20 best movies like Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939)

List of the best movies like Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939): Light From the Tower, Rush Hour, Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase, Vampire Academy, The Missing Girl, Hail, Caesar!, While We're Young, Zeroville, Inherent Vice, Death in Paradise.

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Markimdb: 2.5
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, detective
CountryUSA

A costume designer is sent to the Catskills for an interactive theatre piece set in the 1920s. When she arrives things seem dark, strange and off. She soon realizes she is part of a student film.

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
Genrecomedy, drama, family, crime, detective
CountryUSA
Duration02:09

Nancy Drew, a smart high schooler with a penchant for keen observation and deduction, stumbles upon the haunting of a local home. A bit of an outsider struggling to fit into her new surroundings, Nancy and her pals set out to solve the mystery, make new friends, and establish their place in the community

Markimdb: 5.5
Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, comedy, drama, detective
CountryUSA
Duration01:44

    Rose, a rebellious half-vampire/half-human guardian-in-training and her best friend, Lissa -- a mortal, royal vampire Princess - have been on the run when they are captured and returned to St. Vladamirs Academy, the very place where they believe their lives may be in most jeopardy. Rose will sacrifice everything to protect Lissa from those who intend to exploit her from within the Academy walls and the Strigoi (immortal, evil vampires) who hunt her kind from outside its sanctuary.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA

    THE MISSING GIRL tells the story of Mort, the lonely and disillusioned owner of a comic book shop, and Ellen, the emotionally disruptive graphic novelist he's hired. The story involves the search for a girl who isn't missing and the discovery that it's never too late for late bloomers.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, detective, music
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Japan
    Duration02:31

    Tells the comedic tale of Eddie Mannix, a fixer who worked for the Hollywood studios in the 1950s. The story finds him at work when a star mysteriously disappears in the middle of filming.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrecomedy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:37

    An uptight documentary filmmaker and his wife find their lives loosened up a bit after befriending a free-spirited younger couple.

    Markimdb: 4.5
    Genrecomedy, drama, detective
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    A young actor arrives in Hollywood in 1969 during a transitional time in the Industry.

    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: 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: 7.3
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, musical, western, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:09

      Vignettes weaving together the stories of six individuals in the old West at the end of the Civil War. Following the tales of a sharp-shooting songster, a wannabe bank robber, two weary traveling performers, a lone gold prospector, a woman traveling the West to an uncertain future, and a motley crew of strangers undertaking a carriage ride.

      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
      CountryUSA

      Mystery writer Barry Craig (Allyn Joslyn) and his wife Jane (Evelyn Keyes), prefer solving crimes rather than writing about them. They get a chance when killings plague the fashion photography studio of Ralph McCormick (Edmund Lowe). After his secretary, Julie Taylor(Anita Louise) reports an attempt to murder her there, Erika McCormick's (Ann Savage) Aunt Isabel Fleming (Mary Forbes) is stabbed and the evidence points to Madge Lawrence (Bess Flowers) an older model and an apparent suicide. Police Inspector Joseph Clinton (Frank Craven) declares the case closed...but then Erika is murdered.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrehorror, fantasy, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      Opting to sleep in the allegedly-haunted guest house while spending a weekend in the Hamptons with friends, Ruth, a lonely young woman in her mid-twenties who's had too much to drink, strikes up a conversation that leads to a sexual encounter with Michael, a burlap-draped ghost that casually appears before her. Through this inter-paranormal relation, Ruth contracts an STD with alarming effects.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA

      The Post War II story of Manhattan born Mike Esposito, a practiced tailor of custom mens clothing; a man of dignity and honor, whose developing involvements with the Italian mob wraps him up in a world of moral dilemma and clashing values.

      Markimdb: 7.7
      Genrefantastic, fantasy, comedy, drama, adventure, detective
      CountryCanada, USA
      Duration01:56

      An aspiring painter meets various characters and learns valuable lessons while traveling across America.

      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: 4.8
      Genrehorror, comedy, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      After being released from prison, a man known as The Rambler stumbles upon a strange mystery as he attempts a dangerous journey through treacherous back roads and small towns en route to reconnecting with his long lost brother.

      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: 6.4
      Genrehorror, thriller, comedy, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:38

      A former mental patient's repressed anger reaches the boiling point, leading him to embark on a mission of revenge against the thugs who once subjected him to severe physical and mental trauma.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:27

      A 1950s accountant (Dennis Lipscomb) with a restless wife (Deborah Harry) grows paranoid after hiding a milk thief's corpse next door.




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