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The Perfume Of The Lady In Black (2005)
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The Perfume Of The Lady In Black (2005)
Original name: Le Parfum de la dame en noir
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.
Style: atmospheric, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, clever, realistic, surreal, talky, stylized
Plot: investigation, missing person, mysterious character, uncover truth, murder, who done it, danger, amateur detective, odd couple, dishonesty, riddles and clues, silly humor, serial killer, wizards and magicians, life is a bitch, partner, submarine, wedding, church, confession, bigamy, friend, identity theft, island, deadly ...
Time: 19th century
Place: france
Keyword: partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, suspenseful and semi serious films with plots about murder, deadly, investigation, law enforcement, who done it, disorder and amateur detective mostly in Crime, Comedy and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Perfume Of The Lady In Black: The Mystery of the Yellow Room (2003), Crime Is Our Business (2008), Lonely Street (2008), Tip Top (2013), Partners in Crime (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Joseph Rouletabille (Bruno Podalydès), a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of Mathilde Stangerson (Sabine Azéma), who uses the yellow room of the title as her bedroom. At the time of the revolver shots her room was ...
Style: rough, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: murder, investigation, journalism, law enforcement, danger, mysterious past, mysterious event, locked room, millennial, perfect crime, mysticism, police officer ...
Time: 1900s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Crime Is Our Business (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Prudence Beresford is investigating another murder. Her aunt had witnessed it, but no body was found, and nobody trusted her word. Nobody, except Prudence, of course!
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Plot: murder, private detective, amateur detective, family relations, odd couple, uncover truth, investigation, partner, couple relations, master and servant, disorder, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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66%
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Lonely Street (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bubba Mabry, a gullible private detective, becomes the prime suspect in a tabloid reporter's murder after being hired to snoop on him by a mysterious celebrity.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, detective
Plot: private investigator, murder, private detective, who done it, goofy hero, investigation, uncover truth, celebrity culture, disorder, media, amateur detective, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
 4.7
 695
Tip Top (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two policewomen from Internal Affairs arrive in a provincial precinct to investigate the death of an Algerian woman who was an informer. One punches, the other eyes, tip top.
Style: humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense, realistic ...
Plot: murder, investigation, partners against crime, uncover truth, partner, police detective, danger, corrupt officer, workplace intrigue, police station, police investigation, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Partners in Crime (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Prudence and Bélisaire Beresford have decided to take things easy. But when a rich Russian heiress disappears, Prudence can't resist and Bélisaire is forced onto the adventure. Their investigation will put them on the trail of a mysterious ...
Style: humorous, talky, witty, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: missing person, amateur detective, partner, couples, investigation, private detective, marriage, love and romance, chase, family relations, murder investigation, quibbling ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: france, geneva switzerland
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54%
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The Blue Rose (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: When office temp Jane discovers that Rose, the PA she is replacing, died under mysterious circumstances, she joins forces with Rose's best friend Linda to get justice for Rose. Along the way, they find others who need their help, victims of ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful
Plot: amateur detective, uncover truth, who done it, dishonesty, murder, partner, workplace situations, disorder, workplace, misfit partners, workplace intrigue, gambling ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new zealand
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Halal State Security (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Someone is killing Parisians of Arab ethnicity. When an Algerian diplomat is murdered by the same assailant, two Algerian detectives are sent to help the French with the investigation and they have their own ways of doing things.
Style: humorous, entertaining, light, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, partner, odd couple, buddies, disorder, fish out of water, racism, chase, society, investigation, buddy cop, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, paris france, algeria, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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The ComDads (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
Style: realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, clever ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: reluctant partners, partner, odd couple, dishonesty, family conflict, disappearance, disorder, buddies, nothing goes right, teenage life, cons and scams, father son relationship ...
Time: 80s, year 1983
Place: france, nice france
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
Style: semi serious, humorous, witty, surreal, realistic ...
