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Plot Summary:
Buster is a small time crook who pulls a big time job. When he finds that the police will not let the case drop, he goes into hiding and can't contact his wife and child. He arranges to meet them in Mexico where he thinks they can begin again, but finds that he must choose between his family and freedom.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film, eighties
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Just Like a Woman (1992)
Plot Summary:
Gerald is a smart, young, high-flying American banker. Everything is great until his wife finds another woman's underwear in their bedroom and subsequently throws him out. He finds lodgings with Monica, a recently divorced 50-year old housewife, who is smitten with Gerald. But after their first night of love, Gerald avoids her. Monica feels used and betrayed until Gerald confesses he likes to dress up as a woman. Monica learns to accept and eventually support Geraldine, Gerald's alter ego. Based on the novel by Monica Jay.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
Similar in 78%
Who the Hell's Bonnie and Clyde? (2004)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the true story of a young couple 'The Hungarian Bonnie & Clyde'.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic
Similar in 80%
Any Number Can Win (1963)
Plot Summary:
Charles, a sixty-something career criminal, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: noir, neo noir, crime drama, tense, atmospheric, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty
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Honest (2000)
Plot Summary:
The film is an edgy black comedy set in swinging London in the late 60s. The All Saints girls play three street wise sisters who head 'up West' to rob and generally cause trouble.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychedelic, independent film, tripping
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Billy Liar (1963)
Plot Summary:
A young Englishman dreams of escaping from his working class family and dead-end job as an undertaker's assistant. A number of indiscretions cause him to lie in order to avoid the penalties. His life turns into a mess and he has an opportunity to run away and leave it all behind.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, romantic comedy, touching, offbeat, semi serious, independent film
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Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story of the rise of morals crusader Mary Whitehouse in the UK in the 1960's,.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, semi serious, realistic, biting, suspense
Similar in 82%
The Opportunists (1999)
Plot Summary:
Vic is a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. His girlfriend runs a bar and offers to loan him the money she's saved for remodeling, but Vic is reluctant to take it. When a long-lost cousin from Ireland shows up on his doorstep, the two team up for one last heist.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: talky, independent film, suspense, humorous, semi serious, realistic, emotional, road movie, noir, thought provoking
Similar in 86%
Assault on the Pay Train (1962)
Plot Summary:
Film about the true events in Rio de Janeiro, in 1960, when a gang having the infamous outlaw Tião Medonho as a leader performed a sensational railroad hold-up on a train carrying a small fortune.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 831
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 81%
The Object of Beauty (1991)
Plot Summary:
A valuable piece of art is stolen from a couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: clever, talky, stylized, independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, romantic
Similar in 78%
High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)
Plot Summary:
A nurse eavesdrops with a friend on a cell phone conversation that describes a bank heist. She and the friend then conspire to blackmail the robbers for $2 million.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, entertaining, stylized, captivating, action comedy, realistic, semi serious, sexy
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The Curse of Inferno (1997)
Plot Summary:
A rather dull minded bank robber suddenly suffers from a change of heart and decides to give the money back. However, he then learns that getting the money back into the bank is much more difficult than taking it out.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Breaking and Entering (2006)
Plot Summary:
Set in a blighted, inner-city neighbourhood of London, Breaking and Entering examines an affair which unfolds between a successful British landscape architect and Amira, a Bosnian woman – the mother of a troubled teen son – who was widowed by the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, emotional, heartbreaking, psychological, stylized, compassionate, thought provoking, realistic, anime, crime thriller
Similar in 79%
Robbery (1967)
Plot Summary:
A dramatization of the Great Train Robbery. While not a 'how to', it is very detail dependent, showing the care and planning that took place to pull it off.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: noir, action thriller, independent film, british noir, cult film
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Thieves Like Us (1974)
Plot Summary:
Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks. Bowie, who is injured in an auto accident, takes refuge with the daughter of the gas station attendant, Keechie. They become romantically involved but their relationship is strained by Bowie's refusal to turn his back on crime. The film is based on the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson. The novel is also the source material for the 1949 film They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: neo noir, road movie, sincere, bleak, serious, realistic
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Bandits (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, hilarious, entertaining, feel good, romantic, dark comedy, surprise ending, clever, parody
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Two for the Road (1967)
Plot Summary:
The ten-year marriage of Mark and Joanna Wallace is on the rocks. In flashback they recall their first meeting, memorable moments in their courtship and early wedded life, their travels through Europe, their broken vow never to have children, and their increasing tensions that led to both of them having extra-marital affairs.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: road movie, witty, stylized, esoteric, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, non-linear, semi serious
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Girls' Night (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two British best friends and in-laws Dawn and Jackie work together at a factory. When Dawn is diagnosed with a brain tumor Jackie shares $100,000 she's got from her secret lover with Dawn to fulfil her dream - a visit to Las Vegas. They buy two tickets and fly there.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... (2002)
Plot Summary:
A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, UK
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: touching, melancholic, light, lyrical, tricky, serious, realistic, romantic, clever, stylized
Similar in 83%
Oyster Farmer (2004)
Plot Summary:
A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 84%
Dollars (1971)
Plot Summary:
A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, semi serious, buddy comedy
Similar in 87%
Plastic (2014)
Plot Summary:
Sam & Fordy run a credit card fraud scheme, but when they steal from the wrong man, they find themselves threatened by sadistic gangster. They need to raise £5m and pull off a daring diamond heist to clear their debt.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, captivating, exciting, perverse
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Earthly Possessions (1999)
Plot Summary:
A bored wife, who is planning to run away from her minister husband, is taken hostage in a bank robbery. However, she sees the thrill in being involved in the chase and becomes an accomplice to helping the younger robber escape his pursuers. As things progress, she learns he pulled the robbery to get enough money to help his pregnant girlfriend leave a home for unwed mothers. The two have a brief flirtation, but it is clear the housewife just needs something to enliven her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: disturbing, sincere, captivating, suspense, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, corny
Similar in 81%
The Great Train Robbery (1978)
Plot Summary:
In Victorian England, a master criminal makes elaborate plans to steal a shipment of gold from a moving train.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: suspense, intense, tense, talky, exciting, suspenseful, serious, realistic, clever, retro
Similar in 82%
B. Monkey (1998)
Plot Summary:
When wistful introvert Alan Furnace meets quick-witted bombshell Beatrice, he has no idea of her secret life as "B. Monkey" -- the top thief-for-hire in London's criminal underworld. Charmed by Furnace's innocent and chivalrous ways, Beatrice resolves to reform. But to cash in on her first chance at real love, she must escape her former partner in crime, the ruthless Paul Neville -- and a dark past that seems to haunt her every step.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir, black comedy, cult classic, serious, realistic, surprise ending, independent film, dark comedy, erotic, romantic
Similar in 82%
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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Run for Your Wife (2012)
Plot Summary:
John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves varying shift work! Simple? Well, when John unwittingly becomes a have-a-go hero and the Finsbury and Stockwell police forces discover something suspicious in their paperwork, John's happy bubble is about to be burst. The action of the movie takes place during the next hectic 24 hours as John, with the assistance of his gullible neighbor Gary, rush between North and South London attempting to thwart the police and prevent the two loving wives coming face to face!.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 864
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious, sex comedy, crime drama, adult comedy, bizarre
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Henry's Crime (2010)
Plot Summary:
An aimless man is sent to prison for a crime he did not commit.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, cynical, romantic, cult classic, comedy drama, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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The Old Man & the Gun (2018)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Forrest Tucker, from his audacious escape from San Quentin at the age of 70 to an unprecedented string of heists that confounded authorities and enchanted the public. Wrapped up in the pursuit are a detective, who becomes captivated with Forrest’s commitment to his craft, and a woman, who loves him in spite of his chosen profession.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, exciting, tense, humorous, funny, dramatic, art house, cult classic, neo noir
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Intermission (2003)
Plot Summary:
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, touching, melancholic, witty, black comedy, semi serious, cult classic, realistic, intense
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Focus (2015)
Plot Summary:
Nicky, a veteran con artist, takes a novice named Jess under his wing. While Nicky teaches Jess the tricks of the trade, the pair become romantically involved; but, when Jess gets uncomfortably close, Nicky ends their relationship. Three years later, Nicky is in Buenos Aires working a very dangerous scheme when Jess -- now an accomplished femme fatale -- unexpectedly shows up. Her appearance throws Nicky for a loop at a time when he cannot afford to be off his game.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 270000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, entertaining, unusual plot structure, sexy, clever, tricky, intense, humorous, semi serious