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Plot Summary:
A reserved man in need of a job, Carl Fitzgerald finds employment at a Greek restaurant. Upon meeting waitress Sophie, Carl begins dating the attractive woman. Though it seems things are improving for Carl, an unexpected situation leads to the death of Mustafa, a shady coworker, and Carl must figure out how to cover up the incident. Unsure of what to do, Carl enlists the help of his buddy, Dave, to get rid of Mustafa's corpse.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, realistic, not serious, semi serious, independent film, parody, funny, road movie
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A Film with Me in It (2008)
Plot Summary:
A dissolute scriptwriter and a dejected actor become unwittingly drawn into a labyrinthine mess when several people experience bizarre accidental deaths in their flat. Though the men didn't deliberately cause any of the incidents, they fear that they will be unfairly pegged as murderers if they relay information to the cops, and promptly set about disposing of the corpses in gruesome ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Ireland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, clever, witty, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, realistic, suspenseful, semi autobiographical
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Fat Pizza (2003)
Plot Summary:
Fat Pizza the Film is yet another slice of life at a dodgy suburban Sydney take away. Bobo Gigliotti the psychotic pizzeria owner/pizza chef is awaiting the arrival of his mail-order refugee bride Lin Chow Bang, and a new pizza deliverer is on the block. Channel V's Jabba almost steals the show as token skip delivery boy Davo Dinkum, a stoner with a bong strapped to his face like a feedbag.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, absurd, realistic, independent film
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Wish You Were Dead (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two bad women fight over one man in a back-stabbing, money-grabbing, insurance-hustling, double-dealing, two-timing caper.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, romantic comedy, crime thriller
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Leon the Pig Farmer (1992)
Plot Summary:
An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial insemination.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, dark comedy
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Small Time (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ben is a small-time gangster who gets the opportunity to earn a lot of money. His boss sends him to a remote ranch with bag full of drugs and orders him to wait for the buyer. But the routine drug deal turns to disaster because of Ben’s unprofessional associates.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, crime drama, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Mystics (2003)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Grilled (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two meat salesmen (Romano, James) will stop at nothing to get a sale.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, atmospheric, realistic
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The Kings of Mykonos (2010)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to the highly successful Australian comedy THE WOG BOY - starring Nick Giannopoulous and Vince Colosimo as best mates Steve and Frank. The Kings of Mykonos: Wog Boy 2 picks up a few years after the original and things aren't going so well for the 'Wog Boy'; he's lost his true love (a '69 Valiant Pacer) and all his assets because he trusted Tony the Yugoslav. Steve's best mate Frank has lost touch with the ladies after a messy divorce. But fortue, as ever, favours the 'Wog' when Steve discovers that he has inherited a beach worth millions on the resort island of Mykonos from an uncle he never met.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia, Greece
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, realistic
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Pete Smalls Is Dead (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two old pals attend an old friends funeral and find there is more to his death than him being dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, cynical, not serious, dark comedy, offbeat, independent film
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Burke & Hare (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two 19th-century opportunists (Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis) become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist (Tom Wilkinson).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: stylized, dark comedy, romantic, visually appealing, black comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, horror comedy, witty
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Throw Momma from the Train (1987)
Plot Summary:
Larry Donner is a author and writing professor who tutors people who want to write books. Larry's life has become a misery when his Ex-wife has published a book he wrote under her name and has gotten rich over it. Owen Lift, one of Larry's students offers Larry to kill Larry's Ex-wife and in return Owen wants Larry to kill his horrible mother. Larry thinks it is a joke, until he learns Owen killed his Ex-wife and he has become the prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, humorous, exciting, semi serious, funny, suspense, dark, clever, parody
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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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Now or Never (2000)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 579
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, exciting
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The Mule (2014)
Plot Summary:
In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, realistic, stylized
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Stranger Than Fiction (2000)
Plot Summary:
Lives spiral out of control when four friends cover up a murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film, tense, realistic, surprise ending
