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Plot Summary:
Valerio Mastandrea is Franz, a night bus driver on the airport route who owes a lot of money from poker debts. He's stumbled upon by the variously named Leila, a thief who has accidentally become wrapped up in a secretive blackmail deal involving the President. As the film unfolds, a secret war between factions of the Security Services, a series of confusions among the various criminal fraternities whose activites have been touched upon by the deal, and Leila's past all complicate the situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Poland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, neo noir, exciting, sentimental, non-linear, fast, surprise ending, black comedy
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The Pharmacist (1997)
Plot Summary:
Hella is around 30 and works in a pharmacy. She is waiting for the right man to step into her life, but as she has a certain affinity for losers, she is kind of disillusionized. When she gets to know Levin, a dentist student who likes cars most, her dreams seem to come true. Levin has a very rich grandfather who likes her at first glance. The old man thinks of changing his last will to the condition that Levin has to marry Hella in order to inherit his fortunes. Like in a fairy-tale the door to a new life opens for Hella, but can she take it?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 986
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: manga, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Wild Horses (1995)
Plot Summary:
Still Breathing and theft in a financial, Joseph (Hector Alterio), an old anarchist, and a young employee, Pedro (Leonardo Sbaraglia) live for four days violent and compassionate alternatives in their desperate flight from the Patagonia Argentina. Along the way they encounter Ana (Cecilia Dopazo), a teenager who accompanies them on the trip.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: road movie, dark comedy, twisted, humorous, realistic, semi serious, wild
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Too Fat Too Furious (2005)
Plot Summary:
Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biological (serial killer) son, his employees who in his absence turned his snack-bar into a quiche bakery, a suicidal manic-depressive woman and a Yougoslavian who keeps unintendedly blowing things up. They need to get 300000 Euro to get Bennies father a new liver. Complicating matters are that Bennie is.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, realistic, dark comedy, witty, exciting, spoof
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The Bill Collector (2010)
Plot Summary:
Uncle Frankie (Danny Trejo) is not the kind of guy you want to meet in a dark alley. Especially when you owe him money and have been giving him the slip for a few years. Such is the fate of Lorenzo Adams (Gary Moore), a top bill collector at Lump Sum Collections. Uncle Frankie has tracked Lorenzo to Norfolk, Virginia and is coming to collect.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense, christian film, realistic, independent film
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Slither (1973)
Plot Summary:
While searching for a small fortune of embezzled money, an ex-con, a small-time bandleader, his doting wife and a kooky drifter find themselves being followed. Their chase takes them to trailer camps, bingo halls, laundromats and ultimately, a showdown with a group of unconventional bad guys.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: road movie, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, horror comedy
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My Words, My Lies - My Love (2009)
Plot Summary:
David, a waiter, finds an unpublished manuscript in a dresser drawer. To impress a girl, he claims to be the author. When the novel becomes a best-seller the real author introduces himself in his life and begins to take-over David's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Blue Moon (2002)
Plot Summary:
After screwing up a money exchange a Viennese small-time crook accompanied by a Russian hostess hits the road to the East.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, road movie, offbeat, modern fairy tale
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A Whole Life Ahead (2008)
Plot Summary:
The vicissitudes of a newly graduated girl in the universe of the precarious work. Marta is a well- educated girl; she is curious and silent one, which finds work in the call center of a company that sells a futuristic appliance. So she finds out a new fantastic world formed by young telephone operator and fanatic seller, corporate jingle, motivational dance, prize giving, ovation and penance. A bittersweet picture of modern society narrated through the eyes of a funny young philosopher.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, surreal, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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The Scapegoat (2013)
Plot Summary:
There is something strange - some would even say abnormal - about the Malaussène family. But if you take a closer look, no one could be happier than this cheerfully chaotic family, even though their mother is usually off on one romantic adventure or another. Life is never a bore for Benjamin Malaussène, professional scapegoat and the older brother responsible for this horde of kids. But when incidents happen wherever he goes, police and colleagues begin to eye him suspiciously. It soon becomes a matter of life and death to find out what is going on and who is so interested in ruining his life. Written by Pathe International.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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The First Beautiful Thing (2010)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of the Michelucci family, from the nineteen-seventies to the present day: the central character is the stunningly beautiful Anna, the lively, frivolous and sometimes embarrassing mother of Bruno and Valeria. Everything begins in the Summer of 1971, at the annual Summer beauty pageant held at Livorno’s most popular bathing establishment. Anna is unexpectedly crowned “Most Beautiful Mother”, unwittingly stirring the violent jealousy of her husband. From then on, chaos strikes the family and for Anna, Bruno and his sister Valeria, it is the start of an adventure that will only end thirty years later. Bruno ends up living in Milan after managing to escape from Livorno and his mother. He will return to his hometown at the end of the film to be at his mother’s side during her very last days.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, psychological, sexy, sentimental, complex
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Long Live Freedom (2013)
Plot Summary:
The elections are approaching and the largest opposition party in the country do not look good. Its leader, Enrico Oliveri can not stand the pressure and disappears. Fearing a scandal, the eminence grise of the party had brought into play the twin brother of the politician. Even if looks like two drops of water with his brother Giovanni may have a different personality. His ideas are innovative and direct approach to get the party in the polls.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, clever, semi serious, funny, art house, biting, suspense
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The Con (1998)
Plot Summary:
A lonely gas station attendent in Mississippi falls in love with a con woman who wants to get her hands on an inheritance he doesn't know about.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 544
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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I Hired a Contract Killer (1990)
