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Man from Reno (2014)
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Man from Reno (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: A stranger in the increasingly strange city of San Francisco, Japanese crime novelist Aki is unsure of precisely what role she has to play in a real-life murder mystery involving ambiguous MacGuffins and amorphous identities. Unfolding in lonely places such as bookshops and hotel bars, Dave Boyle's moody thriller uncovers exhilarating new takes on genre conventions. Consequently, it's an alluring l'homme fatal who supplies Aki with the breadcrumb trail of clues that entices her into a labyrinthine plot of sinister dealings. In turn, the aging sheriff (veteran character actor Pepe Serna, fantastic in a rare leading role), who should rightfully be riding to her rescue, proves to be equally out of his depth. The game is afoot, the chase is exhilarating and the stakes are perilously high in this inspired neo-noir.
Style: neo noir, serious, suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, noir, realistic, stylized, crime drama
Plot: investigation, amateur detective, law enforcement, extramarital affair, love affair, small town, writer's life, writers, book, secret service, missing person, bookstore, love and romance, artists and showbiz, town, mysterious character, undercover, city, mystery, crime, neo-noir, crimes
Time: 21st century, contemporary
Place: usa, san francisco, california

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, tense and realistic films with plots about investigation, murder, deadly, danger, law enforcement, dishonesty and small town mostly in Thriller, Drama and Mystery genres. Some movies like Man from Reno: Interstate 84 (2000), The Sisterhood of Night (2014), Restitution (2011), Uncle John (2015), Ricochet (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Interstate 84 (2000)
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When a body is found floating in an upstate New York river, hard-drinking cop Joe Weldon is left with few clues. After uncovering the man's identity - an enigmatic simpleton named Hap - Weldon is led to the crooked hustler who took advantage of ...
Style: serious, captivating, realistic, tense, touching ...
Plot: police investigation, uncover truth, life is a bitch, introspection, murder, law enforcement, misfit, small town life, redemption, mysterious character, small town, addiction ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york
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100%
The Sisterhood of Night (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: When a teenage girl says she's the victim of a secret network called The Sisterhood of Night, a quiet suburban town becomes the backdrop for a modern-day Salem witch trial.
Style: suspenseful, serious, captivating, suspense, dark ...
Audience: teens, girls' night, teen drama
Plot: small town, investigation, witch, social relations, twists and turns, life is a bitch, sexual harassment, danger, society, sexual relations, mysticism, social issues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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100%
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Restitution (2011)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A true crime writer investigating a small town murder spree uncovers the devastating truth that changes the town forever.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, tense, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, investigator, investigation, uncover truth, amateur detective, gunfight, social relations, small town, secret, revenge, danger, insurance fraud ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Murder, She Wrote: The Celtic Riddle (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jessica Fletcher is off to solve another murder mystery, this time in Ireland.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, tense, captivating ...
Plot: amateur detective, investigation, dysfunctional family, artists and showbiz, writer's life, treasure hunt, murder, intelligence agency, riddles and clues, strong female presence, elderly, who done it ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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The Fjällbacka Murders: In the Eye of the Beholder (2012)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Erica's sister Anna is visiting at the same time as the TV program "Antiques cubed" is in town to record at the castle in Fjällbacka. When Anna runs into the TV host for the show, Claes Wager, sparks quickly evolve into a flirt ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, serious ...
Plot: investigation, murder, amateur detective, love affair, family relations, nordic, danger, couples, swedish, writers, strong female presence, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
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51%
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Uncle John (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Uncle John revolves around the struggle to keep a mysterious disappearance unsolved
Style: tense, sincere, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Plot: missing person, investigation, homecoming, social relations, unlikely criminals, manipulation, small town life, under the surface, small town, dishonesty, murder, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: illinois, usa
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50%
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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
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50%
Terrible Angels (2012)
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Detective Ben Nolan is sent to investigate the story of a convicted prostitute and known drug dealer Linda Grossel. Linda explains that she was kidnapped and held captive for weeks. As the investigation unfolds, Linda's sanity is put to ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, captivating, suspense ...
Plot: uncover truth, danger, law enforcement, abduction, police detective, investigation, violent content, confined, isolation, woman in danger, life is a bitch, captivity
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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49%
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In the Shadow (2012)
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, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot: investigation, police investigation, fighting the system, political intrigue, police detective, political unrest, law enforcement, dishonesty, political conspiracy, cold war, secret service, working class ...
