Movies like Murder in Peyton Place
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Murder in Peyton Place (1977)
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A former resident of the town of Peyton Place, now wealthy and powerful, secretly returns to the town and sets in motion a spate of killings designed as revenge for past wrongs.
Style:
suspense, psychological, detective, period piece
Plot:
murder, whodunit, revenge, investigation, secrets, small town, mysterious death, betrayal, vengeance, manipulation, family drama, scandal, female antagonist, conspiracy, corruption, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, courtroom, impostor, adaptation, cold case, inheritance, nepotism, dog, flashback ...
Time:
70s
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Most similar movies to Murder in Peyton Place
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, detective and psychological films with plots about investigation, murder, revenge, betrayal, moral ambiguity, whodunit and secrets mostly in Drama, Mystery and Crime genres. Some movies like Murder in Peyton Place: After the Game (1997), The Murder in China Basin (1999), Gaslight (2019), Reminiscence (2017), Murder at the World Series (1977). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
After the Game is a crime fiction murder mystery with a theme of "after the game of poker" and "after the game of life." It deals with revenge, deceit, lust and greed, and explores karma and the afterlife. Aging gambler Benny ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime drama, suspense, dark ...
Plot:
murder, gambling, card playing, poker, investigation, mysterious death, whodunit, secrets, betrayal, father son relationship, small town, deception ...
Time:
90s
Place:
nevada
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Accused of murder, a man enlists the help of his ex-wife to find the true killer.
Style:
suspense, tense, crime drama, dark, detective ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, wrongful accusation, suspicion, secrets, law enforcement, evidence, whodunit, motive, family drama, deception, betrayal ...
Time:
90s
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
87%
148
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 13 min.
Story:
Everyone thought Danny had gone missing. Towards the end of senior year she vanished, leaving family and friends devastated and confused including her closest friend in the world, Becca. Gaslight picks up years later when Becca and her new husband ...
Style:
enigmatic, detective, psychological, captivating, dramatic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
visitor, manipulation, psychological abuse, problem, mysterious character, secrets, undercover, secret, mysterious disappearance, puzzle, lifestyle, paranoia ...
Similarity:
74%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Three childhood friends reunite over a murder case.
Style:
suspense, psychological, tense, detective, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder, childhood friend, investigation, reminiscence, murderer, reunited friends, murder mystery, murder investigation, friends, problem, group of friends, old friends reunited ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
65%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A disturbed young man threatens violence at the World Series after failing to make the Houston Astros.
Style:
crime thriller, tension, tense, psychological, detective ...
Plot:
baseball, kidnapping, revenge, threat, obsession, hostage, vengeance, danger, mental illness, psychopath, investigation, law enforcement ...
Time:
70s
Place:
houston texas
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A woman moves to a new home after her police officer husband is killed. She soon discovers a place where growing prescription drug abuse is creating a nightmare of lies, crime, and murder.
Style:
suspense, tense, crime drama, detective, moody
Plot:
lie, widow, secrets, mature, drug addiction, danger, female protagonist, deception, murder, family drama, moral ambiguity, cover up ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion and doubt clouds Kousuke's mind.
Style:
detective, suspense, tension, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hospital, murder, investigation, misdirection, evidence, doubt, suspicion, secrets, guilt, cat and mouse, macabre, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
58%
230
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jason Davis is a reporter who gets an anonymous tip that turns him into an eyewitness to a judge's murder.
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, neo noir, fast paced ...
Plot:
reporter, murder, witness, danger, cat and mouse, investigation, evidence, stalker, journalist, paranoid, cover up, obsession ...
Similarity:
55%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
High-powered attorney Marley faces her most personal case yet when she is tasked with uncovering the truth behind the murder of her best friend Fela’s husband. With the help of her boyfriend – a former cop turned private investigator – ...
Style:
suspense thriller, suspenseful, tense, detective, twist ending ...
Plot:
murder mystery, whodunit, deception, twists and turns, investigation, betrayal, private investigator, conspiracy, cat and mouse, ex cop, ethical dilemma, courtroom drama ...
