Movies like Jo 1971

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Jo (1971)
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Jo (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Selling author, Antoine Brisebard is a victim of a blackmailer, Jo, which threatens to jeopardize his reputation by revealing the past of his wife Sylvia. While the latter must pass the same night to take possession of the money required, Brisebard accidentally kills ...
Style: funny, atmospheric, dark comedy, detective, metafiction, remake of american film
Plot: hide and seek, blackmail, hidden corpse, crime investigation, darkness, telephone call, actress, chaos, thunderstorm, garden, corpse, blackmailer, disposing of a dead body, police detective, pistol, gangster, dead body, police, police officer, writers, truck, party, excavation, investigator, fire ...
Place: france
Keyword: visit, trunk, gangsters

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, dark comedy, realistic and detective films with plots about police, murder, police officer, death, dead body, telephone call and shot to death mostly in Crime, Comedy and Thriller genres. Some movies like Jo: The Troops & Aliens (1979), The Troops & Troop-ettes (1982), The Troops of St. Tropez (1964), The Troops in New York (1965), Feeding Mr. Baldwin (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Troops & Aliens (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Sci-Fi
Country: France
Duration: 96 min.
Story: The bungling inspector Cruchot (Funès) finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that ...
Style: slapstick, not serious, exciting, humorous, fun
Plot: alien, evil alien, gendarme, police, gendarmerie, ufo, conspiracy, french police, space, visitor, clone, police officer ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: french riviera, cote d'azur, saint tropez, france, riviera ...
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100%
The Troops & Troop-ettes (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the ...
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, exciting, tense ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: gendarme, kidnapping, police, policewoman, law enforcement, comedy of errors, nothing goes right, goofy hero, workplace situations, yacht, beach, mother superior ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: france, saint tropez, provence, riviera, mediterranean sea ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
The Troops of St. Tropez (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The ambitious police officer Cruchot (Louis de Funès) is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling ...
Style: funny, humorous, realistic, light, satirical ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: gendarme, police, seaside, father daughter relationship, art theft, goofy hero, beach, incompetent police, yacht, comedy of errors, fighting crime, investigation ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, french riviera, cote d'azur, saint tropez, riviera ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
The Troops in New York (1965)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 102 min.
Story: The second installment of Gendarmes series, tells the story of Sergeant Cruchot (Louis De Funes), who, together with his faithful comrades, has been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.
Style: humorous, realistic, exciting, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: gendarme, law enforcement, stowaway, fish out of water, police, comedy of errors, daughter, goofy hero, nothing goes right, misfit, chase, family relations ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: usa, france, new york, manhattan new york city, empire state building manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Feeding Mr. Baldwin (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A house sitter bites off more than he can chew when a dead body mysteriously shows up at the estate he's watching.
Style: humorous, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, dark comedy ...
Plot: gangster, psychological manipulation, friendship between men, violent behavior, dog, gory, estate, trauma, shakespeare, cycling, house, television reporter ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
 6.2
 272
Mushrooms (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: In the tradition of Arsenic and Old Lace, comes this morbidly funny Australian tale of murder and mayhem at the hands of two charming old ladies.
Style: dark comedy, experimental, absurd, black comedy, detective ...
Plot: criminal, chicken, cooking, food, murder, death, on the run, coworker relationship, loan shark, conflict between friends, christmas present, drunken woman ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
 5.9
 713
Kamikaze (1986)
Genre: Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A scientist is fired from his job and bored with doing nothing at home he goes crazy and invents a system which allows him to reach through the airwaves and transform live TV cameras into weapons to kill the people he hates the most - TV presenters.
Style: detective, psychotronic, crying
Plot: vigilante, police protagonist, police, scheme, mysterious event, science gone wrong, serial murder, eavesdropping, blood, shooting, criminal, violent man ...
Place: paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.4
 776
The Octopus (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Gabriel, dit Le Poulpe (The Octopus) is a laid-back private investigator who works on cases for his own pleasure. He is drawn to the fictional Loire Valley port of Angerneau, with his lover Clotilde who has been summoned by the police concerning the ...
Style: dark comedy, detective, perverse, black comedy, weird
Plot: female nudity, lighthouse, alcoholism, nudity, dead body, hooker, investigator, submarine, deadpan, teeth, cemetery, prostitute ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Let's Rob the Bank (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Shopkeeper Victor Garnier has naively invested his family's life savings in an African mine, on his banker's recommendation. When the mine is nationalized, rendering the stock worthless, he considers himself shamelessly robbed by the bank; ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, spoof ...
