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Plot Summary:
One-time gangster Antoine is enjoying retirement on the coast, now managing a boating club. He receives a visit from a former accomplice who asks for a loan. The money will be repaid by a crook who is now in hiding; Antoine intends to recover his money.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, parody
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Some Too Quiet Gentlemen (1973)
Plot Summary:
The sleepy little village of Loubressac is well on its way to becoming a ghost town. To save the town, the local citizenry hatch a plan to attract tourists. To their horror, the plan misfires when a group of hippies are the first to move in. The hippies' free and unconventional ways quickly upset the staid lives of the locals. Then one of the locals is found murdered, and suspicion inevitably falls on the newcomers. Eventually, the locals and the hippies join forces to solve the mystery, and in the course of their adventures learn to respect each others' ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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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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Cry of the Cormoran (1971)
Plot Summary:
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (2007)
Plot Summary:
Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they might not have what it takes for a life of crime.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, stylized, dark comedy, black and white, non-linear, neo noir, silent, silent film
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Inspector Blunder (1980)
Plot Summary:
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, detective, cult film
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Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese (1968)
Plot Summary:
Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, parody, slang, independent film, spoof
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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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The Red Inn (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to save the guest's lives without violating the holy secrecy of the confession.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, tense, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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Heads (1994)
Plot Summary:
A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, and reluctantly gets involved with the nutty daughter of his editor. Before long he discovers that he is the prime suspect in the murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy
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Flic Story (1972)
Plot Summary:
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, not serious
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Small Time (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ben is a small-time gangster who gets the opportunity to earn a lot of money. His boss sends him to a remote ranch with bag full of drugs and orders him to wait for the buyer. But the routine drug deal turns to disaster because of Ben’s unprofessional associates.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, crime drama, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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A Pain in the Ass (1973)
Plot Summary:
Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, funny, fast paced, neurotic, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical
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The Umbrella Coup (1980)
Plot Summary:
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Idiot in Paris (1967)
Plot Summary:
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Gentlemen in White Vests (1970)
Plot Summary:
A crime comedy directed by Wolfgang Staudte.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Jönsson Gang Gets Gold Fever (1984)
Plot Summary:
Sickan has a new plan. This time, the gang are going to steal a small computer micro chip which contains.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, not serious, semi serious
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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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The Cracksman (1963)
Plot Summary:
Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a beautiful hostess as a trap, into which the hapless Ernest inevitably falls..!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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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
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My New Partner (1984)
Plot Summary:
My New Partner is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte. Noiret plays a streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue. At the start of the film, his partner is busted for corruption and he narrowly escapes. He is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt his new partner and, after a slow start, succeeds spectacularly.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, witty, neo noir, anthology, action comedy, cult classic, black comedy, clever, humorous
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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971)
Plot Summary:
This is the funny story about two warring Mafia gangs in New York. The weaker gang use incredibly a lion to blackmail the opposite gang's "clients". The police succeeds to stop one of the gang, while the other remain without the Boss.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, cult film
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You Move You Die (2007)
Plot Summary:
Mike has the girl, the time and the place.The problem is he doesn't have the ring, Before Mike has an opportunity to propose his engagement ring is stolen.Mike is desperate to recover it. He and his friends have one hour to get the ring back and make the date with his "beloved" Emma before all is lost. It is not long before it is revealed that Mike and his friends are not all that they seem.You move you die is a dark comedy filmed with a real time story. Get ready for a film with a unique dose of reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, rough, realistic, dark comedy
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On the Run (1999)
Plot Summary:
Albert is an introverted travel agent living a lonely life in New York. When Louie, his best friend from childhood, appears having just escaped from prison, Albert's quiet existence is permanently disrupted. what ensues is one long, crazy night in New York that will change both their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Portugal, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, biting, black comedy, dark comedy, suspense
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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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Never a Dull Moment (1968)
Plot Summary:
When practicing for a role, actor Jack is mistaken for the killer Ace. He doesn't realize this until it's too late and is carried off to gangster boss Leo Smooth, who wants Ace to do a job for him. Fearing for his life, Jack plays his role, but always searching for a way out of the well-guarded house. - By: Tom Zoerner.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: hilarious, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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Hot Dog (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mistakenly believing that he will be let go from the company, Philippe decides to sabotage the production at Saucibec. Upon learning that he is not the one who will be laid off, he will go to great lengths to right his wrongs ... but it's already too late.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, tense, light, feel good, captivating, suspenseful, sex comedy, offbeat
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Family Values (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, suspenseful, realistic
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More Dogs Than Bones (2000)
Plot Summary:
A series of mishaps and misfortunes over $1 million in cash leads to murder, mayhem and greed.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, dark comedy, independent film, realistic, surprise ending, black comedy
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Sorrel Flower (1967)
Plot Summary:
Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed in this gangster comedy. With the help of another unmarried mother-to-be, Catherine goes looking for the stash of cash buried by her lover before his death. Soon other thugs and her suspicious neighbors are following their every move in an attempt to recover the lost loot.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy