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Border Blues (2004)
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Border Blues (2004)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Moskow police detective Andrei Somov resigns and emigrates from Russia, but has to accept a menial job in a restaurant while his adolescent son and pregnant daughter-in-law are denied exit visa's. 'Andy' does however get to know some LAPD cops after volunteering his expertise and Russian language skills and is sent to Tijuana to fetch cheap tiles. On that Mexican journey Somov bumps into coyote Larry, another ethnic Russian but US citizen, who lost his daughter years ago and now helps illegal families enter the States. His present client, arrogant Russian Lena, haughtily presumes to know everything better but is always wrong, yet he takes pity on her daughter. Meanwhile the LAPD takes medium Michael March seriously about a mad bomber who targets pharmaceutical companies and got a bad feeling with and envelop held by Larry. It all ties in.
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, detective
Plot: father son relationship, hugging, police officer, police, smuggler, immigration, illegal immigrant, police detective, chief of police, illegal immigration, russian immigrant, immigrant, beating, explosion, handcuffs, hospital gown, tape over mouth, immigrants

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, suspenseful, captivating and suspense films with plots about police, police officer, police detective, investigation, uncover truth, secret and female protagonist mostly in Thriller, Action and Crime genres. Some movies like Border Blues: In Love With My Partner's Wife (2022), Seven (2019), Unfair: the end (2015), Sole Custody (2014), Confidential Informant (2023). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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In Love With My Partner's Wife (2022)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When detective Paul Ford discovers his partner, Frank, is abusing his wife Eve, Paul steps in to rescue her, but a vengeful Frank frames him for a murder. With Paul on the run from his fellow officers and Eve on the run from her husband, the two ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, bleak, captivating
Plot: extramarital affair, couples, partner, love, revenge, violence, relationships, husband wife relationship, murder, couple relations, vengeance, police detective ...
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95%
 5.2
 486
Seven (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A police officer is bewildered by conflicting statements about Karthik's identity. Several young women seem to share a mysterious connection with him. An old man claims to know Karthik as Krishnamurthy, who died thirty years ago.
Style: thrilling, captivating, tense
Plot: police, police detective, police investigation, investigation, crime solving, hidden identity, police officer, secret identity, secret, uncover truth
Place: india
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93%
Unfair: the end (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Natsumi Yukihira (Ryoko Shinohara) receives secret documents of an organization that controls the country from the shadows. Because of this, Natsumi's ex-husband, Kazuo Sato (Teruyuki Kagawa) pays a terrible price. Natsumi goes back to the ...
Style: captivating, tense, thrilling, suspenseful
Plot: policewoman, police investigation, police detective, homicide detective, murder investigation, forensics, uncover truth, fighting crime, police officer, threat, police, female protagonist ...
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92%
 5.4
 362
Sole Custody (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Zoey, a cyber crime cop, and Barry, a detective, raise their son, Timmy, in a quiet suburban neighborhood. When Zoey confides in her best friend about shift work and the lack of spark in her marriage. Zoey's mind is set in motion and when she ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, suspenseful, psychological, suspense
Plot: cybercrime, police investigation, problem, police officer, police detective, policewoman, life is a bitch, investigation, marriage, police, uncover truth, cybersecurity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Confidential Informant (2023)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: During a crack epidemic two narcotics agents hunting for a cop killer. Hoping for leads, Moran and Thorton pay off a junkie informant. To provide for his wife and son, Moran involves the stool pigeon in a deadly scheme. This causes the partners to ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Plot: female nudity, police, spy thriller, law, deal, moral dilemma, terminal illness, illness, cancer, police officer, save the day, police detective ...
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77%
ST: Aka to Shiro no Sôsa File the Movie (2015)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Japan
Story: The ST team at the Tokyo Metropolitan Police Department consists of eccentric members. Some members do not cooperate with others and others do not reveal themselves in front of others. With Samon as the leader of the ST team and young Inspector ...
Style: tense, thrilling, captivating, suspenseful, detective
Plot: workplace, uncover truth, forensics, police officer, coworker, police, police station, detective inspector, crime solving, police inspector, police detective, investigation ...
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
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 630
Breaking Point (1994)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A retired police detective reluctantly returns to action to stop a serial killer dubbed "The Surgeon".
