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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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Ida Takes Charge (2022)
Plot Summary:
Ida has just arrived in Oslo to study psychology at the University, after dropping out of her literature studies in Trondheim. Ida's is anxious for most things. Not getting of the bus at the right stop, running out of toilet paper on the public toilet, environmental changes and world war three. But her greatest fear is terror. There is nothing that frightens her more than being a victim of a random attack.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 21 min
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München Mord - Wir sind die Neuen (2013)
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Everybody Hates Johan (2022)
Plot Summary:
Johan, a loner with horses and explosives, is never accepted by the local community. We follow his struggle for belonging in the village and the lifelong, unrequited love for the girl next door, which he accidentally blew up in his youth.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, iconic
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Reindeer Mafia (2023)
Plot Summary:
Poromafia is a crime saga tinged with black humor, centered on the internal power struggle of a family ruling the northern wilderness. The northern matriarch leaves behind an inheritance, which divides the family's lands among the family. However, the wills tear the family apart as buried secrets come to light.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 40 min
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Big Man: Let the Buried Lie (1988)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, West Germany, Italy, Sweden, Austria
Duration: 90 min
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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
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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
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Homicide City (2018)
Plot Summary:
Takes a deep dive into the stories of unforgettable murders from the streets of Philadelphia. Told through the eyes of veteran homicide detectives, local reporters and the victim's families who have lost so much, these are the cases they will never forget.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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Fenris (2022)
Plot Summary:
When Emma hears that her father has stopped doing his job as a wolf researcher, she takes her son Leo to Østbygda to find out what's going on. At the same time, a young boy disappears without a trace from the village.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 270 min
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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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Killer Cases (2020)
Plot Summary:
"Killer Cases" brings all the emotion, drama, and suspense from chilling murder trials. It's a journey through the criminal justice process that gives viewers an inside look at real cases like never before.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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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
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Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery (2022)
Plot Summary:
A holiday-hating detective is forced to solve a murder — and save Christmas — with help from famous trainees who must improv their way through the case.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 52 min
Plot tags: detective, christmas special
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Murder in Successville (2015)
Plot Summary:
Each week Successville's loveable detective, D.I Sleet, enlists the help of a celebrity sidekick to solve the latest high-profile murder in this improvised comedy murder mystery series.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: detective, sitcom
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Catterick (2004)
Plot Summary:
Catterick, aka Vic and Bob in Catterick, is a surreal 2004 BBC situation comedy in 6 episodes, written by and starring Vic Reeves and Bob Mortimer, with Reece Shearsmith, Matt Lucas, Morwenna Banks, Tim Healy, Mark Benton and Charlie Higson. The series was originally broadcast on BBC Three and later rerun on BBC2. Reeves has said that the BBC do not want another series of Catterick, though he may produce a spin-off centring on the DI Fowler character. Catterick is arguably Vic and Bob's darkest and most bizarre programme to date, balancing their typically odd, idiosyncratic comedy with some genuinely dark scenes. It plays like a darkly comic road movie, albeit full of Vic and Bob's bizarre, often inscrutable and frequently silly humour. Catterick is probably Vic and Bob's most uncompromising show since their notorious and frequently baffling 1999 sketch series Bang Bang, It's Reeves and Mortimer, from which most of the characters are taken. It is in some ways stylistically similar to their short film The Weekenders first broadcast in 1992 on British television as part of Channel 4's "Bunch of Five" series. The series is named after Catterick in North Yorkshire, Britain's largest army base. It is about 10 miles away from Darlington where Vic Reeves grew up. It is also about 20 miles away from Middlesbrough where Bob Mortimer grew up.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, surreal, dark comedy
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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 Murder of Roger Ackroyd (2002)
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Russia
Duration: 260 min
Plot tags: clever, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, stylized, detective
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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 Good Guys (1997)
Plot Summary:
Operation Good Guys is a British mockumentary, a fly-on-the-wall documentary series about an elite police unit's bid to snare one of Britain's most powerful crime lords. It was first screened on BBC Two from 1997 - 2000. Blurring the line between fact and fiction, it witnesses, on camera, the total breakdown, professionally and personally, of the Operation Good Guys team. Throughout the operation, The 'Good Guys' have an unfortunate habit of embroiling into their calamitous world some of the country's best-known celebrities, from actors and footballers, to TV presenters and even the odd ex-convict. It was created by Ray Burdis and co written by Ray Burdis, Hugo Blick and Dominic Anciano, although much of the dialogue was improvised by the actors. The series utilised the concept of a mock documentary capturing the truths of a workplace four years before the notion reached fame in The Office. However, this mockumentary style was watered down slightly when a laugh track was added for the second and third series. The series was awarded the Silver Rose for Best Sitcom and the Prix de la Presse, voted for by the International Press, at the Montreux Golden Rose Festival.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, mockumentary, sitcom, detective, offbeat, realistic, not serious, surreal
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The 1990s: The Deadliest Decade (2018)
Plot Summary:
A look at notorious murders and crimes that happened during the 1990s.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags:
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Hitmen (2020)
Plot Summary:
Having stumbled into a career in contract killing, misfits Fran and Jamie are not your typical killers for hire. Working out of their scruffy van, each episode follows the hapless duo as they try to carry out their latest hit, inevitably derailed by incompetence, bickering, and inane antics. As each hit goes south, our (anti)heroes are thrown into one bizarre misadventure after another, each full of oddball characters and unexpected dilemmas.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, funny, humorous, tense, light, unusual plot structure, disturbing, sitcom
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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
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The Lørenskog Disappearance (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a billionaire's wife vanishes, Norwegian police must deal with the frenzied press and deceitful informants to find the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 259 min
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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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The Out-Laws (2012)
Plot Summary:
A visually stunning, delicious blend of crime thriller and black comedy from Belgium featuring five sisters, one evil dead husband and two nosy life insurance salesmen. Desperate Housewives on acid.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Hellfjord (2012)
Plot Summary:
Please do not ask Sergeant Salmander about Gunnar. He loved that horse dearly and nobody feels worse about what happened to Salmander’s noble steed than Salmander himself. Yes, he understands that there were children present at the Independence Day parade who may require significant, long term counseling to come to terms with what they witnessed that fateful day but still, he feels bad, okay? Sergeant Salmander’s journey may begin with a horse in Oslo, but it ends with a posting in HELLFJORD – a tiny town in the ass end of Norway where Salmander will serve as the district sheriff for the three month notification period labor law requires before he is summarily fired from the police force. Can he save his job by doing an exceptionally good job during his months in the far north? Probably not, but he intends to give it all he’s got.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, surreal, light, captivating, feel good, funny, detective, dark comedy, atmospheric, offbeat
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Dark Ages (1999)
Plot Summary:
Dark Ages is a British television sitcom, first broadcast as five thirty-minute episodes on ITV in December 1999. It portrayed medieval English villagers fearful of the turn of the new millennium in the year 999 AD, and parodied contemporary fears at the turn of the third millennium in 1999. It was written by Rob Grant and directed by Steve Bendelack.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: apocalyptic, sitcom
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Get Shorty (2017)
Plot Summary:
Miles Daly works as muscle for a murderous crime ring in Nevada and attempts to change professions and become a movie producer, laundering money through a Hollywood film with the help of washed-up filmmaker Rick Moreweather. Based on Elmore Leonard’s 1990 New York Times bestselling novel.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, erotic, exciting, entertaining, sensual
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Inspector Späck (2010)
Plot Summary:
A dead body is found and police detective Mårten Späck draws the conclusion that a serial suicide killer is at large. Späck with his colleagues Grünvald Karlsson and Irene Snusk suspect a gang who distributes pirated DVD's of 'bottom-of-the-barrel' Swedish movies.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, captivating, tense, light, perverse, offbeat, realistic, suspenseful
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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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