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Plot Summary:
An ex-soldier turned deliveryman is dragged into a local kingpin's bumbling gang to pull off a daring heist in an infamous South African township.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Africa
Duration: 91 min
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Partners (2002)
Plot Summary:
In Hong Kong, an elite gang of robbers - regarded as somewhat of a crime dream team - is formed, each member selected for their previous well-planned, swift, and successful operations. They are fearless and lethal, even going so far as to kill an undercover cop to humiliate the police. However, internal strife is brewing among the team. Three of its members plot to get rid of the leader, dissatisfied that his share of the loot seems disproportionate. The questions remain: will this faction of the gang overcome their leader, and could this gang of strong-minded thieves hold up without him?.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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A Heist with Markiplier (2019)
Plot Summary:
You join Markiplier on the heist of a lifetime, but in this original comedic interactive story you decide how the heist turns out in the end. Choose wisely.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: interactive
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Adrenaline (2023)
Plot Summary:
A female FBI agent holidaying in Eastern Europe with her family gets her life upside down when her daughter is kidnapped. She has to team up with a criminal on the run to save her daughter before time runs out.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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The Jokers (1967)
Plot Summary:
Oliver Reed and Michael Crawford play two brothers who are always trying to find some way to succeed with cleverness rather than simple drudgery. Crawford is constantly living in his brother's shadow as the one who gets caught. After Crawford is forced to resign from the army after an episode of unappreciated cleverness, the two decide their careers would go better if there was a large amount of publicity, so they decide to steal the crown jewels from the tower of London.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: retro, offbeat, poliziottesco
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Gemini (2002)
Plot Summary:
Gemini was released in 2002, directed by successful director Saran and it was produced by the AVM company headed by M. S. Guhan and M. Saravanan. The film starred Vikram and Kiran Rathod in the lead roles with Kalabhavan Mani and Charle in supporting roles.The story of Gemini revolves around Gemini (Vikram) and Teja (Kalabhavan Mani), two contemporary rowdies in Chennai. Gemini's friend is murdered by Teja's friend. Then Gemini and his gang search for the person who murdered his friend and kills him. This incident marks the start of their rivalry.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags:
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Beware of the Jönsson Gang (1981)
Plot Summary:
The movie begins with the Jönsson gang making a minor burglary. It goes wrong and the gang leader, Sickan, gets caught. After he has spent 10 months in jail, Vanheden and Rocky come to welcome him when he's released. But he doesn't take notice of them, and he's picked up by the mysterious banker Wall-Enberg Jr. instead. He wants Sickan to perform a burglary in Switzerland, in order to retrieve the famous Bedford Diamonds. Sickan does this but is fooled by Wall-Enberg and nearly gets caught. When he returns to Sweden and re-unites with his old gang members, he's set on revenge, both physically and psychologically.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious
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Blind Rage (1976)
Plot Summary:
Five friends get together and decide to plan an operation to rob a bank. The main difference between this and other bank-robbing gangs, however, is that all five men are blind.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, crime drama, independent film, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, multicultural
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Brigade Miscellaneous on Alert (1971)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of three Romanian inept petty criminals during the 1970s.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Romania
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Foundation of Criminal Excellence (2018)
Plot Summary:
Imants Veide is writing a script about con artists and their schemes. Together with his friend Harijs Kuharjonoks he's trying them out for real for greater authenticity, but gets too entangled in real criminal schemes. More and more colorful characters appear on the horizon, but Imant's main adversary on the road to criminal excellency is his Neighbour, a true iron lady with balls bigger than all those involved combined.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Latvia
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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Gentlemen in White Vests (1970)
Plot Summary:
A crime comedy directed by Wolfgang Staudte.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Julayi (2012)
Plot Summary:
An intelligent young man and a timid cop team up to catch a criminal who wants revenge after a foiled bank robbery.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, tense, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Contour (2006)
Plot Summary:
After blowing a big time heist, thug-for-hire Law, must resume his day job as a shady San Francisco tour guide. Before he knows it, Law and his unsuspecting group of tourists are in a race against time to recover a tape that will recue the politically unstable country of Uruvia. Filled with quirky characters, mad cap comedy and hard-hitting martial arts comes the most fun movie since Rumble in the Bronx!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Supercon (2018)
Plot Summary:
A ragtag group of former TV stars and comic book artists who make their living working at conventions decide to steal the loot from a crooked promoter and an overbearing former TV icon.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: action comedy, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Walter (2019)
Plot Summary:
For Goran and his team of amateur shooters, the plan was almost perfect: to enter a hypermarket at night to rob a jeweler. But these "broken arms" had not anticipated the arrival of a vigil like no other: Walter, a former African warlord who will send them to hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Cracksman (1963)
Plot Summary:
Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a beautiful hostess as a trap, into which the hapless Ernest inevitably falls..!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Santiago Violenta (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mauro, Noel and Broco have been an inseparable group of friends since grade school. All grown up, their lives are not what they hoped they would be. Life has become so routine that they do nothing more than wait for the weekends to drink themselves into oblivion. One night, a chance encounter leads the group on a wild and deadly chase from Santiago's most dangerous crime boss... Forced to make increasingly risky decisions, their frantic, adrenaline fueled desperation brings them closer to a violent, life-changing end where the friendship will be changed forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, contemplative, retro, neo noir, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, poliziottesco
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Golden Job (2018)
Plot Summary:
A group of former mercenaries reunite to plan an epic heist: boosting a truck full of medicine held by a foreign intelligence agency to supply a refugee camp in need. But when they find the truck is actually filled with stolen gold, the band of brothers realize they’ve been double-crossed by one of their own - and putting the situation right will be all out war.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, disturbing, epic, exciting
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To Catch a Virgin Ghost (2004)
Plot Summary:
Seok-tae runs away with a huge diamond of his gang and comes to Sisily, a peaceful village. Yang-e runs after him to get the diamond back and finds Seok-tae's trail in Sisily. But all the town people lie about everything. These people turn out to be scarier than a ghost!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 677
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, horror comedy
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Two Thumbs Up (2015)
Plot Summary:
A criminal fresh out of prison who seeks out his former partners in crime for another heist. And they make a very elaborate plan to carry out the criminal intent, but things turn awry when another gang of criminals hit the same target.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, crime drama
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Song of Napoli (2013)
Plot Summary:
Young musician becomes an undercover agent and is asked to join a neomelodic band in order to allow police to get their hands on an elusive camorra boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Kick (2009)
Plot Summary:
Kalyan (Ravi Teja) is a kind of guy who prefers a life full of thrills than leading a regular life style. He seeks kick in whatever he does. He finds liking in Naina (Ileana). They separate due to differences. Krishna (Shyam) is a young cop who is in lookout for a big ticket thief who happens to be Kalyan. Meanwhile, Naina agrees for an engagement with Krishna. The rest of the story is all about how Kalyan wins back his lady love and the real intent behind the robberies of Kalyan.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating
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You Move You Die (2007)
Plot Summary:
Mike has the girl, the time and the place.The problem is he doesn't have the ring, Before Mike has an opportunity to propose his engagement ring is stolen.Mike is desperate to recover it. He and his friends have one hour to get the ring back and make the date with his "beloved" Emma before all is lost. It is not long before it is revealed that Mike and his friends are not all that they seem.You move you die is a dark comedy filmed with a real time story. Get ready for a film with a unique dose of reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, rough, realistic, dark comedy
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Stealing Rembrandt (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two bumbling scrap metal thieves - father and son - steal the wrong painting during a museum heist. The painting turns out to be the only original Rembrandt painting in Denmark, and all hell breaks loose. What do you do when you've got Interpol, the Danish police and the entire Danish underworld on your heels? And who was this Rembrandt guy anyway?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy
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Argo 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hungarian small time crook, 70 year old Tibi Balog gets out of prison after 10 years, but he didn't change a bit. When a Japanese crime syndicate hires him to acquire a Hungarian invention - the world's first floppy disc - Tibi puts his band of retarded thugs back together and the action starts. As expected, Tibi completely screws up the job and becomes the target of Japanese Assassins, a very angry Gypsie family and the entire Slovakian Army. Gags and action and no political correctness at all. The Hungarian heat is on.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hungary
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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Paper Soldiers (2002)
Plot Summary:
Paper Soldiers follows an overeager burglar named Shawn (Kevin Hart) through the ups and downs of his short, stressful career.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, hood, exciting, realistic, black comedy, crime drama, independent film
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Rise of the Footsoldier: Marbella (2019)
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Fresh out of prison, Pat Tate steps right back into his Essex nightclub. But still disgruntled, he soon sets out to Marbelle to revenge those that put him away for five years. While in Spain, Pat cannot turn away from the opportunity to score the biggest drug deal of his life. All he needs is for his Essex pals Tony and Craig to deliver the cash to Marbella to close the deal. But Craig, useless as ever, turns a simple plane trip to a massive road trip packed with trickery and danger. And Tony is more worried about making it back to England as he has promised to support his best friend Nigel Benn at the boxing match of his life. While waiting in Marbella, Pat proceeds with the violent revenge he has craved for years. Revenges are made and Tony and Carlton walk Nigel Benn out to what turns out to be one of the most tragic fights in history. But the drugs they bring back seems to be a bad batch and cause them more trouble than they have ever anticipated before.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating
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Chance (1990)
Plot Summary:
After a daring robbery of a jewelery store, the thieves accidentally let their loot fall into the unsuspecting hands of repo man and secret alcoholic Zach. When the crime lord behind the heist learns of the whereabouts of his diamonds, he instructs his thugs to find Zach and get the jewels back by any means possible. Zach gets help from his friend, police detective Chance, but they will both need more than a little luck to prove that neither of them were behind the robbery, and to keep the actual thieves from getting their revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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My Boss, My Hero (2001)
Plot Summary:
A series of embarrassing incidents force a mobster to go back to high school to finally graduate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, crime drama
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Fool N Final (2007)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of misfits and gangsters embarks on a journey to find a lost and stolen diamond.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins (2021)
Plot Summary:
A brutal account of how real-life, hard-as-nails Falklands War veteran Tony Tucker came to be involved in one of the most notorious gangland murders in British history.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark