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Plot Summary:
Comedy inspired by the true story of Dennis P, who became Holland's biggest diamond thief, when he walked away with the entire 20 million euros stock of an international diamond trader, using a microwave oven as a swagbag.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 777
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Belgium, Netherlands
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Blue Iguana (2018)
Plot Summary:
He's a low level criminal with no future and just out of prison. She's a low level lawyer never noticed by others, a lost soul without a life. Their anger and hostility makes them serious criminals. Love happens in the strangest of places.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, suspense, entertaining, action comedy, absurd, double entendre
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Pornografie illegal? (1971)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of two American gangsters who are hiding from the FBI in Hamburg, Germany. When there becomes too hot, they move to Munich. Their erotic adventures include sexy girls, prostitutes and lesbians until they the law finally catches up to them. At the same time, their sadistic buddies [Jimmy & Johnny] in California go on a general crime spree around the countryside, torturing and killing those who get in their way finally ending up with three women imprisoned in an apartment whom they constantly rape and also torture [although one girl in particular doesn't seem to mind].
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Moord in extase (1984)
Plot Summary:
De Cock & Vledder investigate the robbery of an armored truck which leads to several murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: detective
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Real Time (2002)
Plot Summary:
A band of robbers steal money from a winery. The passion for a woman, makes them begin to covet another part of the booty that they deserve. First film shot in a single take in the history of cinema. Certified by Guinness World Records.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Love to Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
As her last lover Dirk breaks with her to his wedding to give a new chance, Anna has had it. For her no more men. Never. That same day she meets Rob. And a few hours later Sander. Both men fall in love with Anna, and she also falls for them. Together they form the perfect man Rob for jobs at home and good sex and Sander for the romance and.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 87 min
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Contrato (2009)
Plot Summary:
Peter McShade is a hitman, whose contract involves killing the major mobster of the Iberian Peninsula, but nothing is what it seems.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Action, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Portugal
Duration: 95 min
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The Generous Lover (1990)
Plot Summary:
Graphic artist Peter Heg has been abandoned by his wife. He now has to take care of the upbringing of his ten-year-old son Tommie. One of Peter's tasks is to take Tommie to school, where he encounters a collection of horny mothers every morning. They all want to go to bed with Peter and he has a procession of mistresses. Then Peter collides with a car with his bicycle. When Peter walks towards the small car, he sees that there is a woman behind the wheel. She is clearly having a hard time and crying is closer to her than laughing. It turns out that her name is Mascha and she is suffering from unprocessed heartbreak. Peter takes pity, stuffs his bike in Mascha's car and gets behind the wheel. During the journey home, the two seem to fall for each other like a rock. Not long after, Mascha moves in with Peter. Although Mascha presents a cooking show, she has no knowledge of cooking, unlike Peter who has a lot of fun in his culinary arts.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang (1974)
Plot Summary:
The Olsen Gang has finally made it. They are in Mallorca, having fulfilled their dream. Almost, that is. They don't have any money, so Egon has to open a safe at a restaurant to get some. As usual, however, Egon ends up in prision. When they return to Denmark, he has a new plan.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 102 min
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Up Your Alley (1971)
Plot Summary:
The All-Out Sex Comedy Riot!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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The Butcher’s Daughter (2020)
Plot Summary:
Charly is the editor in chief of a fashion magazine. When her father dies, she inherits the family business: a butchery. Not exactly her passion in life... She’s about to sell it when Mar- tial, who worked for her father, wants to take it over, but she is having second thoughts. These two opposite characters will have to get used to one another.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 91 min
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Tulipany (2004)
Plot Summary:
The story of male friendship, vitality and the joy of living, even after turning 60 years old. When one of the three friends is taken to hospital, the others are there for him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 89 min
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48 Hours to Acapulco (1967)
Plot Summary:
A young man gets caught up in criminal activities in order to fulfill his desire for an easy life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Return of Jewel Thief (1996)
Plot Summary:
The British Government admits to taking the priceless Kohinoor diamond from India, but agree to loan it for an exhibition to a multi-millionaire Vinay Kumar.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
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At Midnight (2023)
Plot Summary:
Alejandro's life is disrupted when actress Sophie Wilder stays at his hotel. To their surprise, the two fall for one another, meeting at midnight.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Doble Crossed (2001)
Plot Summary:
Charisse lives in a boarding house owned by Vivian Sales (Rina Reyes) but drops by her grandfather (Eddie Arenas) once in a while. The narrative goes on in this scenario and eventually leaps from drama to action when the lead characters, Charisse and Benito, get entangled with Bunny and the godfather-like character, Dodi (Celso Ad. Castillo).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
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Grijpstra & De Gier (1979)
Plot Summary:
Detectives Grijpstra and De Gier are sent to investigate the case of a man who apparently hanged himself in a center for oriental meditation. It is ruled as suicide and the case seems to be closed, but the same night there is an attempted break in. The investigation hits a dead end and everyone involved is a suspect. Based on the book "The Corpse in the Haarlemmer Houttuinen” by Jan-Willem van de Wetering.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Crime, Thriller, Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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The Olsen Gang's Big Score (1972)
