Movies like Out Cold 1989

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Out Cold (1989)
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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, rough, clever, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical, semi serious ...
Plot: male pubic hair, private investigator, infidelity, halloween, murder, frame up, private detective, partner, male nudity, hunting, love triangle, frozen body, dark humor, couples, store, law enforcement, nothing goes right, disorder, dishonesty, misfit partners, cons and scams, business, female nudity, death, stripper ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Keyword: partners

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, semi serious, humorous and independent film films with plots about dishonesty, murder, disorder, deadly, dark humor, couples and cons and scams mostly in Comedy, Thriller and Drama genres. Some movies like Out Cold: The Wrong Guy (1997), Novocaine (2001), Compromising Positions (1985), The Highwayman (2000), Lansdown (2001). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Wrong Guy (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An executive (Dave Foley) after being passed over for a promotion to president storms into his office only to find the man who got the promotion dead. Assuming everyone will think he committed the crime he takes off as a fugitive...
Style: humorous, witty, fast paced, dark comedy, not serious ...
Plot: murder, crime gone awry, chase, farce, hospital, satire, tribe, semi nudity, promotion, female nudity, stripper, see through clothes ...
Time: 90s
Place: mexico, latin america, cincinnati ohio, harvard university, new york ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.8
 12K
Novocaine (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him into prescribing her drugs
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, suspenseful, tricky, humorous ...
Plot: dentist, murder, femme fatale, drug use, betrayal, false accusation, dark humor, twists and turns, life turned upside down, frame up, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals ...
Time: year 2001
Place: wisconsin, arizona, usa, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
Compromising Positions (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who had been having affairs with several of her neighbors.
Style: dark comedy, cynical, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: infidelity, reporter, amateur detective, investigation, murder, suburbs, protagonist as suspect, unsupportive spouse, dishonesty, media, journalism, law enforcement ...
Time: year 1985, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
 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 ⇓
59%
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 4.0
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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 ⇓
54%
The Last Time (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Ted Ryker is the top salesman in the New York office of a business machine company; the corporate stock lives by quarterly sales numbers, the competition is keen, and the economy may be in a downturn. Ted's company is marking time until a new ...
Style: cynical, humorous, realistic, semi serious, talky ...
Plot: infidelity, love triangle, love affair, couple relations, couples, dishonesty, hot and sexy, mind game, city life, urban, love and romance, transplant ...
Time: year 2006
Place: new york, usa, phoenix arizona, arizona, atlantic city new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
2 B Perfectly Honest (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly moves back home to live with his parents while Josh, a hippie computer wiz who's married and has ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, clever, humorous
Plot: friends, friendship, partner, lifestyle, love and romance, odd couple, self discovery, couples, disorder, infidelity, dishonesty, nothing goes right ...
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Ice Harvest (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.
Style: dark comedy, neo noir, black comedy, suspenseful, intense ...
Plot: christmas, stripper, strip club, femme fatale, robbery, betrayal, murder, gangster, organized crime, mobster, snow, greed ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: usa, kansas
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Getting In (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Gabriel Higgs has failed to get into Johns Hopkins to study medicine. He's sixth on a list of backup candidates, and must persuade the five people ahead of him to drop out. Gabriel has a family tradition to live up to. Things don't go to ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, slasher, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, medical school, college, frame up, satire, computer cracker, contests and competitions, youth, amateur detective, rivalry, dishonesty, school ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
A Woman, a Gun and a Noodle Shop (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Wang is a gloomy, cunning and avaricious noodle shop owner in a desert town in China. His neglected, sharp-tongued wife is involved in a secret affair with Li, one of Wang’s employees. A timid man, Li reluctantly keeps the gun his lover has bought ...
Style: semi serious, tense, realistic, humorous, suspenseful ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: murder, couple relations, crime gone awry, food, disorder, couples, vengeance, boss and employee, crimes of passion, cons and scams, love triangle, infidelity ...
Time: 19th century, year 2009, 18th century
Place: china, asia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 6.1
 10K
The Details (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.
Style: cynical, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, dark comedy ...
Plot: infidelity, murder, lifestyle, life turned upside down, family problems, dishonesty, society, crumbling marriage, under the surface, disorder, couples, dark humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
 5.6
 880
Tick Tock (2000)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Stunning trophy wife Rachel Avery is stuck in a cold, loveless marriage with her millionaire husband, Holden. So when Holden goes away on a trip, Rachel hooks up with her close friend Carla, and the two hatch a plan to murder Holden and collect on ...
Style: erotic, rough, tense, sexy, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder, private detective, betrayal, power relations, sex, couples, infidelity, lesbian, blackmail, private investigator, home invasion, legal ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
A Shock to the System (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has suffered through mounting bills and a nagging wife with one thing to look forward to: a well-deserved promotion. But when the promotion is given to a ...
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, suspense, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot: murder, advertising, revenge, competition, police investigation, contests and competitions, business, workplace intrigue, advertising agency, dark humor, unlikely criminals, rise to the top ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Right after Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, in 1955, a toy salesman in town for a convention brings his wife with him so they can both go to Disneyland. They stay at a rundown place called the Sunset Motel nearby. Soon the wife is having an ...
Style: neo noir, independent film, semi serious, realistic, clever ...
Plot: hotel, motel, blackmail, femme fatale, manipulation, voyeur, crime gone awry, dangerous attraction, dishonesty, investigation, betrayal, couple relations ...
Time: year 1991, 50s, 1950s
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
A Cold Day in August (2003)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: One day in the life of a hit man, Ronnie, who spends it trying to save the life of fellow hit man, August, who he had brought into the business three years ago. August has become a real problem for some of the bosses around town, and Ronnie will ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, exciting, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hitman, working undercover, betrayal, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, dark humor, disorder, murder, cons and scams, danger, dishonesty, criminal heroes ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Fish in a Barrel (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: 6 gun wielding people are trapped in a NY loft with $4 million in stolen diamonds.
Style: semi serious, cynical, humorous, suspense, independent film ...
Plot: crime gone awry, rivalry, heist, dishonesty, criminal's revenge, law enforcement, betrayal, disorder, alcohol abuse, brother brother relationship, thief, diamond ...
Time: 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 5.5
 780
100 Mile Rule (2002)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: No overview found.
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 ⇓
33%
 5.7
 349
Hotel Oasis (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The life of motel owner is turned upside down by a femme-fatale lounge singer and her abusive manager.
Style: semi serious, humorous, cynical, realistic, witty ...
Plot: murder, disorder, dark humor, unlikely criminals, nothing goes right, dishonesty, cons and scams, fatal accident, sister sister relationship, husband wife relationship, twins, small town ...
Place: kansas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.1
 576
Lonely Street (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bubba Mabry, a gullible private detective, becomes the prime suspect in a tabloid reporter's murder after being hired to snoop on him by a mysterious celebrity.
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, detective
Plot: private investigator, murder, private detective, who done it, goofy hero, investigation, uncover truth, celebrity culture, disorder, media, amateur detective, dishonesty ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Late Show (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who had gotten himself involved in a case concerning a murdered broad, stolen stamps, a nickel-plated handgun, a cheating dolly, and a kidnapped ...
Style: neo noir, detective, offbeat, clever, funny ...
Plot: private detective, murder, cat, investigation, private investigator, partner, violent content, love and romance, elderly, dishonesty, odd couple, law enforcement ...
Time: year 1977, 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Ruination of Men (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico, Spain
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Two men jump out from behind some cacti and beat a man over the head with a rock. They then take the body to the dead man's hut, and sit with his body for the night while they talk, complain and dance. Later at the police station, two women ...
Style: cynical, rough, humorous, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: murder, police station, love triangle, betrayal, dark humor, widow, corpse, dealing with death, unlikely partners, couples, baseball, radio ...
Time: 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 4.5
 2K
Camouflage (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Marty Mackenzie is an unsuccessful stage actor who takes an interest in private investigating. He takes a job working with Jack Potter, a crusty private eye. They both take a case in Beaver Ridge, a seedy small town where a murder is being planned ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, detective, feel good ...
Plot: private detective, infidelity, murder, who done it, partner, dishonesty, law enforcement, disorder, satire, aspiring actor, silly humor, police ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Shut Up and Shoot! (2006)
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: 21st century
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 6.7
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Bone (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A thief breaks into the home of a wealthy, happily married Beverly Hills couple. He soon finds out, though, that the couple is neither as wealthy as he thought they were and are not as happily married as they appeared.
Style: dark comedy, grindhouse, independent film, cynical, talky ...
Plot: blaxploitation, hostage, exploitation, black, african american, racial issues, african, home invasion, couples, interracial relations, social satire, dark humor ...
Time: 70s
Place: beverly hills, usa, los angeles
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29%
All Is Bright (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Two French Canadian ne’er-do-wells travel to New York City with a scheme to a get rich quick selling Christmas trees.
Style: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, dark ...
Plot: christmas, fish out of water, nothing goes right, reluctant partners, going straight, partner, misfit, disorder, cons and scams, odd couple, dishonesty, hopes ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Feeling Minnesota (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Sam Clayton's (Vincent D'Onofrio) marriage to ex-stripper Freddie (Cameron Diaz) comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red (Delroy Lindo), a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with ...
Style: dark comedy, independent film, black comedy, talky, clever ...
Audience: date night
Plot: love, corruption, murder, gangster, wedding, love triangle, stripper, family relations, elopement, motel, presumed dead, framed for murder ...
Time: 90s
Place: minnesota, las vegas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Dinner at Eight (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A wry, insightful comedy of manners in which somewhat dizzy society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat while remaining oblivious to her husband's health and financial problems as well as her ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, talky, cynical, humorous ...
Plot: couple relations, nothing goes right, dishonesty, love and romance, rivalry, intrigue, couples, disorder, bad attitude, dinner party, high society, greed ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Sex & the Other Man (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When Bill catches his girlfriend and her boss in bed, an unusual cure for impotence is found.
Style: semi serious, realistic, sexual, humorous, offbeat ...
Plot: erotica, voyeurism, couples, kidnapping, nudity, seductive woman, sex, female nudity, manipulation, dark humor, disorder, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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 ⇓
27%
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