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The Scarlet Camellia (1964)
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The Scarlet Camellia (1964)
Original name: 五瓣の椿
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 163 min.
Story: In this Japanese drama, a young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. First she torches her parents' villa, and then slaughters all her lascivious mother's lovers. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her. Unbeknownst to him, the girl plans on turning herself in, but not before she kills one more person--her real father. Later she changes her mind, but when his good wife learns of his philandering, she commits suicide.
Style: jidai geki, detective
Plot: revenge, suicide, adultery, mother daughter relationship, girl, woman, attempted rape, presumed dead, biological father, multiple murder, serial killer, young, set on fire, scissors
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, neo noir, grindhouse and rough films with plots about revenge, murder, girl, female nudity, adultery, suicide and mother daughter relationship mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Scarlet Camellia: Don't Tempt the Devil (1963), The Hunter's Diary (1964), Keiho (1999), Flag in the Mist (1965), Play It Cool (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Don't Tempt the Devil (1963)
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: detective
Plot: courtroom, nurse, murder, unfaithful wife, justice, criminal lawyer, woman, money, wife, femme fatale, cynicism, injection ...
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Hunter's Diary (1964)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ...
Plot: serial killer, diary, voyeur, hotel, foreigner, christmas eve, mole, womanizer, gay bar, pregnancy, false accusation, husband wife relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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Keiho (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 133 min.
Story: The psychiatric evaluation of a young actor arrested for a brutal double murder concludes he may be unfit for trial. Further investigation, however, reveals the crime was a well-planned statement against the section of Japan's criminal code ...
Plot: courtroom, multiple personality disorder, murder suspect, actor, memory loss, child abuse, revenge, left handedness
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
Flag in the Mist (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When her only relative, her elder brother is accused of robbing and murdering an old woman loan-shark, pretty, young Kiriko (Chieko Baisho) travels from her home in Kyushu to Tokyo to get Japan's top lawyer to defend her brother. Unfortunately ...
Plot: courtroom, trial, murder, revenge, evidence, retribution, class differences, baseball player, witness, lawyer, flashback, french restaurant ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Play It Cool (1970)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 94 min.
Story: This Japanese melodrama chronicles the exploits of a geisha's beautiful daughter. The daughter is the geisha's pride and she spares nothing to insure that she has a bright future. But the hard-working young woman's dreams of becoming ...
Plot: women's prison, rape, mother daughter relationship, love, revenge, violent sex, brothel, bad girl, yakuza, protection, japanese new wave
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Inn of Evil (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story: The story takes place in feudal Japan, when any commerce with the rest of the world was strictly prohibited. An idealist suddenly appears in an isolated inn (the one that the title refers to), the head-quarters of a group of smugglers, with stolen ...
Style: jidai geki
Plot: edo period, tokugawa shogunate, time travel, asian history, humanity, inn, stolen money, feudal japan, empathy, swamp, bribe, indifference ...
Time: 19th century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Family of Strangers (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Three patients of different backgrounds, illnesses and stages are being treated at a psychiatric clinic in Nagano Prefecture. Their cases range from the criminal to merely asocial. That should be that, but soon matters take a darker turn when a ...
Plot: unfaithful wife, security guard, murder of wife, brother sister relationship, hanging, elevator, matricide, fornication, man with glasses, schoolgirl, wheelchair bound, obituary ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Proof of the Man (1977)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.
Style: neo noir
Plot: killer, police detective, police, fashion show, dying words, murder, witness, police investigation, elevator, multiple murder, straw hat, killed in a car accident
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Axe (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Romania, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A breathtaking story in which a woman goes in search of her husband.
Plot: murder, woman, dog, village, widow, peasant, winter, forest, axe
Place: romania
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
 7.2
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Irezumi (1966)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 86 min.
Story: In this elegant proto-feminist shocker from Yasuzo Masumuro, a woman forced into prostitution wreaks her spidery revenge. A mysterious tattoo artist puts his masterpiece, a human-faced spider, on a kidnapped woman's back. She and her lover are ...
Style: thought provoking, masterpiece
Plot: samurai, female nudity, yakuza, femme fatale, girl, prostitution, forced prostitution, vengeance, strangulation, kidnapping, prostitute, adultery ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Die Tigerin (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: It's the roaring twenties in Berlin. The Tigress, a gorgeous, wild, and very independent street walker, falls for a handsome grifter. When one of her lovers gets jealous, she betrays him and has to skip town. The grifter reveals he has what it ...
Plot: revenge, exploitation, female nudity, lust, prostitute, sexploitation, bare chested male, female objectification, female removes her clothes, female full frontal nudity
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Place: berlin germany
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55%
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Midwives (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: It's a cold and stormy night, and in a house in rural Vermont, midwife Sibyl Danforth is, together with the father and an assistant, in the middle of a homebirth. As time passes, the woman in labor meets with difficulties and Sibyl concludes ...
Style: detective
Plot: narration, midwife, childbirth, lawyer, labor, death in childbirth, trial, snow, caesarean birth, knife
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
The Petrified Forest (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estranged relationship.
Plot: student, mother son estrangement, poisoning, religion, mother son reunion, tumor, cancer, surgery, sick child, medical student, monk, deaf ...
Place: japan
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Flower and Snake 5: Rope Magic (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 74 min.
Story: Masayuki Asao's "Flower and Snake 4:Rope Magic" tells the story of the gambler,who is unable to pay his loan.His wife and daughter are kidnapped by Yakuza gang and subjected to many days of torture and sexual degradation.Typically ...
Style: grindhouse, sexploitation film
Plot: sex slave, lesbian sex, exploitation, pink film, sex scene, husband wife relationship, gambling debt, father daughter relationship, nudity, hotel room, kidnapping, lust ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Gina (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A beautiful stripper hires renowned criminals to exact revenge on those who raped her in her motel room.
Style: neo noir
Plot: rape and revenge, rape, gang rape, girl, sleaze, revenge, small town, canuxploitation, female nudity, stripper, snowmobile
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Shadow Within (1970)
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When a married man begins an affair with a woman from his past, he comes to suspect her young son intends to murder him.
Plot: adultery, obsession, suspicion, chance meeting, youth, bus trip, fishing, murder, flashback, widow, paranoid, childhood memory ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Violence at Noon (1966)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 99 min.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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The Father (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 96 min.
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49%
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Heat Wave (1991)
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⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Swedish Love Play (1968)
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Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min.
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Plot: revenge, girl, vampire, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, jealous wife, seduction, car accident, car, killed in a car accident, set on fire
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: Japan
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