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The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (2004)
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The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A woman becomes romantically involved with a murder defendant while she is a juror in his trial.
Style: cynical, semi serious, experimental, suspense, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, contemplative ...
Plot: murder, couples, legal, legal investigation, courtroom drama, artists and showbiz, parents and children, scandal, college, sexual relations, looking for sex, media satire, power relations, sex, female nudity, nymphomaniac, mother daughter relationship, casual sex, jury, flashback, courtroom, police surveillance, deadly, blow job, loud sex ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and offbeat films with plots about couples, murder, life is a bitch, female nudity, deadly, courtroom and love and romance mostly in Drama, Comedy and Crime genres. Some movies like The Love Crimes of Gillian Guess: Citizen Verdict (2003), Witness for the Prosecution (1982), Cheech (2006), One Angry Juror (2010), The Final Curtain (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Citizen Verdict (2003)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 97 min.
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Witness for the Prosecution (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sir Wilfred Robarts, a famed barrister is released from the hospital, where he stayed for two months following his heart attack. Returning to the practise of his lawyer skills, he takes the case of Leonard Vole, an unemployed man who is accused of ...
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Cheech (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Six people, some more depressed than others, living through the worst day of their lives.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy
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One Angry Juror (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Based on the true story of Sarah Walsh, a tough New Orleans attorney who serves on a murder trial jury and does some investigating of her own.
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Time: 21st century
Place: louisiana, new orleans, usa
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Genre: Drama
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Duration: 85 min.
Story: The Final Curtain is a British film from 2002 directed by Patrick Harkins and starring Peter O'Toole. It tells the story of J. J. Curtis, ageing gameshow host played by O'Toole, who hires novelist Jonathan Stitch (Adrian Lester) to pen his ...
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Prosecuting Casey Anthony (2013)
Genre: Drama
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Duration: 91 min.
Story: "Prosecuting Casey Anthony" reveals Florida prosecutor, Jeff Ashton’s inside story of the true crime drama that captivated and then shocked the nation when Caylee Anthony’s mother, Casey, was acquitted of killing her daughter, despite ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: florida, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min.
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: About the 1989 murders of Carolco Entertainment chairman, Jose Menendez, and his wife, Kitty, who were killed by their sons, Lyle and Erik, in Beverly Hills, allegedly for a multimillion-dollar inheritance.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak
Plot: courtroom, murder, family problems, family relations, parents and children, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, courtroom drama, legal, life is a bitch, false accusation, brother brother relationship ...
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Voice Over (2014)
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Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, clever, realistic
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Genre: Drama
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