Movies like Grace Quigley
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Grace Quigley (1984)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. One day she witnesses a murder being committed by top hit-man, Seymour Flint. She decides to blackmail him into killing her, however, she has one or two friends he has to get rid of first. Written by Col Needham
Style:
independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot:
cannon, killer, euthanasia, aging, hitman, dark humor, murder, parents and children, elderly, forgery, dishonesty, cons and scams, violent content, old age, blackmail, female protagonist, insurance, blackmailer, old woman, suicide attempt, life insurance, female blackmailer, contract killer, assassin, graphic violence ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york
Most similar movies to Grace Quigley
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and independent film films with plots about dishonesty, cons and scams, disorder, dark humor, couples, murder and deadly mostly in Comedy, Thriller and Crime genres. Some movies like Grace Quigley: Jinxed! (1982), Buddy Buddy (1981), Invitation to a Suicide (2004), Who Do I Gotta Kill? (1994), Two Hundred Thousand Dirty (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ⇓
95%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A black comedy set in the Polish immigrant neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn about a man selling tickets to his own suicide to save his father's life.
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
family business, gangster, society, family relations, dark humor, immigrant, suicide, save the day, debt, bakery, butcher, funeral home ...
Time:
future
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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 ⇓
80%
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 ⇓
73%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
254
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 ⇓
61%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Dr. Charlie Keegan is ordered to serve 6 months as the staff doctor at a second rate retirement home or lose his medical licence after accusations of swindling elderly patients. What the doctor expects will be a brief interruption from his lucrative ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, touching, semi serious, emotional ...
Plot:
doctors and patients, couples, workplace, moral dilemma, mental illness, elderly, introspection, fall in love, love and romance, misfit, human nature, aging ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Maria (Carol Kane) is the wife of a murdered Mafia bookkeeper. With her baby in tow, she tracks the hitman to the airport, intending to shoot the man. A pickpocket causes the gun to discharge prematurely, and now it's Maria who is being ...
Style:
independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot:
taxi, driver, chase, gangster, hitman, disorder, fall in love, dishonesty, vengeance, rivalry, chases and races, babies and infants ...
Time:
90s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A wealthy writer who has had terrible experiences with money-hungry girlfriends & ex-wives pretends to be a broke, washed-up novelist to see if the woman he loves wants him for himself or just for his money.
Style:
grindhouse, independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot:
writers, cannon, artist, heist, love triangle, love and romance, couple relations, self discovery, criminal heroes, dishonesty, nothing goes right, looking for love ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, cynical, realistic, humorous, clever
Plot:
infidelity, moral dilemma, introspection, femme fatale, cons and scams, nothing goes right, couple relations, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, manipulation, heist ...
Place:
usa, los angeles, california, detroit
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A movie producer hatches a scheme to have an actor (Silvio Pollio) kill his fellow filmmakers.
Style:
realistic, cynical, humorous, suspense, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, satire, actor's life, dark humor, artists and showbiz, dishonesty, politics, cons and scams, showbiz, filmmaking, hollywood, violent content ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Tv movie that reunites most the show's cast members. The Douglases move back to New York. But when Haney tries to get everyone's property so that a developer can build on them, the residents go to New York to get Douglas to help them. But ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
farm, social relations, couples, disorder, save the day, small town life, cons and scams, small town, rural setting, reunion
Time:
80s
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
441
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A painter is accused of art-forging. He thinks his girlfriend betrayed him, so it's time for revenge.
Style:
exciting, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
frame up, partner, violent content, profanity, performer's life, disorder, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, criminal's revenge, forgery, rivalry, unlikely partners ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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:
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Place:
los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.
Style:
dark comedy, funny, fast paced, neurotic, semi serious ...
Plot:
hitman, killer, psychiatrist, assassination attempt, suicide attempt, twins, hotel room, failed marriage, lost love, runaway, dark humor, friends ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
722
Genre: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Seven characters, introduced at the start of the film, get thrown together into the same hotel room: a thief who's stolen a suitcase of money from the mob, his ex-girlfriend, her obsessive boyfriend, the mob soldier sent to retrieve the ...
Style:
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Plot:
thief, chase, love and romance, criminal's revenge, dishonesty, betrayal, hitman, mistaken identity, sexual content, gangster, mentally unstable, gang ...
Time:
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Place:
new mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
WALTER is lonely. He is 71 and has no friends. He lives in a small apartment in Upper West Side in Manhattan and every morning he goes through the same monotonous routine: pills, fiber, canned food, cleaning, TV and the book with all his expenses. ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot:
lifestyle, misfit, life turned upside down, dull life, disorder, social misfits, money, goth, hitman, unlikely partners, friendship, murder
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A slacker turns P.I. to solve a rock star's murder.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, neo noir, independent film ...
Plot:
private detective, porn actress, nudity, sex, blonde, female nudity, dark humor, amateur detective, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, drug abuse, showbiz ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
While everyone knows you can't fight City Hall, there are those who, for whatever reason, can't resist the challenge. Three slightly disturbed psychiatric patients decide to take on the government. What ensues includes car chases, a ferry ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, witty
Plot:
memory loss, mental illness, violent content, gangster, city life, urban, self discovery, misfit, vengeance, multiple personality disorder, cannon, mob boss ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
A wannabe serial killer wins the lottery and pursues his lifelong crush.
Style:
humorous, dark comedy, feel good, captivating, light ...
Plot:
lottery, serial killer, teenage crush, couple relations, murder, confession, police detective, crush, violent content, dark humor, disorder, couples ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Dutillard is an amateur film maker working as a computer programmer for a small French investment bank. When the bank finds that it has been forced to fork over $104 million to fund Dutillard's film, Chekov's "Three Sisters", and ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic
Plot:
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Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
london, new york, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A multimillionaire, whose son is gay and daughter a lesbian, leaves a will with one clause: His children will inherit his money only if at least one of them produces him a grandchild within a year of his death.
Style:
independent film, semi serious, realistic, humorous, slapstick comedy
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, light, feel good ...
Plot:
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Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, witty, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, family problems, siblings relations, betrayal, life is a bitch, dark humor, parents and children, terminal illness, eccentric family, family life, estate, siblings ...
Time:
80s
Place:
texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't spoken in over 20 years of retirement. Willy Clark's nephew is the producer of a TV ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
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Style:
entertaining, funny, light, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
cons and scams, con artists, love, friendship, chase, comedy of errors, disorder, house, mistaken identity, meme, con men, heist ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, witty, humorous, biting ...
Plot:
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Time:
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37%
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