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The Detective (2007)
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The Detective (2007)
Original name: C+偵探
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A private detective is drawn into a complex murder mystery when he is hired to track down a missing young woman.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, captivating, tense, suspense, detective, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic ...
Plot: investigation, private detective, danger, dishonesty, riddles and clues, gangster, missing person, seduction, twists and turns, serial killer, killer, ghost, chases and races, rivalry, urban, power relations, violent content, police officer, dead man, truck, mother, boy, father, suicide, orphan ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: hong kong, china, asia, thailand
Keyword: gangsters, chinese

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about deadly, danger, murder, dishonesty, rivalry, investigation and violent content mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Detective: Blind Detective (2013), The Falls (2003), The Bullet Vanishes (2012), Diary (2006), Colour of the Truth (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Detective 2 (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Mysteries keep revolving around Tam’s life.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: law enforcement, police detective, investigation, police investigation, danger, private detective, murder, riddles and clues, serial killer, killer, violent content, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, china, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Blind Detective (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A blind detective, former cop, teams up with a policewoman who admires him to solve the disappearance of a girl friend of hers, years ago. Besides, he helps her to improve her skills as an investigator.
Style: serious, suspenseful, detective, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, blind character, police investigation, partner, twists and turns, dark humor, disability, blindness, danger, blind man, gambling, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Falls (2003)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In a smoke-filled dive in Buffalo, NY, David Marx tells us his tale of obsession, betrayal, and murder - leading him to an uncertain fate "underneath Niagara Falls." David tells us how his beautiful redheaded ex-girlfriend, Jennifer ...
Style: neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: missing person, femme fatale, amateur detective, murder, investigation, uncover truth, ransom demand, danger, rivalry, betrayal, dishonesty, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Bullet Vanishes (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: One rainy night in an arms factory near Shanghai, a young female worker accused of stealing a box of bullets from the ruthless Boss Ding (Liu Kai Chi) is violently killed in a game of Russian roulette. Half a month later, a series of inexplicable ...
Style: rough, tense, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: gangster, police investigation, partner, conspiracy, partners against crime, dishonesty, riddles and clues, murder, danger, who done it, law enforcement, police shootout ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Diary (2006)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Winnie Leung becomes more disturbed and depressed after her boyfriend Seth Lau breaks up with her and she turns schizophrenic - imagining events which never occurred, and often living in her own world- until one day she meets a guy named Ray, ...
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, captivating, psychological thriller ...
Plot: obsession, psychopath, losing-it hero, twists and turns, breakup, mentally unstable, murder, danger, relocation, violence, rivalry, kidnapping ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Colour of the Truth (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A man becomes a cop in order to take down the police superintendent who may have killed his father, and that of a vengeful Triad boss.
Style: exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, crime drama ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: spy, gangster, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, undercover, police corruption, snitch, law enforcement, police, police shootout, revenge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Confession of Pain (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China, Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A detective helps a friend investigate the mysterious death of his father.
Style: suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot: murder, law enforcement, haunted by the past, perfect crime, partner, police detective, investigation, corrupt law enforcer, partners against crime, dishonesty, private detective, asian ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Missing Person (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man's identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: missing person, private detective, uncover truth, riddles and clues, danger, train, post september 11 2001, fbi agent, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, private investigator, investigator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Headshot (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A hitman named Tul is shot in the head during an assignment. When he wakes up from a two month coma Tul discovers that he literally sees everything upside down.
Style: neo noir, tense, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, vengeance, danger, disorder, dishonesty, secret movement, frame up, assassination, sex, asian, killer, chase ...
Time: 21st century
Place: thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 7.4
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Election 2 (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min.
Story: As election time nears, current Triad chairman Lok (Simon Yam) faces competition from his godsons. At the same time, Jimmy (Louis Koo) looks to increase his business relations with mainland China.
Style: suspenseful, serious, rough, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: organized crime, triad, election, henchman, gangster, rivalry, rules and policies, criminal heroes, dishonesty, ambition, criminal, crime boss ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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 2K
Hotel Noir (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occupants of the hotel and the truth of how he came to be in his present situation will be revealed.
Style: neo noir, realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious ...
Plot: haunted by the past, private detective, hitman, femme fatale, danger, sex scene, seduction, uncover truth, hotel, hotel guest, killer, power relations ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, 50s
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 4.2
 765
Clean Break (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A dramatic thriller about a couple who own an advertising agency. The husband apparently commits suicide, but the police and the insurance company decide to investigate his death.
Style: tense, captivating, psychological, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, obsession, twists and turns, danger, investigation, betrayal, infidelity, stalking, love, crumbling marriage, corrupt officer, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Hickey & Boggs (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl.
Style: neo noir, detective, realistic, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, murder, private investigator, investigation, blaxploitation, rescue, kidnapping, money, revenge, chase, vietnam veteran, suitcase of money ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Varg Veum - Yours 'till Death (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Private eye Varg Veum is on a routine mission searching for his client Jonas Andresen's stolen car. The car is found having been used in a brutal robbery and not long after that the client himself turns up dead.
Style: suspenseful, tense, realistic, detective, neo noir ...
Plot: private investigator, robbery, murder, private detective, dishonesty, investigation, uncover truth, woman in danger, new love, law enforcement, danger, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Quo Vadis, Baby? (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier.
