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Plot Summary:
Owning several aquariums, fish-loving Mumbai-based Guru makes a living stealing cars, getting them to his garage-owner friend, Ganpat Gajanan Jagirdar, and re-selling them through an associate, Sharafat. One day he steals a Mercedez and takes it to Ganpat. They inspect the car, find a bag containing Rs.1 Crore, decide to keep it and improve their lifestyles. Ganpat 'refurbishes' the vehicle, and Sharafat finds a buyer in Suleman, who quite unfortunately, recognizes it, and informs the owner, Fauzdaar - a ruthless gangster and money-lender. Guru is located, interrogated brutally, and agrees to return the cash which is still stashed in the garage. When he goes there - Ganpat, who had hidden the cash, has met with an accident, is gravely injured, and requires immediate hospitalization. While recuperating, the doctor finds that he has completely lost his memory. With rising fears of a meteor crashing in the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: gujarati, black comedy, surprise ending, freeze frame, dark comedy
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Plan (2004)
Plot Summary:
To pay off their gambling debt, four best friends kidnap an organized crime figure having mistaken him for a wealthy businessman.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 149 min
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Gambler (1995)
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Police Inspector Dayashanker Pandey is a slacker, a man who does not want to put his life under any risk, and is quite comfortable sharing tall tales, and a desk job. Fate has other plans for him, for whenever he goes on duty outside, he somehow apprehends some criminals or some smuggled goods or drugs. He thus becomes the pride of his division, much to his discomfort. For Dayashanker knows that if he is publicly felicitated, this will put in the black books of many underworld gangsters, which will rip his comfortable and easy-going life apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 169 min
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A Hitman's Solitude Before the Shot (2014)
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The over-ambitious Koralnik has a dream job: he is a contract killer for a secret EU programme. But even eight years after his training he still hasn't had a single hit. Bored and frustrated, he lives according to the programme's strict rules - withdrawn, no social contact and constantly undercover. One day, the shy Rosa crashes into his car and life. Before he knows it, Koralnik is having dinner with her. For the first time, he can flee his everyday misery for an evening of company. But then the telephone rings. It's Koralnik's first job. With Rosa alongside, Koralnik sets off on a chaotic odyssey through a night in which nothing goes according to plan. It is only when Koralnik's target is revealed to be none other than one of his colleagues that the rigid concept by which he lives finally comes into question. He is confronted with the dilemma of either protecting his secret programme or drawing a line under his unfulfilled existence as a killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: tense, light, humorous, captivating, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Risk (2007)
Plot Summary:
"Ek crore meh laitha hai RISK!". Risk! is a movie about a police inspector named Suryakanth who vows to clean up the Mumbai underworld. The police have been trying for 11 years to arrest the biggest don of the underworld, Khalid Bin Jamal. But Khalid isn't in Mumbai. He is living in Bangkok, free from the Mumbai police. Suryakanth starts killing Khalid's men in Mumbai. This alarms Khalid and he entraps Suryakanth in a bad scheme. How much risk is Suryakanth willing to take in order to catch Khalid? Watch Risk! and find out.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
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The Liability (2012)
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When 19-year-old Adam agrees to do a day's driving for his mum's gangster boyfriend Peter, it takes him on a 24-hour journey into a nightmarish world of murder, sex trafficking and revenge, in the company of aging hit man Roy.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, exciting, rough, humorous, road movie, suspense, hood, dark comedy, crime thriller, realistic
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Mukundan Unni Associates (2022)
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Advocate Mukundan Unni wants to be successful and leaves no stone unturned to achieve growth, prosperity, and respect. But this steadfast nature aided with an ample dose of greed comes with a cost.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: crime thriller, black comedy, dark comedy
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An unfaithful newly-wed wife, an estranged father, a priest and an angry son suddenly find themselves in the most unexpected predicaments, each poised to experience their destiny, all on one fateful day.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 176 min
Plot tags: epic, psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, suspense, dark comedy
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A cabbie and businessman both in need of big money partake in a two-hour adventure together.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, suspense thriller, black comedy, dark comedy, remake of american film
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Ghanchakkar (2013)
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When Sanju a master safe cracker teams up with two dangerous criminals to commit one last heist. The robbery is successful and Sanju is given the task of hiding the money till things cool down and the booty can be split. Three months later, the associates return to collect their share of the loot, but Sanju refuses to even recognize them! They realize he enrolled into an accident and is suffering from strong amnesia and decide to stay with Sanju and his wife Neetu until Sanju remembers where he hid the money. What dangerous game is Sanju playing?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 137 min
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A court-appointed legal guardian defrauds her older clients and traps them under her care. But her latest mark comes with some unexpected baggage.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 142000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, suspense, twisted, tense, captivating, semi serious, clever, psychological, funny, intellectual
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Death to Smoochy (2002)
Plot Summary:
Tells the story of Rainbow Randolph, the corrupt, costumed star of a popular children's TV show, who is fired over a bribery scandal and replaced by squeaky-clean Smoochy, a puffy fuscia rhinoceros. As Smoochy catapults to fame - scoring hit ratings and the affections of a network executive - Randolph makes the unsuspecting rhino the target of his numerous outrageous attempts to exact revenge and reclaim his status as America's sweetheart.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, funny, bad ending, harsh, stylized, realistic, surreal, cult classic
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Wild Target (1993)
Plot Summary:
Into the solitary life of middle-aged hitman, Victor Meynard, come two people: Antoine, a youth who becomes Victor's apprentice, and Renée, a bold thief Victor's been hired to kill because she cheated a mobster. When circumstances prevent Victor from killing her, the gangster sends two more teams to do it (and to dispatch Victor and Antoine). Victor decides to help Renée, and the unlikely trio ends up at his house with his temperamental mother; there, as they hide out, Victor's attraction to Renée grows, she discovers his vocation and fears he's going to kill her, and an ultimate showdown with their hunters is inevitable.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Killer (2006)
Plot Summary:
A cold-blooded contract killer hires the services of a cab driver for a full night. He forces the driver to go around Dubai as he keeps finishing off witnesses scheduled to testify against a gangster.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, psychological, captivating, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, remake of american film
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A Wednesday (2008)
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Mumbai, the financial capital of India, the city that never sleeps, the city of dreams, fast paced and ever changing, home to Bollywood! A City of beauty but also a city that got scarred! A city whose foundation is slowly crumbling beneath its façade of invincibility! 'A Wednesday!' tells the story of certain events that unfold between 2.P.M and 6 P.M on a particular Wednesday in this city.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, inspirational, patriotic, tense, serious, suspenseful, offbeat, suspense thriller, surprise ending, suspense
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Plot Summary:
Macbeth meets the Godfather in present-day Bombay. The Scottish tragedy set in the contemporary underworld of India's commercial capital; two corrupt, fortune telling policemen take the roles of the weird sisters, and "Duncan" is Abbaji, the head of a crime family.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 132 min
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Truth (1998)
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A young man named Satya comes to Mumbai from South India in search of a job. Jailed for something he did not do, the once-honest young man meets an underworld boss, Bhiku Mhatre in jail and joins his gang.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 170 min
Plot tags: cult classic, neo noir, dark, experimental, black comedy, suspense thriller, rough, clever, bleak, realistic
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, dark comedy, independent film, realistic, surprise ending, black comedy
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Johnny Gaddaar (2007)
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Vikram decides to elope with his girlfriend Mini for a better life. For this purpose he decides to steal the money collected by his business partners for a drug deal. Everything goes horribly wrong when the partner carrying the money, Shiva, is accidentally killed.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
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Vaastav: The Reality (1999)
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"The Reality" as described by the film's tagline, refers to the harsh realities of life in the Mumbai underworld. The film is said to be loosely based on the life of Mumbai underworld gangster Chota Rajan.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 145 min
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Unglee (2014)
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Four friends Kalim (Angad Bedi), Gautam (Neil Bhoopalam), Maya (Kangana Ranaut) and Abhay (Randeep Hooda) form a gang called the "Ungli" gang which fights against corruption prevailing in society. Their job is to target corrupt people and punish them in a unique manner. Due to increased popularity and their high profile targets, they are sought by Mumbai police department as "wanted". Their case is the responsibility of ACP Ashok Kale (Sanjay Dutt) and inspector Nikhil Abhyankar (Emraan Hashmi). Nikhil disguises himself as a college student and joins the ungli gang with the hidden motive of arresting them. But soon, his heart changes after learning the story of why ungli gang was formed. Meanwhile, Kaale is compelled to seek help from the gang when Nikhil helps him expose the gang's greatest target, B.R. Dayal (Mahesh Manjrekar) and his son Anshuman.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, political, black comedy, dark comedy
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
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IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
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Ray and Ken, two hit men, are in Bruges, Belgium, waiting for their next mission. While they are there they have time to think and discuss their previous assignment. When the mission is revealed to Ken, it is not what he expected.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 454000
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 151000
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IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
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Country: India
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99 is an original story inspired by real events. It is as much "What could have been" as it is "What really happened." In other words, it is historical fiction - fiction being the keyword. It spans a few genres; it is slick, fast-paced, realistic and, importantly, very funny.In this "smart comedy" set in 1999, all the characters are found by a common feeling of being stuck at 99 in life - just one short of a 'century' - that elusive thing called "making it" in life!99 is an unpredictable and hilarious ride spread over two cities with colorful characters, unbelievable circumstances, small-time crooks, big-time conspiracies, fateful car crashes, loads of coffee, a briefcase full of money, a budding romance....... And a historical controversy brewing in the background!.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Upon retirement, cranky control freak Kamal Kishore Khosla obsesses about procuring a plot of land in Delhi, where he plans to build his dream house. After investing his entire life's savings to acquire the land, he discovers the plot's been stolen by a greedy land shark. Now, Khosla must rely on his comically dysfunctional family to pull off a scam on the biggest goon in real estate and win back.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
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When a Las Vegas performer-turned-snitch named Buddy Israel decides to turn state's evidence and testify against the mob, it seems that a whole lot of people would like to make sure he's no longer breathing.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 109 min
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