Movies like The Bricklayers

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The Bricklayers (1976)
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The Bricklayers (1976)
Original name: Los albañiles
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have brought the situation about. Much of the movie is filmed using hand-held cameras, and the majority of the dialogue is in the difficult-to-understand and very slangy Spanish dialect of Mexico City's bricklayers.
Plot: investigation, death, murder, corruption, poverty, janitor, police brutality, bricklayer

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspense, captivating and psychological films with plots about murder, investigation, death, deadly, uncover truth, murder investigation and danger mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Bricklayers: Lolo (1993), El profeta Mimi (1973), Motel (1984), Always Further On (1965), Red Herring (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Lolo (1993)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Lolo lives in a poor neighborhood on the outskirts of Mexico City. One day he is assaulted and injured out of the factory where he works. After a week of hospitalization, Lolo loses his job and is forced to seek sustenance. The accidental death of ...
Plot: lgbtq, poverty, investigation, gang, corruption, murder
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95%
El profeta Mimi (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Childhood trauma and religious repression causes little boy to grow up and murder prostitutes.
Plot: religion, murder, investigation, prostitution, poverty, brainwashing, religious fanaticism, prophet, preacher, affair, childhood trauma, domestic violence ...
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79%
 6.2
 39
Motel (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The discovery of the mutilated body of a wealthy woman leads a detective to an isolated motel.
Style: neo noir, independent film, detective
Plot: motel, hotel, sex scene, rich woman, investigation, misogyny, avarice, old woman, debt, storm, greed, sexuality ...
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78%
Always Further On (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Raul (Igancio Lopez Tarso) is a white man who enjoys the simple way of life practiced by the Indians of Mexico. He does his best to try and help the tribe, but he becomes a victim of greedy land grabbers who covet the tribal property. Jaime ...
Plot: native, environmental, exploitation, murder, corruption, anthropologist, mountain, environmental issue, corrupt politician, deforestation, ecology, land grab ...
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67%
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Red Herring (2015)
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: neo noir, detective
Plot: friend, homicide detective, best friend, assassin, investigation, murder, death, wrestler
Place: las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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White Orchid (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Shy and reserved, Claire Decker, 30ish, is a part-time investigator for Social Services. Typically, she solves cases where senior citizens have died alone, leaving no indication of who must handle their estate. This time however, Claire is ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: disguise, investigation, murder, femme fatale, danger, female protagonist, chase, brutality, death, police, woman with a gun, lesbian ...
Time: year 1992, 21st century
Place: usa
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55%
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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 ⇓
50%
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Thread of Lies (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A seemingly happy family gets rocked by the suicide of the 14-year-old daughter.
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing
Audience: teen drama
Plot: suicide, bullying, unsolved crime, puzzle, secret revealed, sisters, teen suicide, crime solving, relationship problems, murder investigation, loss of sister, cold case ...
Place: east asia, south korea
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47%
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Megachurch Murder (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: murder, investigation, uncover truth, amateur detective, clergy, youth, dishonesty, society, danger, teenager, soul, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
 4.6
 358
Deceptions (1990)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a wealthy socialite kills her husband, she claims self-defense. The cop assigned to the case is suspicious but becomes obsessed with the sensual young woman.
Plot: erotica, police, murder, woman seduces a man, seduction, love, sex, femme fatale, investigation, duplicity, pet cat, socialite ...
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42%
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Llovizna (1978)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Eduardo, a typical bourgeois man from Mexico City, goes on a business trip to a province, accompanied by his lover. While there, he picks up a large sum of money and, after a spat with his lover, sets off on his drive back to the city alone. On the ...
Plot: murder, road trip, poverty, fear, suspicion, affair, guilt, salesman, rain, mourning, alcoholic, car ...
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41%
Flirting with Danger (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A lawyer begins a sordid fling with an attractive young woman whom he slowly begins to suspect to be a serial killer of men.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: murder, femme fatale, investigation, fall in love, psychopath, lawyer, strong female lead, sex, police, multiple personality disorder, dangerous attraction, deadly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Awakened (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, parents and children, twists and turns, haunted by the past, small town, small town life, afterlife, mental illness, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Machine Gun Man (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Police procedural: tracking a ruthless Chicago hitman who's found a gig in Mexico City.
Style: neo noir
Plot: helicopter, blackmail, child kidnapping, police chase, revenge, car accident, murder, machine gun, school, hiding place, criminal gang, investigation
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37%
House under a Starry Sky (1991)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Old scientist Bashkirtsev is very surprised to discover the possible contacts with other world...
Style: surreal
Plot: perestroika, life changing, surrealism, death, absurdism, murder, farce, monster, tragic event
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
I Dream of Murder (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Johanna is a therapist on the verge of a midlife crisis. When one of her patients is found brutally murdered, she takes it upon herself to solve the mystery. But why is this stressed-out shrink willing to risk her marriage, her career and her entire ...
Style: psychological, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, midlife crisis, investigation, doctors and patients, therapist, police, female protagonist, car accident, haunted by the past, danger, power relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 4.2
 14K
Brazen (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mystery writer Grace Miller has killer instincts when it comes to motive - and she'll need every bit of expertise to help solve her sister's murder.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, crime drama ...
Plot: murder, investigation, murder mystery, murder investigation, life is a bitch, double life, private investigation, crime solving, secret identity, sisters, hidden identity, uncover truth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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The Sovereign (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Russia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: For two months a serial killer has been terrorizing the city of St. Petersburg. Every Wednesday a girl between 9 and 12 years old is the victim. The brutality of the maniac plunges city residents into horror. Parents are afraid of leaving their ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, surprise ending ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Perfect Number (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Based on the series by the popular Japanese novelist Keigo Higashino, this is a mystery drama that 'faithfully but freely' adapts the 3rd part in the series, . The story revolves around 3 characters: a woman who unwittingly killed her ...
Style: suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful, twist ending ...
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Place: south korea, korea
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33%
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What Remains (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A small town pastor is forced to reckon with an act of forgiveness when the convict he forgave for murdering his wife returns to town five years later.
Style: psychological, tense, captivating, thrilling
Plot: murder, pastor, faith, forgiveness, murder investigation, investigation, social problems, killings, small town, police investigation, small town life, town ...
Place: texas
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33%
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 4K
Murk (2005)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The psychological thriller "Murk" tells the story of Jacob, who is investigating into the circumstances surrounding his sister's death on her wedding night.
Style: psychological, bleak, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: investigation, destructive relationship, uncover truth, amateur detective, woman in danger, couples, disability, obsession, family relations, siblings relations, murder, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Guilt & Sentence (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The storyline is a thought-provoking drama of two lost and troubled individuals who are forever entwined after a traumatic event occurs. Janis, a twenty-year-old woman who is struggling with depression, takes the blame for Peter, who works as a ...
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: crime and punishment, conundrum, death, murder, surrealism, introspection, traumatic past, guilty conscience, depression, power, cigarette smoking
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32%
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 4K
Skin Walker (2019)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When her grandmother is brutally murdered, Regine, a fragile young woman must return to the countryside she has struggled to escape in order to engage with the family guilt she’s tried to shut out of her life - and to connect with the brother she ...
Style: psychological thriller, gothic horror, suspenseful, tense, psychological ...
Plot: death of grandmother, death, murder, getting home, family relations, family problems, marital strife, family values, murder investigation, private investigation, fear, secret ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Stealing Paradise (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The story follows a brilliant engineer whose breakthrough design is stolen and patented by a colleague. When the colleague is found murdered, she becomes the prime suspect.
Style: suspense, psychological, talky, tense, suspenseful
Plot: murder, murder investigation, partner, rivalry, investigation, testimony, police detective, evidence, investigator, interrogation, death, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, boston
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31%
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Chorabali (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Sumon is compelled to grow up in the city's underworld as mafia lord Osman Ali's killer machine. After killing a pregnant woman carrying Osman Ali's illegitimate child, Sumon's conscience leads him to defy Ali's order.
Style: tense, psychological, suspense, captivating, detective
Plot: murder investigation, murder mystery, overdose, blackmail, whodunit, partner, society, who done it, investigation, police investigation, partners against crime, police detective ...
Time: 21st century
Place: kolkata
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31%
Domingo Salvaje (1967)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Repressed middle-aged Catholic gets into a troublesome relationship with the prostitute next door and her little boy.
Plot: prostitute, murder, police, accident, guilt, death, strangulation, old man, repression, male nudity, balcony, male bare butt
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
The Minister’s Wife (1981)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Rafael, a young man from the provinces, works as a waiter in a resort and helps himself economically having sex for money with rich older women. During a bomb threat, he is discovered in bed with one of the guest, Leonor Marchioness of Montenegro, ...
Style: detective, gay cinema
Plot: impotent husband, terrorism, infidelity, corruption, investigation, assassination, aristocrat, money, politics, injection, gigolo, male full rear nudity ...
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Circle of Friends (2006)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Maggie returns to her hometown to dedicate a scholarship in her late husband's name. While there, she reconnects with old friends and comes to believe that her husband's death is tied to the mysterious deaths of several old classmates..
Style: captivating, tense, suspense, psychological, serious ...
Plot: murder, old friend, small town, homecoming, career woman, school, investigation, danger, couples, high school, high school life, childhood friend ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Terror Stalks the Class Reunion (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A beautiful young detective goes to the rescue of a teacher kidnapped by a former student.
Style: detective
Plot: murder, teacher, obsession, high school reunion, kidnapping, hostage, investigation, danger, tape over mouth
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The Million Dollar Hotel starts with a jump from a roof top that clears up a death in a hotel that was burning to the ground where a lot of strange people had been living.
Style: intellectual, psychological, enigmatic, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot: hotel, investigation, murder, private detective, friendship, mentally challenged, suicide, love, insanity, death, platonic, motel ...
Time: year 2000, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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