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Plot Summary:
After two friends have their houses looted of expensive paintings and vintage wine collections, Cleveland finds those responsible when he travels to Germany.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: detective series
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Loco Fever (2001)
Plot Summary:
When the Chilean officials lift the ban on harvesting the shellfish "el loco" (which purportedly is an aphrodisiac) in the seaside village of Puerto Gala greed and lust take hold. Greed is embodied by Carlos Maldonato, "El Canuto," who attempts to buy all of the shellfish for a Japanese company, and by a traveling band of prostitutes that accompany the influx of fishermen. El Canuto also wrangles to get into good stead with an old flame, Sonia, who is now the proprietor of "La Pincoya," a local restaurant. But "el loco" proves more effective, and more damaging, than anyone could have guessed.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Chile, Mexico, Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Dick Francis: Blood Sport (1989)
Plot Summary:
Cleveland teams with an insurance investigator in the search for a stolen $6 million dollar horse in the Canadian Rockies.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Into the Blue (1997)
Plot Summary:
Contemporary thriller set partly on the island of Rhodes. A bankrupt former garage owner, now working as a waiter and a caretaker on the Greek isle, is hauled in by the local police when a young Englishwoman he has befriended goes missing. Under suspicion of murder, he flees the island and returns to England, where he begins trying to piece together the missing woman's background and her reasons for visiting Rhodes in the first place.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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The Hanging Sun (2022)
Plot Summary:
On the run from his former employer, a reluctant hitman seeks refuge in an isolated village where he is faced with events that test the true nature of his conscience.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 948
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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The Reason (2004)
Plot Summary:
Four people are discovered brutally murdered in an up-scale high-rise apartment. All the victims appear to be family, but as the investigation deepens it is discovered that one of the victims isn't related to the family.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: semi documentary
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Happy New '49 (1986)
Plot Summary:
The story of two brothers of different orientation and fate. The drama takes place in an atmosphere of tension and fear, during the conflict of Yugoslav Communist Party with the Stalinism, during the Cominform. Older brother Dragoslav, a returnee from Russia, was unjustly accused of being a Russian spy and subsequently arrested. Younger brother Kosta is not interested in politics, but he's attracted by a brother's wife Vera and underworld mafia. In the end, it turns out that a young woman belongs to the Soviet spy agency.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: dark
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Es geschah am hellichten Tag (1997)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Dick Francis: Twice Shy (1989)
Plot Summary:
A fool-proof formula for picking winning horses on a computer disc is the Maguffin sought by Cleveland and others.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film, detective, detective series
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The Hunter's Diary (1964)
Plot Summary:
Leaving his wife in Osaka, Honda leads a double life in Tokyo – after spending the day as an elite businessman, he flirts around in the evenings. He even rents a secret apartment where he keeps record of his girl hunts in his diary, the ‘Hunter’s Diary’. One day, he finds an article in the newspaper – a murder of a young woman in his diary. A few days later, another woman from his diary is murdered. He soon finds himself in a labyrinth of fear, as women named in his diary are killed one after another.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags:
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A Punters Prayer (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young gambler makes a large, risky bet on a horse race. When the odds turn in his favour, more than one party has sudden interest in the winning betting slip, and they'll do anything to get their hands on it.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Scam (1993)
Plot Summary:
A female con-artist who sweet-talks wealthy men targeted by her violent boyfriend, then drugs them and makes off with their money, is being herself being watched by another man. He wants to use her talents in a much-bigger scam: ripping off a crime lord by getting at his programmer's computer files. But she starts to have doubts about what he's really after when she finds a huge stash of loot with the disks. He claims no knowledge of the money, she distrusts him, he's using her, things start getting dangerous and even murderous - and then her boyfriend shows up ! Who's scamming whom ?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surprise ending
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The Lifeguard (1979)
Plot Summary:
Marie, the charming daughter of Italian immigrants, has a dream : to become rich. In Roubaix, where she lives, she meets and marries small-time crooner Marcel Potier. Together they leave for the South of France where they live happily but poorly. Now, Marie hasn't forgotten her hopes of wealth and with this aim still in mind she pushes Marcel into becoming the swimming instructor of Achille Zopoulos, an oil tycoon.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Gang Money Run (2014)
Plot Summary:
A struggling musician falls for a charismatic burlesque dancer while getting entangled with hired guns and a border town gang bent on killing him.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, unusual plot structure, captivating, neo noir
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The Pharmacist (1997)
Plot Summary:
Hella is around 30 and works in a pharmacy. She is waiting for the right man to step into her life, but as she has a certain affinity for losers, she is kind of disillusionized. When she gets to know Levin, a dentist student who likes cars most, her dreams seem to come true. Levin has a very rich grandfather who likes her at first glance. The old man thinks of changing his last will to the condition that Levin has to marry Hella in order to inherit his fortunes. Like in a fairy-tale the door to a new life opens for Hella, but can she take it?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 986
