Movies like The Face of an Angel

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The Face of an Angel (2014)
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The Face of an Angel (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Both a journalist and a documentary filmmaker chase the story of a murder and its prime suspect.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
Plot: journalism, murder investigation, murder, filmmaking, justice, innocence, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, delusion, forensics, interview, writers, 9/11, historical event, reporter, secrets, violent content, sex, dancing, monster, airplane, lawyer, money, cheating wife, forest, police ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: italy, europe, rome italy, new york, london, florence, baltimore ...
Keyword: irish, american, english

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, tense and psychological films with plots about murder, husband wife relationship, death, drinking, flashback, telephone call and photograph mostly in Drama, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Face of an Angel: Nothing But the Truth (2008), Intrigo: Death of an Author (2018), The Weight of Water (2000), All Good Things (2010), Wolves in the Snow (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nothing But the Truth (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When reporter Rachel Armstrong writes a story that reveals the identity of a covert CIA operative, the government demands that Rachel reveal her source. She defies the special prosecutor and is thrown in jail. Meanwhile, her attorney, Albert ...
Style: suspense, psychological, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: journalism, cia, courtroom drama, reporter, lawyer, investigation, media, courtroom, corruption, murder, espionage, spy ...
Time: year 2008, 20th century, 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., persia
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Intrigo: Death of an Author (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Sweden, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story: A young author comes into possession of a manuscript sent by critically acclaimed writer, Germund Rein, shortly before he commits suicide.
Style: enigmatic, psychological, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot: investigation, dual identity, husband wife relationship, murder of wife, assassination plot, guilt, ambiguity, publisher, murder disguised as suicide, private detective, writers, missing person ...
Place: stockholm sweden, berlin germany, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
The Weight of Water (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an ...
Style: sexy, psychological, tricky, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: investigation, murder, infidelity, dangerous attraction, incest, women, amateur detective, family problems, couples, sexual relations, isolation, photograph ...
Time: 19th century, 90s, 1870s, 2000s, victorian era
Place: maine, new hampshire, europe, usa, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
All Good Things (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Newly-discovered facts, court records and speculation are used to elaborate the true love story and murder mystery of the most notorious unsolved murder case in New York history.
Style: disturbing, tense, suspenseful, intense, suspense ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: murder, disappearance, mentally unstable, overbearing parent, divorce, abusive husband, investigation, dysfunctional marriage, missing person, twists and turns, justice, obsession ...
Time: 80s, year 2010, future, year 2000, 20th century ...
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, usa, los angeles, vermont ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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Wolves in the Snow (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Wolves in the Snow begins with the news that Antoine has been cuckolding Lucie for years. A violent marital argument ensues resulting in Antoine's death. After lying about Antoine's whereabouts, Lucie discovers his secret life of ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, neo noir ...
Plot: gangster, murder, criminal's revenge, couples, dishonesty, rivalry, rescue, danger, vengeance, couple relations, love affair, secret life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
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69%
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Dark Places (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story: A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological, intense ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: stripper, serial killer, investigation, murder, murder of family, farm, private investigator, psychiatry, justice, brutality, police investigation, sibling relationship ...
Time: year 2015, year 1985, year 1999, 80s, year 1968 ...
Place: kansas, chicago, ireland, missouri, texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Walker (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: An escort who caters to Washington D.C.'s society ladies becomes involved in a murder case.
Style: serious, suspenseful, contemplative, tense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, lobbyist, investigation, politics, hypocrisy, state affairs, dishonesty, law enforcement, twists and turns, false accusation, conspiracy, lgbt ...
Time: 20th century, year 2007, 50s, 1950s
Place: usa, washington d.c., virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
 6.9
 32K
The Dry (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia, USA, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Aaron Falk returns to his drought-stricken hometown to attend a tragic funeral. But his return opens a decades-old wound - the unsolved death of a teenage girl.
Style: suspense, tense, psychological, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience: date night
Plot: murder, haunted by the past, murder mystery, investigation, murder investigation, police, small town, suicide attempt, violence, family relations, male female relationship, death ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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The Enemy (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Belgium, France, Luxembourg
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Prominent politician Louis Durieux is accused of having murdered his wife, found dead in their hotel room. The case blows up into an intense media storm. Is he guilty or inno- cent? Nobody knows. Perhaps not even him...
Style: tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, psychological
Plot: domestic violence, murder, prison, death, suspicion, victim, interrogation, name calling, police investigation, partners against crime, law enforcement, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Life of David Gale (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A man against capital punishment is accused of murdering a fellow activist and is sent to death row.
Style: surprise ending, thought provoking, suspense, twist ending, serious ...
Plot: death penalty, investigation, suicide, death row, fighting the system, professor, reporter, activist, murder, journalism, death, death sentence ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: texas, austin texas, houston texas, usa, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
 4.8
 2K
Out of Blue (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: When Detective Mike Hoolihan is called to investigate the shooting of leading astrophysicist and black hole expert, Jennifer Rockwell, she is affected in ways she struggles to comprehend.
Style: psychological, tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder investigation, murder, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, danger, serial killer, deep south, mind meld, loss, grief, mysticism, women ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
In the Valley of Elah (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story: A career officer and his wife work with a police detective to uncover the truth behind their son's disappearance following his return from a tour of duty in Iraq.
Style: detective, touching, suspense, tense, psychological ...
Plot: guilt, investigation, army, military, army investigation, war crime, cover up, murder investigation, character study, uncover truth, parent child relationship, loss of son ...
Time: year 2007, year 2004, 21st century
Place: iraq, new mexico, afghanistan, persia, tennessee ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
The Ghost Writer (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Germany, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A writer stumbles upon a long-hidden secret when he agrees to help former British Prime Minister Adam Lang complete his memoirs on a remote island after the politician's assistant drowns in a mysterious accident. In director Roman ...
Style: serious, political thriller, captivating, atmospheric, political ...
Plot: writers, twists and turns, politics, political conspiracy, investigation, betrayal, writer's life, spy, espionage, cia, conspiracy, suspicion ...
Time: year 2010, 2010s, 21st century
Place: new england, new york, massachusetts, britain, oxford university ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
 7.7
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Zodiac (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, murder mystery, maniac, journalism, mind game, journalist, paranoia, killings, killer, true crime ...
Time: 70s, year 2007, 60s, 20th century, year 1970 ...
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa, oakland california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
The Fifth Estate (2013)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, India, Belgium
Duration: 128 min.
Story: A look at the relationship between WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange and his early supporter and eventual colleague Daniel Domscheit-Berg, and how the website's growth and influence led to an irreparable rift between the two friends.
Style: political, tense, stylized, realistic, serious ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: journalism, internet, whistleblower, computers and web, politics, international relations, hacking, computer hacker, spy, biopic, hacker, journalist ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, year 2010, year 2011, 21st century
Place: europe, cairo egypt, paris france, washington d.c., stockholm sweden ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Conviction (2010)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When Betty Anne Waters' older brother Kenny is arrested for murder and sentenced to life in 1983, Betty Anne, a Massachusetts wife and mother of two, dedicates her life to overturning the murder conviction. Convinced that her brother is ...
Style: emotional, sincere, touching, inspirational, sad ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: lawyer, legal, courtroom drama, trial, fighting the system, prison, injustice, false accusation, court, strong female character, freedom, hopes ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1995, year 1992, year 2001 ...
Place: massachusetts, rhode island, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 6.6
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The Commander (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Commander Clare Blake has risen to the top of her profession in the male-dominated Metropolitan Police Service and is now the head of the serious crimes unit. Some years previously she arrested James Lampton for murder. He was subsequently sentenced ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, who done it, manipulation, law enforcement, dishonesty, police, nypd, strong female presence, big breasts, sex scene ...
Time: 21st century
Place: london, europe, england, brighton
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
 7.5
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Tell No One (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 131 min.
Story: A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
Style: psychological, suspense, suspenseful, detective, captivating ...
Plot: investigation, murder, serial killer, frame up, twists and turns, torture, loss of wife, surveillance, brutality, grief, corpse, disappearance ...
Time: year 2006, 90s, 2000s
Place: paris france, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Lizzie (2018)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young woman goes on a notorious ax-murdering rampage in Massachusetts at the turn of the century.
Style: suspense, queer horror, historical drama, tense, captivating ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: lesbian, lgbt, last will and testament, lesbian sex, lizzie borden, father daughter relationship, friendship, employer employee relationship, murder, lesbian love, oppression, double murder ...
