Movies like Trenchcoat
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Trenchcoat (1983)
580
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An aspiring mystery writer becomes accidently embroiled in an international plot during a two-week stay in Malta.
Style:
humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, spoof, parody
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
writers, conspiracy, island, undercover, espionage, intrigue, who done it, danger, writer's life, farce, woman in danger, amateur detective, uncover truth, police, murder, female detective, female protagonist, inspiration, wish fulfillment, role playing, on the run, truth serum, american abroad, skepticism, clue ...
Time:
year 1983, 80s, 20th century
Place:
europe, san francisco, malta
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Most similar movies to Trenchcoat
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, humorous and semi serious films with plots about murder, deadly, investigation, dishonesty, law enforcement, amateur detective and danger mostly in Mystery, Comedy and Thriller genres. Some movies like Trenchcoat: Scandalous (1984), Foul Play (1978), Hanky Panky (1982), Lonely Street (2008), Finding Kelly (2000). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.
Style:
independent film, realistic, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful ...
Plot:
reporter, concert, murder, scam, conspiracy, scoop, espionage, journalism, media, dishonesty, cons and scams, media satire ...
Time:
80s
Place:
london, europe, england
Similarity:
95%
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A shy San Francisco librarian and a bumbling cop fall in love as they solve a crime involving albinos, dwarves, and the Catholic Church.
Style:
suspenseful, detective, humorous, tense, suspense ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
conspiracy, murder, fall in love, amateur detective, librarian, irreverence, music conductor, karate, police investigation, assassination plot, car chase, danger ...
Time:
20th century, year 1978, 70s
Place:
san francisco, phoenix arizona, usa, california
Similarity:
66%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The complete innocent, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of secrecy and government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she is later murdered, Michael is the chief suspect and on the run.
Style:
neo noir, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Plot:
hotel, espionage, on the run, wild ride, frame up, amateur detective, truth serum, military base, injection, murder suspect, secret code, grand canyon ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
61%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Bubba Mabry, a gullible private detective, becomes the prime suspect in a tabloid reporter's murder after being hired to snoop on him by a mysterious celebrity.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Plot:
amateur detective, private investigator, murder, private detective, who done it, goofy hero, investigation, uncover truth, disorder, celebrity culture, journalism, media ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
60%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The surprisingly intricate, nimble plot is about a couple of kids who play amateur detectives one summer in the hopes of collecting a $5,000 reward offered to anyone able to find a missing 17 year old girl. The girl and boy are best friends who have ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, captivating, feel good, tense ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
missing person, child's point of view, amateur detective, young heroes, uncover truth, heroes, buddies, youth, missing child, investigation, danger, amateur sleuth ...
Time:
90s
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
58%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Over-the-hill gumshoe in Los Angeles seeks to avenge the killing of an old pal, another detective who had gotten himself involved in a case concerning a murdered broad, stolen stamps, a nickel-plated handgun, a cheating dolly, and a kidnapped ...
Style:
neo noir, offbeat, clever, entertaining, funny ...
Plot:
private detective, murder, cat, investigation, private investigator, violent content, partner, dishonesty, odd couple, aging, elderly, love and romance ...
Time:
year 1977, 20th century, 70s, 1930s
Place:
los angeles, usa, california
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
After witnessing a brutal murder, a little girl is quickly surrounded by a group of law-enforcement professionals and a psychologist.
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, tense, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
political conspiracy, murder, witnessing a crime, on the run, investigation, uncover truth, politics, danger, police corruption, government agency, chase, life is a bitch ...
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
48%
160
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Dr. KIM Sang-chul who is a world renowned genius medical scientist is killed by himself and his head is cut and missing in his funeral. While a dispatch rider, Hong-je, delivers Dr. KIM’s head, he is kidnapped by Baek-jung and his elder sister, ...
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, realistic, humorous, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
uncover truth, missing person, forced into action, escapades, family relations, journalism, danger, race against time, scoop, chase, reporter, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
korea
Similarity:
46%
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Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Dr. Richard Thorndyke arrives as new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous to discover some suspicious goings-on. When he's framed for murder, Dr. Thorndyke must confront his own psychiatric condition, ...
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, absurd, perverse ...
Plot:
satire, medical, elevator, murder, fetish, mental institution, hotel, going crazy, psychiatric ward, chosen one, hospital, psychopath ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1970
Place:
san francisco, usa, california, los angeles
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Holly & Nathan Teller live in a small town in Pennsylvania. Holly is on the cheerleading team and has a close relationship with her younger brother Nathan, who is subjected to bullying at school. Nathan is taken for a car ride one day by ...
Style:
serious, disturbing, suspenseful, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot:
missing person, amateur detective, uncover truth, investigation, small town, haunted by the past, social relations, danger, riddles and clues, secret place, woman in danger, unlikely criminals ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, pittsburgh, pennsylvania
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Amateur sleuth Samantha Kinsey's latest case has her trying to figure out who killed her best friend Barbara after she was left out of her family's will and every one of the family members become suspects.
Style:
serious, psychological, suspenseful, tense, realistic ...
Plot:
amateur detective, murder, uncover truth, investigation, law enforcement, who done it, legal, dishonesty, private detective, estate, father son relationship, conspiracy ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Casey Noland, a high school kid with no direction in life, decides to pursue the serial killing profession. Only problem...he can't bring himself to kill anybody. Will the help of a gothic chick named Sasha, he attempts to learn the ways of a ...
Style:
slasher, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, horror comedy ...
Plot:
serial killer, murder, high school, psychopath, mind game, dark humor, danger, youth, obsession, police investigation, teenage life, stalking ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
She's an avid mystery lover and bookseller, for whom crime has been comfortably confined to the pages of her favorite novels-until a real-life murder turns a weekend of fun and games into a chilling whodunit...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, mind bending
Plot:
amateur detective, uncover truth, writer's life, law enforcement, dishonesty, frame up, murder, who done it, false accusation, writers, mysticism, special agent ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In The Man With Bogart's Face, an affectionate send-up of the Bogart detective films of the 1940s, Robert Sacchi plays a man who idolizes Humphrey Bogart so much he has his features altered to look exactly like his idol. He then opens up a ...
Style:
neo noir, realistic, parody, semi serious, psychological ...
Plot:
private detective, private investigator, surgery, plastic surgeon, lookalikes, doppelganger, face, transgender, hollywood, plastic surgery, murder, violent content ...
Time:
year 1980, 70s, 20th century
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen who is the ...
Style:
detective, fast, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
private detective, charlie chan, serial killer, police officer, murderer, murder mystery, dishonesty, goofy hero, law enforcement, rivalry, investigation, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
80s, year 1981
Place:
california, san francisco, usa
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a obnoxious mystery writer. Along the way, Brady gets help from her flamboyant mother ...
Style:
crime drama, lighthearted, parody, satirical, witty ...
Plot:
private investigator, investigation, hollywood, female detective, murder investigation, murder mystery, private detective, whodunit, female empowerment, amateur sleuth, murder, celebrity culture ...
Time:
1940s, 80s
Place:
los angeles, california
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Before a man (Jeff Goldblum) can kill his nagging wife (Mimi Rogers) as planned, she disappears and he's charged with murder.
Style:
black comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, suspenseful
Plot:
resort, hotel, birthday party, murder, couple relations, dishonesty, unfulfillment, danger, law enforcement, goofy hero, kidnapping, missing person ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
spain
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Judge George (Harvey Keitel) brings his young wife, Nathalie (Cameron Diaz), to a remote island for a vacation. But while George accompanies their only neighbor -- Nathalie's childhood friend Lance (Craig Sheffer) -- on a fishing trip, Nathalie ...
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, suspenseful, black comedy, funny ...
Plot:
boat, murder mystery, murder, twists and turns, farce, beach house, investigation, vacation, dishonesty, couple relations, honeymoon, couples ...
Time:
90s, year 1996
Similarity:
36%
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Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
An attorney (Melanie Griffith) uncovers a political conspiracy in the brutal killing of a wealthy young woman.
Style:
independent film, contemplative, tense, mind bending, realistic ...
Plot:
dedicated lawyer, lawyer, skinny dipping, erotica, nypd, women, law, courtroom, murder, politics, legal, rapist ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
An ex-newspaper woman who is now a suburban housewife can't resist getting involved in an investigation of the murder of a philandering dentist who had been having affairs with several of her neighbors.
Style:
detective, dark comedy, cynical, talky, realistic ...
Plot:
infidelity, amateur detective, investigation, murder, reporter, woman, dentist, death, obsession, blackmail, amateur sleuth, womanizer ...
Time:
year 1985, 80s
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Right after Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, in 1955, a toy salesman in town for a convention brings his wife with him so they can both go to Disneyland. They stay at a rundown place called the Sunset Motel nearby. Soon the wife is having an ...
Style:
neo noir, independent film, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful ...
Plot:
hotel, motel, blackmail, voyeur, desire, femme fatale, manipulation, betrayal, couple relations, investigation, dishonesty, dangerous attraction ...
Time:
year 1991, 50s, 1950s, year 1955
Similarity:
35%
Genre: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Betty Lou is a librarian in a very small town. Her husband is a police detective who takes her for granted. Betty Lou is the ultimate mouse. After a gangland figure is mysteriously murdered in town, Betty Lou finds the murder weapon, but can't ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, suspense ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
murder, librarian, police investigation, small town, amateur detective, misunderstanding, police, deep south, disorder, witnessing a crime, law enforcement, dishonesty ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 80s
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are ...
Style:
parody, spoof, surprise ending, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
murder, whodunit, private detective, butler, who done it, old mansion, dark and stormy night, old dark house, murder mystery, satire, riddles and clues, mansion ...
Time:
year 1976, 70s, 20th century, 1930s
Similarity:
33%
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A famous writer is found hanged in his office. At first, all police investigations conclude that it was suicide, but when Samantha Kinsey, owner of Seller 'Mystery Woman' starts his own investigation, he discovers that there is chance that ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, realistic, serious, light hearted
Plot:
amateur detective, investigation, betrayal, dishonesty, murder, danger, store, sabotage, murder mystery, whodunit, female protagonist, crime solving ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Young English girl Nikky and her aunt arrive at the Moon-Spinners, a hotel on Crete, to a less than enthusiastic welcome. The coolness of the owner is only out-done by the surliness of her brother Stratos, recently back from London. But then there ...
Style:
light, stylized, suspenseful, suspense, retro ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
emerald, murder, hotel, coming of age, amateur detective, cat, holiday, teenage girl, nature, ship, disorder, danger ...
Time:
60s
Place:
greece, crete, ireland, san francisco
Similarity:
32%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
Style:
cult classic, anthology, neo noir, spoof, semi serious ...
Plot:
spy, espionage, cold war, secret service, widow, castle, secret agent, disorder, undercover, heroes, prostitute, farce ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
france, switzerland, russia, germany, europe
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Elle est rousse. Elle est écossaise. Elle aime le rugby et la cornemuse. Elle vit à Londres, mais se considère en exil. Elle a un fichu caractère et une sacrée descente au whisky. Elle s’appelle Imogène Mc Carthery… du clan des McLeod !
Style:
parody, humorous, feel good, captivating, atmospheric ...
Plot:
undercover, conspiracy, espionage, secret agent, heroic mission, disorder, misfit, fish out of water, danger, escapades, rivalry, female protagonist ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
england, scotland, europe, london
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Who says crime doesn't pay? The mob will pay Jimmy Corona anything to stay away. But, then again, so would most people. His agent brushes off Jimmy's latest book proposal: detailing the conspiracy between Lee Harvey Oswald and Marylin ...
Style:
independent film, slapstick, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful ...
Plot:
mafia, conspiracy, violent content, gangster, assassination, unlikely criminals, criminal heroes, dishonesty, down on your luck, breakup, murder, job ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When an exotic dancer is murdered at a seedy strip club, her sister Constance, a TV newscaster, goes undercover to find the killer. While working at the club, she quickly realizes that everyone is a suspect and that other dancers are being targeted. ...
Style:
suspenseful, serious, enigmatic, captivating, independent film ...
Plot:
murder, investigation, strip club, serial killer, undercover, working undercover, uncover truth, amateur detective, vengeance, rivalry, loss of sister, sister sister relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, los angeles, usa
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A detective investigating a series of murders discovers that they are similar to the murders that occur in the new script of a Hollywood screenwriter.
Style:
dark comedy, slasher, psychological, black and white, surreal ...
Plot:
writers, killer, serial killer, nightmare, hollywood, murder, artists and showbiz, writer's life, gory, filmmaking, screenwriter, filmmaker ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Similarity:
30%
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