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Plot Summary:
A troupe of former circus performers plot to steel a valuable artifact from an embassy in Washington, DC.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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No Panic With A Hint of Hysteria (2016)
Plot Summary:
A timid accountant tries to earn his living as a rather unsuccessful hitman, until one stormy night he pulls a trigger for the first time and becomes a target for the vengeful mafia boss, murderous gangsters, trigger-happy cops and a gorgeous blonde from hell – and if he’s not careful his own wife might catch wind of his double life too.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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The Heroes (1994)
Plot Summary:
Roman TV technicians Fabio and Enzo have been unable to find decent jobs. They decide to crack a safe at a jewelry in Milan. To get the layout of the store, they enlist a beautiful but unsophisticated young woman, Deborah. To find underground access to the store, they get help from a sewage worker. An obese trapeze artist is called for disarm the store alarms. The clever Mrs. Motta, old hotelier, is also involved. Will they succeed?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Murph the Surf (1975)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, details the daring 1964 theft of the J.P. Morgan jewel collection from New York's American Museum of Natural History. Called the "Greatest Jewel Heist of the 20th Century," the robbers took 22 precious gems, including the Star of India, the 100.32-carat de Long Ruby and the 16.25-carat Eagle Diamond, stones so famous they would be impossible to sell.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Love Among Thieves (1987)
Plot Summary:
Caroline DuLac, a baroness and concert pianist, steals three jewel-encrusted Faberge eggs from a San Francisco museum. The eggs were demanded as ransom for her kidnapped fiancé. She boards a plane for the Latin American city of Ladera, as per instructions, and is met by Mike Chambers. Caroline first believes that Mike is one of the kidnappers, until a mysterious man in a trench-coat tries to kill her, and Mike comes to the rescue. They are then both captured by a band of Mexican bandits, who also may or may not be part of the scheme.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Rotten to the Core (1965)
Plot Summary:
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Crooks and Coronets (1969)
Plot Summary:
Two crooks are hired to rob an eccentric old lady's estate, but once they get to know her, they can't bring themselves to do it.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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The Jokers (1967)
Plot Summary:
Oliver Reed and Michael Crawford play two brothers who are always trying to find some way to succeed with cleverness rather than simple drudgery. Crawford is constantly living in his brother's shadow as the one who gets caught. After Crawford is forced to resign from the army after an episode of unappreciated cleverness, the two decide their careers would go better if there was a large amount of publicity, so they decide to steal the crown jewels from the tower of London.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: retro, offbeat, poliziottesco
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The Joensson Gang & the Black Diamond (1992)
Plot Summary:
Den här gången är Jönssonligan verkligen illa ute. Charles-Ingvar Jönsson, "Sickan" kallad, har dragit sig tillbaka. Vanheden och Dynamit-Harry är lämnade åt sig själva. Polisen jublar förstås, men Jönssonligan avskriver man inte så lätt! De är tillbaka... Fräckare!... Roligare!... tidigare! Denna gång anförda av den genialiske doktor M.A. Busé - och målet är Romanoffs diamant som nu ställs ut på Nationalmuseum i Stockholm.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Perfect Gentlemen (1978)
Plot Summary:
Four women whose husbands are in prison come together; at first, for emotional support; but later they devise a scheme to rob a bank. This takes up a large part of the film and it is particularly inspired and funny. The actual heist involves our four likable heroines dressing in men's tuxedos (hence, in part, the title of the film).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crime thriller
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Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold (1980)
Plot Summary:
When designer Robert Meering returns from vacation, he discovers the company he worked for unexpectedly went bankrupt so he decides to visit his old boss. His former employer Banninger liquidated the company and claims that all designs of Robert are his. When Robert's Porsche gets stolen by two thieves, he manages to track them down. When they tell him about 40 Porsche's in a dealer shop garage owned by Banninger things change and suddenly get very interesting.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Operation St. Peter's (1967)
Plot Summary:
Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where Napoleone takes them to Rome where they shack up with a shady used car dealer caled Il Cajella to help finance their new life of crime by planing to rob a statue from the Vatican. But a big-time American gangster, named Joe Ventura, hears about the heist and wants the priceless statue for himself by having his mistress, Samantha, come onto and betray the woman-hungry Cajella to give the statue away to her.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Happy New Year (1987)
Plot Summary:
Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old men and women they begin the set-up, but then Nick falls for the owner of a neighboring antique store and things get a little complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: remake of french film
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Perfect Friday (1970)
Plot Summary:
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He needs her help and that of her philandering spendthrift husband. It all comes down to a matter of trust.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, poliziottesco
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Palookaville (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despite a bungled jewelry store heist which exposes their incompetence as criminals, a fateful event (and an old black-and-white film) convinces them that they can pull off an armored-truck robbery. While they are busy plotting their caper, their dysfunctional families spin out of control, all around them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, crime thriller, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film, funny, sexy, clever, touching
