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Plot Summary:
Legendary jewel thieves "Nocturnal Earl" (Ling Yun) and "Fragrant Night" (Lily Ho) are set on a collision course for destiny when both arrive in Japan to get their hands on the famous "Venus Tear Diamond." But sparks fly between the jewel thieves and the two fall instantly in love, without knowing that their beloved is after the very jewel each is seeking! To make matters worse, the diamond is in the possession of a randy widow who has her eye on the debonair male thief, and there's even a mystery man interested in the widow, too. Who's going to get the Venus Tear Diamond, and will it mean the end to a perfect love?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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Plot Summary:
A middle-aged woman and her daughter unknowingly become romantically involved with the same man while vacationing in France.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Vice Academy Part 6 (1998)
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Vice cops Candy and Traci accidentally meet the bikini robbers who are armed with assault weapons in a bank. The thieves escape with loot after a wild shoot-out. The commissioner and the instructor enlist Internal Affairs detective to solve the case. He suspects the Vice cops and sends them to prison. However, a robber plants a bomb in the police station. Vice cops are quickly reinstated with a new mission.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, eros, weird
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Comedy
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Duration: 88 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy, Crime
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Duration: 75 min
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While working alone late at the office one night, Veronica is raped by a returning male colleague, who accidentally kills her in the process (she falls back and hits her head on a sharp object). Later that same evening, he comes across a bar hostess who looks identical to the woman that he has just murdered. He eventually talks her into showing up for work in Veronica's place on the very next day, and handing in her resignation. Unfortunately for him, she is persuaded to stay, and decides to continue impersonating the deceased secretary.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 558
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Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 242
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy, Romance
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Duration: 77 min
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Come Have Coffee with Us (1970)
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Comedy, Romance
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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
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Country: Italy, France, West Germany
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 111
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IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 268
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Country: USA
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 83
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Country: Italy
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 74
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Country: Italy
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 156
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 89
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IMDB Votes: 292
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 201
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 715
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 977
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 13000
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Country: UK, USA
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 442
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Country: Hong Kong
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
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The Irony of Fate. The Sequel (2007)
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Zhenya and Nadya go their separate ways. Nadya stuck with her bureaucrat boyfriend, married him and had a daughter, also called Nadya. Zhenya married and had a son, Konstantin. Both later divorced. More than 30 years later, Konstantin ends up drunk in the flat where the younger Nadya finds him. He is there as part of a convoluted ruse by his father's friends to get Zhenya back into the arms of the woman with whom he shared a magical night. The waylaid son is the bait to get Zhenya back to Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg. One romance is rekindled and another between the son and daughter is struck up.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
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Country: Russia
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