Best movies like Toni Costa - Kommissar auf Ibiza - Küchenkunst
Last updated March 2024
Looking for movies similar to Toni Costa - Kommissar auf Ibiza - Küchenkunst? Offer your knowledge to guide others to movies and tv shows you've viewed previously that they might also like. Promote expanding the assembly of people introducing videos to each other. We appreciate your engagement!
Plot Summary:
Ibiza police commissioner Toni Costa cancels his holiday, a rare chance to be with his daughter, to investigate the stabbing murder of the sous-chef in José Arrabal's reputed restaurant. Costa finds, just in time to save stealing uniformed cop Manolo's kids, that this was a collateral killing, because he was in the way for another murder by poisoned dessert at Arrabal's wedding to gold-digger Carmen. Arrabal leans on his fiend the police chief to close the case, but Costa rightly suspects more crimes and digs on for possible motives concerning restaurant rating blackmail, infidelity and old grudges. Written by KGF Vissers.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
Best tv shows and movies like Toni Costa - Kommissar auf Ibiza - Küchenkunst (2012):
Similar in 77%
The Boss' Son (1978)
Plot Summary:
Bobby Rose, a recent college graduate, returns home to Beverly Hills to work for his father, a successful carpet manufacturer. Bobby's dreams of a cushy junior executive position are soon quashed when his father employs him as one of the delivery drivers. Learning the business "from the ground up" embitters Bobby, as well as his coworkers, some of whom, he discovers, are stealing from the company.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 90%
Fritz Lang (2016)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker Fritz Lang seeks inspiration for his first sound film by immersing himself in the case of serial killer Peter Kürten.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, sincere, disturbing, detective, black and white, exciting
Similar in 88%
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:
Similar in 89%
Wildfire (1988)
Plot Summary:
Since they met the first time in boarding school as little kids, it was obvious that the orphans Kay and Dave would become a couple. But at sixteen, Dave foolishly attempted to rob a bank with a water pistol, and ended up in jail for eight years. Meanwhile Kay was sent to foster parents, where she met the successful business man Mike, whom she married and bore two kids. Now Frank is released from prison and immediately starts wooing Kay again. Although she's happy with Mike, she can't withdraw herself completely. Old memories and her husband's jealousy make her spend more and more time with him.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
Similar in 87%
Cold Spring (2004)
Plot Summary:
A rebellious young woman is thrown out by her wealthy, but marbly parents and gets into a nightmare of poverty, prostitution and sickness.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 77%
Accidente 703 (1962)
Plot Summary:
Hector travels with Luisa by the road linking Madrid with Barcelona. When another car suddenly crosses his path, his vehicle leaves the road and plunges into a tree. Hector dies and she is seriously injured. The other car was occupied by Jorge and Paula, her lover. Several vehicles cross before the car crash and do not stop, each for a different reason. Among them is Julio, a truck driver who does not stop in order to reach his destination on time, not knowing that at the wrecked car travels his old girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 86%
Born Equal (2006)
Plot Summary:
Four characters living in one neighborhood in London - all living dramatically different lives, all of them on the edge - see their stories unfold.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 80%
The Brutalization Of Franz Baum (1974)
Plot Summary:
Born into a well-off family, Franz Blum had led a carefree youth until, some time after graduating from high school, he was arrested by the police. For, involved by a gang of bad boys, the young man had taken part in a bank robbery. A "heroic deed" which earned him six years in prison. Once behind bars, he was treated with ruthless inhumanity by the guards. And little by little - but inexorably - Franz turned into an insurgent.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: crying
Similar in 82%
Green Hat (2004)
Plot Summary:
A sexually frustrated policeman starts investigating the doings of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Drama
Country: China
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 82%
The Bordello (1971)
Plot Summary:
A drama directed by Alfred Weidenmann.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 90%
Naakaa (2017)
Plot Summary:
Goldie, a small time smuggler of Barhabise who is in need of a profiting consignment to recover from his current bankruptcy. He gets an emergency call from a local smuggler and businessman of the area to rescue a Tibetan girl and her transporter illegally from one of the sub-border point to Barhabise.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Nepal
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 85%
The Scarlet Camellia (1964)
Plot Summary:
In this Japanese drama, a young woman begins murdering all those responsible for her ailing father's condition. First she torches her parents' villa, and then slaughters all her lascivious mother's lovers. Because the girl is so outwardly sweet and innocent, the detective looking into the deaths does not suspect her. Unbeknownst to him, the girl plans on turning herself in, but not before she kills one more person--her real father. Later she changes her mind, but when his good wife learns of his philandering, she commits suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 163 min
Plot tags: jidai geki, detective
Similar in 76%
Making of, le dernier film (2006)
Plot Summary:
A Tunisian breakdancer falls in with fundamentalists with designs to turn the young man into a suicide bomber.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Tunisia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 80%
Too Far to Go (1979)
Plot Summary:
Love and passion, anger and heartbreak, laughter and happiness, all complex textures woven into the fabric so many have come to know as marriage. For behind the seemingly comfortable well-trimmed hedges of suburban Americana, live and often love, Richard and Joan Maple. Adapted from a series of stories appearing in the New Yorker Magazine over a period of twenty three years by Pulitzer Prize winning author John Updike ("The Witches of Eastwick", "Rabbit Run"), "Too Far To Go" garnered overwhelming critical praise in its theatrical debut. With its exceptional cast, this film envelops us in a poignant, sometimes funny, sometimes exasperating journey through this most important relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 83%
The Quare Fellow (1962)
Plot Summary:
Thomas Crimmins is a new warder, or guard, in an Irish prison. He is young, naive, and idealistic, determined to serve his country by his part in meting out justice to criminals. His superior, Regan, however, realizes that even prisoners are human beings, and Regan is sick of the eye-for-an-eye attitude that leads the state to execute condemned men, or "quare fellows." Crimmins begins to see that not all is black and white in his new world, and when he becomes involved with Kathleen, the wife of one of the condemned men, his attitude begins to change. When new evidence arises to suggest that Kathleen's husband may not deserve his fate, Crimmins is torn between his duty and his humanity.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 76%
The Apple Tree of Paradise (1986)
Plot Summary:
Girls no more, four heroines emerge into womanhood with a more clear-eyed outlook on life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 89%
In the Darkness of the Night (2004)
Plot Summary:
A disturbing film about the Portuguese underworld of prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: Portugal
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, touching, masterpiece
Similar in 80%
A Killing Affair (1977)
Plot Summary:
A white female detective is partnered with a black male detective to find the person who is committing a series of particularly vicious murders. During the course of the investigation the two begin to develop an attraction to each other, but the situation is complicated by the fact that he is married.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective
Similar in 82%
The Glass Cell (1978)
Plot Summary:
A man is wrongfully imprisoned for five years. Once out, he hears about his wife's supposed adventures outside of their marriage and becomes increasingly jealous.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany, Portugal
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 87%
Sass (2001)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic
Similar in 89%
The Petrified Forest (1973)
Plot Summary:
Follows a young med student's relationships with two women: a dangerous affair with a childhood friend and his mother's struggle to rebuild their estranged relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 76%
The Unforgivable (2021)
Plot Summary:
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 117000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: dramatic, thought provoking, suspense, realistic, rough, tear jerker, psychological, intellectual, entertaining, dark
Similar in 89%
Willenbrock (2005)
Plot Summary:
Second-hand car sales man Willenbrock has everything that he could ever wish for. He is married, has two lovers, a cottage in the German city Grünen, and a BMW. Yet one day while at his cottage he gets mugged and his life is drastically changed. Little by little the world he once felt safe in falls apart around him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: tense, psychological, captivating, suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
Similar in 85%
Tigerstripe Baby Is Waiting for Tarzan (1998)
Plot Summary:
Time traveler Frank is picked up by Luise and Theo while on their way to Berlin. Frank wants to find author Laura Luna and take her to the future with him. Frank finds Laura and they become a couple, but Luise shows up and makes it a menage a trois.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 90%
Traffic Department (2012)
Plot Summary:
Seven policemen, seven deadly sins, a murder case, secrets and the filth of everyday police work: Traffic Department transports the viewer into the darkest Warsaw streets.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, unusual plot structure, contemplative, crying, black comedy
Similar in 90%
Beijo na Boca (1982)
Plot Summary:
Middle-class girl gets involved with a jealous drug dealer, who wants to kill all of her previous boyfriends.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 76%
The Blackmailer (1988)
Plot Summary:
.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 84%
Praying Mantis (1993)
Plot Summary:
A single man thinks he has finally found a woman who loves him. The woman is charming and intelligent but holds a very dark secret which will truly test how strong their relationship can be.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, slasher, tension, suspense
Similar in 79%
Betrayed by Lies (2018)
Plot Summary:
A married woman discovers her husband is living a double life in Paris, jeopardizing not only her marriage but her life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
Similar in 77%
Too Young to Die? (1990)
Plot Summary:
An abused 15 year old is charged with a murder that carries the death penalty in this fact-based story.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: emotional, retro, neo noir, sad, cult classic, teen, rough, bleak, serious, realistic