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Plot Summary:
No overview.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: parody
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Dixie: Changing Habits TVM (1983)
Plot Summary:
Dixie is caught operating a whore house, and is sentenced to 90 days house arrest in a convent! Can Dixie bend to the ways of the convent nuns to avoid jail?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Tattoo Chase (1989)
Plot Summary:
In order to receive an inheritance, Howie Goldman must comb the globe and find a woman with a deposit box number tattooed on her derrière.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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The Little Nuns (1963)
Plot Summary:
Two nuns come to Rome to protest to an airline about its jet planes which have been flying over their convent school, disrupting teaching of the little orphans who study there and damaging the ancient fresco of their patron saint through sound vibrations.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Cradle Song (1961)
Plot Summary:
In a Castilian convent of the late nineteenth century, the community of cloistered nuns celebrates the onomastic of their superior with a poem. She is also visited by the doctor, Don Jose, who diagnosed a disease with poor prognosis. Shortly after a sister picks up a beautiful girl who has been abandoned at the door of the convent and the doctor, despite being single, offers to legally adopt her and assign her to the convent as a pupil.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Two Marines and a General (1965)
Plot Summary:
In May 1943, two American soldiers, Joe and Frank, of Italian descent are searching the North African desert for a German general called Von Kassler, when they are captured by Von Kassler aide Inge Schultze who lets them escape with fake war plans, only Joe and Frank steal the real war plans which pave way for the Allied victory. Months later, the duo once again come up against Von Kassler when they are captured at Anzio and try to outwit the Nazis a second time.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat
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Ballad of the Masterthief Ole Hoiland (1970)
Plot Summary:
Ballad of the Masterthief Ole Hoiland (Norwegian: Balladen om mestertyven Ole Høiland) is a 1970 Norwegian drama film directed by Knut Andersen, and starring a broad cast of notable Norwegian actors, headed by Per Jansen as Ole Høiland. Ole Høiland was an actual Norwegian Robin Hood-figure in the early 19th century. He steals from the rich and gives to the poor, enjoying numerous affairs with attractive women along the way. The story culminates in the ambitious burglary of Norges Bank, Norway's central bank.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Zoo (1988)
Plot Summary:
Martina, eleven, lives with her father, a zoo-keeper. One day she meets a 15 years old Slavic and they become friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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The Treasure of San Gennaro (1966)
Plot Summary:
A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Genaro, in Napoli.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1973)
Plot Summary:
There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. But it turns out his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison, his associates start dying and the attempts on his life start. Cue Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy, who has a plan to spring Frankie from jail.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, poliziottesco, funny, cult film
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Mayavi (2007)
Plot Summary:
Mahi, a seasoned convict who is well-known for attacking his enemies stealthily, decides to murder someone in order to raise money for his friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 124 min
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Gli Invisibili (1988)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the eighties, Sirio, a young worker at the steelworks in Terni with a past in the student struggles, decided to abandon his job as a soldier in an extreme left-wing group.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
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Hulchul (1995)
Plot Summary:
A troubled ACP adopts a young poor child named Deva whose mother and father died. When he grows up, he helps his adopted father as a police officer and ACP to solve various crimes around town to save his job and protect his family. Deva should not only help his father by tracking down a mob or fight gang members, but he has to release his half-brother Karan from police custody after he is framed for murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Action, Romance, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags:
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One Away (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers plot to get their third brother out of jail.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Holy Year (1976)
Plot Summary:
The last film of Jean Gabin.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Why (1971)
Plot Summary:
Giuseppe Di Noi, an Italian surveyor living in Switzerland, gets arrested at the border while going back to Italy with his family for a vacation. But can someone tell the man WHY?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 977
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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The Lizard (2004)
Plot Summary:
Reza is a petty thief who escapes jail by posing as a mullah. When he has to stay in disguise longer than he expected, he accidentally becomes the revered leader of a small-town mosque, bringing people flooding in with his on the hoof sermons featuring sexual innuendo and references to 'brother' Tarantino's Pulp Fiction.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, serious, suspenseful, exciting, parody, buddy comedy, islamic, realistic, black comedy
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Women in Cell Block 7 (1973)
Plot Summary:
A woman goes behind bars in order to save her father's life.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, poliziottesco
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Women's Prison (1974)
Plot Summary:
This film traces the prison life of a group of women who-rather than being prepared to reenter society-are brought to the limits of depravity. Martine, wrongly imprisoned will bear the scars of a prison system wrongly based on punishment rather than rehabilitation.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, sexploitation film
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Everybody in Jail (1984)
Plot Summary:
The incorruptible judge Annibale Salvemini, starts investigating over a classic Italian business/politics/corruption affair. He start to operate, as usual, very strongly. He orders numberless arrests. But the reaction of counterparts won't take long. In fact his strong energetic manners, drive him unintentionally on the opposite situation. Who is the real guilty the judge or the corrupted Italian society?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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City Under Siege (1974)
Plot Summary:
A string of violent jewel robberies force Police Inspector Parrino to get rough with the city’s criminal scum. Things take a turn for the worse when he’s confronted with the murder of an prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Cop Shop Babes (2001)
Plot Summary:
Beer and Satay are two bumbling cops who get transferred to Cop Shop Girls division. Beer is a womanizer and promptly starts dating two girls at a time. Everyone's after Fireball, who blows stuff up.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, light, humorous, captivating, not serious, slapstick comedy
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Free Hand for a Tough Cop (1976)
Plot Summary:
Free Hand for a Tough Cop (Italian: Il trucido e lo sbirro, also known as Tough Cop) is an Italian poliziottesco-action film directed in 1976 by Umberto Lenzi. In this movie Tomas Milian plays for the first time Sergio Marazzi aka "Er Monnezza", a role that he later played several more times, in Lenzi's Brothers Till We Die (1978, a sort of sequel of this movie), in Destruction Force by Stelvio Massi (1977), in Uno contro l'altro, praticamente amici by Bruno Corbucci (1980), in Francesco Massaro's Il lupo e l'agnello (1980).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Imprisoned: Survival Guide for Rich and Prodigal (2015)
Plot Summary:
This is a story in jail. A story about learning a "new life”….
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Police Chief Pepe (1969)
Plot Summary:
A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a dyke and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Breakout Brothers (2020)
Plot Summary:
Triad leader Roller and life-sentence inmate Scar maintain the balance of power as the bosses of the prison they're incarcerated at. Life at the prison gets disrupted by the arrival of new inmate Mak, who has run-ins with both Scar and Roller. With things going so badly for him in prison, Mak has no choice but to join in the breakout plot being hatched by Chan. However, Roller and Scar also end up being part of the plan!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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9 Souls (2003)
Plot Summary:
After discovering a hole in their crowded cell, nine prisoners escape their confinement to track down the key of the universe, which a fellow prisoner known as the Counterfeit King said he had hidden.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, surreal, sincere, uplifting, sad, crime drama, offbeat
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Down Time (2001)
Plot Summary:
Slim Williams, a small-time dealer, is poised to make his big score with his partner Paulie. But the easy deal becomes a nightmare when Slim is caught in deadly police sting and ends up in a maximum-security penitentiary. Sold out by his partner, Slim is forced to learn the rules of survival behind bars - forget what you know. Inside these walls, there are no laws.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Drama, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, realistic, independent film, detective, hispanic, cult film
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No One Believes Me (2013)
Plot Summary:
Everyone believes Sébastien, 13, has shot his father in the back and killed him. With the help of his trusted friends, he uses every stratagem to stay hidden while proving his innocence. But the adult world has other ideas, and under abusive pressure he comes to sign a confession of murder. But, due to Seb's half-sister, the story may not quite be over.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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The Professor (1986)
Plot Summary:
Vaguely inspired to the real story of boss of the Camorra's bosses Raffaele Cutolo, this is the story of the criminal career of "Il professore" (the professor). He is in prison, and by there he is able to build, step by step, an empire founded on murders and drugs. He starts a war to destroy all the old Camorra bosses and becoming the new "boss of the bosses". With his sister's help he manages to evade from prison and escape in New York. Here he starts immediately a new relationship with "Cosa Nostra" (Italian American Mafia). He is going to seat on the peak of the most powerful criminal organization, and the Italian authorities are almost impotent.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Down by Law (1986)
Plot Summary:
A disc jockey, a pimp and an Italian tourist escape from jail in New Orleans.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: black and white, independent film, road movie, atmospheric, humorous, art house, meditative, harsh, sincere, cult classic