Chinatown
1974 · Mystery · Roman Polanski · 2h 11m
A Los Angeles private eye takes a routine adultery job and finds himself in a fight over who controls the city's water. Slow and tangled, and every answer opens something worse.
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly complicated
- Clearly heavy
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Zodiac
95% alike
2007 · Mystery
A cartoonist at a San Francisco paper gets pulled into the Zodiac killings and keeps working the case for years after everyone else has stopped. Long, talky, and full of names, dates and paperwork.
- Strongly realistic
- Strongly complicated
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Incendies
92% alike
2010 · Drama
Twins in Montreal open their mother's will and find two letters: one for a father they thought was dead, one for a brother they never knew about. They go looking, and it keeps cutting back to her life.
- Strongly heavy
- Clearly realistic
- Clearly complicated
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91% alike
1963 · Crime
A shoe executive about to stake everything on a takeover gets a ransom call, and the kidnappers have taken his chauffeur's son by mistake. The first half is one room, the second a manhunt.
- Strongly realistic
- Clearly heavy
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