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The Crimes That Bind (2018)
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The Crimes That Bind (2018)
Original name: 祈りの幕が下りる時
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min.
Story: Michiko Oshitani, who lived in Shiga Prefecture, is found dead at an apartment in Tokyo. She was strangled to death. Mutsuo Koshikawa is the owner of the apartment and he goes missing. Detectives including Yuhei Matsumiya who is a cousin of Detective Kyoichiro Kaga , have difficulties in solving the case. They can't find a connection between Michiko Oshitani and Mutsuo Koshikawa. They soon learn that Michiko Oshitani came to Tokyo to visit Hiromi Asai . They graduated from the same school, but there isn't a connection between Hiromi Asai and Mutsuo Koshikawa. Detective Yuhei Matsumiya finds something near Michiko Oshitani's body. That something has the names of 12 bridges surrounding the Nihonbashi area of Tokyo. Detective Kyoichiro Kaga learns of the clue and becomes agitated. There's a connection with his late mother
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, contemplative, detective
Plot: police officer, police, dead, japanese woman, clue, japanese police, murder investigation, who done it, revenge, investigation, violence, youth, death, murder, investigator, graphic violence, chase, murder mystery, vengeance, society, law enforcement, partner, police investigation, evidence, police detective ...
Time: 21st century
Place: tokyo
Keyword: partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspense, tense, suspenseful and psychological films with plots about murder, evidence, police investigation, who done it, law enforcement, police detective and violence mostly in Mystery, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like The Crimes That Bind: Wandering Eye (2011), Chorabali (2016), A Witness Out of the Blue (2019), Voice (2019), Ebar Shabor (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wandering Eye (2011)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Neglected by her workaholic husband, a young wife, Maren Abbott, meets a man through Wandering Eye - a networking website designed to facilitate extramarital liaisons. Charming as he is, she realizes she can't go through with the affair. When ...
Style: suspense, psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful
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Time: 21st century
Place: canada
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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
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Time: 21st century
Place: kolkata
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A Witness Out of the Blue (2019)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: In this classic whodunit, a police detective must rely on the only witness - a parrot, to catch the killer of an armed robber.
Style: contemplative, unusual plot structure, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: police officer killed, partner, uncover truth, criminal, society, coworker, evidence, law enforcement, who done it, investigator, escapades, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, hong kong
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Voice (2019)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
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Story: Shogo Higuchi (Toshiaki Karasawa) is a detective whose wife was murdered by a serial killer. Hikari Tachibana (Yoko Maki) is a voice profiler whose father was murdered. She has a special hearing ability which allows her to hear minutiae sounds that ...
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, contemplative, psychological ...
Plot: japanese police, japanese woman, murder, murder investigation, murder mystery, partners against crime, who done it, hearing, partner, uncover truth, supernatural ability, law enforcement ...
Place: japan
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The Most Assassinated Woman in the World (2018)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Belgium, UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Set against the backdrop of the infamous Theatre Grand Guignol the story revolves around iconic actress Paula Maxa - the most famous of the Grand Guignol's leading ladies and the titular Most Assassinated Woman, who was graphically slain on ...
Style: unusual plot structure, tense, contemplative, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: murder, partner, vengeance, revenge, graphic violence, female protagonist, society, police detective, woman in danger, murder investigation, police investigation, actress ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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Ebar Shabor (2015)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A very much experienced police detective Mr. Shabor Dasgupta (Actor-Saswata Chatterjee) is assigned to do the task of solving the mystery of the murder of Mitali Ghosh (Actress-Swastika Mukherjee),who is a woman with a messy past life, who was ...
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The Invincible Dragon (2019)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The undercover agent with dragon tattoo Kowloon continually helped the police to solve mysterious cases, which made him known as a rising star. However, his impulsive personality dragged him into endless troubles. He got himself into fights with the ...
Style: exciting, psychological, contemplative, suspense, suspenseful ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
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Deadly Sanctuary (2015)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Feisty, flame-haired reporter, Kendall O'Dell is drawn into an evil web of conspiracy beyond anything she could have ever imagined when she accepts a position at a small newspaper in isolated Castle Valley, Arizona. In the mix is a vanished ...
Style: psychological, captivating, tense, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: murder investigation, reporter, desert, law enforcement, murderer, vengeance, society, chase, heroes, murder, death, murder mystery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona
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Deception of the Novelist (2019)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: unusual plot structure, contemplative, psychological, tense, suspense
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Time: 21st century
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Return (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 35 min.
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Plot: murder, revenge, who done it, partner, vengeance, partners against crime, evidence, chase, interrogation, police detective, investigation, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 400 min.
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Style: unusual plot structure, contemplative, suspense, tense, suspenseful ...
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Place: italy
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Train (2020)
Genre: Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Several skeletons are discovered on the tracks of a closed train station. However, one of the dead victims walks into the police station. Where did all these dead bodies come from, and who is committing all of these murders? The world split into two ...
Style: detective, contemplative, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
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The Suffering (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Pablo Rouviot is a renowned psychoanalyst. His life changes completely when Paula arrives to his office and asks him to prove that his brother, a man with serious psychological problems and accused for the murder of his father, is in no able ...
Style: disturbing, tense, psychological, suspenseful, suspense
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Detective K: Secret of the Living Dead (2018)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When a series of murders occur in Kanghwa Island, Detective K and his partner are once again called upon to solve the case. Along the way, he teams up with a beautiful woman with amnesia and together they discover Vampire bite marks on all the ...
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Murdered (2012)
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Stolen Face (2019)
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Port of Call (2015)
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