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Plot Summary:
Barney Thomson, awkward, diffident, Glasgow barber, lives a life of desperate mediocrity and his uninteresting life is about to go from 0 to 60 in five seconds, as he enters the grotesque and comically absurd world of the serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic, funny, dark comedy
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A Sense of Humor (2011)
Plot Summary:
A serial killer abducts two stand-up comedians after they mock him as part of their on-stage act. If they teach him how to be funny, he might let them live.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer (2008)
Plot Summary:
A cricket team are dismissed by a moustachioed serial killer with a razor sharp cricket glove and an arsenal of sharpened stumps. One by one the killer exacts revenge for the torment he endured 20 years earlier.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 586
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slasher, suspenseful, semi serious, humorous, horror comedy, scary, realistic, detective, spoof, dark comedy
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Touch of Death (1988)
Plot Summary:
Lester Parson is a lonely gigolo who dates and kills off middle-aged women in ultra-gory fashion just for the pleasure of watching them die, as well as to take their money and jewelery as well as cook and eat their remains for his dinner.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: slasher, bloody, suspense, disturbing, controversial, grindhouse, splatter, dark comedy, scary, rough
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Ugly Nasty People (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of wild, physically disabled gangsters has a plan to rob a bank, but things go terribly wrong when each of them reveals they all had their own personal agenda.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, feel good, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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The Perfume Of The Lady In Black (2005)
Plot Summary:
Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, clever, realistic, surreal, talky, stylized
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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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Life Eternal (2015)
Plot Summary:
A thriller crime comedy directed by Wolfgang Murnberger.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, sexy
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Heads (1994)
Plot Summary:
A proofreader at a small-town newspaper decides to try to solve a series of decapitation murders, and reluctantly gets involved with the nutty daughter of his editor. Before long he discovers that he is the prime suspect in the murders.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, black comedy
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Dolceroma (2019)
Plot Summary:
Andrea Serrano is a young aspiring writer who, to make ends meet, is forced to wash corpses in a mortuary, while struggling to finish his first novel, a story about the Camorra. Having become discouraged by his struggling career, he is waiting for the chance of a lifetime. And finally, it arrives - a major film producer decides to adapt his novel and make it into a movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious
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Clay Pigeons (1998)
Plot Summary:
Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife, Amanda. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with their sexual affairs. Clay inadvertently befriends a serial killer named Lester Long, who murders the widow in an attempt to "help" his "fishing buddy.".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, clever, humorous, suspenseful, erotic, neo noir, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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R.S.V.P. (2002)
Plot Summary:
A young man invites a group of his closest friends to a party, where he proceeds to discreetly kill them all.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slasher, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, suspense, surprise ending, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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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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Big Nothing (2006)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated, unemployed teacher joins forces with a scammer and his girlfriend in a blackmailing scheme.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, absurd, black comedy, talky, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, hilarious, dark, action comedy
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Snowman's Land (2010)
Plot Summary:
When the wife of a crime boss is accidentally killed, the hit man who was hired to protect the remote house in which she was living tries to keep her death under wraps. Fearing vengeance from the gangster, he's soon locked in a fight for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, serious, realistic, cynical, dark comedy, atmospheric, offbeat
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Killer (1997)
Plot Summary:
An innocent cab driver is mistaken for a contract killer and imprisoned. Soon, he is sprung by a mob boss who needs "Killer" for a few more jobs.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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You've Got Murder (2019)
Plot Summary:
Istanbul Police Department homicide detectives encounter a murder nothing like they’ve seen before.Commissioners Emin, Salih, Asuman and deputy Alaattin begin investigating.But strange murders keep happening. They don’t have any evidence or any clues. Day by day, tempers flare and the police chiefs grow annoyed.As the murders keep piling up, the public’s interest rises. The pressure on Emin and his colleagues get intense. At last, the chief of police assigns “crime expert” Dizdar Koşu, who has recently come back from the US, to the team.Overwhelmed with panic, pressure and disdain, Emin and his friends try to solve the strangest series of murders with the most unusual methods.This fast race against time immediately turns into a tragicomedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Turkey
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, feel good, humorous, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, detective
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Curdled (1996)
Plot Summary:
Gabriella, a Columbian immigrant, is obsessed with understanding violent crime. The current string of murders by "The Blue Blood Killer" of affluent Miami socialites provides her with fodder for her scrapbook of death. She lands a job with a post-murder cleaning service and during a Blue-Blood clean-up job, discovers evidence that police have overlooked.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, disturbing, bloody, black comedy, suspenseful, offbeat, serious, realistic, psychotronic, independent film
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Dead Fish (2005)
Plot Summary:
Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the tradition of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. With an all-star cast including Terence Stamp, Elena Anaya, Robert Carlyle and Billy Zane, Dead Fish is a chaotic tale of criminals looking for love, money and revenge that will have you falling out of your chair laughing!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, tense, dark comedy, realistic
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How to Be a Serial Killer (2008)
Plot Summary:
HOW TO BE A SERIAL KILLER is the story of Mike Wilson, a charismatic, educated, and articulate young man who has found his life's purpose in exterminating people. Mike is determined to spread his message about the joy of serial killing and recruits a lost soul named Bart to be his pupil. Mike leads Bart through the ethics of serial killing as well as teaching him various lessons in disposing corp.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, suspenseful, rough, realistic, semi serious, horror comedy, dark comedy, funny, suspense
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Vicious Fun (2020)
Plot Summary:
A loser whose life is passing him by accidentally stumbles into a secret underground self-help group for serial killers. Can he match wits with five killers and make it through the night alive? Stuck with only two options - kill or be killed, Joel will have to find his inner serial killer and muster a hidden strength to defeat the maniacs in his midst.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, slasher, scary, horror comedy, tense, humorous, suspenseful, disturbing, psychological, funny
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Cry Havoc (2020)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious reporter (Emily Sweet) is given an exclusive interview with one of the FBI’s Most Wanted.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Action, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slasher, scary, bleak, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, psychotronic
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Inspector Späck (2010)
Plot Summary:
A dead body is found and police detective Mårten Späck draws the conclusion that a serial suicide killer is at large. Späck with his colleagues Grünvald Karlsson and Irene Snusk suspect a gang who distributes pirated DVD's of 'bottom-of-the-barrel' Swedish movies.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, captivating, tense, light, perverse, offbeat, realistic, suspenseful
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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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Keeping Company (2021)
Plot Summary:
A fateful chain of events begin to unravel after two brash insurance salesmen go knocking on the wrong door and find themselves trapped in a stranger's basement.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, psychological, tense, humorous, suspense, suspenseful, psychotronic
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Interference (2018)
Plot Summary:
A retiring detective tries to discover the identity of a half charred woman found in front of a District Attorney's boat who is pursuing a child serial killer.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, scary, tense, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective
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Evil's Wave (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 2014, a series of murders targeting women takes place in Kawasaki City. All the victims have been killed as if they had hanged and these are dubbed the “Hanging Murders” in public. The police investigation runs into difficulties without clues on the murderer. However, Detective Iguchi from the First Investigation Division has his eye on a man whom he suspects to kill for pleasure. This man is Nogi Naoya. He lies about his identity, erases his traces in public and lives as if he is holding his breath. Nogi is actually Yaginuma Masato, the victim in the sensational Akishima mother and son kidnapping case. He gets his neighbor Yoshika involved as he tries to escape the police dragnet but comes to realize some facts. What is his true motive?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Crime, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: disturbing, psychological, tense, suspense, suspenseful, detective, contemplative
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The 51st State (2001)
Plot Summary:
Elmo McElroy is a streetwise American master chemist who heads to England to sell his special new formula - a powerful, blue concoction guaranteed to take you to 'the 51st state.' McElroy's new product delivers a feeling 51 times more powerful than any thrill, any pleasure, any high in history. But his plans for a quick, profitable score go comically awry when he gets stuck in Liverpool with an unlikely escort and his ex-girlfriend and becomes entangled in a bizarre web of double-dealing and double-crosses.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, exciting, semi serious, funny, witty, stylized, action comedy, dark comedy, perverse
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Women (2021)
Plot Summary:
A small town detective while investigating the disappearance of a local woman comes across an unassuming Sociology professor who is hiding a secret life.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Crime, Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, tense, disturbing, psychological, suspense, psychological thriller, detective