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Plot Summary:
Kandemir is the head of a gang which conducts robberies. Their main goal is to rob fairly. What connects the members of the gang to one another is friendship. Unfortunately, everything changes after an old friend of Kandemir, Ali Rıza Kaptan’s goes to prison. Kandemir and the gang settle into an old neighborhood which seems quiet and peaceful. However, nothing is as how it seems in the neighborhood. They introduce themselves to their neighbors as the Nevizade family. Protagonists Kandemir, Ferdi, Karlos, Yaren, Bahadır and Derya have had hard times and when they gather under one roof these gang members still carry the traces of those hard times. Kandemir wishes to confront his daughter and show her that he is no longer a man of monkey business, while blood brothers Ferdi and Karlos who ran away from an orphanage still carry the misery of the streets; Yaren who came to İstanbul with the hope of being a famous singer is singing in taverns; Bahadır uses his genius for hacking computers and Derya joins the gang with her acting skills in order to save her father.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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On the Border (2018)
Plot Summary:
Petra, a young, just graduated economist returns to her native village Lokvica to take part in illegal business of smothering tobacco and other goods over the border with Bosnia and Herzegovina, led by her grandmother Zorka.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Croatia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, slapstick, telenovela
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E=mc2 (2002)
Plot Summary:
The film tells about mainly three people - Max, a bored, smart, poor University Professor of Philosophy; Ramzes, a mafia leader, cool, strong, merciless bully and Stella, Ramzes girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Yamegoku - I Will Quit Yakuza (2015)
Plot Summary:
Bakushu is an adviser in the "Clean Break Helpline" - a special unit in the Organized Crime Department at Tokyo Metropolitan Police which helps those who want to make a clean break from a gang group. Although she treats gang member clients like "scum", she goes far beyond her responsibility to help them quit the organization by getting a written agreement from the gang boss and finding jobs for them afterwards. Also, her colleague and a former detective at the Organized Crime Department, Mikajima Kakeru doesn't get along with Bakushu. One day, "Clean Break Helpline" receives a call from a client. He is the leader of a gang group under the umbrella of a designated organized crime group "Kanto Kifune Gumi", and claims that he already made an apology to the boss of Kanto Kifune Gumi, Tachibana Isao. The client says that his group has got in trouble because of Bakushu.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, semi serious
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A Bad Idea Gone Wrong (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two would-be thieves forge a surprising relationship with an unexpected housesitter when they accidentally trap themselves in a house they just broke into.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, interesting
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The Invisibles (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Chongqing Hot Pot (2016)
Plot Summary:
When three friends open a hot pot restaurant in a former bomb shelter, they discover it’s linked by a single wall to the bank vault next door. While deciding to take the easy money or go to the police, they find out one of the bank’s employees is a former classmate and look to enlist her in deciding their future.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: China
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, neo screwball comedy
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Reservation Dogs (2021)
Plot Summary:
This comedy follows the exploits of four Indigenous teenagers in rural Oklahoma who steal, rob and save in order to get to the exotic, mysterious and faraway land of California.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, funny, anime, teen comedy
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The Legend of Al, John and Jack (2002)
Plot Summary:
New York 1959. I tre gangster Al, John e Jack hanno il compito di uccidere Frankie per conto del boss. Sbagliano bersaglio e il boss da a loro un'altra possibilità: tenere d'occhio una persona a lui cara. Ma la fortuna non è dalla loro parte.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, surprise ending
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The Confidence Man JP – Episode of the Princess – (2020)
Plot Summary:
Set in Langkawi, Malaysia, professional scammers Dako (Masami Nagasawa), Boku-chan (Masahiro Higashide), and Richard (Fumiyo Kohinata) target the Fuu Family for their next heist. Raymond Fuu, who was the head of the Fuu Family, passed away and he left behind 10 trillion yen. Dako, Boku-chan and Richard scheme to gain the inordinate inheritance. --asianwiki.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Thieves (2015)
Plot Summary:
Alejandro Toledo comes out of his retirement from crime to help a community reclaim land stolen from them by a beautiful but ruthless businesswoman and her clan.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Dominican Republic
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Unremarkable Juanquini (2020)
Plot Summary:
An inept magician pulls off the trick of his life: accidentally disappearing a wanted criminal during a police raid. Now he's going to pay for that.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Comedy
Country: Colombia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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New Kids (2007)
Plot Summary:
A show about a group of friends, who, due to their anti-social tendencies, terrorize the population of Maaskantje, Brabant, the Netherlands.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 3 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Nice Package (2016)
