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Plot Summary:
When a mob family takes over an amusement park after the owner dies under mysterious circumstances, the recently-fired clown mascot seeks vengeance for the loss of his job.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, rough, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical
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Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese (1968)
Plot Summary:
Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, parody, slang, independent film, spoof
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Some Guy Who Kills People (2011)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: witty, slasher, semi serious, humorous, horror comedy, dark comedy, surreal, spooky, offbeat, realistic
Similar in 87%
Who Do I Gotta Kill? (1994)
Plot Summary:
Who says crime doesn't pay? The mob will pay Jimmy Corona anything to stay away. But, then again, so would most people. His agent brushes off Jimmy's latest book proposal: detailing the conspiracy between Lee Harvey Oswald and Marylin Monroe to assassinate JFK. His girlfriend gives him his walking papers in the midst of wild sex when he can't give her one good reason to stay. Actually he's too exhausted to speak. And to top it all off, he's suffering from writer's block. So what's a poor guy to do? Join the mob? Written by.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick
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Holla II (2013)
Plot Summary:
After narrowly escaping with her life at the hands of her mentally ill sister Veronica, Monica, with the help of her Mother, Marion, has taken great measures to ensure her safety, including changing her face and relocating to the South. Six years has past and now she finally believes she is safe from Veronica. Little does she know that death and betrayal still await her and her friends on the eve of her wedding at a southern plantation house rumored to be haunted by 13 murdered slaves. This time no one is safe and everyone is a suspect as killing becomes addictive.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, semi serious, scary, realistic, suspenseful, bloody, teen horror, campy
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Killjoy Goes To Hell (2012)
Plot Summary:
Killjoy is back in the fourth installment of the demonic clown series. This time Killjoy is being accused of not being evil, since he let one of his victims(Sandie) get away. Killjoy must rely on his only chance of proving how evil he really is... get Sandie into hell as his witness.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, serious, suspenseful, witty, humorous, bloody, rough, independent film, horror comedy
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Life in the Fast Lane (1998)
Plot Summary:
Black comedy about an obsessive street graffiti artist, who falls obsessively in love with a frustrated artist he meets. Unfortunately, rather than trying to meet with her in a conventional way, he decides to mail himself to her with the help of a pet shop owner. Unfortunately, when he arrives, she is with another man, who immediately makes love to her against the box.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, surreal, witty, cynical, semi serious, slapstick
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Teresa's Tattoo (1994)
Plot Summary:
Mathematician Teresa just wanted to study during the College spring break. But her friends, who want her to live a little, drag her out to parties. The next thing she knows, she has been drugged, kidnapped, made a redhead, tattooed, and wearing leather?!? Her captors seem to be the most inept crooks ever. They seem to have a plan, if only she could figure out why it involves her.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick, cult film
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Silver Case (2012)
Plot Summary:
In TInseltown, the world of scheming and dreaming reaches a particularly nasty low when a powerful producer known as the 'Senator' hatches a plan to undermine the future success of his shady arch rival, the 'Master' in more ways than one. His plot begins with the simple delivery of a silver briefcase. But nothing is simple in Hollywood. The case goes missing, which sets off a chain of events that are categorically not part of the plan. The Senator engages the best of his team to locate the package, but doesn't count on the tenacity of two thugs who now have the mystery prize in their curious possession.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, independent film, biting
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Pros & Cons (1999)
Plot Summary:
Framed for crimes they didn't commit, two small-timers are headed up the river without a paddle. Now, the only thing that can bail them out is a case of mistaken identity. It's the hysterical prison comedy that's so funny, it's criminal!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious
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Live Free or Die (2006)
Plot Summary:
It's not the crime, it's the cover-up. In small-town, hard-scrabble New Hampshire, foul-mouthed all-talk slacker John "Rugged" Rudgate fancies himself a criminal. When a local plumber stares him down at a pub, Rugged vows revenge, pouring brake fluid in the man's water supply. When the man dies from unrelated causes, Rugged and his side-kick, the even dimmer Jeff, try to cover up what they think i.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, suspenseful, semi serious, hilarious, independent film, realistic, entertaining, offbeat, tense
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Down the Drain (1990)
Plot Summary:
A dishonest lawyer devises a scheme to rob a bank by recruiting criminals he has represented to do the job for him. When the robbery is completed, he learns that the "loot" from the vault is in fact a microchip containing top-secret information.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, dark comedy
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Framed (1990)
Plot Summary:
A painter is accused of art-forging. He thinks his girlfriend betrayed him, so it's time for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Sting II (1983)
Plot Summary:
Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that Hooker is a somewhat dull boxer who is tired of taking dives for Gondorf. There is a ringer. Lonigan, their victim from the first movie, is setting them up to take the fall.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, romantic, clever, feel good, bad ending
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R.S.V.P. (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young man invites a group of his closest friends to a party, where he proceeds to discreetly kill them all.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, surprise ending, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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9 Dead Gay Guys (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of two lads from Belfast as they stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of 'gainful employment'. This being the offering of sexual favours to older gay men in order to subsidise their respective giros. 9 Dead Gay Guys is a high-camp send-up of gay stereotypes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, queer cinema, campy
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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971)
Plot Summary:
This is the funny story about two warring Mafia gangs in New York. The weaker gang use incredibly a lion to blackmail the opposite gang's "clients". The police succeeds to stop one of the gang, while the other remain without the Boss.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, cult film
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The Crew (2000)
Plot Summary:
Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, stylized, witty, clever, black comedy, realistic, semi serious, parody, light
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Johnny Dangerously (1984)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1930s, an honest, goodhearted man is forced to turn to a life of crime to finance his neurotic mother's skyrocketing medical bills.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, spoof, parody, humorous, light, cult classic, exciting, captivating, spooky, offbeat
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We're Talkin' Serious Money (1992)
Plot Summary:
A couple of bumbling con men go on the lam when they can't repay a loan from the mob.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Cold Feet (1989)
Plot Summary:
The leader of a group of misfits, his girlfriend and an assassin have devised a bizarre plan to smuggle stolen jewelry over the US/Mexican border. They implant the jewelry in a racing horse.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical, semi serious
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High Times Potluck (2002)
Plot Summary:
High Times' Pot Luck is an upbeat pot caper that centers around a mobster who discovers the magic of marijuana.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, cynical, semi serious, clever, offbeat, realistic, dark comedy
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Deal of the Century (1983)
Plot Summary:
Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, political, clever, offbeat, allegory, black comedy
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Plump Fiction (1997)
Plot Summary:
Follows the plot of Pulp Fiction, also parodying scenes from other movies.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, spooky, independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, fast
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True Identity (1991)
Plot Summary:
In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Hot Dog (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mistakenly believing that he will be let go from the company, Philippe decides to sabotage the production at Saucibec. Upon learning that he is not the one who will be laid off, he will go to great lengths to right his wrongs ... but it's already too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, tense, light, feel good, captivating, suspenseful, sex comedy, offbeat
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Wise Guys (1986)
Plot Summary:
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy, fast, cult film
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The Hollywood Sign (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three washed-up actors must deliver the most convincing performances of their lives as part of a dangerous plot designed to finance their triumphant comeback.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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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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Scorched (2003)
Plot Summary:
Three bank tellers. One goal: knock the place over. The ultimate inside jobs, plotted by three people with nothing to lose.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, melancholic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, clever, entertaining, light, captivating, dark comedy
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Hoods (1998)
Plot Summary:
Angelo, together with a group of five other people, is ordered by his father, an Italian mobster, to kill the son of an enemy of his, who has destroyed one of his buildings with a bomb. The problems grow bigger when they discover that the person they have to kill is really a nine-year-old.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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