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In China They Eat Dogs (1999)
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Original name: I Kina spiser de hunde
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
An intent fast paced Danish dark comedy film about two separately motivated brothers who with their slightly psychopathic tendencies end up in a touchy situation. One brother gets in serious trouble after a bank robbery and begs the other brother for help.
Style:
dark comedy, ironic, humorous, black comedy, melancholic, not serious, surreal, fast paced, cult classic, art house ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
closeted homosexual, bank robbery, crime gone awry, criminal heroes, eccentricity, brutality, violence, sarcasm, unlikely criminals, family relations, fish out of water, gangster, robbery, dark humor, bank, food, unlikely friendships, heist, death, mafia, twists and turns, poker, restaurant, conspiracy, city ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
denmark, china, asia, copenhagen, copenhagen denmark
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, humorous, semi serious and dark comedy films with plots about heist, crime gone awry, disorder, criminal heroes, robbery, gangster and gang mostly in Comedy, Crime and Action genres. Some movies like In China They Eat Dogs: Flickering Lights (2000), Snatch (2000), You Shoot, I Shoot (2001), Adam's Apples (2005), Redirected (2014). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
The last wish of the dying "Monk" is for his foster child, Harald, to find his real son, Ludvig. But the latter is currently in a Swedish prison cell...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, exciting, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
serial killer, dark humor, bank robbery, gang, fugitives, parents and children, prison, disorder, criminal heroes, partner, father son relationship, hustler ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
denmark, europe
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Four small gangsters from Copenhagen trick a gangster boss: they take over 4,000,000 kroner which they were supposed to bring him. Trying to escape to Barcelona they are forced to stop in the countryside, in an old, wrecked house, hiding there for ...
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, surreal, philosophical, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
gangster, friendship, heist, justice, going straight, criminal heroes, one last job, partner, hopes, career change, secret hideout, dark humor ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
denmark, europe, barcelona
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100%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
The second film from British director Guy Ritchie. Snatch tells an obscure story similar to his first fast-paced crazy character-colliding filled film “Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels.” There are two overlapping stories here – one is the ...
Style:
witty, funny, clever, humorous, dark comedy ...
Audience:
manly, boys' night, adult
Plot:
heist, caper, organized crime, gambling, gangster, sarcasm, underground fighting, twists and turns, group of criminals, cons and scams, master criminal, criminal heroes ...
Time:
90s, year 2000, 2000s, 20th century
Place:
england, london, britain, antwerp, belgium ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A card shark and his unwillingly-enlisted friends need to make a lot of cash quick after losing a sketchy poker match. To do this they decide to pull a heist on a small-time gang who happen to be operating out of the flat next door.
Style:
humorous, clever, dark comedy, witty, black comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
twists and turns, heist, dark humor, gangster, crime gone awry, disorder, organized crime, nothing goes right, scheme, friends, violent, rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, year 1998, 90s
Place:
london, britain, united kingdom, england, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A hired killer pairs up with an amateur filmmaker to provide clients with satisfying footage of enemies getting whacked in this black comedy. Business is down, so hit man Bart is thrilled when Mrs. Ma hires him to kill her enemies -- and film the ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, semi serious, suspense, dark comedy ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
hitman, partner, assassination, danger, unlikely partners, criminal heroes, blind ambition, revenge, murder, violence, police, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
china, asia, hong kong
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Germany
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A neo-nazi sentenced to community service at a church clashes with the blindly devotional priest.
Style:
dark comedy, black comedy, cynical, surreal, humorous ...
Plot:
priest, church, dark humor, religion, funeral, faith, belief, cynic, skinhead, neo nazism, neo nazi, prejudice ...
Time:
year 2005, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, denmark, saudi arabia, indonesia
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Lithuania
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Four friends become stranded in Eastern Europe and have to become hit men, prostitutes, corrupt cops, smugglers and more to make it home.
Style:
clever, humorous, exciting, harsh, factual ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
dark humor, partners in crime, cons and scams, escapades, friends, disorder, smuggling, twists and turns, murder, gambling, crime gone awry, cop ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
lithuania, middle east, britain, europe, berlin germany ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Denmark, UK
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Two bumbling scrap metal thieves - father and son - steal the wrong painting during a museum heist. The painting turns out to be the only original Rembrandt painting in Denmark, and all hell breaks loose. What do you do when you've got ...
