Movies like Off and Running

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Off and Running (1991)
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Off and Running (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Cyndi Lauper stars as a performing mermaid in a Miami nightclub who ends up on the wrong end of a murder. On the run carrying a locket that people seem to be getting killed for, she runs into an ex-golfer and a wisecracking kid who might just be able to bail her out of this wacky nightmare.
Style: independent film
Plot: rock, murder, actress, on the run, death of boyfriend, golfer, key
Place: miami

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, suspenseful and serious films with plots about murder, on the run, dishonesty, deadly, disorder, female nudity and death mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres. Some movies like Off and Running: Deadly Pursuits (1996), Invasion (2012), Hot Summer Week (1972), Good Chemistry (2008), Severance (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Deadly Pursuits (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A former stripper befriends a young man looking for his father, all the while trying to avoid a hitman for the mob, to whom she is deeply in debt.
Plot: mobster, murder, on the run
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95%
 5.7
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Invasion (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Joseph is in his mid-sixties and has just lost his beloved wife. Everything in his big old mansion reminds him painfully of the years they spent together. One day several visitors turn up unexpectedly. They seem to be relatives of his deceased wife. ...
Plot: siblings, hot and sexy, cheating wife, wife, death, infidelity, sex scene, seduction, female nudity, actress, boy, katana ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Hot Summer Week (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Via Amazon: "Two wild teenage girls, Debbie (Kathleen Cody) and Karen (Dianne Hull, FIFTH FLOOR, ALOHA BOBBY AND ROSE) hit the road for some freedom, boys, and unexpected danger in this 1973 drive-in classic! The girls pick up a handsome ...
Style: independent film, grindhouse
Plot: serial killer, murder, freak, teensploitation, killer, mental illness, beach, hitchhiking, female nudity, soldier, summer, hippie ...
Place: vietnam
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41%
 3.0
 159
Good Chemistry (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After picking up an alluring woman,Toby, a gifted chemist slumming as a high school teacher, is kidnapped by her violent boyfriend and ordered to use his skills to create methamphetamine for a group of drug traffickers. When Toby refuses, his ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, kidnapping, drug dealing, on the run, dishonesty, danger, drug abuse, chemistry, farm, confined, cons and scams, forced into action ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Severance (1988)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Ray Ponti is a down and out father, a man trapped by his past and frightened of his future. Cly is a streetwise runaway, waiting tables by day and stripping by night. Both are fighting for existence in the slime-bowl of New York's gutters, ...
Style: independent film
Plot: father daughter relationship, on the run, stripper, mafia, reconciliation
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Blind Man's Bluff (1992)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A blind professor is accused by the police of killing his neighbor and must clear his name by finding the murderer.
Plot: home invasion, neighbor, murder, blindness, fugitive, accident, suspect
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Here and There (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Here and There (Serbian: Tamo i ovde) is a Serbian film which was premiered at the Belgrade Film Festival FEST 2009. Here and There follows two interconnected stories on two different continents. Robert (Thornton), a depressed New Yorker, tries to ...
Style: realistic, humorous, clever, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience: date night
Plot: immigrant, life is a bitch, lifestyle, misfit, fish out of water, family relations, eviction, disorder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, husband wife relationship, culture clash, emigration ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, balkan, new york, serbia, europe ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
7 Colombian Kilos (2007)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: The brutal story of betrayal between two partners in the violent business of supplying drugs to Chicago's West Side. Greed and mistrust tear apart their childhood-long friendship.
Style: surprise ending, independent film
Plot: drug, nudity, violence, murder, cash, sex scene, cocaine, nightclub, drug smuggling
Place: chicago, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Lulu by Night (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min.
Story: German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While looking for the protagonist, Rufo appears, an introvert jazz musician. He could play Jack the ripper.
Style: neo noir, neo screwball comedy
Plot: jack the ripper, female nudity, unfaithfulness, pope, actor, thief, stage play, psycho killer, intrigue, chance meeting, ex husband ex wife relationship, actress ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Acting on Impulse (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An erotic thriller actress becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a B-movie producer, leading her to hide out and engage in sexual thrills with a pair of innocents.
Style: neo noir, slasher, detective, independent film
Plot: serial killer, actress, filmmaker, murder, erotic thriller
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Living in Peril (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: The young architect Walter leaves his wife Linda to go to L.A. to draw a mansion for Harrison. On the highway a truck driver almost drives him off the road. Walter calls the truck-company to complain. The driver gets fired. When Walter arrives to ...
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, danger, mind game, obsession, stalking, dangerous attraction, rivalry, mentally unstable, psychopath, architect, starting over, uncover truth ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
In the Shadows (2001)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, witnessing a crime, undercover, gangster, criminal heroes, rivalry, danger, working undercover, introspection, crime gone awry, dishonesty, assassin ...
Place: usa, cuba, miami, new york, florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 6.2
 729
Pendulum (1969)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: On the evening of his decoration for bringing a murderer to justice, Washington DC Police Captain Frank Matthews' wife, and her lover are murdered in bed. Jailed as the prime suspect, with the aforementioned murderer released on a technicality ...
Plot: police officer, mental disorder, death, murder, falsely accused, police captain, on the run, cop, police, wife, murderer, false accusation ...
Time: year 1969
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.3
 4K
Hiding Out (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A very successful stock broker is called to court to testify against a mob boss who was into some inside trading. Andrew Morenski must become Max Hauser and go back to high school for protection from the mob.
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film
Audience: teens, kids
Plot: high school, teenager, gangster, murder, geek, mafia, age difference, fall in love, education, stoned, bike, in love ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: delaware
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.6
 239
Delivered (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: College dropout Will Sherman works as a pizza delivery boy. One night he delivers a pizza at the house where the guy who ordered pizza was just killed. The murderer, Reed, soon realizes that Will is a witness and begins to follow him.
Style: dark comedy, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, college, violent content, psychopath, college dropout, witnessing a crime, stalking, profanity, house, comic book, professor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: seattle, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
Desperately Seeking Susan (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, funny, clever ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot: mistaken identity, fish out of water, farce, obsession, female protagonist, intrigue, adultery, magician's assistant, amnesia, women, on the run, feminist ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place: new york, new jersey, usa, atlantic city new jersey, atlantic city
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Sketch Artist II: Hands That See (1995)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Police sketch artist, Jack, helps blind rape victim Emmy describe her attacker.. a serial rapist and murderer who is now out to get her.
Plot: painter, rape, murder, blindness, sketch artist
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 4.7
 2K
29 Palms (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When a bag filled with money goes missing from a casino, the Hitman (Chris O'Donnell) must retrieve it. While he tracks the stash down, the bag changes hands numerous times, finding its way to the Drifter (Jeremy Davies) and the Waitress ...
Style: rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, fast ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: murder, conspiracy, casino, criminal's revenge, bag of money, undercover, bounty hunter, on the run, crime gone awry, unlikely criminals, rivalry, gangster ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Love and Action in Chicago (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Just when covert assassin Eddie Jones (Courtney B. Vance) decides to ditch his dangerous job to settle down with his girlfriend, his superiors convince him to kill a renegade drug cartel hit man -- leading to nothing but trouble. Complicating ...
Style: independent film, biting, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: black, celibacy, hitman, gangster, secret agent, anti hero, verbal byplay, screwball, fall in love, going straight, violence spree, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 5.7
 5K
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 ⇓
30%
What We Did That Night (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An ex-con Henry (Rick Schroder) returns to town after being released from prison and contacts his old college frat members about a murder that they committed years earlier. They have to return to move the body to a new location before it is ...
Plot: murder, dead body, mockery, friendship, secret, prank, corpse, revenge, dark secret, ex convict, digging a grave
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 4.4
 369
The Highwayman (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A dark, comedic thriller about fraud, bank robbers and a search for love.
Style: independent film, cynical, semi serious, realistic, humorous ...
Plot: dishonesty, on the run, vengeance, nothing goes right, criminal heroes, estrangement, psychopath, disorder, dark humor, store, parents and children, heist ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.4
 10K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 5.5
 937
Out Cold (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A comedy about an angry married couple, a private investigator, and a walk-in freezer.
Style: dark comedy, independent film, cynical, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: male pubic hair, private investigator, infidelity, halloween, partner, private detective, murder, frame up, male nudity, frozen body, hunting, love triangle ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Murder at My Door (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In a quiet neighborhood, a suburban family is shocked when their son is the prime suspect in the brutal murder of a neighbor's daughter.
Style: detective
Plot: serial killer, mental illness, fire, mother, son, murder, girlfriend, investigation
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 6.5
 514
Runaway (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Michael Adler has run away from his suburban home with his little brother Dylan. Hiding out in a quiet, rural town, Michael's convinced he can make a better life for both of them. While Dylan stays holed up in a cheap motel all day, Michael ...
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Plot: starting over, dysfunctional family, haunted by the past, teenage life, on the run, obsession, family problems, investigation, hiding, small town, fall in love, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Run a Crooked Mile (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Two years later he wakes up in a hospital room after a polo accident to find he's had amnesia, is now married, ...
Plot: murder, amnesia, cover up, evidence, murder witness, murder investigation, passage of time, key
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 3.3
 41
1-900 (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The police become involved when the callers to a 1-900 number begin turning up dead after a visit from the beautiful operator.
Style: erotic
Plot: chess, sex scene, making love, sex, accident, divorce, murder, secret, dancer, dancing, male nudity, suicide ...
Place: amsterdam
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 4.9
 184
Natural Causes (1994)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An American links her mothers death in Bankok to a plot involving Vietnamese refugees.
Style: independent film
Plot: murder, espionage, cia, death of mother, death
Place: thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Absolute Killers (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Thriller - Johnny Graham, raised by the Torino crime family after the death of his parents, is repeatedly torn between loyalty to his adoptive family and his conscience. - Edward Furlong, Grace Johnston, Meat Loaf
Style: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, independent film
Plot: witness protection, on the run, chases and races, danger, gangster, murder, redemption, violence, woman in danger, violent content, u.s. marshal, district attorney ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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