Movies like And the Sea Will Tell

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And the Sea Will Tell (1991)
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And the Sea Will Tell (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 179 min.
Story: A wealthy couple (James Brolin and Deidre Hall) are killed on their yacht off the coast of a secluded South American island called Palmyra. The suspects are a hippyish pair (Hart Bochner and Rachel Ward) whom the rich folks had befriended. It’s fairly clear that the hippies were involved in the crime: The question is, did the man do it while the girl looked on helplessly, or was she a willing accomplice?
Plot: serial killer, island, murder, hippie, pacific island, court, desert island, marijuana, sailboat, ex convict, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, vegetable garden, flashback, courtroom, murder trial, defense attorney, bare chested male, yacht, suspect, lagoon, long haired male, crime, crimes, deserted island
Place: hawaii, san francisco, pacific ocean

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, serious, tense and suspenseful films with plots about murder, true crime, serial killer, courtroom, lawyer, trial and police mostly in Drama, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like And the Sea Will Tell: Twisted Desire (1996), The High Price of Passion (1986), The People vs. Jean Harris (1981), Separated by Murder (1994), Murder: By Reason of Insanity (1985). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Twisted Desire (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A teenage girl convinces a young, love-struck ex-con that the only way they can be together is to do away with her domineering parents.
Plot: serial killer, evil child, obsession, murder, parents, true crime, teen angst, manipulation, diary, teenage boy, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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100%
The High Price of Passion (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A college professor becomes obsessed with a prostitute.
Plot: professor, obsession, true crime, prostitute, flashback, murder, death, male female relationship, prostitution, older man younger woman relationship
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: TV movie based on the novel "Blood Brothers," about the murder of Jose Menéndez and his wife Kitty by their sons, Erik and Lyle.
Plot: serial killer, true crime, brother brother relationship, death of father, father son relationship, death, husband wife relationship, murder, courtroom, family relations, death of mother, patricide ...
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49%
The People vs. Jean Harris (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 147 min.
Story: A re-enactment of the trial of the mistress of the Scarsdale Diet doctor for his March 1980 murder, with excerpts from the transcript of the proceedings serving as the script.
Plot: serial killer, murder trial, trial, murder, courtroom, doctor, lawyer, crimes of passion, director
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Separated by Murder (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Inseparable Alabama twin sisters, Betty Gay Wilson and Peggy Joy Lowe, are arrested and tried for conspiring to murder Betty's wealthy husband. These two sisters hire handyman James White to kill Betty's husband. White's love and ...
Plot: serial killer, twins, jury, trailer home, death of husband, acquittal, police interrogation, christian, murder trial, police arrest, dual role, cheating wife ...
Place: southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
The Case of the Hillside Stranglers (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The true chilling story of the "two of a kind", killing cousins Angelo Buono and Kenneth Bianchi, better known as the Hillside Stranglers, is told in this TV drama.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: murder, serial killer, two killers, true crime, psychopath, criminal, killer, violent, police detective, homicide, strangler, cousin ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Murder: By Reason of Insanity (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A crime drama dircted by Anthony Page.
Plot: serial killer, terror, murder, domestic violence, immigrant, ex husband ex wife relationship, insanity, nurse, fear, judge, husband wife relationship, polish american
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
A Murderous Affair: The Carolyn Warmus Story (1992)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A married man meets a beautiful woman and they begin an affair.
Plot: serial killer, trial, murder, judge, courtroom, adultery, lawyer, flashback, true crime, male female relationship, female nudity, photo model ...
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34%
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SK1 (2014)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 120 min.
Story: The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killer.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, non-linear
Plot: police investigation, murder, law enforcement, serial killer, murder suspect, obsession, uncover truth, riddles and clues, murder trial, danger, true crime, courtroom ...
Time: year 2014, 90s, 20th century, year 2001, year 1995 ...
Place: france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Deadly Intentions (1985)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story: Katherine married Dr. Charles Raynor. She later discovers that Raynor is a sadist who torments her physically and mentally. She divorces him and take their child away. He then decides to kill her but when his plot is discovered he is charged with ...
Style: spooky
Plot: based on real people, domestic abuse, woman in danger, serial killer, psychopath, doctor, husband wife relationship, domineering mother, murder
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Jack (2015)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Delving deep into the soul of one of Austria’s most infamous real-life convicts, Jack is a fascinating, unprejudiced look at the path to redemption and the obstacles that bar the way.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, unusual plot structure, suspense
Plot: serial killer, killer, murderer, serial murder, murder, society, going straight, ex convict, prisoner, danger, dishonesty, true crime ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Winter of Frozen Dreams (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Barbara Hoffman is a University of Wisconsin science student. She is a part-time employee at a local massage parlor. She is also a killer. Now all Detective Lulling has to do is prove it.
Style: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, christmas horror ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, dishonesty, law enforcement, gory, winter, christmas, deception, prostitute, snow, sex ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 21st century
Place: usa, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
3 Acts of Murder (2009)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In 1928 Arthur Upfield, Australia’s premier crime writer, plotted the perfect murder for his novel The Sands of Windee. Meanwhile, one of his friends, stockman Snowy Rowles, put the scheme into deadly effect, even before the book was published. ...
Style: detective
Plot: serial killer, murder, writers, missing person, truck, investigation, camel, true crime
Time: year 1929
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Bad Behind Bars: Jodi Arias (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jodi Arias befriends Donavan Bering and Tracy Brown in prison, and they became inseparable. Donavan is released from prison before Jodi's trial and becomes her mouthpiece, posting on social media and defending Jodi. When the details of the case ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, thrilling, realistic, captivating
Plot: true crime, serial killer, killings, murder, female protagonist, secret, crime spree, murder mystery, murderer, apocalypse
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Bad to the Bone (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A bad girl uses her brother to kill her lover.