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Set in the tumultuous Naxalite uprising in Bengal in 1971, Byomkesh Bakshi gets involved in a story of vengeance when he decides to attend a play at the theatre and becomes witness to a crime unfolding on the center stage. As Byomkesh digs deep into ...
Style:
suspense, detective, suspenseful, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, theater, infidelity, betrayal, murder, crime investigation, death, love, murder investigation, stage actor, revenge, vengeance ...
Time:
70s
Place:
kolkata
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Atticus (James Coburn) goes to the small Mexican town where his estranged son (Paul Kersey) was a resident to discover how he died.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, emotional ...
Plot:
father son relationship, investigation, suicide, murder mystery, private investigation, sleuth, loss of child, life is a bitch, uncover truth, bereavement, family drama, grief ...
Place:
mexico
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.
Style:
detective, suspense, tension, atmospheric, crime thriller ...
Plot:
missing person, heiress, investigation, secrets, whodunit, puzzle, police procedural, deception, private investigation, family drama, social class, betrayal ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, greenwich village manhattan new york city
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A small town sheriff who's investigating a murder at the local diner ends up finding more than he bargained for in the town and in himself.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, small town, diner, murder, law enforcement, small town life, social relations, murder mystery, sheriff, self discovery, danger, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min.
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Story:
Song Yeo-wool, a widow who has been falsely accused of her husband’s murder, goes on a dangerous path to discover the truth about her husband’s death, while facing great judgement from the society. With this charge and allegation on her, she ...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological, dark, atmospheric
Plot:
hypocrisy, secrets, lie, false accusation, high society, reputation, betrayal, scandal, investigation, class conflict, moral corruption, urban ...
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
1989 is the 64 Shouwa year in the Japanese calendar, thus the unsolved girl kidnapping-murder case is called "64(rokuyon)" that got up in this year in Criminal Investigation Department in the Prefectural Police Department. And 14 years ...
Style:
detective, enigmatic, thrilling, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
kidnapping, investigation, police investigation, cop, japanese police, police procedural, secret, abduction, puzzle, crime investigation, cold case, missing daughter ...
Place:
japan, tokyo
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When disgraced Flight Crash Investigator Sofia Gilchrist's brother dies in the crash of a plane she was supposed to be on, Sofia breaks protocol and secretly begins investigating the crash.
Style:
suspense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, tension ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, airplane crash, crime solving, police investigation, cause and meaning, uncover truth, brother sister relationship, unsolved crime, investigator, female protagonist, cover up, danger ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A pregnant teen is murdered and a popular high-school senior is suspected. But will his girlfriend stick by him to prove his innocence despite the fact she has bonded with the victim's mother?
Style:
psychological, suspense, dark, emotional, tragic
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
cheerleader, murder, teenage pregnancy, suspicion, murder mystery, secrets, pregnancy, high school, investigation, evidence, deception, cover up ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
The son of an Argentine chemist travels to Vienna, to solve the murder of his father. Step by step, he realizes that his father was internationally entangled in secret service machinations and chemical weapon sales, and ends up in mortal danger ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime thriller, dark, atmospheric ...
Plot:
investigation, murder mystery, conspiracy, spy thriller, third reich, danger, betrayal, corruption, war crime, revelation, moral ambiguity, secret service ...
Time:
year 1970
Place:
vienna, austria
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Hailey attends her niece's school recital only to learn that the beloved music teacher has vanished. Hailey soon discovers several startling secrets amongst the staff, as well as a link between the missing young teacher and the school’s ...
Style:
suspense, psychological, serious, stylized, tense ...
Plot:
investigation, female protagonist, danger, missing person, disappearance, teacher, psychoanalyst, murder mystery, uncover truth, character study, family relations, suspicion ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Findlay Crawford, a Hollywood film composer and conductor, murders a talented composer/musician who has been ghostwriting most of Crawford's work in recent years, including the entire score for the last film, which won an Oscar. Crawford is ...
