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Plot Summary:
When Erik, a Stockholm urbanite, learns that his beauty-queen sister, Susie, is missing, he goes to their country roots to look for her. But after talking to the eccentric locals -- including a shy video store clerk and a corrupt police officer -- Erik finds a woman who is not at all like the girl he left behind. Award-winning director Ulf Malmros helms this black comedy infused with hipster flair.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, dark comedy, clever, realistic, biting, neo noir, black comedy, suspense
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Cry Uncle (1971)
Plot Summary:
Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, raunchy, independent film, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, sex comedy, detective
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Not for Publication (1984)
Plot Summary:
Lois Thornedyke, the daughter of a Pulitzer prize-winning journalist, writes a scandal column for a New York city tabloid.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, sexy, neo screwball comedy, campy
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Some Too Quiet Gentlemen (1973)
Plot Summary:
The sleepy little village of Loubressac is well on its way to becoming a ghost town. To save the town, the local citizenry hatch a plan to attract tourists. To their horror, the plan misfires when a group of hippies are the first to move in. The hippies' free and unconventional ways quickly upset the staid lives of the locals. Then one of the locals is found murdered, and suspicion inevitably falls on the newcomers. Eventually, the locals and the hippies join forces to solve the mystery, and in the course of their adventures learn to respect each others' ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Honey Pot (1967)
Plot Summary:
In Venice, the millionaire benefactor Cecil Fox watches a Seventeenth Century play 'Volpone' and plots a practical joke to play on his three former greedy mistresses. He hires the unemployed actor William McFly to act as his butler and stage manager and sends letters telling the mistresses he is terminally ill. The prime intention of Rex is to see the reaction of the women after the reading of his will but things do not go as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, dark comedy, mind bending, minimal cast, visually stunning, twisted, modern day adaptation
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Pauline detective (2012)
Plot Summary:
After she has been dumped by her boyfriend, Pauline allows her sister to take her to a palace on the Italian Riviera. Instead of savouring the delights of a carefree existence, Pauline prefers to take on the role of an amateur sleuth, convinced that a crime has been committed in the environs. She ropes a handsome lifeguard into her investigation.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, tense, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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A Slight Case of Murder (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe (William H. Macy) accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers his tracks, he raises the suspicions of a private investigator (James Cromwell), who then tries to blackmail him. Thorpe also falls under the watchful eye of Detective Fred Stapelli (Adam Arkin), a cop who is intent on becoming a screenwriter. Before long, Thorpe's girlfriend, Kit (Felicity Huffman), and Stapelli's wife, Patricia (Julia Campbell), are roped into the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective, crime thriller, neo noir, clever, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, semi serious, biting
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Widows' Peak (1994)
Plot Summary:
Scandal and mystery reign following the arrival of Edwina in a small Irish town populated entirely by widows. Edwina quickly falls out with the locals while also falling in with the son of the community's leader.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, surprise ending, slasher, realistic, semi serious, biting, independent film, light, romantic
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Wish You Were Dead (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two bad women fight over one man in a back-stabbing, money-grabbing, insurance-hustling, double-dealing, two-timing caper.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 494
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, romantic comedy, crime thriller
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Remote Control (1992)
Plot Summary:
Since his mother wants to watch TV, Axel, a young auto-mechanic, must recover her remote control, accidentally taken by his punk sister Maja. During his quest, he becomes involved in the conflict between Moli, the liquor smuggler, and Aggi, a night club owner who wants to be Iceland's first mafia boss.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Iceland
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: cult classic, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Picking Up the Pieces (2000)
Plot Summary:
A small New Mexican village discovers a severed hand that is considered a miracle of God, when it actually belongs to a murdered spouse with a husband in search of it.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, cynical, biting, black comedy
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Boystown (2007)
Plot Summary:
Victor works in a real estate agency in the well-known Chueca neighborhood of Madrid. He hides a terrible secret: he makes apartments available for sale by murdering the old ladies owners that live in them. Then, refurbishes and decorates the apartments to sell them to gay couples with high purchasing power. His ultimate objective is to transform Chueca into a kind of London Soho area.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 972
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, clever, biting, suspense, queer cinema
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That Day (2003)
Plot Summary:
A father (Michel Piccoli) is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage (Elsa Zylberstein) killed by allowing a murderous psychopath (Bernard Giraudeau) to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 776
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, mind bending, realistic, witty, dark comedy, surreal, cult classic, clever, offbeat
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Heads (1994)
Plot Summary:
A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, and reluctantly gets involved with the nutty daughter of his editor. Before long he discovers that he is the prime suspect in the murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy
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Assassination of a High School President (2008)
Plot Summary:
After the theft of copies of SAT exams from a principal's office, teenage reporter Bobby Funke sets out to unmask the thief. Bobby prints an article fingering Class President Paul Moore as the thief, shredding the youth's reputation. But as Bobby gets to know Paul's girlfriend, Francesca, he comes to realize he was wrong about Paul, so he sets out to unmask the true culprit.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, stylized, talky, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, teen, clever, neo noir, intense
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Masquerades (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his fellow villagers. Screwing up his carefully maintained image is his headstrong, narcoleptic sister Rym who falls asleep anywhere and whom the village is convinced will end up a spinster. One evening, Mounir returns from town drunk and announces that he's found a suitor for his sister. The fake story snowballs and snowballs until the suitor morphs into a rich, blonde Australian. The village begins preparing for the wedding in earnest - but without a bridegroom in sight.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Comedy
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic, offbeat, contemplative
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The Undertaker's Wedding (1997)
Plot Summary:
Mario Bellini's life as an undertaker may not be filled with romance, but his funeral parlor certainly sees some action: Business is booming because of a local mob war. While wise guys are being bumped off left and right, Mario is asked by crime boss Alberto to hide his hit man brother Rocco. A love quadrangle forms among Mario and Rocco's long-suffering wife Maria, Rocco and Mario's girlfriend Louise, and the body count suddenly rises.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Herod's Law (1999)
Plot Summary:
Mexico, 1949. The fable of a janitor turned Mayor on a little town lost in the Mexican desert, who gradually realizes how far his new acquainted power and corruption can get him.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Mexico
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: realistic, political, dark comedy, clever, witty, biting, black comedy, manga, mesmerizing, humorous
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Comic Book Villains (2002)
Plot Summary:
When word hits the street that a nearby elderly gentleman has a cache of old, rare, and very valuable mint condition comic books, rival comic book shop owners Raymond McGillicuddy (Donal Logue) and Norman Link (Michael Rapaport) both set out to be the first to buy them. But when the old man declines to sell, the former friends turn into enemies, and a friendly rivalry becomes tainted with greed and turns to murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, dark comedy, cynical, clever, entertaining, black comedy, anime, offbeat, realistic
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Drowning Mona (2000)
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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Enid Is Sleeping (1990)
Plot Summary:
Enid only looks like she's sleeping. In fact, she's dead. Shortly after Enid caught her husband Harry in bed with her sister June, a row ensued, whereupon June accidently killed Enid. June's problem now is to hide the truth from the authorities, including her police-officer husband Floyd. Then she decides to reveal Enid's demise, albeit rearranging the damning evidence to make the whole thing look like the accident it really was.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, surprise ending, twist ending
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Clay Pigeons (1998)
Plot Summary:
Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife, Amanda. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with their sexual affairs. Clay inadvertently befriends a serial killer named Lester Long, who murders the widow in an attempt to "help" his "fishing buddy.".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, clever, humorous, suspenseful, erotic, neo noir, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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My New Partner (1984)
Plot Summary:
My New Partner is a 1984 French comedy film directed by Claude Zidi, starring Philippe Noiret and Thierry Lhermitte. Noiret plays a streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue. At the start of the film, his partner is busted for corruption and he narrowly escapes. He is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt his new partner and, after a slow start, succeeds spectacularly.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, suspenseful, witty, neo noir, anthology, action comedy, cult classic, black comedy, clever, humorous
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All About My Bush (2007)
Plot Summary:
Allt om min buske är en sexkomedi i trädgårdsmiljö om oväntade kärleksförbindelser och avgrundsdjup svartsjuka. Det vackra och välbärgade paret Nils och Karin flyttar in med sin dotter Barbro i det exklusiva villaområdet. I huset intill med den botaniska trädgården bor systrarna Isabel och Lily. Systrarna sköter trädgården och livnär sig på att arrangera guidade turer genom den artrika floran. Mötet med systrarna blir omvälvande för Nils och Karin när deras ordnade tillvaro och noggrant formgivna livsstil ställs på ända. Någon vandaliserar plötsligt den prunkande trädgården och oanade naturkrafter frigörs när jakten på kärlek och trädgårdssabotörer tar sin början.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, sexual
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Golmaal Returns (2008)
Plot Summary:
Golmaal Returns, the much-awaited follow-up to the uproariously comical smash-hit Golmaal, arrives with a renewed star power, chartbusting music and more laughter than ever before!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, exciting, sincere, melancholic, spoof, parody, cult film
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The Wedding Photographer (2009)
Plot Summary:
When the factory in Molkom shuts down, Robin leaves his beloved hometown to try his luck in Stockholm as a wedding photographer. This experience changes not merely his outlook on life but also his hairstyle.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, sentimental, humorous, realistic
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Metal Brothers (2012)
Plot Summary:
Bröderna Hårdrock is a film about two brothers who are planning a heavy metal convention in their sleepy village. Their mother, the village priest, worries about them and wants them to settle down and have families. A young female teacher and line dance instructor in the village sets both their hearts beating faster and, unaware of each other's feelings, they enter a battle to win her affections.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, romantic, feel good, entertaining, realistic, not serious
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Chain of Fools (2000)
Plot Summary:
An avid detective is assigned to investigate the heist of a batch of precious coins that end up in the hands of a suicidal barber.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, clever, witty, funny, light, absurd, dark comedy, cynical, stylized, realistic
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One Night at McCool's (2001)
Plot Summary:
Every man has a different recollection of the beautiful young woman who wreaked havoc on their lives during one heated night.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, hilarious, stylized, witty, not serious, erotic, entertaining
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11:14 (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tells the seemingly random yet vitally connected story of a set of incidents that all converge one evening at 11:14pm. The story follows the chain of events of five different characters and five different storylines that all converge to tell the story of murder and deceit.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: non-linear, dark comedy, psychological, suspense, black comedy, enigmatic, bleak, cynical, humorous, suspenseful
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Flickering Lights (2000)
Plot Summary:
Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for several weeks. Slowly, one after another, they realize, that they would like to stay there, start a new life.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, surreal, funny, philosophical, brutal, black comedy, cynical, cult classic, clever