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Made in U.S.A (1966)
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Made in U.S.A (1966)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Paula Nelson (Anna Karina), a female version of Humphrey Bogart's hard boiled detectives, goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, at an unknown point in the future (maybe 1969). Once there, she learns that Richard is dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis (Yves Afonso), a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.
Style: neo noir, surreal, art house, psychological, serious, realistic, stylized, experimental, avant garde, crying ...
Plot: writers, strong female lead, social satire, woman with a gun, modernism, investigation, politics, murder, psychopath, kidnapping, life is a bitch, private detective, manipulation, legal investigation, false accusation, crime gone awry, amateur detective, dishonesty, dedicated lawyer, uncover truth, destructive relationship, celebrity culture, gangster, war, serial killer ...
Time: year 1966, 60s
Place: france, europe, paris france
Keyword: gangsters, new wave

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, detective and neo noir films with plots about murder, investigation, deadly, dishonesty, law enforcement, amateur detective and uncover truth mostly in Crime, Comedy and Mystery genres. Some movies like Made in U.S.A: Band of Outsiders (1964), Detective (1985), Confidentially Yours (1983), Crime Is Our Business (2008), La chinoise (1967). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Band of Outsiders (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Cinephile slackers Franz and Arthur spend their days mimicking the antiheroes of Hollywood noirs and Westerns while pursuing the lovely Odile. The misfit trio upends convention at every turn, be it through choreographed dances in cafés or ...
Style: black and white, cult classic, neo noir, postmodern, talky ...
Plot: robbery, love triangle, gunfight, alienation, caper, crime gone awry, danger, louvre, teenage girl, modernism, isolation, time travel ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 5.7
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Detective (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a ...
Style: neo noir, detective, contemplative, tense, talky ...
Plot: murder, minimalism, cop, mafia, female nudity, gangster, legal investigation, police investigation, dishonesty, against the rules, going straight, femme fatale ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Confidentially Yours (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel (Jean-Louis Trintignant), an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discover that Marie-Christine Vercel ...
Style: black and white, art house, neo noir, noir, detective ...
Plot: investigation, psycho, women, female empowerment, empowerment, false accusation, murder, police interrogation, office, lawyer, jealousy, unrequited love ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: france, europe, marseille, nice france
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Crime Is Our Business (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Prudence Beresford is investigating another murder. Her aunt had witnessed it, but no body was found, and nobody trusted her word. Nobody, except Prudence, of course!
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Plot: murder, private detective, amateur detective, family relations, odd couple, uncover truth, investigation, partner, couple relations, master and servant, disorder, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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La chinoise (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
Style: political, philosophical, art house, artsy, cult classic ...
Plot: revolution, communism, politics, anarchist, protest, marxist, legal, anarchy, communist, hippie, modernism, isolation ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: france, paris france, europe, britain, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Perfume Of The Lady In Black (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.
Style: humorous, suspenseful, atmospheric, semi serious, stylized ...
Plot: mysterious character, uncover truth, investigation, missing person, amateur detective, who done it, riddles and clues, murder, odd couple, danger, dishonesty, silly humor ...
Time: 19th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
V.I. Warshawski, Detective in High Heels (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Victoria "V.I" Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boyfriend; then he is murdered. Being the detective type, she makes the murder her next case. In doing so she befriends the victim's ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, murder, murder mystery, justice, woman fights a man, happy ending, strong female character, investigation, father daughter relationship, who done it, uncover truth, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Joseph Rouletabille (Bruno Podalydès), a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson (Sabine Azéma), who uses the yellow room of the title as her bedroom. At the time of the revolver shots her room was ...
Style: rough, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: murder, investigation, journalism, law enforcement, danger, mysterious past, mysterious event, locked room, millennial, perfect crime, mysticism, police officer ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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A Slight Case of Murder (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe (William H. Macy) accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers his tracks, he raises the suspicions of a private investigator (James Cromwell), who then tries to blackmail him. Thorpe also falls ...
Style: detective, crime thriller, neo noir, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: murder, film critic, investigation, private detective, blackmail, courtroom, hollywood, filmmaking, who done it, protagonist as suspect, police investigation, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
We Still Kill the Old Way (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A leftist professor wants the truth about two men killed during a hunting party; but the mafia, the Church and corrupt politicians don't want him to learn it.
Style: poliziottesco, neo noir, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: police, mafia, italian mafia, investigation, love triangle, gangster, violent content, danger, dishonesty, society, amateur detective, fighting the system ...
Time: year 1967, 60s
Place: italy, sicily, europe, palermo italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Bride Wore Black (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal ? What is her purpose?
Style: neo noir, noir, stylized, dark comedy, art house ...
Plot: revenge, femme fatale, justice, vigilante, murder, serial killer, wedding, swing, modernism, danger, judiciary, teenage girl ...
Time: year 1968, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Love Is Colder Than Death (1969)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Unusual gangster story, in which a small-time pimp Franz, who is torn between his mistress and Bruno the gangster sent after him by the syndicate that he has refused to join.
Style: art house, neo noir, political, surreal, mind bending ...
Audience: manly
Plot: hitman, gangster, fall in love, sex, prostitute, street walker, ruthlessness, dying young, serial killer, nihilism, killer, beaten up ...
Time: 60s
Place: munich germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
 7.4
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Pierrot le Fou (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
Style: road movie, surreal, atmospheric, art house, visual ...
Plot: on the road, on the run, lovers on the run, road trip, smuggling, betrayal, infidelity, surrealism, couple relations, couples, vietnam war, tragic love ...
Time: 20th century, year 1965, near future, 60s
Place: france, paris france, mediterranean sea, europe, provence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Man with Bogart's Face (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In The Man With Bogart's Face, an affectionate send-up of the Bogart detective films of the 1940s, Robert Sacchi plays a man who idolizes Humphrey Bogart so much he has his features altered to look exactly like his idol. He then opens up a ...
Style: neo noir, semi serious, parody, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: private detective, hollywood, private investigator, lookalikes, doppelganger, surgery, transgender, face, plastic surgery, murder, who done it, power relations ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Writer, ex-con and 40-something bottle-baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black-outs, awakens from a two-week bender to discover a pool of blood in his car.
Style: realistic, psychological, serious, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: amnesia, murder, chief of police, memory loss, investigation, manipulation, psychopath, drug abuse, terminal illness, alcohol abuse, mind game, protagonist as suspect ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Alphabet Murders (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
Style: detective, realistic, parody, not serious, humorous ...
Plot: private detective, serial killer, murder mystery, mysticism, hercule poirot, investigation, murder, law enforcement, danger, riddles and clues, who done it, silly humor ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, scotland yard, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Murder She Said (1961)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Miss Marple believes she’s seen a murder in a passing by train yet when the police find no evidence she decides to investigate it on her own. Her inquisitions lead her to a mountain top. The first of four films starring Margaret Rutherford as Miss ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, clever, black and white ...
Plot: private detective, whodunit, amateur detective, strangulation, murder, murder mystery, police investigation, dishonesty, uncover truth, woman strangled to death, serial killer, law enforcement ...
Time: year 1961, 60s
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.3
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The Monster (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, slapstick, parody, realistic ...
Plot: mistaken identity, farce, serial killer, odd couple, chase, dark humor, unemployment, european, parents, woman with a gun, mysticism, murder ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Cops and Robbers (1973)
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two disillusioned New York policemen plan a $10 million robbery to fuel their low pensions, only to run into one debacle after another in the process.
Style: realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, witty ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cop, law enforcement, organized crime, nypd, mafia, gangster, heist, crime gone awry, chase, partner, police detective, disorder ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
The Singing Detective (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Musical, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.
Style: surreal, psychological, stylized, detective, intense ...
Plot: murder mystery, murder, paranoia, psychiatrist, delusion, private detective, hospital, writers, investigation, artists and showbiz, amateur detective, doctors and patients ...