Style: serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot: private detective, investigation, haunted by the past, uncover truth, murder, sister, suicide, private investigator, family relations, urban, strong female presence, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Spreading Ground (2000)
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 ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, stylized, detective ...
Plot: psychopath, gangster, riddles and clues, law enforcement, rivalry, investigation, dishonesty, killer, serial killer, kidnapping, american football, parents and children ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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 ⇓
24%
 6.0
 358
Wo Hu (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: The Hong Kong Police placed 1000 undercover officers in the various Triad groups in their efforts to bring down the criminal organization in Hong Kong. After one undercover officer's identity is discovered and he is killed, the pressure is put ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, psychological, heroic ...
Plot: gang, working undercover, undercover, rivalry, hidden identity, law enforcement, partner, police officer killed, secret police, fighting crime, mafia, danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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I Come with the Rain (2009)
Genre: Thriller
Country: France, Hong Kong, Ireland, Spain, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Kline, a former Los Angeles police officer turned private detective, is hired by a powerful pharmaceutical conglomerate boss to investigate in Asia the disappearance of his only son, Shitao, whom he has not seen in person since the boy was ten. Now ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, serious, psychological, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, missing person, investigation, private detective, haunted by the past, medieval, murder, danger, warrior, moving, violent content, rock ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, the philippines, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
PTU: Police Tactical Unit (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Over the course of one night, a team of cops frantically search for their colleague's missing gun.
Style: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police investigation, police detective, gang, investigation, partners against crime, goofy hero, rivalry, murder, tough law enforcer, master criminal, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Place: hong kong, china, asia
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23%
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Four Assassins (2011)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Four assassins meet in a hotel suite to resolve unfinished business. A tense drama set in the cosmopolitan world of Hong Kong.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: hitman, rivalry, hotel, danger, murder, assassin, professional, triad, killer, woman with a gun, martial arts, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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West 32nd (2007)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When John Kim, an ambitious young lawyer, takes on a pro bono case to exonerate a fourteen-year-old boy from a first degree murder charge, he finds a world he never knew existed in the underbelly of Manhattan - the Korean underworld.
Style: tense, captivating, atmospheric, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: lawyer, gangster, ambition, mafia, fish out of water, murder, rivalry, danger, law, dialogue, korean american, tough heroes ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 242
Heart of Stone (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A beautiful woman doesn't know if the killer is her lover ... or her husband ... or someone else!
Style: sexy, suspenseful, suspense, independent film, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, dangerous attraction, seduction, manipulation, love affair, who done it, obsession, couples, power relations, infidelity, murder, danger ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Perez. (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Demetrio Perez is a tough prosecutor torn between the corruption inherent in his job and the desire to do right by his family. But when opportunity presents itself and his daughter Thea falls in love with a Mafioso’s son, Perez has to cut through ...
Style: tense, serious, psychological, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: lawyer, gangster, danger, rivalry, dishonesty, blackmail, legal, protection, camorra, child in peril, manipulation, female nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy, naples italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.7
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The Call (2013)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Jordan Turner is an experienced 911 operator but when she makes an error in judgment and a call ends badly, Jordan is rattled and unsure if she can continue. But when teenager Casey Welson is abducted in the back of a man's car and calls 911, ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychological, tense ...
Audience: boys' night, teens, adult
Plot: kidnapping, serial killer, investigation, danger, woman in danger, 911, psycho, murder, youth, chase, child abduction, panic ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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22%
Bitter Flowers (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Karsten Aslaksen, chief engineer of a large chemical company, disappears without trace. His married lover, a successful politician named Vibeke Farang, approaches private investigator Varg Veum to track him down discreetly.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir ...
Plot: investigation, private detective, murder, life is a bitch, child in peril, justice, abduction, danger, private investigator, nordic, unfaithful wife, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Mortician (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Alienated and cold, The Mortician (Method Man) processes the corpses with steely disregard. He is lonely and isolated. He is introduced to his new employee, Noah, (EJ Bonilla) by the morgue boss (Edward Furlong). Noah is a volatile youth working as ...
Style: neo noir, psychological, tense, bleak, serious ...
Plot: mortician, murder, haunted by the past, redemption, danger, emotionless, social decay, corpse, black, urban ghetto life, urban ghetto, life is a bitch ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Moscow Chill (2007)
Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A loner American computer hacker is brought to Russia to commit bank fraud, only to find a family and love in the incomprehensible, violent, and chaotic Moscow underworld.
Style: rough, exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: criminal heroes, love affair, chases and races, on the run, fall in love, gangster, dishonesty, rivalry, computer, violent content, profanity, bank ...
Time: 21st century
Place: russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
In the Shadows (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, witnessing a crime, undercover, gangster, criminal heroes, rivalry, danger, working undercover, introspection, crime gone awry, dishonesty, assassin ...
Place: usa, cuba, miami, new york, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Boarding Gate (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A sordid and complex series of events unfolds when an ex-prostitute becomes involved with a couple in Hong Kong.
Style: realistic, sexual, psychological, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, prostitute, sex scene, murder, drug dealing, manipulation, love affair, hitman, infidelity, on the run, rivalry, danger ...
Time: year 2007, 21st century
Place: paris france, hong kong, china, europe, asia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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