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Plot Summary:
Two petty thieves Tara and Sitara (Govinda & Sanjay Dutt respectively) get on the bad side of two wanted criminals, namely Panther and Cobra (Gulshan Grover and Ashish Vidyarthi.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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Plan (2004)
Plot Summary:
To pay off their gambling debt, four best friends kidnap an organized crime figure having mistaken him for a wealthy businessman.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags:
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Gambler (1995)
Plot Summary:
Police Inspector Dayashanker Pandey is a slacker, a man who does not want to put his life under any risk, and is quite comfortable sharing tall tales, and a desk job. Fate has other plans for him, for whenever he goes on duty outside, he somehow apprehends some criminals or some smuggled goods or drugs. He thus becomes the pride of his division, much to his discomfort. For Dayashanker knows that if he is publicly felicitated, this will put in the black books of many underworld gangsters, which will rip his comfortable and easy-going life apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags:
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Chor Machaaye Shor (2002)
Plot Summary:
Fortunately, before his arrest Shyam manages to hide the diamonds at a nearby construction site, intending to return for it as soon as he gets out of prison. Two years pass and Shyam's release date arrives. Returning to his ill-gotten gains, he is horrified to discover that what was once a building site is now a new police headquarters with his stolen diamonds forming part of the foundation. Shyam decides to create and play the role of Inspector Ram and soon becomes the favourite of ACP Ranbir Singh (Paresh Rawal) at the police station. But life is not that easy going for the imposter who quickly comes to the attention of the ever suspicious Inspector Pande (Om Puri). Amidst all this mayhem Ram actually finds time to romance Inspector Ranjita (Bipasha Basu). But he also plays the character of Shyam with Ranbir's daughter, Komal (Shilpa Shetty). Soon they become lovers. Whilst Ram/ Shyam is busy with his hectic love life, other criminals, Tito (Ashish Vidhyarthi) and Tony (Rajat Bedi).
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, exciting, suspenseful, remake of american film
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Jaal: The Trap (2003)
Plot Summary:
Sunny Deol battles terrorists from Kashmir; from director Guddu Dhanoa.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Sign of Marriage (1979)
Plot Summary:
Durga and Vikram Singh have been married for years. Vikram has taken to crime in a big way, and as a result has antagonized a rival gangster, Jaggi. Durga gives birth to twins, and Jaggi steals one of them, and sells him to a bootlegger, Pascal. Durga is upset when she finds her son missing, but is devastated when Vikram abandons her. With a lot of difficulty, Durga brings up her son, Kishan, and has given up on finding her other son. Kishan has grown up and is now a dedicated police officer. On the other hand, Pascal has exploited Amit, kept him illiterate, doing petty crime, and alcoholic. This gets him in confrontation with Kishan, but ironically the two settle their differences and become fast friends. Vikram is still alive, and is not aware of his two sons and wife being alive.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 164 min
Plot tags:
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Eena Meena Deeka (1994)
Plot Summary:
Deeka (Vinod Khanna) had been in jail for several crimes, including bank robberies. When his prison sentence is over, Deeka decides to go straight. Unfortunately, while in a bank, he becomes a victim of a bungling bank robber, Inder or Eena (Rishi Kapoor), who needs money to get medical treatment for his mother (Dina Pathak). When the police arrive, they witness Eena with the notorious bank robber, and come to the conclusion that Deeka has gone back to his criminal ways. Deeka's attempts to convince them are in vain, and he must escape together with Eena for now, and he does so. The police are after Deeka, and he must get a hold of Eena and get him to confess to his crime, and therefore clear his name. But Eena is unwilling to confess, and runs away from Deeka. With the police on his tail, will Deeka be able to capture Eena, and will he be successful in getting him to agree to confess?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof
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Aankhen (1993)
Plot Summary:
A 1993 Bollywood Comedy starring Govinda and Chunky Pandey. This movie kick started a long line of Comedy movies for Govinda.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Ram Lakhan (1989)
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Sharda (Raakhee) vows vengeance when her husband is murdered by his two evil cousins, Bhishamber (Amrish Puri) and Bhanu (Paresh Rawal), and she and her two young sons are thrown out on the street. Those sons grow into the upstanding police officer Ram (Jackie Schroff) and the easily tempted dreamer Lakhan (Anil Kapoor). If the family is to be avenged, Ram will have to lead his brother away from the path of corruption he's strayed onto, and protect him from the influence of Bhanu and Bhishamber.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic
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Guardian Angels (1995)
Plot Summary:
Gerard Depardieu plays a sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective who flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob. He leaves the boy in the hands of an earnest priest (Christian Clavier), who escorts him back to Paris. Soon Clavier and Depardieu are fighting it out, each shadowed by his good or evil guardian angel.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, semi serious, feel good, realistic, slapstick comedy, neo screwball comedy
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Mardon Wali Baat (1988)
Plot Summary:
Dacoit Sunder Singh kills a brave police officer, Shefali's husband. To avenge his death, Shefali secretly hires two mercenaries.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration:
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Grand Theft Auto (1977)
Plot Summary:
A rich girl steals her dad's Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married. However, her angry parents, a jealous suitor, and a bunch of reward seekers are determined to stop her.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, slapstick, road movie, action comedy, independent film, fast
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Aatish: Feel the Fire (1994)
Plot Summary:
Baba and Avinash are brothers who lives in a shanty house with their widowed mother, who makes a living as a housemaid. When a stalker attempts to rape their mother, Baba knives him to death, and the three, along with an orphan named Nawab, take shelter with a underworld don named Uncle. Baba would like Avinash to study and make something of his life, in order to help his brother study he decides to make crime his career. When Avinash completes his studies he becomes a police officer on his first assignment he learns his brother Baba and friend Nawab are on the most wanted criminal list.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: heroic, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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Singh Is Kinng (2008)
Plot Summary:
A comic caper about Happy Singh, a Punjabi villager who goes through a series of misadventures and eventually becomes the King of the Australian underworld.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, stylized, not serious, entertaining, romantic, powerful, slapstick comedy
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Dabangg (2010)
Plot Summary:
A troubled relationship with his younger half-brother and stepfather compels Chulbul Pandey to become a corrupt but fearless cop whose life changes when he locks horns with a corrupt political leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, stylized, masala, entertaining, fast, humorous, realistic, freeze frame
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Bade Miyan Chote Miyan (1998)
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Fellow Police Inspectors Arjun and Pyare work in the same Police Station in Mumbai, India. Although they work together, they have an unhealthy rivalry between them - leading to considerable acrimony and inefficiency. Then things get worse when a series of crimes and robberies take place - with witnesses coming forward and identifying them as the culprits.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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No Problem (2010)
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Sanjay and Akshaye, childhood friends and small time crooks rob a bank managed by Paresh. The two of them specially, Akshaye, on and off contemplates changing tracks and leaving the world of crime. Sanjay on the other hand almost every time manages to do something which closes all doors for Akshaye to change his life. This bank robbery also does the same. Akshaye is back where he belongs. Paresh is accused as an accomplice of Sanjay and Akshaye since the two had stayed in his house the night before the robbery.Paresh swears he will not return without the proof of his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, slapstick, fast, neo screwball comedy
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Ram Gopal Varma's Indian Flames (2007)
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Nasik-based Heerendra Dhaan and Raj Ranade are bodyguards of a politician, but after their employer is implicated in a scam, they end up assaulting a police officer and flee to Mumbai. Once there they meet with Rambhabhai, who in turn, gets them employed with a gangster named Shambhu. After a short while the duo are apprehended by Police Inspector Narsimha, questioned, and after they agree to cooperate to bring down Shambhu, are let go. The two do succeed in assisting the police arrest Shambhu, but they themselves are arrested, tried in Court, and sentenced to a year in jail. After their discharge they are met with Inspector Narsimha, who wants to recruit them to capture and kill dreaded bandit Babban Singh, who had slaughtered his wife, Kavita, and son, Subbu, as well as cut his arms off. Heerendra and Raj agree to carry out this task for 8 Lakh Rupees. They re-locate to Kaliganj where Heerendra falls in love with auto-rickshaw driver.
IMDB Rating: 1.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags: semi serious, rough, realistic
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Raja Babu (1994)
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Raja Babu (Govinda) is a poor orphan adopted by a wealthy village couple (Kadar Khan and Aruna Irani). He is a typical country bumpkin, good-hearted but lacking in urban manners. He falls.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: funny, sentimental, epic, serious, realistic
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Listen Father-in-Law (2004)
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Mr. Raj K. Saxena is known for his parsimony. Everything he does and thinks is valued with money, and ways he can accumulate it. His daughter, Kiran, is the opposite, a spendthrift. Mr. Saxena borrows money from elderly people, assuring them of returning the loan with a handsome rate of interest after about 20 years, knowing fully well that none of them will survive 20 years. Then he meets with the son of one of such lender, aptly named after him viz. Raj K. Saxena. Mr. Saxena refuses to repay the amount, swallows the proof, the only evidence, and asks Raj to get out, which he does so. Raj is determined to get his money, and wants Kiran to fall in love with him. Kiran does so, and brings him over to introduce him to her shocked and speechless dad. Things change when Raj inherits a large amount of money, ironically left by Mr. Saxena maternal grandmother, and it is Mr. Saxena who is now anxious to get in the good books of Raj, with hilarious results.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Action, Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 169 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Romance (1997)
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Harbans Rai and Ranjit Rai are two wealthy businessmen who absolutely *loathe* poverty and poor people . As fate would have it , Harbans Rai's daughter Madhu falls for a poor mechanic Raja while Ranjit Rai's son Ajay romances a poor girl Kajal . When Harbans and Ranjit come to know of it they try various ways to separate the lovers.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, scary, tense, melancholic, funny, romantic, entertaining, slapstick comedy
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Coolie No. 1 (1995)
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Shaadiram Gharjode (Sadashiv Amrapurkar) is once humiliated by Hoshiyar Chand (Kader Khan) when Shaadiram goes to inform him about a family wanting to marry their son to Hoshiyar's daughter. Hoshiyar Chand insults them as he wants both his daughters to marry into the richest family. Gharjode decides to teach Hoshiyar Chand a lesson: He meets a coolie called Raju (Govinda) and they go to Hoshiyar Chand's village pretending to be a rich family. Hoshiyar is impressed and he wants his daughter Malti (Karisma Kapoor) to marry Raju. This leads to humorous situations in the climax.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Hero No. 1 (1997)
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Rajesh Malhotra (Govinda) is the son of a wealthy businessman Dhanraj Malhotra (Kader Khan). However, he is not happy at his home since his father does not let him live his life his way. He escapes from his home and reaches Europe. Meena (Karishma Kapoor) is the granddaughter of Dinanath (Paresh Rawal) and has secured a scholarship to study in Europe. She travels to Europe with her aunt Shannu (Himani Shivpuri).
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Chal Mere Bhai (2000)
Plot Summary:
The wealthy Oberoi family consists of dad, Balraj, his mother, and two sons, namely Vicky and Prem. Vicky is in love with a beautiful young woman.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, crying, weeping
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Son of Sardaar (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jassi Randhawa (Ajay Devgan) is an unemployed good-for-nothing man who receives a letter from the Punjab government about buying his property in Punjab. To sell the property, Jassi leaves for Punjab. On the train, he meets and falls in love with Sukhmeet (Sonakshi Sinha). In Punjab, Jassi accidentally meets Billu (Sanjay Dutt) and, seeing he is new to the area, Billu invites Jassi to his home, where he treats Jassi like a god. There, Jassi realises that Billu is Sukhmeet's brother. Soon enough, it is revealed that Billu is Balwinder Singh and Jassi is short for Jaswinder. However, Billu's family has to follow one Punjabi rule: A guest in the house should never be harmed. Now, Billu must wait for Jassi to leave the house to kill him. Jassi learns about it and comes up with a hilarious plan to foil Billu's shenanigans.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Main Hoon Na (2004)
Plot Summary:
An army major goes undercover as a college student. His mission is both professional and personal: to protect his general's daughter from a radical militant, and to find his estranged half-brother.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 182 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, masala, light, realistic, parody
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Main Tera Hero (2014)
Plot Summary:
This love story begins with the mischievous, clever, charming, a daredevil and the HERO who falls in love with Sunaina. How can a Hero’s love story be complete without a villain! So walks in Angad the corrupt cop, who wants to forcibly marry Sunaina and to make things more spicy also does Ayesha who is madly in love with our Hero. A massy entertaining romantic drama ensues, which takes our Hero from the mountainous Ooty, to the fun college campus of Bangalore, and then to a beautiful mansion, in gorgeous Thailand.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: humorous, tense, captivating, light, funny, masala, semi serious
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Crazy (1992)
Plot Summary:
Kajal is a beautiful and talented young woman who loves songs and dances and attends various shows. At one of the shows she attended she gets to meet Ravi, a popular singer and both are head over heel in love with each other and they soon got married. Kajal relocates to Ravi's parental mansion and is all welcome as a bride there. But soon her marriage life goes over the board when Ravi's scheming cousin and uncle has him killed. Unable to bear the shock Kajal relocates to a different city and gets to meet the wealthy and care-free Raja Sahai, who proposes marriage to her but she refuses and wants to live as Ravi's widow but destiny has other plans for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: exciting, sentimental, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Partner (2007)
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The only male child in the family that sired six daughters, Prem has empathy towards the fair sex and decides to assist males to woo women so much so that he becomes popular as the 'Love Guru'. Amongst the men he assists are Bhaskar Chaudhry and Neil Bakshi. Klutz-like Bhaskar has fallen head over heels with his boss, a model and heiress, Priya Jaisingh. A disbelieving Prem refuses to assist him, but subsequently relents. Bhaskar uses his own charm to woo Priya successfully, and is introduced to her dad, Raj. Prem himself falls in love with a widowed single mother, Naina Shahani, a Journalist. Both men are satisfied with her respective lives not knowing that a scandalous secret will surface in the media - changing their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, powerful, remake of american film
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All the Best: Fun Begins (2009)
Plot Summary:
All The Best is a rib-tickling comedy based on hilarious situations resulting from mistaken identities and goof ups.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, light, funny, realistic, not serious, slapstick, cult film
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Rascals (2011)
Plot Summary:
Rascals movie is a comedy about the joys of conning where Sanjay Dutt and Ajay Devgn play two cool competing conmen trying to out-scheme each other in consistently amusing and surprising setups. But when both fall for the same girl, the competition reaches an all new level as both men constantly attempt to outwit each other to win over the surprisingly elusive Kangana!.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick