Movies like A Slight Case of Murder

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A Slight Case of Murder (1999)
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A Slight Case of Murder (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe (William H. Macy) accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers his tracks, he raises the suspicions of a private investigator (James Cromwell), who then tries to blackmail him. Thorpe also falls under the watchful eye of Detective Fred Stapelli (Adam Arkin), a cop who is intent on becoming a screenwriter. Before long, Thorpe's girlfriend, Kit (Felicity Huffman), and Stapelli's wife, Patricia (Julia Campbell), are roped into the case.
Style: detective, crime thriller, neo noir, clever, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, semi serious, biting ...
Plot: murder, film critic, investigation, private detective, blackmail, courtroom, dark humor, hollywood, couples, who done it, manipulation, ambition, law enforcement, filmmaking, femme fatale, dangerous attraction, police investigation, disorder, dishonesty, protagonist as suspect, uncover truth, dog, bank robbery, sex scene, murder investigation ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, new york, manhattan new york city

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, suspenseful and semi serious films with plots about murder, deadly, investigation, dishonesty, law enforcement, private detective and who done it mostly in Comedy, Mystery and Crime genres. Some movies like A Slight Case of Murder: Drowning Mona (2000), Oh Heavenly Dog (1980), The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992), Zero Effect (1998), Crowned and Dangerous (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Drowning Mona (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The recently deceased Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) was many things: an abusive wife, a domineering mother, a loud-mouthed neighbor and a violent malcontent. So when her car and corpse are discovered in the Hudson River, police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny ...
Style: funny, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, absurd ...
Plot: murder, small town, investigation, murder mystery, sarcasm, waitress, goofy hero, disorder, social relations, family problems, drowning, small town life ...
Time: 90s
Place: new york, usa
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100%
Oh Heavenly Dog (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Browning is a PI with a bad cold, who's sent to investigate a case by a mysterious client. He stumbles across the body of a young woman and is stabbed to death, and when he wakes up in heaven, they tell him he's "marginal ...
Style: humorous, funny, entertaining, light, semi serious ...
Audience: kids
Plot: dog, afterlife, murder, reincarnation, private detective, chase, animal, murder mystery, life & death, writers, human becomes animal, haunted ...
Time: 80s, year 1980, 70s
Place: london
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100%
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Betty Lou is a librarian in a very small town. Her husband is a police detective who takes her for granted. Betty Lou is the ultimate mouse. After a gangland figure is mysteriously murdered in town, Betty Lou finds the murder weapon, but can't ...
Style: humorous, realistic, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: murder, small town, police investigation, librarian, deep south, disorder, small town life, amateur detective, switching roles, investigation, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1992, 90s
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100%
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Zero Effect (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Daryl Zero is a private investigator. Along with his assistant, Steve Arlo he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Though a master investigator, when he is not working, Zero doesn't know what to do with himself. He has no social skills, writes ...
Style: detective, neo noir, dark comedy, cult classic, witty ...
Plot: private detective, investigation, murder, private investigator, eccentricity, blackmail, ugly duckling, hidden truth, whodunit, fall in love, accountant, dating ...
Time: year 1998, 20th century, 90s
Place: oregon, usa, los angeles, portland oregon, san francisco
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100%
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Crowned and Dangerous (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: After the murder of a beauty queen, an investigation reveals the suspects to be a former lover, a rival contestant, and a stage mother.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot: murder, investigation, rivalry, physical appearance, blind ambition, dishonesty, contests and competitions, ambition, beauty, jealousy, vengeance, true crime ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: california, usa, san diego california
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100%
The Man with Bogart's Face (1980)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: In The Man With Bogart's Face, an affectionate send-up of the Bogart detective films of the 1940s, Robert Sacchi plays a man who idolizes Humphrey Bogart so much he has his features altered to look exactly like his idol. He then opens up a ...
Style: neo noir, semi serious, parody, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: private detective, hollywood, private investigator, lookalikes, doppelganger, surgery, transgender, face, plastic surgery, murder, who done it, power relations ...
Time: year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place: los angeles
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57%
V.I. Warshawski, Detective in High Heels (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Victoria "V.I" Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boyfriend; then he is murdered. Being the detective type, she makes the murder her next case. In doing so she befriends the victim's ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective, entertaining ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, murder, murder mystery, justice, woman fights a man, happy ending, strong female character, investigation, father daughter relationship, who done it, uncover truth, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s, year 1991
Place: chicago, usa
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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
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51%
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Cry Uncle (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.
Style: erotic, raunchy, independent film, realistic, not serious ...
Plot: private detective, sex, erotica, private investigator, stoner, satire, mugging, murder, manipulation, disorder, dark humor, couples ...
Time: year 1971, 70s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, new jersey
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The Scenesters (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Someone is killing beautiful young Hipsters in East L.A. Charlie is a crime scene cleaner working for Aftershocks Inc. with a penchant for Sherlock Holmes type deduction. Wallace is an out-of-luck filmmaker working as a crime scene videographer. The ...
Style: cynical, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, investigation, fish out of water, disorder, who done it, amateur detective, hipster, filmmaker, found footage, whodunit, filmmaking ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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49%
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
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48%
The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman.
Style: spoof, dark comedy, independent film, parody, not serious ...
Plot: private investigator, investigation, murder, small town, disorder, social relations, goofy hero, danger, law enforcement, private detective, small town life, milkman ...
Time: 70s
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47%
Crime Is Our Business (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Prudence Beresford is investigating another murder. Her aunt had witnessed it, but no body was found, and nobody trusted her word. Nobody, except Prudence, of course!
Style: semi serious, talky, humorous, realistic, witty ...
Plot: murder, private detective, amateur detective, family relations, odd couple, uncover truth, investigation, partner, couple relations, master and servant, disorder, siblings relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: france
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47%
This Girl for Hire (1983)
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a obnoxious mystery writer. Along the way, Brady gets help from her flamboyant mother ...
Style: slapstick, humorous, suspenseful, witty, cynical ...
Plot: private investigator, murder, hollywood, store, filmmaking, showbiz, artists and showbiz, private detective, law enforcement, investigation, female detective, failed pilot ...
Time: 1940s
Place: california
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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 ⇓
47%
No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance ...
Style: detective, dark comedy, clever, suspenseful, spooky ...
Plot: serial killer, disguise, police investigation, jewish mother, murder, killer, politics, nypd, police, police officer, theater, cat and mouse ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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46%
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
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46%
Thirteen at Dinner (1985)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Actress Jane Wilkinson wants a divorce, but her husband, Lord Edgware, refuses. She convinces Hercule Poirot to use his famed tact and logic to make her case. Lord Edgware turns up murdered, a well-placed knife wound at the base of his neck. It will ...
Style: detective, talky, clever, realistic, semi serious
Plot: whodunit, hercule poirot, private detective, murder mystery, murder, amateur detective, mysticism, serial killer, voice over narration, actress, murder investigation, dead woman ...
Time: 1940s
Place: scotland yard, london
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Homicide (1991)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Bobby Gold is a career cop who is reassigned from a hunt for a cop killer to the investigation of the murder of an old Jewish woman in Baltimore, and in the process finds himself exploring his own sense of identity.
Style: neo noir, detective, realistic, tense, bleak ...
Plot: investigation, anti semitism, judaism, police, conspiracy, murder, cop, police investigation, vendetta, blackmail, explosions, political intrigue ...
Time: year 1991, 90s
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45%
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Clay Pigeons (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife, Amanda. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with ...
Style: dark comedy, clever, humorous, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot: serial killer, dark humor, desert, murder, sex scene, investigation, infidelity, waitress, nude, coming of age, killer, making love ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: montana, usa
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The Black Bird (1975)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get it.
Style: parody, neo noir, realistic, not serious, witty ...
Audience: teens
Plot: private detective, private investigator, relic hunter, murder, power relations, police detective, cons and scams, who done it, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, undercover, uncover truth ...
Time: year 1975, 70s, year 1940
Place: san francisco, usa
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45%
Goodbye Lover (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.
Style: sexy, neo noir, suspenseful, stylized, witty ...
Plot: adultery, investigation, infidelity, obsession, femme fatale, murder, crime gone awry, justice, twists and turns, brother brother relationship, love and romance, dishonesty ...
Time: 90s, year 1998
Place: los angeles, salt lake city utah, las vegas, austria
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45%
Lady in Cement (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: While diving for sunken treasure, street-smart gumshoe Tony Rome finds the body of a gorgeous blonde, her feet stuck in a block of cement. Soon after, tough guy Waldo Gronski hires him to find a missing woman named Sandra Lomax, and Rome wonders if ...
Style: neo noir, noir, thrilling, crime drama, detective ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, diving, underwater, murder, yacht, scuba diving, chess, poker, ocean, woman with a gun, deep south, gay ...
Time: 60s
Place: miami, rome italy, usa, europe, florida
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45%
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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
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45%
The Alphabet Murders (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
Style: detective, realistic, parody, not serious, humorous ...
Plot: private detective, serial killer, murder mystery, mysticism, hercule poirot, investigation, murder, law enforcement, danger, riddles and clues, who done it, silly humor ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england, scotland yard, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Cops and Robbers (1973)
Genre: Crime, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Two disillusioned New York policemen plan a $10 million robbery to fuel their low pensions, only to run into one debacle after another in the process.
Style: realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, witty ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: cop, law enforcement, organized crime, nypd, mafia, gangster, heist, crime gone awry, chase, partner, police detective, disorder ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
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44%
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Hammett (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: "This is an entirely imaginary story about the writer Dashiell Hammett, who... in the words of one of his most gifted contemporaries... helped get murder out of the vicar's rose garden and back to the people who are really good at it. The ...
Style: neo noir, noir, metafiction, detective, stylized ...
Plot: femme fatale, private detective, writers, blackmail, murder, prostitute, private investigator, paranoid, criminal mind, investigation, porn actress, missing person ...
Time: 1920s, year 1982, 20th century
Place: san francisco, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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 ⇓
44%
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The Big Empty (1997)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A woman hires P.I. Lloyd Meadows to investigate her husband, a respectable social worker. What seemed to be a simple case of adultery turns into an ugly mess fast.
Style: independent film, neo noir, serious, realistic, cynical ...
Plot: private detective, private investigator, infidelity, couples, power relations, couple relations, law enforcement, investigation, dangerous attraction, femme fatale, dishonesty, hidden identity ...
Time: 90s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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Thin Ice (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.
Style: semi serious, humorous, realistic, dark comedy, black comedy ...
Plot: unlikely criminals, comedy of errors, crime gone awry, manipulation, dark humor, disorder, dishonesty, cons and scams, snow, winter, small town, caper ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
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