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Plot Summary:
Set in New York City's Chinatown, an ornery, chain-smoking Chinese grandma goes all in at the casino, landing herself on the wrong side of luck - and in the middle of a gang war.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, semi serious, thought provoking, feel good, unusual plot structure, social, hood, interesting
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Seth Rogen's Hilarity for Charity (2018)
Plot Summary:
Seth Rogen and friends combine stand-up, sketches and music for an outrageous comedy special that could only come from the mind of Seth. Guests include Tiffany Haddish, Sarah Silverman, Michelle Wolf, John Mulaney, Michael Che, David Chang, Ike Barinholtz, Chelsea Peretti, Kumail Nanjiani, Jon Lovitz, Jeff Goldblum, Sacha Baron Cohen, Nick Kroll, Post Malone, Chris Hardwick, and Craig Robinson & The Nasty Delicious.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: funny, thought provoking, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, social, satirical, semi serious, sketch comedy
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Under New Management (2009)
Plot Summary:
Sparks and bullets fly when a Wall Street yuppie must steer a Brooklyn mob crew legit before a beautiful FBI agent can build RICO indictments against them.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, realistic
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The Legend of Al, John and Jack (2002)
Plot Summary:
New York 1959. I tre gangster Al, John e Jack hanno il compito di uccidere Frankie per conto del boss. Sbagliano bersaglio e il boss da a loro un'altra possibilità: tenere d'occhio una persona a lui cara. Ma la fortuna non è dalla loro parte.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, surprise ending
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Lucky Lady (1975)
Plot Summary:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: Lucky Lady is a 1975 American film directed by Stanley Donen and starring Gene Hackman, Liza Minnelli and Burt Reynolds, with Robby Benson. Its story takes place during Prohibition in the United States in the year 1930. Gene Hackman initially did not want to do the film, but 20th Century Fox kept offering him more and more money. Finally, Fox offered him $1.25 million, and according to talent agent Sue Mengers, "it was almost obscene for him not to do the film.".
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, slapstick, entertaining, slapstick comedy
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Stand Off (2011)
Plot Summary:
In a misguided attempt to protect his family and pay back gambling debts to the local Mobster, Jimbo robs a fish market, which is coincidentally owned by the same Mobster. On the run, Jimbo is cornered in a local curio shop, where he takes hostage an assortment of colorful characters, including Maguire, who may be his illegitimate father. Surrounded by the Police, the SAS, and the Mobster's crew, the young man must find a way out of his precarious predicament with the help of his oddball captives.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, tense, suspenseful, offbeat, interesting
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Plan B (2001)
Plot Summary:
A bookkeeper who thinks she killed three mobsters is subsequently promoted by her boss to be a hitman. |.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, light, captivating, feel good, independent film, semi serious
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Man On The Edge (2013)
Plot Summary:
What if your fate was changed with a blink? The double life of a gangster and a shaman starts now!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Tangerine (2015)
Plot Summary:
It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles, including an Armenian family dealing with their own repercussions of infidelity.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: harsh, disturbing, enigmatic, talky, stylized, grindhouse, dark comedy, independent film, mumblecore, surreal
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Madea's Witness Protection (2012)
Plot Summary:
A Wall Street investment banker who has been set up as the linchpin of his company's mob-backed Ponzi scheme is relocated with his family to Aunt Madea's southern home.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, exciting, tense, captivating, black comedy, comedy drama
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Malibu's Most Wanted (2003)
Plot Summary:
A senator arranges for his son, a rich white kid who fancies himself black, to be kidnapped by a couple of black actors pretending to be murderers to try and shock him out of his plans to become a rapper.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, melancholic, satirical, intense, hood, feel good, semi serious, realistic, spoof
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The World Is Yours (2018)
Plot Summary:
To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, tense, light, hood
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Asphalt Playground (2012)
Plot Summary:
Mitraillette is 12 years old and lives in Rose City, a housing estate he would not leave for anything. His whole world comprises his family, especially his 16 year-old cousin Isma, who has taken a fancy to Narcisse, the local crime boss. His older brother Djibril is 22, a student at the Sorbonne who dreams of becoming a lawyer. As for Mitraillette, he has his eye on Océane, the most beautiful girl in his school.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, humorous, tense, light, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Mafia Kills Only in Summer (2013)
Plot Summary:
While Arturo tries to gain the love of Flora, he witnesses the history of Sicily from 1969 to 1992, miraculously dodging the crimes of the Mafia and supporting as a journalist the heroic struggle of the judges and policemen who fought this infamous organization.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, thought provoking, realistic, stylized, political, social, dark comedy
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The Matsugane Potshot Affair (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and darkly humorous.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, realistic
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Six Ways to Sunday (1997)
Plot Summary:
Norman Reedus stars as Harry Odum, a henpecked, 18-year-old momma's boy in Youngstown, Ohio, who -- with his violent temper -- impresses a local boss of the Jewish Mafia. Soon he's found his calling as a hit man alongside his crack addict partner Arnie Finklestein (Adrien Brody), and he discovers that his rage and complicated psychosis fuel his murderous abilities. Harry also falls for the organization's limping, Hungarian-born maid Iris (Elina Lowensohn), a romance complicated by Harry's Oedipal, sexual relationship with his domineering mother Kate (Deborah Harry).
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: disturbing, talky, intense, humorous, biting, black comedy, dark comedy, neo noir, independent film, offbeat
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Last Weekend (2014)
Plot Summary:
When an affluent matriarch gathers her dysfunctional family for a holiday at their Northern California lake house, her carefully constructed weekend begins to come apart at the seams, leading her to question her own role in the family.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere, captivating, independent film, queer cinema
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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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Twilight Gangsters (2010)
Plot Summary:
For eight years three grandmothers saved their money for a VIP tour packages to Hawaii. The grandmothers have all had difficult experiences and used their dream vacation as a beacon of hope in their lives. The grandmothers then go to the bank to wire their money, but at that moment the bank is held up by robbers. The grandmothers lose their savings and the bank can't offer any assistance. It is at this moment that the grandmothers set off track the robbers down themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Blindspotting (2018)
Plot Summary:
Collin must make it through his final three days of probation for a chance at a new beginning. He and his troublemaking childhood best friend, Miles, work as movers, and when Collin witnesses a police shooting, the two men’s friendship is tested as they grapple with identity and their changed realities in the rapidly-gentrifying neighborhood they grew up in.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, suspenseful, hood, disturbing, semi serious, comedy drama, suspense, funny, humorous, political
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Dope (2015)
Plot Summary:
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 89000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, independent film, realistic, suspense, hood, teen, feel good, entertaining, intense, humorous
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The Hairdresser (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a salon refuses to hire her because of her plump figure, irrepressible hair stylist Kathi plots revenge by opening her own beauty parlor next door. But when she faces a cash-flow problem, Kathi resorts to some creative means of raising capital.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, captivating, realistic
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The Quitter (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a failed baseball player's ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old daughter, he realizes he carries more regrets than how he handled his baseball career.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, realistic, independent film
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Little Cigars (1973)
Plot Summary:
A gangster's former mistress hooks up with a troupe of circus midgets who, as a sideline, rob banks and casinos.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, rough, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Refuge (2010)
Plot Summary:
The shimmering New Mexico sun bleaches the earth and reflects off towering thunderheads. From inside an RV nestled among the desert brush just off a barely-paved road, the middle-of-nowhere silence is broken by one quick and alarming gunshot. Nothing moves. Moments later, out of the waves of a heat mirage emerges a leather clad Darryl Tripp, high school English teacher, astride a screaming motorcycle. His mission is to toss his just completed first novel to the four winds, an act of self-loathing and despair. As he stops and pulls the novel out of his satchel, his motorcycle sputters and dies, out of fuel. He stands high on his cycle and spies the lone RV, a hope of help. He rolls his motorcycle to the RV, knocks, gets no answer. He opens the unlocked door, steps inside, taking shelter. As he finishes a phone call with his fiancée, deputy district attorney Helen Kaufman, promising to be on time for their engagement party that evening, Amelia Philips, hospice nurse and RV owner,.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, atmospheric, independent film, touching, offbeat, realistic
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Price Check (2012)
Plot Summary:
Pete is a good guy who used to be cool. Once living his dream in the music industry, he now toils away in the pricing department of a failing supermarket chain to provide for his loving wife and young son. When Pete’s new boss, Susan, takes over the department, her high-energy enthusiasm and unconventional ideas start to shake things up. She aims to reinvent the company while grooming Pete for the executive fast track. Making more money now than he ever hoped to in the music industry, Pete begins to wonder if this new career is just what he needs to become the man he’s always wanted to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Bob Funk (2009)
Plot Summary:
After he's fired from his job -- by his mother, no less -- Bob Funk agrees to quit drinking, see a therapist, and eventually report to a new boss, who might just be the woman of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 945
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, touching, realistic
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Money for Nothing (1993)
Plot Summary:
When unemployed dockworker Joey Coyle finds $1.2 million that fell off of an armored car, he decides to do the logical thing: take the money and run. After all, he says, finders keepers. He turns to his ex-girlfriend Monica, who works in an investment firm, for advice, before turning to the mob for help laundering the money. While Joey makes plans to leave the country, however, a detective is following his ever-warmer trail in order to recover the cash.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, intense, humorous, realistic, captivating, factual, detective, anamorphic, hilarious, clever
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The Turning Point (2021)
Plot Summary:
A slacker who does his best to avoid confrontation strikes up an unlikely friendship with a dangerous thug who suddenly forces his way into his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, disturbing, hood
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Harlem Nights (1989)
Plot Summary:
"Sugar" Ray is the owner of an illegal casino, who contend with the pressures of vicious gangster and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organized crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: hood, funny, black comedy, humorous, stylized, retro, action comedy, cult classic, action adventure, exciting
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Down Terrace (2009)
Plot Summary:
After serving jail time for a mysterious crime, Bill and Karl get out of jail and become preoccupied with figuring out who turned them in to the police. On top of that, the "family business" is on the rocks, and the motley crew of criminals who operate out of Down Terrace aren't feeling terribly trusting of one another. It might look like an ordinary house, but at Down Terrace, the walls are closing in.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, dark comedy, captivating, psychological, suspense, neo noir, dark, hood, rough, humorous