Movies like The Third Murder
If The Third Murder's mix of death penalty, japan and confession stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what The Third Murder's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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Anatomy of a Murder
1959 · Directed by Otto Preminger · 161 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: lawyer, courtroom, murder trial · Also crime and drama
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.
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The World of Kanako
2014 · Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima · 118 min6.4
Why you'll like itWith Koji Yakusho · Shares: japan · Also a Japanese mystery · From the same decade (2010s)
When Kanako, a model daughter and a brilliant student, disappears, her mother asks her ex-husband, a violent former policeman, to find her.
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12 Angry Men
1957 · Directed by Sidney Lumet · 97 min8.6
Why you'll like itShares: death penalty, courtroom, courtroom drama
The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young Spanish-American is guilty or innocent of murdering his father.
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The Client
1994 · Directed by Joel Schumacher · 119 min6.7
Why you'll like itShares: lawyer, legal thriller · Also drama and crime
A street-wise kid, Mark Sway, sees the suicide of Jerome Clifford, a prominent Louisiana lawyer, whose current client is Barry 'The Blade' Muldano, a Mafia hit-man.
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Suspect
1987 · Directed by Peter Yates · 121 min6.6
Why you'll like itShares: lawyer, courtroom · Also crime and drama
When a Supreme Court judge commits suicide and his secretary is found murdered, all fingers point to Carl Anderson, a homeless veteran who's deaf and mute.
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Confessions
2010 · Directed by Tetsuya Nakashima · 107 min7.6
Why you'll like itShares: japan · Also a Japanese drama · From the same decade (2010s)
Devastated at the death of her four-year-old daughter, a grieving middle school teacher is horrified to discover that her students aren't as innocent as she thinks.
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Lady Snowblood
1973 · Directed by Toshiya Fujita · 97 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: japan · Also a Japanese crime film
A strikingly beautiful young woman is trained from birth to be a deadly instrument of revenge against the swindlers who destroyed her family.
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Cape Fear
1962 · Directed by J. Lee Thompson · 106 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: lawyer · Also drama and crime
Sam Bowden witnesses a rape committed by Max Cady and testifies against him. When released after 8 years in prison, Cady begins stalking Bowden and his family but is always clever enough not to violate the law.
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Death Note Relight 1: Visions of a God
2007 · Directed by Tetsuro Araki · 131 min7.9
Why you'll like itAlso a Japanese crime film
When rogue shinigami Ryuk leaves his Death Note in the human world, he has no idea how far the one who finds it will take his new-found power.