Plot: heist, tunnel, bank, cons and scams, dark humor, parents, gold, disorder, crime gone awry, dancer's life, dishonesty, love and romance ...
Time: 60s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
 7.1
 13K
Ferpect Crime (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A playboy has the tables turned on him when he finds himself being used as a plaything by an undesirable woman in this black comedy from Spain.
Style: humorous, dark comedy, surreal, funny, black comedy ...
Plot: murder, store, satire, rivalry, character study, salesman, dangerous attraction, couples, blackmail, job promotion, department store, revenge ...
Time: year 2004, 2000s
Place: madrid
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Wave of Crimes (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Leyre lives a quiet and comfortable life which ends abruptly when an act of rage of her teenage son leads her to protect him by any means necessary.
Style: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, dark comedy ...
Plot: teenager, murder, business, family relations, police, mother, lawyer, cover up, corruption, money, love, grandmother ...
Place: basque country, spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.7
 12K
The Finger Man (1962)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 108 min.
Story: A stone-faced Jean-Paul Belmondo stars as enigmatic gangster Silien, who may or may not be responsible for squealing on Faugel (Serge Reggiani), just released from the slammer and already involved in what should have been a simple heist. By the end ...
Style: neo noir, bleak, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: gangster, betrayal, frame up, cons and scams, vengeance, criminal's revenge, criminal heroes, friendship, crime gone awry, tough heroes, spy, criminal ...
Time: 20th century, year 1963, year 1962, 60s
Place: europe, france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.5
 7K
Oscar (1967)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: This film originated as a play in Paris. The story focuses on the one-day adventures of Bertrand Barnier played with a genius of French cinema, Louis de Funes. In the same morning he learns that his daughter is pregnant, an employee stole a large ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, sincere, entertaining ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, farce, family relations, comedy of errors, disorder, fraud, blackmail, boss and employee, power relations, parents and children, cons and scams, greed ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.2
 2K
6ixtynin9 (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Thailand
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A woman, fired from a financial coorporation during the Asia crisis, returns home with no money. However, she finds a box with a fortune in front of her door, and decides to keep it. However, the people that left it there soon want it back.
Style: dark comedy, tense, stylized, atmospheric, suspenseful ...
Plot: gangster, self defense, mistaken identity, disorder, woman in danger, chase, money, serial killer, stolen money, death, murder, caper ...
Time: 90s
Place: thailand, asia, bangkok thailand
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Housemaid Georgette (Girardot) loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
Style: dark comedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, crying ...
Plot: money, bank, mushroom, cleaning lady, tv host, murder, blackmail, lgbtq, bourgeoisie, cadaver, fraud, dishonesty ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 60s
Place: france, paris france, monte carlo
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
 6.6
 3K
Jackpot (2011)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Terrified and bloody, Oscar Svendsen awakes clinched to a shotgun in a strippers joint. Around him 8 dead men, and police aiming at him. To Oscar it's clear that he is innocent. It all started when four chaps won 1,7 million on the pools.
Style: dark comedy, semi serious, humorous, suspenseful, dark ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: buddies, dark humor, murder, life turned upside down, friends, disorder, dishonesty, betrayal, disintegration, change of luck, gory, lottery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
The Stars Will Tell, Inspector Palmu (1962)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Ms. Alli Pelkonen's terrier finds a body from Tähtitorninmäki, that's thought to be a wino at first. But Inspector Palmu knows a little better. And yes, it was a murder. Tähdet kertovat, Komisario Palmu (1962) is directed by Matti ...
Style: black and white
Plot: female nudity, manor, medical examiner, jail cell, attempted murder, ex military, murder mystery, voice over narration, breaking the fourth wall, wounded, cigarette smoking, coroner ...
Time: 60s
Place: helsinki finland, finland
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.2
 108K
Clue (1985)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Clue finds six colorful dinner guests gathered at the mansion of their host, Mr. Boddy -- who turns up dead after his secret is exposed: He was blackmailing all of them. With the killer among them, the guests and Boddy's chatty butler must suss ...
Style: parody, funny, surprise ending, black comedy, humorous ...
Audience: chick flick, kids
Plot: whodunit, butler, multiple suspects, murder mystery, murder, mansion, investigation, twists and turns, old dark house, mystery killer, blackmail, dark and stormy night ...
Time: year 1954, 90s, 50s, 1950s, 20th century
Place: new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Mindhorn (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A washed up actor who played Mindhorn, a secret agent with a bionic eye, returns to the Isle of Man, the area where his most famous role was set, to help catch a killer.
Style: parody, captivating, entertaining, light, humorous ...
Plot: murderer, conspiracy, amateur detective, husband wife relationship, betrayal, mental illness, paranoia, revenge, deception, corruption, kidnapping, heroes ...
Time: 2010s, year 1989, 80s
Place: london
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Weekend Murders (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A large family meet at the family estate for the reading of their father's will. Each expects to be the recipient of a tidy sum, but apart from the local constable and a few other small awards to the help, the entire estate goes to the favorite ...
Style: suspense, slasher, detective, dark comedy, spoof ...
Plot: golf, english countryside, heiress, telescope, whodunit, police investigation, murder mystery, butler, hysterical outburst, sexual frustration, serial killer, jealousy ...
Place: scotland yard
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
The Troops on Vacation (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the ...
Style: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, captivating ...
Plot: gendarme, nude beach, amateur detective, retirement, goofy hero, save the day, nun, colleague, memory loss, chases and races, nothing goes right, dull life ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
Place: france, saint tropez, french riviera, europe, cote d'azur ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Kidnap Syndicate (1975)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story: After his son is kidnapped, a millionaire industrialist (James Mason) seeks revenge, in spite of the potential danger that his rash actions will bring about for his child and another kidnapped boy, the son of a poor mechanic (Luc Merenda).
Style: poliziottesco, detective, crying, psychotronic
Plot: vigilante, police, police officer, revenge, kidnapping, ransom, father, murder, massacre, betrayal, righteous rage, boy ...
Place: italy, milan italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.3
 123K
The Family (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France, UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: The Manzoni family, a notorious mafia clan, is relocated to Normandy, France under the witness protection program, where fitting in soon becomes challenging as their old habits die hard.
Style: black comedy, dark comedy, funny, stylized, cynical ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: mafia, dark humor, gangster, runaway, parents and children, violence, german shepherd, organized crime, family bonds, fish out of water, profanity, notoriety ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 90s, 21st century
Place: france, normandy, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Cop or Hood (1979)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 107 min.
Story: When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers ...
Style: suspense, disturbing, tense, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot: corruption, organized crime, police, assassination, police brutality, chase, murder investigation, police operation, employer employee relationship, violence, attempted murder, bad cop ...
Place: south of france, france, cote d'azur, nice france, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (1971)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply increases, Camel is mistakenly regarded as a mass murderer ...
Style: dark comedy, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, poliziottesco, metafiction ...
Plot: multiple deaths, sneeze, romantic rivalry, police investigator, police operation, reputation, newspaper editor, irony of fate, doctor, overheard conversation, absurd humor, absurdism ...
Place: czech republic
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Devilish Honeymoon (1970)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Black comedy about a genius inventor and two young, smart and beautiful women. Both of them putting all their effort into getting the one man. This will inevitable lead to all sorts of mischief, crime and even a murder. This murder-comedy, shot at ...
Style: poliziottesco, detective, black comedy, dark comedy, psychotronic ...
Plot: coworker relationship, scientist, prison, rivalry, jealousy, honeymoon, mouse, husband wife relationship, broken leg, wedding, jail, marriage ...
Place: central europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.1
 984
Carom Shots (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, dark comedy
Plot: ambition, firm, dark humor, career, comedy of errors, murder, workplace intrigue, workplace, rise to the top, hierarchy, frog
Time: 60s, 20th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.8
 9K
Eating Raoul (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A relatively boring Los Angeles couple discover a bizarre, if not murderous way to get funding for opening a restaurant.
Style: dark comedy, black comedy, cult classic, funny, dark ...
Plot: cannibalism, swinger, serial killer, sex toy, murder, satire, food, bdsm, naked in public, female nudity, horniness, dark humor ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: los angeles, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.2
 6K
Buffet Froid (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: France
Duration: 89 min.
Story: An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory ...
Style: surreal, dark comedy, semi serious, humorous, realistic ...
Plot: murder, surrealism, unemployment, investigation, resentment, rebelliousness, dishonesty, unlikely criminals, dark humor, estrangement, police corruption, satire ...
Time: 20th century, year 1979, 70s
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
Bad Boys for Life (2020)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Marcus Burnett is now a police inspector and Mike Lowery is in a midlife crisis. They unite again when an Albanian mercenary, whose brother they killed, promises them an important bonus.
Style: buddy comedy, humorous, action comedy, tense, captivating ...
Plot: buddy cop, police, police detective, police partner, chase, buddy, police chase, investigation, tough guy, murder, friendship between men, drug lord ...
Time: 2020s, year 2019, 2010s, 21st century
Place: florida, miami, north america, mexico city, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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