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The Sniper (1977)
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Original name: El francotirador
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Lucas is a widower who works as a clockmaker. He has a daughter who lives in a village in northern Spain. One day his daughter go to school as each morning and he opens his shop. Aafter, a neighbor comes running to tell him that his daughter just died as an unfortunate victim of a terrorist attack that has been perpetrated against the car of a minister on official visit. Shattered, Lucas thinks that this is due to serious political tension that is living that part of the country, making a terrible emotionally unbalanced resolution: life threatening to the Head of State.
Style:
political thriller, tense, bleak, dark, melancholic, suspenseful, poliziottesco, period drama
Plot:
revenge, assassination, obsession, terrorism, vigilante, grief, loss, political violence, father daughter relationship, moral ambiguity, anti establishment, character study, trauma, vigilante justice, isolation, planning, alienation, civil unrest, investigation, conspiracy, widower, small town life, slow burn, sex, police ...
Time:
70s
Place:
madrid
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, dark, suspenseful and noir films with plots about revenge, moral ambiguity, investigation, trauma, obsession, grief and murder mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Sniper: Hovering Blade (2024), Shot Pattern (1982), Maracaibo (2017), 26 Years (2012), The Two Lives of Daniel Shore (2009). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Following the brutal rape and murder of his teenage daughter, a single father seeks revenge against the responsible youths. His pursuit for justice becomes a deadly cat-and-mouse game with both the perpetrators and the police.
Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime thriller, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
rape and murder, revenge, gang rape, single parent, juvenile delinquency, single father, death of child, murder, vigilante, violence, rape and revenge, life is a bitch ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
No overview found.
Style:
tense, dark, melancholic, bleak, psychological ...
Plot:
revenge, murder, investigation, grief, vigilante justice, loss, vigilante, brutality, obsession, trauma, violent, urban ...
Place:
paris france
Similarity:
84%
222
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The crime of Facundo provokes in Gustavo and Cristina, his parents, an irreparable vacuum. The tragedy demonstrates everything that could not be in the link between Gustavo and son and disarms appearances with his wife; Cristina Gustavo undertakes a ...
Style:
bleak, melancholic, tension, atmospheric, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
father son relationship, revenge, trauma, loss, grief, family drama, anger, obsession, character study, moral ambiguity, justice, murder investigation ...
Place:
latin america
Similarity:
82%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
26 years ago, state troops were ordered to open fire on civilians in the city of Gwangju who were demonstrating as apart of a democratic movement. Thousands of civilians were killed. Now, a shooter from the national team, a gang member, a policeman, ...
Style:
political thriller, captivating, disturbing, suspense, action drama ...
Plot:
revenge, assassination, vengeance, murderer, price of justice, murder, civil rights movement, fighting crime, convict, law and order, bandit, police ...
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
78%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A thriller about a man haunted by a past trauma...
Style:
psychological thriller, dark, tense, suspenseful, mind bending ...
Plot:
trauma, identity crisis, secrets, memory loss, post traumatic stress, flashback, slow burn, mature, claustrophobia, character study, amnesia, isolation ...
Place:
germany, morocco
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
In the wake of September 11th, two brothers believe they have stopped a mass terrorist attack in New York. Now they must face the consequences of taking justice into their own hands.
Style:
suspense, neo noir, tense, suspenseful, talky ...
Plot:
terrorism, swat team, police, kidnapping, moral ambiguity, vigilante, ethical dilemma, death, tragic event, catastrophe, chaos, murder ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Frederick Salomon, a war photojournalist who became worldwide famous for capturing the image of a girl flying through the air as consequence of an explosion, returns to the country where he took the celebrated picture twenty years before. He is back ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, political thriller, suspenseful ...
Plot:
black woman, conflict, explosions, photographer, journalist, trauma, guilt, revenge, ethical dilemma, investigative journalism, conspiracy, investigation ...
Similarity:
63%
537
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
After his five-year-old daughter is murdered, a loving family man becomes convinced that the oddball down the street is guilty.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot:
bereavement, revenge, grief, lynching, price of justice, vengeance, murderer, neighbor, child murder, murder mystery, loss of child, loss of daughter ...
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57%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Egypt
Duration: 162 min.
Story:
Taha works as a pharmacist and lives a normal life with his disabled father. When a mysterious murder occurs, Taha's world changes forever. He starts tracking down many secrets that leads him to unlocks a whole melancholic world of crime!
Style:
psychological, thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot:
revenge, murder, fight, vengeance, criminal underworld, problem, investigation, father son relationship, secrets, family tragedy, grief, justice ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
egypt
Similarity:
57%
19
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Chase, a frustrated artist, lives a bohemian life with lover, Alexis, an enchanting dancer, in their rundown apartment in an artistic niche of the city. His life is thrown into turmoil when Alexis is raped and murdered. Chase's greedy art ...
Style:
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Plot:
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57%
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Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
bleak, dark, tense, captivating, intense ...
Plot:
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Place:
afghanistan
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Iran
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
According to the police, Negar's father committed suicide. Having had a happy life, Negar suspects that his death has not happened the way it seems. She starts unfolding the truth through an unconventional investigation.
Style:
psychological thriller, tense, suspenseful, crime drama, dark ...
Plot:
investigation, hidden truth, family secret, suspicion, female protagonist, trauma, obsession, moral ambiguity, grief, loss, conspiracy, family drama ...
Place:
iran
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Turkey, Italy, India
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Matters turn violent after an ex-police detective (Richard Tyson) and psychiatrist (Kurt Sinclair) manipulate a grieving father (Matt Cinquanta) in pursuit of justice.
Style:
detective, suspenseful, psychological, thrilling, captivating ...
Plot:
revenge, murder, manipulation, secret, justice, vigilante, grief, violence, problem, police detective, manipulative person, detective inspector ...
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA, China
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A grieving Chinese father travels to America to collect his daughter and stays to catch the killer.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, emotional ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, murder, father, murder mystery, murderer, who done it, secret, family relations, murder investigation, grief, family bonds, investigation ...
Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
49%
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Style:
suspense, detective, crime drama, bleak, disturbing ...
Plot:
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44%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, detective, bleak, melancholic ...
Plot:
murder, police inspector, police captain, crime investigation, mayor, world war two, historian, police officer, death, witness, gendarmerie, suspect ...
Place:
france, normandy
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
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Police officer Luise Berg heads for an inevitable catastrophe after her daughter’s murderer is released early from prison. A psychologically complex game of confusion begins in which the boundaries of guilt and innocence, perpetrators and victims, ...
Style:
suspenseful, crime drama, dark, captivating, bleak ...
Plot:
murder of daughter, murderer, jail, prison, criminal, female nudity, moral ambiguity, grieving mother, true crime, murder, grief, trauma ...
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41%
256
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Switzerland, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, intense, tense, dark, psychological ...
Plot:
male protagonist, ex cop, police procedural, moral ambiguity, mafia, organized crime, revenge, betrayal, suspicion, cat and mouse, corruption, father daughter relationship ...
Place:
switzerland, geneva switzerland
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
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Story:
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Style:
psychological thriller, dark, intense, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
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40%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An Obsession is Aoyama's remake for the 1990s of Akira Kurosawa's Stray Dog ("Nora inu," 1949). The basic plot situation is the same: a cop, after losing his gun to a killer, sets out on a search for the criminal who in the end ...
Style:
detective, suspense, dark, crime drama, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, obsession, investigation, trauma, violence, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, police procedural, loss, crime spree, guilt, revenge ...
Time:
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Place:
japan
Similarity:
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Duration: 70 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
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Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, suspense, melancholic, noir
Plot:
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