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Plot Summary:
The waitress Gita from the hotel "Bobí vrch" approaches her lover who has not left his wife yet and gives him an ultimatum: if he does not do all according to her wish, she will announce to the police his machinations with foreign currency.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, crying, psychotronic, detective, freeze frame, poliziottesco
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Ferat Vampire (1982)
Plot Summary:
A doctor is shocked when his beloved colleague Mima signs a contract with foreign car manufacturer Ferat, in order to work for them as a rally-driver. A scientist convinces him that human blood is being used as fuel for Mima's ever winning car, but does that really work?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, dark fantasy, crying, psychotronic, allegory
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The Sign of the Cancer (1967)
Plot Summary:
A murder in a hospital run by incompetents.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, poliziottesco
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Dissolved and Effused (1985)
Plot Summary:
Pražský policejní inspektor Trachta a jeho nezkušený praktikant Hlaváček pátrají po záhadně zmizelém továrníkovi Bierhanzlovi. Jeho továrna se zabývala výrobou vyhlášené masti pro růst vlasů. Pan továrník však náhle nečekaně zmizel zůstalo po něm jen pár osobních věcí. Při pátrání narážejí Trachta s Hlaváčkem na spoustu paradoxů. Podaří se jim zjistit, že většina mužů, kteří si svoji plešatost u pana továrníka léčili, po úspěchu také zmizela vždy ale poslali pohled, že s novými vlasy začínají nový život někde jinde. Pátrání vrcholí v tajuplném sanatoriu.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, psychotronic, detective, spoof, poliziottesco
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The Borrowed Face (1965)
Plot Summary:
It is the 1930s. Physician Bartos devotedly attends poor patients in the city suburbs, at the same time researching the possibilities of regeneration of human tissues after transplantation. His former colleague Rosen, now working as an assistant at the private clinic of surgeon Kirchenbruch, considers the research a mere utopia. The disappointed Bartos, trying to verify his theories, therefore accepts the outrageous proposal of Marion, owner of a brothel - to surgically replace the face of her lover, the wanted thief Cutter, with the face of murdered Father Hopsasa. Bartos is well paid but his successful operation remains a secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, dark comedy, poliziottesco, campy
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The Phantom of Morrisville (1966)
Plot Summary:
Česká filmová parodie na brakové sešitové romány odehrávající se v ponurých šlechtických sídlech plných tajných chodeb, intrik a dávných tajemství. Příběh se "odehrává" v pražském Smetanově divadle, kde si během představení Bizetovy Carmen málo vytížený hudebník čte šestákový román, který má ukrytý mezi notami a prožívá s jeho hrdinou, Sirem Hanibalem Morrisem, neuvěřitelné dobrodružství. Dobrodruh Manuel Diaz je těsně před popravou osvobozen z cely smrti svými kumpány, Dixim, Mikim a Drummondem. Vypraví se do zámku Morrisville, kde se chystá svatba Sira Hanibala s krásnou Clarence. Nikdo z přítomných netuší, že krásná nevěsta dosud je Diazovou manželkou.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: parody, black comedy, psychotronic, detective, spoof, poliziottesco, metafiction, campy, cult film
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Devilish Honeymoon (1970)
Plot Summary:
Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This will inevitable lead to all sorts of mischief, crime and even a murder. This murder-comedy, shot at the dawn of normalization has intentionally broke off from any connection to the reality of its time. The director Zdeněk Podskalský has focused on creating intriguing story lines, revolving around the two endeavouring female characters who are fighting for the same man. Two competing parties are not only ready to kill the other, but also (if necessary) the potential groom. This film has enabled the members of the cast, composed mainly of the brightest stars of the Czech acting scene of that time, to show an incredible acting range, from the lightest comedy to the darkest cynical morbidity.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, detective, black comedy, dark comedy, poliziottesco, campy, cult film
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Brooklyn Story (1992)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to a popular teenage crime comedy Kamarád do deste (1988). The same tandem of friends (Lukás Vaculík and Sagvan Tofi) now operates disco 'Brooklyn'. The crook they cleverly put behind bars (Karel Augusta) is preparing to pay them back and they try to get the better of him once again. Shot in attractive locations of night clubs, the film profits from the local popularity of male stars.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Crime, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: crying, detective, freeze frame
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Mushrooms (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the tradition of Arsenic and Old Lace, comes this morbidly funny Australian tale of murder and mayhem at the hands of two charming old ladies.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, experimental, absurd, crying, detective, black comedy
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Hubert the Smart Boy (1985)
Plot Summary:
Titulní hrdina komediálního filmu je typický žižkovský frajer. S chytrostí a šarmem si vyřizuje otevřené účty s policejním inspektorem Mourkem, který ho chce stůj co stůj dostat do kriminálu. Jenže Fešák Hubert unikne z každé nastražené pasti a nakonec připraví na zavilého policistu a jeho podřízené elegantní podraz. Z hledaných zločinců, které Mourek díky Hubertovi se slávou dopadne, se vyklubou nevinní lidé. Děj se odehrává na počátku třicátých let, v době hospodářské krize. Snímek vychází z tradičního pojetí žánru a pohybuje se v rovině určité nadsázky.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: crying, detective, poliziottesco
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Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply increases, Camel is mistakenly regarded as a mass murderer and cunningly uses his horrifying reputation to get the respect and heart of his beloved Sabrina, a journalist from a local newspaper. But this game turns out to be risky and in the end, both gangs don't hesitate to seize the check at all costs, including an improvised operation.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, parody, psychedelic, psychotronic, detective, spoof, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, poliziottesco, metafiction
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Pauline detective (2012)
Plot Summary:
After she has been dumped by her boyfriend, Pauline allows her sister to take her to a palace on the Italian Riviera. Instead of savouring the delights of a carefree existence, Pauline prefers to take on the role of an amateur sleuth, convinced that a crime has been committed in the environs. She ropes a handsome lifeguard into her investigation.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, tense, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Scoop (2006)
