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Plot Summary:
When two medical students find themselves dangerously indebted to a sadistic loan shark, they become embroiled in an illicit black-market organ transplant scam in order to save their lives. 'Muggers' is a twisted, hilarious, pitch-black comedy about friendship, poor choices and the drag of student debt.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, absurd, independent film, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Girl Most Likely to... (1973)
Plot Summary:
An ugly girl undergoes plastic surgery and becomes beautiful. She then takes revenge on all the people who mistreated her when she was ugly.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, witty, cynical, semi serious, detective
Similar in 81%
The Revengers' Comedies (1998)
Plot Summary:
After saving each other from jumping off a bridge, Henry Bell (Sam Neill) and Karen Knightly (Helena Bonham Carter) plot to avenge the people who drove them to suicide. Henry will ruin the life of the woman (Kristin Scott Thomas) who married Karen's boyfriend, while Karen will work as a secretary for the man (Steve Coogan) who took Henry's job. Whether revenge will be sweet – or bittersweet – is anyone's guess.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: hilarious, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy
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Death in Brunswick (1990)
Plot Summary:
A reserved man in need of a job, Carl Fitzgerald finds employment at a Greek restaurant. Upon meeting waitress Sophie, Carl begins dating the attractive woman. Though it seems things are improving for Carl, an unexpected situation leads to the death of Mustafa, a shady coworker, and Carl must figure out how to cover up the incident. Unsure of what to do, Carl enlists the help of his buddy, Dave, to get rid of Mustafa's corpse.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, realistic, not serious, semi serious, independent film, parody, funny, road movie
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Shooting Fish (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two con artists (Dan Futterman, Stuart Townsend) hire an unwitting medical-school student (Kate Beckinsale) as a secretary for their latest scam.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: romantic, clever, witty, black comedy, smart, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, cynical
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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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Parting Shots (1998)
Plot Summary:
Harry Sterndale, a failed photographer, is told that he has only three months to live due to him getting cancer. After thinking things over he decides that since he is dying anyway that he will kill or destroy all the people that has ever crossed or hurt him during his entire life. So Parting Shots becomes literally the shots fired by Harry when he knows he is parting this earth. After all, he will be dead anyway long before he can come to trial and get his just desserts from society. Harry even falls in love with Jill and hires an assassin to kill him in style. However there is just one small problem with Harry's master plan - the cancer diagnosis is totally inaccurate and now he's got a hitman on his trail and several policemen want to talk to him over some murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, entertaining, light, captivating, action comedy, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Living It Up (2000)
Plot Summary:
Lola, a Mexican waitress working in Madrid, befriends a 30-year-old suicidal man who has borrowed $1,000,000 to spend on his last day on Earth, knowing he will be killed anyway if he fails to return the money. After meeting Lola, however, he decides that life might be worth living after all.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Ambitious (2006)
Plot Summary:
On the one hand you have Judith Zahn, an arrogant, snobbish, bitchy Parisian editor. On the other hand meet Julien Demarsay: an insecure, timid, young bookseller from the East of France who has just written his first autobiographic novel, with what it takes of navel-contemplating and soul-searching. What do they have in common? Nothing much, except that sex will unite them, ambition part them before true love is born between them at last.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Killing Is My Business, Honey (2009)
Plot Summary:
A hit man whose mission is to prevent the printing of a tell-all book written by a former Mafioso, falls in love with the employee who may lose her job if the book doesn't get published.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, suspense, semi serious
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Bank Robber (1993)
Plot Summary:
After robbing a bank, the robber hides out from the police in a seedy hotel where he is forced to bribe various tennants for protection as well as their silence which becomes more difficult as greed takes over and the people demand more exuberant bribes from the bank robber to shelter and hide him.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, sexy, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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Marrying the Mafia (2002)
Plot Summary:
The film is a gangster comedy about a businessman who becomes involved with the gangster underworld through the daughter of a crime boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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The Mule (2014)
Plot Summary:
In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, realistic, stylized
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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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9 Dead Gay Guys (2002)
Plot Summary:
The story of two lads from Belfast as they stumble their way through the London gay underworld in search of 'gainful employment'. This being the offering of sexual favours to older gay men in order to subsidise their respective giros. 9 Dead Gay Guys is a high-camp send-up of gay stereotypes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, queer cinema, campy
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The Crew (2000)
Plot Summary:
Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, stylized, witty, clever, black comedy, realistic, semi serious, parody, light
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Sophie's Revenge (2009)
Plot Summary:
Dumped by her fiance just two months before their wedding, comic strip writer Sophie hatches an elaborate plan to get her Jeff back and punish the movie star, Joanna, who seduced him away. She finds herself a partner, Gordon, an ex-lover of Joanna's. The two start on a comic adventure full of laughs and tears, aided by Sophie's two best friends, Lucy and Lily. At the eve of her success, Sophie suddenly faced of having to chose between a repentant Jeff and Gordon who has fallen for her.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea, China
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, light, touching, feel good, melancholic
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He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001)
Plot Summary:
A search for love, meaning and bathroom solitude. Danny goes through a series of shared housing experiences in a succession of cities on the east coast of Australia. Together these vignettes form a narrative that is surprisingly reflective.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia, Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, witty, cynical, semi serious, funny, art house, black comedy, realistic, contemplative
