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Curse of the Hidden Vault (1964)
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Original name: Die Gruft mit dem Rätselschloss
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mobsters conspire to loot another criminal's treasure secured in an enormous booby-trapped vault.
Style:
suspense, tension, thrilling, noir, twisted, period piece
Audience:
adult
Plot:
treasure, heist, mobster, organized crime, criminal underworld, gangster, betrayal, conspiracy, scheming, treasure hunt, puzzle, claustrophobia, cat and mouse, locked room, serial killer, sniper, gambling, kidnapping, inheritance, safe, gambling debt, suicide of father, storage unit, booby trap, crushed to death ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
scotland yard
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Most similar movies to Curse of the Hidden Vault
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, noir, period piece and crime drama films with plots about betrayal, heist, conspiracy, moral ambiguity, urban, criminal underworld and investigation mostly in Crime, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Curse of the Hidden Vault: Traitor's Gate (1964), The Man with the Glass Eye (1969), The Indian Scarf (1963), The Door with Seven Locks (1962), Angels of the Street (1969). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A businessman organises a caper to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.
Style:
suspense, crime drama, tense, suspenseful, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heist, caper, stealing, british, escape, mastermind, planning, ruse, intrigue, betrayal, conspiracy, loot ...
Time:
60s
Place:
london
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A pool-hall is used as the front for a white slavery ring.
Style:
detective, dark, suspense, tension, atmospheric ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, investigation, white slavery, whodunit, suspect, group of criminals, theater, human trafficking, suspicion, underworld, poisoning ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
When a wealthy man dies, his avaricious relatives look forward to inheriting all his money. However, he leaves a provision in his will that they all must spend a week together in his castle before they will be able to inherit anything. At the castle ...
Style:
suspense, tense, sinister, atmospheric, detective ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
lawyer, serial killer, whodunit, murder, castle, strangulation, isolation, greed, killer, inheritance, secrets, betrayal ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
87%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A rich man bequeaths seven keys to seven of his friends, but only one will unlock the door to untold wealth.
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, dark, thrilling, atmospheric ...
Plot:
locked door, kidnapping, crazy, secrets, locked room, inheritance, isolation, psychopath, treasure hunt, investigation, claustrophobia, torture chamber ...
Time:
60s
Place:
europe, scotland yard
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Angels of the Street or The Angel of St. Pauli is a 1969 West German crime film directed by Jürgen Roland and starring Horst Frank, Herbert Fux and Werner Pochath. It is set in the St. Pauli red light district of the port of Hamburg.
Style:
suspense, dark, tension, period piece, noir ...
Plot:
red light district, prostitution, gangster, underworld, murder mystery, mobster, organized crime, nightlife, moral ambiguity, urban, power struggle, police corruption ...
Time:
60s
Place:
hamburg germany, northern germany
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Based on the 1986 book "The Heist: How a Gang Stole $8,000,000 at Kennedy Airport and Lived to Regret It", by Ernest Volkman and John Cummings, this TV movie tells the story about the 1978 Lufthansa Heist at JFK Airport in New York - the ...
Style:
suspense, crime drama, captivating, tense, disturbing ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
robbery, heist, organized crime, gangster, mafia, gang, outlaw gang, criminal, one last chance, burglar, problem, bandit ...
Time:
year 1978, 70s
Place:
new york
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
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Story:
Style:
crime drama, suspense, tension, crime thriller, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heist, robbery, plan gone wrong, cat and mouse, crime investigation, investigation, greed, law enforcement, friendship, escape, mistrust, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Two men kidnap the daughter of a rich man, and the latter approaches a retired cop to track the missing woman.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, suspense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, family relations, organized crime, ex convict, kidnapped, gang, criminal, abduction, prisoner, escapades, retired cop, investigation ...
Place:
india
Similarity:
51%
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211
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
A professional thief tries to break with his past but has to pull off one last job to pay off a gambling debt.
Style:
crime drama, suspense, tension, noir, neo noir ...
Plot:
heist, gambler, one last job, criminal underworld, urban, moral ambiguity, anti hero, gambling debt, organized crime, alienation, loneliness, redemption ...
Time:
70s
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
51%
447
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A female con-artist who sweet-talks wealthy men targeted by her violent boyfriend, then drugs them and makes off with their money, is being herself being watched by another man. He wants to use her talents in a much-bigger scam: ripping off a crime ...
Style:
neo noir, crime thriller, crime drama, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
con artists, deception, manipulation, gambling, crime boss, betrayal, organized crime, cat and mouse, criminal underworld, heist, blackmail, paranoia ...
Time:
year 1993
Place:
miami beach, jamaica
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After an automobile accident, in which a man is unrecognizably burnt to a crisp, his wife's only able to confirm the corpse's identity by his talisman: a small, white spider. However, soon, there are more corpses walking around than at a ...
Style:
suspense, detective, tense, crime drama, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, murder mystery, investigation, mascot, insurance fraud, whodunit, symbolism, suspicion, motive, moral ambiguity, urban, conspiracy ...
Time:
60s
Place:
scotland yard
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A master art forger and his partner in crime, an art expert who can vouch for the authenticity of the forgeries, are making a bundle. An art dealer figures out their scheme but agrees to keep quite if they forge some art lost in WWII.
Style:
crime drama, tension, suspense, period piece, intelligent ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
forgery, art forgery, art dealer, fraud, deception, gallery, cover up, betrayal, conspiracy, moral ambiguity, museum, partnership ...
Time:
80s
Place:
europe
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, Canada
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
Style:
tension, crime drama, suspense, noir, euro western ...
Plot:
heist, criminal, kidnapping, gang, escape, chase, hostage, pursuit, anti hero, fugitives, underworld, revenge ...
Time:
year 1972
Place:
montreal
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A serial killer named The Shark is terrorizing London by killing his victims with a speargun and then, dressed in a scruba-diver's wetsuit, using the city's sewer tunnels to make his getaway.
Plot:
underwater, serial killer, conspiracy, smuggler, scuba diver, criminal, police, dancing, assassination attempt, ship, telephone call, suicide ...
Place:
scotland yard, london
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Rival gangsters from Chicago move to London and attempt to extort money from rich Britons.
Style:
suspense, crime drama, tense, black and white, atmospheric ...
Plot:
extortion, organized crime, criminal, gangster, rivalry, gang war, criminal underworld, betrayal, cat and mouse, police investigation, moral ambiguity, violent ...
Time:
60s
Place:
london, chicago, scotland yard
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
The story of a scheme to double-cross the syndicate and steal its money, and of a police commissioner 's efforts to investigate homicides that take place as the scheme unfolds while also fighting corruption in the city government and ...
Style:
noir, detective, suspense, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
organized crime, murder, investigation, police procedural, criminal syndicate, law enforcement, corruption, police corruption, gangster, power struggle, heist, underworld ...
Time:
60s
Place:
new york state, new york
Similarity:
45%
392
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, UK, Israel, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Richard Roundtree (SHAFT), Robert Shaw (JAWS) and $100 Million of the Hottest Rocks in the World!
Style:
suspense, period piece, twisted, retro, stylized ...
Plot:
heist, diamonds, twins, deception, wealth, mastermind, aristocrat, treasure, glamour, cat and mouse, luxury, british aristocracy ...
Time:
70s, year 1975
Place:
tel aviv israel, israel, middle east, london, jerusalem
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
When a resentful brother organizes a prank kidnapping, he unwittingly hires career criminals who have plans of their own.
Style:
dark, suspense, tension, dark comedy, twisted ...
Plot:
kidnapping, heist, prank gone wrong, criminal, family conflict, hostage situation, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, betrayal, revenge motive, violent, criminal underworld ...
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Two petty gangsters get ransomed by a group of Yakuza members, fortunately they are rescued by a kindly Kindergarten teacher.
Style:
suspense, tension, fast paced, noir, stylized ...
Plot:
yakuza, gangster, organized crime, kidnapping, ransom, heist, criminal underworld, violence, urban, unlikely hero, rescue mission, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
tokyo
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
Story:
Legendary private eye Philip Marlowe takes on new cases.
Style:
detective, noir, tense, suspense, twisted ...
Plot:
private detective, investigation, private investigation, detective agency, murder, urban, corruption, private investigator, conspiracy, femme fatale, betrayal, interrogation ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When a poker player hits rock bottom he enlists his best friend to pull off a high-stakes heist.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, cynical, captivating ...
Plot:
poker, gambling, casino, addiction, friendship, escapades, heist, race against time, rivalry, gambling debt, risk, desperation ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A priceless Nizam era coin is stolen from the Hyderabad Museum, triggering a wild chase across cities and criminals. Vijay, a small-time thief, teams up with fellow thieves Shiva and Sadha to pull off a daring heist. In Goa, Shiva's girlfriend ...
Style:
suspense, twist ending
Audience:
adult
Plot:
twists and turns, heist, deception, criminal underworld, forgery, heist gone wrong, black market, greed, betrayal, cat and mouse, loot, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Spy accidentally gets an ancient treasure. Several corrupt groups try to steal it from him.
Style:
suspense, tense, crime thriller, period piece, crime drama ...
Plot:
torture, espionage, spy, exotic locale, corruption, moral ambiguity, intrigue, greed, treasure hunt, betrayal, organized crime, underworld ...
Time:
60s, year 1967
Place:
macau
Similarity:
38%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
"In the Shadows" slithers through underworld Berlin in grand style. En route to a twisty finale, German writer-director Thomas Arslan keeps his audience glued to the increasingly desperate actions of Trojan, a thirtysomething career ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, noir, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
heist, robbery, criminal underworld, desperation, organized crime, crooked cop, gangster, anti hero, character study, surveillance, cat and mouse, police corruption ...
Place:
berlin germany
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Nepal
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Loot ended with Haku Kale plotting against his four team members to take over entire robbed money. The four gang members, who were framed for the bank robbery, now escape from the prison and want to take revenge against Haku Kale.
Style:
crime drama, twisted, suspense, fast paced, tension
Plot:
heist, revenge, betrayal, gang, prison escape, conspiracy, criminal underworld, corruption, greed, retribution, urban, violent ...
Place:
nepal
Similarity:
35%
379
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
A group of professional con artists scam poor, unsuspecting citizens with fraudulent bank loans. The scams go well for a while, but then they begin to distrust each other.
Style:
captivating, tense, disturbing, crime drama, crime thriller ...
Plot:
deception, con artists, heist, bank, scam, fraud, credit card fraud, criminal, gang, robbery, stolen money, burglar ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
south korea
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
After pulling off a $4,000,000 heist in New York, the team get some information from Noah in Copenhagen. That leads them to pull off one more final heist in London. Rick and Damien lead the plans being the masterminds behind the plot. Can they pull ...
Style:
suspense, crime thriller, twisted, fast paced, noir ...
Plot:
heist, secrets, betrayal, mastermind, caper, world cup, criminal underworld, urban, countdown, moral ambiguity, greed, loyalty ...
Place:
london, new york, copenhagen
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Luxembourg, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A police officer attempts to shut down an illegal girls-for-drugs operation (American version).
Style:
detective, suspense, dark, tension, noir ...
Plot:
nudity, white slavery, murder investigation, underworld, human trafficking, police procedural, drug trade, investigation, kidnapping, organized crime, drug addiction, master criminal ...
Time:
60s
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that ...
Style:
crime drama, suspense, detective, period piece, tense ...
Plot:
insurance fraud, investigation, villa, blackmail, evidence, secrets, mediterranean, deception, millionaire, conspiracy, paranoia, betrayal ...
Time:
70s
Place:
cote d'azur, mediterranean sea, riviera, france, french riviera
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Three young people have decided to rob the safe of the estate agent Thomas Christidis, whose office is in the center of Athens. The first of them is Ntinos, who is Christidis’ clerk, the second one is Stavros, Ntinos’ younger brother who works ...
Style:
crime drama, tension, suspense, period piece, retro ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heist, robbery, plan, execution, scheme, office, caper, greed, brothers, risk, urban, friendship ...
Time:
60s
Place:
athens greece
Similarity:
31%
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