Movies like Getting Away with Murder

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Getting Away with Murder (1996)
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Getting Away with Murder (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: When the very moralistic college ethics instructor Jack Lambert finds himself living next door to an accused German death camp commander, he takes it upon himself to rid the world of this man.
Style: humorous, witty, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, independent film, cynical, black comedy, funny, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, vigilantism, dark humor, neighbor neighbor relationship, false accusation, investigation, college, racism, uncover truth, college professor, nothing goes right, disorder, family in danger, unlikely criminals, husband wife relationship, nazi, fugitive, law, life is a bitch, down on your luck, dishonesty, dog, lawyer, ship, murderer ...
Time: 90s, year 1996
Place: massachusetts, hawaii, usa, united states of america
Keyword: jewish, german

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, realistic, semi serious and dark comedy films with plots about dark humor, disorder, dishonesty, nothing goes right, couples, murder and satire mostly in Comedy, Crime and Thriller genres. Some movies like Getting Away with Murder: Nothing But Trouble (1991), Buddy Buddy (1981), Neighbors (1981), The Alarmist (1997), Comic Book Villains (2002). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Nothing But Trouble (1991)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: While attempting to seduce gorgeous lawyer Diane Lightson, wealthy gadabout Chris Thorne agrees to drive her to Atlantic City, N.J. But, when some reckless driving draws the attention of a deeply critical cop, they and the flamboyant ...
Style: humorous, dark comedy, melancholic, disturbing, not serious ...
Audience: kids, teens
Plot: chase, small town, dysfunctional family, justice, on the run, hip hop, eccentric family, disorder, buddies, nothing goes right, danger, goofy hero ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: new jersey, usa, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey
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Buddy Buddy (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Buddy Buddy is a 1981 American comedy film directed by Billy Wilder that stars Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Paula Prentiss and Klaus Kinski. The screenplay by Wilder and I.A.L. Diamond is based on the 1973 French language film L'Emmerdeur, ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, witty ...
Plot: hitman, killer, island, suicide attempt, on the road, twins, contract killer, hotel room, hired killer, farce, clinic, mentally unstable ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
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28%
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Neighbors (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: One man's quiet suburban life takes a sickening lurch for the worse when a young couple move into the deserted house next door. From the word go it is obvious these are not the quiet professional types who *should* be living in such a nice ...
Style: funny, surreal, cult classic, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: neighbor, new neighbor, suburbs, satire, dark humor, swamp, suburban life, drinking, house fire, neighborhood, teen angst, american dream ...
Time: 80s, year 1981
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27%
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The Alarmist (1997)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Young Tommy Hudler decides to become a security systems salesman, and is an instant success. Everything seems to be going great until he discovers there's more to this business and his boss Heinrich than he previously suspected.
Style: humorous, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film, cynical ...
Plot: satire, dark humor, workplace, forgery, innocence lost, dishonesty, investigation, screwball, cons and scams, workplace situations, oral sex
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
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Comic Book Villains (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When word hits the street that a nearby elderly gentleman has a cache of old, rare, and very valuable mint condition comic books, rival comic book shop owners Raymond McGillicuddy (Donal Logue) and Norman Link (Michael Rapaport) both set out to be ...
Style: humorous, stylized, dark comedy, cynical, clever ...
Plot: small town, internet, dark humor, dishonesty, comic book, satire, friendship, rivals, feud, old woman, male female relationship, death ...
Time: y2k
Place: barcelona
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Remarkable Power (2008)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A late night talk show host masterminds an elaborate scheme to save his canceled show and avenge his wife's affair, entangling an eclectic collection of tinsel towners in the process.
Style: cynical, realistic, humorous, independent film, detective ...
Audience: teens
Plot: infidelity, media, crime gone awry, rivalry, vengeance, nothing goes right, dishonesty, life is a bitch, dark humor, cons and scams, showbiz, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
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26%
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Sour Grapes (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Richie, a sneaker sole designer, and his cousin Evan, a brain surgeon, are spending this weekend with their girlfriends in Atlantic City. When one of them ends up with a $436,000 jackpot, sour grapes is what results. Even though Richie uses two ...
Style: humorous, intense, semi serious, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: gambling, casino, greed, friendship, unlikely friendships, stupidity, partner, dishonesty, nothing goes right, change of luck, dark humor, vengeance ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: new jersey, atlantic city, atlantic city new jersey, bulgaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
Style: humorous, semi serious, clever, witty, dark comedy ...
Plot: unemployment, midlife crisis, crumbling marriage, couple relations, down on your luck, unfulfillment, odd couple, family problems, husband wife relationship, fired from the job, brother brother relationship, neighbor ...
Time: 20th century, year 1975, 70s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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26%
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9 Dead Gay Guys (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: The story of two lads from Belfast as they stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of 'gainful employment'. This being the offering of sexual favours to older gay men in order to subsidise their respective giros. 9 ...
Style: witty, humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat ...
Plot: gay, lgbt, unlikely criminals, crime gone awry, dark humor, nothing goes right, amateur detective, friendship, dishonesty, life is a bitch, buddies, cons and scams ...
Place: london, europe, ireland, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Couch Trip (1988)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The escaped delinquent John W. Burns, Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: radio, psychiatrist, mental illness, teen angst, psychology, psychopath, impersonation, mental patient, silly humor, screwball, dark humor, disorder ...
Time: 80s
Place: london, europe, england, illinois, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Who Do I Gotta Kill? (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Who says crime doesn't pay? The mob will pay Jimmy Corona anything to stay away. But, then again, so would most people. His agent brushes off Jimmy's latest book proposal: detailing the conspiracy between Lee Harvey Oswald and Marylin ...
Style: independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: mafia, conspiracy, gangster, violent content, unlikely criminals, assassination, dishonesty, criminal heroes, breakup, down on your luck, murder, job ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Two Hundred Thousand Dirty (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Welcome to the monotonous, oppressive modern American byproduct of suburban sprawl: the urban strip-mall. Native to this environment and products of outdated pop culture are Rob (Mark Greenfield) and Manny (Coolio), the unsuccessful, unrefined and ...
Style: semi serious, cynical, humorous, independent film, dark comedy ...
Plot: satire, murder, dishonesty, workplace, working class, cons and scams, workplace situations, dark humor, down on your luck, loser, rapper, store ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Crime in Paradise (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic, offbeat ...
Plot: unhappy marriage, couple relations, husband wife relationship, notoriety, lawyer, farmer, divorce, french countryside, village, small town, village life, countryside ...
Time: year 2001, 80s
Place: los angeles, france, usa, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Cold Dog Soup (1990)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Randy Quaid as the taxi driver drives Zen parables (Is time money - Is time the root of all evil?) into his passenger/protegee in a high-speed, idiosyncratic tour of their city's ethnic coteries. All the boy wants is to dispose of his ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: nothing goes right, love and romance, supernatural ability, city life, urban, disorder, wizards and magicians, taxi, dark humor, dog, night
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Jinxed! (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold has a jinx on Willie and can't lose with him. Bonita and Willie meet and fall for each other and ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, cynical, humorous, black comedy ...
Plot: dark humor, casino, hitman, dishonesty, outlaw, gambling, singer, blackjack, murder, bare chested male, cover up, luck ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: usa, las vegas
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, humorous, clever, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: farce, butler, sexist, misogynist, misogyny, uxoricide, lust, language barrier, bachelor, breaking the fourth wall, sexism, murder trial ...
Time: 1900s, 60s, 20th century
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 4.0
 134
Lansdown (2001)
Genre: Thriller, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: In this dark comedy, defense lawyer Jake Jorgenson's carefully constructed life begins to unravel when he kills his wife's lover.
Style: humorous, semi serious, cynical, witty, offbeat ...
Plot: murder, infidelity, vengeance, goofy hero, crime gone awry, couples, dark humor, dishonesty, disorder, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, adultery ...
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 5.7
 254
Mystics (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy
Plot: elderly, cons and scams, partner, buddies, nothing goes right, dark humor, seance, scam, senior citizen, gangster, con artists, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
Place: ireland, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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My New Gun (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Debbie and Gerald's lives drastically change after they get a gun. Their mysterious neighbor, Skippy, becomes an important and transforming figure in their lives.
Style: independent film, semi serious, offbeat, humorous, witty ...
Plot: satire, hot and sexy, strong female lead, neighbor, infidelity, suburbs, profanity, family problems, dishonesty, unsupportive spouse, suburban life, nothing goes right ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
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22%
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Floundering (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a young man's unemployment benefits run out, the IRS freezes his bank account, and his druggie brother needs help, things can't get any worse...until he discovers his girlfriend is cheating on him!
Style: humorous, cynical, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Plot: unemployment, estrangement, life is a bitch, mentally unstable, society, buddies, dark humor, down on your luck, friendship, lifestyle, disorder, fictional reality ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: seattle, los angeles, italy, venice, usa ...
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22%
Perpetrators of the Crime (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Seriously strapped for cash, three college roommates decide to solve their financial woes by kidnapping the daughter of a wealthy businessman. But the rookie criminals make a huge mistake when they accidentally grab the wrong girl (Tori Spelling). ...
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, dark comedy, independent film
Plot: nothing goes right, crime gone awry, dishonesty, dark humor, disorder, missing person, mistaken identity, kidnapping, mishap, scheme
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Barking dogs never bite (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An idle part-time college lecturer is annoyed by the yapping sound of a nearby dog. He decides to take drastic action.
Style: disturbing, dark comedy, semi serious, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: dog, lost dog, rescue, couples, dark humor, animal life, family relations, love affair, murder, professor, university, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 90s, year 2000
Place: south korea, asia, korea
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21%
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The Martins (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Out of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family - long suffering wife accident prone son and pregnant teenage daughter in a shabby house next door to a giant shopping center in the London suburbs. The Martins are the family ...
Style: humorous, cynical, semi serious, realistic, clever ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, eccentric family, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals, social relations, obsession, family problems, disorder, losing-it hero, contests and competitions, dark humor, working class ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Susan's Plan (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Susan's Plan (also released as Dying to Get Rich on video) is a 1998 black comedy film directed by John Landis and starring Nastassja Kinski, Dan Aykroyd, Billy Zane, Rob Schneider, Lara Flynn Boyle and Michael Biehn. The plot revolves around ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, black comedy, semi serious, realistic ...
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Time: 90s
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21%
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Redrum (2007)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A bored couple rejuvenate their marriage by turning to murder.
Style: realistic, semi serious, cynical, suspenseful, humorous ...
Plot: couples, murder, serial killer, satire, couple relations, murderous pair, moral dilemma, dark humor, society, introspection, lovers on the run, destiny ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Siblings (2004)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Joe (Alex Campbell) and his siblings have a couple of problems. First off, their stepparents are despicably evil. Secondly, they seemed to have killed them. Now this mixed up mess of half-sisters and step-brothers have to figure out how to dispose ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, dark comedy, erotic ...
Plot: murder, dysfunctional family, crime gone awry, teenage life, eccentric family, lust, youth, siblings relations, family life, family problems, dark humor, disorder ...
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Search for One-eye Jimmy (1994)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: While working on a documentary on his old neighborhood, a young film school graduate shifts the focus of his production onto the disappearance of a local resident and the strange characters who are conducting the search to find him.
Style: funny, absurd, humorous, surreal, independent film ...
Plot: friendship, eccentricity, dark humor, filmmaking, nothing goes right, disorder, school, gangster, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, betrayal, chase ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: new york, usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Doctor Detroit (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A shy but gentle man named Clifford Skridlow is a professor of comparative literature at the financially-strapped fictional Monroe College in Chicago. A chance encounter with four beautiful women at a restaurant changes his life forever.
Style: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, cult classic, sexy, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: medical, prostitution, college professor, pimp, prostitute, teenager, voyeur, female nudity, voyeurism, nude, nude girl, blonde ...
Time: year 1983, 80s
Place: chicago, detroit, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Pauly Shore Is Dead (2003)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Hollywood comedian/actor Pauly Shore loses everything: his house, nobody in Hollywood wants to represent him, he moves back home with his mom and is now parking cars at the Comedy Store. Then one night when he's up in his mom's loft, a ...
Style: humorous, absurd, satirical, surreal, stylized ...
Plot: filmmaking, death, actor's life, showbiz, dark humor, disorder, nothing goes right, lifestyle, artists and showbiz, ghost, cons and scams, stupidity ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: usa, europe, france, paris france, california ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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High Strung (1992)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Thane Furrows, an extremely cynical but unintentionally hilarious children's book writer, wakes up one morning, and, since pretty much everyone and everything annoys him, begins another day of complaining to himself. However, the day proves to ...
Style: not serious, realistic, humorous, captivating, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: death, disorder, dark humor, buddies, confined, nothing goes right, losing-it hero, writers, uninvited guest, friends, isolation, breaking the fourth wall ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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