Movies like Off and Running 1991
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Off and Running (1991)
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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.
Plot:
on the run, murder, actress, key, golfer, death of boyfriend
Place:
miami
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and rough films with plots about murder, crimes, on the run, deadly, death, dishonesty and crime mostly in Thriller, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like Off and Running: Deadly Pursuits (1996), Blind Man's Bluff (1992), Pendulum (1969), What We Did That Night (1999), Invasion (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
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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:
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335
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 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:
death, murder, police captain, on the run, falsely accused, murderer, police officer, murder of wife, false accusation
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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:
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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. ...
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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:
bleak, suspenseful, realistic, serious
Plot:
college, murder, college dropout, psychopath, profanity, crimes, deadly, crime, witnessing a crime, stalking, graphic violence, poetry reading ...
Time:
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Place:
seattle, washington d.c., seattle washington
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46%
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 ...
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Time:
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Place:
usa, los angeles
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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.
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Plot:
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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 ...
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Plot:
murder, kidnapping, deadly, drug abuse, crimes, danger, on the run, dishonesty, drug dealing, cons and scams, frame up, forced into action ...
Time:
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Place:
usa
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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.
Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Genre: Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA, Canada
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Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story:
Five young women vacation together at a resort on an isolated island. They are the resort's only customers and, aside from the boat captain who brought them here and the resort's handyman, Wylie, the island's only inhabitants. When ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A woman urges her daughter to get married. And when her daughter does, she doesn't think that she made a good choice. So she goes out and hires a killer to kill her son-in-law.
Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 96 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Story:
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Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
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