Style:
semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
museum, nothing goes right, painting, crime gone awry, on the run, heist, art theft, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, disorder, chases and races, small time ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The Green Butchers (Danish: De grønne slagtere) is a black comedy featuring two butchers, Svend "Sweat" and Bjarne, who start their own shop to get away from their arrogant boss. Cannibalism is soon introduced to the plot, and further ...
Style:
dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, semi serious, parody ...
Plot:
cannibalism, butcher, dark humor, food, losing-it hero, crime gone awry, greed, friendship, family relations, workplace, buddies, business venture ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
europe, denmark, california
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A crook quietly plots his revenge against the boss who murdered his brother while working for him.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, erotic, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
bank robbery, nightclub, making love, clubbing, cons and scams, nothing goes right, criminal heroes, disorder, rivalry, buddies, vengeance, partner ...
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22%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Belgium, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Bennie, a clumsy criminal who's touchy about his weight, teams up with his adoptive father's biological (serial killer) son, his employees who in his absence turned his snack-bar into a quiche bakery, a suicidal manic-depressive woman and ...
Style:
parody, not serious, humorous, realistic, dark comedy ...
Plot:
chase, serial killer, nothing goes right, money, goofy hero, crime gone awry, heist, disorder, misfit partners, unlikely criminals, partner, bank robbery ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
holland, europe
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A loser of a crook and his wife strike it rich when a botched bank job's cover business becomes a spectacular success.
Style:
witty, talky, humorous, stylized, melancholic ...
Plot:
heist, bank robbery, love and romance, caper, corruption, robbery, unlikely criminals, bank robber, disorder, overnight success, couple relations, cons and scams ...
Time:
20th century, year 2000, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, new jersey
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
An out-of-town heist becomes a nightmare for a crew of French burglars when they mistakenly rob the head of the Chicago mafia. Unaccustomed to the ways of the American underworld, it is not long before they have the mafia, the FBI and a couple of ...
Style:
humorous, funny, witty, stylized, semi serious ...
Plot:
heist, gangster, mafia, brutality, crime gone awry, organized crime, robbery, caper, fbi, partner, comedy of errors, gang ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
chicago, usa, france, europe, canada
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Nelson, played by Corey Haim is a teenager who robs banks with his father in group along with two other friends. Corey Haim Is the right guy, in the right place, at the right time. All he needed was a ...fast getaway
Style:
exciting, semi serious, humorous, feel good, independent film ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
chase, partner, robbery, criminal heroes, escapades, disorder, youth, rivalry, family relations, danger, law enforcement, young heroes ...
Time:
90s
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Lou Diamond Phillips and Fred Gwynne team up with a gang of professional criminals who have everything it takes to rob a bank. The only things they do have going for them are a cop and his partner, who are dumber than they are! By the time the gang ...
Style:
parody, black comedy, humorous, independent film, neo noir ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
small town, lost in the woods, on the run, bank, heist, robbery, caper, sheriff, sabotage, river, law enforcement, chase ...
Time:
80s, year 1989
Place:
montana, new jersey, usa, las vegas
Similarity:
20%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After a failed bank robbery, an ex-con, an ex-waitress and a few of their friends train a pack of doberman dogs to rob a bank for them.
Style:
independent film, grindhouse, action thriller, ironic, semi serious ...
Plot:
doberman, dog, bank, bank robbery, heist, canine, money, dog training, waitress, bulldog, bank robber, robbery ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s, 20th century
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Three bank tellers. One goal: knock the place over. The ultimate inside jobs, plotted by three people with nothing to lose.
Style:
funny, melancholic, humorous, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
heist, bank robber, desert, robbery, small town, unlikely friendships, life philosophy, bank, friends, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, employee ...
Time:
year 2003
Place:
nevada
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
The owners of a failing security company start robbing houses to boost business.
Style:
humorous, exciting, semi serious, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
heist, robbery, crime gone awry, cons and scams, disorder, dishonesty, danger, couples, home invasion, moral ambiguity, escalation, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
19%
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An undercover police officer named Rock Keats befriends a drug dealer and car thief named Archie Moses in a bid to catch the villainous drug lord Frank Coltan. But the only problem is that Keats is a cop, his real name is Jack Carter, and he is ...
Style:
funny, entertaining, semi serious, humorous, light hearted ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
buddies, friendship, buddy, drug lord, betrayal, buddy cop, justice, unlikely friendships, adaptation, criminal heroes, working undercover, hidden identity ...
