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Plot Summary:
After settling in the tiny Australian town of Walkabout Creek with his significant other and his young son, Mick "Crocodile" Dundee is thrown for a loop when a prestigious Los Angeles newspaper offers his honey a job. The family migrates back to the United States, and Croc and son soon find themselves learning some lessons about American life -- many of them inadvertent.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, feel good, semi serious, realistic, fast, parody, funny, light, romantic
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Plot Summary:
Paul tries to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being knighted.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Silver Case (2012)
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In TInseltown, the world of scheming and dreaming reaches a particularly nasty low when a powerful producer known as the 'Senator' hatches a plan to undermine the future success of his shady arch rival, the 'Master' in more ways than one. His plot begins with the simple delivery of a silver briefcase. But nothing is simple in Hollywood. The case goes missing, which sets off a chain of events that are categorically not part of the plan. The Senator engages the best of his team to locate the package, but doesn't count on the tenacity of two thugs who now have the mystery prize in their curious possession.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, independent film, biting
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Fast Getaway (1991)
Plot Summary:
Nelson, played by Corey Haim is a teenager who robs banks with his father in group along with two other friends. Corey Haim Is the right guy, in the right place, at the right time. All he needed was a ...fast getaway.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, realistic, fast, nostalgic, cult film, cult movie cast
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Crackers (1984)
Plot Summary:
Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner is out of town. During the elaborate planning process, Dillard falls for a Hispanic woman, the sister of a friend. Also, Boardwalk is assigned to case a local apartment, where he meets and falls for the maid. Amidst all these romantic hijinks, Weslake puts together a burglary plan, which is executed by the makeshift gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, political, offbeat
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Bindlestiffs (2012)
Plot Summary:
Three high school virgins, suspended from school on a bogus graffiti charge, flee to the inner city in an attempt to live out the plot of The Catcher in the Rye - a book they neither have read nor understand. BINDLESTIFFS documents their struggles along the way as they surrender their virginities to vagrants, prostitutes, and crack fiends. Hot on their tail is Charlie, the deranged school security guard. Under the impression that the boys are planning a school shooting, he takes the law into his own hands to stop them and save America.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating, teen sex comedy, independent film, sexy, hot
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Crime Busters (1977)
Plot Summary:
An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, not serious, entertaining, buddy comedy, poliziottesco, realistic, slapstick
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Why Me? (1990)
Plot Summary:
A jewel thief steals a sacred ruby which sets off a chase by the police, the Turkish government, nutty American terrorists, and the CIA.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, semi serious, captivating, absurd, independent film, realistic, suspenseful
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All the Way Boys (1972)
Plot Summary:
The "Trinity" crew makes another modern era film. Plata and Salud are pilots ditching aircraft for insurance money. They wind up crashing for real in the jungles of South America. The plot involves "Mr. Big", who is buying the diamonds from the miners for much too little, and has thugs who keep the price down. Of course, Plata and Salud side with the miners.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, captivating, grindhouse, rough, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Keep Your Hands Off the Island (1981)
Plot Summary:
Alan gets a map to some war treasure which the Japanese army left behind on a small Pacific island at the end of World War II. But some gangsters try to steal the map from him and so he hides on Charlie's boat which just leaves the harbor. He manipulates the ship's compass so that Charlie is not aware that he is sailing to the treasure island. But when they step on the island, they discover that it is not as abandoned as they believed: there are some natives - and a Japanese soldier still defending the treasure.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Action
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, buddy comedy, independent film
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Delta Farce (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three bumbling Army reservists are hustled onto a plane headed for combat in Iraq -- but the fact that the plane drops them in Mexico doesn't stop them from "liberating" what they believe to be the Middle East.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, satirical, absurd, funny, parody, entertaining, spoof, action comedy, realistic, not serious
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Girls Gone Gangsta (2011)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, mockbuster, semi serious, neo noir, sex comedy, campy
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Kangaroo Jack (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two childhood friends, a New York hairstylist and a wanna-be musician, get mixed-up with the mob and are forced to deliver $50,000 to Australia, but things go all wrong when the money is lost to a wild kangaroo.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, entertaining, not serious, anamorphic, realistic, fast, surprise ending, buddy comedy, feel good
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The Crocodile Hunter: Collision Course (2002)
Plot Summary:
Aussie adventurer Steve Irwin aka The Crocodile Hunter has avoided the death-roll and nabbed another feisty croc, hoping to save it from poachers. What Steve doesn't know is that the crocodile has innocently swallowed a top secret US satellite beacon, and the poachers are actually American special agents sent to retrieve it. Crikey! In the Outback and through the bush with his wife Terri's ever-present commentary ringing out over the countryside ("That was a close one, Steve!"), the Crocodile Hunter is out to save the gorgeous croc and relocate him. It won't be easy, but if he can handle bird-eating spiders and venomous snakes without getting bitten, gun-wielding agents shouldn't be too much of a problem.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: intense, feel good, humorous, semi serious, exciting, spy comedy, fast, scary, parody, light
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Swindle (2013)
Plot Summary:
Based on Gordon Korman's book 'Swindle,' this movie is about a boy named Griffin who finds a valuable multi-million dollar baseball card. After accidentally selling the card for a million dollar loss, he enlists the help of his best friend Ben and his colleagues to regain the baseball card.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, light, feel good, romantic drama, realistic, semi serious
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George of the Jungle 2 (2003)
Plot Summary:
George and Ursula now have a son, George Junior, so Ursula's mother arrives to try and take them back to "civilization".
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, spoof, parody
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Plot Summary:
The owners of a failing security company start robbing houses to boost business.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, realistic
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Irish Jam (2006)
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, feel good, black comedy, realistic, semi serious
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The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989)
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Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a couple of soldiers trying to capture each other and a pilot and passenger of a small plane, who are each having a few problems of their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Africa, Botswana, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, feel good, entertaining, light, talky, semi serious, slapstick, parody, mockumentary
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, touching, melancholic
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Showtime (2002)
Plot Summary:
A spoof of buddy cop movies where two very different cops are forced to team up on a new reality based T.V. cop show.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, melancholic, light, entertaining, exciting, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, action comedy
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Nothing to Lose (1997)
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Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary joyride. Soon the betrayed businessman and the incompetent crook strike up a partnership and develop a robbery-revenge scheme. But it turns out that some other criminals in the area don't appreciate the competition.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, action comedy, hilarious, entertaining, absurd, buddy comedy, light, feel good, black comedy
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Wild America (1997)
Plot Summary:
Three brothers - Marshall, Marty and Mark dream of becoming naturalists and portraying animal life of America. One summer their dream comes true, they travel through America, filming alligators, b ears and moose.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: entertaining, intense, feel good, humorous, semi serious, exciting, epic, buddy comedy, sentimental, romantic
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Pirates of the Great Salt Lake (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kirk Redgrave and Flint Weaver met only three weeks ago. But that hasn't stopped them from becoming the greatest pirates the Great Salt Lake has ever known. Still, pirate life isn't all that it's cracked up to be. For Kirk, it's a life of failure. For Flint, one without reward. That is until they stumble across a long lost treasure map that has the power to not only fulfill their wildest pirate dreams but curse them as well.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining, exciting, offbeat, semi serious, independent film
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Wild Hogs (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 122000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, humorous, feel good, entertaining, not serious, hilarious, slapstick, parody, philosophical
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George of the Jungle (1997)
Plot Summary:
Baby George got into a plane crash in a jungle, stayed alive and was adopted by a wise ape. Ursula Stanhope, US noble woman is saved from death on safari by grown-up George, and he takes her to jungle to live with him. He slowly learns a rules of human relationships, while Ursula's lover Lyle is looking for her and the one who took her. After they are found, Ursula takes George to the USA.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, slapstick comedy, parody, spoof, slapstick, feel good, semi serious, funny, light, absurd
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Crocodile Dundee II (1988)
Plot Summary:
Australian outback expert protects his New York love from gangsters who've followed her down under.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, exciting, feel good, humorous, cult classic, realistic, semi serious, independent film, romantic, clever
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Crocodile Dundee (1986)
Plot Summary:
When a New York reporter plucks crocodile hunter Dundee from the Australian Outback for a visit to the Big Apple, it's a clash of cultures and a recipe for good-natured comedy as naïve Dundee negotiates the concrete jungle. Dundee proves that his instincts are quite useful in the city and adeptly handles everything from wily muggers to high-society snoots without breaking a sweat.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, humorous, funny, exciting, light, entertaining, uplifting, grindhouse, cult classic
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The Jewel of the Nile (1985)
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Joan Wilder is thrust back into a world of murder, chases, foreign intrigue... and love. This time out she's duped by a duplicitous Arab dignitary who brings her to the Middle East, ostensibly to write a book about his life. Of course he's up to no good, and Joan is just another pawn in his wicked game. But Jack Colton and his sidekick Ralph show up to help our intrepid heroine save the day.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: entertaining, exciting, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, cult classic, inspirational, breathtaking, saga
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Plot Summary:
Though she can spin wild tales of passionate romance, novelist Joan Wilder has no life of her own. Then one day adventure comes her way in the form of a mysterious package. It turns out that the parcel is the ransom she'll need to free her abducted sister, so Joan flies to South America to hand it over. But she gets on the wrong bus and winds up hopelessly stranded in the jungle.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, exciting, light, romantic, entertaining, sexy, romantic comedy, funny, breathtaking, action adventure
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Sahara (2005)
Plot Summary:
Scouring the ocean depths for treasure-laden shipwrecks is business as usual for a thrill-seeking underwater adventurer and his wisecracking buddy. But when these two cross paths with a beautiful doctor, they find themselves on the ultimate treasure hunt.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 102000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, France, Germany, Spain, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, entertaining, action packed, scenic, buddy comedy, hilarious, action adventure, romantic, atmospheric, action comedy