Movies like Professional Affair
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Professional Affair (1995)
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A drug lord hires a private investigator to track down the culprit who killed his henchman and took a briefcase full of money. One of the suspects is Heather Finch, a madam who seduces the detective and suggests that he swindles the drug lord.
Style:
detective, crime drama, neo noir, tense, dark, suspenseful, independent film
Plot:
investigation, murder mystery, femme fatale, private investigator, drug lord, betrayal, seduction, deception, organized crime, manipulation, madam, sexual tension, suspicion, underworld, revenge, corruption, power struggle, urban, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, violent, hitman, sleazy, female nudity, hollywood ...
Time:
90s, 1990s
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Most similar movies to Professional Affair
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out tense, neo noir, dark and suspenseful films with plots about betrayal, moral ambiguity, revenge, investigation, urban, murder and corruption mostly in Thriller, Drama and Action genres. Some movies like Professional Affair: Compelling Evidence (1995), The Soft Kill (1994), Kiss of Death (1997), Play Nice (1992), Caroline at Midnight (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Rick Stone is the world's biggest action star but unfortunately, he is also the prime suspect in his wife's death. He must enlist the help of a conniving tabloid reporter named Dana Fields and the trust of his mistress Stephanie to try and ...
Style:
suspense, crime thriller, tense, dark, twist ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
suspect, false accusation, murder mystery, investigation, suspicion, evidence, danger, investigative reporter, intrigue, moral ambiguity, mistress, fame ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A Los Angeles gumshoe is framed for the strangulation death of his lover, the wife of an ambitious district attorney.
Style:
raunchy, independent film, detective
Plot:
sexual intercourse, rough sex, adultery, erotica, porn, intercourse, cheating wife, single mother, darkroom, extramarital affair, duck, widow ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Possibly the best of all the various films that have used the cliched title 'Kiss of Death'. It stars Vanity as Prince’s purple-head-pleasing protégé.
Plot:
woman seduces a man, disability, car accident, anger, murder, wedding, alcoholism, 17 year old, strip club, domestic violence, sex scene, married ...
Similarity:
100%
257
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A serial killer is on the loose, and a cop must track him (or her) down.
Style:
crime thriller, psychological thriller, tense, detective, suspense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
serial killer, murder mystery, investigation, suspect, police procedural, homicide, child molestation, police station, justice, cat and mouse, moral ambiguity, betrayal ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A policeman's wife falls for a reporter who suspects her husband of corruption and murder.
Style:
neo noir, crime thriller, suspenseful, tense, independent film
Plot:
corruption, police corruption, betrayal, deception, femme fatale, moral ambiguity, female protagonist, fatal attraction, mature, drug dealer, law enforcement, cat and mouse ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A man thinks he's found a cheap thrill, but discovers it's thrown him into a world of danger in this steamy drama. A filmmaker (Nero Campbell) who has moved into a new home discovers to his pleasant surprise that his next door neighbor is ...
Style:
suspense, tense, crime drama, twisted, psychological thriller ...
Plot:
deception, suspect, murder mystery, voyeurism, evidence, investigation, suspicion, murder witness, innocent man, false accusation, obsession, alibi ...
Similarity:
30%
2K
Genre: Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
A femme fatale and her much older husband have a windfall at a game of poker. But the gambling doesn't end at the cards table.
Style:
crime thriller, psychological thriller, dark, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
murder, poker, greed, deception, betrayal, manipulation, femme fatale, revenge, moral ambiguity, bet, luxury, fatal attraction ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A trusting detective is drawn into an elaborate murder plot by a beautiful femme fatale.
Style:
detective, tense, suspenseful, psychological, noir ...
Plot:
investigation, murder mystery, deception, femme fatale, intrigue, police investigation, police detective, secret, crime investigation, homicide detective, uncover truth, female protagonist ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
30%
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Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In this erotic thriller, a detective looks into the murder of a pornography magnate.
Style:
suspense, crime thriller, suspenseful, crime drama, sensual ...
Plot:
murder mystery, sexual tension, murder investigation, erotica, betrayal, obsession, seduction, assassination, private detective, investigation, twists and turns, revenge ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A nightclub manager with financial problems accepts an offer to seduce another man's wife for money, and soon finds himself entwined in a web of double-crossing con artists.
Style:
neo noir, crime thriller, tense, crime drama, noir ...
Plot:
betrayal, deception, manipulation, con artists, seduction, betrayal of trust, scam, moral ambiguity, nightclub, mistrust, twists and turns, cat and mouse ...
Place:
puerto rico
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A Hollywood multiple murder is investigated by a homicide cop, despite high-placed efforts to cover up the crime.
Style:
crime thriller, detective, suspense, tense, dark ...
Plot:
corruption, police procedural, investigation, hollywood, homicide, cover up, murder mystery, law enforcement, conspiracy, evidence, urban, crime scene ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A desperate salesman reluctantly teams up with a beautiful femme fatale to close a big sale. After a hot love affair, she is murdered and her personal assistant blackmails the salesman into a major financial scam, and he falls deeper and deeper into ...
Style:
suspense, tense, erotic, neo noir, dark ...
Plot:
older woman younger man, older woman younger man relationship, woman seduces a man, blackmail, murder, femme fatale, greed, scam, manipulation, deception, seduction, betrayal ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Follows a young woman whose idyllic life with her hedge funder boyfriend turns it into a deadly triangle of lust, obsession and murder after meeting a local cowboy handyman.
Style:
psychological thriller, neo noir, tense, crime drama, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, obsession, love triangle, fatal attraction, infidelity, female protagonist, sexual tension, betrayal, seduction, jealousy, manipulation, suspicion ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A lifeguard gets in over his head when he meets a mobster and his beautiful wife.
Style:
tension, crime drama, suspense, dark, psychological ...
Plot:
mobster, secrets, organized crime, underworld, sexual tension, danger, beach, seduction, affair, betrayal, intimate, lovers ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A woman looks for the man who betrayed her.
Style:
dark, suspense, tense, psychological, crime drama ...
Plot:
revenge, woman with a gun, vengeance, betrayal, female protagonist, confrontation, determination, moral ambiguity, deception, investigation, trauma, cat and mouse ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
When the matriarch of a family of assassins falls ill, her three children and younger boyfriend fight among themselves to take over her empire.
Style:
crime thriller, suspense, tense, neo noir, dark ...
Plot:
crime family, power struggle, assassin, organized crime, violent, scheming, matriarchy, underworld, greed, murder, betrayal, hitman ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min.
Story:
John Caster and his two partners are caught in the middle of a family rivalry between a crime lord they were sent to take down and a police commissioner they were hired by.
Style:
crime drama, dark, suspenseful, tense, neo noir ...
Plot:
crime boss, organized crime, commissioner, underworld, hitman, moral ambiguity, power struggle, betrayal, corruption, deception, police corruption, law enforcement ...
Similarity:
26%
433
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As a little girl, Cindy had to witness how the shady estate agent Jason Laurence killed her mother. In the 22 years since then, he was never called to account for this crime. So Cindy decides to take vengeance herself.
Style:
suspenseful, dark, tense, noir, psychological ...
Plot:
revenge, erotica, female protagonist, murder, vigilante, lust, betrayal, corruption, deception, childhood trauma, seduction, manipulation ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
26%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A former stripper befriends a young man looking for his father, all the while trying to avoid a hitman for the mob, to whom she is deeply in debt.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, crime drama, dark, neo noir ...
Plot:
hitman, organized crime, danger, underworld, stripper, pursuit, survival, nightlife, debt, cat and mouse, betrayal, fugitive ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Thriller
Country: India, USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
In a tangled web of power and love, the lives of a pharmaceutical company CEO, a failed Don, a grieving widower, and a shrewd lawyer intersect when a mysterious woman is kidnapped, sparking a chain of events in New York City's underbelly.