Time: 50s, 1920s
Place: europe, prague, central europe, czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Good Morning, Killer (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Follows FBI Special Agent Ana Gray as she hunts for a kidnapper. As Ana develops a rapport with the kidnapper's latest victim, the suspect suddenly changes his pattern. Now Ana must race to find him before he strikes again.
Style: suspenseful, suspense, tense, captivating, realistic ...
Plot: special agent, race against time, undercover, female fbi agent, law enforcement, chase, female protagonist, serial killer, love interest, abduction, women, investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Megachurch Murder (2015)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After popular and charismatic megachurch leader Hamilton Spears commits suicide, his teenage daughter Hannah's life goes off the rails. The only thing keeping her together is her new boyfriend, Oliver. When she finds evidence pointing to a ...
Style: captivating, suspense, tense, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: murder, investigation, uncover truth, amateur detective, clergy, youth, dishonesty, society, danger, teenager, soul, strong female presence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Gone but Not Forgotten (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min.
Story: An Oregon woman vanishes. In her wake remains a single black rose & a note reading gone but not forgotten. Now a man stands accused: a private eye has gone missing: a detective knows more than she lets on: & a tough female attorney has ...
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, psychological, serious
Plot: serial killer, danger, private detective, investigation, amateur detective, psychopath, rivalry, murder, police investigation, protagonist as suspect, law enforcement, police detective ...
Place: usa, new york, oregon
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48%
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Godspeed (2009)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Joseph McKelheer and Cory Knauf (The Hamiltons, The Violent Kind) star in this intense thriller set in the lingering light of the Alaskan midnight sun. Charlie Shepard, a modern day faith healer with a small flock of believers, is stunned when his ...
Style: tense, realistic, psychological, captivating, independent film ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, death in the family, haunted by the past, religions or cults, society, small town, life turned upside down, investigation, grief, killer child, strong violent content, wilderness ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, alaska
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Jesse Stone: Thin Ice (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Jesse Stone and Captain Healy are shot during an unauthorized stake-out in Boston. Meanwhile, a cryptic letter sent from Paradise leads the mother of a kidnapped child to Stone. Though her son was declared dead, she hopes he will reopen the case.
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot: memory loss, small town, jesse stone, investigation, kidnapping, murder, law enforcement, police detective, missing person, missing child, chief of police, secret service ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, nova scotia, boston
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Meskada (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Small-town detective Noah Cordin is called to solve a juvenile homicide that occurred during a home burglary in his affluent town of Hilliard. The dead boy's mother, Allison Connor, is a member of the Meskada County Board of Commissioners, and ...
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, dark, tense ...
Plot: murder, law enforcement, police investigation, social differences, small town, working class, friend, investigation, crime scene, home invasion, burglar, dead boy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Jesse Stone: No Remorse (2010)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Police Chief Jesse Stone, who was suspended by the Paradise, Mass. Town Council, begins moonlighting for his friend, State Homicide Commander Healy, by investigating a series of murders in Boston, leaving Rose and Suitcase to handle a crime spree in ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Plot: murder, jesse stone, investigation, law enforcement, police investigation, small town, murder investigation, serial killer, die hard, secret service, cop, chief of police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, boston, new england
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The Caller (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Jimmy Stevens, a senior VP at an international energy firm, blows the whistle on his company's deadly and corrupt practices in Latin America. Knowing he will be assassinated for his betrayal, he places an anonymous call securing the services of ...
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: whistleblower, private detective, murder, uncover truth, investigation, survival, dishonesty, amateur detective, danger, journalism, workplace, deadline ...
Time: 1940s, year 2008, 21st century
Place: france, new york, usa, europe
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46%
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Pavement (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Africa, Germany
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Samuel Browne is a tracker in Alaska. When his sister meets a grisly death in San Francisco, he goes there to hunt her killer. As more murders occur, police investigator Buckley Clarke reluctantly joins forces with Sam. The brass are convinced this ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, vengeance, animal life, amateur detective, obsessive quest, police investigation, danger, psychopath, law enforcement, haunted by the past ...
