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Plot Summary:
A hit man from the Midwest moves to Los Angeles and gets caught up in the city's theatre arts scene.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 117000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: tense, sitcom, dark comedy, funny, captivating, suspense, ironic, atmospheric, thought provoking, humorous
Best tv shows and movies like Barry (2018):
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Mad Dogs (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a group of underachieving 40-something friends gather in Belize to celebrate the early retirement of an old friend, a series of wild, comedic events unfold, exposing dark secrets and a web of lies, deception and murder.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, exciting, light, humorous, dark comedy, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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Dead to Me (2019)
Plot Summary:
A hotheaded widow searching for the hit-and-run driver who mowed down her husband befriends an eccentric optimist who isn't quite what she seems.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 97000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, semi serious, atmospheric, feel good, dramatic, dark comedy, tragicomedy, emotional, witty
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The Blacklist: Redemption (2017)
Plot Summary:
Covert operative Tom Keen joins forces with Susan "Scottie" Hargrave, the brilliant and cunning chief of a covert mercenary organization that solves problems that are too dangerous for the government.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, rough, suspense, cliffhanger, interesting
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Jean-Claude Van Johnson (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Claude Van Damme is a global martial arts & film sensation, also operating under the simple alias of "Johnson" as the world's best undercover private contractor. Retired for years, a chance encounter with a lost love brings him back to the game. This time, he'll be deadlier than ever. Probably.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, captivating, entertaining, ironic, tense, suspense, intense, sitcom, anime
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The Other Two (2019)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring actor and his sister Brooke, a former professional dancer, try to find their place in the world while wrestling with their feelings about their 13-year-old brother Chase's sudden rise to internet fame.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, sitcom, light, sincere, sweet, queer cinema, situational comedy
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Backstrom (2015)
Plot Summary:
Detective Lieutenant Everett Backstrom is a man with no filter. After a five-year exile to the traffic division for offensive behavior, he has returned from disgrace to lead Portland's newly minted S.C.U. Tasked with navigating the city's most sensitive and serious cases, he must solve each crime as he tries, and fails, to change his own self-destructive behavior. Based on renowned Swedish criminologist and novelist Leif G.W. Persson’s hit series of books of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: cynical, realistic, detective, humorous, captivating, psychological, tense, cult classic, serious, suspenseful
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Little Fish, Strange Pond (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Jack and Sweet Stephen cruise aimlessly through the streets of LA speculating about life, death, divine will and the force of power that predetermines their existence. Mr. Jack attempts to illustrate to his sidekick the delicate and natural forces of the universe. Sweet Stephen's superficial charm and bloodsucking lifestyle sends him and Mr. Jack on a voyage that is relentless, engaging, and darkly hilarious.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: talky, humorous, semi serious, dark, offbeat, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Angie Tribeca (2016)
Plot Summary:
Lone-wolf detective Angie Tribeca and a squad of committed LAPD detectives investigate the most serious cases, from the murder of a ventriloquist to a rash of baker suicides.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: parody, sitcom, not serious, humorous, realistic, funny, spoof, tense, captivating, detective
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Prizzi's Honor (1985)
Plot Summary:
A professional hit man and hit woman fall in love, only to discover that they have each been hired to kill the other.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, neo noir, clever, humorous, cynical, funny, epic, cult classic, atmospheric
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Two Weeks to Live (2020)
Plot Summary:
When strange young misfit Kim Noakes was just a little girl, her father died in murky circumstances and her mother Tina whisked her away to a remote rural life of seclusion and bizarre survival techniques. Now all grown up, Kim sets out into the real world for the first time to begin a secret mission of honouring her father’s memory.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: ironic, suspense, exciting, tense, captivating, suspenseful, funny, humorous, sitcom, dark comedy
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Training Day (2017)
Plot Summary:
