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Plot Summary:
The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Reich. There is an Italian fascist, Heinrich; a German, Matthias; a Russian; and Dromard, a blind French war hero with a black monocle. - from IMDB.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Monocle's Sour Laugh (1964)
Plot Summary:
A French agent goes after a gang of Asian terrorists who plan to blow up an American nuclear aircraft carrier.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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The Eye of the Monocle (1962)
Plot Summary:
In 1943, a German commando conceals a large quantity of gold in an undersea cave on the coast of Corsica. Years later, Schlumpf, the sole survivor of the commando, returns to Corsica to recuperate the treasure -- with British and Soviet spies on his heels, and closely monitored by Dromard, from the French intelligence services. The monocled Dromard is convinced that he can outfox his opponents, but difficulties accumulate: despite his plump appearance, Herr Schlumpf is a sly fellow; Corsica is teeming with treasure hunters from various nationalities; and all parties readily resort to unnatural alliances, brazen treachery, and strong-arm tactics. Who will get the treasure?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Banana Peel (1963)
Plot Summary:
The French comedy-drama of Marcel Ophuls, which came to the Paris yesterday.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961)
Plot Summary:
A rich, old counterfeiter is lured out of retirement.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, black and white, surprise ending, slang
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The Saint Lies In Wait (1966)
Plot Summary:
Le Saint prend l’affût is a French adventure film first released in 1966, directed by Christian-Jaque. The film stars Jean Marais, Raffaella Carrà, Jess Hahn, Jean Yanne and Danièle Evenou. It has also been released under the title: The Saint Lies in Wait.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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Penelope (1966)
Plot Summary:
When James met Penelope at a club, it took all of three weeks before they were married. But after the marriage, other women became attracted to James and he kept getting promoted, which took him away from Penelope. So Penelope puts on a disguise and robs her husband's bank. Her psychiatrist, Greg, believes that this condition is caused by James being over worked and under romantic with Penelope. She also tells Greg that she robs the business associates of James. But Greg is in love with Penelope - in fact everyone likes her. The problem is when she confesses to her crimes, no one believes her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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A Taste for Women (1964)
Plot Summary:
A secret sect of cannibals owns a vegetarian restaurant, which they use as a cover so they can find a beautiful young woman to serve as the main course at their full-moon sacrifice.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: detective, dark comedy
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The Red Ibis (1975)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Crime Is Mine (2023)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930s in Paris, a young and pretty actress, penniless and without talent, is accused of the murder of a famous producer. Helped by her best friend, a young unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted for self-defence.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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The Man from O.R.G.Y. (1970)
Plot Summary:
When the wealthy owner of an upscale brothel dies, our hero Victor, is sent on a wild goose chase to find the three beautiful heiresses. His only clue is that each of the three women have a hamster branded on their buttocks! When the girls are mysteriously murdered, it is up to Victor to solve the murders.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, parody, independent film, detective, spoof
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Kisses Till Monday (1974)
Plot Summary:
Three thieves, Henri-Pierre, Bob and Dimitri decide to take on Frankie Strong, a wealthy businessman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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The Troops on Vacation (1970)
Plot Summary:
The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, captivating, slapstick, cult film
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Carom Shots (1963)
Plot Summary:
Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 966
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy
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Cry of the Cormoran (1971)
Plot Summary:
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything (1973)
Plot Summary:
Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic, social educator who dreams of saving three thugs, his "little guys" at the limit of delinquency. After several resounding failures that sent him to prison, Pierre is ordered by his father to join his factory to direct the social service. Tired of the venality of his father and the foolishness of the "little guys", Pierre hires them at the factory.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 668
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: slapstick, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick comedy
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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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She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks (1970)
Plot Summary:
Housemaid Georgette (Girardot) loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, black comedy, freeze frame
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The Devil and Ms. D (1999)
Plot Summary:
Psychiatrist Cora is in a professional crisis, two of her patients have succumbed to each other. Stanislaus Nagy appears in her practice, a strange young man possessed by Maria Callas. But Cora has anything but a harmless Callas admirer. The man suddenly claims to be the bodily devil and, hidden inside his poodle, has directed the life of the opera dives. Nagy also gains a strange power over Cora's fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 694
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: non-linear
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Monnaie de singe (1966)
Plot Summary:
Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a hearse. Unaware she is the mistress of a notorious gangster, Fulbert is chased by thugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective
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Let's Not Get Angry (1966)
Plot Summary:
One-time gangster Antoine is enjoying retirement on the coast, now managing a boating club. He receives a visit from a former accomplice who asks for a loan. The money will be repaid by a crook who is now in hiding; Antoine intends to recover his money.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, parody
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Flic Story (1972)
Plot Summary:
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, not serious
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Odd Job (2016)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed factory worker takes a job as a hit man to make ends meet.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Idiot in Paris (1967)
Plot Summary:
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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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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The Seventh Juror (1962)
Plot Summary:
In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened. Eventually her boyfriend is charged with the crime and, in a strange twist of fate, the killer finds himself serving on the jury.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 942
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: noir, neo noir, psychological thriller, crying, french noir
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The Pimp (2010)
Plot Summary:
A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, exciting, witty, realistic, comic
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Buffet Froid (1979)
Plot Summary:
An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surreal, dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, mindfuck, anthology, cult classic, offbeat, witty
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Monsieur Gangster (1963)
Plot Summary:
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, funny, noir, neo noir, slang, fast paced, cult classic, clever, humorous, realistic
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The Pink Panther Strikes Again (1976)
Plot Summary:
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick, humorous, light, absurd, talky, detective, exciting, not serious, witty
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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