Style:
tense, crime drama, suspense, dark, psychological ...
Plot:
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Place:
new york, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Detectives Munro and Sanders are assigned to investigate the murder of an adult film star named Buddy Blue. The hunk was actually killed during the shooting of an orgy scene.
Style:
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Plot:
murder mystery, mature, whodunit, film set, police procedural, moral ambiguity, scandal, jealousy, betrayal, corruption, revenge, celebrity culture ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
Thriller - While searching for his kid sister Lisa, who disappeared into the seamy world of Los Angeles strip clubs, streetwise cabbie Rick (Rick Jordan) meets Angie (Stacey Leigh Mobley), a woman forced to dance to pay off the debts her father ...
Style:
dark, neo noir, crime thriller, suspenseful, tense ...
Plot:
strip club, missing person, underworld, corruption, vice, moral corruption, investigation, nightlife, exploitation, revenge, organized crime, criminal syndicate ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
(Long Synopsis) "In this sexy, urban psychological-thriller, handsome Andrew Walters (Johan Earl) leads A Perfect Life, with a high-powered career as a corporate executive and his adoring, beautiful, blonde wife, Helen (Heidi Houghting), by his ...
Style:
tense, psychological thriller, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
affair, adultery, male female relationship, sexuality, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, sexual relations, relationships, relationship problems, manipulation, deception, obsession, jealousy ...
Similarity:
23%
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Lust, desire and money motivate a greedy woman to murder her philandering rich husband.
Style:
crime drama, suspenseful, tense, twisted, noir ...
Plot:
rough sex, murder, corruption, seduction, deception, lust, greed, investigation, betrayal, infidelity, ethical dilemma, sexual tension ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
23%
337
Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two bodyguards set out to find their boss's killer before his son starts a mob war.
Style:
suspenseful, tense, dark, neo noir, suspense ...
Plot:
organized crime, bodyguard, revenge, betrayal, loyalty, underworld, crime family, investigation, retribution, gunfight, moral ambiguity, power struggle ...
Time:
2000s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A police officer suspects that a local husband and father who has recently undergone facial surgery because of injuries received in a car accident is in reality the same man who committed a quadruple murder several years before.
Style:
neo noir, noir, detective, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
investigation, private detective, gangster, femme fatale, organized crime, corruption, missing person, seduction, moral ambiguity, betrayal, police brutality, urban ...
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Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
An up and coming lawyer gets turned over for a case he'd been working on for a long while. The D.A.'s niece then decides to help the young lawyer by first blackmailing, then eventually plotting the murder of the D.A., all the while ...
Style:
crime thriller, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, neo noir ...
Plot:
murder, femme fatale, blackmail, investigation, betrayal, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, seduction, deception, cover up, conspiracy, district attorney ...
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Sydney Banks learns the hard way that being driven and educated is not the path to success. With the help of Todd Hunter her career takes off. Sydney gets pulled into corporate blackmail and murder. With the help of boyfriend Derek, she begins her ...
Style:
crime drama, tense, suspenseful, independent film, moody
Plot:
deception, blackmail, law firm, cover up, betrayal, female protagonist, ambition, murder mystery, scandal, moral ambiguity, corporate corruption, office politics ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A security guard is enticed to scam a businessman for his insurance money by the man's attractive wife. The trouble begins when he discovers that the husband has ties to the mob.
Style:
crime thriller, suspenseful, noir, suspense, tense ...
Plot:
murder, infidelity, adultery, seduction, femme fatale, betrayal, deception, insurance scam, moral ambiguity, passion, romantic obsession, fatal attraction ...
Place:
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Similarity:
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Country: India
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Abhi and Cyril have been best buddies from childhood.Being an orphan abhi's favorite place is Cyril's home.He helps Cyril to get married to his love of his life aaradhya against her parents will. Suddenly both newly married couple ...
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