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Plot Summary:
A master thief (James Coburn) and his drug-addicted partner teach two aspiring crooks (Michael Sarrazin, Trish Van Devere) how to steal wallets.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, detective
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Born to Win (1971)
Plot Summary:
The film follows Jay Jay, a former hair dresser who has become a drug addict. He lives his new life by doing deals for Vivian from time to time. One day he meets Parm, a free-spirited girl. The two fall in love. Jay Jay's drug habit grows, and he soon resorts to robbery. On the threat of arrest, he works alongside two dirty policemen by becoming a narc, and reports on his former fellow junkies. Yet, as the movie continues, Jay Jay sinks deeper into turmoil with feelings of self-hatred.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: suspense, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Bill Collector (2010)
Plot Summary:
Uncle Frankie (Danny Trejo) is not the kind of guy you want to meet in a dark alley. Especially when you owe him money and have been giving him the slip for a few years. Such is the fate of Lorenzo Adams (Gary Moore), a top bill collector at Lump Sum Collections. Uncle Frankie has tracked Lorenzo to Norfolk, Virginia and is coming to collect.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense, christian film, realistic, independent film
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Your Three Minutes Are Up (1973)
Plot Summary:
Charlie is a sad sack of a man, working at a depressingly dull office job and stuck in a passionless engagement to a neurotic woman. One of the few bright spots in his life is his friend Mike, who seems to be living a life of carefree bohemianism.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film
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Ratboy (1986)
Plot Summary:
A failed window dresser exploits a being with rat-like features in an effort to make money.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Baltimore Bullet (1980)
Plot Summary:
A tale of two hustlers trying to set up a big game.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: independent film, freeze frame
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Dear Mr. Wonderful (1982)
Plot Summary:
Joe Pesci is a small man looking for a big break. Owner of a bowling alley and nightclub in Jersey, Ruby Dennis (Pesci) sets his sites on making it big in Vegas. But Ruby finds more than he gambled for and in the end is a much bigger man for it.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Crime, Drama, Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: eighties
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Sweet Revenge (1976)
Plot Summary:
Sweet Revenge was originally shipped out as Dandy, the All-American Girl. The multitalented Stockard Channing plays a car thief with a penchant for elaborate disguises. She hopes to trade in her stolen goods and purchase a snazzy sports model for herself. Sam Waterston costars as a public defender who, much against his will, falls in love with the charming thief. Producer/director Jerry Schatzberg seems so certain of Channing's considerable talents that he feels a coherent story is unecessary.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: anamorphic, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Choirboys (1977)
Plot Summary:
A group of Los Angeles cops decide to take off some of the pressures of their jobs by engaging in various forms of after-hours debauchery.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, independent film, bleak, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious
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Dead Heat on a Merry-Go-Round (1966)
Plot Summary:
A sophisticated con man mounts an intricate plan to rob an airport bank while the Soviet premier is due to arrive.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, fast
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Hunting Elephants (2013)
Plot Summary:
In this hilarious crime comedy, a gifted 12-year-old boy and three elderly men plan a bank robbery in order to seek revenge on the institution for cheating the youngster after the death of his father.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, biting, suspense
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The Brink's Job (1978)
Plot Summary:
After a long time of bad luck, the little criminal Tony and his gang successfully rob one of Brink's security transport, taking $30,000. Surprisingly their coup doesn't make the press. Curious Tony checks out their headquarters and finds out that their security standard is low beyond belief. Now a really big coup is prepared... Written by Tom Zoerner.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, humorous, semi serious, neo noir, action thriller
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Cops and Robbers (1973)
Plot Summary:
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
Genere: Crime, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, crying
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Kiss or Kill (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two lovers, Nikki and Al, have a scam in which Nikki allows herself to be picked up by older men, drugs them, and, with Al's help, robs them. After accidentally killing one of her victims with an overdose, Nikki and Al are on the run.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, disturbing, road movie, independent film, detective
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A Piece of the Action (1977)
Plot Summary:
How does retired cop Joshua Burke (James Earl Jones) get two career criminals, Manny Durrell (Sidney Poitier) and Dave Anderson (Bill Cosby), to follow the straight and narrow? Con them into helping juvenile delinquents turn over a new leaf. But how? Burke has never been able to nail the duo, but he uses what he knows of their seedy past to blackmail them into volunteering.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: detective, black comedy, action comedy, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black cinema
