Best movies like The Golden Boat
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Plot Summary:
Inspired in form by American police TV shows and soap operas, The Golden Boat is a madcap, surreal dash through the streets of New York city, telling the mysterious and often hilarious story of an aged street-person named Austin, a comically compulsive assassin, as he joins up with a young rock critic and philosophy student named Israel Williams. In the course of their adventures, Austin pursues his object of desire - a Mexican soap opera star - and along the way engages a host of TV characters and bit players, whose repartee range from gangsterish insults to the question of God's existence.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA, Belgium, Luxembourg, Hong Kong
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: black comedy, parody, independent film, telenovela
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Paper Planes (2016)
Plot Summary:
In a dream world, the exaggerated lives of six teenagers are thrown into a world of drugs in crime in a typical crime plot in a not so typical world of stolen cocaine, penicillin, Fire Saws, and Carl Jung.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: black comedy, low-budget
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Move (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife from one apartment into a larger one.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Wilson City (2015)
Plot Summary:
Comedy inspired by paperback crime novels tells the story of an adventurous search for a mysterious murderer who just after the end of the First World War has begun a rampage in Wilson City, a jerkwater town somewhere in Eastern Europe. The investigation is being led by an inhomogeneous pair of detectives - a greenhorn and local police cadet named Eisner and an experienced FBI officer Food, who has been sent to Europe by US President Woodrow Wilson himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, slapstick, psychotronic, expressionism, detective, black comedy, slapstick comedy, poliziottesco
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Jungle Freaks (1969)
Plot Summary:
Born a fully grown black man in a village in the Brazilian jungle, Macunaíma later magically transforms into a white man before making an adventure-filled trip to the city of São Paulo. Once there, he becomes something of a dandy, falling in love with Ci, a revolutionary who dies in an accidental bombing. After robbing a ruthless industrialist, Macunaima returns to his village where he finds his newly acquired knowledge and possessions of little use.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, black comedy, weird
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Random Acts of Violence (2012)
Plot Summary:
Being the adventures of a young man whose principle interests are movies, New York, and mass murder. CHARM is an ultra low budget black comedy about Malcolm - a New Yorker who gets tired of how gentrified, tepid and antiseptic it's all become. What's happened to the 'Good ole days'?! And so he decides to take matters into his own hands by personally starting a crime wave which he hopes will catch on and drive real estate value down, opening up the city to bohemians, artists and a swell of creativity, just like the supposed good 'ole days of the 1970s and 80s. The only problem is: Nobody is paying attention.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, scary, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, dark comedy, black comedy, horror comedy, interesting
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Frogs for Snakes (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of unemployed theater actors survive by working as illegal money collectors. The loan shark they are working for owns an Off-Broadway theater. As he decided to play "American Buffalo" there, a bloody battle for the favorite roles begin.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: black comedy, neo noir, independent film
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The Unfinished Works Of Sean Weathers (2004)
Plot Summary:
During the early-2000s filmmaker Sean Weathers took 3 projects into production which he would not finish (Gangz vs. Cults, The Erotic Adventures of Samson & Delilah and Escape from Bloodbath Island).
