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Plot Summary:
Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, stylized, witty, clever, black comedy, realistic, semi serious, parody, light
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Funland (1987)
Plot Summary:
When a mob family takes over an amusement park after the owner dies under mysterious circumstances, the recently-fired clown mascot seeks vengeance for the loss of his job.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film, rough, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical
Similar in 84%
Another Stakeout (1993)
Plot Summary:
Chris and Bill are called upon for their excellent surveillance record to stakeout a lakeside home where a Mafia trial witness is believed to be heading or already hiding. Unlike their earlier _Stakeout_, this time they are accompanied by Gina Garret from the DA's office and her pet rottweiler 'Archie'; their cover, husband and wife with son Bill.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, funny, light, melancholic, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, action comedy
Similar in 81%
Stealing Harvard (2002)
Plot Summary:
John and his girlfriend have vowed to marry once they save $30,000 for their dream house. But the minute they achieve their financial goal, John finds out his niece has been accepted at Harvard, and he's reminded of his promise to pay for her tuition (nearly $30,000). John's friend Duff convinces him to turn to petty crime to make the payment … but Duff's hare-brained schemes spin quickly out of control.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, stylized, realistic, witty, not serious, crying, black comedy, slapstick comedy, dark comedy
Similar in 86%
Gold Diggers (2003)
Plot Summary:
National Lampoon's Gold Diggers is a black comedy about two losers in their twenties, Calvin Menhoffer (Will Friedle) and Leonard Smallwood (Chris Owen), who are out to get the good life without working for it. The two young men try to rob two 70-year-old sisters, Betty Mundt (Renee Taylor) and Doris Mundt (Louise Lasser). The two sisters beat the two young men up, and send them to jail. The ladies drop the charges, and invite the jailbirds to their Beverly Hills mansion. Cal gets an idea that they could marry the women for their money and live the good life. Hopefully, they will only live 6-months and at most one-year. It turns out that Betty and Doris are broke, and they have come up with a plan to marry the boys, kill them, and collect the life insurance money. After several unsuccessful murder attempts on each other, they join forces to rob Betty and Doris's rich uncle.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, absurd, funny, stylized, intense, feel good, entertaining, sex comedy, realistic, witty
Similar in 84%
Tough Guys (1986)
Plot Summary:
Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie Lang (Douglas) are two old-time train robbers, who held up a train in 1956 and have been incarcerated for thirty years. After serving their time, they are released from jail and have to adjust to a new life of freedom. Harry and Archie realize that they still have the pizzazz when, picking up their prison checks at a bank, they foil a robbery attempt. Archie, who spent his prison time pumping himself up, easily picks up a 20-year-old aerobics instructor. Harry, on the other hand, has to waste away his days in a nursing home. They both have festering resentments -- Archie for having to endure a humiliating job as a busboy; Harry for having to endure patronizing attitudes toward senior citizens. The two old pals finally go back to what they know best. After successfully robbing an armored car, they decide to rob the same train that they robbed thirty years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, light, road movie, humorous, touching, semi serious, cult classic, realistic, surprise ending
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Amos & Andrew (1993)
Plot Summary:
When Andrew Sterling (Samuel L. Jackson), a successful black urbanite writer, buys a vacation home on a resort in New England the police mistake him for a burglar. After surrounding his home with armed men, Chief Tolliver (Dabney Coleman) realizes his mistake and to avoid the bad publicity offers a thief in his jail, Amos Odell (Nicolas Cage) a deal.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: clever, funny, light, humorous, realistic, semi serious, political, smart, witty, thought provoking
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8 Heads in a Duffel Bag (1997)
Plot Summary:
Mafia hitman Tommy Spinelli (Joe Pesci) is flying to San Diego with a bag that holds eight severed heads, which he's bringing to his superiors to prove that some troublesome rival mobsters are permanently out of the picture. When his bag gets accidentally switched at the airport, Tommy must track down his duffel bag and the 8 heads it contains.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: clever, dark comedy, humorous, smart, twisted, independent film, offbeat, realistic, witty, cynical
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The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight (1971)
Plot Summary:
This is the funny story about two warring Mafia gangs in New York. The weaker gang use incredibly a lion to blackmail the opposite gang's "clients". The police succeeds to stop one of the gang, while the other remain without the Boss.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, cult film
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Trailer Park Boys: The Movie (2006)
Plot Summary:
Set in a separate storyline not related to the "Trailer Park Boys" Television show, but with the same lovable characters. The boys get arrested for robbing an ATM machine and spend 18 months in jail. When the get out, they decide to pull off "The Big Dirty" which is to steal a large amount of coins because they are untraceable and quit their life of crime forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, stylized, humorous, witty, semi serious, funny, cult classic, hilarious, epic, dark comedy
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The Freshman (1990)
Plot Summary:
Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine "Jimmy the Toucan" Sabatini, an "importer" bearing a startling resemblance to a certain cinematic godfather. When Sabatini makes Clark an offer he can't refuse, he finds himself caught up in a caper involving endangered species and fine dining.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, witty, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, spoof, black comedy, realistic
Similar in 75%
The Jerky Boys (1995)
Plot Summary:
