Movies like Murder Live!

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Murder Live! (1997)
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Murder Live! (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Frank takes Pia Postman hostage on live TV, threatening to execute her after she accepts the blame for his daughter's suicide.
Style: psychological, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychological thriller, psycho film
Audience: boys' night
Plot: swat team, nypd, hostage, hostage situation, chases and races, showbiz, media, danger, confined, haunted by the past, swat, sniper, suicide, psychiatrist, cigarette smoking, rape victim, ex husband ex wife relationship, female reporter, hostage negotiator, loss of daughter, fictional reality show, talk show host, bomb squad, television producer, videotaping ...
Time: 90s
Keyword: video

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Most similar movies to Murder Live!

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, suspenseful, realistic and rough films with plots about danger, deadly, confined, chases and races, hostage, rivalry and kidnapping mostly in Thriller, Drama and Crime genres. Some movies like Murder Live!: Tracks of a Killer (1996), Roulette (2012), The Cursed (2000), Good Chemistry (2008), Darkness Falls (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Tracks of a Killer (1996)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Business mogul David Hawkner and his wife are enjoying a quiet vacation by themselves at their isolated retreat. The serenity is broken when they become the targets of a handsome, crazed killer.
Style: independent film, psychological, serious, realistic, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: snow, psycho, psychopath, rescue, chases and races, danger, rivalry, confined, uninhibited rivalry, captivity, kidnapping, woman in danger ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
 4.0
 267
Roulette (2012)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: When three very different people (Mike Baldwin, Will Haza, Ali Lukowski) from three completely different worlds begin a deadly game of Russian Roulette, they soon discover that their pasts are a trilogy of overlapping events that have brought them ...
Style: tense, serious, psychological, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: russian roulette, suicide, mind game, life is a bitch, destiny, down on your luck, game of death, danger, woman in danger, group, deadly, unreliable narrator ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
94%
 5.1
 117
The Cursed (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A woman desperate to save her injured husband is taken hostage by an escaped mental patient.
Style: serious, psychological, suspenseful, rough, independent film ...
Plot: escaped mental patient, hostage, unlikely criminals, danger, escapades, daring rescue, confined, chases and races, forces of nature, psychopath, married couple, negotiation ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
 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 ⇓
90%
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Darkness Falls (1999)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story: With his pregnant wife at death's door after a car crash, desperate husband John Barrett invades the home of Mark Driscoll and his rich, neglected wife Sally. He holds the couple hostage in order to understand the events that led to his wife ...
Style: realistic, psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot: captivity, hostage, family problems, couples, confined, vengeance, haunted by the past, estate, danger, dishonesty, unhappy wife, unhappy marriage ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
 4.0
 675
The Crew (1994)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Still depressed over the suicide of his mother, Bill has no idea that he's in for a wild ride when he and his wife Jennifer board the yacht owned by her bigoted lawyer brother. Along for the trip: a rock musician and his wife, as well as the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, psychological, realistic ...
Plot: rescue, hostage, survival, captivity, isolation, forces of nature, danger, confined, husband wife relationship, cruise, lgbtq, social relations ...
Time: 90s
Place: bahamas
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
 5.7
 5K
Supremacy (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: The story centers on paroled white supremacist who has just killed a cop, and takes a black family hostage. Within hours of being released from 14 years of solitary confinement in maximum-security Pelican Bay State Prison, Garrett Tully is on the ...
Style: serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, psychological thriller ...
Audience: boys' night, girls' night
Plot: hostage, family in danger, danger, society, murder, family relations, confined, kidnapped, home invasion, husband wife relationship, african american, aryan brotherhood ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
Fishing Without Nets (2014)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Kenya, Somalia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: In Somalia, principled, young husband and father Abdi turns to piracy to support his family. While his wife and child wait for him in Yemen, an outdated and fragile satellite phone is his only connection to all he truly values. Abdi and his fellow ...
Style: tense, serious, captivating, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: pirate, piracy, moral dilemma, hijacking, surrender, danger, confined, escape, rivalry, international relations, violent content, hostage ...
Time: 21st century
Place: africa, somalia
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Infinite Justice (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: An American reporter is held hostage by Muslim fundamentalists in Karachi against the release of prisoners in Guantanamo Bay.
Style: realistic, suspense, tense, captivating, suspenseful ...
Plot: hostage, captivity, politics, terrorism, journalism, prison, confined, rebellion, danger, kidnapping, state affairs, media ...
Time: 21st century
Place: pakistan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 5.0
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Below Utopia (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Daniel returns to his family's mansion for the holidays along with his girlfriend Susanne. His family's seemingly-utopian existence is overshadowed by not only the death of Daniel's brother, but also by Daniel's failure to live ...
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Plot: murder, crime gone awry, family gatherings, heist, confined, danger, gunfight, sex scene, woman with a gun, making love, mansion, sensuality ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 4.7
 354
Thirst (1998)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A chemical engineer, who recently moved to town, struggles to find a way to kill a deadly new variant of Cryptosporidium that has infiltrated the town's water supply, causing people who drink it to die of thirst.
Style: serious, exciting, bleak, rough, suspenseful
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, heat wave, medicine, nypd, hospital, quarantine, couple relations, chases and races, escapades, danger, race against time, plague ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
 3.9
 473
Tripfall (2000)
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: A serial killer turns the life of a family on vacation into a nightmare.
Style: serious, psychological, rough, suspenseful, independent film ...
Plot: hostage, kidnapping, psychopath, danger, gang, daring rescue, rivalry, parents and children, chases and races, serial killer, criminal heroes, murderous pair ...
Time: 90s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: In New York, armed men hijack a subway car and demand a ransom for the passengers. Even if it's paid, how could they get away?
Style: tense, realistic, suspenseful, serious
Audience: boys' night
Plot: hijacking, hostage, train, save the day, race against time, danger, ransom, tunnel, confined, mind game, law enforcement, subway ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
 4.9
 436
Sympathy (2007)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A bank robber and his hostage spend the night in a hotel where they are visited by a man who sends the story on an unexpected path full of twists and turns.
Style: exciting, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot: hostage, crime gone awry, heist, mysterious character, rebelliousness, chases and races, danger, disorder, cons and scams, destiny, confined, gory ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Dead in a Heartbeat (2002)
Genre: Drama, Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: An unlikely duo, Lieutenant Tom Royko of the Seattle Bomb Squad and renowned heart surgeon, Dr. Gillian Hayes, find themselves in a race against time to track down a disturbed bomber who is inexplicably causing Dr. Hayes' patients to explode.
Style: tense, serious, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: vengeance, doctors and patients, mentally unstable, danger, law enforcement, rivalry, chases and races, murder investigation, bomb, medicine, serial killer, mysticism ...
Time: 21st century
Place: seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Perfect Prey (1998)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A former Texas Ranger is recruited by a Houston police captain to assist a homicide detective in the search for an elusive serial killer who collects antique dolls.
Style: realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful, rough
Plot: serial killer, psychologist, texas ranger, serial murder, psychopath, police detective, law enforcement, police investigation, obsession, danger, chases and races, rivalry ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: texas, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Mistrial (1996)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When a cop-killer goes free, a detective's search for personal justice veers dangerously out of control. Declaring a mistrial, he takes the accused, the judge and the jury hostage...and begins a trial of his own.
Style: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: courtroom drama, courtroom, hostage, injustice, legal investigation, law enforcement, hotshot lawyer, murder, false accusation, legal, protagonist as suspect, dishonesty ...
Time: 20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place: new york, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair (1990)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, USA, West Germany, UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: Genua, 3rd October 1985. Together with over 500 other passengers Margot and Pierre Bergeron, a married couple from France, the Serafinis, an Italian family, Anne Higgins, an Englishwoman, Gitta and Helmut Holzer from Germany and an American couple ...
Style: exciting, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, hijacking, taken hostage, hostage situation, hostage, ocean, danger, save the day, chases and races, one man army, race against time, leadership ...
Time: 80s, year 1985
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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Blind Witness (1989)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Woman is trapped in her home with her husband's killers.
Style: spooky, realistic, slasher, serious, psychological ...
Plot: murder, danger, chases and races, stalking, dealing with death, law enforcement, criminal heroes, disability, psychopath, woman in danger, curses spells and rituals, caucasian ...
Time: 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
 5.6
 317
Frame by Frame (1996)
Genre: Thriller, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: A pair of romantically entangled cops become suspects in the brutal murder of one of their mates.
Style: tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot: yakuza, vietnam war, triad, nypd, policewoman, partner, police detective, murder, police corruption, pregnancy, gambling, investigation ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.6
 1K
PVC-1 (2007)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Colombia, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Shot in real time, PVC-1 is based on the true story of a woman who is turned into a human time bomb in a bizarre act of terrorism.
Style: disturbing, psychological, realistic, rough, tense ...
Plot: profanity, terrorism, against the odds, race against time, rescue, danger, bomb, nihilism, found footage, underground, chases and races, woman in danger ...
Time: 21st century
Place: colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.1
 383
October 22 (1998)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A wounded man makes a desperate call, reporting that a gunman is holding a coffee shop hostage and shooting anyone he pleases -- but when the SWAT team shows up, the madman opens fire. Through flashbacks, a waitress serves an array of customers, all ...
Style: realistic, serious, rough, bleak, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: gambling, diner, profanity, hostage, strong violent content, confined, psychopath, swat, butterfly effect, pawnshop, one day, multiple storylines ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 6.3
 8K
Five Fingers (2006)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Martijn, an idealistic Dutch pianist, travels to Morocco to help start a food program for malnourished children. Within moments of his arrival, however, Martijn is abducted by a group of terrorists, injected with a debilitating drug, and imprisoned. ...
Style: psychological, suspenseful, realistic, serious, twisted ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: terrorism, terrorist, kidnapping, torture, chess, idealism, confined, danger, rivalry, missing person, twists and turns, threat ...
Place: africa, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 5.0
 712
Held Hostage (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Michelle a single mother is kidnapped by three masked men and held hostage until she is forced to rob a bank which is the only option she has to saving her only child's life while they are both wired to explode.
Style: psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, tense ...
Plot: confined, heist, woman in danger, danger, single parent, unlikely criminals, isolation, crime gone awry, parents and children, bank, kidnapping, child in peril ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
 3.9
 343
Landslide (2005)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Manhattan fireman Mark Decker visits, for the first time, his Steven in his ex Emma's new apartment in one of her dad Donald Richardson's development estates, at the foot of Diamand-back Mountain. But Don's ambitious executive Stewart ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense
Audience: boys' night
Plot: disaster, survival, save the day, escapades, race against time, danger, pregnancy, chases and races, natural disaster, rescue, father son relationship, apocalypse ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Enemies Among Us (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: It's not politics as usual, or is it? The governor of Louisiana is about to become the vice-presidential candidate for his party but a murder and an international web spanning from South Africa to Pakistan and North Korea might just get in the ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot: assassination, campaign, danger, politics, political corruption, haunted by the past, dishonesty, rivalry, violent content, profanity, state affairs, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, louisiana
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Man of Her Dreams (1997)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: After suspecting her husband is playing the field, a nervous woman finds a sympathetic ear in the form of a strange man. The drawback is that her sensitive new-found friend is an obsessive psychopath.
Style: independent film, realistic, psychological, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: stalking, psychopath, infidelity, danger, obsession, couples, dishonesty, dangerous attraction, couple relations, husband, friend, woman ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Under Still Waters (2008)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A young married couple encounters a stranger who threatens their marriage and their lives.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic ...
Plot: stranger, couples, sex scene, family problems, danger, mysterious character, drinking, drinking alcohol, marriage, alcohol abuse, isolation, confined ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
Perfect Witness (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A witness to a mob killing has second thoughts about testifying when he realizes his family might become a target.
Style: tense, serious, realistic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: courtroom, witness, law, kidnapping, injustice, power relations, restaurant, murder, prison, law enforcement, chases and races, danger ...
Time: 80s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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 676
Banshee (2006)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A kick-ass professional car thief, Sage, (Taryn Manning), steals a classic '66 Charger on a challenge. It turns out the car belongs to a serial killer (is there another kind?), who proceeds to slice and dice her friends because he wants his car ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, psychological, exciting ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, race against time, heist, danger, car chase, master criminal, criminal's revenge, car thief, witnessing a crime, hostage, chase ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
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