Movies like Bordertown 2007
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Bordertown (2007)
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The opening titles explain that American corporations are using the North American Free Trade Agreement by opening large maquiladoras right across the United States–Mexico border. The maquiladoras hire mostly Mexican women to work long hours for little money in order to produce mass quantity products.Lauren Adrian (Jennifer Lopez), an impassioned American news reporter for the "Chicago Sentinel" wants to be assigned to the Iraq front-lines to cover the war. Instead, her editor George Morgan (Martin Sheen) assigns her to investigate a series of slayings involving young maquiladora factory women in a Mexican bordertown.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, realistic, disturbing, serious, suspense, captivating, tragic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
rape, protagonist as suspect, murder, journalist, corruption, investigation, uncover truth, police corruption, serial killer, survival, sex slave, rape victim, u.s. mexico border, journalism, factory worker, righting the wronged, police investigation, brutal rape, border, police brutality, rapist, women, chicano, sexual abuse, politics ...
Time:
90s, year 2006, 1990s
Place:
mexico, latin america, chicago, usa
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Most similar movies to Bordertown
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out suspenseful, serious, realistic and tense films with plots about murder, police investigation, deadly, investigation, law enforcement, serial killer and death mostly in Thriller, Crime and Mystery genres. Some movies like Bordertown: Untraceable (2008), The Dead Girl (2006), Zodiac (2007), Thunderheart (1992), Trade (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Special Agent Jennifer Marsh (Diane Lane) works in an elite division of the FBI dedicated to fighting cybercrime. She thinks she has seen it all, until a particularly sadistic criminal arises on the Internet. This tech-savvy killer posts live feeds ...
Style:
intense, twisted, rough, scary, psychological ...
Audience:
chick flick, boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, murder, internet, investigation, psychopath, fbi, kidnapping, sadism, website, hacker, suicide, technology ...
Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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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, tense, suspense, neo noir, stylized ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, murder, journalism, maniac, murder mystery, mind game, journalist, true crime, paranoia, killer, uncover truth ...
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Place:
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Duration: 119 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Place:
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100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
This English-language adaptation of the Swedish novel by Stieg Larsson follows a disgraced journalist, Mikael Blomkvist, as he investigates the disappearance of a weary patriarch's niece from 40 years ago. He is aided by the pierced, tattooed, ...
Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
investigation, rape, serial killer, hacker, sexual abuse, missing person, twists and turns, murder mystery, vengeance, murder investigation, journalist, strong female character ...
Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, Mexico
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A Texas cop (Kevin Kline), whose own daughter might have been forced into sexual slavery, joins forces with a Mexican youth (Cesar Ramos) to find the boy's sister, who was abducted and forced into prostitution. Meanwhile, a Ukrainian woman who ...
Style:
sexy, rough, detective, suspenseful, disturbing ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
60%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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Style:
sexy, suspense, captivating, light, serious ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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100%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also the district attorney and others involved in the deal.
Style:
twist ending, suspense, psychological, surprise ending, tense ...
Audience:
manly, adult
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
philadelphia, usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
50%
389
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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39%
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Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
surprise ending, sexy, psychological, tense, intense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
33%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic, sexual ...
Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic, mind bending
Plot:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Style:
disturbing, serious, suspenseful, rough, suspense ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Similarity:
24%
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Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
23%
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Country: France
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspense, sexy, suspenseful, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, suspense, tense, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
disturbing, serious, atmospheric, bleak, neo noir ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
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Style:
political thriller, mind bending, political, suspense, tricky ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, novela ...
Plot:
amateur detective, murder suspect, murder, uncover truth, fighting the system, who done it, false accusation, police investigation, protagonist as suspect, price of justice, small town life, haunted by the past ...
Time:
70s
Place:
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22%
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Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tricky, detective, stylized ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, murder mystery, vigilantism, psychic, police investigation, psychic power, mental illness, fbi, profiler, vigilante, obsession ...
Time:
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Place:
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Similarity:
21%
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Country: South Korea
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful, action thriller ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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21%
983
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Rembrandt Macy (Tom Berenger) is a maverick cop assigned to a case where the primary evidence is a woman's hand found in a pond. Investigators identify the dead, and Macy is lead into a young woman's past. Macy's primary path to ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, intense, suspense, neo noir ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Similarity:
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