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Plot Summary:
A series of embarrassing incidents force a mobster to go back to high school to finally graduate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, crime drama
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My True Friend (2012)
Plot Summary:
A bullied student forms a bond with the leader of a youth gang and discovers the power and meaning of true friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Action
Country: Thailand
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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My Boss, My Teacher (2006)
Plot Summary:
A mobster must complete college and spend some time as an ethics teacher in order to receive a promotion to a coveted territory.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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E=mc2 (2002)
Plot Summary:
The film tells about mainly three people - Max, a bored, smart, poor University Professor of Philosophy; Ramzes, a mafia leader, cool, strong, merciless bully and Stella, Ramzes girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Spin Kick (2004)
Plot Summary:
A school director is forced to train the 'worst' students of his school to master Taekwondo as the old coach, taking along the best of his athletes, left the school.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Made in Italy: Ciao Brother (2016)
Plot Summary:
Angelo lives selling fake paintings, but is exposed and forced to flee to the United States.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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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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The Dukes of Hazzard: Hazzard in Hollywood (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Duke Boys and company travel to Hollywood to sell some musical recordings in order to raise money to build a new hospital in Hazzard County. However, when their recordings and money are stolen, they wind up on the run from mysterious hitmen, sleazy record producers, Russian gangsters, and vicious loan sharks.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 884
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, independent film, road movie
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Contour (2006)
Plot Summary:
After blowing a big time heist, thug-for-hire Law, must resume his day job as a shady San Francisco tour guide. Before he knows it, Law and his unsuspecting group of tourists are in a race against time to recover a tape that will recue the politically unstable country of Uruvia. Filled with quirky characters, mad cap comedy and hard-hitting martial arts comes the most fun movie since Rumble in the Bronx!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Spy: Undercover Operation (2013)
Plot Summary:
Chul-soo is one of Korea’s best intelligence agents: he can accomplish any given mission. One day, a mysterious explosion takes place in Seoul. Chul-soo flies to Thailand on a mission to rescue a person who holds clues to the incident. Meanwhile, Young-hee goes on a business trip to Thailand and gets entangled with Chul-soo’s mission. Will he accomplish his mission and save his wife at the same time?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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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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Mr. Zoo: The Missing VIP (2020)
Plot Summary:
Top National Security agent and zoophobe Tae-ju suddenly receives an ability to talk to the animals after a freak accident?!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Mac Daddy's Vegas Adventure (2017)
Plot Summary:
After Mac Daddy decides to quit being an international ladies man, two of his best pupils (Diego and Damon), who have been trained by him in the arts of seduction, decide to take over. Damon and Diego take their game to Vegas to become international ladies men. But Damon ends up hitting on the wrong woman, and both Damon and Diego get involved with the most dangerous Italian Mafia in Vegas. Now Mac Daddy must come back into the game, to help save their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Codename: Jackal (2012)
Plot Summary:
A legendary assassin takes on an elimination task targeting the famous pop singer. She succeeds in kidnapping the singer but is hesitant to kill him, while he is hesitant to run away.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Breakout Brothers (2020)
Plot Summary:
Triad leader Roller and life-sentence inmate Scar maintain the balance of power as the bosses of the prison they're incarcerated at. Life at the prison gets disrupted by the arrival of new inmate Mak, who has run-ins with both Scar and Roller. With things going so badly for him in prison, Mak has no choice but to join in the breakout plot being hatched by Chan. However, Roller and Scar also end up being part of the plan!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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To Catch a Virgin Ghost (2004)
Plot Summary:
Seok-tae runs away with a huge diamond of his gang and comes to Sisily, a peaceful village. Yang-e runs after him to get the diamond back and finds Seok-tae's trail in Sisily. But all the town people lie about everything. These people turn out to be scarier than a ghost!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 677
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, horror comedy
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Two Thumbs Up (2015)
Plot Summary:
A criminal fresh out of prison who seeks out his former partners in crime for another heist. And they make a very elaborate plan to carry out the criminal intent, but things turn awry when another gang of criminals hit the same target.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, crime drama
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Song of Napoli (2013)
Plot Summary:
Young musician becomes an undercover agent and is asked to join a neomelodic band in order to allow police to get their hands on an elusive camorra boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Gangster Payday (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wong Kam-Kwei, a gang boss on the decline, overseeing bathhouses and karaoke bars, falls for a small restaurant owner, Mei. He begins to help her business, and learns that Mei is already in love with Leung, a member of his gang. He’s also like a brother to Kam-Kwei. When a rival gang hoping to steal his territory kills Leung, the only thing left for Kam-Kwei to do now is to protect Mei and avenge Leung.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong, China
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Kick (2009)
Plot Summary:
Kalyan (Ravi Teja) is a kind of guy who prefers a life full of thrills than leading a regular life style. He seeks kick in whatever he does. He finds liking in Naina (Ileana). They separate due to differences. Krishna (Shyam) is a young cop who is in lookout for a big ticket thief who happens to be Kalyan. Meanwhile, Naina agrees for an engagement with Krishna. The rest of the story is all about how Kalyan wins back his lady love and the real intent behind the robberies of Kalyan.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating
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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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The Great Fava Beans of China (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mohy Al-Sharqawi is a young man whose grandfather and his uncles form a smuggling gang. As Mohy is a coward who cannot go along with them, he goes to live with his mother and step-father but they send him to China to represent Egypt in a cooking competition which gets him into a lot of troubles.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Rise of the Footsoldier: Marbella (2019)
Plot Summary:
Fresh out of prison, Pat Tate steps right back into his Essex nightclub. But still disgruntled, he soon sets out to Marbelle to revenge those that put him away for five years. While in Spain, Pat cannot turn away from the opportunity to score the biggest drug deal of his life. All he needs is for his Essex pals Tony and Craig to deliver the cash to Marbella to close the deal. But Craig, useless as ever, turns a simple plane trip to a massive road trip packed with trickery and danger. And Tony is more worried about making it back to England as he has promised to support his best friend Nigel Benn at the boxing match of his life. While waiting in Marbella, Pat proceeds with the violent revenge he has craved for years. Revenges are made and Tony and Carlton walk Nigel Benn out to what turns out to be one of the most tragic fights in history. But the drugs they bring back seems to be a bad batch and cause them more trouble than they have ever anticipated before.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating
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Bandits (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kandemir is the head of a gang which conducts robberies. Their main goal is to rob fairly. What connects the members of the gang to one another is friendship. Unfortunately, everything changes after an old friend of Kandemir, Ali Rıza Kaptan’s goes to prison. Kandemir and the gang settle into an old neighborhood which seems quiet and peaceful. However, nothing is as how it seems in the neighborhood. They introduce themselves to their neighbors as the Nevizade family. Protagonists Kandemir, Ferdi, Karlos, Yaren, Bahadır and Derya have had hard times and when they gather under one roof these gang members still carry the traces of those hard times. Kandemir wishes to confront his daughter and show her that he is no longer a man of monkey business, while blood brothers Ferdi and Karlos who ran away from an orphanage still carry the misery of the streets; Yaren who came to İstanbul with the hope of being a famous singer is singing in taverns; Bahadır uses his genius for hacking computers and Derya joins the gang with her acting skills in order to save her father.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Dogwashers (2020)
Plot Summary:
When a narco past his prime refuses to pay a debt to an upstart, only a secret stash of money can save his men. But guess what the gardener just found?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 646
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Colombia, Argentina
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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The Misadventures of Hedi and Cokeman (2021)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, two dysfunctional dealers use family ties to try to boost their small drug business in this crass comedy based on the webseries.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Dogfather (2010)
Plot Summary:
When a Mafia don's right-hand man, a bulldog named Sonny, swallows his ring, comedy ensues as two of the don's best soldiers try and retrieve the ring from Sonny, who has been adopted by a new family.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, captivating, funny, light, entertaining
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The Magic Hour (2008)
Plot Summary:
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman -- an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the role, though the thespian has no idea what he's getting into.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Two Cheaters and a Half (2007)
Plot Summary:
Gina and Lello are partners both in life and in crime until they find themselves babysitting a kid during a robbery.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Big Mommas: Like Father, Like Son (2011)
Plot Summary:
FBI agent Malcolm Turner and his 17-year-old son, Trent, go undercover at an all-girls performing arts school after Trent witnesses a murder. Posing as Big Momma and Charmaine, they must find the murderer before he finds them.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, feel good, action comedy, light, captivating, entertaining, suspenseful, black comedy
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Vincenzo (2021)
Plot Summary:
Vincenzo Cassano is an Italian lawyer and Mafia consigliere who moves back to Korea due to a conflict within his organization. He ends up crossing paths with a sharp-tongued lawyer named Cha-young, and the two join forces in using villainous methods to take down villains who cannot be punished by the law.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: romantic, dorama, anime, captivating, dark comedy, black comedy, political, suspense, action thriller, bilingual