20 best movies like The Crimson Kimono (1959)

List of the best movies like The Crimson Kimono (1959): Blind Detective, The Girl from the Naked Eye, The Eyes, Secrets and Lies, The Postman Always Rings Twice, Killing Emmett Young, Dark Places, Everlasting, Children..., Consenting Adults.

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Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryHong Kong, China
Duration02:09

A blind detective, former cop, teams up with a policewoman who admires him to solve the disappearance of a girl friend of hers, years ago. Besides, he helps her to improve her skills as an investigator.

Markimdb: 4.7
Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

Jake is a driver for a seedy escort service operating out of 'The Naked Eye strip club', he's a street thug type who falls for a witty high-class escort named Sandy. Except one night Sandy is found murdered, the only clues left behind are cell phone calls made the night she died. To avenge Sandy's death Jake must risk everything and walk a bloody path to find her killer.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

6 strangers are kidnapped and through governmental technology have proof they have all killed before and are told 5 will die this night, one may walk, and the six have 2 hours to decide who gets to live.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:28

Detective Andrea Cornell is a tough, thorough Homicide Detective who leaves no stone unturned. Her unwavering dedication to her job makes her the most formidable opponent - or a highly valuable ally.

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
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA

In the Philadelphia police department, Emmett Young is a hotshot, a workaholic newly promoted to homicide. He learns he has a disease that will soon kill him painfully, so he hires a stranger to arrange his own death. With one eye on the calendar (he's allowed a few days' grace before his murder), he pursues a final case, the serial killing of young women. Emmett develops a profile of the assailant. Meanwhile, his fixer hires an ex-cop to kill Emmett, a lonely security guard whom the fixer taunts and belittles. In this limited time, can Emmett sort out what's important? Written by

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration02:31

A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.

Markimdb: 6
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

"Everlasting" is an award-winning thriller about a High School student who travels from Colorado to L.A. to find the truth behind the murder of his girlfriend.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration02:06

The film is based on a true yet unsolved murder case from the early 1990s that is known among Koreans as the "disappearance of the frog children." In 1991, five elementary school students told their parents that they were going to hang out on a nearby mountain to catch frogs, and then they go missing.

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: 3
Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA

Inspired by actual events, a group of 12 year old girls face a night of horror when the compulsive addiction of an online social media game turns a moment of cyber bullying into a night of insanity.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:34

A retired ex-cop and private detective gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money and walks into a 20 year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of an actress' former husband.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

A dark comedy about four self-absorbed twenty-somethings who become entangled in an ominous mystery when a former college acquaintance suddenly disappears.

Markimdb: 4.6
Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA, United Kingdom
Duration01:30

A family man who turns out to be a retired mob enforcer must travel across the country to find his daughter who has gone missing.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:07

Porter Wren is a Manhattan tabloid writer with an appetite for scandal. On the beat he sells murder, tragedy, and anything that passes for the truth. At home, he is a dedicated husband and father. But when Caroline, a seductive stranger asks him to dig into the unsolved murder of her filmmaker husband Simon, he is drawn into a very nasty case of sexual obsession and blackmail--one that threatens his job, his marriage, and his life.

Markimdb: 7.3
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective, film noir
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

A man working for the War Crimes Commission suspects that an important Nazi official has folded himself into a quaint Connecticut town.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

    In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

    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: 6.6
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:23

    A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder while looking out her bedroom window.

    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: 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: 6.4
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military
    CountryChina, USA
    Duration01:43

    An American man returns to a corrupt, Japanese-occupied Shanghai four months before Pearl Harbor and discovers his friend has been killed. While he unravels the mysteries of the death, he falls in love and discovers a much larger secret that his own government is hiding.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:42

    An ambitious lawyer finds himself caught in a power struggle between a corrupt pharmaceutical executive and his firm’s senior partner. When the case takes a deadly turn, he must race to uncover the truth before he loses everything.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    Hotel night clerk Bart Bromley is a highly intelligent young man on the Autism spectrum. When a woman is murdered during his shift, Bart becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigation closes in, Bart makes a personal connection with a beautiful guest named Andrea, but soon realises he must stop the real murderer before she becomes the next victim.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, United Arab Emirates
    Duration01:38

    The mysterious murder of a US senator bearing the distinctive trademark of the legendary Soviet assassin 'Cassius', forces retired CIA operative, Paul Shepherson to team with rookie FBI agent, Ben Geary to solve the crime. Having spent his career chasing Cassius, Shepherdson is convinced his nemesis is long dead, but is pushed to take on the case by his former supervisor, Tom Highland. Geary, who wrote his Master's thesis on Shepherdson's pursuit of the Soviet killer, is certain that Cassius has resurfaced.

    Markimdb: 5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryFrance, Belgium, China, USA
    Duration02:21

    A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrethriller, fantasy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA, Sweden, South Africa
    Duration01:42

    After an attack leaves him in limbo -- invisible to the living and also near death -- a teenager discovers the only person who might be able help him is his attacker.

    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
    Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryCanada, USA
    Duration01:44

    On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal murders - both involving legendary porn actor John Holmes. You're about to experience both versions.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, history
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:30

    House Un-American Activities Committee investigators Jim McLain and Mal Baxter come to post war Hawaii to track Communist Party activities even though belonging to the party was legal at the time. They are interested in everything from insurance fraud to the sabotage of a U.S. naval vessel.

    Markimdb: 6.5
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:54

    Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

    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: 7.9
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration03:10

    A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's partnered with a veteran detective trying to keep maintain a low stress level in his life.

    Markimdb: 6.7
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama, crime, detective
    CountryCanada
    Duration00:30

    Thirty years ago, in the sleepy community of Waterbury, a killer known as “The Executioner” murdered Sarah Bennett's parents. Now Sarah and her husband Dylan have returned to town, only to find herself the centerpiece in a series of horrifying murders centered around the seven deadly sins.

    Markimdb: 7.9
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, detective, film noir
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:34

    An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.

    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: 5.7
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryArgentina
    Duration01:30

    Buenos Aires in the 1980s. Detective Chavez, a family man and a tough cop, once again must solve a mysterious crime. To reveal the identity of the murderer, Chavez must clarify the enigma waiting in ambush to capture his own heart. Passion surprises even the most astute detective. What will triumph: law or desire?

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

    One memorable night in the life of veteran patrol officer Ray Mandel and his trainee, ambitious rookie cop Nick Holland in the LAPD's Olympic Division. With two cop killers on the loose and hunting for more targets, Mandel and Holland must contend with a city about to boil over, as well as Jack VanZandt, an unhinged rogue cop out for payback running wild in their patrol zone.

    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: 6.5
    Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective, biography, history
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration02:06

    The complicated life and controversial suicide of George Reeves is investigated by a fictional private detective who finds that there are reasons to suspect that Reeves may not have killed himself after all. The detective also finds that there is a little of George Reeves in himself, and maybe, each of us.

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