Movies like Zero Focus
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Zero Focus (1961)
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Original name: ゼロの焦点
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
One week into newlywed Teiko Uhara's marriage, her husband, Kenichi, leaves on a short business trip and never returns. Teiko travels across Japan to search for him, and along the way discovers some surprising facts about her husband's past. With only a pair of old photographs among his belongings to go off of, Teiko tries to figure out what has happened to him.
Style:
twisted, neo noir
Plot:
train, prostitute, police officer, police, newlyweds, arranged marriage, confession, death of husband, secret, train travel, poisoning, flashback, vice squad, serial killer, cliff, cyanide, train ride, multiple murder
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out neo noir, serious, suspenseful and tense films with plots about murder, police, police officer, serial killer, flashback, police investigation and investigation mostly in Crime, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Zero Focus: Castle of Sand (1974), School Day of the Dead (2000), The Black Test Car (1962), A Fugitive from the Past (1965), Sleeping Waters (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
Yoshitaro Nomura’s 1975 film of Seicho Matsumoto’s immensely popular detective story tells the tale of two detectives, Imanishi (Tetsuro Tamba) and Yoshimura (Kensaku Morita), tasked with tracking down the murderer of an old man, found ...
Style:
twisted, neo noir, cult film, anthology
Plot:
police investigation, murder investigation, police officer, class differences, police procedural, urban setting, post mortem, arrest, writers, small town, train, flashback ...
Place:
tokyo, japan
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95%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Some students decide to set up a play written by one of their classmates, who has commited suicide. The play is based on a tragic and mysterious legend about a love affair between two teachers at the school long ago. Some girls then accidentally ...
Style:
surprise ending
Plot:
serial killer, police, suicide, school principal, forgery, secret organization, theater
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Two car manufacturers spy on each other to try to find out details and prices of a new sports car each is about to launch.
Style:
neo noir
Plot:
corporate greed, corporate crime, crash, promotion, highway, confession, spy, war veteran, yakuza, businessman, veteran, espionage ...
Place:
japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 183 min.
Story:
Three robbers escape with loot from a heist before one of them shoots them; their corpses wash up near the aftermath of a maritime calamity, provoking a policeman's interest.
Plot:
yakuza, police investigation, police officer, prostitute, murder, poverty, shipwreck, robbery, arson, mistrust, redemption, typhoon ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Whatever happened to my father?
Plot:
family secret, little sister, secret, prostitute, murder, brother sister relationship, family relations, servant, swamp
Place:
brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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Movies similar to Memories of Murder
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Retired police captain tells a reporter about his latest action - carried on their own investigation into the mysterious death of the girl. Captain MO, Gray, conducts her own investigation into the death of Eve Salm, called Princess. She was a ...
Style:
neo noir
Plot:
police investigation, court, police officer, secret, murder, courtroom, police, witness, heart attack, robbery, interrogation, investigation ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A serial killer responsible for 7 minors' deaths thus far seems to kill to a particular rhythm, which the authorities must identify to catch him.
Style:
twisted
Plot:
wine, bicycle, murder, mirror, poison, private detective, convention, grape, waterfall, sparrow, ball, orange
Time:
50s, year 1952
Place:
japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko (Chieko Baisho) travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately ...
Plot:
revenge, murder, court, courtroom, lawyer, witness, flashback, evidence, baseball player, retribution, class differences, french restaurant ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A thief, a murderer, and a charming lady-killer, Iwao Enokizu (Ken Ogata) is on the run from the police. Director Shohei Imamura turns this fact-based story—about the seventy-eight-day killing spree of a remorseless man from a devoutly Catholic ...
Style:
disturbing, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
serial killer, father son relationship, parents and children, on the run, violence spree, prostitute, violence, sex scene, killer, female nudity, sex, samurai ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
japan, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Some youngsters rape and kill their teacher; but they won't tell their motivation. The police detective on the case feels some sinister influence behind the young murderers.
Audience:
teens
Plot:
police officer, rape, lgbt, interrogation, murder, teacher, investigation, secret, teenager, female nudity, gang rape, physical abuse ...
Place:
italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A string of violent jewel robberies force Police Inspector Parrino to get rough with the city’s criminal scum. Things take a turn for the worse when he’s confronted with the murder of an prostitute.
Plot:
suburbs, police, prostitution, police officer, drugs
Place:
italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A former cop looks back on the case which left him disabled and forced him to quit the force.
Style:
tense, intense, captivating, twisted, dark
Plot:
murder mystery, investigation, police, suspense, murder, serial killer, murder investigation, police officer, constable, crime solving, police investigation, crime investigation ...
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80%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Shigemori is a lawyer tasked with defending Misumi in a murder trial. Misumi has previous convictions for murder and has confessed to the crime, but evidence in the case leads to Shigemori having doubts about what really happened.
Style:
psychological, captivating, tense
Plot:
lawyer, murder, courtroom, courtroom drama, suspense, puzzle, school, pig, secret, police, lie, judge ...
Place:
japan, hokkaido
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Jack, a Palm Beach detective, becomes involved in a case of multiple murders. All the women can be linked to Jack in some way. Jack and his partner have no leads, but numerous suspects. The murders continue, along with anonymous letters from the ...
Style:
sexy, neo noir, twist ending, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder of a nude woman, private investigator, woman seduces a man, murder, femme fatale, infidelity, anonymous letter, adultery, lust, child molestation, police ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Malta, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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surprise ending, artsy, clever, dramatic, twist ending ...
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Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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78%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
Style:
neo noir
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A disturbing psychological thriller based on the classic novel by Agatha Christie. Ten strangers are forced to come face to face with their dark pasts after receiving an anonymous invitation to an isolated island off the coast of England.
Style:
psychological, surprise ending, suspenseful, bleak, mind bending ...
Plot:
murder, island, whodunit, estate, haunted by the past, vigilante, death, guilt, paranoia, faked death, secret, poisoning ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
Keiko Inagawa (Asami Kobayashi) pays a visit to neurologist Aizawa about her fiancé Tatsuo Tamura (Kaoru Kobayashi). A mysterious case involving the disappearance of Tatsuo’s three brothers, one after the other, is yet to be resolved and now ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
When Mari Gilbert's daughter disappears, police inaction drives her own investigation into the gated Long Island community where Shannan was last seen. Her search brings attention to over a dozen murdered sex workers.
Style:
suspenseful, emotional, serious, compassionate, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, missing person, investigation, prostitute, missing child, depression, disappearance, mother daughter relationship, suspense, search and rescue, killer, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
long island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.
Style:
semi documentary
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Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, mind bending ...
Plot:
murder, police investigation, uncover truth, couple relations, law enforcement, life is a bitch, dishonesty, haunted by the past, police officer, murder investigation, twists and turns, suspense ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Tashiro (Keiju Kobayashi) coincidentally meets his best friend Sugimoto (Tatsuya Mihashi) in a bar very close to the apartment in which Sugimoto’s wayward wife is found dead. Although Tashiro is not a suspect in the police investigation, he is ...
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
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Story:
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serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, neo noir
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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