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Plot Summary:
Unusual gangster story, in which a small-time pimp Franz, who is torn between his mistress and Bruno the gangster sent after him by the syndicate that he has refused to join.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: neo noir, art house, mind bending, psychedelic, political, surreal, rough, bleak, serious, realistic
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Leslie, My Name Is Evil (2009)
Plot Summary:
Perry, a sheltered chemical engineer, falls in love with Leslie, a former homecoming princess, when he becomes a jury member at her hippie death cult murder trial.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, exciting, suspenseful, black comedy, dark comedy, weird
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Tazza: The High Rollers (2006)
Plot Summary:
A guy with a talent for cards makes his way into the dangerous world of underground gambling in this crime thriller from South Korea. Go-ni (Jo Seung-woo) is a small-town guy with a big appetite for gambling. Convinced he's on a hot streak one evening during a card game, Go-ni bets his life savings on a hand of hwatu, only to lose to a crooked cardsharp. Determined to get revenge, Go-ni sets out to find the guy who cheated him and win back his money.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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The American Soldier (1970)
Plot Summary:
Ricky returns to Munich from Vietnam and is promptly hired as a contract killer in Fassbinder’s subversive and experimental gangster movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: art house, neo noir, noir, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Gods of the Plague (1970)
Plot Summary:
A man is released from prison and finds the society on the outside less than appealing. With several women as well as the police on his tail, he sets out to find an old friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: art house, offbeat, serious, realistic, stylized, neo noir
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Ugly Nasty People (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of wild, physically disabled gangsters has a plan to rob a bank, but things go terribly wrong when each of them reveals they all had their own personal agenda.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, feel good, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Made in U.S.A (1966)
Plot Summary:
Paula Nelson (Anna Karina), a female version of Humphrey Bogart's hard boiled detectives, goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, at an unknown point in the future (maybe 1969). Once there, she learns that Richard is dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis (Yves Afonso), a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surreal, art house, psychological, serious, realistic, stylized, experimental, avant garde, crying
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Whity (1971)
Plot Summary:
"Whity" is the mulatto butler of the dysfunctional Nicholson family in the American southwest in 1878. The father, Ben Nicholson, has an attractive young wife Katherine, and two sons by a previous marriage; the homosexual Frank, and the retarded Davy. Whity tries to carry out all their orders, however demeaning, until various of the family members ask him to kill some of the others.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Western
Country: West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: art house, thought provoking, serious, emotional, realistic, disturbing, contemplative
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One Last Dance (2006)
Plot Summary:
An assassin is hired to kill the men responsible for kidnapping an important man's son. With every death, the killer gets closer to the last kidnapper's name... his own.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance, Crime
Country: Singapore
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Point of No Return (1985)
Plot Summary:
A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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Hit the Bank (1981)
Plot Summary:
October 1934. Poland. Famous bank robber Kwinto decided to quit his dangerous criminal job, but after his friend's death, he changed his mind and organized a burglary of famous and well protected bank which belonged to his former partner in crime, backstabbing and double-crossing Kramer. Kwinto designs a clever plan not to only rob the Kramer's bank but to make it look like Kramer himself did it.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, suspense, serious
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Gentlemen in White Vests (1970)
Plot Summary:
A crime comedy directed by Wolfgang Staudte.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Third Generation (1979)
Plot Summary:
A mogul merrily funds terrorists to boost his computer sales, by panicking West German government and industry c. 1980, as the third generation of Western European left-wing activists forms, after crippling of the violent Red Army Faction. Released in 1979, largely unavailable until 2004. International kapitalist PJ Lurz's secretary is a gang member, while her Polizeikommissar father-in-law/lover hired Lurz' corporate security force.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: political, art house, black comedy, postmodern, cult classic, clever, offbeat, serious, realistic, controversial
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Panic (2000)
Plot Summary:
Alex is going through a midlife crisis and it has become a very difficult time for him. His marriage is struggling, he's worried about his son, and his job of killing people for his family has become the most stressful part of his life. He seeks the help of a therapist and meets a woman in the waiting room that he connects with.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, psychological, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, neo noir, dark, stylized, black comedy
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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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Silver Bears (1977)
Plot Summary:
Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher (Michael Caine) is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore (Martin Balsam) to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives, Fletcher finds that the bank, acquired by his associate Prince di Siracusa (Louis Jourdan), consists of some shabby offices above a restaurant. To make up for this, the Prince suggests that Fletcher invests in a silver mine owned by Shireen and Agha Firdausi (Stéphane Audran and David Warner). This solves one problem, but the mine also attracts the attention of some of the most powerful people in the silver business. Fletcher must pull out all his wheeler-dealing skills in order to keep hold of everything he's worked for, in the process romancing a banker's discontented wife (Cybill Shepherd).
