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Plot Summary:
Mastroanni plays a mandolin player who, while trying to cover his senile father's gambling debts, is sent to perform a serenade at a high rise building and witnesses a shootout and a man being thrown from a window to his death (the first of several falls from windows that the beleaguered hero witnesses). He gets mixed up with a famous conductor and his gorgeous wife as well as with the conductor's beautiful daughter-in-law. The whole thing involves a confusingly intricate blackmail plot and a horrible secret dating back to World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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The Auteur Theory (1999)
Plot Summary:
At an absurdly self-indulgent student film festival, the directors of the (mostly terrible) short films start getting killed off one by one and a budding British documentary filmmaker decides to investigate.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, black and white, student film
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Missing Pieces (1991)
Plot Summary:
As sole heir to a relative's estate, Wendel is surprised to learn that the only thing he's been left is a riddle. However, he and his musician friend, Lou, are soon thrust into a comic chase, as an assortment of unsavoury characters, underworld figures, and even private investigators, are after them for the inheritance - and they don't know what it is!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, buddy comedy, independent film, slapstick comedy
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Thirty Lies or So (2004)
Plot Summary:
Takarada, a member of a group of swindlers which has reunited to pull off a big caper involving down comforters, shoddy encyclopedias, and a panda suit. However, the actual scam they’re about to run takes a back seat to the trust issues between the group.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Sexy Cat (1973)
Plot Summary:
A movie crew shooting a film featuring a comic-strip hero named The Sexy Cat finds itself stalked by a serial killer who begins murdering the cast and crew.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending, detective, poliziottesco, comic
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Vampire's Breakfast (1987)
Plot Summary:
Story about a newspaper reporter who stumbles upon a nest of vampires living in contemporary hong kong.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Fashion Murder Groove (2004)
Plot Summary:
An actress starts working at a fashion magazine to investigate the death of a famous model.
IMDB Rating: 9.1
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags:
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Twenty One Grams (2022)
Plot Summary:
DySP Nanda Kishore is investigating a murder case soon after a death in his family. As he proceeds, he is surprised to see how certain connections emerge that hint the case is linked to his own life as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags:
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Package, Double Package and Counterpackage (1993)
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Gora (2022)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer is targetting the literary greats of Kolkata. Private 'defective' Gourab Sen, aka Gora, has a reputation as a serial killer specialist. No wonder it falls upon the eccentric detective to unmask the killer!.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags:
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Patricia (1980)
Plot Summary:
A young heiress leads a life of excess and wants to marry a man her rich father despises. When her father suspiciously dies, and someone tries to kill her, she surrounds herself with her cousins, friends and lovers, all possible suspects.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Spain, Austria
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Manor (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Manor, a dark funny version of Akira Kurosawa's " Rashomon". Lost man searches for his truth and finds it, with the help of five Manor ladies. The rest of the who done whats serve only to help the lost soul find his truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: black comedy, independent film, detective, dark comedy
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The Last Prosecco (2017)
Plot Summary:
The suicide of a prominent wine producer unleashes a series of mysterious murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, unusual plot structure, humorous, suspense, satirical, absurd
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The Fiend (1977)
Plot Summary:
Il Mostro is a 1977 Italian thriller film directed by Luigi Zampa and starring Johnny Dorelli.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, spoof, poliziottesco, parody
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The Last Judgment (1961)
Plot Summary:
The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino Ventura. The film was a huge flop, massacred by critics and audiences when it was released. It was filmed in black and white, but the last sequence, the dance at theatre, is in color.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: italian comedy
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Acting on Impulse (1993)
Plot Summary:
An erotic thriller actress becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a B-movie producer, leading her to hide out and engage in sexual thrills with a pair of innocents.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, slasher, independent film, detective
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Kill Ben Lyk (2018)
Plot Summary:
Someone is murdering all of the Ben Lyks in London! Youtuber, Ben Lyk, decides to gather all of the remaining Ben Lyks to try and figure out exactly what is happening to London’s Ben Lyks.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, black comedy
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Death Steps in the Dark (1977)
Plot Summary:
An Italian reporter is travelling on the Instabul-Athens train. A woman is murdered with the reporter's letter-opener so that makes him the main suspect. With the help of his Swedish girlfriend he starts investigating in order to prove his innocence.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy, Greece
