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Plot Summary:
Corky Romano is a bumbling, simpleton, veterinarian and the youngest, outcast son of an aging gangster, named Pops Romano, who calls upon Corky to infiltrate the local FBI and retrieve and destroy evidence being used to incriminate Pops for racketeering charges.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, absurd, funny, feel good, not serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, realistic, fast
Best tv shows and movies like Corky Romano (2001):
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Randy and the Mob (2007)
Plot Summary:
A good ol' boy (McKinnon) gets into trouble with some mobsters, and then must seek assistance from his estranged, identical twin gay brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 407
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, independent film, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 83%
Holy Matrimony (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young Hutterite boy must marry his late brother's wife who comes from outside the community.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, feel good, semi serious, independent film
Similar in 88%
The Godson (1998)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his older brother, Guiseppe "the guppy" Calzone (Kevin McDonald, "KIDS IN THE HALL") becomes head of the Calzone Mob family. His aging father (Dom DeLuise) knows his son is not cut out for the job, so he sends him to "Mafia University". The head of a rival Mafia Family (Rodney Dangerfield) sees this as an opportunity to strike and bring the Calzone Family to its knees. Surrounded by danger, double-crossing and pasta, THE GODSON proves that some wise guys just aren't so smart.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: parody, independent film, humorous, realistic, not serious, fast, spoof
Similar in 82%
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
Similar in 80%
Another Stakeout (1993)
Plot Summary:
Chris and Bill are called upon for their excellent surveillance record to stakeout a lakeside home where a Mafia trial witness is believed to be heading or already hiding. Unlike their earlier _Stakeout_, this time they are accompanied by Gina Garret from the DA's office and her pet rottweiler 'Archie'; their cover, husband and wife with son Bill.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, funny, light, melancholic, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, action comedy
Similar in 88%
See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
Plot Summary:
A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, not serious, slapstick, feel good, absurd, talky, scary, black comedy
Similar in 84%
Bullseye! (1990)
Plot Summary:
Michael Caine, Roger Moore and Sally Kirkland star as three of the most unlikely rogues to ever score a heist. Hidden away in a vault is a fortune in diamonds, payment for a secret formula two government scientists have unscrupulously sold to the highest bidder. These three know the whereabouts of this treasure and pull off a daring scheme to steal it. But now they've trapped themselves into either helping the government capture the scientists or going to jail.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, independent film, light, captivating, realistic, fast, surprise ending, slapstick comedy, slapstick
Similar in 85%
The Godfather: Part V (2010)
Plot Summary:
Young-goo the son of mafia boss Don Carini, is too foolish to be part of the mafia elite. One day, Young-goo comes to his father and is trained by Tony V to be his father's successor. A few days later, Young-goo accidentally rescues Nancy, the only daughter of Don Bonfante, the boss of a rival mafia family. But Vinnie, an under-boss of the Bonfante family kidnapped her and fabricates that Young-goo has taken her. Vinnie's behavior provokes an armed conflict between the two families.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining, slapstick
Similar in 81%
Witless Protection (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story centers on a small-town sheriff who witnesses what he believes is a kidnapping and rushes to rescue a woman. The kidnappers turn out to be FBI agents assigned to protect her and deliver her to a big Enron-type corruption trial in Chicago but are later found to be on the take and are villains who are bent on killing her.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, realistic, not serious, humorous, parody, funny, romantic, sexy, clever
Similar in 85%
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
Similar in 85%
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
Similar in 85%
Cookie (1989)
Plot Summary:
Cookie Voltecki (Emily Lloyd) is the illegitimate daughter of mobster Dino Capisco (Peter Falk), who has just finished thirteen years in prison. Since being released from jail, all that Dino wants is to settle some old scores, and make up for lost time with his daughter. Cookie's mother, Lenore Voltecki (Dianne Weist), has been Dino's longtime mistress. Dino's actual wife Bunny (Brenda Vaccaro) has, he thinks, been kept in the dark about Dino's mistress and his daughter. Dino decides that the best way to get to know Cookie is to hire her as his chauffeur. With her ears to the conspiracies floating around Dino, she quickly discovers that her father's old crony, Carmine (Michael V. Gazzo), has been swindling him and that Dino's life is in jeopardy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, independent film, realistic, semi serious, crying, weeping, light, sexy, thought provoking, clever
Similar in 89%
Mafia! (1998)
Plot Summary:
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, light, melancholic, stylized, not serious, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, slapstick
Similar in 80%
Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)
Plot Summary:
The Russians need help in dealing with the Mafia and so they seek help with the veterans of the Police Academy. They head off to Moscow, in order to find evidence against Konstantin Konali, who marketed a computer game that everyone in the world is playing.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: absurd, slapstick, humorous, spoof, cult classic, disgusting, realistic, not serious, semi serious, fast
Similar in 85%
Analyze This (1999)
Plot Summary:
Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti needs help dealing with his role in the "family," unlucky shrink Dr. Ben Sobel is given just days to resolve Vitti's emotional crisis and turn him into a happy, well-adjusted gangster.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 160000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, hilarious, psychological, clever, suspense, spoof, realistic, witty, light
Similar in 76%
Little Man (2006)
Plot Summary:
After leaving the prison, the dwarf criminal Calvin Sims joins to his moron brother Percy to steal an expensive huge diamond in a jewelry for the mobster Walken. They are chased by the police, and Calvin hides the stone in the purse of the executive Vanessa Edwards, whose husband Darryl Edwards wants to have a baby. Percy convinces Calvin to dress like a baby and be left in front of the Edwards's house to get inside the house and retrieve the diamond. Darryl and Vanessa keep Calvin for the weekend and decide to adopt him, while Walken threatens Darryl to get the stone back.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, humorous, not serious, absurd, hilarious, hood, black comedy, teen, offbeat
Similar in 90%
Get Hard (2015)
Plot Summary:
When obscenely rich hedge-fund manager James is convicted of fraud and sentenced to a stretch in San Quentin, the judge gives him one month to get his affairs in order. Knowing that he won't survive more than a few minutes in prison on his own, James desperately turns to Darnell-- a black businessman who's never even had a parking ticket -- for help. As Darnell puts James through the wringer, both learn that they were wrong about many things, including each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 145000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, humorous, absurd, hilarious, harsh, entertaining, scenic, hood, action comedy
Similar in 84%
Screwed (2000)
Plot Summary:
A chauffeur kidnaps his rich boss's dog to hold it for ransom, but when she accidentally gets the dog back, she thinks that it's the chauffeur who's been kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, intense, feel good, witty, not serious, offbeat, slapstick, hilarious, realistic
Similar in 87%
Starsky & Hutch (2004)
Plot Summary:
Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve an important case with help from street informant Huggy Bear and persuasive criminal Reese Feldman.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 153000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, entertaining, satirical, hilarious, not serious, exciting, realistic, action packed
Similar in 80%
Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)
Plot Summary:
A senator arranges for his son, a rich white kid who fancies himself black, to be kidnapped by a couple of black actors pretending to be murderers to try and shock him out of his plans to become a rapper.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, melancholic, satirical, intense, hood, feel good, semi serious, realistic, spoof
Similar in 75%
Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
Plot Summary:
Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he is to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.. this adds to Frank's problems. A host of celebrities at the Academy awards ceremony are humiliated by Frank as he blunders his way trying to foil Rocco.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, hilarious, funny, detective, realistic, slapstick comedy, not serious, slapstick
Similar in 81%
Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
Plot Summary:
After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and even enjoy it -- but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 152000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, feel good, satirical, entertaining, hilarious, predictable, captivating, dark comedy
Similar in 86%
The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Plot Summary:
When the incompetent Officer Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 181000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, spoof, humorous, detective, slapstick, not serious, absurd, light, hilarious
Similar in 82%
Safe Men (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues. Romantic interest is added by the daughter of the underworld leader who won't date the men she knows are gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, melancholic, absurd, buddy comedy, feel good, not serious, witty, independent film, dark comedy
Similar in 90%
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
Similar in 81%
Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011)
Plot Summary:
FBI agent Malcolm Turner and his 17-year-old son, Trent, go undercover at an all-girls performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder. Posing as Big Momma and Charmaine, they must find the murderer before he finds them.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, feel good, action comedy, light, captivating, entertaining, suspenseful, black comedy
Similar in 82%
My Blue Heaven (1990)
Plot Summary:
FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith certainly has his hands full keeping Antonelli away from the Mafia hitmen who want to stop him testifying, not to mention the nightclubs.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, entertaining, absurd, talky, intense, parody, dark comedy, semi serious
Similar in 85%
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (2005)
Plot Summary:
After her triumph at the Miss United States pageant, FBI agent Gracie Hart becomes an overnight sensation -- and the new "face of the FBI." But it's time to spring into action again when the pageant's winner, Cheryl, and emcee, Stan, are abducted.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, action comedy, captivating, sweet, teen, parody, realistic, not serious
Similar in 82%
Big Momma's House 2 (2006)
Plot Summary:
FBI agent Malcolm Turner goes back undercover as Big Momma, a slick-talking, slam-dunking Southern granny with attitude to spare! Now this granny must play nanny to three dysfunctional upper class kids in order to spy on their computer hacked dad.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, funny, hilarious, teen, slapstick, entertaining, action comedy, black comedy, realistic
Similar in 85%
So Undercover (2012)
Plot Summary:
When the FBI hires her to go undercover at a college sorority, Molly Morris (Miley Cyrus) must transform herself from a tough, streetwise private investigator to a refined, sophisticated university girl to help protect the daughter of a one-time Mobster. With several suspects on her list, Molly unexpectedly discovers that not everyone is who they appear to be, including herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, witty, humorous, semi serious, teen, cute, romantic drama, sexy, detective, realistic