Plot: amateur sleuth, investigation, retirement home, amateur detective, couple relations, odd couple, who done it, cemetery, private detective, poison, suicide, heat wave ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Red Inn (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk ...
Style: humorous, captivating, tense, offbeat, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, hotel, murder, isolation, dark humor, family relations, priest, murderer, criminal, satire, danger, serial murder ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Varg Veum - The Consorts of Death (2011)
Genre: Crime
Country: Norway
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Varg Veum investigates the murder of a married couple; prime suspect is the stepson, but Veum does not think he is guilty. Not even when he confesses.
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, detective
Plot: law enforcement, uncover truth, investigation, private detective, murder, twists and turns, danger, life is a bitch, race against time, private investigator, violent content, chases and races ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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The Scenesters (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Someone is killing beautiful young Hipsters in East L.A. Charlie is a crime scene cleaner working for Aftershocks Inc. with a penchant for Sherlock Holmes type deduction. Wallace is an out-of-luck filmmaker working as a crime scene videographer. The ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, fish out of water, disorder, who done it, amateur detective, hipster, filmmaker, found footage, whodunit, filmmaking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Serial Lover (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, dark humor, disorder, looking for love, thirty something, writers, dinner, misfit, freak, gory, blood ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Inspector Späck (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A dead body is found and police detective Mårten Späck draws the conclusion that a serial suicide killer is at large. Späck with his colleagues Grünvald Karlsson and Irene Snusk suspect a gang who distributes pirated DVD's of ...
Style: parody, humorous, not serious, captivating, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, police investigation, silly humor, danger, law enforcement, police, criminal, video store, nordic, violent content, chases and races, riddles and clues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Blood of the Vine (2011)
Genre: Crime
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Benjamin Lebel, an internationally-acclaimed wine expert, finds himself helping the local police inspector on cases combining murders and Grand Crus.
Style: suspenseful, clever, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: murder, amateur detective, riddles and clues, investigation, family relations, who done it, parents and children, murder investigation, deadly, wine and alcohol
Time: 21st century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
9 Dead Gay Guys (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The story of two lads from Belfast as they stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of 'gainful employment'. This being the offering of sexual favours to older gay men in order to subsidise their respective giros. 9 ...
Style: witty, humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry, dark humor, nothing goes right, amateur detective, friendship, dishonesty, life is a bitch, buddies, cons and scams ...
Place: london, europe, ireland, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Last Detective (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: The Last Detective is an ITV drama starring Peter Davison as Dangerous Davies. The first series aired in 2003 with three more seasons succeeding this. The first consisted of a pilot and three episodes, the second and the third series both consisted ...
Style: detective, clever, suspenseful, realistic, dark ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police detective, murder, police investigation, fighting crime, uncover truth, amateur detective, law enforcement, partners against crime, danger, investigation, riddles and clues, nypd ...
Time: future
Place: london, europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Perfect Murder (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller, Action, Crime
Country: UK, India
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Police Inspector Ghote lives a middle-class life in Bombay along with his wife, Pratima. He has been employed with the Bombay Police for many years. He is assigned to investigate the deadly assault on a Parsi man named Perfect, who is the Secretary ...
Style: multicultural, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous
Plot: police, melancholy, mysticism, middle class, religions or cults, private detective, mind game, society, uncover truth, police investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time: 80s
Place: india, europe, bombay india
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Arab on the City (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: 25-year-old Khalid Belkacem has failed at everything: college education, summer camp instructor's permit, driver's license, and even his BCG. He never expected to become the first "positive discrimination" member of the police ...
Style: humorous, not serious, parody, captivating, witty ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: fish out of water, farce, goofy hero, police investigation, serial killer, silly humor, interracial relations, society, danger, urban ghetto life, disorder, law enforcement ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 260 min.
TV show
Story: No overview found.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, stylized, clever, captivating ...
Plot: whodunit, private detective, uncover truth, investigation, murder mystery, who done it, riddles and clues, village, sleuth, murder investigation, multiple suspects, private investigator ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Man with Bogart's Face (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In The Man With Bogart's Face, an affectionate send-up of the Bogart detective films of the 1940s, Robert Sacchi plays a man who idolizes Humphrey Bogart so much he has his features altered to look exactly like his idol. He then opens up a ...
Style: neo noir, semi serious, parody, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: private detective, hollywood, private investigator, lookalikes, doppelganger, surgery, transgender, face, plastic surgery, murder, who done it, power relations ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Hostile Makeover (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Lacey Smithsonian is a stylish journalist who works as a television reporter. When interviewing a prestigious fashion designer Amanda Manville, it confesses that receives death threats from someone. Everything is complicated when the artist is shot ...
Style: humorous, witty, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful
Plot: partner, lifestyle, false accusation, celebrity culture, fashion, disorder, dishonesty, law enforcement, media, journalism, female reporter, reporter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
The Little Murders of Agatha Christie (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: In 1930s France, Superintendent Larosière has a passion for beautiful women and solving cases, while hapless young inspector Lampion just tries to keep up. Later series, are set in the mid-'50s, where suave Commissioner Laurence unravels ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, realistic, detective ...
Plot: murder mystery, investigation, whodunit, murder investigation, odd couple, murder, partners against crime, partner, law enforcement, womanizer, red herring, private detective ...
Time: 20th century, 1940s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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The Hidden Child (2013)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Erica's parents are killed in a traffic accident. She moves to Fjällbacka and discovers she has a brother.
Style: suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic, serious, tense
Plot: investigation, uncover truth, life is a bitch, haunted by the past, nordic, serial killer, writers, intrigue, dishonesty, against humanity, murder, adolescence ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Census Taker (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When George (Greg Mullavey) and Martha (Meredith MacRae) let Harvey (Garrett Morris), an annoying census taker, into their home, they find themselves under a barrage of increasingly abusive questions. Furious at his intrusiveness, and at their ...
Style: dark comedy, detective, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, family relations, flirting, police detective, dark humor, family life, family business, law enforcement, investigation, amateur detective, aging, private detective ...
Time: 80s
Place: austria
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31%
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Boystown (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Victor works in a real estate agency in the well-known Chueca neighborhood of Madrid. He hides a terrible secret: he makes apartments available for sale by murdering the old ladies owners that live in them. Then, refurbishes and decorates the ...
Style: semi serious, suspenseful, realistic, witty, humorous ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, gay couple, real estate agent, inheritance, who done it, gay sex, gender, dark humor, couples, family relations, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: spain, madrid, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
My New Partner III (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Voilà dix ans que les chemins de René et de François se sont séparés. De l'époque glorieuse où, flics, ils écumaient le quartier Montmartre, il ne leur reste qu'une poignée de souvenirs, l'argent de leurs ripouseries ...
Style: suspenseful, realistic, humorous, semi serious
Plot: mistaken identity, police corruption, police detective, partner, disorder, buddies, law enforcement, odd couple, dishonesty, misfit partners, chinese mafia, guy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: paris france, europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
The Alphabet Murders (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
Style: detective, realistic, parody, not serious, humorous ...
Plot: private detective, serial killer, murder mystery, mysticism, hercule poirot, investigation, murder, law enforcement, danger, riddles and clues, who done it, silly humor ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, scotland yard, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Jerry Cotton (2010)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jerry Cotton is the best agent of the FBI and suspected of murder. So he has to find the real killers from gangster boss Serrano.
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, realistic ...
Plot: law enforcement, gangster, murder, fbi agent, stripper, danger, escapades, justice, comic book, monkey, buddy cop, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york
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29%
A Sense of Humor (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A serial killer abducts two stand-up comedians after they mock him as part of their on-stage act. If they teach him how to be funny, he might let them live.
Style: realistic, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
Plot: serial killer, partner, buddies, psychopath, disorder, dark humor, performer's life, power relations, unlikely partners, kidnapping, swearing, village life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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