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Plot Summary:
Struggling to support herself and teenage daughter, widow Yeon-ju rents out the second floor of her home to Chang-In, who claims to be a novelist working on a new book. The neighbors suspect Chang-In's true identity, as he spends an inordinate time in Yeon-ju's quarters whenever he's left home alone. A battle of wits, charm and various tensions ensue with the trio living under one roof, each harboring their own elaborate motives.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: suspense
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Men of Plastic (2022)
Plot Summary:
Dae-guk, a nosy man from Apgujeong, and Ji-woo, a cold but skillful plastic surgeon, open a plastic surgery business in Gangnam. Dae-guk is an unemployed man who likes to pry into other people’s businesses.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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It's Just a Phase, Honeybunny (2021)
Plot Summary:
The successful writer Paul and the sought-after voice actress Emilia were always considered to be the absolute dream couple by friends: Harmonious, happy, successful, with three charming children named Bo, Marie and Fe. But now, in their late 40s, their relationship is threatened by a crisis.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Change Me (2007)
Plot Summary:
A story about an ordinary man searching for the fulfillment of dreams and emotions. Well-known Belgrade dentist lives in long and happy marriage. As a fulfilled and happy man, he despises all his friends who are struggling with the "backward puberty syndrome" - as he called sensitive age where men are desperate to stay young. But he has no idea that he will be hit by the "mid-life crisis" and suddenly "strike" love, which, he thought, become immune. In order to overcome the emotional and erotic temptation, it seems everything to be changed, in the true sense of the word.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Comedy
Country: Serbia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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I Hate the Man in My Basement (2020)
Plot Summary:
After his wife's death, Claude struggles to appear normal while living with a Secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: suspense, psychological, serious, emotional
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China Town (1962)
Plot Summary:
A Darjeeling-based singer is asked to impersonate and take over the life of a Calcutta-based China Town gangster.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 151 min
Plot tags:
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Watch Out for the Automobile (1966)
Plot Summary:
An insurance agent who moonlights as a carthief steals cars various crooks and never from the common people. He sells the stolen cars and gives the money to charity. His best friend, a cop, is assigned to bring in this modern robin hood.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: tense, sincere, captivating, suspense
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Tazza: The High Rollers (2006)
Plot Summary:
A guy with a talent for cards makes his way into the dangerous world of underground gambling in this crime thriller from South Korea. Go-ni (Jo Seung-woo) is a small-town guy with a big appetite for gambling. Convinced he's on a hot streak one evening during a card game, Go-ni bets his life savings on a hand of hwatu, only to lose to a crooked cardsharp. Determined to get revenge, Go-ni sets out to find the guy who cheated him and win back his money.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 139 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir
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The Beast And The Beauty (2005)
Plot Summary:
An unattractive guy and a beautiful blind girl are in love. But their relationship is turned upside down when she regains her eyesight and he doesn't want to show her his face.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, romantic comedy
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Marrying the Mafia 2: Enemy-in-Law (2005)
Plot Summary:
The oldest son of the White Tiger Gang is pressured by his family to settle down and get married; but when he finds the perfect girl, she turns out to be a state prosecutor for crimes of violence, specifically gangster related. The district attorney is a look-a-like of the gangster's former fiancee who died getting hit by a truck. Their feelings develop for each other but her co-worker turns out to like her as well. She does not like him so the latter turns to the darker side of the law, by conspiring with the rival Axe Gang. Unfortunately for him, the mafia son has more that a few tricks up his sleeve and gets support from his dim-witted brothers and henchman.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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My Mom's New Boyfriend (2008)
Plot Summary:
Henry Durand is a young federal agent who is given a difficult assignment: spy on his mother and her boyfriend who is suspected of leading a gang of art thieves.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, hilarious
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Muggers (2000)
Plot Summary:
When two medical students find themselves dangerously indebted to a sadistic loan shark, they become embroiled in an illicit black-market organ transplant scam in order to save their lives. 'Muggers' is a twisted, hilarious, pitch-black comedy about friendship, poor choices and the drag of student debt.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, absurd, independent film, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy
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Arlette (1997)
Plot Summary:
An actor owes big bucks to the Vegas mob. He's all set to pay them off; he's conned a rich widow into marrying him. But the mobsters blow his cover because they need him for a different scam. The lost heiress to a Vegas casino fortune has been found; she's a truckstop waitress in France. The mobsters' proposition: romance the broad, and get hitched. Or else. Then the crooks can bump her off and keep the casino for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, romantic, semi serious, captivating, sincere, touching, clever, realistic, stylized
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My Scary Girl (2006)
Plot Summary:
A man with no experience in the art of relationships, is encouraged by his friend to ask Lee Mina out on a date. Unexpectedly successful, he falls in love. When Lee Mina's ex-boyfriend shows up and ruins the new relationship, she takes matters into her own hands. A distraught Dae-Woo begins investigating Lee Mina's murky past and discovers a series of scary secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, humorous, realistic, touching, exciting, captivating, melancholic, dark comedy, fairy tale, crying
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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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Living It Up (2000)
Plot Summary:
Lola, a Mexican waitress working in Madrid, befriends a 30-year-old suicidal man who has borrowed $1,000,000 to spend on his last day on Earth, knowing he will be killed anyway if he fails to return the money. After meeting Lola, however, he decides that life might be worth living after all.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Killing Is My Business, Honey (2009)
Plot Summary:
A hit man whose mission is to prevent the printing of a tell-all book written by a former Mafioso, falls in love with the employee who may lose her job if the book doesn't get published.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, tense, suspenseful, exciting, captivating, suspense, semi serious
