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Genre "Crime Comedy" Movies (showing 1 to 50 from 65 total)

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A Fish Called Wanda (1988)

Genre: Comedy, Farce, Crime Comedy, Caper.
Director: Charles Crichton.
Actors: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin, Tom Georgeson, Maria Aitken, Patricia Hayes, Al Ashton, Kim Barclay, Imogen Bickford-Smith, Roger Brierley, Ken Campbell, Robert Cavendish, Cynthia Caylor, Jeremy Child, Charu Bala Chokshi, Waydon Croft, John Dixon, Mark Elwes, Stephen Fry, Roger Hume, Katherine John, Sophie Johnstone, Peter Jonfield, Kate Lansbury, Tia Lee, Andrew Maclachlan, Roland MacLeod, Robert McBain, Clare McIntyre, Pamela Miles, Patrick Newman, Geoffrey Palmer, Anthony Pedley, Michael Percival, Neville Phillips, Robert Putt, Llewellyn Rees, David Simeon, Tom Piggot-Smith, Sharon Twomey.
Storyline:
In A Fish Called Wanda, Jamie Lee Curtis plays an ambitious con artist who uses every ounce of her sexual wiles to obtain a fortune in jewels stolen by her gangster lover Tom Georgeson. First, she romances Georgeson's dimwitted but deadly henchman Kevin Kline (who won an Academy Award for his performance). Then, to clear the path for her getaway with Kline, Jamie woos Georgeson's starched-shirt at ...
After the Fox (1966)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy, Farce.
Director: Vittorio De Sica.
Actors: Peter Sellers, Britt Ekland, Lydia Brazzi, Paolo Stoppa, Tino Buazzelli, Victor Mature, Martin Balsam, Mac Ronay, Akim Tamiroff, Maria Grazia Buccella, Lando Buzzanca, Pier Luigi Pizzi, Enzo Fiermonte, Carlo Croccolo, Timothy Bateson, Francesco de Leone, Maurice Denham, Roberto De Simone, Giustino Durano, Piero Gerlini, David Lodge, Lino Mattera, Tiberlo Murgia, Nino Musco, Mimmo Poli, Franco Sportelli, Daniele Vargas.
Storyline:
With Peter Sellers as star, Neil Simon as screenwriter, and Vittorio DeSica as director, how could After the Fox miss? Miss it did, however—though the film, patchy and inconsistent though it might be, definitely has its moments. Sellers plays an Italian master thief who can't seem to stay out of jail. His latest scheme involves moving $3 million worth of stolen gold bullion from Cairo to ...
After the Sunset (2004)

Genre: Crime, Crime Comedy, Caper.
Director: Brett Ratner.
Actors: Pierce Brosnan, Salma Hayek, Woody Harrelson, Don Cheadle, Naomie Harris, Chris Penn, Mykelti Williamson, Obba Babatunde, Russell Hornsby, Rex Linn, Troy Garity.
Storyline:
In this caper movie from director Brett Ratner, two brilliant criminals are lured out of retirement...or are they? Max Burdett (Pierce Brosnan) is a master jewel thief who, with the help of his accomplice and lover Lola Cirillo (Salma Hayek), has stolen two of the three Napoleon diamonds, among the most valuable gems on Earth. Stanley Lloyd (Woody Harrelson) is an FBI agent who has been on Burdett ...
Airheads (1994)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy, Showbiz Comedy, Teen Movie.
Director: Michael Lehmann.
Actors: Brendan Fraser, Steve Buscemi, Adam Sandler, Joe Mantegna, Chris Farley, Amy Locane, Michael McKean, Judd Nelson, Ernie Hudson, Nina Siemaszko, David Arquette, Kurek Ashley, Marshall Bell, Lexie Bigham, Reg E. Cathey, Lydell M. Cheshier, Allen Covert, Vinnie DeRamus, Ryan Holihan, Michelle Hurst, China Kantner, Tiiu Leek, Lemmy, Kurt Loder, Alejandro Quezada, Harold Ramis, Michael Richards, Sam Whipple, Rich Wilkes, John Zarchen, Daniel Zacapa.
Storyline:
Airheads is a variation on Dog Day Afternoon, as well as a comic look at the trials and tribulations of both the music business and Generation X. A hapless rock trio consisting of Chazz (Brendan Fraser), Rex (Steve Buscemi), and Pip (Adam Sandler) hits a brick wall with their attempts to get their demo tape played by record label executives. Chazz, on the edge since being thrown out by his girlfri ...
Analyze This (1999)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy, Gangster Film.
Director: Harold Ramis.
Actors: Robert De Niro, Billy Crystal, Lisa Kudrow, Joe Viterelli, Chazz Palminteri, Bill Macy, Leo Rossi, Kyle Sabihy, Rebecca Schull, Molly Shannon, Max Casella, Pat Cooper, Richard C. Castellano, Jimmie Ray Weeks, Elizabeth Bracco, Tony Darrow, Donnamarie Recco, Michael Harkins.
Storyline:
In the same year that a hit cable television series, The Sopranos, successfully mined the same premise, this comedy about a mobster seeking advice from a psychiatrist was a box office winner for director Harold Ramis. Billy Crystal stars as Dr. Ben Sobel, a New York shrink who's becoming a little bored with his upscale but neurotic clientele. Into Sobel's practice comes a guy with legitimate probl ...
Andaz Apna Apna (1994)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy, Romantic Comedy.
Director:
Actors: Shakti Kapoor, Karishma Kapoor, Salman Khan, Raveena Tandon, Aamir Khan, Paresh Rawal.
Storyline:
In this comedy from India, Aamir Khan is Amar and Salman Khan is Prem, two guys with no money and few prospects, but big dreams. Amar and Prem vie for the affections of a wealthy man's daughter, but along the way they run afoul of a local gangster (played by Paresh Rawal) and his henchmen.
Arsenic And Old Lace (1944)

Genre: Comedy, Farce, Screwball Comedy, Crime Comedy.
Director: Frank Capra.
Actors: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey, Jack Carson, Peter Lorre, Edward Everett Horton, James Gleason, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, John Alexander, Grant Mitchell, Edward McNamara, Garry Owen, John Ridgely, Vaughan Glaser, Chester Clute, Charles Lane, Edward McWade, Spencer Charters, Hank Mann, Lee Phelps, Leo White.
Storyline:
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Avenging Angelo (2002)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy, Romantic Comedy.
Director: Martyn Burke.
Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Madeleine Stowe, Raoul Bova, Anthony Quinn, Harry Van Gorkum, Billy Gardell, Andy Garcia.
Storyline:
Directed by Martyn Burke, Avenging Angelo centers around the life of bodyguard Frank (Sylvester Stallone) and his client, neurotic socialite Jennifer (Madeleine Stowe). Frank must constantly fight his emotions in order to maintain a strictly professional relationship with Jennifer, who has recently broken if off with her unfaithful husband. Matters are complicated further when Frank accidentally l ...
Bad Santa (2003)

Genre: Comedy, Black Comedy, Holiday Film, Crime Comedy.
Director: Terry Zwigoff.
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Lauren Graham, Lauren Tom, Bernie Mac, John Ritter, Ajay Naidu, Alex Borstein, Cloris Leachman, Dave Adams, Tonya Renee Banks, Harrison Bieker, Hayden Bromberg, Joe Bucaro III, Sheriff John Bunnell, Grace Calderon, Bryan Callen, Dylan Charles, Chloe Colville, Michael Dansk, Bucky Dominick, Georgia Eskew, Billy Gardell, Alexandra Korhan, Tom McGowan, Briana Norton, Natsuko Ohama, Ethan Phillips, Christine Pichardo, Ryan Pinkston, Peter Quartaroli, Lisa Ross, Joey Saravia, Lorna Scott, Hallie Singleton, Octavia L. Spencer, Cody Strauch, Curtis Taylor, Max Van Ville, Matt Walsh.
Storyline:
The Christmas season just got a lot less joyous in this very dark comedy. Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) is a con man and a thief who teams up with his friend Marcus (Tony Cox), a midget, for a very special scam each year during the holiday season. Willie gets a job as Santa Claus at a shopping mall, his pal tags along as an elf, and they use their employee status to crack mall security and ...
Bandits (2001)

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Crime Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Buddy Film.
Director: Barry Levinson.
Actors: Bruce Willis, Billy Bob Thornton, Cate Blanchett, Troy Garity, Brian F. O'Byrne, Stacey Travis, Bobby Slayton, January Jones, William Converse-Roberts, Peggy Miley, Richard Riehle, Micole Mercurio, Mildred Kronenberg, Azura Skye, Scott Burkholder, Anthony Burch, Sam Levinson, Scout LaRue Willis, Tallulah Belle Willis, John Evans, John Harrington Bland, Cindy Goldfield, Heather Mathieson, Erin-Kate Whitcomb, Kim Bogus, Michael X. Sommers, Rich Sickler, Michael Birnbaum, Joe Unitas, Richard Shuster, Jennifer York, Jose G. Garcia, Alfred De Contreras, Peter Weireter, Kerry Kilbride, Jane Velez-Mitchell, Mia Lee, Louis LeRay, Peter Hutchinson, Maya Rossi, Joan Palmateer, Giulio Magnolia, Rose Aispuro, Carrie Casano, Jaye K. Danford, Darryl D. Stewart, Greg Wilmarth.
Storyline:
Director Barry Levinson follows up the low-budget An Everlasting Piece (2000) with another comedy, this one of the homegrown variety from former Twin Peaks (1990) TV series writer Harley Peyton. Bruce Willis stars as suave bank robber Joe, who has escaped from prison with his hypochondriac buddy Terry (Billy Bob Thornton). Together, the two men have devised a clever scheme to take a bank officer h ...
Be Cool (2005)

Genre: Crime, Crime Comedy.
Director: F. Gary Gray.
Actors: John Travolta, Uma Thurman, Vince Vaughn, Cedric the Entertainer, André Benjamin, Steven Tyler, Robert Pastorelli, Christina Milian, Paul Adelstein, Debi Mazar, Greg Alan Williams, Harvey Keitel, The Rock, Danny DeVito, James Woods, Kimberly J. Brown, James Gandolfini, Minae Noji, Taboo.
Storyline:
Underworld hipster Chili Palmer is back in the entertainment business in this sequel to the 1995 hit Get Shorty, which like the first film is based on a novel by Elmore Leonard. Gangster-turned-movie producer Chili (once again played by John Travolta) has grown tired of the screen trade, especially after his latest project turned out to be a box-office flop. Chili is looking for new horizons and t ...
Beautiful Joe (2000)

Genre: Comedy, Crime, Black Comedy, Crime Comedy, Gangster Film.
Director: Stephen Metcalfe.
Actors: Billy Connolly, Sharon Stone, Ian Holm, Gil Bellows.
Storyline:
A dying man finds that horses, blondes, and the Mob may end his life faster than cancer in this dark comedy from the U.K. Joe (Billy Connolly) is a regular guy who runs a flower shop and has never had much in the way of good luck. Things seem to be grim for Joe when he's diagnosed with a brain tumor, but a bit of good fortune appears on the horizon when he wins a jackpot at the racetrack. However, ...
Big Nothing (2006)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy.
Director: Jean-Baptiste Andrea.
Actors: David Schwimmer, Simon Pegg, Alice Eve, Jon Polito, Natascha McElhone, Mimi Rogers.
Storyline:
Director Jean-Baptiste Andrea's wicked, jet-black comic thriller Big Nothing stars Friends mainstay David Schwimmer as Charlie Wood, a onetime American professor now married to a policewoman, Penelope (Natascha McElhone) and living in Oregon. As the story opens, Charlie takes a job as a telephone operator at an Information Technology call support center, but is promptly fired for making offensive ...
Blonde and Blonder (2007)

Genre: Comedy, Farce, Crime Comedy.
Director: Dean Hamilton.
Actors: Pamela Anderson, Denise Richards, Emmanuelle Vaugier, Meghan Ory, Byron Mann, Kevin Farley, John Farley.
Storyline:
When two dim-witted blonde bombshells are mistaken for the underworld's most cunning assassins, they are approached with a lucrative contract to take out the head of the Chinese mafia in a globe-trotting, air-headed comedy starring Pamela Anderson and Denise Richards. Two fair-haired beauties have just witnessed a high-profile mob hit, and now the Godfather is convinced that they have what it take ...
Bring Me the Head of Mavis Davis (1997)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy.
Director: John Henderson.
Actors: Rik Mayall, Jane Horrocks, Danny Aiello, Ronald Pickup, Philip Martin-Brown, Jaclyn Mendoza, Mark Heap, Paul Keating, Daniel Abineri.
Storyline:
John Henderson directed this British comedy, taking a peek inside the British music industry. Record-company owner Marty Starr (Rik Mayall) concludes that Marla Dorland, aka Mavis Davis (Jane Horrocks) is fading. Meanwhile, he has to meet alimony payments to his ex (Jaclyn Mendoza), while he's forced to promote the untalented son of a mobster, Rathbone (Danny Aiello). To get out from under, Marty ...
Bringing Down the House (2003)

Genre: Comedy, Comedy of Errors, Crime Comedy, Odd Couple Film.
Director: Adam Shankman.
Actors: Steve Martin, Queen Latifah, Eugene Levy, Joan Plowright, Jean Smart, Missi Pyle, Kimberly J. Brown, Steve Harris, Angus T. Jones, Michael Rosenbaum, Betty White, Alonzo Bodden, Sundy Carter, Michael Ensign, Aengus James, Tracey Cherelle Jones, Matt Lutz, Victor Webster.
Storyline:
A man looking for a woman just like himself ends up with someone quite different in this farcical comedy. Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) is a lawyer who is having trouble getting his life back on track after his wife, Kate (Jean Smart), divorces him; he's also adjusting to his new status as a single father. Looking for companionship, Peter tries an internet dating site and virtually meets "la ...
Chain of Fools (2000)

Genre: Comedy, Romantic Comedy, Crime Comedy, Detective Film.
Director: Traktor.
Actors: Steve Zahn, Salma Hayek, Jeff Goldblum, Lara Flynn Boyle, Tom Wilkinson, David Cross, Elijah Wood, David Hyde Pierce, Orlando Jones, Kevin Corrigan, Michael Rapaport, Devon Drewitz, Claudia Schiffer.
Storyline:
In this independent comedy, a man finds stolen treasure cannot change his bad luck. A luckless barber (Steve Zahn), despondent over his life's downhill slide, is considering suicide when he comes across a stash of rare and valuable coins. But the coins turn out to be stolen, and before long, an increasing number of strange people are after him, the coins, and each other, including hired thief Avne ...
Crime Fiction (2007)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy.
Director: Will Slocombe.
Actors: Jonathan Eliot, Christian Stolte, Amy Sloan, Yasen Peyankov, Katrina Lenk, Dan Bakkedahl.
Storyline:
A twenty-six year old copy editor with dreams of literary stardom finds inspiration under the most macabre circumstances in this dark crime comedy from director Wil Slocombe. James Cooper is something of a failure; his first book was panned, his agent has dumped him, and he spends his days editing bone-dry textbooks in a dank Chicago basement. To add insult to injury, his girlfriend has recently b ...
Crimewave (1985)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy, Slapstick, Screwball Comedy.
Director: Sam Raimi.
Actors: Reed Birney, Sheree J. Wilson, Louise Lasser, Paul L. Smith, Brion James, Bruce Campbell, Edward R. Pressman, Hamid Dana, Richard Bright, Barbara Claman, Sean Farley, John Hardy, Julius Harris, Neil Laurie, Emil Sitka, Patrick Stack, Robert Symonds.
Storyline:
In a slapstick spoof of hitmen and crime stories, the head of a security systems company (Hamid Dana) is bumped off by two gonzo exterminators (Brion James and Paul L. Smith) who have gone from stomping out pesky varmints to stomping out human targets, and one of them does so with gusto. Now the exterminators go after the partner who hired them and his blatantly obnoxious wife (Louise Lasser) and ...
Dead Silence (1990)

Genre: Comedy, Showbiz Comedy, Crime Comedy.
Director: Harrison Ellenshaw.
Actors: Clete Keith, Doris Anne Soyka, Joseph Scott, Craig Fleming.
Storyline:
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy.
Director: Frank Oz.
Actors: Steve Martin, Michael Caine, Glenne Headly, Anton Rodgers, Barbara Harris, Ian McDiarmid, Dana Ivey, Nathalie Auffret, Georges Gerrard Baffos, Valerie Beaufils, Nicole Calfan, Frances Conroy, Rupert Holliday Evans, Meagen Fay, Jerry Goodman, Hepburn Graham, Xavier Maly, Cheryl Pay, André Penvern, Lolly Susi, Aina Walle, Louis Zorich.
Storyline:
Dirty Rotten Scoundrels is a remake of the 1964 film farce Bedtime Story. Steve Martin and Michael Caine take over the roles originally played by Marlon Brando and David Niven: two international con artists, plying their trade on gullible wealthy women up and down the Riviera. Martin and Caine vie over the honor of fleecing ingenuous heiress Glenne Headly (in a role originated by Shirley Jones).
Dos Tipos Duros (2003)

Genre: Crime, Action Comedy, Crime Comedy.
Director: Juan Martinez Moreno.
Actors: Antonio Resines, Elena Anaya, Rosa María Sardà, Jordi Vilches, Joan Crosas, Mariola Fuentes, Manuel Alexandre, Jaime Blanch, Fele Martínez.
Storyline:
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First Sunday (2008)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy, Urban Comedy, Religious Comedy.
Director: David E. Talbert.
Actors: Ice Cube, Katt Williams, Tracy Morgan, Loretta Devine, Michael Beach, Keith David, Regina Hall, Malinda Williams, Chi McBride, Olivia Cole, Tiffany Pollard, Rickey Smiley.
Storyline:
Gospel-minded playwright David E. Talbert produces, writes, and directs this urban crime comedy concerning a pair of criminals who take a group of church parishioners hostage while attempting to rob the holy house, only to find their captives slowly convincing them to repent and give up their lawless lifestyles. Durell (Ice Cube) and LeeJohn (Tracy Morgan) are two best friends with a special knack ...
Fun With Dick And Jane (1977)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy, Caper.
Director: Ted Kotcheff.
Actors: George Segal, Jane Fonda, Ed McMahon, Dick Gautier, Allan Miller, John Dehner, Mary Jackson, Walter Brooke, Sean Frye, James Jeter, Maxine Stuart, Fred Willard, Selma Archerd, John Brandon, Burke Byrnes, William Callaway, Jean Carson, Richard Crystal, Ji-Tu Cumbuka, Thayer David, Cora Lee Day, Art Evans, Richard Foronjy, Hank Garcia, Louis Guss, Harry Holcombe, Darrow Igus, DeWayne Jessie, Richard Karron, Richard Keith, Robert Lussier, Ed Marshall, Jimmy Martinez, Santos Morales, Mickey Morton, Tom Peters, William Pierson, Anne Ramsey, Thalmus Rasulala, Debi Storm, Gloria Stroock.
Storyline:
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How to Rob a Bank (2007)

Genre: Crime, Escape Film, Caper, Crime Comedy.
Director: Andrews Jenkins.
Actors: Nick Stahl, Erika Christensen, Gavin Rossdale, Terry Crews, David Carradine, Leo Fitzpatrick, Adriano Aragon, Britt De Lano.
Storyline:
Nick Stahl, Erika Christensen, and Gavin Rossdale star in a high-stakes caper film in which the only thing for certain is that nothing is as it seems. Fed up with the manner in which super-sized corporations continually stack the deck against the common man, Jason "Jinx" Taylor (Stahl) reaches his wit's end after attempting to withdraw his last 20 dollars from the bank and getting refuse ...
Hudson Hawk (1991)

Genre: Comedy, Action, Action Comedy, Crime Comedy, Caper.
Director: Michael Lehmann.
Actors: Bruce Willis, Danny Aiello, Andie MacDowell, Sandra Bernhard, Richard E. Grant, James Coburn, Donald Burton, Don Harvey, David Caruso, Andrew Bryniarski, Lorraine Toussaint, P. Randall Bowers, Leo Cimino, Massimo Ciprari, Giangiacomo Colli, William Conrad, Scott Eddo, Burtt Harris, Michael Klastorin, Enrico Lo Verso, John Lucantonio, Steven M. Martin, Douglas Brian Martin, Stefano Molinari, Frank Page, Lisa Reich, Remo Remotti, John Savident, Courtenay Semel, Frank Stallone, Bob Vazquez, Giselda Volodi, Frank Welker, Arthur M. Wolpinsky, Carmine Zozzora.
Storyline:
Michael Lehmann directed this post-modernist hash of To Catch a Thief and The Naked Gun starring Bruce Willis as Hudson Hawk, a cat burglar who wants to go straight, but the circumstances won't allow it. The story begins in a pre-credit sequence that takes place in the renaissance. Leonardo Da Vinci (Stefano Molinari) is rushing through his Mona Lisa painting to work on his latest invention &m ...
In China They Eat Dogs (1999)

