Movies like Violette 1978
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Violette (1978)
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Original name: Violette Nozière
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city. One day, Violette meets her ideal man, Jean Dabin, but he is a scoundrel who soon begins to extort money from her. When her parents discover that she is stealing from them, Violette finds the tension in their cramped apartment unbearable and she is driven to murder both her parents.
Style:
erotic, neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, tragic
Audience:
teens, pre-teens
Plot:
sex, evil girl, murder, female nudity, women's prison, unrequited love, teenage girl, father daughter relationship, women in prison, sexuality, mother daughter relationship, syphilis, stolen money, venereal disease, murder of father, sexual promiscuity, immorality, compulsive liar, poison, dead father, promiscuous daughter, sexually transmitted disease, intoxication, birth control, hooker ...
Time:
year 1978, 1930s, 30s
Place:
france, paris france, europe
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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 murder, deadly, dishonesty, nude, female nudity, law enforcement and police investigation mostly in Crime, Drama and Thriller genres. Some movies like Violette: Wedding in Blood (1973), Dear Mr. Gacy (2010), The Last Deadly Mission (2008), The Lost (2006), Just Before Nightfall (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne's husband holds no excitement for her, and he is ...
Style:
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Plot:
illicit affair, affair, wedding day, european, couples, dull life, disorder, politics, couple relations, unlikely criminals, love and romance, obsession ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe, paris france
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, disturbing, realistic, serious, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, suspense ...
Plot:
serial killer, violence, danger, murder, police, racial slur, psychopath, self mutilation, unrequited love, serial killer as protagonist, kickass, killing spree ...
Time:
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Place:
france
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71%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A washed-up Marseilles cop (Auteuil) earns a chance at redemption by protecting a woman from the man who killed her parents as he is about to be released from prison.
Style:
sexy, psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A charismatic psycho suspected of killing two innocent campers in a cold-blooded double homicide grows increasingly unstable as his suburban empire starts to crack at the foundations.
Style:
disturbing, sexy, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
psychopath, female nudity, murder, unsolved crime, female pubic hair, lesbian, drug use, police investigation, youth, rivalry, motel, violence ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A married man (Michel Bouquet) who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.
Style:
art house, realistic, psychological, serious, tense ...
Plot:
woman strangled to death, illicit affair, affair, murder, guilt, middle class, forgiveness, nude girl, exodus, dialogue, time travel, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1971, 70s
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for the upper-class family Lelievre, hides her illiteracy under the cloak of a perfect household and obedience. She finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s, year 1995
Place:
france, los angeles, usa, brittany
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, enigmatic, tense, suspenseful, art house ...
Plot:
food, love and romance, unlikely criminals, investigation, haunted by the past, couple relations, parents and children, family life, infidelity, piano, hospital, stepmother ...
Time:
2000s, 90s
Place:
switzerland, usa, los angeles, europe, france
Similarity:
62%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Dog Day is a 1984 film starring Lee Marvin. A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession. The supporting cast includes Tina Louise and Juliette Mills. The movie was directed by Yves ...
Style:
sexual, cult classic, neo noir, slasher, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
farm, fugitive, helicopter, heist, sexuality, on the run, gangster, disorder, fugitives, bounty hunter, crime gone awry, espionage ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france, europe
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
57%
967
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Stunning trophy wife Rachel Avery is stuck in a cold, loveless marriage with her millionaire husband, Holden. So when Holden goes away on a trip, Rachel hooks up with her close friend Carla, and the two hatch a plan to murder Holden and collect on ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then ...
Style:
neo noir, anthology, twisted, contemplative, tense ...
Plot:
revenge, driver, death of son, dealing with death, hate, actress, swing, justice, time travel, serial killer, beach, seaside ...
Time:
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Place:
france, europe, brittany, atlantic ocean
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
neo noir, tense, suspenseful, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france
Similarity:
54%
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, serious, realistic, tense, exciting ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
france, europe
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Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Style:
bleak, serious, tense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
legal, frame up, false accusation, investigation, lovers reunited, testimony, uncover truth, police investigation, rebellion, power relations, state affairs, murder ...
Similarity:
43%
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Duration: 129 min.
Story:
Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot ...
Style:
serious, tense, rough, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
switzerland, paris france, geneva switzerland, europe, france
Similarity:
43%
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Country: France
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, france, europe
Similarity:
42%
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, cynical, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, erotic, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: France
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, dark ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Impulse is a 1990 thriller film about a female police officer who works undercover as a prostitute on the streets of Los Angeles
Style:
neo noir, erotic, serious, psychological, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, neo noir, tense, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, passionate sex, vengeance, danger, disorder, dishonesty, secret movement, frame up, sex, assassination, professional killer, killer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand, asia
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A wife is caught in a web of sex and violence.
Style:
erotic, realistic, serious, suspenseful, sexy ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, femme fatale, woman in danger, legal, betrayal, serial killer, law enforcement, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, obsession, couples ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A chilling tale based on a real event in which a doctor stepped out of line and sexually assaulted a patient when drugged.
Style:
psychological, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, and his girl-friend Noria. Simon's brothers go to their lawyer. He springs Noria, who promptly ...
Style:
rough, realistic, serious, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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