Movies like The Girl Hunters
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The Girl Hunters (1963)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Mickey Spillane plays his own creation, street-thug-turned-PI Mike Hammer, in this 1963 adaptation of his novel. The film opens with Hammer on the downside of a years-long bender, scooped out of the gutter by a bitter cop intent on prying information from a dying man. Inspired to clean up his act by the secrets he hears, Hammer hits the streets on a personal crusade to find the love of his life. Future Bond girl Shirley Earton costars as a glamorous society widow who goes slumming with Hammer.--Sean Axmaker
Style:
noir, tense, rough, bleak, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, cult film
Plot:
private detective, spy, private investigator, alcohol abuse, conspiracy, missing person, espionage, woman in danger, investigation, undercover, life is a bitch, intrigue, rivalry, dishonesty, sailor, police, violence, hitman, death, murder, suspense, justice, female spy, politician, safe ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
england, new york
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and tense films with plots about deadly, murder, dishonesty, investigation, danger, suspense and law enforcement mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Girl Hunters: Brighton Rock (2010), Archangel (2005), The Return of Mr. Moto (1965), The Quiller Memorandum (1966), Varg Veum - Yours 'till Death (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
gangsters, gang war, waitress, revenge, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, criminal heroes, couples, murder, woman in danger, gang, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
england, europe, brighton
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95%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
Set in contemporary Moscow and the frozen northern town of Archangel, the drama revisits the stark landscape of Communist Russia and takes place over four days in the life of academic Fluke Kelso. His fateful meeting with a former Stalinist ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, sensual ...
Plot:
josef stalin, conspiracy, murder, prostitute, investigation, uncover truth, obsession, politics, intrigue, soldier, state affairs, missing person ...
Time:
year 1953
Place:
russia, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min.
Story:
Mr. Moto goes undercover to find out who has been blowing up oil wells and trying to gain total control of all the oil leases from a petroleum-rich Middle Eastern country.
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, psychotronic ...
Plot:
nightclub, hitman, undercover, kidnapping, working undercover, who done it, interpol, disorder, espionage, rivalry, rescue, intrigue ...
Time:
60s
Place:
middle east, europe, london, england, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two British agents are murdered by a mysterious Neonazi organization in West Berlin. The British Secret Service sends agent Quiller to investigate. Soon Quiller is confronted with Neonazi chief "Oktober" and involved in a dangerous game ...
Style:
neo noir, exciting, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, espionage, british intelligence, cold war, neo nazi, undercover, secret agents, secret mission, gang, rivalry, heroes, racism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Private eye Varg Veum is on a routine mission searching for his client Jonas Andresen's stolen car. The car is found having been used in a brutal robbery and not long after that the client himself turns up dead.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, realistic, neo noir, serious
Plot:
private investigator, robbery, murder, private detective, investigation, uncover truth, dishonesty, woman in danger, new love, law enforcement, who done it, twists and turns ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A marriage that seemed perfect comes crashing down after the supposed death of Jack Saunders, husband of Adrienne Saunders. After his supposed death, strange developments begin to be discovered by Adrienne regarding Jack's past. Developments ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, twisted, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
bigamy, intrigue, stolen identity, suspense, women, betrayal, life is a bitch, serial killer, infidelity, marriage, cat, suffocation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min.
Story:
Two middle-aged, lesbian couples accidentally kill a younger lesbian and hide the body, without reporting it to the authorities. Their guilt and long-kept, dark secret comes back to haunt them, as an unexpected stranger shows up in their lives, ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, serious, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
murder, vengeance, rivalry, mysterious character, couples, couple relations, gender, haunted by the past, lgbt, conspiracy, missing person, disposing of a dead body ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A young college student is found stabbed to death,and private detective Vares life takes an interesting turn when the girls family asks him to investigate the case.
Style:
realistic, rough, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
private detective, private investigator, murder, investigation, dishonesty, murder investigation, university, mysticism, shipyard, hidden corpse, cold case, hangout ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Los Angeles private-eye Philip Marlowe is trying to locate the brother of his new client, a woman named Orfamay Quest. The trail leads to two men who deny any knowledge of the brother's existence. Both are soon killed by an ice pick, so Marlowe ...
Style:
neo noir, mind bending, tense, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
private detective, blackmail, murder, investigation, gangsters, femme fatale, missing person, private investigator, mysticism, love, betrayal, karate ...
Time:
60s
Place:
los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
At the height of the London blitz, Dr Lennox Collins, pioneer of the new forensic science, is enlisted by DI Wilkins after prostitute Mary Williams is strangled and a swastika carved on her tongue.
Style:
realistic, stylized, captivating, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
world war two, investigation, serial killer, forensics, partners, law enforcement, life is a bitch, suspense, murder mystery, intrigue, police investigation, woman in danger ...
Time:
20th century, year 1940, 1940s
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
Plot:
private detective, private investigator, russian roulette, suspense, paranoia, murder, police corruption, investigation, cons and scams, who done it, dishonesty, uncover truth ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
louisiana, usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Story of international intrigue involving a university professor, an Arab prime minister, a ruthless businessman, a beautiful spy, and hieroglyphics.
Style:
suspenseful, talky, witty, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
spy, espionage, murder, gangsters, intrigue, justice, political intrigue, professor, plot twist, twists and turns, politics, dishonesty ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
england, london, middle east, europe, oxford university
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Ten strangers are invited as weekend guests to a remote mountain mansion.When the host doesn't show up, the guests start dying, one by one, in uniquely macabre Agatha Christie-style.It is based on Christie's best-selling novel with 100 ...
Style:
suspenseful, talky, psychological, tense, sexy ...
