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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
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Zero and Carry the 4 (2004)
Plot Summary:
Four stories... one city. A dark comedy about crime in the big city: EL TORZON - two friends are smoking grass in their car, when they're caught by a corrupt Judicial Police Officer; VIDA EXPRESS - a wealthy businesswoman is kidnapped and her deadbeat husband has to come up with the money; BARBACOA DE CHIVO - an angry mob mistakes a college professor with a burglar and decide to lynch him in front of the church; COMIDA PARA PERROS - a bumbling thief tries to rob a restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Crime, Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 92 min
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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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Studierektorns sista strid (1986)
Plot Summary:
Principal Bertilsson plan the perfect crime, for who would suspect a Principal?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 180 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 Runs Amok (1973)
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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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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Up Your Alley (1971)
Plot Summary:
The All-Out Sex Comedy Riot!.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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The James Gang (1997)
Plot Summary:
After an audacious jewellery robbery the whole James family heads for home on the run with the obsessive detective Julia Armstrong in hot pursuit.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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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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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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Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold (1980)
Plot Summary:
When designer Robert Meering returns from vacation, he discovers the company he worked for unexpectedly went bankrupt so he decides to visit his old boss. His former employer Banninger liquidated the company and claims that all designs of Robert are his. When Robert's Porsche gets stolen by two thieves, he manages to track them down. When they tell him about 40 Porsche's in a dealer shop garage owned by Banninger things change and suddenly get very interesting.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min
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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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Operation St. Peter's (1967)
Plot Summary:
Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where Napoleone takes them to Rome where they shack up with a shady used car dealer caled Il Cajella to help finance their new life of crime by planing to rob a statue from the Vatican. But a big-time American gangster, named Joe Ventura, hears about the heist and wants the priceless statue for himself by having his mistress, Samantha, come onto and betray the woman-hungry Cajella to give the statue away to her.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Happy New Year (1987)
Plot Summary:
Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old men and women they begin the set-up, but then Nick falls for the owner of a neighboring antique store and things get a little complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: remake of french film
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Perfect Friday (1970)
Plot Summary:
The deputy manager of a London bank has worked out a way to rob the branch of £200,000. When he becomes involved with the attractive Lady Dorset he decides to go ahead with his plan. He needs her help and that of her philandering spendthrift husband. It all comes down to a matter of trust.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, poliziottesco
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The R.M. (2003)
Plot Summary:
Jared Phelps (Kirby Heyborne) has completed two years of full-time missionary service for The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. His mission president has promised him that he will be blessed for his service, and he thinks he has it all worked out. His girlfriend has waited for him. His boss promised that he could have his old job back, and he has already sent his application to BYU. Everything that can go wrong does go wrong. His girlfriend dumps him. His loses his job, and he isn't accepted to BYU. Then, it gets even worse, and he has to decide if choosing the right is worth all the trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere, captivating, intense, independent film
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Hold-Up (1985)
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Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, humorous, semi serious, action thriller, hilarious, independent film, clever, cynical, fast
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Palookaville (1995)
Plot Summary:
Jerry and his two pals, Russ and Syd, are just looking for some easy money to help them break out of their nowhere lives in their nowhere town. Despite a bungled jewelry store heist which exposes their incompetence as criminals, a fateful event (and an old black-and-white film) convinces them that they can pull off an armored-truck robbery. While they are busy plotting their caper, their dysfunctional families spin out of control, all around them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, crime thriller, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film, funny, sexy, clever, touching
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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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How to Beat the High Co$t of Living (1980)
Plot Summary:
Oregon, 1980: Jane, Elaine and Louise are all feeling the effects of inflation and cannot afford, as the title states, the high cost of living. Jane cannot afford a babysitter or get married and if she wants privacy with her boyfriend, she has to sleep in the car. Even worse, her war veteran father comes to live with her to turn her life upside down. Louise lives a happy life with her veterinarian husband, Albert. She runs an antique shop on the side, but since it doesn't take in any profit, the IRS considers it a hobby. She needs to come up with the money to keep it going, or she will be trouble with the IRS. Elaine's husband has left her for another woman and without any money. She is in a constant struggle with banks, power companies, and gas stations. She needs money to get by and also catches the eye of police officer Jack. The local mall is having a contest that features a giant money ball that states it will help fight the inflation.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: scenic, grindhouse, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, 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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Home Sweet Home Alone (2021)
Plot Summary:
After being left at home by himself for the holidays, 10-year-old Max Mercer must work to defend his home from a married couple who tries to steal back a valuable heirloom.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, hilarious, slapstick comedy, family comedy, christmas comedy