Movies like Confession of Pain

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Confession of Pain (2006)
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Confession of Pain (2006)
Original name: 傷城
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China, Japan
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A detective helps a friend investigate the mysterious death of his father.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, neo noir, crime drama, twisted, detective
Plot: murder, law enforcement, haunted by the past, perfect crime, investigation, private detective, partner, police detective, dishonesty, partners against crime, corrupt law enforcer, triad, asian, alcohol abuse, coma, best friend, one last case, supportive coworker, death, violence, blood, deadly, kiss, knife, suit and tie ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: china, asia
Keyword: partners, chinese

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Most similar movies to Confession of Pain

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and tense films with plots about law enforcement, murder, deadly, investigation, dishonesty, police detective and police investigation mostly in Crime, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Confession of Pain: Ricochet (2011), The Detective 2 (2011), Infernal Affairs III (2003), Overheard (2009), The Bullet Vanishes (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Ricochet (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two homicide detectives find their careers - and lives - on the line when they get caught up in a case of murder and betrayal in high-society Savannah.
Style: atmospheric, detective, tense, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: murder, investigation, police detective, dishonesty, law enforcement, betrayal, partner, high society, danger, couples, twists and turns, deep south ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Detective 2 (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Mysteries keep revolving around Tam’s life.
Style: realistic, serious, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: law enforcement, police detective, investigation, police investigation, danger, private detective, murder, riddles and clues, serial killer, killer, violent content, urban ...
Time: 21st century
Place: asia, china, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Infernal Affairs III (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Infernal Affairs III is a 2003 Hong Kong crime thriller film directed by Andrew Lau and Alan Mak. It is the third installment in the Infernal Affairs film series, and is both a sequel and a semi-prequel to the original film, as it intercuts events ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gangster, triad, police, mob boss, spy, gang war, working undercover, twists and turns, mole, police detective, police investigation, gang ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.1
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Overheard (2009)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The story revolves around three members of a police surveillance squad conducting an investigation into a financial investment group involved in criminal fraud. The focus of the plot, however, is actually on the three officers themselves who stumble ...
Style: realistic, tense, captivating, psychological, neo noir ...
Plot: police investigation, partner, corporate crime, undercover, dishonesty, secretly observing, business, danger, rivalry, espionage, hustler, stock market ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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The Bullet Vanishes (2012)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min.
Story: One rainy night in an arms factory near Shanghai, a young female worker accused of stealing a box of bullets from the ruthless Boss Ding (Liu Kai Chi) is violently killed in a game of Russian roulette. Half a month later, a series of inexplicable ...
Style: rough, tense, serious, stylized, suspenseful ...
Plot: gangster, police investigation, partner, conspiracy, partners against crime, dishonesty, riddles and clues, murder, danger, who done it, law enforcement, police shootout ...
Time: 20th century, 1920s
Place: china, asia, hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 5.6
 317
Frame by Frame (1996)
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A pair of romantically entangled cops become suspects in the brutal murder of one of their mates.
Style: tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: yakuza, vietnam war, triad, nypd, policewoman, partner, police detective, murder, police corruption, pregnancy, gambling, investigation ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 4.4
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The Gunman (2004)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When Detective Ben Simm's wife is killed, he has to learn to be both father and mother to his little girl while searching for a Vigilante that has his own sense of justice.
Style: disturbing, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vigilantism, vigilante, investigation, vengeance, police detective, haunted by the past, serial killer, law enforcement, danger, psychopath, murder, who done it ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Thorne: Scaredycat (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
Story: D.I. Tom Thorne's latest case puts him on the hunt for not one, but two serial killers, who seem to be working together, yet killing separately.
Style: rough, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, police detective, murderous pair, law enforcement, murder mystery, strangulation, psychopath, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 4.9
 464
Double Bang (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An honest cop enters the dark world of murder and corruption.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, investigation, undercover, hidden identity, working undercover, dishonesty, law enforcement, fighting crime, police corruption, master criminal, vengeance, rivalry ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
PTU: Police Tactical Unit (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Over the course of one night, a team of cops frantically search for their colleague's missing gun.
