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Plot Summary:
A young African American, Jake Jackson, is a happy, honest, law-abiding citizen who through many unfortunate events, experiences a full array of prejudices until he captures single-handedly the serial killer, David Fletcher, and his luck changes.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: neo noir, black comedy, dark comedy
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Death's Glamour (2006)
Plot Summary:
Whilst seeking out locations in the South of France for his next film, director Luc Moullet comes across a male corpse. He immediately decides to use this to his advantage. By swapping his passport with that of the dead man, Moullet hopes that the world will believe he is dead, thereby ensuring a renewed interest in his work. Unfortunately, the scheme backfires, since the dead man was someone rather important.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Fall Girls (2019)
Plot Summary:
Paige Davis has just gotten promoted to President of Sales at her job. After a night of partying, Paige and her girlfriends hilariously wakes up to a dead boss.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Reflex Action (2002)
Plot Summary:
Emotionally scarred after serving in the Gulf War, soldier Quinn Taylor returns to his Arizona home, only to learn that his father plans to sell their land to a drug lord. Determined to interrupt the sale, Taylor goes to war with a powerful cartel.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Counterintelligence (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two days after the 2016 U.S. Presidential Election, a young careerist is abducted by an at-large intelligence operative carrying a mysterious briefcase, while being hotly pursued by a driven agency director and her dull-witted team.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: political thriller, black comedy, dark comedy
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Sensitive New-Age Killer (2000)
Plot Summary:
Paul as a young boy witnessed the notorious hit man “The Snake” kill a few lowlifes and since that moment he has dedicated his life to cleaning up the streets of all evil doers. Helping Paul with contract killings is his best friend George who has been having an affair with Paul’s wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, neo noir, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy, weird, cult film
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Fast Getaway II (1994)
Plot Summary:
A former robber (whose partner was his father) has reformed and is now running an insurance business with his girlfriend. An ex-partner frames him for a burglary. When his father gets out of prison, they go after the ex-partner.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 668
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic, suspenseful, nostalgic, cult film
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Meridian (2016)
Plot Summary:
When the storm came out of nowhere, just as described by the witness, he knew this was no ordinary missing person's case.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Action
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags:
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Chuck Hank and the San Diego Twins (2022)
Plot Summary:
A turf war has been raging in Oldtown for generations. On one side, The Syndicate - an evil gang of crank-head misfits, who has been set on muscling the San Diego family out of the parcel of land they own in the center of town. On the other side, the San Diego family: Tony and Johnny - twin brothers, and their sister Salsa are the last of a bloodline that stretches back for generations. Their mother, father and brothers were all brutally murdered in a violent clash with The Syndicate years earlier. With their neighborhood becoming increasingly fearful, The Syndicate puts into action another evil advance on their family's fading legacy by kidnapping Salsa - all hell breaks loose. The twins and their best friend Chuck Hank must decide whether to hand over the deed to their families land in order to save their sister or fight, the final fight!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
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Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense
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The Feud (1989)
Plot Summary:
All Dolph Beeler wanted was a can of paint remover when he went to Bud Bullard's hardware store in Millville. But a simple misunderstandling between two men has turned into an outright war between two towns in this outrageous comedy of errors.--Summary from container. -- WorldCat.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Greater Good Company (2013)
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Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
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Plot tags: independent film
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Corner Office (2022)
Plot Summary:
In this office satire, Orson, a straight-laced employee, retreats to a blissfully empty corner office to get away from his lackluster colleagues. But why does this seem to upset them so much?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Pootie Tang (2001)
Plot Summary:
Pootie Tang, the musician/actor/folk hero of the ghetto, is chronicled from his early childhood to his battles against the evil Corporate America, who try to steal his magic belt and make him sell out by endorsing addictive products to his people. Pootie must learn to find himself and defeat the evil corporation for all the young black children of America, supatime.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, feel good, witty, not serious, black comedy, cult classic, stylized, spoof, confusing
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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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Coldblooded (1995)
Plot Summary:
Cosmo, an affectless mob bookie who lives in the basement of a retirement home, is promoted to hitman. He learns his new trade from Steve, a seasoned killer. He falls in love with a yoga teacher, Jasmine, and must figure out a way to leave the mob so they can be together.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, stylized, intense, black comedy, realistic, semi serious, witty, action comedy, crime thriller
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Kill! (1968)
Plot Summary:
In this pitch-black action comedy by Kihachi Okamoto, a pair of down-on-their-luck swordsmen arrive in a dusty, windblown town, where they become involved in a local clan dispute. One, previously a farmer, longs to become a noble samurai. The other, a former samurai haunted by his past, prefers living anonymously with gangsters. But when both men discover the wrongdoings of the nefarious clan leader, they side with a band of rebels who are under siege at a remote mountain cabin. Based on the same source novel as Akira Kurosawa’s Sanjuro, Kill! playfully tweaks samurai film convention, borrowing elements from established chanbara classics and seasoning them with a little Italian western.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, serious, realistic, jidai geki, spoof, black comedy, parody
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The Corsairs (1971)
