Movies like The Black Dahlia

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The Black Dahlia (2006)
 5.6
 77K
The Black Dahlia (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 121 min.
Story: Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer.
Style: neo noir, suspense, detective, stylized, atmospheric, suspenseful, serious, realistic, period piece, visual ...
Plot: femme fatale, dangerous attraction, police investigation, murder, obsession, police corruption, lesbian, danger, greed, hollywood, justice, lesbian sex, police, death, voyeur, artists and showbiz, power relations, serial killer, investigation, murder mystery, plot twist, gangster, love triangle, cop, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 2006, 2000s, year 1946, year 1947, post world war two ...
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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Most similar movies to The Black Dahlia

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out neo noir, suspenseful, serious and realistic films with plots about murder, investigation, police, deadly, violence, dishonesty and female nudity mostly in Thriller, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like The Black Dahlia: Mulholland Falls (1996), L.A. Confidential (1997), Hollywoodland (2006), Insomnia (2002), Basic Instinct (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
100%
L.A. Confidential (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
Style: neo noir, tense, noir, captivating, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: corruption, police corruption, murder, murder mystery, police, police detective, organized crime, fighting the system, call girl, dangerous attraction, police brutality, twists and turns ...
Time: 1950s, 50s, year 1997, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, usa, persia, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 6.5
 36K
Hollywoodland (2006)
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 126 min.
Story: The complicated life and controversial suicide of George Reeves is investigated by a fictional private detective who finds that there are reasons to suspect that Reeves may not have killed himself after all. The detective also finds that there is a ...
Style: neo noir, detective, intense, period piece, atmospheric ...
Plot: private detective, murder, showbiz, hollywood, biopic, fame, uncover truth, starlet, actor's life, dishonesty, husband murders wife, filmmaking ...
Time: 50s, year 1959, 20th century, 1950s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.2
 317K
Insomnia (2002)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Two Los Angeles homicide detectives are dispatched to a northern town where the sun doesn't set to investigate the methodical murder of a local teen.
Style: neo noir, psychological, atmospheric, detective, psychological thriller ...
Plot: small town, police investigation, murder, investigator, investigation, character study, police, police corruption, insomnia, guilt, psychopath, snow ...
Time: year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place: alaska, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.0
 217K
Basic Instinct (1992)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, France
Duration: 127 min.
Story: A police detective is in charge of the investigation of a brutal murder, in which a beautiful and seductive woman could be involved.
Style: sexy, erotic, neo noir, sexual, detective ...
Audience: kids, boys' night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, obsession, sex, manipulation, serial killer, nudity, seduction, murder, sexual tension, dangerous attraction, hot and sexy, strong sexual content ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: san francisco, bay area, persia, california, oakland california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.2
 38K
Femme Fatale (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A woman tries to straighten out her life, even as her past as a con-woman comes back to haunt her.
Style: sexy, erotic, suspenseful, suspense, sensual ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, voyeurism, paparazzi, lesbian sex, haunted by the past, twists and turns, attempted rape, voyeur, lesbian relationship, lesbian, manipulation, redemption ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, cannes, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman ...
Style: neo noir, detective, dark, stylized, clever ...
Plot: private detective, african american, missing person, jazz club, black, gangster, murder, jazz, racism, home invasion, private investigator, cop ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1948
Place: los angeles, california, usa, malibu california
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.0
 164K
Nightmare Alley (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico, Canada
Duration: 150 min.
Story: An ambitious young carny with a talent for manipulating people with a few well-chosen words hooks up with a female psychiatrist who is even more dangerous than he is.
Style: neo noir, suspense, exciting, suspenseful, psychological ...
Audience: adult
Plot: murder, infidelity, supernatural, carnival, con artists, alcoholic, mentor, alcohol abuse, death, female psychiatrist, lie, deception ...
Time: 2020s, 1940s, 1930s, year 1939, year 1941
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 7.9
 483K
Mystic River (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 138 min.
Story: A story about friendship and loyalty, guilt and vengeance, and the fateful affect the past has on the present.
Style: psychological, suspense, emotional, twist ending, neo noir ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: vengeance, police investigation, murder, sexual abuse, murder mystery, investigation, death in the family, child abuse, loss of child, revenge, tragic event, grief ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place: boston, massachusetts, persia, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.6
 142K
8MM (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of evidence to determine the fate ...