Fifteen years after the events of the feature film, Kyle Craig is assigned to go undercover in an elite squad of the LAPD as Detective Frank Rourke’s trainee to spy on him and report on his off-book methods. As Frank starts teaching his principled trainee the way of the streets, they form an uneasy alliance that will change the course of both their lives irrevocably.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: psychological, exciting, tense, suspenseful, detective
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Documentary Now! (2015)
Plot Summary:
Loving parodies of some of the world's best-known documentaries. Each episode is shot in a different style of documentary filmmaking, and honors some of the most important stories that didn't actually happen.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, parody, spoof, humorous, satirical, funny, light, captivating, entertaining, anthology
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Reprisal (2019)
Plot Summary:
A hyper-noir story that follows a relentless femme fatale who, after being left for dead, sets out to take revenge against her brother and his bombastic gang of gear-heads.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 51 min
Plot tags: neo noir, tense, bloody, captivating, disturbing, exciting, anime
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Mad Dogs (2011)
Plot Summary:
Mad Dogs is a British black comedy and psychological thriller television series created by Cris Cole that began airing on Sky1 on 10 February 2011. It is produced by Left Bank Pictures, and co-produced by Palma Pictures. The series stars John Simm, Marc Warren, Max Beesley, and Philip Glenister as four long-time and middle-aged friends getting together in a villa in Majorca to celebrate the early retirement of their friend Alvo. However, after Alvo is murdered, the group find themselves caught up in the world of crime and police corruption. The series was initially a story about a rock band, but changed after a feeling that bands have been "done to death". After gaining interest from some terrestrial networks, the series was commissioned by British Sky Broadcasting. Filming took place on location throughout the island of Majorca in May 2010, and took around four million euros and 44 days to make. The main themes are friendship and growing older; Glenister said it is about ageing and "getting closer to death". Photographer David LaChapelle directed three 30-second advertisements for the series. Mad Dogs opened with 1.61 million viewers, the 17th highest rated programme ever for Sky1, and attracted positive reactions from critics. They noted similarities with British gangster films, more predominantly the 2000 film Sexy Beast.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, tense, suspenseful, surreal, psychological thriller, dark, social, dark comedy, clever, serious
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Claws (2017)
Plot Summary:
Follow the life and crimes of five diverse and treacherous manicurists working at the Nail Artisan of Manatee County salon, where there is a lot more going on than silk wraps and pedicures.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: tense, brutal, humorous, grindhouse, dark comedy, idiotic
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Sr. Ávila (2013)
Plot Summary:
A family man experiences the tremendous burden of leading a double life as a professional hitman.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, exciting, captivating, tense, suspense, rough, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, interesting
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Graceland (2013)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere in Southern California, in a drug raid run by the US government, a beachfront property was seized and turned into a residence for undercover cops. They are all top agents of the DEA, FBI, and Customs and they are living in this house unofficially known as "Graceland". "Graceland" is a place full of secrets, and bad, good, and blurred moments too. The only idyllic thing is its outside look, but the lives of its residents are nothing like it. The lies which are in the base of their undercover work, are formed a web of lies that pervades everything. Coming of a new graduating at the top of his class, FBI rookie, Mike Warren, could make the life of a legendary FBI agent Paul Briggs and the others, more complicated or it could reveal the truth. It is based upon actual events.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, tense, captivating, interesting
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Good Girls (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three "good girl" suburban wives and mothers suddenly find themselves in desperate circumstances and decide to stop playing it safe and risk everything to take their power back.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 59000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: funny, ironic, feel good, captivating, humorous, tense, entertaining, intellectual, sitcom, interactive
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Mr Inbetween (2018)
Plot Summary:
Ray Shoesmith is a father, ex-husband, boyfriend and best friend: tough roles to juggle in the modern age. Even harder when you’re a criminal for hire.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspenseful, funny, anime, dark comedy, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Vincenzo (2021)
Plot Summary:
Vincenzo Cassano is an Italian lawyer and Mafia consigliere who moves back to Korea due to a conflict within his organization. He ends up crossing paths with a sharp-tongued lawyer named Cha-young, and the two join forces in using villainous methods to take down villains who cannot be punished by the law.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: romantic, dorama, anime, captivating, dark comedy, black comedy, political, suspense, action thriller, bilingual
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Lethal Weapon (2016)
Plot Summary:
A slightly unhinged former Navy SEAL lands a job as a police officer in Los Angeles where he's partnered with a veteran detective trying to keep maintain a low stress level in his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, detective, suspense, atmospheric, intellectual, suspenseful, funny, neo noir, relaxing
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Why Women Kill (2019)
Plot Summary:
Three women living in three different decades: a housewife in the '60s, a socialite in the '80s and a lawyer in 2018, deal with infidelity in their marriages.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 984 min
Plot tags: captivating, witty, atmospheric, erotic, humorous, dark comedy, entertaining, light, funny, anthology
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Succession (2018)
Plot Summary:
The lives of the Roy family as they contemplate their future once their aging father begins to step back from the media and entertainment conglomerate they control.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 248000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: emotional, captivating, inspirational, disturbing, tense, stylized, dark, dramatic, deep, tragicomedy
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Reacher (2022)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 158000
Genere: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, exciting, intellectual, dark, detective, anime, perverse
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HAPPY! (2017)
Plot Summary:
Nick Sax, an intoxicated, corrupt ex-cop turned hit man, floats adrift in a world of casual murder, soulless sex and betrayal. After a hit gone wrong, his inebriated life is forever changed by a tiny, relentlessly positive, imaginary blue winged horse named “Happy”.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, captivating, funny, dark comedy, cliffhanger, spiritual, entertaining, witty, detective
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Weeds (2005)
Plot Summary:
Weeds is an American dark comedy-drama series created by Jenji Kohan. The central character is Nancy Botwin, a widowed mother of two boys who begins selling cannabis to support her family after her husband dies suddenly of a heart attack. Over the course of the show, she and her family become increasingly entangled in illegal activities.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, sitcom, witty, realistic, cynical, erotic, funny, offbeat, explicit
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Fargo (2014)
Plot Summary:
A close-knit anthology series dealing with stories involving malice, violence and murder based in and around Minnesota.
IMDB Rating: 8.9
IMDB Votes: 398000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, neo noir, dark comedy, captivating, clever, detective, anthology, witty, offbeat, suspenseful
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Godfather of Harlem (2019)
Plot Summary:
Loosely based on infamous crime boss Bumpy Johnson, who in the early 1960s returned from ten years in prison to find the neighborhood he once ruled in shambles. With the streets controlled by the Italian mob, Bumpy attempts to regain his piece of Harlem.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: tense, suspenseful, captivating, suspense, disturbing, exciting, inspirational, anime, crime thriller
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Better Call Saul (2015)
Plot Summary:
Six years before Saul Goodman meets Walter White. We meet him when the man who will become Saul Goodman is known as Jimmy McGill, a small-time lawyer searching for his destiny, and, more immediately, hustling to make ends meet. Working alongside, and, often, against Jimmy, is “fixer” Mike Erhmantraut. The series will track Jimmy's transformation into Saul Goodman, the man who puts “criminal” in “criminal lawyer".
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 620000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 3154 min
Plot tags: witty, stylized, tense, realistic, captivating, psychological, crime drama, dark comedy, neo noir, semi serious
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Power (2014)
Plot Summary:
James “Ghost” St. Patrick has it all: a beautiful wife, a gorgeous Manhattan penthouse, and the hottest, up-and-coming new nightclub in New York. His club, Truth, caters to the elite: the famous and infamous boldface names that run the city that never sleeps. As its success grows, so do Ghost’s plans to build an empire. However, Truth hides an ugly reality. It’s a front for Ghost’s criminal underworld; a lucrative drug network, serving only the wealthy and powerful. As Ghost is seduced by the prospect of a legitimate life, everything precious to him becomes unknowingly threatened. Once you're in, can you ever get out?.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: tense, serious, realistic, captivating, erotic, entertaining, anime, crime drama, sensual, independent film