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Plot Summary:
After spending decades living in the shadow of his more famous and successful sibling, Consulting Detective Sigerson Holmes (Wilder) is called upon to help solve a crucial case that leads him on a hilarious trail of false identities, stolen documents secret codes... and exposed backsides.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Music, Mystery, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, psychotronic, slapstick, funny, slapstick comedy, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty
Best tv shows and movies like The Adventure of Sherlock Holmes' Smarter Brother (1975):
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The Black Bird (1975)
Plot Summary:
The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get it.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: parody, neo noir, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, detective, spoof
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Careless (2007)
Plot Summary:
Wiley Roth finds a severed human finger in his kitchen one night. Understandably freaked out, in a search across Los Angeles that brings them in contact with psychics, ineffectual police, crooked taxidermists, mysterious neighbors who might be on drugs, and a nine-fingered woman named Cheryl who might, improbably, end up being the girl of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, buddy comedy, romantic drama
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Silver Streak (1976)
Plot Summary:
A somewhat daffy book editor on a rail trip from Los Angeles to Chicago thinks that he sees a murdered man thrown from the train. When he can find no one who will believe him, he starts doing some investigating of his own. But all that accomplishes is to get the killer after him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: funny, exciting, clever, humorous, suspenseful, witty, retro, dark comedy, action comedy, cult classic
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Trixie (2000)
Plot Summary:
Emily Watson stars as Trixie, an eccentric woman who aspires to quit her job as a security guard and become a private detective. However, comedy intervenes and the mess begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, enigmatic, stylized, semi serious, suspense, detective, independent film, offbeat, realistic, witty
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Crime Is Our Business (2008)
Plot Summary:
Prudence Beresford is investigating another murder. Her aunt had witnessed it, but no body was found, and nobody trusted her word. Nobody, except Prudence, of course!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty
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Holmes & Watson (2018)
Plot Summary:
Detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr. John Watson join forces to investigate a murder at Buckingham Palace. They soon learn that they have only four days to solve the case, or the queen will become the next victim.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: ironic, humorous, not serious, feel good, parody, absurd, detective, spoof, funny, perverse
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (1978)
Plot Summary:
Director Paul Morrissey applies a hefty dose of humor to Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's classic detective story in this interpretation of The Hound of the Baskervilles. Comedian Peter Cook takes on the role of brilliant detective Sherlock Holmes, who's not so gifted here as he relegates much of the investigation of demonic dogs to his bumbling sidekick, Watson (Dudley Moore), while he spends time with his mother and searches for an assistant.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, detective, spoof, natural horror, independent film, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, witty, not serious
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The Strange Case of the End of Civilization as We Know It (1977)
Plot Summary:
The grandchild of Professor James Moriarty had promised the world that it has only five days left to live. Moriarty is a master of disguise, a crack shot, and is very patient. Several government figures are shot to death, and it seems that it truly is the end of civilization as we know it - until the President learns that the grandson of Sherlock Holmes is living at 221B Baker Street, and sends the Police Commissioner of Scotland Yard to employ him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: parody, detective, spoof, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, surprise ending, twist ending
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The World's Greatest Lover (1977)
Plot Summary:
When frustrated movie studio mogul Adolph Zitz announces a talent search for a romantic leading man to rival the great Rudolph Valentino, thousands of hopefuls decend upon Hollywood. Rudy Valentine, a neurotic baker from Milwaukee, knows little about romance or acting. But when his wife leaves him for the real Valentino, Rudy goes to outrageous lengths to win the role of a lifetime and win back the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, not serious
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The Manchu Eagle Murder Caper Mystery (1975)
Plot Summary:
Film noir parody with a private eye trying to solve the murder of his milkman.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: spoof, dark comedy, parody, independent film, humorous, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, witty, not serious
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The Trixxer (2004)
Plot Summary:
Auf dem Weg von Bitterfeld nach London verirrt sich ein sächsisches Pärchen im Wald. Ein hinterhältiges Subjekt hat den Wegweiser verdreht! So werden die beiden Zeuge, wie "der Mönch mit der Peitsche" vorsätzlich über den Haufen gefahren wird. Zur Aufklärung des mysteriösen Falles schickt Scotland-Yard-Chef Sir John seinen besten Mann auf die Jagd: Inspektor Even Longer. Die psychisch labile Spürnase macht sich mit seinem neuen Partner Very Long sogleich ans Werk.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, witty, not serious, humorous, funny, grindhouse, parody, spoof
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High Anxiety (1977)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Richard Thorndyke arrives as new administrator of the Psychoneurotic Institute for the Very, VERY Nervous to discover some suspicious goings-on. When he's framed for murder, Dr. Thorndyke must confront his own psychiatric condition, "high anxiety," in order to clear his name.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, absurd, clever, humorous, suspenseful, witty, slapstick, mind bending
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The Private Eyes (1980)
Plot Summary:
Don Knotts and Tim Conway star in The Private Eyes, a 1980 comedy about two bumbling detectives solving a murder. It's an impressively incompetent affair. Every ancient joke falls with a muffled thud as Knotts and Conway ham their way through the pointless story: The lord and lady of a capacious manor are killed, and the lord's ghost seems to have returned to knock off the staff one by one. There'.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, spooky, suspenseful, not serious, surprise ending, independent film, scary, funny
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The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes (1970)
Plot Summary:
Director Billy Wilder adds a new and intriguing twist to the personality of intrepid detective Sherlock Holmes. One thing hasn't changed however: Holmes' crime-solving talents. Holmes and Dr. Watson take on the case of a beautiful woman whose husband has vanished. The investigation proves strange indeed, involving six missing midgets, villainous monks, a Scottish castle, the Loch Ness monster, and covert naval experiments. Can the sleuths make sense of all this and solve the mystery.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: satirical, detective, atmospheric, clever, humorous, witty, psychotronic, funny, cult classic, crime thriller
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil (1989)
Plot Summary:
A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot but cannot see the perpetrator. Both are arrested, but escape to form an unlikely partnership. Being chased by both the law AND the original killers, can the pair work together to outwit them all?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, not serious, slapstick, feel good, absurd, talky, scary, black comedy
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The Cheap Detective (1978)
Plot Summary:
Spoofing the entire 1940s detective genre, and his own performances as a bumbling private detective, Peter Falk plays Lou Pekinpaugh, a San Francisco private detective accused of murdering his partner at the instigation of his mistress, the partner's wife, Georgia Merkle.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, detective, funny, slapstick, cult classic, humorous, noir, neo noir, black comedy
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Top Secret! (1984)
Plot Summary:
Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, funny, not serious, humorous, hilarious, light, melancholic, talky, slapstick
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The Pink Panther (2006)
Plot Summary:
When the coach of the France soccer team is killed by a poisoned dart in the stadium in the end of a game, and his expensive and huge ring with the diamond Pink Panther disappears, the ambitious Chief Inspector Dreyfus assigns the worst police inspector Jacques Clouseau to the case.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 91000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, hilarious, light, slapstick, funny, melancholic, absurd, exciting, not serious, detective
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Sherlock Holmes and the Leading Lady (1991)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson get involved with Balkan terrorists to save Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria from an assassination at the opera house and prevent World War I.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, France, Italy, Belgium, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 187 min
Plot tags: cult classic, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty, talky, detective
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The Seven-Per-Cent Solution (1976)
Plot Summary:
Concerned about his friend's cocaine use, Dr. Watson tricks Sherlock Holmes into travelling to Vienna, where Holmes enters the care of Sigmund Freud. Freud attemts to solve the mysteries of Holmes' subconscious, while Holmes devotes himself to solving a mystery involving the kidnapping of Lola Deveraux.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: detective, psychological, atmospheric, clever, offbeat, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, period drama
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Young Frankenstein (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 167000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, black and white, gothic, humorous, cult classic, slapstick, hilarious, horror comedy
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Radioland Murders (1994)
Plot Summary:
In 1939, WBN, a fourth radio network, is about to take to America's airwaves. As if the confusion of the premiere night wasn't enough, Penny Henderson, the owner's secretary, must deal with an unhappy sponsor, an overbearing boss and a soon-to-be ex-husband who desperately wants her back. As the broadcast begins, a mysterious voice breaks the broadcast and suddenly members of the cast turn up dead. It's up to her husband Roger, to find out whodunit as the police chase him through the halls of WBN.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Musical, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, witty, suspenseful, semi serious, cult classic, ironic, dark comedy, anamorphic, realistic
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The Alphabet Murders (1965)
Plot Summary:
The Belgian detective Hercule Poirot investigates a series of murders in London in which the victims are killed according to their initials.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective, parody, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Sherlock Holmes and the Masks of Death (1984)
Plot Summary:
Holmes (Peter Cushing) and Dr. Watson (John Mills) ponder cases in which the victims seem to have been scared to death.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: detective, scary, rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Without a Clue (1988)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. When Reginald Kincaid, the actor he has hired to play Holmes becomes insufferable, Watson fires him and tries to go out on his own, but finds that he has done too good a job building Holmes up in the public's mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, hilarious, light, entertaining, detective, spoof, witty, satirical, romantic comedy
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Dragnet (1987)
Plot Summary:
LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday -- the equally straight-laced nephew of the famous police sergeant of the same name -- is paired up with a young, freewheeling detective named Pep Streebeck. After investigating some strange robberies at the local zoo and the theft of a stockpile of pornographic magazines, they uncover cult activity in the heart of the city and are hot on the case to figure out who's behind it all.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, satirical, absurd, detective, cult classic, psychotronic, spoof, epic, action comedy
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The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)
Plot Summary:
When the incompetent Officer Frank Drebin seeks the ruthless killer of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 181000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, spoof, humorous, detective, slapstick, not serious, absurd, light, hilarious
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Clue (1985)
Plot Summary:
Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss out the culprit before the body count rises.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, humorous, parody, funny, black comedy, witty, hilarious, captivating, suspense, mind bending
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Murder by Death (1976)
Plot Summary:
Lionel Twain invites the world's five greatest detectives to a 'dinner and murder'. Included are a blind butler, a deaf-mute maid, screams, spinning rooms, secret passages, false identities and more plot turns and twists than are decently allowed.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody, surprise ending, humorous, spoof, funny, feel good, detective, atmospheric, suspense, disturbing
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Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
Plot Summary:
Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric relatives. His uncle decides that he needs to be cured from a neurotic speech defect and exaggerated bursts of fear: he gives him a shock therapy with palace ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, funny, melancholic, absurd, not serious, slapstick, scary, horror comedy, spooky