20 best movies like 12 (2007)

List of the best movies like 12 (2007): Primal Fear, Transsiberian, Talaash, The Weight of Water, Runaway Jury, Snow Falling on Cedars, The Lady from Shanghai, The Mighty Quinn, The Quiller Memorandum, Paradise Now.

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Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:10

An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more complex when the accused reveals that there may or may not have been a 3rd person in the room. The intensity builds when a surprise twist alters everyone's perception of the crime.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany, Spain, Lithuania

A Trans-Siberian train journey from China to Moscow becomes a thrilling chase of deception and murder when an American couple encounters a mysterious pair of fellow travelers.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
CountryIndia
Duration02:19

A cop, investigating the mysterious death of a filmstar, meets a sex-worker, while he faces some personal problems psychologically. The mystery connects these people in a way, that ultimately changes their lives.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Canada, France
Duration01:53

A newspaper photographer, Jean, researches the lurid and sensational axe murder of two women in 1873 as an editorial tie-in with a brutal modern double murder. She discovers a cache of papers that appear to give an account of the murders by an eyewitness.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:02

A juror on the inside and a woman on the outside manipulate a court trial involving a major gun manufacturer.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:07

In the 1950s, a Japanese-American fisherman is suspected of killing his neighbour at sea—and race is a factor in the trial. So is reporter, Ishmael.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.

Markimdb: 6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

Police chief Xavier Quinn investigates the gruesome murder of Donald Pater, one of the wealthiest residents on a Caribbean island. He was found decapitated in his Jacuzzi. Although the local political establishment, especially crooked Governor Chalk, insists that small-time thief Maubee is responsible, Xavier has his doubts. This view is complicated by the police chief's personal history with Maubee: The men have been friends since childhood.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:44

After two British Secret Intelligence Service agents are murdered at the hands of a cryptic neo-Nazi group known as Phoenix, the suave agent Quiller is sent to Berlin to investigate.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, drama, crime, military
CountryGermany, France, Netherlands, Israel, Palestine
Duration01:30

From the perspective of two Palestinian men who are preparing to perform a suicide attack in Israel, this is the first film to deal with the subject of suicide bombers.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, Saudi Arabia
Duration01:46

    Remake of a 1956 Fritz Lang film in which a novelist's investigation of a dirty district attorney leads to a setup within the courtroom.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Canada, United Kingdom
    Duration01:58

    Guy Luthan, a British doctor working at a hospital in New York, starts making unwelcome enquiries when the body of a man who died in his emergency room disappears. After the trail leads Luthan to the door of an eminent surgeon at the hospital, Luthan soon finds himself in extreme danger people who want the hospital's secret to remain undiscovered.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryIndia

    Hired by a singer to defend her friend, who has been accused of murder, a formidable lawyer learns that the man he represents may not be innocent.

    Markimdb: 5.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:53

    A black police detective must solve a strange case of a kidnapped boy and deal with a big racial protest.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryChina

    On a dark night, Xueming hits a pedestrian with his car and flees the scene. Desperate to escape his feelings of guilt, he decides to approach the dead man's wife, Mrs. Liang. Meanwhile, the body is discovered—riddled with bullets. Chen, the detective in charge of the investigation, becomes obsessed with the case. Years later, all three remain caught in a tangled web of memories and lies, desperately searching for a truth that refuses to be revealed…

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:41

      A woman turns to prescription medication as a way of handling her anxiety concerning her husband's upcoming release from prison.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, comedy, drama, adventure, family, crime, detective
      CountryPeru

      When it is the time to shape reality, the spy world calls The Pro Bono Spy Hunter.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Caught between her dreams of a better life, a rich mobster who thinks he owns her and an unstable boyfriend who has just killed a man, Sable must take control of her own life or she may find herself dead by dawn.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrefantastic, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryAustralia, United Arab Emirates

      Ren Amari is the driven inventor of a revolutionary new drug. OtherLIfe expands the brain's sense of time and creates virtual reality directly in the user's mind. With OtherLife, mere seconds in real life feel like hours or days of exciting adventures. As Ren and her colleagues race around the clock to launch OtherLife, the government muscles in to use the drugs as a radical solution to prison overcrowding. They will create virtual cells where criminals serve long sentences in just minutes of real time. When Ren resists, she finds herself an unwilling guinea pig trapped in a prison cell in her mind. She must escape before she descends into madness, and then regain control of OtherLife before others suffer the same fate.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:31

      A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant and her Hollywood starlet boss. As the assistant travels across Los Angeles to unravel the mystery, she must stay one step ahead of a determined policeman and confront her own understanding of friendship, truth and celebrity.

