Movies like The Case Is Closed, Forget It
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The Case Is Closed, Forget It (1971)
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Original name: L'istruttoria รจ chiusa: dimentichi
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Because of a violation of traffic regulations an architect is put in prison. There he witnesses the grim reality of life behind bars: corrupt staff, corrupt inmates, an inhuman judicial system and the power of the Mafia.
Style:
neo noir
Plot:
prison, police officer, corruption, gangsters, lgbt, police, architecture, organized crime, bureaucracy, mafia, gay, lawyer, ship, murderer, violence, friendship, death, murder, adulterous husband, bully, wine, priest, doctor, bullying, yacht ...
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, realistic, serious and rough films with plots about police officer, violence, murder, blood, female nudity, death and telephone call mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like The Case Is Closed, Forget It: The Finger Man (1962), Kidnap Syndicate (1975), Mafia (1968), Blood in the Streets (1973), The Fifth Cord (1971). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A stone-faced Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as enigmatic gangster Silien, who may or may not be responsible for squealing on Faugel (Serge Reggiani), just released from the slammer and already involved in what should have been a simple heist. By the end ...
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Plot:
heist, gangsters, betrayal, frame up, cons and scams, vengeance, friendship, tough heroes, criminal's revenge, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, spy ...
Time:
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Place:
europe, france, paris france
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95%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist (James Mason) seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his child and another kidnapped boy, the son of a poor mechanic (Luc Merenda).
Style:
psychotronic, cult film
Plot:
police, vigilante, police officer, revenge, kidnapping, chase, boy, righteous rage, murder, ransom, betrayal, father ...
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italy, milan italy
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A Police Officer faces difficulties when investigating a Mafia murder in a small Sicilian town. A businessman is murdered for refusing to join a Mafia-controlled group and although he suspects the Mafia are involved he can find no witnesses or ...
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mafia, gangsters, italian mafia, police, suspense, organized crime, police officer, card playing, police investigation, carabinieri, murder
Place:
italy, sicily
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81%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
An Italian prison official's wife is kidnapped, and the kidnappers demand that a notorious prisoner be released in order for the man to get his wife back. He gets the man released - but then kidnaps him himself, in order to ensure that the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, retro ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
police, prison, police officer, female nudity, revenge, assassination, blackmail, heroes, chase, kidnapping, murder, friendship ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, europe, milan italy, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Luigi Bazzoni (Le Orme) directed this outstanding giallo thriller starring Franco Nero as a hard-drinking newspaperman who gets involved in a string of brutal murders.
Style:
slasher, erotic, serious, realistic, scary ...
Plot:
reporter, investigation, new year, murder, suspense, killer, macabre, drug addiction, lgbt, organized crime, psycho, sexual obsession ...
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70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, rome italy, australia, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Valerie's (Amanda Peterson) prosecutor mom is trying to put away Adam (Christopher Atkins), an alleged serial killer on trial for murdering six women. But he's so charming that the teenage Valerie just can't believe he really did it, ...
Style:
psychological, serious, realistic, tense, bleak ...
Plot:
serial killer, cheerleader, murder, forbidden love, high school, erotic dream, masochist, graphic violence, teenage life, false accusation, parents and children, young heroes ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
New York City factory worker Eddie Marino (Robert Forster, Oscar nominee for JACKIE BROWN) is a solid citizen and regular guy, until the day a sadistic street gang brutally assaults his wife and murders his child. But when a corrupt judge sets the ...
Style:
psychotronic, serious, realistic, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gang, revenge, vigilantism, vigilante, gangsters, jail, home invasion, rape and revenge, city, car chase, violence, police ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Carlo Antonelli, an engineer from Genoa, gets mugged and decides to take justice into his own hands. At first the muggers seem to get the upper hand, but then he's helped by Tommy, a young robber who takes his side.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, police, police officer, car chase, female nudity, lawyer, organized crime, corruption, rebellion, heist, graphic violence, nude ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a ...
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, neo noir, tense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
murder, serial killer, police detective, robbery, prison, heist, gangsters, mind game, police corruption, psychopath, track down, investigation ...
Time:
1940s, year 1947, 50s
Place:
paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the coastal town of Los Angeles, a gang of bank robbers call themselves The Ex-Presidents commit their crimes while wearing masks of Reagan, Carter, Nixon and Johnson. The F.B.I. believes that the members of the gang could be surfers and send ...
Style:
exciting, intense, surprise ending, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Audience:
manly, kids, boys' night
Plot:
bank robbery, extreme sport, special agents, gang, surfer, extreme sports, surfing, gangsters, undercover, robbery, fbi, suspense ...
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los angeles, california, usa, hawaii, australia ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Unhappy marriage causes divorce. Brosnan (new husband) and wife attempt to build a new life, and move to a new state. However, the ex-husband follows and the story unfolds from there.
Style:
surprise ending, suspenseful, captivating
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Leyre lives a quiet and comfortable life which ends abruptly when an act of rage of her teenage son leads her to protect him by any means necessary.
Style:
humorous, light, captivating, entertaining
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
Style:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He ...
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Confessions of a Police Captain (Italian: Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica, also known as Confessions of a Police Commissioner to the District Attorney) is an Italian crime-drama film about a cop starring ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Elliott was a loser who robbed the bank only to land in jail. In prison, he encounters homosexuality as every inmate wants to turn Elliott into a mate!
Style:
lgbt cinema, gay cinema
Plot:
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50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A race-car driver who's down on her luck is invited by her ex-husband's wife to stay at their plush villa. The two women form a bond, and it's not long before their mutual dislike for the husband culminates into a plan to kill him. As ...
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slasher, surprise ending, neo noir, twist ending, psychotronic ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Snatched off the street and held for ransom, a bound and gagged woman uses her limited powers to derail her two masked abductors' carefully laid plans.
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49%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Country: Italy, Spain, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An Italian police inspector matches wits with a powerful European drug ring. As he comes closer to the top of the underworld organization, his odds of survival decrease.
Style:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Obscure, sleazy and laid back picture about a young man being dragged down into the seedy and ruthless underbelly of 70s New York pornographers.
Style:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Contemporary Athens: A gang of teenage thieves and romantic anarchists test the limits of their youthful rebellion and play out their own tragic spring awakening against the backdrop of a dying city.
Style:
psychotronic, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, tense ...
Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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