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A Killer on the Tracks (1970)
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A Killer on the Tracks (1970)
Original name: Na kolejích čeká vrah
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An escort composed of three people transports a huge amount of new one-hundred crown banknotes in a special railway car. At the 196th kilometer, a village girl is waiting at the railway crossing and spots two men removing some packages from the track. The scene is immediately followed by the report of a gun and the unwanted witness is shot dead. Soon afterwards, on the 201st kilometer, the train explodes. Only one of the escorts Lenk (Radoslav Brzobohatý) survives the explosion, taken to hospital with serious injuries. Criminologist Major Kalas (Jirí Sovák) and the very young Second Lieutenant Karlícek (Jaromír Hanzlík) patiently gather facts, leads and testimonies.
Style: detective, poliziottesco
Plot: police officer, train, police, investigation, murder, murder investigation, doctor, hospital, helicopter, banker, bank, amnesia, safe, shooting, diabetic, widow, police station, diabetes, witness, stolen money, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, train station, post office, police investigation, hidden money ...
Place: central europe
Keyword: operation

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, poliziottesco, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about murder, police, police investigation, police officer, investigation, police detective and murder investigation mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like A Killer on the Tracks: Smrt stoparek (1979), The Killer Hides His Face (1966), Strach (1964), The Red Captain (2016), The Finger Man (1962). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Smrt stoparek (1979)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Maniac, a driver, sits on the track women, which then rape and kill. For loved ones, he is an ordinary person who has a wife and child. When exposed, he does not stop before killing his wife and takes his son hostage, under the guise of which he is ...
Style: psychotronic, neo noir, poliziottesco, freeze frame, road movie ...
Plot: kidnapped boy, serial killer, automobile, dead body, woods, bare chested male, villain as protagonist, criminal as protagonist, kidnapped, police operation, school trip, driving ...
Place: czech republic, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Killer Hides His Face (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the forest near the village of Drahovice, a nurse from the local health center is found murdered. Three months ago, another young woman died nearby and a sexual motive was proved in the case of her murder. In the case of the nurse, the motives ...
Style: detective, poliziottesco
Plot: affair, hidden money, trauma, mental illness, woods, police officer, forest ranger, mental patient, police, funeral, extramarital affair, brother brother relationship ...
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
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Strach (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A car deliberately runs down a young man on a road by a small border town. The locals recognize the dead man as one of the students who were there on volunteer work some time before. The police detectives, Major Kalas (Rudolf Hrusínský) and ...
Style: poliziottesco, detective, crying
Plot: trespassing, excavation, photograph, teacher, police, bare breasts, suspect, father son relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, photographer, judge, suicide ...
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The Red Captain (2016)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Three years after the fall of the Berlin Wall; six months before the split of Czechoslovakia. Despite all warnings, a young homicide detective sets on investigating a convoluted case that involves Catholic clerical elite and high-ranked agents of ...
Style: political thriller, rough, suspense, exciting, suspenseful ...
Plot: police detective, investigation, murder mystery, fight, secret, husband wife relationship, chase, evidence, violence, gunfight, police investigation, transformation ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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The Finger Man (1962)
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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Time: 20th century, year 1963, year 1962, 60s
Place: europe, france, paris france
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53%
The First Deadly Sin (1980)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A serial killer is stalking New York. Inspector Edward X. Delaney is an NYPD detective, nearing retirement, who is trying to put together the pieces of the case. Are the victims somehow linked? What does the brutal method of death signify?
Style: suspense, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Hassel 04 - Säkra papper (1989)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A small criminal who is reported missing is found murdered in the safe of a known bank manager. While working with the motive behind the murder it is discovered that a large amount of counterfeit shares and bonds are in circulation. Hassel and his ...
Plot: crime investigation, police investigation, safecracking, hospital, bank, snow, murder, winter, police procedural
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Castle of Sand (1974)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min.
Story: Yoshitaro Nomura’s 1975 film of Seicho Matsumoto’s immensely popular detective story tells the tale of two detectives, Imanishi (Tetsuro Tamba) and Yoshimura (Kensaku Morita), tasked with tracking down the murderer of an old man, found ...
Style: horror musical, anthology, neo noir, twisted, detective
Plot: murder investigation, police investigation, train travel, orchestra conductor, pianist, police officer, class differences, leprosy, composer, police partner, police procedural, music composer ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Diabolically Yours (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Alain Delon stars as Pierre, an amnesiac recovering from a car accident. He can't remember any details about the accident or about his past life as a wealthy businessman based in the orient. He is currently being nursed back to health on his ...
Style: ambiguous ending, psychotronic, neo noir, french noir
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Rabbies (2017)
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Duration: 56 min.
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Story: Although Czech republic is country free of rabbies, some cases of infected animals appear near one of villages in Sumava region. Virologist Pavel Rogl, that is in his thirties, has task to inspect the situation, supervise the vaccination and find ...
Style: captivating, serious, suspense, suspenseful, poliziottesco ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The kidnapping of a DA's wife, the murder of several minor criminals and the police finding a large stash of weapons is all in a day's work for criminal detective Roland Hassel.
Plot: murder, kidnapping, police detective, videotaping, boat, fake identity, police procedural, helicopter, terrorist group, nightmare, roadblock, bomb ...
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46%
Goodbye, Mr. President (1987)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Asko Mertanen is a waiter who is very interested in shooting. He gets fed up how the things are run in Finland, so he thinks that the best way to change them is to shoot the Finnish president.
Style: detective
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Time: year 1979, 70s
Place: finland
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The Bloody Hands of the Law (1973)
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Duration: 100 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Copy Cat (2020)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Flic Story (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
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The Lens (2014)
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Duration: 100 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
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Style: poliziottesco, detective
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Thriller, Crime
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Style: detective, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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The Assassin (1961)
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Duration: 97 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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