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Plot Summary:
The Police Academy misfits travel to Miami, Florida for their academy's commanding officer, Lassard, to receive a prestigious lifetime award pending his retirement, which takes a turn involving a group of jewel thieves after their stolen loot that Lassard unknowingly has in his possession.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, slapstick, absurd, relaxing, slapstick comedy, realistic, not serious, fast, parody
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Police Academy: The Series (1997)
Plot Summary:
Police Academy: The Series is a syndicated 1997 television series spin-off from the Police Academy series of films. Michael Winslow was the only actor from the Police Academy films to have a recurring role on the show, although several of the film's cast made occasional guest appearances. The series was written by Paul Maslansky and produced by James Margellos and Gary M. Goodman. Music by Ari Wise and Jim Guttridge.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: absurd, detective, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, not serious, slapstick
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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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Torrente 3: The Protector (2005)
Plot Summary:
A popular and beautiful politician plans to expose the evil-doings of a multinational corporation. Hoping to silence her, the corporation's top executives decide to hire the most incompetent detective they can find to act as her bodyguard.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, detective, action comedy, parody, slapstick
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Another Stakeout (1993)
Plot Summary:
Chris and Bill are called upon for their excellent surveillance record to stakeout a lakeside home where a Mafia trial witness is believed to be heading or already hiding. Unlike their earlier _Stakeout_, this time they are accompanied by Gina Garret from the DA's office and her pet rottweiler 'Archie'; their cover, husband and wife with son Bill.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, funny, light, melancholic, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, action comedy
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Reno 911!: Miami (2007)
Plot Summary:
A rag-tag team of Reno cops are called in to save the day after a terrorist attack disrupts a national police convention in Miami Beach during spring break. Based on the Comedy Central series.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, mockumentary, light, clever, suspense, melancholic, realistic, not serious
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
Plot Summary:
A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, not serious, slapstick, feel good, absurd, talky, scary, black comedy
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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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Crime Busters (1977)
Plot Summary:
An attempted robbery turns to be an unexpected recruitment when two unemployed men mistakenly break into a police office instead of a store.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Adventure, Crime
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, not serious, entertaining, buddy comedy, poliziottesco, realistic, slapstick
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Tough Guys (1986)
Plot Summary:
Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie Lang (Douglas) are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. Harry and Archie realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks at a bank, they foil a robbery attempt. Archie, who spent his prison time pumping himself up, easily picks up a 20-year-old aerobics instructor. Harry, on the other hand, has to waste away his days in a nursing home. They both have festering resentments -- Archie for having to endure a humiliating job as a busboy; Harry for having to endure patronizing attitudes toward senior citizens. The two old pals finally go back to what they know best. After successfully robbing an armored car, they decide to rob the same train that they robbed thirty years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, light, road movie, humorous, touching, semi serious, cult classic, realistic, surprise ending
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Quick Change (1990)
Plot Summary:
With the aid of his girlfriend, Phyllis Potter, and best friend, Loomis, Grimm enters a Manhattan bank dressed as a clown, creates a hostage situation and executes a flawless robbery. The only thing left for the trio to do is make their getaway out of the city and to the airport. It sounds simple enough, but it seems that fate deserts them immediately after the bank heist. One mishap after another conspires to keep these robbers from reaching freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, absurd, cult classic, witty, sweet, buddy comedy, fast, realistic
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Police Squad! (1982)
Plot Summary:
Police Squad! is a television comedy series first broadcast in 1982, created by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, and starring Leslie Nielsen. A spoof of police procedurals, the series featured Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's usual sight gags, wordplay and non sequiturs. While a parody of many television shows and movies, it bore a particular resemblance to the Lee Marvin cop show, M Squad and the late 1960s series Felony Squad. Although cancelled after only six episodes, the show spawned the successful Naked Gun film series. TV Guide ranked it #7 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, sitcom, humorous, funny, detective, absurd, anime, cult classic, realistic
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Police Academy 4: Citizens on Patrol (1987)
Plot Summary:
A new batch of recruits arrives at Police Academy, this time a group of civilian volunteers who have joined Commandant Lassard's new Citizens on Patrol program. Although the community relations project has strong governmental support, a disgusted Captain Harris is determined to see it fail.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, slapstick, absurd, spoof, relaxing, realistic, semi serious, fast, slapstick comedy
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Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986)
Plot Summary:
When police funding is cut, the Governor announces he must close one of the academies. To make it fair, the two police academies must compete against each other to stay in operation. Mauser persuades two officers in Lassard's academy to better his odds, but things don't quite turn out as expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, slapstick, absurd, relaxing, realistic, semi serious, fast, unusual plot structure
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Moving Violations (1985)
Plot Summary:
A group of careless and unlucky drivers are sentenced to attend traffic school to keep their records clean.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, independent film, exciting, offbeat, realistic, witty, not serious, surprise ending, campy
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Police Academy 6: City Under Siege (1989)
Plot Summary:
Our favourite police men are called together to deal with a gang who rob banks and jewelers. Using their various talents as well as their extraordinary luck, the crooks stand no chance against our men and women wearing blue.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, slapstick, absurd, relaxing, realistic, not serious, fast, hilarious, parody, funny
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Police Academy: Mission to Moscow (1994)
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The Russians need help in dealing with the Mafia and so they seek help with the veterans of the Police Academy. They head off to Moscow, in order to find evidence against Konstantin Konali, who marketed a computer game that everyone in the world is playing.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: absurd, slapstick, humorous, spoof, cult classic, disgusting, realistic, not serious, semi serious, fast
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Police Academy 2: Their First Assignment (1985)
Plot Summary:
Officer Carey Mahoney and his cohorts have finally graduated from the Police Academy and are about to hit the streets on their first assignment. Question is, are they ready to do battle with a band of graffiti-tagging terrorists? Time will tell, but don't sell short this cheerful band of doltish boys in blue.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, parody, slapstick, absurd, relaxing, realistic, not serious, fast, slapstick comedy
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Screwed (2000)
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A chauffeur kidnaps his rich boss's dog to hold it for ransom, but when she accidentally gets the dog back, she thinks that it's the chauffeur who's been kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, intense, feel good, witty, not serious, offbeat, slapstick, hilarious, realistic
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Plot Summary:
An LA detective is murdered because she has microfilm with the recipe to make cocaine cookies. A "Lethal Weapon" style cop team tries to find and stop the fiends before they can dope the nation by distributing their wares via the "Wilderness Girls" cookie drive.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
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Plot tags: parody, humorous, spoof, absurd, exciting, feel good, witty, funny, satirical, not serious
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Starsky & Hutch (2004)
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Join uptight David Starsky and laid-back Ken "Hutch" Hutchinson as they're paired for the first time as undercover cops. The new partners must overcome their differences to solve an important case with help from street informant Huggy Bear and persuasive criminal Reese Feldman.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 153000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, entertaining, satirical, hilarious, not serious, exciting, realistic, action packed
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Gone Fishin' (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two fishing fanatics get in trouble when their fishing boat gets stolen while on a trip.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, slapstick, feel good, realistic, not serious, crying, buddy comedy, slapstick comedy, parody, funny
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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
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Plot Summary:
The eighth and last of the Pink Panther series. The illegitimate son of Inspector Clouseau is on the case of the kidnapped Princess Yasmin.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, USA
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Naked Gun 33 1/3: The Final Insult (1994)
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Frank Drebin is persuaded out of retirement to go undercover in a state prison. There he is to find out what top terrorist, Rocco, has planned for when he escapes. Frank's wife, Jane, is desperate for a baby.. this adds to Frank's problems. A host of celebrities at the Academy awards ceremony are humiliated by Frank as he blunders his way trying to foil Rocco.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, hilarious, funny, detective, realistic, slapstick comedy, not serious, slapstick
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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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Plot Summary:
Charles Dreyfus, who has finally cracked over inspector Clouseau's antics, escapes from a mental institution and launches an elaborate plan to get rid of Clouseau once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick, humorous, light, absurd, talky, detective, exciting, not serious, witty
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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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White Chicks (2004)
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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
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Police Academy (1984)
Plot Summary:
New rules enforced by the Lady Mayoress mean that sex, weight, height and intelligence need no longer be a factor for joining the Police Force. This opens the floodgates for all and sundry to enter the Police Academy, much to the chagrin of the instructors. Not everyone is there through choice, though. Social misfit Mahoney has been forced to sign up as the only alternative to a jail sentence and it doesn't take long before he falls foul of the boorish Lieutenant Harris. But before long, Mahoney realises that he is enjoying being a police cadet and decides he wants to stay... while Harris decides he wants Mahoney out!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 135000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, light, humorous, slapstick, hilarious, spoof, absurd, cult classic, feel good
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Cop Out (2010)
Plot Summary:
Detectives Jimmy and Paul, despite nine years as partners, can still sometimes seem like polar opposites – especially when Paul's unpredictable antics get them suspended without pay. Already strapped for cash and trying to pay for his daughter's wedding, Jimmy decides to sell a rare baseball card that's worth tens of thousands. Unfortunately, when the collector's shop is robbed and the card vanishes with the crook, Paul and Jimmy end up going rogue, tracking down the card and the drug ring behind its theft, all on their own time, and without any backup – except for each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, buddy comedy, funny, entertaining, melancholic, absurd, detective, exciting, realistic, talky