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Plot Summary:
After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business men into buying a fake copy of a stolen Caneletto. On the aeroplane, a stranger asks him to look after his briefcase until after they have landed. Alexandre agrees, but the stranger is shot dead soon after and Alexandre himself becomes the target of enemy agents who are keen to recover the briefcase.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Die Mamba (2014)
Plot Summary:
"The Mamba" is a top international terrorist. A deadly fighter, sniper, bomber, and master of deception. Hossein Sarivi is a good husband and works at a biscuit factory. Their mutual resemblance is uncanny, but have never met, until now.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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The Caper of the Golden Bulls (1967)
Plot Summary:
Peter Churchman stopped robbing banks a long time ago and is now living as a wealthy and respected citizen in Pamplona, Spain. But then his former companion Angela appears and blackmails him to help her robbing the Spanish National Bank of Pamplona. He gives in and develops a brilliant plan... Will this be then end of his comfortable life?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Det perfekte kup (2008)
Plot Summary:
Sonny, Richael, Steen and Patric dream of doing the perfect heist, but all have very different ideas about how it's done right. The tension rises as they have to spend a night in jail - after yet another failed heist. However, as the night progresses they have to come to terms with each other, in order to plan the perfect heist.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Incorrigible (1975)
Plot Summary:
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Greed in the Sun (1964)
Plot Summary:
Marec, a truck driver is sent by his boss to track down through the Morroccan desert a reckless youngster who stole a brand-new truck and its payload. Riddled with bad luck, Marec will face the dangers of the desert, as well as a fishy partner, and a reluctant, misogynist tow-truck helper until the climactic fight.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Tender Scoundrel (1966)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Paul Belmondo is a lovable lothario who delights in his womanizing ways in this ribald comedy adventure. When two women can't get enough of him, he is chased to Tahiti and back to Paris by admiring females. His experiences are exhausting to the point that he considers giving up his life as a ladies man.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Shooting Stars (1983)
Plot Summary:
Two television actors who play detectives are fired when the show's star gets upset that they are getting the better parts to play. So, they decide to try it for real.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective, spoof, parody
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Agent X44 (2007)
Plot Summary:
The plot revolves around a secret agency with Reserve Agent King Aguila tasked to recover the Philippines' most important artifact. The artifact is the bolo of Lapu-lapu which he used to kill Magellan in 1521.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Hotwire (1980)
Plot Summary:
Car thieves go to work.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Superagente Makey (2020)
Plot Summary:
Makey is a humble police officer that, unexpectedly, gets caught in the middle of a dangerous international drug operation in the Costa del Sol, Spain.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Oh! Those Most Secret Agents (1964)
Plot Summary:
Franco and Ciccio are two simple-minded Italian guys whom are mistaken by KGB spies by government agents from their government and other foreign governments.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, eurospy
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Torrente 5 (2014)
Plot Summary:
Crooked cop Torrente gets out of jail in the year 2018 to find a different Spain from the one he knew.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: not serious, parody, humorous, realistic, light, action comedy, exciting, slapstick
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Half a Chance (1998)
Plot Summary:
Alice Tomaso (Paradis) gets out of jail, and goes looking for Léo (Belmondo) and Julien (Delon), one of whom, it appears, is her father. On the way, she steals the wrong car - one belonging to the Russian mafia, and arrives at her destination with a gang of thugs out looking for her and the car.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Animal (1977)
Plot Summary:
Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers to do a stunt for a film they are working on. Mike, annoyed doesn't look on the road and crashes the car causing them to end up in a hospital. After they come out Jane doesn't want to talk to Mike so he decides to get her a job in a film in which he is a stunt double for his double who is a star in action pictures but is in fact a wimp.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Man from Acapulco (1973)
Plot Summary:
François Merlin (Belmondo) is a Jean Bruce type writer of pulp espionage novels (he has written 42 so far) and about half of the film plays in his imagination, where he is the world-renowned superspy "Bob Sinclar" Christine is a sociology student who lives in Merlin's building and is interested in the novels, but in the writer's imagination she becomes Tatiana, his paramour, while the pompous and rich publisher of his novels, Pierre Charron, doubles as the great villain of the spy novels, the Albanian secret services head Karpov, who in a memorable scene of the film threatens to cut off one of Tatiana's breasts.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy, Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, metafiction, funny, political thriller, satirical, spoof, black comedy, spy comedy, perverse, cult classic
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Number One Gun (1990)
Plot Summary:
Number One Gun.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: parody, independent film, spoof, eurospy
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Licensed to Love and Kill (1979)
Plot Summary:
A British secret agent sent to America to rescue a nobleman comes up against an evil genius who is replacing people in important positions with clones who will do his bidding.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, parody, independent film, spoof, eurospy
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The Great Spy Chase (1964)
