Movies and TV shows like Switch

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Switch (1975)
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Switch (1975)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Switch is an American action-adventure, tongue-in-cheek detective series starring Eddie Albert and Robert Wagner, who work as private eyes, for a deceptive sting operation. It was broadcast on the CBS network for three seasons between September 9, 1975 and August 20, 1978, bumping the Hawaii Five-O detective series to Friday nights.
Style: detective
Plot: private investigator, cop, ex-cop, detective agency, con man, con artists, private detective, father son relationship, partner, sting operation, retired cop, police officer, crimes
Place: los angeles

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Most similar movies to Switch

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out detective, realistic, suspenseful and serious films and TV series with plots about investigation, private detective, private investigator, police, partner, cop and detective agency mostly in Drama, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like Switch: Private Eye (1987), Harry O (1973), Barnaby Jones (1973), Simon & Simon (1981), Buddy Faro (1998). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Private Eye (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Private Eye is an American crime drama that aired from September 13, 1987 until January 8, 1988.
Style: detective
Plot: private investigator, ex-cop, layoff, police corruption, police lieutenant, partner, informant, fired from the job, murder, dead brother, frame up, investigation
Time: 1950s
Place: los angeles
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95%
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Harry O (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Harry O, sometimes spelled Harry-O, is an American crime drama series that aired for two seasons on ABC from 1974 to 1976. The series starred David Janssen and was executive produced by Jerry Thorpe. Harry O followed the broadcast of two pilot ...
Style: detective, realistic, serious, suspenseful, vintage
Plot: police, private detective, cop, private investigator, police department, disability, misfit, law enforcement, investigation, urban, beach
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Barnaby Jones (1973)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Barnaby Jones is a television detective series starring Buddy Ebsen and Lee Meriwether as father- and daughter-in-law who run a private detective firm in Los Angeles. The show ran on CBS from January 28, 1973 to April 3, 1980, beginning as a ...
Style: detective
Plot: elderly, investigation, cop, private investigator, aging, private detective, daughter in law, old age, male protagonist, father in law daughter in law relationship, widow
Time: 70s, 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Simon & Simon (1981)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Simon & Simon is an American detective television series that originally ran from November 24, 1981 to January 21, 1989. The series was broadcast on CBS and starred Gerald McRaney and Jameson Parker as two brothers who run a private detective ...
Style: realistic, serious, suspenseful, detective, exciting
Plot: partners against crime, detective agency, private detective, private investigator, sibling relationship, family relations, workplace, rivalry, partner, reluctant partners, riddles and clues, brother brother relationship ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: california, usa, san diego california
⇓ similarity ⇓
77%
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Buddy Faro (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Buddy Faro was the best private detective in the business, until he disappeared in 1978 after a case went bad. Twenty years later, he's brought back to Los Angeles by private detective Bob Jones and they reopen Buddy Faro Investigations.
Style: detective, stylized, humorous, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: private investigator, partner, investigation, private detective, detective agency, misfit, buddies, friends, fish out of water, disorder, culture shock, buddy cop ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
75%
Beverly Hills Buntz (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Beverly Hills Buntz is a spinoff from Hill Street Blues. It aired on NBC during the 1987–88 season.
Style: detective, sitcom
Plot: private investigator, ex cop, private detective, tough cop, investigation, television flop
Place: beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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Honey West (1965)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Honey West is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC during the 1965–1966 television season. The series starred Anne Francis as female private detective Honey West and John Ericson as her partner, Sam Bolt. Only 30 half-hour ...
Style: detective, retro, noir, neo noir
Plot: spy, private detective, female protagonist, 007, female superhero, damsel in distress, woman with a gun, women, kickass women, martial arts, female detective, private investigator ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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 4K
Mannix (1967)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Mannix is an American television detective series that ran from 1967 through 1975 on CBS. Created by Richard Levinson and William Link and developed by executive producer Bruce Geller, the title character, Joe Mannix, is a private investigator. He ...
Style: detective, retro, exciting, serious, realistic ...
Plot: private detective, cop, investigation, undercover, intelligence agency, private investigator, detective agency, uncover truth, law enforcement, kidnapping, who done it, car chase ...
Time: 20th century, 60s, 70s
Place: los angeles, usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Booker (1989)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Booker is an American crime drama series starring Richard Grieco that aired on the Fox Network from September 24, 1989 to May 6, 1990. The series is a spin-off of 21 Jump Street and the second installment of the 21 Jump Street series. The character ...
Style: detective, neo noir
Plot: undercover, insurance, ex-cop, corporation, private investigator, anti hero, insurance investigator, investigation, ex cop, private detective, insurance scam
Time: 90s, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
The New Mike Hammer (1984)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Mickey Spillane's Mike Hammer, with Stacy Keach in the title role, is a television series that originally aired on CBS from January 28, 1984 to January 12, 1985. The series was 24 sixty minute episodes. The show follows the adventures of Mike ...
Style: detective
Plot: private detective, private investigator, woman with a gun, police, investigation, hard boiled
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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Police Woman (1974)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Sergeant “Pepper"” Anderson, an undercover cop for the Criminal Conspiracy Unit of the Los Angeles Police Department, poses undercover from mob girl to prostitute.
Style: detective, retro, realistic, serious, exciting ...
Plot: police, cop, investigation, police officer, female police officer, lapd, car chase, women, woman with a gun, undercover, undercover agent, rally ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 6.5
 1K
Matt Houston (1982)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Matt Houston is an American crime drama series that aired on ABC from 1982 to 1985. Created by Lawrence Gordon, the series was produced by Aaron Spelling.
Style: detective
Plot: private detective, american football, police, private investigator, texan, italian restaurant, wealth, one man army, vintage car, tough guy, warrior, criminal ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles, texas, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
The Rockford Files (1974)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: The Rockford Files is an American television drama series starring James Garner that aired on the NBC network between September 13, 1974 and January 10, 1980, and has remained in syndication to the present day. Garner portrays Los Angeles-based ...
Style: detective, neo noir, retro, realistic, serious ...
Plot: private detective, ex convict, trailer home, father son relationship, beach, private investigator, cop, police, taxi, car chase, villain, intelligence agency ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: malibu california, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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 1K
Police Story (1973)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Police Story is an anthology television crime drama. The show was the brainchild of author and former policeman Joseph Wambaugh and represented a major step forward in the realistic depiction of police work and violence on network TV. Although it ...
Style: anthology, detective, vintage
Plot: police, police officer, vietnam war, car chase, cop, lapd, police station, police protagonist, police car
Time: 20th century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
70%
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 617
Longstreet (1971)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Longstreet is an American crime drama series that was broadcast on the ABC in the 1971-1972 season. A 90-minute pilot movie of the same name aired prior to the debut of the series as an ABC Movie of the Week.
Style: detective, vintage
Plot: blindness, blind character, blind man, police, murder, private detective, insurance, seeing eye dog, attempted murder, martial arts, obstacle, dog
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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 29K
Magnum, P.I. (1980)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
TV show
Story: Magnum, P.I. is an American television series starring Tom Selleck as Thomas Magnum, a private investigator living on Oahu, Hawaii. The series ran from 1980 to 1988 in first-run broadcast on the American CBS television network. According to the ...
Style: captivating, exciting, entertaining, light, detective ...
Audience: kids, boys' night
Plot: investigation, private investigator, beach, private detective, lifestyle, partner, anonymity, police, helicopter, heroes, friends, beautiful scenery ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: hawaii, usa, oceania
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Tropical Heat (1991)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, Mexico
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Tropical Heat is a Canadian action series produced in cooperation with Mexico and Israel that aired between 1991 and 1993. The plot revolves around private investigator, ex-DEA agent Nick Slaughter who after arriving in the fictional resort town of ...
Style: detective, exciting, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Plot: ex cop, private detective, nature, resort, private investigator, travel agent, detective agency, partner, beach, owner, outside help, ex law enforcer ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Mike Hammer, Private Eye (1997)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Mike Hammer, Private Eye is an American syndicated television program based on the adventures of the fictitious private detective Mike Hammer, created by novelist Mickey Spillane. The show starred Stacy Keach and was seen as an attempt to revive the ...
Style: detective, realistic, serious, neo noir, rough ...
Plot: private detective, private investigator, investigation, nypd, partner, law enforcement, partners against crime, riddles and clues, pulp fiction, hard boiled
Time: 80s, 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Jake and the Fatman (1987)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: Jake and the Fatman is a television crime drama starring William Conrad as prosecutor J. L. "Fatman" McCabe and Joe Penny as investigator Jake Styles. The series ran on CBS for five seasons from 1987 to 1992. Diagnosis: Murder was a ...
Style: detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful, rough
Plot: legal, investigation, lawyer, cop, team, law, murder mystery, intelligence agency, criminal, buddy cop, private investigator, crime investigation ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: hawaii, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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 144
Blacke's Magic (1986)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Blacke's Magic is an American crime drama series that aired on NBC from January to May 1986. The series stars Hal Linden as magician Alexander Blacke who, with some help from his con-man father Leonard, solves mysteries that get in the way of ...
