Movies like A Jazzman's Blues

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A Jazzman's Blues (2022)
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A Jazzman's Blues (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A tale of forbidden love and family drama unravels 40 years of secrets and lies against a soundtrack of juke joint blues in the Deep South.
Plot: murder, forbidden love, post war, black history, drug, love, deep south, agent, life, first love, racism, singer, journey, parents, murder mystery, couples, blues, fatherhood, mama's boy, abusive mother, false accusation, death of father, secret, lynching, 17 year old ...
Time: 1940s, 80s, year 1937, 1930s, year 1987
Place: georgia, chicago

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Most similar movies to A Jazzman's Blues

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and suspense films with plots about murder, couples, love, family relations, love and romance, deadly and dishonesty mostly in Drama, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like A Jazzman's Blues: Native Son (2019), Snow Falling on Cedars (1999), Where the Crawdads Sing (2022), A Fall From Grace (2020), Despite the Falling Snow (2016). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Native Son (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A young African-American man named Bigger Thomas takes a job working for a highly influential Chicago family, a decision that will change the course of his life forever.
Style: bleak, suspenseful, psychological, disturbing, surprise ending
Plot: poverty, african american, danger, love, driver, crime and punishment, racial issues, black, forbidden love, lovers, economist, blaxploitation ...
Place: chicago, new york
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100%
Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A Japanese-American fisherman may have killed his neighbor Carl at sea. In the 1950s, race figures in the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.
Style: sentimental, meditative, breathtaking, captivating, serious ...
Plot: courtroom drama, murder, racism, culture clash, forbidden love, prejudice, justice, murder mystery, fisherman, betrayal, jury, courtroom ...
Time: 1940s, 50s, 1930s, year 1999, 20th century ...
Place: washington state, japan, asia, pearl harbor, fictional island ...
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25%
Where the Crawdads Sing (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Abandoned by her family, Kya raises herself all alone in the marshes outside of her small town. When her former boyfriend is found dead, Kya is instantly branded by the local townspeople and law enforcement as the prime suspect for his murder.
Style: suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, visually stunning ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: murder mystery, swamp, coming of age, lonely, woman, nature, outcast, accused of murder, twists and turns, boat, deep south, grownups ...
Time: 60s, 2020s, 1950s, year 1953, year 1969 ...
Place: north carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
A Fall From Grace (2020)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: When a law-abiding woman gets indicted for murdering her husband, her lawyer soon realizes that a larger conspiracy may be at work.
Style: suspenseful, psychological thriller, enigmatic, tense, suspense ...
Plot: trial, sex scene, twists and turns, black woman, murder, black cast, depression, crumbling relationship, serial killer, murder mystery, framed for murder, accused of murder ...
Time: 2020s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Despite the Falling Snow (2016)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In Cold War Moscow, a female spy steals secrets from an idealistic politician – and falls in love with him. Moscow, 1959: Katya (Rebecca Ferguson, Mission Impossible- Rogue Nation, The Girl on the Train, The White Queen), is young, beautiful – ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, suspense, touching, emotional
Audience: girls' night
Plot: cold war, love, politics, forbidden love, female secret agent, secret, danger, female spy, love and romance, espionage, spy, desertion ...
Time: 90s, 60s, 20th century
Place: soviet union, russia, moscow russia, ussr
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21%
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Rollover (1981)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, suspenseful, romantic drama ...
Plot: stock market, business, finance, trading, economics, intrigue, doom, murder, conspiracy, politics, oil, stock broker ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
Place: middle east, new york, spain, manhattan new york city, saudi arabia
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Sister, Sister (1987)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A congressional aide (Eric Stoltz) explores an old Louisiana mansion two kooky sisters (Jennifer Jason Leigh, Judith Ivey) run as a guest house.
Style: independent film, sex comedy, gothic horror, southern gothic, psychological thriller ...
Plot: swamp, murder, redneck, mental illness, ghost, psychopath, siblings relations, deep south, erotica, exploitation, family relations, peeping ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: louisiana, usa, new orleans
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Claudine's Return (1998)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Italian Stefano arrives on Dolphin Island off the coast of Georgia and gets a job as a handyman at a motel. He strikes up a romance with an emotionally troubled young woman, who works as a motel maid/laundress and stripper in a small coastal town in ...
Style: independent film, realistic, serious
Plot: lgbt, deep south, island, love, drifter, ocean, couples, hotel, celebrity culture, haunted by the past, mentally unstable, human nature ...