Time: 19th century, 1890s
Place: massachusetts, new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
I Love Your Work (2003)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A fictional movie star, Gray Evans, goes through the disintegration of his marriage, his gradual mental breakdown, and his increasing obsession with a young film student who reminds Gray of his own life before becoming famous. A dark psychological ...
Style: psychological, realistic, serious, mindfuck, gloomy ...
Plot: obsession, self defense, actor's life, showbiz, couples, desire for fame, lifestyle, losing-it hero, rise and fall, ambition, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage ...
Time: year 2003
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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White Boy Rick (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The story of teenager, Richard Wershe Jr., who became an undercover informant for the police during the 1980s and was ultimately arrested for drug-trafficking and sentenced to life in prison.
Style: suspense, hood, disturbing, retro, rough ...
Audience: adult
Plot: fbi, informant, drug traffic, father son relationship, buddies, culture clash, teenager, gangsta, mobster, biopic, drug, urban ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 2014, year 2017, year 1988 ...
Place: las vegas, ohio, michigan, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.0
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Infamous (2006)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: While researching his book In Cold Blood, writer Truman Capote develops a close relationship with convicted murderers Dick Hickock and Perry Smith.
Style: emotional, tense, sincere, serious, captivating ...
Plot: journalism, writers, gay, obsession, murder, biopic, friendship, writer's life, gossip and rumors, manipulation, justice, police investigation ...
Time: 60s, 1950s, year 2006, 50s, 20th century
Place: kansas, manhattan new york city, usa, new york, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 5.9
 78K
88 Minutes (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A college professor who moonlights as a forensic psychiatrist for the FBI, receives a death threat claiming he has only 88 minutes to live.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological thriller ...
Plot: serial killer, fbi, murder, death, twists and turns, death threat, paranoia, frame up, danger, disorder, law enforcement, manipulation ...
Time: year 2007, year 1997, 90s, 21st century
Place: seattle, washington state, usa, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Wetherby (1985)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The mysterious death of an enigmatic young man newly arrived in the suburb of Wetherby releases the long-repressed, dark passions of some of its residents.
Style: independent film, psychological, realistic, serious, mind bending ...
Plot: loneliness, angst, heartache, memory, solitude, obsession, investigation, world war two, adultery, spinster, dinner party, school teacher ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
Place: yorkshire, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.6
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Noise (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The community reels after an incident on a suburban train. A young cop, beset with doubt and afflicted with tinnitus, is pitched into the chaos that follows this tragic event. He struggles to clear the noises in his head while all around him deal ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, law enforcement, police investigation, policewoman, chaos and mayhem, chaos, suburban life, suburbs, vigilante, paranoia, secret, husband wife relationship ...
Place: australia, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
 6.6
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Ripley's Game (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. ...
Style: suspense, tense, stylized, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, greed, vengeance, redemption, cons and scams, danger, intrigue, rivalry, assassin, villa, murderer ...
Time: year 2002, 21st century
Place: italy, milan italy, berlin germany, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 7.7
 71K
Mother (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min.
Story: A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, disturbing ...
Plot: investigation, murder, revenge, family relations, determination, amateur detective, uncover truth, murder mystery, asian, mother, mentally challenged, character study ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 2010s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: south korea, asia, korea, east asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 5.7
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The Paperboy (2012)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As investigative reporter Ward Jansen and his partner Yardley Acheman chase a sensational, career-making story with the help of Ward's younger brother Jack and sultry death-row groupie Charlotte Bless, the pair tries to prove violent ...
Style: sexy, atmospheric, surreal, serious, tense ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: reporter, prison, small town, investigation, journalism, paperboy, dangerous attraction, bdsm, injustice, police investigation, newspaper man, uncover truth ...
Time: 60s, year 2012, 20th century, year 1969, 21st century
Place: florida, everglades, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
 6.6
 3K
Red Lights (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A cross-country trip turns out to be a nightmare for a troubled couple.
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: missing person, family problems, couples, danger, crumbling marriage, alcoholic, husband wife relationship, guilt, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, family relations, summer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.1
 5K
Anesthesia (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Multiple lives intersect in the aftermath of the violent mugging of a Columbia University philosophy professor.
Style: suspense, captivating, psychological, tense, crime drama ...
Plot: professor, husband wife relationship, suspicion, friendship, paranoia, pursuit, promise, chase, violence, psychiatrist, money, lie ...
Time: 2010s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: usa, new jersey, new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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