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Novocaine (2001)
Plot Summary:
A dentist finds himself a murder suspect after a sexy patient seduces him into prescribing her drugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, suspenseful, tricky, humorous, captivating, clever, suspense, cult classic, offbeat
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Serial Lover (1998)
Plot Summary:
Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so that she can pick out her would-be fiancé. But an accident happens when Claire is getting the dinner ready.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, dark comedy, realistic, neo noir
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9 Dead Gay Guys (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of two lads from Belfast as they stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of 'gainful employment'. This being the offering of sexual favours to older gay men in order to subsidise their respective giros. 9 Dead Gay Guys is a high-camp send-up of gay stereotypes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, queer cinema, campy
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Trailer Park Boys: The Movie (2006)
Plot Summary:
Set in a separate storyline not related to the "Trailer Park Boys" Television show, but with the same lovable characters. The boys get arrested for robbing an ATM machine and spend 18 months in jail. When the get out, they decide to pull off "The Big Dirty" which is to steal a large amount of coins because they are untraceable and quit their life of crime forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, stylized, humorous, witty, semi serious, funny, cult classic, hilarious, epic, dark comedy
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On the Run (1999)
Plot Summary:
Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night in New York that will change both their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Portugal, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, biting, black comedy, dark comedy, suspense
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Tinseltown (1997)
Plot Summary:
In Hollywood it's all about who you know, and the only person two friends know is a serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Two Hands (1999)
Plot Summary:
A 19 year old finds himself in debt to a local gangster when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, disturbing, dark comedy, realistic, suspense, black comedy, neo noir, emotional, semi serious
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High Strung (1992)
Plot Summary:
Thane Furrows, an extremely cynical but unintentionally hilarious children's book writer, wakes up one morning, and, since pretty much everyone and everything annoys him, begins another day of complaining to himself. However, the day proves to be much different than normal when Thane begins to recieve strange phone calls, letters, and voices in his head, all indicating that something will happen at 8 o'clock. As the day goes on, Thane rants and raves about the things that annoy him, as the clock slowly ticks closer and closer to his destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating, cult classic, independent film, black comedy
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Home Sweet Hell (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mona and Don’s seemingly perfect suburban bliss is disrupted by a sexy extortionist and Mona will stop at nothing, including killing the competition, to keep her little slice of heaven.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, realistic, humorous, semi serious, funny, suspenseful, black comedy, captivating, psychological, feel good
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Very Bad Things (1998)
Plot Summary:
Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the desert with shovels when the stripper goes all the way into a body bag after dying in their bathroom. And that's just the first of the bodies to pile up before Kyle can walk down the aisle.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, funny, disturbing, black comedy, humorous, intense, not serious, suspenseful, semi serious, cult classic
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The Wog Boy (2000)
Plot Summary:
Steve liked Celia from the moment they met. But following a clash with her boss, Raelene Beagle-Thorpe, Minister for Employment, he finds himself on national television branded as Australia's biggest dole bludger. Now Steve has to prove to Celia, to himself, and to the whole country, that there's more to him than meets the eye. With a little help from his friends, he might just do it.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, semi serious, independent film, offbeat, slang, black comedy, dark comedy
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Rancid Aluminum (2000)
Plot Summary:
Pete Thompson thinks he has it all. However, following the death of his father his close friend and accountant reveals the company he has been left is bust and the only way out is to do business with the Russian mafia. His life and heart are on the line when he leave to restore the fortunes of the family firm.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, tense, sad, offbeat, realistic, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Shaukeens (2014)
Plot Summary:
Three friends in their 60s try to do everything that they couldn't do in their younger days - before death arrives.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious
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The Yank (2014)
Plot Summary:
Tom Murphy, a middle-aged Irish-American man from Cleveland, travels to Ireland for his best friend’s wedding and to find the perfect woman.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good, independent film
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The Ladykillers (2004)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric, if not charming Southern professor and his crew pose as a band in order to rob a casino, all under the nose of his unsuspecting landlord – a sharp old woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, absurd, bad ending, hilarious, clever, light