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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
Plot tags:
Best tv shows and movies like Reindeer Mafia (2023):
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Perseguidos (2016)
Plot Summary:
Persecuted (Mauricio Islas) José Vicente Solís Armenta is a criminal prosecuted for justice for his crimes against humanity. After being betrayed, the authorities finally manage to track him down and want him dead or alive. Solís Armenta, on his way to escape, has to deal with his wife, who he cheated on, one of his lovers who seeks to assassinate him, and a bodyguard who seems to succumb to his charms. Given this adverse scenario, José Vicente declares a war without quarter to the authorities, but discovers that the real fight is against himself and perhaps, the only way of redemption is death. Mexican version of the Colombian series 'El capo'.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Action, Adventure, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: telenovela
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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
Plot tags:
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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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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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A Class Apart (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a student at the famous boarding school Tuna Kvarn is found dead, investigators are met with a wall of silence. Suspicions soon turn to pupils from a disadvantaged neighbouring state school – until a mobile film that reveals Tuna Kvarn’s humiliating initiation rituals appears on social media and triggers dramatic consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags:
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The River (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young girl playing by "Djupelv" finds the remains of a body. The family doesn't want to get involved and calls in an anonymous tip, but the same day the girl runs away from home.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: enigmatic, suspenseful, atmospheric, bleak, captivating
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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
Plot tags:
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Limbo (2023)
Plot Summary:
A late-night phone call changes everything for Ebba, My and Gloria. The news that their sons have been involved in a serious car crash puts their friendship and priorities to the ultimate test.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 41 min
Plot tags:
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Anxious People (2021)
Plot Summary:
A bank robber holds the visitors of an open house hostage and then promptly vanishes, leaving the police baffled — and suspicious of everyone.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: Sweden
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, funny, fun
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Tellus (2014)
Plot Summary:
As a group of Finish ecoterrorists escalate their attacks, they are pursued by an environmentally conscious detective who's less radical about his activism and tries to save the earth in his own personal way.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 300 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
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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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Black Widows (2014)
Plot Summary:
Black Widows is a series about 3 ordinary women, friendship and an impossible secret.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration:
Plot tags:
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The Trap (2018)
Plot Summary:
Struggling to overcome her husband’s death and also looking for inspiration, crime novelist Olga Sawicka visits an orphanage where one of the children has gone missing. She soon finds that the orphanage hides many dark secrets and becomes entangled in a deadly dangerous investigation.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: psychological, enigmatic, captivating, suspense
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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
Plot tags:
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Wilfred (2007)
Plot Summary:
Wilfred is an Australian comedy television series directed by Tony Rogers, produced by Jenny Livingston and starring Jason Gann, Adam Zwar and Cindy Waddingham. Created by Zwar, Gann and Rogers, it was based on their award-winning 2002 short film and later adapted to a series. The story follows the lives of the eponymous dog Wilfred, his owner Sarah, and her boyfriend Adam, who sees Wilfred as a man in a dog suit. Two seasons were broadcast on SBS One – the first in 2007 and the second in 2010. The series won three AFI Awards and was nominated for a Logie. Independent Film Channel acquired the international broadcast rights to the original two seasons of Wilfred in 2010. A U.S. version premiered on the cable channel FX on 23 June 2011.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, not serious, sitcom, feel good, offbeat, funny, spooky, weird
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Rentnercops (2015)
Plot Summary:
Faced with staff shortages, the chief of a Cologne police department convinces two retired homicide detectives to come back into the force. With their immediate superior being a young woman, a generational cultural clash is inevitable.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Team (2015)
Plot Summary:
After a number of murders of prostitutes at a motorway stop near Berlin, in a rear courtyard in Antwerp, and in a brothel in Copenhagen, Europol decides to form a taskforce to tackle the case. Harald, a Dane, Jackie, a German, and Alice from Belgium embark on the hunt for the killer. As the case unfolds, the killings prove to be just the tip of the iceberg, the iceberg itself being a large, pan-European criminal organization involved in everything from drugs and financial crime to corruption, hired killings and not least people trafficking , illegal labor and prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Belgium, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, noir, interesting
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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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The Good Cop (2018)
Plot Summary:
Honest cop Tony Jr. gets advice from his unscrupulous father, retired NYPD officer Tony Sr., about everything from his job to his love life.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, humorous, entertaining, talky
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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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Dag (2010)
Plot Summary:
Meet Dag, a couple's therapist who holds a 90% divorce rate. His philosophy in life is that people should live alone and he's happy to share that with his patients. Dag leads a quiet life and the only thing he loves more than his solitude is prescription drugs. However, Dag's peaceful existence is about to change radically when Eva enters his life.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: cynical, humorous, realistic, funny, captivating, dark comedy, hilarious, semi serious, black comedy, mad
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Heathers (2018)
Plot Summary:
A pitch-black comedy anthology set in the present day, as our heroine Veronica Sawyer deals with a very different but equally vicious group of Heathers. Based on the 1988 cult classic film.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: ironic, dark, cynical, anthology, art house, dark comedy, black comedy
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The Hijack That Went South (2013)
Plot Summary:
Aarno Lamminparras hijacked an airplane with a gun in 1978. A true story.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 966
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, disturbing, tense, feel good, captivating, suspense, entertaining
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Death of a Pilgrim (2013)
Plot Summary:
A Nordic crime mini-series on the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme and the fall of the welfare state.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Finland
Duration: 233 min
Plot tags: tense, suspense, captivating, suspenseful, detective
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The Thin Blue Line (2021)
Plot Summary:
Swedish drama series about police officers in Malmö, their tiring work and the difficulties of keeping their personal and professional life separate.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Sweden, Finland
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: tense, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, contemplative
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The Unusuals (2009)
Plot Summary:
The Unusuals is a comedy-drama television series that aired on ABC from April 8 to June 17, 2009 in the U.S. and Global in Canada. The pilot and first episode were written by Noah Hawley, a former writer and producer for Fox's Bones. An ABC press release described The Unusuals as "like a modern-day M*A*S*H" that "explores both the grounded drama and comic insanity of the world of New York City police detectives, where every cop has a secret". Its premise elaborated: The initial series order was for 10 episodes. Show creator Noah Hawley announced via his Twitter account in mid-May 2009 that ABC would not be bringing the show back for a second season.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, detective, anime, psychological thriller, realistic, psycho film
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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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Acquitted (2015)
Plot Summary:
After having success in Asia, businessman Aksel Borgen is asked back to his hometown in Norway to save an important local firm despite it being 20 years since he was sentenced and later acquitted for murdering his high school sweetheart.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, noir
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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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Lilyhammer (2012)
Plot Summary:
Frank Tagliano (Steven Van Zandt), is a former member of the New York mob. After testifying in a trial in the United States, Tagliano is relocated to Lillehammer in Norway through the FBI's witness protection program. Frank Tagliano was intrigued by Lillehammer when he saw television images of the Winter Olympics in 1994, and therefore chooses to start his new life there. The transition from being a feared and respected gangster in New York, to become an unemployed immigrant in Norway, is not simple. Frank discovers that to get up and in the Norwegian rural society, he must resort to the old, ruthless methods. The spelling of the series title alludes to Tagliano's dog Lily, and the way that Frank and some other anglophones pronounce the town's name.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Norway, USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: witty, talky, stylized, humorous, noir, entertaining, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, semi serious