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Plot Summary:
Comedy thriller about two well-meaning idiots who become entangled in a hideous world of crime, conspiracy and corruption.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, funny, sitcom, hilarious, semi serious, realistic, stylized, slapstick
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Fonejacker (2007)
Plot Summary:
Fonejacker is a British comedy programme broadcast on E4 featuring a series of prank calls involving a number of different characters performed by British Iranian television actor Kayvan Novak. It first appeared in May 2006 and became a full series in 2007. In 2005 Kayvan Novak and Ed Tracy created, wrote and directed Fonejacker, a prank call show, as part of Channel 4 Comedy Lab. After making the pilot together they were given a Christmas special and a six-part series which began airing in the UK on 5 July 2007 on E4 and lasted 6 episodes. They went on to make a second series which began airing on 17 September 2008 on E4, and started on Channel 4 on 6 November 2008. Kayvan Novak said that he was "not sure there will be a third series of Fonejacker" but despite this, several websites reported in October 2009 that a third series would air in May 2010. In November 2009, the third series was officially announced, with the news that it would be called "Fonejacker 3D" and feature Kayvan Novak portraying both old and new Fonejacker characters face-to-face in the public domain. Renamed Facejacker, the new show began airing on 16 April 2010. Fonejacker won the BAFTA award for the "Best Comedy Programme" in 2008. Novak plans to create a film based on the show's characters, and is currently in talks with Film4 and Hat Trick Productions.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating, hilarious, exciting, realistic, fun, 2d animation
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Old School (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ted McCabe, a retired cop, and Lennie Cahill a retired crim, get together to solve crimes, unravel scams and make some cash, while avoiding the wrath of the police and the underworld.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: suspenseful, humorous, realistic, witty, serious
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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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Police Academy: The Series (1997)
Plot Summary:
Police Academy: The Series is a syndicated 1997 television series spin-off from the Police Academy series of films. Michael Winslow was the only actor from the Police Academy films to have a recurring role on the show, although several of the film's cast made occasional guest appearances. The series was written by Paul Maslansky and produced by James Margellos and Gary M. Goodman. Music by Ari Wise and Jim Guttridge.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: absurd, detective, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, not serious, slapstick
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Andy Barker, P.I. (2007)
Plot Summary:
Certified public accountant Andy Barker reluctantly becomes a private investigator after he is mistaken for the former office tenant, who was a private eye.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, detective, sitcom, bleak, entertaining, offbeat, realistic, semi 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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Killing Cabos (2004)
Plot Summary:
Oscar Cabos, a multimillionaire tycoon, is being held for ransom--only his captors have nabbed the wrong man. Now, to get their money, they must find the real Cabos--which could get tricky since he's been counter-kidnapped by his future son-in-law and impersonated by his childhood friend (now his janitor), Nacho.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: talky, exciting, humorous, dark comedy, funny, hispanic, black comedy, offbeat, realistic, witty
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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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Uncle (2012)
Plot Summary:
Andy is a dissolute out-of work musician who forges an unlikely alliance with his 12-year-old nephew Errol after being morally blackmailed into looking after him by his chaotic sister Sam - all on the day Andy was planning to kill himself. Not a natural with either kids or responsibility, he tries to keep his new charge out of trouble while being knee-deep in it himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, not serious, humorous, captivating, light, funny, realistic
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Detectorists (2014)
Plot Summary:
The lives of two eccentric metal detectorists, who spend their days plodding along ploughed tracks and open fields, hoping to disturb the tedium by unearthing the fortune of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, funny, humorous, not serious, light, feel good, entertaining, captivating, satirical, buddy comedy
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The Royal Bodyguard (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Royal Bodyguard is a British television sitcom, written by Mark Bussell and Justin Sbresni, and starring David Jason, Geoffrey Whitehead, Tim Downie and Timothy Bentinck. A series of six episodes began on 26 December 2011, concluding on 30 January 2012. The first episode picked up more than 8 million viewers but the series declined in ratings throughout, with the fifth episode barely achieving 2 million viewers. The series was heavily criticised by viewers and critics. At 71 Jason was widely felt to be too old for the lead role. The show was cancelled by the BBC and will not return for further episodes.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom, realistic, humorous, not serious, exciting, tense, captivating, slapstick
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Maximum Choppage (2015)
Plot Summary:
Simon Chan has returned to his hometown after many years training in a faraway martial arts temple. He is a born hero, defender of the weak and champion of the honest people of Cabramatta... Well, not really. For Simon, it's only a matter of time before everyone discovers he's just an ordinary guy, because Simon has a secret. Whilst everyone thinks he was training at a legendary martial arts school in Beijing, the truth is Simon was at Marshall's Art School, in Melbourne. Now back in Cabramatta, armed with a fistful of pastels and a crippling sense of obligation, Simon knows that eventually the truth will hurt... literally. He could lose his life - or worse - disappoint his mother. The world Simon returns to is familiar yet oddly different to the Cabramatta you may know. It's a mix of Asian traditions, absurd superstition and colourful contradictions. A world where brutal gangs terrorise the community with violence and bad karaoke singing; where a magical duck recipe can cast a horny spell and where pirated DVD's are the new crack cocaine. In this town, evil spirits attack nail-and-beauty parlours, council debates are settled via K-Pop dance battles and car parking spots are more valuable than gold. The only thing that stands against all this craziness is Simon. When the ferocious gang leader/karaoke singer Kai Le threatens to destroy his mother's beauty parlour-cum-DVD shop, Simon is joined by his two best friends: Egg, a quick-buck entrepreneur and Petal, a groin-kicking kung fu girl. But can they really protect Simon's family from the Kylie Minogue obsessed gang lord? Will they uncover the corrupt Mayo's secret plan for the town? And can Simon keep his mind off the mayor's daughter for long enough to be (or at least pretend to be) the person everyone thinks he is? Cabramatta needs a hero. Instead they got Simon, Egg and Petal. Welcome to Maximum Choppage, a painfully funny 6 x 30 min comedy series.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, witty, semi serious, sitcom, offbeat, stylized
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The Brink (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three top U.S. government and military officials scramble to prevent World War 3 from happening amidst the chaos of a geopolitical crisis.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, tense, exciting, political, funny, sitcom, hilarious
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The Michael Richards Show (2000)
Plot Summary:
The Michael Richards Show is a sitcom that debuted on NBC in 2000. The show starred Michael Richards as reality-challenged but successful private detective Vic Nardozza who gets the job done despite his unconventional methods.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, realistic, detective
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We Still Kill the Old Way (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of aging London gangsters go on a vigilante killing spree when one of their number is murdered by a street gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Bakersfield P.D. (1993)
Plot Summary:
Bakersfield P.D. is a short-lived American television comedy series that aired on the Fox network in 1993-94. The show was based in the police department of the city of Bakersfield, California. It was shot with naturalistic lighting and without a laugh track. Fox canceled the show after one season, citing low ratings. The cable channel Trio reran the show under its "Brilliant But Cancelled" umbrella.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, detective, exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious
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The Thin Blue Line (1995)
Plot Summary:
The Thin Blue Line is a British sitcom starring Rowan Atkinson set in a police station that ran for two series on the BBC from 1995 to 1996. It was written by Ben Elton.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, detective, not serious, realistic, witty, hilarious, atmospheric, double entendre, alternative comedy
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Reno 911! (2003)
Plot Summary:
Reno 911! is an American comedy television series on Comedy Central that ran from 2003 to 2009. It is a mockumentary-style parody of law enforcement documentary shows, specifically COPS, with comic actors playing the police officers. Most of the material is improvised, using a broad outline, and with minimal scripted material. The series spawned a film, Reno 911!: Miami, featuring the same cast. Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant and Kerri Kenney-Silver both starred in and are billed as creators of the series.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, parody, mockumentary, not serious, funny, detective, spoof, hilarious, offbeat
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Common Law (2012)
Plot Summary:
Common Law is an American comedy-drama television series, which ran on USA Network from May 11 to August 10, 2012, and stars Michael Ealy and Warren Kole as two Los Angeles Police Department detectives who can't stand each other and are ordered to see a couples therapist to remedy the situation. The series was created by Cormac and Marianne Wibberley and was produced by CBS Television Studios and Junction Entertainment. While originally planned to premiere on January 26, 2012, the series was pushed back until summer 2012. The series premiered following Fairly Legal on Friday, May 11, 2012. The show was canceled by the USA Network after one season and 12 episodes on October 31, 2012, due to low ratings.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, semi serious, realistic, detective, crime drama, 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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A Touch of Cloth (2012)
Plot Summary:
