Movies like The Outsider 1967

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The Outsider (1967)
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The Outsider (1967)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Not so uncommon themes of the 1960's are used as dark backdrop for a hard-nosed, private eye/ex-con with a bone to pick with the Los Angeles police Dept. Darren McGavin plays David Ross the hired investigator to play a game of follow the money. A simple case of embezzling turns bad quick when bodies start dropping and the savvy P.I. is the primary suspect of an attractive woman's death.
Style: neo noir, detective
Plot: lsd, private detective, drug use, nostalgia, strangulation, private investigator, sergeant, embezzler, police, investigation, young woman, murder, jazz, office, club, nightclub, beatnik, woman, outsider, bassist, ex convict, organ, squad, car, embezzlement ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, serious, realistic and suspenseful films with plots about murder, private detective, investigation, private investigator, police, deadly and dishonesty mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Outsider: Smile Jenny, You're Dead (1974), Poodle Springs (1998), Murder 1, Dancer 0 (1983), A Promise to Carolyn (1996), Judy (1970). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Smile Jenny, You're Dead (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Harry Orwell has been retired from the force ever since he caught a bullet that lodged inoperably in his back. But that doesn’t mean the man called Harry O is out of the action. Moonlighting as a private sleuth, fighting off daily back pain and ...
Style: detective, tv series pilot
Plot: psychopath, murder, private investigator, obsessed fan, stalker, modeling, estranged husband, retired cop, breaking and entering, women's prison, suicide, divorce ...
Time: 70s
Place: los angeles, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 6.0
 988
Poodle Springs (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Private eye Philip Marlowe and his bride move to a desert town, where he uncovers a land scheme.
Style: neo noir, detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: private detective, murder, private investigator, prostitute, gambler, small town, casino, father in law son in law relationship, businessman, pimp, dysfunctional marriage, love ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, year 1963
Place: california, nevada, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
Murder 1, Dancer 0 (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Private eye Joe Dancer finds himself framed for manslaughter while trying to uncover a Hollywood scandal that could ruin a studio and destroy a top star's career.
Style: serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, detective
Plot: private investigator, private detective, murder, hollywood, manipulation, police detective, chase, fighting crime, law enforcement, reluctant partners, on the run, uncover truth ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
A Promise to Carolyn (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together they try to uncover the truth.
Style: sad, detective
Plot: true crime, sister, stepmother, post traumatic stress, hypnosis, repressed memory, memory, murder, sister sister relationship, child abuse, flashback, exhumation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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 3.8
 69
Judy (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A depraved sex killer preys on women of ill repute in the red light district area of Boston, Massachusetts. Hard-nosed maverick private detective Gunner Sloan gets hired by the wealthy Fairchild to find the psycho after the creep attacks ...
Style: erotic, detective
Plot: private detective, sensuality, female nudity, industrialist, police, rape, sadism, murder, exploitation, black pantyhose, female stockinged legs, pantyhose ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Partners in Crime (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Gene Reardon (Hauer) is a twice-divorced police detective who lives with his daughter. When a well-heeled local man is kidnapped, the FBI is called in, which introduces Longsworth (played by Paulina Porizkova). Longsworth happens to have been ...
Style: exciting, serious, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: murder, uncover truth, investigation, private detective, who done it, law enforcement, dishonesty, small town, ex husband ex wife relationship, fbi agent, frame up, nypd ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
Assignment to Kill (1968)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A private eye is hired by an insurance company to investigate a shipping magnate suspected of deliberately sinking his own ships for the insurance money. He finds himself involved in a web of deception, double-crossing and murder.
Style: detective, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, private detective, insurance fraud, private investigator, insurance company, ship, insurance investigator, notary, bluff, sinking ship, investigation, dishonesty ...
Time: 60s
Place: switzerland, europe, swiss alps, zurich switzerland
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 4.9
 77
Blackout (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A police officer suspects that a local husband and father who has recently undergone facial surgery because of injuries received in a car accident is in reality the same man who committed a quadruple murder several years before.
Style: neo noir
Plot: private investigator, investigation, nudity, murder, gangster, blood, sex, private detective, city
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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 5.7
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Waikiki (1980)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two detectives are called on to investigate the bizarre serial murders of young women.
Style: detective, tv series pilot
Plot: serial killer, female police officer, kidnapping, human bait, videotaping, strangulation, stalker, private detective, sexual abuse, sexual assault, killing spree, swimming pool ...
Place: hawaii
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Moon Over Miami (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Moon Over Miami is a short-lived American comedy series that aired on ABC.
Style: detective, realistic, suspenseful, humorous, serious
Plot: justice, jazz, private investigator, investigation, workplace, misfit partners, love and romance, workplace romance, office, workplace situations, private detective
Time: 90s
Place: miami, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Lady Against the Odds (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A private detective becomes involved in a new cast when her partner's guardian is murdered.
Style: detective, mind bending, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: private investigator, murder, law enforcement, private detective, investigation, custody, guardian, female detective, industrialist, deadly
Time: 1940s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
The Rockford Files: I Still Love L.A. (1994)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Detective Jim Rockford works to uncover facts of the death of a wealthy socialite whose two grown children are accused of murdering her. Complicating matters are Rockford's omnipresent "friend" Angel, and Rockford's ex-wife Kit, ...
Style: detective
Plot: private investigator, lawyer, beach, attorney, basement, murder, baseball player, movie star, rolls royce, ex wife, private detective, ex husband ex wife relationship ...
Place: malibu california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Lawbreakers (1961)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: The story of a scheme to double-cross the syndicate and steal its money, and of a police commissioner '​s efforts to investigate homicides that take place as the scheme unfolds while also fighting corruption in the city government and ...
Style: neo noir
Plot: exotic dancer, train station, locker, promotion, blackmail, crooked lawyer, deception, nightclub, lawyer, car accident, airport, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Jack Irish: Dead Point (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia, Germany
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Jack Irish is thrown into a world of club owners, drug dealers and killers when he is hired by a judge to find a mysterious red book.
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, detective, realistic
Plot: nightclub, private detective, investigation, drug dealer, uncover truth, danger, who done it, sexual content, hidden truth, nypd, killer, judge ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
 6.3
 2K
Mickey One (1965)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A former comic is on the run from the mob.
Style: neo noir, independent film, surreal, detective, psychological ...
Plot: jazz, nightclub, on the run, music and dance, mobster, loneliness, paranoia, debt, gangster, stand up comedian, artists and showbiz, chases and races ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: chicago, detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Double Exposure (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: White collar crime, a crooked PI and a top notch homicide forensics team come together in this low-budget erotic thriller about a wife killed while in a hotel room with her lover.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, detective ...
Plot: lesbian sex, haunted by the past, blackmail, private detective, extramarital affair, murder, infidelity, marriage, obsessive love, evidence, regret, anger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
 6.4
 8K
Crown Vic (2019)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: One memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in the LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets, Mandel and Holland must ...
Style: suspense, tense, disturbing, brutal, captivating ...
Plot: rookie, friendship, fighting crime, partner, investigation, danger, surveillance, evidence, sergeant, mafia, responsibility, arrest ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Crack: Inception (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Madrid, Spain, 1975; shortly after the end of the Franco dictatorship. Six months after the mysterious death of his lover, a prestigious tailor, a married woman visits the office of the young Germán Areta, a former police officer turned private ...
Style: neo noir, tense, disturbing, captivating, detective ...
Plot: private detective, investigation, private investigator, murder investigation, murder, crime investigation, sleuth, murder mystery, detective agency, uncover truth, crime solving
Time: 70s
Place: madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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No Way Back (1976)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Crowder is a an unethical private detective in pursuit of a gangster who's after embezzled money.
