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Plot Summary:
Jack is pleased with himself for the first time in years. He has decided to stop fucking anything with a pulse and also to cut back on his eager and enthusiastic drug use. Then his best friend crashes into a moose in the middle of the night on the Swedish border. He is found with a hoof buried in his forehead and 2.5 kilos of cocaine in the trunk. Over the next 24 hours, Jack loses his house, his girlfriend leaves him and takes their daughter with her. And as he is about to find out: when you think you have hit rock bottom, it can always get worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, dark comedy, tense, suspense, captivating, dark, humorous, semi serious
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Joe + Belle (2011)
Plot Summary:
An accidental murder brings two girls together in a series of wild crimes and romance over the course of an evening.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, captivating, tense, exciting, rough, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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A Somewhat Gentle Man (2010)
Plot Summary:
After serving a 12-year sentence for killing the man that slept with his wife, a man ponders whether he should try and reconcile with his family, or take revenge on those who turned him in.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, captivating, psychological, tense, funny, depressing, dark, cult classic
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I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (2007)
Plot Summary:
Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they might not have what it takes for a life of crime.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, stylized, dark comedy, black and white, non-linear, neo noir, silent, silent film
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Too Fat Too Furious (2005)
Plot Summary:
Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biological (serial killer) son, his employees who in his absence turned his snack-bar into a quiche bakery, a suicidal manic-depressive woman and a Yougoslavian who keeps unintendedly blowing things up. They need to get 300000 Euro to get Bennies father a new liver. Complicating matters are that Bennie is.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, realistic, dark comedy, witty, exciting, spoof
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I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2014)
Plot Summary:
A university researcher is fired because of the cuts to university. To earn a living he decides to produce drugs recruiting his former colleagues, who despite their skills are living at the margins of society.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, funny, sexy, intercultural, cult classic
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Small Time (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ben is a small-time gangster who gets the opportunity to earn a lot of money. His boss sends him to a remote ranch with bag full of drugs and orders him to wait for the buyer. But the routine drug deal turns to disaster because of Ben’s unprofessional associates.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, crime drama, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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North (2009)
Plot Summary:
Following a nervous breakdown, ski athlete Jomar has isolated himself in a lonely existence as the guard of a ski park. When he learns that he might be the father of a child way up north, he sets on a strange and poetic journey through Norway on a snowmobile, with 5 liters of alcohol as sole provisions. On this trip through amazing arctic landscapes, Jomar seems to do everything in his power to avoid reaching his destination. He meets other tender and confused souls, who will all contribute to push Jomar further along his reluctant journey towards the brighter side of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: road movie, atmospheric, humorous, psychological, captivating, dark, dark comedy, realistic, cynical, gloomy
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The Art of Negative Thinking (2006)
Plot Summary:
The local disability support group visits an involuntary member, not realizing that it will bring them to a critical mass.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, semi serious, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, dark, cult classic, surprise ending, feel good, exciting
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You Really Got Me (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jan's fastfood-business is going bankrupt, his girlfriend has left him, and he is being exploited by his live-in father. Therefore, he has nothing to loose when he gets mixed up in the kidnapping of famous rock star Iver Mo. But Jan has never been able to do anything right his whole life, and there are others who want to get their hands on the ransom money.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 559
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, cynical, semi serious, dark comedy, dark, clever, realistic, cult film
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The Mule (2014)
Plot Summary:
In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, realistic, stylized
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The Dope (2003)
Plot Summary:
Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of marijuana that was engineered by the Nazis. Their decision to begin selling the stuff leads to a variety of people chasing after them.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, light, feel good, offbeat
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Hotel Oasis (2001)
Plot Summary:
The life of motel owner is turned upside down by a femme-fatale lounge singer and her abusive manager.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, cynical, suspenseful, exciting, tense, touching, suspense
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Snowman's Land (2010)
Plot Summary:
When the wife of a crime boss is accidentally killed, the hit man who was hired to protect the remote house in which she was living tries to keep her death under wraps. Fearing vengeance from the gangster, he's soon locked in a fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, serious, realistic, cynical, dark comedy, atmospheric, offbeat
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On the Run (1999)
Plot Summary:
Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night in New York that will change both their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Portugal, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, biting, black comedy, dark comedy, suspense
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Stand Off (2011)
Plot Summary:
In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally owned by the same Mobster. On the run, Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop, where he takes hostage an assortment of colorful characters, including Maguire, who may be his illegitimate father. Surrounded by the Police, the SAS, and the Mobster's crew, the young man must find a way out of his precarious predicament with the help of his oddball captives.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, offbeat, interesting