Plot:
murder, serial killer, murder mystery, isolation, mind game, private detective, investigation, characters killed one by one, guilt, false accusation, psychopath, survival ...
Time:
60s, 1930s, 70s
Place:
alps, austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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:
neo noir, perverse, sexy, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
femme fatale, private detective, serial killer, erotica, christmas, private investigator, woman with a gun, investigation, psychopath, murder, sex maniac, witnessing a crime ...
Time:
80s
Place:
vietnam
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office official Samuel Fennan. Dobbs suspects that Fennan's wife, Elsa, a survivor of a Nazi Germany extermination camp, might have some clues, but other ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, enigmatic, exciting ...
Plot:
espionage, cold war, spy, private detective, secret agents, uncover truth, working undercover, love affair, office, political corruption, infidelity, undercover ...
Time:
60s
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
An espionage thriller set in the 1950s and adapted from the novel "Year Suan/Plot Against" by May Jia. Tony Leung Chiu Wai plays a blind man who works for a piano tuner. He is recruited for a spy mission because of his exceptional hearing.
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, captivating
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, political unrest, war, undercover, blind man, disability, secret agents, misfit, secret movement, dishonesty, state affairs, espionage ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has ...
Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychological
Plot:
serial killer, private detective, investigation, amateur detective, murder, psychopath, mind game, rivalry, law enforcement, protagonist as suspect, who done it, police investigation ...
Place:
usa, new york, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A network of older spies from the West recruits a young intelligence officer with a photographic memory to accompany them on a mission inside Russia. They must recover a letter written by the CIA that promises American assistance to Russia if China ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, espionage, cold war, undercover, manhunt, kremlin, intrigue, secret mission, murder, traitor, letter, photographic memory ...
Time:
60s
Place:
russia, china, moscow russia, asia, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
On Ne Meurt Que Deux Fois, a French murder mystery based upon a novel of the same name, is an unusual, involving film with excellent performances by its entire cast. Police Inspector Staniland (Michel Serrault) is investigating the death of a ...
Style:
neo noir, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
femme fatale, murder, police detective, seduction, who done it, investigation, couples, law enforcement, dishonesty, crime investigation, jealousy, incest overtones ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
canada, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
After Elaine Hopkin is found dead, apparent an OD suicide, her firstborn Mark wouldn't even inform his dad James Hopkin, who was locked up for murder. Kid sister Justine, a cocky uniformed cop, goes visit him, only to learn he was just ...
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, rough
Plot:
investigation, murder, righting the wronged, law enforcement, dishonesty, rivalry, intrigue, parents and children, police, family relations, dog, betrayal ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Karsten Aslaksen, chief engineer of a large chemical company, disappears without trace. His married lover, a successful politician named Vibeke Farang, approaches private investigator Varg Veum to track him down discreetly.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, neo noir, mind bending ...
Plot:
investigation, private detective, murder, life is a bitch, child in peril, justice, abduction, suspense, private investigator, injustice, stoners, law enforcement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
norway
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A killer of Detroit clergy confesses to a priest (Donald Sutherland), who turns sleuth because he cannot tell the police.
Style:
disturbing, serious, bleak, atmospheric, neo noir ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, psychopath, moral dilemma, church, haunted by the past, investigation, society, legal, uncover truth, clergy, who done it ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Divorced private detective Francois Maneri is assigned by his agency to investigate the disappearance of Rachel, a young student who has been missing for six months. After interviewing Rachel's family, friends and classmates, Francois is ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, neo noir, cynical ...
Plot:
missing person, dishonesty, obsession, murder, suspense, private investigator, nude, sexual content, female nudity, femme fatale, male objectification, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
D.I. Tom Thorne's latest case puts him on the hunt for not one, but two serial killers, who seem to be working together, yet killing separately.
Style:
rough, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
serial killer, police investigation, murder, murderous pair, police detective, fighting crime, law enforcement, murder mystery, strangulation, psychopath, deadly
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, psychological, meditative, serious ...
Plot:
private detective, investigation, murder, missing person, suspense, infidelity, loneliness, manipulation, crime gone awry, complex characters, espionage, uncover truth ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
usa, florida, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Four Hardcore party posers are suddenly facing an unknown killer when one of them disappears.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, scary, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, friendship, dishonesty, betrayal, femme fatale, female killer, suspicion, suspense, power relations, twentysomething life, crime gone awry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
Style:
neo noir, cynical, enigmatic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
private detective, suspense, murder, missing person, twists and turns, investigation, uncover truth, dishonesty, kidnapping, ransom, private investigator, cons and scams ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Socialite Molly Lasch is released from prison after serving a six-year sentence for the murder of her husband, Dr. Gary Lasch. Now, with the help of Fran, an investigative reporter, Molly sets out to prove her innocence. Together they uncover a ...
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, mind bending ...
Plot:
murder, righting the wronged, uncover truth, false accusation, woman in danger, law enforcement, partners, life is a bitch, amateur detective, dishonesty, price of justice, riddles and clues ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Infatuated with the idea of becoming rich, college student Jonathan Corliss secretly dates Dorothy Carlsson to gain the approval of her wealthy father. When Dorothy tells Jonathan that she is pregnant and that her father will deny her inheritance if ...
Style:
neo noir, scary, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
twins, obsession, murder, psychopath, blind ambition, dishonesty, investigation, single parent, dysfunctional marriage, father daughter relationship, suspicion, mother son relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 80s
Place:
new york, philadelphia, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away.
Style:
neo noir, stylized, clever, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, hitman, heist, betrayal, corruption, killer, twists and turns, femme fatale, murder, crime gone awry, death, greed ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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