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Plot Summary:
When someone orders a pizza, Elmo the pizza man uncovers a government conspiracy and will stop at nothing to get his $15.23.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
Best tv shows and movies like Pizza Man (1991):
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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
Similar in 79%
Cry Uncle (1971)
Plot Summary:
Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, raunchy, independent film, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, sex comedy, detective
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Not for Publication (1984)
Plot Summary:
Lois Thornedyke, the daughter of a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, writes a scandal column for a New York city tabloid.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, sexy, neo screwball comedy, campy
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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
Similar in 76%
The Massively Mixed-Up Middle School Mystery (2015)
Plot Summary:
When the ultimate prank sends their principal under water, it's up to Everett, Alyssa and Riley to put their super detective skills to the test, catch the perp, and save their school's first dance in 40 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 39 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The King's Case Note (2017)
Plot Summary:
A clever king of Joseon and his brilliant chronicler hunt for the truth behind a crime that threatens the throne and the stability of the country.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, detective, period piece
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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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Bill Maher: Be More Cynical (2000)
Plot Summary:
BE MORE CYNICAL was originally aired on HBO, and offers viewers a chance to see Maher's full routine, which sees him tackling a wide array of topics, and leaving the audience recoiling in laughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags:
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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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Trixie (2000)
Plot Summary:
Emily Watson stars as Trixie, an eccentric woman who aspires to quit her job as a security guard and become a private detective. However, comedy intervenes and the mess begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, enigmatic, stylized, semi serious, suspense, detective, independent film, offbeat, realistic, witty
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Made in U.S.A (1966)
Plot Summary:
Paula Nelson (Anna Karina), a female version of Humphrey Bogart's hard boiled detectives, goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, at an unknown point in the future (maybe 1969). Once there, she learns that Richard is dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis (Yves Afonso), a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surreal, art house, psychological, serious, realistic, stylized, experimental, avant garde, crying
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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
Similar in 78%
Gumshoe (1971)
Plot Summary:
A would be private eye gets mixed up in a smuggling case.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, parody, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, detective, cult film
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The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977)
Plot Summary:
The grandchild of Professor James Moriarty had promised the world that it has only five days left to live. Moriarty is a master of disguise, a crack shot, and is very patient. Several government figures are shot to death, and it seems that it truly is the end of civilization as we know it - until the President learns that the grandson of Sherlock Holmes is living at 221B Baker Street, and sends the Police Commissioner of Scotland Yard to employ him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: parody, detective, spoof, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, surprise ending, twist ending
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Assassination of a High School President (2008)
Plot Summary:
After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief. Bobby prints an article fingering Class President Paul Moore as the thief, shredding the youth's reputation. But as Bobby gets to know Paul's girlfriend, Francesca, he comes to realize he was wrong about Paul, so he sets out to unmask the true culprit.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, talky, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, teen, clever, neo noir, intense
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Bill Maher: I'm Swiss (2005)
Plot Summary:
Political comedy about the Government (domestic and foreign policies), the president, the public's own ignorance and faults, and so forth. He also makes some hilarious detours in his own renditions of rap lyrics read out in proper, coherent (non-Ebonic) language. There are also some very poignant pieces on Bush, religion, drugs (notably marijuana), which then link to homeland security. Unlike a comedian like George Carlin who may go from topics in the 'big world' in his act to things in the 'little world' like spotting the random things in life, Maher is very much a comedian of the times, on the attack but clear about his political allegiances.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, talky, cynical, semi serious, clever, independent film, biting, black comedy
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Dead Men Don't Wear Plaid (1982)
Plot Summary:
Juliet Forrest is convinced that the reported death of her father in a mountain car crash was no accident. Her father was a prominent cheese scientist working on a secret recipe. To prove it was murder, she enlists the services of private eye Rigby Reardon. He finds a slip of paper containing a list of people who are "The Friends and Enemies of Carlotta.".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: black and white, spoof, parody, neo noir, surreal, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, witty, stylized
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Mystery Team (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of former Encyclopedia Brown-style child-detectives struggle to solve an adult mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, independent film, light, feel good, detective, spoof, offbeat, realistic
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Fletch Lives (1989)
Plot Summary:
Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, Fletch becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name. In the meantime, he's got some serious home-ownership issues, such as termites and weird neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, slapstick, detective, realistic, witty, semi serious, hilarious, slapstick comedy, parody, funny
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Fletch (1985)
Plot Summary:
A veritable chameleon, investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher might drive his editor up the wall, but he always produces great pieces for the newspaper. When his next story is about the drug trade taking place on the beach, Fletch goes undercover as a homeless man. Unaware of Fletch's true identity, businessman Alan Stanwyk offers Fletch $50,000 to kill him. Intrigued, Fletch decides to unearth the full story behind the offer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, talky, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, detective, hilarious, suspenseful
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Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home (2003)
Plot Summary:
Maher addresses contemporary political, social and cultural topics -- Iraq, President Bush and the so called Axis of Evil. The opinionated Maher said about Victory Begins at Home: "We've heard everything about the War on Terrorism except what we can actually do to help win it. The government used to do that for us through propaganda (the positive kind) posters, so taking my cue from the great old posters of World War I and World War II ('Loose Lips Sink Ships,' 'Buy War Bonds,' 'Plant a Victory Garden,' etc.) I commissioned artists to paint the posters our government today should be putting out to help us win this war.".
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, witty, cynical, parody, clever, realistic, talky, biting, spoof
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Vote and Die: Liszt for President (2008)
Plot Summary:
A charismatic Billionaire runs for president as an independent candidate. His platform is simple: KILL EVERYONE NOW!!!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: political comedy
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Mastergate (1992)
Plot Summary:
A "play on words" about a fictional political scandal concerning covert arms deals and double-dealing government operatives, satirizing the Watergate hearings of 1972-1973.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody
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Welcome Back Mr. President (2019)
Plot Summary:
Peppino, a provincial librarian who became the accidental President of Italy, is now a father and has returned to a peaceful, happy life as a woodsman. That is, until his wife Janis decides to return to politics. Peppino is forced to abandon his home in the mountains and return to Rome to win back his love and help her defeat a speculative plot intended to damage Italy. Together, they must fight against social media attacks of the opposition and get the country back on its feet.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear (1991)
Plot Summary:
Bumbling cop Frank Drebin is out to foil the big boys in the energy industry, who intend to suppress technology that will put them out of business.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 120000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, hilarious, funny, detective, humorous, slapstick, feel good, entertaining, ironic
Similar in 79%
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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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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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
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The Distinguished Gentleman (1992)
Plot Summary:
A Florida con man uses the passing of the long time Congressman from his district who he just happens to share a name with, to get elected to his version of paradise, Congress, where the money flows from lobbyists. But soon he learns the nature of the game and decides to fight back the only way he knows how, with a con.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: political, realistic, clever, humorous, parody, relaxing, witty, semi serious, hilarious, funny