20 best movies like Whatever You Say (2002)

List of the best movies like Whatever You Say (2002): Monsieur Verdoux, A Gorgeous Girl Like Me, Amateur, Beautiful Creatures, Miss Meadows, The Ice Harvest, Buffet Froid, Buffalo Soldiers, Going Places, No Way to Treat a Lady.

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Markimdb: 7.8
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:59

The film is about an unemployed banker, Henri Verdoux, and his sociopathic methods of attaining income. While being both loyal and competent in his work, Verdoux has been laid-off. To make money for his wife and child, he marries wealthy widows and then murders them. His crime spree eventually works against him when two particular widows break his normal routine.

Markimdb: 6.5
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryFrance
Duration01:38

Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He chooses Camille Bliss as his subject of study and begins to visit her in prison for interviews. Camille became acquainted with trouble at a young age and justifies her actions by "fate-bets." She is currently in prison for allegedly murdering one of her lovers. As she tells Stanislas of her life and love affairs, his interest in her grows to more than just professional. Can he resist her charm?

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: 5.8
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom

When Petula and Dorothy cover up the accidental murder of one jerk boyfriend, they hatch a hilarious scheme to collect a huge ransom.

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: 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: 7.3
Genrecomedy, drama, crime
CountryFrance
Duration01:29

An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.

Markimdb: 6.7
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime, military
CountryUnited Kingdom, Germany
Duration01:34

Set just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, Sgt. Ray Elwood is an American soldier stationed at a German army camp. A soldier because a judge gave him a choice between the army and jail, Ray spends much of his free time cooking cocaine for the MPs. When a soldier dies and a toxicology screen shows an alarming level of illegal narcotics, someone is sent in to investigate.

Markimdb: 7.2
Genreaction, comedy, drama, crime
CountryFrance
Duration01:56

Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeois characters value: whether it's cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She's on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.

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: 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: 6.2
Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryFrance, USA
Duration01:57

A dangerous international spy is determined to give up his high stakes life to finally build a closer relationship with his estranged wife and daughter. But first, he must complete one last mission - even if it means juggling the two toughest assignments yet: hunting down the world's most ruthless terrorist and looking after his teenage daughter for the first time in ten years, while his wife is out of town.

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: 6.8
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: 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: 6.9
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryFrance
Duration01:27

Into the solitary life of middle-aged hitman, Victor Meynard, come two people: Antoine, a youth who becomes Victor's apprentice, and Renée, a bold thief Victor's been hired to kill because she cheated a mobster. When circumstances prevent Victor from killing her, the gangster sends two more teams to do it (and to dispatch Victor and Antoine). Victor decides to help Renée, and the unlikely trio ends up at his house with his temperamental mother; there, as they hide out, Victor's attraction to Renée grows, she discovers his vocation and fears he's going to kill her, and an ultimate showdown with their hunters is inevitable.

Markimdb: 7.7
Genrethriller, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryFrance

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events the led him to the killing.

Markimdb: 6.8
Genrecomedy, drama, crime, biography
CountryUSA
Duration01:40

In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.

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: 6.8
Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
CountryFrance, Luxembourg, Spain

Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot more closely based on Romand's life and Carrère's book than was Laurent Cantet's 2001 film L'Emploi du Temps. The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.

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: 7
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA, United Kingdom, France
Duration01:32

When a disc containing memoirs of a former CIA analyst falls into the hands of Linda Litzke and Chad Feldheimer, the two gym employees see a chance to make enough money for her to have life-changing cosmetic surgery. Predictably, events whirl out of control for the duo doofuses and those in their orbit.

Markimdb: 5.4
Genrecomedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:39

Sam Clayton's marriage to ex-stripper Freddie comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red, a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with Jjaks, Sam's brother, and the pair tries to escape the situation together. It isn't long before both Sam and Red catch up with them, resulting in threats against the two of them -- although tension also starts to build between Sam and Red.

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: 5.7
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUnited Kingdom, USA

An overlooked pencil-pusher catches her husband in bed with another woman, the shock of which causes him to die of a heart attack. So she buries his body and takes advantage of the growing celebrity status that comes from having a missing husband. But she quickly finds herself in over her head, dodging cops and criminals, all while trying to keep the truth from her sister, a local news anchor who’s desperate for a story.

