Movies like Beauty and the Dogs

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Beauty and the Dogs (2017)
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Beauty and the Dogs (2017)
Original name: على كف عفريت
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Tunisia, France, Sweden, Norway, Lebanon, Qatar, Switzerland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Mariam just wanted to enjoy the night, when a tragic event occurs. Despite the trauma, the pretty tunisian student is determined to go to the police. But what can be done when your persecutor is your only chance?
Style: exciting, tense, suspense, suspenseful, rough, touching, captivating, disturbing, crime thriller
Plot: police, student, party, female protagonist, police station, police brutality, policewoman, women, muslim, violence against women, woman, cycling, legal, rape, dog, police officer, pregnancy, running, hospital, medical examiner, tattoo, pregnant woman, night, cell phone, dormitory ...
Time: year 2017
Place: tunisia, middle east, maghreb
Keyword: feminist film, arabic, dutch

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Most similar movies to Beauty and the Dogs

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, suspense and disturbing films with plots about police, police officer, murder, violence, female protagonist, policewoman and investigation mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Beauty and the Dogs: Huss (2021), Policewoman (2000), Apartment 407 (2016), Holy Spider (2022), Oh Mercy! (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Huss (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
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Story: When Katarina Huss starts as a police officer, she must learn to cope with the hard everyday life on the streets of Gothenburg. At the same time, her colleagues seem to be hiding something and soon she is drawn into a tangle of corruption and ...
Style: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful
Plot: police, policewoman, female protagonist, disorder, civil unrest, coworker, fighting crime, corruption, police station, nordic, female police officer, police officer
Place: scandinavia, eastern europe
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Policewoman (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Die Polizistin is a documentary by Andreas Dresen about the life of a young police woman who is faced with the difficulties between her responsibilities at work and her personal responsibilities.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: police, police station, police academy, police officer, policewoman, tragic romance, female detective, female police detective, officer, small town life, fighting crime, detective inspector ...
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91%
The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Greece, Germany, Netherlands, Sweden
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Elizabeth, a sexually yielding policewoman is miserable in the narrow-minded town she is living, while Rita, a lonely eel-hatchery worker, is trying to escape from the sticky situations of her life.
Style: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative ...
Plot: suicide, murder, policewoman, police, death, resurrection, hanging, surrealism, feminist, small town, violence, teenager ...
Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: greece, athens greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Apartment 407 (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Selling Isobel, a thriller based on true events, featuring the real victim in true life playing the main charter. It's about a woman who got locked in, drugged, held against her will and sold to numerous men for 3 days in an apartment in ...
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, crime drama, independent film
Plot: sex slavery, rape, violence against women, rape victim, violence, graphic violence, trap, struggle for survival, kidnapping, true crime, female nudity, female bondage ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Holy Spider (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, Germany, France, Sweden, Jordan, Italy
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A journalist descends into the dark underbelly of the Iranian holy city of Mashhad as she investigates the serial killings of sex workers by the so called "Spider Killer", who believes he is cleansing the streets of sinners.
Style: action thriller, dramatic, tense, captivating, neo noir ...
Plot: serial killer, prostitute, journalist, murder of a prostitute, prostitution, muslim, religion, police, sex worker, investigation, serial murder, religious fundamentalism ...
Time: year 2001
Place: iran, middle east, maghreb
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51%
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Oh Mercy! (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 119 min.
Story: A police chief in northern France tries to solve a case where an old woman was brutally murdered.
Style: disturbing, captivating, psychological, tense
Plot: french police, murder, police, investigation, police station, crime scene, police officer, corpse, police detective, danger, brutality, violence ...
Time: 2000s
Place: france
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50%
The Corrupted (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Set ahead of the 2012 London Olympics, the film follows Liam (Sam Claflin), an ex-con trying to win back the love and trust of his family. He has lost everything at the hands of a local crime syndicate run by Clifford Cullen (Spall), who has ...
Style: captivating, suspenseful, tense, psychological, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: friendship, corruption, murder, society, danger, escapades, small town, rivalry, police, family relations, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time: year 2012, year 2002, 2000s, 2010s
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48%
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Lila & Eve (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own hands to track down her son’s killers.