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Things Change (1988)
Plot Summary:
Jerry, a misfit Mafia henchman, is assigned the low-level job of keeping an eye on Gino, a shoe repairman fingered by the Mob to confess to a murder he didn't commit. But Gino's mistaken for a Mafia boss, and the two are suddenly catapulted to the highest levels of mobster status. Only friendship will see them through this dangerous adventure alive!.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: clever, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, psychological, tense, light, noir
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Thieves Like Us (1974)
Plot Summary:
Bowie, a youthful convicted murderer, and bank robbers Chicamaw and T-Dub escape from a Mississippi chain gang in the 1930s. They hole up with a gas station attendant and continue robbing banks. Bowie, who is injured in an auto accident, takes refuge with the daughter of the gas station attendant, Keechie. They become romantically involved but their relationship is strained by Bowie's refusal to turn his back on crime. The film is based on the novel Thieves Like Us by Edward Anderson. The novel is also the source material for the 1949 film They Live by Night, directed by Nicholas Ray.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: neo noir, road movie, sincere, bleak, serious, realistic
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Plot Summary:
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sad, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, semi autobiographical, suspense
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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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Dollars (1971)
Plot Summary:
A bank security expert plots with a call girl to rob the safety deposit boxes of three very different criminals from a high-tech bank in Hamburg.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, semi serious, buddy comedy
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Eating Raoul (1982)
Plot Summary:
A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discover a bizarre, if not murderous way to get funding for opening a restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, cult classic, funny, dark, surreal, humorous, witty, erotic, psychedelic
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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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Squizzy Taylor (1982)
Plot Summary:
This Australian crime drama chronicles the life of notorious, keen witted, acid tongued 1920s Melbourne gangster Squizzy Taylor.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film, period piece
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Mystery Train (1989)
Plot Summary:
Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, anthology, humorous, stylized, atmospheric, realistic, meditative, cult classic, art house, dark comedy
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Kajillionaire (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two con artists have spent 26 years training their only daughter to swindle, scam and steal at every turn. During a desperate and hastily conceived heist, they charm a stranger into joining them, only to have their entire world turned upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, captivating, suspenseful, social, surreal, dark comedy, deep, cult classic, mind blowing
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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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Happy New Year (1973)
Plot Summary:
Gangster (Lino Ventura) with his accomplice (Charles Gérard), prepares to take part in the "first psychological hold-up in the history of crime". Next door to the jewellers of Van Cleef & Arpels, on the Croisette, in Cannes, the find the shop of a beautiful antiques dealer (Françoise Fabian) who befriends the group. The driver and the antiques dealer fall in love. He is friendly but unrefined, she is cultivated and independent, but discovers that talking with Simon shows up her vanity, and she desires a simple and clean love. The hold-up which had been planned for a long time by the driver is shown to be more sophisticated than his methods of seduction.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, non-linear, detective, freeze frame, poliziottesco
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Going in Style (1979)
Plot Summary:
Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they are caught, what could happen to three old men?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: light, touching, humorous, realistic, entertaining, semi serious, black comedy, clever, tense, sentimental
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Little Cigars (1973)
Plot Summary:
A gangster's former mistress hooks up with a troupe of circus midgets who, as a sideline, rob banks and casinos.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, rough, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Identity Thief (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a mild-mannered businessman learns his identity has been stolen, he hits the road in an attempt to foil the thief -- a trip that puts him in the path of a deceptively harmless-looking woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 140000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, absurd, hilarious, humorous, realistic, not serious, sentimental, parody, light
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The Sting (1973)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1930s this intricate caper deals with an ambitious small-time crook and a veteran con man who seek revenge on a vicious crime lord who murdered one of their gang.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 275000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: entertaining, atmospheric, witty, humorous, captivating, clever, suspense, twisted, surprise ending, twist ending