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How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980)
Plot Summary:
Oregon, 1980: Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford, as the title states, the high cost of living. Jane cannot afford a babysitter or get married and if she wants privacy with her boyfriend, she has to sleep in the car. Even worse, her war veteran father comes to live with her to turn her life upside down. Louise lives a happy life with her veterinarian husband, Albert. She runs an antique shop on the side, but since it doesn't take in any profit, the IRS considers it a hobby. She needs to come up with the money to keep it going, or she will be trouble with the IRS. Elaine's husband has left her for another woman and without any money. She is in a constant struggle with banks, power companies, and gas stations. She needs money to get by and also catches the eye of police officer Jack. The local mall is having a contest that features a giant money ball that states it will help fight the inflation.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scenic, grindhouse, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Con Is On (2018)
Plot Summary:
In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flees to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: absurd, humorous, entertaining
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Kaleidoscope (1966)
Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy which has Barney Lincoln and Angel McGinnis as a pair of amorous adventurers in the gambling places of London and the Riviera. Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a plant in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe. In his gambling depredation, Barney is spotted by Angel McGinnis, the daughter of a Scotland Yard Inspector 'Manny' McGinnis on the lookout for a man to do a job. The inspector enlists Barney's help in playing poker with a shady London character whom Scotland Yard wants to force to financial ruin.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th century. They gain the enmity of the most famous bank Robber in the world and the affection of a crusading newspaperwoman.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Bank Shot (1974)
Plot Summary:
A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal the whole bank, and rob it in a safer location.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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Topkapi (1964)
Plot Summary:
Arthur Simon Simpson is a small-time crook biding his time in Greece. One of his potential victims turns out to be a gentleman thief planning to steal the emerald-encrusted dagger of the Mehmed II from Istanbul's Topkapi Museum.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: clever, suspenseful, suspense, neo noir, offbeat, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Hot Millions (1968)
Plot Summary:
A con-artist (Peter Ustinov) gains employment at an insurance company in order to embezzle money by re-programming their "new" wonder computer.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: retro, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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Welcome to Collinwood (2002)
Plot Summary:
Five hapless inner-city low-lifes attempt to burgle a pawnbroker's safe, but end up being plagued by bad luck.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, absurd, cult classic, hilarious, clever, slapstick, satirical, offbeat, realistic
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The Confidence Man JP - The Movie - (2019)
Plot Summary:
In Hong Kong, Dako, Boku-chan and Richard take a huge amount of money from people who are greedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: light, semi serious, atmospheric, captivating, feel good, humorous, entertaining, satirical, sitcom, funny
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Quick Change (1990)
Plot Summary:
With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out of the city and to the airport. It sounds simple enough, but it seems that fate deserts them immediately after the bank heist. One mishap after another conspires to keep these robbers from reaching freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, absurd, cult classic, witty, sweet, buddy comedy, fast, realistic
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Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
Plot Summary:
After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and even enjoy it -- but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 152000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, feel good, satirical, entertaining, hilarious, predictable, captivating, dark comedy
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Special Delivery (1976)
Plot Summary:
A gang of thieves plan a daring bank robbery, making their escape across the rooftops of Los Angeles. The police are quickly called in, however, and only one of the robbers, Murdock, makes a clean getaway. Unfortunately, in order to do so, he is forced to dump the stolen cash into a mailbox, which he then finds is locked until midnight, forcing him to wait until the mailman makes his late night pickup. As he waits, he discovers that his hiding place has been observed by several other people, all of whom want a share of the loot.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo noir, grindhouse, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Safe Men (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues. Romantic interest is added by the daughter of the underworld leader who won't date the men she knows are gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, melancholic, absurd, buddy comedy, feel good, not serious, witty, independent film, dark comedy
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Small Time Crooks (2000)
Plot Summary:
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, melancholic, stylized, feel good, realistic, semi serious, hilarious, clever, dark comedy
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The Maiden Heist (2009)
Plot Summary:
A comedy centered on three museum security guards who devise a plan to steal back the artworks to which they have become attached after they are transferred to another museum.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, light, semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good, sweet, hilarious, sexy, clever
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Gambit (2012)
Plot Summary:
An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, sexy, entertaining, absurd, tense, suspense, not serious, witty, exciting