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Plot Summary:
The recently deceased Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) was many things: an abusive wife, a domineering mother, a loud-mouthed neighbor and a violent malcontent. So when her car and corpse are discovered in the Hudson River, police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito) immediately suspects murder rather than an accident. But, since the whole community of Verplanck, N.Y., shares a deep hatred for this unceasingly spiteful woman, Rash finds his murder investigation overwhelmed with potential suspects.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, absurd, stylized, clever, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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Slim Susie (2003)
Plot Summary:
When Erik, a Stockholm urbanite, learns that his beauty-queen sister, Susie, is missing, he goes to their country roots to look for her. But after talking to the eccentric locals -- including a shy video store clerk and a corrupt police officer -- Erik finds a woman who is not at all like the girl he left behind. Award-winning director Ulf Malmros helms this black comedy infused with hipster flair.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, dark comedy, clever, realistic, biting, neo noir, black comedy, suspense
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Legacy (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a geeky, overweight rushee is found dead at the hottest sorority on the campus, the three most popular girls of the house are prime suspects.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: witty, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy, detective, teen comedy
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The Scenesters (2009)
Plot Summary:
Someone is killing beautiful young Hipsters in East L.A. Charlie is a crime scene cleaner working for Aftershocks Inc. with a penchant for Sherlock Holmes type deduction. Wallace is an out-of-luck filmmaker working as a crime scene videographer. The detectives covering the murders are apathetic at best but with good names (Henry and Carlita, particularly Carlita). Good names, bad attitudes.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, cynical, semi serious, realistic, scary, offbeat, independent film, mockumentary
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The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992)
Plot Summary:
Betty Lou is a librarian in a very small town. Her husband is a police detective who takes her for granted. Betty Lou is the ultimate mouse. After a gangland figure is mysteriously murdered in town, Betty Lou finds the murder weapon, but can't get anyone's attention to tell them (we're talking very mousey, here). Finally in a fit of frustration she fires the gun in a restroom and when taken to the police station insists she is the murderer. It has the desired effect, people do pay attention to her. With hints at social graces from the hookers in her cell block, she's on her way.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, funny, light, romantic, atmospheric, sexy, clever
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A Slight Case of Murder (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe (William H. Macy) accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers his tracks, he raises the suspicions of a private investigator (James Cromwell), who then tries to blackmail him. Thorpe also falls under the watchful eye of Detective Fred Stapelli (Adam Arkin), a cop who is intent on becoming a screenwriter. Before long, Thorpe's girlfriend, Kit (Felicity Huffman), and Stapelli's wife, Patricia (Julia Campbell), are roped into the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective, crime thriller, neo noir, clever, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, semi serious, biting
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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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Picking Up the Pieces (2000)
Plot Summary:
A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband in search of it.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, cynical, biting, black comedy
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Little Murders (1971)
Plot Summary:
Elliot Gould plays Alfred Chamberlain -- a one time successful photographer who is now down on his luck because he began to eliminate people from his photographs. He also suffers from an inability to feel or to be passionate about anything. But then Alfred meets Patsy Newqvist, who takes it upon herself to mold Alfred into "a strong, vital, self-assured man, that I can protect and take care of.".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surreal, grim, witty, cynical, biting, intellectual, black comedy, funny, cult classic
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Some Guy Who Kills People (2011)
Plot Summary:
A former mental patient's repressed anger reaches the boiling point, leading him to embark on a mission of revenge against the thugs who once subjected him to severe physical and mental trauma.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: witty, slasher, semi serious, humorous, horror comedy, dark comedy, surreal, spooky, offbeat, realistic
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Dirt (2001)
Plot Summary:
DIRT is a quirky comedy about two simple-hearted brothers who, when abandoned by the death of their mother, search to find a replacement Mom. Junior and Scooter find themselves ill-prepared for life on their own. To ease their suffering, they search the desert dregs of West Texas for a woman to take Mom's place. Due to their social disability, they are forced to kidnap a woman from a Piggly Wiggly supermarket. They soon realize that they have gotten more than they bargained for when their "victim," Dede, turns out to be the maltreated wife of an abusive Texas Ranger. She quickly turns her misfortune into theirs, convincing the brothers to steal her baby away from her sadistic husband. Life gets even more complicated for these simple-hearted boys when the vengeful Ranger tracks them down bent on keeping them from living happily ever after.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 436
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, independent film, offbeat
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The Living Wake (2007)
Plot Summary:
“The Living Wake” is a dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered rickshaw. In a final attempt to probe life’s deepest mysteries, Binew endures one ridiculous trial after the next. He concludes his day with a final performance, his living wake. On a makeshift stage in an open field, Binew’s friends and enemies gather to witness his madness one final time.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, suspense, black comedy, offbeat, independent film
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The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975)
Plot Summary:
Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: spoof, dark comedy, parody, independent film, humorous, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, witty, not serious
