Misdirection movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant misdirection movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out suspense, suspenseful, serious, psychological, detective and realistic films and TV shows about / with misdirection, murder, investigation, deception, catastrophe, storytelling, betrayal, police, death and violence plots mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres shot in USA, UK, Japan and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as misdirection: Swordfish (2001), Blacke's Magic (1986), The House of Hanging (1979), All-Time High (2023), The Goes Wrong Show (2019), 33 Minutes Detective (2008), Bogan (2017), Silent Court (2017), Indecent Behavior (1993), Sketches of a Strangler (1978).
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203K
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants the cash to fight terrorism, but lacks the computer skills necessary to hack into the government mainframe. ...
Style:
sexy, exciting, entertaining, suspense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night, chick flick
Plot:
computer hacker, hostage, bank robbery, spy, hacker, terrorism, heist, hacking, surveillance, secret agent, computer, hot and sexy ...
Time:
year 2001, 2000s, future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, malibu california, california, north america ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Blacke's Magic is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from January to May 1986. The series stars Hal Linden as magician Alexander Blacke who, with some help from his con-man father Leonard, solves mysteries that get in the way of ...
Style:
detective, crime drama, suspense
Plot:
magic, magician, misdirection, investigation, illusion, con artists, psychological manipulation, heist, moral ambiguity, urban, crime investigation, magic trick ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
This time, Kousuke investigates a murder in a hospital. The murderer leaves misleading evidence to divert Kousuke's attention on the case. Suspicion and doubt clouds Kousuke's mind.
Style:
detective, suspense, tension, dark, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
hospital, murder, investigation, misdirection, evidence, doubt, suspicion, secrets, guilt, cat and mouse, macabre, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
70s
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Genre:
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Breaking the Magician's Code: Magic's Biggest Secrets Finally Revealed is a series of television shows in which the methods behind magic tricks and illusions are explained. In its original incarnation there were four shows broadcast in ...
Style:
realistic, serious, explanatory, controversial, educational ...
Plot:
magic, magic show, magician, wizards and magicians, uncover truth, delusion, backstage, stage magician, secrets, illusion, stage magic, entertainment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Jim Rockford, is framed for the murder of another rival detective with whom Jim was seen having an argument.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, dramatic, detective
Plot:
private investigator, private detective, falsely accused, investigation, frame up, misdirection, whodunit, friendship, corruption, courtroom drama, redemption, loyalty ...
Place:
los angeles, malibu california
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Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A con artist in dire need of cash and a woman with a crypto fortune hit it off. Is she the target of his dreams, or is the scammer about to get scammed?
Style:
feel good, captivating, satirical, funny, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
cryptocurrency, deception, wealth, satire, couples, scam, con artists, money problems, escapades, money, con trick, fraud ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
europe
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story:
Award-winning British comic geniuses Mischief, creators of the Broadway and London smash 'The Play That Goes Wrong’, present the hit BBC comedy The Goes Wrong Show, where a fictional amateur group attempt to put on a series of terrible TV ...
Style:
parody, feel good, funny, humorous, sitcom ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
satire, plan gone wrong, awkward situation, stage play, failed attempt, mishap, falling down, farce, theater, life, topical humor, misdirection ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Rokuro Kurama is a private detective. His mission is to use all up the airtime (33 min.) to solve a quite simple case which must be settled in 5 min. His wild guesses and imagination increase the number of suspects, and his ambiguous reasoning turns ...
Style:
thrilling, detective, suspenseful, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
private detective, investigation, private investigation, private investigator, sleuth, fighting crime, forensics, homicide detective, crime investigation, murder investigation, misdirection, whodunit ...
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2K
Genre: Action, Fantasy
Country: India
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
A criminal swaps his body with that of the cop who is hunting him.​
Style:
suspense, twisted, disturbing, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
police, body swapping, heist, investigation, switching bodies, entertainment, burglar, switching roles, supernatural power, prison sentence, fighting crime, jail ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
In Tokyo, an old person, who lived alone, is found dead. Detectives from the Police Station investigate the case. According to the victim's neighbors, a woman sometimes came in and out of the victim's home. That woman is Miki Yamamoto. She ...
