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Plot Summary:
Mafia hitman Tommy Spinelli (Joe Pesci) is flying to San Diego with a bag that holds eight severed heads, which he's bringing to his superiors to prove that some troublesome rival mobsters are permanently out of the picture. When his bag gets accidentally switched at the airport, Tommy must track down his duffel bag and the 8 heads it contains.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: clever, dark comedy, humorous, smart, twisted, independent film, offbeat, realistic, witty, cynical
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Pure Luck (1991)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the unlucky girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, uplifting, feel good, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, unusual plot structure, suspense, melancholic
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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
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The Wrong Guy (1997)
Plot Summary:
An executive (Dave Foley) after being passed over for a promotion to president storms into his office only to find the man who got the promotion dead. Assuming everyone will think he committed the crime he takes off as a fugitive.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, fast paced, dark comedy, realistic, not serious, crying, independent film, detective, spoof
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The Umbrella Coup (1980)
Plot Summary:
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Once Upon a Crime... (1992)
Plot Summary:
On their way to Monte Carlo, Monaco, Marilyn and her husband, Neil, meet several other married couples, including Julian and Phoebe, who are traveling with a lost dog they plan to return to its wealthy owner for a large reward. But, when the dog's mistress is murdered, the travelers become the prime suspects, and Inspector Bonnard is determined to track them all down.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: black comedy, slapstick, dark comedy, independent film, detective, humorous, realistic, not serious, hilarious, nostalgic
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Scotland, PA (2001)
Plot Summary:
Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who has much smarter. Pat believes she could do better with the place than their boss Norm is doing, so she plans to usurp Norm, convincing Mac to rob the restaurant's safe and then murder Norm, using the robbery as a way of throwing the cops off their trail.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, witty, disturbing, talky, parody, realistic, not serious, black comedy, clever
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Drop Dead Sexy (2005)
Plot Summary:
When their money scam runs aground, a group of would-be thieves turn to kidnapping in an attempt to blackmail their target.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, exciting, tense, dark comedy, offbeat
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Money Money Money (1972)
Plot Summary:
When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense, campy
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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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Snowman's Land (2010)
Plot Summary:
When the wife of a crime boss is accidentally killed, the hit man who was hired to protect the remote house in which she was living tries to keep her death under wraps. Fearing vengeance from the gangster, he's soon locked in a fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, serious, realistic, cynical, dark comedy, atmospheric, offbeat
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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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The Jerky Boys (1995)
Plot Summary:
When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in New York, the trouble begins. It isn't long before Johnny and Kamal (the "Jerky Boys" of crank call fame) are wanted by the local mafia, the police, and their neighbor.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, clever, unusual plot structure, suspense, melancholic, surreal
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Johnny Stecchino (1991)
Plot Summary:
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, surprise ending
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Jerry and Tom (1998)
Plot Summary:
Tom and Jerry are two hit men, they work by day at a third-rate second-hand car dealership. Tom is a veteran and Jerry is a novice in their business, and their attitude toward their profession differs a lot. It shows when Tom is required to kill his old friend Karl.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, witty, talky, non-linear, black comedy, neo noir, offbeat, realistic, cynical
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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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Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets shot and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe he's still alive. The killer wants to do his job so when he is informed that the stiff is still alive he's got to shoot him again, and again, and again.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, black comedy, hilarious, dark comedy, entertaining, absurd, not serious, buddy comedy, slapstick comedy
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The Don's Analyst (1997)
Plot Summary:
Don Vito Leoni, the Godfather, is clinically depressed. The world has changed and he hasn't. He'd like to retire, but if he left the "family business" to his two idiot sons, they'd be dead in a minute. So he decides to go legit, which convinces everyone that he must be completely off the deep end. To preserve their cushy lives, his dysfuntional family conspires to get him some psycho-therepy. So his boys kidnap a "piasan" shrink and order him to "fix" their father. This film, which premired on Showtime, pre-dated the very similarly plotted "Analyze This" by over a year.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, not serious
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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
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Oscar (1991)
Plot Summary:
Angelo "Snaps" Provolone made his dying father a promise on his deathbed: he would leave the world of crime and become an honest businessman. Despite having no experience in making money in a legal fashion, Snaps sets about to keep his promise.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: talky, witty, humorous, feel good, not serious, clever, funny, parody, cult classic, hilarious
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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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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
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Sightseers (2012)
Plot Summary:
Chris wants to show girlfriend Tina his world, but events soon conspire against the couple and their dream caravan holiday takes a very wrong turn.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Horror, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, road movie, surreal, disturbing, black comedy, atmospheric, brutal, melancholic, talky, humorous
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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
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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 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
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Mad Dog Time (1996)
Plot Summary:
With his boss in the madhouse, a mobster is temporary boss of the criminal empire just as vicious rivals threaten the control of the empire.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, parody, rough, sexy
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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