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Before and After (1996)
11K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.
Style:
suspense, melancholic, serious, suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, sincere, bleak, realistic, contemplative ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
small town, murder, accidental death, adaptation, murder investigation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, courtroom drama, investigation, parents and children, teenage life, lawyer, family problems, dysfunctional family, youth, car trouble, death, court, hospital, murder mystery, lie, father son relationship, family crisis, suspect, teen angst, suburbs ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, suspenseful and suspense films with plots about murder, investigation, lawyer, deadly, legal, murder mystery and courtroom drama mostly in Drama, Mystery and Crime genres. Some movies like Before and After: Defending Jacob (2020), The Assault (2014), Skeletons in the Closet (2001), Evil Angels (1988), Brigham City (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
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Story:
A family’s lives are irreparably disrupted when the 14-year-old son is accused of murdering a fellow classmate.
Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, thought provoking, disturbing, tense ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A father suspects his son to be a murderer...or is he just paranoid and trying to cover up his own past which involves his wife being killed in a fire?
Style:
psychological, serious, bleak, suspenseful, realistic
Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Australia, UK, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, emotional, disturbing, thought provoking, suspense ...
Plot:
courtroom, courtroom drama, legal, trial, prejudice, court, australian outback, religious persecution, injustice, false accusation, investigation, murder ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1980
Place:
australia, sydney australia, new zealand
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Wes Clayton is a lawman and a bishop in a Mormon community called Brigham. The town is shaken when a woman from California is found murdered. Clayton and his young deputy work with an FBI agent sent to investigate. As a civil and spiritual leader in ...
Style:
suspenseful, enigmatic, suspense, tense, serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, murder, murder mystery, mormon, murder investigation, sheriff, law enforcement, social relations, self discovery, christian, latter day saints, politics ...
Time:
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Place:
utah, california, usa
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A small town sheriff who's investigating a murder at the local diner ends up finding more than he bargained for in the town and in himself.
Style:
tense, suspense, psychological, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot:
investigation, small town, diner, murder, law enforcement, small town life, social relations, murder mystery, sheriff, self discovery, danger, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
texas
Similarity:
31%
909
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, talky, serious, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, police, police corruption, corruption, nypd, police investigation, district attorney, lawyer, courtroom, murder, legal action, jury ...
Time:
year 1996, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city, harlem
Similarity:
28%
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13K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson (Liam Neeson), a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute. But when public defender Kathleen Riley (Cher) is assigned to his case, ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, intense, talky ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, murder mystery, twists and turns, lawyer, courtroom, justice, murder, legal investigation, court, mute or deaf, false accusation, manipulation ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
usa, persia, washington d.c., vietnam
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
McBride's case involves two larger than life radio stars who host the highly successful morning show "Ron and Bob." But when Ron is murdered and all the evidence points to Bob, McBride and Phil begin investigating and what they turn ...
Style:
suspense, serious, tense, detective, realistic ...
Plot:
murder, lawyer, radio station, frame up, district attorney, partner, investigation, uncover truth, courtroom drama, murder investigation, legal investigation, puzzle ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A lawyer defends a man he's known since serving together in Vietnam, who has been accused of murdering three Vietnamese immigrants. Now he'll have to fight against a tenacious District Attorney, and evidence connected to the man's ...
Style:
tense, captivating, serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
legal investigation, courtroom drama, murder, frame up, vietnam veteran, false accusation, law enforcement, dishonesty, legal action, life is a bitch, legal, lawyer ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
florida, usa
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
In this particular episode, McBride's client is double-crossed during a custody case by his psychiatrist. The client later confesses to McBride that he believes he accidentally shot the doctor when he confronted him in his home. When McBride ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
2000s
Place:
california
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Jack Reed investigates a young woman whom he and his wife take into their household when she turns out to be targeted by unknown assassins.
Style:
tense, realistic, crime drama, detective, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
90s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, cynical, suspenseful, captivating, sincere ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, death of mother, murder, investigation, girlfriend, friendship, father son relationship, confrontation, police, drug dealer, family relations, ambition ...
Place:
washington d.c., usa
Similarity:
27%
519
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, suspenseful, serious, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
Similarity:
26%
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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26%
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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479
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Deadline is the story of the murder of an African American youth in rural Alabama that has gone uninvestigated, unsolved, and unpunished for almost twenty years. That changes when Nashville Times reporter Matt Harper (Steve Talley) meets an ...
Style:
suspenseful, realistic, tense, serious, independent film
Plot:
investigation, uncover truth, family relations, redemption, life is a bitch, injustice, parents and children, murder, idealism, price of justice, hopes, dishonesty ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
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Similarity:
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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, rough ...
Plot:
amateur detective, who done it, investigation, dysfunctional family, artists and showbiz, writer's life, murder, treasure hunt, intelligence agency, riddles and clues, strong female presence, elderly ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Saudi Arabia
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Remake of a 1956 Fritz Lang film in which a novelist's investigation of a dirty district attorney leads to a setup within the courtroom.
Style:
suspense, neo noir, serious, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
courtroom drama, murder mystery, legal, lawyer, murder, strong female character, fighting the system, who done it, uncover truth, dedicated lawyer, frame up, danger ...
Time:
1950s, 50s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic, sincere ...
Plot:
courtroom, murder, legal action, lawyer, legal investigation, legal, courtroom drama, introspection, dedicated lawyer, dealing with death, haunted by the past, investigation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, georgia, north carolina
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Mystery, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, serious, realistic, suspense
Plot:
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Time:
future, 1920s
Similarity:
25%
157K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
17 year-old Ree Dolly sets out to track down her father, who put their house up for his bail bond and then disappeared. If she fails, Ree and her family will be turned out into the Ozark woods. Challenging her outlaw kin's code of silence and ...
Style:
depressing, atmospheric, harsh, dark, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, adult, teen drama
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
missouri, usa, california
Similarity:
25%
Movie in collections
218K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story:
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Style:
touching, sad, serious, sentimental, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly, chick flick
Plot:
courtroom, lawyer, small town, trial, jury, legal, courtroom drama, murder trial, homecoming, court, judge, hotshot lawyer ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
indiana, boston, peru, massachusetts, usa ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
A lawyer conducts business from the back of his Lincoln town car while representing a high-profile client in Beverly Hills.
Style:
clever, captivating, serious, sexy, suspenseful ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom, lawyer, court, courtroom drama, legal, murder, twists and turns, trial, legal investigation, mind game, hotshot lawyer, arrest ...
Time:
2010s, year 2011, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, peru, san francisco, las vegas ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young woman from Las Vegas wants Perry Mason to defend her father.
Style:
detective, realistic, serious, suspenseful, clever
Plot:
amateur detective, courtroom, murder, intelligence agency, advocate, lawyer, mind game, life is a bitch, who done it, parents and children, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man. Before Jerome shoots himself, he tells Mark where the body of a Senator is ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspense, intense, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, kids, teen drama
Plot:
lawyer, mafia, boy, court, suicide, brother brother relationship, witness protection, surveillance, child in peril, district attorney, lawyers and clients, witnessing a crime ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new orleans, tennessee, usa, memphis, san francisco
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Personal injury attorney Stuart Pepper faces the challenge of his young career when he takes on a controversial case of wrongful death in small town Iowa. Kevin Thacker's body was found in the alley outside the Marshalltown Police Department ...
Style:
thought provoking, realistic, serious, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mysterious death, corruption, investigation, legal, rivalry, law enforcement, legal action, dishonesty, life is a bitch, small town life, truth, suspicion ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
iowa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A private detective becomes involved in a new cast when her partner's guardian is murdered.
Style:
tense, crime drama, suspense, twisted, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
private investigator, female detective, murder investigation, moral ambiguity, whodunit, female empowerment, corruption, betrayal, crime scene, loyalty, urban, murder ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hospital, racism, missing child, kidnapping, vengeance, police detective, lone hero, multiple storylines, police corruption, psychopath, investigation, missing person ...
Time:
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Place:
usa, new jersey, paris france
Similarity:
24%
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