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Plot Summary:
A photographer (Katherine) is asked to spy on a crook who runs an illegal casino and is arranging an auction of a precious pearl.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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The Pizza Joint (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the town of Greensville, where cannabis is recently legal, Thomas and Anthony run the best pizza joint in town, Phu-King Pizza! They have a deal in place with ex-dealer-turn-business-man, Playa Playa, to use his most coveted strain, "Jamaican Goddess," and infuse it directly in to the pizza sauce. Just as business is looking up, they discover on pay day that the $20k owed to Playa Playa has been stolen. The duo, along with their band of misfit employees, are given until midnight to pay the debt... or else.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Fast Fingers (1983)
Plot Summary:
shaw production.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, neo screwball comedy
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For a Few Bullets (2016)
Plot Summary:
When a professional thief sees his lifetime goal of being the best potentially realized in stealing a rare artifact, he finds himself entangled in a worldwide plot involving the Soviets, the Japanese and a band of outsiders. It’s up to him and a special agent to save the world!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Bunny Yeager's Nude Las Vegas (1963)
Plot Summary:
A magazine hires photographer Bunny Yeager to do a pictorial on the showgirls of Las Vegas.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: independent film
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High Risk (1976)
Plot Summary:
A troupe of former circus performers plot to steel a valuable artifact from an embassy in Washington, DC.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Come Back, Charleston Blue (1972)
Plot Summary:
Sequel to Cotton comes to Harlem. Another bad influence is hitting Harlem and Gravedigger and Coffin Ed are the two cops who will stop it. Charleston Blue was a prohibition era black gangster, dead 4 decades. When he seems to have reappeared, once again slitting throats with his Blue straight edge razors, the two cops begin a complicated search for some answers.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: action adventure, black cinema
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Red Silk (1999)
Plot Summary:
Jess Francos own remake of his 1969 picture "Sadisterotica" aka "Rote Lippen" aka "Der Wolf - Horror pervers".
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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The Four Deuces (1975)
Plot Summary:
This is a tongue-in-cheek crime melodrama that became a 'Late Late Show' fixture in the 1980s, according to the DVD sleeve, Jack Palance plays Vic Morono, a high-ranking Prohibition-era mobster with a weakness for women who is waging an ongoing war with rival hoodlum Chico Hamilton (Warren Berlinger). Vic falls for gorgeous blonde Wendy (Carol Lynley). The film's title refers to the name of his speakeasy, and to his gang, which consists of himself, Wendy, and a brace comic-relief hoodlums. The Four Deuces opens with cartoon credits, and attempts a stylish comic strip look. Expecting some wit upon seeing the name Don Martin in the credits will drive you stark raving nuts - this is not the cartoonist who worked for "Mad" magazine. Light bondage and female flesh scenes might have upped ratings for those 1980s "Late Late Show" airings. Perhaps most notable is the that Ms. Lynley and Mr. Berlinger worked much more memorably together in the stage and film versions of Blue Denim.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Israel, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Trinity: Gambling for High Stakes (1978)
Plot Summary:
This movie is about a navy Lieutenant named Johnny Firpo who is ordered to work with the Miami Police force to help stop a gang of crooked card sharks. He needs the help of a pro gambler-now retired named Charlie Firpo. Charlie won't help Johnny, so Johnny steals Charlies transfer truck and he then agrees to help him. They both find out that they are half brothers. Johnny convinces Charlie that their father is "Blind" and need to raise $ 100,000 for an eye operation. So Charlie becomes a gambler again just to raise the money.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Sport
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, independent film, detective, cult film
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Torque (2004)
Plot Summary:
Biker Cary Ford is framed by an old rival and biker gang leader for the murder of another gang member who happens to be the brother of Trey, leader of the most feared biker gang in the country. Ford is now on the run trying to clear his name from the murder with Trey and his gang looking for his blood.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: entertaining, surreal, sexy, rough, serious, suspenseful, action packed, stylized, action thriller, romantic
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A Fine Mess (1986)
Plot Summary:
Two friends an actor and a chef discover a plot to fix a horse race and try to capitalize on it. But also have to deal with the two men who fixed it who are trying to silence them. And there's also the mob boss whom the two guys work for who planned the fixing thing whose wife is having an affair with the actor.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, art deco
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The House (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Scott and Kate Johansen’s daughter gets into the college of her dreams it’s cause for celebration. That is, until Scott and Kate learn that the scholarship they were counting on didn’t come through, and they’re now on the hook for tuition they can’t begin to afford. With the help of their friend and neighbor Frank also in need of a major payday they decide to open an illegal casino in his suburban house, risking everything together on a Vegas-style bacchanal where money flows, inhibitions are checked at the door, and all bets are off.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, thought provoking, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, anamorphic, cult classic, hilarious, absurd
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City Heat (1984)
Plot Summary:
Set in Kansas City in 1933, Eastwood plays a police lieutenant known simply by his last name, Speer. Reynolds plays a former cop turned private eye named Mike Murphy. Both Speer and Murphy served on the force together and were once good friends, but are now bitter enemies. When Murphy's partner is slain they team up again to fight the mob.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, cult classic, detective, action comedy, action thriller, exciting, realistic, semi serious, fast
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Uptown Saturday Night (1974)
Plot Summary:
Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby team up in this hilarious misadventure as buddies Steve and Wardell, who head uptown to a swanky nightclub. Unfortunately, thieves hit the club and steal Steve's wallet -- which happens to hold a winning lottery ticket. Poitier also directed this classic 1970s comedy, which co-stars Harry Belafonte as Godfather figure Geechie Dan Beauford and Richard Pryor.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, black comedy, action comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious, light, inspirational
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Bad Grandmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
Four grandmothers accidentally kill a conman and, to cover it up, they get rid of the body. When the conman's partner shows up, things go south.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, funny, dark comedy
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Let's Do It Again (1975)
Plot Summary:
Clyde Williams and Billy Foster are a couple of blue-collar workers in Atlanta who have promised to raise funds for their fraternal order, the Brothers and Sisters of Shaka. However, their method for raising the money involves travelling to New Orleans and rigging a boxing match.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: black comedy, action comedy, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, black cinema
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The Flim-Flam Man (1967)
Plot Summary:
Mordrcai Jones (George C. Scott) is a rural con artist (a 'flim flam man') who takes on a young army deserter Curley (Michael Sarrazin) as his protégé and teaches him the tricks of the trade. Sheriff Slade (Harry Morgan) is in hot pursuit of the pair and rich girl Bonnie Lee Packard (Sue Lyon) becomes romantically involved with Curley and helps the fleeing duo stay one step ahead of the sheriff. The film features a great automobile chase scene for those who appreciate this kind of cinema hijinks. Screenplay by William Rose ("It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World").
