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Plot Summary:
The last film of Jean Gabin.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Tango (1993)
Plot Summary:
Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L'Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to blackmail him. The Judge's nephew, Paul, is having trouble with his wife and they demand that Vincent kill her. The Judge, a confirmed bachelor, takes Paul and Vincent on the road to search for Paul's wife Marie. The three men get on well together, and spend their time discussing their relationship with women.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961)
Plot Summary:
A rich, old counterfeiter is lured out of retirement.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, black and white, surprise ending, slang
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Bottom Live The Big Number 2 Tour (1995)
Plot Summary:
Queen Elizabeth is attending a parade in Hammersmith and Richie and Eddie plans on inviting the Queen to join them for supper. But their plan goes wrong.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, live comedy
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Sam & Miguel (Your Basura, No Problema) (1992)
Plot Summary:
Sam and Miguel are your typical come-what-may laborers, collecting garbage in flashy subdivisions. In their workplace, they get maltreated by two of their co-workers, sometimes getting them into trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Brigade Miscellaneous in the Mountains and at the Sea (1971)
Plot Summary:
Misc. Brigade must solve a drug traffic case, in their own way.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Action, Crime
Country: Romania
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: iconic
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Farfallon (1974)
Plot Summary:
No overview.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: parody
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The Treasure of San Gennaro (1966)
Plot Summary:
A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Genaro, in Napoli.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1973)
Plot Summary:
There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. But it turns out his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison, his associates start dying and the attempts on his life start. Cue Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy, who has a plan to spring Frankie from jail.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, poliziottesco, funny, cult film
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Vice Academy Part 3 (1991)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters in the Vice Academy try to thwart the crime wave wrought by escaped convict Malathion, who got her name after being exposed to toxic chemicals. An honest new recruit does such a good job at arresting Malathion's gang that the sisters are taken off active duty. To get their jobs back, they try to tarnish the new girl's reputation.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 454
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Cat and Dog (1983)
Plot Summary:
L.A.P.D. Captain Parker finally is going on Holiday with all his family. At the last moment he has to cancel the program to re-capture a pilferer named Tony Roma, bad copy of a Latin lover. He use to seduce older women and then steals their jewelry. Parker is close to sort the case out when Roma is witness of a Mafia murder. Parker Holiday flies away.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Plane's Flying to Russia (1994)
Plot Summary:
Former prisoners captured plane. But on the way there was a failure, and to alleviate the weight of the aircraft, they throw overboard box with three hostages. The hostages managed to land safely. Now they have to stick together. And around a foreign land with a strange unknown language.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Carom Shots (1963)
Plot Summary:
Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 966
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy
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Switching Channels (1988)
Plot Summary:
A television news chief courts his anchorwoman ex-wife with an eleventh-hour story.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, crying, weeping, feel good, unusual plot structure, bad ending, political
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The Troops & Troop-ettes (1982)
Plot Summary:
Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, exciting, tense, slapstick, eighties, cult film
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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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Monnaie de singe (1966)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags: detective
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Doing Time (1979)
Plot Summary:
Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an escape plan is hatching from the cell of prison godfather Grouty and Fletcher wants no part of it. The breakout is set for the day of a morale-raising football match between a 'celebrity' football team and the inmates of Slade. Everything is going to plan until Godber is injured on the goal post. In the ensuing confusion, Fletcher finds himself on the wrong side of the prison walls and must now try and break back into prison.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Point of No Return (1985)
Plot Summary:
A sequel to "Vabank" (1981), introduces the same characters entangled in a duel between a former safecracker and a crooked bank manager.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
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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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Lucky Break (2001)
Plot Summary:
Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to the prison's outer wall. He rounds up volunteer actors and puts his escape plan into production. Two other barriers, besides the wall, confront him: the arrival of a nasty inmate, John Toombes, who insists on joining the escape, and Jimmy's feelings of attraction for Anabel, a social worker who agrees to appear in the play. Opening night approaches: is this Jimmy's breakout performance?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: intense, feel good, semi serious, humorous, talky, touching, realistic, psychological, tense, thought provoking
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The Cracksman (1963)
Plot Summary:
Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a beautiful hostess as a trap, into which the hapless Ernest inevitably falls..!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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The Troops in New York (1965)
Plot Summary:
The second installment of Gendarmes series, tells the story of Sergeant Cruchot (Louis De Funes), who, together with his faithful comrades, has been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, exciting, feel good, captivating, anthology, not serious, slapstick, cult film
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Breakout Brothers (2020)
Plot Summary:
Triad leader Roller and life-sentence inmate Scar maintain the balance of power as the bosses of the prison they're incarcerated at. Life at the prison gets disrupted by the arrival of new inmate Mak, who has run-ins with both Scar and Roller. With things going so badly for him in prison, Mak has no choice but to join in the breakout plot being hatched by Chan. However, Roller and Scar also end up being part of the plan!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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On the Run (1999)
Plot Summary:
Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night in New York that will change both their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Portugal, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, biting, black comedy, dark comedy, suspense
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Stir Crazy (1980)
Plot Summary:
New Yorkers, Skip Donahue and Harry Monroe, have no jobs and no prospects. They decide to flee the city and find work elsewhere, and land jobs as woodpeckers to promote the opening of a bank. When their feathery costumes are stolen and used in a bank robbery, they no longer have to worry about employment -- they're sent to prison!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, witty, romantic comedy, neurotic, exciting, realistic, not serious, dark comedy
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We're No Angels (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two escaped cons only prayer to escape is to pass themselves off as priests and pass by the police blockade at the border into the safety of Canada.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, clever, exciting, light, captivating, entertaining, sexy, cult classic, realistic
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Nuns on the Run (1990)
Plot Summary:
Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave" he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. B&C decide to steal the money for themselves, but when their escape doesn't go to plan, they have to seek refuge in a Nuns' teacher training school.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, independent film, offbeat, realistic, not serious, exciting, parody
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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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Ruby & Quentin (2003)
Plot Summary:
After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby, a brooding outlaw encounters Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, entertaining, inspirational, touching, tricky, hilarious, witty, captivating, semi serious
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The Hijack That Went South (2013)
Plot Summary:
Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 966
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, feel good, captivating, suspense, entertaining