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Plot Summary:
Private detective Dirk Trent, a collector of cigarette butts, a "smooth" ladies man, a wearer of bad suits, and he's convinced there's more to an incident he caught on tape, where a man seemed about to murder his mistress with an axe. Delving deeper, the film enters some seldom-trodden territory as it slips easily into horror and sci-fi, while still maintaining the hilarious dialogue.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective
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Pizza Man (1991)
Plot Summary:
When someone orders a pizza, Elmo the pizza man uncovers a government conspiracy and will stop at nothing to get his $15.23.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
Similar in 77%
Running From The Guns (1987)
Plot Summary:
Dave (Jon Blake) and his buddy Peter (Mark Hembrow) are chased by a gang of thugs when they pick up the wrong box from a Melbourne warehouse in this comedy thriller. Instead of toys, the box contains a substantial amount of cash intended to be used in a money-laundering operation.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Adventure, Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Fever (1988)
Plot Summary:
A policeman discovers a suitcase full of drug money while on duty, meanwhile his wife is having an affair with another man.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surprise ending, independent film
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Cry Uncle (1971)
Plot Summary:
Private detective Jack Masters takes on a case and gets mixed up in murder, sex and blackmail.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, raunchy, independent film, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, sex comedy, detective
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A Girl Fit to Be Killed (1976)
Plot Summary:
The waitress Gita from the hotel "Bobí vrch" approaches her lover who has not left his wife yet and gives him an ultimatum: if he does not do all according to her wish, she will announce to the police his machinations with foreign currency.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, crying, psychotronic, detective, freeze frame, poliziottesco
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The Red Ibis (1975)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Goodnight, My Love (1972)
Plot Summary:
Gruff gumshoe Francis Hogan is hired by a mysterious woman to find her boyfriend who has gone missing. With his perpetually hungry partner in tow, Hogan must untangle a web of intrigue involving the criminal underworld and a dead courier. One double-cross follows another as Hogan investigates the whole sordid affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: detective, cult film
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Brigada explosiva: Misión pirata (2008)
Plot Summary:
After being killed by a monster, one pirate resurrects and find some friends to get its revenge. He makes a new band called "La Chota".
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Argentina, Dominican Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Murder by Phone (1982)
Plot Summary:
A disgruntled phone company employee develops a device whereby those answering a phone can be murdered, and it's up to Nat Bridger to stop the killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slasher, retro, action thriller, independent film, weird, eighties
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Malcolm (1986)
Plot Summary:
Malcolm is a chronically shy mechanical genius, who has just been fired for building his own tram. He gets Frank, who has just been released from jail, to move in to help pay the bills. Malcolm, with Franks help, turns to a life of crime. Malcolm is a 1986 Australian cult film, written by David Parker and directed by Nadia Tass. The film stars Colin Friels as the titular tram enthusiast who becomes involved with petty crime. The film won the 1986 Australian Film Institute Award for Best Film.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: surreal, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, independent film, cult classic, bizarre
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The Clinic (1982)
Plot Summary:
A comedic, dramatic day in the lives of employees and patients at a venereal disease clinic.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)
Plot Summary:
Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful sheilas, but he soon settles into the Australian ghetto in Earls Court, where his old mate Curly has a flat.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 913
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, cult film
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The Bit Part (1987)
Plot Summary:
Career counsellor Michael Thornton decides to change his career and become an actor. He dreams of performing Shakespeare but ends up in a television ad where only his hands appear on camera. He finds a friend in actress Mary McAllister (Nicole Kidman) until she is called to Hollywood to star in a horror feature. Katrina Foster plays Michael's understanding wife Helen, who supports him while he pursues his elusive dream.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Singing Detective (2003)
Plot Summary:
From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Musical, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, stylized, detective, disturbing, intense, atmospheric, semi serious, clever, mindfuck
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Lady Winsley (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Lady Winsley, the famous American novelist, is discovered dead on the remote Turkish island of Büyükada, the great detective Fergün is sent from Istanbul to solve the murder case. With the help of Azra, the beautiful local hotel tenant, he must confront stubborn members of the island community to untangle well-guarded family secrets and discover who the murderer is.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France, Turkey, Belgium
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, independent film
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A Slight Case of Murder (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe (William H. Macy) accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers his tracks, he raises the suspicions of a private investigator (James Cromwell), who then tries to blackmail him. Thorpe also falls under the watchful eye of Detective Fred Stapelli (Adam Arkin), a cop who is intent on becoming a screenwriter. Before long, Thorpe's girlfriend, Kit (Felicity Huffman), and Stapelli's wife, Patricia (Julia Campbell), are roped into the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: detective, crime thriller, neo noir, clever, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, cynical, semi serious, biting
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The Man with Bogart's Face (1980)
Plot Summary:
In The Man With Bogart's Face, an affectionate send-up of the Bogart detective films of the 1940s, Robert Sacchi plays a man who idolizes Humphrey Bogart so much he has his features altered to look exactly like his idol. He then opens up a detective agency under the name Sam Marlowe (an amalgam of the names of Bogart's characters from The Maltese Falcon and The Big Sleep).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: neo noir, psychological, parody, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical
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Lady in Cement (1968)
Plot Summary:
While diving for sunken treasure, street-smart gumshoe Tony Rome finds the body of a gorgeous blonde, her feet stuck in a block of cement. Soon after, tough guy Waldo Gronski hires him to find a missing woman named Sandra Lomax, and Rome wonders if there's a connection. He sets about trying to locate the woman, and in no time finds himself mixed up with a beautiful party girl and a slippery racketeer.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: neo noir, noir, detective, crime drama, thrilling, clever, serious, realistic, suspenseful, witty
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Made in U.S.A (1966)
Plot Summary:
Paula Nelson (Anna Karina), a female version of Humphrey Bogart's hard boiled detectives, goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, at an unknown point in the future (maybe 1969). Once there, she learns that Richard is dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis (Yves Afonso), a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: neo noir, surreal, art house, psychological, serious, realistic, stylized, experimental, avant garde, crying
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Peeper (1975)
Plot Summary:
A detective is hired to locate a girl adopted 30 years earlier whose birth father wants to bequeath her his fortune.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: neo noir, spoof, mind bending, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, detective, parody
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The Monster (1994)
Plot Summary:
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris and.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, parody, slapstick, offbeat, realistic, not serious, detective, spoof, black comedy
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Body Harm (1988)
Plot Summary:
A schoolteacher (John Waters) becomes obsessed with the idea that his wife (Joy Bell) did not die in a car accident, as everyone else thinks.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, grindhouse, serious, realistic, suspenseful, psychotronic, independent film, detective
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Odd Job (2016)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed factory worker takes a job as a hit man to make ends meet.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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V.I. Warshawski, Detective in High Heels (1991)
Plot Summary:
Victoria "V.I" Warshawski is a Chicago based private detective who agrees to babysit for her new boyfriend; then he is murdered. Being the detective type, she makes the murder her next case. In doing so she befriends the victim's daughter, Kat, and together they set out to crack the case.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, detective, entertaining, light, neo noir, rough, twist ending, sexy
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Strange Brew (1983)
Plot Summary:
Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug Mackenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan Pam regain the brewery founded by her recently-deceased father. But to do so, they must confront the suspicious Brewmeister Smith and two teams of vicious hockey players.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, parody, humorous, offbeat, feel good, witty, not serious, fast, detective, sketch comedy
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Two Hands (1999)
Plot Summary:
A 19 year old finds himself in debt to a local gangster when some gang loot disappears and sets him on the run from thugs. Meanwhile two street kids start a shopping spree when they find the missing money.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, disturbing, dark comedy, realistic, suspense, black comedy, neo noir, emotional, semi serious
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Fletch Lives (1989)
Plot Summary:
Fletch is a fish out of water in small-town Louisiana, where he's checking out a tumbledown mansion he's inherited. When a woman he flirts with turns up dead, Fletch becomes a suspect and must find the killer and clear his name. In the meantime, he's got some serious home-ownership issues, such as termites and weird neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, slapstick, detective, realistic, witty, semi serious, hilarious, slapstick comedy, parody, funny
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Terminal (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the dark heart of a sprawling, anonymous city, two assassins carry out a sinister mission, a teacher battles a fatal illness, and an enigmatic janitor and a curious waitress lead dangerous double lives. Murderous consequences unravel in the dead of night, as their lives intertwine at the hands of a mysterious criminal mastermind who is hell-bent on revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Ireland, UK, Hong Kong, Hungary, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: suspense, exciting, neo noir, breathtaking, visual, artsy, surprise ending, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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One Night at McCool's (2001)
Plot Summary:
Every man has a different recollection of the beautiful young woman who wreaked havoc on their lives during one heated night.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, hilarious, stylized, witty, not serious, erotic, entertaining
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The Long Goodbye (1973)
Plot Summary:
Detective Philip Marlowe tries to help a friend who is accused of murdering his wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: neo noir, detective, noir, dark, atmospheric, witty, cynical, stylized, funny, inspirational