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Plot Summary:
Jewish NYPD cop Carol Shaya is assigned to pose as the new student at a Catholic girls’ school in order to catch a nun rapist who is targeting that place.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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N.Y.P.D. Mounted (1991)
Plot Summary:
New York City cop becomes partners with a rodeo cowboy from Montana on the City's Mounted Police Department.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Shooting Elizabeth (1992)
Plot Summary:
Before a man (Jeff Goldblum) can kill his nagging wife (Mimi Rogers) as planned, she disappears and he's charged with murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: black comedy, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Salt and Pepper (1968)
Plot Summary:
London nightclub owners (Sammy Davis Jr., Peter Lawford) play spy and foil a military madman out to overthrow the government.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, stylized, semi serious, slapstick
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Flic Story (1972)
Plot Summary:
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, not serious
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Lonely Street (2008)
Plot Summary:
Bubba Mabry, a gullible private detective, becomes the prime suspect in a tabloid reporter's murder after being hired to snoop on him by a mysterious celebrity.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, detective
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Mambo Caf? (2000)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful Puerto Rican girl and her family in Spanish harlem devise a novel plan to attract business to their restaurant, causing a wildly comic sequence of events ending in near disaster.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, independent film, cynical
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Busting (1974)
Plot Summary:
LA cops Gould and Blake get in over their heads when they don't heed orders from above and go after a big crime boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, poliziottesco
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Painted Lady (1997)
Plot Summary:
From the Irish countryside to London to New York and back again, Maggie reenters the world as a countess and shady art dealer. With her panache and charisma, she finds more than an auction, a rekindled interracial love affair, helpful relatives and a painting of great price. She finds more than she bargained for in the labyrinth and milieu of stolen art.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 204 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, stylized
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Who's the Man? (1993)
Plot Summary:
Ed Lover and Doctor Dre are two inept barbers. Deciding that maybe they ought to find another line of work, they join the police. A big mistake, as far as their duty sergeant, Sgt Cooper is concerned, who proceeds to harass them at every turn. Despite this, they discover a major crime, and proceed to solve it in their own unusual fashion.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, black comedy, sentimental, sincere, hood, cult classic, independent film
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Amateur (1994)
Plot Summary:
A man wakes up in an alley, bleeding and with no memory of who he is. He stumbles into a coffee shop and is befriended by a charitable ex-nun who is failing in her attempts to write marketable pornography.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: art house, clever, humorous, dark comedy, independent film, erotic, offbeat, realistic, contemplative, semi serious
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Stranger Than Fiction (2000)
Plot Summary:
Lives spiral out of control when four friends cover up a murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film, tense, realistic, surprise ending
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Exiled (1998)
Plot Summary:
A Law & Order TV movie centered on the character Mike Logan.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, suspenseful, realistic, detective
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Miami Hustle (1996)
Plot Summary:
Marsha, a con artist with a conscience, has agreed to take on an unusual scheme in order to pay off a debt to a lawyer who helped out her brother. An elderly millionaire is about to die, and the entire fortune has been willed to a stripper named Jean, who is unaware of the windfall awaiting her. Marsha's task is to get to know Jean well enough that she can impersonate her at the reading of the will and take the inheritance for herself. Taking a job at the same strip club, the pair soon bond, but will Marsha's feelings for her new friend outweigh her need to help pay off her brother's debt?.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Thief & the Stripper (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jack just lost his P.I. license and his life is on a downward spiral. He decides to steal a cash briefcase from the local gangsters. He hides in a strip joint owned by a local mob legend Jimmie D and pays a stripper to help him escape. The gangsters find her and want her to lead 'em to him. She is also interested in the case, as well as other local mobsters and dirty cops.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, tense
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As Seen by the Rest (2014)
Plot Summary:
