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Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete (2002)
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Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete (2002)
Original name: PERFECT BLUE 夢なら醒めて
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Asaka Ai is a budding starlet waiting for her big break to make it into the limelight. Under the dedicated tutelage of her manager Bando she shuffles from one photo shoot to the next, most often resulting in her image being used on various advertising posters. With the help of a catchy tune, Ai and Bando anticipate she will finally break out of merely poster appearances and into television commercials and from there, real stardom. The song is entitled "If this is a Dream Wake Me" (Yume Nara Samete) and was written by Ai's friend Hiromi just prior to Hiromi jumping headlong off a tall building. Butas things started to go well, a stalker shows up knowing anything and everything about Ai...
Style: psychological thriller, independent film, psychological
Plot: violence, obsession, stalker, singer, suicide, blood, friend, live action, underwear, panties, legs, headphones, shower, white panties, bra, bare feet, white bra, taking a shower, plastic bag, suit and tie
Place: japan

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, suspenseful, serious and psychological thriller films with plots about murder, violence, investigation, blood, female nudity, serial killer and danger mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Perfect Blue: Yume Nara Samete: The Fetist (1998), Veronica (2017), Sasori in U.S.A. (1997), Character (2021), Death Note: L Change the World (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Fetist (1998)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 65 min.
Story: Slightly strange Sato entry from 1998 revisting the gay pinku (a broad cinematic term used to categorize a wide variety of Japanese films with adult content) once again. A young man in a somewhat abusive gay relationship slowly loses his mind and ...
Style: surprise ending
Plot: big city, sadomasochism, man hits a man, eyesight, black, sense of touch, fetish, insanity, sex scene, gay, tragic love, drunken man ...
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Veronica (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 81 min.
Story: A female Psychologist who has stopped practicing medicine, decides to take the case of Veronica de la Serna, a young woman whose previous therapist has mysteriously disappeared.
Style: gothic, gothic horror, black and white, psychological thriller
Plot: revenge, psychoanalysis, girl, gays and lesbians, judiciary, psychologist, atonement, female pubic hair, masturbation, psychology, country house, female nudity ...
Place: indiana
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Sasori in U.S.A. (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Japanese lady gets framed for killing her man and is shipped off to prison in California. She escape and seek vengeance against those who wronged them.
Plot: sexploitation, women in prison, superhero, badass female lead, women's prison, lesbian, rape, female nudity, brutality, husband wife relationship, prison, violence ...
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Character (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 125 min.
Story: A kind man aspires to become a manga writer, but villains and evil deeds do not come easily to him, for he has little experience or natural inclination for them. Things take a surprise turn when he comes across a family who were described as ...
Style: manga, tense, scary, stylized, psychological ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, law enforcement, murder mystery, investigation, violence, meeting, chase, victim, murder investigation, youth, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
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Death Note: L Change the World (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 129 min.
Story: "The human whose name is written in the Death Note shall die." After making the hardest decision ever, another serious case confronts L. There are only 23 days left and without his best partner Watari (Shunji Fujimura), L has to solve the ...
Style: bleak, suspenseful, serious, anime, captivating ...
Plot: danger, heroes, terrorism, legends and myths, child in peril, private detective, chases and races, save the world, race against time, against humanity, escapades, heroic mission ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan, asia, usa
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New Female Prisoner Scorpion: #701 (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Once again we focus on Nami Matsushima. This time she has a sister who goes missing and after getting too caught up in doing something about it, our innocent heroine is given a fifteen year sentence for a murder she didn't commit. She's ...
Plot: women in prison, prison, badass female lead, female prisoner, superhero, sexploitation, exploitation, rape and revenge, rape, female protagonist, violence, women's prison ...
Place: japan
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High and Low (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story: An executive of a shoe company becomes a victim of extortion when his chauffeur's son is kidnapped and held for ransom.
Style: suspense, captivating, bleak, black and white, atmospheric ...
