Movies like In the Blink of an Eye 1996
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In the Blink of an Eye (1996)
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Hamel portrays director Dickoff who suspends her career in order to help a friend who's been in prison for quite some time in connection with a murder.
Plot:
serial killer, love, prison, lawyer, women's prison, death, criminal, court, best friend, sadness, desperation, jail, death of loved one, false accusation, jail cell, dead cop, friend, execution, true crime, shooting, police car, shot to death, trial, female director
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, disturbing and thought provoking films with plots about murder, serial killer, true crime, prison, court, lawyer and courtroom mostly in Drama, Crime and Biography genres. Some movies like In the Blink of an Eye: Blue Caprice (2013), The Pastor's Wife (2011), Blue-Eyed Butcher (2012), The Marquise of Darkness (2010), Reflections on a Crime (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A married man meets a beautiful woman and they begin an affair.
Plot:
serial killer, flashback, adultery, lawyer, courtroom, judge, murder, true crime, court, talking to the camera, looking at the camera
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A narrative feature film inspired by the events known as the Beltway sniper attacks.
Style:
realistic, psychological, disturbing, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, partners, violence spree, on the run, on the road, killer, sniper, lawyer, small town, african american, murderer, psychopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, usa, maryland
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57%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Matthew Winkler, a beloved minister who, in 2006, was found shot and killed in his Selmer, Tennessee home, his wife and young daughters missing. Authorities soon zeroed in on Matthew's wife, Mary, as the prime suspect ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot:
murder, marital rape, investigation, social relations, small town, domestic violence, serial killer, preacher, court, under the surface, love, pastor ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, tennessee
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57%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Lifetime biopic based on the story of Susan Wright. Susan appeared to be the model wife and mother, living the fairytale life, literally married to Mr. Wright. In a shocking turn of events, the media dubs Susan Wright the "Blue-Eyed ...
Style:
bleak, disturbing, suspenseful
Plot:
serial killer, murder of husband, violence, domestic violence, court, suspense, family relations, family problems, family conflict, love, lawyer, psychopath ...
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56%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History
Country: France
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Marie Madeleine Dreux, Marquise of Brinvilliers, was executed in 1676 for poisoning. Manipulated by her lover and having kept the aftereffects of her childhood, she does not hesitate to poison her father and two brothers to recover their inheritance.
Plot:
serial killer, male nudity, true crime, daughter murders father, family relations, assassin, murder, court, french history, execution, poison, female full frontal nudity
Time:
17th century
Place:
france
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Seven years ago, Regina (Mimi Rogers) was tried for the death. On the night before she becomes the first woman in over 40 years to be executed in a federal penitentiary, she befriends the lone, curious prison guard Colin Reeves (Billy Zane), who has ...
Plot:
prison, death row, exploitation, execution, death of husband, accidental death, flashback, divorce, guilt, husband wife relationship, love, murder ...
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54%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story:
Army Sergeant Tim Hennis is wrongly convicted of killing the wife and children of an Air Force captain. Based on a true story.
Plot:
love, captain, sergeant, u.s. air force, u.s. army, military, testimony, investigation, child murder, murder, mother daughter relationship, serial killer ...
Time:
80s
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53%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
This film is based on the true story of Aileen Wuornos a prostitute-turned-serial killer who preyed mostly on truck drivers.
Plot:
serial killer, killer, prostitute, murderer, prostitution, female killer
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51%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
'Kurt' claims to be a sales rep. He also claims to be English in spite of his heavy Italian accent. Kurt is an habitual liar and a dangerous driver, at the very least. In the south of France he meets Léa, age 16. Between his increasingly ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, melancholic, captivating
Plot:
true crime, serial killer, murder, prison, rape, freak, misfit, killer, female nudity, corpse, kidnapping, on the road ...
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49%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
TV movie based on the novel "Blood Brothers," about the murder of Jose Menéndez and his wife Kitty by their sons, Erik and Lyle.
Plot:
serial killer, patricide, death of mother, matricide, family relations, true crime, death, death of father, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, murder, courtroom ...
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48%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Inseparable Alabama twin sisters, Betty Gay Wilson and Peggy Joy Lowe, are arrested and tried for conspiring to murder Betty's wealthy husband. These two sisters hire handyman James White to kill Betty's husband. White's love and ...
Plot:
serial killer, twins, jury, jail, christian, handyman, dual role, courtroom drama, police interrogation, sister sister relationship, police arrest, murder trial ...
Place:
southern usa
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48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Steven Keeney is a big corporate lawyer who decides to take on a small-time murder case to discover the true circumstances behind the death of a young girl. Virginia McGinnis is the one suspected of pushing the women off the cliff to collect on a ...
Style:
psychological
Plot:
serial killer, lawyer, love, investigation, murder, justice, true crime
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47%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The complicated relationship that formed between the FBI analyst Bill Hagmaier and serial killer Ted Bundy during Bundy's final years on death row.
Style:
psychological, captivating, tense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
serial killer, psycho killer, death row, confession, murderer, killer, couple relations, charm, male female relationship, relationship problems, criminal, suspense ...
Time:
80s
Place:
florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
The tragic and controversial story of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in Texas for killing his three children after scientific evidence and expert testimony that bolstered his claims of innocence were suppressed.
Style:
realistic, emotional, compassionate, thought provoking, factual ...
Plot:
court, lawyer, arson, justice, fighting the system, death sentence, hopes, prison, false accusation, freedom, legal, injustice ...
Place:
texas
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46%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An abused 15 year old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty in this fact-based story.
Style:
emotional, neo noir, sad, serious, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
death row, teenage prostitute, murder, revenge, teenage prostitution, lawyer, teenage girl, prison, teenager, serial killer, age difference, death sentence ...
Time:
80s
Place:
oklahoma
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
When Colin Warner was wrongfully convicted of murder, his best friend Carl King devoted his life to proving his innocence.
Style:
realistic, intense, thought provoking, serious, sad
Plot:
prison, miscarriage of justice, wrongful conviction, false accusation, friendship, husband wife relationship, african american, lie, injustice, fighting the system, legal, freedom ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city
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41%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An eccentric older woman (Ann-Margret) implicates her brutal & controlling lover in the murder of a young retarded girl. Absorbed with "Murder She Wrote" and "Matlock", she creates details of the murder from clues she ...
Plot:
serial killer, killer, true crime, violent, rape, female nudity, sociopath, serial murder, black panties, wet t shirt, female full frontal nudity, dead woman in morgue
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40%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
Style:
emotional, tense, serious, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, writers, gay, journalism, obsession, friendship, writer's life, manipulation, justice, police investigation, human nature, gossip and rumors ...
Time:
60s, 50s, 20th century
Place:
kansas, new york, manhattan new york city, usa, california ...
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40%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
In this fact-based film, Gary Gilmore, an Indiana man who just finished serving a lengthy stay in prison, tries to start anew by moving to Utah. Before long, Gary begins an ill-advised romance with the troubled Nicole Baker, a teenage single mother. ...
Style:
thought provoking, serious, realistic, rough, bleak ...
Plot:
death row, murder, death sentence, prison, courtroom drama, price of justice, going straight, journalism, legal, confined, true crime, lawyer ...
Time:
year 1976
Place:
utah, usa
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40%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When Betty Anne Waters' older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is ...
Style:
sincere, emotional, touching, inspirational, sad ...
Plot:
lawyer, court, legal, fighting the system, courtroom drama, prison, injustice, false accusation, freedom, legal action, hopes, justice ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1992, year 2001, year 1995 ...
Place:
massachusetts, rhode island, boston, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation ...
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
courtroom drama, lawyer, serial killer, kidnapping, confined, legal, life is a bitch, legal action, legal investigation, rebellion, fighting the system, law enforcement ...
Time:
1930s
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37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
A re-enactment of the trial of the mistress of the Scarsdale Diet doctor for his March 1980 murder, with excerpts from the transcript of the proceedings serving as the script.
Plot:
serial killer, doctor, lawyer, murder, courtroom, murder trial, director, crimes of passion, court
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36%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of the mass murderer Jeffrey Dahmer, the events within the family behind, and leading up to, his capture
Style:
thought provoking, serious, tense, realistic, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, family relations, psychopath, human nature, family problems, parents and children, haunted by the past, father son relationship, gay, killer, suspense ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, 80s, 70s, 90s ...
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Investigates the corrupt judicial system under which Alain Mar'caux and his wife Edith were arrested on accusations of pedophilia horrific acts they never committed- and the years he spent fighting to get out of prison, clear his name and keep ...
Style:
thought provoking, disturbing, touching, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
lawyer, prison, courtroom, legal, false accusation, police brutality, imprisonment, broken family, injustice, judge, courtroom drama, life turned upside down ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, france, flanders
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A series of interviews are conducted with convicted serial killer Ted Bundy in hopes of gaining insight into the Green River Killer who is terrorizing Seattle.
Style:
psychological, serious, disturbing, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
serial killer, psychopath, investigation, profiler, mind game, life is a bitch, track down, police detective, woman in danger, killer, murder, brutality ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, washington d.c., florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
The powerful true story of Harvard-educated lawyer Bryan Stevenson, who goes to Alabama to defend the disenfranchised and wrongly condemned — including Walter McMillian, a man sentenced to death despite evidence proving his innocence. Bryan fights ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspenseful, touching, inspirational ...
Plot:
lawyer, false accusation of murder, courtroom, defense attorney, prison, murder, perjury, african american, innocence, convict, lie, racism ...
Time:
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Place:
alabama
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35%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Based on an actual event that occurred in the southern region of Chillán in 1960, tells the story of an illiterate peasant who, while drunk, murdered the woman with whom he had relationships and her five daughters
Plot:
mental disorder, social injustice, affection, violence, train, prison, death, police, baby, girl, confession, friendship ...
Time:
60s, 50s
Place:
chile
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34%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Killer Vincent "Mad Dog" Coll moves in on gangster Dutch Schultz in 1920s New York.
Plot:
serial killer, gangsters, true crime, irish, villain as protagonist, bandit, violence, stripper, love interest, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mafia, girlfriend ...
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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33%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
This is the story of a young woman who was found dead. Now the police investigate, and evidence points to a man she was seen leaving a party with. Now when questioned, he claims that her death was accidental, as a result of rough sex. Now her family ...
Plot:
serial killer, court, crimes of passion, murder, police, death, sex, legal, park
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33%
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
The true story of the pursuit and capture of Charles Cullen, one of the most prolific serial killers in history, who is suspected of having murdered up to 400 patients during his 16-year career as a nurse, earning him the moniker "The Angel of ...
Style:
dramatic, psychological, dark
Plot:
serial killer, criminal, suspense, doctor, psychopath, investigation, killer, judiciary, mother daughter relationship, sport, nurse, murder of wife ...
Time:
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Place:
pennsylvania, new jersey
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33%
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