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Plot Summary:
Jonathan Demme directs this joyous unrelentlessly kitchy celebration of 50's America.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: political, cult classic, independent film, humorous, realistic, disturbing, semi serious, road movie, psychotronic, cult film
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Assault of the Killer Bimbos (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two go-go dancers, Lulu and Peaches, are framed for the murder of their employer by the real killer, sleazy gangster Vinnie. Picking up waitress Darlene along the way, the three are involved in wild car chases with cops as they head south to cross the border into Mexico, where they unexpectedly encounter Vinnie in a fleabag Mexican motel.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexy, teen sex comedy, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, hot, campy
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Drive Hard (2014)
Plot Summary:
A former race car driver is abducted by a mysterious thief and forced to be the wheel-man for a crime that puts them both in the sights of the cops and the mob.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, action comedy, road movie, realistic
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The Great Texas Dynamite Chase (1976)
Plot Summary:
Candy and Ellie Jo are a pair of sexy bank robbers who blast their way into small-town banks with a carload of dynamite! When they take Slim hostage, it begins a thrill-packed crime spree across the state of Texas.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, psychotronic, grindhouse, action thriller, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Big Bad Mama II (1987)
Plot Summary:
It's 1934, and the evil local land baron forecloses on Angie's place, and she and her two daughters must leave and continue their life of crime. A reporter witnesses their heist of a bank, and helps them become folk legends by writing a story about them. After a time the evil land baron wants to run for governor, and Angie and her daughters kidnap his son and turn him into a gangster in order to discredit his father and his run for governor.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 985
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, neo noir
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Pink Cadillac (1989)
Plot Summary:
Clint Eastwood plays a bounty hunter who helps out the wife of a bail-jumper after her child is kidnapped by neo-Nazi types.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, talky, action comedy, cult classic, realistic, fast, buddy comedy, black comedy
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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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Goodbye Pork Pie (1980)
Plot Summary:
Gerry hires a car in Kaitaia with a stolen licence and travels to Invercargill with John, who's wife has just left him. The ultimate NZ roadtrip adventure.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, cult classic, exciting, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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The Junkman (1982)
Plot Summary:
As film-maker Harlan Hollis drives to a James Dean festival, he's unaware that killers are tracking his every move. The fast and furious race to avoid their net, stay alive and discover who is behind this lethal plan, will take Hollis through a fiery battle, turning highways and city streets into a blazing junkyard.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: action thriller, independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, fast, psychotronic, cult film
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Fast Getaway (1991)
Plot Summary:
Nelson, played by Corey Haim is a teenager who robs banks with his father in group along with two other friends. Corey Haim Is the right guy, in the right place, at the right time. All he needed was a ...fast getaway.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, realistic, fast, nostalgic, cult film, cult movie cast
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Las Vegas Lady (1975)
Plot Summary:
In Las Vegas, Lucky and two of her girlfriends, Carol and Lisa, plan to steal half a million dollars from the sadistic manager of the Circus Circus Casino. A shadowy man is their contact and organizer. Each of the women could be a weak link in a scheme that has to be flawless: Lucky's boyfriend is a security officer at the casino, Lisa is a trapeze artist who's now plagued with vertigo, and Carol is in debt to a nasty thug - plus, as a Black woman, she's subject to additional harassment. Can the gals pull off the heist, or is the plan, with it's mysterious organizer, too complicated to succeed?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, cult film
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Road to Redemption (2001)
Plot Summary:
A couple come into contact with stolen mob money, gamble it away, and end up on the run from gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, offbeat, christian film
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Return to Macon County (1975)
Plot Summary:
In 1958, two teenagers take their pride and joy, a hopped-up Chevy, and start a cross-country journey to enter it in the National Championship drag races in California. Along the way they hook up with a pretty but dingy waitress who quits her job and hops in their car--and turns out to be more trouble than they thought--drag-race a gang of town punks who lose to to them and then accuse them of cheating, and come up against a local cop who is obsessed with putting these two "juvenile delinquents" in jail.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Hold-Up (1985)
Plot Summary:
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, humorous, semi serious, action thriller, hilarious, independent film, clever, cynical, fast
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Smokey and the Bandit Part 3 (1983)
Plot Summary:
The Enos duo convince Cletus, aka The Bandit, to come out of hiding and help them promote their new restaurant. With a little coaxing, he agrees, producing an almost-creaky Trigger as his mode of transport. But his nemesis, Sheriff Buford T. Justice, is on the hunt, forcing Cletus and Trigger to hit the road. Can they steer clear of the vengeful sheriff?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: road movie, action comedy, humorous, realistic, not serious, fast, parody, funny, sexy, suspense
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How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980)
Plot Summary:
Oregon, 1980: Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford, as the title states, the high cost of living. Jane cannot afford a babysitter or get married and if she wants privacy with her boyfriend, she has to sleep in the car. Even worse, her war veteran father comes to live with her to turn her life upside down. Louise lives a happy life with her veterinarian husband, Albert. She runs an antique shop on the side, but since it doesn't take in any profit, the IRS considers it a hobby. She needs to come up with the money to keep it going, or she will be trouble with the IRS. Elaine's husband has left her for another woman and without any money. She is in a constant struggle with banks, power companies, and gas stations. She needs money to get by and also catches the eye of police officer Jack. The local mall is having a contest that features a giant money ball that states it will help fight the inflation.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scenic, grindhouse, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)
Plot Summary:
A nurse eavesdrops with a friend on a cell phone conversation that describes a bank heist. She and the friend then conspire to blackmail the robbers for $2 million.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, entertaining, stylized, captivating, action comedy, realistic, semi serious, sexy
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Old Men in New Cars: In China They Eat Dogs II (2002)
Plot Summary:
The last wish of the dying "Monk" is for his foster child, Harald, to find his real son, Ludvig. But the latter is currently in a Swedish prison cell.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, exciting, rough, realistic, dark comedy, black comedy, offbeat, moody, cult film
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Stealing Rembrandt (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two bumbling scrap metal thieves - father and son - steal the wrong painting during a museum heist. The painting turns out to be the only original Rembrandt painting in Denmark, and all hell breaks loose. What do you do when you've got Interpol, the Danish police and the entire Danish underworld on your heels? And who was this Rembrandt guy anyway?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy
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Gone in 60 Seconds (1974)
Plot Summary:
Insurance investigator Maindrian Pace and his team lead double-lives as unstoppable car thieves. When a South American drug lord pays Pace to steal 48 cars for him, all but one, a 1973 Ford Mustang, are in the bag. As Pace prepares to rip-off the fastback, codenamed "Eleanor", in Long Beach, he is unaware that his boss has tipped off the police after a business dispute.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, exciting, suspenseful, suspense, intense, grindhouse, cult classic, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Grand Theft Auto (1977)
Plot Summary:
A rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of reward seekers are determined to stop her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, slapstick, road movie, action comedy, independent film, fast
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Carquake! (1976)
Plot Summary:
Coy "Cannonball" Buckman (David Carradine) and his blazing red Pontiac enter the Trans-America Grand Prix, an underground road race spanning the continent in which there are no rules, no speed limits and no heed for the law. En route, Buckman jockeys with an international ensemble of racers for a $100,000 purse. But there are none more important than Cade Redman (Bill McKinney), his direct competition for a guaranteed spot on the elite Modern Motors racing team.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: road movie, cult classic, humorous, psychotronic, independent film, exciting, realistic, semi serious, fast, poliziottesco
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Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
Plot Summary:
With the help of an irreverent young sidekick, a bank robber gets his old gang back together to organise a daring new heist.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, action thriller, exciting, light, captivating, spiritual, crime drama, buddy comedy, black comedy
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Bank Roll (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in present day Burbank, California and the surrounding San Fernando Valley area, . BENNY BIG-TIME (The BBT) learns his brother has been arrested on suspicion of a few recent bank robberies. With every bit of the life savings he's socked away over the years, The BBT hatches a plan to help out this older brother escape the repercussions of his fate by complicating his own with the assistance of five close friends -- ERIK, DEREK, JAMIE, K.C. and KYLE. The gang have only four days to create a 'red herring' that will throw off the officials and clear The BBT's brother's name by actually robbing a small bank. If all goes to plan, this is enough 'reasonable doubt' in the brother's case to clear his name. The BBT figures to exactly recreate his brother's crime and arm himself with only a few folders of photographs which contain the bank tellers' friends, families, pets, places of residence and ... Written by Doug Maguire.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, tense, light, captivating, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Cache Cash (1994)
Plot Summary:
Antoine, 11, is on holiday with his grandfather. One night he catches thieves hiding their booty in a pond. Antoine seizes the 40 million. But Liza, his new friend, is the daughter of one of the criminals. Both children soon face threats.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, suspense
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Flashback (1990)
Plot Summary:
A hippie radical, Huey Walker has been a fugitive for decades, accused of a crime that he may not have committed. Finally apprehended, Walker is escorted to trial by uptight 20-something FBI agent John Buckner. While the two seem to be polar opposites, it turns out that Buckner may have more in common with Walker than is initially apparent, a point that is driven home when the pair faces off against a sinister small-town sheriff.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: entertaining, light, emotional, humorous, witty, realistic, road movie, uplifting, action comedy, cult classic
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Best Men (1997)
Plot Summary:
Four tuxedo clad men showing up at a penitentiary to meet a friend who has just been released after three years in prison and is going straight from the jail to marry his girlfriend. En route to the wedding, one of the men asks to stop by a bank to pick up some cash. As it turns out, he is a wanted bank robber who uses Shakespeare passages during his robberies and thus has become known as "Hamlet". Soon all five men are caught up in the bank and involved in the robbery as they end up in a hostage situation. The hostage negotiator shows up who turns out to be Hamlet's father.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, exciting, sentimental, light, inspirational, romantic
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Taking Stock (2015)
Plot Summary:
Kate is an out of work actress working in a shop, until that is, she is made redundant. In a week from hell Kate's boyfriend leaves her, the shop goes bust and rent and gas bills have not been paid. Inspired by the notorious outlaw Bonnie Parker, Kate gathers a gang from her shop assistant friends and comes up with a plot to rob the shop, but who is her Clyde?.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspense, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious
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Going in Style (1979)
Plot Summary:
Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they are caught, what could happen to three old men?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: light, touching, humorous, realistic, entertaining, semi serious, black comedy, clever, tense, sentimental
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Little Cigars (1973)
Plot Summary:
A gangster's former mistress hooks up with a troupe of circus midgets who, as a sideline, rob banks and casinos.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, rough, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Bottle Rocket (1996)
Plot Summary:
Upon his release from a mental hospital following a nervous breakdown, the directionless Anthony joins his friend Dignan, who seems far less sane than the former. Dignan has hatched a hair-brained scheme for an as-yet-unspecified crime spree that somehow involves his former boss, the (supposedly) legendary Mr. Henry.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, witty, talky, funny, black comedy, realistic, semi serious, cult classic, clever