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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The Cracksman (1963)
Plot Summary:
Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a beautiful hostess as a trap, into which the hapless Ernest inevitably falls..!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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My New Partner (1984)
Plot Summary:
My New Partner is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte. Noiret plays a streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue. At the start of the film, his partner is busted for corruption and he narrowly escapes. He is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt his new partner and, after a slow start, succeeds spectacularly.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, witty, neo noir, anthology, action comedy, cult classic, black comedy, clever, humorous
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Dirty Deeds (2002)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1960's Sydney, this is the story of an Australian gangster whose booming business, buoyed by the influx of U.S. soldiers in town for R&R during their tours in Vietnam, attracts the attention of first the Chicago mafia, and then their East Coast competitors.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, humorous, realistic, semi serious, suspense, dark comedy, sex comedy, grim
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The Squeeze (1978)
Plot Summary:
A retired safe cracker is recruited by a young conman to return to the "business" for a million dollar heist.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, poliziottesco, cult film
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Hustle (2000)
Plot Summary:
Maya and Tony are a modern-day Bonnie and Clyde. Maya seduces businessmen while Tony copies their credit cards. It's a smooth con until one of their victims, Pierce, pulls a gun. Instead of killing them, Pierce offers the desperate couple a chance at the biggest score of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Love, Honor and Obey (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jonny dreams of leaving his dead-end job as a courier. Through his childhood best friend, nephew of the notorious crime lord Ray Kreed, he wins his way into the toughest gang in North London. Hungry for action, Jonny sparks a feud between Ray's gang and a rival firm in South London headed by drug kingpin Sean and his lieutenant Matthew.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: brutal, semi serious, humorous, realistic, offbeat, independent film, funny, sexy, clever, enigmatic
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Rulers of the City (1976)
Plot Summary:
Tony, a mob loan collector, is dissatisfied with his station in life. Though he dreams of one day being rich, he is stuck with the dead-end job of beating up borrowers who fall behind in their payments. After meeting up with Napoli, another mob enforcer who's just been fired from his job, the two hatch a plan. Together, they will con mob boss Manzari out of a fortune, after which they can retire and live in luxury. Manzari, however, is not about to let them go so easily.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, cult classic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Miami Blues (1990)
Plot Summary:
When Fred gets out of prison, he decides to start over in Miami, where he starts a violent one-man crime wave. He soon meets up with amiable college student Susie. Opposing Fred is Sgt Hoke Moseley, a cop who is getting a bit old for the job, especially since the job of cop in 1980's Miami is getting crazier all the time.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neo noir, harsh, bloody, witty, stylized, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, cult classic
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Staten Island (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sully (Ethan Hawke) is desperate to give his unborn son the chance he never had. Jasper (Seymour Cassel) wants to escape the mobsters that have infiltrated his life and business. Parmie Tarzo (Vincent D'Onofrio), a local mob boss, dreams of crushing the competition. All three men live in Staten Island... once their lives intersect, nothing will ever be the same.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, rough, realistic, suspenseful, offbeat, cynical, non-linear, independent film
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Sucker Punch (2003)
Plot Summary:
Mike Sullivan spends his nights kidnapping runaways so his boss, Lamar, can turn them into prostitutes. He is a crack addict and a thief and he is in love with a resentful prostitute, Rhonda, who doesn't love him back. Although he has aspirations of escaping this world, it isn't until he is nearly killed by corrupt cops for stealing money from his boss that he decides to redeem himself. In an attempt to save his own soul, he tries to get Rhonda out of the business, and is forced to battle Lamar and his henchmen, as well as Rhonda's unwillingness to change. As punishment for betraying Lamar, Mike is forced into a series of misdeeds, and in a shocking ending, must commit unredeemable acts as he tries to save Rhonda and himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, semi serious, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, independent film
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The Silent Partner (1978)
Plot Summary:
Miles Cullen is a bored teller at a bank in a Toronto mall who accidentally learns that his place of business is about to be robbed. Instead of informing his bosses or contacting the police, Miles cleverly devises a way of keeping the cash.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, offbeat, christmas horror, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, weird
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The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
Plot Summary:
A mobster named Jimmy the Tulip agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison; he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a couple of his new neighbors figure out his true identity and come knocking to see if he'd be up for one more hit, suburban style.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 128000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, black comedy, light, suspense, dark comedy, semi serious, hilarious, feel good
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Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Plot Summary:
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 271000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, dark comedy, talky, humorous, surreal, black comedy, funny, witty, clever, cult classic
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Snatch (2000)
Plot Summary:
The second film from British director Guy Ritchie. Snatch tells an obscure story similar to his first fast-paced crazy character-colliding filled film “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.” There are two overlapping stories here – one is the search for a stolen diamond, and the other about a boxing promoter who’s having trouble with a psychotic gangster.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 894000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, witty, clever, dark comedy, humorous, neo noir, non-linear, black comedy, cynical