Hannah plays DI Jack Cloth, who is called in to investigate an apparent series of serial killings alongside his new partner, DC Anne Oldman, described as a "plucky, no-nonsense sidekick". Playing with the cliches and conventions of British police dramas, subplots include Cloth dealing with visions of his dead wife and the bisexual DC Oldman coming to grips with her feelings for both her female fiancee and Cloth.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, detective, exciting, captivating, tense, clever, slapstick, funny, hilarious
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Nighty Night (2004)
Plot Summary:
Nighty Night is a British dark comedy sitcom written by and starring Julia Davis. It was first broadcast on 6 January 2004 on BBC Three before moving to BBC2. Notorious for its dark humour, the show follows narcissistic sociopath Jill Tyrell – who manages a beauty parlour alongside her moronic, asthmatic assistant Linda – as she learns that her husband has cancer. She uses this fact to manipulate new neighbour Cathy Cole, a wheelchair user with multiple sclerosis whose husband Don, a womanising doctor, Jill has become obsessed with. The theme tune used in the beginning of both series and during the closing credits for the first is an excerpt from the spaghetti western My Name Is Nobody, composed by the Italian film composer Ennio Morricone. In June 2006 it was announced that Sex and the City creator Darren Star would write and be executive producer of a US version, which has been commissioned for a pilot script. Steve Coogan and Henry Normal, founders of the production company Baby Cow, were to be co-Executive-Producers.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, sitcom, controversial, black comedy, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, game show
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Redirected (2014)
Plot Summary:
Four friends become stranded in Eastern Europe and have to become hit men, prostitutes, corrupt cops, smugglers and more to make it home.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Lithuania
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, clever, parody, funny, twist ending, comedy drama, rough, realistic, not serious
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Screwed (2000)
Plot Summary:
A chauffeur kidnaps his rich boss's dog to hold it for ransom, but when she accidentally gets the dog back, she thinks that it's the chauffeur who's been kidnapped.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, intense, feel good, witty, not serious, offbeat, slapstick, hilarious, realistic
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Twenty Twelve (2011)
Plot Summary:
Twenty Twelve is a BBC television comedy series written and directed by John Morton. Starring Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Hynes and Amelia Bullmore, the programme is a spoof on-location documentary following the organisation of the 2012 Summer Olympics in London. It was first broadcast on UK television station BBC Four in March 2011 to coincide with the 500 day countdown to the opening ceremony. Twenty Twelve gained mainly positive reviews from critics, and a four-part second series was announced on 15 April 2011, which began airing on 30 March 2012 on BBC Two. A further three episodes of series 2 began airing from 10 July 2012. The series' last episode was broadcast on 24 July 2012, three days before the opening ceremony of the London Olympic Games.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, mockumentary, humorous, semi serious, realistic, talky, fake documentary
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W1A (2014)
Plot Summary:
The follow-up to 'Twenty Twelve' as Ian Fletcher takes up the position of 'Head of Values' at the BBC. His task is to clarify, define, or re-define the core purpose of the BBC across all its functions and to position it confidently for the future, in particular for Licence Fee Renegotiation and Charter Renewal in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, mockumentary, humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, realistic, talky
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One Two Three (2008)
Plot Summary:
Laxminarayan lives a poor lifestyle in Mumbai along with his widowed mother, Kanta, who wants him to be a successful gangster like Batlabhai, and would like him to kill a few people, make enough money, then get married to Khujli's daughter, Meena. In order to fulfill his mother's wish, Laxminarayan accepts a contract to kill D'Mello Yadav, a Pondi-based gangster, who has stolen a diamond from Batl.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: India
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, suspenseful, exciting, funny, realistic, semi serious
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Homegrown (1998)
Plot Summary:
Three laborers on a Northern California marijuana plantation become increasingly paranoid when they learn that their boss has been murdered. They know enough to run, taking with them enough of the crop to pay them for services rendered. Hooking up with go-between Lucy in the next town, they plot their next move.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, stylized, realistic, humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, funny, clever, enigmatic, feel good
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Max and Paddy's Road to Nowhere (2004)
Plot Summary:
Max And Paddy's Road To Nowhere is the much-loved sequel to Peter Kay's critically-acclaimed comedy series, "Phoenix Nights". Written by and starring Peter Kay and Patrick McGuinness, this six-part comedy/drama series is the story of clueless Phoenix Club bouncers Max (Kay) and Paddy (McGuinness), as they escape clubland in their prized motor-home and take to the open highway.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat
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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