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: cynical, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, romantic, sexy, thought provoking, clever
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High Heat (2022)
Plot Summary:
When the local mafia shows up to burn down her restaurant, Ana, a chef with a meticulous past, defends her turf and proves her knife skills both in and out of the kitchen.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Let It Ride (1989)
Plot Summary:
A gambler used to losing is having a very good day.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: entertaining, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, tense, funny, light, romantic, surprise ending
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The Con Is On (2018)
Plot Summary:
In an effort to avoid paying off a massive gambling debt to a notorious mobster in England, a couple flees to Los Angeles and hatch a jewel theft plot.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: absurd, humorous, entertaining
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Contour (2006)
Plot Summary:
After blowing a big time heist, thug-for-hire Law, must resume his day job as a shady San Francisco tour guide. Before he knows it, Law and his unsuspecting group of tourists are in a race against time to recover a tape that will recue the politically unstable country of Uruvia. Filled with quirky characters, mad cap comedy and hard-hitting martial arts comes the most fun movie since Rumble in the Bronx!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Pawn Shop Chronicles (2013)
Plot Summary:
The stories of a missing wife, a couple of meth heads and an Elvis impersonator are connected by the items found in a small town's pawn shop.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: talky, humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat, funny, atmospheric, dark, action comedy, perverse
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The Sting II (1983)
Plot Summary:
Hooker and Gondorf pull a con on Macalinski, an especially nasty mob boss with the help of Veronica, a new grifter. They convince this new victim that Hooker is a somewhat dull boxer who is tired of taking dives for Gondorf. There is a ringer. Lonigan, their victim from the first movie, is setting them up to take the fall.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, romantic, clever, feel good, bad ending
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Monsieur Gangster (1963)
Plot Summary:
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, funny, noir, neo noir, slang, fast paced, cult classic, clever, humorous, realistic
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Paper Soldiers (2002)
Plot Summary:
Paper Soldiers follows an overeager burglar named Shawn (Kevin Hart) through the ups and downs of his short, stressful career.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, hood, exciting, realistic, black comedy, crime drama, independent film
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Stark Raving Mad (2002)
Plot Summary:
A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, entertaining, erotic, crime drama, cult classic, rough, realistic
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Ocean's Eight (2018)
Plot Summary:
Debbie Ocean, a criminal mastermind, gathers a crew of seven other female thieves to pull off the heist of the century at New York's annual Met Gala.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 237000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, clever, suspense, saga, tense, funny, light, feel good, entertaining, detective
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Chinese Zodiac (2012)
Plot Summary:
Asian Hawk (Jackie Chan) leads a mercenary team to recover several lost artifacts from the Old Summer Palace, the bronze heads of the 12 Chinese Zodiac animals which were sacked by the French and British armies from the imperial Summer Palace in Beijing in 1860. Assisted by a Chinese student & a Parisian lady, Hawk stops at nothing to accomplish the mission.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, cult classic, action packed, hilarious, slapstick, fast
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Miss Congeniality 2: Armed & Fabulous (2005)
Plot Summary:
After her triumph at the Miss United States pageant, FBI agent Gracie Hart becomes an overnight sensation -- and the new "face of the FBI." But it's time to spring into action again when the pageant's winner, Cheryl, and emcee, Stan, are abducted.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, action comedy, captivating, sweet, teen, parody, realistic, not serious
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21 Jump Street (2012)
Plot Summary:
In high school, Schmidt was a dork and Jenko was the popular jock. After graduation, both of them joined the police force and ended up as partners riding bicycles in the city park. Since they are young and look like high school students, they are assigned to an undercover unit to infiltrate a drug ring that is supplying high school students synthetic drugs.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 589000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, buddy comedy, humorous, not serious, entertaining, hilarious, witty, action comedy, sex comedy