Movies like The Confidence Man
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The Confidence Man (2001)
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Policeman Stevie Grimes never lost his trust in the police force but has been suspended a few months for accidentally shooting and killing a young boy. Because of lack of evidence in court and with some help from his former partner, Stevie soon finds himself working as a policeman again. When Stevie returns to the police force he is bound to a desk job. Stevie misses the action of the streets and asks his former partner who has been promoted to lieutenant, if there are any interesting assignments available, the lieutenant knows just a case that Stevie can work out perfectly. The lieutenant and Stevie do however share a dark secret... It wasn't Stevie that shot the young boy but somebody very important within the police force, Stevie took the fall out of loyalty.
Plot:
money, con artists, teacher, police, murder, stripper, undercover, apprentice, loyalty, assignment, bad luck, innocent, truth, secret, guilt, car, extortion, bluff, strip club, surveillance, bribe, dedicated teacher, set up
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Most similar movies to The Confidence Man
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, tense, suspenseful and realistic films with plots about murder, investigation, police, suspense, female nudity, gun and flashback mostly in Crime, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Confidence Man: The Criminal Who Stole a Crime (1969), Passing Fancy (2005), Where Is the Third King? (1967), The Odds (2011), Second Chances (2010). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Retired police captain tells a reporter about his latest action - carried on their own investigation into the mysterious death of the girl. Captain MO, Gray, conducts her own investigation into the death of Eve Salm, called Princess. She was a ...
Style:
neo noir
Plot:
police investigation, court, police officer, secret, murder, courtroom, police, witness, heart attack, robbery, interrogation, investigation ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
"Passing Fancy" is a film about the devastating effects that emotional and sexual abuse reap on the human mind. In this story the abuse leads to drugs, deception, insanity and eventually murder. With few clues to go on, Detective Rodriguez ...
Plot:
female nudity, murder, police, revenge, nude, sexual abuse, emotional abuse, insanity, mental institution
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84%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
A classic criminal story set between Poland and South America.
Plot:
police, investigation, multiple suspects, stolen painting, murder, night, suspect, murderer, card playing, painting, museum, crossbow ...
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516
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A murder mystery set in the world of illegal teenage gambling. A 17-year old must find his best friends' killer before the game is exposed.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, realistic
Audience:
teens
Plot:
poker, gambling, investigation, murder, uncover truth, youth, amateur detective, dishonesty, suburbs, rivalry, suspense, suicide ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Postal inspectors investigate a con man who uses the identities of others to falsify credit card purchases. Stealing credit card offers from mail boxes, he obtains cards in others' names, makes many purchases until the card is maxed out, but is ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot:
buddy cop, nypd, identity theft, investigation, credit card, fighting crime, murder, partners against crime, cons and scams, law enforcement, dishonesty, police partner ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Films like Now You See Me
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two years ago reporter Kate Fisher's interview with the man who turned out to be a serial killer sparked public outrage. Not believing that this man was in fact the September Slayer - led to another senseless murder. Had Kate turned over the ...
Style:
captivating, tense, psychological, disturbing, emotional
Plot:
serial killer, murder, murder mystery, dark past, uncover truth, killings, cold case, secret past, tragic past, attempted murder, suspense, killing spree ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The millionaire Diego Verastegui has been murdered at his house, and somebody has taken a valuable briefcase from the safe-deposit box. Dimas -Verastegui's bodyguard- comes back to the house and finds three suspects: Carlos, the ...
Style:
neo noir, exciting, contemplative
Plot:
psycho, puzzle, violence, murder, truth, multiple perspectives, twists and turns, suspense, rape, flashback, loyalty, plot twist ...
Place:
venezuela
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
"At Risk" introduces Win Garano (Sunjata), the rising star of the Massachusetts State Police, when D.A. Monique "Money" Lamont (MacDowell) sends him to Tennessee to investigate a cold case that took place more than 20 years ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
partners, police investigation, law enforcement, election campaign, murder, uncover truth, fighting crime, legal investigation, legal, who done it, district attorney, suspense ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
tennessee, boston, massachusetts, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Some youngsters rape and kill their teacher; but they won't tell their motivation. The police detective on the case feels some sinister influence behind the young murderers.
Audience:
teens
Plot:
police officer, rape, lgbt, interrogation, murder, teacher, investigation, secret, teenager, female nudity, gang rape, physical abuse ...
Place:
italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Set in 1987 when cell phones were car phones and any respectable bank robber still used a gun. Two life long mid-life crisis friends decide to rob banks. With the help of an ex-con "old head" who had 25 years to think about how to get it ...
Plot:
money, police, bank, tea, grandmother, death, house, car, bank robbery, gunfight, police officer, car accident ...
Time:
year 1987, year 1980, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Glamorous fashion photographer Rebecca is getting even. Angered by her husband's infidelity, she takes a lover - a mysterious hunk she fist met during a photo shoot. He's exciting. He's handsome. And, after a night of lovemaking, he ...
