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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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Similar in 81%
Demented Death Farm Massacre (1971)
Plot Summary:
A gang of four thieves, having stolen over a million dollars worth of gems, are driving through the remote hill roads of the Carolinas when their jeep runs out of gas. A local moonshiner and his wife offer the strangers a place to stay until they can get help, but the thieves soon take advantage of their hosts. Both the moonshiner's young wife and his supposed hidden fortune prove to be irresistable temptations for the fugitives, but will their greed and jealousy prove to be their downfall?.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, cult film
Similar in 83%
The Crazysitter (1994)
Plot Summary:
When a petty criminal escapes from jail, she lays low by posing as a babysitter for two semmingly precious children. But when she decides to sell them for a quick profit, she gets more than she bargained for. A wildy clever family comedy in the tradition of "Home Alone" and "Mrs. Doubtfire".
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, family comedy
Similar in 76%
Law and Disorder (1974)
Plot Summary:
In crime ridden New York of the seventies two cops has had enough. They decide to take justice into their own hands. Things turn exciting and humorous. No hoodlum goes safe.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, tragicomedy, tragic ending, independent film, poliziottesco
Similar in 86%
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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A Safe House (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young man named Bill Solino who discovers not only that his deceased father was a mobster but also that his uncle, who raised him, may have had a hand in his fathers murder twenty years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, contemplative
Similar in 76%
White Line Fever (1975)
Plot Summary:
An independent trucker with a pregnant wife fights cargo crooks and the big shot they work for.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, grindhouse, sexual, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, fast, poliziottesco, sexy
Similar in 88%
Born to Win (1971)
Plot Summary:
The film follows Jay Jay, a former hair dresser who has become a drug addict. He lives his new life by doing deals for Vivian from time to time. One day he meets Parm, a free-spirited girl. The two fall in love. Jay Jay's drug habit grows, and he soon resorts to robbery. On the threat of arrest, he works alongside two dirty policemen by becoming a narc, and reports on his former fellow junkies. Yet, as the movie continues, Jay Jay sinks deeper into turmoil with feelings of self-hatred.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 83%
Crazy Mama (1975)
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
Similar in 87%
Big Shots (1987)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of his father, a suburbanite runs away from home and winds up on Chicago's South Side. After being mugged, the boy befriends a young hustler and, after stealing a gangster's car, the two embark on an adventure down south in search of the hustler's estranged father.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 887
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang, romantic, feel good, unusual plot structure
Similar in 78%
The Moonshine War (1970)
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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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
Similar in 82%
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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Preman Pensiun (2019)
Plot Summary:
After three years, the business of Muslihat, who has retired as a thug, has a problem. Sales decline. Muslihat also faces new problems when Safira, her only daughter, grows up in adolescence and begins to be visited by boys. A bigger problem: frictions between his former subordinates.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, humorous, exciting, entertaining
Similar in 77%
Moving Violation (1976)
Plot Summary:
Eddie Moore is a young drifter passing through the small town of Rockfield when suddenly he gets harassed by corrupt sheriff Leroy Rankin and his Deputy, Tylor. Later he meets up with waitress Camille "Cam" Johnson and both skinny dip in a swimming pool owned by H.L. Rockfield, the richest man in the area. Later Tylor shows up at his mansion and starts criticizing his business practices, something that he doesn't know is Sheriff Rankin is also there and hears every word he said, he then shoots Tylor and staggers away and manages to seek refuge in the back of Cam's van. Felling his reputation as Sheriff will be tarnished if anyone finds out about it. He blames Eddie and Cam for the killing and puts out an APB. Endess car chases and shootouts ensue as they try to stay alive.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, road movie, independent film, grindhouse
Similar in 75%
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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Things Change (1988)
Plot Summary:
Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mistaken for a Mafia boss, and the two are suddenly catapulted to the highest levels of mobster status. Only friendship will see them through this dangerous adventure alive!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: clever, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, psychological, tense, light, noir
Similar in 81%
Overrun (2021)
Plot Summary:
Former military extraction specialist Marcus Lombardi, whose only chance of saving his informant sister and their family is to track down a mysterious briefcase.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious
Similar in 84%
White Lightning (1973)
Plot Summary:
An ex con teams up with federal agents to help them with breaking up a moonshine ring.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, neo noir, colorful, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, black comedy, double entendre, southern gothic
Similar in 79%
Brannigan (1975)
Plot Summary:
Jim Brannigan is sent to London to bring back an American mobster who is being held for extradition but when he arrives he has been kidnapped which was set up by his lawyer. Brannigan in his American Irish way brings American law to the people of Scotland Yard in order to recapture this mobster with both a price tag on his head and a stuffy old London cop to contend with.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: detective, black comedy, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, fast, buddy comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 76%
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
Similar in 76%
More Dogs Than Bones (2000)
Plot Summary:
A series of mishaps and misfortunes over $1 million in cash leads to murder, mayhem and greed.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, dark comedy, independent film, realistic, surprise ending, black comedy
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Paper Moon (1973)
Plot Summary:
During the Great Depression, a con man finds himself saddled with a young girl who may or may not be his daughter, and the two forge an unlikely partnership.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, road movie, black and white, touching, humorous, funny, witty, talky, period piece, dorama
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Identity Thief (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 140000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, absurd, hilarious, humorous, realistic, not serious, sentimental, parody, light
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Money for Nothing (1993)
Plot Summary:
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, intense, humorous, realistic, captivating, factual, detective, anamorphic, hilarious, clever
Similar in 76%
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
Similar in 81%
The Sting (1973)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 275000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: entertaining, atmospheric, witty, humorous, captivating, clever, suspense, twisted, surprise ending, twist ending
Similar in 84%
The Sugarland Express (1974)
Plot Summary:
Married small-time crooks Lou-Jean and Clovis Poplin lose their baby to the state of Texas and resolve to do whatever it takes to get him back. Lou-Jean gets Clovis out of jail, and the two steal their son from his foster home, in addition to taking a highway patrolman hostage. As a massive dragnet starts to pursue them across Texas, the couple become unlikely folk heroes and even start to bond with the captive policeman.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: road movie, black comedy, cult classic, suspenseful, retro, sexy, offbeat, southern gothic, anamorphic, serious
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Righteous Ties (2006)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric but faithful mafia, Chi-sung is sent to prison for his part in a gang fight. But when his parents are attacked by a rival mob and his own people take no action, he realizes that a decade of loyalty towards the gang has become futile. Determined to confront his own boss, he finds a way to escape from prison with his fellow inmates. Meanwhile, his friend Joo-joong is given the task to stop Chi-sung, forcing him to choose between the bond of friendship and loyalty towards the gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, satirical, disturbing
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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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Metro (1997)
Plot Summary:
Roper, a hostage negotiator catches a murderous bank robber after a blown heist. The bank robber escapes and immediately goes after the man who put him behind bars.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, intense, tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful, action comedy, black comedy, cult classic