Plot Summary:
An American journalism student in London scoops a big story, and begins an affair with an aristocrat as the incident unfurls.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, suspense, talky, semi serious, light, entertaining, feel good, witty, buddy comedy
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Dinner for Adele (1978)
Plot Summary:
When the famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy - the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: parody, surreal, detective, ambiguous ending, crying, psychotronic, spoof, black comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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A Fork in the Road (2010)
Plot Summary:
An escaped convict and a woman ponder what to do with a not-quite-dead body.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film
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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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Chicken with Vinegar (1985)
Plot Summary:
Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, crying, freeze frame, dark comedy
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The Monster (1994)
Plot Summary:
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris and.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, parody, slapstick, offbeat, realistic, not serious, detective, spoof, black comedy
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Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: detective, hilarious, colorful, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, fast
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The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen (1966)
Plot Summary:
A thief (George Chakiris) falls in love with a maid (Marina Vlady) and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa.".
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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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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Get Charlie Tully (1972)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000 but during their flight out Charlie is arrested for coning an American and a dog. Reggie stores the money in a Swiss Bank and after Charlie is released is about to tell him which Bank when he is killed by Sid Sabbath's gang whose girlfriend Reggie had an affair with. The only lead is four tattoos that is on the girls Reggie had affairs with while Charlie was in jail. But Sabbath is on Charlie's trail to kill him and the Italians contract the mob - to find the money and then kill him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying
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Waiter, Scarper! (1981)
Plot Summary:
It is the story of a man who had financial troubles. He was married several times and had to pay for several kids. He wanted to earn some extra money by playing in a cafe. But one drunken guest supposes he is a waiter and pays his bill to him. So the main hero finds his chance - he goes through restaurants, pretending that he is a waiter and asks people to hand their cash to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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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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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)
Plot Summary:
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: West Germany, USA, Italy, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, culinary, offbeat, feel good, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
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Drowning Mona (2000)
Plot Summary:
The recently deceased Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) was many things: an abusive wife, a domineering mother, a loud-mouthed neighbor and a violent malcontent. So when her car and corpse are discovered in the Hudson River, police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito) immediately suspects murder rather than an accident. But, since the whole community of Verplanck, N.Y., shares a deep hatred for this unceasingly spiteful woman, Rash finds his murder investigation overwhelmed with potential suspects.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, absurd, stylized, clever, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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Enid Is Sleeping (1990)
Plot Summary:
Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband Harry in bed with her sister June, a row ensued, whereupon June accidently killed Enid. June's problem now is to hide the truth from the authorities, including her police-officer husband Floyd. Then she decides to reveal Enid's demise, albeit rearranging the damning evidence to make the whole thing look like the accident it really was.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, surprise ending, twist ending
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Terminal Exposure (1987)
Plot Summary:
Two beach combing-shutterbugs accidentally capture a murder on film. Now detectives, the boys set out to capture a murderess shot only from behind, with a rose tattoo on her behind. Fun in the sun turns dangerous when they end up shooting bullets instead of film.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective, cult classic, neo noir, independent film, dark comedy, cult film
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Loot (1970)
Plot Summary:
Based on the play by 'Joe Orton' this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately (?) one of them works in a funeral parlour and they have a coffin to spare.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, crying, independent film, detective
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You've Got Murder (2019)
Plot Summary:
Istanbul Police Department homicide detectives encounter a murder nothing like they’ve seen before.Commissioners Emin, Salih, Asuman and deputy Alaattin begin investigating.But strange murders keep happening. They don’t have any evidence or any clues. Day by day, tempers flare and the police chiefs grow annoyed.As the murders keep piling up, the public’s interest rises. The pressure on Emin and his colleagues get intense. At last, the chief of police assigns “crime expert” Dizdar Koşu, who has recently come back from the US, to the team.Overwhelmed with panic, pressure and disdain, Emin and his friends try to solve the strangest series of murders with the most unusual methods.This fast race against time immediately turns into a tragicomedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, feel good, humorous, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, detective
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Knives Out (2019)
Plot Summary:
When renowned crime novelist Harlan Thrombey is found dead at his estate just after his 85th birthday, the inquisitive and debonair Detective Benoit Blanc is mysteriously enlisted to investigate. From Harlan's dysfunctional family to his devoted staff, Blanc sifts through a web of red herrings and self-serving lies to uncover the truth behind Harlan's untimely death.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 750000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, exciting, captivating, detective, witty, suspense, disturbing, psychological, twisted, intellectual