Movies like The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez

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The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez (1991)
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The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez (1991)
Genre: Drama, Music, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Featuring music instead of any dialogue and set in a near Kafkaesque future, this loose remake of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari follows a bureaucrat whom mysterious Dr. Ramirez and his hideous sidekick want as their latest victim.
Style: surreal, grindhouse, silent, silent film
Plot: police officer, death, murder, doctor, city, insanity, surrealism, threat, sleepwalking, sanitarium, yuppie, sidekick, homelessness, crime scene, dystopia, distopia, telephone, no dialogue, sunlight, dutch angle, dead rat

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, suspense, psychological and serious films with plots about murder, death, surrealism, insanity, investigation, deadly and suicide mostly in Drama, Thriller and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Cabinet of Dr. Ramirez: House under a Starry Sky (1991), Guilt & Sentence (2010), The Million Dollar Hotel (2000), In My Sleep (2010), Johnny Skidmarks (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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House under a Starry Sky (1991)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Old scientist Bashkirtsev is very surprised to discover the possible contacts with other world...
Style: surreal
Plot: perestroika, life changing, surrealism, death, absurdism, murder, farce, monster, tragic event
Place: ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Guilt & Sentence (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The storyline is a thought-provoking drama of two lost and troubled individuals who are forever entwined after a traumatic event occurs. Janis, a twenty-year-old woman who is struggling with depression, takes the blame for Peter, who works as a ...
Style: serious, psychological, captivating, disturbing, realistic ...
Plot: crime and punishment, conundrum, death, murder, surrealism, introspection, traumatic past, guilty conscience, depression, power, cigarette smoking
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: The Million Dollar Hotel starts with a jump from a roof top that clears up a death in a hotel that was burning to the ground where a lot of strange people had been living.
Style: intellectual, psychological, enigmatic, melancholic, captivating ...
Plot: hotel, investigation, murder, private detective, friendship, mentally challenged, suicide, love, insanity, death, platonic, motel ...
Time: year 2000, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
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In My Sleep (2010)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Marcus (Philip WInchester) wakes up in the middle of a cemetery half naked and has no idea how he got there. Urgent questions pound inside his head. "Where was I last night? Who was I with?" Marcus suffers from parasomnia, a rare sleep ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, dark, independent film ...
Plot: memory loss, uncover truth, disorder, murder, gory, twists and turns, sleepwalking, hallucination, support group, dream, surrealism, sleep disorder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Johnny Skidmarks (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Johnny Scardino is working for blackmailers, photographing wealthy guys in seedy motels. One such assignment turns the wrong way and blackmailers die one by one. Is Johnny the next on the list?
Style: independent film, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: blackmail, murder, car accident, dead woman, photograph, investigation, motel, photographer, darkroom, who done it, alcohol abuse, police investigation ...
Time: 90s
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The Rook (1994)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Martin Donovan plays John Abbott, a church investigator looking into a murder. The world is similar to England in the mid to late 1800s but with odd touches such as primitive computers etc. The sets are similar to Brazil, as is the look of a lot of ...
Style: neo noir, detective, independent film
Plot: alternate history, revolutionary, politics, murder, surrealism, painter, police, doctor, police officer, jazz, fictional country, machinery ...
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45%
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Vengeance (1980)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Four hoodlums break into a jeweller's house and brutally murder him, his wife and daughter. On the run they kidnap Jenny, a Senator's grand daughter and her boyfriend, but discover that the two will not be taken easily. In the melee that ...
Style: grindhouse, slasher
Plot: murder, kidnapping, death, attempted rape, sexual assault, rape and revenge, nudity, rape, revenge, female nudity, murder of a nude woman, mass murder ...
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Collective: Unconscious (2016)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story: A man and his grandmother hide out from an ominous broadcast. The Grim Reaper hosts a TV show. The formerly incarcerated recount and reinterpret their first days of freedom. A suburban mom's life is upturned by the beast growing inside of her. ...
Style: anthology, disturbing, captivating, psychological, surreal ...
Plot: surrealism, sleeping, trance, ex convict, escape from reality, dream, death, hypnosis
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Heads or Tails (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others. His period of mournful contemplation is broken when he is called out to look into the ...
Style: detective
Plot: murder, police, death, suspect, false accusation, sex, suspicion, police inspector, police officer
Place: france
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The Radiant One (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A troubled man turns himself in, believing he's harmed others but is at war with himself over the facts surrounding his quest for clarity and a brush with supernatural phenomena.
