Movies like Deadly Illusion
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Deadly Illusion (1987)
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A private eye hired to kill a man's wife warns her instead and then finds both are impostors.
Style:
neo noir, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
murder, private investigator, private detective, wife, hitman, graphic violence, frame up, couples, infidelity, drug dealing, who done it, law enforcement, on the run, amateur detective, dishonesty, couple relations, cons and scams, nude, vampire, gangsters, businessman, hostage, morgue, girlfriend, gunfight ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and rough films with plots about deadly, murder, law enforcement, dishonesty, danger, graphic violence and protagonist as suspect mostly in Crime, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like Deadly Illusion: Dirty Little Trick (2011), Never Forget (2008), Living to Die (1990), The Witness Files (1999), The Last Seduction II (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After picking up a beautiful young hitch-hiker, Michael Anderson finds himself living in his worst possible nightmare.
Style:
realistic, serious, stylized, suspenseful, non-linear
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man (Phillips) who wakes up with amnesia also finds his supposed friend has accused him of murder.
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exciting, tense, mind bending, psychological, realistic ...
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Time:
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79%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A burned-out private detective in Las Vegas gets involved in blackmail and murder.
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Plot:
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77%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Femme fatal/con artist Bridget Gregory travels to Barcelona and targets another businessman to scam him of his money while a relentless private investigator tries to track her down.
Style:
erotic, sexy, neo noir, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
erotica, sex scene, villain, making love, private detective, femme fatale, power relations, couples, phone sex, disorder, who done it, missing person ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jake is a driver for a seedy escort service operating out of 'The Naked Eye strip club', he's a street thug type who falls for a witty high-class escort named Sandy. Except one night Sandy is found murdered, the only clues left behind ...
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Time:
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Place:
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67%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Between 11:50 and 12:00 noon, a crime is commited. In the same ten minute period, we follow the lives of the ten people, all connected to this crime. As we see each person's point of view, we are propelled closer and closer to the truth of what ...
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Time:
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Place:
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67%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Young lovers Billy and Sarah journey from L.A. to Texas with plans to make a false claim to the valuable assets left behind by a dead friend. But when their voyage brings them to Tremo, Texas, they find a bizarre and sinister world awaiting them.
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21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Ex-FBI agent Cooper O'Neil thinks the dangerous times in his life are in the past; that is, until his former partner shows up dead at his marina home. O'Neil's old partner had a coveted thumb drive in his possession when he died, and ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After a violent bank robbery, the trio of hoods make their way across East L.A. carrying a blood-soaked bag of money. When word gets out, they must fend off gangs and crooked cops alike as they strive to keep the loot and stay alive.
Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
neo noir, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Action, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
T.C. Cooper is sprung from prison by Oscar Pierce, an F.B.I. agent, and given a task: take down master thief Jimmy Ray Danker. He accepts, but neither man expected the plan's single complication: Julia Summers, Jimmy Ray's lover.
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A drug deal hijacked by a third party, they leave the drugs and take the money. A stripper witnesses a murder and now the Mafia's after but there is nowhere safe to hide.
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Place:
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51%
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The sins of the past are not forgotten in this chilling suspense thriller. When the first body was discovered, it seemed a coincidence. But now homicide detective Jack Verdon has cause to worry: the victims of a series of brutal sex murders are all ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Jack Williams was the best friend of Vietnam veteran and detective Mike Hammer. When Jack is murdered, Mike makes it his business to solve the crime. He is helped by his secretary Velda, and partly helped, partly hindered by the Chief of Police, Pat ...
Style:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After extricating 17-year-old Lisa Halle from a life of prostitution in Copenhagen, private investigator Varg Veum becomes ensnared in a tangle of parental neglect and bad love when he is hired to locate Lisa's boyfriend, Peter Werner.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The story centers on Charlie, a Los Angeles billionaire financial whiz who goes into self-imposed exile in Tijuana after his empire is revealed to have been a Ponzi scheme. While looking for the woman he abandoned there 25 years before, Charlie is ...
Style:
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gangsters, track down, on the run, rivalry, special agents, police corruption, law enforcement, vengeance, swat team, armed forces, graphic violence, survival ...
Time:
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usa, los angeles, latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Story:
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