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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, controversial, semi serious, cult film
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Move Along, There is Nothing to See (1983)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is suspected of being involved in trafficking of stolen paintings. He is both intrigued and attracted by the young woman, follows her everywhere and finally falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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High Rolling in a Hot Corvette (1977)
Plot Summary:
Two fun-loving carnival workers take a vacation with the hope of finding plenty of sex and drugs. Their "quest" is fulfilled when they encounter a dope-peddler and two exotic nightclub dancers.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: road movie, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, cult film
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The Escape (1978)
Plot Summary:
The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Frenchman's Son (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young boy and his two grandmothers flee from headhunters and other villainous types in the Brazilian rain forest in this wacky family adventure. Benjamin, whose mom is dead and whose dad is off in the jungle searching for gold, is more cool-headed than his two grandmothers, both of whom hate one another. Upper class teacher bristles at the coarse behavior of working class Suzanne, who shoplifts and cheats at cards. Soon bad guys threaten them, and the chase begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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A Crime in Paradise (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, fairy tale, offbeat, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Supergrass (1985)
Plot Summary:
While taking a holiday in the country with his mother, Dennis hits on a scheme to impress a girl so that she'll go away on a trip with him as his girlfriend. Although he fails to gain any interest from the girl, the police take a great interest in his story. From this point on, Dennis digs a deeper hole for himself at every turn.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, alternative comedy
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The Race (2002)
Plot Summary:
Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada to spy on his fiancée. There, they are mistaken for a band of professional killers and are hired to assassinate the heiress Léonore de Segonzac.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, surprise ending
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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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The Red Inn (2007)
Plot Summary:
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to save the guest's lives without violating the holy secrecy of the confession.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, tense, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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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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My New Partner II (1990)
Plot Summary:
The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more crooked replacements.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: action comedy, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Tip Top (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two policewomen from Internal Affairs arrive in a provincial precinct to investigate the death of an Algerian woman who was an informer. One punches, the other eyes, tip top.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Luxembourg, Belgium
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense, realistic, suspenseful
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L'amour aux Trousses (2005)
Plot Summary:
Franck and Paul are working as team buddies in their Paris police unit. They are sent on a mission in Toulon to solve a drug traffic mystery, but things get out of hand when Paul learns that Franck has an affair with Valeria, his wife, who also happens to work in the police forces.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Crime, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Jönsson Gang Gets Gold Fever (1984)
Plot Summary:
Sickan has a new plan. This time, the gang are going to steal a small computer micro chip which contains.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, not serious, semi serious
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Crackers (1984)
Plot Summary:
Garvey is a San Francisco pawnshop operator. His unemployed and criminal friends Dillard, Turtle, and Weslake, team up with Boardwalk, a local pimp, to burgle Garvey's shop while the owner is out of town. During the elaborate planning process, Dillard falls for a Hispanic woman, the sister of a friend. Also, Boardwalk is assigned to case a local apartment, where he meets and falls for the maid. Amidst all these romantic hijinks, Weslake puts together a burglary plan, which is executed by the makeshift gang.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, political, offbeat
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Let's Rob the Bank (1964)
Plot Summary:
Shopkeeper Victor Garnier has naively invested his family's life savings in an African mine, on his banker's recommendation. When the mine is nationalized, rendering the stock worthless, he considers himself shamelessly robbed by the bank; it seems only fair to him to return the 'favor' and rob the bank, teaming up with the whole family as they were all duped. Even for professionals such an enterprise -he decides to dig a tunnel- is quite demanding, but for simple commoners it's daunting, as they also have their personal downsides; thus Victor's wife has a most unwelcome tendency to blurt out the truth, even to the grumpy local copper: a crazy risk when you need to keep a criminal plan secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, spoof, parody, weird
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The Mule (2014)
Plot Summary:
In 1983, a naive man is detained by Australian Federal Police with lethal narcotics hidden in his stomach. After being apprehended, ‘The Mule’ makes a desperate choice... to defy his bodily functions and withhold the evidence – literally.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, realistic, stylized
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Framed (1990)
Plot Summary:
A painter is accused of art-forging. He thinks his girlfriend betrayed him, so it's time for revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The ComDads (1983)
Plot Summary:
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, saga, eighties
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Why Me? (1990)
Plot Summary:
A jewel thief steals a sacred ruby which sets off a chase by the police, the Turkish government, nutty American terrorists, and the CIA.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, semi serious, captivating, absurd, independent film, realistic, suspenseful
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The Dope (2003)
Plot Summary:
Alphonse Brown, who firmly believes he is the bastard son of James Brown, meets up with his best friend Scotch after Brown gets out of jail. On their way to Paris to begin careers as recording artists, the pair stumbles across a potent type of marijuana that was engineered by the Nazis. Their decision to begin selling the stuff leads to a variety of people chasing after them.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, light, feel good, offbeat
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The Goat (1981)
Plot Summary:
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sweet, buddy comedy, perverse, feel good, realistic, semi serious, detective, slapstick comedy
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The Sucker (1965)
Plot Summary:
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, semi serious, realistic, funny, anthology
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Turf (2013)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering away the little spare cash they have, they agree to give up gambling. But no sooner have they taken this pledge than Fate intervenes, in the guise of the turf king, Monsieur Paul. The latter persuades the four friends to buy a champion racehorse, not knowing that it is in fact an old nag….
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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Special Correspondents (2009)
Plot Summary:
R2I, a famous news radio station, sends its best reporting duo to Iraq: Frank, journalist, and Poussin, sound engineer. Very quickly, millions of listeners follow their highly documented stories, reflecting the hot intensity of the fighting and the difficult survival of the population.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good, captivating, melancholic
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Serial Lover (1998)
Plot Summary:
Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so that she can pick out her would-be fiancé. But an accident happens when Claire is getting the dinner ready.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, dark comedy, realistic, neo noir
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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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Feds (1988)
Plot Summary:
Ellie DeWitt and Janis Zuckermann are admitted to the very strict FBI Training Academy. They get a hard course, in which they learn to deal with guns and to recognise crimes. They also get a physical training. It appears that Ellie is a real fighting- machine, in contrast with Janis, the great student. They have to help each other, all the way to graduation.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: melancholic, intense, humorous, semi serious, action comedy, realistic, erotic, funny, inspirational, sexy
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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
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High Rollers (1976)
Plot Summary:
Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He will succeeded and from that moment on the two will join to defraud Belle. The swindle plot become more complicate when Felix falls in love for Philip's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, realistic, poliziottesco, semi serious