Movies like Absence of Malice
24 films close to Absence of Malice (1981) on how it feels, not just what shelf it sits on — with what each one shares with it underneath.
murder, legal thriller · Crime · Mirage Enterprises
Also Sydney Pollack · legal thriller · Drama · with Wilford Brimley · Mirage Enterprises
legal thriller · Drama, Crime · Mirage Enterprises
murder · Drama, Crime · Columbia Pictures
murder, legal thriller · Drama, Crime
prosecutor, murder · Drama
legal thriller · Drama · Columbia Pictures
murder · Romance, Drama, Crime · Mirage Enterprises
murder, legal thriller · Drama, Crime
legal thriller · Drama, Crime
murder · Drama, Crime
murder · Drama, Crime · Columbia Pictures
Also Sydney Pollack · murder · Crime · Mirage Enterprises
Drama · with Wilford Brimley · Columbia Pictures
labor union · Drama
labor union · Drama · with Josef Sommer
Close on feel, same era · Romance, Drama, Crime
Drama, Crime · Columbia Pictures
murder · Romance, Drama, Crime
murder, legal thriller · Drama, Crime
murder, legal thriller · Drama
legal thriller · Drama, Crime
murder · Drama, Crime
murder · Romance, Drama · Columbia Pictures
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Matches are drawn from Cinnamon DB’s emotional fingerprint — a reading of how a film actually plays rather than how it is catalogued — then weighted by shared subject, cast, studio and era. That is why a documentary can sit beside a space epic, and why the same director appears at most twice.