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The Door with Seven Locks (1962)
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Original name: Die Tür mit den sieben Schlössern
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, dark, thrilling, atmospheric, gothic, sinister, twisted, noir, detective ...
Plot:
locked door, kidnapping, psychopath, crazy, inheritance, isolation, secrets, locked room, treasure hunt, investigation, mansion, claustrophobia, female protagonist, confined, torture chamber, serial killer, conspiracy, betrayal, adaptation, snake, murder, castle, lobotomy, woman, secret passageway ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
europe, scotland yard
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, noir and detective films with plots about investigation, conspiracy, murder, betrayal, moral ambiguity, serial killer and cat and mouse mostly in Crime, Thriller and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Door with Seven Locks: The Indian Scarf (1963), The Squeaker (1963), Curse of the Hidden Vault (1964), The Man with the Glass Eye (1969), The Mad Executioners (1963). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle ...
Style:
suspense, tense, sinister, atmospheric, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lawyer, serial killer, whodunit, murder, castle, strangulation, isolation, greed, killer, inheritance, secrets, betrayal ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Scotland Yard investigates a series of murders where the victims have died by snake venom poisoning.
Style:
detective, suspense, grim, twisted, period piece ...
Plot:
conspiracy, murder, investigation, poisoning, whodunit, police procedural, underworld, master criminal, cat and mouse, urban, serial killer, cold case ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
70%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.
Style:
suspense, tension, thrilling, noir, twisted ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
treasure, mobster, heist, organized crime, gangster, criminal underworld, betrayal, conspiracy, scheming, treasure hunt, locked room, claustrophobia ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Scotland Yard must discover why people are being murdered by a monstrous dog at Blackwood Castle.
Style:
gothic, suspenseful, creepy, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
swamp, castle, hound dog, animal attack, murder investigation, isolation, old mansion, cat and mouse, police procedural, twists and turns, serial killer, conspiracy ...
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A pool-hall is used as the front for a white slavery ring.
Style:
detective, dark, suspense, tension, atmospheric ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, investigation, white slavery, whodunit, suspect, group of criminals, theater, human trafficking, suspicion, underworld, poisoning ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Crime, Horror
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A group of hooded vigilantes hang wrong-doers with a subplot about another murderer. Surprise ending.
Style:
detective, dark, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, vigilante, hanging, conspiracy, vigilante justice, investigation, execution, female victim, police procedural, decapitation, violent, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After an automobile accident, in which a man is unrecognizably burnt to a crisp, his wife's only able to confirm the corpse's identity by his talisman: a small, white spider. However, soon, there are more corpses walking around than at a ...
Style:
suspense, detective, tense, crime drama, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, murder mystery, investigation, mascot, insurance fraud, whodunit, symbolism, suspicion, motive, moral ambiguity, urban, conspiracy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A serial killer who calls himself "The Laughing Corpse" dresses up in a skeleton costume and kills his victims with a poison-filled scorpion-shaped ring.
Style:
detective, suspense, creepy, atmospheric, sinister ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, whodunit, investigation, masked villain, macabre, poison, cat and mouse, vengeance, manor, living dead, twists and turns, conspiracy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
42%
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Genre: Adventure, Crime
Country: Italy, West Germany, Egypt
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Shot on location in Egypt, the story unfurls like an Italian Giallo as a group of people meet under strange circumstances, and one by one they are murdered. Gold is missing so you suspect a thief is trying to cover up his crime but that might be too ...
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, suspenseful, tense, sinister ...
Plot:
murder, treasure hunt, whodunit, murder mystery, sphinx, deception, red herring, betrayal, conspiracy, investigation, scheming, suspicion ...
Time:
60s
Place:
egypt
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In this German detective thriller, swindlers using a false charity as a front send a hit man around London to murder wealthy people whose deaths can benefit the organization. This film is one of a very large number of German Scotland-Yard thrillers ...
Style:
detective, crime thriller, tense, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, police procedural, gang, urban, organized crime, insurance fraud, underworld, suspicion, evidence, drowning, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime
Country: Slovenia
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Young lawyer Rebeka is given a case involving the murder of a production designer, and the main suspect is her childhood friend Jana. What first seems like a very straightforward case gradually reveals the dark sides, mysterious depths and stray ...
Style:
dark, suspense, psychological, sinister, tense ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, human nature, suspect, secrets, lawyer, mysterious death, deception, character study, female protagonist, morality, female friendship ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
eastern europe, slovenia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that ...
Style:
crime drama, suspense, detective, period piece, tense ...
Plot:
insurance fraud, investigation, villa, blackmail, evidence, secrets, mediterranean, deception, millionaire, conspiracy, paranoia, betrayal ...
Time:
70s
Place:
cote d'azur, mediterranean sea, riviera, france, french riviera
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Action, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
English millionaire Sir Cyrus Bradley is being blackmailed by “The Tortoise” Crime Syndicate. He is to pay £ 100,000.00 Pounds to stay alive and not be murdered. After his refusal to pay the money, he is quickly killed. Cyrus‘ nephew, Don ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, tense, detective, dark ...
Plot:
revenge, murder, blackmail, organized crime, criminal syndicate, gangster, underworld, investigation, threat, master criminal, betrayal, corruption ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Le Saint prend l’affût is a French adventure film first released in 1966, directed by Christian-Jaque. The film stars Jean Marais, Raffaella Carrà, Jess Hahn, Jean Yanne and Danièle Evenou. It has also been released under the title: The Saint ...
Style:
suspense, tense, sinister, retro, period piece ...
Plot:
spy, espionage, deception, double agent, secret service, cat and mouse, betrayal, saint, investigation, manipulation, undercover, loyalty ...
Time:
60s
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman is kidnapped and her identity is stolen by criminals attempting to collect her inheritance.
Plot:
conspiracy, serial killer, woman, fraud, police officer, police, female police officer, dead brother, murder, death, inheritance, reverend ...
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: South Africa
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When his mistress threatens to expose the secret of their affair, a respected insurance broker seeks the help of his underworld brother to save his reputation.
Style:
tension, crime drama, suspenseful, noir, intense ...
Plot:
blackmail, secrets, reputation, infidelity, underworld, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, cover up, double life, betrayal, siblings, urban ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
33%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Two different gangs, one with Chaitanya, an aspiring filmmaker and his friend Harsha and another gang with Bar Seenu and his partner Parvathy, try to kidnap the same person which unfolds a big conspiracy.
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, tense, twisted, crime drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
kidnapping, conspiracy, criminal underworld, ambition, investigation, morality, power struggle, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, betrayal, urban, friendship ...
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Detectives Grijpstra and De Gier are sent to investigate the case of a man who apparently hanged himself in a center for oriental meditation. It is ruled as suicide and the case seems to be closed, but the same night there is an attempted break in. ...
Style:
detective, suspense, dark, tense, noir ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, police procedural, drug, partnership, adaptation, sect, moral ambiguity, interrogation, urban, corruption, slow burn ...
Time:
70s
Place:
amsterdam
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Turkey
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Mesut, a civil servant who returns his hometown to bury his mother, is dragged into by his younger brother Musa to a treasure hunt and finds himself tangled up with a murder.
Style:
tension, suspenseful, crime thriller, tense, dark ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, brothers, family drama, murder mystery, suspicion, investigation, crime investigation, small town, motive, grief, betrayal, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
After a series of deaths in a small provincial town, a determined detective attempts to uncover the killer — and British expat Earl is the prime suspect.
Style:
detective, crime thriller, suspense, tense, dark ...
Plot:
murder mystery, whodunit, small town, investigation, accusation, secrets, justice, police procedural, evidence, betrayal, family conflict, family drama ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A Chinese cult bent on taking over the world uses an idol called The Golden Reptile that they believe can give them the power to achieve their goal.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, detective, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
snake, idol, secret society, investigation, ritual, conspiracy, occult, murder, world domination, group of criminals, underworld, smuggling ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When three childhood friends are brought back together after years apart, a string of mysterious and brutal "Jack The Ripper" inspired murders erupt, pitting friends against foe in this 80's-style police thriller.
Style:
suspense, crime thriller, enigmatic, mysterious, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, police, old friend, murder mystery, serial killer, puzzle, friends, murder investigation, reunited friends, murder, uncover truth, riddles and clues ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime
Country: India
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A honeymoon at an idyllic resort becomes a fight for survival when Rakshan stumbles upon a brutal crime. With his new wife Shruthi by his side, he must navigate through a web of dangerous revelations
Style:
tense, suspense, intense, dark, twisted ...
Plot:
survival, danger, newlyweds, honeymoon, resort, isolation, secrets, couples, investigation, chase, cat and mouse, paranoia ...
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China, South Korea
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Da Zhi is a doorman at a luxury hotel. He uses his vacation in exchange of a presidential suite at the hotel to satisfy his wife's wish. However, the manager gives the presidential suite to a celebrity and breaks the deal with him. He tries to ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hotel, murder, wedding, murder mystery, male female relationship, couple relations, trapped, secret, murderer, trap, deception, cover up ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A wealthy banker lies brutally murdered. The bankers daughter and only heir, Rana (Alex McKenna) calls upon Cyrus (Randy Wayne) a brilliant but eccentric freelance writer, to assist in the investigation. Teaming up with homicide detective, Leon Weed ...
Style:
suspenseful, mysterious, suspense, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
freemason, investigation, freemasonry, murder mystery, conspiracy, secret society, uncover truth, heiress, homicide detective, private investigation, crime investigation, crime solving ...
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.
Style:
suspense, crime drama, tense, black and white, atmospheric ...
Plot:
extortion, organized crime, criminal, gangster, rivalry, gang war, criminal underworld, betrayal, cat and mouse, police investigation, moral ambiguity, violent ...
Time:
60s
Place:
london, chicago, scotland yard
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, clever ...
Plot:
amateur detective, mysterious character, missing person, uncover truth, investigation, who done it, odd couple, murder, danger, riddles and clues, dishonesty, silly humor ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
france
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he ...
Style:
satirical, cynical, black comedy, suspense, realistic ...
Plot:
ambition, murder, social climbing, office politics, dark humor, greed, power struggle, manipulation, debt, scheming, deception, satire ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
27%
620
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Denmark, France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
A serial-killer is murdering the ladies of a night club. Detective Gray is seeking for the killer but can only find a lot of gangsters. And the killer is about to act again...
Style:
crime thriller, dark, detective, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
serial killer, conspiracy, murder investigation, nightclub, whodunit, female victim, suspicion, peril, urban, police procedural, stalking, gangster ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An orphaned heiress is forced to embrace her family's dark legacy.
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, gothic, family saga ...
Plot:
heiress, female protagonist, orphan, inheritance, family secret, mansion, deception, estate, legacy, secrets, identity, investigation ...
Time:
1860s, 19th century
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
27%
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