Best movies like Broken Arrow: A Pre Historic Detective Story
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Plot Summary:
A parable in the manner of a tragedian based on the play by A. Volodin "On the tribes of the Bison and Scorpions, who lived many thousands of years ago on a small island." The events that the film tells about take place in ancient times, in the Stone Age. In the forest, where a large tribe lives, two shots in the back killed one of the clan, nicknamed Long. His widow demands that the killer become her husband. The head of the clan is trying to find out who the killer is.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, prehistoric
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1MC: Something of Vengeance (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Volkova, (aka 1MC), returns to where it all began, with one thing in mind...revenge.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: art house, independent film, grindhouse
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Presumption of Innocence (1988)
Plot Summary:
After the concert, the popular singer, having boarded the train, discovers that her jacket is missing, and with it her passport, according to which she must go abroad on tour. Two stowaways, posing as police officers, undertake to help the singer.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Pizza Man (1991)
Plot Summary:
When someone orders a pizza, Elmo the pizza man uncovers a government conspiracy and will stop at nothing to get his $15.23.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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A Bride from the North (1975)
Plot Summary:
Popular musical comedy satirising Russian-Armenian relations, featuring Arno Babadzhanyan's hits. Artak has served his military service in the Russian countryside where he meets Valya. But Valya's mother refuses to send her only daughter to “these far highlands, where earthquakes happen all the time”. Artak is forced to ask his contrasting and numerous relatives –Armenian villagers– to visit a remote Russian village to bring a bride to Armenia.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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A Trap for Lonely Man (1990)
Plot Summary:
Daniel Corban reports his wife Elizabeth missing to the police. A priest arrives and says he has found her. When he brings her in, Corban insists she is not his wife. When several other people arrive and verify she is Elizabeth, Daniel feel's he is loosing the grip on reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: detective
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Magical Nights (2018)
Plot Summary:
Italy, 1990. On the night when Italy's national football team is eliminated from the World Cup by Argentina on penalty kicks, a well-known film producer is found dead in the Tiber River. The main suspects for the murder are three young aspiring screenwriters, hauled in front of the Carabinieri to tell their version of what happened.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, humorous, non-linear, nostalgic
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Souvenir for the Prosecutor (1989)
Plot Summary:
A seemingly ordinary car accident turns out to be a murder investigation.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Melody For A Hustler (1998)
Plot Summary:
French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionaire after he picks up hitchhiking 16-year-old Marie-Pierre (Virginie Lanoue). Actually living in a seedy apartment, Gaston deals in stolen goods, but he soon climbs to bigger heists, including car thefts. Concealing his illegal activities, Gaston operates his company, Extramill, out of upscale, posh offices, while he and Marie-Pierre move into a sedate upper-middle-class neighborhood. Life is sweet, but the onset of paranoia, kinky sex activities, and police probes eventually culminate in violence.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: freeze frame, dark comedy, sexual, sexy
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Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (1974)
Plot Summary:
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the leading character observes "The play's the thing, wherein to catch the conscience of the king." In this Yugoslavian movie, a performance of Hamlet in a small village apparently catches the conscience of the whole town. The village commissar, who knows nothing of the play, insists on mounting a production of Hamlet over the objections of the village teacher, who knows the tale well. Thinking only of the prestige it will bring, the commissar plans to use local villagers in the parts. The son of a man the commissar had framed for theft gets the part of Hamlet, and the commissar plays the usurping king. During a fight scene, the boy Hamlet, manages to wrest a confession to the thefts from the town treasurer, but when he hears of his father's suicide, he promptly stabs the commissar. The commissar, bleeding, orders the post-performance dance to go on.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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When Men Carried Clubs and Women Played Ding-Dong (1971)
Plot Summary:
Prehistoric cave-stud Ari wins lovely virgin Listra in a pig-catching contest, but their attempts at "Ding-Dong" keep getting interrupted by idiot battles between his tribe, The Cave Dwellers, and their neighbors, The Lake Dwellers. Annoyed that hubby would rather make war than Ding-Dong, Listra organizes the women of both tribes to go on strike and "abstain Ding-Dong" until the men stop fighting. It all happens back in the days when men carried clubs and women played ding-dong, an Italian stone-age sex comedy based on the Greek classic "Lysistrata" and filled with shapely cavewomen sporting '70s hairstyles, a gay caveman with the hots for the hero, a title tune that will follow you forever and, of course, plenty of old-fashioned Ding-Dong!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: prehistoric, cult film
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Killer Hair (2009)
Plot Summary:
A fashion reporter stumbles on a murder investigation in the Nation's Capitol, only to be thrown for a loop when her police detective former lover is assigned to the case.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, humorous, suspense, realistic, ridiculous
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Legacy (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a geeky, overweight rushee is found dead at the hottest sorority on the campus, the three most popular girls of the house are prime suspects.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: witty, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy, detective, teen comedy
