Movies like Fever 1988

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Fever (1988)
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Fever (1988)
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A policeman discovers a suitcase full of drug money while on duty, meanwhile his wife is having an affair with another man.
Style: neo noir, surprise ending, independent film
Plot: unfaithful wife, adultery, drug deal, sex, airplane, heist, murderer, money, spider, cheating wife, train, dead man, violence, love triangle, death, betrayal, car chase, age difference, ambulance, computer, old man, mine, death of protagonist, bank, lie ...
Place: australia, south australia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out independent film, realistic, serious and neo noir films with plots about cigarette smoking, murder, husband wife relationship, female nudity, telephone call, bare chested male and death mostly in Thriller, Crime and Drama genres. Some movies like Fever: Kiss or Kill (1997), Crosstalk (1982), Blind Fear (1989), Body Harm (1988), Heaven's Burning (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Kiss or Kill (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After accidentally killing one of her victims with an overdose, Nikki and Al are on the run.
Style: neo noir, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful ...
Plot: lovers on the run, murder, hotel room, scam, outlaw, sex crime, hotel, on the road, nuclear testing, road trip, criminal heroes, on the run ...
Time: year 1997, 90s
Place: australia, south australia
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100%
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Crosstalk (1982)
Genre: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Only the computer saw the murder...and it liked what it saw...
Style: independent film
Plot: man in a wheelchair, poisoned drink, rescue from drowning, corporate greed, car accident, death of killer, elevator, murder, adultery, extramarital affair, rain, swimming pool ...
Place: sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Blind Fear (1989)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A blind employee at a New England lodge is in danger when a gang of killers arrives to stay at the lodge.
Style: independent film, surprise ending, twist ending
Plot: disabled, blindness, witness, woman driver, double murder, redheaded woman, female criminal, breaking the law, death of killer, murder, tragic event, older man younger woman relationship ...
Place: new england, maine
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
 5.2
 279
Body Harm (1988)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
Style: neo noir, grindhouse, realistic, serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: serial killer, crime spree, person thought dead is alive, law enforcement, obsession, journalism, missing person, serial murder, murderer, murder victim, tragedy, hostage ...
Time: 80s
Place: sydney australia, australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Heaven's Burning (1997)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story: In Sydney, the newly married Midori is honeymooning with her husband, Yukio. She does not love him and fakes her own kidnapping to escape the marriage. Her lover is supposed to meet her, but fails to appear. She goes to a bank to get some cash, only ...
Style: neo noir, cult classic, road movie, detective, semi serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: lovers on the run, hostage, on the run, obsession, revenge, bank robbery, love, yakuza, kidnapping, interracial romance, car chase, father son relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Thief of Hearts (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A woman trapped in a boring marriage begins an affair with a handsome man who seems able to read her mind. She doesn't know that he has broken into her house and read her diaries, where she has recorded her deepest thoughts and fantasies.
Style: erotic, sexy, suspenseful, sexual, serious ...
Plot: adulteress, adultery, seduction, obsession, burglar, motorcycle, erotica, love and romance, voyeurism, male nudity, diary, sexual fantasy ...
Time: 80s
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 2K
Swerve (2011)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Driving cross-country to a job interview, Colin takes a short cut and comes across a fatal road accident. One of the drivers, Jina, is shaken but unhurt; the other has been killed instantly. Beside the dead body is a briefcase full of money, which ...
Style: tense, suspenseful, realistic, rough, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: dishonesty, betrayal, police corruption, disorder, twists and turns, rivalry, cons and scams, small town, car accident, chase, desert, sex ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Last Seduction (1994)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Looking to escape her unhappy marriage, villainous femme fatale Bridget Gregory (Linda Fiorentino) convinces her husband, Clay (Bill Pullman), to sell cocaine, then steals the profits and runs out on him. She stops in a small town en route to ...
Style: sexy, neo noir, erotic, sexual, suspense ...
Audience: boys' night, adult
Plot: femme fatale, small town, couples, fatal attraction, betrayal, private detective, murder, infidelity, greed, love triangle, dishonesty, sex ...
Time: 90s, year 1994
Place: new york, usa, miami, boston, dallas texas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Deadly Strangers (1975)
Genre: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: After she misses her train, a young woman is forced to hitch a ride back to town. After managing to get away from a lecherous trucker, she is given a ride by a good-looking but somewhat mysterious young man, who she comes to suspect may be a ...
Style: road movie, offbeat, neo noir, independent film, realistic ...
