Movies like Forever, Lulu

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Forever, Lulu (1986)
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Forever, Lulu (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A beautiful novelist gets involved with the violent underworld crime elements in New York City and becomes a target. Alec Baldwin plays the cop who pursues her killers.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: adult
Plot: art, rock, film industry, woman with a gun, adult film industry, dating, masochist, adult filmmaking, heist, couples, nothing goes right, disorder, silly humor, dishonesty, criminal heroes, unlikely criminals, cons and scams, gangster, sex, thief, money, police officer, cat, police, food ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: new york, usa, miami, manhattan new york city, antwerp, lower east side manhattan new york city, brighton
Keyword: gangsters, german

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and independent film films with plots about dishonesty, disorder, murder, sex, money, death and gun mostly in Crime, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Forever, Lulu: Miami Blues (1990), Rancid Aluminum (2000), The Ice Harvest (2005), Novocaine (2001), The Cannibal's Daughter (2003). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Miami Blues (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When Fred gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college student Susie. Opposing Fred is Sgt Hoke Moseley, a cop who is getting a bit old for the job, ...
Style: neo noir, harsh, stylized, bloody, witty ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: prostitute, psychopath, brutality, undercover cop, hitman, twists and turns, police detective, storytelling, police corruption, loneliness, strong sexual content, law enforcement ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: miami, florida, usa
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95%
Rancid Aluminum (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Pete Thompson thinks he has it all. However, following the death of his father his close friend and accountant reveals the company he has been left is bust and the only way out is to do business with the Russian mafia. His life and heart are on the ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, tense, sad, realistic ...
Plot: gangster, family business, going straight, hitman, down on your luck, cons and scams, love affair, drug abuse, dishonesty, betrayal, buddies, life is a bitch ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe, england, london, germany, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
91%
The Ice Harvest (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.
Style: dark comedy, neo noir, black comedy, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot: christmas, stripper, strip club, femme fatale, robbery, betrayal, murder, gangster, organized crime, mobster, snow, greed ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
 5.8
 12K
Novocaine (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him into prescribing her drugs
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, suspenseful, tricky, humorous ...
Plot: dentist, murder, femme fatale, drug use, betrayal, false accusation, dark humor, twists and turns, life turned upside down, frame up, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals ...
Time: year 2001
Place: wisconsin, arizona, usa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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The Cannibal's Daughter (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, Spain, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Lucia, an children's book author, tells the story of her husband's disappearance. One day on their way to Brazil he just disappears. She goes to the police, gets a ransom note, and makes friends with the old dude downstairs and the young ...
Style: sentimental, semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Plot: friendship, life turned upside down, missing person, fall in love, secret identity, danger, dangerous attraction, couples, on the road, secret, husband wife relationship, cannibal ...
Time: year 2003
Place: mexico, latin america, rio de janeiro, cuba, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Wolves in the Snow (2002)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Wolves in the Snow begins with the news that Antoine has been cuckolding Lucie for years. A violent marital argument ensues resulting in Antoine's death. After lying about Antoine's whereabouts, Lucie discovers his secret life of ...
Style: tense, serious, suspenseful, rough, neo noir ...
Plot: gangster, murder, criminal's revenge, couples, dishonesty, rivalry, rescue, danger, vengeance, couple relations, love affair, secret life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Best Laid Plans (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Rich, successful Bryce meets beautiful Lissa at a bar one night and invites her back to his house, not suspecting for a moment that Lissa isn't really who she seems. What unfolds next is a dangerous, tangled web of double-crosses and seduction.
Style: neo noir, suspenseful, suspense, tricky, cynical ...
Plot: heist, manipulation, twists and turns, small town, betrayal, murder, cons and scams, dishonesty, nothing goes right, disorder, couples, caper ...
Time: 20th century, year 1999, 90s
Place: usa, nevada, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
 6.5
 23K
Wonderland (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story: On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, tense, rough, bleak ...
Plot: murder, junkie, heroin, addiction, true crime, police investigation, violence, drug addiction, serial killer, drug, drug addict, crime gone awry ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, y2k, year 2003, year 1981
Place: los angeles, usa, pasadena california, sacramento california
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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After Hours (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Style: surreal, dark comedy, black comedy, funny, atmospheric ...
Plot: twists and turns, dark humor, subway, city life, suicide, artist, mistaken identity, female nudity, nightclub, coincidence, surrealism, nightlife ...
Time: 20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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Hit Me (1996)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Sonny lives with his retarded older brother, and works as a bellhop at a second-rate hotel. This changes when Monique a beautiful, suicidal nut-case checks in.
Style: erotic, independent film, neo noir, realistic, serious ...
Plot: crime gone awry, femme fatale, heist, hotel, profanity, chance, sexual content, gangster, violent content, disorder, eating disorder, danger ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., montreal, paris france, iceland
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
 6.8
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I Went Down (1997)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Fresh out of prison, Git rescues a former best friend (now living with Git's girlfriend) from a beating at the hands of loan sharks. He's now in trouble with the mob boss, Tom French, who sends Git to Cork with another debtor, Bunny Kelly, ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious, witty ...
Plot: mafia, gangster, friendship, hostage, prison, hotel, released from prison, on the road, infidelity, extramarital affair, hooligan, violent content ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: ireland, dublin ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Deception (2008)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: As a corporate auditor who works in a number of different offices, Jonathan McQuarry wanders without an anchor among New York's power brokers. A chance meeting with charismatic lawyer Wyatt Bose leads to Jonathan's introduction to The ...
Style: sexy, suspense, suspenseful, serious, sensual ...
Plot: sex, betrayal, lawyer, hotel, heist, murder, police investigation, twists and turns, life turned upside down, conspiracy, manipulation, deception ...
Time: year 2008
Place: new york, europe, spain, usa, madrid ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Death to Smoochy (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by squeaky-clean Smoochy, a puffy fuscia rhinoceros. As Smoochy catapults to fame - scoring hit ...
Style: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, funny, harsh ...
Plot: children, vengeance, television, depression, showbiz, revenge, performer's life, rivalry, artists and showbiz, success, disorder, delusion ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, new york, salt lake city utah, coney island brooklyn new york city, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Money for Nothing (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an ...
Style: light, intense, realistic, humorous, captivating ...
Plot: money, stolen money, chase, runaway, corruption, disorder, friends, nothing goes right, dishonesty, heist, gangster, police ...
Time: year 1993, 90s
Place: philadelphia
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
The Linguini Incident (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A waitress (Rosanna Arquette), a barman (David Bowie) and an underwear designer (Eszter Balint) try to rob a New York restaurant where two of them work.
Style: offbeat, independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: robbery, food, deaf, rock, escape artist, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, love and romance, opposites attract, fall in love, couples, disorder ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa
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51%
 6.3
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10th & Wolf (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A former street tough returns to his Philadelphia home after a stint in the military. Back on his home turf, he once again finds himself tangling with the mob boss who was instrumental in his going off to be a soldier.
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: mafia, undercover, family relations, homecoming, haunted by the past, law enforcement, marines, desert, gangster, special agent, mobster, family dinner ...
Time: 80s, 90s, year 1984
Place: philadelphia, usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania, iraq
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
 6.2
 5K
Thin Ice (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot: unlikely criminals, comedy of errors, crime gone awry, manipulation, dark humor, disorder, dishonesty, cons and scams, snow, winter, small town, caper ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 7.5
 65K
The Player (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Style: suspense, dark comedy, neo noir, clever, black comedy ...
Plot: hollywood, filmmaking, film industry, murder, police investigation, blackmail, showbiz, writers, movie business, satire, murder mystery, manipulation ...
Time: 20th century, year 1992, future, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa, pasadena california
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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Cry Uncle (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.
Style: erotic, raunchy, independent film, realistic, not serious ...
Plot: private detective, sex, erotica, private investigator, stoner, satire, mugging, murder, manipulation, disorder, dark humor, couples ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Where the Money Is (2000)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Henry Manning (Paul Newman) has come up with a new way to break out of prison: fake a stroke and get transferred to a nursing home. It's a perfect plan, except for one thing: the woman assigned to take care of him at the nursing home, Carol Ann ...
Style: clever, light, semi serious, humorous, action thriller ...
Plot: bank robbery, chase, retirement home, caper, elderly, aging, cons and scams, couples, couple relations, dishonesty, criminal heroes, nursing ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
The Hollywood Sign (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Three washed-up actors must deliver the most convincing performances of their lives as part of a dangerous plot designed to finance their triumphant comeback.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: hollywood, nothing goes right, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, gangster, elderly, criminal heroes, dishonesty, disorder, cons and scams, heist, filmmaking ...
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
 6.1
 4K
Judas Kiss (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The shooting of a U.S. senator's wife raises the stakes for kidnappers seeking a hefty ransom for a computer magnate.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, neo noir, dark comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: blackmail, murder, betrayal, cons and scams, police investigation, state affairs, criminal, crime gone awry, protagonist as suspect, danger, dishonesty, politics ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: louisiana, new orleans, usa, los angeles, venezuela
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Homegrown (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Three laborers on a Northern California marijuana plantation become increasingly paranoid when they learn that their boss has been murdered. They know enough to run, taking with them enough of the crop to pay them for services rendered. Hooking up ...
Style: suspenseful, stylized, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: weed, marijuana, drug abuse, murder, mafia, gunfight, greed, drug dealing, police investigation, crime gone awry, drug addiction, corruption ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa, northern california, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Kicked in the Head (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Redmond is a young guy who can't find what to do with his life. When his uncle Sam gives him the bag to deliver to some uptown connection he fails to do so and it gets them in trouble with Jack, low-key criminal. After that tough guy Stretch ...
Style: independent film, humorous, offbeat, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: gangster, stewardess, marijuana, self discovery, farce, parents and children, twentysomething life, cons and scams, siblings relations, adolescence vs adulthood, gambling, disorder ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Six Ways to Sunday (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Norman Reedus stars as Harry Odum, a henpecked, 18-year-old momma's boy in Youngstown, Ohio, who -- with his violent temper -- impresses a local boss of the Jewish Mafia. Soon he's found his calling as a hit man alongside his crack addict ...
Style: disturbing, talky, intense, humorous, biting ...
Plot: hitman, dark humor, coming of age, sex with mother, police corruption, depression, family relations, parents and children, self discovery, suburban life, rise and fall, criminal heroes ...
Time: 90s
Place: ohio, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
 5.7
 140K
Identity Thief (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.
Style: road movie, funny, hilarious, absurd, humorous ...
Audience: teens, girls' night
Plot: road trip, identity, stupidity, stolen identity, nothing goes right, escapades, women's prison, foul language, bounty hunter, cons and scams, female criminal, male female friendship ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, future, 21st century
Place: florida, usa, colorado, miami, missouri ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.6
 76K
Derailed (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story: When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.
Style: suspenseful, surprise ending, serious, rough, twist ending ...
Plot: infidelity, adultery, blackmail, dangerous attraction, twists and turns, police investigation, couples, rape, danger, betrayal, disorder, femme fatale ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 6.3
 19K
Made (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Two aspiring boxers lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.
Style: funny, humorous, dark comedy, realistic, clever ...
Plot: friendship, organized crime, crime gone awry, dark humor, boxing, nothing goes right, partner, buddies, cons and scams, disorder, dishonesty, mafia ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: los angeles, new york, usa, california, harlem ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Glengarry Glen Ross (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Glengarry Glen Ross, follows the lives of four unethical Chicago real estate agents who are prepared to go to any lengths (legal or illegal) to unload undesirable real estate on unwilling prospective buyers.
Style: suspense, neo noir, intense, entirely dialogue, cult classic ...
Plot: office, greed, business, workplace, economics, entrepreneurship, entrepreneur, finance, real estate, real estate agent, rivalry, wall street ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, year 1992
Place: chicago, new york, illinois, arizona, florida ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 7.1
 50K
11:14 (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14pm. The story follows the chain of events of five different characters and five different storylines that all converge to tell the ...
Style: dark comedy, psychological, suspense, black comedy, non-linear ...
Plot: murder, dark humor, accident, twists and turns, vandalism, chase, multiple perspectives, life philosophy, obsession, creativity, police, hit and run ...
Time: year 2003, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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