostitute, undercover cop, stripper ...
Time: 90s
Place: san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 4.2
 764
Night Eyes (1990)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A Beverly Hills home-security guard is seduced by a rock star's wife he monitors by video.
Style: sexy, realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious ...
Plot: femme fatale, rock star, investigation, crumbling marriage, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty, law enforcement, obsession, love affair, strong sexual content, erotica ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
A Letter from Death Row (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A psychological thriller that takes you through the mind of convicted killer, Michael Raine, and his experiences on death row. Was he guilty of killing his girlfriend or was he a victim of a conspiracy to frame him for a crime he didn't commit? ...
Style: independent film, tense, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot: death row, execution, murder, injustice, prison, frame up, riddles and clues, destiny, prison life, false accusation, who done it, wrongfully committed ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: tennessee
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Mistrial (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.
Style: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, hostage, injustice, legal investigation, law enforcement, hotshot lawyer, murder, false accusation, legal, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.0
 528
Motives 2 (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Vivica A. Fox and Shemar Moore return for this thrilling sequel to Motives that picks up three years after the events of the original film. Innocent convict Emery Simms is serving time for a crime he didn't commit; while most convict's ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: dangerous attraction, uncover truth, protagonist as suspect, femme fatale, manhunt, friendship, false accusation, on the run, estrangement, prison life, frame up, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Interrogation of Michael Crowe (2002)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The lives of Escondido, California residents Cheryl and Stephen Crowe change one morning when they find their twelve year old daughter Stephanie Crowe stabbed to death in her bedroom. As procedure dictates, the police take each member of the ...
Style: psychological, disturbing, serious, rough, realistic ...
Plot: false accusation, police investigation, murder, uncover truth, coming of age, interrogation, injustice, fighting the system, law enforcement, teenage life, courtroom drama, suspect ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Fire Engine That Disappeared (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A routine mission ends up in a flaming inferno when a house suddenly explodes. It looks like a spectacular suicide attempt but the technical investigation reveals unexpected evidence. Beck and his men are soon on the tracks of a narcotic syndicate...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Plot: prostitute, mysticism, police, dishonesty, manhunt, chases and races, chase, law enforcement, ocean, murder, police procedural, bomb ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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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 ⇓
27%
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Confession (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In a small Catholic boarding school an unspeakable act has been committed. When High School student, Luther Scott, confesses to Father Michael Kelly, Kelly is bound silent to the particulars of a grisly murder. Now, framed guilty by the desperate ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: murder, catholic, courtroom drama, false accusation, investigation, moral dilemma, who done it, frame up, teenage life, life is a bitch, legal, clergy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Committed (1991)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A nurse is taken hostage by a patient pretending to be a doctor and is forced to administer to everyone.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, bleak, independent film ...
Plot: mental institution, doctor, murder, mistaken identity, nurse, power relations, dishonesty, mentally unstable, misfit, patient, trap, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Three Blind Mice (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A lawyer defends a man he's known since serving together in Vietnam, who has been accused of murdering three Vietnamese immigrants. Now he'll have to fight against a tenacious District Attorney, and evidence connected to the man's ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: legal investigation, courtroom drama, murder, frame up, vietnam veteran, protagonist as suspect, false accusation, dishonesty, law enforcement, life is a bitch, legal action, legal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Resilience (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An average man finds himself in a position to prevent the murder of a family member -- the unnerving descent of a man caught between resilience and ruthlessness.
Style: tense, psychological, serious, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: moral dilemma, life is a bitch, rivalry, dishonesty, human nature, life turned upside down, feud, murder, sexual content, violent content, nudity, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Perfect Witness (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A witness to a mob killing has second thoughts about testifying when he realizes his family might become a target.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: courtroom, witness, law, kidnapping, injustice, power relations, restaurant, murder, prison, law enforcement, chases and races, danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
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25%
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Good Chemistry (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, kidnapping, drug dealing, on the run, dishonesty, danger, drug abuse, chemistry, farm, confined, cons and scams, forced into action ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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 ⇓
25%
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The Runaway (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: At the birth of two boys, one white and one black, a mysterious and powerful Conjure Woman (Maya Angelou) prophesies that they will start the change. Growing up as best friends in rural Georgia in the 1940s, the boys make a discovery that leads the ...
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: conspiracy, interracial relations, murder, social relations, dishonesty, law enforcement, lifestyle, society, friendship, life is a bitch, murder investigation, small town ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Rich Kids (2000)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 87 min.
Story: "Chicos ricos" obviously tells the story of two successful advertisers Andy and Tomás who worked outside the country and have now joined an agency in Buenos Aires. The film takes place almost entirely in a large house where both intend to ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: drug dealing, prostitute, dishonesty, kidnapping, nudity, bondage, thief, sex, female nudity, party, prostitution, pubic hair
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: argentina, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Candidate (2008)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jonas Bechmann, a defense attorney, is a man of the system. Until the day he himself is accused of murder. Taking matters into his own hands, he throws himself into the hunt for a group of blackmailers who threaten to expose him as the killer. But ...
Style: suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic
Plot: murder, investigation, frame up, dishonesty, twists and turns, uncover truth, cons and scams, law firm, false accusation, nordic, law, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Slow Burn (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The murder of the ex-wife of Doctor Sam Charney (Rutger Hauer) leads Detective Della Wilder (Pam Grier) to uncover a series of women's murders somehow linked to a big pharmaceutical company.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heroes, murder, psychopath, female detective, reluctant partners, law enforcement, police investigation, who done it, partner, dishonesty, life is a bitch, partners against crime ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Cold Light of Day (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Netherlands, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A troubled detective befriends a single woman and her daughter with the intention of using them as bait for a serial killer.
Style: psychological, noir, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, obsession, children, spy, killer, home invasion, coming of age, witness, con artists, child abuse, violent content, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
23%
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