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Enough Rope (1963)
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Original name: Le Meurtrier
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspense, tension, crime drama, period piece, twist ending
Plot:
suspicion, cold, cat and mouse, paranoia, moral ambiguity, character study, investigation, obsession, claustrophobia, psychological manipulation, adaptation, marital discord, slow burn, double life, isolation, fatalism, identity, european, psychopath, dark humor, manhunt, vigilantism, murder, mistress, jealousy ...
Time:
60s, 1960s
Place:
france
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Most similar movies to Enough Rope
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, psychological thriller, dark and noir films with plots about moral ambiguity, investigation, slow burn, cat and mouse, isolation, obsession and paranoia mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Enough Rope: The Ghoul (2016), The Ultimate Thrill (1974), Bahumukham (2024), Ambition (1991), The Glass Cell (1978). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A homicide detective goes undercover as a patient to investigate a psychotherapist he believes is linked to a strange double murder. As his therapy sessions continue the line between fantasy and reality begins to blur.
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, detective, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
reality vs fantasy, folk horror, murder mystery, psychotherapy, psychological manipulation, mind game, double murder, paranoia, suspicion, slow burn, claustrophobia, identity crisis ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
At a Colorado ski resort, a jealous man's paranoia results in murder.
Style:
tense, intense, suspense, psychological, crime drama ...
Plot:
murder, obsession, jealousy, ski resort, paranoia, danger, snow, betrayal, resort, moral ambiguity, mountain, isolation ...
Place:
colorado
Similarity:
77%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Tanveer, an aspiring actor, moves to the city after leaving a detention center. He meets Disha, his therapist, for mandatory counseling but hides dark secrets, posing a threat.
Style:
tension, suspense, psychological thriller, intense, crime thriller ...
Plot:
psychological manipulation, mental health, urban, character study, mature, cat and mouse, suspicion, manipulation, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, city life, claustrophobia ...
Similarity:
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322
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Mitchell Osgood dreams of being a famous writer, but the book he has written constantly is rejected by the editors. When the psychopathic killer Albert Merrik is released from prison after 15 years, Osgood believes that writing down the history of ...
Style:
dark, psychological thriller, suspenseful, crime drama, crime thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, obsession, manipulation, ambition, psychopath, darkness, psychological manipulation, character study, bookstore, paranoia, moral ambiguity, crime investigation ...
Time:
year 1991
Similarity:
74%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, Portugal
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventures outside of their marriage and becomes increasingly jealous.
Style:
dark, suspense, psychological thriller, tense, crime drama ...
Plot:
jealousy, murder, frame up, wrongful imprisonment, false accusation, obsession, betrayal, blackmail, moral ambiguity, corruption, infidelity, conspiracy ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
west germany
Similarity:
73%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.
Style:
crime thriller, tense, suspense, detective, medical drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
courtroom, justice, murder mystery, frame up, injection, hospital, innocence, suspicion, accusation, betrayal, guilt, european ...
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In this twisty thriller, a tennis coach at a tropical resort finds himself at the center of a missing persons mystery. Tom teaches tennis during the day and parties at night. When an enigmatic tourist arrives, Tom is unable to shake the feeling he ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, crime drama, melancholic, atmospheric ...
Plot:
island, investigation, loneliness, missing person, suspect, moral ambiguity, character study, tennis, male protagonist, alcoholism, regret, isolation ...
Similarity:
64%
567
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Housewife Annie Marsh suspects her husband might be The Hawk, a brutal serial killer. Complicating matters is the fact that she once was incarcerated in a psychiatric hospital. When she discovers she does not have the happy marriage she always ...
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspense, intense, crime drama ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, paranoia, jealous husband, mental illness, female protagonist, obsession, claustrophobia, identity, investigation, isolation, slow burn, small town ...
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
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Story:
When two women plot to end an abusive marriage through murder, an unexpected visitor arrives — threatening to shatter everything they've carefully planned.
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tension, dark drama, intense ...
Plot:
murder, domestic abuse, female friendship, guilt, moral ambiguity, suspicion, betrayal, mature, ethical dilemma, paranoia, vengeance, survival ...
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
After Jack and Lucy rescue a woman from freezing cold in the middle of Scottish mountains, they come to realize that the woman is not who she says she is.
Style:
suspense, tension, psychological thriller, ambiguous ending, gothic
Plot:
deception, isolation, paranoia, cold, psychological manipulation, christmas, femme fatale, cat and mouse, intruder, winter, moral ambiguity, claustrophobia ...
Place:
scottish highlands
Similarity:
53%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Thriller about a man who, along with his family, moves from a crime-ridden inner city suburb to a self-proclaimed violence-free haven overseen by a godlike businessman. However, they soon discover that life in The Colony is much more sinister than ...
Style:
erotic, suspense, psychological thriller, tension, crime thriller ...
Plot:
authoritarianism, manipulation, claustrophobia, surveillance, mistrust, moral ambiguity, family drama, suspicion, coercion, conspiracy, paranoia, isolation ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A teenage girl who sees her mother shot goes into hiding with a police detective who grows attached to her as she protects her from the killer who is hunting the girl. Laura Mennell, Karin Konoval, Marcus Rosner star.
Style:
suspense, disturbing, captivating, intense, tense ...
Plot:
witness protection, teenager, cop witness relations, murder witness, witnessing a crime, teenage girl, fighting crime, witness, murder, child custody, fear, police detective ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
51%
45
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
At a therapy session, a top Real Estate Executive with a killer secret reveals the dark entanglement that took her down a path she thought she had escaped.
Style:
psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense, tense, ambiguous ending
Plot:
character study, dark secret, trauma, moral ambiguity, confession, real estate, manipulation, guilt, obsession, identity crisis, intimate, betrayal ...
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, art house, noir, melancholic ...
Plot:
female protagonist, character study, secrets, psychic, paranoia, obsession, isolation, psychological manipulation, fortune telling, identity, secret past, horoscope ...
Time:
60s
Place:
bruges
Similarity:
50%
415
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
On an autumn night, in the deserted streets of a seaside town, Sara is fleeing from a party, convinced she has witnessed a murder. He finds refuge with Veronica, but does not know that the woman is the lawyer of an important industrialist, the ...
Style:
tension, suspense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
fear, secrets, woman, secret, undercover, deception, female protagonist, lie, intrigue, seaside town, character study, lawyer ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Eileen Maloney, a hostess at a strip joint, has woken up to find her two children are missing. Lieutenant Bramm suspects that she killed them herself. He questions her for days about her lifestyle, her children, her ex-husband, men and women, and ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspense, dark, ambiguous ending ...
Plot:
transgression, obsession, interrogation, missing child, female protagonist, guilt, trauma, moral ambiguity, manipulation, character study, interrogation room, suspicion ...
Time:
year 1993
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
A lawyer finds himself increasingly frustrated by the professional criminals he is called upon to defend, and hooks upon the idea of devising perfect crimes.
Style:
suspense, tension, psychological thriller, twisted, noir ...
Plot:
lawyer, moral ambiguity, planning, deception, perfect crime, corruption, obsession, manipulation, morality, mind game, strategy, ethical dilemma ...
Place:
glasgow scotland
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
A mysterious young man moves to a new town to work in a low level job in an isolated hotel, run by an unsympathetic bully who has deadly secrets of his own.
Style:
psychological thriller, tension, dark, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hotel, secrets, isolation, suspicion, mistrust, claustrophobia, abuse of power, paranoia, small town, confined, slow burn, identity ...
Similarity:
44%
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A young lad (Fraser MacIntosh) with a penchant for spinning elaborate yarns gets himself in deep trouble when he tries to tell people that he really did witness a terrible murder. Unfortunately no one believes him--except the killer. This ...
Style:
noir, suspense, tense, psychological thriller, crime drama ...
Plot:
coming of age, murder witness, false accusation, paranoia, deception, mistrust, child protagonist, small town, isolation, cat and mouse, investigation, boy ...
Time:
60s, year 1966
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Hyeong-min, a prominent police detective, and Tae-oh, a killer who has confessed to multiple murders, maintain a fierce psychological confrontation.
Style:
tense, twisted, crime drama, detective, crime thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, police detective, showdown, killing spree, investigation, murder victim, violence, danger, murder confession, cat and mouse, interrogation, mind game ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
south korea, busan, seoul
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance exam with the help of a private tutor. One night, one of the wives confesses to her husband that ...
Style:
tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, relationships, confession, secrets, relationship problems, family problems, couples, male female relationship, tragic love, mistress, murderer, family relations ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
42%
592
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A father and daughter : Samuel, a journalist, and Ava, his intern, cover the murder of a girl attacked with acid for their magazine. Struck by the brutality of this murder, as well as by his daughter’s interest in the case, Samuel decides to ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tension, dark, noir
Plot:
father daughter relationship, murder mystery, investigation, fear, danger, suspicion, journalism, trauma, violence, female victim, moral ambiguity, obsession ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A serial killer murders a girl from his neighborhood. The residents begin to suspect him one by one, as he tries to cover his tracks and plans another kill before escape.
Style:
suspense, tension, psychological thriller, dark, disturbing ...
Plot:
serial killer, fear, murder, suspicion, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, secrets, neighborhood, grief, missing person, investigation, moral ambiguity, guilt ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Years after the institutionalizing and abandoning of their mentally unstable daughter, the Kilpatrick family becomes victim to mental instabilities of their own as their past comes back to haunt them.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, psychological horror, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, trauma, mental illness, family drama, paranoia, guilt, family secret, mental breakdown, revenge, obsession, grief, psychological manipulation ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Jill Danvers is trying to put her life back together after her divorce. But someone is watching her; following her every move...
Style:
suspense, tense, psychological thriller, dark, crime drama ...
Plot:
stalker, suspicion, paranoia, surveillance, female protagonist, obsession, cat and mouse, sexual abuse, isolation, voyeurism, personal safety, psychological manipulation ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
John Dubury, a fifty-year-old man disappointed by his life, sees his wife die from a fatal fall while they are on vacation together. And while an accident is initially thought to be the cause of death, suspicions soon turn to John... especially ...
Style:
suspense, psychological thriller, tense, captivating, exciting ...
Plot:
husband and wife, murder investigation, husband, dead wife, death of wife, police detective, police officer, wife, investigation, police, police investigation, death ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Convinced the tragic deaths of her loved ones were orchestrated by a famous novelist she worked for, Luciana turns to a journalist to expose her truth.
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, disturbing, suspense, enigmatic ...
Plot:
revenge, investigation, female protagonist, boss, problem, murder mystery, puzzle, suspicion, secret, suspect, conspiracy, murder ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
argentina, latin america
Similarity:
39%
103
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 74 min.
Story:
In the dead of the night, in the heart of a forest: a car. Inside, inhaling carbon monoxide, a man awakens. He finds himself surrounded by three other men, apparently dead. It's the image of a perfect collective suicide. But they're all in ...
Style:
suspense, tense, enigmatic, psychological thriller, disturbing ...
Plot:
isolation, claustrophobia, trap, victim, deathtrap, murder victim, secret, puzzle, uncover truth, mysterious villain, forest, paranoia ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Twenty years ago Marco's father was brutally murdered by a cold-blooded serial killer known as the Crazy Dog. Since then, he has been ceaselessly trying to unveil the chain of events that have resulted in dad's death. Marco contacts Raul ...
Style:
suspense, crime drama, psychological thriller, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
serial killer, cold case, investigation, killing spree, serial murder, murder investigation, obsession, killing, secret revealed, uncover truth, crime solving, unsolved crime ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
To Topple An Empire is the story of Aidan Clarke (Sean Patrick Flaherty) as he is brought in front of crime boss, Vincent Donnelly (Art Lynch). Through a series of flashbacks, Aidan tells Vincent how he alone has taken out key members of his ...
Style:
tension, intense, suspense, dark, noir ...
Plot:
deception, lie, flashback, mafia, crime boss, organized crime, murder, violence, betrayal, underworld, moral ambiguity, manipulation ...
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
38%
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