Style: crime drama, independent film, detective
Plot: blaxploitation, private investigator, black, automobile, hooligan, brutality, violence, bank, betrayal, death, gangster, car ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Perry Mason: The Case of the Shooting Star (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An actor rigs a fake shooting on TV with the connivance of his friend, the show's host, but the practical joke goes wrong when the gun turns out to contain a live round.
Style: detective, psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: courtroom, intelligence agency, lawyer, advocate, murder, manipulation, righting the wronged, courtroom drama, who done it, investigation, dishonesty, legal ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman ...
Style: neo noir, detective, dark, stylized, clever ...
Plot: private detective, african american, missing person, jazz club, black, gangster, murder, jazz, racism, home invasion, private investigator, cop ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1948
Place: los angeles, california, usa, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Perry Mason ventures to Paris to defend a U.S. Marine Corps Captain accused of murdering a man suspected of being a Nazi SS Officer.
Style: detective, mind bending, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: courtroom, murder, amateur detective, intelligence agency, lawyer, advocate, law, courtroom drama, false accusation, who done it, legal, private detective ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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Chandler (1971)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A private eye (Warren Oates) is hired to follow a mobster's former mistress (Leslie Caron).
Style: neo noir
Plot: private detective, private investigator, fired from the job, kidnapping, on the run, taxi, african american, punched in the face, train, photographer, pursuit, limousine ...
Time: year 1971
Place: california, monterey california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Onion Field (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Greg Powell, a disturbed ex-con, recruits Jimmy Youngblood (Smith) a petty thief, as partner in crime. Powell panics when they two of are pulled over by two cops for tail lights. Powell decides to kidnap the cops and Smith goes along with his crazy ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: courtroom drama, murder, police investigation, true crime, legal, moral ambiguity, manipulation, brutality, courtroom, trial, law enforcer killer, haunted by the past ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979, 60s, year 1963
Place: los angeles, california, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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An Obsession (1997)
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: suspense, neo noir, detective
Plot: police, wife, fistfight, shooting, heroin addict, murder, gun, gunshot wound, stolen gun
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Drugstore Cowboy (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Bob and his friends Dianne, Rick and Nadine have been drug addicts for years and live from one high to the next. Gus Van Sant attempts to show an intimate look into the lives of heroin addicts with his film Drugstore Cowboy.
Style: road movie, independent film, cult classic, depressing, dark ...
Audience: teens
Plot: drug abuse, junkie, addiction, heroin, drug addiction, drug, on the road, friendship, dark humor, drug addict, beat generation, recovery ...
Time: 70s, year 1989, 20th century, year 1971
Place: usa, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Hickey & Boggs (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Two veteran private eyes trigger a criminal reign of terror with their search for a missing girl.
Style: neo noir, detective, realistic, serious, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, murder, private investigator, investigation, blaxploitation, rescue, kidnapping, money, revenge, chase, vietnam veteran, suitcase of money ...
Time: year 1972, 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Route 9 (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: During a routine surveilance on desolate Route 9, two small town deputies come across over one million dollars in cash, a van full of drugs, several dead bodies and not a witness in sight.
Style: realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, bleak
Plot: small town, cop, nypd, cash, sheriff, investigation, drug dealing, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, law enforcement, crime gone awry, corrupt law enforcer ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
 6.0
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The Kill-Off (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The film is set in a small coastal community in New Jersey where the only action in town is a nightclub called The Pavilion. The owner, Pete (played by Jackson Sims), can barely make the payroll so in an effort to bring in more business, he hires a ...
Style: neo noir, independent film, eighties
Plot: bartender, gossip, murder, janitor, stripper
Time: year 1989
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Winter of Frozen Dreams (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Barbara Hoffman is a University of Wisconsin science student. She is a part-time employee at a local massage parlor. She is also a killer. Now all Detective Lulling has to do is prove it.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, christmas horror ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, dishonesty, law enforcement, gory, winter, christmas, deception, prostitute, snow, sex ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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