Time: 20th century, year 2003, 50s, 1950s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Inspector Lavardin (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, bleak ...
Plot: murder, investigation, life is a bitch, uncover truth, who done it, friendship, law enforcement, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty, legal, legal investigation, mind game ...
Time: 80s
Place: france, europe, brittany
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Murder Most Foul (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A murderer is brought to court and only Miss Marple is unconvinced of his innocence. Once again she begins her own investigation. The third Miss Marple film starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, black and white ...
Plot: whodunit, amateur detective, private detective, courtroom drama, murder, strangulation, murder mystery, false accusation, power relations, legal, dishonesty, mysterious character ...
Time: 60s, year 1951, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 6.7
 2K
Serial Lover (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, dark humor, disorder, looking for love, thirty something, writers, dinner, misfit, freak, gory, blood ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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 7.0
 27K
Alphaville (1965)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An American private-eye, arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is ruled by an evil scientist named Von Braun, who has outlawed love and self-expression.
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, futuristic, cerebral, detective ...
Plot: dystopia, surrealism, distopia, artificial intelligence, cyberpunk, dystopian future, spy, obsession, utopia, imagination, existentialism, satire ...
Time: future, year 1965
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Long Goodbye (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
Style: neo noir, detective, noir, dark, cynical ...
Audience: manly
Plot: private detective, murder, cat, betrayal, whodunit, investigation, mental institution, beach, alcoholic, private investigator, loneliness, gangster ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place: malibu california, california, los angeles, mexico, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Illustrious Corpses (1976)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A detective (inspector Rogas) is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges. During the investigation he discovers a complot that involves the Italian Communist Party. (IMDb)
Style: poliziottesco, detective, gloomy, tense, realistic ...
Plot: italian politics, conspiracy, police, politics, serial killer, rebel, trust, jazz, city, organized crime, italian mafia, murder ...
Time: year 1976, 70s, 20th century
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Empire of the Wolves (2005)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, Turkey
Duration: 128 min.
Story: When the young detective Paul Nerteaux finds the third slashed female corpse of illegal Turkish immigrants, he decides to ask for support to the experienced dark retired detective Jean-Louis Schiffer to chase the serial killer. Together, they ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, realistic, serious, detective ...
Plot: uncover truth, memory loss, murder, serial killer, life is a bitch, master criminal, danger, terrorism, police detective, police officer, spy, female fighter ...
Time: 2000s
Place: france, paris france, istanbul turkey, europe, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Scenesters (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Someone is killing beautiful young Hipsters in East L.A. Charlie is a crime scene cleaner working for Aftershocks Inc. with a penchant for Sherlock Holmes type deduction. Wallace is an out-of-luck filmmaker working as a crime scene videographer. The ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, fish out of water, disorder, who done it, amateur detective, hipster, filmmaker, found footage, whodunit, filmmaking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Nobody Else But You (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The ambiguous suicide of a local beauty, weathergirl, cheese model, and Marilyn Monroe look-a-like finds an eager sleuth in David Rousseau, best-selling crime novelist. When Rousseau visits a remote Alps village for the reading of his friend's ...
Style: semi serious, erotic, sexy, captivating, melancholic ...
Plot: investigation, mysterious death, blonde, small town, suicide, psychiatrist, misogyny, model, nude model, voyeurism, sex, female nudity ...
Time: year 2001, year 2005, year 2000, year 1999, year 2009 ...
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Lady in Cement (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: While diving for sunken treasure, street-smart gumshoe Tony Rome finds the body of a gorgeous blonde, her feet stuck in a block of cement. Soon after, tough guy Waldo Gronski hires him to find a missing woman named Sandra Lomax, and Rome wonders if ...
Style: neo noir, noir, thrilling, crime drama, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, diving, underwater, murder, yacht, scuba diving, chess, poker, ocean, woman with a gun, deep south, gay ...
Time: 60s
Place: miami, rome italy, usa, europe, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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