Movies Like A Body to Die For: A Weekend Murder Mystery
If you liked A Body to Die For: A Weekend Murder Mystery (1997), a mystery and romance movie directed by Ross Cannon, 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.
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Basic Instinct (1992)
★ 7/10Also mysteryCatherine, a novelist with an insatiable sexual appetite, becomes a prime suspect when her boyfriend is brutally murdered -- a crime she had described in her latest story.
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8MM (1999)
★ 6.5/10Also mysteryA small, seemingly innocuous plastic reel of film leads surveillance specialist Tom Welles down an increasingly dark and frightening path. With the help of the streetwise Max, he relentlessly follows a bizarre trail of…
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Body Double (1984)
★ 6.7/10Also mysteryAfter losing an acting role and his girlfriend, Jake Scully finally catches a break: he gets offered a gig house-sitting in the Hollywood Hills. While peering through the beautiful home's telescope one night, he spies…
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Cruising (1980)
★ 6.6/10Also mysteryWhen New York is caught in the grip of a sadistic serial killer who preys on patrons of the city's underground bars, rookie cop Steve Burns infiltrates the gay S&M subculture to try and lure him out of the shadows.
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The Substitute 2: School's Out (1998)
★ 6.5/10Also mysteryWhen teacher Randall Thomasson is killed during a carjacking, an unexpected visitor shows up at his funeral - his estranged brother, Karl Thomasson. An ex-Green Beret turned mercenary, Karl signs on as a new substitute…
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D.O.A. (1949)
★ 6.9/10Also mysteryFrank Bigelow is about to die, and he knows it. The accountant has been poisoned and has only 24 hours before the lethal concoction kills him. Determined to find out who his murderer is, Frank, with the help of his…
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Oldboy (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also mysteryA man has only three and a half days and limited resources to discover why he was imprisoned in a nondescript room for 20 years without any explanation.
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The Hot Spot (1990)
★ 6.3/10Also romanceUpon arriving to a small town, a drifter quickly gets into trouble with the local authorities — and the local women — after he robs a bank.
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Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
★ 7.2/10Also mysteryOne evening, Hammer gives a ride to Christina, an attractive hitchhiker on a lonely country road, who has escaped from the nearby lunatic asylum. Thugs waylay them and force his car to crash. When Hammer returns to…
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Tightrope (1984)
★ 6.2/10Also mysteryWes Block is a detective who's put on the case of a serial killer whose victims are young and pretty women. The murders are getting personal when the killer chooses victims who are acquaintances of Block. Even his…
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The Infernal Machine (2022)
★ 6.2/10Also mysteryReclusive and controversial author Bruce Cogburn is drawn out of hiding by an obsessive fan, forcing the novelist to confront a past that he thought he could escape, and to account for events set in motion by his…
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In Darkness (2018)
★ 6/10Also mysteryA blind musician hears a murder committed in the apartment upstairs from hers that sends her down a dark path into London's gritty criminal underworld.
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True Romance (1993)
★ 7.5/10Also romanceClarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
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Se7en (1995)
★ 8.4/10Also mysteryTwo homicide detectives are on a desperate hunt for a serial killer whose crimes are based on the "seven deadly sins" in this dark and haunting film that takes viewers from the tortured remains of one victim to the…
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Watchmen (2009)
★ 7.4/10Also mysteryIn a gritty and alternate 1985, the glory days of costumed vigilantes have been brought to a close by a government crackdown. But after one of the masked veterans is brutally murdered, an investigation into the killer…
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No Exit (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also mysteryStranded at a rest stop in the mountains during a blizzard, a recovering addict discovers a kidnapped child hidden in a car belonging to one of the people inside the building which sets her on a terrifying struggle to…
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Narrow Margin (1990)
★ 6.4/10Also mysteryAn L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her, they…
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Red Sparrow (2018)
★ 6.5/10Also mysteryPrima ballerina Dominika Egorova faces a bleak and uncertain future after she suffers an injury that ends her career. She soon turns to Sparrow School, a secret intelligence service that trains exceptional young people…
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The Return (1980)
★ 5.9/10Also mysteryTwo young children and an adult in a small town have an encounter with an alien spaceship. 25 years later the children are reunited as adults in the same town which is now beset by strange cattle mutilations. Matters…
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Brick (2006)
★ 6.8/10Also mysteryA teenage loner pushes his way into the underworld of a high school crime ring to investigate the disappearance of his ex-girlfriend.