Style: detective
Plot: magic, crime investigation, murder, theft, police detective, stage magician, father son relationship, magic trick, magician, swindle, investigation, shipwreck ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
Charlie's Angels (1976)
Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Charlie's Angels is an American crime drama television series that aired on ABC from September 1976 to June 1981, producing five seasons and 110 episodes. The series was created by Ivan Goff and Ben Roberts and was produced by Aaron ...
Style: sexy, realistic, exciting, semi serious, stylized ...
Audience: kids
Plot: female protagonist, private investigator, private detective, partner, fighting crime, career change, police, female friendship, kickass women, women, woman with a gun, team ...
Time: 70s, 80s, 20th century
Place: usa, los angeles, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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 51
Cassie & Co. (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Cassie & Co. is an American drama series starring Angie Dickinson that aired on NBC in 1982.
Plot: private detective, female detective, detective agency, ex-cop, ex cop
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
 6.9
 89
Most Wanted (1976)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Most Wanted is an American crime drama series shown on ABC from October 16, 1976 until August 20, 1977. It stars Robert Stack, Jo Ann Harris, Shelly Novack, and Hari Rhodes. This program marks the reunion of series star Stack with noted producer ...
Style: detective
Plot: cop, police sergeant, investigation, police investigation, criminal, violence, policewoman, female police officer, urban setting, lapd, police, police officer ...
Time: 70s
Place: california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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 6.9
 2K
Vega$ (1978)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Vega$ is an American detective television drama series that aired on ABC between 1978 and 1981. It was produced by Aaron Spelling. The series was filmed in its entirety in Las Vegas, Nevada. It is believed to be the first television series produced ...
Style: detective, serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
Plot: private detective, gambling, private investigator, undercover, police, cop, gambler, jack the ripper, sleazy, investigation, urban, classic car ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: las vegas, nevada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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 2K
Banacek (1972)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Banacek is an American detective TV series starring George Peppard that aired on the NBC network from 1972 to 1974. The series was part of the rotating NBC Wednesday Mystery Movie anthology. It alternated in its time slot with several other shows ...
Style: detective, suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: cop, private detective, police, theft, private investigator, investigation, polish, insurance, urban, murder, chauffeur, insurance company ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: boston, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
King & Maxwell (2013)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Sean King and Michelle Maxwell aren't your typical pair of private investigators. As discredited Secret Service agents, their unique skills often give them a leg up on suspects and conventional law enforcement. He's charming and always one ...
Style: exciting, realistic, cliffhanger, captivating, tense ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: private detective, investigation, secret service, partners against crime, suspicion, lawyer, investigator, woman with a gun, fbi, private investigator, detective agency, violent content ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, washington d.c., new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
 8.5
 28K
Bosch: Legacy (2022)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
TV show
Story: Bosch is now making a living as a private investigator two years after he quit the LAPD and finds himself working with one time enemy and top-notch attorney Honey “Money” Chandler. Meanwhile, Bosch's daughter Maddie is venturing into the ...
Style: disturbing, suspense, tense, captivating, detective
Plot: private investigator, enemy, organized crime, legal, homicide detective, relationship problems, problem, police investigation, unlikely friendships, forensics, investigation, policewoman ...
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%
Moon Over Miami (1993)
Genre: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Moon Over Miami is a short-lived American comedy series that aired on ABC.
Style: detective, realistic, suspenseful, humorous, serious
Plot: justice, jazz, private investigator, investigation, workplace, misfit partners, love and romance, workplace romance, office, workplace situations, private detective
Time: 90s
Place: miami, florida, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Jack Taylor: Priest (2010)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland, Germany
Duration: 93 min.
TV show
Story: Feature-length crime drama, starring Iain Glen as the private detective created by author Ken Bruen. Taylor is asked for help after a priest is beheaded, and soon finds himself mixed up in a murky world of child abuse and revenge.
Style: detective
Plot: private detective, catholic priest, cover up, nun, brother and sister, priest, child abuse, rape, revenge, murder investigation
Place: ireland
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Hardcastle and McCormick (1983)
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Hardcastle and McCormick is an American action/drama television series from Stephen J. Cannell Productions, shown on ABC from 1983 through 1986. The series stars Brian Keith as Judge Milton C. Hardcastle and Daniel Hugh Kelly as ex-con and race car ...
Style: detective
Plot: ex convict, criminal, police, lawyer, racing, die hard, jungle, team, driver, amateur detective, chase, courtroom ...
Time: 80s
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
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