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Plot Summary:
After reading in the newspaper, Úrsulo runs to seek employment. It is the position of caretaker of a luxury apartment building habited by people more heterogeneous: the professional model, the spiritualist, hippies and all turn to him to solve their problems. But someone in the building, kidnapped an important person and Úrsulo becomes a private investigator.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Social Circle (2016)
Plot Summary:
A small town Georgia investigator probes into a series of local crimes including locating a missing woman. Kit Gosling (Amber McCullough) is single, lonely, and works for the Social Circle Police Department. A small town crime comedy written & directed by Jack M. Moon. This film is quirky and darkly funny.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: southern gothic
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The Extra (1962)
Plot Summary:
Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
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The Professor (1971)
Plot Summary:
Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 120 min
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Brookside: The Lost Weekend (1997)
Plot Summary:
A special, video only story set on the Brookside close. On Friday 14th November 1997, a five night a week storyline ended in a cliffhanger and this video completes the story - a tale of kidnapping extortion and violence. The action-packed episode features faces from the show's past including Sheila Grant (Sue Johnston) and wayward son Barry Grant (Paul Usher), and is written by series creator Phil Redmond.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
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Kidnap Capital (2015)
Plot Summary:
Imagine leaving everything you have, everyone you know, everyone you love, behind. Having to cross half a continent on foot, atop freight trains, inside truck trailers. Swimming across wild rivers. Crossing borders illegally. Walking across the Arizona desert. Being shot at, robbed and beaten. Raped. Surviving it all. Crossing into the USA, after life in the poorest parts of Central America. Succeeding. Now. In the “promised” land, you don’t belong, legally; or socially. You don’t understand the language. No one knows you arrived, no one knows you exist. Imagine…. being Nobody. Then imagine a bag being shoved over your head. Getting your clothes stripped from you. Getting tossed in a closed room with a dozen others. A loaded gun is pointed at your head. You are forced to call back home and beg for money, a ransom for your life.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 682
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
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Love in a 4 Letter World (1970)
Plot Summary:
A family have become disillusioned with one another. The father has an affair and is caught by his daughter, who has already hooked up with the free-love hippies who live next door. When her mother realizes, she too travels next door.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
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Un Quijote sin mancha (1969)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Maayavi (2005)
Plot Summary:
A famous actress, after being kidnapped by a fan of her's, starts liking him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags:
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You've Got To Walk It Like You Talk It or You'll Lose That Beat (1971)
Plot Summary:
This oddball counterculture comedy/drama follows Zalman King through a series of kooky misadventures while he searches for his life's purpose in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Underdoges (2016)
Plot Summary:
A sign holder gets fired from his job and as a result gets into the drug and bit-coin money laundering business.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags:
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Microscopic Liquid Subway to Oblivion (1970)
Plot Summary:
An acid trip of a movie.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Bahamas, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, underground film, art house, independent film
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I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (2007)
Plot Summary:
Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they might not have what it takes for a life of crime.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, stylized, dark comedy, black and white, non-linear, neo noir, silent, silent film
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Myra (2019)
Plot Summary:
A trans sex worker in the Spanish barrio finds herself in an unwanted love triangle with a notorious gang leader while two drug organizations battle for supremacy suddenly finds herself tangled in a world of chaos and deceit.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Little Priest (1964)
Plot Summary:
The young priest Father Sebastián (played by Cantinflas) is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián (played by Ángel Garasa). The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show.Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly. When accused of communism, he quoted the 1891 socially-conscious encyclical Rerum Novarum. He even ventured into politics, with a veiled attack on the municipal president couched into a sermon. Eventually, he brokers a deal with the local political boss for some concessions for the poor of his parish.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: social, feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious
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Unconditional Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young criminal kidnaps a couple's young son and then blackmails them into committing his crime instead of asking for a ransom.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense
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Keys (1994)
Plot Summary:
A one-time investigator gets back in the game when a family suffers a trauma similar to her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Minister and Me (1976)
Plot Summary:
