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Last Embrace (1979)
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Genre: Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Secret agent Harry Hannan suffers a mental breakdown when a botched mission in Mexico results in the death of his wife. He is sent to a mental asylum, after which he eventually returns to work. But, once again, he begins to doubt his sanity when he receives a bizarre death threat written in Hebrew. Not knowing which of his colleagues wants to kill him, Hannan teams up with pretty young college student Ellie Fabian to attempt to unravel the mystery.
Style:
neo noir, cult classic, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
Plot:
niagara falls, female nudity, brothel, nudity, spy, betrayal, obsession, murder, conspiracy, agent, cemetery, secret service, laboratory, forced prostitution, library, death of wife, ritual murder, government agent, pet cat, white slavery, mental breakdown, covert operation, paranoia, suspicion, prostitute ...
Time:
year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, austin texas, mexico
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and neo noir films with plots about murder, deadly, dishonesty, investigation, nude, danger and female nudity mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Romance genres. Some movies like Last Embrace: Marathon Man (1976), The Morning After (1986), Blue Ice (1992), Bloodline (1979), Klute (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Style:
psychological, suspense, suspenseful, tension, intense ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
20th century, year 1976, 70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, uruguay, paris france, persia ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, california
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Genre: Action, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An ex-British spy (Michael Caine) helps a U.S. diplomat's wife (Sean Young) and blows the lid off a deadly government cover-up.
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 116 min.
Story:
When her father is murdered, a cosmetics heiress becomes the next target of an unknown killer amid the international jet set.
Style:
tense, serious, suspenseful, independent film, captivating ...
Plot:
murder of a nude woman, woman strangled to death, murder, manipulation, who done it, uncover truth, police investigation, danger, couples, love affair, law enforcement, obsession ...
Time:
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
This acclaimed thriller stars Jane Fonda as Bree Daniel, a New York City call girl who becomes enmeshed in an investigation into the disappearance of a business executive. Detective John Klute is hired to follow Daniel, and eventually begins a ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, psychological, suspenseful, cynical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
private detective, prostitute, obsession, conspiracy, call girl, missing person, private investigator, investigation, brutality, murder mystery, pimp, prostitution ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, pennsylvania, usa, manhattan new york city, new york state ...
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21%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, ...
Style:
neo noir, sexy, suspense, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, espionage, murder, conspiracy, cold war, investigation, sex scene, spy, undercover, love triangle, accidental killing, political corruption ...
Time:
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Place:
washington d.c., pentagon, manila philippines, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The e-cop Tom Beckwith has just quit his police job in order to study psychology. But his professor, Lauren Porter, is more interested in his criminology abilities than in his progress in psychology. Because of traumatic circumstances during her ...
Style:
neo noir, independent film, mind bending, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
schizophrenia, erotica, nudity, bare breasts, woman seduces a man, psychology, professor, police, ex-cop, split personality, obsession, murder ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The sins of the past are not forgotten in this chilling suspense thriller. When the first body was discovered, it seemed a coincidence. But now homicide detective Jack Verdon has cause to worry: the victims of a series of brutal sex murders are all ...
Style:
tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, seattle
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
political conspiracy, murder, witnessing a crime, on the run, investigation, uncover truth, politics, danger, police corruption, government agency, chase, life is a bitch ...
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
sex scene, erotica, prison, home invasion, police officer killed, murder, righting the wronged, injustice, false accusation, fall in love, frame up, dishonesty ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, year 1975
Similarity:
19%
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Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A psychopath kills members of a video dating club and records their deaths.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stripper, female nudity, law enforcement, life is a bitch, chases and races, dishonesty, false accusation, murder, frame up, righting the wronged, murderer, psychopath ...
Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Holly is a struggling singer whose life is torn apart when she loses custody of her daughter, Chloe. When she travels to her soon to be ex-husbands estate in the country, for a weekend visit with Chloe, she is shocked to discover that he is missing. ...
Style:
neo noir, realistic, serious, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: France, Japan
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
neo noir, psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, disturbing, tense, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, suspenseful, suspense, tense, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
18%
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Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
independent film, psychological, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
vietnam
Similarity:
17%
983
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Rembrandt Macy (Tom Berenger) is a maverick cop assigned to a case where the primary evidence is a woman's hand found in a pond. Investigators identify the dead, and Macy is lead into a young woman's past. Macy's primary path to ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, san diego california, new orleans, new jersey
Similarity:
17%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
neo noir, period piece, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, world war two, investigation, nazi, sex shop, justice, haunted by the past, journalism, uncover truth, love of one's life, love affair, cold war ...
Time:
20th century, 1940s, year 2006, post world war two, year 1945 ...
Place:
germany, berlin germany, europe
Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, clergy, amateur detective, uncover truth, youth, society, dishonesty, danger, teenager, soul, strong female presence ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
17%
21K
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his ...
Style:
tense, detective, psychological, sexy, sexual ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
los angeles, usa, new orleans
Similarity:
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Dr. Arthur Calgary visits the Argyle family to return an address book lost some time ago by Jack Argyle, only to find out that Jack has been executed for the murder of his mother. Calgary can prove that Jack was innocent. In spite of opposition from ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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669
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
neo noir, independent film, tense, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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