Movies like Foul Play
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Foul Play (1978)
19K
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
Style:
suspenseful, detective, humorous, tense, suspense, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, romantic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
conspiracy, murder, fall in love, amateur detective, librarian, karate, music conductor, irreverence, police investigation, assassination plot, car chase, danger, love and romance, law enforcement, woman in danger, assassin, pope, murder mystery, undercover, investigation, hitchhiker, police, kidnapping, chase, library ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place:
san francisco, phoenix arizona, usa, california
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Most similar movies to Foul Play
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, clever and suspense films with plots about murder, chase, death, investigation, storytelling, dialogue and mentor mostly in Comedy, Mystery and Thriller genres. Some movies like Foul Play: Clue (1985), Seems Like Old Times (1980), Silver Streak (1976), Fletch (1985), The 'Burbs (1989). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
121K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss ...
Style:
parody, funny, black comedy, humorous, witty ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick
Plot:
whodunit, twists and turns, butler, murder, murder mystery, multiple suspects, mansion, old dark house, investigation, mystery killer, blackmail, murder investigation ...
Time:
year 1954, 90s, 50s, 1950s, 20th century ...
Place:
new england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Writer Nick Gardenia is kidnapped from his California cliffhouse and forced to rob a bank. Now a fugitive, he seeks help from his ex, Glenda. She is a public defender remarried to a prosecutor, and we get a houseful of hijinks.
Style:
humorous, witty, sweet, entertaining, melancholic ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
farce, bank robbery, love triangle, couple relations, dog, bank teller, dishonesty, disorder, on the run, nothing goes right, love and romance, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
california, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes ...
Style:
funny, exciting, suspenseful, humorous, clever ...
Plot:
train, train crash, black white relations, runaway train, profanity, false accusation, murder, mistaken identity, death, comedy team, chase, violence ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, 80s
Place:
kansas, arizona, illinois, colorado, north america ...
Similarity:
100%
61K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A veritable chameleon, investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher might drive his editor up the wall, but he always produces great pieces for the newspaper. When his next story is about the drug trade taking place on the beach, Fletch ...
Style:
witty, humorous, hilarious, light, talky ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
beach, sarcasm, journalism, reporter, car chase, disguise, investigation, undercover, dating, on the run, voice over narration, lone hero ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, utah, rio de janeiro, usa, santa monica california
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who ...
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, funny, black comedy, horror comedy ...
Audience:
teens, kids, date night, teen drama
Plot:
neighbor, suburbs, neighborhood, paranoia, investigation, obsession, nothing goes right, dark humor, fear, basement, suspicion, missing person ...
Time:
80s
Place:
canada
Similarity:
100%
93K
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
After Regina Lampert falls for the dashing Peter Joshua on a skiing holiday in the French Alps, she discovers upon her return to Paris that her husband has been murdered. Soon, she and Peter are giving chase to three of her late husband's World ...
Style:
suspenseful, humorous, atmospheric, rom com, exciting ...
Audience:
date night, chick flick, kids
Plot:
spy, murder, funeral, investigation, age difference, older man younger woman relationship, love and romance, love story, hotel, photograph, marriage proposal, police inspector ...
Time:
20th century, year 1963, year 1944, 60s, 1930s
Place:
paris france, france, alps, europe, persia ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, Fletch becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name. In the ...
Style:
hilarious, humorous, slapstick, detective, realistic ...
Plot:
sarcasm, murder, investigation, lawyer, satire, mansion, inheritance, harassment, disguise, biker gang, conspiracy, ku klux klan ...
Time:
80s
Place:
louisiana, los angeles, usa, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man is mistaken as a spy by the CIA when he arrives at the airport with one red shoe.
Style:
parody, spoof, colorful, cult classic, fast ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
mistaken identity, undercover, intelligence agency, chase, spy, femme fatale, espionage, home invasion, attempted murder, nervous breakdown, mind game, cia agent ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Place:
virginia
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Browning is a PI with a bad cold, who's sent to investigate a case by a mysterious client. He stumbles across the body of a young woman and is stabbed to death, and when he wakes up in heaven, they tell him he's "marginal ...
Style:
humorous, light, funny, entertaining, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
dog, private detective, afterlife, reincarnation, murder mystery, chase, murder, animal, life & death, writers, human becomes animal, talking cat ...
Time:
80s, year 1980, 70s
Place:
london
Similarity:
100%
23K
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A young woman doctor discovers something sinister going on in her hospital. Relatively healthy patients are having 'complications' during simple operations and ending up in comas. The patients are then shipped off to an institute that ...
Style:
suspense, suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, creepy ...
Plot:
conspiracy, amateur detective, transplant, medical, investigation, coma, hospital, serial killer, hired killer, black market, danger, twists and turns ...
Time:
20th century, 70s
Place:
boston, usa, massachusetts
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.
Style:
humorous, absurd, light, detective, not serious ...
Audience:
teens, kids
Plot:
private detective, kidnapping, justice, law enforcement, stupidity, amateur sleuth, detective agency, female detective, father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, multiple storylines, family business ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
santa monica california, california, los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who had gotten himself involved in a case concerning a murdered broad, stolen stamps, a nickel-plated handgun, a cheating dolly, and a kidnapped ...
Style:
neo noir, offbeat, clever, entertaining, funny ...
Plot:
private detective, murder, cat, investigation, private investigator, violent content, partner, dishonesty, odd couple, aging, elderly, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1977, 20th century, 70s, 1930s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dr. Richard Thorndyke arrives as new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous to discover some suspicious goings-on. When he's framed for murder, Dr. Thorndyke must confront his own psychiatric condition, ...
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, absurd, perverse ...
Plot:
satire, medical, elevator, murder, fetish, mental institution, hotel, going crazy, psychiatric ward, chosen one, hospital, psychopath ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place:
san francisco, usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An aspiring mystery writer becomes accidently embroiled in an international plot during a two-week stay in Malta.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, spoof ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
writers, conspiracy, island, espionage, farce, intrigue, danger, who done it, uncover truth, writer's life, woman in danger, undercover ...
Time:
year 1983, 20th century, 80s
Place:
europe, malta, san francisco
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Moses Wine, Richard Dreyfuss, at home one night watching a football game that he bet on is contacted by an old flame back from his radical days in collage Lila, Susan Anspach. Lila wants Moses to work for a candidate for governor of California, ...
Style:
witty, serious, realistic, clever, suspenseful ...
Plot:
private detective, private investigator, politics, investigation, murder, law enforcement, state affairs, missing person, friendship, political activist, fbi agent, divorced man ...
Time:
70s, year 1978
Place:
middle east, los angeles, beverly hills
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.
Style:
sexy, neo noir, black comedy, erotic, tense ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, adultery, female detective, femme fatale, investigation, infidelity, obsession, murder, orgasm, dark humor, crime gone awry, justice ...
Time:
90s, year 1998
Place:
las vegas, austria, los angeles, salt lake city utah
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
Style:
suspenseful, dark comedy, clever, witty, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
murder mystery, investigation, obsession, murder, amateur detective, women, marriage, paranoia, death, hotel, mysticism, truth ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1993
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new york state, poland
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A stressed-out police officer struggles not to give in to the paranoia that grips his small mountain town as bodies turn up after each full moon.
Style:
suspense, scary, dark, unusual plot structure, suspenseful ...
Plot:
werewolf, serial killer, snow, killing spree, investigation, murder, police, loss of father, mountain, full moon, small town, wolf ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
utah
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After a freak accident, an invisible yuppie runs for his life from a treacherous CIA official while trying to cope with his new life.
Style:
entertaining, suspenseful, humorous, anamorphic, suspense ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
invisibility, invisible man, chase, spy spoof, invisible, espionage, fugitives, loneliness, paranoia, murder, rogue agent, laboratory ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 20th century, 80s
Place:
bay area, switzerland, san francisco, washington d.c., california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
New York City. David Stillwell struggles to recover his memory before the people who are trying to kill him succeed. Who is he, who are they, and why is he surrounded by murder?
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
amnesia, private detective, police detective, manhunt, chase, investigation, murder, dishonesty, mind game, uncover truth, spy, russian roulette ...
Time:
60s
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city, california
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In this erotic spy tale private eye Cody Abilene teams up with the Contessa Luciana and policewoman Beverly McAfee to infiltrate a mansion and discover who is sending computer secrets to the Russians.
Style:
sexy, cult classic, parody, sexual, psychotronic ...
Plot:
private detective, lust, gangster, sexploitation, videotaped sex, female assassin, erotica, car race, amateur detective, racing, auto racing, exploitation ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Place:
palm springs california, hawaii, texas, usa, california ...
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby ...
Style:
spoof, parody, neo noir, surreal, cult classic ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids
Plot:
private detective, satire, femme fatale, murder mystery, murder, world war two, investigation, chase, deadpan, list, peace, coin ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, 80s, 1930s
Place:
los angeles, south america, peru
Similarity:
19%
409K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A private eye investigates the apparent suicide of a fading porn star in 1970s Los Angeles and uncovers a conspiracy.
Style:
neo noir, action comedy, funny, buddy comedy, entertaining ...
Plot:
private detective, conspiracy, investigation, corruption, murder, teenage girl, party, private investigator, father daughter relationship, bare breasts, buddy cop, revenge ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, 70s, year 1977, 90s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...
Style:
detective, neo noir, funny, black comedy, sexy ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
private detective, dark humor, satire, actor, thief, murder mystery, cheerleader, buddy, accidental killing, violent, buddy cop, kidnapping ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 80s, year 1980, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, venice beach california, california, denver colorado, usa ...
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the "Ice Man". Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is ...
Style:
black comedy, neo noir, action comedy, suspense, detective ...
Audience:
manly, teens, boys' night, adult
Plot:
buddy cop, prison, revenge, biker, motorcycle, tough cop, desert, corrupt cop, mysterious villain, drug lord, hitman, investigation ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
san francisco, usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A marriage that seemed perfect comes crashing down after the supposed death of Jack Saunders, husband of Adrienne Saunders. After his supposed death, strange developments begin to be discovered by Adrienne regarding Jack's past. Developments ...
Style:
neo noir, suspenseful, suspense, crying, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
bigamy, faked death, investigation, murder, female protagonist, deception, psychopath, woman in jeopardy, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, love, identity theft ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day she gets a strange message from an unknown source. The message is coded. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. ...
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, surprise ending, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
spy, cold war, espionage, computer, undercover, disappearance, conspiracy, computer cracker, race against time, on the run, deception, assassin ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
After making a 3-hour fiasco about New York City's water supply, a two-man film crew decides to take it up a notch by documenting life in the private investigator offices of "Boone and Murphy". Cheating husbands and missing dogs fail ...
Style:
satirical, entertaining, noir, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
private detective, filmmaking, murder, existentialism, investigation, artists and showbiz, satire, chase, filmmaker, manipulation, private investigator, death ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california, new york, usa, mexico
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An ambitious reporter, investigating a senator's assassination, realizes witnesses to the shooting are systematically dying and discovers a multi-million dollar corporation which serves as a front for the recruitment of political assassins.
Style:
suspenseful, psychological, neo noir, political, intense ...
Plot:
politics, conspiracy, reporter, corruption, political conspiracy, journalism, murder, investigation, undercover, paranoia, assassin, media ...
Time:
70s, year 1974, 20th century
Place:
seattle, los angeles, washington state, usa, latin america
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou Pekinpaugh, a San Francisco private detective accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress, the ...
Style:
parody, spoof, detective, funny, slapstick ...
Plot:
private detective, nazi, world war two, murder, femme fatale, law enforcement, whodunit, death, pianist, police, nightclub, obese man ...
Time:
year 1978, 1940s, 20th century, year 1940, year 1939 ...
Place:
san francisco, california, usa
Similarity:
18%
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