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Plot Summary:
Called up for jury duty, Richard Dice finds his first crush and only real, but unrequited love, on trial for murder. Richard desperately tries to prove Mollys innocence while untangling a complicated web of murder, blackmail and perjury, and still trying to win over the girl of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Leslie, My Name Is Evil (2009)
Plot Summary:
Perry, a sheltered chemical engineer, falls in love with Leslie, a former homecoming princess, when he becomes a jury member at her hippie death cult murder trial.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 894
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, exciting, suspenseful, black comedy, dark comedy, weird
Similar in 81%
Dream Machine (1991)
Plot Summary:
As a reward from a jilted millionairess, Davis is given the $100,000 Porsche of the unfaithful husband. Unknown to Davis and the wife, the body of the husband is in the Porsche. The killer tries in vein to recover the body before it is discovered.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, semi serious, nostalgic, cult movie cast
Similar in 82%
A Taxing Woman (1987)
Plot Summary:
Ryoko Itakura is a government tax agent who has just landed a big promotion. Her first assignment is to catch wheeler-dealer Hideki Gondo. She has a tough job, since in Japan tax evasion is an art and Gondo is, in effect, Rembrandt. Her job is complicated by a growing sympathy for the rogue and by political pressure to lay off.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: surreal, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 86%
Framed (1988)
Plot Summary:
Conny is a chemistry teacher who is framed for drug possession. Unable to prove his innocence he ends up in prison. When he finds a secret exit some inmates "persuades" him to participate in a heist. Things become extremely hectic as he tries to prove his innocence as well as "helping" his inmates. When Conny thinks that it couldn't possibly get any worse he meets Susanne, a policewoman.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, eighties
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Wish You Were Dead (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two bad women fight over one man in a back-stabbing, money-grabbing, insurance-hustling, double-dealing, two-timing caper.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, romantic comedy, crime thriller
Similar in 83%
The Census Taker (1984)
Plot Summary:
When George (Greg Mullavey) and Martha (Meredith MacRae) let Harvey (Garrett Morris), an annoying census taker, into their home, they find themselves under a barrage of increasingly abusive questions. Furious at his intrusiveness, and at their wit's end, they kill the census taker and with the help of their friends Pete (Timothy Bottoms) and Eva (Austen Tayler), must hide the body from a determined investigator.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, detective, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy
Similar in 77%
Hollywood High Part II (1981)
Plot Summary:
It's another year at Hollywood High and the students are upholding the standards of their school. It's the end of the semester and finals are near, but that doesn't stop the girls of Hollywood High from having fun. From the pool to the beach, they cavort with their boyfriends, drink, and smoke a joint or two. But the fun stops when a teacher keeps one of the guys after school for some personal tutoring.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy
Similar in 76%
The Secret Life of Archie's Wife (1990)
Plot Summary:
Bunny, an unhappily married Denver housewife, frustrated and stressed out over her uncommunicative businessman husband Archie as well as planing their daughter's coming wedding, has her life turned upside down one day when she's taken hostage by Walter, a bumbling loser on the run from the law after having robbed a bank in order to pay off money to his loan shark Sebastian and to support his elderly mother. Soon Bunny and Walter form a romantic bond and decide to help each other with their problems in their own ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Burglar (1987)
Plot Summary:
Bernice "Bernie" Rhodenbarr is a burglar by trade, and she runs a bookstore as well. Her friend Carl Hefler is a dog groomer. After a successful burglary, it's discovered that a dead body was in the house she burgled. As she's the only one who can be placed at the scene of the crime, she has to use her criminal skills to clear her name of the murder AND avoid getting charged with the burglary.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, action comedy, realistic, not serious, fast, detective, sexy
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Everything's Gone Green (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ryan, a good-natured slacker, is tempted into a money laundering scheme while working for a lottery magazine. A capitalistic comedy that asks the question - when is "enough" enough?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, clever, feel good, talky, whimsical
Similar in 79%
Down the Drain (1990)
Plot Summary:
A dishonest lawyer devises a scheme to rob a bank by recruiting criminals he has represented to do the job for him. When the robbery is completed, he learns that the "loot" from the vault is in fact a microchip containing top-secret information.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, dark comedy
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Serial Lover (1998)
Plot Summary:
Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so that she can pick out her would-be fiancé. But an accident happens when Claire is getting the dinner ready.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, dark comedy, realistic, neo noir
Similar in 78%
Cold Feet (1989)
Plot Summary:
The leader of a group of misfits, his girlfriend and an assassin have devised a bizarre plan to smuggle stolen jewelry over the US/Mexican border. They implant the jewelry in a racing horse.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical, semi serious
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From the Hip (1987)
Plot Summary:
Apprentice lawyer Robin Weathers turns a civil suit into a headline grabbing charade. He must reexamine his scruples after his shenanigans win him a promotion in his firm, and he must now defend a college professor who is appearantly guilty of murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: anamorphic, psychological, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, funny, light, romantic, sexy
Similar in 87%
Life Without Dick (2002)
Plot Summary:
By accident, Colleen Gibson shoots and kills her gold-digging cheating boyfriend, Dick, a private eye who happens to have a hitman on his tail. Danny the hitman works for his brother-in-law, a cheerful but nasty Irish mobster, hasn't actually killed anyone, and wants to be a singer. He falls for Colleen. she likes him, too. He can solve her problem (Dick's body), she can solve his (meeting the mobster's demands that he kill people like Dick). Danny has an ex-girlfriend, who might still hold the key to his heart, two cops are sniffing around for Dick, a junk yard owner gets a conscience, and a talent show is coming up. Bullets, music, and true love are set to collide.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, touching, sentimental, melancholic, black comedy, detective
Similar in 79%
Legal Eagles (1986)
Plot Summary:
District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea's crimes is the theft of a very valuable painting, but as the women persuade Logan to investigate further and to cut some official corners, a much more sinister scenario starts to emerge.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: entertaining, melancholic, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, clever, exciting, detective, sweet
Similar in 84%
Head Office (1985)
Plot Summary:
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices. "Saturday Night Live" writer-performer Michael O'Donoghue scripted this satire co-starring Danny DeVito and Jane Seymour.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, clever, biting, satirical, suspense, eighties
Similar in 89%
King's Ransom (2005)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other people interested in his wealth as well.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: witty, humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, realistic, fast
Similar in 87%
The Lawyer (1970)
Plot Summary:
Wilma Harrison had it all. A wealthy doctor for a husband. A big playboy for a lover. A beautiful home. And a horrible death.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: independent film, mind bending, bleak, serious, realistic, suspenseful, ambiguous ending
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Perry Mason: The Case of the Avenging Ace (1988)
Plot Summary:
Mason defends a man he had sentenced to prison when he was an appellate-court judge. Now, 18 months after the sentencing, a new witness turns up to prove the man's innocence. Mason steps in to defend the man.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Similar in 75%
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lesson (1989)
Plot Summary:
Ken Malansky, a law student of Perry Mason's, is accused of murdering a fellow student. Perry is reluctant to take on his case as the victim was the son of a close friend.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty
Similar in 79%
Death Sentence (1974)
Plot Summary:
A juror on a murder case begins to believe that the man on trial is innocent of the crime - and then discovers that the real killer is her own husband.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense
Similar in 84%
Three Blind Mice (2001)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer defends a man he's known since serving together in Vietnam, who has been accused of murdering three Vietnamese immigrants. Now he'll have to fight against a tenacious District Attorney, and evidence connected to the man's wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, serious, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, realistic
Similar in 78%
Perry Mason: The Case of the Sinister Spirit (1987)
Plot Summary:
Jordan White, a publisher friend of Perry, is called to a hotel where a guest, famous horror writer David Hall, has cleared out the hotel for a weekend and has called his "friends" - an actress, a fortune-teller, David's private assistant and the two remaining staff at the hotel to discuss business. They have come to the hotel as all of them are going to sue David over his new book - "The Resort" which characters are obviously based on Jordan and the guests. A practical joker, David plays tricks on them until he is thrown from the high tower of the hotel where Susan Warrenfield, the manager and owner of the hotel sees the fall and then Jordan at the tower causing the police to arrest Jordan. While Perry and Della try to solve the main mystery, Paul tries to find out who is trying to scare Susan away from the hotel. Could it really be a ghost or a more earthy visitor?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
Similar in 78%
Perry Mason: The Case of the Desperate Deception (1990)
Plot Summary:
Perry Mason ventures to Paris to defend a U.S. Marine Corps Captain accused of murdering a man suspected of being a Nazi SS Officer.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 484
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, rough, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 78%
True Identity (1991)
Plot Summary:
In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Unfaithfully Yours (1984)
Plot Summary:
Dudley Moore plays a composer who suspects his wife of cheating. He plots to kill her and frame it on her lover. The whole movie sort of compares his expectations of a perfect result to reality. In the end nothing turns out as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, clever, semi serious, sentimental, dark comedy, neo screwball comedy
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Dead in the Water (1991)
Plot Summary:
Charlie Deegan has almost everything he has ever wanted. He has an important law practice, a beautiful secretary as his lover, and the chance to be appointed to the high court. The only thing wrong with this is that his shrewish wife Olivia, whose father made all the wealth and all the power, is living and that greatly upsets Charlie. So when his lover, Laura, suggests that they get rid of Olivia, Charlie thinks, being a lawyer, that he can create a fool-proof plan. In this plan, he must incorporate a woman named Victoria whom he detests, but she can help him get into the court and be part of the plan for Olivia. But dreams of judgeship, money and Laura makes him proceed. However, things never turn out as planned and he may not be as smart as he considers himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful
Similar in 89%
My Cousin Vinny (1992)
Plot Summary:
Two carefree pals traveling through Alabama are mistakenly arrested, and charged with murder. Fortunately, one of them has a cousin who's a lawyer - Vincent Gambini, a former auto mechanic from Brooklyn who just passed his bar exam after his sixth try. When he arrives with his leather-clad girlfriend , to try his first case, it's a real shock - for him and the Deep South!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 137000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, light, hilarious, humorous, inspirational, light hearted, uplifting, epic, satirical
Similar in 87%
Trial and Error (1962)
Plot Summary:
After nearly 40 years of waiting for his big chance, Wilfred Morgenhall (Sellers) is given the case of defending Herbert Fowle (Attenborough) who is accused of murdering his wife (Beryl Reid). Despite Fowle's insistence of guilt, Moregenhall will not let go of the opportunity to plead his client as innocent and be a star in the courtroom.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: black comedy, black and white, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, independent film