Place: south africa, usa, san francisco, alaska, africa
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46%
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Awakened (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Samantha believes that her father murdered her mother. In her exhausting search for the truth about her young mother's untimely death 14 years earlier, Samantha receives help from beyond the grave.
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: supernatural, uncover truth, investigation, murder, parents and children, twists and turns, haunted by the past, small town, small town life, afterlife, mental illness, ghost ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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46%
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Night Moves (1975)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return ...
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, psychological, detective ...
Audience: manly
Plot: private detective, investigation, murder, missing person, espionage, infidelity, female nudity, manipulation, loneliness, complex characters, crime gone awry, uncover truth ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: florida, usa, los angeles, key west florida
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White Orchid (2018)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Shy and reserved, Claire Decker, 30ish, is a part-time investigator for Social Services. Typically, she solves cases where senior citizens have died alone, leaving no indication of who must handle their estate. This time however, Claire is ...
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense
Plot: disguise, investigation, murder, femme fatale, danger, female protagonist, chase, brutality, death, police, woman with a gun, lesbian ...
Time: year 1992, 21st century
Place: usa
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46%
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InSight (2011)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Kaitlyn, an ER nurse who is tending to a young stabbing victim, is accidentally electrocuted by the defibrillator that is used in an effort to save the woman's life. Almost immediately Kaitlyn starts to experience the victim's memories. ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: uncover truth, victim, supernatural, investigation, twists and turns, danger, cognitive science, criminal, memories, a vision, electrocution, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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46%
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Rushlights (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Young lovers Billy and Sarah journey from L.A. to Texas with plans to make a false claim to the valuable assets left behind by a dead friend. But when their voyage brings them to Tremo, Texas, they find a bizarre and sinister world awaiting them.
Style: neo noir, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: cons and scams, crime gone awry, couples, murder, betrayal, small town, inheritance, drug dealer, sheriff, danger, love and romance, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa
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46%
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Cut Bank (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: 25 year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in moton a deadly series of events that change his life and the life of the ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, semi serious ...
Audience: family friendly, teens
Plot: murder, small town, witness, witnessing a crime, dishonesty, disorder, cons and scams, nothing goes right, small town life, coming of age, blood, hustler ...
Time: 21st century
Place: montana, usa
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46%
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Final Sale (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A woman undergoes an illegal organ transplant only to discover that the young girl who donated the kidney died during the operation. Determined to stop this heinous activity, but torn by the moral dilemma of being saved by it, she fights against her ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, neo noir ...
Plot: transplant, hospital, moral dilemma, police investigation, couples, black market, law enforcement, terminal illness, police, danger, couple relations, gang ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Killing Game (2011)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Eve Duncan is contacted, 10 years after the disappearance and murder of her 7-year-old daughter Bonnie, by a man claiming to be her killer. Taunted by his clues about Bonnie's case and his threats to kill again, she throws herself into her ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, investigation, haunted by the past, murder, danger, death, mind game, strong female presence, riddles and clues, foster home, child abduction, deadly ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 5.3
 353
Lucky Day (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Nora Barkin is an aspiring actress who supports herself by working for a courier service. No sooner has Nora's friend and coworker Bill Reagan jubilantly announced that he possesses a lottery ticket worth 13 million dollars than Bill is killed ...
Style: serious, psychological, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending
Plot: fish out of water, amateur detective, investigation, riddles and clues, couple relations, who done it, best friend, murder, danger, law enforcement, lottery, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 4.7
 458
Dark Desire (2012)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young man desperate to be connected to the people close to him resorts to devious measures to achieve that desire
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot: obsession, family in danger, investigation, murder, uncover truth, dishonesty, love affair, couples, sociopath, relationship problems, criminal, pursuit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Mulholland Falls (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: In 1950s Los Angeles, a special crime squad of the LAPD investigates the murder of a young woman.
Style: neo noir, suspense, tense, detective, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: political corruption, murder, investigation, police, police investigation, conspiracy, revenge, betrayal, gangster, dishonesty, partners against crime, mafia ...
Time: 20th century, 1950s, year 1996, 50s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.6
 3K
Five Days (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 300 min.
TV show
Story: Thriller series which tracks five 24-hour periods in a police investigation.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, serious, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: investigation, missing person, police detective, mind game, amateur detective, life is a bitch, law enforcement, missing child, murder mystery, family problems, sergeant, mysterious character ...
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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