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Plot Summary:
LA homicide detective Gene Handsome's knack for solving mysteries is matched only by his inability to make sense of his own problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, colorful, detective, colourful
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Dogwoman: Dead Dog Walking (2000)
Plot Summary:
Margaret O'Halloran is a dog trainer with a unique talent and a nose for a mystery. Now an old lady has been savaged to death, her faithful dog is the prime suspect. But Margaret smells a murderer of the two legged variety.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, serious, captivating, suspenseful, surprise ending, comic
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Super Crazy (2018)
Plot Summary:
A 36-year-old meek woman realizes that there’s younger people trying to outpace her doing much less, so she makes a risky change by removing her filter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, romantic, colorful, colourful
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A Trap for Lonely Man (1990)
Plot Summary:
Daniel Corban reports his wife Elizabeth missing to the police. A priest arrives and says he has found her. When he brings her in, Corban insists she is not his wife. When several other people arrive and verify she is Elizabeth, Daniel feel's he is loosing the grip on reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: detective
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Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes is awakened in modern times with a tale that he had invented a method of suspended animation that he had utilized on himself. Awakened by an earthquake, he is helped by Amy Winslow, who lives at 1994 Baker Street in San Francisco. There he is joined by a new group of Baker Street Irregulars led by Zapper. His battles lead him to the evil Moriarty clan led by James Moriarty Booth.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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Coffee, Kill Boss (2013)
Plot Summary:
When ten executives secretly meet to sell off their company, they're murdered one by one in this darkly comedic romp through the halls of corporate America.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, suspense, hilarious, teen, realistic
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Clean Slate (1994)
Plot Summary:
Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle of a hot investigation and has a developing romance, this is less than convenient.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, melancholic, witty, talky, semi serious, detective, independent film, psychological, funny
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The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992)
Plot Summary:
Betty Lou is a librarian in a very small town. Her husband is a police detective who takes her for granted. Betty Lou is the ultimate mouse. After a gangland figure is mysteriously murdered in town, Betty Lou finds the murder weapon, but can't get anyone's attention to tell them (we're talking very mousey, here). Finally in a fit of frustration she fires the gun in a restroom and when taken to the police station insists she is the murderer. It has the desired effect, people do pay attention to her. With hints at social graces from the hookers in her cell block, she's on her way.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, funny, light, romantic, atmospheric, sexy, clever
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This Girl for Hire (1983)
Plot Summary:
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a obnoxious mystery writer. Along the way, Brady gets help from her flamboyant mother Zandra, a washed-up actress, as well as Brady's live-in boyfriend Wolfe who runs a memorabilia shop.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical, semi serious, slapstick, spoof, parody, eighties
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Jiminy Glick in Lalawood (2004)
Plot Summary:
"La La Wood" follows the legacy of Jiminy Glick, first introduced on "The Martin Short Show," who went on to get (non)-critical acclaim for his talk show "Primetime Glick," where Mr. Glick interviewed countless celebrities (which usually ended in verbally--sometimes physically--insulting/assaulting them). Now comes "La La Wood"--Jiminy Glick's home. This is his story (sort of).
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, cynical, not serious, clever, offbeat, realistic, talky, biting, spoof
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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)
Plot Summary:
Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen who is the prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, fast, psychotronic
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Otto's Eleven (2009)
Plot Summary:
Otto is a man from a little German island, where he lives together with his friends. He gets his treasure, an expensive painting, stolen by a casino owner and his female assistent, so Otto starts travelling to the main land with his friends. Will he get it back?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Mystery
Country: Germany, Brazil, USA, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good, funny, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, cult film
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Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)
Plot Summary:
Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, absurd, light, detective, not serious, realistic, witty, sweet, entertaining, slapstick comedy
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Diagnosis: Death (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two people meet as guinea pigs in a weekend drug trial.They soon discover their lives are in more danger than they imagined. The staff are peculiar. The drugs cause hallucinations. Or is the clinic really haunted? Struggling with their senses, they must team up to unravel a spooky mystery.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, scary, light, funny, offbeat
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The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975)
Plot Summary:
Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: spoof, dark comedy, parody, independent film, humorous, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, witty, not serious
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The Trixxer (2004)
Plot Summary:
Auf dem Weg von Bitterfeld nach London verirrt sich ein sächsisches Pärchen im Wald. Ein hinterhältiges Subjekt hat den Wegweiser verdreht! So werden die beiden Zeuge, wie "der Mönch mit der Peitsche" vorsätzlich über den Haufen gefahren wird. Zur Aufklärung des mysteriösen Falles schickt Scotland-Yard-Chef Sir John seinen besten Mann auf die Jagd: Inspektor Even Longer. Die psychisch labile Spürnase macht sich mit seinem neuen Partner Very Long sogleich ans Werk.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, witty, not serious, humorous, funny, grindhouse, parody, spoof
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Lucky (2011)
Plot Summary:
A wannabe serial killer wins the lottery and pursues his lifelong crush.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, dark comedy, light, funny, grindhouse, realistic, semi serious
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Wrong (2012)
Plot Summary:
Dolph Springer wakes up one morning to realize he has lost the love of his life, his dog, Paul. During his quest to get Paul (and his life) back, Dolph radically changes the lives of others -- risking his sanity all the while.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: France, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surreal, experimental, humorous, not serious, mindfuck, black comedy, philosophical, underground film, fast paced, existential
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A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Plot Summary:
A Shot in the Dark is the second and more successful film from the Pink Panther film series where both animated and real life sequences are mixed. A cult classic from Blake Edwards based on the play L’Idiot by Marcel Achard and Harry Kurnitz.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: detective, funny, hilarious, atmospheric, humorous, witty, sweet, slasher, educational, ironic
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Oh Heavenly Dog (1980)
Plot Summary:
Browning is a PI with a bad cold, who's sent to investigate a case by a mysterious client. He stumbles across the body of a young woman and is stabbed to death, and when he wakes up in heaven, they tell him he's "marginal material," and they can only decide on his final destination through one last assignment: to go back and solve his own murder. As a dog. A cute fluffy little dog (Benji). Undaunted, Browning begins to investigate the case as best he can around his canine disabilities (dialing the phone presents a special challenge) to solve the murders, save the girl, and see justice done.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, entertaining, semi serious, cult classic, detective, surprise ending, romantic, clever
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The Private Eyes (1980)
Plot Summary:
Don Knotts and Tim Conway star in The Private Eyes, a 1980 comedy about two bumbling detectives solving a murder. It's an impressively incompetent affair. Every ancient joke falls with a muffled thud as Knotts and Conway ham their way through the pointless story: The lord and lady of a capacious manor are killed, and the lord's ghost seems to have returned to knock off the staff one by one. There'.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, spooky, suspenseful, not serious, surprise ending, independent film, scary, funny
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Dark and Stormy Night (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930s the family of old Sinas Cavinder, gathered for the reading of his will, find themselves being murdered by a mysterious phantom while two rival reporters compete for the story.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, suspenseful, not serious, captivating, black and white, offbeat, retro, spoof, spooky
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My Man Is a Loser (2014)
Plot Summary:
When it comes to women, playboy Mike has all the right moves. So when Mike's buddies ask for advice on how to reconnect with their wives, Mike figures he'll share some secrets and help the guys regain their marriage mojo. But when Mike's lessons start backfiring with hilarious results, it takes a beautiful, no-nonsense friend to show Mike he still has a thing or two to learn about relationships.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good, funny, independent film, fun
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Do You Do You Saint-Tropez (2021)
Plot Summary:
Every summer, the Billionaire Tranchant and his wife Eliane host the glamorous world of celebrities in their luxurious mansion in the south of France. When a criminal car sabotage related to threatening letters wreak havoc in the villa, Tranchant goes in search of the best agent for the investigation. In the middle of this hot summer, only the arrogant and incompetent agent Boullin is available... To catch the suspect and solve the mystery, he will have no choice but to impersonate a newly hired butler and will turn everyone’s vacation into a hilarious game of ‘Cluedo’!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Mystery Team (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of former Encyclopedia Brown-style child-detectives struggle to solve an adult mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, independent film, light, feel good, detective, spoof, offbeat, realistic
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Herman's Head (1991)
Plot Summary:
Herman's Head is an American sitcom that aired on the Fox network from September 8, 1991 until April 21, 1994. The series was created by Andy Guerdat and Steve Kreinberg, and produced by Witt/Thomas Productions in association with Touchstone Television. William Ragsdale stars as the titular character, Herman Brooks.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, witty, not serious, light, hilarious, psychological, clever
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Shy of Normal: Tales of New Life Experiences (2011)
Plot Summary:
An author (Brinke Stevens) cures her struggle with writer's block by making up funny short stories about random people she sees in public.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, independent film, cult film
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Down Dog (2015)
Plot Summary:
A handsome, carefree yoga instructor has breezed through life, women, and jobs, but when he breaks up with his girlfriend -- who's also his partner at their successful yoga studio -- he's forced to face reality for the first time. A satirical look at LA's yoga culture that stars Josh Casaubon (I Just Want My Pants Back), Paget Brewster (Criminal Minds), and Kris Kristofferson (Lone Star).
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 32 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, feel good, light, sitcom, independent film
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7 Chinese Brothers (2015)
Plot Summary:
Larry is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. Taking a part-time job vacuuming and washing windshields, Larry finds himself mixed up with hostile co-workers and unsatisfied customers, while also finding himself smitten with his lovely boss, Lupe Torrez. Will Larry keep it together long enough to win the girl, provide for man's best friend (his dog Arrow), and do his grandmother proud?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, independent film
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Plot Summary:
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man . . . or beast!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 319000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, absurd, humorous, funny, detective, entertaining, slapstick, hilarious, parody, talky
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American Sophomore (2012)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school kids enjoy many adventures throughout their formative tenth grade year.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, light, teen comedy