Style: psychological, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: private investigator, investigation, obsession, videotaped sex, revenge, sexual abuse, serial killer, murder mystery, male nudity, violent sex, violent, vengeance ...
Time: year 1999, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, new york, usa, pennsylvania ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 19K
Tightrope (1984)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Wes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer. His victims are young and pretty women, which he rapes and murders. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his ...
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, detective, sexual ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, father daughter relationship, kidnapping, manipulation, nudity, murder mystery, obsession, police detective, investigation, psychopath, single parent ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: new orleans, usa, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 6K
Cop (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An obsessive, insubordinate homicide cop is convinced a serial killer is loose in the Hollywood area and disobeys orders in order to catch him.
Style: neo noir, detective, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, murder, cop, police corruption, vigilante, investigation, psychopath, killer, blood, police officer, vigilantism, violence ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.6
 24K
Dark Blue (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, Germany
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Set during the Rodney King riots, a robbery homicide investigation triggers a series of events that will cause a corrupt LAPD officer to question his tactics.
Style: neo noir, tense, detective, harsh, intense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: police corruption, police investigation, police brutality, cop, police, corruption, investigation, police officer, rookie, robbery, partner, fighting the system ...
Time: 20th century, y2k, 90s, year 1992
Place: los angeles, california, usa, southern california
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.2
 14K
Twilight (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A retired ex-cop and private detective gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money and walks into a 20 year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of an actress' former husband.
Style: neo noir, suspense, clever, talky, detective ...
Plot: private detective, murder, bare breasts, female nudity, missing person, corruption, betrayal, police investigation, murder mystery, femme fatale, uncover truth, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: california, los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.1
 43K
Narc (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An undercover narc dies, the investigation stalls, so the Detroit P.D. brings back Nick Tellis, fired 18-months ago when a stray bullet hits a pregnant woman. Tellis teams with Henry Oak, a friend of the dead narc and an aggressive cop constantly ...
Style: bleak, suspense, tense, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: manly, boys' night
Plot: police investigation, police corruption, investigation, drug addiction, police, murder, drug, police brutality, addiction, drug addict, drug overdose, dark humor ...
Time: 2000s, year 2002, 21st century
Place: detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Little Things (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's ...
Style: suspense, tense, suspenseful, action thriller, neo noir ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, serial murder, cold case, police, investigation, police station, police detective, murder mystery, mysterious man, missing person, murder investigation ...
Time: 2020s, year 1990, year 1985, 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, persia
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Farewell, My Lovely (1975)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Los Angeles private eye Philip Marlowe is hired by paroled convict Moose Malloy to find his girlfriend Velma, former seedy nightclub dancer.
Style: neo noir, detective, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: femme fatale, private detective, missing person, uncover truth, suspicion of murder, who done it, dishonesty, life is a bitch, danger, murder, private investigator, planned murder ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1975, year 1941
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
The Bone Collector (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Rookie cop, Amelia Donaghy reluctantly teams with Lincoln Rhyme – formerly the department's top homicide detective but now paralyzed as a result of a spinal injury – to catch a grisly serial killer dubbed 'The Bone Collector'. The ...
Style: suspense, psychological thriller, tense, detective, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, police investigation, policewoman, mind game, murder, twists and turns, master criminal, crime scene, forensics, race against time ...
Time: 90s, year 1999, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, persia, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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The Long Goodbye (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
Style: neo noir, detective, noir, dark, cynical ...
Audience: manly
Plot: private detective, murder, cat, betrayal, whodunit, investigation, mental institution, beach, alcoholic, private investigator, loneliness, gangster ...
Time: 70s, year 1973, 20th century
Place: malibu california, california, los angeles, mexico, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.0
 41K
Deception (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's introduction to The ...
Style: sexy, suspense, suspenseful, serious, sensual ...
Plot: sex, betrayal, lawyer, hotel, heist, murder, police investigation, twists and turns, life turned upside down, conspiracy, manipulation, deception ...
Time: year 2008
Place: new york, europe, spain, usa, madrid ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.4
 11K
Black Widow (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Federal agent Alexandra Barnes believes that Catherine Petersen is a serial killer who marries rich men and then murders them for their money. But since Catherine is seemingly a master of disguise and has multiple identities, Alexandra can't ...