Style: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, exciting, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police investigation, police detective, gang, investigation, partners against crime, goofy hero, rivalry, murder, tough law enforcer, master criminal, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Place: hong kong, china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Infernal Affairs II (2003)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, Singapore, China
Duration: 119 min.
Story: In this prequel to Mou gaan dou (2002), Chan Wing Yan has just become an undercover cop in the triads while Lau Kin Ming joins the police force. Both the triads and the police find an enemy in a rival crime boss.
Style: suspense, neo noir, tense, exciting, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chinese mafia, gangster, triad, organized crime, spy, murder, police, police investigation, survival, recruit, police detective, mind game ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1995, year 1991, year 1997 ...
Place: hong kong, asia, china, thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.0
 118
Bloodlines (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: After Elaine Hopkin is found dead, apparent an OD suicide, her firstborn Mark wouldn't even inform his dad James Hopkin, who was locked up for murder. Kid sister Justine, a cocky uniformed cop, goes visit him, only to learn he was just ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, rough
Plot: investigation, murder, dishonesty, intrigue, rivalry, law enforcement, danger, righting the wronged, parents and children, police, family relations, ritual ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
To Seduce an Enemy (2003)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Yuki (Theresa Mak) is a celebrity photographer who stumbles upon some unsettling information in this erotic suspense mystery. Two people wind up dead, and Yuki is convinced that a hypnotist is to blame. Now, it's up to Yuki to make the police ...
Style: disturbing, rough, serious, suspenseful, sexual ...
Plot: investigation, vigilantism, private detective, samurai, murder, dishonesty, law enforcement, femme fatale, assassination, violence spree, power relations, paparazzi ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Blind Detective (2013)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A blind detective, former cop, teams up with a policewoman who admires him to solve the disappearance of a girl friend of hers, years ago. Besides, he helps her to improve her skills as an investigator.
Style: serious, suspenseful, detective, suspense, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, blind character, police investigation, partner, twists and turns, dark humor, disability, blindness, danger, blind man, gambling, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: china, hong kong, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 ⇓
22%
Infernal Affairs (2002)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Chan Wing Yan, a young police officer, has been sent undercover as a mole in the local mafia. Lau Kin Ming, a young mafia member, infiltrates the police force. Years later, their older counterparts, Chen Wing Yan and Inspector Lau Kin Ming, ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, neo noir, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mole, police, triad, organized crime, gangster, undercover, betrayal, mob boss, mafia, double life, cop, corruption ...
Time: year 2002, y2k, year 2004, future, 2000s ...
Place: hong kong, china, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Brown's Requiem (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Fritz Brown is an ex-LAPD, recovering alcoholic who now splits his time repossessing cars for a used car lot and staffing his one-man private detective agency. When a filthy caddie named Freddy "Fat Dog" Baker wanders into Fritz's ...
Style: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: private detective, investigation, gangster, fighting crime, rivalry, life is a bitch, tough heroes, mafia, father daughter incest, pervert, dishonesty, partners against crime ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: usa, los angeles, california, tijuana mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Varg Veum - Sleeping Beauty (2008)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After extricating 17-year-old Lisa Halle from a life of prostitution in Copenhagen, private investigator Varg Veum becomes ensnared in a tangle of parental neglect and bad love when he is hired to locate Lisa's boyfriend, Peter Werner.
Style: serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, detective ...
Plot: private investigator, woman in danger, life is a bitch, gangster, who done it, murder, prostitute, law enforcement, investigation, private detective, danger, nordic ...
Time: 21st century
Place: copenhagen
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Case G (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Van Veeteren's only unsolved case comes back to haunt him when the daughter of a murdered private detective comes to see him. A brutal wife killer, who went into hiding years before, has resurfaced under an assumed name; or so it seems, and Van ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, detective
Plot: manhunt, private detective, haunted by the past, chases and races, law enforcement, murder, police procedural, nypd, snow, fictional country, deadly
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Borkmann's Point (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Van Veeteren finds retiring from the police force is easier said than done when two decapitated bodies are found in quick succession. The matching MO in the two grisly murders brings the investigation teams of Maardam and Kaalbringen together - a ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, suspense, bleak, realistic
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, partners against crime, partner, murder, private detective, law enforcement, nypd, police procedural, fictional country, deadly, decapitated body
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Dossier K. (2009)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Vincke and Verstuyft are detectives of the Antwerp police department. This time they have to deal with the Albanian mob and some problems in their own police division.
