Movies like True Crime
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True Crime (1999)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Boozer, skirt chaser, careless father. You could create your own list of reporter Steve Everett's faults but there's no time. A San Quentin Death Row prisoner is slated to die at midnight – a man Everett has suddenly realized is innocent.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, serious, tense, clever, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, bad ending, emotional, dramatic ...
Plot:
death row, death sentence, journalism, investigation, suspense, race against time, lawyer, false accusation, uncover truth, journal, reporter, death, conspiracy, car accident, prison, murder, african american, catastrophe, survival, gangsters, serial killer, twists and turns, revenge, natural disaster, women ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, usa, oakland california, san francisco
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Most similar movies to True Crime
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and interesting films with plots about suspense, chase, police investigation, mentor, catastrophe, murder and corruption mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like True Crime: The Life of David Gale (2003), Kill the Messenger (2014), Double Jeopardy (1999), Just Cause (1995), Blood Work (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Style:
thought provoking, surprise ending, twist ending, rough, serious ...
Plot:
suspense, investigation, suicide, death row, death sentence, fighting the system, death, reporter, activist, murder, professor, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas, austin texas, houston texas, usa, spain ...
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100%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A reporter becomes the target of a vicious smear campaign that drives him to the point of suicide after he exposes the CIA's role in arming Contra rebels in Nicaragua and importing cocaine into California. Based on the true story of journalist ...
Style:
political, tense, suspenseful, thought provoking, clever ...
Plot:
journalism, reporter, u.s. government, conspiracy, journalist, drug smuggling, media manipulation, politics, investigation, media, secrets, brainwashing ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 90s, 20th century, year 1996
Place:
california, los angeles, iran, usa, latin america ...
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, tense, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, false accusation, vengeance, suspense, wrongful conviction, prison, courtroom, murder, revenge, manipulation, lawyer, wrongful arrest ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new orleans, san francisco, seattle, southern usa, georgia
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100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Bobby Earl is facing the electric chair for the murder of a young girl. Eight years after the crime he calls in Paul Armstrong, a professor of law, to help prove his innocence. Armstrong quickly uncovers some overlooked evidence to present to the ...
Style:
rough, tense, psychological, suspenseful, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, death row, prison, psychopath, murder, twists and turns, legal, investigation, courtroom, lawyer, legal investigation, police brutality ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
florida, new jersey, harvard university, usa, miami ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mary Giordano is a bright, intelligent student who goes to a catholic school. She also has a addiction to mystery novels and detective magazines (hence the title of the movie), which inspire her to do her own detective work. When she starts snooping ...
Style:
suspenseful, brutal, bleak, psychological, sexy ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, female detective, amateur detective, murder, police investigation, suspense, psychopath, woman in danger, schoolgirl, uncover truth, teenage life, fatal attraction ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Still recovering from a heart transplant, a retired FBI profiler returns to service when his own blood analysis offers clues to the identity of a serial killer.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, twist ending, rough, serious ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, murder, suspense, twists and turns, conspiracy, psychopath, investigation, police investigation, police corruption, revenge, brutality ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty.
Style:
exciting, intense, serious, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
vigilante, conspiracy, vigilantism, hitman, murder, judge, vengeance, political corruption, justice, lawyer, suspense, courtroom ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
A master thief coincidentally is robbing a house where a murder in which the President of The United States is involved occurs in front of his eyes. He is forced to run yet may hold evidence that could convict the President. A political thriller ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, political, intense, serious ...
Plot:
secret service, political corruption, murder mystery, politics, suspense, political conspiracy, assassination, conspiracy, justice, usa president, witnessing a crime, white house ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Style:
neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
political corruption, murder, investigation, suspense, police, gangsters, police investigation, conspiracy, revenge, betrayal, partners against crime, dishonesty ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
FBI agent Dennis Quaid tries to catch a serial killer who kidnapped his son.
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, intense, serious, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, kidnapping, suspense, murder, twists and turns, vengeance, law enforcement, police investigation, murder mystery, investigation, missing person, killer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Movies similar to The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.
Style:
atmospheric, enigmatic, intense, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, investigation, murder, justice, journalism, homosexual, police investigation, small town, voodoo, suspense, culture clash ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
georgia, new orleans, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, tense, stylized, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, fbi, suspense, manipulation, death, twists and turns, death threat, paranoia, frame up, law enforcement, disorder ...
Time:
90s, year 1997, 21st century
Place:
seattle, washington state, washington d.c., usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
18K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his ...
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, neo noir, sexy ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, father daughter relationship, police investigation, kidnapping, manipulation, murder mystery, obsession, police detective, investigation, psychopath, woman in danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new orleans, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A drama centered around the relationship between journalist Michael Finkel and Christian Longo, an FBI Most Wanted List murderer who for years lived outside the U.S. under Finkel's name.
Style:
surprise ending, psychological, captivating, serious, intense ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
twists and turns, journalism, journalist, suspense, prison, murder mystery, justice, prison visit, uncover truth, moral dilemma, writers, manipulation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa, oregon, montana, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Thriller about Guy Luthan (Hugh Grant), a British doctor working at a hospital in New York who starts making unwanted enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. The trail leads Luthan to the door of the eminent ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, sexy, serious, scary ...
