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The Infernal Trio (1974)
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The Infernal Trio (1974)
Original name: Le Trio Infernal
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: France, West Germany, Italy
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomène to remain in France, Georges finds her a husband – who dies conveniently of natural causes a month after the wedding. Georges repeats the trick with Philomène's sister, Catherine – marrying her off to an old man who dies suddenly so that the scheming trio can profit from his life insurance. When an accomplice in the scheme, Marcel Chambon, threatens to blackmail them, Georges and his two lovers have no option but to kill him and his mistress...
Style: neo noir, dark comedy, clever, realistic, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense
Plot: murder, insurance fraud, serial killer, lawyer, bdsm, morality, marriage, acid, disposing of a dead body, killing spree, investigation, siblings relations, dishonesty, cons and scams, vampire, gang, female nudity, seduction, fake marriage, bare breasts, girl, blackmail, falling from height, sister sister relationship, scam ...
Time: 70s, 1930s
Place: marseille, paris france, france

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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 murder, dishonesty, deadly, female nudity, dark humor, disorder and nudity mostly in Comedy, Crime and Horror genres. Some movies like The Infernal Trio: Serial Lover (1998), Dirty Hands (1975), The Twist (1976), The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995), A Werewolf in the Amazon (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Serial Lover (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Claire Doste is about to reach the age of 35 and has everything one dreams of, such as having four boyfriends and a creative job in a publishing house specialising in crime novels. One day, she invites all of her boyfriends to her birthday dinner so ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, dark comedy, realistic ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, dark humor, disorder, looking for love, thirty something, writers, dinner, misfit, freak, gory, blood ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
The Perfume Of The Lady In Black (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Newly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and Arthur, the Chateau d'Hercule. But an unpleasant shock is in store for them.
Style: humorous, suspenseful, atmospheric, semi serious, stylized ...
Plot: mysterious character, uncover truth, investigation, missing person, amateur detective, who done it, riddles and clues, murder, odd couple, danger, dishonesty, silly humor ...
Time: 19th century
Place: france
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Dirty Hands (1975)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 125 min.
Story: Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an impotent who drinks a lot. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following ...
Style: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, atmospheric, serious ...
Plot: love triangle, murder, betrayal, uncover truth, mind game, couples, dangerous attraction, love and romance, crime gone awry, legal investigation, dishonesty, alcohol abuse ...
Time: 70s, year 1975
Place: france, saint tropez, provence, riviera
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84%
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The Twist (1976)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Bored aristocratic Parisian couples begin affairs with each other which only brings trouble.
Style: sex comedy, biting, cynical, psychological, semi serious ...
Plot: bourgeoisie, satire, nudity, infidelity, sexploitation, wedding, disaster, translator, dull life, couples, love and romance, investigation ...
Time: year 1976, 70s
Place: paris france, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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The Young Poisoner's Handbook (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: UK, Germany, France
Duration: 99 min.
Story: A sinister tale of genius gone wrong, The Young Poisoner's Handbook chronicles a young man's descent into madness against the absurd backdrop of suburban English life. Hugh O'Conor plays Graham Young, a schoolboy from the London ...
Style: dark comedy, disturbing, witty, offbeat, humorous ...
Audience: teen drama
Plot: serial killer, murder, true crime, psychology, killer, dysfunctional family, mental disorder, past, serial murder, british pub, evil child, mental institution ...
Time: 60s, 20th century, 70s, 80s, 90s
Place: london
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Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.
Style: semi serious, realistic, cynical, humorous, witty ...
Plot: gangster, satire, criminal's revenge, rivalry, criminal heroes, betrayal, gang, dishonesty, cons and scams, heist, nudity, mugging ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: montmartre paris, paris france
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A Werewolf in the Amazon (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Country: Brazil
Duration: 76 min.
Story: In search of a powerful hallucinogenic, five friends embark on a dangerous journey deep into the Amazon. But a bad trip isn't the only threat as they discover when they stumble across the hidden camp of the crazed Dr. Moreau and his murderous ...
Style: humorous, semi serious, scary, suspense, not serious ...
