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Plot Summary:
When Egon Olsen gets out of Vridlose State Prision once again, his friends Benny and Kjeld do not want to know about his new ingenious plan: they are actually WORKING in a shop! Thus, he has to think of something else to get his hands on the money of some international gangster.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min
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Life with Daddy (1967)
Plot Summary:
Coming soon.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 109 min
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Duffy (1968)
Plot Summary:
Duffy is a cunning aristocrat of criminals who is hired by Stefane, a young playboy, to hijack a boat carrying several million dollars of his father's fortune. The plot succeeds, with a little help from Segolene, Stefane's girlfriend - but also with an unexpected, sudden turn of events.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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It's Nifty in the Navy (1965)
Plot Summary:
It's Nifty in the Navy is a 1965 Danish comedy film directed by Finn Henriksen and starring Dirch Passer.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 607
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 105 min
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Martha (1967)
Plot Summary:
The oldest ship in the fleet, Martha, and her jolly crew, must race Harald and win, or it's the scrappers next.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Denmark, Greece
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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Olsenbanden og Data-Harry sprenger verdensbanken (1978)
Plot Summary:
Egon er atter bak murene. Og atter fødes en ny plan. En korrupt diplomat har på ulovlig vis ervervet seg 10 millioner dollar på salg av subsidiert fjellsmør til utlandet. Disse pengene skal "vaskes rene" i den norske avdelingen av Verdensbanken. Egon regner med å få kloa i dem før de når dit.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 952
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 101 min
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The Olsen Gang in Jutland (1971)
Plot Summary:
The Olsen gang in Jutland. Ones again Egon Olsen has a plan when he gets out of Vridslose State Prison. He has found out that the Germans left a large sum of money (in American dollars and gold bars) in one of their commando bunkers, when they were defeated in 1945; the only problem it's in Jutland. Egon, Benny and Kjeld "appropriate" a car and drives to Jutland along with Kjelds wife and child Yvonne and Borge. They look forward to fooling the the people in Jutland, but of course, things don't go quite as planed. It ends with Benny, Kjeld, Borge and Yvonne sitting in the train back to Copenhagen, were they are overtaken by Egon in his car on the road next to the track. This is the last time the Olsen gang goes to Jutland.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 101 min
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The Olsen Gang Never Surrenders (1979)
Plot Summary:
Egon plans to exploit knowledge gained during his latest term of incarceration. By stealing the unmanipulated financial records of DanInvest he obtains the majority of the stocks in the department store Magasin du Nord, just in time for their closing sale. The attempt to get the red suitcase that will save the day they rob the main vault at the EEC headquarters in Brussels and end up hijacking a tank.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Last Exploits of the Olsen Gang (1974)
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The Olsen Gang has finally made it. They are in Mallorca, having fulfilled their dream. Almost, that is. They don't have any money, so Egon has to open a safe at a restaurant to get some. As usual, however, Egon ends up in prision. When they return to Denmark, he has a new plan.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 102 min
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The Olsen Gang on the Track (1975)
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Egon and his two cronies managed to sneak a fortune with them to Spain. Here they live a life in a whirl of pleasures, but they are not truly happy. While Egon always has the money chained to him, Bøffen still manages to steal them. Egon ends up in jail once again, and when he comes out, he has a brilliant plan.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 105 min
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The Olsen Gang Outta Sight (1977)
Plot Summary:
Egon is starting to be a little forgetful; he forgot the zone number, so he fails to open the strongbox. When he gets out of Vridslose State Prison, Kjeld and Benny have become associates of Yvonne's cousin Georg from America. He is not just some old-fashioned strongbox thief that can't remember like Egon, but a young hip IT criminal, that thinks that everyone else is inferior. However, Egon doesn't take lightly to the Georg's patronizing so he sabotages Georg's computer and ruins his cup. This time Egon's ambitions reaches a new high, when he and his gang break in to the World Bank, and they get away with it. Of course, thanks to Yvonne, they aren't rich very long.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 105 min
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The Olsen Gang in a Fix (1969)
Plot Summary:
A good looking female social welfare worker makes Egon Olsen forget about crimes for some time, but when an American gangster breaks into a local bank and the police think its Egon's work, he has to get back to work to prove he's innocent.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 111 min
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The Olsen Gang Sees Red (1976)
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Egon and the gang are hired to stage a robbery of an antique Chinese vase for an economically challenged baron. Naturally they fooled, which infuriates Egon. The gang tries to get back at the baron by switching the vase with a cheap Hong Kong copy. One attempt is made during the barons hunting party, where Egon ends up being bricked up in the catacombs. In another attempt, the gang has to coordinate breaking through several walls at The Royal Theater in Copenhagen with the "Elverhøj" overture.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min
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The Treasure of San Gennaro (1966)
Plot Summary:
A pair of Americans want to perform the greatest robbery: the treasure of San Genaro, in Napoli.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 104 min
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Three Heists and a Hamster (2017)
Plot Summary:
Nikolaj is now an civilian, and likes his new job as preschool-teacher. Timo is seperate from his Wife Lonnine, and the social workers threats to break his rigtg to see his son Heino. If is not pay five yeas "child-support-money" with he has not paid. One day the brother father Arno, dies and they find out the have an unknowen brother in Italy, with is the sole seated legacy to the motorcycle, and the heist goes to steal it.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 966
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