Plot Summary:
After his usual stay behind bars, Egon has another cunning plan involving millions. They rob over 4 million from a money transport. The gang keeps a low profile and hide the money. But it's stolen by "Kongen" and "Knægten", who immediately start living it up - in the penthouse suite at the Sheraton. The suitcase with the money changes hands several times, before Kongen's daughter takes of with all the money.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Too Fat Too Furious (2005)
Plot Summary:
Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biological (serial killer) son, his employees who in his absence turned his snack-bar into a quiche bakery, a suicidal manic-depressive woman and a Yougoslavian who keeps unintendedly blowing things up. They need to get 300000 Euro to get Bennies father a new liver. Complicating matters are that Bennie is.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, realistic, dark comedy, witty, exciting, spoof
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Under My Nails (2012)
Plot Summary:
A Puerto Rican salon employee is forced to confront her own erotic desires when she becomes obsessed with the violent sexual tendencies of her new neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, hispanic
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The Sex Life of the Belgians (1994)
Plot Summary:
Jan Bocquoy narrates the story of his sexual life to age 28, imagining his conception (parents drunk, the encounter lasting ten seconds) and reporting his first orgasm (at the hands of Eddy, in a beach-side caravan, as they watch Laurel and Hardy), his comparative experiences with girls, and his move from Harelbeck to Brussels. There he meets Greta, bartender at a Bohemian cafe, who teaches him the Kama Sutra, the naked Esther, who reads him stories, and Thérèse, his wife for three years. They split after two children; he moves to a small flat, writes pornography to pay the bills, works sporadically on a novel, espouses anarchism, and meets more women. His self-confidence grows.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, biting, sexual, sex comedy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, semi autobiographical
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Odd Job (2016)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed factory worker takes a job as a hit man to make ends meet.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Perfect Friday (1970)
Plot Summary:
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He needs her help and that of her philandering spendthrift husband. It all comes down to a matter of trust.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, poliziottesco
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Yesterday Once More (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mr. and Mrs. To are wealthy, creative jewel thieves who divorce for no apparent reason after a successful diamond heist. A year later, she's engaged to the son of a rich woman who begrudgingly lets her son give his fiancée a family heirloom after she signs a pre-nup.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Loving Ibiza (2013)
Plot Summary:
Kevin (Jan Kooijman) is a young footballer who recently made a multimillion deal by transferring to FC Barcelona. He hardly realizes what is happening to him. Too young, too rich, too beautiful. His girlfriend Elza (Kim Feenstra) knows how Kevin should spend his millions. She is eagerly anticipating her birthday where Kevin will ask her the most important question of all. Kevin's grandmother Karla (Willeke van Ammelrooy) observes it all from the sidelines with concern. Fortunately there is the down-to-earth event planner Lizzy (Sanne Vogel) who shows Kevin the meaning of true love.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sexy, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, realistic
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Ciske the Rat (1984)
Plot Summary:
Lovable Amsterdam street urchin, 11 year old Ciske is nevertheless much in need of love as the German 1955 title suggests. He is a scamp with a heart of gold. He causes havoc in the classroom pouring ink over his teacher yet when a polio-crippled boy joins the class Ciske is one of the only children to befriend him and is bullied as a result. His mother works in a bar and Ciske helps out often late into the night - his father is at sea and his mother supplements her income with prostitution. Ciske is also a very angry young man and he smoulders with rage at life's injustices.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: epic, cult classic, bleak, serious, captivating, realistic, gloomy, eighties
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11 Harrowhouse (1974)
Plot Summary:
A small time diamond merchant jumps at the chance to supervise the purchase and cutting of a large first class diamond. But when the diamond is stolen from him, he is blackmailed into pulling off a major heist at the Diamond Exchange, located at 11 Harrowhouse.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: parody, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, spoof
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Locked Down (2021)
Plot Summary:
During a COVID-19 lockdown, sparring couple Linda and Paxton call a truce to attempt a high-risk jewellery heist at one of the world's most exclusive department stores, Harrods.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: tense, romantic, captivating, feel good, surreal
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The Cat (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two bank robbers hold the clerks hostage and demand 3 million German marks as ransom. What the police do not realize is that the true criminal mastermind watches them from outside the bank, anticipating every move.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 952
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: twisted, surprise ending
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Out of Sight (1998)
Plot Summary:
Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves … and all the wrong guys. Now they're willing to risk it all to find out if there's more between them than just the law. Variety hails Out of Sight as "a sly, sexy, vastly entertaining film.".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 98000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: sexy, neo noir, romantic, entertaining, light, talky, stylized, erotic, offbeat, feel good
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Betty Fisher and Other Stories (2001)
Plot Summary:
Grieving after the death of her young son Joseph, novelist Betty Fisher enters a dark depression. Hoping to bring her out of it, her mother Margot arranges to kidnap another child, Jose, to replace the son Betty lost. Although she knows it's wrong, Betty accepts Jose as her new son. Meanwhile, Jose's mother Carole is looking for her son with the help of her boyfriend Francois and some of his criminal cohorts.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, stylized, tense, harsh, emotional, realistic, suspenseful, sincere, serious, depressing