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Plot Summary:
Takarada, a member of a group of swindlers which has reunited to pull off a big caper involving down comforters, shoddy encyclopedias, and a panda suit. However, the actual scam they’re about to run takes a back seat to the trust issues between the group.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Memories of Matsuko (2006)
Plot Summary:
While combing through the belongings of his recently deceased aunt, Matsuko, nephew Sho pieces together the crucial events that sank Matsuko's life into a despairing tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: bleak, emotional, realistic, humorous, serious, semi serious, depressing, disturbing, poignant, independent film
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Neapolitan Mystery (1979)
Plot Summary:
Mastroanni plays a mandolin player who, while trying to cover his senile father's gambling debts, is sent to perform a serenade at a high rise building and witnesses a shootout and a man being thrown from a window to his death (the first of several falls from windows that the beleaguered hero witnesses). He gets mixed up with a famous conductor and his gorgeous wife as well as with the conductor's beautiful daughter-in-law. The whole thing involves a confusingly intricate blackmail plot and a horrible secret dating back to World War II.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags:
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The Drummond Will (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two city-boy brothers, one a charismatic optimist, the other a whining corporate sell-out, return to the countryside for their father's funeral. On checking out his decrepit estate the boys find one of their dad's ancient friends hiding in a closet with a bag full money. Whilst they decide what to do the pensioner is left to suffocate in the closet, leaving them with a much bigger problem to deal with; tell the police, or leave the body in his own home and pretend nothing happened (keeping the money in the process). This opens their world up to a series of bizarre incidents resulting in the village's quirky population gently decreasing during their short stay.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, suspense, dark
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Stiff Luv (2008)
Plot Summary:
Kelly is riding the gamut of emotions as she moves from a weekend of passion to finding herself at a funeral home mourning the loss of her fiancé, Mikey. As friends and family gather, the question on everyone's mind is what really happened to him? Mikey's boss suspects that foul play may be involved and questions if Kelly and her best friend, Liz, are not behind it all. Things only escalate from there as the whole cast of characters come to learn just how many secrets there really are in everyone's closets.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: suspense, sex comedy
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Dogwoman: Dead Dog Walking (2000)
Plot Summary:
Margaret O'Halloran is a dog trainer with a unique talent and a nose for a mystery. Now an old lady has been savaged to death, her faithful dog is the prime suspect. But Margaret smells a murderer of the two legged variety.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, serious, captivating, suspenseful, surprise ending, comic
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Groper Train: Wedding Capriccio (1984)
Plot Summary:
The world’s greatest detective, Ippei Kuroda, is back and this time hired by a politician to find his estranged daughter. When the daughter is found dead, the mystery deepens. Meanwhile, Kuroda’s assistant tries to stop her arranged marriage to a country hick by shacking-up with a composer who writes symphonies on his calculator — when he’s not groping women on the Tokyo trains!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: hot
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The Suspect: Muroi Shinji (2005)
Plot Summary:
One day in February, 2005, Metropolitan Police Department Superintendent Muroi (Toshiro Yanagiba) is arrested to take responsibility for a botched murder case he headed. His faithful colleagues, including Arashiro (Toshio Kakei) and Okita (Miki Maya), only exacerbate the situation when they try to help clear his name. Is Muroi guilty as charged or merely taking the fall? What is the truth behind the murder? Two lawyers, one determined to get Muroi, the other resolved to save him, a feud between two police departments, political power plays and legal trappings, all combine to orchestrate Muroi’s downfall.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags:
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Such Good People (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young couple discovers a secret room filled with cash while house-sitting for rich friends who die while out of the country.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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I Follow in My Father's Footsteps (1999)
Plot Summary:
Sauveur (Savior) needs someone to save him, and so he begins to look for his father, a fast- talking ladies' man. The son becomes attached to his misanthropic father, and soon a crippled woman photographer and a gigolo with a killer smile also enter the scene, and the situation becomes more and more impossible.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 435
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: detective
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Kisaragi (2007)
Plot Summary:
The fanclub of a deceased Japanese idol gather together for the one year anniversary of her death. By combining forces they try to unearth the true circumstances surrounding her supposed suicide.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, enigmatic, captivating, suspense, disturbing, minimal cast, dorama, surprise ending
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Patricia (1980)
Plot Summary:
A young heiress leads a life of excess and wants to marry a man her rich father despises. When her father suspiciously dies, and someone tries to kill her, she surrounds herself with her cousins, friends and lovers, all possible suspects.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Spain, Austria
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: erotic
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The Manor (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Manor, a dark funny version of Akira Kurosawa's " Rashomon". Lost man searches for his truth and finds it, with the help of five Manor ladies. The rest of the who done whats serve only to help the lost soul find his truth.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 303
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: black comedy, independent film, detective, dark comedy
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The Last Prosecco (2017)
Plot Summary:
The suicide of a prominent wine producer unleashes a series of mysterious murders.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 922
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, unusual plot structure, humorous, suspense, satirical, absurd
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The Groper Train: Search for the Black Pearl (1984)
Plot Summary:
The world's largest black pearl has vanished without a trace, and it's up to Detective Ippei to track it down. His only clue is the mysterious words of a dying man, who managed to mutter "Pussy Print!" before slipping away forever. Teaming with the man's younger widow Matsuko, Detective Ippei boards a local train and begins taking prints of the female passenger's vulvas in hopes of matching one to the print that Matsuka's husband had in his possession at the time of his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, detective
