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Plot Summary:
Police Commissioner Rizzo, Bigfoot (Piedone by nickname) and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing. The professor has discovered an insect that can smell where oil is and lots of criminals are interested in it. Written by Salvatore Santangelo.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: cult classic, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, poliziottesco, cult film
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On Probation (2005)
Plot Summary:
Díaz is a burly seen-it-all cop who's depressed about his marriage. Silverstein is a skinny Jewish shrink who's assigned to help him back to his job. Soon Silverstein is taking advice from Díaz about *his* marriage, and is learning how to handle a gun. Good thing, for they find themselves in a stew of murder, arms dealers and corrupt cops, and only their new friendship will get them out alive.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Argentina
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic, neo noir, crime drama, buddy comedy, feel good
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Flatfoot in Hong Kong (1975)
Plot Summary:
Piedone (Bigfoot) Rizzo is accused of drug trafficking. In order to clear his name he has to find out who is the person, from a Mafia ring, who has infiltrated his police department.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: cult classic, dark comedy, poliziottesco, cult film
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Flatfoot in Africa (1978)
Plot Summary:
Commissary Rizzo in Napoli gets a message from a policeman from South Africa who wants to meet him. Immediatlz before this meeting the south African policeman is killed. Dying he shows Rizzo a picture of his little son Bodo. Riyyo travels to Johannesburg to find out what the policeman was working on and to find Bodo.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, poliziottesco
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Bomber (1982)
Plot Summary:
Bomber is an unemployed boat captain. One day he meets Jerry, a manager of boxers who are struck by the force of his fists. That is when they see the chance to win big money.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Action, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Run, Run, Joe! (1974)
Plot Summary:
When a don who they were suppose to protect ends up dead, his bodyguard and bodyguard's friend must go under cover to escape the wrath of mob.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, poliziottesco
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Trinity: Gambling for High Stakes (1978)
Plot Summary:
This movie is about a navy Lieutenant named Johnny Firpo who is ordered to work with the Miami Police force to help stop a gang of crooked card sharks. He needs the help of a pro gambler-now retired named Charlie Firpo. Charlie won't help Johnny, so Johnny steals Charlies transfer truck and he then agrees to help him. They both find out that they are half brothers. Johnny convinces Charlie that their father is "Blind" and need to raise $ 100,000 for an eye operation. So Charlie becomes a gambler again just to raise the money.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Sport
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, independent film, detective, cult film
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Watch Out, We're Mad (1974)
Plot Summary:
After a tied 1st place in a local stunt race, two drivers start a contest to decide who of them will own the prize, a dune buggy. But when a mobster destroys the car, they are determined to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, exciting, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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Drive Hard (2014)
Plot Summary:
A former race car driver is abducted by a mysterious thief and forced to be the wheel-man for a crime that puts them both in the sights of the cops and the mob.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, action comedy, road movie, realistic
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Inspector Blunder (1980)
Plot Summary:
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, detective, cult film
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Trinity: Good Guys and Bad Guys (1985)
Plot Summary:
In 1978, $20 million was stolen from a Detroit bank. One of the robbers was caught, one was found dead, and the third disappeared. The money was never found. Seven years later, the robber who was caught was released from jail. He immediately went to Miami, only to be found dead the next day. Now FBI agents Doug Bennet and Steve Forest have been called in to investigate the case while posing as Miami police officers. Somewhere in Miami the third robber is hiding with his $20 million, and he has a seven-year head start on the authorities.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, cult classic, buddy comedy
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The Junkman (1982)
Plot Summary:
As film-maker Harlan Hollis drives to a James Dean festival, he's unaware that killers are tracking his every move. The fast and furious race to avoid their net, stay alive and discover who is behind this lethal plan, will take Hollis through a fiery battle, turning highways and city streets into a blazing junkyard.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: action thriller, independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, fast, psychotronic, cult film
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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 Knock Out Cop (1973)
Plot Summary:
This cop doesn't carry a gun - his fist is loaded!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slapstick, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, fast, poliziottesco, slapstick comedy
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Badges of Fury (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a spate of eerie murders erupts across HK two troub/emaking cops are assigned to the case. Young maverick Wang and grizzled vet Huang who is fed up with his reckless younger partner always landing them in hot water. Reaching a dead end after discovering all the victims were former boyfriends of aspiring starlet Liu, the detectives must play a deadly game. One of them must go undercover as Liu’s lover to lure the killer out.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, semi serious, realistic, humorous, detective, spoof, slapstick comedy, parody
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The Super Cops (1974)
Plot Summary:
The true story of two New York City cops. Greenberg & Hantz fought the system, became detectives and were known on the streets as "Batman & Robin".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, exciting, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, neo noir, cult film
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I'm for the Hippopotamus (1979)
Plot Summary:
In Africa, many years ago, Slim and Tom don't like it when a German tyrant, starts selling all of the African wildlife to Canadian Zoo's! Slim and Tom must teach this guy a lesson by beating the hell out of him and his gang, left and right! Written by Mark MacIntyre {[email protected]}.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy, South Africa, West Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, exciting, not serious, slapstick, buddy comedy, independent film
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The Tough Ones (1976)
Plot Summary:
A tough, violent cop who doesn't mind bending the law goes after a machine-gun-carrying, hunchbacked psychotic killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, cult classic, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending, tragic ending, cult film
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Go for It (1983)
Plot Summary:
Mason is driving a truck when he takes on his lorry Rosco a hitchhiker. Traffic police stop them for a control but they are confused for two robbers. They manage to escape in a very strange way from this situation, but just to fall in a worse one. They run to the airport trying to take the first flight available. The couple not only succeeds to have a free flight to Miami but someone give them a bag full of million dollars. Later Rosco and Mason will understand that this time they were confused for two secret agents but it is too late, now they are too deeply involved in the situation. Obviously a funny situation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, exciting, parody, humorous, not serious, slapstick, fast, road movie, independent film, spoof
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Crime Busters (1977)
Plot Summary:
An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, not serious, entertaining, buddy comedy, poliziottesco, realistic, slapstick
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On the Other Side of the Tracks (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two mismatched cops team up to investigate the murder of a business mogul's wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, semi serious, realistic, detective, hilarious, biting, suspense
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The Corsican File (2004)
Plot Summary:
Jack Palmer is a Paris-based detective with a huge ego. Ange Leoni is a rebel native of Corsica whose location can't be pinned down by even the most dogged of detectives. Approached by an obscure, small-time attorney and charged with the seemingly simple task of locating the missing Leoni, gifted gumshoe Palmer accepts the job under the assumption that it will be the easiest money of his professional career. But this superstar sleuth is about to find out just how mistaken he was.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, rough, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Two Tough Guys (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two botcher killers, Paco and Alex carry out a crime caper. Later on, they are joined by Tatiana - a young whore, who shows great love for Alex. In pursuing its objective the losers will face a group of murderers, a butcher with dark business, a nasty gangster and a lot more.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Comedy, Action, Crime
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, rough, suspenseful, semi serious, dark comedy, exciting, realistic, stylized, black comedy
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Even Angels Eat Beans (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two nice guys, a wrestler (Bud Spencer) and an Ice-cream vendor (Giuliano Gemma) are mistaken for dangerous killers by an important local gangster, whose nickname is "Sorriso". With the help of many funny coincidences they play along with Sorriso "working" for him, just to survive, but, when they receive the order to butcher the components of a very indigent family they are unmasked and.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Bad Asses on the Bayou (2015)
Plot Summary:
The third installment in the successful Bad Ass action-comedy franchise. Bad Asses on the Bayou reunites the dynamic duo, Frank Vega (Danny Trejo) and Bernie Pope (Danny Glover), as they travel to Louisiana to attend the wedding of their dear friend Carmen Gutierrez (Loni Love). What was pictured as a wedding weekend escape to the south turns violently ugly as madness and mayhem ensue, pressing our senior heroes to once again serve justice.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, action comedy, independent film
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The Bodyguard 2 (2007)
Plot Summary:
The best agent of Vieng, the country near the boundary of Thailand received the important mission that he had to catch two armed dealers who could be the dangerous for his country.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: rough, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, exciting, humorous
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Keep Your Hands Off the Island (1981)
Plot Summary:
Alan gets a map to some war treasure which the Japanese army left behind on a small Pacific island at the end of World War II. But some gangsters try to steal the map from him and so he hides on Charlie's boat which just leaves the harbor. He manipulates the ship's compass so that Charlie is not aware that he is sailing to the treasure island. But when they step on the island, they discover that it is not as abandoned as they believed: there are some natives - and a Japanese soldier still defending the treasure.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Action
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, buddy comedy, independent film
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My Lucky Stars (1985)
Plot Summary:
Two Hong-Kong cops are sent to Tokyo to catch an ex-cop who stole a large amount of money in diamonds. After one is captured by the Ninja-gang protecting the rogue cop, the other one gets his old Orphanage gang, dubbed the "Five Lucky Stars," to help him. They don't like this much, but they do it.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: cult classic, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fast
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Christmas Rush (2002)
Plot Summary:
In the season of giving, the department took his badge. Criminals took his wife. Now, one cop is taking matters into his own hands.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Action, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, tense, fast
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Jilla (2014)
Plot Summary:
A cop decides to take on his godfather, who raised him from childhood, and make him realize the error of his ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 185 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, psychological, tense, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, cult film
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Fool N Final (2007)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of misfits and gangsters embarks on a journey to find a lost and stolen diamond.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious