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Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, clever, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, talky, cynical, semi serious, detective
Best tv shows and movies like Compromising Positions (1985):
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Scandalous (1984)
Plot Summary:
An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, dark comedy
Similar in 80%
The Big Empty (1997)
Plot Summary:
A woman hires P.I. Lloyd Meadows to investigate her husband, a respectable social worker. What seemed to be a simple case of adultery turns into an ugly mess fast.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical, gloomy, detective
Similar in 81%
Carnival of Crime (1962)
Plot Summary:
Mike, an architect, is married to Lin, a beautiful and unfaithful woman. Returning from a trip, he finds she's disappeared. When he tries to locate her, he also learns about her many affairs, and he gets closer to Marina, his efficient assistant, who helps him solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Comedy
Country: Brazil, Spain, Argentina, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cult film
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Tough Guys Don't Dance (1987)
Plot Summary:
Writer, ex-con and 40-something bottle-baby Tim Madden, who is prone to black-outs, awakens from a two-week bender to discover a pool of blood in his car.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending, neo noir, dark comedy, surreal, grindhouse
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Sexy Evil Genius (2013)
Plot Summary:
A dark comedy about an eclectic group of strangers invited to a downtown bar by a mutual ex-lover, Nikki Franklyn, a maddeningly sexy, unpredictable and possibly insane young woman who's recently gotten out of prison for murdering her last ex-boyfriend. The party really gets started when Nikki herself arrives, hauling her latest lover and fiancee, the morally challenged lawyer who'd been handling her case. She's mysterious about her intentions and her current and former lovers soon realize they are all caught in one of her brilliant, mischievous mind-games with possible deadly consequences. By the night's end, revenge will be had, new romance will bloom, and Nikki will have delivered on her reputation as the sexy evil genius.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, independent film, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Lansdown (2001)
Plot Summary:
In this dark comedy, defense lawyer Jake Jorgenson's carefully constructed life begins to unravel when he kills his wife's lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Thriller, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, offbeat, realistic, witty, neo noir, independent film
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The Scarlet Letter (2004)
Plot Summary:
Policeman Ki-Hoon's life is duplicitous, oscillating between the amenable, newly pregnant wife and a very appealing mistress- the singer Ga-yee. His world gets shaken up when he gets news during a murder investigation that Ga-yee is pregnant and her obsession with him rules out abortion as an option. In a very twisted chance of fate, Ki-hoon and Ga-yee end up locked in the trunk of his car on the side of the road as raw despair brings to light the shocking truth about his wife and his mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, erotic, sexy, twisted, detective, realistic
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Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel (1991)
Plot Summary:
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 affair with a man staying at the motel. The husband hires a psychotic criminal to spy on them, the wife and her lover plan to murder the husband, and the voyeuristic motel manager is spying on everybody.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, clever, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending, black comedy, cult film
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Lonely Street (2008)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, detective
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Out Cold (1989)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about an angry married couple, a private investigator, and a walk-in freezer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, rough, clever, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical, semi serious
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The Late Show (1977)
Plot Summary:
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 pussycat.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, clever, offbeat, funny, entertaining, slasher, sentimental, touching, humorous
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The Operator (2000)
Plot Summary:
A scoundrel is tormented by a seemingly-omniscent telephone operator.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, tense, serious, independent film, psychological, talky
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Arrest Me (2013)
Plot Summary:
One evening, a woman enters a police station and confesses to having killed her violent husband several years ago. As she listens to her fantastic story, the policewoman is increasingly less inclined to arrest her. Just why is the woman so eager to confess her crime, and why is the policewoman so reluctant to take her into custody?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 560
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, suspense, gloomy
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Cold Heaven (1991)
Plot Summary:
An adulterous woman's faith in God is tested when her husband dies and miraculously comes back to life.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, psychological, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, sexual
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Extramarital (1998)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring writer gets involved in the investigation of her best friend after she is killed while having an affair.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual, slasher, sexy
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No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)
Plot Summary:
Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: detective, dark comedy, clever, suspenseful, retro, spooky, black comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic
Similar in 84%
Loving (1970)
Plot Summary:
Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Grace, and also between his career as a successful illustrator and his feeling that he might still produce something worthwhile.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, disgusting, cult film
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Goodbye Lover (1998)
Plot Summary:
Police investigate when a man having an affair with his brother's wife disappears suddenly.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sexy, neo noir, suspenseful, witty, stylized, detective, erotic, tense, suspense, realistic
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Murder on Pleasant Drive (2006)
Plot Summary:
After Fran Smith disappears one day in mysterious circumstances, Fran's daughter Deanna and Fran's sister, Sherrie endlessly search for her with enduring hope. The most likely suspect in Fran's disappearance is her husband John, but without a body, neither Deanna or Sherrie can prove that murder, much less a crime, has even been committed. With the support of Sherrie, Deanna embarks on an eleven-year search to trace John's past, eventually uncovering a 25 year-old case of a missing person that involved John's first wife, who too, disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Using this lead, Deanna and Sherrie must use all their evidence to bring John to justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Complicity (2000)
Plot Summary:
Local journalist, Cameron Colley writes articles that are idealistic, from the viewpoint of the underdog. A twisted serial killer seems to have some motives. His brutal murders are also committed on behalf of the underdog. The stories begin to merge and Cameron find himself inextricably and inextricably implicated by the brutal killer. The arms dealer that Cameron plans to expose is found literally 'disarmed' before he can put pen to paper. The brewery chief, loathed by Cameron, who sold up at the expense of his workers, finds himself permanently unemployable. The police are convened of Cameron's guilt and so are half his friends and colleagues. Cameron is forced to employ all his investigative skills to find the real killer and his motive.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Thriller, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, bleak, serious, realistic, independent film
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Lured Innocence (2000)
Plot Summary:
A reporter sent to cover a murder trial discovers a web of deceit stemming from a torrid affair.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, mind bending, sexual, sexy
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The Last Time (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ted Ryker is the top salesman in the New York office of a business machine company; the corporate stock lives by quarterly sales numbers, the competition is keen, and the economy may be in a downturn. Ted's company is marking time until a new product is ready - probably in a few months. Into the mix comes a new hire, a callow Midwesterner named Jamie, who's come East with his fiancée Belisa.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, realistic, talky, semi serious, surprise ending, cult classic, twisted, psychological, clever
Similar in 77%
Verdict in Blood (2002)
Plot Summary:
When a female judge is found murdered in her home, television reporter and amateur detective Joanne Kilbourn finds herself neck-deep in a homicide investigation. Her only two clues are twin wills left by the victim -- one donating everything to the woman's daughters, another donating everything to a boarding house for former criminals.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, captivating
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The Details (2011)
Plot Summary:
When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, funny, entertaining, dark comedy, realistic, independent film, inspirational
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The Perfect Husband: The Laci Peterson Story (2004)
Plot Summary:
Dean Cain portrays Scott Peterson, the California man accused of murdering his 8 month pregnant wife, Laci. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: disturbing, tense, serious, suspenseful, bleak, emotional, realistic
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Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
Plot Summary:
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful and blatantly sadistic writer. Finally after George has tormented Tina in much the same manner Jonathan has, and has been unfaithful to boot, she goes back to her husband and begins group therapy.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, sex comedy, suspense
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Murder in Greenwich (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of Martha Moxley, 15 year old girl murdered in Greenwich in the 1970's, her murder going unsolved for 25 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, novela, talky
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Twilight (1998)
Plot Summary:
A retired ex-cop and private detective gets mixed up in murder when he is asked to deliver blackmail money and walks into a 20 year old case involving the mysterious disappearance of an actress' former husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, suspense, clever, talky, detective, serious, realistic, witty, smart, cynical
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A Crime of Passion (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young heiress has her life turned upside down after her business partner's wife is killed and foul play is suspected.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, enigmatic, captivating, realistic
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Presumed Innocent (1990)
Plot Summary:
Life takes a nasty twist for D.A. Rusty Sabich when the woman he has been romantically involved with is murdered. He is assigned to investigate the case, but is soon charged with the murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, neo noir, suspenseful, tense, suspense, sexy, tricky, enigmatic, talky, intense