Movies like Prince of Shadows
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Prince of Shadows (1991)
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Original name: Beltenebros
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Netherlands, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Madrid, 1962. More than twenty years after the civil war has finished, a communist comes back to Spain to kill a traitor.
Style:
atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
Plot:
spanish civil war, woman, hitman, betrayal, undercover, graphic violence, haunted by the past, assassination, dishonesty, track down, state affairs, nude, spy, prostitute, police officer, police, assassin, politics, fascist, gunfight, dancer, traitor, communist, male female relationship, british ...
Time:
60s, 20th century, year 1946, year 1962
Place:
spain, madrid, europe, warsaw poland
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Most similar movies to Prince of Shadows
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful and rough films with plots about deadly, dishonesty, murder, danger, suspense, graphic violence and assassination mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Prince of Shadows: Headshot (2011), The Last Contract (1998), The Executioner (1970), The Day of the Jackal (1973), Your Name Poisons My Dreams (1996). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Thailand, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A hitman named Tul is shot in the head during an assignment. When he wakes up from a two month coma Tul discovers that he literally sees everything upside down.
Style:
neo noir, tense, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, vengeance, disorder, dishonesty, secret movement, frame up, assassination, asian, sex, killer, chase, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
thailand, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Norway, Finland
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Young police officer Roger is on the trail of the international master assassin, while the assassin follows his plan to murder Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.
Style:
serious, realistic
Plot:
assassination, hitman, spy, murder, investigation, nobody believes, state affairs, politics, dishonesty, head of state, law enforcement, graphic violence ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985, year 1986
Place:
stockholm sweden, sweden, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A British intelligence agent must track down a fellow spy suspected of being a double agent.
Style:
realistic, serious, talky, exciting, rough ...
Plot:
spy, cold war, espionage, assassin, mole, secret agents, dishonesty, undercover, government agency, heroes, betrayal, rivalry ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
england, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin's trail.
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, political, atmospheric, talky ...
Plot:
terrorism, conspiracy, espionage, politics, investigation, police investigation, serial killer, spy, terrorist, hitman, assassin, terrorist plot ...
Time:
year 1963, 20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
paris france, france, europe, vienna, london ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Angel Barciela and the police inspector Francisco Valduque meets after several years in the funeral of Buendía engineer. Both expect to see Julia, the daughter of the deceased and one of those involved in the investigation.
Style:
non-linear, tense, suspenseful, bleak, serious ...
Plot:
spanish civil war, nude, investigation, funeral, hiding, rivalry, law enforcement, partners against crime, vengeance, topless woman, sex scene, hiding place ...
Time:
1940s, post world war two, 20th century
Place:
spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
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Films like The Day of the Jackal
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Different solution new movie ;-) The Preacher tells the story about the rise and fall off a dutch mafiaboss. The movie is based on the story of Klaas Bruinsma.
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough, controversial ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, betrayal, assassination, dishonesty, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, murder, hitman, gunfight, true crime, hollywood, drugs, organized crime ...
Time:
80s, 70s, 20th century, 90s
Place:
holland, amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The plot follows a private detective, an ex communist and former CIA agent, who travels from Barcelona to Madrid to discover the identity of the assassin of the leader of the Spanish Communist party who was stabbed during a blackout while presiding ...
Style:
realistic, biting, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
murder, private detective, investigation, private investigator, kgb, cia, communist party, nude, suspense, graphic violence, politics, rivalry ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Even among bombers and murderers, there is a social ladder, a hierarchy to climb. Jeremie is a mere bomber who blows up people and places for mobsters in Paris. He may not look it, scruffy lad that he is, but he is a sensitive fellow, and he feels ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, stylized
Plot:
gangsters, killer, criminal heroes, retiring, hitman, graphic violence, police, violence, murder, train, immaturity, police brutality ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Sam Laker is an American industrialist, working in Britain, who has just been awarded an international award for industrial design. He is planning to travel to East Germany to attend a trade show and show off his invention, taking his 10 year old ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, realistic, atmospheric, microfilm
Plot:
spy, espionage, assassination, invention, intelligence, on the run, holiday, undercover, secret agents, child in peril, arrest, kidnapping ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
germany, europe, london, copenhagen, east germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In 1995, drug suppliers and career criminals Tony Tucker, Patrick Tate and Craig Rolfe were blasted to death by a shot gun whilst waiting in a Range Rover in Rettendon, Essex. The film charts their rise to become the most prolific dealers and feared ...
Style:
tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, rise and fall, rivalry, gang, drug dealing, betrayal, vengeance, ambition, partners, criminal heroes, dishonesty, violence ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Poland
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In the former Czechoslovakia, 1950s, police captain Hakl investigates a jewelery robbery. An opened safe deposit leads to a known burglar. What seems an easy case soon starts to tangle. When he is called off the case, he continues on his own. The ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
investigation, police investigation, fighting the system, police detective, dishonesty, political unrest, law enforcement, political intrigue, suspense, political conspiracy, undercover, working class ...
Time:
1920s, 50s
Place:
europe, czech republic, prague, central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Tom Flynn, the idealist owner of a left-leaning radical café/bookstore and the quixotic publisher of a hard hitting 911 conspiracy expose, finds himself entangled with a mysterious Eastern European beauty, Kasia, who is on the run from strong hand ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, realistic, serious, political thriller
Plot:
uncover truth, fighting the system, investigation, undercover, politics, race against time, life is a bitch, rebellion, government agency, dishonesty, society, assassination ...
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A Milan pimp faces off against a ruthless and greedy French gangster whom wants to unite organized crime in Italy.
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful, cult film
Plot:
police, murder, gangsters, gang war, nude, strong violent content, criminal's revenge, rivalry, betrayal, criminal heroes, dishonesty, torture ...
Time:
70s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Madrid, the beginning of the century. One day, the police inspector Santos Trinidad coming home very drunk, is involved in a triple murder. But there is a witness who managed to escape and that could incriminate him. Santos undertakes an ...
Style:
neo noir, realistic, rough, bleak, mind bending ...
Plot:
police officer, police investigation, murder, investigation, dishonesty, murder witness, law enforcement, terrorism, violence, drugs, death, secret past ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
spain, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A routine mission ends up in a flaming inferno when a house suddenly explodes. It looks like a spectacular suicide attempt but the technical investigation reveals unexpected evidence. Beck and his men are soon on the tracks of a narcotic syndicate...
Style:
serious, realistic, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
prostitute, mysticism, police, dishonesty, chase, law enforcement, manhunt, ocean, police procedural, murder, police brutality, drug dealer ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Films like Sexy Beast
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A boy who cries wolf witnesses a political assassination on the island of Malta. But will anyone other than his granddad believe him?
Style:
serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful
Plot:
chase, coming of age, on the run, assassination, murder, hitman, martial law, witnessing a crime, police investigation, law enforcement, assassination attempt, dishonesty ...
Time:
60s
Place:
malta, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Genre: Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: Peru
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Through out six different and yet parallel stories that take place during the corrupted goverment during the 90s in Peru, Lombardi tells the moral decomposition that ran through all classes and generations of the peruvian society.
Style:
realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, mind bending
Plot:
politics, state affairs, society, dishonesty, murder, political unrest, political corruption, government, manipulation, corruption, multiple storylines, deadly
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
peru, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A deported gangster trains an Italian convict to take over his operations in the U.S.
Style:
psychotronic, neo noir, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
gangsters, vendetta, hitman, serial killer, police, male female relationship, villain played by lead actor, cold blooded killer, mafia, violence, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, betrayal ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
sicily, los angeles, italy, europe, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
In the Spanish neo-noir film Question of Luck Julio (Eduardo Noriega) is at a turning point in his life. His fish farm business has collapsed, and his attractive fiancee, Concha (Leire Berrocal) is pushing Julio to get married. But Julio seems ...
Style:
realistic, serious, sexy, tense, mind bending ...
