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Plot Summary:
As a reward from a jilted millionairess, Davis is given the $100,000 Porsche of the unfaithful husband. Unknown to Davis and the wife, the body of the husband is in the Porsche. The killer tries in vein to recover the body before it is discovered.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, semi serious, nostalgic, cult movie cast
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Catch Me If You Can (1989)
Plot Summary:
A hotshot teenage car racer persuades the class president of a small Minnesota high school to gamble on illegal car races to raise money for their school which is facing closure.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fast, surprise ending
Similar in 84%
Collision Course (1989)
Plot Summary:
Tony Costas, a brash, obnoxious, sexist and racist Detroit cop who has long since stopped following the rules, gets told that he will have to work with Inspector Fuji, a straightlaced policeman from Japan. Fuji is in Detroit searching for a Japanese engineer who has gone to America with plans for a top secret car part. The pair naturally fail to get along at first, but as the investigation continues, they almost begin to come close to tolerating each other's presence.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: action comedy, independent film, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, fast, buddy comedy
Similar in 81%
Illegally Yours (1988)
Plot Summary:
Called up for jury duty, Richard Dice finds his first crush and only real, but unrequited love, on trial for murder. Richard desperately tries to prove Mollys innocence while untangling a complicated web of murder, blackmail and perjury, and still trying to win over the girl of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 79%
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
Similar in 75%
Lansdown (2001)
Plot Summary:
In this dark comedy, defense lawyer Jake Jorgenson's carefully constructed life begins to unravel when he kills his wife's lover.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Thriller, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, offbeat, realistic, witty, neo noir, independent film
Similar in 80%
Blood, Guts, Bullets and Octane (1998)
Plot Summary:
A Cherry Pontiac Lemans Convertible...Two Days...Two-Hundred & Fifty Grand. When your lemon lot hits the skids you glom the gig no matter what the smell. For Bob and Sid, two slicked-back burnouts, bum luck runs in spades. With a goose-egg for cash flow and a fore-closure falling fast, they take the gig. The Upside: Fat Cash...The Flipside...Every Thug, Crook, Punk and Mercenary on the planet looking to get rich.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, neo noir, poliziottesco, clever
Similar in 88%
Slither (1973)
Plot Summary:
While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed. Their chase takes them to trailer camps, bingo halls, laundromats and ultimately, a showdown with a group of unconventional bad guys.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: road movie, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, horror comedy
Similar in 88%
Lonely Street (2008)
Plot Summary:
Bubba Mabry, a gullible private detective, becomes the prime suspect in a tabloid reporter's murder after being hired to snoop on him by a mysterious celebrity.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, detective
Similar in 78%
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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The Baytown Outlaws (2012)
Plot Summary:
When three redneck brothers agree to help a woman save her son from an abusive father, they become targets on the run from an odd cast of characters.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: rough, semi serious, humorous, realistic, grindhouse, cult classic, psychological, funny, road movie, southern gothic
Similar in 80%
Hot Tamale (2006)
Plot Summary:
A road trip to Los Angeles inadvertently leads a young man from Wyoming into a wild maze of psychotic hit-men, racy women, jewel thieves and a salsa band.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, captivating, sex comedy, erotic, independent film, road movie, hot
Similar in 78%
The Perfect Murder (1988)
Plot Summary:
Police Inspector Ghote lives a middle-class life in Bombay along with his wife, Pratima. He has been employed with the Bombay Police for many years. He is assigned to investigate the deadly assault on a Parsi man named Perfect, who is the Secretary of Lala Heera Lal, a wealthy man with underworld links. Inspector Ghote commences his investigation and is displeased when his superiors ask him to work with a Swedish Forensic Expert by the name of Axel Svennson.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Comedy, Thriller, Action, Crime
Country: UK, India
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: multicultural, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
Similar in 82%
The Scent (2012)
Plot Summary:
A detective Seon-woo, who moonlights as a private investigator, has a beautiful new client Soo-Jin. The woman asks the detective to take photos of her husband in the midst of having an affair with another woman. When the detective goes to take pictures he discovers that the woman's husband is already dead. Now the detective becomes a suspect. The detective is chased by another detective Gil-ro. He must now set out for the real killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, tense, captivating, erotic, sexy, twisted, suspenseful, semi serious
Similar in 79%
Loose Cannons (1990)
Plot Summary:
Mac, the two fisted savy cop finds that he's being saddled with a new partner, a known burn out, to work with him on a new and difficult case. The new partner is, Ellis, an amazing detective, one who puts Sherlock Holmes to shame with his lightning fast deductions. But, he keeps assuming the personalities of entire casts of Television shows. This can be a problem when people begin shooting at them.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, action comedy, light, entertaining, absurd, detective, realistic, semi serious, fast
Similar in 80%
Dangerously Close (1986)
Plot Summary:
