Best movies like Crime and Punishment
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Plot Summary:
John Simm stars in this adaptation of Dostoyevsky's tragic masterpiece - a profound drama of redemption and a thrilling detective story of the soul.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 200 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, philosophical, period piece, costume drama, existential, psychotronic
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The Making of a Lady (2012)
Plot Summary:
1901:- Poor but intelligent Emily Fox Seton accepts a marriage proposal from the older Lord James Walderhurst,a widower pushed into providing an heir by his haughty aunt Maria,.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: stylized, captivating, suspense, tense, sexy, period piece, costume drama, romantic drama, realistic, clever
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The Moonstone (1996)
Plot Summary:
Greg Wise (Sense and Sensibility) and Keeley Hawes (Karaoke) star in this sumptuous adaptation of Wilkie Collins' classic mystery, the first detective novel ever written. The Moonstone, a sacred Hindu diamond was stolen from the head of the Moon God, in its shrine by John Herncastle in 1799. The stone is said to be cursed if it is removed from the shrine. In 1848, a man named Franklin Blake announces to Rachel that the Moonstone has been bequeathed to her by Herncastle. Blake gives her the jewel on her birthday and offers to mount the jewel for her, in order that she might wear it. Inevitably, the jewel is found missing the next morning and Rachel believes Blake stole it. Determined to prove his innocence, Blake leaves in order to pursue the real truth behind the theft.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: costume drama, period piece, period drama
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The White Tiger (2021)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious Indian driver uses his wit and cunning to escape from poverty and rise to the top. An epic journey based on the New York Times bestseller.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: India, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: social, suspense, captivating, thought provoking, psychological, dramatic, smart, avant garde, interesting, cult film
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The Moonstone (2016)
Plot Summary:
Charismatic adventurer Franklin Blake is on the most important quest of his life - to solve the disappearance of the priceless Moonstone and win back Rachel Verinder, his one true love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, detective, costume drama, period drama
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Crime and Punishment (1983)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, updated to present-day Helsinki. Slaughterhouse worker Rahikainen murders a man, and is forced to live with the consequences of his actions.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, neo noir, intercultural, bleak, suspenseful
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The Dark Nest (2011)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Chippendales Murder (2000)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Steve Banjerlee who started a sleazy male strip club for women. Several years later he meets Nick De Noia, a choreographer whom he goes into partnership with to turn his nightclub into a successful high-class business that eventually leads to betrayal and murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Catcher in the Rye (2008)
Plot Summary:
This film consists of 75 minutes and 6 seconds of blue screen.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: avant garde, psychological, captivating, disturbing, suspense, experimental, independent film, silent, silent film
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Cruel Winter Blues (2006)
Plot Summary:
A gangster’s quest for revenge is sidetracked by an encounter with his target’s mother in this deeply-felt hybrid of a crime thriller and a family drama.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, neo noir, crime drama
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Payne & Redemption (2022)
Plot Summary:
The story of "Payne & Redemption" surrounds the psychological trauma endured by the film's main character, a weathered New York Detective, and his journey to seek redemption, after having to deal with a long line of traumatic incidents that have occurred in his recent life.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, independent film
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The Lakeside Murder Case (2004)
Plot Summary:
Three couples are staying at a lakeside cottage with their children. They want them to prepare intensely for a prestigious high school's entrance exam with the help of a private tutor. One night, one of the wives confesses to her husband that she has killed his mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Bleak House (2005)
Plot Summary:
A suspenseful tale about the injustices of the 19th Century English legal system.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 510 min
Plot tags: captivating, costume drama, bleak, serious, period piece, historical drama, suspense, educational, realistic, mysterious
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The Ruby in the Smoke (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Victorian England, Sally Lockhart receives an anonymous note sending her on a mysterious quest. Her father has recently died and feeling suffocated living with her elderly aunt moves in with newfound friends, a photographer and his sister. She is soon made aware that the mysterious Mrs. Holland is out to kill her. In the end, she realizes the solution to the mystery is rooted in events that occurred long ago when she lived with her father in India and a recurring dream she has had ever since.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 955
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, detective, costume drama, period drama, weird
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Intrigo: Dear Agnes (2019)
Plot Summary:
What is a human life worth? How is it possible that a woman like Agnes could agree to kill another human being? Is it the money? Or are there other forces at play?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Germany, Sweden, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Furthest Witness (2017)
Plot Summary:
Kyle Braddock has spent the last decade moving witnesses over the border to Mexico and has always avoided confrontation or suspicion until now. Not only has he been framed for kidnapping but there's a malevolent and unrelenting figure on his trail and he is falling in love with his latest passenger, who has a dark secret that completely goes against all of his moral beliefs. Now he must protect the first person he has cared about in over ten years, discover who he is as a man and outrun a mysterious killer who is more akin to a force of nature, with an ever increasing path of human collateral in his wake.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing
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Agatha and the Midnight Murders (2020)
Plot Summary:
As bombs fall on London, writer Agatha Christie decides it is time to kill off her most famous creation.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, captivating, disturbing
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Stray Bullets (2016)
Plot Summary:
In upstate New York, two teenage boys are tasked with cleaning out their father's old mobile home on an abandoned property, but the boys are in for a surprise when they discover three crooks on the run have taken refuge in the trailer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Population Zero (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 2009 three young men were killed in a remote part of Yellowstone National Park. Authorities never found the murderer. He found them! Hours after the trio were gunned down, Dwayne Nelson confessed to the crime. Despite this Nelson was allowed to go free because of an American Constitution loophole. Documentarian Julian T. Pinder travels to Yellowstone in a compelling chase for truth behind a crime that should have rocked the nation. How did a guilty man go free? In his hunt for answers Pinder risks his own life when he finds evidence that could re-open the case years later.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological thriller, mockumentary, fake documentary
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Happy Face Killer (2014)
Plot Summary:
Serial killer Keith Jesperson murders at least eight women over a five-year span and taunts authorities with disturbing letters and scribbled confessions signed with a happy face.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Blood Done Sign My Name (2010)
Plot Summary:
A drama based on the true story in which a black Vietnam-era veteran is allegedly murdered by a local white businessman who is later exonerated. The plot focuses on the role of a local high school teacher and the civil unrest that followed the acquittal.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: disturbing, serious, captivating, realistic, thought provoking, tense, bleak, contemplative, entertaining
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Oliver Twist (2005)
Plot Summary:
Oliver Twist the modern filmed version of Charles Dickens bestseller, a Roman Polanski adaptation. The classic Dickens tale, where an orphan meets a pickpocket on the streets of London. From there, he joins a household of boys who are trained to steal for their master.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: emotional, costume drama, atmospheric, sentimental, touching, serious, suspense, period piece, melancholic, stylized
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Great Expectations (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young boy called Pip stumbles upon a hunted criminal who threatens him and demands food. A few years later, Pip finds that he has a benefactor. Imagining that Miss Havisham, a rich lady whose adopted daughter Estella he loves, is the benefactor, Pip believes in a grand plan at the end of which he will be married to Estella. However, when the criminal from his childhood turns up one stormy night and reveals that he, Magwitch, is his benefactor, Pip finds his dreams crumbling. Although initially repulsed by his benefactor, Pip gradually becomes loyal to him and stays with him until his death.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 168 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, sincere, captivating, period piece, costume drama, realistic, period drama, weird
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Innocent (2011)
Plot Summary:
Bill Pullman (Independence Day, Torchwood) stars as Rusty Sabich, a judge charged with the murder of his wife, a situation that comes 20 years after he was cleared in the death of his mistress. During this latest trial, a secret affair from Rusty's recent past threatens to hamper his defense and fracture his relationship with his son. Oscar® winner Marcia Gay Harden (Pollack, Damages) plays Rusty's wife, while Alfred Molina (Spider-Man 2, Law & Order: LA) is his friend and defense attorney. Scott Turow's Innocent is a sequel to Turow's bestseller Presumed Innocent. The movie is written and directed by Mike Robe.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, psychological, disturbing, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Silent Witness (2011)
Plot Summary:
Prominent defense attorney Tony Lord returns to his hometown to defend an old friend, a teacher accused of murdering one of his students. The case re-opens the heartache from Tony's own high school days, when he was a student falsely accused of murdering his first love.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, tense, captivating, psychological, serious, suspenseful
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My Husband, My Killer (2001)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of an Australian woman that was murdered in bed next to her husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Katsuragi Murder Case (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Katsuragi Household that runs a small store may appear serene. But as the younger son Minoru commits a murder on the street, the family is exposed to the public. Is there anybody that is behind this murder case?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dark Blood (2021)
Plot Summary:
A father is imprisoned after committing a brutal revenge crime. During his confinement he must adapt to a new life of abuse, including injury and humiliation by guards and other prisoners.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Driftless Area (2015)
Plot Summary:
Pierre Hunter, a bartender with unyielding optimism, returns to his tiny hometown after his parents' death. When he falls for the enigmatic Stella, Pierre is unknowingly pulled into a cat-and-mouse game that involves a duffel bag full of cash, a haphazard yet determined criminal, and a mystery that will determine all of their fates. A contemporary fable about the ways we struggle to control time and fate in a possibly predetermined universe.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, neo noir, independent film, weird
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Flinch (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young Hitman who lives with his mother catches feelings for the witness of a murder he commits.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, neo noir
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The Unlikely Murderer (2021)
Plot Summary:
After the assassination of prime minister Olof Palme in 1986, Stig Engström managed to elude justice right up to his death through a combination of audacity, luck, and a perplexed police force.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 228 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing