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Plot Summary:
Selling author, Antoine Brisebard is a victim of a blackmailer, Jo, which threatens to jeopardize his reputation by revealing the past of his wife Sylvia. While the latter must pass the same night to take possession of the money required, Brisebard accidentally kills.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, atmospheric, dark comedy, detective, metafiction, remake of american film
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Devilish Honeymoon (1970)
Plot Summary:
Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This will inevitable lead to all sorts of mischief, crime and even a murder. This murder-comedy, shot at the dawn of normalization has intentionally broke off from any connection to the reality of its time. The director Zdeněk Podskalský has focused on creating intriguing story lines, revolving around the two endeavouring female characters who are fighting for the same man. Two competing parties are not only ready to kill the other, but also (if necessary) the potential groom. This film has enabled the members of the cast, composed mainly of the brightest stars of the Czech acting scene of that time, to show an incredible acting range, from the lightest comedy to the darkest cynical morbidity.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychotronic, detective, black comedy, dark comedy, poliziottesco, campy, cult film
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Mushrooms (1995)
Plot Summary:
In the tradition of Arsenic and Old Lace, comes this morbidly funny Australian tale of murder and mayhem at the hands of two charming old ladies.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, experimental, absurd, crying, detective, black comedy
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The Troops on Vacation (1970)
Plot Summary:
The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, captivating, slapstick, cult film
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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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Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard (1967)
Plot Summary:
In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, captivating, feel good, funny, intellectual, parody, psychotronic, detective, spoof
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The Discord (1978)
Plot Summary:
Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick comedy, fun
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The Stars Will Tell, Inspector Palmu (1962)
Plot Summary:
Ms. Alli Pelkonen's terrier finds a body from Tähtitorninmäki, that's thought to be a wino at first. But Inspector Palmu knows a little better. And yes, it was a murder. Tähdet kertovat, Komisario Palmu (1962) is directed by Matti Kassila, as were all of these movies. This is the third Inspector Palmu movie. Mika Waltari worked on the script, and after that he came up with the novel.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: black and white
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The Troops of St. Tropez (1964)
Plot Summary:
The ambitious police officer Cruchot (Louis de Funès) is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, light, satirical, atmospheric, anthology, dark comedy, cult classic, not serious
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She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks (1970)
Plot Summary:
Housemaid Georgette (Girardot) loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 568
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, black comedy, freeze frame
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Ferpect Crime (2004)
Plot Summary:
A playboy has the tables turned on him when he finds himself being used as a plaything by an undesirable woman in this black comedy from Spain.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, surreal, funny, black comedy, cynical, hilarious, sexy, talky, suspense
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The Octopus (1998)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel, dit Le Poulpe (The Octopus) is a laid-back private investigator who works on cases for his own pleasure. He is drawn to the fictional Loire Valley port of Angerneau, with his lover Clotilde who has been summoned by the police concerning the defacement of a deceased relative's grave. Since Angernau is her home town, she wants to leave it as soon as possible to avoid old acquaintances, but Gabriel stumbles on intriguing events concerning the cargo of a ship in port.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, detective, perverse, black comedy, weird
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Wave of Crimes (2018)
Plot Summary:
Leyre lives a quiet and comfortable life which ends abruptly when an act of rage of her teenage son leads her to protect him by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, dark comedy, crying, detective, black comedy
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6ixtynin9 (1999)
Plot Summary:
A woman, fired from a financial coorporation during the Asia crisis, returns home with no money. However, she finds a box with a fortune in front of her door, and decides to keep it. However, the people that left it there soon want it back.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, tense, atmospheric, stylized, suspenseful, humorous, crying, realistic, semi serious, sexy
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Kidnap Syndicate (1975)
Plot Summary:
After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist (James Mason) seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his child and another kidnapped boy, the son of a poor mechanic (Luc Merenda).
