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Plot Summary:
Bob Hope is a stressed out talk show host who is sent on a vacation to Arizona on doctor's orders and has to play Sherlock Holmes with his wife, the lovely Eva Marie Saint, to solve a series of murders that has Bob as the prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: freeze frame
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Hollywood Mom's Mystery (2004)
Plot Summary:
Lucy Freers has a long-standing marriage, a nine-year old daughter, and a great family life in the suburbs of Hollywood. Great, that is, until the Hollywood set decides that motherhood is the newest way to go. When local neighbor Julia Prentice, the wife of a famous movie actor, adopts a baby in full view of the show-business media, the parenthood craze hits its peak. Soon after, Julia is found lying dead in Lucy's swimming pool, with Lucy and her husband labeled as suspects. Now Lucy must determine the truth to clear the name of both herself and her family.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Groper Train: Wedding Capriccio (1984)
Plot Summary:
The world’s greatest detective, Ippei Kuroda, is back and this time hired by a politician to find his estranged daughter. When the daughter is found dead, the mystery deepens. Meanwhile, Kuroda’s assistant tries to stop her arranged marriage to a country hick by shacking-up with a composer who writes symphonies on his calculator — when he’s not groping women on the Tokyo trains!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: hot
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Chantabbai (1986)
Plot Summary:
Chantabbai is action comedy based movie in which, Panduranga Rao (Chiranjeevi) who likes to be known as.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: detective
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Detour (1992)
Plot Summary:
A nightclub piano player (Tom Neal Jr.) hitchhikes to the West Coast and soon figures into two deaths.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, neo noir
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Lady of the Evening (1975)
Plot Summary:
A happy-go-lucky prostitute gets mixed up with the Mafia.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966)
Plot Summary:
The divine Didi, a European actress known more for her bubble bath scenes than for her acting, decides she has had enough with bubble baths and wants to be taken seriously as an actress. So much so that she runs away during the middle of a scene while filming in Hollywood and winds up in Oregon. While she is staying in a hotel, the operator accidentally connects her with a real estate agent named Tom Meade. She asks Tom to bring her some food and when he does he suggests that she go to his cabin in the woods. She also asks him not to tell anyone where she is because she doesn't want to go back to Hollywood. Now Tom must keep the secret, especially from his wife and from his suspicious housekeeper Lily.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Million Dollar Mystery (1987)
Plot Summary:
A dying man in a roadside diner tells the other patrons about money he has hidden in four places. But instead of directions, he leaves them only with clues they must solve in order to claim the loot.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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I'll Take Sweden (1965)
Plot Summary:
Bob Holcomb will do anything to stop his daughter JoJo from tying the knot with her lazy boyfriend, even move her all the way to Sweden! But once they're "safely" out of the country, JoJo falls for a sly Swedish playboy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Gidget Grows Up (1969)
Plot Summary:
After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian Sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Coffee, Kill Boss (2013)
Plot Summary:
When ten executives secretly meet to sell off their company, they're murdered one by one in this darkly comedic romp through the halls of corporate America.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, suspense, hilarious, teen, realistic
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Handsome: A Netflix Mystery Movie (2017)
Plot Summary:
LA homicide detective Gene Handsome's knack for solving mysteries is matched only by his inability to make sense of his own problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, colorful, detective, colourful
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Clean Slate (1994)
Plot Summary:
Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle of a hot investigation and has a developing romance, this is less than convenient.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, melancholic, witty, talky, semi serious, detective, independent film, psychological, funny
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A Sweet Scent of Death (1999)
Plot Summary:
Early morning in the oat fields of Carranco, Ramón runs into the dead body of his secret teenage love Adela. After he covers her naked body with his shirt, the gossip in town is that Ramón's girlfriend is been found murdered. Meanwhile, the Gitano (the gypsy) has left Carranco after a night of love and sex with Gabriela, suddenly interrupted by a flash light of an unknown bearer. That night at the local bar, where Justino, the town sheriff and other regular costumers discuss what should be done, La Amistad, pointing his flashlight to them shouts "el gitano murdered the girl". Marcelino, a bitter old man pushes Ramón to avenge his "girlfriend"'s murder. Now Ramón will have to prove to the people in his town that he's now a man or leave the town in shame.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: Mexico, Argentina, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Scenesters (2009)
Plot Summary:
Someone is killing beautiful young Hipsters in East L.A. Charlie is a crime scene cleaner working for Aftershocks Inc. with a penchant for Sherlock Holmes type deduction. Wallace is an out-of-luck filmmaker working as a crime scene videographer. The detectives covering the murders are apathetic at best but with good names (Henry and Carlita, particularly Carlita). Good names, bad attitudes.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, cynical, semi serious, realistic, scary, offbeat, independent film, mockumentary
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The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992)
Plot Summary:
Betty Lou is a librarian in a very small town. Her husband is a police detective who takes her for granted. Betty Lou is the ultimate mouse. After a gangland figure is mysteriously murdered in town, Betty Lou finds the murder weapon, but can't get anyone's attention to tell them (we're talking very mousey, here). Finally in a fit of frustration she fires the gun in a restroom and when taken to the police station insists she is the murderer. It has the desired effect, people do pay attention to her. With hints at social graces from the hookers in her cell block, she's on her way.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, funny, light, romantic, atmospheric, sexy, clever
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School Teacher in the House (1978)
Plot Summary:
Luisa De Dominicus is a Milanese piano teacher who moves to Lucca to be with the man she loves: Ferdinando 'Bonci' Marinotti, a city councilman campaigning for mayor on a platform of moral values. She is of the belief that Fernando is single, living with his ailing mother. This, of course, is far from the case. The boys living in her apartment building mistakenly believe Luisa is a call-girl who uses piano teaching as a cover for her true profession, and word soon spreads among the building's dirty old men. The resourceful boys drill a well-concealed hole in the wall between Signorina Luisa's flat and the bedroom of the landlord's son, Marcello Busatti, allowing them a spectacular view of their spectacular neighbor. Marcello quickly becomes infatuated with Luisa, but is also conflicted regarding her supposed profession. Eventually Luisa learns of Fernando's philandering nature, and after a vigorous misunderstanding, satisfies Marcello's unrequited lust/love.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, hot
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This Girl for Hire (1983)
Plot Summary:
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a obnoxious mystery writer. Along the way, Brady gets help from her flamboyant mother Zandra, a washed-up actress, as well as Brady's live-in boyfriend Wolfe who runs a memorabilia shop.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical, semi serious, slapstick, spoof, parody, eighties
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Scandalous (1984)
Plot Summary:
An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, dark comedy
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Lady in Cement (1968)
Plot Summary:
While diving for sunken treasure, street-smart gumshoe Tony Rome finds the body of a gorgeous blonde, her feet stuck in a block of cement. Soon after, tough guy Waldo Gronski hires him to find a missing woman named Sandra Lomax, and Rome wonders if there's a connection. He sets about trying to locate the woman, and in no time finds himself mixed up with a beautiful party girl and a slippery racketeer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, detective, crime drama, thrilling, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty
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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)
Plot Summary:
Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen who is the prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, fast, psychotronic
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The Dark Wind (1991)
Plot Summary:
An Indian police officer is mixed up in murder and drug smuggling on the reservation.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, atmospheric, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)
Plot Summary:
Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, absurd, light, detective, not serious, realistic, witty, sweet, entertaining, slapstick comedy
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Critic's Choice (1963)
Plot Summary:
Bob Hope is a New York theater critic and his wife (Lucille Ball in their final motion picture pairing) writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Hope must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage. Based on the Broadway play by Ira Levin.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick comedy, technicolor
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V.I. Warshawski, Detective in High Heels (1991)
Plot Summary:
Victoria "V.I" Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boyfriend; then he is murdered. Being the detective type, she makes the murder her next case. In doing so she befriends the victim's daughter, Kat, and together they set out to crack the case.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, detective, entertaining, light, neo noir, rough, twist ending, sexy
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A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Plot Summary:
A Shot in the Dark is the second and more successful film from the Pink Panther film series where both animated and real life sequences are mixed. A cult classic from Blake Edwards based on the play L’Idiot by Marcel Achard and Harry Kurnitz.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: detective, funny, hilarious, atmospheric, humorous, witty, sweet, slasher, educational, ironic
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The Private Eyes (1980)
Plot Summary:
Don Knotts and Tim Conway star in The Private Eyes, a 1980 comedy about two bumbling detectives solving a murder. It's an impressively incompetent affair. Every ancient joke falls with a muffled thud as Knotts and Conway ham their way through the pointless story: The lord and lady of a capacious manor are killed, and the lord's ghost seems to have returned to knock off the staff one by one. There'.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, spooky, suspenseful, not serious, surprise ending, independent film, scary, funny
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Dark and Stormy Night (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930s the family of old Sinas Cavinder, gathered for the reading of his will, find themselves being murdered by a mysterious phantom while two rival reporters compete for the story.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, suspenseful, not serious, captivating, black and white, offbeat, retro, spoof, spooky
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Towards Zero (2007)
Plot Summary:
Inviting the ex-wife to a family reunion when the none-too-secure new wife will be there hardly seems to be a recipe for success, and true to form, bodies have begun to stack up by the end of this cinematic update of a classic Agatha Christie tale. Luckily for the extended clan gathered at a sumptuous waterfront estate in Northern France, Inspector Martin Bataille is on hand to find out not only "who done it" but why.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, realistic
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The Big Fix (1978)
Plot Summary:
Moses Wine, Richard Dreyfuss, at home one night watching a football game that he bet on is contacted by an old flame back from his radical days in collage Lila, Susan Anspach. Lila wants Moses to work for a candidate for governor of California, Milles Hawthorne. Moses goes along with Lila to the Hawthorne campaign headquarters even though Moses is apposed to his policies as well as having a low opinion of Hawthorne's intellect. Moses tells Lila about the person she want's to get elected. Told by Hawthorne's campaign manager Sam Sebastian, John Lithgow, that there's a flayer being distributed around the state with a doctored photo of Hawthorne and radical Howard Eppis, who's on the lamb from the police since he was convicted for inciting violence against the government. The flayer is telling everyone that Eppis is supporting Hawthorne for governor, which is not true, which will destroy Howthorne's chances for being elected.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: witty, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir, detective, cult film
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Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, dark comedy, clever, feel good, humorous, witty, detective, mind bending, entertaining, ironic