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10 best movies like The Cry of the Owl (1987)

Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of Juliette and Patrick and watch her cook. She thinks he's a prowler and confronts him, then invites him in...

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List of the best movies like The Cry of the Owl (1987): Shanghai, Death in Paradise, Road Games, 5 Is the Perfect Number, Greta, The Girl in the Fog, State of Play, The Night Clerk, Tell No One, Swimming Pool.

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Shanghai (2010)

Mark	imdb: 6.4
Genre	thriller, melodrama, drama, detective, military
Country	China, USA
Duration	01:43
Characters	Mafia, Spy, Lovers
Plot	Investigation, Mystery
Place	China, Asia
Time	World War II
Style	Fascinating, Tense, Gloomy, Serious, Disturbing

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.

Death in Paradise (2011)

Mark	imdb: 7.8
Genre	thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
Country	United Kingdom, France, USA
Characters	Losers
Plot	Investigation
Place	Islands
Style	Fascinating, Touching

Detective Inspector Richard Poole is transferred to Sainte Marie, an island in the Caribbean. Totally unsuited to the Caribbean way of life, Richard hates the sun, sea and sand and isn't used to the Sainte Marie style of policing. Working with the exotic Camille each week Richard investigates intricate and intriguing murders.

Road Games (2015)

Mark	imdb: 5.4
Genre	horror, thriller, drama, detective
Country	United Kingdom, France
Characters	Serial killers, Artists
Plot	Travel, Pursuit, Swimming, Mystery
Style	Psychological problems, Action, Fascinating, Tense

When hitchhiker Jack rescues Véronique from a road rage altercation, the twosome decide to travel together for safety's sake after learning a serial killer is cutting a murderous swathe through the region. Tired and hungry, they decide against their better judgment to take up an offer to stay the night at a mysterious elderly couple's mansion…

5 Is the Perfect Number (2019)

Mark	imdb: 5.4
Genre	action, thriller, drama, crime
Country	Italy, Belgium, France
Characters	Hired assassins
Plot	Weapon
Place	Beach
Style	Psychological problems, By books, Fascinating, Serious

Peppino, a retired hitman for the Camorra, has now fully passed on his job and know-how to his single son, Nino. But when Nino is brutally assassinated, the old man is back in business to take revenge. Aside his everlasting love Rita and his longtime henchman Totò, Peppino will go to any lengths, even if it means bringing the Camorra down.

Greta (2019)

Mark	imdb: 6
Genre	thriller, drama, detective
Country	Republic of Ireland, USA
Duration	01:34
Characters	Dogs, Psychopath, Widows
Plot	Obsession, Friendship, Pursuit
Place	France, Metro
Style	Action, Fascinating, Black humor, Disturbing, Womens in main roles

A young woman returns an elderly widow's lost purse, leading to an unlikely relationship between the two — until the young woman discovers her elder might not be all that she seems.

The Girl in the Fog (2017)

Mark	imdb: 6.8
Genre	thriller, drama, crime
Country	Italy, Germany, France
Duration	02:08
Characters	Teachers, Psychiatrists, Reporters
Plot	Investigation, Fog, Sects
Place	Village, School, Mountains, Italy
Time	New Year
Style	Psychological problems, Atmospheric

Based on the bestselling novel by Donato Carrisi, THE GIRL IN THE FOG is a gripping and chilling thriller that brings us to a hazy mountain village where enigmatic Detective Vogel is investigating on the sudden disappearance of fifteen-year-old Anna Lou. But with the case at the heart of a media storm, the fine line between the police and criminals begins to blur and soon everyone becomes a suspect.

State of Play (2009)

Mark	imdb: 7.1
Genre	thriller, drama, crime, detective
Country	USA, United Kingdom, France
Duration	02:07
Characters	Killers, Journalists, Lovers, Reporters
Plot	Skirmishes, Investigation, Political
Style	Exciting, Psychological problems, Action, Twisted plot, Heavy

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.

The Night Clerk (2020)

Mark	imdb: 5.5
Genre	thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
Country	USA
Characters	Spy, Autistic
Plot	Love, Tracking, Obsession with love
Place	Hotels, USA
Style	Tense, For men, Disturbing

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.

Tell No One (2006)

Mark	imdb: 7.5
Genre	thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
Country	France, United Kingdom
Duration	02:11
Characters	Serial killers
Plot	Love, Investigation, Death, Pads
Place	France
Style	Twisted plot, Fascinating, Tense, Serious, Disturbing

A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.

Swimming Pool (2003)

Mark	imdb: 6.7
Genre	thriller, drama, crime, detective
Country	France, United Kingdom
Duration	01:42
Characters	Writers
Plot	Obsession, Swimming, Mystery
Place	France, Metro, Country houses
Style	Unexpected ending, Psychological problems, Twisted plot, Atmospheric, Explicit scenes

In the middle of this amusing thriller is a relationship between two different types of females, one is a well know British author and the other is a sex-crazed French teen. The two get into some relationship trouble while living together in this film of psychological imagery and an erotic exploration of the female body.

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Sicilian Ghost Story (2017)

Mark	imdb: 6.4
Genre	fantasy, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
Country	Italy, France, Luxembourg
Characters	Dogs, Teens, Horses, Students, Fathers
Plot	Love, On real events, Mystery, Mystery, Mystery
Place	Sea, Village, Forest, Beach
Time	Dark ones
Style	Gloomy, Touching, Disturbing

In a little Sicilian village at the edge of a forest, Giuseppe, a boy of 13, vanishes. Luna, his classmate who loves him, refuses to accept his mysterious disappearance. She rebels against the silence and complicity that surround her, and to find him she descends into the dark world which has swallowed him up and which has a lake as its mysterious entrance.

Flic Story (1975)

Mark	imdb: 6.9
Genre	thriller, drama, crime
Country	France, Italy
Characters	Serial killers, Gangsters
Plot	On real events, Robbery, Investigation, Pursuit
Place	Prison, Paris, France
Style	Action, Heavy, Serious, For men, Disturbing

The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.

Original Sin (2001)

Mark	imdb: 6.1
Genre	thriller, melodrama, drama, detective
Country	France, Mexico, USA
Duration	01:58
Plot	Love, Passion, Obsession, Seduction, Fate
Style	Exciting, Atmospheric, Tense, Explicit scenes

A young man is plunged into a life of subterfuge, deceit and mistaken identity in pursuit of a femme fatale whose heart is never quite within his grasp

Youth Without Youth (2007)

Mark	imdb: 6.2
Genre	fantastic, fantasy, melodrama, drama, detective
Country	USA, Romania, France, Italy, Germany
Duration	02:04
Characters	Gangsters, Writers, Linguists
Plot	Love, Superpowers, The escape, Supernatural, Pursuit
Place	India, Asia
Time	World War II
Style	Atmospheric, Gloomy, Serious

A love story wrapped in a mystery. Set in Europe before WWII, professor of language and philosophy Dominic Matei is struck by lightning and ages backwards from 70 to 40 in a week, attracting the world and the Nazis. While on the run, the professor meets a young woman who has her own experience with a lightning storm. Not only does Dominic find love again, but her new abilities hold the key to his research.

Kafka (1991)

Mark	imdb: 6.9
Genre	fantastic, thriller, drama, detective
Country	France, USA
Duration	01:38
Characters	Horses, Spy, Terrorists, Writers
Plot	Investigation, Death, Political, Conspiracies, Mystery
Style	Psychological problems, Atmospheric, Tense, Serious, Disturbing

Kafka, an insurance worker gets embroiled in an underground group after a co-worker is murdered. The underground group is responsible for bombings all over town, attempting to thwart a secret organization that controls the major events in society. He eventually penetrates the secret organization and must confront them.

An Officer and a Spy (2019)

Mark	imdb: 7.2
Genre	thriller, drama, history
Country	France, Italy
Characters	Spy, Jews, Lawyers, Terminally ill
Plot	On real events, Weapon, Pads
Place	Islands, Court, France
Time	19th century
Style	Action, Fascinating

In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at Devil's Island.

Slap the Monster on Page One (1972)

Mark	imdb: 7.4
Genre	thriller, drama, detective
Country	Italy, France
Plot	Political
Place	Italy
Style	Makes me think

1972, Milano. We are just a few days before the general elections. The daughter of a well-known professor is found dead. Mr Bizanti, and Mr Montelli, editor-in-chief and owner of newspaper Il Giornale try to derail the official police investigation in order to help the fascist candidates they support in the upcoming elections.

Arabesque (1966)

Mark	imdb: 6.5
Genre	action, thriller, melodrama, drama, adventure, crime, detective
Country	USA
Duration	01:45
Characters	Gangsters, Spy, Heroes
Plot	Investigation, Political, Chase, Intrigue, Justice
Place	England, London
Style	Serious, Disturbing

When a plot against a prominent Middle Eastern politician is uncovered, David Pollock, a professor of ancient hieroglyphics at Oxford University, is recruited to help expose the scheme. Pollock must find information believed to be in hieroglyphic code and must also contend with a mysterious man called Beshraavi. Meanwhile, Beshraavi's lover, Yasmin Azir, seems willing to aid Pollock -- but is she really on his side?

The Gunman (2015)

Mark	imdb: 5.8
Genre	action, thriller, drama, crime, detective
Country	USA, Spain, United Kingdom, France
Duration	02:24
Characters	Gangsters, Spy, Hired assassins, Killers, Doctors
Plot	Love, Martial Arts, Skirmishes, Revenge, Death
Place	Village, Africa
Style	Exciting, By books, Heavy, Tense, Serious

Eight years after fleeing the Congo following his assassination of that country's minister of mining, former assassin Jim Terrier is back, suffering from PTSD and digging wells to atone for his violent past. After an attempt is made on his life, Terrier flies to London to find out who wants him dead -- and why. Terrier's search leads him to a reunion with Annie, a woman he once loved, who is now married to an oily businessman with dealings in Africa.

The White Ribbon (2009)

Mark	imdb: 7.8
Genre	thriller, drama, detective, history
Country	Germany, France, Italy, Austria
Duration	02:24
Characters	Teachers
Plot	War, Death, Fear
Place	Village
Style	Epic

Strange events happen in a small village in the north of Germany during the years just before World War I, which seem to be ritual punishment. The abused and suppressed children of the villagers seem to be at the heart of this mystery.

Track List the Best of Owl City

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