Style: tense, serious, psychological, detective, captivating ...
Plot: mafia, vengeance, fighting crime, police detective, rivalry, danger, law enforcement, murder, gangster, mob boss, violent content, partner ...
Time: 21st century
Place: belgium, antwerp, albania, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.4
 37K
Hunting Season (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Veteran homicide cop Ferman (Şener Şen) and his hot-headed partner İdris (Cem Yılmaz) team up with rookie cop and anthropology major Hasan (Okan Yalabık) to investigate the murder of a young woman. The suspects include her conservative family, ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, crime thriller ...
Plot: murder, police detective, police investigation, generation gap, who done it, partner, law enforcement, turk, hitman, temperamental, rookie, partners against crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: turkey, middle east, istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.4
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Impunity (2014)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: South Africa
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Investigating the gruesome murder of a cabinet minister's daughter, a special investigator and a local police detective find themselves knee-deep in political corruption and conspiracy, in this sizzling noir thriller set in post-apartheid South ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, tense, realistic
Plot: uncover truth, police investigation, murder, danger, political conspiracy, dishonesty, political corruption, violent content, partner, partners against crime, murderous pair, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south africa, africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Varg Veum - Yours 'till Death (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Private eye Varg Veum is on a routine mission searching for his client Jonas Andresen's stolen car. The car is found having been used in a brutal robbery and not long after that the client himself turns up dead.
Style: suspenseful, tense, realistic, detective, neo noir ...
Plot: private investigator, robbery, murder, private detective, dishonesty, investigation, uncover truth, woman in danger, new love, law enforcement, danger, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
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20%
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Off Limits (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: During a patrol, Julie and Simon, two police constables, injure a wealthy man who pointlessly killed their partner. This wealthy man in question turns out to be the son of a politician. This is why the two police constables are accused of brutality ...
Style: realistic, rough, suspenseful, serious
Plot: investigation, dishonesty, law enforcement, working undercover, police, drug, chase, criminal, politician, duty, nightclub, patrol ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france
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20%
Homicide: The Movie (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, clamor for an opportunity to help find the shooter.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, gloomy ...
Plot: police detective, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, partner, workplace, law enforcement, partners against crime, police station, die hard, crime solving, law and order ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: baltimore, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Low Winter Sun (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
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Story: Low Winter Sun is an American television drama series developed by Chris Mundy, starring Mark Strong and Lennie James. The series premiered on August 11, 2013, on AMC, with the first season consisting of ten episodes. It is based upon the 2006 ...
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: murder, police detective, vengeance, right and wrong, law enforcement, rivalry, police corruption, perfect crime, dishonesty, dirty cop, revenge, deception ...
Time: 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 2.2
 1K
Magic Man (2010)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: In order to see magic idol Krell Darius perform his world-famous magic act, a beautiful aspiring young-magician, Tatiana, travels from New York to Las Vegas with her closest friends, BFFs, Elena and Vera. As the layers of illusion unfold, so too do ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, serious, rough, independent film
Plot: serial killer, investigation, haunted by the past, police detective, manipulation, danger, murder, dishonesty, magic, wizards and magicians, wizard, mythical creature ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 ⇓
20%
 7.2
 6K
Protégé (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Undercover officer Nick had spent the last seven years penetrating into the core of a drug ring working his way up from a street dealer post to the managerial position handling cargo deliveries for Kwan - the biggest player in the local heroin ...
Style: serious, bleak, rough, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: drug dealing, mole, undercover, working undercover, drug abuse, life is a bitch, dishonesty, law enforcement, tragic hero, moral dilemma, organized crime, triad ...
Time: 21st century
Place: hong kong, china, east asia, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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