20 movies like Determination of Death, ordered by similarity : Too Late for Tears(1949), Tell No One(2006), Amour(2012), Inspector Bellamy(2009), Nancy(2018), Kaante(2002), Drishyam(2013), The Wizard of Lies(2017), Casino Jack(2010), The Fighting Sullivans(1944), Desperate(1947), The Big Heat(1953) ...
Drama
USA
2001
94 Minutes
Michele Greene Marc Singer Veronica Hamel John Ratzenberger William Katt George Dzundza Martin Papazian
abusive husband wife sister-in-law insurance investigator partner brother-in-law engaging thrilling tense california house cliff ocean faking death domestic violence hunting insurance fraud husband/wife relationship debt mystery
In order to free themselves from debt, a husband and wife plan to fake the husband's death but the scheme goes terribly awry.
Crime, Drama
USA
1949
99 Minutes
Lizabeth Scott Don DeFore Dan Duryea Arthur Kennedy Kristine Miller Barry Kelley Denver Pyle Virginia Mullen Richard Irving George Mann Harry J. Vejar
wife husband brother brother-in-law sister-in-law private investigator creepy disturbing shocking suspenseful tense uneasy hollywood hollywood hills apartment car train station money murder greed
Through a fluke circumstance, a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and is determined to hold onto it even if it means murder.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
France|UK
2006
126 Minutes
François Cluzet André Dussollier Marie-Josée Croze Kristin Scott Thomas Nathalie Baye François Berléand Jean Rochefort Guillaume Canet Gilles Lellouche Olivier Marchal Philippe Lefebvre
pediatrician wife serial killer gangster husband police officer thrilling crafty gripping intricate lake house park france city frame-up faking death murder conspiracy on the run
An accidental discovery near a doctor's estate stirs up some painful memories eight years after his wife's hideous murder, and now, things are bound to take a turn for the unexpected. Does the good doctor know more than he's letting on?
Drama
Austria|France|Germany
2012
127 Minutes
Jean-Louis Trintignant Emmanuelle Riva Isabelle Huppert Alexandre Tharaud William Shimell Ramón Agirre Rita Blanco Carole Franck Dinara Droukarova Laurent Capelluto Jean-Michel Monroc
husband wife elderly person daughter janitor tender sad intense france apartment aging husband/wife relationship illness physical disability death sacrifice love 2010s
Georges and Anne are an octogenarian couple. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, also a musician, lives in Britain with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
Crime, Drama
France
2009
110 Minutes
Gérard Depardieu Clovis Cornillac Jacques Gamblin Marie Bunel Vahina Giocante Marie Matheron Adrienne Pauly Yves Verhoeven Bruno Abraham-Kremer Rodolphe Pauly
detective husband wife half brother emotional crafty dark sultry house france dance floor car vacation husband/wife relationship brotherhood work vs. family investigation murder mystery quest
A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
2018
87 Minutes
Andrea Riseborough J. Smith-Cameron Steve Buscemi Ann Dowd John Alberto Leguizamo
couple daughter husband wife missing girl investigator dark intricate tense uneasy house store parking lot woods bedroom missing persons mistaken identity fraud family psychology
Craving connections with others, a woman creates elaborate identities and hoaxes by using pseudonyms on the internet. When she meets a couple whose daughter went missing 30 years earlier, she becomes convinced that these strangers are her parents.
Crime, Drama
2002
154 Minutes
Amitabh Bachchan Sanjay Dutt Sunil Shetty Kumar Gaurav Mahesh Manjrekar Lucky Ali Malaika Arora
detective wife army major criminal drug dealer undercover cop thrilling tense suspenseful engaging los angeles united states house police station warehouse bank robbery robbery attempt deception death of spouse betrayal
Gathered in a warehouse after a bank robbery, six criminals (Amitabh Bachchan, Sanjay Dutt, Sunil Shetty) start to turn against one another.
Drama, Mystery & Thriller
India
2013
164 Minutes
Mohanlal Meena Kalabhavan Shajon Siddique Roshan Basheer Irshad Kunchan Baiju V.K. Ansiba Hassan Esther Asha Sarath
cable installer operator wife daughter police officer husband gripping brutal intense incredible thrilling moving india village house police station bus station bus protection family relationships
A man goes to extreme lengths to save his family from punishment after the family commits an accidental crime.
Crime, Drama
France|Israel
2017
133 Minutes
Robert De Niro Michelle Pfeiffer Alessandro Nivola Nathan Darrow Kristen Connolly Lily Rabe Hank Azaria Kathrine Narducci Michael Goorjian Kelly AuCoin Geoffrey Cantor
patriarch husband wife criminal family partner financier engaging intense shocking tense united states fraud schemes financial troubles deception crime family investigation biography
A modern-day Shakespearean tale about a famous Tajik musical family, controlled by the charismatic, funny yet overbearing patriarch, Papa Alaev, who at the age of 80 is starting to lose his... See full summary »
Biography, Drama
Canada
2010
108 Minutes
Kevin Spacey Barry Pepper Kelly Preston Jon Lovitz Rachelle Lefevre Maury Chaykin Daniel Kash Spencer Garrett Jeffrey Smith Jeff Pustil
lobbyist business partner mobster husband wife fascinating intense profound washington, d.c. household jack abramoff corruption scandal conspiracy money husband/wife relationship fall pursuit wretched excess 2000s
A hot shot Washington DC lobbyist and his protégé go down hard as their schemes to peddle influence lead to corruption and murder.
Drama
USA
1944
111 Minutes
Anne Baxter Thomas Mitchell Selena Royle Ward Bond Bobby Driscoll Addison Richards Edward Ryan Trudy Marshall John Campbell James Cardwell John Alvin
brother soldier sister mother father wife emotional tense patriotic iowa household guadalcanal ship world war ii siblings death patriotism great depression u.s. navy rise
The lives of a close-knit group of brothers growing up in Iowa during the days of the Great Depression and of World War II and their eventual deaths in action in the Pacific theater are ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
USA
1947
73 Minutes
Steve Brodie Audrey Long Raymond Burr Douglas Fowley William Challee Jason Robards Sr. Freddie Steele Lee Frederick Paul E. Burns Ilka Gruning Larry Nunn
truck driver wife gangster brother private investigator detective dark gripping melodramatic tense chicago road police station wedding interrogation room warehouse fugitives ultimatum husband/wife relationship murder
A young married couple flee both police and a gangster out for revenge.
Crime, Drama
USA
1953
90 Minutes
Glenn Ford Gloria Grahame Jocelyn Brando Alexander Scourby Lee Marvin Jeanette Nolan Peter Whitney Willis Bouchey Robert Burton Adam Williams Howard Wendell
gangster kingpin police detective wife husband mistress dark gritty suspenseful melodramatic city nightclub household police station penthouse police corruption murder plot investigation conspiracy organized crime
Tough cop Dave Bannion takes on a politically powerful crime syndicate.
Romance, Drama
India|France|Germany|USA|Canada
2013
105 Minutes
Irrfan Khan Nimrat Kaur Nawazuddin Siddiqui Denzil Smith Bharati Achrekar Nakul Vaid Lillete Dubey Yashvi Puneet Nagar
housewife husband widower charming endearing positive india village house husband/wife relationship friendship loneliness neglect happiness discovery transformation mystery 2010s
A mistaken delivery in Mumbai's famously efficient lunchbox delivery system connects a young housewife to an older man in the dusk of his life as they build a fantasy world together through notes in the lunchbox.
Crime, Drama
Japan
1997
103 Minutes
"Beat" Takeshi Kitano Kayoko Kishimoto Ren Ôsugi Susumu Terajima Tetsu Watanabe Hakuryu Yasuei Yakushiji Taro Itsumi Ken'ichi Yajima Makoto Ashikawa Yuuko Daike
cop husband wife partner disabled person gangster brash dark offbeat thrilling japan lake car store yakuza murder bank robbery illness debt unlikely criminal
Nishi leaves the police in the face of harrowing personal and professional difficulties. Spiraling into depression, he makes questionable decisions.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Iran|France
2016
125 Minutes
Shahab Hosseini Taraneh Alidoosti Babak Karimi Farid Sajjadi Hosseini Mina Sadati Maral Bani Adam Mehdi Kooshki Emad Emami Shirin Aghakashi Mojtaba Pirzadeh Sahra Asadollahe
husband wife tenant actor intruder bleak brooding emotional gripping touching intense tehran, iran apartment building apartment stage theater school violence domestic life mysterious strangers
While both participating in a production of "Death of a Salesman," a teacher's wife is assaulted in her new home, which leaves him determined to find the perpetrator over his wife's traumatized objections.
Mystery & Thriller, Crime, Drama, Action
India
2015
123 Minutes
Varun Dhawan Nawazuddin Siddiqui Huma Qureshi Yami Gautam Divya Dutta Vinay Pathak Radhika Apte
mother son father partner wife robber brash confident dark emotional gritty intense india house car apartment police station vengeance tragic death bank robbery
An innocent man turns brutal when his family gets killed in a bank robbery and one of the perpetrators escapes. 15 years later, he begins his deadly game of vengeance.
Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
India
2008
140 Minutes
Amitabh Bachchan Juhi Chawla Shah Rukh Khan Satish Shah Rajpal Yadav Aman Siddiqui Tejas Priyanshu Chatterjee
young man young woman husband wife child spirit emotional gripping intense suspenseful amusing hilarious house haunted house street spirit world haunted houses haunting sacrifice adventure
Moving into a new house, a family witnesses an unfriendly ghost who wants to drive them away from the house. However, he befriends a little boy who changes his outlook forever.
Drama
2016
100 Minutes
Bérénice Bejo Cédric Kahn Marthe Keller Jade Soentjens Margaux Soentjens Catherine Salée Philippe Jeusette Pascal Rogard
wife husband child ex-partner mother father amusing emotional melodramatic heartwarming intense engaging france house relationships love family unhappy marriage money discovery
Marie and Boris decide to get a divorce after 15 years of marriage. Tensions rise when cash-strapped Boris must continue to live with Marie and the two children while trying to figure out how to divide the assets.
Mystery & Thriller, Drama
Canada|USA
2005
96 Minutes
Viggo Mortensen Maria Bello William Hurt Ashton Holmes Stephen McHattie Peter MacNeill Ed Harris Heidi Hayes Greg Bryk Steve Arbuckle Sumela Kay
husband wife son daughter brother mobster chilling diner indiana small town family home philadelphia murder organized crime family violence transformation revenge 2000s
A mild-mannered man becomes a local hero through an act of violence, which sets off repercussions that will shake his family to its very core.
Romance, Drama
USA
2010
120 Minutes
Ryan Gosling Michelle Williams Faith Wladyka John Doman Mike Vogel Ben Shenkman Maryann Plunkett Samii Ryan Eileen Rosen Tamara Torres
husband wife nurse painter student daughter bleak tense engaging house new york city pennsylvania love pregnancy high school relationships marriage broken home transformation discovery
The relationship of a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.