Movies like Murder Live!
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Murder Live! (1997)
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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, psycho film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
swat team, nypd, hostage, hostage situation, showbiz, media, confined, haunted by the past, sniper, suicide, psychiatrist, rape victim, ex husband ex wife relationship, female reporter, hostage negotiator, loss of daughter, videotaping, fictional reality show, talk show host, bomb squad, television producer, live broadcast, chases and races, danger, deadly ...
Time:
90s
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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, rivalry, hostage and murder mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Murder Live!: Tracks of a Killer (1996), Roulette (2012), Good Chemistry (2008), The Cursed (2000), Darkness Falls (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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:
exciting, realistic, serious, psychological, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psycho, confined, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, rescue, psychopath, captivity, kidnapping, woman in danger, snow, serial killer, erotic thriller ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
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261
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, psychological, serious, suspenseful, non-linear ...
Plot:
russian roulette, suicide, mind game, life is a bitch, destiny, down on your luck, game of death, woman in danger, deadly, danger, unreliable narrator, gun
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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95%
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, on the run, drug dealing, dishonesty, drug abuse, suspense, chemistry, graphic violence, farm, confined, forced into action ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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91%
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, rough, suspenseful, exciting ...
Plot:
escaped mental patient, hostage, unlikely criminals, confined, daring rescue, escapades, forces of nature, psychopath, married couple, negotiation, down on your luck, gunfight ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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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:
psychological, realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious ...
Plot:
captivity, hostage, vengeance, confined, couples, family problems, haunted by the past, dishonesty, estate, unhappy wife, unhappy marriage, dysfunctional marriage ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
90%
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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, captivating, serious, realistic, psychological ...
Plot:
moral dilemma, pirate, hijacking, surrender, confined, piracy, escape, rivalry, graphic violence, hostage, power relations, realism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
89%
859
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, false accusation, murder, law enforcement, hotshot lawyer, legal investigation, who done it, police corruption, legal action ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
88%
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, gunfight, suspense, sex scene, mansion, sensuality, woman with a gun, making love ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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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, suspenseful, bleak ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gambling, confined, psychopath, swat team, strong violent content, hostage, diner, restaurant, marital infidelity, unemployment, suicidal, waitress ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
87%
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, race against time, save the day, ransom, tunnel, mind game, confined, law enforcement, extortion, railway ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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457
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A serial killer turns the life of a family on vacation into a nightmare.
Style:
psychological, serious, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
hostage, kidnapping, race against time, psychopath, confined, gang, rivalry, daring rescue, parents and children, serial killer, murderous pair, criminal heroes ...
Time:
90s
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A famous psychiatrist (Ty Adams) takes on the job of trying to cure patients at the Sedah State Hospital, run by it's folksy doctor (Sam Delazo). All this takes a strange turn when a mysterious patient (Satan, he calls himself) enters the ...
Style:
serious, tense, realistic, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mental institution, mental illness, supernatural ability, doctors and patients, psychiatrist, video surveillance, devil, research, obsession, blaxploitation, lgbt, mythical creature ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
346
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, nypd, hospital, quarantine, escapades, race against time, plague, couple relations, chaos, catastrophe, city ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
sao paulo brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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, suspenseful, rough, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
race against time, vengeance, doctors and patients, law enforcement, mentally unstable, rivalry, murder investigation, bomb, serial killer, mysticism, medical, confined ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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:
mind bending, tense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
vietnam war, nypd, policewoman, police detective, murder, gambling, pregnancy, police corruption, law enforcement, dishonesty, investigation, partners ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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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:
tense, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful
Plot:
serial killer, psychologist, texas ranger, rivalry, law enforcement, police investigation, obsession, police detective, psychopath, woman in danger, murder, criminal psychologist ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
655
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, rough, suspenseful, psychological, realistic ...
Plot:
rescue, hostage, survival, isolation, captivity, forces of nature, confined, husband wife relationship, cruise, lgbtq, social relations, ship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bahamas
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A decent but troubled young man is sent to a psychiatric institution for the criminally insane and soon finds himself in a fight for his life battling ghosts inside his head and very real enemies all around him.
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, tense, rough, realistic ...
Plot:
mental illness, murder, mental institution, psychopath, mentally unstable, confined, redemption, crime and punishment, woman in danger, haunted by the past, criminal psychologist, prison ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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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:
family in danger, society, confined, murder, family relations, hostage, husband wife relationship, home invasion, african american, kidnapping, kidnapped, blaxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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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, serious ...
Plot:
terrorism, against the odds, rescue, race against time, bomb, nihilism, woman in danger, gay slur, terrorist, farm, empire, profanity ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Woman is trapped in her home with her husband's killers.
Style:
exciting, tense, realistic, serious, slasher ...
Plot:
murder, psychopath, disability, criminal heroes, track down, stalking, dealing with death, law enforcement, curses spells and rituals, woman in danger, safe, violence ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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, serious, realistic, suspenseful, emotional ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist, kidnapping, torture, idealism, race against time, rivalry, confined, missing person, chess, twists and turns, spy ...
Place:
africa, morocco
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
314
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, suspenseful, rough, tense
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, save the day, survival, escapades, race against time, pregnancy, natural disaster, rescue, father son relationship, apocalypse, catastrophe, forces of nature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
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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:
sexy, tense, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
infidelity, psychopath, stalking, obsession, couples, dishonesty, couple relations, dangerous attraction, neglected wife, neglectful husband, cheating wife, blackmail ...
Time:
90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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, single parent, unlikely criminals, isolation, crime gone awry, bank, parents and children, kidnapping, child in peril, hostage ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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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:
suspenseful, serious, tense, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
assassination, campaign, political corruption, politics, dishonesty, haunted by the past, rivalry, graphic violence, state affairs, corruption, sex, danger ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
louisiana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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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, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
crime gone awry, heist, rebelliousness, mysterious character, disorder, destiny, cons and scams, confined, bank, twists and turns, kidnapping, hotel ...
Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
When a stunt man dies in Miami, his uncle, a New York mob boss, sends a hit man to tail the stunt coordinator, whom the boss wants dead. The hit man, Eric O'Bryne, gets close to his mark's daughter, and through her he asks her dad to teach ...
Style:
serious, tense, suspenseful, realistic
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, undercover, witnessing a crime, gangsters, working undercover, introspection, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, rivalry, dishonesty, chase, vengeance ...
Place:
usa, miami, florida, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, hijacking, hostage, ocean, save the day, golden years, confined, leadership, one man army, race against time, heroes, cruise ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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, psychological, realistic, serious, disturbing ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
courtroom, witness, kidnapping, prison, murder, power relations, restaurant, injustice, rebellion, law enforcement, witnessing a crime, legal ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
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