Movies like Illegally Yours

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Illegally Yours (1988)
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Illegally Yours (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Called up for jury duty, Richard Dice finds his first crush and only real, but unrequited love, on trial for murder. Richard desperately tries to prove Mollys innocence while untangling a complicated web of murder, blackmail and perjury, and still trying to win over the girl of his dreams.
Style: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Plot: murder, lawyer, jury, crush, law, school, heroes, youth, love and romance, couples, legal, legal investigation, false accusation, courtroom drama, dishonesty, screwball, protagonist as suspect, power relations, police, court, castle, sleuth, rain, cigarette smoking, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 80s
Place: south carolina

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and suspenseful films with plots about dishonesty, murder, deadly, lawyer, couples, legal and courtroom drama mostly in Crime, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Illegally Yours: Legal Eagles (1986), Dead in the Water (1991), From the Hip (1987), My Cousin Vinny (1992), The Census Taker (1984). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Legal Eagles (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea's crimes is the theft of a very valuable ...
Style: melancholic, entertaining, realistic, humorous, suspenseful ...
Plot: courtroom, lawyer, legal, conspiracy, investigation, murder, dedicated lawyer, legal action, court case, cons and scams, couples, law enforcement ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Dead in the Water (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Charlie Deegan has almost everything he has ever wanted. He has an important law practice, a beautiful secretary as his lover, and the chance to be appointed to the high court. The only thing wrong with this is that his shrewish wife Olivia, whose ...
Style: neo noir, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Plot: lawyer, love triangle, murder, conspiracy, couples, who done it, courtroom drama, false accusation, life is a bitch, prostitute, crime gone awry, protagonist as suspect ...
Time: 90s
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From the Hip (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and he must now defend a college professor who is appearantly guilty of ...
Style: anamorphic, psychological, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, court, murder, law, satire, lawsuit, trial, brat pack, defense attorney, murder trial, college professor ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: boston, usa
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87%
 7.6
 139K
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his ...
Style: funny, feel good, hilarious, light, humorous ...
Audience: kids
Plot: courtroom, courtroom drama, lawyer, court, trial, small town, legal, mistaken identity, murder, justice, false accusation, cousin cousin relationship ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: alabama, new york, southern usa, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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The Census Taker (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When George (Greg Mullavey) and Martha (Meredith MacRae) let Harvey (Garrett Morris), an annoying census taker, into their home, they find themselves under a barrage of increasingly abusive questions. Furious at his intrusiveness, and at their ...
Style: dark comedy, detective, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, family relations, flirting, police detective, dark humor, family life, family business, law enforcement, investigation, amateur detective, aging, private detective ...
Time: 80s
Place: austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
The Secret Life of Archie's Wife (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bunny, an unhappily married Denver housewife, frustrated and stressed out over her uncommunicative businessman husband Archie as well as planing their daughter's coming wedding, has her life turned upside down one day when she's taken ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching ...
Plot: couples, disorder, on the run, opposites attract, couple relations, love and romance, heist, kidnapping, bank, neglected wife, car crash, fugitive ...
Time: 80s
Place: colorado
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58%
Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Mason defends a man he had sentenced to prison when he was an appellate-court judge. Now, 18 months after the sentencing, a new witness turns up to prove the man's innocence. Mason steps in to defend the man.
Style: serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective
Plot: murder, courtroom, lawyer, advocate, intelligence agency, false accusation, frame up, legal action, courtroom drama, legal, rivalry, army investigation ...
Time: 80s
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54%
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Burglar (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr is a burglar by trade, and she runs a bookstore as well. Her friend Carl Hefler is a dog groomer. After a successful burglary, it's discovered that a dead body was in the house she burgled. As she's ...
Style: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, action comedy ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, chase, bookstore, thief, female protagonist, amateur detective, bisexual man, framed for murder, disguise, motorcycle, investigation, african american protagonist ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: california, usa, san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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The Lawyer (1970)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Wilma Harrison had it all. A wealthy doctor for a husband. A big playboy for a lover. A beautiful home. And a horrible death.
Style: independent film, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: lawyer, socialite, law, business, court, bad guy, murder, hotshot lawyer, infidelity, false accusation, who done it, courtroom drama ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson (1989)
Genre: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ken Malansky, a law student of Perry Mason's, is accused of murdering a fellow student. Perry is reluctant to take on his case as the victim was the son of a close friend.
Style: detective, witty, realistic, suspenseful, serious
Plot: courtroom, murder, intelligence agency, advocate, lawyer, university, power relations, friendship, legal investigation, moral dilemma, dishonesty, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
King's Ransom (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other people interested in his wealth as well.
Style: witty, semi serious, humorous, feel good, light ...
Plot: kidnapping, dishonesty, nothing goes right, breakup, disorder, couples, couple relations, crumbling marriage, unlikely criminals, love and romance, crime gone awry, cons and scams ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
A Taxing Woman (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Ryoko Itakura is a government tax agent who has just landed a big promotion. Her first assignment is to catch wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo. She has a tough job, since in Japan tax evasion is an art and Gondo is, in effect, Rembrandt. Her job is ...
Style: surreal, semi serious, realistic, humorous, clever
Plot: female nudity, sex, asian, economist, lawyer, legal, dishonesty, society, love and romance, rivalry, couple relations, ambition ...
Time: year 1987, 80s
Place: east asia, japan, asia
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44%
Leslie, My Name Is Evil (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Perry, a sheltered chemical engineer, falls in love with Leslie, a former homecoming princess, when he becomes a jury member at her hippie death cult murder trial.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, exciting, suspenseful ...
Audience: teens
Plot: promiscuous daughter, cheerleader, casual sex, virgin sacrifice, courtroom drama, murder, jury, courtroom, adolescence vs adulthood, fall in love, gang, assassination ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Three Blind Mice (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A lawyer defends a man he's known since serving together in Vietnam, who has been accused of murdering three Vietnamese immigrants. Now he'll have to fight against a tenacious District Attorney, and evidence connected to the man's ...
Style: serious, tense, captivating, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: legal investigation, courtroom drama, murder, frame up, vietnam veteran, protagonist as suspect, false accusation, dishonesty, law enforcement, life is a bitch, legal action, legal ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida
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43%
Everything's Gone Green (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ryan, a good-natured slacker, is tempted into a money laundering scheme while working for a lottery magazine. A capitalistic comedy that asks the question - when is "enough" enough?
Style: witty, humorous, realistic, semi serious, talky ...
Plot: weed, couples, cons and scams, unemployment, drug abuse, love and romance, buddies, youth, couple relations, rise to the top, dishonesty, breakup ...
Place: vancouver, canada
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43%
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Dream Machine (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: As a reward from a jilted millionairess, Davis is given the $100,000 Porsche of the unfaithful husband. Unknown to Davis and the wife, the body of the husband is in the Porsche. The killer tries in vein to recover the body before it is discovered.
Style: independent film, semi serious, humorous
Audience: teens
Plot: gang, murder, couples, youth, dishonesty, teenage life, infidelity, car, strong female character, parents, wealth, dream ...
Time: year 1991, 80s
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Serial Lover (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, dark humor, disorder, looking for love, thirty something, writers, dinner, misfit, freak, gory, blood ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france
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41%
Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jordan White, a publisher friend of Perry, is called to a hotel where a guest, famous horror writer David Hall, has cleared out the hotel for a weekend and has called his "friends" - an actress, a fortune-teller, David's private ...
Style: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Plot: hotel, courtroom, law, advocate, lawyer, motel, intelligence agency, private investigator, murder, who done it, false accusation, courtroom drama ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Trial and Error (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall (Sellers) is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle (Attenborough) who is accused of murdering his wife (Beryl Reid). Despite Fowle's insistence of guilt, Moregenhall ...
Style: black comedy, black and white, semi serious, realistic, cynical ...
Plot: lawyer, courtroom, courtroom drama, law, bird, legal, murder, murder trial, satire, protagonist as suspect, uncover truth, dedicated lawyer ...
Time: 60s
Place: europe, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Hollywood High Part II (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: It's another year at Hollywood High and the students are upholding the standards of their school. It's the end of the semester and finals are near, but that doesn't stop the girls of Hollywood High from having fun. From the pool to ...
Style: independent film, sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: beach, female nudity, sex, sexual harassment, couples, friends, power relations, teenage life, infidelity, hollywood, school, friendship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Wish You Were Dead (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two bad women fight over one man in a back-stabbing, money-grabbing, insurance-hustling, double-dealing, two-timing caper.
Style: suspenseful, semi serious, witty, humorous, dark comedy ...
Plot: dark humor, hitman, fall in love, dishonesty, danger, fish out of water, love affair, couples, social relations, parents and children, cons and scams, small town ...
Time: 21st century
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40%
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Cold Feet (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The leader of a group of misfits, his girlfriend and an assassin have devised a bizarre plan to smuggle stolen jewelry over the US/Mexican border. They implant the jewelry in a racing horse.
Style: independent film, cynical, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: rock, hitman, psychopath, disorder, down on your luck, cons and scams, dishonesty, on the run, nothing goes right, criminal heroes, partner, criminal ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: latin america, mexico
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39%
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Death Sentence (1974)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min.
Story: A juror on a murder case begins to believe that the man on trial is innocent of the crime - and then discovers that the real killer is her own husband.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful
Plot: lawyer, jury, trial, courtroom, murder, innocent man, murder trial, protagonist as suspect, dedicated lawyer, hotshot lawyer, legal, legal investigation ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Head Office (1985)
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: job promotion, workplace intrigue, boss and employee, cons and scams, workplace romance, workplace situations, power relations, workplace, dishonesty, rise to the top, business, office work ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Perry Mason ventures to Paris to defend a U.S. Marine Corps Captain accused of murdering a man suspected of being a Nazi SS Officer.
Style: detective, mind bending, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot: courtroom, murder, amateur detective, intelligence agency, lawyer, advocate, law, courtroom drama, false accusation, who done it, legal, private detective ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Down the Drain (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A dishonest lawyer devises a scheme to rob a bank by recruiting criminals he has represented to do the job for him. When the robbery is completed, he learns that the "loot" from the vault is in fact a microchip containing top-secret ...
Style: independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: heist, disorder, rivalry, criminal heroes, crime gone awry, dishonesty, law enforcement, betrayal, farce, underworld, crooked lawyer, girlfriend ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
True Identity (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.
Style: light, realistic, semi serious, humorous, witty
Plot: hitman, satire, mafia, gangster, silly humor, disorder, switching roles, on the run, opposites attract, hidden identity, dishonesty, society ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Unfaithfully Yours (1984)
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Dudley Moore plays a composer who suspects his wife of cheating. He plots to kill her and frame it on her lover. The whole movie sort of compares his expectations of a perfect result to reality. In the end nothing turns out as planned.
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, clever, sentimental ...
Audience: date night, chick flick
Plot: betrayal, love and romance, rivalry, vengeance, murder, love affair, infidelity, dishonesty, couple relations, couples, screwball, adultery ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Life Without Dick (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: By accident, Colleen Gibson shoots and kills her gold-digging cheating boyfriend, Dick, a private eye who happens to have a hitman on his tail. Danny the hitman works for his brother-in-law, a cheerful but nasty Irish mobster, hasn't actually ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, light ...
Plot: couples, disorder, cons and scams, love and romance, private detective, dishonesty, criminal heroes, dangerous attraction, mob boss, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, talk show host, hitman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Framed (1988)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Conny is a chemistry teacher who is framed for drug possession. Unable to prove his innocence he ends up in prison. When he finds a secret exit some inmates "persuades" him to participate in a heist. Things become extremely hectic as he ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: prison, school, police, secret passageway, criminal heroes, life is a bitch, rescue, dishonesty, law enforcement, righting the wronged, frame up, false accusation ...
Time: 80s
Place: eastern europe, stockholm sweden
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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