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Big Man: Let the Buried Lie (1988)
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Big Man: Let the Buried Lie (1988)
Original name: 395 dollari l'oncia
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, West Germany, Italy, Sweden, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Plot: prison, heist, prison escape, betrayal, murder, undercover, prison fight, ex cop, quicksand, gold bar, flashback, fistfight, insurance investigator, stolen gold, armored truck, fugitive, car rollover, prison break, runaway, car accident, military vehicle
Place: french riviera

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Most similar movies to Big Man: Let the Buried Lie

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, captivating, realistic and semi serious films and TV series with plots about murder, prison, fistfight, private detective, police, gunfight and gun mostly in Crime, Comedy and Thriller genres. Some movies like Big Man: Let the Buried Lie: Big Man - The Diva (1988), Big Man - Boomerang (1988), Extralarge: Miami Killer (1991), Operation St. Peter's (1967), Extralarge: Black Magic (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Big Man - The Diva (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
TV show
Story: A former lawman has to try to save a diva from an organized-crime mob, which is out to kill her.
Plot: burglary, fistfight, jewel theft, gambling debt, poker, compulsive gambler, insurance investigator, casino, movie star, yacht, murder, gambling
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100%
Big Man - Boomerang (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, West Germany, France, Austria, Norway
Duration: 91 min.
TV show
Story: A disastrous weapon was stolen from a governmental producing facility. Jack Clementi gets called by the insurer Lloyds to investigate the crime. They hope to prevent a mass panic or even worse. While investigating Jack Clementi gets away from ...
Plot: car chase, military, murder, insurance company, insurance investigator, research facility
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
Extralarge: Miami Killer (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, Italy, USA
Duration: 93 min.
TV show
Story: Agent Blake finds the corpse of a child. It is one of a long chain. The murderer is called The Miami Killer by the newspapers. Extralarge assists the police in their investigation. All the murdered children suffered from some kind of ailment and the ...
Plot: serial killer, shootout, gun fu, fistfight, private detective, martial arts, gunfight, death, brutality, murder, blood, violence ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Operation St. Peter's (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France, West Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Small time crook Napoleone falls into an unlikely gang made up of a gangster, called The Baron, and his two cohorts, Agonia and The Captain, where Napoleone takes them to Rome where they shack up with a shady used car dealer caled Il Cajella to help ...
Plot: heist, prison, robbery, prison escape, church, theft, jail, gangster, betrayal, chase, cardinal the priest, car salesman ...
Time: year 1967
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Extralarge: Black Magic (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 99 min.
TV show
Story: Elizabeth is in a car with her boyfriend when suddenly she feels a pain in the stomach so strong she seizes a knife and stabs herself to death. Her boyfriend is charged with her murder and Dumas is present at his trial and he is struck by the ...
Style: psychotronic
Plot: shootout, gun fu, combat, private detective, gunfight, fistfight, martial arts, satanic cult, supernatural power, violence, brutality, death ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Extralarge: Black and White (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 88 min.
TV show
Story: Jack Costello is a private detective in Miami and he finds out he is being followed by a man. He confronts him and finds out his name is Dumas. Dumas speaks with a French accent and he says he is a cartoonist and he needs Costello's image for ...
Style: detective
Plot: blood, violence, chase, pistol, brutality, fistfight, thief, gunfight, being followed, martial arts, combat, shootout ...
Place: miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Extralarge: Moving Target (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Germany, Italy
Duration: 88 min.
TV show
Story: Dumas is alone in Costello's office when a girl offers him a thousand dollars to take her father, the famous scientist Klaus von Hermann, to his hotel. Dumas accepts the appointment but von Hermann is killed in front of the hotel. The scientist ...
Plot: gun fu, shootout, car crash, carnage, combat, violence, gunfight, chase, pistol, private detective, brutality, fistfight ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Extralarge: Cannonball (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 92 min.
TV show
Story: The famous football player Long John is killed and the police believe that John was a heroin addict and that his murder is a punishment for something he did. His mother nevertheless swears that his son hated all kinds of dope and asks Costello to ...
Plot: martial arts, private detective, ambush, fistfight, football player, gunfight, diving, combat, death, massacre, blood, pistol ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Extralarge: Jo-Jo (1991)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Germany, Italy
Duration: 91 min.
TV show
Story: Burt meets Jack Costello after many years. Burt is a boxer and he is fleeing after a fixed match that he should have lost but instead he won. Then he vanishes. Costello finds in his office Burt's son, 'jo jo' Ritchie, who had came ...
Plot: gun fu, carnage, car crash, shootout, combat, blood, pistol, brutality, chase, death, violence, massacre ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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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 ⇓
28%
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 147
Escape (2010)
Genre: Crime
Country: Russia
TV show
Style: suspense, ambiguous ending, suspenseful, thought provoking, surprise ending
Plot: prison escape, prison, brother brother relationship, gangster, state affairs, law enforcement, death sentence, friendship, chase, danger, investigation, murder ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.5
 175
Goltuppen (1991)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 225 min.
TV show
Story: A criminal in relapse is once again in prison. He wants to be reintegrated in society and build a future with his girlfriend. But first he wants revenge on the person who betrayed him - the rat rooster.
Plot: murder, on the run, prostitute, police, love, prison, financier, convict, girlfriend, drunkard, criminal underworld, prison break ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Studierektorns sista strid (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Principal Bertilsson plan the perfect crime, for who would suspect a Principal?
Plot: heist, money, con man, bank, confession, police, gambling, school, con men, school principal, horse race, bet
Place: spain
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Framed! A Sicilian Murder Mystery (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: After two hapless TV technicians stumble upon a murder scene, every step they take to avoid becoming suspects lands them in deeper trouble.
Style: semi serious, captivating, feel good, satirical, humorous ...
Plot: problem, murder witness, humour, witnessing a crime, murderer, witness, satire, murder
Place: sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Four Women and a Funeral (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Austria
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story: Vier Frauen und ein Todesfall is an Austrian crime television series, first aired on the Austrian television channel "ORF eins" in 2005. The show also aired in Switzerland on "SF1", in Germany on RTL Crime and on the ...
Style: humorous, satirical, entertaining, captivating, semi serious
Plot: amateur detective, suspicion of murder, murder, funeral, private investigation, uncover truth, investigation, women, satire, female detective, crime solving, murder mystery ...
Place: austria
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 8.4
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Police Squad! (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 24 min.
TV show
Story: Police Squad! is a television comedy series first broadcast in 1982, created by David Zucker, Jim Abrahams and Jerry Zucker, and starring Leslie Nielsen. A spoof of police procedurals, the series featured Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker's usual ...
Style: parody, spoof, sitcom, humorous, funny ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: satire, police, partners against crime, private detective, police officer, weirdo, humour, buddies, stoner, cop, woman with a gun, police detective ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.9
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Snatch (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: A group of up-and-coming hustlers stumble upon a truckload of stolen gold bullion and are suddenly thrust into the high-stakes world of organized crime.
Style: exciting, humorous, surprise ending
Plot: heist, organized crime, robbery, partners in crime, greed, mafia, gem, boxing, cons and scams, dark humor, crime gone awry, nothing goes right ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
The Simple Heist (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Sweden
Duration: 265 min.
TV show
Story: Jenny and Cecilia are two women in their 60s who live a regular middle class life in Kalmar. But when both realize that the future is anything but light for them, they decide to do something drastic, robbing a bank office in Stockholm.
Style: suspenseful, captivating, suspense, tense, humorous ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story: Heiko Schotte (Schotty) works for a cleaning company, cleaning all kind of crime scenes. There he sometimes meets weird people and tries to solve difficult situations.
Style: semi serious, humorous, funny, slapstick, talky ...
Plot: murder, alienation, dark humor, stereotypes, crime scene, corpse, gory, vicious, dead body, homicide, dead man, police ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 8.3
 7K
Porridge (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Porridge is a British situation comedy broadcast on BBC1 from 1974 to 1977, running for three series, two Christmas specials and a feature film also titled Porridge. Written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, it stars Ronnie Barker and Richard ...
Style: sitcom, talky, semi serious, realistic, clever ...
Audience: kids
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Time: 20th century, 70s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 7.4
 11K
Deadloch (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Australia
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Two vastly different female detectives are thrown together to solve the murder of a local man in the sleepy seaside hamlet of Deadloch.
Style: detective, bleak, humorous, exciting, captivating
Plot: girlfriend girlfriend relationship, odd couple, murder, homicide detective, small town life, woman, crime investigation, murder investigation, women, female protagonist, small town, seaside town ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Trial (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
TV show
Story: Timothy R. Heidecker is charged with 20 counts of 2nd degree murder. The deaths occurred at the electric sun desert music festival, where it is alleged Mr. Heidecker distributed deadly vape pens.
Style: satirical, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, mockumentary
Plot: trial, judge, courtroom drama, legal action, framed for murder, satire, murder mystery, problem, murder, accused of murder, court
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Mean Frank and Crazy Tony (1973)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 85 min.
Story: There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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Suburban Shootout (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Suburban Shootout is a British satirical black comedy television series produced for Channel 5 and Paramount Comedy by Feelgood Fiction in association with Oxygen. The first series aired in the UK on Channel 5 from 27 April 2006. It began airing in ...
Style: tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, sitcom ...
Plot: outlaw, gang, small town, danger, murder, dark humor, friends, criminal, housewife, satire, british humour
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 499
Holy Year (1976)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The last film of Jean Gabin.
Plot: prison escape, hijacking, airplane, police, escape, disguise, priest, prison, pilot, flight attendant
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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The Invisibles (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The Invisibles is a British 2008 comedy drama series created and written by William Ivory for the BBC. It was produced by Company Pictures, shot in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Style: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, semi serious ...
Plot: heist, thief, parents and children, unlikely criminals, dishonesty, escapades, friends, criminal, family relations, couples, rivalry, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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 469
We Are Angels (1997)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Italian television series.
Style: buddy comedy
Plot: escaped prisoner, priest, escape, prisoner, forgery, pretending to be someone else, maximum security prison, misadventure
Place: latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.3
 800
Magnus (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Norway
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Magnus - perhaps the police's worst investigator - is set to solve a murder from another world, and then we mean a completely different world.
Style: surreal, entertaining, funny, captivating, exciting ...
Plot: nordic, viking, nudity, murder, mythical creature, murder investigation, norse mythology, investigation, mythology, true crime, legends and myths, mythological creature ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 5.9
 228
The Cracksman (1963)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Ernest Wright's peerless prowess as a locksmith comes to the attention of a tough big-time crook, who feels that the little man would be a valuable asset to his crime kingdom. In order to inveigle him into a series of jobs, he sets up a ...
Style: slapstick, realistic, humorous, semi serious, rough ...
Plot: heist, locksmith, gangster, con artists, partner, escape, unlikely criminals, cons and scams, rivalry, working undercover, righting the wronged, tough heroes ...
Time: 60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 7.5
 415
Wilsberg (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
TV show
Story: Georg Wilsberg is an antiquarian in Münster. He used to be a lawyer but lost his license. Since then he has been working as a private detective. The always clammy Wilsberg urgently needs this income. In addition, he depends on the support of his ...
Style: suspenseful, serious, realistic
Plot: murder, partners against crime, law enforcement, urban, private detective, partner, investigation, dead body, crime solving, crime investigation, antique dealer, private investigator ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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