20 best movies like The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942)

List of the best movies like The Affairs of Jimmy Valentine (1942): Charlie Countryman, Trim, Catchfire, Miss Meadows, Harvard Man, The Extreme Tragic Story of Celal Tan and His Family, Into the Night, A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, Tomorrow at Seven, Perrier's Bounty.

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Markimdb: 6.3
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Romania
Duration01:43

While traveling abroad, a guy falls for a Romanian beauty whose unreachable heart has its origins in her violent, charismatic ex.

Markimdb: 7.4
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA

A misguided personal trainer struggles to clean up his life after he's sued by one of his clients, knocks up two women and suffers a major heart attack. Stars Jonathan Wade-Drahos, Ryan Bottiglieri, Bruce Dern.

Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:56

A witness to a mob assassination flees for her life from town to town, switching identities, but cannot seem to elude Milo, the chief killer out to get her.

Markimdb: 5.7
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:28

Miss Meadows is a school teacher with impeccable manners and grace. However, underneath the candy-sweet exterior hides a ruthless gun-toting vigilante who takes it upon herself to right the wrongs in the world by whatever means necessary. For Miss Meadows, bad behavior is simply unforgivable.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:00

College has always been a time for experimentation, sexual, cultural and otherwise. "Harvard Man" plays out against a background of love, sex, basketball, crime and experimentation. Action and philosophy in young people's quest to discover their true identity.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, family, crime
CountryTurkey

Celal Tan is a well-respected constitutional law professor who lives in a provincial city has two children from his first marriage. Many years after the death of his first wife, he married a woman much younger than him, a university student, whose life he has saved in some way. In the third year of their marriage, the extremely tragic story of Celal Tan and his family begins after a big crisis happened in front of the whole family. While trying to hide the secret, the family falls into absurd and tragicomic positions. Regardless of all happenings, Celal Tan tries to keep the family together.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:55

Ed Okin used to have a boring life. He used to have trouble getting to sleep. Then one night, he met Diana. Now, Ed's having trouble staying alive.

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

Nightclub manager Darnell Wright is a perpetual playboy who is almost as devoted to his job as he is to the pursuit of beautiful women. After he sets his sights on the ultra-classy Brandi Web, he launches an all-out assault to win her heart. Ultimately, charm, lust and passion prevail, but Darnell learns the hard way that when you play, you pay. Brandi is much harder to get rid of than she was to get--especially when she realizes that she has a rival vying for Darnell's affection. When he finally decides to call it quits, Brandi becomes an obsessed femme fatale stalking the new love of her life.

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: 6.3
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryRepublic of Ireland, United Kingdom
Duration01:28

A gangster named Perrier looks to exact his revenge on a trio of fugitives responsible for the accidental death of one of his cronies.

Markimdb: 2.6
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA

Teen Alex Taylor and his older brother Jack live in L.A. where Jack is a personal fitness trainer. Jack had an affair with Mitzi Price, a very powerful business man's wife. Her husband, Laszlo Price, then blackmails Jack into going to New York City to get information from Rachel Montgomery, about who she is selling her company to. Jack brings Alex with him to make sure that he will be safe. Jack and Rachel fall in love while Alex falls in love Rachel's daughter Kelly. Eventually Jack tells Rachel why he was sent to New York, and the two work together to bring Laszlo Price down. Rachel needs to have two million dollars in order to not sell her company. Alex wins the money in a halftime contest at a basketball game. They provide information about Laszlo Price to the police, and he is arrested.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryJapan
Duration01:34

Kitano plays Murakawa, a Tokyo yakuza tiring of gangster life. Along with a few of his henchmen, he is sent by his boss to Okinawa to help end a gang war, supposedly to mediate between two warring clans. He finds that the dispute between the clans is insignificant and whilst wondering why he was sent to Okinawa at all, Murakawa's headquarters are bombed and he and his gang are ambushed in a bar.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
CountryNorway
Duration01:27

Anna lives with her father Karl someplace in the outskirts of northern Norway. Karl killed his ex-wife and threw her newborn coloured child into the sea when he discovered that she obviously had been unfaithful. Now Karl is being haunted by her ghost and is developing a serious drinking problem. Anna is looking for the love of her life, but there aren't many bachelors around - until they discovers another small family on the other side of the mountain. They meet a semi-alcoholized widow on Karl's age, her son Peder, and her black adopted son, Ante, that arrived from the sea on a piece of wood.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Colombia
Duration01:08

A leader of a drug cartel sends his two toughest henchmen to investigate why a shipment was botched.

