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Plot Summary:
Four young people, tired of working life, decide that they can earn money from crime than they can from work. The film follows their training at the first "crime school", as well as their work.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Bollywood and Vine (2004)
Plot Summary:
An Indian tour bus driver in Hollywood gets more than he bargained for when he writes a comeback vehicle for his idol, reclusive actress Delilah Leigh.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Social Circle (2016)
Plot Summary:
A small town Georgia investigator probes into a series of local crimes including locating a missing woman. Kit Gosling (Amber McCullough) is single, lonely, and works for the Social Circle Police Department. A small town crime comedy written & directed by Jack M. Moon. This film is quirky and darkly funny.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: southern gothic
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Everything Will Be Fine (2009)
Plot Summary:
Fanis and Gina, an illegal erotic couple drawn into a strange and rather elaborate kidnapping which leads to tragicomic situations.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Greece
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Banana Peel (1963)
Plot Summary:
The French comedy-drama of Marcel Ophuls, which came to the Paris yesterday.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Old School (2000)
Plot Summary:
A crazy movie, a kind of UFO, hectic comic book.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Zero and Carry the 4 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Four stories... one city. A dark comedy about crime in the big city: EL TORZON - two friends are smoking grass in their car, when they're caught by a corrupt Judicial Police Officer; VIDA EXPRESS - a wealthy businesswoman is kidnapped and her deadbeat husband has to come up with the money; BARBACOA DE CHIVO - an angry mob mistakes a college professor with a burglar and decide to lynch him in front of the church; COMIDA PARA PERROS - a bumbling thief tries to rob a restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Crime, Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Smart Philip (2003)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by the stories of the American writer Raymond Chandler, the classical hero is private detective Phil Marlowe, a romantic cowboy, who takes the law into his own hands in the rough prairie of a large city.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, neo noir, parody, psychotronic, detective, spoof, metafiction
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Music Hole (2021)
Plot Summary:
Francis, a little accountant officiating in a shady cabaret has marital concerns with his wife. After a violent argument, he wakes up to discover a surprise. It's the macabre and zany starting point of a burlesque thriller.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: non-linear
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The Crime Is Mine (2023)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930s in Paris, a young and pretty actress, penniless and without talent, is accused of the murder of a famous producer. Helped by her best friend, a young unemployed lawyer, she is acquitted for self-defence.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Surfers’ Time (2005)
Plot Summary:
Three young guys got work from unlucky gangster... they try to make a great job but everything goes wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (2007)
Plot Summary:
Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they might not have what it takes for a life of crime.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, stylized, dark comedy, black and white, non-linear, neo noir, silent, silent film
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Rebels (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sandra, a young woman forced to leave the south of France to flee a violent husband. Without attachment, she returned to Boulogne-sur-Mer, the city of her childhood which she left almost 15 years ago. She finds her mother there and a world she left behind. Without money, she is hired in a fish cannery where she befriends two workers. But one day, one of her colleagues tackles her insistently, she defends herself and kills him accidentally.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating
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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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Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese (1968)
Plot Summary:
Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, parody, slang, independent film, spoof
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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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Teresa's Tattoo (1994)
Plot Summary:
Mathematician Teresa just wanted to study during the College spring break. But her friends, who want her to live a little, drag her out to parties. The next thing she knows, she has been drugged, kidnapped, made a redhead, tattooed, and wearing leather?!? Her captors seem to be the most inept crooks ever. They seem to have a plan, if only she could figure out why it involves her.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 524
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick, cult film
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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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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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Odd Job (2016)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed factory worker takes a job as a hit man to make ends meet.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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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 Biggest Bundle of Them All (1968)
Plot Summary:
A kidnapped mobster (Vittorio De Sica) persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Lone Star State of Mind (2002)
Plot Summary:
Earl and Baby, two young lovers with a plan to escape their small Texas town. But when Baby's dim-witted cousin Junior gets tangled up in a whole heap of trouble, Earl has just 48 hours to save the day, rescue Junior and keep his promise to get his Baby to Los Angeles in time for sweeps.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, offbeat, independent film, soap opera, dark comedy, surprise ending
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Money Money Money (1972)
Plot Summary:
When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense, campy
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The Pimp (2010)
Plot Summary:
A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, exciting, witty, realistic, comic
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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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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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Dirty Deeds (2002)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1960's Sydney, this is the story of an Australian gangster whose booming business, buoyed by the influx of U.S. soldiers in town for R&R during their tours in Vietnam, attracts the attention of first the Chicago mafia, and then their East Coast competitors.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, suspenseful, humorous, realistic, semi serious, suspense, dark comedy, sex comedy, grim
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The World Is Yours (2018)
Plot Summary:
To escape his life of crime, a Paris drug dealer takes on one last job involving Spain, unhinged gangsters, his longtime crush and his scheming mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, tense, light, hood
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Happy New Year (1973)
Plot Summary:
Gangster (Lino Ventura) with his accomplice (Charles Gérard), prepares to take part in the "first psychological hold-up in the history of crime". Next door to the jewellers of Van Cleef & Arpels, on the Croisette, in Cannes, the find the shop of a beautiful antiques dealer (Françoise Fabian) who befriends the group. The driver and the antiques dealer fall in love. He is friendly but unrefined, she is cultivated and independent, but discovers that talking with Simon shows up her vanity, and she desires a simple and clean love. The hold-up which had been planned for a long time by the driver is shown to be more sophisticated than his methods of seduction.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, non-linear, detective, freeze frame, poliziottesco
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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
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