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Mad Dogs (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a group of underachieving 40-something friends gather in Belize to celebrate the early retirement of an old friend, a series of wild, comedic events unfold, exposing dark secrets and a web of lies, deception and murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, light, humorous, dark comedy, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dag (2010)
Plot Summary:
Meet Dag, a couple's therapist who holds a 90% divorce rate. His philosophy in life is that people should live alone and he's happy to share that with his patients. Dag leads a quiet life and the only thing he loves more than his solitude is prescription drugs. However, Dag's peaceful existence is about to change radically when Eva enters his life.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: cynical, humorous, realistic, funny, captivating, dark comedy, hilarious, semi serious, black comedy, mad
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Made (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two aspiring boxers lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, dark comedy, clever, realistic, talky, independent film, semi serious, witty, entertaining
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Rancid Aluminum (2000)
Plot Summary:
Pete Thompson thinks he has it all. However, following the death of his father his close friend and accountant reveals the company he has been left is bust and the only way out is to do business with the Russian mafia. His life and heart are on the line when he leave to restore the fortunes of the family firm.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, tense, sad, offbeat, realistic, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Sucker Punch (2003)
Plot Summary:
Mike Sullivan spends his nights kidnapping runaways so his boss, Lamar, can turn them into prostitutes. He is a crack addict and a thief and he is in love with a resentful prostitute, Rhonda, who doesn't love him back. Although he has aspirations of escaping this world, it isn't until he is nearly killed by corrupt cops for stealing money from his boss that he decides to redeem himself. In an attempt to save his own soul, he tries to get Rhonda out of the business, and is forced to battle Lamar and his henchmen, as well as Rhonda's unwillingness to change. As punishment for betraying Lamar, Mike is forced into a series of misdeeds, and in a shocking ending, must commit unredeemable acts as he tries to save Rhonda and himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, tense, semi serious, crime drama, rough, serious, realistic, disturbing, independent film
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Weirdsville (2007)
Plot Summary:
A pair of slackers get in way over their heads when they try to dump the body of a dead girlfriend in the basement of a drive-in movie theater where a satanic cult performs ritual sacrifices.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, black comedy, offbeat, realistic, idiotic
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Bank Roll (2012)
Plot Summary:
Set in present day Burbank, California and the surrounding San Fernando Valley area, . BENNY BIG-TIME (The BBT) learns his brother has been arrested on suspicion of a few recent bank robberies. With every bit of the life savings he's socked away over the years, The BBT hatches a plan to help out this older brother escape the repercussions of his fate by complicating his own with the assistance of five close friends -- ERIK, DEREK, JAMIE, K.C. and KYLE. The gang have only four days to create a 'red herring' that will throw off the officials and clear The BBT's brother's name by actually robbing a small bank. If all goes to plan, this is enough 'reasonable doubt' in the brother's case to clear his name. The BBT figures to exactly recreate his brother's crime and arm himself with only a few folders of photographs which contain the bank tellers' friends, families, pets, places of residence and ... Written by Doug Maguire.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, tense, light, captivating, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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Thin Ice (2011)
Plot Summary:
A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy, psychological, dark, clever, neo noir, suspenseful
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Dom Hemingway (2013)
Plot Summary:
After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: talky, stylized, witty, bad ending, suspense, satirical, humorous, realistic, cynical, comedy drama
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Fifty Pills (2006)
Plot Summary:
A combination of unfortunate circumstances force Darren into the situation where he has to sell off the eponymous stash of drugs in a limited time frame.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, disturbing
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Refuge (2010)
Plot Summary:
The shimmering New Mexico sun bleaches the earth and reflects off towering thunderheads. From inside an RV nestled among the desert brush just off a barely-paved road, the middle-of-nowhere silence is broken by one quick and alarming gunshot. Nothing moves. Moments later, out of the waves of a heat mirage emerges a leather clad Darryl Tripp, high school English teacher, astride a screaming motorcycle. His mission is to toss his just completed first novel to the four winds, an act of self-loathing and despair. As he stops and pulls the novel out of his satchel, his motorcycle sputters and dies, out of fuel. He stands high on his cycle and spies the lone RV, a hope of help. He rolls his motorcycle to the RV, knocks, gets no answer. He opens the unlocked door, steps inside, taking shelter. As he finishes a phone call with his fiancée, deputy district attorney Helen Kaufman, promising to be on time for their engagement party that evening, Amelia Philips, hospice nurse and RV owner,.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric, independent film, touching, offbeat, realistic
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Gridlock'd (1997)
Plot Summary:
After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, hood, harsh, talky, stylized, realistic, disturbing, rough, humorous, black comedy
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Money for Nothing (1993)
Plot Summary:
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, intense, humorous, realistic, captivating, factual, detective, anamorphic, hilarious, clever
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Homegrown (1998)
Plot Summary:
Three laborers on a Northern California marijuana plantation become increasingly paranoid when they learn that their boss has been murdered. They know enough to run, taking with them enough of the crop to pay them for services rendered. Hooking up with go-between Lucy in the next town, they plot their next move.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, stylized, realistic, humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, funny, clever, enigmatic, feel good
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The Big White (2005)
Plot Summary:
To remedy his financial problems, a travel agent has his eye on a frozen corpse, which just happens to be sought after by two hitmen.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, clever, realistic, black comedy, cult classic, hilarious, tense, funny, dark