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Plot Summary:
Dayo Wong stars as top agent Mr. Chan, who suddenly finds himself removed from duties after his partner Wonder Child unintentionally offended a policewoman, Ms. Shek. But when a financial officer goes crazy due to drugs, Mr. Chan is called back in to solve the case, which he accepts even though this means partnering up with Ms. Shek. The two have some ups and downs while working together, eventually leading to romance.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
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Bomb Disposal Officer Baby Bomb (1994)
Plot Summary:
Explosive devices and unplanned pregnancies are at the center of the crime comedy-featured popular comic duo Anthony Wong and Lau Ching-Wan. As the film opens, a crazed bomber is striking terror in the streets of Hong Kong. John (Wong) and Peter (Ching-Wan) are a pair of bumbling bomb disposal experts given the thankless job of defusing the lunatic's evil deeds. One day after a hard day on the job, the two unwind in the company of their friend Mary (Esther Kwan) and a whole lot of beer. As one thing leads to another, John or Peter or maybe both end up sleeping with Mary. No one really remembers. Unfortunately, the encounter leaves Mary pregnant without any clear idea of who's the father. As the two begin to mentally prepare themselves for fatherhood, disaster strikes -- the mad bomber kidnaps Mary. Worse, she is wired with a bomb such that if the mother or the baby's heart goes above a certain rate, the device will explode. Of course, things aren't helped much when Mary starts to give.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
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Leave Me Alone (2004)
Plot Summary:
Leave Me Alone (Chinese: 阿孖有難, also Ah ma yau nan) is a 2004 Hong Kong thriller film directed and co-written by Danny Pang. Gay fashion designer Yiu Chun Man (Ekin Cheng) is visited in Hong Kong by his straight twin brother, Yiu Chun Kit (also Ekin Cheng). Kit borrows his brother’s driver’s license, and is then involved in a car crash in which a woman dies (see also Ab-normal Beauty), and Kit falls into a coma. With no ID card, Man is unable to prove his identity, so he assumes the identity of his brother, and takes up with Kit’s girlfriend, Jane, (Charlene Choi), and goes with her to Thailand. Jane, however, is having some money problems, and is deeply indebted to a loan shark (Dayo Wong), who pursues Man and Jane. Kit comes out of his coma and finds himself struggling to fend off the amorous advances of Man's boyfriend (Jan Lamb), who is a high-ranking Hong Kong police officer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, offbeat, realistic
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House of Mahjong (2007)
Plot Summary:
Gi, who wants to start up her business in Fu Gui Mall, needs to learn to play Taiwan mahjong to be part of the tenants there. All the other tenants teach her the techniques of the game but Fu Ho defeats Gi. However, he is impressed with her determination and rents a place to Gi. Meanwhile, Fu Ho's son, Sun Gui, returns to Hong Kong and is planning to take over the mall. He finds four mahjong experts to gamble with the tenants. Gi, Sam, Lam and the others lose their money and means of survival. Luckily, Lam finds.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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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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Mob Busters (1985)
Plot Summary:
An American in Hong Kong battles mobsters.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Actor (2018)
Plot Summary:
Joseph Kehr, a mentally disturbed aspiring actor returns to New York City to become the 'greatest actor of his generation'. In his pursuit of rising to the top, he enlists in an infamous acting class led by Professor Payton, a cunningly sharp-tongued teacher known for her relentless determination of breaking her students. His mind unravels as he discovers the power of the internet and is haunted by Bugsy Cloverdale, a social media Guru. Joseph's obsession of fame spirals out of control as he is forced to compete with a washed-up movie star.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: dark, dark comedy, independent film
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Relax Freddie (1966)
Plot Summary:
The sequel of the famous "Slå Først, Frede!".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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The Girl from S.I.N. (1966)
Plot Summary:
Secret agent Poontang Plenty, who works to defeat evil while trying to crack the secret of invisibility.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, spoof, parody, sex comedy, comic
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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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The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966)
Plot Summary:
A wacky 60s spy spoof.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, spy comedy, parody, psychotronic, spoof
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One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966)
Plot Summary:
Someone is using cats in experiments to develop a machine that can reverse the aging process, meanwhile a famous scientist (Dr Lancer) has gone missing, only for him to reappear looking 30 years younger. UNCLE agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are sent to investigate the plot in Europe - Illya is sent to London to discover who is abducting cats while Solo travels to Paris where Dr Lancer's daughter is working as a fashion model. They uncover a plot by female members of the fashion business to develop the anti-aging machine for their own use, however the suave THRUSH agent Jordin has other plans. Thus a race begins between UNCLE and THRUSH to take control of the machine.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, campy
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Rendes-Vous with a Spy (1964)
Plot Summary:
A thriller about Polish Intelligence Service working on detecting a net of foreign spies.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Strike First Freddy (1965)
Plot Summary:
Frede Hansen, a game salesman, is mistaken for a secret service agent on a ferry and kidnapped by enemy agents. He escapes and now the secret service want to use him as bait to track the enemy. They assign their best agent, Smith to be his partner and supervisor. Their main task is to eliminate the head of the enemy conspiracy, the mysterious 'Dr. Pax' who's real identity is unknown. Freddy accompanies Smith to Stockholm where they are to meet Sonja, an agent for Dr. Pax, who is also on Smith's liquidation list. Thanks to his bag of game tricks, Freddy manages to avoid being done in by Kolick, a killer for Dr. Pax. Freddy falls for Sonja, and he, she and Smith are taken as prisoners to Dr. Pax's hideout, a remote island fortress from which a major power is to be attacked by missiles guided by trained pigeons. Freddy manages to teach Dr. Pax a lasting lesson in the difference between trained pigeons and homing pigeons.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, eurospy
