Six sliders. No stars.
Nothing on this site is recommended because people liked it. Films are described by what they are (how heavy, how fast, how far from the real world), and you get the ones closest to what you asked for.
Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
58 films tagged murder, showing 50
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1972 · Crime
The ageing head of a New York crime family starts handing the business to his sons, and the youngest, who wanted no part of it, is pulled in. Much of it plays out in quiet rooms, in conversations about loyalty and who owes what to whom.
AI estimate, not yet described
2014 · Comedy
A famous hotel concierge between the wars takes on a new lobby boy, inherits a painting from a wealthy guest, and is accused of her murder. It is told as a story inside a story inside a story, at speed.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2007 · Thriller
A welder out hunting finds a case of cash beside several dead men and takes it, which brings a very patient killer after him. An ageing sheriff follows behind, always arriving late.
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2014 · Action
A retired hitman is pulled back in after some young men break into his house and take the one thing he had left. It runs on a strict underworld etiquette that the film never stops to justify.
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2008 · Crime
Two Irish hitmen are sent to a picture-postcard Belgian town to lie low after a job, and one of them is bored out of his mind. They wait for a phone call.
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1996 · Crime
A car salesman short of money hires two men to kidnap his own wife, and the plan goes wrong immediately. A very pregnant small-town police chief works it out at her own pace.
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1998 · Drama
A former neo-Nazi comes out of prison set on pulling his younger brother back from the movement he helped build. Told in two strands, the present in colour and the past in black and white.
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2000 · Thriller
A man who can no longer form new memories hunts his wife's killer using notes, photographs and tattoos. The scenes run in reverse order, so at the start of each one you know as little as he does.
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2023 · Mystery
A retired Poirot living quietly in post-war Venice is talked into sitting in on a seance at a crumbling palazzo, and the night ends with a body. Mostly one dark house, with the storm outside doing a lot of work.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2005 · Thriller
A quiet diner owner in a small Indiana town stops a robbery and ends up on the news, which brings men from out of state who say they know him. Short, tense, and close to his family.
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Little-known
2009 · Crime
A nineteen-year-old with no family and no schooling starts a six-year sentence, and the Corsican men who run the prison put him to work. It takes its time, and the violence is sudden and close.
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2023 · Drama
A man falls from the top floor of a chalet in the Alps and his wife goes on trial, with their partly sighted son the only other person in the house. Most of it is courtroom argument about a marriage.
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2019 · Mystery
A wealthy crime novelist is found dead the morning after his birthday party, and a private detective with an odd accent turns up uninvited to work through a house full of relatives who all needed money. Everyone is lying about something small.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2022 · Mystery
A tech billionaire flies his oldest friends out to a private Greek island for a murder mystery weekend he has written himself. The detective from the previous case arrives without an invitation.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Mystery
A young priest arrives at a small parish where a death in a locked room looks impossible, and the same private detective is called in. The third of these mysteries, and the most sombre in tone.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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1995 · Thriller
Five criminals meet in a police line-up and agree to work together, and the only man left standing after the job tells the story to a customs agent. Almost all of it is that interview.
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2017 · Mystery
A famous Belgian detective boards a train across Europe, and by morning a passenger is dead and the train is stuck in a snowdrift. Everyone on board is a suspect and nobody can leave.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2014 · Thriller
A man's wife vanishes on their fifth wedding anniversary, and the television coverage turns him into a suspect well before any evidence does. Told from both sides, his present and her diary.
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2018 · Thriller
Seven strangers check into a faded hotel on the Nevada state line in 1969, none of them there for the reason they gave at the desk. It plays out room by room, in chapters, mostly at night.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2015 · Crime
A Boston gangster becomes an FBI informant and uses the arrangement to take over the city, while the agent who signed him up keeps covering for him. Cold and talky, with long scenes of men at tables.
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Little-known
2013 · Thriller
A man living out of his car hears that the person who killed his parents is being let out of prison, and drives home to do something about it. Very little talking, and he is not good at any of it.
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2022 · Horror
A group of rich twenty-somethings ride out a hurricane at a family mansion and start a party game where one of them is secretly the killer. Mostly one house, in the dark, with a lot of bickering.
AI estimate, not yet described
2004 · Thriller
A Los Angeles cab driver picks up a smooth passenger who offers good money for a night of stops around the city, and the first stop goes badly. It is one night, mostly the two of them in the car.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2025 · Science fiction
A young woman drives out with her boyfriend to a weekend at a rich friend's lake house, where the group is smaller and stranger than she expected. A handful of people in one house, and it turns nasty early.
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2022 · Mystery
A Belgian detective on holiday joins a wedding party cruising the Nile, where nearly everyone aboard has a reason to resent the bride. Once the boat leaves, the suspects are all in the same few rooms.