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The Opportunists (1999)
Plot Summary:
Vic is a struggling auto mechanic with a safe-cracking past and a lot of debt. His girlfriend runs a bar and offers to loan him the money she's saved for remodeling, but Vic is reluctant to take it. When a long-lost cousin from Ireland shows up on his doorstep, the two team up for one last heist.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: talky, independent film, suspense, humorous, semi serious, realistic, emotional, road movie, noir, thought provoking
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Looop Lapeta (2022)
Plot Summary:
When her boyfriend loses a mobster's cash, Savi races against the clock to save the day — if only she can break out of a curious cycle of dead ends.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, romantic
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Marrying the Mafia (2002)
Plot Summary:
The film is a gangster comedy about a businessman who becomes involved with the gangster underworld through the daughter of a crime boss.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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The Godfather: Part V (2010)
Plot Summary:
Young-goo the son of mafia boss Don Carini, is too foolish to be part of the mafia elite. One day, Young-goo comes to his father and is trained by Tony V to be his father's successor. A few days later, Young-goo accidentally rescues Nancy, the only daughter of Don Bonfante, the boss of a rival mafia family. But Vinnie, an under-boss of the Bonfante family kidnapped her and fabricates that Young-goo has taken her. Vinnie's behavior provokes an armed conflict between the two families.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: South Korea, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, entertaining, slapstick
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Public Enemy Returns (2008)
Plot Summary:
Kang Chul-jung has been a detective fighting crime for 15 years and is at it again against a mob boss who recruits young kids to do his dirty work.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspense, disturbing, crime drama, detective
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Johnny Stecchino (1991)
Plot Summary:
Good hearted but not very wordly-wise, Dante is happy driving the school bus for a group of mentally handicapped children, while feeling he is somehow missing out on life and love. So he is very excited when after nearly being knocked down by her car he meets Maria, who seems immediately enamoured of him. He is soon invited to her sumptuous Palermo villa, little suspecting that this is part of a plot. He bears an amazing likeness to Maria's stool-pigeon gangster husband and it would be convenient for them if the mobster, in the shape of Dante, was seen to be dead and buried.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, surprise ending
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Legal Eagles (1986)
Plot Summary:
District Attorney Tom Logan is set for higher office, at least until he becomes involved with defence lawyer Laura Kelly and her unpredictable client Chelsea Deardon. It seems the least of Chelsea's crimes is the theft of a very valuable painting, but as the women persuade Logan to investigate further and to cut some official corners, a much more sinister scenario starts to emerge.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: entertaining, melancholic, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, clever, exciting, detective, sweet
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Gigli (2003)
Plot Summary:
Gigli is ordered to kidnap the psychologically challenged younger brother of a powerful federal prosecutor. When plans go awry, Gigli's boss sends in Ricki, a gorgeous free-spirited female gangster who has her own set of orders to assist with the kidnapping. But Gigli begins falling for the decidedly unavailable Ricki, which could be a hazard to his occupation.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 50000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, humorous, suspense, melancholic, semi serious, hilarious, entertaining, light, controversial
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Married to the Mob (1988)
Plot Summary:
Angela de Marco is fed up with her gangster husband's line of work and wants no part of the crime world. When her husband is killed for having an affair with the mistress of mob boss Tony "The Tiger" Russo, Angela and her son depart for New York City to make a fresh start. Unfortunately, Tony has set his sights upon Angela -- and so has an undercover FBI agent looking to use her to bust Tony.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, feel good, witty, realistic, talky, semi serious, cult classic, clever
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Two If by Sea (1996)
Plot Summary:
Frank O'Brien, a petty thief, and his 7-year-long girlfriend Roz want to put an end to their unsteady lifestyle and just do that last job, which involves stealing a valuable painting. Frank takes Roz to an island on the coast of New England, where he wants to sell the painting and also hopes that their sagging relationship will get a positive push back up. Not everything goes as planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, romantic, road movie, suspense, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, funny, sexy
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Black Cat, White Cat (1998)
Plot Summary:
Matko is a small time hustler, living by the Danube with his 17 year old son Zare. After a failed business deal he owes money to the much more successful gangster Dadan. Dadan has a sister, Afrodita, that he desperately wants to see get married so they strike a deal: Zare is to marry her.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: France, Germany, Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Austria, Greece
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: surreal, art house, funny, dark comedy, witty, offbeat, sincere, mind bending, psychedelic, social
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Bombay to Bangkok (2008)
Plot Summary:
Bombay to Bangkok is a Bollywood film starring Shreyas Talpade and Lena Christensen in the lead roles. It is written and directed by Nagesh Kukunoor and produced by Elahe Hiptoola and Rahul Puri. Shankar (Shreyas Talpade), a petty thief, in desperate need of money, steals from the local don (Naseeruddin Shah) and escapes his way into a team of doctors heading for relief work to Bangkok. Unfortunately, he loses the all-important money bag in the chaos. In Bangkok, his world turns upside down at a massage parlour where he bumps into Jasmine (Lena Christensen). The hitch is, she is all Thai and he can't converse with her at all. A ray of hope comes his way the next day when Jasmine turns up desperately in need of a doctor. Shankar, posing as a doctor along with the Sardar buddy Rachinder, jumps into this whirlpool, while Jasmine soon gets pulled into his bumbling adventures while running away from the don and his son (Vijay Maurya).
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sexy, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, exciting, captivating
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A Good Day to Have an Affair (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two married women start to have an affair with men they met online. However, one of them gets caught, and the other feels disappointed at the man.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, disturbing
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How to Steal a Million (1966)
Plot Summary:
A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, witty, clever, light, exciting, entertaining, cute, talky, funny