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Plot Summary:
Rod Steiger stars as a vigilante who with the aid of his helper, Isaac Hayes, captures men whom he considers evil and executes them in his homemade electric chair.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, rough, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful, black comedy, cult film
Best tv shows and movies like Guilty as Charged (1991):
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Deathrow Gameshow (1987)
Plot Summary:
Chuck Toedan's the host of a gameshow featuring death row convicts competeing in life-or-death contests in hopes of cheating the executioner or, at the very least, winning some nice prizes for their next of kin. Not surprisingly, Chuck has made more than a few enemies, from outraged viewers trying to ban his show, to families of losing contestants looking for revenge. A hitman hired by one such family has shown up at Chuck's office, and he'll need to enlist the help of his most outspoken critic to keep from ending up like most of his contestants.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 892
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, game show, independent film, rough, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Catch the Heat (1987)
Plot Summary:
Gorgeous Checkers Goldberg, a police detective, goes undercover as a stripper in order to stop a ruthless kingpin who has been using unsuspecting starlets in order to smuggle drugs into the United States. With her hot looks, street smarts and martial arts prowess, Goldberg seems to have everything she needs to catch this violent criminal -- and will stop at nothing to get the job done.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Argentina, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, fast
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A Sense of Humor (2011)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer abducts two stand-up comedians after they mock him as part of their on-stage act. If they teach him how to be funny, he might let them live.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Funland (1987)
Plot Summary:
When a mob family takes over an amusement park after the owner dies under mysterious circumstances, the recently-fired clown mascot seeks vengeance for the loss of his job.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, rough, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical
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A Fork in the Road (2010)
Plot Summary:
An escaped convict and a woman ponder what to do with a not-quite-dead body.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film
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The Census Taker (1984)
Plot Summary:
When George (Greg Mullavey) and Martha (Meredith MacRae) let Harvey (Garrett Morris), an annoying census taker, into their home, they find themselves under a barrage of increasingly abusive questions. Furious at his intrusiveness, and at their wit's end, they kill the census taker and with the help of their friends Pete (Timothy Bottoms) and Eva (Austen Tayler), must hide the body from a determined investigator.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, detective, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy
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Heads (1994)
Plot Summary:
A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, and reluctantly gets involved with the nutty daughter of his editor. Before long he discovers that he is the prime suspect in the murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy
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Teresa's Tattoo (1994)
Plot Summary:
Mathematician Teresa just wanted to study during the College spring break. But her friends, who want her to live a little, drag her out to parties. The next thing she knows, she has been drugged, kidnapped, made a redhead, tattooed, and wearing leather?!? Her captors seem to be the most inept crooks ever. They seem to have a plan, if only she could figure out why it involves her.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick, cult film
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Pros & Cons (1999)
Plot Summary:
Framed for crimes they didn't commit, two small-timers are headed up the river without a paddle. Now, the only thing that can bail them out is a case of mistaken identity. It's the hysterical prison comedy that's so funny, it's criminal!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious
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Scotland, PA (2001)
Plot Summary:
Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who has much smarter. Pat believes she could do better with the place than their boss Norm is doing, so she plans to usurp Norm, convincing Mac to rob the restaurant's safe and then murder Norm, using the robbery as a way of throwing the cops off their trail.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, witty, disturbing, talky, parody, realistic, not serious, black comedy, clever
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Susan's Plan (1998)
Plot Summary:
Susan's Plan (also released as Dying to Get Rich on video) is a 1998 black comedy film directed by John Landis and starring Nastassja Kinski, Dan Aykroyd, Billy Zane, Rob Schneider, Lara Flynn Boyle and Michael Biehn. The plot revolves around Susan's (played by Kinski) plan to kill her former husband (with the help of a group of misfits) and collect his life insurance.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, black comedy, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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Simple Justice (1989)
Plot Summary:
When an unknown assailant viciously murders the participants in a bank robbery and murder case, it could be a case of vigilante justice - that is, if the two cases are connected. That's for the police to decide - and it's a puzzle that becomes more mysterious with each new clue.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Ruthless People (1986)
Plot Summary:
A couple, cheated by a vile businessman, kidnap his wife in retaliation, without knowing that their enemy is delighted they did.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, funny, hilarious, clever, humorous, witty, offbeat, feel good, entertaining
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Down the Drain (1990)
Plot Summary:
A dishonest lawyer devises a scheme to rob a bank by recruiting criminals he has represented to do the job for him. When the robbery is completed, he learns that the "loot" from the vault is in fact a microchip containing top-secret information.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, dark comedy
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Life of Crime (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two common criminals get more than they bargained for after kidnapping the wife of a corrupt real-estate developer who shows no interest in paying the $1 million dollar ransom for her safe return.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, tricky, tense, suspense, ironic, realistic, cynical, black comedy, humorous
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Clay Pigeons (1998)
Plot Summary:
Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife, Amanda. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with their sexual affairs. Clay inadvertently befriends a serial killer named Lester Long, who murders the widow in an attempt to "help" his "fishing buddy.".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, clever, humorous, suspenseful, erotic, neo noir, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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A Shock to the System (1990)
Plot Summary:
Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has suffered through mounting bills and a nagging wife with one thing to look forward to: a well-deserved promotion. But when the promotion is given to a loud-mouthed yuppie associate, Graham unleashes his rage on an overly aggressive panhandler, who he accidently kills by pushing him into the path of an oncoming subway train. He re-thinks his problems with an entirely new solution. First, he arranges an "accident" for his annoying wife. Then he creates another "mishap" for his boss. It seems like the world is once more Graham's oyster…but a missing cigarette lighter and a prying police detective may change all that.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, suspense, suspenseful, tense, light, realistic, witty, cynical, clever
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Serial Lover (1998)
Plot Summary:
Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so that she can pick out her would-be fiancé. But an accident happens when Claire is getting the dinner ready.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, dark comedy, realistic, neo noir
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9 Dead Gay Guys (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of two lads from Belfast as they stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of 'gainful employment'. This being the offering of sexual favours to older gay men in order to subsidise their respective giros. 9 Dead Gay Guys is a high-camp send-up of gay stereotypes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, queer cinema, campy
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Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind (1991)
Plot Summary:
A gambler, a Texas ranger and an FBI agent are investigating a series of vigilante murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Partners in Crime (2000)
Plot Summary:
Gene Reardon (Hauer) is a twice-divorced police detective who lives with his daughter. When a well-heeled local man is kidnapped, the FBI is called in, which introduces Longsworth (played by Paulina Porizkova). Longsworth happens to have been Reardon's first wife. Reardon's police reputation stinks because he botched a high-profile kidnapping case many years ago, which resulted in a baby who was never found. When ransom demands are finally heard, Reardon must try to solve the case without repeating his mistakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, independent film, realistic, detective
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Officer Down (2005)
Plot Summary:
A policewoman unwittingly puts her family in danger when she uncovers corruption in her department.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, independent film, detective
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Getting Away with Murder (1996)
Plot Summary:
When the very moralistic college ethics instructor Jack Lambert finds himself living next door to an accused German death camp commander, he takes it upon himself to rid the world of this man.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, independent film, cynical, black comedy, funny, light
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Curdled (1996)
Plot Summary:
Gabriella, a Columbian immigrant, is obsessed with understanding violent crime. The current string of murders by "The Blue Blood Killer" of affluent Miami socialites provides her with fodder for her scrapbook of death. She lands a job with a post-murder cleaning service and during a Blue-Blood clean-up job, discovers evidence that police have overlooked.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, disturbing, bloody, black comedy, suspenseful, offbeat, serious, realistic, psychotronic, independent film
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True Identity (1991)
Plot Summary:
In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Pep Squad (1998)
Plot Summary:
Set in and around a small town high school in Kansas, Beth is a naive senior student who asks her two new friends, the slick and outgoing Julie, and her boyfriend Scott to help her cover up the accidental killing of the hated school principal. But they are observed by Terra, a student nominated for prom queen, who blackmails them into rigging the election in her favor. Undaunted, Beth, Julie and Scott turn to the most popular/hated student Cherry to kill Terra for them. Cherry agrees to the hit, but only if she gets Terra's nomination for prom queen and the crown as well which sets off more complications for all involved.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: black comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, dark comedy
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Free Money (1998)
Plot Summary:
The Swede (Marlon Brando), a prison warden, rules his family and his prison with an iron hand in one of the coldest parts of North Dakota. When an inmate dies under mysterious circumstances, however, the FBI sends in agent Karen Polarski (Mira Sorvino) to investigate. On the home front, the sons-in-law of the Swede, Larry (Thomas Haden Church) and Bud (Charlie Sheen) accidentally discover that a train loaded with millions of dollars of unmarked currency slated to be destroyed will soon be passing through. The temptation is too great and the guys hatch a scheme to rob the train. Of course, the biggest obstacle in their way is the Swede.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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More Dogs Than Bones (2000)
Plot Summary:
A series of mishaps and misfortunes over $1 million in cash leads to murder, mayhem and greed.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, dark comedy, independent film, realistic, surprise ending, black comedy
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Chain of Fools (2000)
Plot Summary:
An avid detective is assigned to investigate the heist of a batch of precious coins that end up in the hands of a suicidal barber.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, clever, witty, funny, light, absurd, dark comedy, cynical, stylized, realistic
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Life (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two men in 1930s Mississippi become friends after being sentenced to life in prison together for a crime they did not commit.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, feel good, hilarious, hood, black comedy, retro, realistic