Plot: on the road, psychopath, terror, escaped mental patient, chase, exploitation, chases and races, mentally unstable, mental illness, escapee, trauma, insane asylum ...
Time: year 1975, 70s
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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The Informers (1963)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When the detective in charge of investigating a series of bank robberies starts to get too close to the culprits, they set up a blackmail scheme to warn him off. But when the crooks begin to fall out with each other, the police learn the truth.
Style: noir, detective, independent film, vintage
Plot: bank robbery, blackmail, bare chested male, junkyard, police chase, bartender, married couple, black woman, criminal gang, ferry, night, cat ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Body Heat (1981)
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: neo noir, sexy, sexual, suspenseful, suspense ...
Audience: adult
Plot: femme fatale, obsession, murder, adultery, lawyer, husband wife relationship, female nudity, passion, fatal attraction, greed, adulteress, lust ...
Time: 80s, year 1981, 20th century
Place: florida, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.4
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The Hot Spot (1990)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A loner moves in to a small Texas town, finds himself a job, and sets about plotting to rob the local bank.
Style: neo noir, sexy, suspense, suspenseful, psychosexual thriller ...
Audience: adult
Plot: femme fatale, erotica, infidelity, love triangle, manipulation, dangerous attraction, bank robbery, accountant, love and romance, cons and scams, voyeur, car salesman ...
Time: 80s, 1950s
Place: texas, usa, virginia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
 6.3
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Hitting Home (1988)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Canadian businesswoman Dinah Middleton's is devastated when her teenage son, Alex, is killed by a hit-and-run driver. When the police fail to turn up any suspects, she turns private detective to track the killer down. She traces the murderer to ...
Style: serious, realistic, independent film
Plot: obsession, hit and run, redheaded woman, revenge, vengeance, life is a bitch, rivalry, young boy, law firm, train station, urban setting, breaking the law ...
Time: 80s
Place: canada, new york, montreal
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Kill Me Later (2001)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Her goldfish dead, her lover exposed as a rat, Shawn Holloway leaves her bank post and goes to the roof intent on suicide. Before she can leap, she's taken hostage by Charlie Anders, a fleeing bank robber. He and his partners have stolen a ...
Style: entertaining, light, tense, serious, independent film ...
Plot: heist, opposites attract, couples, police, bank, criminal heroes, love affair, fish out of water, hostage, stockholm syndrome, adultery, on the run ...
Time: year 2001, 2000s
Place: vancouver
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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The Custodian (1993)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Det. Quinlan has left his alcoholic wife, sprouting a bloom of insecurity, anger and self-motivation within him to expose the corrupt police force that surrounds him. He abandons his 'straight' life to partner in crime with his co-worker, ...
Style: neo noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective ...
Plot: husband leaves wife, corruption, police corruption, corrupt, cop, marital separation, coffee shop, police raid, redheaded woman, rape and murder, internal affairs, undercover ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 4.1
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Hollywood Cop (1987)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A detective tries to get back a child who has been kidnapped by gangsters.
Style: independent film
Plot: woman with a gun, exploitation, buddies, cop, child kidnapping, torture, hotel room, cafe, massacre, hotel, death, rape ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: This remake of the 1946 movie of the same name accounts an affair between a seedy drifter and a seductive wife of a roadside cafe owner. This begins a chain of events that culminates in murder. Based on a novel by James M. Cain.
Style: neo noir, sexy, erotic, suspense, atmospheric ...
Plot: adultery, obsession, sex, infidelity, femme fatale, unfaithful wife, murder, love affair, sexual content, female orgasm, drifter, relationships ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s, year 1981
Place: california, usa, los angeles, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.1
 14K
Two Hands (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A 19 year old finds himself in debt to a local gangster when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money.
Style: humorous, disturbing, entertaining, dark comedy, realistic ...
Audience: teens, boys' night
Plot: gangster, heist, greed, caper, love and romance, nothing goes right, change of luck, rivalry, on the run, organized crime, dark humor, vengeance ...
Time: future, year 1999, 20th century, 90s
Place: australia, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Thieves Like Us (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks. Bowie, who is injured in an auto accident, takes ...
Style: neo noir, road movie, realistic, serious, sincere ...
Plot: on the run, heist, lovers on the run, bank, murder, great depression, criminal, robbery, prison, crime spree, female nudity, thief ...
Time: 1930s, year 1974, 20th century
Place: mississippi, usa, southern usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Deadly Force (1983)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Stoney Cooper, a former Los Angeles police officer, is at a low point in his life. Kicked off the force because of his anti-authority attitude, he now ekes out a living as a freelancer in New York. All this changes when the daughter of an old friend ...
Style: cult classic, slasher, crime thriller, grindhouse, independent film
Plot: murder, murder investigation, taxi driver, serial killer, coroner, psycho, homicidal maniac, cop, cigarette smoking, cover up, photograph, false identity ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, new york, california
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20%
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 3K
Forever Mine (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: A hotel cabana boy falls for the wife of a powerful politico. But when she confesses to the affair, her husband determines to end it forever.
Style: psychological, suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense ...
Plot: unfaithful wife, betrayal, couple relations, love triangle, love affair, haunted by the past, dishonesty, unfulfillment, hidden identity, murder, lovers reunited, infidelity ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: florida, new york, usa, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 1K
The Nark (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A Paris police detective (Richard Berry) plays rough with a prostitute (Nathalie Baye) and her pimp/lover (Philippe Léotard), whom he wants as an informant.
Style: neo noir, anthology, detective, realistic, serious ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: sex, undercover police officer, undercover agent, prostitution, spy, gangster, nudity, hooker, french algerian war, vice squad, love triangle, male nudity ...
Time: 80s
Place: paris france, new york, france, brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.9
 4K
B. Monkey (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace's innocent and chivalrous ...
Style: neo noir, black comedy, cult classic, serious, realistic ...
Plot: teacher, sex, nudity, love, violence, gangster, hospital, storytelling, drinking, addiction, betrayal, british ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: london, paris france, england, united kingdom, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Little Fish (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min.
Story: Set in the Little Saigon district outside of Sydney, a woman trying to escape her past becomes embroiled in a drug deal.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, rough, contemplative ...
Plot: junkie, oral sex, heroin, support group, life is a bitch, starting over, hopes, addiction, friendship, mother daughter relationship, tragedy, drug dealer ...
Time: year 2005, 21st century
Place: australia, oceania, vietnam, sydney australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Mortal Passions (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: A scheming woman (Krista Errickson) seeks to kill her husband to collect the insurance money, and is willing to seduce anyone she can to do it - including her husband's brother.
Style: neo noir, psychosexual thriller, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Plot: femme fatale, inheritance, nudity, infidelity, woman with a gun, manipulation, dishonesty, fatal attraction, seduction, sex scene, husband wife relationship, psychiatrist ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 5.8
 2K
Thirst (1979)
Genre: Drama, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The descendant of Elizabeth Bathory is abducted by a cult of self-proclaimed supermen who achieve this state of superiority by drinking from the "blood cows" (read: people) kept at the "dairy farm", and they try to get her to ...
Style: atmospheric, slasher, retro, scary, serious ...
Plot: vampire, kidnapping, occult, supernatural, blood, brainwashing, exploitation, nurse, swimming pool, religion, paranormal, macabre ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.8
 41K
Romper Stomper (1992)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Nazi skinheads in Melbourne take out their anger on local Vietnamese, who are seen as threatening racial purity. Finally the Vietnamese have had enough and confront the skinheads in an all-out confrontation, sending the skinheads running. A woman ...
Style: disturbing, brutal, harsh, political, cult classic ...
Plot: skinhead, neo nazi, racism, gang, violence, brutality, immigrant, vandalism, strangulation, father daughter relationship, murder, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time: year 1992, 90s, 20th century
Place: australia, oceania, melbourne
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.2
 20K
Revenge (1990)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Mexico, USA
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, erotic, suspense, emotional, intense ...
Plot: betrayal, dangerous attraction, love triangle, couple relations, revenge, vengeance, adultery, unfaithful wife, friendship, desert, extramarital affair, love ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
 6.1
 322
Baton Rouge (1988)
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Antonio dotes on his mute brother and promises him a better life, symbolized by Baton Rouge. He's a gigolo who moves in with Isabel, wealthy and separated from her husband. She has nightmares of rape in her own bed, so Antonio encourages her to ...
Style: tense, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir ...
Plot: murder, brother sister relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, husband wife relationship, psychiatrist, adultery, extramarital affair, deception, police, love triangle, blackmail, male nudity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
A Perfect Murder (1998)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Millionaire industrialist Steven Taylor is a man who has everything but what he craves most: the love and fidelity of his wife. A hugely successful player in the New York financial world, he considers her to be his most treasured acquisition. But ...
Style: sexy, suspenseful, clever, suspense, exciting ...
Plot: betrayal, infidelity, blackmail, murder, twists and turns, jealousy, love affair, perfect crime, adultery, husband wife relationship, greed, love triangle ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
19%
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