Malpe, a small fishing town on the Arabian Coast. Located 6 kms to the west of the temple town, Udupi. Malpe's beaches are washed clean everyday by the sea. The waves ensure that nothing gets left behind on the sands. But then, the waves cannot reach everything. It is the time of the year when Udupi and its surroundings are decked up to celebrate Sri Krishna Janmaashtami. Men and children walk the streets dressed up as characters from mythology. Teams painted as tigers are seen dancing to drum beats all around the town. But violence seems to be brewing in Malpe this Krishna Janmaashtami.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: kannada, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, epic, suspense, experimental
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Hand Gun (1994)
Plot Summary:
Jack is in the midst of a major robbery, which leaves him injured and his accomplices dead. Jack manages to hide the $500,000 from the robbery before he makes his way to his death bed.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Action, Crime, Thriller, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Lying in Wait (2001)
Plot Summary:
Young bachelor Babee is looking after his dead mother's estate when married couple Keith and Vera move in. Babee becomes attracted to them by the beautiful Vera and the risk taking Keith. However at a party Vera crashes her car, putting Keith into a coma. When Keith comes out he is in a semi-vegetative state and must rely on Vera to look after him. Keith can't move or speak but reveals to Babee that he can still talk and starts to kill those that wronged him with Babee's help.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, sexy, independent film, serious, realistic, surprise ending
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Homicide Hills (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mord mit Aussicht is a German satirical crime comedy television series, produced by ARD, following the adventures of Sophie Haas, a detective from the city that takes a job in the fictional country village of Hengasch. Much of the humour of the series derives from the clichés of both city and provincial lives, in a similar manner to the English comedy crime series Midsomer Murders.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, fun
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Underclassman (2005)
Plot Summary:
A young detective goes undercover at an elite private school to destroy an international stolen car ring.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, light, captivating, black comedy, teen, humorous, fast, detective
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Sister Mary Explains It All (2001)
Plot Summary:
As Sister Mary delivers a lecture on sin and its consequences, she's interrupted by several of her former students, who have little positive to say about how a Catholic education has impacted their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, talky, biting, suspense
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Double Bang (2001)
Plot Summary:
An honest cop enters the dark world of murder and corruption.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 463
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, independent film
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The Matsugane Potshot Affair (2006)
Plot Summary:
When a gold ingot and a severed human head are discovered in a small provincial town, the rush to solve the curious case wavers between tragic and darkly humorous.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, realistic
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The Last Seduction II (1999)
Plot Summary:
Femme fatal/con artist Bridget Gregory travels to Barcelona and targets another businessman to scam him of his money while a relentless private investigator tries to track her down.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, neo noir, independent film, tense, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, sexual
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More Dogs Than Bones (2000)
Plot Summary:
A series of mishaps and misfortunes over $1 million in cash leads to murder, mayhem and greed.
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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Unglee (2014)
Plot Summary:
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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Homegrown (1998)
Plot Summary:
Three laborers on a Northern California marijuana plantation become increasingly paranoid when they learn that their boss has been murdered. They know enough to run, taking with them enough of the crop to pay them for services rendered. Hooking up with go-between Lucy in the next town, they plot their next move.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, stylized, realistic, humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, funny, clever, enigmatic, feel good
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After Hours (1985)
Plot Summary:
An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: surreal, black comedy, dark comedy, funny, atmospheric, realistic, disturbing, art house, grim, talky
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Hoods (1998)
Plot Summary:
Angelo, together with a group of five other people, is ordered by his father, an Italian mobster, to kill the son of an enemy of his, who has destroyed one of his buildings with a bomb. The problems grow bigger when they discover that the person they have to kill is really a nine-year-old.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Excuse my French (2014)
Plot Summary:
A Christian kid suddenly is forced to go to a public school after his father dies and because of a misunderstanding everyone thinks that he's a Muslim.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, sad
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Watching TV with the Red Chinese (2012)
Plot Summary:
In New York City in 1980, Dexter Mitchell plays half-willing big brother to his neighbors, a trio of exchange students from the People's Republic of China.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, non-linear, independent film