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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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It's Only Money (1962)
Plot Summary:
Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery involving a missing heir in a rich family. He begins to notice little things, like how much those family portraits look like him. Surely..no..he can't be...can he ?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: esoteric, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, detective
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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
Similar in 80%
The Experts (1989)
Plot Summary:
Travis and Wendell are two down-on-their-luck New Yorkers who think they're relocating to a small town in Nebraska to open a nightclub. What they don't know is they have actually been abducted by a KGB operative and flown to the Soviet Union, where they'll unwittingly serve as "experts" on all things cool in America. The town, created expressly for KGB spies-in-training is meant to serve as a training ground for Soviet agents. What can these two hapless Americans possibly teach the Soviet spies and will they ever learn they are not actually in Nebraska?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, satirical, humorous, exciting, realistic, semi serious, parody, funny, feel good
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The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe (1972)
Plot Summary:
Hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, not serious, exciting, funny, atmospheric, slasher, manga, anthology
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This Girl for Hire (1983)
Plot Summary:
In this pilot for a proposed TV series, B.T. Brady is a flippant, but somewhat klutzy female private detective in Hollywood who sets out to solve the murder of a obnoxious mystery writer. Along the way, Brady gets help from her flamboyant mother Zandra, a washed-up actress, as well as Brady's live-in boyfriend Wolfe who runs a memorabilia shop.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, cynical, semi serious, slapstick, spoof, parody, eighties
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Pure Luck (1991)
Plot Summary:
The daughter of a wealthy businessman has disappeared in Mexico, and all the efforts to find her have been unsuccessful. A psychologist, knowing that the girl has an ultra bad luck, persuades her father to send to Mexico one of his employees, an accountant with super bad luck, to find her. Perhaps he will be lucky, and his bad luck could help to find the unlucky girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, uplifting, feel good, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, unusual plot structure, suspense, melancholic
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Charlie Chan and the Curse of the Dragon Queen (1981)
Plot Summary:
Famous detective Charlie Chan is called out of retirement to help a San Francisco detective solve a mysterious series of murders. With his bumbling grandson as his sidekick, Chan also encounters an old nemesis known as the Dragon Queen who is the prime suspect.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, fast, psychotronic
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Inspector Clouseau (1968)
Plot Summary:
Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the government recover the loot from the Great Train Robbery, which is being used to underwrite a new crime wave. What they don't count on, however, is having more than one Clouseau on the job.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, fast, detective, slapstick comedy, slapstick, detective series
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Curse of the Pink Panther (1983)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: detective, hilarious, colorful, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, fast
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Revenge of the Pink Panther (1978)
Plot Summary:
Chief Inspector Jacques Clouseau is dead. At least that is what the world (and Charles Dreyfus) believe when a dead body is discovered in Clouseau's car after being shot off the road. Naturally, Clouseau knows differently, and taking advantage of not being alive, sets out to discover why an attempt was made on his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, hilarious, humorous, slapstick, colorful, exciting, realistic, not serious, detective, slapstick comedy
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The Return of the Pink Panther (1975)
Plot Summary:
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources – himself and his Asian manservant – to reveal the identity of 'The Phantom'.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: hilarious, detective, slapstick, humorous, witty, parody, atmospheric, non fiction, black and white, colorful
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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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Once Upon a Crime... (1992)
Plot Summary:
On their way to Monte Carlo, Monaco, Marilyn and her husband, Neil, meet several other married couples, including Julian and Phoebe, who are traveling with a lost dog they plan to return to its wealthy owner for a large reward. But, when the dog's mistress is murdered, the travelers become the prime suspects, and Inspector Bonnard is determined to track them all down.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: black comedy, slapstick, dark comedy, independent film, detective, humorous, realistic, not serious, hilarious, nostalgic
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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
Similar in 89%
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
Similar in 79%
Mystery Team (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of former Encyclopedia Brown-style child-detectives struggle to solve an adult mystery.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, independent film, light, feel good, detective, spoof, offbeat, realistic
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Fletch (1985)
Plot Summary:
A veritable chameleon, investigative reporter Irwin "Fletch" Fletcher might drive his editor up the wall, but he always produces great pieces for the newspaper. When his next story is about the drug trade taking place on the beach, Fletch goes undercover as a homeless man. Unaware of Fletch's true identity, businessman Alan Stanwyk offers Fletch $50,000 to kill him. Intrigued, Fletch decides to unearth the full story behind the offer.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, talky, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, detective, hilarious, suspenseful
Similar in 88%
Brewster's Millions (1985)
Plot Summary:
Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, entertaining, humorous, sweet, black comedy, light hearted, colorful, realistic
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Hexed (1993)
Plot Summary:
Lowly hotel clerk Matthew Welch stumbles unto a chance to go on a date with supermodel Hexina by pretending he is someone else. But something goes wrong on the date, she tries to kill him! Soon she kills a couple more people, and unfortunately all the evidence points to Matthew. Gloria, who has been wishing Matthew would ask her on a date, thinks he is innocent and is willing to help, but hardnosed Detective Ferguson is hot on the clues, and closing in on Matthew.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, realistic, detective, not serious, tense, suspense, disturbing, sex comedy, christian film
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Plot Summary:
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man . . . or beast!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 319000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, absurd, humorous, funny, detective, entertaining, slapstick, hilarious, parody, talky
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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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Without a Clue (1988)
Plot Summary:
Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. When Reginald Kincaid, the actor he has hired to play Holmes becomes insufferable, Watson fires him and tries to go out on his own, but finds that he has done too good a job building Holmes up in the public's mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, hilarious, light, entertaining, detective, spoof, witty, satirical, romantic comedy
Similar in 79%
Armed and Dangerous (1986)
Plot Summary:
Dooley, a cop wrongly sacked for corruption, teams up with a useless defence lawyer in their new careers... as security guards. When the two are made fall guys for a robbery at a location they are guarding, the pair begin to investigate corruption within the company and their union. They soon make enemies of everyone, but can the unlikely duo save the day?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, not serious, exciting, parody, witty, buddy comedy, light, action comedy, realistic
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Dragnet (1987)
Plot Summary:
LAPD Sgt. Joe Friday -- the equally straight-laced nephew of the famous police sergeant of the same name -- is paired up with a young, freewheeling detective named Pep Streebeck. After investigating some strange robberies at the local zoo and the theft of a stockpile of pornographic magazines, they uncover cult activity in the heart of the city and are hot on the case to figure out who's behind it all.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, satirical, absurd, detective, cult classic, psychotronic, spoof, epic, action comedy
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Summer Rental (1985)
Plot Summary:
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to regain his pride and family's respect.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, funny, light, road movie, intense, scenic, colorful, realistic, semi serious
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Super Troopers (2001)
Plot Summary:
Five bored, occasionally high and always ineffective Vermont state troopers must prove their worth to the governor or lose their jobs. After stumbling on a drug ring, they plan to make a bust, but a rival police force is out to steal the glory.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, witty, talky, not serious, parody, slapstick, cult classic, hilarious
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Dude, Where's My Car? (2000)
Plot Summary:
Jesse and Chester, two bumbling stoners, wake up one morning from a night of partying and cannot remember where they parked their car. They encounter a variety of people while looking for it, including their angry girlfriends, an angry street gang, a transexual stripper, a cult of alien seeking fanatics, and aliens in human form looking for a mystical device that could save or destroy the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 144000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: not serious, parody, funny, humorous, slapstick, hilarious, teen, sex comedy, light, spoof
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Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
Plot Summary:
A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 235000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: neo noir, funny, black comedy, dark comedy, detective, humorous, sexy, suspense, entertaining, absurd
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Uncle Buck (1989)
Plot Summary:
As an idle, good-natured bachelor, Uncle Buck is the last person you would think of to watch the kids. However, during a family crisis, he is suddenly left in charge of his nephew and nieces. Unaccustomed to suburban life, fun-loving Uncle Buck soon charms his younger relatives Miles and Maizy with his hefty cooking and his new way of doing the laundry. His carefree style does not impress everyone though - especially his rebellious teenage niece, Tia, and his impatient girlfriend, Chanice. With a little bit of luck and a lot of love, Uncle Buck manages to surprise everyone in this heartwarming family comedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, entertaining, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, hilarious, sweet
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Dumb and Dumber (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lloyd and Harry are two men whose stupidity is really indescribable. When Mary, a beautiful woman, loses an important suitcase with money before she leaves for Aspen, the two friends (who have found the suitcase) decide to return it to her. After some "adventures" they finally get to Aspen where, using the lost money they live it up and fight for Mary's heart.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 405000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, absurd, funny, road movie, slapstick, hilarious, parody, cult classic, offbeat, feel good