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Plot Summary:
Charlie Tully and womanising Reggie Peek con two rich Italians out of £500,000 but during their flight out Charlie is arrested for coning an American and a dog. Reggie stores the money in a Swiss Bank and after Charlie is released is about to tell him which Bank when he is killed by Sid Sabbath's gang whose girlfriend Reggie had an affair with. The only lead is four tattoos that is on the girls Reggie had affairs with while Charlie was in jail. But Sabbath is on Charlie's trail to kill him and the Italians contract the mob - to find the money and then kill him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying
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Plot Summary:
The sequel to a popular teenage crime comedy Kamarád do deste (1988). The same tandem of friends (Lukás Vaculík and Sagvan Tofi) now operates disco 'Brooklyn'. The crook they cleverly put behind bars (Karel Augusta) is preparing to pay them back and they try to get the better of him once again. Shot in attractive locations of night clubs, the film profits from the local popularity of male stars.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Crime, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: crying, detective, freeze frame
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A hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he must entice his former clients away from the law abiding lives they are now living to recover the evidence that will save him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Spain
Duration: 83 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: crying, detective, poliziottesco
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Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (1971)
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
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She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks (1970)
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Housemaid Georgette (Girardot) loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 568
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Country: France
Duration: 80 min
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The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
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The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upset's the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: UK
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Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is told that he has only three months to live due to him getting cancer. After thinking things over he decides that since he is dying anyway that he will kill or destroy all the people that has ever crossed or hurt him during his entire life. So Parting Shots becomes literally the shots fired by Harry when he knows he is parting this earth. After all, he will be dead anyway long before he can come to trial and get his just desserts from society. Harry even falls in love with Jill and hires an assassin to kill him in style. However there is just one small problem with Harry's master plan - the cancer diagnosis is totally inaccurate and now he's got a hitman on his trail and several policemen want to talk to him over some murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
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One of the great comic book movies of all time from director Mario Bava.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
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Country: Italy, France
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Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a hearse. Unaware she is the mistress of a notorious gangster, Fulbert is chased by thugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 434
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Country: UK
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 36000
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IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 528
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 605
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Country: UK
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Two disillusioned New York policemen plan a $10 million robbery to fuel their low pensions, only to run into one debacle after another in the process.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 851
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Jonny dreams of leaving his dead-end job as a courier. Through his childhood best friend, nephew of the notorious crime lord Ray Kreed, he wins his way into the toughest gang in North London. Hungry for action, Jonny sparks a feud between Ray's gang and a rival firm in South London headed by drug kingpin Sean and his lieutenant Matthew.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
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Half Baked (1998)
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Three lovable party buds try to bail their friend out of jail. But just when the guys have mastered a plan, everything comes dangerously close to going up in smoke.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 67000
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 153000
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IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 425
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
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A diamond advocate is attempting to steal a collection of diamonds, yet troubles arise when he realizes that he is not the only one after the diamonds.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 151000
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 271000
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Country: UK, USA
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