Movies like P.J. 1967

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P.J. (1967)
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P.J. (1967)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Reluctant New York City private eye P.J. Detweiler is hired as a bodyguard to protect Maureen Preble, the mistress of shady millionaire William Orbison. In truth, Orbison plans a deadly intrigue in which P.J. is to play a central part. Meanwhile, complications ensue as P.J. gradually falls in love with Maureen. (Wikipedia)
Style: neo noir, thrilling
Plot: murder, conspiracy, private detective, private investigator, violence, bodyguard, mistress, male feet in socks, socks
Place: new york

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out neo noir, detective, suspenseful and realistic films with plots about private investigator, murder, private detective, investigation, deadly, uncover truth and dishonesty mostly in Thriller, Mystery and Action genres. Some movies like P.J.: The Return of Frank Cannon (1980), Murder Me, Murder You (1983), Darker Than Amber (1970), More Than Murder (1984), The American Side (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Return of Frank Cannon (1980)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Private detective Frank Cannon comes out of retirement to investigate the murder of an ex-girlfriend's husband.
Style: detective, neo noir
Plot: private investigator, suicide, friendship, friend, private detective, retirement, cia, airplane crash, murder, airplane, airplane accident, investigation ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Return of Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer (1986)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After two attempts to kidnap a little girl Mike Hammer is hired to protect her.
Style: neo noir
Plot: private investigator, investigation, private detective, sergeant, filmmaking, actress, grand canyon, organized crime, vietnam veteran, gambler, kidnapping, reunion ...
Place: new york, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
Murder Me, Murder You (1983)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Mickey Spillane's private eye Mike Hammer (Stacy Keach) probes his long-lost love's death while seeking their daughter.
Style: detective, crime thriller, neo noir
Plot: private detective, private investigator, voice over narration, punched in the face, birthday, ford mustang, death, father daughter relationship, murder, witness, porn industry, illegitimate daughter ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Darker Than Amber (1970)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Rod Taylor plays John D. MacDonald's famous Florida PI Travis McGee. Professional beach bum and 'knight errant' Travis McGee goes up against psychotic body-builder Terry Bartell. McGee pulls out all the stops when he joins a Carribean ...
Style: neo noir, independent film
Plot: murder, rescue, deep south, undercover, private investigator, boat, fight, revenge, cruise ship, doppelganger, killer, private detective
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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More Than Murder (1984)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Private eye Mike Hammer tries to clear his friend, Captain Chambers, who has been framed for cocaine possession.
Style: neo noir
Plot: private investigator, drug, narration, voice over narration, murder, police corruption, fistfight, investigation, poker, womanizer, punched in the face, hospital ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The American Side (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Following a mysterious suicide at Niagara Falls, a low-rent detective unravels a conspiracy to build a revolutionary invention by enigmatic scientist, Nikola Tesla.
Style: neo noir, tense, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot: murder mystery, private investigator, private detective, murder investigation, puzzle, crime investigation, assassination plot, crime solving, historical figure, investigation, murder, uncover truth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Trouble Is My Business (2018)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Private eye Roland Drake cracks cases and romances femme fatales in 1940's Los Angeles while corrupt cop Det Barry Tate rules the city. A tale told in the classic style of film noir. Drake has fallen on hard times in a harsh world. He has been ...
Style: neo noir, detective, hardboiled detective
Plot: private investigator, woman with a gun, femme fatale, bare chested male, sex scene, female nudity, sex in bed, kiss
Time: 1940s
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Vares: Private Eye (2004)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Vares, a film noir comedy from Finland, is yet another twist on PULP FICTION. And, just in case we miss the similarities of splattered blood mixed with outrageous incidents, the movie explicitly references PULP FICTION and has a comedic scene in ...
Style: neo noir, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, gory, investigation, disorder, danger, dishonesty, profanity, hitman, murder, nordic, private investigator, chases and races ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: finland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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The Lightest Darkness (2017)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: When a neurotic private eye who struggles to finish the case takes a train voyage, his own dark secrets begin to reveal themselves.
Style: neo noir, captivating, psychological, disturbing, surreal ...
Plot: private investigator, sleuth, investigation, train travel, murder mystery, train
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Rockford Files: If the Frame Fits... (1996)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jim Rockford, is framed for the murder of another rival detective with whom Jim was seen having an argument.
Style: detective
Plot: private investigator, domestic drama, death of father, murder, stealing a car, cia, fbi, cemetery, private detective, police department, reunion, cuckoo clock
Place: malibu california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 4.9
 77
Blackout (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A police officer suspects that a local husband and father who has recently undergone facial surgery because of injuries received in a car accident is in reality the same man who committed a quadruple murder several years before.
Style: neo noir
Plot: private investigator, investigation, nudity, murder, gangster, blood, sex, private detective, city
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.1
 83K
Broken City (2013)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In a broken city rife with injustice, ex-cop Billy Taggart seeks redemption and revenge after being double-crossed and then framed by its most powerful figure, the mayor. Billy's relentless pursuit of justice, matched only by his streetwise ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, rough, political, intense ...
Audience: teens
Plot: investigation, conspiracy, private detective, infidelity, betrayal, politics, mayor, political corruption, twists and turns, corruption, ex law enforcer, blackmail ...
Time: year 2013, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Missing Person (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Private detective John Rosow is hired to tail a man on a train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Rosow gradually uncovers the man's identity as a missing person; one of the thousands presumed dead after the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the World Trade ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: missing person, private detective, uncover truth, riddles and clues, danger, train, post september 11 2001, fbi agent, husband wife relationship, male female relationship, private investigator, investigator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
 6.4
 4K
Marlowe (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Los Angeles private-eye Philip Marlowe is trying to locate the brother of his new client, a woman named Orfamay Quest. The trail leads to two men who deny any knowledge of the brother's existence. Both are soon killed by an ice pick, so Marlowe ...
Style: neo noir, detective, noir, mind bending, tense ...
Plot: private detective, blackmail, murder, femme fatale, investigation, gangster, missing person, philip marlowe, mysticism, love, private investigator, darkness ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.4
 7K
The Big Bang (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A private detective is hired to find a missing stripper but the job turns complicated when everyone he questions ends up dead. From the mean streets of Los Angeles to the desolate desert of New Mexico, Cruz must contend with a brutal Russian Boxer, ...
Style: neo noir, serious, tense, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: missing person, private detective, strip club, private investigator, woman on top, female nudity, striptease, bad cop, police corruption, boxing, coitus, male nudity ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new mexico, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Where's Marlowe? (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After making a 3-hour fiasco about New York City's water supply, a two-man film crew decides to take it up a notch by documenting life in the private investigator offices of "Boone and Murphy". Cheating husbands and missing dogs fail ...
Style: entertaining, satirical, semi serious, humorous, funny ...
Plot: private detective, filmmaking, murder, existentialism, investigation, artists and showbiz, satire, chase, filmmaker, manipulation, surveillance, death ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, new york, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Late Show (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who had gotten himself involved in a case concerning a murdered broad, stolen stamps, a nickel-plated handgun, a cheating dolly, and a kidnapped ...
Style: neo noir, detective, offbeat, clever, funny ...
Plot: private detective, murder, cat, investigation, private investigator, partner, violent content, love and romance, elderly, dishonesty, odd couple, law enforcement ...
Time: year 1977, 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman ...
Style: neo noir, detective, dark, stylized, clever ...
Plot: private detective, african american, missing person, jazz club, black, gangster, murder, jazz, racism, home invasion, private investigator, cop ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1948
Place: los angeles, california, usa, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychological, tense, bleak ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: private detective, murder, serial killer, kidnapping, drug dealer, secrets, murder of wife, investigation, violence, faked death, home invasion, hostage ...
Time: year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, year 1991, year 1999 ...
Place: usa, new york, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
V2: Dead Angel (2007)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 92 min.
Story: The tough Detective Vares, get hired by a friend accused of murdering a girl. His job is to find the real killer, but people aren't talking. Before he can get traction another homicide takes place- and things move toward a dire conclusion.
Plot: private investigator, mysticism, petty criminal, police corruption, car salesman, job, homicide, prostitution, rock band, police officer, banker, blackmail ...
Time: year 2007
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.8
 12K
Last Looks (2021)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A disgraced ex-cop seeks solace by moving to the woods, but his quiet life comes to an end when a private eye recruits him to investigate the murder of an eccentric TV star's wife.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, psychological, action thriller ...
Plot: private investigator, murder, missing person, investigation, murder investigation, who done it, forensics, unsolved crime, murder mystery, private detective, crime investigation, uncover truth ...
Time: 2020s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A. (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Detective Jim Rockford works to uncover facts of the death of a wealthy socialite whose two grown children are accused of murdering her. Complicating matters are Rockford's omnipresent "friend" Angel, and Rockford's ex-wife Kit, ...
Style: detective
Plot: private investigator, lawyer, beach, attorney, basement, murder, baseball player, movie star, rolls royce, ex wife, private detective, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Place: malibu california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 3.9
 707
Mysteria (2011)
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A once famous and now a washed-up Hollywood screenwriter fighting to finish his latest script with an unrealistic deadline. He finds himself in the center of a murder investigation involving a prominent politician's wife. The surrounding events ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: police investigation, murder, writer's life, life is a bitch, protagonist as suspect, hollywood, disorder, down on your luck, artists and showbiz, losing-it hero, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 7.0
 363K
Jack Reacher (2012)
Genre: Action, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: When a gunman takes five lives with six shots, all evidence points to the suspect in custody. On interrogation, the suspect offers up a single note: "Get Jack Reacher!" So begins an extraordinary chase for the truth, pitting Jack Reacher ...
Style: detective, serious, exciting, suspenseful, clever ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, teens, family friendly, boys' night
Plot: investigation, sniper, loner, hitman, vigilantism, assassin, murder, tough guy, ex military, lone hero, one man army, dishonesty ...
Time: year 2012, 2010s, 21st century
Place: pittsburgh, usa, iraq, seattle, pennsylvania ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 6.0
 537
Gunn (1967)
Genre: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The madam of a floating bordello hires private eye Peter Gunn (Craig Stevens) to prove a gangster killed a crime boss.
Style: neo noir, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: private detective, woman with a gun, private investigator, mysticism, investigation, murder, gangster, violent content, undercover, fighting crime, law enforcement, uncover truth ...
Time: year 1967, 60s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 7.1
 29K
Klute (1971)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: This acclaimed thriller stars Jane Fonda as Bree Daniel, a New York City call girl who becomes enmeshed in an investigation into the disappearance of a business executive. Detective John Klute is hired to follow Daniel, and eventually begins a ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, detective, tense, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: private detective, prostitute, conspiracy, missing person, obsession, murder, investigation, pimp, prostitution, call girl, loneliness, perversity ...
Time: 70s, year 1971, 20th century
Place: new york, pennsylvania, usa, manhattan new york city, new york state
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Drowning Pool (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a ...
Style: neo noir, detective, suspense, cult classic, thrilling ...
Plot: private detective, private investigator, political corruption, russian roulette, underwater, newspaper, deep south, murder, police corruption, investigation, guard dog, private investigation ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place: new orleans, louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.8
 188
Jigsaw (1968)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: After inadvertently ingesting some sugar laced with LSD, a man wakes up with amnesia and in the middle of a murder plot.
Plot: counterculture, private investigator, hippie, investigation, lsd, amnesia, murder, blackmail, government, death, apartment
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 4.6
 1K
Sayen (2023)
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: Chile
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Sayen is hunting down the men who murdered her grandmother. Using her training and knowledge of nature, she is able to turn the tables on them, learning of a conspiracy from a corporation that threatens her people's ancestral lands.
Style: thrilling, captivating
Plot: conspiracy, manhunt, murderer, secret, hunting, corporate conspiracy, intrigue, female protagonist, murder, revenge, murder investigation, vengeance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Quo Vadis, Baby? (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A private detective investigates her sister's suicide 16 years earlier.
Style: serious, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot: private detective, investigation, haunted by the past, uncover truth, murder, sister, suicide, private investigator, family relations, urban, strong female presence, sexual content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: rome italy, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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