Movies like The Stunt Man
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The Stunt Man (1980)
11K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
While on the run from the police, Steve Railsback hides in a group of moviemakers where he pretends to be a stunt man. Both aided and endangered by the director (Peter O'Toole) he avoids both the police and sudden death as a stuntman. The mixture of real danger and fantasy of the movie is an interesting twist for the viewer as the two blend in individual scenes.
Style:
psychological, black comedy, suspense, tense, atmospheric, intense, suspenseful, semi serious, cult classic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
stuntman, showbiz, filmmaking, police investigation, mistaken identity, on the run, femme fatale, twists and turns, danger, disorder, fish out of water, self discovery, dishonesty, artists and showbiz, female nudity, movie business, husband wife relationship, dark hero, tragic past, justice, world war one, vietnam war, betrayal, hotel, chase ...
Time:
20th century, year 1980, 70s, 80s
Place:
california, korea, amsterdam, holland, guatemala, san diego california
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Most similar movies to The Stunt Man
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspense, stylized and clever films with plots about storytelling, murder, death, cigarette smoking, nude, female nudity and runaway mostly in Drama, Thriller and Romance genres. Some movies like The Stunt Man: The Player (1992), Barton Fink (1991), Jumpin' Jack Flash (1986), Fay Grim (2006), Eenie Meanie (2025). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A Hollywood studio executive is being sent death threats by a writer whose script he rejected - but which one?
Style:
suspense, black comedy, dark comedy, satirical, sexy ...
Plot:
hollywood, filmmaking, film industry, murder, writers, movie business, satire, police investigation, male nudity, showbiz, blackmail, murder mystery ...
Time:
year 1992, 20th century, future, 90s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, pasadena california
Similarity:
100%
135K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.
Style:
surreal, psychological, neo noir, black comedy, cerebral ...
Plot:
twists and turns, dark humor, hollywood, screenwriter, showbiz, murder, neighbor, surrealism, nightmare, serial killer, insanity, filmmaking ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century, year 1991, 90s, year 1941
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, new york, new york state
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Terry works for a bank, and uses computers to communicate with clients all over the world. One day she gets a strange message from an unknown source. The message is coded. After decoding the message, Terry becomes embroiled in an espionage ring. ...
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, surprise ending, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens
Plot:
spy, cold war, espionage, computer, undercover, disappearance, conspiracy, computer cracker, race against time, on the run, deception, assassin ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, France
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Many years after her notorious husband, Henry Fool, fled after killing a neighbor, Fay Grim receives a visit from CIA agent Fulbright, who tells her that Henry is dead, but that some of his journals have been unearthed in France. She sets forth on a ...
Style:
captivating, dark comedy, suspense, tense, disturbing ...
Plot:
missing person, espionage, sex, intrigue, undercover, rivalry, dishonesty, woman in danger, chases and races, politics, cia agent, fugitive ...
Time:
year 1989, year 2006, 21st century
Place:
paris france, europe, france, afghanistan, nicaragua ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A former teenage getaway driver gets dragged back into her unsavory past when a former employer offers her a chance to save the life of her chronically unreliable ex-boyfriend.
Style:
dark comedy
Plot:
bank robber, reckless driving, rehabilitation, robbery, flashback, game, motel, blood, married man, goldfish, car chase, heavy metal ...
Time:
year 2007
Place:
cleveland ohio, ohio
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100%
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
When New York psychiatrist Bill Capa visits Los Angeles to take over his murdered colleague's therapy group, he finds himself embroiled in the thick of a mystery when he bumps into Rose and begins a torrid affair.
Style:
sexy, erotic, suspense, psychological thriller, sensual ...
Audience:
boys' night, adult
Plot:
twists and turns, erotica, fatal attraction, voyeurism, mental illness, investigation, femme fatale, secret identity, psychiatrist, therapist, uncover truth, serial killer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa, manhattan new york city, new york
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
In this thriller, American novelist David Raybourne (Andrew McCarthy) accidentally becomes entangled in the Red Brigade's terrorist plan to kidnap Italian Premier Aldo Moro during a research trip to Rome. As the terrorists attempt to kill ...
Style:
suspense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Plot:
journalism, sexual content, terrorism, mistaken identity, politics, journalist, spy, rough sex, novelist, terrorist, italian history, explosions ...
Time:
70s, year 1991, 20th century, year 1978
Place:
italy, europe, venice, rome italy
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
Navy Lt. Tom Farrell meets a young woman, Susan Atwell , and they share a passionate fling. Farrell then finds out that his superior, Defense Secretary David Brice, is also romantically involved with Atwell. When the young woman turns up dead, ...