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Life Without Dick (2002)
Plot Summary:
By accident, Colleen Gibson shoots and kills her gold-digging cheating boyfriend, Dick, a private eye who happens to have a hitman on his tail. Danny the hitman works for his brother-in-law, a cheerful but nasty Irish mobster, hasn't actually killed anyone, and wants to be a singer. He falls for Colleen. she likes him, too. He can solve her problem (Dick's body), she can solve his (meeting the mobster's demands that he kill people like Dick). Danny has an ex-girlfriend, who might still hold the key to his heart, two cops are sniffing around for Dick, a junk yard owner gets a conscience, and a talent show is coming up. Bullets, music, and true love are set to collide.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, touching, sentimental, melancholic, black comedy, detective
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Saving Silverman (2001)
Plot Summary:
A pair of buddies conspire to save their best friend from marrying the wrong woman, a cold-hearted beauty who snatches him from them and breaks up their Neil Diamond cover band.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, absurd, slapstick comedy, hilarious, scary, psychological, black comedy, romantic comedy
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Hit by Lightning (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Ricky Miller, a single, quiet 40-year old aspiring writer and manager of Debbie's (think Denny's) and probably the last person you'd notice in a crowd is 'hit by lightning' and meets the love of his life, the beautiful Danita on E-Happily.com, he is catapulted into a relationship online but it's a lot more than what he bargained for - this includes being asked to kill! Hounded by his best friend Seth who thinks no "10" would even go out with a guy like Ricky unless she had ulterior motives (or needed glasses), Ricky starts to get skeptical himself. Turns out, Danita confesses she's actually married to a handsome affable crime novelist and former Rabbi, Ben Jacobs. Is Danita telling Ricky the truth when she says wants to leave her husband but fears for her life if she does? Will Ricky go through with the plan to kill him so he and Danita can live happily ever after?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, not serious, touching, sentimental, captivating
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Feeling Minnesota (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sam Clayton's (Vincent D'Onofrio) marriage to ex-stripper Freddie (Cameron Diaz) comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red (Delroy Lindo), a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with Jiaks (Keanu Reeves), Sam's brother, and the pair tries to escape the situation together. It isn't long before both Sam and Red catch up with them, resulting in threats against the two of them -- although tension also starts to build between Sam and Red.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, black comedy, clever, talky, retro, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty
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Two If by Sea (1996)
Plot Summary:
Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unsteady lifestyle and just do that last job, which involves stealing a valuable painting. Frank takes Roz to an island on the coast of New England, where he wants to sell the painting and also hopes that their sagging relationship will get a positive push back up. Not everything goes as planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, romantic, road movie, suspense, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, funny, sexy
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The Linguini Incident (1991)
Plot Summary:
A waitress (Rosanna Arquette), a barman (David Bowie) and an underwear designer (Eszter Balint) try to rob a New York restaurant where two of them work.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: offbeat, independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Love and Other Catastrophes (1996)
Plot Summary:
A day in the life of two film-school students trying to find love and another house-mate.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: melancholic, satirical, humorous, semi serious, clever, realistic, talky, entertaining, independent film, offbeat
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Love Serenade (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ken Sherry, a radio personality from Brisbane, moves to the small country town of Sun Ray to take over the local radio station as a retreat from city life and his past.He moves next door to love-starved sisters Vicki-Ann and Dimity Hurley. They are both dumbstruck by him and compete for his affections. While the attraction is by no means mutual, Ken "sleaze-bag" Sherry is more than willing to use the girls for his own sexual gratification.Vicki-Ann’s naivety leads her to believe that they will marry, meanwhile, Dimity believes him to be a fish.When Vicki-Ann’s proposal is rejected she climbs the grain silo to presumably contemplate suicide. Ken and Dimity come to talk to her and Ken ends up dying by falling off the tower- or was he pushed? The girls attempt to dispose of the body by dumping it in the river, however Dimity’s fishy theory is proved true when Ken swims off towards the horizon.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: satirical, talky, humorous, semi serious, clever, offbeat, black comedy, erotic, art house, dark comedy
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Oyster Farmer (2004)
Plot Summary:
A love story about a young man who runs away up an isolated Australian river and gets a job with eighth generation oyster famers.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Black Cat, White Cat (1998)
Plot Summary:
Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17 year old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Austria, Greece
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: surreal, art house, funny, dark comedy, witty, offbeat, sincere, mind bending, psychedelic, social
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Wise Guys (1986)
Plot Summary:
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy, fast, cult film
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Bombay to Bangkok (2008)
Plot Summary:
Bombay to Bangkok is a Bollywood film starring Shreyas Talpade and Lena Christensen in the lead roles. It is written and directed by Nagesh Kukunoor and produced by Elahe Hiptoola and Rahul Puri. Shankar (Shreyas Talpade), a petty thief, in desperate need of money, steals from the local don (Naseeruddin Shah) and escapes his way into a team of doctors heading for relief work to Bangkok. Unfortunately, he loses the all-important money bag in the chaos. In Bangkok, his world turns upside down at a massage parlour where he bumps into Jasmine (Lena Christensen). The hitch is, she is all Thai and he can't converse with her at all. A ray of hope comes his way the next day when Jasmine turns up desperately in need of a doctor. Shankar, posing as a doctor along with the Sardar buddy Rachinder, jumps into this whirlpool, while Jasmine soon gets pulled into his bumbling adventures while running away from the don and his son (Vijay Maurya).
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sexy, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, captivating
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Mickey Blue Eyes (1999)
Plot Summary:
An English auctioneer proposes to the daughter of a mafia kingpin, only to realize that certain "favors" would be asked of him.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic comedy, hilarious, melancholic, witty, realistic, touching, semi serious, romantic, clever