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Murder by Natural Causes (1979)
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Murder by Natural Causes (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Allison, the unfaithful wife of a famous mentalist with a heart problem, together with her lover tries to kill him by scaring him to death, but the whole thing goes downhill when it turns out that he knew about it all along.
Style: psychological, crime thriller, thrilling
Plot: accomplice, lawyer, cheating wife, betrayal, adultery, actor, maid, safe, mind reading, swimming pool, private detective, actress, assassination attempt, open ending, interview, card trick, struggling actor, quitting smoking, battle of wits, rehearsal, heart attack, assassination plot, videotaping, talk show host, movie actress ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, psychological, realistic and serious films with plots about murder, investigation, deadly, uncover truth, private detective, lawyer and dishonesty mostly in Mystery, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Murder by Natural Causes: Prescription: Murder (1968), The Judge and Jake Wyler (1972), Guilty Conscience (1985), Rehearsal for Murder (1982), The Rainbow Experiment (2018). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Prescription: Murder (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A psychiatrist uses a patient he is having an affair with to help him kill his wife, but his perfect alibi may come apart at the hands of a seemingly befuddled LAPD lieutenant.
Style: detective, slasher, talky, serious, realistic ...
Plot: police detective, murder, psychiatrist, investigation, alibi, swimming pool, whodunit, murder mystery, infidelity, police investigation, couples, uncover truth ...
Time: future, 20th century, 60s
Place: usa, los angeles, acapulco mexico
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The Judge and Jake Wyler (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A retired lady judge runs a private detective agency, helped by an ex-con and various parolees.
Plot: detective agency, murder, ex convict, probation, private detective
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100%
Guilty Conscience (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Amid acrimonious divorce proceedings, Louise (Blythe Danner) unwittingly puts her life in danger when she contests the prenuptial agreement she signed before marrying attorney Arthur Jamison (Anthony Hopkins). He plans to kill her to resolve the ...
Style: psychological, crime thriller, thrilling, serious, realistic ...
Plot: lawyer, dialogue, mind game, betrayal, murder, infidelity, unfaithful husband, manipulation, couples, family problems, dangerous attraction, love and romance ...
Time: 80s
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Rehearsal for Murder (1982)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A year after his fiancée's death, a playwright schedules a rehearsal for his new play, which proves to be a trap for her killer.
Style: crime thriller, minimal cast, thrilling, surprise ending
Plot: loss of wife, blackout, whodunit, theater, murder, suicide, suspect, flashback, motive, playwright, producer, falling from height ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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The Rainbow Experiment (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Things spiral out of control in a high school in Manhattan when a terrible accident involving a science experiment injures a kid for life.
Style: psychological, thrilling, captivating
Plot: schoolboy, problem, lifestyle change, changing lives, childhood trauma, traumatic experience, school, accident, experiment, high school, love, forgiveness
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22%
Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: There is excitement in the air when a Hollywood crew comes to Lawrenceton to film a movie about the town’s sleuthy librarian, Aurora Teagarden. However, when the film’s leading lady is found murdered in her dressing room, Aurora enlists her Real ...
Style: suspenseful, captivating, semi serious, realistic, psychological
Plot: murder, library, danger, investigation, murder mystery, mind game, society, filmmaking, crime scene, whodunit, talented, outsmarting ...
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jordan White, a publisher friend of Perry, is called to a hotel where a guest, famous horror writer David Hall, has cleared out the hotel for a weekend and has called his "friends" - an actress, a fortune-teller, David's private ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Plot: hotel, courtroom, law, advocate, lawyer, motel, intelligence agency, private investigator, murder, who done it, false accusation, courtroom drama ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
10 Days of a Good Man (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A lawyer turned private investigator takes on a missing person case, propelling him on an unexpected and life-altering quest.
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, thrilling, psychological thriller
Plot: investigation, lawyer, secret, crime solving, private detective, uncover truth, mysterious disappearance, private investigator, detective agency, detective inspector, obsessive quest, sleuth ...
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Notorious Nun (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A priest is murdered and the main suspect is a nun.
Style: psychological, cynical, talky, mind bending, realistic ...
Plot: lawyer, advocate, intelligence agency, church, courtroom, false accusation, love affair, who done it, courtroom drama, power relations, dishonesty, legal ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Recipe for Murder (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A medical examiner investigates his friend's mysterious death in a car accident.
Style: tense, detective, thrilling, captivating, psychological
Plot: medical examiner, forensics, investigation, crime solving, car rollover, police investigation, accident, who done it, crime investigation, uncover truth, car
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Murder in Three Acts (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.
Style: detective, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: private detective, hercule poirot, murder mystery, serial killer, murder, writers, mysticism, conspiracy, literary, estate, danger, uncover truth ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: mexico, latin america, acapulco mexico, los angeles
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20%
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lost Love (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Perry must defend the husband of an old flame from a murder charge.
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, tense, clever ...
Plot: courtroom, murder, advocate, lawyer, intelligence agency, private detective, courtroom drama, frame up, heroes, legal, legal action, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s
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20%
Deadly Honeymoon (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Handsome silver spoon Texan Trevor Forrest can't always control his tendencies to flirt and gamble, even on honeymoon cruise to Tahiti with Lindsey Ross Forrest, which may compromise their business ambitions. The ship captain asks FBI agent ...
Style: tense, suspense, suspenseful, exciting, psychological ...
Plot: wedding, cruise, mind game, betrayal, honeymoon, husband wife relationship, fight, infidelity, marriage, ship, gambling, cruise ship ...
Place: hawaii
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Innocent (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bill Pullman (Independence Day, Torchwood) stars as Rusty Sabich, a judge charged with the murder of his wife, a situation that comes 20 years after he was cleared in the death of his mistress. During this latest trial, a secret affair from ...
Style: tense, captivating, disturbing, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: lawyer, legal, murder, courtroom drama, dishonesty, legal investigation, father son relationship, uncover truth, law, couple relations, judge, courtroom ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Murder, She Wrote: South by Southwest (1997)
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.
Plot: big brother, intelligence agency, witness protection, train, murder witness, amateur sleuth, villainess, fbi agent, secret code, train travel, navajo indian, reunion ...
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20%
Francesca Quinn, PI (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When private investigator Francesca “Frankie” Quinn’s fiancé is murdered, his sister hires her to find the killer. Frankie must work with Wyn, the local detective assigned to the case…who also happens to be her ex. As the one-time couple ...
Style: suspenseful, thrilling, psychological, tense, captivating
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Gourmet Detective: A Healthy Place to Die (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When Henry is invited as a guest speaker at a luxury resort spa, he quickly finds himself at the center of another murder. With Maggie at his side, our favorite duo must not only find the killer but be careful they don't become his latest ...
Style: captivating, tense, enigmatic, suspense, thrilling ...
Plot: murder investigation, murder mystery, poisoning, couples, murder, vacation, police detective, multiple suspects, murder suspect, partner, policewoman, buddy cop ...
Time: 2010s, year 2015
Place: san francisco
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McBride: The Doctor is Out...Really Out (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In this particular episode, McBride's client is double-crossed during a custody case by his psychiatrist. The client later confesses to McBride that he believes he accidentally shot the doctor when he confronted him in his home. When McBride ...
Style: serious, suspense, realistic, psychological, tense
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Harper is a cynical private eye in the best tradition of Bogart. He even has Bogie's Baby hiring him to find her missing husband, getting involved along the way with an assortment of unsavory characters and an illegal-alien smuggling ring.
Style: neo noir, suspense, cynical, detective, psychological ...
Plot: private detective, murder, investigation, kidnapping, missing person, twists and turns, uncover truth, dishonesty, adultery, divorce, ransom, private investigator ...
Time: 60s, year 1966, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Death on the Nile (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Almost everyone on the S.S.Karnak, cruising the Nile, has a reason to want heiress Linnet Ridgeway dead. Her jewels are coveted by elderly Mrs. van Schuyler, her maid is upset because Linnet won't give her a promised dowry, writer Salome ...
Style: detective, captivating, costume drama, artsy, non-linear ...
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Robe of Gems (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Mexico, Argentina, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Isabel and her family take possession of her mother’s villa in rural Mexico where they reconnect with their long-time domestic worker Maria. But things have never been the same since Isabel’s mother left. Once so well looked after, the house is ...
Style: psychological, captivating, thrilling, weird
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Night Moves (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, psychological, detective ...
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The Face of an Angel (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.
Style: tense, psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic
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Baby Monitor Murders (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Cassie Temple accepts a job as a babysitter back home after her internship falls through, however she begins suspecting her employer is up to something sinister after overhearing a murder plot.
Style: captivating, psychological, thrilling, suspenseful
Plot: missing woman, blackmailer, nanny, murder mystery, murder, assassination plot, conspiracy, evil plot, secret, murderer, puzzle, babysitter ...
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The Star Chamber (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Disgusted with criminals escaping the judicial system via technicalities, an idealistic young judge investigates an alternative method for punishing the guilty.
Style: exciting, suspense, intense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: vigilante, conspiracy, murder, judge, political corruption, legal, vengeance, justice, lawyer, assassin, hitman, courtroom ...
Time: 80s, year 1983, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california
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Velvet Smooth (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Johnnie Hill plays Velvet Smooth in this soft-core crime meller. The slinky Ms. Smooth is head of a private detective agency, specializing in protecting the unprotectable. Her current client is in deep with a murderous numbers racket. So Velvet ...
Style: detective
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Murder on the Orient Express (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Agatha Christie's classic whodunit speeds into the twenty-first century. World-famous sleuth Hercule Poirot has just finished a case in Istanbul and is returning home to London onboard the luxurious Orient Express. But, the train comes to a ...
Style: clever, tense, suspenseful, mind bending, thought provoking ...
Plot: train, private detective, murder, revenge, investigation, riddles and clues, conspiracy, mysterious character, law enforcement, who done it, on the road, multiple suspects ...
Time: 21st century
Place: former yugoslavia, belgrade serbia, istanbul turkey, belgrade
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Twilight (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A retired ex-cop and private detective gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money and walks into a 20 year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of an actress' former husband.
Style: neo noir, suspense, clever, talky, detective ...
Plot: private detective, murder, bare breasts, female nudity, missing person, corruption, betrayal, police investigation, murder mystery, femme fatale, uncover truth, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Perry Mason: The Case of the Silenced Singer (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Perry Mason defends the husband of a famous rock singer who was found being killed after having had a tremendous discussion with her husband and her manager.
Style: realistic, serious, mind bending, suspenseful, detective
Plot: courtroom, murder, intelligence agency, lawyer, advocate, private investigator, dishonesty, amateur detective, dedicated lawyer, private detective, legal, couple relations ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Perry Mason: The Case of the Murdered Madam (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Perry investigates the murder of a former madam and uncovers a multimillion dollar banking fraud in the process.
Style: psychological, detective, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot: courtroom, murder, lawyer, advocate, viking, intelligence agency, cons and scams, false accusation, courtroom drama, power relations, legal action, crime gone awry ...
Time: 80s
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18%
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