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Plot Summary:
Bored and frustrated suburban homemaker Connie and her best pal JoJo, a vlogger with dreams, turn a hobby into a multi-million-dollar counterfeit coupon caper. After firing off a letter to the conglomerate behind a box of cereal gone stale, and receiving an apology along with dozens of freebies, the duo hatch an illegal coupon club scheme that scams millions from mega-corporations and delivers deals to legions of fellow coupon clippers. On the trail to total coupon dominance, a hapless Loss Prevention Officer from the local supermarket chain joins forces with a determined U.S. Postal Inspector in hot pursuit of these newly minted “Queenpins” of pink collar crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: entertaining, buddy comedy, humorous, light, surprise ending, feel good, captivating, funny, dark comedy, action comedy
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Puerto Ricans in Paris (2015)
Plot Summary:
NYPD detectives Luis and Eddie visit Paris to help gorgeous French designer Colette catch the black market thief who's ripped off her new handbag design. While Luis' girlfriend Vanessa and Eddie's wife Gloria remain in New York, the hopelessly unhip odd couple stumble through a glamorous high-fashion world brimming with charming cafes, wild nightclubs and corporate treachery.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, exciting, light, buddy comedy, hispanic
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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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Opportunity Knocks (1990)
Plot Summary:
Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous, independent film, realistic, semi serious, hilarious, sentimental
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How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980)
Plot Summary:
Oregon, 1980: Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford, as the title states, the high cost of living. Jane cannot afford a babysitter or get married and if she wants privacy with her boyfriend, she has to sleep in the car. Even worse, her war veteran father comes to live with her to turn her life upside down. Louise lives a happy life with her veterinarian husband, Albert. She runs an antique shop on the side, but since it doesn't take in any profit, the IRS considers it a hobby. She needs to come up with the money to keep it going, or she will be trouble with the IRS. Elaine's husband has left her for another woman and without any money. She is in a constant struggle with banks, power companies, and gas stations. She needs money to get by and also catches the eye of police officer Jack. The local mall is having a contest that features a giant money ball that states it will help fight the inflation.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scenic, grindhouse, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Confidence Man JP – Episode of the Princess – (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set in Langkawi, Malaysia, professional scammers Dako (Masami Nagasawa), Boku-chan (Masahiro Higashide), and Richard (Fumiyo Kohinata) target the Fuu Family for their next heist. Raymond Fuu, who was the head of the Fuu Family, passed away and he left behind 10 trillion yen. Dako, Boku-chan and Richard scheme to gain the inordinate inheritance. --asianwiki.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Gold Diggers (2003)
Plot Summary:
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers is a black comedy about two losers in their twenties, Calvin Menhoffer (Will Friedle) and Leonard Smallwood (Chris Owen), who are out to get the good life without working for it. The two young men try to rob two 70-year-old sisters, Betty Mundt (Renee Taylor) and Doris Mundt (Louise Lasser). The two sisters beat the two young men up, and send them to jail. The ladies drop the charges, and invite the jailbirds to their Beverly Hills mansion. Cal gets an idea that they could marry the women for their money and live the good life. Hopefully, they will only live 6-months and at most one-year. It turns out that Betty and Doris are broke, and they have come up with a plan to marry the boys, kill them, and collect the life insurance money. After several unsuccessful murder attempts on each other, they join forces to rob Betty and Doris's rich uncle.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, absurd, funny, stylized, intense, feel good, entertaining, sex comedy, realistic, witty
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Bullseye! (1990)
Plot Summary:
Michael Caine, Roger Moore and Sally Kirkland star as three of the most unlikely rogues to ever score a heist. Hidden away in a vault is a fortune in diamonds, payment for a secret formula two government scientists have unscrupulously sold to the highest bidder. These three know the whereabouts of this treasure and pull off a daring scheme to steal it. But now they've trapped themselves into either helping the government capture the scientists or going to jail.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, independent film, light, captivating, realistic, fast, surprise ending, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Miami Beach (2020)
Plot Summary:
Miami Bici is the story of Ion and Ilie, two young people from a small dark city in Romania who go to Miami in the middle of winter, to live both the "American Dream" and the Romanian dream of "getting rich quick". Once there, they find themselves in the middle of the Machiavellian plan of Mișu, a Romanian of the lowest species, established in Florida.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Romania
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, funny
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The Confidence Man JP - The Movie - (2019)
Plot Summary:
In Hong Kong, Dako, Boku-chan and Richard take a huge amount of money from people who are greedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: light, semi serious, atmospheric, captivating, feel good, humorous, entertaining, satirical, sitcom, funny
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Feds (1988)
Plot Summary:
Ellie DeWitt and Janis Zuckermann are admitted to the very strict FBI Training Academy. They get a hard course, in which they learn to deal with guns and to recognise crimes. They also get a physical training. It appears that Ellie is a real fighting- machine, in contrast with Janis, the great student. They have to help each other, all the way to graduation.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: melancholic, intense, humorous, semi serious, action comedy, realistic, erotic, funny, inspirational, sexy
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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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Swindle (2013)
Plot Summary:
Based on Gordon Korman's book 'Swindle,' this movie is about a boy named Griffin who finds a valuable multi-million dollar baseball card. After accidentally selling the card for a million dollar loss, he enlists the help of his best friend Ben and his colleagues to regain the baseball card.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, light, feel good, romantic drama, realistic, semi serious
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All for One (2011)
Plot Summary:
Four rogues, who were best friends as kids, have one big problem: they're sitting on both sides of the law. Martin is a policeman, while Nikolai, Ralf, and Timo can't distinguish between personal possessions and the possessions of others! When all four find themselves in a fix, they're forced to return to their former tricks against a common foe, Mr Niemeyer. Martin is not as successful, however, either at his job or marriage, and thinks he deserves a better life. Now he sees an opportunity to save his career by "playing" with his old friends on a mission that is so crazy that even the two foolish brothers can do some good.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, exciting, realistic, semi serious
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Fun Mom Dinner (2017)
Plot Summary:
Four women, whose kids attend the same preschool class, get together for a "fun mom dinner." When the night takes an unexpected turn, these unlikely new friends realize they have more in common than just marriage and motherhood.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Carnaval (2021)
Plot Summary:
After a breakup, an influencer takes her friends on a free trip to Bahia's vibrant Carnival, where she learns life's not just about social media likes.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Take the 10 (2017)
Plot Summary:
A day in the life of two best friends, a drug dealer, and a store manager collide at a hip-hop concert in the Inland Empire.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, dark comedy, buddy comedy
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A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
Amy, Kiki and Carla – three under-appreciated and over-burdened women – rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for mothers: Christmas. And if creating a more perfect holiday for their families wasn’t hard enough, they have to do all of that while hosting and entertaining their own mothers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, buddy comedy, feel good, humorous, captivating, sexy, saga, teen, light, banned
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Mad Money (2008)
Plot Summary:
Three female employees of the Federal Reserve plot to steal money that is about to be destroyed.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: light, sexy, feel good, funny, entertaining, humorous, semi serious, sweet, teen, offbeat
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The Hustle (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.".
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: entertaining, feel good, light, clever, humorous, funny, romantic, action comedy, hilarious, happy
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Fun with Dick and Jane (2005)
Plot Summary:
After Dick Harper loses his job at Globodyne in an Enron-esque collapse, he and his wife, Jane, turn to crime in order to handle the massive debt they now face. Two intelligent people, Dick and Jane actually get pretty good at robbing people and even enjoy it -- but they have second thoughts when they're reminded that crime can hurt innocent people. When the couple hears that Globodyne boss Jack McCallister actually swindled the company, they plot revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 152000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, feel good, satirical, entertaining, hilarious, predictable, captivating, dark comedy
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I Got the Hook Up (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two broke buddies feel lucky when they come upon a truckload of cellular phones and begin selling them out of the back of their van. Trouble arises though, when the phones develop faults. The two friends then not only have to deal with unsatisfied customers but also the FBI.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, hood, semi serious, black comedy, entertaining, realistic, stylized, buddy comedy
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Safe Men (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues. Romantic interest is added by the daughter of the underworld leader who won't date the men she knows are gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, melancholic, absurd, buddy comedy, feel good, not serious, witty, independent film, dark comedy
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Wise Guys (1986)
Plot Summary:
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy, fast, cult film
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Scorched (2003)
Plot Summary:
Three bank tellers. One goal: knock the place over. The ultimate inside jobs, plotted by three people with nothing to lose.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, melancholic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, clever, entertaining, light, captivating, dark comedy
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Bad Moms (2016)
Plot Summary:
When three overworked and under-appreciated moms are pushed beyond their limits, they ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long overdue freedom, fun, and comedic self-indulgence.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 133000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, China
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, entertaining, absurd, teen, slapstick, buddy comedy, humorous, touching, captivating
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Hustlers (2019)
Plot Summary:
A crew of savvy former strip club employees band together to turn the tables on their Wall Street clients.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, captivating, entertaining, social, suspense, exciting, light, humorous, realistic, erotic
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000 first.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: clever, surprise ending, feel good, funny, humorous, light, entertaining, slapstick, hilarious, witty
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Gambit (2012)
Plot Summary:
An art curator decides to seek revenge on his abusive boss by conning him into buying a fake Monet, but his plan requires the help of an eccentric and unpredictable Texas rodeo queen.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, sexy, entertaining, absurd, tense, suspense, not serious, witty, exciting
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Ocean's Eight (2018)
Plot Summary:
Debbie Ocean, a criminal mastermind, gathers a crew of seven other female thieves to pull off the heist of the century at New York's annual Met Gala.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 237000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, clever, suspense, saga, tense, funny, light, feel good, entertaining, detective
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Good Girls (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three "good girl" suburban wives and mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: funny, ironic, feel good, captivating, humorous, tense, entertaining, intellectual, sitcom, interactive