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Plot Summary:
The film is an edgy black comedy set in swinging London in the late 60s. The All Saints girls play three street wise sisters who head 'up West' to rob and generally cause trouble.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychedelic, independent film, tripping
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All Tied Up (1993)
Plot Summary:
Brian Hartley has finally found the girl of his dreams in Linda. Unfortunately, he can't convince her or himself that it's really true. When she catches him with another woman, she finally decides she's had enough and vows to never see him again. Frenzied from the loss, Brian breaks into her house to try to talk her into seeing him again, but Linda and her roommates Kim and Sharon instead bind him to the bed.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 514
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
Similar in 84%
Joe + Belle (2011)
Plot Summary:
An accidental murder brings two girls together in a series of wild crimes and romance over the course of an evening.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, captivating, tense, exciting, rough, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film
Similar in 76%
Dead in France (2012)
Plot Summary:
A socially-challenged hitman's French retirement is ruined by the dodgy Brits on the Cote d'Azur.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, neo noir, suspenseful, black and white
Similar in 81%
The Supergrass (1985)
Plot Summary:
While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress a girl so that she'll go away on a trip with him as his girlfriend. Although he fails to gain any interest from the girl, the police take a great interest in his story. From this point on, Dennis digs a deeper hole for himself at every turn.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, alternative comedy
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The Trio (1998)
Plot Summary:
Zobel and Karl are a long time gay couple who live together in a trailer home with Lizzie, Zobel's spunky daughter from a heterosexual misadventure. Together these three form a team of thieves who eke out an existence as pickpockets. After a botched job, Karl becomes unable to work, forcing Zobel and Lizzie to seek out a new partner. Lizzie recruits Rudolf, the boyishly charming town misfit. Reluctantly, Zobel allows Rudolf to join them but warns him to never break the golden rule: "No exchanging of bodily fluids within the team." This dictum becomes increasingly difficult to live by as Lizzie's cravings and Zobel's own passions toward Rudolf intensify. Eventually, the golden rule is broken by Lizzie...and then again by Zobel (unbeknownst to Lizzie, of course). An intricate love triangle soon develops amongst the three that is shaped by deception, desire, and betrayal.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, sexual, lgbt cinema, crying
Similar in 89%
Regular Guys (1996)
Plot Summary:
Christoph, cop and self-confident macho, has trouble with his fiance. After a long night he wakes up in the arms of Edgar, a good-looking, gay auto-mechanic. His live gets more and more troublesome after his girl friend throws him out of their apartment and as last resort he moves to Edgars place. Working together with a new, good-looking, very self-confident, female collegue, but living with a good-looking gay guy makes him pretty uncertain about his sexuality and his role as a cop. Written by Konstantin Articus.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, detective, sexy, queer cinema
Similar in 75%
Shooting Fish (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two con artists (Dan Futterman, Stuart Townsend) hire an unwitting medical-school student (Kate Beckinsale) as a secretary for their latest scam.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: romantic, clever, witty, black comedy, smart, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, cynical
Similar in 80%
Trixie (2000)
Plot Summary:
Emily Watson stars as Trixie, an eccentric woman who aspires to quit her job as a security guard and become a private detective. However, comedy intervenes and the mess begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, enigmatic, stylized, semi serious, suspense, detective, independent film, offbeat, realistic, witty
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Leon the Pig Farmer (1992)
Plot Summary:
An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial insemination.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, dark comedy
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Small Time (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ben is a small-time gangster who gets the opportunity to earn a lot of money. His boss sends him to a remote ranch with bag full of drugs and orders him to wait for the buyer. But the routine drug deal turns to disaster because of Ben’s unprofessional associates.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, crime drama, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 78%
Gun Shy (2000)
Plot Summary:
Legendary undercover DEA agent Charlie Mayough has suddenly lost his nerves of steel. On the verge of a career-induced mental breakdown, and in complete fear of trigger-happy Mafia leader Fulvio Nesstra, Charlie seeks psychiatric help and finds himself relying on the support of an unstable therapy group and nurse Judy just to get through his work.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, talky, stylized, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, crime thriller, gloomy, surprise ending
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Steptoe and Son (1972)
Plot Summary:
Albert Steptoe and his son Harold are junk dealers, complete with horse and cart to tour the neighbourhood. They also live amicably together at the junk yard. But Harold, who likes the bright lights in the West End of London, meets a stripper, marries her and takes her home. Albert, of course, is furious and tries every trick he knows to drive the new bride from his household.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, independent film
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Crooks in Cloisters (1964)
Plot Summary:
Having pulled off the smallest ever train robbery, Little Walter and his crew decide to get out of London. The six of them set up business in a disused monastery off the Cornish coast, despite the fact that none of them really qualifies as a monk - least of all Walter's moll Bikini. Bit by bit, the quiet way of life starts becoming a habit.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Bank Robber (1993)
Plot Summary:
After robbing a bank, the robber hides out from the police in a seedy hotel where he is forced to bribe various tennants for protection as well as their silence which becomes more difficult as greed takes over and the people demand more exuberant bribes from the bank robber to shelter and hide him.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, sexy, independent film, offbeat, realistic
Similar in 88%
Blood and Concrete (1991)
Plot Summary:
A dimwitted thug encounters a strung-out, suicidal young woman and an unlikely relationship develops as they work together to make a break for new horizons.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: thinking, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, surreal, semi serious, neo noir, detective
Similar in 87%
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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High Heels and Low Lifes (2001)
Plot Summary:
A nurse eavesdrops with a friend on a cell phone conversation that describes a bank heist. She and the friend then conspire to blackmail the robbers for $2 million.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, entertaining, stylized, captivating, action comedy, realistic, semi serious, sexy
Similar in 75%
Sex and the Other Woman (1972)
Plot Summary:
A series of vignettes exposing how women manipulate their men into submission.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, anthology, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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Bonobo (2014)
Plot Summary:
Judith, an uptight divorcee, is appalled when her daughter Lily quits law school to move into a commune of hippie-misfits who live according to the behavioural principles of the bonobo monkey, a species famous for its 'make love not war' philosophy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, psychological, light, realistic, sexual
Similar in 82%
Among Giants (1998)
Plot Summary:
A manager hires Ray, off the books, to paint all the power towers in a 15-mile stretch of high-tension wires outside Sheffield. Ray's crew of men are friends, especially Ray with Steve, a young Romeo. Into the mix comes Gerry, an Australian with a spirit of adventure and mountain climbing skills. She wants a job, and against the others' advice, who don't want a woman on the job, Ray hires her. Then she and Ray fall in love. He asks her to marry him, gives her a ring. Steve's jealous; Ray's ex-wife complains that he spends on Gerry, not his own kids, and she predicts that Gerry won't stay around. Plus, there's pressure to finish the job fast. Economics, romance, and wanderlust spark the end.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: melancholic, intense, sincere, emotional, social, bleak, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic
Similar in 78%
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
Similar in 81%
Piccadilly Jim (2004)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: romantic, captivating, tragicomedy, social, ironic, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
Similar in 77%
Dom Hemingway (2013)
Plot Summary:
After spending 12 years in prison for keeping his mouth shut, notorious safe-cracker Dom Hemingway is back on the streets of London looking to collect what he's owed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: talky, stylized, witty, bad ending, suspense, satirical, humorous, realistic, cynical, comedy drama
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Things to Do Before You're 30 (2005)
Plot Summary:
A smart, sexy and poignantly accurate comedy drama about a group of twenty-something friends desperately resisting the inevitable - adulthood and responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, indie film, sexy
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A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Plot Summary:
A diamond advocate is attempting to steal a collection of diamonds, yet troubles arise when he realizes that he is not the only one after the diamonds.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, dark comedy, black comedy, cult classic, humorous, light, satirical, dramatic, hilarious, feel good
Similar in 87%
The Con Artist (2010)
Plot Summary:
An ex-con finds his plan to go straight foiled by a loan shark who manipulates his target into taking on one last heist.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 990
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense, realistic, suspenseful
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Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)
Plot Summary:
An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic comedy, hilarious, melancholic, witty, realistic, touching, semi serious, romantic, clever
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Born Romantic (2000)
Plot Summary:
In modern-day London, three men (Craig Ferguson, Jimi Mistry and David Morrissey) and three women (Olivia Williams, Jane Horrocks and Catherine McCormack) fall in and out of love and back again, to the Greek-chorus accompaniment of two cab drivers, who engage in an ongoing conversation about sex. A winning romantic comedy, Born Romantic is the second feature by British writer-director David Kane of This Year's Love fame.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, sentimental, touching, feel good, romantic comedy, realistic, talky, sex comedy, semi serious
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What Rats Won't Do (1998)
Plot Summary:
Soon to be married lawyer Kate Beckenham has landed the case of a lifetime. Her courtroom opponent turns out to be the charming Jack Sullivan, who has never lost a single case.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sweet, romantic comedy, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Intermission (2003)
Plot Summary:
A raucous story of the interweaving lives and loves of small-town delinquents, shady cops, pretty good girls and very bad boys. With Irish guts and grit, lives collide, preconceptions shatter and romance is tested to the extreme. An ill-timed and poorly executed couple's break-up sets off a chain of events affecting everyone in town.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, touching, melancholic, witty, black comedy, semi serious, cult classic, realistic, intense