Markimdb: 7.6
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryHungary
Duration01:45

A tale about a strange young man, Bulcsú, his fellow inspectors, who are all without exception likeable characters, a rival ticket inspection team, and racing along the tracks... And a tale about love.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:07

A psychosexual noir love story, set in Las Vegas and Paris, about love, obsession, sex, betrayal, revenge and, ultimately, the search for redemption.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA, Australia

After suffering a heart attack, Bill (Bill Oberst) takes his doctor's advice literally to eliminate the stresses from his life. The plan is working until his killings attract the attention of a psychotic cop (Armand Assante) who isn't sure whether he wants to arrest or join him. Complications deepen when it becomes apparent to Bill that the biggest cause of stress in his life might be his wife.

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: 6.7
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:27

    Recently fired and facing eviction, a new dad has his life turned upside down when he meets a wealthy couple who offer a path to financial security... but at a price.

    Markimdb: 5.3
    Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    Set in the world of mega-churches in which a former Deadhead-turned-born again-Christian finds himself on the run from fundamentalist members of his mega-church who will do anything to protect their larger-than-life pastor.

    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, melodrama, drama, crime
    CountryUSA

    Young lovers Billy and Sarah journey from L.A. to Texas with plans to make a false claim to the valuable assets left behind by a dead friend. But when their voyage brings them to Tremo, Texas, they find a bizarre and sinister world awaiting them.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:28

      Phil and Claire Foster fear that their mild-mannered relationship may be falling into a stale rut. During their weekly date night, their dinner reservation leads to their being mistaken for a couple of thieves – and now a number of unsavoury characters want Phil and Claire killed.

      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: 5
      Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
      CountryFrance, Belgium, China, USA
      Duration02:21

      A foster family in South Central a few weeks before the city erupts in violence following the verdict of the Rodney King trial in 1992.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, melodrama, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:36

      A surrogate mother harbors a deadly secret desire for a family of her own with the husband who is expecting to raise her child.

      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: 6.1
        Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, crime, detective
        CountryUSA

        A couple experiences a defining moment in their relationship when they are unintentionally embroiled in a murder mystery. As their journey to clear their names takes them from one extreme – and hilarious - circumstance to the next, they must figure out how they, and their relationship, can survive the night.

        Markimdb: 7.1
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:02

        Strong and successful Alice Martin is a fraud investigator who's about to be the victim of fraud by her fiancé. Between her cases, she is determined to find him before it ruins her career.

        Markimdb: 6.1
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA

        James, down on his luck and desperate for some quick cash, agrees to drive a small truck across country. He soon realizes that he's made a huge mistake and has inadvertently become involved in a dangerous human trafficking ring. The unlikely hero risks it all to shut down the trafficking ring and save the woman he is falling in love with.

        Markimdb: 6.2
        Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration00:59

        The sordid lives of an addict, an ex-con, and a luchador collide when an organ harvesting caper goes very, very wrong.

        Markimdb: 6.4
        Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
        CountryUSA
        Duration02:36

        A teen winds up in over his head while dealing drugs with a rebellious partner and chasing the young man's enigmatic sister during the summer of 1991 that he spends on Cape Cod, Massachusetts.

        Markimdb: 5.5
        Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime, film noir
        CountryUSA

        Los Angeles, 1958: a detective holes up in a downtown hotel awaiting killers to come get him. During the course of one night he will meet various occupants of the hotel and the truth of how he came to be in his present situation will be revealed.




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