Style: sexy, neo noir, suspenseful, suspense, noir ...
Plot: femme fatale, serial killer, investigation, manipulation, dangerous attraction, poison, danger, murder, lesbian sex, woman in danger, obsession, secret identity ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: hawaii, seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Memories of Murder (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 131 min.
Story: 1986 Gyunggi Province. The body of a young woman is found brutally raped and murdered. Two months later, a series of rapes and murders commences under similar circumstances. And in a country that had never known such crimes, the dark whispers about ...
Style: realistic, neo noir, psychological, bleak, disturbing ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, police, rape, police investigation, murderer, murder, twists and turns, investigation, murder mystery, police detective, murder investigation, true crime ...
Time: year 2003, 80s, y2k, year 1986, 20th century ...
Place: south korea, east asia, asia, korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Traces of Red (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Jack, a Palm Beach detective, becomes involved in a case of multiple murders. All the women can be linked to Jack in some way. Jack and his partner have no leads, but numerous suspects. The murders continue, along with anonymous letters from the ...
Style: neo noir, independent film, rough, detective, mind bending ...
Plot: murder of a nude woman, reluctant partners, serial killer, whore, private investigator, woman seduces a man, murder, femme fatale, child molestation, adultery, infidelity, lust ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
Place: usa, florida, key west florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 6.3
 18K
Jennifer 8 (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A big city cop from LA moves to a small town police force and immediately finds himself investigating a murder. Using theories rejected by his colleagues, the cop, John Berlin, meets a young blind woman named Helena, who he is attracted to. ...
Style: suspenseful, surprise ending, tense, detective, neo noir ...
Plot: serial killer, blindness, killer, murder, obsession, police investigation, small town, whodunit, hitman, blind character, surveillance, police officer ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, california, germany, europe, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.3
 18K
Surveillance (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, stylized, rough, detective ...
Plot: serial killer, surveillance, investigation, murder, twists and turns, police corruption, sadism, hidden identity, mass murder, dishonesty, police, dirty cop ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: nebraska, new mexico, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.8
 57K
Frantic (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Ford plays an American doctor whose wife suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Style: suspense, neo noir, psychological, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: espionage, kidnapping, missing wife, missing person, spy, hotel, investigation, chase, hotel room, illuminati, murder, greed ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: paris france, france, europe, eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 21K
Suspect Zero (2004)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A killer is on the loose, and an FBI agent sifts through clues and learns that the bloodthirsty felon's victims of choice are other serial killers.
Style: psychological, tense, suspenseful, detective, tricky ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, police investigation, profiler, justice, mental illness, obsession, brutality, fbi, plot twist, murder mystery ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: new mexico, usa, albuquerque new mexico, arizona, dallas texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 6.5
 23K
Wonderland (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, tense, rough, bleak ...
Plot: murder, junkie, heroin, addiction, true crime, police investigation, violence, drug addiction, serial killer, drug, drug addict, crime gone awry ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, y2k, year 2003, year 1981
Place: los angeles, usa, pasadena california, sacramento california
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Dressed to Kill (1980)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: A mysterious, tall, blonde woman, wearing sunglasses murders one of a psychiatrist's patients, and now she's after the prostitute who witnessed it.
Style: neo noir, sexy, erotic, suspense, scary ...
Audience: adult
Plot: serial killer, voyeurism, psychopath, female nudity, voyeur, infidelity, murder, dysfunctional marriage, art gallery, blonde, adultery, prostitution ...
Time: year 1980, 20th century, 70s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.7
 593K
Zodiac (2007)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min.
Story: The true story of the investigation of the "Zodiac Killer", a serial killer who terrified the San Francisco Bay Area, taunting police with his ciphers and letters. The case becomes an obsession for four men as their lives and careers are ...
Style: atmospheric, suspense, tense, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick, adult
Plot: serial killer, investigation, murder, murder mystery, maniac, journalism, mind game, journalist, paranoia, killings, killer, true crime ...
Time: 70s, year 2007, 60s, 20th century, year 1970 ...
Place: san francisco, california, bay area, usa, oakland california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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