Rebel without a cause or a clue at an elite but uptight college discovers some of his classmates have formed an even more elite clique more or less hell-bent on ridding the school, and quite possibly American society, of what they deem to be its undesirables because of ethnicity, politics, etc. Our hero recruits a teacher and some other "less desirable" classmates to undermine the elitists, and, naturally, things get quite violent.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, rough, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Similar in 90%
The Squeeze (1987)
Plot Summary:
Harry Berg is both a con artist and an actual artist -- he constructs large sculptures out of television sets -- but he is not particularly successful in either role. He owes some money, which gets him involved with Rachel Dobs, a police detective who works with a collection agency. When Harry comes into possession of a strange parcel, both the con man and the detective find themselves wrapped up in a sinister corporate plot to fix the lottery.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, light, captivating, entertaining, detective, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
Similar in 78%
In Security (2013)
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
Similar in 86%
Concrete Blondes (2013)
Plot Summary:
Three down-on-their-luck, twenty-something female roommates are living paycheck to paycheck in a rundown apartment, when one night they stumble across $3 million dollars in a suitcase amidst the bloody aftermath of a drug shootout. Despite wanting to keep the money and smuggle it out of the country, the girls are forced into a final showdown and must face off against seasoned criminals who want the cash for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, tense, captivating, rough, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 82%
Made Men (1999)
Plot Summary:
A man and a woman are on the run from gangsters whom he has stolen $12.5 million. When the gangsters show up, he takes them supposedly to where the money is hidden but instead leads them into a trap at a backwoods crystal-meth factory. The gangsters and the drug dealers start a shoot-out for unknown reasons and both go gunning for Belushi. Meanwhile an unscrupulous cop is secretly having an affair with the girl friend and planning to make off with the money.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film, cult film
Similar in 79%
Underclassman (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young detective goes undercover at an elite private school to destroy an international stolen car ring.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, light, captivating, black comedy, teen, humorous, fast, detective
Similar in 90%
Money Talks (1997)
Plot Summary:
Money Talks is a 1997 American comedy film directed by Brett Ratner. Sought by police and criminals, a small-time huckster makes a deal with a TV newsman for protection.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, funny, clever, action packed, hilarious
Similar in 78%
Caruso, Zero for Conduct (2001)
Plot Summary:
A movie directed by F.Nuti.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 83%
The Principal (1987)
Plot Summary:
Burglary. Drugs. Assault. Rape. The students at Brandel High are more than new Principal Rick Latimer bargained for. Gangs fight to control the school using knives - even guns - when they have to. When Latimer and the head of security try to clean up the school and stop the narcotics trade, they run up against a teenage mafia. A violent confrontation on the campus leads to a deadly showdown with the drug dealer's gang, and one last chance for Latimer to save his career... and his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: feel good, hood, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, inspirational, sexy, unusual plot structure
Similar in 87%
Just One of the Girls (1993)
Plot Summary:
Chris has to change school to attend a music program, but a bully named Kurt is going to make his life impossible so he decided to dress as a girl to avoid this. Taking advantage of his condition he became (girl-)friend with Marie, and fell in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, teen sex comedy, entertaining, sentimental, light, captivating, erotic, sex comedy
Similar in 90%
Cheats (2002)
Plot Summary:
While other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher's report book, Handsome Davis sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind. That's why Handsome and his three best friends Sammy, Victor and the cribsheet genius Applebee have banded together and found ways to cheat on their tests all through their school years.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, realistic
Similar in 84%
The Prankster (2010)
Plot Summary:
To the outer world CHRIS KARAS is a shy, handsome, "A" student, the son of a hard-working Greek contractor. But to his closest confidants he is none other than the celebrated Prince of Pranksters, a secret society dedicated to combating the inequities of high school through masterful acts of subterfuge.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, realistic
Similar in 85%
Acceptance (2009)
Plot Summary:
"Acceptance" is a movie that is equivalent of being slapped on the wrist by your mother for not being like everyone. Forget about being different from others and being yourself. In the movie it shows how crazy students and parents can get when it comes to being accepted in different colleges.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 75%
Super Sweet 16: The Movie (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, predictable, teen
Similar in 75%
Repo Man (1984)
Plot Summary:
A down and out young punk gets a job working with a seasoned repo man, but what awaits him in his new career is a series of outlandish adventures revolving around aliens, the CIA, and a most wanted '64 Chevy.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surreal, black comedy, cult classic, offbeat, enigmatic, mindfuck, independent film, funny, grindhouse
Similar in 79%
So Undercover (2012)
Plot Summary:
When the FBI hires her to go undercover at a college sorority, Molly Morris (Miley Cyrus) must transform herself from a tough, streetwise private investigator to a refined, sophisticated university girl to help protect the daughter of a one-time Mobster. With several suspects on her list, Molly unexpectedly discovers that not everyone is who they appear to be, including herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, witty, humorous, semi serious, teen, cute, romantic drama, sexy, detective, realistic