Time: 90s
Place: georgia, italy, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 5.5
 2K
Siesta (1987)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Claire (an American) wakes up in a terrible state at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state (blood-soaked and bruised), she has flashbacks from the past few days. She thinks she's killed someone, but isn't ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, surreal ...
Plot: murder, stalking, uncover truth, memory loss, female protagonist, who done it, dishonesty, danger, protagonist as suspect, dangerous attraction, sexual relations, haunted by the past ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: spain, europe, madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.7
 8K
Good Deeds (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min.
Story: Businessman Wesley Deeds is jolted out of his scripted life when he meets Lindsey, a single mother who works on the cleaning crew in his office building.
Style: semi serious, feel good, touching, sentimental, rom com ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, date night
Plot: single parent, forbidden love, opposites attract, brother brother relationship, fiance fiancee relationship, fall in love, social differences, black, couples, family relations, idealism, society ...
Time: 21st century
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 6.2
 47K
Endless Love (2014)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A privileged girl and a charismatic boy's instant desire sparks a love affair made only more reckless by parents trying to keep them apart.
Style: romantic, touching, emotional, teen, sexual ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: love, love story, forbidden love, teen romance, teenage love, love affair, love and romance, couple relations, father daughter relationship, relationships, couples, teenage life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.6
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Parallel Lives (1994)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A college reunion turns into a tangled web of passion, romance and intrigue as old friends and enemies catch up with each other's lives. Includes a long list of stars.
Style: offbeat
Plot: high school reunion, secret, murder, fight, senator, fraternity, old friend, weekend, hustler, old love, reunion, lingerie
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Marked for Murder (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A snooty female production assistant and an eager gopher at a TV station are assigned by their boss to locate a mysterious cassette. They quickly find themselves framed for murder and pursued by government agents.
Style: independent film, serious, realistic, bleak, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, agent, government conspiracy, law enforcement, dishonesty, drug, government, pursuit, heroin, frame up, video cassette, deadly ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.9
 10K
Acrimony (2018)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A faithful wife takes action when it becomes clear to her that her devious husband has betrayed her.
Style: emotional, tragic ending, rom com, rough, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: attempted murder, nervous breakdown, depression, unfaithful husband, divorce, courtroom, borderline personality disorder, financial problem, female psychopath, black, betrayal, mother daughter relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
An Occasional Hell (1996)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A former policeman-turned college professor of forensics, is asked by a widow to solve the murder of her unfaithful husband and the disappearance of his mistress who may have been linked to some drug dealers.
Style: erotic, realistic, psychological, serious, mind bending ...
Plot: voyeur, murder, widow, investigation, infidelity, disappearance, deep south, college, haunted by the past, femme fatale, car chase, humiliation ...
Time: 90s
Place: south carolina
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
Mad Dogs and Englishmen (1995)
Genre: Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Gorgeous Antonia (Elizabeth Hurley) is on a dangerous downward spiral caused by an addiction to heroin when she meets Mike (C. Thomas Howell), a tough drifter who helps her score more smack. Although they're not attracted to each other ...
Plot: nude, police, love, male female relationship, drug, rape, ambush, hitman, underworld, cocaine, mother daughter relationship, incest overtones ...
Time: 80s
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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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 ⇓
19%
Where Are the Children? (1986)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Thriller about the kidnapping of two children and the investigation that follows, based on the book by Mary Higgins Clark.
Style: mind bending, realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller
Plot: child abduction, kidnapping, family relations, missing person, false accusation, family problems, injustice, couples, remarry, wrongfully committed, parents and children, computers and web ...
Time: year 1986, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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Daddy's Little Girls (2007)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Monty is a mechanic struggling to make ends meet as he raises his three young daughters. When the court awards custody of his daughters to his shady ex-wife, Monty desperately tries to win them back with the help of Julia, a beautiful, Ivy ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sentimental, feel good, hood ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: father daughter relationship, custody, black, lawyer, looking for love, love and romance, society, legal, fall in love, human spirit, family life, parents and children ...
Time: year 2007, 2000s, 21st century
Place: georgia, usa, atlanta georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 4.6
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The Surrogate (2013)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A married couple, struggling to have a child, hires a young woman to be their surrogate, but soon discovers she has a bizarre and deadly agenda.
Style: captivating, psychological, suspense, tense, sexy
Plot: obsession, surrogate mother, stalker, wanting a baby, husband wife relationship, possessed woman, tragic love, love triangle, unrequited love, relationships, romantic obsession, love affair ...
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18%
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Brazen (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Mystery writer Grace Miller has killer instincts when it comes to motive - and she'll need every bit of expertise to help solve her sister's murder.
Style: tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, crime drama ...
Plot: murder, investigation, murder mystery, murder investigation, life is a bitch, double life, private investigation, crime solving, secret identity, sisters, hidden identity, uncover truth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
Meet the Browns (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet and keep her three kids off the street.But when she's laid off with no warning, she starts losing hope for the first time - until a letter ...
Style: humorous, sentimental, realistic, not serious, black comedy ...
Plot: female protagonist, family relations, single parent, death in the family, family gatherings, family life, eccentric family, siblings relations, black, parents and children, small town life, madea ...
Time: year 2008, 2000s, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
The Minute You Wake Up Dead (2022)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A stockbroker in a small southern town gets embroiled in an insurance scam with a next-door neighbor that leads to multiple murders when a host of other people want in on the plot. Sheriff Thurmond Fowler, the by-the-book town sheriff for over four ...
Style: captivating, serious, suspenseful, tense, exciting
Plot: death of father, car chase, blackmail, murder of father, diner, life insurance, sheriff, arrested, car accident, killings, murder, town ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
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Never Here (2017)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An artist whose work involves capturing images of strangers begins to believe she herself is being observed.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: art, stalking, murder, fantasy becomes reality, female photographer, self discovery, female artist, murder mystery, introspection, secretly observing, performance art, identity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 5.2
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The Stranger (1987)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Bonnie Bedilia stars in this psychological thriller about a woman who witnesses a murder and then flees. During her escape, she has a car accident. She becomes an amnesia victim and although, she doesn't know her own identity, is able to ...
Style: mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: amnesia, retrograde amnesia, hitman, murder, violent content, witnessing a crime, doctors and patients, dishonesty, life is a bitch, memory loss, false accusation, wrongfully committed ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 6.4
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Duel of Hearts (1991)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Lady Caroline Faye meets Lord Vane Brecon and is attracted to him. When she finds out that he is being accused of a murder he did not commit, she sets out to prove him innocent
Style: gothic, realistic, touching, costume drama, period piece ...
Plot: castle, murder, hidden identity, circus, investigation, love and romance, dishonesty, fall in love, couples, family relations, false accusation, love affair ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 90s, regency period
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.6
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The Reader (2008)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: The story of Michael Berg, a German lawyer who, as a teenager in the late 1950s, had an affair with an older woman, Hanna, who then disappeared only to resurface years later as one of the defendants in a war crimes trial stemming from her actions as ...
Style: melancholic, sexy, touching, sexual, psychological ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, adult
Plot: coming of age, older woman younger man relationship, age difference, forbidden love, holocaust, nazi, first love, older woman younger man sex, secret, trial, world war two, sexuality ...
Time: post world war two, year 1966, year 1980, year 1958, year 1988 ...
Place: germany, israel, west berlin west germany, hamburg germany, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
18%
 7.4
 104K
Witness (1985)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A sheltered Amish child is the sole witness of a brutal murder in a restroom at a Philadelphia train station, and he must be protected. The assignment falls to a taciturn detective who goes undercover in a Pennsylvania Dutch community. On the farm, ...
Style: sexy, captivating, suspenseful, suspense, intense ...
Plot: police corruption, amish, witnessing a crime, police, forbidden love, female nudity, murder, corruption, witness, bully, fish out of water, train ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985, year 1984
Place: philadelphia, pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 4.6
 358
Deceptions (1990)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When a wealthy socialite kills her husband, she claims self-defense. The cop assigned to the case is suspicious but becomes obsessed with the sensual young woman.
Plot: erotica, police, murder, woman seduces a man, seduction, love, sex, femme fatale, investigation, duplicity, pet cat, socialite ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
 3.9
 2K
Fascination (2004)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Young Scott Doherty (Adam Garcia) gets suspicious when his mother (Jacqueline Bisset) plans to wed Oliver Vance (Stuart Wilson) soon after her husband's untimely death. Scott investigates with Oliver's pretty daughter, Kelly (Alice Evans), ...
Style: erotic, sexy, neo noir, serious, suspense ...
Plot: murder, dangerous attraction, conspiracy, femme fatale, uncover truth, fall in love, love affair, dishonesty, family problems, incest, death in the family, husband wife relationship ...
Time: year 2004, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, florida, atlantic ocean
⇓ similarity ⇓
17%
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