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Plot Summary:
Serge Vaudier, a mathematics teacher, wins the lotto twice and claims he can do it again, thanks to an infallible system he has designed. Is a he genius or a con man? Angèle, the head of the the government's bureau, is determined to entrap him. She asks her secret lover, Jacques Loriot, an expert player in the casinos, for help.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Mystery, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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Million Dollar Mystery (1987)
Plot Summary:
A dying man in a roadside diner tells the other patrons about money he has hidden in four places. But instead of directions, he leaves them only with clues they must solve in order to claim the loot.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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It's Only Money (1962)
Plot Summary:
Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery involving a missing heir in a rich family. He begins to notice little things, like how much those family portraits look like him. Surely..no..he can't be...can he ?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: esoteric, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, detective
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Off and Running (2008)
Plot Summary:
A missed highway exit and here is Darry Marzouki, unemployed conjurer, crossing the road with Irène Montier Duval, a beautiful bourgeois, the Hermès bag full of banknotes. Out of love, she served as an intermediary in an arms sale between a French minister and Korea. The case got publicized. The minister wants him to wear the hat. On the run, she offers Darry to pay him to drive her to Geneva in his beautiful BMW. The problem is that the BMW is not in Darry. He stole it on a whim from his brother-in-law, a little bit irritable, who promises to gut him if he doesn't return it. Unable to accept Irène's proposal, Darry invents the identity of an alter-globalist going to Locarno for a summit. Irene, who dreams of a change of scenery, gets caught up in the game. They have little in common. They will spend three days together. Three unforgettable days - On their heels, Koreans, the DST, a minister and the brother-in-law - At the end of the road, love for one, freedom for the other.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic
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The Longshot (1986)
Plot Summary:
Four losers borrow money from gangsters to bet on a "sure thing", but lose. The gangsters go after them to get their money.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic
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Sınav (2006)
Plot Summary:
Five high school students plans to steal University Entrance Exam booklets.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, educational, realistic
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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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Tazza: The High Rollers (2006)
Plot Summary:
A guy with a talent for cards makes his way into the dangerous world of underground gambling in this crime thriller from South Korea. Go-ni (Jo Seung-woo) is a small-town guy with a big appetite for gambling. Convinced he's on a hot streak one evening during a card game, Go-ni bets his life savings on a hand of hwatu, only to lose to a crooked cardsharp. Determined to get revenge, Go-ni sets out to find the guy who cheated him and win back his money.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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A Head for Business (2000)
Plot Summary:
Dutillard is an amateur film maker working as a computer programmer for a small French investment bank. When the bank finds that it has been forced to fork over $104 million to fund Dutillard's film, Chekov's "Three Sisters", and that it has no legal recourse against him, the bank must find a way to make the film profitable. They float around a few ideas including a nude gang bang with the prettier sister, but the horrified Dutilliard comes up with a plan, buy the rights to a blockbuster and package the TV rights with those for the Three Sisters. Before they know it the bankers find them self flying to London and New York to raise money and buy a major film studio.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992)
Plot Summary:
Betty Lou is a librarian in a very small town. Her husband is a police detective who takes her for granted. Betty Lou is the ultimate mouse. After a gangland figure is mysteriously murdered in town, Betty Lou finds the murder weapon, but can't get anyone's attention to tell them (we're talking very mousey, here). Finally in a fit of frustration she fires the gun in a restroom and when taken to the police station insists she is the murderer. It has the desired effect, people do pay attention to her. With hints at social graces from the hookers in her cell block, she's on her way.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, funny, light, romantic, atmospheric, sexy, clever
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Scandalous (1984)
Plot Summary:
An investigative reporter following an espionage story goes to London and gets involved with murder, scam artists and rock concerts.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, dark comedy
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At Home with the Rozes (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about to celebrate its 20-year old marriage. Our duo has no other solution than to take this entire brood in hostage. But, contrary to all expectations, they are warmly greeted by the occupants who don't think twice before helping them, they are even ready to put their guests off, even to kill them if necessary.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, hilarious, realistic, dark comedy
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Trixie (2000)
Plot Summary:
Emily Watson stars as Trixie, an eccentric woman who aspires to quit her job as a security guard and become a private detective. However, comedy intervenes and the mess begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, enigmatic, stylized, semi serious, suspense, detective, independent film, offbeat, realistic, witty
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The Players (2012)
Plot Summary:
Eight short films explore the subject of male infidelity. Serial cheaters, Fred and Greg, spend a night on the town doing what they do best, and with absolutely no regrets. The duo play various characters in assorted extracurricular situations, ranging from sexist to the darker sides of carnal desires.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexual, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy, erotic, light, art house, black comedy, anthology
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Man About Dog (2004)
Plot Summary:
Three pedigree chumps learn that every underdog has its day in this freewheeling Irish comedy. In hock to the tune of £50,000 to a Belfast bookie and saddled with a dopey greyhound that wouldn't run if its backside was on fire, the likely lads head south on a road trip in the hope of seeing a man about a dog. Foul-mouthed and funny, Man About Dog is full of great craic.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, exciting, fast, road movie
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Who's Got the Action? (1962)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious
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The Rendez-Vous of D?j?-Vu (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hector meets Truquette on Bastille Day and becomes obsessed with seducing her. The plan is to get her to the seaside pronto. Pator is not complaining, especially if her friend Charlotte comes along for the ride. So off they go, down the country roads of a broke and broken France. Times are hard ! Suddenly the government cancels a month of summer. Everyone back to work! A wad of cash and two gun shots later, the group splits in two like France itself. But careering away from work in no way daunts the remaining trio, dead set on relocating the Bastille Girl and reveling in an endless summer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, road movie
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The Man from Macau (2014)
Plot Summary:
The world renowned “Invincible Hand” Ken could identify not only mahjong tiles, but also cards with his fingers which had made him a legend. Upon his retirement as the Chief Security Consultant in Las Vegas, Ken returned to his hometown Macau, where he met his old friend Benz, and Benz’s son Cool and nephew Karl. Both Cool and Karl wanted to follow Ken. Ken claimed that if Cool could successfully cheat him once or win over him, he would then accept Cool as his protégé. Cool’s step brother Lionel, an undercover agent, had disguised his identity in an international gambling mafia which had planned to form an alliance with mafias in illegal gambling from all over the world to control the result of soccer matches. Lionel had recorded the entire conference, with the criminal evidence kept in an imitated eye. The eye was coincidentally given to Rainbow, Ken’s only daughter, which put her in danger. The retired Ken was forced to use his “Magic Hand” once again to uncover the evil plan….
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, anime, exciting
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I Hate My Best Friends' Kids (2007)
Plot Summary:
A month of vacation with friends: difficult to bear the kids of his friends, especially when the methods of education differ and that some prove to be unbearable.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Mohamed Dubois (2013)
Plot Summary:
Arnaud Dubois may be the heir to a bank, but he prefers to call himself Mohamed. Having fallen out with his father, he turns his back on the family residence. On his travels, he meets Mustafa, who introduces him to his sister Sabrina. Having fallen in love with the attractive young woman, Arnaud decides to pass himself off as an ordinary street guy named...Mohamed.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, biting, suspense
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Saint John of Las Vegas (2009)
Plot Summary:
An ex-gambler is lured back into the game by a veteran insurance-fraud investigator.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie, offbeat, independent film
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RPM (1997)
Plot Summary:
A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 879
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, fast
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Turf (2013)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering away the little spare cash they have, they agree to give up gambling. But no sooner have they taken this pledge than Fate intervenes, in the guise of the turf king, Monsieur Paul. The latter persuades the four friends to buy a champion racehorse, not knowing that it is in fact an old nag….
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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The Last Casino (2004)
Plot Summary:
A University teacher finds three bright students and decides to teach them how to count cards to make lots of money. As they learn how to play the casinos, things get tricky when the debt owing teacher informs them that their front man wants restitution for loses in about a weeks time. The three students decide to hit all the major casinos in Ontario and Quebec until discovered.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, serious, realistic, tense, captivating, exciting
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The Big Bad Wolf (2013)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering about the meaning of their lives and were swamped by a wave of existential doubts. An entirely new situation for this bourgeois trio in their forties, one which opened a door to the novel and indeed the forbidden... and to the big bad wolf!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, feel good, sex comedy
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Never Say... Never! (2005)
Plot Summary:
Paris, 1830. Valentin loses himself in alcohol, gambling and women. He does not believe in life and especially not in love. His uncle Van Buck believes only in the virtues of money and trade. Everything separates them until the day when Van Buck, to improve his public image, wants to make Valentin marry the young and impoverished Baroness Cécile. Valentin, who has absolutely no desire to get married, bets that he can easily seduce her in 24 hours and thus prove that she, like all the others, is not worth loving... But Cécile, who believes in true love, will prove much more difficult to woo than envisaged and Valentin will have to use all possible stratagems to try and win his bet. The game of cat and mouse starts... But who is the cat?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, satirical, realistic
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Lay the Favorite (2012)
Plot Summary:
A former stripper's talent with numbers lands her a job with a professional gambler who runs a sports book in Las Vegas.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, humorous, semi serious, sincere, independent film
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Incognito (2009)
Plot Summary:
This offbeat musical drama stars Lucas (Bénabar), an up-and-coming singer ready to do anything to be on top of the French pop scene.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Special Delivery (2008)
Plot Summary:
A bonded courier transports a bratty teenager on an international flight, but realizes a trap has been set up for them when they reach the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, feel good, suspenseful, semi serious
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Stickmen (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jack, Thomas and Wayne are the Stickmen. They like nothing more than having a beer in one hand, a pool cue in the other, a coin on the table and a sexy bird or two. They play pub pool for fun and money at Dave's bar. Desperate to get out of debt, Dave gets the Stickmen entered into a high stakes pool tournament run by vicious crime boss "Daddy". He also gets them into a whole rack of trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, biting, independent film
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Falling for Mala (2015)
Plot Summary:
Maria Laura "Mala" is an actress with little luck, but she is successful working for other women, seducing their boyfriends to know if they are faithful or not. But everything changes when her dream to perform in her acting career depends on a job to be performed with Santiago who breaks the pattern and shakes her professional convictions.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, captivating, light