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Plot Summary:
In the late 1990s, a drug-addled nihilist resorts to murder to climb the ladder of the London music industry.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Music, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tense, rough, suspense, slasher, disturbing, dark comedy, period piece, horror comedy, crying, detective
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Straight on Till Morning (1972)
Plot Summary:
Brenda moved to London to begin living those intoxicated fantasies that all young women imagine city life to offer. Soon after her arrival she begins a relationship with Peter with whom she is tremendously happy. When she becomes pregnant Peter's behaviour towards her alters as he reveals the most frightening and unpredictable side of his personality. He forces Brenda to listen to a series of recordings, exposing a past of shocking cruelty of sadistic murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, noir, independent film, psychological thriller, tense, mind bending, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neurotic
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I Woke Up Early the Day I Died (1998)
Plot Summary:
A mental patient escapes from the looney bin in drag, robs a bank, and goes on the lam!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 810
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, crying, expressionism, independent film, black comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick, freeze frame, dark comedy, silent
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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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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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Office Killer (1997)
Plot Summary:
When Dorine Douglas' job as proofreader for Constant Consumer magazine is turned into an at-home position during a downsizing, she doesn't know how to cope. But after accidentally killing one of her co-workers, she discovers that murder can quench the loneliness of her home life, as a macabre office place forms in her basement, populated by dead co-workers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, slasher, black comedy, humorous, cynical, semi serious, scary, independent film, dark comedy, offbeat
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Strangler vs Strangler (1984)
Plot Summary:
When it comes to crime, Belgrade is same as any other modern metropolis, except for having its own serial killers. That blank is filled when a flower salesman begins strangling women. A popular, but very disturbed rock star soon becomes telepathically connected with the killer.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, slasher, surreal, horror comedy, cult classic, horror musical, crying, detective, spoof, parody
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Sometimes Aunt Martha Does Dreadful Things (1971)
Plot Summary:
Ultra-low-budget Florida cult film featuring a transvestite fugitive criminal and his homosexual (and mentally unstable) lover on the lam in a Miami suburb.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, lgbt cinema, crying, psychotronic, independent film, gay cinema, campy
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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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Immortality (1998)
Plot Summary:
A vampire in London is searching for the ideal woman to 'redeem' him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: stylized, psychological, atmospheric, emotional, serious, suspenseful, cult classic, erotic, gothic, independent film
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Entertaining Mr. Sloane (1970)
Plot Summary:
Sloane, a handsome, sexy and completely amoral young man, joins Kath's household as a lodger and proceeds to manipulate her and her brother, Ed. He is recognized by Kemp (Dadda) as the murderer of Kemp's former employer, whereupon Sloane murders Kemp. Sloane's "just desserts" are not what one would expect.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, lgbt cinema, crying, freeze frame, sexy
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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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The Motive (2017)
Plot Summary:
Álvaro is a poor man obsessed with the idea of writing 'high literature'. He starts provoking conflicts to write about them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, twist ending, novela, surprise ending, tragicomedy, crying, dark comedy
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Burke & Hare (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two 19th-century opportunists (Simon Pegg, Andy Serkis) become serial killers so that they can maintain their profitable business supplying cadavers to an anatomist (Tom Wilkinson).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, History, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: stylized, dark comedy, romantic, visually appealing, black comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, horror comedy, witty
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Loot (1970)
Plot Summary:
Based on the play by 'Joe Orton' this film follows the adventures of two pals who have pulled off a bank robbery and have to hide the loot. Fortunately (?) one of them works in a funeral parlour and they have a coffin to spare.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, crying, independent film, detective
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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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A Shock to the System (1990)
Plot Summary:
Madison Avenue executive Graham Marshall has paid his dues. A talented and devoted worker, he has suffered through mounting bills and a nagging wife with one thing to look forward to: a well-deserved promotion. But when the promotion is given to a loud-mouthed yuppie associate, Graham unleashes his rage on an overly aggressive panhandler, who he accidently kills by pushing him into the path of an oncoming subway train. He re-thinks his problems with an entirely new solution. First, he arranges an "accident" for his annoying wife. Then he creates another "mishap" for his boss. It seems like the world is once more Graham's oyster…but a missing cigarette lighter and a prying police detective may change all that.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, suspense, suspenseful, tense, light, realistic, witty, cynical, clever
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Serial Mom (1994)
Plot Summary:
A picture perfect middle class family is shocked when they find out that one of their neighbors is receiving obscene phone calls. The mom takes slights against her family very personally, and it turns out she is indeed the one harassing the neighbor. As other slights befall her beloved family, the body count begins to increase.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, parody, black comedy, disturbing, cult classic, talky, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious
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Ex Drummer (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three handicapped losers who form a band ask famous writer Dries to be their drummer. He joins the band and starts manipulating them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Music
Country: Belgium, France, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: disturbing, offbeat, suspenseful, dark comedy, semi serious, controversial, erotic, psychedelic, surreal, art house
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Prevenge (2016)
Plot Summary:
A pregnant widow, believing herself to be guided by her unborn child, embarks on a homicidal rampage.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, horror comedy, slasher, exciting, tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, psychological, dark
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Rancid Aluminum (2000)
Plot Summary:
Pete Thompson thinks he has it all. However, following the death of his father his close friend and accountant reveals the company he has been left is bust and the only way out is to do business with the Russian mafia. His life and heart are on the line when he leave to restore the fortunes of the family firm.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, tense, sad, offbeat, realistic, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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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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10 to Midnight (1983)
Plot Summary:
Based on the real-life Richard Speck murders, amoral, nearly psychotic killer Warren Stacey (Gene Davis) is a serial killer who has murdered a number of women; he stabs them while they are naked to minimize leaving any physical evidence. Police detective Leo Kessler (Charles Bronson) is convinced of Stacey’s guilt and, over the objections of his partner, plants evidence to get him behind bars. When Stacey is released on a technicality, he threatens to go after Kessler and his family, leaving Kessler to defend himself against a killer with little help from the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, slasher, detective, suspenseful, neo noir, suspense, scary, psychological, retro
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Sleep Tight (2011)
Plot Summary:
Apartment concierge Cesar is a miserable person who believes he was born without the ability to be happy. As a result, he decides his mission is to make life hell for everyone around him. A majority of the tenants are easy to agitate, but Clara proves to be harder than the most. So Cesar goes to creepy extremes to make this young woman mentally break down. Things get even more complicated in this twisted relationship when her boyfriend, Marcos, shows up.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspenseful, psychological thriller, tense, disturbing, serious, suspense, mind twisting, mind blowing, twisted
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Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Plot Summary:
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 271000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, dark comedy, talky, humorous, surreal, black comedy, funny, witty, clever, cult classic
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Cheap Thrills (2013)
Plot Summary:
Recently fired and facing eviction, a new dad has his life turned upside down when he meets a wealthy couple who offer a path to financial security... but at a price.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: disturbing, dark comedy, tense, independent film, psychological, stylized, black comedy, humorous, horror comedy, scary
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Dark Places (2015)
Plot Summary:
A woman who survived the brutal killing of her family as a child is forced to confront the events of that day.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, tense, psychological thriller, psychological, intense, serious, realistic, surprise ending, detective
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Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Biography, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, suspense, rough, bleak, suspenseful, psychological thriller, brutal, dark, crime drama, action thriller
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T2 Trainspotting (2017)
Plot Summary:
After 20 years abroad, Mark Renton returns to Scotland and reunites with his old friends Sick Boy, Spud and Begbie.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 131000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, intense, stylized, thought provoking, captivating, tense, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, intellectual