Style: action thriller, independent film, realistic, serious, erotic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, woman seduces a man, rivalry, danger, law enforcement, mind game, police detective, nudity, killer, tv star, female police officer, police ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: washington d.c., usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
Unfinished Affairs (2022)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Inspector Manuel Bianquetti is forced to accept a transfer to a police precinct in Cádiz. His initially peaceful move will soon be shattered with the discovery of the body of a young girl who reminds him of a terrible past. Despite the opposition ...
Style: tense, thrilling, captivating
Plot: investigation, homicide detective, police officer, murder mystery, killings, murder investigation, police detective, crime investigation, police, uncover truth, police investigation, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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 461
The Stray (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After a drifter is struck by a car the driver offers to take him back from the hospital to her home in order to nurse him back to health...which turns out to be one of the biggest mistakes of her life.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Plot: danger, dangerous attraction, woman in danger, violence, male female relationship, murder, seduction, revenge, police detective, homeless, restaurant, chase ...
Time: 90s
Place: venice beach california
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
The Spearhead Effect (2017)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: After exposing police corruption, a journalist is drawn into an underground world of violent vigilantism.
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful
Plot: corrupt cop, corrupt sheriff, corruption, intrigue, problem, secret, investigation, private investigation, journalist, investigative reporter, investigative journalism, police corruption ...
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56%
Hometown Killer (2018)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A young woman finds her life in danger when an emotionally disturbed police officer she bullied in high school targets her in a twisted plan of revenge.
Style: tense, captivating, suspense
Plot: revenge, bullying, woman in danger, police officer, peril, police inspector, social problems, life is a bitch, vengeance, mockery, relationship problems, woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Devil's in the Details (2013)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: 7 minutes from now in Nogales, Arizona, Thomas Conrad's life will forever change when he gets caught up in a Mexican cartels poetic game of drug mule chess.
Style: captivating, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: drug dealing, danger, rivalry, chases and races, strong violent content, drug cartel, race against time
Time: 21st century
Place: arizona, usa, sonora, mexico
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53%
 4.4
 678
Broken Star (2018)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Abandoned by her friends and family and with her career in jeopardy, starlet Markey Marlowe is sequestered in a duplex with a reclusive landlord who just may be more dangerous than she is.
Style: disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, captivating, tense ...
Plot: hidden camera, surveillance camera, girl next door, stalking, neighbor, female protagonist, maniac, threat, barefoot woman, tape over mouth
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52%
 5.2
 848
Snakehead (2021)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Sister Tse is brought to New York by a Snakehead, a human smuggler. Although she is indebted to the crime family responsible for her transport, her survival instincts help her gain favor with the matriarch, and she rises quickly in the ranks. Soon ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, crime drama
Plot: human trafficking, immigration, organized crime, crime boss, criminal underworld, illegal immigrant, criminal, female protagonist, smuggler, smuggling, triad, women ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
The Specialist (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min.
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Story: Years ago, Takuma Yoshito (Kusanagi Tsuyoshi) was arrested and prosecuted for attempted murder. He received a 15-year prison sentence, but it was proven that he was wrongfully convicted and he got out of prison with his name cleared. Takuma was ...
Style: captivating, bleak, psychological, suspenseful, suspense ...
Plot: police detective, criminal psychology, police, conspiracy, confined, jail, police officer, criminal conspiracy, ex convict, jailed, prisoner, police investigation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
20 Ft Below: The Darkness Descending (2014)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Below the streets of New York is a dark and dangerous world hidden in the shadows of abandoned subway tunnels and miles of forgotten infrastructure. When a young documentary filmmaker goes into these tunnels to uncover the unseen stories of the ...
Style: bleak, serious, captivating, tense, suspense ...
Plot: gang, rivalry, danger, police, tunnel, secret place, murder, violence, found footage, homeless, imaginary, social misfits ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Stalked by My Doctor: Patient's Revenge (2018)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Everyone's favorite doctor is back! Dr. Albert Beck seems to get what he wished for as the jury finds him not guilty for the kidnapping and attempted murder of a former patient , so he then lands a teaching job at a prestigious Arizona medical ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, captivating
Plot: teacher student romance, life is a bitch, relationship problems, teacher student relationship, doctor, evil doctor, obsession, tragic love, love interest, stalker, age difference, bad guy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Formosa Betrayed (2009)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: In the early 1980s, an FBI Agent is assigned to investigate the murder of a respected professor. Through his investigation, he unearths a spider web of international secrets that has been thriving within college campuses across America for decades. ...
Style: serious, tense, suspenseful, clever, realistic ...
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Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: taiwan, chicago, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Junction (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Junction follows four strung-out meth-addicts who discover a dark secret about a homeowner during a burglary, pitting them not only against the police but against each other.
Style: suspense, suspenseful, tense, captivating, disturbing
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⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Love, Cheat & Steal (1993)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The beautiful Lauren gets married with an older man. She is unexpectedly confronted with her ex, an escaped criminal.
Style: realistic, suspenseful, serious, tense, sexy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: revenge, femme fatale, betrayal, dishonesty, jail, power relations, frame up, fight scenes, female nudity, watching sex, striptease, attempted rape ...
Time: 90s
Place: caribbean
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Killing Your Daughter (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When a DNA test helps Candace connect with her birth parents, she realizes some family histories are better left untold.
Style: disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, tense
Plot: family relations, dysfunctional family, eccentric family, family problems, family secret, male female relationship, parents and children, biological father, female protagonist, family in danger, secret, birth mother ...
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39%
 4.4
 570
Fear Bay (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A woman being terrorized by a stalker hires and develops a relationship with a handsome private detective, not realizing he'd become her deadly avenging angel.
Style: captivating, tense, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.1
 540
911 Nightmare (2016)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Officer Chris McCullers was gravely injured in a shootout and now works on 911-dispatch. Resentful that her career has ended up here, Chris receives a call from a scared kid and dismisses it as a prank. The next day, she learns that the call was all ...
Style: suspenseful, tense, disturbing, captivating, suspense ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Paranormal Abduction (2012)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A young women suffering memory loss and psychological issues after surviving a brutal attack, tries to piece together the clues surrounding her attack and its similarities to a series of recent murders. During the investigation, she struggles to ...
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: assault, violence, investigation, serial killer, danger, uncover truth, twists and turns, murder, handgun, african american, nurse, fear ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.1
 307
Dark Harbor (2019)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Dark Harbor tells the story of Olivia, a young mother on the verge of childbirth who finds her future threatened by a hidden darkness from her family's past.
Style: suspense, captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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34%
 4.1
 257
Dynamite (2004)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A woman's life is turned upside down when three armed robbers invade her home.
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense
Plot: hostage, kidnapping, family in danger, criminal's revenge, confined, crime gone awry, isolation, teenage girl, kidnapped, woman in jeopardy, mother daughter relationship, fire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Sex express coffee (2010)
Genre: Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Police detective Escobar attempts to capture an HIV+ internet predator who lures unsuspecting young men into sexual encounters while investigating the case of a man who was chopped into pieces and stuffed in his own refrigerator.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, tense ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
 4.1
 79
Blind (2004)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Thriller - A detective searching for more than his suspect. A locksmith with a disturbing obsession. - Ben Clayton, Stephen Jackon, Amy Chomsky
Style: suspense, detective, slasher
Plot: police, a vision, police officer, psychic, serial killer, killer, abduction, locksmith, psychic link, chloroform, bound and gagged
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Au Pair Nightmare (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Trying to escape the pain from the death of her fiancé, a woman becomes an au pair in a house where she learns the family is hiding a mysterious secret.
Style: suspense, disturbing, captivating, suspenseful, tense
Plot: secret, family relations, family problems, housewife, dark past, dysfunctional family, family secret, female protagonist, babysitter, couples, tied feet
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Psycho Party Planner (2020)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When young art gallery owner and mother Kayla Anderson finds herself drowning in work and in need of help planning her daughter Kerry's big upcoming Sweet Sixteen bash, she hires pretty, spirited party planner Lindy Shores to help out, having ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, captivating, thrilling
Plot: murderer, problem, women, threat, mother daughter relationship, murder mystery, family relations, family problems, relationships, female protagonist, murder
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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