20 best movies like Throw Momma from the Train (1987)

List of the best movies like Throw Momma from the Train (1987): Heathers, Scotland, PA, Deathtrap, 4.3.2.1, Control, Duplicity, To Die For, Bad Samaritan, No Way to Treat a Lady, The Glimmer Man.

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Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:43

A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genrecomedy, crime
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration00:55

Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who has much smarter. Pat believes she could do better with the place than their boss Norm is doing, so she plans to usurp Norm, convincing Mac to rob the restaurant's safe and then murder Norm, using the robbery as a way of throwing the cops off their trail.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, comedy, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:56

A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrethriller, comedy, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom
Duration01:57

Jo is chained down in a dead end supermarket job while all her friends are all out on their own separate adventures. But a chance encounter with some diamond thieves sends their separate worlds on a collision course with not only each other, but fate itself.

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: 6.1
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
CountryUSA, Germany
Duration02:05

Two romantically-engaged corporate spies team up to manipulate a corporate race to corner the market on a medical innovation that will reap huge profits and enable them to lead an extravagant lifestyle together.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Canada
Duration01:46

Suzanne Stone wants to be a world-famous news anchor and she is willing to do anything to get what she wants. What she lacks in intelligence, she makes up for in cold determination and diabolical wiles. As she pursues her goal with relentless focus, she is forced to destroy anything and anyone that may stand in her way, regardless of the ultimate cost or means necessary.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genrehorror, thriller, crime
CountryUSA
Duration02:39

A thief makes a disturbing discovery in the house where he breaks in. Later, when he returns to the same house with his partner in crime, things are no longer how he expected.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

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.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:31

A former government operative renowned for his stealth, Jack Cole is now a Los Angeles police detective. When a series of horrible murders occurs in the metro area, Cole is assigned to the case, along with tough-talking fellow cop Jim Campbell. Although the two men clash, they gradually become effective partners as they uncover a conspiracy linked to the killings, which also involves terrorism and organized crime.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:48

Supernatural private eye, Dylan Dog, seeks out the monsters of the Louisiana bayou in his signature red shirt, black jacket and blue jeans.

Markimdb: 5.2
Genreaction, thriller, crime
CountryUSA

With an honest job and a loving wife, Nick Brenner believed he had safely escaped his violent, criminal history. But his old crew hasn't forgotten about him or the money he stole, and when they take what Nick now values the most - his wife - he has nothing left to lose. Confronted by the town sheriff, who is also his father-in-law, Nick must decide if he will stay on his new path or indulge in his need for revenge and force his enemies to pay for what they have done.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrethriller, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:53

This morning they were playing ping-pong in the hospital rec room. Now they're lost in New York and framed for murder. This was never covered in group therapy.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

While transporting a dying man to the hospital, two paramedics find a million dollars in cash sewn into his clothing. When the man dies, they decide to keep it, setting them on a path for a hellish night of violence and mayhem.

Markimdb: 5.6
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountrySpain, France, Sweden, Argentina
Duration01:38

Hoping to earn his mother's respect, a young hustler-turned-businessman tries to open a brothel with his two useless buddies.

Markimdb: 6.4
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

Ray Tango and Gabriel Cash are narcotics detectives who, while both being extremely successful, can't stand each other. Crime Lord Yves Perret, furious at the loss of income that Tango and Cash have caused him, frames the two for murder. Caught with the murder weapon on the scene of the crime, the two have no alibi. Thrown into prison with most of the criminals they helped convict, it appears that they are going to have to trust each other if they are to clear their names and catch the evil Perret.

Markimdb: 4.8
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, Romania, Luxembourg, USA

When an experienced thief accidentally makes off with a Van Gogh, his partner is kidnapped by gangsters in pursuit of the painting, forcing the criminal to hatch a rescue plan.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

A man who is being driven crazy by the noise in New York City decides to take vigilante action against it.

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: 5.3
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:51

Joe Gavilan (Harrison Ford) and his new partner K. C. Calden (Josh Hartnett), are detectives on the beat in Tinseltown. Neither one of them really wants to be a cop, Gavilan moonlights as a real estate broker, and Calden is an aspiring actor moonlighting as a yoga instructor. When the two are assigned a big case they must work out whether they want to solve the case or follow their hearts.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryFrance

Bastien, an ambitious young production assistant, catches the attention of Jean-Louis, a producer of high regard, and is granted a shot at his own television show.

Markimdb: 7
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, adventure, crime, detective
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
Duration02:05

Director Billy Wilder adds a new and intriguing twist to the personality of intrepid detective Sherlock Holmes. One thing hasn't changed however: Holmes' crime-solving talents. Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments. Can the sleuths make sense of all this and solve the mystery

Markimdb: 5.3
Genreaction, comedy, crime
CountryRussia
Duration01:27

The story of the daring romance Solovyov Sevastyanov G., ctupivshem by the call of blood on the path of the valiant Russian robbery. And while the security forces led by a secret agent trying to close H7 gang Nightingale the Robber, he, with his drive and mischief, restores fairness in my native land. But sooner or later every "Tale" comes to an end ...

Markimdb: 5.8
Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA

A random invitation to a Halloween party leads a man into the hands of a rogue collective intent on murdering him for the sake of their art, sparking a bloodbath of mishap, mayhem and hilarity.

Markimdb: 6.6
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, crime
CountryLithuania, United Kingdom
Duration01:39

Four friends become stranded in Eastern Europe and have to become hit men, prostitutes, corrupt cops, smugglers and more to make it home.

Markimdb: 6.2
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:24

A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:35

A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the neighbor. As other slights befall her beloved family, the body count begins to increase.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration01:45

A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:32

When a clumsy deadbeat accidentally kills his landlord, he must do everything in his power to hide the body, only to find that the distractions of lust, the death of his beloved brother, and a crew of misfit characters force him on a journey where a fortune awaits him.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryJapan

Masaki, a baseball player and gas-station attendant, gets into trouble with the local Yakuza and goes to Okinawa to get a gun to defend himself. There he meets Uehara, a tough gangster, who is in serious debt to the yakuza and planning revenge.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime, music
CountrySweden, France, Denmark
Duration01:42

A tone-deaf cop works to track down a group of guerilla percussionists whose anarchic public performances are terrorizing the city.

Markimdb: 5.9
Genrethriller, comedy, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

Gabriella, a Columbian immigrant, is obsessed with understanding violent crime. The current string of murders by "The Blue Blood Killer" of affluent Miami socialites provides her with fodder for her scrapbook of death. She lands a job with a post-murder cleaning service and during a Blue-Blood clean-up job, discovers evidence that police have overlooked.

Markimdb: 7.5
Genrehorror, fantastic, action, thriller, comedy, adventure, crime
CountryUSA, Canada
Duration03:11

    Two full-length feature horror movies written by Quentin Tarantino and Robert Rodriguez put together as a two-film feature. Including fake movie trailers in between both movies.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryNorway
    Duration01:25

    Terrified and bloody, Oscar Svendsen awakes clinched to a shotgun in a strippers joint. Around him 8 dead men, and police aiming at him. To Oscar it's clear that he is innocent. It all started when four chaps won 1,7 million on the pools.

    Markimdb: 6.8
    Genrethriller, comedy, crime
    CountryUSA

    Set in 1974, a pair of '60s radicals rely on their bomb-making skills on their way to becoming capitalists.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA, Canada
    Duration01:58

    Skillfully framed by an unknown enemy for the murder of a priest, wanted vigilante MacManus brothers Murphy and Connor must come out of hiding on a sheep farm in Ireland to fight for justice in Boston.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, crime
    CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
    Duration01:50

      A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
      CountryUSA

      While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genreaction, thriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:47

      Martin Blank is a hitman for hire. When he starts to develop a conscience, he botches a couple of routine jobs. On the advice of his secretary and his psychiatrist, he decides to attend his ten-year high school reunion in Grosse Pointe, Michigan.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:40

      An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.

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