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse, campy, cult film
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City of Pirates (1983)
Plot Summary:
A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: surreal, rough, suspenseful, disturbing
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Nosferatu vs. Father Pipecock & Sister Funk (2014)
Plot Summary:
A reimagining /regurgitation and re-dubbing of a classic silent horror flick! Shot in mind-shattering 2D (& 36DD), featuring T&A and epic voice-over ‘voom’, by Ms. Ilham Otaku & Pepe Chingadero! Original 1922 star Max Schreck plays (in newly tinted archive footage, mixed, with new) Count Orlock, a deviant, adulterous, shape-shifting Transylvanian vampire aristocrat & super creep, who is tearing Bremen, a new corn-hole & it's up to a 'brotha-in-a-collar' and a creole nun with a flamin' gun, to stop him, in this 'creature-feature' fang-fest! Co-Starring Canadian Scream Queen: Vivita, with new footage shot in tantalizing Watt-a-Rama & dubbed in Tex-O-Phonic Super-Sound.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: captivating, horror comedy, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy
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Sex, Blood and Fairy Tales (2016)
Plot Summary:
What would you do if you had to choose between ten years in prison and selling your soul to the Devil? Vera's biggest desire is to become a housewife and have children. Her dreams get interrupted when on Engagement night her fiancé confesses in his disloyalty. Vera gets upset and...he dies. Luckily or unfortunately her brother happens to work in criminal defense who offers her a way to "escape" conviction, after which Vera finds herself in the money laundering entertainment joint that is run by the Yakuza mafia. Although, nothing's ever what it seems to be.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: tense, light, unusual plot structure, suspense, dark comedy
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Treasure Island (1986)
Plot Summary:
Take a son and make sure he dreams; wake him up and start telling him a story. Rock him with your most beautiful voice, lower and lower, until he goes back to sleep but still listening, subliminally. Now, he must be dreaming, but completing the story you were whispering. When the son wakes up, he must feel like the story chose him and not the opposite. Immortal story, was the title of an Orson Welles' film (who also acted in a previous version of Stevenson's Treaure Island); but every story is immortal, is what any Raoul Ruiz's film tells us.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Adventure, Fantasy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film
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Horror Story (1993)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on the book of the same title (A Sanguinary Novel) by the very individual Czech painter, typographer, author and philosopher Josef Vachal, who squeezed adventure, love, horror and other parallel episodes into, what is called, decadent reading for maids. It takes you through the history of the cinema, from silent films, to the beginning of sound and up to the very present.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, gothic horror, fairy tale, parody, psychotronic, expressionism, spoof, dark comedy, metafiction, horror spoof
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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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Obituary for Escobar (2008)
Plot Summary:
Serbian crime drama focusing on Belgrade's violent criminal underworld. Obituary For Escobar distinguishes itself from other recent crime dramas with its strong visual style and energetic approach. Borko was a young effeminate boy bullied at school by the self-styled 'Ghandi'. Years on, Ghandi is now a warlord, wrecking mayhem in pursuit of his ambition to become the leading drug lord in the Balkans. His execution of the rival 'Serbian Escobar' coincides with the mysterious placement of an obituary for the real Escobar by two stoners. In Ghandi's pursuit of the assailants he meets Lela, a stunning mystery woman who leads Ghandi to reconsider both "Borko" and his life in crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Serbia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Three Stories (1997)
Plot Summary:
A man goes to see his former schoolmate working at a boiler house and persuades him to burn in the furnace the corpse of his communal flat neighbor whom he has just murdered after a quarrel. An orphaned girl gets a job in the archives of the maternity home to find out the identity of her mother who abandoned her years earlier. She finds her, befriends her and takes the first opportunity to throw her into the sea. An old intellectual tries to explain to the neighbor’s five-year-old daughter “all the abomination of her lumpen existence”. The girl feeling hurt for her mother decides to poison the old man with arsenic.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy
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Desperate Living (1977)
Plot Summary:
A rich housewife enlists her maid's help to murder her husband; they go on the lam and end up in Mortville, a homeless community built into a garbage dump.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, erotic, controversial, cult classic, humorous, surreal, witty, allegory, biting
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Ghost with Driver (1996)
Plot Summary:
A chauffeur for a corrupt CEO, and a few hours later, his boss himself, are killed by the industrialist's associate. But their ghosts remain on Earth, and they try to tell the millionaire's teenage son the identity of the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Hentai Kamen: The Abnormal Crisis (2016)
Plot Summary:
News about the disappearance of panties is still being covered every day. Kyosuke (Ryohei Suzuki) still wears Aiko Completo's (Fumika Shimizu) panties to battle evil. Meanwhile, Aiko has mixed emotions and decides to get her panties back. Kyosuke suffers from the loss of Aiko's panties and disappears, but his biggest enemy yet is about to materialise.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, absurd, not serious, surreal, anime, hentai, weird