Plot Summary:
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: neo noir, anthology, spy comedy, cult classic, spoof, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Jackpot (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two con women lock horn with a gangster after knowing that a mystic vessel is hidden in his home.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 598
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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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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Happy Easter (1984)
Plot Summary:
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle (Jean-Paul Belmondo) drops his wife Sophie (Marie Laforet) off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie (Sophie Marceau), who has just had a fight with her married boyfriend. He gets her back to his apartment and is preparing for a sexy weekend, when his wife suddenly returns home. He makes up a bizarre, on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment story that the gorgeous girl is actually his long-lost daughter. Julie plays along, but this leads to a whole series of increasingly ridiculous lies and comical situations (such as when her real mother shows up).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, sex comedy, light, erotic, surprise ending
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The Restaurant (1966)
Plot Summary:
A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime (Louis de Funès), is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, realistic, feel good, tense, funny, sweet, culinary, anthology, semi serious
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Supercon (2018)
Plot Summary:
A ragtag group of former TV stars and comic book artists who make their living working at conventions decide to steal the loot from a crooked promoter and an overbearing former TV icon.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: action comedy, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Swords of Blood (1962)
Plot Summary:
In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor. Thus, cartouche attracts the people's sympathies, Venus's love, and hate from the Police and Malichot... Cartouche can escape all the traps they set at him - except the entrapments of love. Eventually, he will be saved by a woman, at her own cost.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, exciting, feel good, captivating, dramatic
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Don't Get Caught (2018)
Plot Summary:
Dre & Icy, two friends who, while on their annual road trip, make a wrong turn and discover a marijuana farm run by an old ruthless hillbilly. Thinking they've hit the jackpot, the two clear out the farm and head back to the city to sell their score. Little do they realize, the hillbilly is determined to get his crop back and has put a $100,000 bounty on their heads! It's a race against time for Dre & Icy, with one main goal. DON'T GET CAUGHT!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, hood
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Nun Smack (2016)
Plot Summary:
After breaking out of jail, two petty crooks find a trunk full of cocaine and decide to sell it to get rich before fleeing to Mexico. During one of their deals, they are both shot and arrive at a church looking for help - but instead find a gang of psychotic nuns with a sinister plan of their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Hyperions (2022)
Plot Summary:
In 1960, Professor Ruckus Mandulbaum invented the Titan badge - a device that enables humans to have a particular super power. He took in three down-on-their-luck youths, creating an unusual family of superheroes and they quickly rose to fame and prestige. Over time, however, the commercial family fractured and the Professor replaced the team with a new set of super hero teens. Cut to 1979, when two of the original superheroes are all grown up and wanting their Titan badges back, even if it means robbing the Professor's museum and taking a few hostages accidentally.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, feel good, surreal
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Going by the Book (2007)
Plot Summary:
Jeong Do-man is a low-ranking traffic cop whose tendency to do things "by the book" sometimes gets him in trouble, such as when he pulls over his new boss, newly instated police chief Lee Seung-man, and issues him with a traffic ticket. Though surprised and annoyed by the unexpected fine, the police chief has bigger problems; the town of Sampo has been hit by a string of bank robberies, and to reassure the public he decides to carry out a realistic drill which will demonstrate the police force's capability. Do-man is chosen to act out the part of the bank robber, but with his usual fastidious attention to detail he sets out to commit the perfect crime.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, interesting
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That Man from Rio (1964)
Plot Summary:
Farce, spy spoof, and adventure. Swarthy thieves ignore jewels to steal an Amazon figurine from the Museum of Man in Paris' Trocadero Palace and kidnap the world's authority on the lost Maltec civilization. Cut to Agnes, the daughter of a murdered man who possessed one of two other such figurines. Moments after her sweetheart, Adrien, an Army private with a week's leave, arrives in Paris to see her, Agnes too is kidnapped, drugged, and loaded on a plane to Rio. Adrien is in hot pursuit, and before he can rescue her (with the help of a shoeshine boy), foil the murderous thieves, and solve the riddle of the Maltecs, he must traverse Rio, Brasília, and the Amazon heartland... all before the end of his week's leave.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, anthology, cult classic, detective, eurospy, weird
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Hot Fuzz (2007)
Plot Summary:
Top London cop, PC Nicholas Angel is good. Too good. To stop the rest of his team from looking bad, he is reassigned to the quiet town of Sandford, paired with simple country cop, and everything seems quiet until two actors are found decapitated. It is addressed as an accident, but Angel isn't going to accept that, especially when more and more people turn up dead.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 528000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, absurd, dark comedy, hilarious, spoof, black comedy, action comedy, exciting