Mateo Melgarejo (played by Mario Moreno "Cantinflas") is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, biting, suspense
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Ratboy (1986)
Plot Summary:
A failed window dresser exploits a being with rat-like features in an effort to make money.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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19 (2000)
Plot Summary:
A university student is kidnapped by young men in a car. No ransom is asked as the men are just bored roving thugs who have nothing better to do nor do they have any specific mission or purpose. Fascinated by the men's close bonds, the abused student slowly turns from victim to accomplice.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: art house, road movie, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Ref (1994)
Plot Summary:
Caroline and Lloyd are a married couple constantly at each other's throats, masters at crafting acid-tongued barbs at the other's expense. Indeed, they are so obsessed with belittling each other that they never stop -- not even at gunpoint. The gunman is Gus, a thief on the run from the police, who kidnaps the couple as an insurance policy, planning to use their home as a hideout. But their incessant bickering proves more than Gus bargained for, forcing him -- for the sake of his own sanity -- into the unenviable role of peacemaker. To make things even worse for Gus, he discovers that he has taken the couple hostage the night of their big Christmas party, and the guests are already on the way. Not wanting to leave Lloyd and Caroline unattended, Gus opts to attend the party, pretending to be the couple's marriage counselor. This naturally leads to a series of comic confusions, as the hostage crisis and marital tensions head towards their inevitable conclusion.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, witty, talky, funny, hilarious, light, semi serious, black comedy, clever
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You Really Got Me (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jan's fastfood-business is going bankrupt, his girlfriend has left him, and he is being exploited by his live-in father. Therefore, he has nothing to loose when he gets mixed up in the kidnapping of famous rock star Iver Mo. But Jan has never been able to do anything right his whole life, and there are others who want to get their hands on the ransom money.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, cynical, semi serious, dark comedy, dark, clever, realistic, cult film
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Family Plot (1976)
Plot Summary:
Lighthearted suspense film about a phony psychic/con artist and her taxi driver/private investigator boyfriend who encounter a pair of serial kidnappers while trailing a missing heir in California.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, talky, stylized, black comedy, suspense, dark comedy, tense, clever, psychotronic
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Tragedy of a Ridiculous Man (1981)
Plot Summary:
The son of the owner of a large Italian cheese factory is kidnapped, but as the factory is on the verge of bankruptcy the owner hatches a plan to use the ransom money as reinvestment in the factory.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, serious, realistic, ambiguous ending, contemplative, biting, suspense
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Plan B (2001)
Plot Summary:
A bookkeeper who thinks she killed three mobsters is subsequently promoted by her boss to be a hitman. |.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, light, captivating, feel good, independent film, semi serious
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Your Excellency (1967)
Plot Summary:
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Stolen from the Suburbs (2015)
Plot Summary:
A single mother from the suburbs searches for her kidnapped daughter before human traffickers sell her on the international market.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Shakes the Clown (1991)
Plot Summary:
Shakes plods about his duties as party clown, and uses all of his free time getting seriously drunk. Binky, another clown, wins the spot on a local kiddie show, which depresses Shakes even more, and his boss threatens him with unemployment if he can't get his act under control.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, disturbing, surreal, talky, stylized, semi serious, parody, cult classic, clever
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Cat and Mouse (1975)
Plot Summary:
A jaded and charming police inspector is assigned along with his cheerful partner to a case involving the mysterious death and/or suicide of a wealthy entrepreneur. The chief suspect is his enchanting wife who was aware that her husband had a mistress. It is also possible that the dead man may be the victim of a radical terrorist group.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Refuge (2010)
Plot Summary:
The shimmering New Mexico sun bleaches the earth and reflects off towering thunderheads. From inside an RV nestled among the desert brush just off a barely-paved road, the middle-of-nowhere silence is broken by one quick and alarming gunshot. Nothing moves. Moments later, out of the waves of a heat mirage emerges a leather clad Darryl Tripp, high school English teacher, astride a screaming motorcycle. His mission is to toss his just completed first novel to the four winds, an act of self-loathing and despair. As he stops and pulls the novel out of his satchel, his motorcycle sputters and dies, out of fuel. He stands high on his cycle and spies the lone RV, a hope of help. He rolls his motorcycle to the RV, knocks, gets no answer. He opens the unlocked door, steps inside, taking shelter. As he finishes a phone call with his fiancée, deputy district attorney Helen Kaufman, promising to be on time for their engagement party that evening, Amelia Philips, hospice nurse and RV owner,.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric, independent film, touching, offbeat, realistic
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The Big White (2005)
Plot Summary:
To remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, clever, realistic, black comedy, cult classic, hilarious, tense, funny, dark