Style:
neo noir, sexy, suspense, suspenseful, political thriller ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
twists and turns, espionage, murder, conspiracy, cold war, investigation, sex scene, spy, undercover, love triangle, accidental killing, political corruption ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
washington d.c., pentagon, manila philippines, usa
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Scott James, a veteran martial arts expert, is recruited as the protector of the wealthy and beautiful Justine after she becomes the target of a ninja clan. When Scott finds out that his ruthless arch-nemesis, McCarn , is involved with the stealthy ...
Style:
suspense, stylized, exciting, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night, manly, teens
Plot:
ninja, martial arts, terrorism, sex, master warrior, undercover, good versus evil, one man army, revenge, assassin, betrayal, terrorist ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1980
Place:
los angeles, south america, paris france, mexico
Similarity:
25%
23K
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Michael ‘Jay’ Cochran has just left the Navy after 12 years and he's not quite sure what he's going to do, except that he knows he wants a holiday. He decides to visit Tiburon Mendez, a powerful but shady Mexican businessman who he ...
Style:
sexy, serious, suspenseful, erotic, sad ...
Plot:
betrayal, revenge, dangerous attraction, love triangle, vengeance, couple relations, adultery, unfaithful wife, passion, love, desert, contract killer ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
mexico, latin america
Similarity:
25%
15K
Genre: Action, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Max Kirkpatrick is a cop who protects Kate McQuean, a civil law attorney, from a renegade KGB team out to terminate her
Style:
sexy, suspense, detective, erotic, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
police protection, hostage, conspiracy, female lawyer, chase, gunfight, sex scene, car chase, lawyer, female killer, female assassin, lust ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
florida, miami, usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A recently orphaned millionairess, Olivia, really hates her scheming step-father. Olivia finds love with a young yacht racing captain, Tim, who isn't completely truthful with her. When the two run into a problem the local cop, who happens to be ...
Style:
neo noir, sexy, erotic, suspenseful, romantic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
nudity, plot twist, adultery, sex scene, woman in jeopardy, female nudity, yacht, unplanned pregnancy, sex, dangerous attraction, police investigation, blonde ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york state, atlantic ocean, new york, california
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Peru
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
May Munro is a woman obsessed with getting revenge on the people who murdered her parents when she was still a girl. She hires Ray Quick, a retired explosives expert to kill her parent's killers. When Ned Trent, embittered ex-partner of ...
Style:
suspense, neo noir, suspenseful, sexy, erotic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, sex scene, hitman, haunted by the past, bomb, vengeance, femme fatale, murder, redemption, assassination, anti hero, ex cia agent ...
Time:
year 1994, year 1984, 90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
miami, florida, usa
Similarity:
24%
119K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
Style:
detective, atmospheric, surreal, sexy, neo noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
private investigator, investigation, private detective, marijuana, conspiracy, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, hippie, drug trade, paranoia, obsession, betrayal, teeth ...
Time:
70s, year 2014, year 1967, year 1970, 90s ...
Place:
los angeles, california, southern california, usa, beverly hills
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min.
Story:
An art director in the 1930s falls in love and attempts to make a young woman an actress despite Hollywood who wants nothing to do with her because of her problems with an estranged man and her alcoholic father.
Style:
cult classic, disturbing, cerebral, cynical, surreal ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hollywood, female nudity, movie business, filmmaking, great depression, art, satire, showbiz, accountant, politics, actor, surrealism ...
Time:
1930s, year 1975, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, beverly hills, glendale california
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada, UK, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
An average family is thrust into the spotlight after the father commits a seemingly self-defense murder at his diner.
Style:
disturbing, tense, neo noir, sexy, harsh ...
Audience:
date night, manly
Plot:
twists and turns, self defense, revenge, violent, small town, organized crime, sex scene, redemption, gangster, sex, murder, attempted robbery ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
indiana, philadelphia, columbus ohio, usa, pennsylvania ...
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Apocalyptic comedy finds a socially-challenged grad school student as one of the last two men on Earth with a beautiful woman.
Style:
semi serious, witty, humorous, apocalyptic, sex comedy ...
Plot:
love triangle, contests and competitions, danger, love and romance, dystopian future, post apocalypse, absurdism, farce, nudity, epidemic, post-apocalyptic future, distopia ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
After his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight, and attracting the interest of a down and out reporter.
Style:
cynical, stylized, humorous, semi serious, witty ...
Plot:
politics, wall street, dark humor, satire, redemption, interracial relations, society, courtroom, justice, media, finance, legal action ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
new york, bronx new york city, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
23%
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882K
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A ballet dancer wins the lead in "Swan Lake" and is perfect for the role of the delicate White Swan - Princess Odette - but slowly loses her mind as she becomes more and more like Odile, the Black Swan.
Style:
psychological, cerebral, atmospheric, suspense, twist ending ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
ballet, mental illness, obsession, psychology, character study, dancing, insanity, hallucination, mother daughter relationship, ballerina, surrealism, schizophrenia ...
Time:
year 2010, 2000s, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
bolivia, usa, new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sy "the photo guy" Parrish has lovingly developed photos for the Yorkin family since their son was a baby. But as the Yorkins' lives become fuller, Sy's only seems lonelier, until he eventually believes he's part of their ...
Style:
psychological, creepy, scary, suspenseful, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
obsession, photography, loneliness, loner, voyeurism, insanity, psychopath as protagonist, adultery, character study, female pubic hair, voyeur, photograph ...
Time:
year 2002, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
america, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
My Wife is an Actress is a French Romantic Comedy/Drama film starring real life couple Yvan Attal and Charlotte Gainsbourg. Attal plays a journalist who becomes obsessively jealous when his actress wife gets a part in a movie with an attractive ...
Style:
stylized, disturbing, melancholic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
jealous husband, love story, female nudity, brutality, lifestyle, dishonesty, actor's life, couple relations, journalism, couples, relationship vs career, sex ...
Time:
year 2001, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france, london, europe, england ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Nick is the director of a low-budget indie film. He tries to keep everything together as his production is plagued with an insecure actress, a megalomaniac star, a pretentious, beret-wearing director of photography and lousy catering. Divided in ...
Style:
surreal, independent film, humorous, funny, talky ...
Plot:
filmmaking, actor, nothing goes right, filmmaker, satire, character study, artists and showbiz, showbiz, friends, lifestyle, actor's life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
21%
179K
Genre: Action, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, USA, China
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
In 1942, an intelligence officer in North Africa encounters a female French Resistance fighter on a deadly mission behind enemy lines. When they reunite in London, their relationship is tested by the pressures of war.
Style:
sexy, suspense, period piece, tense, romantic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
world war two, espionage, spy, nazi, female agent, love, secret mission, double agent, betrayal, prospector, female spy, undercover ...
Time:
1940s, year 2016, year 1942, future, 2010s ...
Place:
london, france, england, south africa, north africa ...
Similarity:
21%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
Style:
surreal, black comedy, funny, dark comedy, atmospheric ...
Plot:
dark humor, twists and turns, subway, city life, nothing goes right, suicide, mistaken identity, artist, coincidence, female nudity, diner, nightclub ...
Time:
20th century, year 1985, 80s
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
21%
44K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
In the midst of a searing Florida heat wave, a woman convinces her lover, a small-town lawyer, to murder her rich husband.
Style:
sexy, neo noir, sexual, suspense, noir ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
murder, femme fatale, obsession, adultery, sex, husband wife relationship, passion, female nudity, adulteress, greed, nudity, prison ...
Time:
80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place:
florida, southern usa, usa, miami
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.
Style:
sexy, cult classic, spoof, suspenseful, humorous ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
airport, chase, cuckold, assassin, insomnia, hunting, adultery, gangster, on the run, infidelity, manhunt, beach ...
Time:
80s, year 1985, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, mexico, las vegas, california
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
After being involuntarily discharged from the U.S. Special Forces, James Harper decides to support his family by joining a private contracting organization alongside his best friend and under the command of a fellow veteran. Overseas on a covert ...
Style:
suspense, tense, captivating, disturbing, thrilling ...
Plot:
mission, military, ex military, veteran, betrayal, fight, soldier, murder, wound, hunted, flashback, reconnaissance ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
berlin germany, germany, atlanta georgia
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
In a seaside California town, best friends Mac and Nick are on opposite sides of the law. Mac is a former drug dealer trying to clean up his act, while Nick is a high-profile detective trying to take down a Mexican drug lord named Carlos. Soon ...
Style:
sexy, suspense, serious, realistic, atmospheric ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
organized crime, surveillance, drug lord, drug dealer, love triangle, friendship, corruption, crime boss, drug, love, best friend, law enforcement ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
While traveling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex.
Style:
visually stunning, atmospheric, stylized, exciting, touching ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
forbidden love, fall in love, dangerous attraction, chase, gangster, a vision, on the run, supernatural, femme fatale, disorder, danger, redemption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
romania, usa, bucharest, chicago
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Cousin Bette is a poor and lonely seamstress, who, after the death of her prominent and wealthy sister, tries to ingratiate herself into lives of her brother-in-law, Baron Hulot, and her niece, Hortense Hulot. Failing to do so, she instead finds ...
Style:
light, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot:
infidelity, perversion, slut, revenge, sex scene, nobility, seamstress, adultery, dysfunctional family, manipulation, family relations, love ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, victorian era
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Similarity:
20%
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