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Mafia! (1998)
Plot Summary:
Takeoff on the Godfather with the son of a mafia king taking over for his dying father.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, light, melancholic, stylized, not serious, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, slapstick
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Dave Made a Maze (2017)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated artist gets lost inside the cardboard fort he builds in his living room.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surreal, horror comedy, exciting, humorous, captivating, psychological, funny, slasher, avant garde, dark comedy
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Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets shot and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe he's still alive. The killer wants to do his job so when he is informed that the stiff is still alive he's got to shoot him again, and again, and again.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, black comedy, hilarious, dark comedy, entertaining, absurd, not serious, buddy comedy, slapstick comedy
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Vampire's Kiss (1988)
Plot Summary:
A publishing executive is visited and bitten by a vampire and starts exhibiting erratic behavior. He pushes his secretary to extremes as he tries to come to terms with his affliction. The vampire continues to visit and drink his blood, and as his madness deepens, it begins to look as if some of the events he's experiencing may be hallucinations.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: surreal, dark comedy, psychological, funny, atmospheric, suspenseful, disturbing, cult classic, horror comedy, scary
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Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1920's New York City, this movie tells the story of idealistic young playwright David Shayne. Producer Julian Marx finally finds funding for the project from gangster Nick Valenti. The catch is that Nick's girl friend Olive Neal gets the part of a psychiatrist, and Olive is a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist as well as being a dreadful actress. Agreeing to this first compromise is the first step to Broadway's complete seduction of David, who neglects longtime girl friend Ellen. Meanwhile David puts up with Warner Purcell, the leading man who is a compulsive eater, Helen Sinclair, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Cheech, Olive's interfering hitman / bodyguard. Eventually, the playwright must decide whether art or life is more important.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, funny, atmospheric, talky, witty, clever, parody, ironic, black comedy
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Heathers (1988)
Plot Summary:
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, teen, witty, semi serious, aesthetic, realistic, retro, parody
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Last Action Hero (1993)
Plot Summary:
Danny is obsessed with a fictional movie character action hero Jack Slater. When a magical ticket transports him into Jack's latest adventure, Danny finds himself in a world where movie magic and reality collide. Now it's up to Danny to save the life of his hero and new friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 161000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: spoof, exciting, parody, entertaining, humorous, black comedy, semi serious, slapstick, grindhouse, cult classic
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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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Doc Savage: The Man of Bronze (1975)
Plot Summary:
In the Fabulous Thirties, Doc Savage and his five Amazing Adventurers are sucked into the mystery of Doc's father disappearing in the wilds of South America. The maniacal Captain Seas tries to thwart them at every turn as they travel to the country of Hidalgo to investigate Doc's father's death and uncover a vast horde of Incan gold.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspenseful, stylized, parody, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, campy
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Epic Movie (2007)
Plot Summary:
When Edward, Peter, Lucy and Susan each follow their own path, they end up finding themselves at Willy's Chocolate factory. Walking through a wardrobe, they discover the world of Gnarnia, which is ruled by the White Bitch. Meeting up with characters such as Harry Potter and Captain Jack Swallows, the newly reunited family must team up with Aslo, a wise-but-horny lion to stop the white bitch's army.
IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 109000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, absurd, humorous, funny, not serious, slapstick, satirical, ironic, grindhouse
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail (1975)
Plot Summary:
King Arthur, accompanied by his squire, recruits his Knights of the Round Table, including Sir Bedevere the Wise, Sir Lancelot the Brave, Sir Robin the Not-Quite-So-Brave-As-Sir-Lancelot and Sir Galahad the Pure. On the way, Arthur battles the Black Knight who, despite having had all his limbs chopped off, insists he can still fight. They reach Camelot, but Arthur decides not to enter, as "it is a silly place".
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 563000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: absurd, humorous, surreal, parody, ironic, spoof, funny, slapstick, hilarious, dark comedy
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The Grand Budapest Hotel (2014)
Plot Summary:
The Grand Budapest Hotel tells of a legendary concierge at a famous European hotel between the wars and his friendship with a young employee who becomes his trusted protégé. The story involves the theft and recovery of a priceless Renaissance painting, the battle for an enormous family fortune and the slow and then sudden upheavals that transformed Europe during the first half of the 20th century.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 869000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, stylized, surreal, breathtaking, witty, visually stunning, offbeat, psychedelic, talky, dramatic