Markimdb: 6.3
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:37

Norman Reedus stars as Harry Odum, a henpecked, 18-year-old momma's boy in Youngstown, Ohio, who -- with his violent temper -- impresses a local boss of the Jewish Mafia. Soon he's found his calling as a hit man alongside his crack addict partner Arnie Finklestein (Adrien Brody), and he discovers that his rage and complicated psychosis fuel his murderous abilities. Harry also falls for the organization's limping, Hungarian-born maid Iris (Elina Lowensohn), a romance complicated by Harry's Oedipal, sexual relationship with his domineering mother Kate (Deborah Harry).

Markimdb: 6.1
Genrethriller, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:33

25 year-old Dwayne McLaren, a former athlete turned auto mechanic, dreams of getting out of tiny Cut Bank, Montana the coldest town in America. But his effort to do so sets in moton a deadly series of events that change his life and the life of the town forever...

Markimdb: 7.8
Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
CountryUSA
Duration01:49

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.

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: 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: 6.9
Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, drama, crime
CountryFrance, Canada

Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap another child, Jose, to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it's wrong, Betty accepts Jose as her new son. Meanwhile, Jose's mother Carole is looking for her son with the help of her boyfriend Francois and some of his criminal cohorts.

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: 6.4
    Genreaction, thriller, comedy, drama, crime
    CountryHong Kong, China
    Duration02:09

    A blind detective, former cop, teams up with a policewoman who admires him to solve the disappearance of a girl friend of hers, years ago. Besides, he helps her to improve her skills as an investigator.

    Markimdb: 7.5
    Genrecomedy, crime, detective
    CountryFrance
    Duration01:35

    A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.

    Markimdb: 7.2
    Genrecomedy, drama, crime
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:44

      Fed up with the cruelty and stupidity of American culture, an unlikely duo goes on a killing spree, killing reality TV stars, bigots and others they find repugnant in this black comedy.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime
      CountryAustralia, USA
      Duration01:30

      While on a seemingly routine job, a jaded hit man discovers that he's not the only one with his target in the crosshairs.

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

      Larry Donner, an author with a cruel ex-wife, teaches a writing workshop in which one of his students, Owen, is fed up with his domineering mother. When Owen watches a Hitchcock classic that seems to mirror his own life, he decides to put the movie's plot into action and offers to kill Larry's ex-wife, if Larry promises to murder his mom. Before Larry gets a chance to react to the plan, it seems that Owen has already set things in motion.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genrethriller, comedy, melodrama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:29

      A young man gets in over his head when he convinces a small-town girl he's a secret agent.

      Markimdb: 6.4
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama
      CountryFrance
      Duration01:44

      Muriel Bayen, a divorced beautician and mother of two, loves to tell stories. She is a huge fan of this singer Vincent Lacroix, in fact she is a dedicated fan. One day Vincent knock on her door and ask for her help.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:00

      Spiritualist Blanche Tyler is asked to locate a missing heir, whom she pursues with her cab driver boyfriend George Lumley, an unemployed actor.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama
      CountryArgentina, Spain, France, United Kingdom
      Duration02:02

      Six short stories that explore the extremities of human behavior involving people in distress.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountryFrance, USA, Italy, West Germany
      Duration02:05

      Baron von Sepper is an Austrian aristocrat noted for his blue-toned beard, and his appetite for beautiful wives. His latest spouse, an American beauty named Anne, discovers a vault in his castle that's filled with the frozen bodies of several beautiful women.

      Markimdb: 7.3
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:56

      A phobic con artist and his protege are on the verge of pulling off a lucrative swindle when the con artist's teenage daughter arrives unexpectedly.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration01:34

      After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.

      Markimdb: 6.6
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryFrance

      Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would have married her. Now only hatred holds them together. Francois is accused of murder. A hooker and a football star lie slaughtered. He thinks he has been framed by the mob. Going underground, he finds that the trail leads all the way to the top - to Gilberte's family. He needs friends. And friends are hard to come by in his town.

      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: 7.6
      Genrethriller, comedy, drama, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrethriller, drama, crime
      CountrySerbia, Hungary, USA
      Duration01:47

      In 1860s Paris, a young woman, Therese, is trapped in a loveless marriage to the sickly Camille by her domineering aunt, Madame Raquin. She spends her days behind the counter of a small shop and her evenings watching Madame play dominos with an eclectic group. After she meets her husband’s alluring friend, Laurent, she embarks on an illicit affair that leads to tragic consequences. Based on Emile Zola’s novel, Thérèse Raquin.

      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.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrecomedy, drama, crime
      CountryLuxembourg, France
      Duration01:35

      Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that took place years before, and his storyline overlaps with the arc of the Chenals.




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