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Plot Summary:
Two police inspectors Triquet and Vergus launch their investigations to arrest a dangerous escaped forger named Mickey Le Bénedictin.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: detective, spoof, parody
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The Counterfeiters of Paris (1961)
Plot Summary:
A rich, old counterfeiter is lured out of retirement.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo noir, black and white, surprise ending, slang
Similar in 81%
World of the Depraved (1967)
Plot Summary:
Two police detectives are assigned to investigate the murders of several young women at a health club.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, sexploitation film
Similar in 78%
Thank Heaven for Small Favors (1963)
Plot Summary:
Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family named Lachesnaye to do strange work.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 713
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
Similar in 76%
The Stud (1970)
Plot Summary:
Veterinary surgeon William Chaminade is having a peaceful holiday in the South of France when he is witness to an event that will change not only his life but the destiny of France! A young woman tries to kill herself by jumping from the upstairs window of the hotel where he is staying. Thanks to the services of a passing athlete, the woman is unharmed, and she reveals that her distress is down to her husband’s apparent lack of interest in her. Immediately, Chaminade has a brainwave. He will open a special centre for people like this unfortunate young woman, who will be able to satisfy their romantic needs, at the tax payers’ expense. All is well until this innovative ’pleasure centre’ draws the attention of an over-zealous tax inspector, Dupuis.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Red Ibis (1975)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Hatter's Ghost (1982)
Plot Summary:
A hatter in a provincial town (Michel Serrault) leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour the tailor (Charles Asnavour).
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: neo noir, anthology, cult film
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Confidentially Yours (1983)
Plot Summary:
Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel (Jean-Louis Trintignant), an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discover that Marie-Christine Vercel (Caroline Sihol), Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is the prime suspect. But his secretary, Barbara Becker (Fanny Ardant), while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: black and white, noir, neo noir, art house, detective, psychological, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Big Wash (1968)
Plot Summary:
Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, slapstick comedy
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The Weekend Murders (1970)
Plot Summary:
A large family meet at the family estate for the reading of their father's will. Each expects to be the recipient of a tidy sum, but apart from the local constable and a few other small awards to the help, the entire estate goes to the favorite daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, parody, psychotronic, detective, spoof, dark comedy
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The Troops of St. Tropez (1964)
Plot Summary:
The ambitious police officer Cruchot (Louis de Funès) is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, light, satirical, atmospheric, anthology, dark comedy, cult classic, not serious
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Inspector Blunder (1980)
Plot Summary:
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, detective, cult film
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Made in U.S.A (1966)
Plot Summary:
Paula Nelson (Anna Karina), a female version of Humphrey Bogart's hard boiled detectives, goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, at an unknown point in the future (maybe 1969). Once there, she learns that Richard is dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis (Yves Afonso), a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surreal, art house, psychological, serious, realistic, stylized, experimental, avant garde, crying
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The Murders in the Rue Morgue (1986)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Horror
Country: France, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: scary, detective, tense, atmospheric, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Maniac (1963)
Plot Summary:
The rape of his teenage daughter instigated a violent, maniacal retribution on the perpetrator for which Georges was incarcerated in an asylum for the insane. When a stranger enters a quiet, country town and is seduced by a sensuous married woman he unwittingly finds himself at the centre of a storm of sexual guilt and murder for which he has been carefully and surreptitiously groomed to take full responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological thriller, noir, offbeat, suspense, grindhouse, neo noir, crying, psychotronic, detective, freeze frame
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The Troops & Troop-ettes (1982)
Plot Summary:
Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, exciting, tense, slapstick, eighties, cult film
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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 Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen (1966)
Plot Summary:
A thief (George Chakiris) falls in love with a maid (Marina Vlady) and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa.".
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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Monnaie de singe (1966)
Plot Summary:
Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a hearse. Unaware she is the mistress of a notorious gangster, Fulbert is chased by thugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective
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The Troops Get Married (1968)
Plot Summary:
The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot (Louis de Funès) relishes the assignment, which he pursues with a manic zeal. Cruchot is after an offending driver, who turns out to be Josépha (Claude Gensac), the widow of a highly regarded police colonel. When they meet, Cruchot falls instantly in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, exciting, captivating, light, funny, not serious, slapstick, cult film
Similar in 76%
The Troops in New York (1965)
Plot Summary:
The second installment of Gendarmes series, tells the story of Sergeant Cruchot (Louis De Funes), who, together with his faithful comrades, has been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, exciting, feel good, captivating, anthology, not serious, slapstick, cult film
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The Brain (1969)
Plot Summary:
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: fast paced, exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)
Plot Summary:
The story involves a series of murders in Charron's performing company, murders caused by various members getting doused with vitriolic acid. Turns out all the people killed have a common denominator in their past, one which has recently re-surfaced, and is out for their blood. Will the past be uncovered before it kills again? What awful secret has came back to haunt the living?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Horror, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: detective, grindhouse, gothic, slasher, gothic horror, black and white, cult classic, classic horror, natural horror, scary
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No Way to Treat a Lady (1968)
Plot Summary:
Christopher Gill is a psychotic killer who uses various disguises to trick and strangle his victims. Moe Brummel is a single and harassed New York City police detective who starts to get phone calls from the strangler and builds a strange alliance as a result. Kate Palmer is a swinging, hip tour guide who witnesses the strangler leaving her dead neighbor's apartment and sets her sights on the detective. Moe's live-in mother wishes her son would be a successful Jewish doctor like his big brother.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: detective, dark comedy, clever, suspenseful, retro, spooky, black comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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Monsieur Gangster (1963)
Plot Summary:
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, funny, noir, neo noir, slang, fast paced, cult classic, clever, humorous, realistic
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Murder with Mirrors (1985)
Plot Summary:
Marple has been summoned to the lavish country estate of her old friend Carrie Louise Serrocold (Bette Davis). Carrie's stepson has been killed, and she fears that his won't be the last corpse to befoul the estate. She's right, and the game is afoot for Miss Marple once more.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Crime, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, detective
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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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Cat and Mouse (1975)
Plot Summary:
A jaded and charming police inspector is assigned along with his cheerful partner to a case involving the mysterious death and/or suicide of a wealthy entrepreneur. The chief suspect is his enchanting wife who was aware that her husband had a mistress. It is also possible that the dead man may be the victim of a radical terrorist group.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Inherent Vice (2014)
Plot Summary:
In Los Angeles at the turn of the 1970s, drug-fueled detective Larry "Doc" Sportello investigates the disappearance of an ex-girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: surreal, neo noir, psychedelic, atmospheric, detective, sexy, confusing, cult classic, meditative, non-linear
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How to Steal a Million (1966)
Plot Summary:
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, witty, clever, light, exciting, entertaining, cute, talky, funny