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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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Transit Carlsbad (1966)
Plot Summary:
Even in the "enlightened" 60. years filmmakers like to play spies. In the grand-world environment, Luxury hotel in Karlovy Vary the sophisticated charade unfolds, in which several foreign agents interested in the famous Austrian scientist, the discoverer of the artificial protein. Endangered man fortunately never notice danger around him. His protection was entrusted to the mysterious madame Elizabeth, amongst agents famed as the ' 006, in fact, working for the State security... As a parody, perhaps the movie succeeded, but hardly convincing anyone - and this is despite scriptwriting participation of the renowned Jan Procházka.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration:
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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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A Girl Fit to Be Killed (1976)
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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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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Nero (1992)
Plot Summary:
Right after she moves in with him, Frederico's new girlfriend Francesca sends him back to her former boyfriend's apartment to fetch her something she forgot - but he's surprised to find him lying there - dead. Assuming that Francesca killed him and sent him for cleaning up, he cuts him up in pieces, puts him in a suitcase and tries to get rid of it... but he has a hard time finding a suitably quiet place. Unfortunately there's a witness, who comes back on him. One thing leads to another, and the normally shy and overly fearful Frederico has to rid himself of more and more corpses until this black comedy ends.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, neo noir, surprise ending, twist ending, crying, detective, black comedy
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The Red Ibis (1975)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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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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Doubles (2016)
Plot Summary:
Comedy tells the story of two men who are much alike but their temperament and life story are as different as day and night. They have never seen each other, they have no idea about each other's mutual existence and it would remain like that if faith had not put them together... And from now on it is a great comedy of confusion.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, suspenseful, intense, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Che casino... con Pierino! (1982)
Plot Summary:
Italian comedy.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, crying, freeze frame, sexploitation film
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Partners (1982)
Plot Summary:
Benson is a police detective. After a series of murders in the Gay community he is ordered to go undercover with a gay police clerk named Kerwin as his partner. In order to be noticed they have to be flamboyant enough to attract attention which Benson finds rather disturbing. Can an uptight heterosexual and a mousey homosexual form a meaningful relationship?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, detective, sexy, queer cinema
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Let's Kill Ward's Wife (2014)
Plot Summary:
Everyone hates Ward’s wife and wants her dead, Ward (Donald Faison) most of all. But when his friends’ murderous fantasies turn into an (accidental) reality, they have to deal with a whole new set of problems — like how to dispose of the body and still make their 3 p.m. tee time. Scott Foley's directorial debut, also starring Foley, Patrick Wilson, Amy Acker, and Nicolette Sheridan, is a blackly comic caper about helping a friend out of a bad relationship by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, realistic, not serious, horror comedy, tense, captivating, hilarious, independent film, crying
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Poor White Trash (2000)
Plot Summary:
Mike and Lenny are two buddies who dream of getting out of the trailer park. Out of desperation they resort to burglary as a means of financing Mike's college education. Their dream is jeopardized one summer day when their ploy to shoplift Near Beer begins a crime spree and a series of mishaps during which they are threatened with jail.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, dark comedy, independent film, hot
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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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Paris Express (2010)
Plot Summary:
From multicultural Paris to designer Paris, Montmartre to the Champs-Elysées, sleazy sidewalks to high-end galleries... Watch out! Sam the courier is a man on a mission! On his scooter, Sam breaks every rule of the road to make good on the "express delivery" promise of the courier service he works for. But however hard he tries, Sam never gets a bonus from his boss, never beats his slicker colleagues and never gets past his Dad, a cop who books him every time. All Sam has up is Nadia, and she will turn on him if he doesn't show up for her sister's wedding. Trouble is, Sam has one more delivery to make and his day has just gone from bad to worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, exciting, tense, entertaining, realistic, not serious, fast
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I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2019)
Plot Summary:
Pedro, Arturo and Eligio are three college professors who lost their job because of economic crisis. Accidentally they find a solution for all of their problems; a multi-vitamin that allows them to party all night long without any side effects. The three professors will be launched into the world of nightclubs and the shady business, in order to market the merchandise. Of course, it seems that they are not as prepared for it as they thought.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, detective, freeze frame
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I Love You to Death (1990)
Plot Summary:
Joey Boca is the owner of a pizza parlor located in Tacoma, Washington, and has been married to Rosalie for years. Rosalie is horrified to discover that Joey is a womanizer and has been cheating on her for a long time. Based on the true story of Frances and Anthony Toto.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, humorous, detective, realistic, witty, semi serious, funny, light
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Burglar (1987)
Plot Summary:
Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr is a burglar by trade, and she runs a bookstore as well. Her friend Carl Hefler is a dog groomer. After a successful burglary, it's discovered that a dead body was in the house she burgled. As she's the only one who can be placed at the scene of the crime, she has to use her criminal skills to clear her name of the murder AND avoid getting charged with the burglary.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, action comedy, realistic, not serious, fast, detective, sexy
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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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Cops and Robbers (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two disillusioned New York policemen plan a $10 million robbery to fuel their low pensions, only to run into one debacle after another in the process.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 851
Genere: Crime, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, crying
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Who Killed Bambi? (2013)
Plot Summary:
It tells the story of two young friends who must find a way for the president of the company in which they work (and father of one of them) safe return home, and that is enclosed strange circumstances naked in the trunk of his car.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Spain
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, dark comedy, exciting, realistic, semi serious, crying, freeze frame
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The Actors (2003)
Plot Summary:
During the run of a particularly awful interpretation of Richard III, the star, Anthony O'Malley, begins to frequent a rough pub to develop his character. He meets Barreller who he discovers owes someone he's never met a considerable sum of money. Seeing an opportunity to make some fast money, O'Malley convinces hapless extra, Tom, to meet Barreller as the debt collector.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, offbeat
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Tough Guys (1986)
Plot Summary:
Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie Lang (Douglas) are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. Harry and Archie realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks at a bank, they foil a robbery attempt. Archie, who spent his prison time pumping himself up, easily picks up a 20-year-old aerobics instructor. Harry, on the other hand, has to waste away his days in a nursing home. They both have festering resentments -- Archie for having to endure a humiliating job as a busboy; Harry for having to endure patronizing attitudes toward senior citizens. The two old pals finally go back to what they know best. After successfully robbing an armored car, they decide to rob the same train that they robbed thirty years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, light, road movie, humorous, touching, semi serious, cult classic, realistic, surprise ending
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My New Partner (1984)
Plot Summary:
My New Partner is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte. Noiret plays a streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue. At the start of the film, his partner is busted for corruption and he narrowly escapes. He is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt his new partner and, after a slow start, succeeds spectacularly.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, witty, neo noir, anthology, action comedy, cult classic, black comedy, clever, humorous
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Half Baked (1998)
Plot Summary:
Three lovable party buds try to bail their friend out of jail. But just when the guys have mastered a plan, everything comes dangerously close to going up in smoke.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: funny, hilarious, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, hood, slapstick comedy, mysterious, black comedy, independent film
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Starsky & Hutch (2004)
Plot Summary:
Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve an important case with help from street informant Huggy Bear and persuasive criminal Reese Feldman.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 153000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, entertaining, satirical, hilarious, not serious, exciting, realistic, action packed
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Happy New Year (1973)
Plot Summary:
Gangster (Lino Ventura) with his accomplice (Charles Gérard), prepares to take part in the "first psychological hold-up in the history of crime". Next door to the jewellers of Van Cleef & Arpels, on the Croisette, in Cannes, the find the shop of a beautiful antiques dealer (Françoise Fabian) who befriends the group. The driver and the antiques dealer fall in love. He is friendly but unrefined, she is cultivated and independent, but discovers that talking with Simon shows up her vanity, and she desires a simple and clean love. The hold-up which had been planned for a long time by the driver is shown to be more sophisticated than his methods of seduction.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, non-linear, detective, freeze frame, poliziottesco
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T2 Trainspotting (2017)
Plot Summary:
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 131000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, intense, stylized, thought provoking, captivating, tense, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, intellectual