Movies like The Legend of Barney Thomson

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The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015)
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The Legend of Barney Thomson (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
Style: humorous, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, funny, dark comedy
Plot: serial killer, murder investigation, barbershop, homicide detective, police detective, murder suspect, hairdresser, female serial killer, violence, death, chase, danger, corpse, dishonesty, twists and turns, psychopath, satire, adaptation, accidental killing, mexican standoff, lake, serial murder, carnival, disposing of a dead body, press conference ...
Time: 21st century
Place: glasgow scotland
Keyword: gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, suspenseful, realistic and semi serious films with plots about murder, deadly, serial killer, violence, psychopath, dark humor and death mostly in Crime, Comedy and Thriller genres. Some movies like The Legend of Barney Thomson: R.S.V.P. (2002), A Sense of Humor (2011), Chain of Fools (2000), Dolceroma (2019), Seven Psychopaths (2012). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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R.S.V.P. (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A young man invites a group of his closest friends to a party, where he proceeds to discreetly kill them all.
Style: slasher, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, psychopath, dark humor, death, student, party, violence, who done it, woman in danger, college, professor ...
Place: las vegas
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A Sense of Humor (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A serial killer abducts two stand-up comedians after they mock him as part of their on-stage act. If they teach him how to be funny, he might let them live.
Style: realistic, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
Plot: serial killer, partner, buddies, psychopath, disorder, dark humor, performer's life, power relations, unlikely partners, kidnapping, swearing, village life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
Chain of Fools (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: An avid detective is assigned to investigate the heist of a batch of precious coins that end up in the hands of a suicidal barber.
Style: humorous, witty, clever, light, absurd ...
Plot: love and romance, suicide, eccentricity, drug, violence, childhood, dark humor, mentor, adaptation, dysfunctional family, twists and turns, transvestite ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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Dolceroma (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Andrea Serrano is a young aspiring writer who, to make ends meet, is forced to wash corpses in a mortuary, while struggling to finish his first novel, a story about the Camorra. Having become discouraged by his struggling career, he is waiting for ...
Style: psychological, suspense, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious ...
Plot: gangster, killings, murder, violence, death, filmmaking, corpse, gang war, betrayal, chase, brutality, mob boss ...
Time: 21st century
Place: italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
Style: neo noir, dark comedy, talky, humorous, surreal ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dark humor, dog, psychopath, screenwriter, serial killer, gangster, crime gone awry, strong violent content, gunfight, murder, mob boss, weirdo ...
Time: 2010s, year 2012, year 1963, year 1954, year 1975 ...
Place: los angeles, california, united kingdom, america, usa ...
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Curdled (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Gabriella, a Columbian immigrant, is obsessed with understanding violent crime. The current string of murders by "The Blue Blood Killer" of affluent Miami socialites provides her with fodder for her scrapbook of death. She lands a job with ...
Style: dark comedy, disturbing, bloody, black comedy, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, dangerous attraction, murder, cleaning lady, obsession, blood, investigation, macabre, samurai sword, death, violence, idiot ...
Time: year 1996, 90s
Place: miami, colombia, usa, florida
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63%
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Dead Fish (2005)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the tradition of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. With an all-star cast including Terence Stamp, Elena Anaya, Robert Carlyle and Billy Zane, ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, tense, dark comedy, realistic
Plot: gangster, rivalry, vengeance, danger, psychopath, dark humor, heist, murder, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, female nudity, bare breasts ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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The 51st State (2001)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Elmo McElroy is a streetwise American master chemist who heads to England to sell his special new formula - a powerful, blue concoction guaranteed to take you to 'the 51st state.' McElroy's new product delivers a feeling 51 times more ...
Style: humorous, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, funny ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: chase, chemist, organized crime, gangster, drug lord, culture clash, drug, golf, drug dealing, car chase, gang war, partner ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s, 70s
Place: england, los angeles, liverpool, northern england, usa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Heads (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, and reluctantly gets involved with the nutty daughter of his editor. Before long he discovers that he is the prime suspect in the murders.
Style: dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, parody, suspenseful ...
Plot: small town, newspaper, decapitation, serial killer, murder, media, journalism, law enforcement, social relations, dark humor, psychopath, who done it ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A mobster named Jimmy the Tulip agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison; he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, black comedy, suspense ...
Audience: date night
Plot: hitman, murder, assassin, adultery, dark humor, organized crime, mafia, bandit, gangster, violence, opposites attract, twists and turns ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 90s, 20th century
Place: montreal, chicago, canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
The Perfume Of The Lady In Black (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.
Style: humorous, suspenseful, atmospheric, semi serious, stylized ...
Plot: mysterious character, uncover truth, investigation, missing person, amateur detective, who done it, riddles and clues, murder, odd couple, danger, dishonesty, silly humor ...
Time: 19th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Touch of Death (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Lester Parson is a lonely gigolo who dates and kills off middle-aged women in ultra-gory fashion just for the pleasure of watching them die, as well as to take their money and jewelery as well as cook and eat their remains for his dinner.
Style: slasher, controversial, bloody, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, cannibal, gory, cannibalism, guts, psychopath, gambling, female nudity, dismemberment, hit and run, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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Serial Lover (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, dark humor, disorder, looking for love, thirty something, writers, dinner, misfit, freak, gory, blood ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A cricket team are dismissed by a moustachioed serial killer with a razor sharp cricket glove and an arsenal of sharpened stumps. One by one the killer exacts revenge for the torment he endured 20 years earlier.
Style: slasher, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, horror comedy ...
Plot: serial killer, bullying, cricket, vengeance, rivalry, danger, on the run, psychopath, gory, stalking, characters killed one by one, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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The Red Inn (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk ...
Style: humorous, captivating, tense, offbeat, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, hotel, murder, isolation, dark humor, family relations, priest, murderer, criminal, satire, danger, serial murder ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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Snowman's Land (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When the wife of a crime boss is accidentally killed, the hit man who was hired to protect the remote house in which she was living tries to keep her death under wraps. Fearing vengeance from the gangster, he's soon locked in a fight for ...
Style: suspenseful, humorous, serious, cynical, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: crime gone awry, nothing goes right, hitman, twists and turns, danger, disorder, mission gone awry, dark humor, winter, violent content, mountain, wife ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Evil's Wave (2019)
Genre: Crime, Fantasy
Country: Japan
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Story: In 2014, a series of murders targeting women takes place in Kawasaki City. All the victims have been killed as if they had hanged and these are dubbed the “Hanging Murders” in public. The police investigation runs into difficulties without clues ...
Style: disturbing, suspenseful, tense, suspense, psychological ...
Plot: hanged woman, murder, investigation, serial killer, police, vengeance, who done it, maniac, police investigation, death, serial murder, police detective ...
Time: 21st century
Place: japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
You've Got Murder (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Istanbul Police Department homicide detectives encounter a murder nothing like they’ve seen before.Commissioners Emin, Salih, Asuman and deputy Alaattin begin investigating.But strange murders keep happening. They don’t have any evidence or any ...
Style: suspenseful, entertaining, suspense, feel good, humorous ...
Plot: serial killer, police, murder, police department, fight, chase, death, partner, law enforcement, humour, absurd humor, silly humor ...
Time: 21st century
Place: istanbul turkey, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Vicious Fun (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A loser whose life is passing him by accidentally stumbles into a secret underground self-help group for serial killers. Can he match wits with five killers and make it through the night alive? Stuck with only two options - kill or be killed, Joel ...
Style: suspense, slasher, scary, horror comedy, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, slasher spoof, psychopath, survival, maniac, brutality, fear, danger, murder, obsession, revenge, chase ...
Time: 80s, 2020s, 21st century
Place: canada
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Killer (1997)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: An innocent cab driver is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob boss who needs "Killer" for a few more jobs.
Style: dark comedy, exciting, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: hitman, mistaken identity, serial killer, mafia, renaissance, contract killer, danger, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, disorder, taxi, polish ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: poland, eastern europe, europe
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Interference (2018)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A retiring detective tries to discover the identity of a half charred woman found in front of a District Attorney's boat who is pursuing a child serial killer.
Style: psychotronic, suspense, suspenseful, scary, tense ...
Plot: serial killer, boat, police officer, murder investigation, heroes, who done it, investigation, danger, murderer, brutality, child murderess, police detective ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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43%
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Life Eternal (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 123 min.
Story: A thriller crime comedy directed by Wolfgang Murnberger.
Style: tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful ...
Plot: murder investigation, group of friends, police, murder, pills, haunted by the past, amnesia, neighbor neighbor relationship, saving a life, father daughter relationship, partner, friends ...
Time: 21st century
Place: austria
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Women (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
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Duration: 92 min.
Story: A small town detective while investigating the disappearance of a local woman comes across an unassuming Sociology professor who is hiding a secret life.
Style: suspenseful, tense, disturbing, psychological, suspense ...
Plot: serial killer, police investigation, abduction, police procedural, psychopath, murder investigation, murder, violence, chase, murderer, police detective, suspicion ...
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How to Be a Serial Killer (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: HOW TO BE A SERIAL KILLER is the story of Mike Wilson, a charismatic, educated, and articulate young man who has found his life's purpose in exterminating people. Mike is determined to spread his message about the joy of serial killing and ...
Style: scary, suspenseful, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
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Time: 21st century
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Big Nothing (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A frustrated, unemployed teacher joins forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme.
Style: dark comedy, absurd, black comedy, talky, humorous ...
Plot: unemployment, priest, betrayal, caper, blackmail, twists and turns, greed, call center, cons and scams, dark humor, dishonesty, disorder ...
Time: year 2006
Place: usa, wyoming, oregon
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Ugly Nasty People (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A group of wild, physically disabled gangsters has a plan to rob a bank, but things go terribly wrong when each of them reveals they all had their own personal agenda.
Style: feel good, psychological, disturbing, captivating, humorous
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: gangster, escapades, rivalry, dishonesty, life is a bitch, disorder, danger, gang, bank robbery, bank robber, bank, disability ...
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40%
Return of the Mafia (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 104 min.
Story: 10 years after "Marrying the Mafia 1". The three J's established an architecture company and have become well-known business. They hold pens instead of fists in their hands but things still happen around them and now even bother their ...
Style: suspenseful, family saga, tense, suspense, humorous ...
Plot: gangster, parents and children, family values, organized crime, family relations, family business, murder, crime boss, betrayal, criminal heroes, violence, crime family ...
Time: 21st century
Place: south korea
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Cry Havoc (2020)
Genre: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An ambitious reporter (Emily Sweet) is given an exclusive interview with one of the FBI’s Most Wanted.
Style: slasher, suspense, psychotronic, bleak, scary ...
Plot: murder, serial killer, murder investigation, evidence, danger, graphic violence, who done it, uncover truth, forest, chase, investigation, vengeance ...
Time: 21st century
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Inspector Späck (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min.
Story: A dead body is found and police detective Mårten Späck draws the conclusion that a serial suicide killer is at large. Späck with his colleagues Grünvald Karlsson and Irene Snusk suspect a gang who distributes pirated DVD's of ...
Style: parody, humorous, not serious, captivating, light ...
Audience: teens
Plot: murder, police investigation, silly humor, danger, law enforcement, police, criminal, video store, nordic, violent content, chases and races, riddles and clues ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
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