When two unemployed telephone pranksters decide to use their vocal "talents" to impersonate a Chicago mob boss and curry favor with organized crime in New York, the trouble begins. It isn't long before Johnny and Kamal (the "Jerky Boys" of crank call fame) are wanted by the local mafia, the police, and their neighbor.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, clever, unusual plot structure, suspense, melancholic, surreal
Similar in 77%
The Shipment (2001)
Plot Summary:
A mob enforcer is hired to recover a shipment of Viagra gone awry.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, feel good, independent film
Similar in 89%
We're Talkin' Serious Money (1992)
Plot Summary:
A couple of bumbling con men go on the lam when they can't repay a loan from the mob.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Plan B (2001)
Plot Summary:
A bookkeeper who thinks she killed three mobsters is subsequently promoted by her boss to be a hitman. |.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Denmark
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, light, captivating, feel good, independent film, semi serious
Similar in 76%
Cold Feet (1989)
Plot Summary:
The leader of a group of misfits, his girlfriend and an assassin have devised a bizarre plan to smuggle stolen jewelry over the US/Mexican border. They implant the jewelry in a racing horse.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical, semi serious
Similar in 86%
Analyze This (1999)
Plot Summary:
Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti needs help dealing with his role in the "family," unlucky shrink Dr. Ben Sobel is given just days to resolve Vitti's emotional crisis and turn him into a happy, well-adjusted gangster.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 160000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, hilarious, psychological, clever, suspense, spoof, realistic, witty, light
Similar in 90%
Made (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two aspiring boxers lifelong friends get involved in a money-laundering scheme through a low-level organized crime group.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, dark comedy, clever, realistic, talky, independent film, semi serious, witty, entertaining
Similar in 87%
Plump Fiction (1997)
Plot Summary:
Follows the plot of Pulp Fiction, also parodying scenes from other movies.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, spooky, independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, fast
Similar in 86%
True Identity (1991)
Plot Summary:
In order to escape from the mob, an African-American man must disguise himself as a white man.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Screwed (2000)
Plot Summary:
A chauffeur kidnaps his rich boss's dog to hold it for ransom, but when she accidentally gets the dog back, she thinks that it's the chauffeur who's been kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, intense, feel good, witty, not serious, offbeat, slapstick, hilarious, realistic
Similar in 76%
What's the Worst That Could Happen? (2001)
Plot Summary:
Thief Kevin Caffery attempts to rob from the home of rich businessman Max Fairbanks. But Fairbanks catches him and steals his cherished ring that his girlfriend gave him. Caffery is then bent on revenge and getting his ring back with the help of his partners.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, funny, intense, semi serious, exciting, hilarious, light, detective, black comedy
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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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Safe Men (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two untalented singers are mistaken for a pair of major league safe crackers in Providence, Rhode Island. The two are pressed into service by the local hoodlums and quickly find themselves in conflict with their professional colleagues. Romantic interest is added by the daughter of the underworld leader who won't date the men she knows are gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, melancholic, absurd, buddy comedy, feel good, not serious, witty, independent film, dark comedy
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Wise Guys (1986)
Plot Summary:
Harry Valentini and Moe Dickstein are both errand boys for the Mob. When they lose $250,000, they are set up to kill each other. But they run off to Atlantic City and comedy follows.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy, fast, cult film
Similar in 83%
The Hollywood Sign (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three washed-up actors must deliver the most convincing performances of their lives as part of a dangerous plot designed to finance their triumphant comeback.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Scorched (2003)
Plot Summary:
Three bank tellers. One goal: knock the place over. The ultimate inside jobs, plotted by three people with nothing to lose.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, melancholic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, clever, entertaining, light, captivating, dark comedy
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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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The Whole Nine Yards (2000)
Plot Summary:
A mobster named Jimmy the Tulip agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison; he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a couple of his new neighbors figure out his true identity and come knocking to see if he'd be up for one more hit, suburban style.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 128000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, black comedy, light, suspense, dark comedy, semi serious, hilarious, feel good
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Seven Psychopaths (2012)
Plot Summary:
A struggling screenwriter inadvertently becomes entangled in the Los Angeles criminal underworld after his oddball friends kidnap a gangster's beloved Shih Tzu.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 271000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, dark comedy, talky, humorous, surreal, black comedy, funny, witty, clever, cult classic
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Snatch (2000)
Plot Summary:
The second film from British director Guy Ritchie. Snatch tells an obscure story similar to his first fast-paced crazy character-colliding filled film “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.” There are two overlapping stories here – one is the search for a stolen diamond, and the other about a boxing promoter who’s having trouble with a psychotic gangster.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 894000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, witty, clever, dark comedy, humorous, neo noir, non-linear, black comedy, cynical