Style:
detective, crime thriller, thrilling, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, killing, criminal, murderer, police detective, serial murder, homicide detective, uncover truth, forensics, police investigation, murder investigation ...
Place:
tokyo
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Rebecca Mathis is a sex therapist. One of her patients is found dead. At first it is presumed he died of a heart attack...
Style:
sexy, detective, suspense, tense, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
seduction, murder mystery, sexual tension, murder investigation, psychological manipulation, investigation, danger, obsession, betrayal, mistrust, misdirection, moral ambiguity ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An art student living with his sister is actually a maniac strangling dancers and prostitutes. One victim's sister starts looking for him...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, psychological thriller, grindhouse, independent film ...
Plot:
strangler, serial killer, obsession, investigation, strangulation, nightlife, psychosis, female victim, jealousy, sibling relationship, cat and mouse, urban ...
Time:
70s
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Horror, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 177 min.
Story:
October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker of before the first world war began. However, soon the searching becomes a part of hide-and-seek with ...
Style:
gothic, melancholic, enigmatic, psychological, art house ...
Plot:
mourning, secrets, missing child, loss, memory, isolation, haunting, post war, death, trauma, swamp, investigation ...
Time:
1910s
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A Scottish girl is being adopted by the judge who has condemned all the members of her family to death. But as she remembers all of this she commits a lot of atrocities.
Style:
tension, grim, slasher, dark, suspense ...
Plot:
revenge, cannibalism, family curse, family tragedy, violent, childhood trauma, identity, small town, adoption, investigation, misdirection, murder ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 20 min.
TV show
Story:
A collection of hilariously disturbing stories that push the boundaries of decency in ways only Tom Segura could imagine.
Style:
dark comedy, anthology, controversial, sketch comedy, black humor
Plot:
irreverent, irreverence, storytelling, satire, misdirection, confession, urban, social commentary, dark humor, vignette
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34K
Genre: Action, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A space shuttle mission investigating Halley's Comet brings back a malevolent race of space vampires who transform most of London's population into zombies. The only survivor of the expedition and British authorities attempt to capture a ...
Style:
erotic, grindhouse, intense, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
vampire, alien invasion, alien, zombie, alien abduction, nude, mind control, sexy female vampire, apocalypse, sex scene, space shuttle, spacecraft ...
Time:
future, near future, 80s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, texas, europe, tower bridge london ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story:
Mission: Impossible is an American television series that was created and initially produced by Bruce Geller. It chronicles the missions of a team of secret government agents known as the Impossible Missions Force. In the first season, the team is ...
Style:
retro, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night, kids
Plot:
undercover, espionage, mission, iron curtain, race against time, top secret, working undercover, heroic mission, cold war, twists and turns, fighting crime, danger ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 60s
Place:
europe, paris france, france, east germany, eastern europe
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69K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In "Sabotage", Arnold Schwarzenegger leads an elite DEA task force that takes on the world's deadliest drug cartels. When the team successfully executes a high-stakes raid on a cartel safe house, they think their work is done - until, ...
Style:
exciting, suspense, stylized, intense, brutal ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, drug cartel, police investigation, violent, death of friend, characters murdered one by one, profanity, crime scene, revenge, dishonesty, tough law enforcer, danger ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
mexico, atlanta georgia, south america, georgia, usa ...
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Threats from sinister foreign nationals aren't the only thing to fear. Bedraggled college professor Michael Faraday has been vexed (and increasingly paranoid) since his wife's accidental death in a botched FBI operation. But all that takes ...
Style:
neo noir, suspense, psychological, tense, surprise ending ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
conspiracy, terrorism, twists and turns, professor, evil wins, paranoia, terrorist, obsession, suspicion, uncover truth, fbi, danger ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., usa, west virginia, virginia, kansas ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A film in 8 episodes. A government MP from An spends a wild night of passion with a parliamenatrian from the Refoundation party; Maria Carla lets herself be go during the screening of "Dances with Wolves"; Rosalia has just got married, ...
Style:
anthology, romantic comedy, light hearted
Plot:
multiple storylines, infidelity, intimacy, marital crisis, sexual desire, political satire, sexual identity, social satire, seduction, irony, satire, mistaken identity ...
Time:
90s
Place:
italy, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Kenya
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
After falling victim to a scam, a desperate man races the clock as he attempts to plan a luxurious destination wedding for an important investor.
Style:
psychological, semi serious, captivating, satirical, thrilling ...
Plot:
wedding planning, con artists, problem, wedding preparations and rituals, satire, african american, african american protagonist, cons and scams, african american man, african american woman, financial crisis, luxury ...
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Detective Bobby Corcoran (Steven Bauer) and his partner, Detective Larson (Michael Parks), are on the hunt for a vicious serial killer in this tense police thriller. As the murderous villain stalks the city streets leaving carnage in his wake, ...
Style:
erotic, suspense, detective, crime drama, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
serial killer, investigation, paranoia, murder mystery, suspicion, violence, urban, cat and mouse, cover up, identity crisis, moral ambiguity, serial murder ...
Time:
90s
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, emotional, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
vampire, passion, dangerous attraction, asthmatic, fatal attraction, asthma, making love, civil engineer, seduction, womanizer, murder, couples ...
Time:
90s
Place:
london, hong kong, europe, england, asia ...
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
After spending several years in seclusion, a woman encounters the stalker who murdered her parents over a decade ago, and fears she may be his latest victim when he starts to cyber-stalk her.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating ...
Plot:
murder, stalker, stalking, woman in danger, danger, computers and web, time jump, hacking, woman in peril, man in a wheelchair, art gallery, intruder ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A seductive alien prowls the streets of Glasgow in search of prey: unsuspecting men who fall under her spell.
Style:
surreal, creepy, dark, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
alien, extraterrestrial, human prey, disguise, femme fatale, nudity, seduction, nightclub, creature, deformity, arthouse horror, female nudity ...
Time:
future, 2010s, year 2013, year 2014, 21st century
Place:
scotland, glasgow scotland, europe
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Criminal mastermind Dr. Mabuse returns from exile to begin a new reign of terror, and only young Inspector Carl Lohemann stands in his way.
Style:
gothic, psychological, suspense, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot:
master criminal, police inspector, good versus evil, megalomaniac, clue, evil man, secret organization, black magic, femme fatale, manipulation, mysterious villain, villain ...
Time:
1920s
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Genre: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
Style:
suspense, intense, tense, talky, exciting ...
Plot:
heist, train robbery, robbery, gold, perfect crime, victorian england, betrayal, british, gangster, train travel, master criminal, partner ...
Time:
19th century, 1850s, 1800s, turn of the century, year 1979 ...
Place:
england, britain, europe, united kingdom, london
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
New York detective John McClane is back and kicking bad-guy butt in the third installment of this action-packed series, which finds him teaming with civilian Zeus Carver to prevent the loss of innocent lives. McClane thought he'd seen it all, ...
Style:
suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, action packed, intense ...
Audience:
chick flick, manly, boys' night
Plot:
gunfight, terrorism, revenge, race against time, lone hero, heist, police, buddy cop, car chase, terrorist, police officer, bank robber ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, harlem, new york city, usa, harlem ...
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60K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Two cops, a rookie and a grizzled vet, pursue an accomplished bank robber.
Style:
exciting, surprise ending, realistic, suspenseful, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
robbery, police detective, bank robbery, police investigation, hostage, brutality, gangster, dirty cop, vengeance, conspiracy, corruption, buddy cop ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
seattle, usa, san francisco
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224K
Genre: Animation, Action, Drama, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Childhood friends Tetsuo and Kaneda are pulled into the post-apocalyptic underworld of Neo-Tokyo and forced to fight for their very survival. Kaneda is a bike gang leader, and Tetsuo is a member of a tough motorcycle crew who becomes involved in a ...
Style:
anime, futuristic, surreal, adult animation, atmospheric ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, adult
Plot:
cyberpunk, post apocalypse, motorcycle gang, motorcycle, teenager, protest, dystopia, body horror, psychic power, military, experiment, hallucination ...
Time:
future, near future, distant future, 2010s, 80s ...
Place:
japan, tokyo, east asia, asia
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