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2022 · Mystery
A detective who cannot sleep looks into a man's fall from a mountain, and spends more and more of his time watching the dead man's wife. It moves slowly, and much of it is two people being careful about what they say.
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Little-known
2017 · Drama
During the 1967 riots, police pull a group of young Black men and two women out of a motel annexe and question them through the night. The middle hour stays in that corridor and does not let up.
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Little-known
2015 · Horror
A broke punk band takes a late gig at a bar in the Oregon woods run by skinheads, and after the set they see something backstage they were not meant to see. Almost all of it is one building, one night, and trying to get out.
AI estimate, not yet described
2007 · Comedy
London's best policeman is promoted sideways to a village where nothing happens and paired with a partner raised on action films. Jokes come thick and fast, and it gets very loud towards the end.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2003 · Action
A woman wakes from a coma and starts working through a list of the people who put her there, beginning in a suburban kitchen and ending in a Tokyo nightclub. Huge fights, chapters out of order.
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2023 · Crime
In 1920s Oklahoma the Osage are rich from the oil under their land, and one by one they start dying. Three and a half hours, told mostly from the side of the white men who married into the tribe.
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2024 · Horror
A new FBI agent with a knack for hunches is put on a decades-old case of families killed in their own homes, all tied together by coded letters signed with one name. Slow and quiet, with the scary parts kept just out of frame.
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2024 · Crime
A gym manager in a dusty New Mexico town falls hard for a bodybuilder passing through on her way to a contest, and her own father's business gets in the way. Grimy, violent, and it gets stranger.
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2003 · Mystery
In 1986 a rural Korean province gets its first serial killings, and two local detectives who work by instinct and beatings are joined by a careful man from Seoul. It is often funny, and the case runs for years.
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Little-known
2009 · Mystery
When her son is arrested for a girl's murder and nobody will look any further, his mother starts working the town herself. It moves slowly, and the funny bits arrive at strange moments.
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2003 · Mystery
Three men who grew up on the same Boston street are pulled back together when one man's daughter is found dead and another is the detective on the case. Heavy and slow, and mostly about the three of them.
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2016 · Thriller
A Los Angeles gallery owner is sent the manuscript of a novel by her ex-husband, and the film cuts between her reading it and the story on the page. Two stories at once, and the one in the book is nasty.
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2022 · Horror
In 1918 a young woman stuck on her family's Texas farm while her husband is away at war dreams of dancing in pictures. Bright, slow, and mostly her on the same few acres.
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2002 · Crime
An enforcer for an Illinois mob boss in 1931 takes to the road with his twelve-year-old son after a job goes wrong. Slow and quiet, and it tells you more with pictures than with dialogue.
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Little-known
2022 · Mystery
In 1950s London someone is killed backstage at a long-running West End murder mystery, and a tired inspector is paired with an eager young constable. Light, quick, and full of jokes about whodunnits.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
2007 · Drama
In 1881 the last of the James gang is coming apart, and a nineteen-year-old who has read every dime novel about Jesse talks his way into the crew. Very slow, narrated throughout, more waiting than shooting.
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2022 · Action
In his second year out at night, Batman follows a killer who leaves riddles addressed to him at every scene, and the trail runs into the city's oldest families. Long, rainy, and closer to a detective film than a superhero one.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2011 · Mystery
A disgraced journalist is hired by a rich old man to find out what happened to his niece forty years ago, and a young hacker ends up working the case with him. Long, cold, and some scenes are hard going.
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2015 · Mystery
A bounty hunter and his prisoner are forced by a blizzard into a stagecoach stop in Wyoming with six strangers, at least one of whom is lying. It is three hours long, nearly all of it in one room and nearly all of it talk.
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2019 · Crime
A truck driver falls in with the Philadelphia mob and spends decades doing what he is told, including for a union boss the whole country knew. Three and a half hours, told by an old man looking back.
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2016 · Comedy
A hopeless private eye and a man who breaks bones for a living end up working the same missing-girl case in 1977 Los Angeles. It is a detective story played for laughs, with the two of them bickering the whole way.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
AI estimate, not yet described
Little-known
2009 · Mystery
A retired Buenos Aires court investigator starts writing a novel about the 1974 murder case he never let go of. It moves between the two times, and the case is only half of what it is about.
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Little-known
2021 · Drama
A Scottish general meets three witches who tell him he will be king, and goes home to his wife with the news. Black and white, bare sets, and the original language kept word for word.
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2016 · Horror
A clumsy village policeman in rural Korea looks into a run of killings that began after a Japanese stranger moved into the woods. Two and a half hours that start out funny and do not stay that way.
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Little-known
2017 · Thriller
Two girls who were friends as children are pushed back together for tutoring at a huge house in Connecticut, and one of them says she feels nothing at all. Cool, funny, and nearly all in a few rooms.
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