Movies like The Switch 1982
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The Switch (1982)
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Original name: 慧眼識英雄
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Taiwanese crime drama.
Style:
suspense, tension, crime thriller, dark, detective, cliffhanger, noir, emotional, period piece, atmospheric
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, investigation, hostage, cat and mouse, suspect, police procedural, fugitive, conspiracy, betrayal, investigative journalism, chase, journalism, urban, arson, moral ambiguity, jealousy, false identity, love triangle, kidnapping, frame up, newscaster, ex boyfriend, boat chase, tv news
Time:
80s
Place:
hong kong, taipei
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Most similar movies to The Switch
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, noir, detective and dark films with plots about investigation, moral ambiguity, urban, corruption, police procedural, murder and cat and mouse mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Switch: Machine Gun Man (1961), Souvenir for the Prosecutor (1989), The Loser Man (2022), The Actress (2011), Kojak: Ariana (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
soviet union, eastern europe, ussr
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Iran
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
28%
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Country: Azerbaijan
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
crime thriller, suspense, tense, dark, detective ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
One of Kojak's old enemies uses Ariana, a young Greek girl, as bait to trap the legendary New York detective. Meanwhile, Kojak finds himself a brash young associate.
Style:
detective, suspense, tense, emotional, noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
urban, police procedural, danger, investigation, kidnapping, bait, rescue, female victim, cat and mouse, betrayal, revenge, hostage ...
Time:
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Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Young police chief Sandra Mohr returns to her hometown of Graz with a bad feeling. Together with her new boss, Sascha Bergmann, she is tasked with solving the death of a journalist who was planning to write an article on abuse of office and nepotism.
Style:
psychological, captivating, tense, thrilling, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigation, murder investigation, crime investigation, police investigation, crime solving, problem, uncover truth, sleuth, police procedural, corruption, murder, abuse of power ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young detective seeks the help of a discharged police officer, giving him the chance to reclaim his old life in exchange for solving a bank raid case.
Style:
tense, crime thriller, suspense, tension, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, law enforcement, bank robbery, police procedural, redemption, justice, second chance, heist, urban, moral ambiguity, cat and mouse, corruption ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
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Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
24%
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Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Police officer Pipa works on her first big case while simultaneously investigating her boss, who is suspected of murder. The prequel to "Perdida".
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Detective Bennett O'Mara finds a chocolate wrapper on a strangled girl, it leads him to enigmatic chocolatier Juliana Lovece. Just as this perceptive woman gets under his hardened skin, he suspects she may be at the centre of an increasing ...
Style:
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Plot:
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22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A Las Vegas homicide detective investigating his best friend uncovers a professional assassin.
Style:
detective, crime thriller, neo noir, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
investigation, assassin, corruption, deception, cat and mouse, conspiracy, moral ambiguity, betrayal, urban, underworld, friendship, private detective ...
Time:
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Place:
las vegas, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
On the night of their tenth anniversary, corporate lawyer Michael Barnes' wife is brutally murdered. Labelled the prime suspect by Detectives Jack Burns and Amy Cobb, Barnes must try to clear his name before it's too late... Along the way, ...
Style:
crime thriller, tense, suspense, intense, detective ...
Plot:
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22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
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Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Story:
When a young woman goes missing in Istanbul, a jaded writer gets tangled up in a deadly chain of events as he sets out to find her—and a good story.
Style:
crime thriller, noir, suspense, dark, detective ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Story:
Point Blank
Style:
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Plot:
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Country: India
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Similarity:
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Story:
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Story:
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Audience:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspense, dark, crime thriller, detective ...
Plot:
murder, police investigation, investigation, cover up, police detective, hidden truth, life turned upside down, rivalry, law enforcement, danger, twists and turns, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
south korea, seoul
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval tries to help and pursues criminals on the Istanbul Express.
Style:
detective, suspense, tension, retro, noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
train, railway, chase, pursuit, danger, urban, european, cat and mouse, investigation, conspiracy, betrayal, espionage ...
Time:
60s
Place:
istanbul turkey, paris france
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 139 min.
Story:
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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:
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Similarity:
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Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A down-and-out private eye (Treat Williams) gets too close to the wife (Virginia Madsen) of a rich man (Richard Masur) soon found dead.
Style:
crime thriller, neo noir, suspense, crime drama, noir ...
Plot:
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Similarity:
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141
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A model discovers her wealthy husband is a dangerous drug dealer. She leaves him, taking along two million dollars of his money, but what she really wants is custody of their daughter. She hatches a plan to abduct her daughter and take her to ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Forced out of his elite unit, a troubled cop launches his own rogue investigation when mysterious killings claim the lives of his former colleagues.
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