Plot Summary:
After fifteen years' service, Henri Boulanger is made redundant from his job. Shocked, he attempts suicide, but can't go through with it, so he hires a contract killer in a seedy bar to murder him at some unspecified time in the future. But almost immediately he meets and falls in love with Margaret, a flower-seller, which makes Henri realise that his life has some meaning after all. But when he goes back to the bar to cancel the contract, he finds it has been demolished - and there's no way he can get in touch with the killer.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden, Germany, France, UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, neo noir, surreal, humorous, realistic, gloomy, semi serious, independent film, cult film
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Guardian Angels (1995)
Plot Summary:
Gerard Depardieu plays a sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective who flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob. He leaves the boy in the hands of an earnest priest (Christian Clavier), who escorts him back to Paris. Soon Clavier and Depardieu are fighting it out, each shadowed by his good or evil guardian angel.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, semi serious, feel good, realistic, slapstick comedy, neo screwball comedy
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Johnny Stecchino (1991)
Plot Summary:
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, surprise ending
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Loosies (2011)
Plot Summary:
A young pickpocket in the New York subways, living a fast, free, lifestyle is confronted by a woman whom he had a one night affair with, she informs him that she is now pregnant with his child, he must now choose between continuing the lifestyle he lead or take responsibility for his actions.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, humorous, realistic, romantic, hilarious, indie film, independent film, feel good
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Bandits (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two bank robbers fall in love with the girl they've kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, hilarious, entertaining, feel good, romantic, dark comedy, surprise ending, clever, parody
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Lewis & Clark & George (1997)
Plot Summary:
A sultry woman joins an illiterate killer and a brainy hacker, both escaped convicts, to search for gold.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: neo noir, black comedy, independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, road movie
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Crazy Stone (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three thieves try to steal a valuable jade that is tightly guarded by a security chief. But the security guards are not the only obstacle these thieves are facing. An extremely unlucky internationally known master thief is also trying to get a hand on this piece of precious jade. What would be the final destination of this piece of crazy stone?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: China, Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious
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Thin Ice (2011)
Plot Summary:
A dishonest insurance salesman's life quickly disintegrates during a Wisconsin winter when he teams up with a psychopath to steal a rare violin at the home of a reclusive farmer.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy, psychological, dark, clever, neo noir, suspenseful
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Shanghai Surprise (1986)
Plot Summary:
Glendon Wasey is a fortune hunter looking for a fast track out of China. Gloria Tatlock is a missionary nurse seeking the curing powers of opium for her patients. Fate sets them on a hectic, exotic, and even romantic quest for stolen drugs. But they are up against every thug and smuggler in Shangai.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, road movie, romantic, melancholic, exciting, semi serious, cult classic, independent film, realistic, surprise ending
Similar in 87%
Madigan's Millions (1968)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, Spain, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, semi serious, feel good, captivating, realistic, fast, eurospy
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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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R.T.T. (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Florence, his companion of five years, shocks him with the news that she's leaving him, moving to Miami and marrying another man, Arthur loses it. He follows Florence to all the way to Florida with plans to stop the wedding, which is set to take place in just a few days. Along the way, he crosses paths with Emilie, who is also heading to Miami, but unlike Arthur, is wanted by the police. As a result, Arthur gets stuck on an adventure he definitely never expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, exciting, realistic
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Don't Think About It (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, feel good, humorous, light, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious
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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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High Rollers (1976)
Plot Summary:
Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He will succeeded and from that moment on the two will join to defraud Belle. The swindle plot become more complicate when Felix falls in love for Philip's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, realistic, poliziottesco, semi serious
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Fool N Final (2007)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of misfits and gangsters embarks on a journey to find a lost and stolen diamond.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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99 (2009)
Plot Summary:
99 is an original story inspired by real events. It is as much "What could have been" as it is "What really happened." In other words, it is historical fiction - fiction being the keyword. It spans a few genres; it is slick, fast-paced, realistic and, importantly, very funny.In this "smart comedy" set in 1999, all the characters are found by a common feeling of being stuck at 99 in life - just one short of a 'century' - that elusive thing called "making it" in life!99 is an unpredictable and hilarious ride spread over two cities with colorful characters, unbelievable circumstances, small-time crooks, big-time conspiracies, fateful car crashes, loads of coffee, a briefcase full of money, a budding romance....... And a historical controversy brewing in the background!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, cult film
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Focus (2015)
Plot Summary:
Nicky, a veteran con artist, takes a novice named Jess under his wing. While Nicky teaches Jess the tricks of the trade, the pair become romantically involved; but, when Jess gets uncomfortably close, Nicky ends their relationship. Three years later, Nicky is in Buenos Aires working a very dangerous scheme when Jess -- now an accomplished femme fatale -- unexpectedly shows up. Her appearance throws Nicky for a loop at a time when he cannot afford to be off his game.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 270000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Argentina
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspense, entertaining, unusual plot structure, sexy, clever, tricky, intense, humorous, semi serious