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Relax Freddie (1966)
Plot Summary:
The sequel of the famous "Slå Først, Frede!".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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The Jonsson Gang's Greatest Robbery (1995)
Plot Summary:
When Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry tries to break doctor Busé out of jail, they get Herman Melvin instead.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min
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Beware of the Jönsson Gang (1981)
Plot Summary:
The movie begins with the Jönsson gang making a minor burglary. It goes wrong and the gang leader, Sickan, gets caught. After he has spent 10 months in jail, Vanheden and Rocky come to welcome him when he's released. But he doesn't take notice of them, and he's picked up by the mysterious banker Wall-Enberg Jr. instead. He wants Sickan to perform a burglary in Switzerland, in order to retrieve the famous Bedford Diamonds. Sickan does this but is fooled by Wall-Enberg and nearly gets caught. When he returns to Sweden and re-unites with his old gang members, he's set on revenge, both physically and psychologically.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious
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Big Nunu's Little Heist (2023)
Plot Summary:
An ex-soldier turned deliveryman is dragged into a local kingpin's bumbling gang to pull off a daring heist in an infamous South African township.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Africa
Duration: 91 min
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All for Two (2013)
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This sequel to the box office hit All for One finds the previously tight-knit trio dispersed: Nikolai is on parole, while brothers Ralf and Timo are planning a heist involving the unlikely combination of unsalted butter, a strict diet and a helicopter. When their seemingly impossible heist succeeds, Nikolai asks to borrow some money to start over. The brothers reject him, but when all three of them are tricked by a fish-loving banking executive, they are forced to team up again.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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The Olsen Gang's Big Score (1972)
Plot Summary:
After his usual stay behind bars, Egon has another cunning plan involving millions. They rob over 4 million from a money transport. The gang keeps a low profile and hide the money. But it's stolen by "Kongen" and "Knægten", who immediately start living it up - in the penthouse suite at the Sheraton. The suitcase with the money changes hands several times, before Kongen's daughter takes of with all the money.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Strike First Freddy (1965)
Plot Summary:
Frede Hansen, a game salesman, is mistaken for a secret service agent on a ferry and kidnapped by enemy agents. He escapes and now the secret service want to use him as bait to track the enemy. They assign their best agent, Smith to be his partner and supervisor. Their main task is to eliminate the head of the enemy conspiracy, the mysterious 'Dr. Pax' who's real identity is unknown. Freddy accompanies Smith to Stockholm where they are to meet Sonja, an agent for Dr. Pax, who is also on Smith's liquidation list. Thanks to his bag of game tricks, Freddy manages to avoid being done in by Kolick, a killer for Dr. Pax. Freddy falls for Sonja, and he, she and Smith are taken as prisoners to Dr. Pax's hideout, a remote island fortress from which a major power is to be attacked by missiles guided by trained pigeons. Freddy manages to teach Dr. Pax a lasting lesson in the difference between trained pigeons and homing pigeons.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, eurospy
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The Jönsson Gang in Mallorca (1989)
Plot Summary:
Vanheden and Dynamit-Harry, together with Harry's fiancée Doris, are in Mallorca while Sickan is still in Stockholm.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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The J. Gang Meets Dynamite Harry (1982)
Plot Summary:
Sickan, Vanheden and Rocky try to rob the Berns nightclub one night, but Vanheden has made the mistake to invite his constantly drunk cousin, the old dynamiter Dynamite-Harry and he ruins the plan. Sickan is arrested, and has to spend 10 months in a small, locked room. When he is released, he has a new plan, but Rocky and Vanheden have decided to go straight. Together with Dynamite-Harry, Sickan plans to rob a cold store, managed by their arch-enemy, Wall-Enberg.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, not serious, semi serious
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The Great St. Trinian's Train Robbery (1966)
Plot Summary:
The all-girl school foil an attempt by train robbers to recover two and a half million pounds hidden in their school.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: black and white, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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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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Two Thumbs Up (2015)
Plot Summary:
A criminal fresh out of prison who seeks out his former partners in crime for another heist. And they make a very elaborate plan to carry out the criminal intent, but things turn awry when another gang of criminals hit the same target.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, crime drama
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Never a Dull Moment (1968)
Plot Summary:
When practicing for a role, actor Jack is mistaken for the killer Ace. He doesn't realize this until it's too late and is carried off to gangster boss Leo Smooth, who wants Ace to do a job for him. Fearing for his life, Jack plays his role, but always searching for a way out of the well-guarded house. - By: Tom Zoerner.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 781
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: hilarious, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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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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Scorched (2003)
Plot Summary:
Three bank tellers. One goal: knock the place over. The ultimate inside jobs, plotted by three people with nothing to lose.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, melancholic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, clever, entertaining, light, captivating, dark comedy
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Home Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012)
Plot Summary:
8-year-old Finn who is terrified to learn his family is relocating from sunny California to Maine in the scariest house he has ever seen! Convinced that his new house is haunted, Finn sets up a series of elaborate traps to catch the “ghost” in action. Left home alone with his sister while their parents are stranded across town, Finn’s traps catch a new target – a group of thieves who have targeted Finn’s house.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious, light, funny, hilarious, slapstick, fast, ridiculous