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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, West Germany, Italy, Sweden, Austria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
Best tv shows and movies like Big Man: Let the Buried Lie (1988):
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Magnus (2019)
Plot Summary:
Magnus - perhaps the police's worst investigator - is set to solve a murder from another world, and then we mean a completely different world.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 786
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Norway
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: surreal
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Studierektorns sista strid (1986)
Plot Summary:
Principal Bertilsson plan the perfect crime, for who would suspect a Principal?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags:
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Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1973)
Plot Summary:
There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. But it turns out his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison, his associates start dying and the attempts on his life start. Cue Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy, who has a plan to spring Frankie from jail.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, poliziottesco, funny, cult film
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We Are Angels (1997)
Plot Summary:
Italian television series.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy
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Extralarge: Jo-Jo (1991)
Plot Summary:
Burt meets Jack Costello after many years. Burt is a boxer and he is fleeing after a fixed match that he should have lost but instead he won. Then he vanishes. Costello finds in his office Burt's son, 'jo jo' Ritchie, who had came because his father had ordered him to go to him. Then Jo Jo cames back to Groggy where he lives and when the two of them are dining, two men arrive and kill Groggy. Jo Jo runs away and Extralarge sets on finding him and his father.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Germany, Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Big Man - The Diva (1988)
Plot Summary:
A former lawman has to try to save a diva from an organized-crime mob, which is out to kill her.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Extralarge: Cannonball (1991)
Plot Summary:
The famous football player Long John is killed and the police believe that John was a heroin addict and that his murder is a punishment for something he did. His mother nevertheless swears that his son hated all kinds of dope and asks Costello to find out the truth whatever the result may be. Costello accepts the appointment and during his investigations notes that Cannon Ball, the best friend of long John, is scared. Also Gonzales and doctor Shuby seem to be involved. When his car blows up Costello gets angry.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Extralarge: Moving Target (1991)
Plot Summary:
Dumas is alone in Costello's office when a girl offers him a thousand dollars to take her father, the famous scientist Klaus von Hermann, to his hotel. Dumas accepts the appointment but von Hermann is killed in front of the hotel. The scientist was working in Libya at a gas to use against ozone layers hole and he had instead dicovered a very poisonous gas. Before dieing he puts the secret formula in Costello's jacket. So Extralarge becames a moving target for everyone interested in a mass killing formula.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Germany, Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Extralarge: Black and White (1991)
Plot Summary:
Jack Costello is a private detective in Miami and he finds out he is being followed by a man. He confronts him and finds out his name is Dumas. Dumas speaks with a French accent and he says he is a cartoonist and he needs Costello's image for his cartoon, but with a different name: Extralarge. Wendy is a black petty thief and when she steals an old pocket watch from Senator Pillinger and two men begin to shoot on her she seeks refuge with Costello.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 258
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: detective
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Big Man - Boomerang (1988)
Plot Summary:
A disastrous weapon was stolen from a governmental producing facility. Jack Clementi gets called by the insurer Lloyds to investigate the crime. They hope to prevent a mass panic or even worse. While investigating Jack Clementi gets away from attempted murder and has to learn separate false stories from true ones. Time pressure and sudden fatalities increase the level of difficulty.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, West Germany, France, Austria, Norway
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Goltuppen (1991)
Plot Summary:
A criminal in relapse is once again in prison. He wants to be reintegrated in society and build a future with his girlfriend. But first he wants revenge on the person who betrayed him - the rat rooster.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 225 min
Plot tags:
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Holy Year (1976)
Plot Summary:
The last film of Jean Gabin.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Deadloch (2023)
Plot Summary:
Two vastly different female detectives are thrown together to solve the murder of a local man in the sleepy seaside hamlet of Deadloch.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective
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Revenge Office (2009)
Plot Summary:
A group of women create a organisation named "Kättemaksukontor" to fight for the rights of women and help solve murder mysterys for the police.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 318
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Estonia
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags:
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The Simple Heist (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jenny and Cecilia are two women in their 60s who live a regular middle class life in Kalmar. But when both realize that the future is anything but light for them, they decide to do something drastic, robbing a bank office in Stockholm.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 265 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious
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Crime Scene Cleaner (2011)
Plot Summary:
Heiko Schotte (Schotty) works for a cleaning company, cleaning all kind of crime scenes. There he sometimes meets weird people and tries to solve difficult situations.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, funny, offbeat, realistic, talky, slapstick
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The Knights of Prosperity (2007)
Plot Summary:
Eugene Gurkin has dreamt of opening his own bar for years, but his dead-end job as a janitor won't even fund a bottle of booze. In a serendipitous moment, he catches an episode of "E! News" and his passion is ignited. Soon Eugene recruits a group of average joes into his gang, The Knights of Prosperity, for a heist to finance their dreams. The initial target: rock icon Mick Jagger's super-luxe Central Park West apartment.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, not serious, humorous, exciting, tense, touching, suspenseful, offbeat, realistic
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Swedish Dicks (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two unlicensed Swedish private investigators try to make a living in Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, tense, feel good, captivating, suspense, entertaining, suspenseful, detective, cult classic
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Operation St. Peter's (1967)
Plot Summary:
Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where Napoleone takes them to Rome where they shack up with a shady used car dealer caled Il Cajella to help finance their new life of crime by planing to rob a statue from the Vatican. But a big-time American gangster, named Joe Ventura, hears about the heist and wants the priceless statue for himself by having his mistress, Samantha, come onto and betray the woman-hungry Cajella to give the statue away to her.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Flic Story (1972)
Plot Summary:
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, not serious
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The Invisibles (2008)
Plot Summary:
The Invisibles is a British 2008 comedy drama series created and written by William Ivory for the BBC. It was produced by Company Pictures, shot in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
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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The Cracksman (1963)
Plot Summary:
Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a beautiful hostess as a trap, into which the hapless Ernest inevitably falls..!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Extralarge: Black Magic (1991)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth is in a car with her boyfriend when suddenly she feels a pain in the stomach so strong she seizes a knife and stabs herself to death. Her boyfriend is charged with her murder and Dumas is present at his trial and he is struck by the boy's story. In the meantime Extralarge gets the task to find Kathy, the missing step-daughter of Laureen. Her father is dying of an unheard of disease and he desires to see her. The two girls were friends and a shade of Black Magic overhangs on them and their families.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Extralarge: Miami Killer (1991)
Plot Summary:
Agent Blake finds the corpse of a child. It is one of a long chain. The murderer is called The Miami Killer by the newspapers. Extralarge assists the police in their investigation. All the murdered children suffered from some kind of ailment and the murderer knew his or her victims very well. The successive victim appears to be Elsie who is asthmatic and Extralarge suspects father Marthy and Elsie's teacher. Then Elsie is kidnapped. Can she be saved?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Four Women and a Funeral (2005)
Plot Summary:
Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall is an Austrian crime television series, first aired on the Austrian television channel "ORF eins" in 2005. The show also aired in Switzerland on "SF1", in Germany on RTL Crime and on the Franco-German TV network "arte" - dubbed in French. The sending-rights were sold to Slovenia, Bosnia, Bulgaria, Ukranie and Russia.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Porridge (1974)
Plot Summary:
Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard Beckinsale as two inmates at the fictional HMP Slade in Cumberland. "Doing porridge" is British slang for serving a prison sentence, porridge once being the traditional breakfast in UK prisons. The series was followed by a 1978 sequel, Going Straight, which established that Fletcher would not be going back to prison again. Porridge was voted number seven in a 2004 BBC poll of the 100 greatest British sitcoms.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sitcom, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, fun
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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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Bandits (2014)
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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Police Squad! (1982)
Plot Summary:
Police Squad! is a television comedy series first broadcast in 1982, created by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, and starring Leslie Nielsen. A spoof of police procedurals, the series featured Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's usual sight gags, wordplay and non sequiturs. While a parody of many television shows and movies, it bore a particular resemblance to the Lee Marvin cop show, M Squad and the late 1960s series Felony Squad. Although cancelled after only six episodes, the show spawned the successful Naked Gun film series. TV Guide ranked it #7 on their 2013 list of 60 shows that were "Cancelled Too Soon".
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, sitcom, humorous, funny, detective, absurd, anime, cult classic, realistic
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Escape (2010)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Crime
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: suspense, ambiguous ending, suspenseful, thought provoking, surprise ending