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Plot Summary:
A couple of provincial gas station employees travel to the capital seeking fortune of vehicle mechanics accidental career passing drivers.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Caracas (1989)
Plot Summary:
Despite its South-of-the-Border title, Caracas is an Austrian love triangle. Gas-station owner Gerhard Zehmann is saddled with cheating wife Regina Bill. The man would like to escape to Venezuela, but he can't unload his wife. Then he meets a woman who is the exact double of his wife (also played by Regina Bill, of course). Falling in love with this clone, the husband hatches a plan. He'll murder his wife, then leave for Venezuela with her look-alike so as not to arouse suspicion. Are foolproof plans like these ever really foolproof?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Backfire (1964)
Plot Summary:
A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompanied by the smuggler's sexy girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, Spain, West Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Social Circle (2016)
Plot Summary:
A small town Georgia investigator probes into a series of local crimes including locating a missing woman. Kit Gosling (Amber McCullough) is single, lonely, and works for the Social Circle Police Department. A small town crime comedy written & directed by Jack M. Moon. This film is quirky and darkly funny.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: southern gothic
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Everything Will Be Fine (2009)
Plot Summary:
Fanis and Gina, an illegal erotic couple drawn into a strange and rather elaborate kidnapping which leads to tragicomic situations.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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The Watchers: Beginning (2015)
Plot Summary:
Night in the center of Moscow hit by a girl, she urgently needs complex operations. Her friend Kira finds the culprit, arrogant and cynical tycoon Sergei Polanski, who refuses to admit his guilt and help the injured. He does not care, he has everything under control. In desperation, Cyrus turned for help to the three guys sympathetic to her - bykovatomu Fede, arrogant, handsome Artem computer genius and his wife. Boys entered into between the Covenant - "help the girl punish the villain, and then decide who will become her boyfriend.".
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, emotional, suspense, intense
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The Snowman (1985)
Plot Summary:
A crime comdey directed by Peter F. Bringmann.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961)
Plot Summary:
A rich, old counterfeiter is lured out of retirement.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, black and white, surprise ending, slang
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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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Allowed (2022)
Plot Summary:
Rodrigo and Gabriela have been dating for years, sometimes their relationship seems like best friends, but deep down, they love each other. Their daily lives are disrupted when their best friends, Luz and Jorge, ask them who would be allowed.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic comedy
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The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent (1984)
Plot Summary:
An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 822
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, spoof, parody
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Holy Year (1976)
Plot Summary:
The last film of Jean Gabin.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
Plot Summary:
In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to make it revolve around a secret egg salad recipe.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, grindhouse, cult classic, spy comedy, humorous, witty, independent film, not serious, fast
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Masquerade (1965)
Plot Summary:
The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, eurospy
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The Escape (1978)
Plot Summary:
The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Brides of Fu Manchu (1966)
Plot Summary:
This time Fu Manchu and his army of henchmen are kidnaping the daughters of prominent scientists and taking them to his remote island headquarters. Instead of asking for ransom, Fu demands that the fathers help him to build a death ray, which he intends to use to take over the world. But Fu's archenemy, Nayland Smith of Scotland Yard, is determined not to let that happen.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Crime
Country: UK, West Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, exciting, rough, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, fast
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Attack the Gas Station! (1999)
Plot Summary:
A quartet of disaffected Korean youths have robbed a Seoul gas station. After taking the gas station over, their wacky antics ensue; forcing the manager to sing, kidnapping customers that complain about the service, and staging fist-fights between street gang members and gas station employees; all of these reflect their own gripes against society.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, entertaining, absurd, cynical, semi serious, surreal, disturbing, mind twisting, clever
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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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The Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob (1973)
Plot Summary:
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, slapstick, funny, anthology, slapstick comedy
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The Secret Life of Archie's Wife (1990)
Plot Summary:
Bunny, an unhappily married Denver housewife, frustrated and stressed out over her uncommunicative businessman husband Archie as well as planing their daughter's coming wedding, has her life turned upside down one day when she's taken hostage by Walter, a bumbling loser on the run from the law after having robbed a bank in order to pay off money to his loan shark Sebastian and to support his elderly mother. Soon Bunny and Walter form a romantic bond and decide to help each other with their problems in their own ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
Plot Summary:
A kidnapped mobster (Vittorio De Sica) persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Kaleidoscope (1966)
Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy which has Barney Lincoln and Angel McGinnis as a pair of amorous adventurers in the gambling places of London and the Riviera. Barney Lincoln is a rambling gambling man who scores sensational wins at poker and chemin de fer because he has succeeded in marking the original plates for the backs of all the playing cards manufactured in a plant in Geneva and used in all the gambling joints in Europe. In his gambling depredation, Barney is spotted by Angel McGinnis, the daughter of a Scotland Yard Inspector 'Manny' McGinnis on the lookout for a man to do a job. The inspector enlists Barney's help in playing poker with a shady London character whom Scotland Yard wants to force to financial ruin.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 862
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Money Money Money (1972)
Plot Summary:
When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense, campy
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The Goat (1981)
Plot Summary:
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sweet, buddy comedy, perverse, feel good, realistic, semi serious, detective, slapstick comedy
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The Brain (1969)
Plot Summary:
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: fast paced, exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Sucker (1965)
Plot Summary:
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, semi serious, realistic, funny, anthology
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Nice Package (2016)
Plot Summary:
A wannabe professional thief has an epic fail when he's caught stealing a package and forced to take a young woman as hostage back to his gay friend's house where, despite pressure from his deranged, yoga-loving boss, he can't dispense with her and instead the three face a bunch of quirky thugs sent by the boss who will do anything to get his hands on the mysterious package.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World (1963)
Plot Summary:
A group of strangers come across a man dying after a car crash who proceeds to tell them about the $350,000 he buried in California. What follows is the madcap adventures of those strangers as each attempts to claim the prize for himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 210 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, funny, slapstick, hilarious, feel good, captivating, technicolor, psychotronic, retro
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King's Ransom (2005)
Plot Summary:
Hoping to foil his own gold-digging wife's plan, a loathsome businessman arranges his own kidnapping, only to realize that there are plenty of other people interested in his wealth as well.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: witty, humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, realistic, fast
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Nothing to Lose (1997)
Plot Summary:
Advertising executive Nick Beame learns that his wife is sleeping with his employer. In a state of despair, he encounters a bumbling thief whose attempted carjacking goes awry when Nick takes him on an involuntary joyride. Soon the betrayed businessman and the incompetent crook strike up a partnership and develop a robbery-revenge scheme. But it turns out that some other criminals in the area don't appreciate the competition.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, action comedy, hilarious, entertaining, absurd, buddy comedy, light, feel good, black comedy
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The Diamond Arm (1969)
Plot Summary:
Semyon Gorbunkov goes on a cruise with a smuggler on board. In Istanbul, he slips and breaks his arm. What he didn't know is that this was a signal for the gang of smugglers.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, realistic, funny, slapstick comedy, witty, not serious, crying, spoof