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Plot Summary:
In a dream world, the exaggerated lives of six teenagers are thrown into a world of drugs in crime in a typical crime plot in a not so typical world of stolen cocaine, penicillin, Fire Saws, and Carl Jung.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: black comedy, low-budget
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Life is Cheap... But Toilet Paper Is Expensive (1989)
Plot Summary:
A man is hired by a group of people he believes to be gangsters to escort a briefcase from America to Hong Kong. When he arrives, however, his contact is nowhere to be found. With no further instructions, he decides to take in the sights of Hong Kong, which consist of him taking part in a great deal of blood, sex and general weirdness, all while wearing a briefcase handcuffed to his arm.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, avant garde, independent film, weird
Similar in 84%
Cain and Abel (2006)
Plot Summary:
The zany adventures of two undercover Hollywood cops, Malcolm Cain and John Abel.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
Similar in 85%
The Golden Boat (1990)
Plot Summary:
Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling the mysterious and often hilarious story of an aged street-person named Austin, a comically compulsive assassin, as he joins up with a young rock critic and philosophy student named Israel Williams. In the course of their adventures, Austin pursues his object of desire - a Mexican soap opera star - and along the way engages a host of TV characters and bit players, whose repartee range from gangsterish insults to the question of God's existence.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, Hong Kong
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: black comedy, parody, independent film, telenovela
Similar in 76%
Bachelor Night (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a bachelor party and a bachelorette party cross paths in Vegas, only the best man and maid of honor can save their friends from a night of epic "mistakes.".
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, sex comedy, semi serious, realistic, sexy, cult classic, offbeat, epic, cult film
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Frogs for Snakes (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of unemployed theater actors survive by working as illegal money collectors. The loan shark they are working for owns an Off-Broadway theater. As he decided to play "American Buffalo" there, a bloody battle for the favorite roles begin.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: black comedy, neo noir, independent film
Similar in 81%
Powder (2019)
Plot Summary:
After a ten year absence, El Chato returns to San Ignacio, his hometown, in order to retrieve a shipment of cocaine that was dropped there by a cartel pilot.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, absurd, not serious
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Vice Academy Part 2 (1990)
Plot Summary:
When a criminal female named Spanish Fly threatens to contaminate the city water with aphrodisiacs, it is up to a duo of attractive female police officers to stop her.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, low brow humor
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Sex, Blood and Fairy Tales (2016)
Plot Summary:
What would you do if you had to choose between ten years in prison and selling your soul to the Devil? Vera's biggest desire is to become a housewife and have children. Her dreams get interrupted when on Engagement night her fiancé confesses in his disloyalty. Vera gets upset and...he dies. Luckily or unfortunately her brother happens to work in criminal defense who offers her a way to "escape" conviction, after which Vera finds herself in the money laundering entertainment joint that is run by the Yakuza mafia. Although, nothing's ever what it seems to be.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, light, unusual plot structure, suspense, dark comedy
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The House (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Scott and Kate Johansen’s daughter gets into the college of her dreams it’s cause for celebration. That is, until Scott and Kate learn that the scholarship they were counting on didn’t come through, and they’re now on the hook for tuition they can’t begin to afford. With the help of their friend and neighbor Frank also in need of a major payday they decide to open an illegal casino in his suburban house, risking everything together on a Vegas-style bacchanal where money flows, inhibitions are checked at the door, and all bets are off.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, thought provoking, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, anamorphic, cult classic, hilarious, absurd
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Hammer, Slammer, & Slade (1990)
Plot Summary:
Hammer, a well dressed well mannered young detective finds out the hard way that everything he know a has been a lie. After his partners suicide, via soup that was much much too hot. Hammer starts to notice a pattern in his crime scene that lead him to the head of a major soup corporation. All out war as the soup boils over.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof
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Very Mean Men (2000)
Plot Summary:
A bartender wants rid of an obnoxious drunk but not until the drunk has left a decent tip. So the bartender tells the story of two mobster families, the Minetti's who work out of an Italian restaurant in the East San Fernando Valley, and the Mulroney's who work out of an Irish pub in the West San Fernando Valley. Mob war breaks out when one of the Minetti "boys" stiffs Big Paddy's daughter on her tip. We soon see why these hoods are called very mean men.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, crying, independent film, spoof, black comedy
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Silver Case (2012)
Plot Summary:
In TInseltown, the world of scheming and dreaming reaches a particularly nasty low when a powerful producer known as the 'Senator' hatches a plan to undermine the future success of his shady arch rival, the 'Master' in more ways than one. His plot begins with the simple delivery of a silver briefcase. But nothing is simple in Hollywood. The case goes missing, which sets off a chain of events that are categorically not part of the plan. The Senator engages the best of his team to locate the package, but doesn't count on the tenacity of two thugs who now have the mystery prize in their curious possession.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, independent film, biting
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Small Time (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ben is a small-time gangster who gets the opportunity to earn a lot of money. His boss sends him to a remote ranch with bag full of drugs and orders him to wait for the buyer. But the routine drug deal turns to disaster because of Ben’s unprofessional associates.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, crime drama, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Lovedolls Superstar (1986)
Plot Summary:
An all-girl punk band forms a religious cult.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The 101-Year-Old Man Who Skipped Out on the Bill and Disappeared (2016)
Plot Summary:
Drinking the tasty Folk Soda puts a spring in the 101 Year Old Man’s step and his next adventure takes him around the World and back to Sweden, during which time he is chased by the CIA, a Balinese debt collector and becomes an executive at a soft drink company.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, dark comedy
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Scotland, PA (2001)
Plot Summary:
Joe McBeth is a hard-working but unambitious doofus who toils at a hamburger stand alongside his wife Pat, who has much smarter. Pat believes she could do better with the place than their boss Norm is doing, so she plans to usurp Norm, convincing Mac to rob the restaurant's safe and then murder Norm, using the robbery as a way of throwing the cops off their trail.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, witty, disturbing, talky, parody, realistic, not serious, black comedy, clever
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The Young Offenders (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two teenage boys cycle 160 km on stolen bikes pursued by police to find a missing bale of cocaine worth 7 million euro. Set around the real event of Ireland's biggest cocaine seizure in 2007 of 440 million euro.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, tense, humorous, absurd, road movie, feel good, dark comedy, freeze frame, weird
Similar in 82%
Mafia! (1998)
Plot Summary:
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, light, melancholic, stylized, not serious, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, slapstick
Similar in 79%
Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets shot and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe he's still alive. The killer wants to do his job so when he is informed that the stiff is still alive he's got to shoot him again, and again, and again.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, black comedy, hilarious, dark comedy, entertaining, absurd, not serious, buddy comedy, slapstick comedy
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Fanboys (2009)
Plot Summary:
In 1999, Star Wars fanatics take a cross-country trip to George Lucas' Skywalker Ranch so their dying friend can see a screening of The Phantom Menace before its release.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, road movie, exciting, cult classic, hilarious, confusing, ironic, indie film, absurd
Similar in 79%
Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls (1995)
Plot Summary:
Summoned from an ashram in Tibet, Ace finds himself on a perilous journey into the jungles of Africa to find Shikaka, the missing sacred animal of the friendly Wachati tribe. He must accomplish this before the wedding of the Wachati's Princess to the prince of the warrior Wachootoos. If Ace fails, the result will be a vicious tribal war.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 230000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, humorous, slapstick, hilarious, spoof, not serious, talky, detective, slapstick comedy
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Deal of the Century (1983)
Plot Summary:
Arms dealers from several companies vie to sell the most expensive and highest tech weapons to a South American dictator. There are complications; understanding the exact nature of how 'gifts' are used to grease the wheels of a sale, a religious conversion from one of the salesman and a romance that begins to grow between two competitors.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, political, clever, offbeat, allegory, black comedy
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Female Trouble (1974)
Plot Summary:
The life and times of Dawn Davenport, showing her progress from loving schoolgirl to crazed mass murderer - all of which stems from her parents' refusal to buy her cha-cha heels for Christmas. She runs away from home, is raped, becomes a single mother, criminal and glamorous model before her inevitable rendezvous with the electric chair.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, disturbing, sexy, independent film, erotic, controversial, cult classic, humorous, surreal
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Plot Summary:
When the incompetent Officer Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 181000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, spoof, humorous, detective, slapstick, not serious, absurd, light, hilarious
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Dope (2015)
Plot Summary:
Malcolm is carefully surviving life in a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles while juggling college applications, academic interviews, and the SAT. A chance invitation to an underground party leads him into an adventure that could allow him to go from being a geek, to being dope, to ultimately being himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 89000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, independent film, realistic, suspense, hood, teen, feel good, entertaining, intense, humorous
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White Chicks (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two FBI agent brothers, Marcus and Kevin Copeland, accidentally foil a drug bust. As punishment, they are forced to escort a pair of socialites to the Hamptons, where they're going to be used as bait for a kidnapper. But when the girls realize the FBI's plan, they refuse to go. Left without options, Marcus and Kevin decide to pose as the sisters, transforming themselves from African-American men into a pair of blonde, white women.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 159000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, hilarious, funny, satirical, parody, teen, action comedy, black comedy, entertaining, feel good
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Heathers (1988)
Plot Summary:
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, teen, witty, semi serious, aesthetic, realistic, retro, parody
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Horrible Bosses (2011)
Plot Summary:
For Nick, Kurt and Dale, the only thing that would make the daily grind more tolerable would be to grind their intolerable bosses into dust. Quitting is not an option, so, with the benefit of a few-too-many drinks and some dubious advice from a hustling ex-con, the three friends devise a convoluted and seemingly foolproof plan to rid themselves of their respective employers... permanently.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 465000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, black comedy, dark comedy, entertaining, sexy, hilarious, parody, witty, realistic
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Twelve Chairs (1971)
Plot Summary:
A former aristocrat Ippolit Vorobyaninov leads a miserable life in Soviet Russia. His mother-in-law reveals a secret to him - she hid family diamonds in one of the twelve chairs they once had. Vorobyaninov in cooperation with a young con artist Ostap Bender start a long search for the diamonds.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, exciting, clever, witty, cynical, not serious, slapstick
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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 869000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, stylized, surreal, breathtaking, witty, visually stunning, offbeat, psychedelic, talky, dramatic