Genre: Comedy, Caper, Comedy Thriller, Crime Comedy.
Director: Lasse Spang Olsen.
Actors: Dejan Cukie, Kim Bodnia, Trine Dyrholm, Nikolaj Kaas, Tomas Villum Jensen, Peter Gantzler, Line Kruse, Brian Patterson, Lester Wiese.
Storyline:
A man looking to spice up his life gets a bit more excitement than he expected in this manic crime comedy. Arvid (Dejan Cukie) is a bank teller whose life has fallen into a rut — so deep a rut that his girlfriend, Henne (Trine Dyrholm), breaks up with him for being too dull. Hoping to put some much-needed adventure into his life, Arvid helps stop a robbery at the bank by bashing would-be ...
In the Mix (2005)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy, Romantic Comedy.
Director: Ron Underwood.
Actors: Usher Raymond, Emmanuelle Chriqui, Chazz Palminteri, Robert Davi, Matt Gerald, Anthony Fazio, Kevin Hart, Isis Faust, K.D. Aubert, Eldon "Emaze" Baizar, Erin Cardillo, John David Conti, Robert Costanzo, Deezer D, Griffin Dellaverson, Jennifer Echols, Robert Gallo, Mat Gifford, Dwight Hicks, Alfred Jackson, Page Kennedy, Nick Mancuso, Mieko, Lucille M. Oliver, Gary "G1000" Randolph, Kristen Renton, Geoff Stults, Chris Tardio, Dominic Testa, Misti Traya, Lana Underwood, Labyron "Chaos" Walton, Kelli Williams.
Storyline:
R&B star Usher Raymond plays his first starring role in this story which blends crime with romantic comedy. Darrell (Usher Raymond) is a successful club DJ who one night unexpectedly rescues a woman from a dangerous situation. It turns out the woman in question is the wife of Frank Pacelli (Chazz Palminteri), one of New York City's most powerful mobsters. To show his appreciation, Pacelli give ...
Jimmy the Gent (1934)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy.
Director: Michael Curtiz.
Actors: James Cagney, Bette Davis, Alice White, Allen Jenkins, Alan Dinehart, Arthur Hohl, Phillip Reed, Hobart Cavanaugh, Mayo Methot, Ralf Harolde, Philip Faversham, Nora Lane, Monica Bannister, Tom Costello, Joseph Crehan, Lester Dorr, Donald Douglas, Jay Eaton, Harold Entwistle, Dick French, Eula Guy, Ben Hendricks, Jr., Charles Hickman, Howard Hickman, Harry Holman, Robert E. Homans, Olaf Hytten, Merna Kennedy, Milt Kibbee, Lorena Layson, Stanley Mack, Lee Moran, Leonard Mudie, Vesey O'Davoren, Dennis O'Keefe, Camille Rovelle, Joe Sawyer, Eddie Shubert, Harry Wallace, Juliet Ware, Robert Warwick, Billy West, Renee Whitney, Pat Wing.
Storyline:
James Cagney runs a shady missing-heir tracing service, occasionally providing phony heirs in order to collect his fee. He suffers a tinge of jealousy when he takes a gander at the offices of a legitimate tracing firm, where his former girlfriend (Bette Davis) has taken a job. Jimmy soon learns that the reputable organization's boss (Alan Dinehart) is more crooked than Jimmy ever was, but he can't ...
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)

Genre: Comedy, Black Comedy, Crime Comedy.
Director: Robert Hamer.
Actors: Dennis Price, Alec Guinness, Valerie Hobson, Joan Greenwood, Miles Malleson, Arthur Lowe, Clive Morton, John Penrose, Cecil Ramage, John Salew, Peggy Ann Clifford, Lynn Evans, Audrey Fields, Hugh Griffith, Barbara Leake, Eric Messiter, Richard Wattis, Anne Valery.
Storyline:
Alec Guinness gets to die eight times, playing a line of successors to a dukedom, in the Ealing black comedy Kind Hearts and Coronets. Louis Mazzini (Dennis Price) is ninth in line to inherit the dukedom from the aristocratic D'Ascoyne family. Louis vows to kill all eight people who stand between him and the duke's title. Aside from two cases of natural causes, Louis works through the list, elimin ...
Le Corniaud (1965)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy.
Director: Gérard Oury.
Actors: Louis de Funès, Bourvil, Beba Loncar, Jacques Ary, Lando Buzzanca, Alida Chelli, Walter Chiari, Guy Delorme, José-Luis de Villalonga, Jean Droze, Michel Galabru, Henri Genes, Jean Lefebvre, Jean Meyer, Daniela Rocca, Saro Urzi, Venantino Venantini, Henri Virlojeux.
Storyline:
In this French comedy, a clever fellow proves himself smarter than the gangsters who would exploit him. The trouble begins in Paris when the vacationing hero accidentally gets into an auto accident with a smuggler. The crook is most apologetic for the mishap and kindly offers to let him drive his Cadillac to Bordeaux and continue with his holiday. The poor traveler doesn't know that the vehicle is ...
Little Man (2006)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy, Comedy of Errors.
Director: Keenen Ivory Wayans.
Actors: Marlon Wayans, Shawn Wayans, Kerry Washington, John Witherspoon, Tracy Morgan, Lochlyn Munro, Chazz Palminteri, Gabe Pimental, Molly Shannon, Linden Porco, David Alan Grier, Dave Sheridan, Fred Stoller, Brittany Daniel, Alex Borstein, Coffield Kelly Park, Damien Wayans, Gary Owen, John De Santis, Chloe Mathews, Matthew Ast, Reece Leslie Knight, Malcom Scott, Christopher Gauthier, Nancy Bell, Ken Kramer, Glenn Ennis, Moneca Delain, Sabine Raskin, Sebastian Godbout, Michael Bardach, Fraser Attcheson, Anthony St. John, Christopher Burns, Mark Docherty, Peter Hanlon, Jeff Ballard, Kai Kennedy, Isaiah States, Stephen Thompson, Anthony Harrison, Josh Laster, Samantha Laster, Brett Irving Coppa, Taylor Weaver.
Storyline:
Fate brings a childless couple a bundle of joy — who happens to have a criminal record — in this comedy directed by Keenen Ivory Wayans. Calvin Simms (Marlon Wayans) is a master criminal who with the help of his friend and sidekick, Percy (Tracy Morgan), plans a daring robbery of a museum where one of the world's largest diamonds is on display. One of reasons Calvin is able to ...
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels (1998)