      Markimdb: 7.9
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA

      Detective Inspector Richard Poole is transferred to Sainte Marie, an island in the Caribbean. Totally unsuited to the Caribbean way of life, Richard hates the sun, sea and sand and isn't used to the Sainte Marie style of policing. Working with the exotic Camille each week Richard investigates intricate and intriguing murders.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:35

      The story of military hero Eric Carter’s return to the U.S. and the trouble that follows him back – compelling him to ask CTU for help in saving his life, and stopping what potentially could be one of the largest-scale terror attacks on American soil.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      A Boston police officer goes to Nantucket to investigate the murder of his partner, but he finds more than he bargained for.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryGermany, USA
      Duration01:32

      A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming. But the therapeutic sanctuary becomes a nightmarish hellhole when a major snowstorm cuts off the clinic from the outside world and enables a killer on the inside to get busy.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryCzech Republic, United Kingdom, USA, Russia
      Duration02:21

      Set in Stalin-era Soviet Union, a disgraced MGB agent is dispatched to investigate a series of child murders -- a case that begins to connect with the very top of party leadership.

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:34

      Semi-retired Michigan lawyer Paul Biegler takes the case of Army Lt. Manion, who murdered a local innkeeper after his wife claimed that he raped her. Over the course of an extensive trial, Biegler parries with District Attorney Lodwick and out-of-town prosecutor Claude Dancer to set his client free, but his case rests on the victim's mysterious business partner, who's hiding a dark secret.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, military
      CountryUSA, Germany
      Duration01:56

      When the body of Army Capt. Elizabeth Campbell is found on a Georgia military base, two investigators, Warrant Officers Paul Brenner and Sara Sunhill, are ordered to solve her murder. What they uncover is anything but clear-cut. Unseemly details emerge about Campbell's life, leading to allegations of a possible military coverup of her death and the involvement of her father, Lt. Gen. Joseph Campbell.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, military, biography, history
      CountryUSA, Russia, Hungary

      The life and career of the brutal Soviet dictator, Josef Stalin.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, adventure, crime, detective, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:13

      Secret agents try to defeat terrorists on the Orient Express.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, military
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:32

      Three stories told simultaneous in ninety minutes of real time: a Republican Senator who's a presidential hopeful gives an hour-long interview to a skeptical television reporter, detailing a strategy for victory in Afghanistan; two special forces ambushed on an Afghani ridge await rescue as Taliban forces close in; a poli-sci professor at a California college invites a student to re-engage.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:21

      A darkly comic swamp noir story of two best friends set in the late 1980s. Based on the novels by Joe R. Lansdale, the series follows Hap Collins, an East Texas white boy with a weakness for Southern women, and Leonard Pine, a gay, black Vietnam vet with a hot temper.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, military
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France
      Duration02:28

      An unusual World War II crime thriller about a Nazi investigation into the murder of a prostitute. Major Grau finds himself focusing on three suspects: the Generals Tanz, Kahlenberg and Seydlitz-Gabler – all three of whom, it seems, are also involved in a plot to kill Hitler

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:36

      A terrorist attack in London results in the capture of suspect, and the attorney general appoints Claudia Simmons-Howe as special advocate on his defence team. On the eve of the trial, the accused's attorney dies and a new one, Martin Rose, steps in. Martin and Claudia are former lovers—a fact which must remain hidden—and, as Martin assembles his case, he uncovers a sinister conspiracy that places him and Claudia in danger.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, military, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA, Luxembourg, China
      Duration01:37

      The true story of British intelligence whistleblower Katharine Gun who—prior to the 2003 Iraq invasion—leaked a top-secret NSA memo exposing a joint US-UK illegal spying operation against members of the UN Security Council. The memo proposed blackmailing member states into voting for war.

      Markimdb: 7.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, military
      CountryFrance, Italy

      Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryGermany
      Duration01:30

      A young lawyer stumbles upon a vast conspiracy while investigating a brutal murder case.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, military, biography
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:15

      Nate Foster, a young, idealistic FBI agent, goes undercover to take down a radical white supremacy terrorist group. The bright up-and-coming analyst must confront the challenge of sticking to a new identity while maintaining his real principles as he navigates the dangerous underworld of white supremacy. Inspired by real events.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      Bobby Earl is facing the electric chair for the murder of a young girl. Eight years after the crime he calls in Paul Armstrong, a professor of law, to help prove his innocence. Armstrong quickly uncovers some overlooked evidence to present to the local police, but they aren't interested - Bobby was their killer.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrethriller, drama, western, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:21

      One-armed war veteran John J. Macreedy steps off a train at the sleepy little town of Black Rock. Once there, he begins to unravel a web of lies, secrecy, and murder.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, detective
      CountryFrance, Italy, West Germany
      Duration01:59

      An unassuming office worker is arrested and stands trial, but he is never made aware of his charges.

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