Movies like Teen Spirit

Before and After (1996)

Two parents deal with the effects when their son is accused of murdering his girlfriend.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery

Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly (2020)

Aurora's high school reunion turns deadly when a body is found in the hotel pool. Aurora and her Real Murders Club help investigate which classmate was most likely to kill.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & drama

The Caveman's Valentine (2001)

Romulus, a misunderstood musician turned recluse hiding from personal demons in a New York City cave, finds the frozen body of a young drifter in a tree. The authorities, including his police officer daughter, claim the death is accidental. Romulus is convinced the man was murdered by a prominent art photographer but how can he prove he's right when everyone thinks he's insane?

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery

The Naked City (1948)

After a former model is drowned in her bathtub, Detective James Halloran and Lieutenant Dan Muldoon attempt to piece together her murder.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery

Garage Sale Mystery: A Case Of Murder (2017)

Jenn buys an old reel-to-reel recorder at a garage sale only to find that it includes the sound of a man pleading for his life. When the former owner of the recorder, a retired therapist, is found murdered in a patient’s apartment, Jenn’s investigation leads to other patients whose love lives are more entangled than she was first led to believe.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & drama

Deathtrap (1982)

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

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & comedy

The Middle Man (2021)

Frank Farrelli takes on the job as a middle man in the God-forsaken town of Karmack, USA, a community in a depression so deep that they need a middle man to professionally communicate more of the bad news.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

They Call Me Mister Tibbs! (1970)

A police detective's investigation of a prostitute's murder points to his best friend.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery

Murder in Three Acts (1986)

In Acapulco, Hercule Poirot attends a dinner party in which one of the guests clutches his throat and suddenly dies. The causes seem to be natural until another party with most of the same guests produces another corpse.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery

Last Scene Alive: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2018)

There is excitement in the air when a Hollywood crew comes to Lawrenceton to film a movie about the town’s sleuthy librarian, Aurora Teagarden. However, when the film’s leading lady is found murdered in her dressing room, Aurora enlists her Real Murders Club members to help gather clues. At the same time, she experiences mounting concern that Aida is becoming attracted to the film’s director who, like everyone else working on the set that day, is considered a suspect. And this time around Martin is especially worried about Aurora’s safety after learning that the film’s screenwriter, who has a romantic history with her, emerges as the prime suspect.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & drama

Garage Sale Mystery: Guilty Until Proven Innocent (2016)

When Jenn's old pal Sandra becomes the prime suspect in a murder case, it'll be up to her to discover who done it before time runs out.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery

The Thursday Murder Club (2025)

A group of senior sleuths passionate about solving cold cases get plunged into a real-life murder mystery in this comic crime caper.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & mystery

A Bone to Pick: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2015)

A librarian with a sharp mind for murder, Aurora Teagarden is known around her small town as a master sleuth. When her friend Jane unexpectedly dies and leaves Aurora everything in her will, she also leaves a troubling murder mystery haunting her neighborhood. It is up to Aurora to piece together the clues—including a skull, its missing skeleton and a suspicious group of neighbors—and solve the murder before she becomes the unlikely killer’s next victim.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & drama

Dead Over Heels: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2017)

Librarian and real crime buff Aurora “Roe” Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns, but she also never wanted to see him dead. When his body is found outside of Aurora’s home, she then becomes the main suspect. Determined to find the killer and clear her name, Aurora can't help but to get involved once again.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & drama

Reap What You Sew: An Aurora Teagarden Mystery (2018)

Internet sensation and old family friend of Aurora Teagarden, Poppy Wilson, has returned to Lawrenceton to start her new embroidery business. But not everyone is happy with Poppy's success when she turns up dead. To find the killer, Roe must follow the unsettling truths that lead her—into the path of the killer.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & drama

Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder (2022)

A murder investigation is reignited in a house that is considered haunted by the Lawrenceton locals and where years ago Aurora and Sally, as teenagers, discovered a body.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both mystery & drama

Code 3 (2025)

A burned-out paramedic tries to survive his last 24 hours on the job while training a new recruit.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Suburbicon (2017)

In the quiet family town of Suburbicon during the 1950s, the best and worst of humanity is hilariously reflected through the deeds of seemingly ordinary people. When a home invasion turns deadly, a picture-perfect family turns to blackmail, revenge and murder.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama & mystery

The Adventures of Ford Fairlane (1990)

To the Los Angeles elite, Ford Fairlane is known as "Mr. Rock 'n' Roll Detective." This loudmouthed ladies' man serves an exclusive rock star clientele, who depend on his keen eye and smug discretion. So when a heavy-metal musician dies mid-concert, Fairlane is on the case before the lights come up. But things turn shocking when radio personality Johnny Crunch hires Fairlane to find a missing groupie mere hours before he is electrocuted live on air.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & mystery

Small Apartments (2012)

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.

Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama

Clue (1985)

Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy & mystery

The Delivery (2023)

A hard-boiled detective sets out to investigate the grisly murder of a millionaire tech magnate, but a slew of interjections by an unexpected visitor threaten to disrupt the case---and the detective's sanity.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both mystery & comedy

Proof of the Man (1977)

When an American is murdered in a Japanese inn, Tokyo police detective Munesue follows the trail of the killer to New York. There he is joined by a New York City detective named Shuftan and together they sort out the crime.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama & mystery

Winter of the Century (2025)

Karl Weiss and Richard Schvitz find themselves trapped in a mysterious apartment complex during a winter storm with a killer on the loose.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both mystery & comedy

Nightmare at Midsummer (1979)

Businessman Henrik Lehmann and his wife Tove are spending the summer at their country house near Risør. The idyll is shattered by a sinister incident. An accident, or perhaps a crime? Police officer Sigurdson, who happens to be holidaying in the same place with colleague Mette, has a mystery to solve

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both mystery

Bravetown (2015)

After an accidental drug overdose, a talented teenage DJ goes to live with his estranged father in a small Army town, where he gets to the bottom of his own pain and learns empathy for others.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Unbelievable (2015)

A plane accident changes Francesco's life, who starts to feel a strange and new reality made of sorrow.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Chiamami, Valentina (2024)

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama

Friends Like These (2019)

After his relationship falls apart, Sal and his two best friends decide to rent a house on the island, in an attempt to get him out of his slump. The girls' attempt to help Sal results in excessive drinking, late nights, and mild debauchery.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both comedy

Sail On, My Love (2021)

Villiam goes on a trip to a vacation house with Bjørn and his friends only to discover that things are not the way they used to be between them, and that Bjørn has invited him for a very specific reason.

Why it matches: Similar story and style · both drama