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Plot Summary:
The film revolves around a pair of big-boned, bumbling cops who find themselves at the heart of a drug trafficking case. The agent "J" (Zhang Wen) was shot in the head during an A-level mission, causing damage to the intracranial hypothalamus. During the period of rehabilitating, J gradually became a big fat man of three hundred pounds and suffered from severe narcolepsy, but J still considered himself a ace agent. Finally, J received the task again and went to Japan to retrieve the confidential documents. After the file was obtained, J arbitrarily opened the file and decided to continue the task of hiding the organization for the organization, but he fainted in the izakaya. J who woke up in the hospital got to know the security guard Handsome Hao (Bei-Er Bao), Handsome Hao to prove that he is not a waste of nothing to resolutely join the mission. In the process of carrying out the task, the temporary partner has experienced the ridiculous and dangerous crisis of time over and over.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, humorous, captivating
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A working class family wins a free vacation to Hawaii. But when their plane takes flight, it gets hijacked by terrorists. To save her family and the other passengers, the wife must reveal her secret past and fight back.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: parody, feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Germany
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Reiji Kikukawa, who has a strong sense of justice, graduated from the police academy with the lowest score ever. He becomes a police constable, but is suddenly fired by the Police Chief due to "disciplinary" issues. In actuality, the firing is part of a carefully orchestrated plan. Reiji is ordered to become a "mole," an undercover cop. His target is Shuho Todoroki, the boss of the Sukiyakai gang. The group is the largest crime group in the Kanto area. Masaya Hiura, who works as a young boss of a Sukiyakai affiliated gang likes Reiji. While going through various hardships, Reiji works his way towards Shuho Todoroki.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious, manga
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The Special Duties Unit (SDU) is an elite paramilitary tactical unit of the Hong Kong Police Force and is considered one of the world's finest in its role. But being the best carries its own burdens. Like everyone else, they go through troubles with love, with family and with their jobs. And sometimes they get horny. This touching story is about Special Duties Unit Team B and their trip to Macau for a weekend of unadulterated debauchery.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, sex comedy, semi serious
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Plot Summary:
"Kidon" begins in the morning of the 18th of February 2010 in Tel-Aviv when the whole world wakes up discovering, on the front page of all the newspapers, pictures of the Mossad agents caught while killing Mahmoud al Mabhouh in Dubai a month earlier. It was the first time that simple security cameras of a hotel caught secret agents red-handed, what's more Israeli agents. But without doubt, the most surprised of all were the Mossad leaders who were the only ones to know for sure that the 3 men and the woman, whose faces were in all the newsrooms of the world, had nothing to do with them. From then on, a race against time is undertaken hoping to understand why everything is aiming at them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: France, Israel
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, exciting, captivating, realistic, fast
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Mr. & Mrs. Incredible (2011)
Plot Summary:
In ancient China, a husband and wife, both of them retired superheroes, contend with the high cost of living, infertility, and other contemporary life issues.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, light, sincere, captivating
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 65
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Country: Dominican Republic
Duration: 102 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
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Plot Summary:
In a reality TV show created by the U.S. government about spies, audiences go on fake undercover missions, but fact cannot be easily distinguished from fiction.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: USA
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 734
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Taiwan, China
Duration: 142 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, Taiwan, China
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Dishoom (2016)
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When India's top batsman Viraj Sharma goes missing in Middle East, two cops Kabir Shergill and Junaid Ansari from either side of Arabian Sea must team up for a 36-hours man-hunt before the final match between India and Pakistan.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: exciting, atmospheric, humorous, captivating, not serious
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Secretly Greatly (2013)
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 660
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IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 82
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Georgie Hung is handsome, stylish and charming but he hides a secret that his old-fashion father, Hung who is a Triad leader, can never forgive. He has been sent to Thailand since he was a child and never returned. After Hung's death, his right-hand Cheung intends to bring back Georgie to take over. However, Cheung finds Sam, Georgie's flat-mate, whom he mistakes for Geogie.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: Hong Kong
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 736
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IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 800
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 150
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 269
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IMDB Votes: 472
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 295
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 34000
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IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 676
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IMDB Votes: 66000
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