Style: suspense, bleak, enigmatic, detective, surprise ending ...
Plot: supernatural, family feud, family relations, repressed memory, spirituality, tragic event, husband wife relationship, memory loss, imagination, murder, craziness, a vision ...
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The Trial (1962)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 119 min.
Story: An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.
Style: surreal, black and white, psychological, disturbing, visually appealing ...
Plot: dystopia, surrealism, courtroom, courtroom drama, distopia, paranoia, insanity, legal, existentialism, law, trial, justice ...
Time: 20th century, year 1962, 60s
Place: america, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
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 8.2
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Mulholland Dr. (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Initially, "Mulholland Dr." was to mark David Lynch's return to television. It is a retooling of a script originally shot as a 94-minute pilot for a TV series (co-written with TV screenwriter Joyce Eliason) for the channel ABC, which ...
Style: surreal, psychedelic, captivating, thought provoking, psychological ...
Plot: lesbian relationship, secret society, investigation, audition, amnesia, twists and turns, hollywood, actress, passion, death, psychology, mind game ...
Time: 90s
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Les Abysses (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A bourgeois family, who is harassed and humiliated, ruins their young maids without pay for several years.
Style: experimental
Plot: incest, european, lesbian teen, madness, destruction of property, sister sister relationship, love, mother daughter relationship, servant, death of daughter, death, murder ...
Time: 1930s
Place: france
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The Bricklayers (1976)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 122 min.
Story: When a worker is found murdered on the construction side, the investigation swiftly turns from things criminal to the political circumstances surrounding the building itself. Widespread corruption and neglect by the builder himself are seen to have ...
Plot: bricklayer, corruption, death, murder, investigation, poverty, janitor, police brutality
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37%
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 11
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Renee wakes up one morning in the middle of the desert with blood on her hands. She cannot remember why she is there, how she got there or with whom she came. Her quest to uncover forgotten events leads her on a journey of discovery where reality ...
Style: surreal, suspense, experimental, avant garde, surprise ending ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
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Style: independent film
Plot: room, house, doctor, sleepwalking, murder mystery, drug use, murder, mental illness, suicide
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Style: serious, captivating, psychological, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: drug addict, rise and fall, juvenile delinquency, prodigy, hitman, life is a bitch, danger, obsession, friendship, celebrity culture, murder, addiction ...
Place: london, europe, england
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The Scarlet Dove (1961)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Doctor Aitamaa is spending holiday with his family at their summer villa. He accidentally reads a letter that was meant to his wife. The letter is from another man. Aitamaa fallows his wife to the city and finds out that she has a lover. Later the ...
Style: black and white, psychological thriller
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Time: 60s
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Style: surreal, psychological, art house, neo noir, atmospheric ...
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Time: 2000s, year 2001, future, 20th century, 21st century
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Style: psychological, tense, disturbing, surreal, cerebral ...
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Time: 21st century
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Style: sexy, dark
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Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A single mother's search for her stolen new born baby sends her on a journey through the underworld of London and on a collision course with her past.
Style: independent film
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
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Style: suspense, surprise ending
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Delirium (2013)
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Style: art house, non-linear, neo noir, psychedelic, surreal ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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The Rapture (1991)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 100 min.
Story: A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God — only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have imagined.
Style: disturbing, surreal, psychological, biblical, stylized ...
Plot: end of the world, religion, group sex, religious conversion, philosophy, murder, faith, christian, atheism, apocalypse, swinger couple, religions or cults ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
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29%
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White Orchid (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 82 min.
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Style: neo noir, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.2
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Insomnia (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
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Style: neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, detective, psychological thriller ...
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Where Truth Lies (1996)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: independent film, realistic, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, rape, insanity, nudity, violent content, disorder, figment, mental institution, alcohol abuse, haunted by the past, heroes, losing-it hero ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min.
Story: Successful actress Vera Lockman thrashes during a nightmare in which she struggles with, shoots and kills her drug-dealer ex-boyfriend. Jolted awake, she reveals in her journal that the killing actually occurred the day before and that Sal, dead, ...
Style: psychological, bleak, disturbing, suspenseful, captivating
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⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Kafka (1991)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. ...
Style: surreal, black and white, cult classic, philosophical, cerebral ...
Plot: writers, conspiracy, art, politics, distopia, paranoid, biopic, murder, paranoia, death, insanity, surrealism ...
Time: year 1991, 1910s, 20th century, year 1919
Place: central europe, prague
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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