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: manga, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Book of Numbers (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two waiters in Depression-era Arkansas get involved in the numbers racket.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sachertorte (2022)
Plot Summary:
Karl meets Nini at a Berlin train station: it is love at first sight. But the few hours they spend together before she travels back to Vienna end in a mishap in which Karl loses her phone number. He decides to move to the Austrian capital to find his dream woman again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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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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A Very Missing Person (1972)
Plot Summary:
An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective
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Heads or Tails (1980)
Plot Summary:
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others. His period of mournful contemplation is broken when he is called out to look into the suspicious death of Madame Morlaix who, according to her husband Edouard (Michel Serrault), fell from an upstairs window. Curious to find out more, Baroni begins his inquiry.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: detective
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Rare Birds (2001)
Plot Summary:
A down-and-out restaurateur and his neighbor hatch a plan to lure luminaries to their small Newfoundland town.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: stylized, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, clever, offbeat, realistic, erotic, funny
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Sun Alley (1999)
Plot Summary:
A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life on the Sonnenallee, and therefore throughout the former East Germany.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political, sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, controversial, talky, semi serious, surprise ending
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Little Miss Marker (1980)
Plot Summary:
Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in 1930's. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: family comedy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious
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Night Bus (2007)
Plot Summary:
Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the President. As the film unfolds, a secret war between factions of the Security Services, a series of confusions among the various criminal fraternities whose activites have been touched upon by the deal, and Leila's past all complicate the situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Poland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, neo noir, exciting, sentimental, non-linear, fast, surprise ending, black comedy
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Lightbulb (2009)
Plot Summary:
A rags-to-riches story of two friends, a small-time inventor and a sharky salesman, who hit rock bottom before coming up with a gizmo that becomes a worldwide phenomenon.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: semi serious, touching, realistic, light, motivational, clever, offbeat, humorous
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Shark City (2009)
Plot Summary:
Dagen and Kenny are two best friends in their early thirties living in New York who are looking for love in all the wrong places. One of them finds his dream girl, who just happens to be the daughter of the biggest mobster in town, and the other friend swindles her mob boss Dad out of a million dollars.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Seven Times Lucky (2004)
Plot Summary:
An aging con-man and a beautiful, ambitious student cross paths in a scam that promises to make them both rich.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty, surprise ending
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In This Tricky Life (2001)
Plot Summary:
Montevideo, Uruguay. In this comedic drama, Elisa, 27, dreams of opening her own hairdressing salon in one of the rich districts of the Uruguayan capital. A bit of a rebel, one day Elisa moves out of her mother's house with her two children and breaks up with Garcia, her boss and lover who has infuriated her by not wanting to get married. So, in the space of twenty-four hours, Elisa finds herself without a roof over her head, without a man, without a job and without money. Her best friend Loulou finds her a job - in the brothel run by Dona Jacqueline. And without really being aware of it, Elisa slides into prostitution, which leads her to Barcelona. She falls in love, she is exploited, she gets involved in transvestite gang wars, and meanwhile just dreams of earning enough money for her little beauty salon back home.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Uruguay, Argentina, Cuba, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, exciting, tense, romantic, captivating, suspenseful, independent film
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Inherent Vice (2014)
Plot Summary:
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: surreal, neo noir, psychedelic, atmospheric, detective, sexy, confusing, cult classic, meditative, non-linear
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Focus (2015)
Plot Summary:
Nicky, a veteran con artist, takes a novice named Jess under his wing. While Nicky teaches Jess the tricks of the trade, the pair become romantically involved; but, when Jess gets uncomfortably close, Nicky ends their relationship. Three years later, Nicky is in Buenos Aires working a very dangerous scheme when Jess -- now an accomplished femme fatale -- unexpectedly shows up. Her appearance throws Nicky for a loop at a time when he cannot afford to be off his game.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 270000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, entertaining, unusual plot structure, sexy, clever, tricky, intense, humorous, semi serious
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The Barbarian Invasions (2003)
Plot Summary:
In this belated sequel to 'The Decline of the American Empire', 50-something Montreal college professor, Remy, learns that he is dying of liver cancer. He decides to make amends meet to his friends and family before he dies. He first tries to made peace with his ex-wife Louise, who asks their estranged son Sebastian, a successful businessman living in London, to come home. Sebastian makes the impossible happen, using his contacts and disrupting the entire Canadian system in every way possible to help his father fight his terminal illness to the bitter end, while he also tries to reunite his former friends, Pierre, Alain, Dominique, Diane, and Claude to see their old friend before he passes on.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: philosophical, sentimental, touching, emotional, clever, sad, sincere, realistic, witty, talky