Plot:
woman seduces a man, older woman younger man relationship, nude, jewelry, crime gone awry, dishonesty, betrayal, femme fatale, cons and scams, dangerous attraction, sexual relations, twists and turns ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Charts the headlong fall of Pinkie, a razor-wielding disadvantaged teenager with a religious death wish.
Style:
psychological, serious, tense, realistic, bleak ...
Plot:
gangsters, gang war, waitress, revenge, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, criminal heroes, couples, murder, woman in danger, gang, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
england, europe, brighton
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Films like A Most Wanted Man
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occupants of the hotel and the truth of how he came to be in his present situation will be revealed.
Style:
neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot:
private detective, haunted by the past, hitman, femme fatale, suspense, seduction, sex scene, uncover truth, hotel, gangsters, killer, hotel guest ...
Time:
20th century, 50s
Place:
usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
A stripper at the club Studio Six is murdered. A political scandal takes off when the Minister of Commerce appears to have been at the club. He resigns - but only to hide an even bigger secret.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, erotic, controversial
Plot:
murder, journalism, life is a bitch, media, law enforcement, minister, female nudity, suspense, politics, society, violence, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sweden, europe, stockholm sweden, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A movie by Jon Lindström
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot:
police investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty, missing person, murder, twists and turns, scientist, courtroom, missing girl, murder investigation, rat, research laboratory ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
Unwitting pickup artist Jack Coley (Jack Hogan) nabs a briefcase holding a costly scientific formula, turning himself into a moving target for owner Alan Sheridan (John Baer), foreign agents and the fuzz -- all bent on a blistering game of finders, ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, espionage, cat burglar, burglar, heroes, dishonesty, undercover, crime gone awry, on the run, heist, concentration camp, gunfight ...
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Antonio, a gunman of the terrorist group ETA, days before making an attack, he meets Charo, a junkie of eighteen years, despite the sordid environment in which they grew up, still has the naivety. He has dedicated his life to a cause they do not ...
Style:
serious, tense, exciting, captivating, erotic ...
Plot:
terrorism, prostitution, prostitute, fall in love, couples, drug dealing, cop killer, suspense, drug addict, erotica, making love, sex scene ...
Time:
90s
Place:
madrid, spain, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the election, he marries Carrie and goes to his ancestral home of Sicily for their honeymoon. In his hotel, he meets Il Principe, a Sicilian prince who has ...
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting, suspenseful, rough
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangsters, politics, italian mafia, mafia, wedding, against the odds, drug abuse, frame up, hip hop, political corruption, rebellion, dishonesty ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, italy, sicily, palermo italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Ex-gangster Willie Parker has betrayed his former "colleagues" and now lives in Spain where he thinks he can hide from their vengeance...
Style:
road movie, neo noir, entertaining, bloody, noir ...
Plot:
gangsters, killer, criminal, hitman, organized crime, kidnapping, mafia, distopia, spirituality, suspense, politics, monster ...
Time:
80s
Place:
spain, france, europe, paris france, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
French secret agent Joss Baumont is sent to kill the president Njala of an African country. However, a counter-order is given before he can execute his mission and he is abandoned in the hands of foreign authorities. He escapes and seeks revenge by ...
Style:
suspenseful, intense, tense, harsh, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, prison, assassination, car chase, secret agents, suspense, hitman, lone hero, fighting the system, government agency, on the run, tough heroes ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, africa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
A researcher for the CIA who convinces his superiors to send him to the eastern bloc in order to avenge the murder of his wife by enemy agents discovers a web of deception underneath his wife's death.
Style:
exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
espionage, spy, revenge, secret mission, law enforcement, hostage, intrigue, politics, murder, graphic violence, secret agents, undercover ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
italy, europe, czech republic, eastern europe, prague ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A network of older spies from the West recruits a young intelligence officer with a photographic memory to accompany them on a mission inside Russia. They must recover a letter written by the CIA that promises American assistance to Russia if China ...
Style:
neo noir, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
spy, espionage, cold war, undercover, manhunt, kremlin, intrigue, secret mission, murder, traitor, letter, photographic memory ...
Time:
60s
Place:
russia, china, moscow russia, asia, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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