Genre: Crime, Crime Comedy, Caper, Buddy Film.
Director: Guy Ritchie.
Actors: Jason Flemyng, Dexter Fletcher, Nick Moran, Jason Statham, Steven Mackintosh, Vinnie Jones, Sting, Lenny McLean, P.H. Moriarty, Steve Sweeney, Frank Harper, Stephen Marcus, Peter McNicholl, Vas Blackwood, Jake Abraham, Stephen Callender-Ferrier, Suzy Ratner, Danny John-Jules.
Storyline:
British writer Guy Ritchie made his feature directorial debut with this crime-caper comedy-drama set in London's East End and heavy on the Cockney dialogue (with one scene in subtitled Cockney rhyming slang). A big-bucks scheme goes awry: Cardsharp Eddy (Nick Moran) and pals Bacon (Jason Statham), Tom (Jason Flemyng), and Soap (Dexter Fletcher) scuffle to pile up enough money to put Eddy at the ca ...
Mad Money (2008)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy, Caper.
Director: Callie Khouri.
Actors: Diane Keaton, Queen Latifah, Katie Holmes, Ted Danson, Stephen Root, Christopher McDonald, Adam Rothenberg, Roger R. Cross, Finesse Mitchell, Meagen Fay, J.C. MacKenzie.
Storyline:
A woman who was used to the finer things in life is suddenly thrust back into the work force after her husband gets downsized in writer/director Callie Khouri's (Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood) American adaptation of the hit British comedy Hot Money. Faced with the prospect of losing her home as her debt begins to mount, posh housewife Bridget (Diane Keaton) accepts a job on the midnight c ...
Mafioso (1962)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy.
Director: Alberto Lattuada.
Actors: Alberto Sordi, Ugo Attanasio, Michele Bally, Norma Bengell, Cinzia Bruno.
Storyline:
In this crime comedy with heavy neorealist influence, Antonio (Alberto Sordi) is a Sicilian auto plant worker who has almost completely forsaken his southern Italian roots by marrying a fair-haired girl from the north and conceiving two children with her. As the movie opens, Antonio prepares to round up the family and take them on a vacation to his native town of Calamo, Sicily. Before he leaves ...
Man Bites Dog (1991)

Genre: Comedy Drama, Black Comedy, Media Satire, Satire, Crime Comedy.
Director: Remy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Benoît Poelvoorde.
Actors: Benoît Poelvoorde, Remy Belvaux, André Bonzel, Jean-Marc Chenut, Alain Oppezzi, Vincent Tavier, Steven Artels, Stephanie Aubier, Stéphane Aubier, Emmanuelle Bada, Bruno Belvaux, Lucien Belvaux, Philippe Blasband, Paul Bottemanne, Jean-Pol Cavillot, Antoine Chapelot, Olivier Cotica, Gina Cotica, Ricardo Cotica, Josephs Craeynest, Laurence D'Hondt, Rachel Deman, Jenny Drye, Fernaud Dubois, Marcel Engels, Alexandra Fandango, Aldo Fostier, Alain François, Clotilde Francois, Jean-Paul Geets, Irene Gilissen, Sylviane Godé, Patrick Goisse, Alain Hologne, Micheline Hologne, Anny Hologne, Andre Kuys, Anne LaGrange, André Laime, Pascal Lebrun, Edith Le Merdy, Bob Lens, Elaine Leonard, Malou Madou, Benoit Mariage, Jean-Claude Maschetti, Vincent Merveille, Carlos Miranda, Nelly Pappaert, Hector Pappaert, Valérie Parent, Franco Piscopo, Jacqueline Poelvoorde-Pappaert, Venelin Poikov, Annamaria Szomolanyiova, Hughes Tavier, Sabine Tavier, Bertrand Tavier, Zoltan Tobolik, Marie Travier, Daniel Tursh, Pierre Vanbraekel, Willy Vandenbroeck, Pol Vanderwarren, Willy Van De Waele.
Storyline:
Man Bites Dog is a Belgian faux-documentary and high-concept satire of media violence which follows the lethal exploits of Benoit Benoit Poelvoorde, an affable, and very talkative, serial killer. He kills for money, and he kills for pleasure, and he talks all the while about philosophy and the proper technique for weighing a corpse down underwater. He is followed through his slaughter-fest by the ...
Moordwijven (2007)

Genre: Comedy, Action Comedy, Crime Comedy.
Director: Dick Maas.
Actors:
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The Dutch-language comedy-of-errors Moordwijven observes the trials and travails of three hapless housewives who commission a hired killer to rub out one of their philandering husbands. Lo and behold, their scheme fails to go as planned and leads to all sorts of riotous complications.
My Name Is Anthony Gonsalves (2008)

Genre: Comedy, Comedy of Errors, Crime Comedy, Romantic Comedy.
Director: E. Niwas.
Actors: Nikhil Dwivedi.
Storyline:
E. Niwas's zany Bollywood crime comedy My Name is Anthony Gonsalves concerns the title character, an orphan bereft of his parents at a tender age and pulled from the Mumbai streets by the local gangster Sikander, who becomes his guardian. As an adult, Anthony inevitably ends up in the middle of criminal activity even as he frequently turns to a religious figure, Father Braganza, for counsel and gu ...
National Security (2003)

Genre: Comedy, Action, Action Comedy, Crime Comedy, Odd Couple Film.
Director: Dennis Dugan.
Actors: Martin Lawrence, Steve Zahn, Colm Feore, Bill Duke, Eric Roberts, Timothy Busfield, Robinne Lee, Matt McCoy, Brett Cullen, Cleo King, Stephen Tobolowsky, Joe Flaherty, Amy Aquino, John Henry Binder, Mike Brady, Joe Bucaro III, Carl Ciarfalio, Keith Cooke, Maia Danziger, Gerry Del Sol, Andy Dugan, Hal Fishman, Jackie Flynn, Tom Forrest, Bruce Franklin, Troy M. Gilbert, Mickey Gilbert, Mike Grasso, Noel Guglielmi, Robert Harvey, Benjamin Hernandez, Hiep Thi Le, Leslie Jones, Ken Lerner, Dawnn Lewis, Terry Logan, Mark Lonow, Jonathan Loughran, Jocko Marcellino, Bobby McLaughlin, Mari Morrow, Wayne Morse, Richardson Morse, Jeff Ross, Anthony Schmidt, Greg Serano, Daniel Sudick, Margaret Travolta, Amanda Van Roberts.
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Adversaries become wary allies in this free-wheeling action comedy. Hank Rafferty (Steve Zahn) is a Los Angeles Police Department officer who finds himself out of a job after he becomes involved in a violent altercation with police academy flunk-out Earl Montgomery (Martin Lawrence), escalating into a media event which brings the LAPD a wealth of bad publicity. Unable to find work, Hank finally ta ...
Nothing to Lose (1997)

Genre: Comedy, Buddy Film, Crime Comedy, Road Movie, Odd Couple Film.
Director: Steve Oedekerk.
Actors: Martin Lawrence, Tim Robbins, John C. McGinley, Giancarlo Esposito, Kelly Preston, Michael McKean, Rebecca Gayheart, Susan Barnes, Irma P. Hall, Patrick Cranshaw, Lisa Mende.
Storyline:
Two men with nothing in common become unlikely companions in this comedy. Advertising executive Nick Beame (Tim Robbins) is not having a good day when he comes home from work to discover that his wife Ann (Kelly Preston) is having an affair with another man — who, adding insult to injury, happens to be his boss, Phillip Barrow (Michael McKean). Deeply depressed, Nick hops into his SUV an ...
One Two Three (2008)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy, Comedy of Errors.
Director: Ashwani Dheer.
Actors: Tusshar Kapoor, Sunil Shetty, Paresh Rawal, Esha Deol, Sameera Reddy, Neetu Chandra, Upen Patel, Tanishaa, Mukesh Tiwari, Vrajesh Hirjee, Manoj Pahva.
Storyline:
A valuable cache of diamonds have been stolen from a dangerous mafia boss, and as a pair of incompetent henchmen set out to recover the jewels a quick-tempered policeman makes it his mission to jail every offender who crosses his path. The three misfits who immediately draw his suspicions are an aspiring mafioso who needs to make his first hit in order to truly become part of the family, an M.B.A. ...
Puff, Puff, Pass (2006)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy.
Director: Mekhi Phifer.
Actors: Mo Collins, Terry Crews, Scott Grimes, Darrell Hammond, Constance Marie, Danny Masterson, John C. McGinley, Mekhi Phifer, Ashley Scott, Ronnie Warner.
Storyline:
Two hapless stoners who have grown tired rehab become willingly locked into a dangerous scheme to rip off the city's most feared criminal kingpin in this smoked-out comedy starring Danny Masterson and Mekhi Phifer, and rolled in the red-eyed tradition of such Cheech and Chong classics as Up in Smoke. In the world of pot-heads Larry (Masterson) and Rico (Ronnie Warner), the name Mr. Big is a name t ...
Pulp Fiction (1994)

Genre: Crime, Crime Comedy, Ensemble Film, Gangster Film.
Director: Quentin Tarantino.
Actors: John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel, Bruce Willis, Tim Roth, Amanda Plummer, Ving Rhames, Eric Stoltz, Rosanna Arquette, Christopher Walken, Maria de Medeiros, Frank Whaley, Quentin Tarantino, Angela Jones, Peter Greene, Alexis Arquette, Lawrence Bender, Don Blakely, Steve Buscemi, Paul Calderon, Eric Clark, Bronagh Gallagher, Michael Gilden, Kathy Griffin, Susan Griffiths, Stephen Hibbert, Brenda Hillhouse, Linda Kaye, Phil LaMarr, Lorelei Leslie, Karen Maruyama, Dick Miller, Joseph Pilato, Robert Ruth, Emil Sitka, Burr Steers, Julia Sweeney, Rich Turner, Venessia Valentino, Duane Whitaker.
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Outrageously violent, time-twisting, and in love with language, Pulp Fiction was widely considered the most influential American movie of the 1990s. Director and co-screenwriter Quentin Tarantino synthesized such seemingly disparate traditions as the syncopated language of David Mamet; the serious violence of American gangster movies, crime movies, and films noirs mixed up with the wacky violence ...
Raising Arizona (1987)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy, Domestic Comedy.
Director: Joel Coen.
Actors: Nicolas Cage, Holly Hunter, Trey Wilson, John Goodman, William Forsythe, Sam McMurray, Frances McDormand, Randall "Tex" Cobb, T.J. Kuhn, Lynne Dumin Kitel, Peter Benedek, Richard Alexander, Bill Andres, Jeremy Arendt, Jeremy Babendure, Carver Barnes, Richard Blake, Sidney Dawson, Bill Dobbins, Warren Forsythe, Mary Francis Glenn, Robert Gray, Ashley Hammon, Crystal Hiller, Olivia Hughes, Keith Jandacek, Warren Keith, Rusty Lee, Emily Malin, Melanie Malin, Margaret H. McCormack, Craig McLaughlin, Troy Nabors, Ralph Norton, John O'Donnal, Frank Outlaw, Cody Ranger, William Preston Robertson, Bill Rocz, Todd Michael Rogers, Adam Savageau, Benjamin Savageau, David Schneider, Mary Seibel, Charles "Lew" Smith, Michael Stewart, Dennis Sullivan, Henry Tank, M. Emmet Walsh, James Yeater, Ruben Young.
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Combining influences from Tex Avery cartoons to Sam Raimi horror movies to 1940s B-movies, Joel Coen and Ethan Coen followed up the stylish film noir of their debut, Blood Simple (1984), with this frantic screwball comedy. H.I. "Hi" McDonnough (Nicholas Cage) is a philosophical but slightly dim career criminal who has been arrested so often that he gets to know "Ed," short for ...
Redrum (2007)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy, Black Comedy.
Director: Kenny Young.
Actors: Jill Marie Jones, Kenny Young, Joe Torry, Jenifer Lewis, Terri J. Vaughn, Reginald Ballard, Rodney Perry, Chris Spencer.
Storyline:
The couple that slays together stays together in this satirical suspense comedy about a bored husband and wife who accidentally discover that they're natural born killers. Brian and Tanya Diggs have always been the timid couple that is too self-conscious to cut loose and have fun. When therapy fails and all the passion in their relationship withers away, Brian and Tanya become convinced that they ...
Ruthless People (1986)

Genre: Comedy, Farce, Crime Comedy.
Director: Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker.
Actors: Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold, Helen Slater, Anita Morris, Bill Pullman, William G. Schilling, Art Evans, Clarence Felder, J.E. Freeman, Phyllis Applegate, Jeannine Bisignano, Arturo Bonilla, J.P. Bumstead, Jonathan Coleman, Jon Cutler, Jim Doughan, Christopher Keene, Twyla Littleton, Gary Riley, Janet Rotblatt, Frank Sivero, Susan Marie Snyder, Arnold Turner, Bob Tzudiker, Louise Yaffe, Charlotte Zucker.
Storyline:
The last film to be co-directed by Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, and Jerry Zucker, Ruthless People stars Bette Midler (capitalizing on her comeback performance in Down and Out in Beverly Hills) as Barbara, a spoiled rich woman who is kidnapped by the kindly Ken and Sandy Kessler (Judge Reinhold and Helen Slater). Barbara's forceful husband Sam (Danny DeVito) has ripped off the Kesslers and they deci ...
Saving Grace (2000)

Genre: Comedy, Crime Comedy, Comedy of Manners.
Director: Nigel Cole.
Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Craig Ferguson, Martin Clunes, Tchéky Karyo, Jamie Forman, Bill Bailey, Valerie Edmond, Clive Merrison, Leslie Phillips, Diana Quick, Phyllida Law, Ken Campbell.
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Waking Ned Divine (1998) meets Up in Smoke (1978) in this wacky British comedy about growing marijuana. Grace Trevethan (Brenda Blethyn is a cheerful upper-class housewife and gardening enthusiast who is blithefully unaware of business matters. This all changes when she learns that her husband fell from an airplane without a parachute. Her husband's numerous hare-brained schemes at getting rich qu ...
Screwed (2000)

Genre: Comedy, Buddy Film, Comedy of Errors, Crime Comedy.
Director: Scott Alexander, Larry Karaszewski.
Actors: Norm MacDonald, Dave Chappelle, Elaine Stritch, Danny DeVito, Daniel Benzali, Sherman Hemsley, Sarah Silverman, Malcolm Stewart, Lochlyn Munro.
Storyline:
Scott Alexander and Larry Karaszewski, the screenwriting team who penned Ed Wood, The People vs. Larry Flynt, and Man on the Moon, made their debut as directors with this broad comedy. Norm MacDonald stars as a chauffeur who decides to get revenge on his wealthy boss by kidnapping her dog. Produced under the titles Pittsburgh, Ballbusted, and Foolproof, Screwed also stars Danny De Vito, Dave Chapp ...
Snatch (2000)

Genre: Crime, Crime Comedy, Caper.
Director: Guy Ritchie.
Actors: Benicio Del Toro, Dennis Farina, Vinnie Jones, Brad Pitt, Jason Statham, Alan Ford, Rade Serbedzija, Robbie Gee, Lennie James, Ewen Bremner, Jason Flemyng, Stephen Graham, Adam Fogerty, Mike Reid.
Storyline:
Guy Ritchie's sophomore follow-up to his 1998 sleeper hit Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch revisits the previous film's territory of London's crime-ridden underbelly, and does so with the same brand of humor and stylish direction that made Ritchie's first effort a surprise success. With a labyrinthine plot that is ostensibly oriented around a missing diamond, Snatch introduces viewers ...
That Sinking Feeling (1979)

Genre: Crime, Crime Comedy.
Director: Bill Forsyth.
Actors: Robert Buchanan, John Hughes, Billy Greenlees, Douglas Sannachan, Alan Love, Danny Benson, John Gordon Sinclair, Eddie Burt, Tom Mannion, Margaret Adams, Alex Mackenzie, David Scott Milton, Janette Rankin, Dave Scott.
Storyline:
Bill Forsyth displays some of the fey quirkiness that would distinguish his later, better-known directorial efforts in 1979's That Sinking Feeling. The film details the misadventures of four aimless Scottish youths, who impulsively steal a shipment of stainless-steel sinks. Once they've made off with their booty, the boys have quite a time unloading it on prospective buyers. Much of the humor is v ...
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