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Maggie Marvel (2011)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
About a single Mom who moonlights as a contract killer. Maggie Marvel must balance career and family, murder and math homework. She is pushed into this dangerous world... only to find out she is very good at it.
Style:
light, captivating, entertaining, crime drama, suspense, suspenseful, dark comedy, noir
Plot:
assassin, single mother, double life, working mom, female protagonist, contract killer, murderer, hitman, family relations, female mercenary, dual identity, relationship vs career, female assassin, mature, secret identity, violence, independent woman, parenting, moral ambiguity, female empowerment, undercover, gunfight, suburban life, identity crisis, revenge ...
Time:
contemporary
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Most similar movies to Maggie Marvel
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, dark comedy, tense and suspense films with plots about moral ambiguity, urban, violence, revenge, satire, betrayal and murder mostly in Drama, Comedy and Action genres. Some movies like Maggie Marvel: To Love and Die (2008), London Calling (2025), Lethal Seduction (2005), Revolver Rita (2025), Love, Guns & Christmas (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A fun-loving 30-something (Shiri Appleby) with abandonment issues becomes convinced that her dating problems will be resolved if she can only track down the father she never knew. When she finds him (Tim Matheson), she discovers that he's an ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, suspense, tense, exciting ...
Plot:
hitman, danger, family relations, parents and children, female protagonist, murder, escapades, rivalry, friendship, assassin, estranged father, young woman ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, san francisco
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95%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
After fleeing the UK from a job gone wrong, a down on his luck hitman is forced to babysit the son of his new crime boss and show him how to become a man.
Style:
crime drama, dark comedy, noir, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
hitman, redemption, coming of age, crime boss, babysitting, violence, moral ambiguity, fugitive, male bonding, character study, betrayal, loyalty ...
Place:
britain, london, south africa
Similarity:
92%
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Miranda Wells is an attorney with a sideline in immigration fraud and murder. Miranda's assistant, Carla, is unaware of her criminal activities. Rick Benes, a journalist setting out to expose Miranda, poses as David Lopez, an illegal immigrant, ...
Style:
tense, suspense, captivating, disturbing, crime drama ...
Plot:
murder suspect, investigation, murder, manipulation, deception, femme fatale, female protagonist, female lawyer, suspect, murder mystery, murder investigation, suspicion ...
Similarity:
84%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
A woman must use her intelligence and grit to protect her family after they are unexpectedly caught in the crossfire of gang violence.
Style:
crime drama, action thriller, tense, suspenseful, dark ...
Plot:
female protagonist, female empowerment, urban, gunfight, vigilante, revenge, moral ambiguity, anti hero, corruption, mature, tamil, stylized violence
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
76%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Love, Guns & Christmas is a dark comedy about two men in the witness protection program. After a few years in hiding, they sneak back into town for Christmas to see their friends while dodging the mafia and the police whose protection they will ...
Style:
dark comedy, entertaining, light, captivating, black comedy ...
Plot:
witness protection, getting home, christmas eve, christmas, escapades, criminal, witnessing a crime, dark humor, mafia, hiding, mobster, fugitive ...
Similarity:
65%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Helena, a beautiful immigrant actress/model, way too old for modeling and too old for acting without credits finally lands a big job but overseas. Out of desperation and advice of her LA friends she commits a federal fraud to get her traveling ...
Style:
funny, captivating, entertaining, light, tension ...
Plot:
fraud, betrayal, modeling, immigration, desperation, fake identity, con artists, lifestyle, career change, life is a bitch, career, female protagonist ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
64%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
The over-ambitious Koralnik has a dream job: he is a contract killer for a secret EU programme. But even eight years after his training he still hasn't had a single hit. Bored and frustrated, he lives according to the programme's strict ...
Style:
semi serious, tense, humorous, captivating, light ...
Plot:
hitman, betrayal, con woman, killer, accident, plan gone wrong, femme fatale, contract killer, loneliness, assignment, isolation, assassin ...
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Kei Kikuno attends a vocational school as a student. For her part-time job, she works as a contract killer. She is excellent at her job and never gets scared by anyone. One day, she receives the most challenging request.
Style:
tense, captivating, suspenseful, yaoi
Plot:
hitman, assassin, yakuza, female protagonist, female killer, double life, problem, killing, murder, serial killer, split personality, murderer ...
Similarity:
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
The story of a streetwise party girl who gets mixed up in a violent drug deal and finds a possible way out - by masquerading as a Catholic nun.
Style:
tense, captivating, humorous, entertaining, funny ...
Plot:
topless woman, sex scene, nun, female nudity, escapades, drug, drug lord, criminal, lifestyle, girlfriend, party, woman with a gun ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Chisato and Mahiro must pay four years of overdue fees or lose their membership in their assassin guild. They take part-time jobs, but find themselves in the middle of an armed robbery and being hunted by other assassins.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, crime thriller, suspense, tension ...
Plot:
assassin, murder, murderer, money problems, cat and mouse, violence, hunted, loyalty, robbery, female friendship, moral ambiguity, bloodbath ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
japan
Similarity:
51%
765
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
When a friend group is torn apart by betrayal, they decide to settle their differences in the most old school of ways. Leaving their modern home of Los Angeles, they embark on a bizarre adventure that seemingly takes them back in time across an ...
Style:
dark comedy, satirical, captivating, tension, intense ...
Plot:
friendship, satire, duel, love affair, betrayal, relationship problems, friends, family problems, relationships, male female relationship, family relations, cocaine ...
Place:
los angeles, mexico, indiana
Similarity:
50%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The story focuses on a young, up-and-coming chef who caters a party for four mysterious women only to discover they have a shocking surprise in store for him.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, twist ending, tension, independent film ...
Plot:
chef, dinner party, women, mystery woman, relationships, male female relationship, surprise, psychological manipulation, deception, manipulation, dangerous women, moral ambiguity ...
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A small-town private investigator is hired to investigate the sale of black-market lobster in Prince Edward Island along with a scrappy convenience store owner.
Style:
exciting, captivating, entertaining, funny, feel good ...
Plot:
investigation, private detective, infidelity, murder, private investigator, murder investigation, crime investigation, amateur detective, male protagonist, investigator, small town, black market ...
Place:
canada
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Caravaggio's tortured life, his murder and the journey of his soul.
Style:
captivating, entertaining, intense, art house, historical drama ...
Plot:
murder, doctor, art, family relations, life, mother son relationship, moral ambiguity, obsession, death, guilt, isolation, redemption ...
Time:
17th century, 16th century
Place:
italy, rome italy, naples italy
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Frank is a police officer who loses his family in a tragedy. In desperation he turns to crime and makes a living as a hitman for the mob.
Style:
crime drama, dark, neo noir, tense, gloomy ...
Plot:
hitman, violence, assassin, loss of family, mature, moral ambiguity, grief, murder, anti hero, character study, lonely, revenge ...
Similarity:
46%
7K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Turkey
Duration: 45 min.
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Story:
Seeking to uncover the truth about his past, a henchman betrays someone close to him and assumes a new identity in a small Istanbul neighborhood.
Style:
humorous, entertaining, tense, captivating, suspense ...
Plot:
hitman, organized crime, betrayal, deception, identity, mistaken identity, stolen identity, new identity, criminal, murderer, on the lam, hidden identity ...
Place:
istanbul turkey, turkey
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A young and successful insurance underwriter must allow her mentally unstable mother to move in with her after the institution in which the mother had been living is deemed unfit for occupancy. The mother then begins to dislike how close her ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, realistic, touching ...
Plot:
mother daughter relationship, family drama, family relations, male female relationship, problem, relationships, lifestyle, couple relations, relationship vs career, female protagonist, family problems, relationship problems ...
Place:
los angeles
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Italian immigrant Joe is hired by mobster Vince to kill a witness before he can testify against him. Joe dresses up as a policeman to be able to get close to his victim, but he's mistaken for a real cop by everyone and will reluctantly have to ...
Style:
crime drama, suspense, dark, tension, dark comedy ...
Plot:
hitman, italian immigrant, undercover, mobster, organized crime, assassination, ethical dilemma, mistaken identity, identity, impostor, moral ambiguity, reluctant hero ...
Time:
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Place:
italy
Similarity:
43%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control.
Style:
humorous, light, entertaining, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
soccer, obsession, family relations, eccentric family, sport team, youth, parents and children, rivalry, satire, underdog, fish out of water, suburbs ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The last thing Eddie Mills wants to do is go home to deal with his dying Dad. But the Catholic guilt gnaws at him, and he returns home to his crazy family, an overbearing step-mother, and his bear of a father. Once there, Eddie is confronted with a ...
Style:
captivating, entertaining, light, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
family drama, parents and children, life, family problems, confronting the past, father son relationship, family relations, relationship problems, revelation, dealing with the past, relationships, guilty conscience ...
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The two tradesmen Ib and Edward are tired of their lifeless marriages and dream of living the good life from the stash of money they've earned moonlighting for years. After a huge fight with their wives the two men get drunk and hire a Russian ...
Style:
dark comedy, captivating, feel good, semi serious, ironic ...
Plot:
hitman, gay, killer, husband and wife, contract killer, divorce, drunkenness, marital problem, poison, husband wife relationship, small town, assassin ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, central europe
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Young-in and his colleague Seung-dae are a pair of professional bagmen working for various lobbyists in finance, media and a host of other industries requiring political favors. Feeling guilty about his work, Seung-dae tells Young-in he plans on ...
Style:
semi serious, entertaining, disturbing, captivating, satirical ...
Plot:
plan, con artists, stolen money, money, attempted murder, money problems, escapades, insurance fraud, satire, employer employee relationship, corruption, cover up ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
seoul
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
A journalist takes justice into her own hands when her internet stalker walks free from the law.
Style:
dark comedy, satirical, entertaining, captivating, psychological ...
Plot:
female protagonist, journalism, investigative reporter, vigilante justice, stalking, revenge, satire, investigative journalism, hunted, female journalist, pursuit, problem ...
Similarity:
41%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A Pandemic Comedy of a contract-rat killer who gets a new job but mistakes it for something else which changes the course of his life.
Style:
black comedy, dark comedy, ironic, situational comedy, dark ...
Plot:
pandemic, mistaken identity, contract killer, hitman, moral ambiguity, satire, quarantine, violence, social commentary, identity crisis, mature, urban ...
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A retired hitman must reawaken all his deadly skills and fight a one-man war against his former employer.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, captivating, dark ...
Plot:
hitman, veteran, mission, alcoholic, battles, manhunt, murderer, fight, organized crime, murder, gunfight, assassin ...
Similarity:
40%
9K
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Santhosh Kumar, who goes by the name James, runs a security agency and has been commissioned to take care of a family that owns a drug cartel. He is swift, agile and deft with his work and wins the appreciation of everyone. But is there more to who ...
Style:
suspenseful, captivating, thrilling, satirical, psychological ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
drug cartel, bandit, criminal gang, satire, escapades, criminal, gang, gang war, fight, battles, trick, crime family ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
india, kannada
Similarity:
39%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Girl meets boy. Girl's daddy is in prison. Daddy's girl becomes a pawn for revenge.
Style:
captivating, romantic, light, entertaining, intense ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, love and romance, love affair, relationships, couple relations, father and daughter, love story, fall in love, male female relationship, family relations, romantic relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Two brothers are fleeing arrest for the "accidental" killing of a young girl. Their destination is their estranged father's desolate compound on the sea shore.
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, independent film, satirical
Plot:
brothers, violence, family relations, satire, brother brother relationship, murder mystery, runaway, murder, family problems, murderer, problem, youth ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alexander is a murderer. He is confessing his crimes to a priest, and they enter the real of power against morality, good and bad, love and faith against violence and cynicism.
Style:
suspense, tense, crime drama, psychological thriller, grim ...
Plot:
assassin, hitman, anti hero, gunfight, moral ambiguity, violence, dual identity, guilt, bloodbath, obsession, redemption, tragic hero ...
Similarity:
38%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Six million dollars suddenly goes up for grabs when an aged diner's heart fails after he discovers that he has won the lottery. Which of the remaining late-night dining regulars will get the cash? How many will have to die to get the answer?
Style:
dark comedy, tense, suspense, dark, black comedy ...
Plot:
greed, lottery, death, restaurant, murder, betrayal, moral ambiguity, ethical dilemma, deception, suspicion, desperation, working class ...
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