Plot:
hospital, suspense, investigation, doctor, medical, medical research, plot twist, twists and turns, uncover truth, cure, doctors and patients, human experiment ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Films like Primal Fear
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Having survived the hatred and bigotry that was his Klansman grandfather's only legacy, young attorney Adam Hall seeks at the last minute to appeal the old man's death sentence for the murder of two small Jewish boys 30 years before. Only ...
Style:
thought provoking, emotional, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, racism, ku klux klan, death sentence, legal, murder, prison, anti semitism, haunted by the past, courtroom, lawyer, death row ...
Time:
90s, year 1996, 60s, 20th century, year 1967
Place:
usa, mississippi
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, exciting, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, blindness, investigation, police investigation, murder mystery, woman in danger, police detective, strong female character, female protagonist, suspense ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
21K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The accidental shooting of a boy in New York leads to an investigation by the Deputy Mayor, and unexpectedly far-reaching consequences.
Style:
tense, political, realistic, thought provoking, talky ...
Plot:
investigation, corruption, police, political corruption, murder, mafia, lawyer, mayor, suspense, society, uncover truth, gangsters ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, new jersey, new orleans, usa, brooklyn new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Upon taking a new job, young lawyer Rick Hayes is assigned to the clemency case of Cindy Liggett, a woman convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. As Hayes investigates the background for her case, the two begin to form a deep ...
Style:
emotional, talky, intense, tense, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
death row, prison, lethal injection, lawyer, death sentence, justice, love story, courtroom drama, prison life, life is a bitch, legal action, dedicated lawyer ...
Time:
90s
Place:
australia, texas, new jersey, india, taj mahal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
An American attorney on business in China, ends up wrongfully on trial for murder and his only key to innocence is a female defense lawyer from the country.
Style:
suspenseful, intense, psychological, thought provoking, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
murder, suspense, courtroom drama, death sentence, justice, political corruption, frame up, courtroom, lawyer, court, conspiracy theory, false accusation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
china, california, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Mystic River related movies
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, neo noir, psychological, serious ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom, lawyer, court, legal, murder, courtroom drama, twists and turns, suspense, surveillance, women, murder mystery, guilt ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A secretary is found dead in a White House bathroom during an international crisis, and Detective Harlan Regis is in charge of the investigation. Despite resistance from the Secret Service, Regis partners with agent Nina Chance. As political ...
Style:
suspenseful, political, tense, rough, sexy ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
conspiracy, politics, investigation, murder, secret service, corruption, white house, suspense, president, state affairs, love affair, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s
Place:
washington d.c., usa, korea, asia, north korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Forensic psychologist Alex Cross travels to North Carolina and teams with escaped kidnap victim Kate McTiernan to hunt down "Casanova," a serial killer who abducts strong-willed women and forces them to submit to his demands. The trail ...
Style:
twist ending, suspenseful, tense, surprise ending, serious ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, kidnapping, woman in danger, suspense, police investigation, twists and turns, violence against women, investigation, murder, forensics, profiler ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, washington d.c., north carolina, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A lawyer is asked to come to the police station to clear up a few loose ends in his witness report of a foul murder. "This will only take ten minutes", they say, but it turns out to be one loose end after another, and the ten minutes he is ...
Style:
twist ending, suspenseful, psychological, talky, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
lawyer, serial killer, rape, police investigation, suspense, murder, murder mystery, twists and turns, psychology, investigation, mind game, flashback ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
puerto rico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, clever, exciting, intense ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
political conspiracy, investigation, state affairs, suspense, politics, conspiracy, reporter, lawyer, corruption, political corruption, murder, legal action ...
Time:
90s, future, 20th century
Place:
new orleans, washington d.c., new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Movies similar to The Bone Collector
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.
Style:
clever, serious, captivating, psychological, twist ending ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
lawyer, courtroom, court, twists and turns, murder, legal, courtroom drama, legal investigation, hotshot lawyer, arrest, suspense, betrayal ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, beverly hills, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in ...
Style:
twist ending, suspenseful, tense, serious, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
suspense, murder, twists and turns, police investigation, murder mystery, faked death, police detective, betrayal, police, conspiracy, frame up, investigation ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
florida, miami, africa, usa, america
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson (Liam Neeson), a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley (Cher) is assigned to his case, ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, intense, psychological, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, lawyer, murder mystery, courtroom, murder, legal investigation, suspense, twists and turns, court, mute or deaf, false accusation, manipulation ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
usa, washington d.c., vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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:
psychological, clever, tense, talky, suspenseful ...
Plot:
betrayal, suspense, murder, crime gone awry, police investigation, twists and turns, character study, women, obsession, redemption, unlikely criminals, crumbling marriage ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Dirty Harry Callahan returns for his final film adventure. Together with his partner Al Quan, he must investigate the systematic murder of actors and musicians. By the time Harry learns that the murders are a part of a sick game to predict the ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, sexy, exciting ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, car chase, police, justice, murder, suspense, prison, reporter, mafia, corruption, gangsters, against the rules ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
san francisco, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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