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The Trial of Tony Blair (2007)
Plot Summary:
Biting political satire starring Robert Lindsay as a beleaguered Tony Blair, who stubbornly refuses to see the danger he faces from a Special Tribunal on Iraq that has been set up to investigate war crimes.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min
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RRRrrrr!!! (2004)
Plot Summary:
37 000 years ago, two neighboring tribes lived in peace ... not fully in peace. While the tribe clean hair flowed peaceful days by keeping to herself the secret formula shampoo, Tribe Hair Sales lamented. Its leader decided to send a spy to steal the recipe.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, stylized, funny, captivating, absurd, cult classic, parody, offbeat, not serious
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Gumshoe (1971)
Plot Summary:
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, parody, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, detective, cult film
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Young Bodies Heal Quickly (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers are fleeing arrest for the "accidental" killing of a young girl. Their destination is their estranged father's desolate compound on the sea shore.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, independent film
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China Dolls (1992)
Plot Summary:
Tong catches Chiu attempting to rape his wife May (Amy Yip). They scuffle and Tong shoots Chiu dead with Chiu's gun. They flee but Tong is killed in a shootout with police. May begs an officer to take her child, since if he is repatriated he'll have a horrible life. So, the infant son ends up in Hong Kong separated from his mother. Six years pass and May is a hotel maid then gets forced into prostitution. She longs to see her son, who is now a young boy, maybe to fully reunite with him. The problem with this film is it becomes so sleazy. There is nudity (not Ms. Yip), violence and forcible rape.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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A Very Missing Person (1972)
Plot Summary:
An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective
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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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Plot Summary:
Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and corruption can get him.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: realistic, political, dark comedy, clever, witty, biting, black comedy, manga, mesmerizing, humorous
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Gentlemen of Fortune (1971)
Plot Summary:
A kindergarten director Troshkin is a dead ringer for a criminal nicknamed "Docent" who stole the priceless.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: witty, funny, feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous
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Too Late (2015)
Plot Summary:
Explores the tangled relationship between a troubled private investigator and the missing woman he's hired to help find.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, captivating, tense, enigmatic, suspense, scary, noir, dark, crime drama
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Murder, Take One (2005)
Plot Summary:
A woman is killed in a hotel room. The ensuing police investigation is conducted in front of TV cameras for the entire country to watch as it unfolds.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, twisted
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Iceman (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Ötztal Alps, more than 5300 years ago. A Neolithic clan has settled near a creek. It is their leader Kelab's responsibility to be the keeper of the group's holy shrine Tineka. While Kelab is hunting, the settlement is attacked. The members of the tribe are brutally murdered, amongst them Kelab's wife and son, only one newborn survives - and Tineka is gone. Blinded by pain and fury, Kelab is out for one thing alone - vengeance.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, Italy, Austria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, prehistoric, art house
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From the Hip (1987)
Plot Summary:
Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and he must now defend a college professor who is appearantly guilty of murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anamorphic, psychological, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, funny, light, romantic, sexy
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Psych 2: Lassie Come Home (2020)
Plot Summary:
After Santa Barbara Police Chief Carlton Lassiter is ambushed and left for dead, Shawn and Gus return to help him and find themselves embroiled in a case involving the personal, the professional—and even the supernatural.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, psychological, twist ending
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Little Fish, Strange Pond (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Jack and Sweet Stephen cruise aimlessly through the streets of LA speculating about life, death, divine will and the force of power that predetermines their existence. Mr. Jack attempts to illustrate to his sidekick the delicate and natural forces of the universe. Sweet Stephen's superficial charm and bloodsucking lifestyle sends him and Mr. Jack on a voyage that is relentless, engaging, and darkly hilarious.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: talky, humorous, semi serious, dark, offbeat, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Vote and Die: Liszt for President (2008)
Plot Summary:
A charismatic Billionaire runs for president as an independent candidate. His platform is simple: KILL EVERYONE NOW!!!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: political comedy
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Amar Akbar Anthony (2015)
Plot Summary:
Amar, Akbar and Anthony are close friends living in Kochi. They enjoy a carefree life. Their perceptions and beliefs get shattered with an unexpected event and the resulting story forms the plot of the movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, suspense, twisted
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Rikos ja Rakkaus (1999)
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min
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