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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
Best tv shows and movies like Stranger Than Fiction (2000):
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Junk Mail (1997)
Plot Summary:
Dimwitted, somewhat misanthropic Oslo mail carrier Roy's quiet life changes dramatically on the day he steals a set of keys and lets himself into the apartment of a deaf woman who seems to be in trouble with a psychotic criminal. Though he doesn't know it at the time, his and her fate are about to intertwine and this is not going to be to his benefit.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, cult classic, humorous, black comedy, experimental, cult horror, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, gloomy
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Neuroworld (2014)
Plot Summary:
Nothing is what it looks like. Everything is possible. Emotional parasyte dance in a mask play. Monika and Kristina are flatmates and maybe friends. One of the two is a famous YouTuber. One gun, two guns... Based on Miguel Ángel Martín's comics, this story won't leave you indifferent. It happens in a world which could be ours, where technology and social media changed the way we relate to each other.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: realistic, cynical, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, offbeat
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Getting In (1994)
Plot Summary:
Gabriel Higgs has failed to get into Johns Hopkins to study medicine. He's sixth on a list of backup candidates, and must persuade the five people ahead of him to drop out. Gabriel has a family tradition to live up to. Things don't go to plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, slasher, clever, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical, 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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The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom (1993)
Plot Summary:
When her daughter Shanna is disqualified from competing for her Junior High School cheer leading squad, Wanda Holloway tries to get her ex-husband's brother, Terry Harper, to hire a hitman to incapacitate Shanna's rival or the girl's mother. He wants nothing to do with it and after several unsuccessful attempts, finally manages to convince the police that Wanda is serious. She is eventually arrested and charged with conspiracy to commit murder but when the media get hold of the story, it becomes a sensation, making front page news around the world. Based on a true story.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, parody, black comedy
Similar in 77%
Kiss Kiss (2001)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic
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Head Above Water (1993)
Plot Summary:
Einar and Bjørn leave Lene on the island for a fishing trip. Then her former lover, Gaute, drops by unexpectedly. Drunk, he sleeps in the double bed. Lene sleeps on the couch and wakes up when the men come back. She tries to wake Gaute, but then discovers that he's dead.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, dark, cult classic, scary, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, cult film
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A Bucket of Blood (1995)
Plot Summary:
Walter Paisley, a busboy at a cappuccino bar called the Jabberjaw, is praised as a genius after he kills his landlady's cat and covers it in plaster. Pressured to produce more work, he goes after bigger subjects.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, psychotronic, horror comedy, scary, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy
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The Paint Job (1992)
Plot Summary:
"Taav's first feature occupies the same setting and psychological territory as David Lynch's visions of small-town America. About a love triangle, involving house painter Wesley (Patton), his boss Willie (Pastorelli) and Willie's sensitive, vulnerable wife Margaret (Neuwirth), the film turns into a picture of hidden desires, romantic dreams and dangerous obsessions... An unsettling film in which ideas, tone and texture unite with quietly confident storytellin". TIME OUT Film Guide.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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One More Time (1970)
Plot Summary:
London nightclub buddies Salt (Sammy Davis Jr.) and Pepper (Peter Lawford) link Pepper's dead twin to diamond smugglers.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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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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Shut Up and Shoot! (2006)
Plot Summary:
A movie producer hatches a scheme to have an actor (Silvio Pollio) kill his fellow filmmakers.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, cynical, suspense, independent film, semi serious, biting, surprise ending, dark comedy
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Growing Up and Other Lies (2014)
Plot Summary:
After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends – Billy, Rocks and Gunderson – to help him retrace their greatest adventure together: a walk down the entire length of Manhattan.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, sentimental, realistic, contemplative, talky, independent film
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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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The Barber (2014)
Plot Summary:
Eugene is a small town barber, beloved by the local community, but hiding a deadly secret. John is hunting for a serial killer not to expose him but to learn the business! They form a twisted bond and turn the town upside down as Eugene teaches John to kill.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, suspenseful, realistic, suspense, grindhouse, independent film
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Hollywood Palms (2001)
Plot Summary:
Set entirely in the Hollywood Palms apartment building and its yard, this movie shows how people there live and interact with each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, biting, suspense
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Head Above Water (1996)
Plot Summary:
Judge George (Harvey Keitel) brings his young wife, Nathalie (Cameron Diaz), to a remote island for a vacation. But while George accompanies their only neighbor -- Nathalie's childhood friend Lance (Craig Sheffer) -- on a fishing trip, Nathalie spends time with her ex, Kent (Billy Zane). When Kent ends up dead the next morning, Nathalie tries to hide the evidence before her husband gets home. After the body is found, the events of the previous night unravel, with unexpected revelations.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, dark comedy, funny, light, suspense, melancholic, absurd, talky, realistic
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Breathless (2012)
Plot Summary:
Lorna is a strong-willed Texas woman who’s had enough of her untrustworthy husband, Dale’s, criminal acts and lack of husbandry. Fed up, she enlists the help of her old friend, Tiny, to help her figure out what to do with Dale after his latest double-cross involving the theft of $100,000 from a bank.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, tense, captivating, suspense, rough, offbeat, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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R.S.V.P. (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young man invites a group of his closest friends to a party, where he proceeds to discreetly kill them all.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, surprise ending, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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Very Bad Things (1998)
Plot Summary:
Kyle Fisher has one last night to celebrate life as a single man before marrying Laura, so he sets out to Vegas with four of his best buddies. But a drug and alcohol filled night on the town with a stripper who goes all the way, turns into a cold night in the desert with shovels when the stripper goes all the way into a body bag after dying in their bathroom. And that's just the first of the bodies to pile up before Kyle can walk down the aisle.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, funny, disturbing, black comedy, humorous, intense, not serious, suspenseful, semi serious, cult classic
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A Cold Day in August (2003)
Plot Summary:
One day in the life of a hit man, Ronnie, who spends it trying to save the life of fellow hit man, August, who he had brought into the business three years ago. August has become a real problem for some of the bosses around town, and Ronnie will soon find out just what his Frankenstein's monster will cost him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 644
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, exciting, tense, suspenseful, disturbing
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Favor (2013)
Plot Summary:
Kip's perfect life is put in jeopardy when the waitress with whom he's having a casual fling is accidentally killed in their motel room. Desperate, he turns to childhood friend and loser, Marvin, to help get rid of the body. Marvin agrees which begins the unraveling of their friendship and ultimately leads both to murderous acts they never thought themselves capable of.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: serious, suspenseful, tense, suspense, captivating, twisted, realistic, independent film
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Underworld (1996)
Plot Summary:
A crook sets out to get revenge on the thugs who hurt his father in this bloody noir-style crime drama. After being released from prison, Johnny Crown (Denis Leary) goes after Frank (Joe Mantegna), one of the mobsters involved in a series of Father's Day killings. But Johnny isn't certain Frank is responsible for his father's injuries and seeks help from a sex therapist (Annabella Sciorra) to make sure he's got the right man.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 780
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, psychological, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, funny
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Bookies (2003)
Plot Summary:
Four college friends become small-time bookies, only to find their world spinning dangerously out of control when their greed attracts the attention of organized crime.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic
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6 Month Rule (2011)
Plot Summary:
A womanizer teaches his clueless friend the rules about being single and avoiding emotional attachment.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, thought provoking
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Moola (2007)
Plot Summary:
Just as the business which Steve helped create, American Lightsticks, is on the brink of collapse, a huge 'deal' suddenly materializes, and he and his partners are sure that their lives have changed forever. A true-to-life comedy inspired by actual events.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, contemplative
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Pretty Bird (2008)
Plot Summary:
A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of American dreams and delusions.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good, light, captivating, melancholic, independent film, exciting
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That's What She Said (2012)
Plot Summary:
Longtime best friends Bebe and DeeDee are both wrestling with love. Bebe has met someone new and is in the exuberant phase of a budding romance. DeeDee is trying to move on from someone she can’t forget – mostly in destructive ways. As Bebe waits for the perpetually late DeeDee at their favorite coffee shop, she meets Clementine, a distraught young woman with love problems of her own. With Clementine in tow, Bebe and DeeDee soon embark on the kind of outrageous misadventure that only New York City can offer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, sincere, feel good
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The Big Ask (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Big Ask is a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend heal after the death of his mother. They would do anything for him - except for the one thing he wants.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, psychological, captivating, realistic, independent film
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The Last Supper (1995)
Plot Summary:
A group of idealistic, but frustrated, liberals succumb to the temptation of murdering rightwing pundits for their political beliefs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, witty, intense, disturbing, tense, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychological