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The Devil's Ballad (1977)
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Original name: 悪魔の手毬唄
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
A serial killer responsible for 7 minors' deaths thus far seems to kill to a particular rhythm, which the authorities must identify to catch him.
Style:
detective, tense, atmospheric, suspense, dark, bleak, period piece, gothic, twisted, moody
Plot:
whodunit, investigation, deduction, puzzle, unsolved crime, suspicion, cold case, family secret, remote village, amateur sleuth, claustrophobia, paranoia, locked room, isolated community, revenge motive, ritual, murder, wine, mirror, private detective, bicycle, grape, waterfall, convention, poison ...
Time:
year 1970, year 1952, 1950s, 50s
Place:
japan
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Most similar movies to The Devil's Ballad
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, detective, tense and atmospheric films with plots about investigation, murder, whodunit, police procedural, cold case, slow burn and suspicion mostly in Mystery, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like The Devil's Ballad: The House of Hanging (1979), The Inugami Family (1976), 64: Part 2 (2016), Sörensen's Fear (2020), Durgo Rahasya (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Criminology professor Jonathan Maxwell investigates a murder at a new age retreat where the leader is killed in a locked room surrounded by people in a deep trance.
Style:
suspense, detective, tense, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
investigation, locked room, locked room mystery, whodunit, suspicion, puzzle, interrogation, locked door, deduction, motive, trance, mistrust ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
95%
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:
87%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Private Detective Kiyoshi Mitarai and Miyuki Ogawa arrive in Fukuyama, Hiroshima Prefecture. They are interested in a case which involves discovered bodies. The bodies were found drifting in the Seto Inland Sea, where the currents repeat every 6 ...
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, detective, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, puzzle, uncover truth, crime solving, forensics, crime investigation, sleuth, murder investigation, whodunit, secret, forensic, neurologist ...
Similarity:
80%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 146 min.
Story:
When a tycoon passes away, he unexpectedly leaves the family fortune to outsider Tamayo on the condition that she marries one of the grandsons, pitting blood against blood.
Style:
gothic, gothic horror, creepy, detective, suspense ...
Plot:
yakuza, murder mystery, inn, family relations, murder, flashback, body swapping, family feud, inheritance, axe murder, greed, frog ...
Time:
1940s, year 1947
Place:
japan
Similarity:
72%
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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:
65%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Detective Chief Inspector Sörensen is anxious. More precisely, he suffers from a chronic anxiety disorder that makes life difficult for him. That is why he is moving from Hamburg to the Frisian village of Katenbüll, where he hopes for a more ...
Style:
detective, tense, psychological, atmospheric, bleak ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, anxiety, police procedural, small town, mental health, secrets, paranoia, rain, isolation, moral ambiguity, suspicion ...
Place:
germany
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Byomkesh recalls the murder mystery of historian, Ishan Chandra Majumder, where Byomkesh along with Ajit and Pandey, tries to demystify the real reason behind the series of deaths in the family and the gold coin.
Style:
suspense, detective, cerebral, tense, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, investigation, whodunit, sleuth, family secret, betrayal, motive, puzzle, revenge, moral ambiguity, slow burn, indian history ...
Similarity:
60%
830
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 208 min.
Story:
Based on Boris Akunin's novel 'Azazel' (English title 'The Winter Queen') set in Moscow in 1876. The novel started a long series quite popular in Russia. In 'Azazel' a young police officer - Erast Fandorin - ...
Style:
tense, detective, suspense, humorous, surprise ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
whodunit, investigation, amateur sleuth, secret society, conspiracy, power struggle, intern, police investigation, terrorist plot, betrayal by friend, love and romance, literary ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s
Place:
russia, moscow russia, ottoman empire, britain
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.
Style:
twisted, grim, tense, dark, detective ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, evidence, secrets, interrogation, identity, forensic, betrayal, murder investigation, multiple murder, murder case, typhoon ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
58%
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:
58%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 215 min.
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Story:
Hotel “Shizen no Shima” is located on an small, remote island. The owner of the hotel invites 10 people to the island, but when they arrive they learn that the owner is not there. These 10 people do not know why they are there or what will ...
Style:
psychological, detective, suspense, thrilling, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, isolation, whodunit, murder, uncover truth, crime solving, murder investigation, crime investigation, secret, homicide detective, mysterious character, changing lives ...
Time:
1940s, 2010s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
58%
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:
57%
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:
56%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In order to uphold his title of High School Detective, a teen sleuth must protect his classmates from kidnapping after receiving a threatening letter.
Style:
anime, detective, light, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
investigation, high school, group of friends, prodigy, deduction, crime solving, secret, schoolboy, clue, secret identity, partners against crime, private detective ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
One morning, the body of a sailor is found lying on the beach, washed in by the tide.. With no witnesses or any sign of the dead man’s boat, Inspector Leo Caldas begins immersing himself in the town’s seafaring atmosphere as he endeavours to ...
Style:
detective, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot:
murder investigation, crime solving, investigation, uncover truth, police investigation, secret revealed, homicide detective, sleuth, police detective, crime investigation, cold case, unsolved crime ...
Place:
galicia
Similarity:
54%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A private detective becomes involved in a new cast when her partner's guardian is murdered.
Style:
tense, crime drama, suspense, twisted, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
private investigator, female detective, murder investigation, moral ambiguity, whodunit, female empowerment, corruption, betrayal, crime scene, loyalty, urban, murder ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Yuzuru Hamura (Ryunosuke Kamiki) is a university student and a fan of mystery novels. Against his will, he was forced to join the school's mystery club. The club is led by Kyosuke Akechi (Tomoya Nakamura). Meanwhile, Hiruko Kenzaki (Minami ...
Style:
captivating, disturbing, detective, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
investigation, amateur detective, summer camp, murder, japanese teenager, whodunit, school club, private investigation, amateur sleuth, murder investigation, forensics, detective agency ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the Médoc, a young woman is found drowned. An accident, her influential family of winegrowers maintains. Or rather murder, as the American inspector Morrison suspects. If so, why? What secrets this family keeps?
Style:
suspense, tense, atmospheric, noir, moody ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
family secret, vineyard, murder mystery, murder investigation, drowning, cover up, investigation, suspicion, betrayal, corruption, dark past, scandal ...
Time:
80s
Place:
france
Similarity:
49%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Kudo Shinichi and Mori Ran are invited to the set of a jidaigeki in Kyoto. On their airplane ride to Kyoto, a murder mystery arises. As well, when they finally reach the set in Kyoto, they become involved in another murder mystery. Will Kudo ...
Style:
anime, detective, feel good, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
investigation, murder, detective conan, group of friends, partners against crime, fighting crime, who done it, prodigy, riddles and clues, friend, clue, amateur detective ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a ...
Style:
tense, suspense, atmospheric, psychological, sinister ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
secrets, gossip, radio, anonymity, identity, whodunit, suspicion, scandal, small town, paranoia, provincial life, investigation ...
Time:
1950s
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Shivaji Surathkal, who is the Sherlock Holmes of the Karnataka Police Department, is handed over a high-profile case – the murder of the Home Minister's son. This brings him to an eerie resort in Ranagiri, near Madikeri, which seems to throw ...
Style:
detective, suspense, atmospheric, tense, intense ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, police procedural, evidence, whodunit, interrogation, isolation, slow burn, claustrophobia, cold case, secret
Place:
kannada
Similarity:
48%
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:
46%
Genre: Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
The film is based on the figure of the police inspector Simon Polt of the Austrian author Alfred Komarek.
Style:
detective, atmospheric, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
investigation, police procedural, justice, suspicion, character study, literary, whodunit, slow burn, moral ambiguity, murder, wine, obsession ...
Similarity:
45%
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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:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Jessica Fletcher searches for a woman who witnessed the murder of a man trying to expose a serious flaw in a top-secret government satellite code.
Style:
detective, suspense, twisted, tense, atmospheric
Audience:
adult
Plot:
train, amateur sleuth, murder investigation, investigation, female protagonist, missing person, conspiracy, justice, whodunit, deception, government conspiracy, danger ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Physicist Manabu Yukawa returns to Japan from America. Detective Kaoru Utsumi visits him and talks about a case. The case is about a popular girl in a town who disappeared and, several years later, her body was found. A suspect was arrested for her ...
Style:
crime drama, detective, serious, enigmatic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, genius, physicist, mysterious death, suspect, police procedural, investigation, murder investigation, crime investigation, true crime, victim, criminal ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Seventeen years ago, Xuan Zhen was mysteriously murdered. Seventeen years later, another homicide related to the Xuan family occurs. Xuan Zhen's older brother, Xuan Liang became the suspect. As the truth behind the old murder case gradually ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, captivating, thrilling, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, family secret, investigation, suspicion, secrets, family feud, cold case, family drama, relationship problems, dysfunctional family, love, life is a bitch ...
Place:
china
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
Style:
detective, tense, suspenseful, dark, period piece ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, family secret, police procedural, racism, moral ambiguity, alienation, identity, revenge, mature, designer, hit and run ...
Time:
70s
Place:
japan, tokyo, new york
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story:
Live-action drama series that takes place before the events that begin the story of Detective Conan, the anime series.
Style:
detective, tense, disturbing, captivating, twisted ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
high school, investigation, private detective, friend, teenager, crime investigation, deduction, schoolboy, private investigation, teenage life, sleuth, whodunit ...
Similarity:
38%
389
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Van Veeteren's only unsolved case comes back to haunt him when the daughter of a murdered private detective comes to see him. A brutal wife killer, who went into hiding years before, has resurfaced under an assumed name; or so it seems, and Van ...
Style:
realistic, suspense, detective, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, private detective, police procedural, manhunt, haunted by the past, chases and races, law enforcement, investigation, investigator, cold case, evidence, suspect ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe
Similarity:
38%
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