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Million Dollar Mystery (1987)
Plot Summary:
A dying man in a roadside diner tells the other patrons about money he has hidden in four places. But instead of directions, he leaves them only with clues they must solve in order to claim the loot.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Coffee, Kill Boss (2013)
Plot Summary:
When ten executives secretly meet to sell off their company, they're murdered one by one in this darkly comedic romp through the halls of corporate America.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, suspense, hilarious, teen, realistic
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The Rambler (2013)
Plot Summary:
After being released from prison, a man known as The Rambler stumbles upon a strange mystery as he attempts a dangerous journey through treacherous back roads and small towns en route to reconnecting with his long lost brother.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, bleak, suspense, art house, mind bending, dark, avant garde, weird
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Clean Slate (1994)
Plot Summary:
Pogue is a private eye with a problem: every morning when he wakes up, he has total amnesia, waking up with a 'blank slate'. Since he is in the middle of a hot investigation and has a developing romance, this is less than convenient.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, melancholic, witty, talky, semi serious, detective, independent film, psychological, funny
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Treasure Hunt (2003)
Plot Summary:
A tropical island is the setting for television's hottest new reality show, "Treasure Hunt," where 10 sexy contestants are competing for $10 million in hidden cash. Their celebration of fun, sun and seduction turns to panic when the contestants start having mysterious and deadly accidents. A killer is loose on the island... and as the body country grows, so do the television ratings!.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, disturbing, sex comedy, independent film
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Excuse Me Darling, But Lucas Loved Me (1996)
Plot Summary:
Until Lucas appeared in their lives, Dani, Carlos and Toni had a quiet life with no major concerns. They shared almost everything: the house, housework, dogs, his homosexual tendencies and debts. It was these that forced them to rent one of the bedrooms of their floor. Then came Lucas, his hair long, his charming smile, and his muscular body to completely change the life and destiny of their lovers home. Lucas is found dead but ... Who killed him? All had reasons to do so, or maybe none.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, black comedy, campy
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The Forbidden Room (2015)
Plot Summary:
A submarine crew, a feared pack of forest bandits, a famous surgeon, and a battalion of child soldiers all get more than they bargained for as they wend their way toward progressive ideas on life and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychedelic, mindfuck, philosophical, mind bending, dark, art house, avant garde, experimental, weird
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Who's Harry Crumb? (1989)
Plot Summary:
Harry Crumb is a bumbling and inept private investigator who is hired to solve the kidnapping of a young heiress which he's not expected to solve because his employer is the mastermind behind the kidnapping.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, absurd, light, detective, not serious, realistic, witty, sweet, entertaining, slapstick comedy
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A Shot in the Dark (1964)
Plot Summary:
A Shot in the Dark is the second and more successful film from the Pink Panther film series where both animated and real life sequences are mixed. A cult classic from Blake Edwards based on the play L’Idiot by Marcel Achard and Harry Kurnitz.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: detective, funny, hilarious, atmospheric, humorous, witty, sweet, slasher, educational, ironic
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The Private Eyes (1980)
Plot Summary:
Don Knotts and Tim Conway star in The Private Eyes, a 1980 comedy about two bumbling detectives solving a murder. It's an impressively incompetent affair. Every ancient joke falls with a muffled thud as Knotts and Conway ham their way through the pointless story: The lord and lady of a capacious manor are killed, and the lord's ghost seems to have returned to knock off the staff one by one. There'.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, spooky, suspenseful, not serious, surprise ending, independent film, scary, funny
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Towards Zero (2007)
Plot Summary:
Inviting the ex-wife to a family reunion when the none-too-secure new wife will be there hardly seems to be a recipe for success, and true to form, bodies have begun to stack up by the end of this cinematic update of a classic Agatha Christie tale. Luckily for the extended clan gathered at a sumptuous waterfront estate in Northern France, Inspector Martin Bataille is on hand to find out not only "who done it" but why.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, realistic
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Detective Chinatown 3 (2021)
Plot Summary:
Following the excitement of first Bangkok and then New York, a big murder case takes place in Tokyo. Chinatown master detectives Tangren (Wang Baoqiang) and Qinfeng (Liu Haoren) are invited to take up the mystery. Adding to the excitement are the other detectives on the CRIMASTER international detective list as well as the current top rank, Q. Yet another hilarious battle of wits is set to take place.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery
Country: China
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful
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The Magic Hour (2008)
Plot Summary:
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman -- an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the role, though the thespian has no idea what he's getting into.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Judge! (2014)
Plot Summary:
A major advertising festival is held each year to determine the best television commercial in the world. A rookie ad man at a big advertising company named Otan is selected as a judge on the festival jury. Meanwhile, a coworker also named Ota (although the Japanese characters are slightly different) poses as his wife so that he can attend an open party which is held nightly. Knowing that he’ll get fired if his company doesn’t win the Grand Prix, he’s forced to resort to a variety of desperate tactics.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor's wife suddenly drops dead.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, dark comedy, clever, feel good, humorous, witty, detective, mind bending, entertaining, ironic
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Symbol (2009)
Plot Summary:
A Japanese man wakes up alone in a brightly illuminated white room with no windows or doors. When he presses a mysteriously phallic protuberance that appears on one wall, a pink toothbrush materializes from nowhere, clattering to the floor and setting in motion a genuinely bizarre chain of events. Soon the imprisoned man is engaged in absurd and hilarious attempts to escape the gleaming room, releasing random objects from the walls, creating a life sized mouse trap game in which a rope, a toilet plunger and an earthenware jug full of sushi might just be the keys to his escape. Meanwhile, in a dusty town, a green masked Mexican wrestler known as Escargot Man prepares for an important match.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surreal, not serious, mind bending, deep, mindfuck, philosophical, psychedelic, absurd, disturbing, art house