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Plot Summary:
Murder mystery involving a man and his relationship with twin sisters.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir, non-linear, crying, detective, french noir
Best tv shows and movies like Murder Is a Murder (1972):
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Shadowman (1974)
Plot Summary:
Clad in a featureless red mask, The Man Without A Face is involved in a single-minded pursuit of the fabled treasure of the Knights Templar in this tribute to the pulp adventure stories of Louis Feuillade.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, detective
Similar in 84%
Five Miles to Midnight (1962)
Plot Summary:
Immediately after Lisa (Loren) declares that she is leaving her immature, abusive, but easy-going husband Robert (Perkins), he is reported dead in a plane crash. Secretly still alive, he convinces her to collect his life insurance, although she knows that it's a bad idea. Lisa must contend with the complications of the scheme, which involve an aggressive suitor (Young), Robert's jealousy, and her own guilt.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, ambiguous ending, crying, french noir
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Such a Lovely Town... (1979)
Plot Summary:
Stephane (Victor Lanoux) is the mayor of a small village. He is also the manager of the tannery which provides the inhabitants with work. In a fit of anger, he kills his wife (Edith Scob). A judge (Jean Carmet) tries to prove his culpability, but it's not an easy task, because there is a political and social pressure.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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The Weekend Murders (1970)
Plot Summary:
A large family meet at the family estate for the reading of their father's will. Each expects to be the recipient of a tidy sum, but apart from the local constable and a few other small awards to the help, the entire estate goes to the favorite daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, parody, psychotronic, detective, spoof, dark comedy
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The Grim Reaper (1962)
Plot Summary:
Near the Tiber river, in a Roman park, a prostitute was killed. The police tracks down people that were inside the park during that night. They are questioned and have to explain why they were there. One of them is the killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neorealism, neo noir, psychological, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, contemplative, crying
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Quiet is the Night (1978)
Plot Summary:
A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys. The police comissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son he has not been able to communicate with.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Poland
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, freeze frame, poliziottesco
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Chicken with Vinegar (1985)
Plot Summary:
Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, crying, freeze frame, dark comedy
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The Victim (1972)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy woman is trapped during a storm in a house with no electricity or phone. A killer has murdered her sister, stuffed the body in the basement, and is now after her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, spooky, crime thriller
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The Sleeping Car Murder (1965)
Plot Summary:
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, political, slasher, perverse, detective, freeze frame, black and white, french noir
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Charlotte (1974)
Plot Summary:
Starting as an investigation, the film begins with the discovery of a murdered young woman. Gradually we go back in time to realize that this crime is altogether the logical continuation of a philosophy of life where neither sex nor death are taboo, and where a lust for pushing limits meets it ultimate conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Diary of a Chambermaid (1964)
Plot Summary:
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: bleak, enigmatic, harsh, cynical, political, art house, biting, social, spiritual, artsy
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The Bride Wore Black (1968)
Plot Summary:
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town. She will track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal ? What is her purpose?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, stylized, dark comedy, retro, anthology, art house, postmodern, perverse, psychological
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The Burned Barns (1973)
Plot Summary:
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers (Rose and Pierre) have a link with the murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Someone Is Bleeding (1974)
Plot Summary:
On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl. Marc tells François that Peggy is a drug addict: she kills men who approach her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: neo noir, erotic, psychological, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, sexual, crying
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Le monte-charge (1962)
Plot Summary:
On a Christmas night, an ex-convict ,Robert Herbin, meets a beautiful Italian married woman Marthe Drévet ,who has got a lot of things to hide . She lives in an old house ,the first floor of which is a big workshop where a service elevator leads to the apartment.Marthe takes Robert to her home for a drink;he puts a small bird he bought on the Xmas tree,and they go for a stroll in the streets;when they come back,there's a dead body in the room(the husband) and most extraordinary thing,the bird has disappeared.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, crying, detective, french noir
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Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace (1962)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes and Watson do battle with their nemesis, Professor Moriarity, over an ancient necklace attributed to Cleopatra.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, cult classic, exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, detective, independent film
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Someone Behind the Door (1971)
Plot Summary:
A brain doctor (Anthony Perkins) with an unfaithful wife (Jill Ireland) brings home an amnesiac (Charles Bronson) and gets him to commit murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: slasher, psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, neo noir, psychotronic, poliziottesco
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The French Detective (1975)
Plot Summary:
When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: crime drama, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, freeze frame, poliziottesco, french noir
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The Seventh Juror (1962)
Plot Summary:
In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened. Eventually her boyfriend is charged with the crime and, in a strange twist of fate, the killer finds himself serving on the jury.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 942
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: noir, neo noir, psychological thriller, crying, french noir
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A Quiet Place to Kill (1970)
Plot Summary:
A race-car driver who's down on her luck is invited by her ex-husband's wife to stay at their plush villa. The two women form a bond, and it's not long before their mutual dislike for the husband culminates into a plan to kill him. As it turns out, though, they're not alone in plotting murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, grindhouse, surprise ending, neo noir, twist ending, crying, psychotronic, detective, freeze frame
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Trap for Cinderella (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young girl suffering from amnesia after surviving a house fire that takes her childhood friend's life, begins a tormented road to recovery.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, touching, realistic, psychological thriller, atmospheric, gloomy, neo noir, lgbt cinema, crying
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Wolves in the Snow (2002)
Plot Summary:
Wolves in the Snow begins with the news that Antoine has been cuckolding Lucie for years. A violent marital argument ensues resulting in Antoine's death. After lying about Antoine's whereabouts, Lucie discovers his secret life of gangsters, money laundering and violence. Followed, threatened and badgered by the gangsters, Lucie becomes trapped by her deceit. The body of Antoine disappears, other corpses appear, and the money, very quickly, becomes only the pretext of an alarming turn of events, in which Lucie learns how to lie, to live, and perhaps also to like. Wolves in the Snow is an intense drama set against the backdrop of Montreal.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, suspenseful, neo noir, realistic, crying
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So Sweet, So Dead (1972)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: slasher, detective, erotic, sexy, suspense, psychological thriller, psychotronic, independent film, freeze frame, poliziottesco
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Inspector Lavardin (1986)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one of his ex-lovers is the victim’s widow.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, bleak, captivating, neo noir, clever, cynical, surprise ending
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Four Flies on Grey Velvet (1971)
Plot Summary:
Roberto, a drummer in a rock band, keeps receiving weird phone calls and being followed by a mysterious man. One night he manages to catch up with his persecutor and tries to get him to talk but in the ensuing struggle he accidentally stabs him. He runs away, but he understands his troubles have just begun when the following day he receives an envelope with photos of him killing the man. Someone is killing all his friends and trying to frame him for the murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slasher, mind bending, grindhouse, creepy, surprise ending, suspense, erotic, psychological thriller, psychedelic, bloody
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (2015)
Plot Summary:
She’s the most beautiful, most short-sighted, most sentimental, most perplexing, most obstinate, most untrustworthy and most troubling of heroines. The lady in the car has never seen the sea. On the run from the police, she keeps telling herself that she’s not crazy… Only.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexy, enigmatic, captivating, tense, road movie, neo noir, non-linear, period piece, french noir
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One Deadly Summer (1983)
Plot Summary:
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, neo noir, slasher, social, anthology, erotic drama, neurotic, psychological, bleak
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Hush...Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
Plot Summary:
An aging, reclusive Southern belle plagued by a horrifying family secret descends into madness after the arrival of a lost relative.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: southern gothic, gothic, atmospheric, psychological thriller, scary, suspenseful, suspense, intense, black and white, gothic horror
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The Body (2012)
Plot Summary:
A woman’s body disappears mysteriously from the morgue without a trace. Police inspector Jaime Peña investigates the strange occurrence with the help of Álex Ulloa, the widower of the missing woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspenseful, atmospheric, tense, suspense, mind blowing, detective, serious, psychological thriller, mind twisting
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The Pledge (2001)
Plot Summary:
A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer. Based on a story by Swiss writer Friedrich Dürrenmatt.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, bleak, suspenseful, detective, suspense, enigmatic, intense, psychological thriller, atmospheric, disturbing