Best movies like A Crime of Passion
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Plot Summary:
When a physician is murdered, his eldest daughter is accused of the crime, but the man's seductive new wife may not be all that she appears.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Donor Unknown (1995)
Plot Summary:
Type A insurance fraud investigator Nick Stillman has his life extended by a heart transplant, only to be dismayed to discover that his donor was murdered so Nick could live.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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On Seventh Avenue (1996)
Plot Summary:
A rising designer leaves a top fashion house to rescue her retired father's New York apparel business.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Death Mask (1984)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by the drowning death of his own daughter, a police investigator embarks on an obsessive 10-year hunt for the identity of a dead boy, to the detriment of his family life.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Finders Keepers, Lovers Weepers (1968)
Plot Summary:
Paul, the owner of a topless go-go bar on the Sunset Strip, isn't having a good day. His girlfriend, unbeknownst to him, is planning to rob his club, and his wife is having an affair with the hunky bartender.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, erotic
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Crosscurrent (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two San Francisco detectives investigating a murder committed on one of the city's famous cable cars discover that the victim was the son of a shipping tycoon. The trail leads to a drug dealer, a shady physician and a nervous police captain.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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Dragnet (1969)
Plot Summary:
Sgt. Joe Friday is called back from vacation to work with his partner, Off. Bill Gannon, on a missing persons case. Two amateur female models and a young war widow have vanished, having been last seen with one J. Johnson. In the course of tracking down Johnson and the young ladies, the detectives wind up with two different descriptions of the suspect, one of which closely resembles a dead body found in a vacant lot. But the dead man, later identified as Charles LeBorg of France, proves not to be J. Johnson, when a third young model disappears. - Written by Michael J. Hayde.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective
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The Bloody Child (1996)
Plot Summary:
This film was inspired by a real event—a young US Marine, recently back from the Gulf War, was found digging a grave for his murdered wife in the middle of the California Mojave.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: experimental
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The Mushroom (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young physician becomes lonely when his workaholic wife ignores him to concentrate on her professional career. He is befriended by an older female artist who is fond of hallucinogenic mushrooms. When his wife is late for their anniversary celebration, he drinks and takes mushrooms with the artist. He wakes up to find she has died and is fearful he may have accidentally killed her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Yellow Fountain (1999)
Plot Summary:
Lola's boyfriend asks her if she believes in forgiveness, hands her a card with a name on it and shoots himself in the head. This sends Lola on a quest to find out what happened as well as solve the murder of her parents. The name on the card leads her into the shadowy world of the the Chinese Triad in Spain. She is helped along the way by a fearful young man who has an odd fascination for news clippings about the Chinese. She is drawn into this world and discovers her answer and loses more than she imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Clover (1997)
Plot Summary:
Sara marries Gaten a single father who is African-American. Not long after they're married Gaten dies. So Sara has to take care of Gaten's daughter, Clover. Problem is she and Clover have not exactly bonded and several of Gaten's friends and relatives object to her being Clover's guardian.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Cellblock Sisters: Banished Behind Bars (1995)
Plot Summary:
Sam Connor kidnaps his young daughters, April and May, sells them to strangers, and accidentally kills his wife when she attempts to intervene. Sixteen years later, April is an out of control outlaw who has come into a life of drugs and crime, while May has grown into a straight laced, refined woman. The plot thickens when April avenges her mother's death by killing her father, and May is sent to jail as the prime suspect. Fortunately, Detective Arman, instantly taken with May, fights for her innocence and tries to get her out before she is taken down by other hostile prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Aftermath: A Test of Love (1991)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, an adoring wife and mother is taken hostage during a robbery and brutally murdered.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, sentimental, rough, thought provoking, touching, bleak, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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Gone Mom: The Disappearance of Jennifer Dulos (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jennifer Dulos, the wealthy, Connecticut mother-of-five who mysteriously vanished.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing
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Pendulum (1969)
Plot Summary:
On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality Matthews escapes in search of the man he believes to be the real killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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And Then You Die (1987)
Plot Summary:
A drug deal must deal with the mafia, Hells Angels, and police who want to arrest him. -- WorldCat.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, detective
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Without Compassion (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lima, 1980s. Based upon Fyodor Dostoyevsky's Crime and Punishment.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Peru, Mexico, France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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A Promise to Carolyn (1996)
Plot Summary:
When two sisters can no longer go on living with the painful memory of their baby sister being murdered 37 years ago by their stepmother, together they try to uncover the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sad, detective
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Right to Kill? (1985)
Plot Summary:
Based on true story of teens Richard and Deborah Jahnke charged in Wyoming for the killing of their abusive father.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Preppie Murder (1989)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a young woman who was found dead. Now the police investigate, and evidence points to a man she was seen leaving a party with. Now when questioned, he claims that her death was accidental, as a result of rough sex. Now her family doesn't believe this, so they press the district attorney's office to try him for murder, but he has a good lawyer who plays his defense right down to putting the dead girl on trial.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The High Price of Passion (1986)
Plot Summary:
A college professor becomes obsessed with a prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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The Sleepwalker Killing (1997)
Plot Summary:
Mark Schall kills his mother-in-law and wounds his father-in-law in the middle of the night, then turns himself in. He claims, however, that he cannot remember the crime itself. His defense team finds evidence that suggests the crimes were committed while Mark was sleep walking. They build their defense around this theory.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: crying
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Bad to the Bone (1997)
Plot Summary:
A bad girl uses her brother to kill her lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 392
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: ridiculous
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace (1988)
Plot Summary:
Mason defends a man he had sentenced to prison when he was an appellate-court judge. Now, 18 months after the sentencing, a new witness turns up to prove the man's innocence. Mason steps in to defend the man.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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Blue Ridge Fall (1999)
Plot Summary:
After a boy kills his father he must turn to his frinds to cover his tracks with tests their loyality and friendship.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crime drama, tense, serious, realistic, crying
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A Family Upside Down (1978)
Plot Summary:
An elderly married couple find that as their physical and mental health deteriorates, they find themselves dependent more and more upon their grown children.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Five Thirteen (2013)
Plot Summary:
In this tension-packed thriller, brothers Mike and Tre set out in search of better lives, trying to leave their demons behind for good. After being released from prison for a crime he didn't commit, Mike's only care in the world is to protect his young daughter from an unforgiving ex. But the justice that awaits him on the streets is far worse than anything Mike had experienced in prison. His older brother Tre begrudgingly agrees to one last "delivery", attempting to free Mike and his new girlfriend from the grips of the criminal underworld. What transpires is a wild misadventure where multiple lives unknowingly intersect, and where decisions are made that will haunt everyone forever.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, independent film
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Jesse Stone: Innocents Lost (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jesse investigates the suspicious death of a young friend while the police force deals with the arrogant new police chief who is the son-in-law of a town councilman.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic
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Honor Thy Father and Mother: The True Story of the Menendez Murders (1994)
Plot Summary:
TV movie based on the novel "Blood Brothers," about the murder of Jose Menéndez and his wife Kitty by their sons, Erik and Lyle.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Murder: By Reason of Insanity (1985)
Plot Summary:
A crime drama dircted by Anthony Page.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Deadly Intentions (1985)
Plot Summary:
Katherine married Dr. Charles Raynor. She later discovers that Raynor is a sadist who torments her physically and mentally. She divorces him and take their child away. He then decides to kill her but when his plot is discovered he is charged with attempted murder and brought to trial.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: spooky
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