Time:
90s, 80s
Place:
arizona, usa, los angeles
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
The stories of a missing wife, a couple of meth heads and an Elvis impersonator are connected by the items found in a small town's pawn shop.
Style:
talky, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy, offbeat ...
Plot:
dark humor, crime gone awry, nothing goes right, disorder, vigilantism, small town, abduction, missing person, rivalry, artists and showbiz, kidnapping, obsessive quest ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, miami
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Mike has the girl, the time and the place.The problem is he doesn't have the ring, Before Mike has an opportunity to propose his engagement ring is stolen.Mike is desperate to recover it. He and his friends have one hour to get the ring back ...
Style:
exciting, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
gangster, obsessive quest, partner, criminal heroes, buddies, chases and races, chase, gang, fight, engagement, tough heroes, shootout ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new zealand
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Upstanding community leader Nils has just won an award for "Citizen of the Year" when he learns the news that his son has died of a heroin overdose. Suspecting foul play, Nils begins to investigate, and soon finds himself at the center of ...
Style:
psychological, dark comedy, black comedy, atmospheric, semi serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
revenge, gangster, gang, vigilantism, murder, betrayal, justice, loss of son, nordic, winter, family relations, drug dealing ...
Time:
future, year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
europe, eastern europe, scandinavia, berlin germany
Similarity:
19%
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An avid detective is assigned to investigate the heist of a batch of precious coins that end up in the hands of a suicidal barber.
Style:
clever, humorous, witty, black comedy, funny ...
Plot:
violence, crime gone awry, dark humor, love and romance, suicide, eccentricity, transvestite, drug, mentor, childhood, adaptation, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
90s, 70s
Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
Anker is released from prison after a fourteen year sentence for robbery. Anker’s brother, Manfred, is the only one who knows where the money from the heist is. Meanwhile, Manfred has developed a mental illness, causing him to forget where the ...
Style:
dark comedy, crime drama, emotional, melancholic, tense ...
Plot:
mental illness, brothers, brotherhood, memory, heist, family drama, character study, trauma, identity, redemption, regret, memory loss ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
When three redneck brothers agree to help a woman save her son from an abusive father, they become targets on the run from an odd cast of characters.
Style:
semi serious, rough, realistic, humorous, grindhouse ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
fight, murder, female killer, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, vengeance, on the run, disorder, nothing goes right, danger, crime gone awry, gang ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, austin texas
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
After unknowingly robbing a money laundering operation the heist crew must avoid mobsters.
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, rough, suspenseful ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
bank robbery, shootout, criminal heroes, disorder, chases and races, danger, gangster, law enforcement, crime gone awry, rivalry, good versus evil, bank ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Gary Oldman is Lynch, a strangely charming hit man in this explosively funny dark comedy in the tradition of Snatch and Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels. With an all-star cast including Terence Stamp, Elena Anaya, Robert Carlyle and Billy Zane, ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, tense, dark comedy, realistic
Plot:
hitman, gangster, psychopath, dark humor, vengeance, rivalry, danger, heist, murder, criminal heroes, criminal's revenge, drug ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england, europe
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...
Style:
humorous, suspense, talky, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
heist, diamond theft, robbery, bank robbery, museum, storytelling, lone hero, organized crime, police corruption, revenge, crime gone awry, perfect crime ...
Time:
20th century, 70s, year 1972
Place:
new york, long island, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
After being convicted for fraud, one month has passed since CHOI Chang-Hyuk's release from jail. But this time around he's got and elaborate plan cooked up. It's the biggest bank heist in history that'll make any thief have a wet ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, stylized, serious, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
heist, crime gone awry, law enforcement, disorder, cons and scams, betrayal, dishonesty, caper, asian prostitute, bank robbery, twists and turns, chases and races ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
asia, korea
Similarity:
18%
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In 1978, $20 million was stolen from a Detroit bank. One of the robbers was caught, one was found dead, and the third disappeared. The money was never found. Seven years later, the robber who was caught was released from jail. He immediately went to ...
Style:
humorous, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
law enforcement, gang, disorder, heist, friendship, crime gone awry, confined, dishonesty, kidnapping, missing person, partner, gangster ...
Time:
80s
Place:
miami, usa, florida
Similarity:
18%
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