20 best movies like Lovejoy (1986)

List of the best movies like Lovejoy (1986): Viva Blackpool, Murder Ahoy, New Tricks, Death in Paradise, No Offence, Burn Notice: The Fall of Sam Axe, Imposters, Father Brown, Cruella, The Tiger's Tail.

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Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom

Ripley is now an ordained minister and owner of the Chapel of Love. He's on a search for the prize that will bring him untold riches - the Jules Rimet trophy. But when glamorous Kitty De-Luxe is jilted at his altar, Ripley falls hopelessly in love.

Markimdb: 7
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom

During an annual board of trustees meeting, one of the trustees dies. Miss Marple thinks he’s been poisoned after finding a chemical on him. She sets off to investigate at the ship where he had just come from. The fourth and final film from the Miss Marple series starring Margaret Rutherford as the quirky amateur detective.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom

New Tricks is a British comedy-drama that follows the work of the fictional Unsolved Crime and Open Case Squad of the Metropolitan Police Service. Originally led by Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman, it is made up of retired police officers who have been recruited to reinvestigate unsolved crimes.

Markimdb: 7.9
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, France, USA

Detective Inspector Richard Poole is transferred to Sainte Marie, an island in the Caribbean. Totally unsuited to the Caribbean way of life, Richard hates the sun, sea and sand and isn't used to the Sainte Marie style of policing. Working with the exotic Camille each week Richard investigates intricate and intriguing murders.

Markimdb: 8
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:05

Keeping these streets clean is a Herculean task, enough to demoralize even the keenest rookie – but there’s a reason why this hotchpotch of committed cops are on this force, on this side of town. Drug labs, arsonists, neo-Nazis and notorious murderers are all in a day’s work for this close-knit team, led by the dizzyingly capable but unquestionably unhinged DI Vivienne Deering. But when a particularly twisted serial killer emerges it leaves even the most hardened of these seasoned coppers reeling.

Markimdb: 7.1
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:00

Before Sam Axe teamed up with Michael and Fiona, he was Commander Axe, U.S. Navy SEAL. The Fall of Sam Axe tells the story of how Sam went from respected Naval Commander to the man of mystery we've come to know on Burn Notice. On what will turn out to be Sam's last military mission, he is sent to the jungles of Colombia to investigate claims of a vicious terrorist organization known only as the "Espada Ardiente" (Flaming Sword). His mission: to determine whether U.S. military aid is necessary to deal with the threat. But when he arrives, things are more complicated than he'd imagined. He receives word that the rebels have targeted a small civilian clinic deep in the jungle. Sam must now save the clinic's doctors and patients from certain death. However, nothing is as it seems and the Espada Ardiente may not be the biggest threat Sam Axe faces.

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:45

Maddie, a persona shifting con-artist who is as beautiful as she is dangerous, leaves her unwitting victims tormented when they realize they have been used and robbed of everything – including their hearts. But things get complicated when her former targets, Ezra, Richard, and Jules team up to track her down. While pursuing her newest mark, Maddie meets a potential love interest, Patrick, which threatens to derail her assignment, much to the chagrin of her mysterious boss, The Doctor.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:31

Works of art are disappearing, stolen by a master thief, a master of disguise. Father Brown has two goals: to catch the thief and to save his soul.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrecomedy, drama, adventure, crime, detective
CountryUSA

In 1970s London amidst the punk rock revolution, a young grifter named Estella is determined to make a name for herself with her designs. She befriends a pair of young thieves who appreciate her appetite for mischief, and together they are able to build a life for themselves on the London streets. One day, Estella’s flair for fashion catches the eye of the Baroness von Hellman, a fashion legend who is devastatingly chic and terrifyingly haute. But their relationship sets in motion a course of events and revelations that will cause Estella to embrace her wicked side and become the raucous, fashionable and revenge-bent Cruella.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom

After a chance encounter, a Dubliner is stalked by a murderous facsimile of himself.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration03:11

The series follows Detective Carter, a radical LAPD detective, and Detective Lee, a by-the-book detective from Hong Kong, as they are forced into forming an unlikely partnership

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
CountrySouth Korea
Duration01:58

A detective Seon-woo, who moonlights as a private investigator, has a beautiful new client Soo-Jin. The woman asks the detective to take photos of her husband in the midst of having an affair with another woman. When the detective goes to take pictures he discovers that the woman's husband is already dead. Now the detective becomes a suspect. The detective is chased by another detective Gil-ro. He must now set out for the real killer.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:29

    In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, musical, adventure, crime, detective
    CountryUnited Kingdom

    In this swinging romp through 1960s London, the frenzied manager of mod-rockers the Small Faces (made up of Steve Marriott, Kenney Jones, Ian McLagan and Ronnie Lane) gets into trouble when he agrees to use the band to smuggle diamonds out of the country. Songs include the Small Faces' "I've Got Mine," "It's Too Late," "Come On Children" and "Don't Stop What You're Doing" and The Chantelles' "I Think of You" and "Please Don't Kiss Me."

    Markimdb: 7.6
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:52

    Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:16

    A wise-cracking private detective's honeymoon is interrupted by a kidnapping case.

    Markimdb: 5.4
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    Police in Boston search for a mad bomber trying to extort money from the city.

    Markimdb: 2.8
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    When a geeky, overweight rushee is found dead at the hottest sorority on the campus, the three most popular girls of the house are prime suspects.

    Markimdb: 6.1
    Genrehorror, comedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryIran
    Duration01:00

    Hasan is full of rage. He's been blacklisted and hasn't been allowed to make a film in years. His star, a woman he adores, is impatient and wants to work with other directors. His wife seems to have fallen out of love with him, and his mother has become old and is slowly losing her mind. Worst of all, film directors across the city are being murdered one after the other, but the serial killer is inexplicably ignoring him. Hasan's feelings are hurt: isn't he the most accomplished filmmaker in town? So why is he being neglected? All these frustrations come to a head when, through a series of bizarre misunderstandings, he becomes the prime suspect in the serial murder case.

    Markimdb: 7.7
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryIndia

    The film deals with a murder of a young woman on a train to Madras. Almost half of the film is shot inside the train.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryFrance, Luxembourg

    A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    People in an old, dark mansion are menaced by a maniac called "The Black Ace.

    Markimdb: 6
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountryCanada

    Lacey Smithsonian is a stylish journalist who works as a television reporter. When interviewing a prestigious fashion designer Amanda Manville, it confesses that receives death threats from someone. Everything is complicated when the artist is shot dead during the program. Lacey will be involved in the case and launch an investigation to find the guilty.

    Markimdb: 8.4
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime, detective
    CountrySoviet Union
    Duration01:24

    A kindergarten director Troshkin is a dead ringer for a criminal nicknamed "Docent" who stole the priceless...

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    Genreaction, comedy, drama, adventure, crime, detective
    CountryUSA

    A reporter and a detective team up to solve the murder of a nightclub singer who had been involved in a divorce scandal.




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