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Movies Like The Black and Blue Lamp

If you liked The Black and Blue Lamp (1988), a drama and comedy movie directed by Guy Slater, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Girl in the Box

    Girl in the Box (2016)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movie

    The true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.

  2. 2Cheaters

    Cheaters (2000)

    ★ 6.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    In the fall of 1994, a teacher at Chicago's run-down Steinmetz High conspires with the school's academic decathlon team to cheat on an academic competition.

  3. 3Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

    Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (1996)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama and tv movie

    A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devote the rest of his life to the young…

  4. 4Lady Windermere's Fan

    Lady Windermere's Fan (1925)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and drama

    A society woman believes her husband is having an affair, a misconception which may have dire personal consequences for all involved.

  5. 5Landline

    Landline (2017)

    ★ 6.2/10Also comedy and drama

    A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.

  6. 6The Odd Life of Timothy Green

    The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)

    ★ 7/10Also drama and comedy

    A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.

  7. 7A Flintstones Christmas Carol

    A Flintstones Christmas Carol (1994)

    ★ 6.8/10Also comedy and tv movie

    Fred is cast as Ebenezer Scrooge in a stage adaption of the classic Christmas story, but is acting a bit stingy in real life.

  8. 8A Sister's Secret

    A Sister's Secret (2018)

    ★ 7.2/10Also drama and tv movie

    Twin sisters secretly swap places on their thirtieth birthday. The harmless prank becomes a nightmare when one of them is murdered.

  9. 9Blackadder: Back & Forth

    Blackadder: Back & Forth (1999)

    ★ 7/10Also comedy and tv movie

    What was a cunning plan from Lord Edmund Blackadder V to fake a time machine on his gullibly incompetent friends, turns out to be the real thing and hurls him and his imbecile underling, Baldrick, through the course of…

  10. 10Normal

    Normal (2003)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama and tv movie

    A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.

  11. 11Stone Cold

    Stone Cold (2005)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movie

    Jesse Stone is a former L.A. homicide detective who left behind the big city and an ex-wife to become the police chief of the quiet New England fishing town of Paradise. Stone's old habits die hard as he continues to…

  12. 12The House of Tomorrow

    The House of Tomorrow (2019)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and comedy

    The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.

  13. 13It Runs in the Family

    It Runs in the Family (2003)

    ★ 6/10Also comedy and drama

    This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile

  14. 14Little Lord Fauntleroy

    Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama and tv movie

    Young Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American…

  15. 15Barbarians at the Gate

    Barbarians at the Gate (1993)

    ★ 6.9/10Also comedy and drama

    F. Ross Johnson decides to buyout his own tobacco firm RJR Nabisco after the plans of the launch of his new product, a smokeless cigarette Premier, fail on account of market rumours.

  16. 16Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise

    Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (2006)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama and tv movie

    When Jesse Stone looks into the murder of a teen-age girl whose body is found floating in a local lake, it brings him up against the Boston mob and into the affluent world of a bestselling writer who exploits troubled…

  17. 17Breaking News in Yuba County

    Breaking News in Yuba County (2021)

    ★ 5.9/10Also comedy and drama

    An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes…

  18. 18The Beanie Bubble

    The Beanie Bubble (2023)

    ★ 6.4/10Also comedy and drama

    Ty was a frustrated toy salesman until his collaboration with three women turned his stuffed animals into a defining '90s trend. This behind-the-scenes look at history's biggest toy craze is a wild story about what—and…

  19. 19Psych: The Movie

    Psych: The Movie (2017)

    ★ 7.2/10Also comedy and tv movie

    The ambitious friends come together during the holidays after a mystery assailant targets one of their own. A comedic thrill-ride follows, as the wild and unpredictable Psych team pursues the bad guys, justice … and…

  20. 20Ray Donovan: The Movie

    Ray Donovan: The Movie (2022)

    ★ 6.8/10Also drama and tv movie

    A showdown decades in the making brings the Donovan family legacy full circle. As the events that made Ray who he is today finally come to light, the Donovans find themselves drawn back to Boston to face the past. Each…

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