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Plot Summary:
A mysterious stranger works outside the law and keeps his objectives hidden, trusting no one. While his demeanor is paradoxically focused and dreamlike all at once, he embarks on a journey that not only takes him across Spain, but also through his own consciousness.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, talky, stylized, aesthetic, surreal, neo noir, deviant, cult classic, slow cinema
Best tv shows and movies like The Limits of Control (2009):
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Man on the Train (2002)
Plot Summary:
A man, Milan (played by Johnny Hallyday) steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier (Jean Rochefort). The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France, UK, Germany, Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, atmospheric, sincere, humorous, surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, independent film, realistic
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After Dark, My Sweet (1990)
Plot Summary:
The intriguing relationship between three desperados, who try to kidnap a wealthy child in hope of turning their lives around.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: neo noir, sexy, tense, suspenseful, surreal, cynical, erotic, psychological thriller, offbeat, psychological
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Siesta (1987)
Plot Summary:
Claire (an American) wakes up in a terrible state at the end of a runway in Spain. As she tries to account for her state (blood-soaked and bruised), she has flashbacks from the past few days. She thinks she's killed someone, but isn't sure, and now she's wandering the Spanish streets without money or a clear memory.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric, surreal, erotic, neo noir, mindfuck, twisted, independent film
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The American Friend (1977)
Plot Summary:
Tom Ripley, who deals in forged art, suggests a picture framer he knows would make a good hit man.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, talky, serious, captivating, disturbing, rough, realistic
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The Element of Crime (1984)
Plot Summary:
Fisher, an ex-detective, decides to take one final case when a mysterious serial killer claims the lives of several young girls. Fisher, unable to find the culprit, turns to Osbourne, a writer who was once respected for his contributions to the field of criminology. Fisher begins to use Osbourne's technique, which involves empathizing with serial killers; however, as the detective becomes increasingly engrossed in this method, things take a disturbing turn.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: surreal, bleak, neo noir, art house, psychological, detective, suspenseful, cerebral, atmospheric, stylized
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The Man from London (2007)
Plot Summary:
One night Maloin, a switchman at a seaside railway station situated by a ferry harbour, witnesses a terrible event.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Hungary, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: neo noir, serious, black and white, psychological, atmospheric, bleak, contemplative, captivating, art house, confusing
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Mystery Train (1989)
Plot Summary:
Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, anthology, humorous, stylized, atmospheric, realistic, meditative, cult classic, art house, dark comedy
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Femme Fatale (2002)
Plot Summary:
A woman tries to straighten out her life, even as her past as a con-woman comes back to haunt her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, suspenseful, suspense, sensual, neo noir, clever, psychological, tricky, enigmatic
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Frantic (1988)
Plot Summary:
Ford plays an American doctor whose wife suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: suspense, neo noir, psychological, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller, suspense thriller, noir, mysterious, political thriller
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Ripley's Game (2002)
Plot Summary:
Tom Ripley - cool, urbane, wealthy, and murderous - lives in a villa in the Veneto with Luisa, his harpsichord-playing girlfriend. A former business associate from Berlin's underworld pays a call asking Ripley's help in killing a rival. Ripley - ever a student of human nature - initiates a game to turn a mild and innocent local picture framer into a hit man. The artisan, Jonathan Trevanny, who's dying of cancer, has a wife, young son, and little to leave them. If Ripley draws Jonathan into the game, can Ripley maintain control? Does it stop at one killing? What if Ripley develops a conscience?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, suspenseful, stylized, neo noir, absurd, atmospheric, crime thriller, intense
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Sleuth (2007)
Plot Summary:
On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, intellectual, talky, witty, minimal cast, suspenseful, stylized, surprise ending, suspense, twist ending
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Body Double (1984)
Plot Summary:
After losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies a gorgeous blonde dancing in her window. But when he witnesses the girl's murder, it leads Scully through the netherworld of the adult entertainment industry on a search for answers -- with porn actress Holly Body as his guide.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: erotic, suspense, suspenseful, sexy, sensual, atmospheric, enigmatic, cult classic, tense, harsh
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Blow Out (1981)
Plot Summary:
Jack Terry is a master sound recordist who works on grade-B horror movies. Late one evening, he is recording sounds for use in his movies when he hears something unexpected through his sound equipment and records it. Curiosity gets the better of him when the media become involved, and he begins to unravel the pieces of a nefarious conspiracy. As he struggles to survive against his shadowy enemies and expose the truth, he does not know whom he can trust.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspenseful, suspense, disturbing, atmospheric, intense, political thriller, serious, captivating, realistic
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Mother (2009)
Plot Summary:
A mother lives quietly with her twenty-eight-year-old son, Do-joon, providing herbs and acupuncture to neighbors. One day, a girl is brutally murdered, and Do-joon is charged with the killing. Now, it's his mother's call whether to prove him innocent or to leave him imprisoned.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, tense, psychological, neo noir, disturbing, mind bending, serious, cerebral, suspenseful
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Night Moves (1975)
Plot Summary:
Private detective and former football player Harry Moseby gets hired on to what seems a standard missing person case, as a former Hollywood actress whose only major roles came thanks to being married to a studio mogul wants Moseby to find and return her daughter. Harry travels to Florida to find her, but he begins to see a connection between the runaway girl, the world of Hollywood stuntmen, and a suspicious mechanic when an unsolved murder comes to light.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, tense, psychological, detective, grim, meditative, serious, suspenseful, surprise ending
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Devil in a Blue Dress (1995)
Plot Summary:
In late 1940s Los Angeles, Easy Rawlins is an unemployed black World War II veteran with few job prospects. At a bar, Easy meets DeWitt Albright, a mysterious white man looking for someone to investigate the disappearance of a missing white woman named Daphne Monet, who he suspects is hiding out in one of the city's black jazz clubs. Strapped for money and facing house payments, Easy takes the job, but soon finds himself in over his head.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, dark, atmospheric, clever, stylized, suspense, psychological, political, mysterious
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Blue Velvet (1986)
Plot Summary:
The discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of criminals who have kidnapped her child.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 212000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surreal, dark, detective, cerebral, disturbing, postmodern, controversial, erotic, atmospheric
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Down by Law (1986)
Plot Summary:
A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: black and white, independent film, road movie, atmospheric, humorous, art house, meditative, harsh, sincere, cult classic
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Ghost Dog: The Way of the Samurai (1999)
Plot Summary:
An African-American Mafia hit man who models himself after the samurai of old finds himself targeted for death by the mob.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France, Germany, USA, Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: art house, stylized, atmospheric, cult classic, hood, thought provoking, captivating, neo noir, tense, philosophical
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Brick (2005)
Plot Summary:
A teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, atmospheric, independent film, cerebral, noir, detective, stylized, talky, teen, enigmatic
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Blink (1993)
Plot Summary:
Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs. Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, psychological, exciting, suspense, neo noir, enigmatic, erotic, psychological thriller, gloomy
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Sexy Beast (2000)
Plot Summary:
The idyllic life of retired safecracker Gal is put at risk when a psychotic gangster from his past arrives at his villa in southern Spain, intent on bringing him out of retirement for one last job.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, neo noir, psychological, talky, atmospheric, black comedy, serious, captivating, realistic, suspenseful
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Deception (2008)
Plot Summary:
As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's introduction to The List, an underground sex club. Jonathan begins an affair with a woman known only as S, who introduces Jonathan to a world of treachery and murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexy, suspense, suspenseful, serious, sensual, neo noir, surprise ending, psychosexual thriller, twisted, erotic
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Trance (2013)
Plot Summary:
A violent gang enlists the help of a hypnotherapist in an attempt to locate a painting which somehow vanished in the middle of a heist.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 117000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, surprise ending, twist ending, neo noir, clever, surreal, mind bending, serious, sexy, mindfuck
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Mulholland Drive (2001)
Plot Summary:
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesic, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 377000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, art house, neo noir, atmospheric, mind bending, disturbing, cerebral, surprise ending, enigmatic
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Following (1998)
Plot Summary:
A struggling, unemployed young writer takes to following strangers around the streets of London, ostensibly to find inspiration for his new novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, suspense, black and white, tense, clever, surprise ending, atmospheric, cerebral, mindfuck
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Mr. Brooks (2007)
Plot Summary:
A psychological thriller about a man who is sometimes controlled by his murder-and-mayhem-loving alter ego.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 155000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, tense, psychological thriller, twist ending, serious, melancholic, intense, detective, enigmatic
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Zodiac (2007)
Plot Summary:
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 built and destroyed by the endless trail of clues.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 584000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 157 min
Plot tags: suspense, atmospheric, tense, neo noir, stylized, twist ending, suspenseful, psychological, rough, detective
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L.A. Confidential (1997)
Plot Summary:
Three detectives in the corrupt and brutal L.A. police force of the 1950s use differing methods to uncover a conspiracy behind the shotgun slayings of the patrons at an all-night diner.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 607000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: neo noir, captivating, tense, noir, suspense, atmospheric, clever, suspenseful, detective, serious
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No Country for Old Men (2007)
Plot Summary:
Llewelyn Moss stumbles upon dead bodies, $2 million and a hoard of heroin in a Texas desert, but methodical killer Anton Chigurh comes looking for it, with local sheriff Ed Tom Bell hot on his trail. The roles of prey and predator blur as the violent pursuit of money and justice collide.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 10000000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, serious, atmospheric, suspense, bleak, suspenseful, neo western, gloomy, rough