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The Mysterious Magician (1964)
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Original name: Der Hexer
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture him. However, soon bodies start piling up, and it looks as if The Hexer may get away yet again.
Style:
detective, black and white
Plot:
submarine, murder, crime investigation, disguise, mastermind, magic, twists and turns, conspiracy, brothel, clerk, inspector, revenge, police, criminal, murder investigation, german shepherd, human trafficking, master criminal, vengeance, funeral, vigilante, airport, british police, police detective, criminal gang ...
Place:
australia, england, london, britain, scotland yard, united kingdom
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Most similar movies to The Mysterious Magician
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, suspenseful, suspense and tense films with plots about murder, serial killer, investigation, murder investigation, conspiracy, crime investigation and police investigation mostly in Crime, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Mysterious Magician: The Squeaker (1963), The Zombie Walks (1968), Dead Eyes of London (1961), The Indian Scarf (1963), The Inn on the River (1962). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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:
95%
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:
90%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A disfigured killer with glazed-over white eyes is doing the dirty work so that an insurance agent-doctor can get the victims' insurance money.
Style:
detective, gothic, suspense, mind bending, scary ...
Plot:
blind man, serial killer, murder, nurse, blindness and impaired vision, danger, amateur detective, investigation, criminal heroes, dishonesty, clergy, law enforcement ...
Time:
year 1961, 20th century, 60s
Place:
london, united kingdom, britain, scotland yard, england
Similarity:
77%
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:
77%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway.
Plot:
underwater, serial killer, conspiracy, smuggler, scuba diver, criminal, police, dancing, assassination attempt, ship, telephone call, suicide ...
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Scotland Yard investigators have to prevent the murder of Victoria Dickman when her name is found on a death list.
Style:
parody, humorous, gothic, exciting, touching ...
Plot:
master criminal, police detective, nun, murder, police, investigation, police investigation, inspector, law enforcement, goofy hero, estate, disorder ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
scotland yard, england, london
Similarity:
65%
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:
62%
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A strangler is loose on a British estate, and he not only strangles his victims but brands an "M" onto their foreheads before he decapitates them.
Style:
classic horror, suspense, gothic horror, black and white
Plot:
serial killer, murder, male female relationship, murder investigation, police detective, old dark house, underground, multiple murder, masked killer, dark secret, haunted by the past, castle ...
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Police try to track down a hooded serial killer who murders his victims with a combination of acid and poison gas
Style:
slasher, splatter, independent film, eurospy
Plot:
serial killer, mystery killer, unknown killer, twists and turns, conspiracy, monk, girls' boarding school, hired killer, girl man relationship, murder, crazy, man kills a woman ...
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
56%
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:
56%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A hooded serial killer finds a novel way to murder his victims--he lashes them to death with a whip. The police try to track him down before any more murders occur.
Style:
psychotronic
Plot:
serial killer, twists and turns, death, police, revenge, murder, crime investigation, acid, monk, cousin cousin relationship, boarding school, pigeon ...
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
55%
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:
52%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The body of a naked man tied to a bed appears in a roadside motel. Sergeant Ruben Bevilacqua (Vila) and his colleague Virginia Chamorro assigned to investigate the case, which is especially delicate because Trinidad Soler, the dead, is a nuclear ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, suspenseful, detective
Plot:
investigation, murder investigation, police investigation, conspiracy, killing, police officer, uncover truth, homicide detective, crime investigation, secret, murder mystery, police ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
With the help of a feisty aristocratic woman, a working-class Scotland Yard inspector hunts for a serial killer of young women in Victorian London.
Style:
slasher, detective, period drama
Plot:
serial killer, adultery, murder, priest, parent child relationship, sibling relationship, street musician, class differences, secret, red herring, ambush, unfaithful husband ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1800s, 1880s
Place:
england, britain, london
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A corpse that was accidentally discovered raises many questions. Using his blade, forensic doctor Qin Ming cuts through the shocking voice of the dead to find clues that will help track down the murderer. Hailed as the "corpse whisperer", ...
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, crime thriller, detective, thrilling ...
Plot:
murder investigation, medical examiner, police, forensic evidence, uncover truth, coworker, who done it, investigation, homicide detective, forensics, police investigation, sleuth ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy but strange English family, who share their mansion with a group of nuns. The detective comes to ...
Style:
independent film
Plot:
serial killer, family relations, criminal gang, mother superior, strangulation, murder, convent, nun, man hits a woman, man punching a woman, damsel in distress, mentally challenged ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
39%
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 ...
Plot:
locked door, kidnapping, crazy, secrets, locked room, inheritance, isolation, psychopath, treasure hunt, investigation, claustrophobia, torture chamber ...
Time:
60s
Place:
europe, scotland yard
Similarity:
37%
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:
36%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A circus becomes the location for stolen loot and murder.
Style:
slasher, suspense, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film ...
Plot:
circus, serial killer, murder, manhunt, killer clown, carnival, macabre, amusement park, on the run, heist, crime gone awry, vampire ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, tower bridge london
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, Spain, UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A London slasher pack the suitcases of his victims before stabbing them to death in this adaptation of Edgar Wallace's 'Secret of the Black Suitcases.'
Style:
detective
Plot:
serial killer, death, exploitation, drug trade, drug use, kidnapping, harbor, murder, interrogation, british police, inspector, main character dies ...
Place:
london, britain, england, united kingdom, scotland yard
Similarity:
35%
17K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story:
Inspector Robert Lewis and Sergeant James Hathaway solve the tough cases that the learned inhabitants of Oxford throw at them.
Style:
realistic, clever, serious, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Plot:
police detective, murder investigation, crime investigation, sergeant, police investigation, british police, multiple suspects, investigator, murder, detective inspector, law enforcement, suspicion ...
Time:
2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jussi Vares find two bodies of Turku outskirts of women, which has been shot in the head, and the man whose body is full of runes similar to the cuts, which suggest that the murder would have been part of the dark ritual. A year later, Vares is ...
Style:
detective, suspenseful, psychological, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, private investigator, nordic, who done it, forensics, crime investigation, homicide detective, murderer, murder investigation, murder mystery, intrigue ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
finland
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
You need to suffer, to understand....
Style:
suspense, captivating, tense, detective
Plot:
investigation, police, murder, killer, crime scene, serial murder, murder investigation, partners against crime, teamwork, police partner, partner, team ...
Similarity:
34%
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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:
30%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
TV show
Story:
Retired Detective Inspector Alex Ridley is lured back into service as a consultant detective when his former protégée, Carol Farman, needs help cracking a complex murder case.
Style:
captivating, detective, psychological
Plot:
murder investigation, police investigation, forensics, homicide detective, police detective, murder, crime investigation, sleuth, crime solving, uncover truth, teamwork, investigation ...
Place:
united kingdom, britain, england
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
An Australian woman arrives in London to search for her sister who she finds is involved with a heroin smuggling gang. The gang itself is under attack from an unknown rival, who is methodically assassinating them with a shot to the head.
Style:
psychotronic, poliziottesco, independent film, grindhouse
Plot:
female nudity, redheaded woman, serial killer, murder, investigation, police officer, drug, criminal, violence, characters murdered one by one, person thought dead is alive, missing woman ...
Place:
london, scotland yard
Similarity:
29%
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, murder, police inspector, criminal, investigative reporter, prosecution, crime investigation, detective inspector, voice over narration, death, girl, job ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
In a French thermal town, a man is found poisoned. His ex-girlfriend is arrested for the murder but her estranged cop daughter tries to prove her innocence which leads her much further than she could have ever imagined.
Style:
tense, psychological, captivating, contemplative, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder investigation, murder, blackmail, mother daughter relationship, family secret, intoxication, female doctor, crime investigation, police station, murder mystery, friends, love and romance ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family members had their reasons to kill him. But who really did it? And who is responsable for killing ...
Style:
exciting, detective, enigmatic, twist ending, crime drama ...
Plot:
murder investigation, murder, family relations, romancing a criminal, inheritance, whodunit, investigation, deduction, motive, poisoning, secrets, amateur sleuth ...
Time:
1950s, 60s, 70s
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
The young "Commisario" detective Salve Montalbano, based in a village, solves mysterious crimes in Sicilia.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, captivating, witty ...
Plot:
mafia, police investigation, crime solving, incompetent police, partner, outsmarting, up and down relationship, police detective, crime investigation, mind game, murder, law enforcement ...
Place:
sicily, italy
Similarity:
28%
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