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Plot Summary:
In 1939, WBN, a fourth radio network, is about to take to America's airwaves. As if the confusion of the premiere night wasn't enough, Penny Henderson, the owner's secretary, must deal with an unhappy sponsor, an overbearing boss and a soon-to-be ex-husband who desperately wants her back. As the broadcast begins, a mysterious voice breaks the broadcast and suddenly members of the cast turn up dead. It's up to her husband Roger, to find out whodunit as the police chase him through the halls of WBN.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Musical, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, witty, suspenseful, semi serious, cult classic, ironic, dark comedy, anamorphic, realistic
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The Singing Detective (2003)
Plot Summary:
From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Musical, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, stylized, detective, disturbing, intense, atmospheric, semi serious, clever, mindfuck
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Legacy (2008)
Plot Summary:
When a geeky, overweight rushee is found dead at the hottest sorority on the campus, the three most popular girls of the house are prime suspects.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: witty, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy, detective, teen comedy
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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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Nadine (1987)
Plot Summary:
Hairdresser Nadine Hightower wants to retrieve the risqué photos she once posed for, but when she visits the photographer at his office, he's murdered by an intruder. Nadine talks her estranged husband, Vernon, into going along when she returns to the office, where they stumble across plans for a less than legal construction project. But when Vernon tries to turn the documents into a cash windfall, he and Nadine are pursued by goons with guns.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, melancholic, talky, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, visually stunning, neo noir, light
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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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The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975)
Plot Summary:
Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: spoof, dark comedy, parody, independent film, humorous, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, witty, not serious
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V.I. Warshawski, Detective in High Heels (1991)
Plot Summary:
Victoria "V.I" Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boyfriend; then he is murdered. Being the detective type, she makes the murder her next case. In doing so she befriends the victim's daughter, Kat, and together they set out to crack the case.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, detective, entertaining, light, neo noir, rough, twist ending, sexy
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Funny Lady (1975)
Plot Summary:
1930s in New York – The famous singer Fanny Brice has divorced her first husband Nicky Arnstein. During the depression she has trouble finding work as an artist but meets Billy Rose, a newcomer who writes lyrics and owns his own nightclub.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, anamorphic, hilarious, touching, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious, entertaining
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Plot Summary:
The recently deceased Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) was many things: an abusive wife, a domineering mother, a loud-mouthed neighbor and a violent malcontent. So when her car and corpse are discovered in the Hudson River, police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito) immediately suspects murder rather than an accident. But, since the whole community of Verplanck, N.Y., shares a deep hatred for this unceasingly spiteful woman, Rash finds his murder investigation overwhelmed with potential suspects.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, absurd, stylized, clever, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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The Cheap Detective (1978)
Plot Summary:
Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou Pekinpaugh, a San Francisco private detective accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress, the partner's wife, Georgia Merkle.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, detective, funny, slapstick, cult classic, humorous, noir, neo noir, black comedy
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Double Whammy (2001)
Plot Summary:
Ray Pluto has many problems. He is satirized in the tabloids as the "loser cop." His partner is starting to seem suspiciously attracted to him. A pair of screenwriters across the hall keep bugging him for help. The superintendent of his building is stabbed by hoodlums hired by his own rebellious daughter. To top it off, a sexually aggressive chiropractor may just be Ray's undoing.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspense, entertaining, semi serious, realistic, witty, detective, clever, stylized, black comedy
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No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)
Plot Summary:
Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: detective, dark comedy, clever, suspenseful, retro, spooky, black comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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Vengeance (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jack Santos is a retired detective who is out to punish the men responsible for the murder of his mother, wife, and daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Crime, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Netherlands, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: experimental, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Plot Summary:
A look at what goes on backstage during the last broadcast of America's most celebrated radio show, where singing cowboys Dusty and Lefty, a country music siren, and a host of others hold court.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, lyrical, sentimental, touching, feel good, clever, cult classic, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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Homicide: The Movie (2000)
Plot Summary:
Retired police lieutenant Al Giardello is running for mayor when he is suddenly shot at a press conference. All of the detectives, past and present, clamor for an opportunity to help find the shooter.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sincere, clever, gloomy, crying
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Plot Summary:
Luther Heggs aspires to being a reporter for his small town newspaper. He gets his big break when the editor asks him to spend the night at the Simmons mansion that, 20 years before, was the site of a now famous murder-suicide. Luther's account of his wild, ghost-ridden night in the house leads Simmons to sue for libel, but with the aid of his friend Kelsey they determines what exactly happened.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, hilarious, scary, spooky, slapstick, slasher, horror comedy, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: neo noir, sexy, erotic, noir, clever, suspenseful, detective, psychological, serious, realistic
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: detective, neo noir, dark comedy, cult classic, witty, black comedy, sincere, humorous, realistic, suspenseful
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, detective, neo noir, realistic, atmospheric, feel good, semi serious, funny, mind bending
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Plot Summary:
A police officer suspended and now accused of murder is forced to join forces with his court-appointed attorney to assemble the pieces of a deadly puzzle to find the missing link before time runs out.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, tense, realistic, bleak
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Plot Summary:
What happens when a person decides that life is merely a state of mind? If you're Betty, a small-town waitress and soap opera fan from Fair Oaks, Kansas, you refuse to believe that you can't be with the love of your life just because he doesn't really exist. After all, life is no excuse for not living. Traumatized by a savage event, Betty enters into a fugue state that allows -- even encourages -- her to keep functioning... in a kind of alternate reality.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, light, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark, clever, road movie
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The Last of Sheila (1973)
Plot Summary:
A year after Sheila is killed in a hit-and-run, her multimillionaire husband invites a group of friends to spend a week on his yacht playing a scavenger hunt-style mystery game. The game turns out to be all too real and all too deadly.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: clever, suspenseful, tense, suspense, dark comedy, road movie, mind bending, dark, minimal cast, crime thriller
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Clue (1985)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
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Plot tags: surprise ending, humorous, parody, funny, black comedy, witty, hilarious, captivating, suspense, mind bending
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Plot Summary:
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, surprise ending, humorous, spoof, funny, feel good, detective, atmospheric, suspense, disturbing
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Gosford Park (2001)
Plot Summary:
Multiple storylined drama set in 1932, showing the lives of upstairs guest and downstairs servants at a party in a country house in England.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, UK, Italy
Duration: 137 min
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Plot Summary:
Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, noir, dark, atmospheric, witty, cynical, stylized, funny, inspirational
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Plot Summary:
With her husband Jack perpetually away at work, Margaret Hall raises her children virtually alone. Her teenage son is testing the waters of the adult world, and early one morning she wakes to find the dead body of his gay lover on the beach of their rural lakeside home. What would you do? What is rational and what do you do to protect your child? How far do you go and when do you stop?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, suspenseful, suspense, emotional, psychological, intense, serious, realistic, independent film
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Plot Summary:
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
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Plot tags: surreal, neo noir, psychedelic, atmospheric, detective, sexy, confusing, cult classic, meditative, non-linear
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Plot Summary:
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 67000
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Country: UK
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Plot tags: detective, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, talky, thought provoking, stylized, entertaining, clever, funny
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 172000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: witty, realistic, detective, entertaining, crime drama, sensitive, thrilling, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous