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Plot Summary:
A U.S. engineer (Tab Hunter) in Spain hunts thieves of two candlesticks, one of which is found in his suitcase.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Sexy Cat (1973)
Plot Summary:
A movie crew shooting a film featuring a comic-strip hero named The Sexy Cat finds itself stalked by a serial killer who begins murdering the cast and crew.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, twist ending, detective, poliziottesco, comic
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Snatched! (2010)
Plot Summary:
After neutralizing the original curse, Guido, the jewel smuggler who was the only gangster to survive the shoot out in the warehouse, has learned that the spirits of those who were deceased in the gunfight have returned to once again torment the ladies. Guido must know gather himself and figure out who is responsible for the black magic that has brought back the curse.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film
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The Suspect: Muroi Shinji (2005)
Plot Summary:
One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched murder case he headed. His faithful colleagues, including Arashiro (Toshio Kakei) and Okita (Miki Maya), only exacerbate the situation when they try to help clear his name. Is Muroi guilty as charged or merely taking the fall? What is the truth behind the murder? Two lawyers, one determined to get Muroi, the other resolved to save him, a feud between two police departments, political power plays and legal trappings, all combine to orchestrate Muroi’s downfall.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags:
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Cry Uncle (1971)
Plot Summary:
Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, raunchy, independent film, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, sex comedy, detective
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Blindfold (1966)
Plot Summary:
A patient being psychoanalyzed by Dr. Snow is a government scientist. General Pratt hides him in a secret place known as "Base X," forcing Dr. Snow to wear a blindfold whenever he is taken there.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: retro, slang, tension, suspense
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Confess, Fletch (2022)
Plot Summary:
The roguishly charming and endlessly troublesome Fletch becomes the prime suspect in a murder case while searching for a stolen art collection. The only way to prove his innocence? Find out which of the long list of suspects is the culprit - from the eccentric art dealer and a missing playboy to a crazy neighbor and Fletch’s Italian girlfriend. Crime, in fact, has never been this disorganized.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Goodnight, My Love (1972)
Plot Summary:
Gruff gumshoe Francis Hogan is hired by a mysterious woman to find her boyfriend who has gone missing. With his perpetually hungry partner in tow, Hogan must untangle a web of intrigue involving the criminal underworld and a dead courier. One double-cross follows another as Hogan investigates the whole sordid affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: detective, cult film
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Crowned and Dangerous (1997)
Plot Summary:
After the murder of a beauty queen, an investigation reveals the suspects to be a former lover, a rival contestant, and a stage mother.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 483
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Hanky Panky (1982)
Plot Summary:
The complete innocent, Michael Jordon, is drawn into a web of secrecy and government secrets when a girl carrying a mysterious package gets into a taxi with him. When she is later murdered, Michael is the chief suspect and on the run.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: neo noir, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Honey Pot (1967)
Plot Summary:
In Venice, the millionaire benefactor Cecil Fox watches a Seventeenth Century play 'Volpone' and plots a practical joke to play on his three former greedy mistresses. He hires the unemployed actor William McFly to act as his butler and stage manager and sends letters telling the mistresses he is terminally ill. The prime intention of Rex is to see the reaction of the women after the reading of his will but things do not go as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, dark comedy, mind bending, minimal cast, visually stunning, twisted, modern day adaptation
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Lady Winsley (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Lady Winsley, the famous American novelist, is discovered dead on the remote Turkish island of Büyükada, the great detective Fergün is sent from Istanbul to solve the murder case. With the help of Azra, the beautiful local hotel tenant, he must confront stubborn members of the island community to untangle well-guarded family secrets and discover who the murderer is.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France, Turkey, Belgium
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, independent film
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The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992)
Plot Summary:
Betty Lou is a librarian in a very small town. Her husband is a police detective who takes her for granted. Betty Lou is the ultimate mouse. After a gangland figure is mysteriously murdered in town, Betty Lou finds the murder weapon, but can't get anyone's attention to tell them (we're talking very mousey, here). Finally in a fit of frustration she fires the gun in a restroom and when taken to the police station insists she is the murderer. It has the desired effect, people do pay attention to her. With hints at social graces from the hookers in her cell block, she's on her way.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, funny, light, romantic, atmospheric, sexy, clever
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A Slight Case of Murder (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe (William H. Macy) accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers his tracks, he raises the suspicions of a private investigator (James Cromwell), who then tries to blackmail him. Thorpe also falls under the watchful eye of Detective Fred Stapelli (Adam Arkin), a cop who is intent on becoming a screenwriter. Before long, Thorpe's girlfriend, Kit (Felicity Huffman), and Stapelli's wife, Patricia (Julia Campbell), are roped into the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective, crime thriller, neo noir, clever, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, semi serious, biting
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Lady in Cement (1968)
Plot Summary:
While diving for sunken treasure, street-smart gumshoe Tony Rome finds the body of a gorgeous blonde, her feet stuck in a block of cement. Soon after, tough guy Waldo Gronski hires him to find a missing woman named Sandra Lomax, and Rome wonders if there's a connection. He sets about trying to locate the woman, and in no time finds himself mixed up with a beautiful party girl and a slippery racketeer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, detective, crime drama, thrilling, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty
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Murder Party (2022)
Plot Summary:
Jeanne, a brilliant architect has a new assignment: renovate the sumptuous Daguerre mansion owned by an eccentric family, head of a Board Game empire. When the landlord and patriarch Cesar is found dead, everyone present becomes a suspect. Suddenly Jeanne’s mission turns intoa life-size investigation to expose the murderer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: spoof, surprise ending
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Inspector Clouseau (1968)
Plot Summary:
Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the government recover the loot from the Great Train Robbery, which is being used to underwrite a new crime wave. What they don't count on, however, is having more than one Clouseau on the job.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, fast, detective, slapstick comedy, slapstick, detective series
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Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: detective, hilarious, colorful, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, fast
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Trail of the Pink Panther (1982)
Plot Summary:
The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, detective, hilarious, parody, slapstick, colorful, humorous, not serious, erotic, light
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Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
Plot Summary:
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world (and Charles Dreyfus) believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently, and taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, hilarious, humorous, slapstick, colorful, exciting, realistic, not serious, detective, slapstick comedy
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Playing Dead (2013)
Plot Summary:
Jean, a forty-year-old struggling, out-of-work actor has hit rock bottom. Although open to any kind of work, he can't get a break. At the unemployment office, his counselor has a rather odd proposal: he can get a job helping the police reconstruct crime scenes, by standing in for the dead victim. Jean's obsession for detail impresses the detectives, allowing him to take a leading role in a sensitive investigation in Megève ski resort, during low season, after a series of murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 987
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, tense, light, realistic, semi serious
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Very Mean Men (2000)
Plot Summary:
A bartender wants rid of an obnoxious drunk but not until the drunk has left a decent tip. So the bartender tells the story of two mobster families, the Minetti's who work out of an Italian restaurant in the East San Fernando Valley, and the Mulroney's who work out of an Irish pub in the West San Fernando Valley. Mob war breaks out when one of the Minetti "boys" stiffs Big Paddy's daughter on her tip. We soon see why these hoods are called very mean men.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, crying, independent film, spoof, black comedy
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Let's Not Get Angry (1966)
Plot Summary:
One-time gangster Antoine is enjoying retirement on the coast, now managing a boating club. He receives a visit from a former accomplice who asks for a loan. The money will be repaid by a crook who is now in hiding; Antoine intends to recover his money.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, parody
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The Vexxer (2007)
Plot Summary:
Scotland Yard investigators have to prevent the murder of Victoria Dickman when her name is found on a death list.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, gothic, exciting, touching, captivating, suspenseful, funny, grindhouse, slapstick
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Tony Rome (1967)
Plot Summary:
Tony Rome, a tough Miami PI living on a houseboat, is hired by a local millionaire to find jewelry stolen from his daughter, and in the process has several encounters with local hoods as well as the Miami Beach PD.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: detective, neo noir, retro, noir, thrilling, mind bending, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Fletch Lives (1989)
Plot Summary:
Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, Fletch becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name. In the meantime, he's got some serious home-ownership issues, such as termites and weird neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, slapstick, detective, realistic, witty, semi serious, hilarious, slapstick comedy, parody, funny
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See How They Run (2022)
Plot Summary:
In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two find themselves thrown into a puzzling whodunit within the glamorously sordid theater underground, investigating the mysterious homicide at their own peril.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 61000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: suspense, meta, buddy 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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Mortdecai (2015)
Plot Summary:
Art dealer, Charles Mortdecai, searches for a stolen painting rumored to contain a secret code that gains access to hidden Nazi gold.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, exciting, entertaining, melancholic, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, parody, offbeat
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Shaft (2019)
Plot Summary:
JJ, aka John Shaft Jr., may be a cyber security expert with a degree from MIT, but to uncover the truth behind his best friend’s untimely death, he needs an education only his dad can provide. Absent throughout JJ’s youth, the legendary locked-and-loaded John Shaft agrees to help his progeny navigate Harlem’s heroin-infested underbelly.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: humorous, action comedy, captivating, semi serious, hood, exciting, colorful, retro, perverse, cult classic
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Plot Summary:
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 235000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir, funny, black comedy, dark comedy, detective, humorous, sexy, suspense, entertaining, absurd