20 best movies like Deception (2008)


List of the best movies like Deception (2008): Gone Girl, Out of Time, The Girl on the Train, Mindscape, A Most Violent Year, Alex Cross, Palmetto, Sea of Love, The International, Righteous Kill.

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Markimdb: 8.1
Genrethriller, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

    With his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus, a man sees the spotlight turned on him when it's suspected that he may not be innocent.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:45

    Matt Lee Whitlock, respected chief of police in small Banyan Key, Florida, must solve a vicious double homicide before he himself falls under suspicion. Matt Lee has to stay a few steps ahead of his own police force and everyone he's trusted in order to find out the truth.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:21

    Rachel Watson, devastated by her recent divorce, spends her daily commute fantasizing about the seemingly perfect couple who live in a house that her train passes every day, until one morning she sees something shocking happen there and becomes entangled in the mystery that unfolds.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySpain, USA
    Duration01:39

    A man with the ability to enter peoples' memories takes on the case of a brilliant, troubled sixteen-year-old girl to determine whether she is a sociopath or a victim of trauma.

    Markimdb: 7
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
    Duration02:05

    A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, France
    Duration01:41

      After Washington DC detective Alex Cross is told that a family member has been murdered, he vows to track down the killer. He soon discovers that she was not his first victim and that things are not what they seem.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
      CountryGermany, USA
      Duration02:02

      A recently released ex-con gets involved in a fake kidnapping scheme that turns very real.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:53

      Seen-it-all New York detective Frank Keller is unsettled - he has done twenty years on the force and could retire, and he hasn't come to terms with his wife leaving him for a colleague. Joining up with an officer from another part of town to investigate a series of murders linked by the lonely hearts columns he finds he is getting seriously and possibly dangerously involved with Helen, one of the main suspects.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom, France
      Duration01:58

      An interpol agent and an attorney are determined to bring one of the world's most powerful banks to justice. Uncovering money laundering, arms trading, and conspiracy to destabilize world governments, their investigation takes them from Berlin, Milan, New York and Istanbul. Finding themselves in a chase across the globe, their relentless tenacity puts their own lives at risk.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      Two veteran New York City detectives work to identify the possible connection between a recent murder and a case they believe they solved years ago; is there a serial killer on the loose, and did they perhaps put the wrong person behind bars?

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Richard and Priscilla Parker are an ordinary suburban couple whose lives are invaded and rocked by their hedonistic, secretive new neighbors, Eddy and Kay Otis.

      Markimdb: 5.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany, France
      Duration02:01

      Lee Blanchard and Bucky Bleichert are former boxers-turned-cops in 1940s Los Angeles and, when an aspiring young actress turns up dead, Blanchard and Bleichert must grapple with corruption, narcissism, stag films and family madness as they pursue the killer.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:01

      Based on true events, The Wannabe, a story about Thomas, a man obsessed with Mafia culture during the 1990s in New York City. When Thomas’s failed attempts to fix the trial of infamous mobster John Gotti gets him rejected by the people he idolizes most, he sets off on a drug infused crime spree with his girlfriend and longtime mob groupie, Rose, by brazenly robbing the local Mafia hangouts.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:50

      A young short-con grifter suffers both injury and the displeasure of reuniting with his criminal mother, all the while dating an unpredictable young lady.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:59

      A law firm brings in its 'fixer' to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multi-billion dollar class action suit.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:33

      A hit man and his partner try to find out why their latest victim, a former race-car driver, did not try to get away.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:54

      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.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:10

      A loner moves in to a small Texas town, finds himself a job, and sets about plotting to rob the local bank.

      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
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:46

      The gruesome death of a prostitute brings suspicion on one of her clients, James Wayland, a brilliant, self-destructive and epileptic heir to a textile fortune. So detectives Braxton and Kennesaw take Wayland in for questioning, thinking they can break the man. But despite his troubles, Wayland is a master of manipulation, and during the interrogation, he begins to turn the tables on the investigators, forcing them to reveal their own sinister sides.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, music
      CountryUSA, Canada
      Duration01:43

      In this spine-tingling and visually stunning thriller, Academy Award®-nominee Samuel L. Jackson (Unbreakable, Shaft, Pulp Fiction delivers a "full-throttle performance" (People) as Romulus Ledbetter, a misunderstood musician turned recluse, hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave. When Romulus finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree, the authorities - including his police officer daughter (Aunjanne Ellis) - claim the death is accidental. Romulus is convinced the man was murdered by prominent art photographer David Leppenraub (Colm Feore). But how can he prove he's right when everyone thinks he's insane?

      Markimdb: 8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:20

      Two young men strangle their "inferior" classmate, hide his body in their apartment, and invite his friends and family to a dinner party as a means to challenge the "perfection" of their crime.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:49

      Richard spots a man dumping a body, and decides to expose the man he thinks is the culprit with his friend Alex Cutter.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, West Germany

      A serial killer brutally slays and dismembers several gay men in New York's S/M and leather districts. The young police officer Steve Burns is sent undercover onto the streets as decoy for the murderer. Working almost completely isolated from his department, he has to learn and practice the complex rules and signals of this little society.

      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: 6.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      Los Angeles private-eye Philip Marlowe is trying to locate the brother of his new client, a woman named Orfamay Quest. The trail leads to two men who deny any knowledge of the brother's existence. Both are soon killed by an ice pick, so Marlowe deduces that there's much more to this than a simple missing-person case. Marlowe's path crosses that of a blackmailed movie star, Mavis Wald, and her friend, exotic dancer Delores. A mobster sends karate expert Winslow Wong to bust up Marlowe's office and warn him off the case, while Lieutenant French also cautions the detective to stay out of the police's way.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:36

      Over the course of one feverish day, a harried narcotics detective and his reluctant partner frantically track down a recently released convict who knows a secret from the past.

      Markimdb: 7
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration00:15

      Sexy New York detective and single mother Harlee Santos fell in with a tight-knit group of dirty cops, taking bribes and protection money that she uses to provide the best life for her honest, talented daughter. But when she's trapped by the FBI and forced to inform on her own "brothers," she'll have to walk the fine line between love, loyalty, honor and betrayal, and try to keep it together for her daughter's future.

      Markimdb: 7.2
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:22

      A young promoter is accused of the murder of Vicky Lynn, a young actress he "discovered" as a waitress while out with ex-actor Robin Ray and gossip columnist Larry Evans.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      Stroud, a crime magazine's crusading editor has to post-pone a vacation with his wife, again, when a glamorous blonde is murdered and he is assigned by his publishing boss Janoth to find the killer. As the investigation proceeds to its conclusion, Stroud must try to disrupt his ordinarily brilliant investigative team as they increasingly build evidence (albeit wrong) that he is the killer.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:11

      U.S. Marshal Sam Gerard is accompanying a plane load of convicts from Chicago to New York. The plane crashes spectacularly, and Mark Sheridan escapes. But when Diplomatic Security Agent John Royce is assigned to help Gerard recapture Sheridan, it becomes clear that Sheridan is more than just another murderer.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
      Duration02:07

      Handsome, unflappable U.S. Congressman Stephen Collins is the future of his political party: an honorable appointee who serves as the chairman of a committee overseeing defense spending. All eyes are upon the rising star to be his party's contender for the upcoming presidential race. Until his research assistant/mistress is brutally murdered and buried secrets come tumbling out.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:41

      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.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA, Germany, Canada
      Duration01:45

      A woman framed for her husband's murder suspects he is still alive; as she has already been tried for the crime, she can't be re-prosecuted if she finds and kills him.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      In 1949 composer Roman Strauss is executed for the vicious murder of his wife Margaret with a pair of scissors. In 1990s Los Angeles a mute amnesiac woman shows up at an orphanage and private eye Mike Church is called in to investigate. Under hypnosis both the woman and Church seem to have a strange link back to the Strauss murder.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:31

      A murdered hotel millionaire's son finds himself tangled up in a game of seduction and murder after a raunchy night with three beautiful women.

      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: 5.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      FBI agent Joel Campbell, burnt-out and shell-shocked after years spent chasing serial killers, flees L.A. to begin a new life for himself in Chicago. But five months later, Joel's best laid plans are abruptly cut short when his new hometown becomes the setting for some particularly gruesome murders--murders that could only have been committed by one man: David Allen Griffin. One of Joel's most elusive and cunning nemeses, Griffin has followed his former pursuer to Chicago in order to play a sadistic game of cat and mouse. Taunting Joel with photographs of his intended victims and leaving his crime scenes meticulously free of clues in order to keep the police at bay, Griffin derives as much pleasure out of watching Joel react to every movement as watching his victims die. But when Griffin moves into Joel's inner circle, Joel must quickly find some way to stop him before someone close to him becomes the next one to die.

      Markimdb: 7.4
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:53

      A married woman and a drifter fall in love, then plot to murder her husband.

      Markimdb: 6
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom
      Duration01:36

      An elite hitman returns to erase his past only to find that somebody has messed with his future.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:04

      When a prostitute is found dead in a Los Angeles skyscraper occupied by a large Japanese corporation, detectives John Conner and Web Smith are called in to investigate. Although Conner has previous experience working in Japan, cultural differences make their progress difficult until a security disc showing the murder turns up. Close scrutiny proves the disc has been doctored, and the detectives realize they're dealing with a cover-up as well.

      Markimdb: 6.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:28

      On his sprawling country estate, an aging writer matches wits with the struggling actor who has stolen his wife's heart.

      Markimdb: 7.6
      Genremelodrama, drama, crime, detective, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      After a woman shoots a man to death, a damning letter she wrote raises suspicions.

      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: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:29

      A visiting city reporter's assignment suddenly revolves around the murder trial of a local millionaire, whom he befriends.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      A tough police detective escapes from custody after being framed and arrested for the murder of his ex-wife, and must now find the real killer and prove his innocence.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:50

      After witnessing a miracle, a young Latina woman experiences strange things as a police detective searches for the truth behind his partner's death.

      Markimdb: 7.8
      Genrethriller, drama, western, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:21

      Bounty hunters seek shelter from a raging blizzard and get caught up in a plot of betrayal and deception.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genreaction, thriller, drama, adventure, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:44

      After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.

      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.




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