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Heads (1994)
Plot Summary:
A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, and reluctantly gets involved with the nutty daughter of his editor. Before long he discovers that he is the prime suspect in the murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy
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Assassination of a High School President (2008)
Plot Summary:
After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief. Bobby prints an article fingering Class President Paul Moore as the thief, shredding the youth's reputation. But as Bobby gets to know Paul's girlfriend, Francesca, he comes to realize he was wrong about Paul, so he sets out to unmask the true culprit.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, talky, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, teen, clever, neo noir, intense
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Scotland, PA (2001)
Plot Summary:
Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who has much smarter. Pat believes she could do better with the place than their boss Norm is doing, so she plans to usurp Norm, convincing Mac to rob the restaurant's safe and then murder Norm, using the robbery as a way of throwing the cops off their trail.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, witty, disturbing, talky, parody, realistic, not serious, black comedy, clever
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Comic Book Villains (2002)
Plot Summary:
When word hits the street that a nearby elderly gentleman has a cache of old, rare, and very valuable mint condition comic books, rival comic book shop owners Raymond McGillicuddy (Donal Logue) and Norman Link (Michael Rapaport) both set out to be the first to buy them. But when the old man declines to sell, the former friends turn into enemies, and a friendly rivalry becomes tainted with greed and turns to murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, dark comedy, cynical, clever, entertaining, black comedy, anime, offbeat, realistic
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Keeping Mum (2005)
Plot Summary:
A pastor preoccupied with writing the perfect sermon fails to realize that his wife is having an affair and his children are up to no good.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, witty, light, funny, humorous, feel good, offbeat, realistic, art house
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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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Ruthless People (1986)
Plot Summary:
A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, funny, hilarious, clever, humorous, witty, offbeat, feel good, entertaining
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Clay Pigeons (1998)
Plot Summary:
Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife, Amanda. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with their sexual affairs. Clay inadvertently befriends a serial killer named Lester Long, who murders the widow in an attempt to "help" his "fishing buddy.".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, clever, humorous, suspenseful, erotic, neo noir, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Bernie (2011)
Plot Summary:
In small-town Texas, affable and popular mortician Bernie Tiede strikes up a friendship with Marjorie Nugent, a wealthy widow well known for her sour attitude. When she becomes controlling and abusive, Bernie goes to great lengths to remove himself from her grasp.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, witty, humorous, semi serious, light, clever, mockumentary, sweet, intense
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The Crew (2000)
Plot Summary:
Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, stylized, witty, clever, black comedy, realistic, semi serious, parody, light
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Fletch (1985)
Plot Summary:
A veritable chameleon, investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher might drive his editor up the wall, but he always produces great pieces for the newspaper. When his next story is about the drug trade taking place on the beach, Fletch goes undercover as a homeless man. Unaware of Fletch's true identity, businessman Alan Stanwyk offers Fletch $50,000 to kill him. Intrigued, Fletch decides to unearth the full story behind the offer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, talky, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, detective, hilarious, suspenseful
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Relative Strangers (2006)
Plot Summary:
An uptight professional meets his lower-class biological parents for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, funny, philosophical, independent film
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What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001)
Plot Summary:
Thief Kevin Caffery attempts to rob from the home of rich businessman Max Fairbanks. But Fairbanks catches him and steals his cherished ring that his girlfriend gave him. Caffery is then bent on revenge and getting his ring back with the help of his partners.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, funny, intense, semi serious, exciting, hilarious, light, detective, black comedy
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Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, dark comedy, clever, feel good, humorous, witty, detective, mind bending, entertaining, ironic
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Lucky Numbers (2000)
Plot Summary:
Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but everything else goes wrong as the plan starts to unravel and the game turns rough.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: stylized, humorous, feel good, realistic, not serious, clever, black comedy, offbeat, witty, cynical
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The War of the Roses (1989)
Plot Summary:
The Roses, Barbara and Oliver, live happily as a married couple. Then she starts to wonder what life would be like without Oliver, and likes what she sees. Both want to stay in the house, and so they begin a campaign to force each other to leave. In the middle of the fighting is D'Amato, the divorce lawyer. He gets to see how far both will go to get rid of the other, and boy do they go far.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, psychological, satirical, cynical, humorous, funny, bad ending, clever, stylized
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Clue (1985)
Plot Summary:
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, humorous, parody, funny, black comedy, witty, hilarious, captivating, suspense, mind bending
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Chain of Fools (2000)
Plot Summary:
An avid detective is assigned to investigate the heist of a batch of precious coins that end up in the hands of a suicidal barber.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, clever, witty, funny, light, absurd, dark comedy, cynical, stylized, realistic