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Plot Summary:
While a narrator tells the story of a night of terror that changes his life forever, 16 young people chat about their lives in London. With topics ranging from the drug "ecstasy," to AIDs and one-night stands, to the sound of BritPop, and to the urban issues of racism, punk, hooliganism, and the London Police, the film documents funny and revealing insights with an unforgettable and unexpected chain of events.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: independent film, mockumentary
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Absolutely Fabulous: The Movie (2016)
Plot Summary:
Edina and Patsy are still oozing glitz and glamor, living the high life they are accustomed to; shopping, drinking and clubbing their way around London's trendiest hot-spots. Blamed for a major incident at an uber fashionable launch party, they become entangled in a media storm and are relentlessly pursued by the paparazzi. Fleeing penniless to the glamorous playground of the super-rich, the French Riviera, they hatch a plan to make their escape permanent and live the high life forever more!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, exciting, queer cinema, campy
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Hi, Inspector (1985)
Plot Summary:
A street cop is picked by the national security service in order to carry out an important and delicate task. His mission is to go undercover and infiltrate a dangerous international cabal of homosexuals.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Cash (2011)
Plot Summary:
Москва. Наши дни. В центре города из машины двое воришек крадут сумку с миллионом евро, думая, что им, наконец, повезло, и даже не представляя, во что, на самом деле, они ввязались. За деньгами начинается настоящая охота. Перед искушением не может устоять никто. Сумма в виде двух пачек денег по полмиллиона евро делает абсолютно разных людей одинаковыми в своих поступках и желаниях: А началось все с того, что "миллионщик" Григорий не захотел честно платить налоги.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 780
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: satirical, realistic, semi serious, ironic
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Cain and Abel (2006)
Plot Summary:
The zany adventures of two undercover Hollywood cops, Malcolm Cain and John Abel.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Reinikainen (1982)
Plot Summary:
TV series Reinikainen follows the work and life of police officer Artturi Sakari Reinikainen. Seriesis a Tankki täyteen spin-off.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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The Odd Job (1978)
Plot Summary:
Arthur Harris is a happily married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife, Fiona, is leaving him. Devastated he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few setbacks and while he is trying to electrocute himself with a lamp, the door bell rings. An odd man in a leather coat asks if there are any odd jobs that he can perform. Arthur hires the man to kill him. The next day his wife returns, but the man he hired is still trying to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody
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Scot Squad (2014)
Plot Summary:
Mockumentary comedy series following the life of scottish police officers from different areas of the force in a fly on the wall style.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, spoof, mockumentary
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The James Gang (1997)
Plot Summary:
After an audacious jewellery robbery the whole James family heads for home on the run with the obsessive detective Julia Armstrong in hot pursuit.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Rotten to the Core (1965)
Plot Summary:
Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either. Written by Jeremy Perkins.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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The Jokers (1967)
Plot Summary:
Oliver Reed and Michael Crawford play two brothers who are always trying to find some way to succeed with cleverness rather than simple drudgery. Crawford is constantly living in his brother's shadow as the one who gets caught. After Crawford is forced to resign from the army after an episode of unappreciated cleverness, the two decide their careers would go better if there was a large amount of publicity, so they decide to steal the crown jewels from the tower of London.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: retro, offbeat, poliziottesco
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Club Le Monde (2002)
Plot Summary:
One eventful night at a seedy London nightclub in 1993.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Winter Potato Dumplings (2014)
Plot Summary:
Crime comedy set in a village somewhere in Bavaria, centering around a village policeman's attempt to solve a murder case, his chaotic private life and the dysfunctional relationship with his wacky father.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, detective
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The Parole Officer (2001)
Plot Summary:
A hapless parole officer is framed for murder by a crooked police chief. To prove his innocence he must entice his former clients away from the law abiding lives they are now living to recover the evidence that will save him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, talky, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy
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All for Nikki (2020)
Plot Summary:
Failed musician Kyle Cassidy is in love with Nikki Duke, the charismatic wife of an abusive rock star who's away on tour. After a wild evening at the Dukes' Hollywood Hills mansion, Nikki passes out and bumps her head. Kyle, in a drug-fueled panic, calls 911. When two newly partnered paramedics arrive at the scene, they rouse Nikki, patch up Kyle, and then attempt to rob the pair - a plan that quickly goes awry, sending the group on a dark, hilarious adventure into the Los Angeles night.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Attack the Gas Station! (1999)
Plot Summary:
A quartet of disaffected Korean youths have robbed a Seoul gas station. After taking the gas station over, their wacky antics ensue; forcing the manager to sing, kidnapping customers that complain about the service, and staging fist-fights between street gang members and gas station employees; all of these reflect their own gripes against society.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, entertaining, absurd, cynical, semi serious, surreal, disturbing, mind twisting, clever
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Trailer Park Boys: Countdown to Liquor Day (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ricky, Julian and Bubbles are about to get out of jail, and this time, Julian vows to go straight, even open a legit business. Soon the Boys will all be rich. At least that's what they've told the parole board. But when they arrive back at the park, they find it's not the same old Sunnyvale - and it's not the same old Jim Lahey, Trailer Park Supervisor.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: stylized, humorous, semi serious, mockumentary, light, epic, offbeat, realistic, not serious, black comedy
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Leon the Pig Farmer (1992)
Plot Summary:
An irreverent comedy is set in motion when Leon Geller, a sensitive Jewish boy from London, accidentally learns that his is the product of artificial insemination.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, dark comedy
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The Wrong Arm of the Law (1963)
Plot Summary:
The crooks in London know how it works. No one carries guns and no one resists the police. Then a new gang appears that go one better. They dress as police and steal from the crooks. This upset's the natural order of the police/criminal relationship and the police and the crooks join forces to catch the IPOs (Impersonating Police Officers), including an armoured car robbery in which the police must help the gangs to set a trap.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: black comedy, black and white, dark comedy, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, independent film
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Underbelly Blues (2011)
Plot Summary:
Uforic, a cowardly gangster rapper, hitches a ride with York, a redneck who takes him out to the desert to execute him for fun. But before York is able to pull the trigger, Uforic tells him about a secret transaction involving a mysterious briefcase and a large amount of cash. This sets into motion a series of events that will inevitably involve much of the L.A. underworld and may just bring down corporate America. York tells Queel, a dirty cop, who tells Lucy, a homicidal stripper and is overheard by Carl Mauve, the greasy club owner, who hires Smith and Wesson, a pair of bungling thugs, who have it stolen from them by Norman, a pickpocket with a Jewish Dominatrix mother, who brings it to Dr. Zeus, a local Meth cook, who might just be able to solve the secret of the briefcase. Meanwhile an insane, bloodthirsty hit man named Versetti, working for a large multinational corporation, will stop at nothing to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, hood, exciting
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Perfect Friday (1970)
Plot Summary:
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He needs her help and that of her philandering spendthrift husband. It all comes down to a matter of trust.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, poliziottesco
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Reno 911!: Miami (2007)
Plot Summary:
A rag-tag team of Reno cops are called in to save the day after a terrorist attack disrupts a national police convention in Miami Beach during spring break. Based on the Comedy Central series.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, mockumentary, light, clever, suspense, melancholic, realistic, not serious
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Ordinary Decent Criminal (2000)
Plot Summary:
Michael Lynch is a notorious criminal with two wives and a flair for showmanship. He's also a huge embarrassment to the local police, who are determined to bring him down once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Ireland, Germany, UK, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: harsh, humorous, captivating, entertaining, clever, intense, spiritual, dark, dark comedy, hilarious
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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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Saving Grace (2000)
Plot Summary:
Unexpectedly widowed, prim and proper housewife Grace Trevethyn finds herself in dire financial straits when she inherits massive debts her late husband had been accruing for years. Faced with losing her house, she decides to use her talent for horticulture and hatches a plan to grow potent marijuana which can be sold at an astronomical price, thus solving her financial crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, talky, semi serious, sexy, intense, sad, cult classic
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Pirated Copy (2004)
Plot Summary:
A portrait of contemporary Chinese society based on the ubiquitous illegal trade in pirated DVDs.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, suspense, offbeat, spoof, black comedy
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Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (1996)
Plot Summary:
When Ashtray (Shawn Wayans) moves to South Central L.A. to live with his father (who appears to be the same age he is) and grandmother (who likes to talk tough and smoke reefer), he falls in with his gang-banging cousin Loc Dog (Marlon Wayans), who along with the requisite pistols and Uzi carries a thermo-nuclear warhead for self-defense. Will Ashtray be able to keep living the straight life?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: parody, absurd, hood, funny, humorous, spoof, slang, satirical, black comedy, cult classic
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I Got the Hook Up (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two broke buddies feel lucky when they come upon a truckload of cellular phones and begin selling them out of the back of their van. Trouble arises though, when the phones develop faults. The two friends then not only have to deal with unsatisfied customers but also the FBI.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, hood, semi serious, black comedy, entertaining, realistic, stylized, buddy comedy
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A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
Plot Summary:
A diamond advocate is attempting to steal a collection of diamonds, yet troubles arise when he realizes that he is not the only one after the diamonds.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, dark comedy, black comedy, cult classic, humorous, light, satirical, dramatic, hilarious, feel good
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The Big Lebowski (1998)
Plot Summary:
Jeffrey "The Dude" Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink white Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events involving nihilists, adult film producers, ferrets, errant toes, and large sums of money.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 847000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: neo noir, dark comedy, surreal, absurd, humorous, black comedy, cult classic, talky, funny, offbeat
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Gridlock'd (1997)
Plot Summary:
After a friend overdoses, Spoon and Stretch decide to kick their drug habits and attempt to enroll in a government detox program. Their efforts are hampered by seemingly endless red tape, as they are shuffled from one office to another while being chased by drug dealers and the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, hood, harsh, talky, stylized, realistic, disturbing, rough, humorous, black comedy