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Plot Summary:
A federal agent attempts to make some real money before the alcohol ban is lifted so he sets his sights on the whiskey cache of an old army buddy.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Bootleggers (1974)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of bootleggers run booze in the South.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: independent film, poliziottesco
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Southern Cross (1999)
Plot Summary:
A mining businessman gets involved in crimes and murderers as he flees from another businessman who plans to dump nuclear waste illegally in abandoned coal mines in southern Chile.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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The Last Pig (2016)
Plot Summary:
Plum out of luck, Swabian farmer Huber’s farm goes under. Then his girlfriend Birgit takes over her father’s newly-acquired firm – in former East Germany. That's reason enough for Huber to bail on his debts and head out on a road trip through southwest Germany.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Moonshine County Express (1977)
Plot Summary:
The three surviving daughters of a murdered moonshiner band together with a racecar driver to run high-test shine behind the corpulent backs of the local likker syndicate.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Vice Academy Part 2 (1990)
Plot Summary:
When a criminal female named Spanish Fly threatens to contaminate the city water with aphrodisiacs, it is up to a duo of attractive female police officers to stop her.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, low brow humor
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Preacherman (1971)
Plot Summary:
Phony backwoods preacher Amos T. Huxley stays in a small North Carolina town long enough to fleece his congregation, swindle the profits from a moonshine still, and seduce dumb blonde Mary Lou. Mary Lou's ex-boyfriend becomes suspicious of the preacher and gets the local police to investigate his actions.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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The Godson (1971)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious mobster, Marko, makes the local brothel into a rousing success after double-crossing the mafia Don. This of course angers certain people who come after him.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Action, Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, freeze frame, independent film
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Catch Hell (2014)
Plot Summary:
Former Hollywood star Reagan Pearce (Ryan Phillippe) is kidnapped by two men connected to his past while on location in Louisiana. When he wakes up bound and chained in a rundown shack, he soon discovers the real motives of his captors and finds himself in the middle of a twisted scheme with little chance to survive. With no rescue in sight, Reagan must use every ounce of strength he has left to break free and get his revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic
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Caged Men (1971)
Plot Summary:
Elliott was a loser who robbed the bank only to land in jail. In prison, he encounters homosexuality as every inmate wants to turn Elliott into a mate!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film, poliziottesco, lgbt cinema, gay cinema
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Madness (1980)
Plot Summary:
An escaped convicted murderer invades the cottage of a man, his wife and the wife's sister, whereupon he proceeds to torment this already dysfunctional trio with rape and violence.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, controversial, grindhouse, neo noir, crying, psychotronic, freeze frame, poliziottesco, sexploitation film
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Landscape with Furniture (1987)
Plot Summary:
The story of a music academy student Zdenek, who meets a charming girl, and without realizing also gets a son with her. Dealing with such a situation is not easy, especially when one day the child's mother disappears. Twenty year old Zdenek faces a serious decision. Although he is aware that a child may endanger his studies and perhaps even future career, he refuses to entrust him to the care of the state institution.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 58
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Big Bad Mama (1974)
Plot Summary:
Mama and daughters get forced by circumstances into bootlegging and bank robbing, and travel across the country trailed by the law.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: road movie, grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, sexy, independent film, realistic, witty, semi serious, neo noir
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Cop or Hood (1979)
Plot Summary:
When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt. If they were closely examined, Stan's methods for pursuing this investigation might embarrass the police. For instance, he drives into a criminal's house in a fancy, expensive race car. In another incident, he callously blows up a casino owned by Musard , one of the town's crime bosses. On that occasion, he first forces Musard to remove his clothes, and the poor criminal watches his casino explode from across the square while standing naked in a phone booth. Meanwhile, Stan seduces the lovely Edmonde.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, neo noir, freeze frame, french noir
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The Motive (2017)
Plot Summary:
Álvaro is a poor man obsessed with the idea of writing 'high literature'. He starts provoking conflicts to write about them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, novela, surprise ending, tragicomedy, crying, dark comedy
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Lucky Lady (1975)
Plot Summary:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Lucky Lady is a 1975 American film directed by Stanley Donen and starring Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli and Burt Reynolds, with Robby Benson. Its story takes place during Prohibition in the United States in the year 1930. Gene Hackman initially did not want to do the film, but 20th Century Fox kept offering him more and more money. Finally, Fox offered him $1.25 million, and according to talent agent Sue Mengers, "it was almost obscene for him not to do the film.".
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, slapstick, entertaining, slapstick comedy
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The Grissom Gang (1971)
Plot Summary:
The Grissom Gang is a remake of the notorious 1949 British melodrama No Orchids For Miss Blandish. Kim Darby plays a 1920s-era debutante who is kidnapped and held for ransom. Her captors are the Grissoms, a family comprised of sadists and morons, and headed by Ma Barker clone Irene Dailey. One of the Grissoms, played by Scott Wilson, takes a liking to his prisoner, which results in a bloody breakdown of the family unit. Both The Grissom Gang and the original No Orchids For Miss Blandish were inspired by the best-seller by James Hadley Chase, though neither film retains Chase's original ending.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, tense, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, biting, crying
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Killers Three (1968)
Plot Summary:
America's DJ Dick Clark and Robert Walker Jr. star as two country boys who decide to rob a pile of cash from a bootlegger, assisted by the man's restless wife (Diane Varsi). But the heist doesn't go as planned and takes a tragic turn. The trio of would-be thieves then takes off for California, but with the police already on their tail, it's clear that a trail of blood and death is going to follow them all the way there.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, crying, psychotronic, cult film
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Tanya (1976)
Plot Summary:
A rich girl is kidnapped by a revolutionary group, but instead of wanting to be rescued, she decides to join her captors' organization.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: political, sex comedy, grindhouse, independent film
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Unfinished Business (2015)
Plot Summary:
A hard-working small business owner and his two associates travel to Europe to close the most important deal of their lives. But what began as a routine business trip goes off the rails in every imaginable – and unimaginable – way, including unplanned stops at a massive sex fetish event and a global economic summit.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, funny, entertaining, sexual, realistic, not serious, road movie, sexy, feel good
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Eating Raoul (1982)
Plot Summary:
A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discover a bizarre, if not murderous way to get funding for opening a restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, cult classic, funny, dark, surreal, humorous, witty, erotic, psychedelic
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The Head Mistress (1968)
Plot Summary:
A man pretends to be an imbecile so that he may work at an all girl's school.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, erotic, slasher, grindhouse, sensual, lgbt cinema, sex comedy, independent film, freeze frame, gay cinema
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Zola (2020)
Plot Summary:
A waitress agrees to accompany an exotic dancer, her put-upon boyfriend, and her mysterious and domineering roommate on a road trip to Florida to seek their fortune at a high-end strip club.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, road movie, sexy, slang, freeze frame, dark comedy, queer cinema, fun
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Something for Everyone (1970)
Plot Summary:
An opportunistic young man working as a servant to a European countess uses his sexual talents to better his station in life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, fairy tale
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Bony a klid (1988)
Plot Summary:
Martin is an innocent lad from small-town Mlada Boleslav who comes to big-city Prague, hoping to exchange his krona for deutschemarks so that he can visit Germany. A local spiv named Robert obliges Martin, but at an unfair exchange rate. When Martin finds out he was rooked, he plans revenge on Robert ... but then decides to join Robert's gang instead.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Dom Hemingway (2013)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: talky, stylized, witty, bad ending, suspense, satirical, humorous, realistic, cynical, comedy drama
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The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)
Plot Summary:
There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his father for ransom, only nobody wants him back.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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10 to Midnight (1983)
Plot Summary:
Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police detective Leo Kessler (Charles Bronson) is convinced of Stacey’s guilt and, over the objections of his partner, plants evidence to get him behind bars. When Stacey is released on a technicality, he threatens to go after Kessler and his family, leaving Kessler to defend himself against a killer with little help from the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, slasher, detective, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, scary, psychological, retro
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Life (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, feel good, hilarious, hood, black comedy, retro, realistic
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The Doom Generation (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jordan White and Amy Blue, two troubled teens, pick up an adolescent drifter, Xavier Red. Together, the threesome embark on a sex and violence-filled journey through an America of psychos and quickiemarts.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, dark comedy, surreal, art house, cult classic, artsy, teen, black comedy, gothic
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T2 Trainspotting (2017)
Plot Summary:
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 131000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, intense, stylized, thought provoking, captivating, tense, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, intellectual