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 869
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, crying, psychotronic, detective, cult film
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Feeding Mr. Baldwin (2013)
Plot Summary:
A house sitter bites off more than he can chew when a dead body mysteriously shows up at the estate he's watching.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, dark comedy, crying, black comedy, twisted, cult film
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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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The Troops & Aliens (1979)
Plot Summary:
The bungling inspector Cruchot (Funès) finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, not serious, slapstick, fun, cult film
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Kamikaze (1986)
Plot Summary:
A scientist is fired from his job and bored with doing nothing at home he goes crazy and invents a system which allows him to reach through the airwaves and transform live TV cameras into weapons to kill the people he hates the most - TV presenters.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: crying, psychotronic, detective
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Cop or Hood (1979)
Plot Summary:
When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt. If they were closely examined, Stan's methods for pursuing this investigation might embarrass the police. For instance, he drives into a criminal's house in a fancy, expensive race car. In another incident, he callously blows up a casino owned by Musard , one of the town's crime bosses. On that occasion, he first forces Musard to remove his clothes, and the poor criminal watches his casino explode from across the square while standing naked in a phone booth. Meanwhile, Stan seduces the lovely Edmonde.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, neo noir, freeze frame, french noir
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Mindhorn (2016)
Plot Summary:
A washed up actor who played Mindhorn, a secret agent with a bionic eye, returns to the Isle of Man, the area where his most famous role was set, to help catch a killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: parody, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, dark comedy, serious, surprise ending, crying, psychotronic
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Let's Rob the Bank (1964)
Plot Summary:
Shopkeeper Victor Garnier has naively invested his family's life savings in an African mine, on his banker's recommendation. When the mine is nationalized, rendering the stock worthless, he considers himself shamelessly robbed by the bank; it seems only fair to him to return the 'favor' and rob the bank, teaming up with the whole family as they were all duped. Even for professionals such an enterprise -he decides to dig a tunnel- is quite demanding, but for simple commoners it's daunting, as they also have their personal downsides; thus Victor's wife has a most unwelcome tendency to blurt out the truth, even to the grumpy local copper: a crazy risk when you need to keep a criminal plan secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, spoof, parody, weird
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Oscar (1967)
Plot Summary:
This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large amount of money from his company, his maid is about to resign in order to marry a wealthy neighbor and his body builder is interested in marrying his daughter. The seemingly complicated story-line is full of comedy or errors and some of the most hilarious mime scenes of the French cinema.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, sincere, entertaining, funny, realistic, not serious, surprise ending
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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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The Finger Man (1962)
Plot Summary:
A stone-faced Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as enigmatic gangster Silien, who may or may not be responsible for squealing on Faugel (Serge Reggiani), just released from the slammer and already involved in what should have been a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: neo noir, bleak, suspenseful, rough, serious, realistic, stylized, noir, cynical, black and white
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Jackpot (2011)
Plot Summary:
Terrified and bloody, Oscar Svendsen awakes clinched to a shotgun in a strippers joint. Around him 8 dead men, and police aiming at him. To Oscar it's clear that he is innocent. It all started when four chaps won 1,7 million on the pools.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, dark, exciting, clever, offbeat, realistic, detective
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Buffet Froid (1979)
Plot Summary:
An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surreal, dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, realistic, mindfuck, anthology, cult classic, offbeat, witty
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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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Clue (1985)
Plot Summary:
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, humorous, parody, funny, black comedy, witty, hilarious, captivating, suspense, mind bending
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The Family (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Manzoni family, a notorious mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France under the witness protection program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 122000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, funny, stylized, cynical, suspense, hilarious, satirical, parody, romantic
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Bad Boys for Life (2020)
Plot Summary:
Marcus Burnett is now a police inspector and Mike Lowery is in a midlife crisis. They unite again when an Albanian mercenary, whose brother they killed, promises them an important bonus.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 172000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, humorous, action comedy, exciting, tense, captivating, entertaining, funny, epic, saga