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Murder Live! (1997)
336
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, rape victim, ex husband ex wife relationship, female reporter, hostage negotiator, loss of daughter, fictional reality show, talk show host, bomb squad, television producer, psychiatrist, videotaping, live broadcast ...
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, realistic, suspenseful 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), The Cursed (2000), Held Hostage (2009), Supremacy (2014), Good Chemistry (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, exciting, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
psycho, snow, rivalry, uninhibited rivalry, confined, chases and races, rescue, danger, psychopath, woman in danger, kidnapping, captivity ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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, independent film ...
Plot:
hostage, unlikely criminals, danger, escapades, daring rescue, confined, chases and races, forces of nature, psychopath, married couple, negotiation, down on your luck ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
51%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
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, rough, suspenseful, realistic ...
Plot:
confined, heist, woman in danger, single parent, danger, unlikely criminals, isolation, crime gone awry, parents and children, bank, kidnapping, child in peril ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
51%
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, murder, family relations, confined, kidnapped, home invasion, husband wife relationship, african american, hostage situation, blaxploitation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, california
Similarity:
50%
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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, suspenseful, rough ...
Plot:
murder, chemistry, kidnapping, on the run, drug dealing, danger, dishonesty, drug abuse, violent content, farm, confined, cons and scams ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
50%
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, confined, vengeance, couples, family problems, haunted by the past, dishonesty, danger, estate, dysfunctional marriage, unhappy marriage ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
50%
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, realistic, serious, psychological ...
Plot:
pirate, piracy, moral dilemma, hijacking, surrender, confined, danger, rivalry, international relations, violent content, hostage, realism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, somalia
Similarity:
50%
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:
serious, tense, suspenseful, rough, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vengeance, law enforcement, danger, doctors and patients, mentally unstable, chases and races, rivalry, murder investigation, bomb, swat team, medical, mysticism ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
seattle, usa
Similarity:
49%
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723
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, forces of nature, isolation, captivity, one man army, confined, danger, husband wife relationship, cruise, lgbtq ...
Time:
90s
Place:
bahamas
Similarity:
49%
1K
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, against the odds, terrorism, rescue, race against time, danger, bomb, nihilism, found footage, underground, woman in danger, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
colombia
Similarity:
49%
371
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, rough, suspenseful, bleak
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
disaster, heat wave, medicine, nypd, hospital, quarantine, danger, escapades, chases and races, race against time, couple relations, plague ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
sao paulo brazil
Similarity:
49%
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, save the day, danger, race against time, ransom, tunnel, confined, mind game, law enforcement, subway, extortion ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
49%
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, texas ranger, psychologist, serial murder, chases and races, rivalry, law enforcement, police investigation, obsession, danger, police detective, psychopath ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa, texas
Similarity:
48%
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:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
murder, crime gone awry, family gatherings, heist, danger, confined, sex scene, making love, gunfight, sensuality, mansion, woman with a gun ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
48%
503
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, independent film ...
Plot:
hostage, kidnapping, psychopath, danger, gang, rivalry, daring rescue, parents and children, chases and races, serial killer, criminal heroes, murderous pair ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
48%
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:
tense, exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, hostage situation, taken hostage, hijacking, hostage, ocean, leadership, chases and races, danger, confined, one man army, heroes ...
Time:
80s, year 1985
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Woman is trapped in her home with her husband's killers.
Style:
spooky, tense, exciting, serious, slasher ...
Plot:
murder, psychopath, disability, dealing with death, danger, chases and races, criminal heroes, law enforcement, stalking, woman in danger, curses spells and rituals, rock climbing ...
Time:
80s
Place:
usa
Similarity:
48%
273
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, suspense ...
Plot:
russian roulette, game of death, suicide, life is a bitch, mind game, destiny, down on your luck, danger, moral ambiguity, moral dilemma, character study, claustrophobia ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
48%
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443
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, rough, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hostage, crime gone awry, heist, rebelliousness, danger, mysterious character, chases and races, disorder, cons and scams, destiny, confined, bank ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
48%
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, serious, realistic, perverse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
terrorism, terrorist, kidnapping, torture, chess, idealism, confined, rivalry, danger, missing person, presumed dead, threat ...
Place:
africa, morocco
Similarity:
48%
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:
serious, realistic, bleak, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gambling, diner, profanity, strong violent content, hostage, confined, swat, psychopath, butterfly effect, multiple storylines, pawnshop, one day ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
48%
754
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, exciting, psychological ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
criminal's revenge, master criminal, heist, danger, race against time, psychopath, car chase, car thief, serial killer, chases and races, woman in danger, chase ...
Similarity:
48%
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:
sexual, independent film, serious, psychological, suspenseful ...
Plot:
stalking, psychopath, infidelity, obsession, danger, dangerous attraction, couple relations, dishonesty, couples, husband, woman, friend ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
47%
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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:
serious, suspenseful, captivating, tense, psychological ...
Plot:
assassination, campaign, danger, politics, haunted by the past, political corruption, dishonesty, rivalry, violent content, state affairs, profanity, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, louisiana
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
On a winter day in a southside Queens high school, events collide and six students are suddenly in an armed standoff with the NYPD. At the school, classrooms freeze, teachers come and go, resources are scant.
Style:
hood, tense, serious, realistic, disturbing ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
high school, urban, black, coming of age, school, hip hop, die hard, swat team, hip hop culture, danger, blaxploitation, conspiracy ...
Time:
year 1999, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Eighteen-year-old Amy is having a bad day. Not only has she been kidnapped by a deranged gunman, but as a diabetic without her insulin, her chances of survival are diminishing with each tick of the clock. FBI agent Megan Saunders isn't walking ...
Style:
suspenseful, exciting, serious, disturbing, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hostage, diabetic, police investigation, danger, woman in danger, chase, kidnapped, terminal illness, kidnapping, salvation, captivity, hostage situation ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, illinois
Similarity:
47%
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:
realistic, psychological, suspenseful, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, who done it, courtroom, hostage, injustice, legal investigation, law enforcement, hotshot lawyer, false accusation, murder, confined, legal ...
Time:
20th century, year 1996, 90s
Place:
new york, rome italy
Similarity:
47%
686
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
‘GHOSTED’ tells a story of survival inside a British Prison. Jack a model prisoner, has kept his head down and done his time. After his wife confirms that she is leaving him, on the anniversary of their son’s death, the only thing that keeps ...
Style:
suspenseful, rough, serious, bleak, realistic ...
Plot:
prison, survival, haunted by the past, danger, confined, criminal heroes, twists and turns, prison life, prison fight, prison rape, supernatural, strong violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, england
Similarity:
47%
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, serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
courtroom, witness, law, kidnapping, organized crime, murder, prison, power relations, injustice, restaurant, confined, danger ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Inspired by true events...The story of three hunters who mysteriously became the hunted.
Style:
suspense, atmospheric, rough, psychological, mumblecore ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, on the run, danger, wilderness, manhunt, woods, redneck, hunting, sniper, violent content, chases and races, escapades ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
delaware, usa
Similarity:
47%
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