Plot: brother sister relationship, femme fatale, murder
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Fight for Justice: The Nancy Conn Story (1995)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: True life drama about a working mum (Henner) whose life is put back in jeopardy when the man who was convicted of stalking her (Savant) and killing her cousin comes up for parole.
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, murder, evil man
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
And Never Let Her Go (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story: The true story of a woman's suspicious disappearance after ending an affair with a powerful, married attorney.
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, mind bending, realistic
Plot: obsession, missing person, murder, dangerous attraction, love affair, dishonesty, danger, law enforcement, rivalry, protagonist as suspect, couples, legal investigation ...
Time: 21st century
Place: delaware
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Sleepwalker Killing (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Mark Schall kills his mother-in-law and wounds his father-in-law in the middle of the night, then turns himself in. He claims, however, that he cannot remember the crime itself. His defense team finds evidence that suggests the crimes were committed ...
Style: crying
Plot: serial killer, sleep disorder, birthday, cafe, sister sister relationship, telephone call, flashback, death, husband wife relationship, court, father daughter relationship, blood ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Murder in Coweta County (1983)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Wallace a wealthy landowner in Meriwether County, Georgia, has virtually unlimited power in the county, including having the sheriff under his control. When he murders a share cropper he thinks that he is powerful enough to get away with it. Because ...
Style: crime thriller
Plot: serial killer, jail, racist, crime boss, death penalty, fortune teller, disposing of a dead body, murder trial, racial slur, reward, cremation, corruption ...
Time: 1940s
Place: georgia, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Untouched (2017)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Untouched is the story of a reluctant attorney's struggle with inner demons while defending a teenage girl accused of murdering her newborn. When the "Hostess City of the South" is rocked by the horrific crime, Mitchell Thomas III ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspense, grindhouse ...
Plot: dedicated lawyer, uncover truth, haunted by the past, courtroom drama, legal investigation, life is a bitch, legal, courtroom, murder, teenage girl, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, secret ...
Time: 21st century
Place: georgia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
In the Best of Families: Marriage, Pride & Madness (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min.
Story: After a very messy divorce, a man starts suspecting his ex-wife and her new boyfriend of various crimes.
Style: serious, realistic, tense, bleak, suspenseful
Plot: family relations, funeral, revenge, rivalry, mentally unstable, custody, parents and children, family problems, couples, vendetta, marriage, death of child ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: north carolina, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Promise to Carolyn (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together they try to uncover the truth.
Style: sad, detective
Plot: true crime, sister, stepmother, post traumatic stress, hypnosis, repressed memory, memory, murder, sister sister relationship, child abuse, flashback, exhumation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Based on the events surrounding the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.Hayden Panettiere (Heroes) and Marcia Gay Harden (Academy Award winner for Pollock) star in the Lifetime Original Movie Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy based on the ...
Style: tense, contemplative, realistic, serious, captivating ...
Plot: legal investigation, unlikely criminals, murder, college, courtroom drama, police investigation, murderous pair, law enforcement, legal action, prison, partner, serial killer ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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Judgment Day: The John List Story (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The pious John List regularly goes to church and is respected by his neighbours. But one day the police finds his wife Helen and their three children slayed in their house - obviously by John, who left two letters for the police and his priest and ...
Plot: serial killer, child abuse, killer, murder, police, church, true crime, fugitive, murder of a family, husband wife relationship, fired from the job, filicide ...
Time: 80s, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Happy Face Murders (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An eccentric older woman (Ann-Margret) implicates her brutal & controlling lover in the murder of a young retarded girl. Absorbed with "Murder She Wrote" and "Matlock", she creates details of the murder from clues she ...
Plot: serial killer, true crime, killer, violent, female nudity, rape, sociopath, dead woman in morgue, female full frontal nudity, wet t shirt, black panties
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Crime of the Century (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: In 1932, the nation was shocked when the 14-month-old son of Charles Lindberg was kidnapped, held for ransom, and murdered. Two years later, Bruno Richard Hauptmann was arrested, convicted, and executed. This film dramatizes the investigation ...
Style: serious, realistic
Plot: courtroom drama, lawyer, serial killer, trial, kidnapping, confined, babies and infants, rebellion, life is a bitch, dishonesty, rivalry, uncover truth ...
Time: 1930s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Versace Murder (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: This docu-drama focuses on the true story of the murder of fashion designer Gianni Versace by alleged serial killer Andrew Cunanan.
Style: independent film
Plot: serial killer, fashion, lgbt, gay, murder, fbi, male prostitute, killer, true crime, gay interest, serial murder
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Innocent Victims (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min.
Story: Army Sergeant Tim Hennis is wrongly convicted of killing the wife and children of an Air Force captain. Based on a true story.
Plot: love, true crime, sergeant, military, mother daughter relationship, child murder, investigation, u.s. army, multiple murder, captain, testimony, u.s. air force ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Onion Field (1979)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: Greg Powell, a disturbed ex-con, recruits Jimmy Youngblood (Smith) a petty thief, as partner in crime. Powell panics when they two of are pulled over by two cops for tail lights. Powell decides to kidnap the cops and Smith goes along with his crazy ...
Style: neo noir, atmospheric, psychological, realistic, serious ...
Plot: courtroom drama, murder, police investigation, true crime, legal, moral ambiguity, manipulation, brutality, courtroom, trial, law enforcer killer, haunted by the past ...
Time: 20th century, 70s, year 1979, 60s, year 1963
Place: los angeles, california, usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Getting Gotti (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: The fall of mob boss John Gotti
Plot: mafia, lawyer, italian mafia, female lawyer, true crime, mobster, jury, courtroom, prosecutor, gangster, italian american, mob
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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