Movies like The Third Solution
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The Third Solution (1988)
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Original name: Russicum - I Giorni Del Diavolo
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
The Roman Catholic Pope is planning a reconciliatory meeting with the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church, an event awaited for many generations. But suddenly, right while the Pope is addressing the crowds gathered in the Piazza Navone, a nun is assassinated by a Ukrainian, placing the upcoming talks between the two leaders in jeopardy. And the head of the American diplomatic corps (the nun was an American) assigns the investigation of the killing to one of his underlings, which leads the young man to investigate the Russicum, a center for the study of Russia within the Vatican city. And from there he finds himself caught up in an intrigue of international proportions, filled with agents and double agents, and ending with a revelation most unexpected.
Plot:
agent, nun, pope, murder, priest, conspiracy, espionage, diplomat, double agent, catholic, catholicism, ukrainian, reconciliation
Place:
rome italy, italy, russia, vatican, europe
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and rough films with plots about murder, dishonesty, investigation, crimes, deadly, female nudity and police officer mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like The Third Solution: Corleone (1978), Excellent Cadavers (1999), Two Gentlemen 'N' (1962), The Amateur (1981), Marathon Man (1976). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two friends grow up together in the Sicily of the '50s. Two different destiny, two different way of life. Could their friendship survive to the mafia shadow?
Plot:
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Place:
italy, palermo italy, sicily
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Fact based story about the political battle that was waged against the Mafia in Sicily during the late 1980's and early 1990's. Chazz Palminteri plays Giovanni Falcone, a crusading prosecutor who tried to use money trails as a way to ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot:
cosa nostra, battles, political corruption, police corruption, courtroom drama, murder, idealism, tough law enforcer, legal, politics, state affairs, investigation ...
Time:
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Place:
sicily, italy, europe
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64%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Kazmierz Dziewanowicz's hobby is very strange. He collects people who were born on the 29th of February. One day he sees that in his collection there are two men with the same name, the same birth place, the same date of birth and the same ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.
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exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
czech republic, italy, europe, eastern europe, central europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, disturbing, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
conspiracy, dentist, chase, attempted murder, vengeance, espionage, intrigue, investigation, rivalry, trap, betrayal, secret agents ...
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Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, france, uruguay ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A detective (inspector Rogas) is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges. During the investigation he discovers a complot that involves the Italian Communist Party. (IMDb)
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, disturbing, twists and turns ...
Plot:
conspiracy, murder, police investigation, life is a bitch, dishonesty, mystery, crimes, politics, state affairs, uncover truth, law enforcement, political conspiracy ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
The city suffers and succumbs unarmed, but an ex secret agent succeeds in winning the struggle against the gangsterism. Intrigue and violence grip a society victim of the crime.
Plot:
police officer, security guard, murder, police officer killed, police shootout, foreigner, security guard killed, director cameo, police officer bombed, police officer shot in the chest, police officer shot
Place:
italy
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46%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A detective uncovers a formula that was devised by the Nazis in WW II to make gasoline from synthetic products, thereby eliminating the necessity for oil--and oil companies. A major oil company finds out about it and tries to destroy the formula and ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, neo noir
Plot:
murder, who done it, conspiracy, world war two, intrigue, crimes, dishonesty, state affairs, investigation, uncover truth, mystery, police detective ...
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A young man gets caught up in criminal activities in order to fulfill his desire for an easy life.
Plot:
bandit, murder, female nudity, gangsters, beach, airport, scotch whiskey, shower, swimming pool
Place:
rome italy, mexico, italy
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41%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A murder investigation takes detective Christer Wijk to a small village, where he needs to separate rumors and facts to trail the murderer.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Plot:
murder investigation, murder, church, winter, priest, police detective, village, crimes, christmas, husband wife relationship, snow, countryside ...
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Place:
sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A socialite is murdered and her playboy lover is brought in for questioning. During his stay in custody we get to see the real sneaky playboy in action via flashback. Is he guilty or just a sleaze.
Style:
suspense
Plot:
father son relationship, flashback, informant, jail cell, police officer, irony, suicide, antique dealer, arrest, false accusation, memory, courage ...
Time:
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Place:
rome italy, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Milan pimp faces off against a ruthless and greedy French gangster whom wants to unite organized crime in Italy.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The mafia has overrun a section of the country so ruinously that a very stern man (Giuliano Gemma) has been sent by the government to be the governor in that region. He has been given wide-ranging power and authority and is not afraid to use it. ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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38%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A New York policeman imprisons and tortures an admitted cop-killer, but finds the tables turned when his victim refuses to break and in fact urges more punishment
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A former British spy stumbles into in a plot to overthrow Communism with the help of a supercomputer. But who is working for whom?
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Christina Fisher arrives in Sardinia to spend a holiday with her university friend, Francesco. As they are touring the island, they are trapped by mountain terrorists. Francesco is kidnapped, but Christina is permitted to leave. She is determined to ...
Plot:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Philip Scott, the boss of a toy company, is secretly also the chief of a British spy organization. Scott's cover is destroyed when enemy agents kidnap his girlfriend to force him to reveal the identities of his fellow spies.
Style:
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Place:
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Story:
Young police officer Roger is on the trail of the international master assassin, while the assassin follows his plan to murder Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.
Style:
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Plot:
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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:
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Duration: 92 min.
Story:
When her child is missing an Australian mother calls for an priest from Italy she has not seen in years.
Plot:
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Story:
From his offices in Switzerland, Russian Igor Lipovsky is engaged in a vast and profitable gunrunning operation with Africa. The French government wants to hinder the activities of the arms dealer and sends a team to sink one of his ships heading ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Estranged by the degree of corporate influence within the largest U.S. listening station in the world, an aging NSA officer defects and mounts a clandestine counter-listening station high in the Italian alps.
Style:
tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Criminal detective Roland Hassel and his colleague Bolinder is investigating a criminal gang involved in the meat packing business. Bolinder is murdered in front of Hassel and the criminals are out to kill Hassel, the only witness.
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A young girl is forced by her father to become a nun. But soon she finds out that dark secrets are hiding behind the convent walls and that she's there to serve lustful human masters and not God.
Plot:
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31%
Genre: Thriller, Crime
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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