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After the death of her father, the viceroy of a small Caribean island, the beautiful young Isabella is in a big danger. The crafty duke of Burt wants to grab the power on the isle so he decides to eliminate her. Fortunately then comes a group of pirates stranded after a shipwreck. Their leader is the brave and bold Alan Drake. The pirates are hired to protect Isabella and the adventure begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Thunder in Paradise (1993)
Plot Summary:
Terry "Hulk" Hogan stars as R. J. "Hurricane" Spencer who is an ex-Navy S. E. A. L. and confirmed bachelor struggling to make ends meet. In order to save his superboat THUNDER (and ultimately, his business) Spencer is forced into a marriage of convenience with the snobby Megan Whitaker. When Megan gets kidnapped it's up to Spencer and his partner Bru to save the day or risk losing everything.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Nuclear (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a nuclear bomb destroys Los Angeles ATF agent, Jack Carson, must infiltrate a group of terrorists to find a second nuke set to blow up New York City.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Action, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: exciting, serious, suspense, suspenseful, neo noir, independent film
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The Machine (2023)
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Bert Kreischer faces a familial crisis and the arrival of his estranged father when the ghost of his booze-soaked past arrives: a murderous mobster hellbent on kidnapping Bert back to the motherland to atone for his crimes. Together, he and his father must retrace the steps of his younger self in the midst of a war between a sociopathic crime family while they attempt to find common ground.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: action comedy, dark comedy
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The Man from Toronto (2022)
Plot Summary:
In a case of mistaken identity, the world’s deadliest assassin, known as the Man from Toronto, and a New York City screw-up are forced to team up after being confused for each other at an Airbnb.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: action comedy, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, exciting, funny, humorous, surprise ending
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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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The Man from U.N.C.L.E. (2015)
Plot Summary:
At the height of the Cold War, a mysterious criminal organization plans to use nuclear weapons and technology to upset the fragile balance of power between the United States and Soviet Union. CIA agent Napoleon Solo and KGB agent Illya Kuryakin are forced to put aside their hostilities and work together to stop the evildoers in their tracks. The duo's only lead is the daughter of a missing German scientist, whom they must find soon to prevent a global catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 327000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: stylized, witty, humorous, action comedy, light, exciting, suspenseful, semi serious, entertaining, clever
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Charlie's Angels (2019)
Plot Summary:
Reboot of the 1970s TV series / early 2000s film franchise.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, China, Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: exciting, funny, humorous, action adventure, light, action comedy, psychotronic, entertaining, surprise ending
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Project X-Traction (2023)
Plot Summary:
When a China-run oil refinery is attacked in Mosul, Iraq, a Chinese private security contractor is called in to extract the oil workers. He learns, however, that the attackers’ real plan is to steal a fortune in oil, and teams up with an American former Marine to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Thriller
Country: China, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, disturbing, suspense, suspenseful, surprise ending, psychotronic, buddy comedy, independent film, black comedy
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The Spy Who Dumped Me (2018)
Plot Summary:
Audrey and Morgan are best friends who unwittingly become entangled in an international conspiracy when one of the women discovers the boyfriend who dumped her was actually a spy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Canada, Germany
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: exciting, buddy comedy, captivating, funny, action comedy, spy comedy, humorous, action adventure, suspense, absurd
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The Interview (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dave Skylark and his producer Aaron Rapoport run the celebrity tabloid show "Skylark Tonight". When they land an interview with a surprise fan, North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un, they are recruited by the CIA to turn their trip to Pyongyang into an assassination mission.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 348000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, absurd, political, humorous, action comedy, satirical, entertaining, exciting, black comedy, not serious
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Knight and Day (2010)
Plot Summary:
A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances and unexpected betrayals, they race across the globe, with their survival ultimately hinging on the battle of truth vs. trust.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 208000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: romantic, exciting, entertaining, funny, light, sexy, action comedy, not serious, absurd, intense
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Get Smart (2008)
Plot Summary:
When the identities of secret agents from Control are compromised, the Chief promotes hapless but eager analyst Maxwell Smart and teams him with stylish, capable Agent 99, the only spy whose cover remains intact. Can they work together to thwart the evil plans of KAOS and its crafty operative?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 226000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, spoof, action comedy, exciting, not serious, hilarious, feel good, spy comedy
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Big Game (2014)
Plot Summary:
Air Force One is shot down by terrorists, leaving the President of the United States stranded in the wilderness. 13-year old Oskari is also in that wilderness, on a hunting mission to prove his maturity to his kinsfolk by tracking down a deer, but instead discovers the President in an escape pod. With the terrorists closing in to capture their prize, the unlikely duo team up to escape their hunters.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Finland, UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: suspense, entertaining, exciting, humorous, suspenseful, serious, harsh, stylized, cliffhanger, uplifting
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2014)
Plot Summary:
Light years from Earth, 26 years after being abducted, Peter Quill finds himself the prime target of a manhunt after discovering an orb wanted by Ronan the Accuser.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 13000000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: futuristic, exciting, humorous, suspenseful, captivating, epic, witty, entertaining, heroic, stylized