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The Spy in the Green Hat (1967)
Plot Summary:
"Spy in the Green Hat, The (1966)" on the other hand, is both exciting AND funny. Especially the scene where Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) hides from THRUSH agents under a young woman's (the incredibly cute Letícia Román) bed and is caught by the woman's grandmother (Penny Santon), who is forcing Solo to marry the young woman. He successfully escapes, but is hunted by a legion of stereotyped Italian gangsters. Now that's comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, campy
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Where the Bullets Fly (1966)
Plot Summary:
In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy from an element named Spurium,.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, parody, psychotronic, independent film, spoof, eurospy, comic
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That Man in Istanbul (1965)
Plot Summary:
An American adventurer who has a gambling den in Istanbul, who is suspected to be involved in the kidnapping of a nuclear scientist, but ultimately becomes self on the search for the disappeared and gets a striving for world domination secret organization.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, eurospy
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The Supergrass (1985)
Plot Summary:
While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress a girl so that she'll go away on a trip with him as his girlfriend. Although he fails to gain any interest from the girl, the police take a great interest in his story. From this point on, Dennis digs a deeper hole for himself at every turn.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, alternative comedy
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Very Mean Men (2000)
Plot Summary:
A bartender wants rid of an obnoxious drunk but not until the drunk has left a decent tip. So the bartender tells the story of two mobster families, the Minetti's who work out of an Italian restaurant in the East San Fernando Valley, and the Mulroney's who work out of an Irish pub in the West San Fernando Valley. Mob war breaks out when one of the Minetti "boys" stiffs Big Paddy's daughter on her tip. We soon see why these hoods are called very mean men.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, crying, independent film, spoof, black comedy
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Crazy Sex (1976)
Plot Summary:
Shaw Brothers superdirector Li Han-Hsiang was particularly masterful in two genres: erotica and classic Chinese tales. He combined these two loves in this two-part examination of lust. The first story features an elderly jeweler's adventures with his unsatisfied wife, a handsome neighbor, and the neighborhood bordello. The second is a more modern tale of sex, lies, and videotape.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy
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Cop Shop Babes (2001)
Plot Summary:
Beer and Satay are two bumbling cops who get transferred to Cop Shop Girls division. Beer is a womanizer and promptly starts dating two girls at a time. Everyone's after Fireball, who blows stuff up.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, light, humorous, captivating, not serious, slapstick comedy
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Three Stories (1997)
Plot Summary:
A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor’s five-year-old daughter “all the abomination of her lumpen existence”. The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy
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Mad Mission V: The Terracotta Hit (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two friends who own an investment firm turn to a policeman friend for help when they are framed for robbery by a gang of antiquities smugglers.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, fast, independent film, slapstick comedy, poliziottesco
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The Cop in Blue Jeans (1976)
Plot Summary:
A top undercover cop finds and arrests a series of purse snatchers until he discovers an American at the top of an evil ring of thieves.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 810
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, cult film
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Naughty Grandma 3 (2021)
Plot Summary:
1980, the whole country follows the events of the Moscow Olympics. Vova Rubinstein alone, on the sly, disguises himself as Soviet pop stars and tries to get rich by arranging fake concerts. At one of these concerts, he is exposed by the KGB and recruited as an undercover agent. Now, in order not to go to jail, Vova must fulfill a responsible mission - to find a deadly chemical developed in a secret laboratory on the black market. Vova will have to plunge headlong into the abyss of the spy passions of Moscow in the 80s: to find a chemical, to prevent the undermining of the Olympic Bear, to experience Brezhnev's passionate kiss, and to meet the love of his life ... And all this is in the image of the currency prostitute Louise Karpovna Rubinstein.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, feel good, light, humorous, captivating
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OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
Plot Summary:
Secret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: spoof, humorous, parody, light, suspense, talky, stylized, not serious, funny, witty
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Undercover Blues (1993)
Plot Summary:
When fun-loving American agents Dennis Quaid and Kathleen Turner are called back from maternity leave for a special assignment in New Orleans, the spy parents decide to skip the sitter and give their bouncing baby girl the adventure of a lifetime. There's nothing to the dumb story about a deadly arms dealer in the Louisiana Bayou, but you'd be hard put to find a friskier pair of doting parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, entertaining, melancholic, exciting, realistic, spy comedy, smart, colorful
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The Liquidator (1965)
Plot Summary:
Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it is was himself. This leads to complications.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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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
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White Chicks (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. As punishment, they are forced to escort a pair of socialites to the Hamptons, where they're going to be used as bait for a kidnapper. But when the girls realize the FBI's plan, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from African-American men into a pair of blonde, white women.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 159000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, hilarious, funny, satirical, parody, teen, action comedy, black comedy, entertaining, feel good
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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