Plot: police, ransom, samurai, secrets, tragedy, visceral, character study, psychopath, mistaken identity, chauffeur, rescue, missing person ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, 60s, post world war two
Place: japan
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Secret Obsession (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Newlywed Jennifer is brutally attacked at a dark rest stop. While healing from her injuries, she can’t recall anything from her past, including the ordeal. Her husband, Russell , is just thankful she’s alive and eager to get her home. As he ...
Style: suspense, intense, captivating, realistic, serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: obsession, memory loss, stalker, pursuit, murder, violence, deception, memory lapse, psycho killer, crime investigation, family secret, woman in danger ...
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The Woman in the Window (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An agoraphobic woman living alone in New York begins spying on her new neighbors only to witness a disturbing act of violence.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: agoraphobia, mental illness, mental disorder, murder, car accident, death, suicide, uncover truth, plot twist, deception, espionage, illness ...
Time: 2020s
Place: america, new york
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26%
New Female Prisoner Scorpion: Special Cellblock X (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A nurse is framed for her involvement in the hospital murder of a politician who was threatening to expose corrupt practices. She escapes from jail but is captured and sent back, resulting in the rest of the inmates being punished, added to which of ...
Plot: female prisoner, badass female lead, sexploitation, warden, cell, sleaze, prison, exploitation, escape, surprise, murder, female criminal ...
Place: japan
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26%
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Death Note (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Light Yagami finds the "Death Note," a notebook with the power to kill, and decides to create a Utopia by killing the world's criminals, and soon the world's greatest detective, "L," is hired to find the mysterious ...
Style: anime, serious, rough, suspenseful, atmospheric ...
Audience: teens, boys' night, kids
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Time: year 2006, 21st century
Place: japan, tokyo, asia
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Scorpion: Double Venom (1998)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
Country: Japan
Story: Nami Matsushima, a former doctor, is put in prison for murdering one of the men who raped and killed her sister. Now, faced with violent and lecherous prison gangs, an aggressively amorous warden, and with a friend on death row, Nami must steel ...
Plot: women in prison, sexploitation, badass female lead, nudity, dead sister, sister, scalpel, revenge, blood, women's prison, death, murder ...
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A Mind to Murder (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Scotland Yard Commander Adam Dalgliesh has been on leave following the death on duty of a member of his team, DS Sarah Hillier. His superiors order him back to work to investigate the murder of the Director of the Steen Clinic, which specializes in ...
Style: detective, realistic, serious
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Time: 20th century, 90s
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Prophecy (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: The cyber crime investigation division at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department finds a video on website "YOURTUBE." In the video, a man covered by a newspaper, warns that a fire will be set at a food processing company. More crime ...
Style: tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense
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The Wind (2001)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An ancient wind carries with it omens of the apocalypse, stirring the pride and envy of a group of college kids to murderous rage. Michael Mongillo's directorial debut is a lyrical, meditative film charged with sex and violence.
Plot: idiot, group, college, caucasian, murder, lie, white bra, bra and panties, lingerie, panties, bra, white panties ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 77 min.
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Suicide Club (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
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Style: psychological, surreal, disturbing, creepy, bloody ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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Body Double (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous blonde dancing ...
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Audience: adult
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Sketch Artist (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A sketch artist for the police helps a witness recall who she saw leaving the scene of a murder, and discovers that the person is his wife. Not willing to believe she was responsible, he resketches the pictures so they don't look like her, and ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, captivating ...
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Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min.
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
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Duration: 142 min.
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Style: disturbing, bleak, suspenseful, rough, psychological thriller ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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Story: In 1960s New York, Walter Stackhouse is a successful architect married to the beautiful Clara who leads a seemingly perfect life. But his fascination with an unsolved murder leads him into a spiral of chaos as he is forced to play cat-and-mouse with ...
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Gozu (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Minami mistakenly kills a gangster associate of his named Brother. Almost as soon as the murder takes place, the body of the deceased man is gone, prompting Minami to conduct a search. While looking, he finds a mysterious isolated hotel where he ...
Style: surreal, disturbing, atmospheric, enigmatic, dark comedy ...
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Scorpion: Double Venom 2 (1998)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, Crime
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
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