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slasher
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The Scenesters (2009)
Plot Summary:
Someone is killing beautiful young Hipsters in East L.A. Charlie is a crime scene cleaner working for Aftershocks Inc. with a penchant for Sherlock Holmes type deduction. Wallace is an out-of-luck filmmaker working as a crime scene videographer. The detectives covering the murders are apathetic at best but with good names (Henry and Carlita, particularly Carlita). Good names, bad attitudes.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, cynical, semi serious, realistic, scary, offbeat, independent film, mockumentary
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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)
Plot Summary:
Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen who is the prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, fast, psychotronic
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The Sunday Woman (1975)
Plot Summary:
Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murdering of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino's high society. Santamaria suspect Anna Carla and at the same time falls in love for her. Lello is the lover of Massimo, a homosexual platonic friend of Anna Carla. He is following another direction in order to find out the truth, and his results are confusing the Policeman. But another murdering happens.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)
Plot Summary:
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: West Germany, USA, Italy, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, culinary, offbeat, feel good, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
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A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Plot Summary:
A Shot in the Dark is the second and more successful film from the Pink Panther film series where both animated and real life sequences are mixed. A cult classic from Blake Edwards based on the play L’Idiot by Marcel Achard and Harry Kurnitz.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: detective, funny, hilarious, atmospheric, humorous, witty, sweet, slasher, educational, ironic
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The Private Eyes (1980)
Plot Summary:
Don Knotts and Tim Conway star in The Private Eyes, a 1980 comedy about two bumbling detectives solving a murder. It's an impressively incompetent affair. Every ancient joke falls with a muffled thud as Knotts and Conway ham their way through the pointless story: The lord and lady of a capacious manor are killed, and the lord's ghost seems to have returned to knock off the staff one by one. There'.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, spooky, suspenseful, not serious, surprise ending, independent film, scary, funny
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Towards Zero (2007)
Plot Summary:
Inviting the ex-wife to a family reunion when the none-too-secure new wife will be there hardly seems to be a recipe for success, and true to form, bodies have begun to stack up by the end of this cinematic update of a classic Agatha Christie tale. Luckily for the extended clan gathered at a sumptuous waterfront estate in Northern France, Inspector Martin Bataille is on hand to find out not only "who done it" but why.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, realistic
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Don't Touch the White Woman! (1974)
Plot Summary:
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris. Director Mario Fererri reenacts the events leading up to the Battle of the Little Big Horn in this wild, highly stylized surreal farce set in and around a gaping excavation for a huge urban renewal project in 1974 Paris. The anachronistic backdrop highlights the incongruity of the broad comic characterizations of real life figures George Armstrong Custer, Sitting Bull, and Buffalo Bill.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 935
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, experimental, controversial, neorealism, fast paced, slapstick, clever, offbeat, surreal, stylized
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The New Monsters (1977)
Plot Summary:
15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi, Monicelli, Scola) the best Italian writers ever (Age, Scarpelli) the best Italian actors ever (Tognazzi, Gassmann, Sordi) one of the most beautiful woman in the world (Ornella Muti) participate to this great tribute.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: anthology, black comedy, grotesque, italian comedy
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Reflections in Black (1975)
Plot Summary:
A woman dressed in black is murdering young women. The police question lawyer Anselmi for whom one of the girls worked as a secretary, and it turns out that all the victims were friends of lawyer's wife Leonora.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, cult film
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Detective Chinatown 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Driven by the desire for the huge reward, Tang Ren (by Wang Baoqiang) tricked Qin Feng (by Liu Haoran) to New York, to attend the World Detective Contest,. Later on, behind the crazy competition, Qin and Tang discovered the real hidden facts of this contest.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Murder on the Blackpool Express (2017)
Plot Summary:
A Blackpool coach driver and a tour guide get caught up in a deadly comedic conspiracy when a train's passengers begin mysteriously dying one by one.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, contemplative, funny, detective, black comedy
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The Big Feast (1973)
Plot Summary:
A group of men hire some prostitutes and go to a villa in the countryside. There, they engage in group sex and resolve to eat themselves to death.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, art house, surreal, humorous, controversial, atmospheric, black comedy, dark comedy, sexual