Plot: werewolf, experiment gone awry, mad scientist, deadly creature, survival, investigation, danger, murder, gory, strong violent content, lycanthropy, monster ...
Time: 21st century
Place: brazil
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
Monsieur Gangster (1963)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 105 min.
Story: An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively ...
Style: dark comedy, fast paced, cult classic, noir, funny ...
Plot: hitman, wedding ceremony, police officer, organized crime, screwball, debt, gambling house, gangster, gambling, prostitute, orphan, disciple ...
Time: 60s
Place: france, paris france, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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A Slight Case of Murder (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: In the midst of a spat, film critic Terry Thorpe (William H. Macy) accidentally kills his lover. Though Thorpe covers his tracks, he raises the suspicions of a private investigator (James Cromwell), who then tries to blackmail him. Thorpe also falls ...
Style: detective, crime thriller, neo noir, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: murder, film critic, investigation, private detective, blackmail, courtroom, hollywood, filmmaking, who done it, protagonist as suspect, police investigation, law enforcement ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Bad (1977)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Hazel runs a beauty salon out of her house, but makes extra money by providing ruthless women to do hit jobs. K.T. is a parasite, and contacts Hazel looking for work when he runs out of money. She is reluctant to use him for a hit, since she prefers ...
Style: psychotronic, surreal, disturbing, cult classic, controversial ...
Plot: exploitation, dark humor, female boss, hardcore, girl gang, nudity, gangster, violent content, tough heroes, hitman, disability, vampire ...
Time: 70s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
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Flic Story (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving ...
Style: cynical, realistic, not serious, witty, humorous
Plot: cop, human trafficking, nudity, gangster, murder of a nude woman, disorder, fish out of water, working undercover, nothing goes right, tough law enforcer, law enforcement, drug dealing ...
Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: france, french riviera
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Clay Pigeons (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Clay is a young man in a small town who witnesses his friend, Earl kill himself because of the ongoing affair that Clay was having with the man's wife, Amanda. Feeling guilty, Clay now resists the widow when she presses him to continue with ...
Style: dark comedy, clever, humorous, suspenseful, erotic ...
Plot: serial killer, dark humor, desert, murder, sex scene, investigation, infidelity, waitress, nude, coming of age, killer, making love ...
Time: year 1998, 90s
Place: montana, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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Burke & Hare (1972)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Two men go into business supplying medical colleges with cadavers by robbing graves.
Style: medical horror, grindhouse, dark comedy, black comedy, independent film ...
Plot: serial killer, true crime, cadaver, grave robber, fetish, brothel, medical school, murder, drunken woman, medical, madam, dead body ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1820s
Place: scotland, edinburgh scotland
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Love at the Top (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The relationship between a successful businessman and a prostitute is exploited by a cynical novelist.
Style: satirical, erotic, biting, talky, realistic ...
Audience: date night
Plot: manipulation, love, murder, old friend, womanizer, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, quitting job, election campaign, cuckold, bare breasts, sexuality ...
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Place: paris france, france, europe
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Kemper (2008)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A film based on the true story of Ed Kemper, a serial killer who murdered ten in Santa Cruz, CA during the late sixties and early seventies.
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Time: 70s
Place: california, usa
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Duration: 85 min.
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Style: realistic, suspense, psychological, disturbing, suspenseful ...
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Time: 80s
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Lester Parson is a lonely gigolo who dates and kills off middle-aged women in ultra-gory fashion just for the pleasure of watching them die, as well as to take their money and jewelery as well as cook and eat their remains for his dinner.
Style: slasher, controversial, bloody, suspense, disturbing ...
Plot: serial killer, murder, cannibal, gory, cannibalism, guts, psychopath, gambling, female nudity, dismemberment, hit and run, dangerous attraction ...
Time: 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
I Know How Many Runs You Scored Last Summer (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A cricket team are dismissed by a moustachioed serial killer with a razor sharp cricket glove and an arsenal of sharpened stumps. One by one the killer exacts revenge for the torment he endured 20 years earlier.
Style: slasher, semi serious, suspenseful, humorous, horror comedy ...
Plot: serial killer, bullying, cricket, vengeance, rivalry, danger, on the run, psychopath, gory, stalking, characters killed one by one, violence ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: West Germany, USA, Italy, France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the ...
Style: dark comedy, culinary, semi serious, offbeat, feel good ...
Plot: food, serial killer, cooking, restaurant, cooking and food, murder, hidden treasure, humour, wine, mysticism, business, judiciary ...
Time: year 1978, 70s, 20th century
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Scoundrel in White (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves ...
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, clever, sex comedy ...
Plot: doctor nurse relationship, sexy nurse, dangerous attraction, prejudice, sexual relations, love triangle, love and romance, obsession, satire, doctor, nurse, marriage ...
Time: 70s, year 1972
Place: tunisia, france, africa
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43%
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High Rollers (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He will succeeded and from that ...
Style: humorous, cynical, realistic, poliziottesco, semi serious
Plot: cons and scams, betrayal, twists and turns, partner, friends, dishonesty, criminal heroes, swamp, trick, strong female character, thief, jail ...
Time: 1930s
Place: france, europe, charleston south carolina
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43%
Two Hundred Thousand Dirty (2012)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Welcome to the monotonous, oppressive modern American byproduct of suburban sprawl: the urban strip-mall. Native to this environment and products of outdated pop culture are Rob (Mark Greenfield) and Manny (Coolio), the unsuccessful, unrefined and ...
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Time: 21st century
Place: usa, las vegas
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43%
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Bank Shot (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal the whole bank, and rob it in a safer location.
Style: cynical, semi serious, realistic, witty, offbeat ...
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Time: 70s
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Lucky Numbers (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Russ Richards is a TV weatherman and local celebrity on the verge of losing his shirt. Desperate to escape financial ruin, he schemes with Crystal the TV station's lotto ball girl to rig the state lottery drawing. The numbers come up right, but ...
Style: stylized, humorous, realistic, not serious, feel good ...
Plot: lottery, small town, justice, weatherman, dark humor, criminal heroes, nothing goes right, unlikely criminals, couple relations, cons and scams, stripper, gambling ...
Time: 20th century, year 2000, 80s
Place: pennsylvania, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right ...
Style: surreal, humorous, art house, atmospheric, disturbing ...
Plot: surrealism, satire, monk, sadomasochism, religion, society, greed, mistaken identity, visceral, estrangement, social decay, courtroom ...
Time: 20th century, year 1974, 70s
Place: france, paris france, europe
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39%
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Cold Feet (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: The leader of a group of misfits, his girlfriend and an assassin have devised a bizarre plan to smuggle stolen jewelry over the US/Mexican border. They implant the jewelry in a racing horse.
Style: independent film, cynical, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Plot: rock, hitman, psychopath, disorder, down on your luck, cons and scams, dishonesty, on the run, nothing goes right, criminal heroes, partner, criminal ...
Time: year 1989, 80s
Place: latin america, mexico
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37%
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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 ⇓
37%
Never a Dull Moment (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: When practicing for a role, actor Jack is mistaken for the killer Ace. He doesn't realize this until it's too late and is carried off to gangster boss Leo Smooth, who wants Ace to do a job for him. Fearing for his life, Jack plays his ...
Style: hilarious, semi serious, realistic, humorous
Audience: pre-teens, date night
Plot: mistaken identity, heist, artwork, escape, silly humor, gangster, estate, tough heroes, disorder, hitman, gang, criminal heroes ...
Time: 60s, 1930s
Place: paris france, new york, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Son of Sam (2008)
Genre: Crime, Horror, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: This chilling tale recounts the late 70's in New York City, when a serial killer on the loose dubbed "Son of Sam" creates havoc. When arrested, "Son of Sam" tells police he was influenced by a satanic cult. New York would ...
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, suspenseful, slasher ...
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Time: 70s
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The Pimp (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A mild-mannered banker is forced to masquerade as a notorious gangster and pimp.
Style: humorous, not serious, exciting, witty, realistic
Plot: pimp, goofy hero, twins, gang, heroes, lifestyle, stereotypes, impostor, gadget, danger, farce, rivalry ...
Time: year 2010, 21st century
Place: france, paris france, europe, marseille
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
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