Style:
detective, psychological, tense, suspense, crime drama
Plot:
composer, investigation, jealousy, hollywood, murder, evidence, whodunit, police procedural, deception, motive, showbiz, interrogation ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Dr Sheila Carlin is good friends with Della who calls Perry in when she is being pestered by someone. On the theory that it could be somebody that she works with at a radio stations she arranges Perry to be interviewed by Winslow Keene who is also ...
Style:
detective, dramatic, suspenseful, tense
Audience:
adult
Plot:
courtroom, murder, radio station, whodunit, investigation, talk show host, false accusation, media manipulation, alibi, jealousy, betrayal, media industry ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A boy finds a dead woman. When police move the corpse they find the skeletons of two women who disappeared in the seventies.
Style:
suspense, bleak, serious, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
murder, police investigation, family feud, police, blackmail, murder investigation, pastor, danger, investigation, cold case, police procedural, small town ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
Television thriller in which a scheming doctor murders once for love and then has to kill again to cover it up.
Style:
suspense, dark, tense, twisted, noir ...
Plot:
infidelity, murder, adultery, manipulation, planned murder, greed, scheming, deception, betrayal, cover up, love triangle, ethical dilemma ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
39%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Hailey's professional code of ethics prevents her from going to the police about a client's confession, so she must find another way to bring the killer to justice.
Style:
psychological, suspense, stylized, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
investigation, murder, whodunit, female protagonist, partner, uncover truth, poisoning, psychoanalyst, puzzle, clue, social relations, perseverance ...
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: Australia
TV show
Story:
Anne Harriman has it all, and expects nothing less. Her brilliant work as chief pathologist of pharmaceutical giant Bauer-Ritter has secured the respect of the corporate, academic and political worlds, making her a trophy addition to any board or ...
Style:
suspense, tense, medical drama, serious, dark ...
Plot:
murder mystery, strong female lead, investigation, mysterious death, career woman, female protagonist, forensic evidence, determination, whodunit, justice, moral ambiguity, ethics ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 182 min.
TV show
Story:
Based on the novel by Dominick Dunne, this movie tells the story of an affair between a wealthy heir, Jules and the mistress he has kept for 18 years, Vicki. Jules' wife Betsy is aware of the affair as their marriage is one of convenience but ...
Style:
romantic drama, crime thriller, period piece, realistic, serious
Plot:
murder, betrayal, affair, scandal, high society, secrets, mistress, blackmail, marriage of convenience, corruption, revenge, model ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
beverly hills, los angeles
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Attorney turned therapist Hailey Dean is pulled into another investigation when a popular new dating app links multiple missing persons cases from around the city. Reuniting with her old team, Hailey discovers the potential dangers of online ...
Style:
psychological, stylized, suspenseful, captivating, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, online dating, female protagonist, crime investigation, murder, psychoanalyst, uncover truth, internet dating, whodunit, police detective, manipulation, police ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Jennifer finds the body of a local college history professor hidden in a suit of armor she purchased. After the professor's teaching assistant becomes the next victim, Jennifer finds herself caught in a killer's web of dangerous lies.
Style:
twisted, lighthearted, suspense, psychological, detective
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
murder investigation, small town, mysterious death, whodunit, antique dealer, medieval, mother daughter relationship, nosy neighbor, college campus, family drama, college, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
An unrecognizable, charred corpse discovered in a remote mountain village in China connects three local stories.
Style:
suspense, dark, captivating, grim, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mountain, domestic violence, murder, secrets, moral ambiguity, village, social relations, relationships, changing lives, lifestyle change, couple relations, power relations ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
china
Similarity:
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A murder is committed in a small village of Andalusia.
Style:
tension, sinister, suspense, dark, noir ...
Plot:
murder, murder mystery, secrets, whodunit, small village, investigation, family drama, revenge, betrayal, moral ambiguity, isolation, police procedural ...
Place:
andalusia
Similarity:
36%
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