Style: suspense, serious, tense, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: murder, female protagonist, violent content, dishonesty, hidden identity, organized crime, conspiracy, police, witness, loss of daughter, manipulation, vigilante ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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47%
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Deadly Exchange (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Samantha and daughter Blake invite Chloe, a foreign exchange student from Britain, into their California home. The two girls become close friends but Samantha's uneasiness begins with the suspicious death of Blake's boyfriend. Samantha ...
Style: disturbing, tense, captivating, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: girl, life is a bitch, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, ruse, female protagonist, relationship problems, plan, girlfriend, problem, stalker, deadly
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46%
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 147 min.
Story: After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in a hospital and is set to face trial for attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, talky, serious ...
Plot: twists and turns, murder, journalist, conspiracy, corruption, hospital, policewoman, investigation, trial, lawyer, kickass women, rape ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, year 2010, 21st century
Place: scandinavia, stockholm sweden, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Les Misérables (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: With a gun at his belt and a truncheon in his hand, Pento has just joined the Seine-Saint-Denis anti-crime brigade, an inner suburb of Paris. On the same team as Chris and Gwada, two men with occasionally “peculiar” methods, he soon discovers ...
Style: realistic, crime thriller, suspense, political, art house ...
Plot: police, ghetto, thief, organized crime, society, life is a bitch, police officer, father son relationship, pursuit, police investigation, danger, gangster ...
Time: 2010s, year 2019
Place: paris france, france
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44%
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Down Under (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A black comedy set during the aftermath of the Cronulla riots, it is the story of two carloads of hotheads from both sides of the fight destined to collide.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: racial slur, chase, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, mother daughter relationship, police, father daughter relationship, violence, rapper, tattoo, race riot, pregnant girlfriend, car ...
Place: new south wales, sydney australia
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42%
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In the Fade (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Katja's life collapses after a senseless act impacts her life. After a time of mourning and injustice, she seeks revenge.
Style: suspense, tense, art house, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: terrorist, lawyer, revenge, racism, conspiracy, terrorist attack, trial, courtroom, bomb, murder, pursuit, drug use ...
Time: year 2017, 2010s, year 2013, year 2016, 21st century
Place: germany, greece, hamburg germany, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Taxi 121 (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic
Story: Taxi 121 is a feature film inspired by true events, where a serial killer took lives of three Prague taxi drivers. Story is focused on one of the victims, the young driver Matej. His one last ride will change life of many people around forever.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, touching, captivating ...
Plot: serial killer, violence, saving a life, getting away with murder, death, killing spree, drunkenness, american tourist, boy, traffic policeman, psychopath, husband wife relationship ...
Place: prague, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Made in France (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Sam, a freelance journalist, decides to investigate the growing phenomenon of disaffected youth joining extremist groups. He infiltrates a group of four young people who have been tasked with the creation of a jihadist cell and whose mission is to ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, psychological, rough ...
Plot: jihad, al qaeda, undercover, murder, terrorist, terrorist group, arms dealer, terrorist plot, father son relationship, bomb, islamic terrorism, islam ...
Place: france, paris france
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38%
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Paulina (2015)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Brazil, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Paulina is a young lawyer with a promising career in Buenos Aires, who chooses to go back to her home town. Her father, Fernando, is a well known judge. Against his will, Paulina decides to teach in a suburban high school as part of an inclusion ...
Style: captivating, disturbing, suspense, non-linear
Plot: teacher student relationship, sexualized violence, female teacher, teacher, female protagonist, rape, school teacher, violence, gang rape, life is a bitch, lawyer, police ...
Place: paraguay
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50%
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Final Sale (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A woman undergoes an illegal organ transplant only to discover that the young girl who donated the kidney died during the operation. Determined to stop this heinous activity, but torn by the moral dilemma of being saved by it, she fights against her ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, neo noir ...
Plot: transplant, hospital, moral dilemma, police investigation, couples, black market, law enforcement, terminal illness, police, danger, couple relations, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
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37%
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Rustom (2016)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Rustom Pavri, an honourable officer of the Indian Navy shoots his friend Vikram to death after discovering that his wife Cynthia had an affair with the rich businessman. The Commander surrenders himself to the Police immediately and admits to have ...
Style: patriotic, tense, exciting, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: chick flick, boys' night
Plot: naval officer, murder, love, danger, patriot, death, rivalry, friendship, youth, escapades, trial, courtroom ...
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36%
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Blindfire (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A police officer who while responding to a violent hostage call, kills the African American suspect only to later learn of his innocence. Sensing this was a set-up, and facing repercussions, he must track down the person responsible while examining ...
Style: thrilling, suspenseful, tense, captivating
Plot: nypd, hostage situation, police, save the day, police officer, frame up, saving a life, rescue mission, fighting crime, racism, hostage, rescue ...
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35%
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The Debt (1999)
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Based on true events, the movie tells the story of two men who want to start a scooter business but don't have the required collateral for a bank loan. Then one of them runs into a former flat neighbour who offers to lend them the money. The ...
Style: controversial, crime thriller, serious, realistic, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, gangster, murder, disorder, polish, unlikely criminals, loan, incompetent police, life turned upside down, partner, violent content, magazine ...
Time: 90s
Place: poland, europe
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35%
Only God Can Judge Me (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ricky spent years behind bars after taking the rap for his brother Rafael and his buddy Latif after a failed robbery. Now, Latif wants to express gratitude by letting Ricky in on a coup that will bring lots of money. After some hesitation, Ricky ...
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot: policewoman, theft, heist gone wrong, brother brother relationship, revenge, strong female character, jail, murder, drug, rivalry, society, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: frankfurt germany
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33%
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36th Precinct (2004)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The Film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years ...
Style: rough, tense, realistic, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: vengeance, rivalry, organized crime, police corruption, investigation, violence, dirty cop, twists and turns, police investigation, police, nudity, workplace intrigue ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Mom (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 146 min.
Story: The bliss of a biology teacher’s family life in Delhi is shattered when her daughter, Arya is physically assaulted by Jagan and gang. Does Devki Sabarwal wait for the law to take its course? Or does Devki become Maa Durga and hunt down the ...
Style: bleak, touching, dark, tense, suspense
Audience: chick flick
Plot: rape victim, police, rape, trial, teenage girl, aggression, stepmother, family relations, relationship problems, family problems, vigilantism, women ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The true chilling story of the "two of a kind", killing cousins Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers, is told in this TV drama.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: murder, serial killer, two killers, true crime, psychopath, criminal, killer, violent, police detective, homicide, strangler, cousin ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Fabienne (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Fabienne is a police officer. She does her job well but is gradually growing tired of the dehumanized nature of her work : arresting undocumented aliens day after day does not fit in with her ideals. That's why when, one night, Olga, the Kazakh ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, sincere, neo noir ...
Plot: violence against women, police investigation, working class, law enforcement, missing child, police station, murder, policewoman, family relations, dishonesty, danger, immigrant ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Eye for an Eye (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Robert Doob, the monster who raped and murdered her 17-year-old daughter.
Style: psychological, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Plot: rape, obsession, murder, vigilante, revenge, vengeance, psychopath, vigilantism, rape and murder, women, haunted by the past, loss of daughter ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: persia, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Under Suspicion (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A police inspector, suspecting an attorney of two child sex murders, has him held for a questioning session that goes on for hours.
Style: suspenseful, tense, disturbing, neo noir, psychological thriller ...
Plot: police inspector, serial child killer, dishonesty, life is a bitch, injustice, murder, pedophile, child murder, suspect, rape, false accusation, courtroom ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Blue Steel (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A female rookie in the police force engages in a cat and mouse game with a pistol wielding psychopath who becomes obsessed with her.
Style: neo noir, exciting, tense, suspenseful, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: policewoman, serial killer, psychopath, chase, stalking, murder, female protagonist, police investigation, police, investigation, dangerous attraction, woman in danger ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Killing Jesus (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, Argentina
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Paula, a young art student, witnesses the assassination of her father, a university professor. Frustrated by the local police she starts to investigate the murder herself. Driven by anger, frustration and sorrow, she commits fearless acts that put ...
Style: disturbing, tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: motorcycle, murder, assassination, police officer, murder of father, police, revenge, student, loss of father, death of father, violence, murder investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Masculine (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Meet Shivani Shivaji Roy, Senior Inspector, Crime Branch, Mumbai Police, as she sets out to confront the mastermind behind the child trafficking mafia, which makes the mistake of kidnapping and smuggling a teenage girl who is like a daughter to her. ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, exciting ...
Plot: one woman army, female police officer, female protagonist, child prostitution, chase, danger, police investigation, law enforcement, rape, sex trafficking, tough girl, teenage girl ...
Time: 21st century
Place: india
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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