Style:
surprise ending
Plot:
paranoia, money, downbeat ending, bad guy wins, husband wife relationship, car chase, secret, murder, psychiatric patient, affair, cheating wife, mental patient ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The sister of a famous, but as yet uncaught, criminal named The Hexer is murdered. Inspector Higgins of Scotland Yard believes that The Hexer will surface to take his revenge on his sister's killers, and plans to set a trap to finally capture ...
Plot:
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australia, england, scotland yard, united kingdom, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A man and a woman committed double suicide in Kanazawa City. Immediately after the incident, Yoshiko Shiota, a woman living in Tokyo, contacts the local newspaper of Kanazawa, saying she wants to read the novel serialized in it by Ryuji Sugimoto. ...
Style:
unusual plot structure, captivating, exciting, contemplative
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young detective in the Northern Russian region of Yakutia is dealing with a seemingly simple murder case. The investigation becomes a dangerous journey into the world of illegal mining and gold trafficking in which life has no value.
Style:
psychological, tense, serious
Plot:
murder, corpse, twins, twin sister, murder investigation, suspense, police, youth, testimony, chase, uncover truth, suspicion ...
Place:
russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Marcia, a sexy bucolic orphan, hitch-hikes to the city to meet up with her sister, who has promised her a job at the roadhouse where she works as a hostess. She has no qualms about sleeping with her driver in order to be safeguarded to her ...
Plot:
strangulation, murder, assassin, woman strangled to death, death of sister, erotica, female nudity, nude, woman kills woman, bare breasts
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Mr. Fortescue, owner of a big company, unexpectedly dies. The autopsy shows that he has been poisoned. Nobody actually loved him, and even his family members had their reasons to kill him. But who really did it? And who is responsable for killing ...
Style:
exciting, enigmatic, surprise ending
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A beautiful young detective goes to the rescue of a teacher kidnapped by a former student.
Plot:
high school reunion, murder, obsession, teacher, kidnapping, investigation, hostage, tape over mouth, danger
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
Shubho Mahurat (2003) is an award-winning Indian Bengali feature film directed by Rituparno Ghosh. An actress mysteriously dies after the "Shubho Mahurat," a celebration of the first shot of the film. A journalist and her perceptive aunt ...
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Kelly Sherwood is terrorized by a man with an asthmatic voice who plans to use her to steal $100,000 from the bank where she works. He threatens to kill her teenage sister Toby, if she tells the police. However she manages to contact F.B.I. agent ...
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psychopath, night, isolation, home invasion, woman in danger, fbi agent, threat, phone terror, disguise, extortion, psycho killer, bank robbery ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Officers Leaphorn and Chee search for a missing anthropologist suspected of stealing artifacts from a burial site.
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
.Ex-boxer Paul Choquino decides to finance his upcoming wedding by robbing reputed drug lord Benito Mussolini Bonacci. But everything that can go wrong in the burn does and Paul is left running from the law, the mob and one of the members of his own ...
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
After Silvia Broome, an interpreter at United Nations headquarters, overhears plans of an assassination, an American Secret Service agent is sent to investigate.
Style:
suspenseful, political, tense, tricky, mind bending ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
un, assassination, suspense, twists and turns, spy, investigation, murder, fbi, undercover, espionage, vengeance, chase ...
Time:
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Place:
africa, new york, paris france, brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
When exotic dancer Cassie happens upon a drug deal gone bad, she steals the money and the drugs thinking she now has the funds to make her dream of moving to Paris come true. But waiting three days to get her passport proves tougher than she thought ...
Style:
tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
stripper, revenge, murder, on the run, drug dealing, strip club, dishonesty, starting over, crime gone awry, love and romance, nothing goes right, hitman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Taking place almost entirely over the course of one stormy night, a woman is terrified when an accused murderer escapes from a mental hospital and seeks refuge in her home.
Style:
retro, psychological thriller
Plot:
suspense, murder, conspiracy, neighbor, police, hostage, runaway, mental institution, hindi, gun, whiskey
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When actress Lana Dark (Barbara Schock) disappears in the middle of a film shoot, putting an expensive stop to production, the studio hires gumshoes Raymond Savage (Scott Paulin) and Jack Haines (Jim Haynie) to track down the fleeing femme fatale in ...
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
With the help of a feisty aristocratic woman, a working-class Scotland Yard inspector hunts for a serial killer of young women in Victorian London.
Style:
slasher
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Whatever happened to my father?
Plot:
family secret, little sister, secret, prostitute, murder, brother sister relationship, family relations, servant, swamp
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
When his client suddenly confesses to murder in open court, a hotshot attorney embarks on a search for truth to redeem his ruined reputation.
Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing
Plot:
murder mystery, lawyer, prosecutor, murder, murder investigation, crime solving, crime investigation, investigation, attorney, cold case, suspicion of murder, uncover truth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A girl starts her own investigation after the police fail to catch a local serial killer.
Style:
slasher, bloody
Plot:
murder, serial killer, female nudity, country, maniac, justice, investigation, mansion, stalker, corruption, violence, female star appears nude
⇓ similarity ⇓
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