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Plot Summary:
An ordinary man (played by Tim Morton) lives a dull life till his friend Chet (played by Jimmy Kustes) comes over to stay for a few days. His friend ropes him to various schemes and generally makes a bunch of faux pas. His girlfriend (played by Johanna Sims) mostly runs around without alerting him of her whereabouts. He escapes his dull day-to-day existence by watching the TV show New Cops and dreaming various scenarios involving him being the President of the United States and Chet serving as his adviser. Chet recommends they hire detective Flaherty (played by David Maloney) to investigate a book heist at the local library.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, neo noir, experimental, detective
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Lookwell (1991)
Plot Summary:
Lookwell was a television pilot written and produced by Conan O'Brien and Robert Smigel, the latter of which becoming a primary creative voice for O'Brien's late night show. It starred Adam West. The pilot was broadcast on NBC in July 1991 but was not picked up as a series despite being a "personal favorite" of NBC chairman Brandon Tartikoff.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: parody, detective, hilarious, cult film
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The Tea Man (2010)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1987 when cell phones were car phones and any respectable bank robber still used a gun. Two life long mid-life crisis friends decide to rob banks. With the help of an ex-con "old head" who had 25 years to think about how to get it right, what could possibly go wrong?.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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World of the Depraved (1967)
Plot Summary:
Two police detectives are assigned to investigate the murders of several young women at a health club.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, sexploitation film
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Sherlock Holmes Returns (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes is awakened in modern times with a tale that he had invented a method of suspended animation that he had utilized on himself. Awakened by an earthquake, he is helped by Amy Winslow, who lives at 1994 Baker Street in San Francisco. There he is joined by a new group of Baker Street Irregulars led by Zapper. His battles lead him to the evil Moriarty clan led by James Moriarty Booth.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: detective
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Action Family (1987)
Plot Summary:
At work, Chris is a hardboiled no-nonsense detective who's investigating a series of brutal murders of jazz musicians. At home, he's a family man straight out of sitcom who has to satisfy every whim of his wife and kids.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: parody, sitcom, detective, twisted
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Beyond the Law (1968)
Plot Summary:
Takes place over the course of one feverish night in a Manhattan police precinct and neighboring bar.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, cinema verite, fake documentary
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The James Gang (1997)
Plot Summary:
After an audacious jewellery robbery the whole James family heads for home on the run with the obsessive detective Julia Armstrong in hot pursuit.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Rotten to the Core (1965)
Plot Summary:
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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The Jokers (1967)
Plot Summary:
Oliver Reed and Michael Crawford play two brothers who are always trying to find some way to succeed with cleverness rather than simple drudgery. Crawford is constantly living in his brother's shadow as the one who gets caught. After Crawford is forced to resign from the army after an episode of unappreciated cleverness, the two decide their careers would go better if there was a large amount of publicity, so they decide to steal the crown jewels from the tower of London.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: retro, offbeat, poliziottesco
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Mr. Vampire 5 (1990)
Plot Summary:
A former cop rejoins the police department to investigate a drug ring that employs ghosts and vampires.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 700
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: detective
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Winter Potato Dumplings (2014)
Plot Summary:
Crime comedy set in a village somewhere in Bavaria, centering around a village policeman's attempt to solve a murder case, his chaotic private life and the dysfunctional relationship with his wacky father.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, detective
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Goodnight, My Love (1972)
Plot Summary:
Gruff gumshoe Francis Hogan is hired by a mysterious woman to find her boyfriend who has gone missing. With his perpetually hungry partner in tow, Hogan must untangle a web of intrigue involving the criminal underworld and a dead courier. One double-cross follows another as Hogan investigates the whole sordid affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: detective, cult film
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Der Bulle von Tölz (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Bull of Tölz is commissioned by Sat.1 German crime series.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective
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Coffee & Kareem (2020)
Plot Summary:
A Detroit cop reluctantly teams with his girlfriend's 11-year-old son to clear his name and take down the city's most ruthless criminal.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining, action comedy, hilarious
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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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A Slight Case of Murder (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe (William H. Macy) accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers his tracks, he raises the suspicions of a private investigator (James Cromwell), who then tries to blackmail him. Thorpe also falls under the watchful eye of Detective Fred Stapelli (Adam Arkin), a cop who is intent on becoming a screenwriter. Before long, Thorpe's girlfriend, Kit (Felicity Huffman), and Stapelli's wife, Patricia (Julia Campbell), are roped into the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective, crime thriller, neo noir, clever, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, semi serious, biting
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The Man with Bogart's Face (1980)
Plot Summary:
In The Man With Bogart's Face, an affectionate send-up of the Bogart detective films of the 1940s, Robert Sacchi plays a man who idolizes Humphrey Bogart so much he has his features altered to look exactly like his idol. He then opens up a detective agency under the name Sam Marlowe (an amalgam of the names of Bogart's characters from The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, parody, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical
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Peeper (1975)
Plot Summary:
A detective is hired to locate a girl adopted 30 years earlier whose birth father wants to bequeath her his fortune.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: neo noir, spoof, mind bending, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, detective, parody
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Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: detective, hilarious, colorful, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, fast
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Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Plot Summary:
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, detective, hilarious, parody, slapstick, colorful, humorous, not serious, erotic, light
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The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
Plot Summary:
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources – himself and his Asian manservant – to reveal the identity of 'The Phantom'.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: hilarious, detective, slapstick, humorous, witty, parody, atmospheric, non fiction, black and white, colorful
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A Very Missing Person (1972)
Plot Summary:
An ex-schoolteacher is asked by the police to help locate a missing heiress.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective
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V.I. Warshawski, Detective in High Heels (1991)
Plot Summary:
Victoria "V.I" Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boyfriend; then he is murdered. Being the detective type, she makes the murder her next case. In doing so she befriends the victim's daughter, Kat, and together they set out to crack the case.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, detective, entertaining, light, neo noir, rough, twist ending, sexy
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Super Troopers 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
When an international border dispute arises between the U.S. and Canada, the Super Troopers- Mac, Thorny, Foster, Rabbit and Farva, are called in to set up a new Highway Patrol station in the disputed area.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: absurd, captivating, semi serious, funny
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Homicide (1991)
Plot Summary:
Bobby Gold is a career cop who is reassigned from a hunt for a cop killer to the investigation of the murder of an old Jewish woman in Baltimore, and in the process finds himself exploring his own sense of identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, tense, clever, bleak, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, psychological, rough
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You've Got Murder (2019)
Plot Summary:
Istanbul Police Department homicide detectives encounter a murder nothing like they’ve seen before.Commissioners Emin, Salih, Asuman and deputy Alaattin begin investigating.But strange murders keep happening. They don’t have any evidence or any clues. Day by day, tempers flare and the police chiefs grow annoyed.As the murders keep piling up, the public’s interest rises. The pressure on Emin and his colleagues get intense. At last, the chief of police assigns “crime expert” Dizdar Koşu, who has recently come back from the US, to the team.Overwhelmed with panic, pressure and disdain, Emin and his friends try to solve the strangest series of murders with the most unusual methods.This fast race against time immediately turns into a tragicomedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, feel good, humorous, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, detective
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The Curse of the Jade Scorpion (2001)
Plot Summary:
CW Briggs is a veteran insurance investigator, with many successes. Betty Ann Fitzgerald is a new employee in the company he works for, with the task of reorganizing the office. They don't like each other - or at least that's what they think. During a night out with the rest of the office employees, they go to watch Voltan, a magician who secretly hypnotizes both of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, detective, neo noir, realistic, atmospheric, feel good, semi serious, funny, mind bending
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Dragnet (1987)
Plot Summary:
LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday -- the equally straight-laced nephew of the famous police sergeant of the same name -- is paired up with a young, freewheeling detective named Pep Streebeck. After investigating some strange robberies at the local zoo and the theft of a stockpile of pornographic magazines, they uncover cult activity in the heart of the city and are hot on the case to figure out who's behind it all.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, satirical, absurd, detective, cult classic, psychotronic, spoof, epic, action comedy
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Super Troopers (2001)
Plot Summary:
Five bored, occasionally high and always ineffective Vermont state troopers must prove their worth to the governor or lose their jobs. After stumbling on a drug ring, they plan to make a bust, but a rival police force is out to steal the glory.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, witty, talky, not serious, parody, slapstick, cult classic, hilarious
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Plot Summary:
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 235000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir, funny, black comedy, dark comedy, detective, humorous, sexy, suspense, entertaining, absurd