Plot Summary:
A wannabe professional thief has an epic fail when he's caught stealing a package and forced to take a young woman as hostage back to his gay friend's house where, despite pressure from his deranged, yoga-loving boss, he can't dispense with her and instead the three face a bunch of quirky thugs sent by the boss who will do anything to get his hands on the mysterious package.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Reckless (2018)
Plot Summary:
A broke mechanic turns a bank loan denial into an impromptu robbery that puts him on the run with his best friend and a starlet they hold hostage.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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The Confidence Man JP - The Movie - (2019)
Plot Summary:
In Hong Kong, Dako, Boku-chan and Richard take a huge amount of money from people who are greedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Japan
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: light, semi serious, atmospheric, captivating, feel good, humorous, entertaining, satirical, sitcom, funny
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Federal Bank Heist (2011)
Plot Summary:
"The Baron" wanted to commit the perfect heist involving 3 tons of money and no violence. For this he would need the right people willing to get 1 million dollars to take part in this job. Based on true events, in 2005, 168,000,000 Brazilian Real (almost 80,000,000 US dollars) were stolen from a Brazilian Central Bank (Federal Reserve), making it the biggest peace-time robbery in history. It was perhaps the most audacious bank heist ever.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Brazil
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating
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Two Thumbs Up (2015)
Plot Summary:
A criminal fresh out of prison who seeks out his former partners in crime for another heist. And they make a very elaborate plan to carry out the criminal intent, but things turn awry when another gang of criminals hit the same target.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, crime drama
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Paint It Red (2019)
Plot Summary:
A pair of bank robbers knock off Bohemian tenants in search for their stolen loot.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Snatch (2017)
Plot Summary:
A group of up-and-coming hustlers stumble upon a truckload of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high-stakes world of organized crime.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, surprise ending
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Man On The Edge (2013)
Plot Summary:
What if your fate was changed with a blink? The double life of a gangster and a shaman starts now!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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The Great Fava Beans of China (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mohy Al-Sharqawi is a young man whose grandfather and his uncles form a smuggling gang. As Mohy is a coward who cannot go along with them, he goes to live with his mother and step-father but they send him to China to represent Egypt in a cooking competition which gets him into a lot of troubles.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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My Boss, My Hero (2001)
Plot Summary:
A series of embarrassing incidents force a mobster to go back to high school to finally graduate.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 876
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, crime drama
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What Has the Deceased Said (2000)
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Adventure, Crime, Comedy
Country: Russia, Poland, France, Germany, Denmark
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, feel good, light, humorous, captivating, detective, entertaining
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The Curse (2022)
Plot Summary:
In 1980s East London, a gang of hopeless crooks become embroiled in a major gold heist.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, satirical, semi serious
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Happily Married (2020)
Plot Summary:
Huguette and Gaétan, Serge and Micheline send their kids off for three weeks of camp. Alone with their partners, things quickly turn awkward and the façades begin to crack. Who slept with whom, who is on whose conscience? Marriage, suburbia, hell in Quebec, 1974.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, absurd, dark comedy
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Operation Merry Christmas: The Elf Con (2021)
Plot Summary:
The plan of three small-time pickpockets to pull the heist of their lives during Christmas, posing as elves in a Christmas show in one of the most exclusive shopping centers in the city where they will collect private information from some wealthy families, then rob their homes while they enjoy their December vacation.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Mexico
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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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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As If (2021)
Plot Summary:
Yılmaz and İlkkan are two friends who are constantly fighting each other. Their biggest feature is always being able to do things that will turn their ordinary lives upside down. They magnify small events incredibly and give you a nervous breakdown. They are the embodiment of the misfortunes, strange events and despair we experience every day.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, dark comedy, buddy comedy
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Next 2 (2003)
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing
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Tulskiy Tokarev (2010)
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: captivating, serious, realistic, tense, suspense, suspenseful