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Films with the genre "Comedy thriller", sorted by rating
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Grand Theft Auto (1977)
, 1h24Directed by Ron Howard
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Romantic comedy, Action, Crime
Themes Transport films, Films about automobiles, Road movies, Chase films
Actors Nancy Morgan, Peter Isacksen, Jack Perkins, Clint Howard, Elizabeth Rogers, Ron Howard
Two young lovers, Sam Freeman (Ron Howard) and Paula Powers (Nancy Morgan), want to get married in Las Vegas. When Paula introduces Sam to her parents they dispute their daughter's decision: they see Collins Hedgeworth (Paul Linke), the son of a wealthy family in the area, as her fiancée. Paula's parents are rich as well and her father, Bigby Powers (Barry Cahill), is planning to run for governor. They think Sam is marrying Paula for the money and call him a fortune hunter, which Paula fiercely disputes.
Valentin Valentin (2015)
, 1h46Directed by Pascal Thomas
Origin France
Genres Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Marilou Berry, Vincent Rottiers, Marie Gillain, Arielle Dombasle, Geraldine Chaplin, Alexandra Stewart
The beautiful and shy Valentin, all the women fall in love, has much to do between his insatiable mistress, Claudia, the jealous husband of it, Freddy, his selfish and immature mother, alcoholic neighbor, Jane, the concierge Antonia, the three neighboring youth 5th Floor, Noor, Florence and especially Elodie, and a mysterious young Chinese tiger lilies, held in slavery in the house opposite.
Bullit & Ripper (2012)
, 1h30Directed by Kad Merad, Olivier Baroux
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller
Themes Politique, Buddy films, White House in fiction
Actors Kad Merad, Audrey Fleurot, Olivier Baroux, Laurent Lafitte, Omar Sy, Guy Lecluyse
L'agent du FBI Douglas Ripper est contacté par le shérif de Bornsville, qui lui annonce le vol du cercueil de Pamela Rose. Ripper pense alors pouvoir ainsi reprendre contact avec son ancien coéquipier Richard Bullit, à la retraite et contre lequel il s'était brouillé suite à une histoire de femme (la petite amie de Bullit quitte celui-ci pour Ripper).
Ces dames s'en mêlent (1965)
, 1h34Directed by Raoul André
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Eddie Constantine, Patricia Viterbo, Carla Marlier, Jacqueline Vandal, Hubert de Lapparent, Philippe Mareuil
Jeff Gordon is a financial agent of the FBI section that fights against counterfeiting of dollars. Gordon went to Paris to infiltrate and stop the tape forgers headed by Thomas the printer. His work is so perfect that counterfeits are difficult to detect. One of counterfeiters thinks he recognizes Jeff as a mobster who wants to take revenge on them ...
, 1h20Directed by Patrice Leconte
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Jean Rochefort, Coluche, Roland Dubillard, Danièle Évenou, Robert Berri, Robert Dalban
Le commissaire Pichard et l'inspecteur Charbonnier mènent une enquête extravagante sur un crime commis sans mobile apparent. Un poinçonneur d'autobus est retrouvé mort dans ses wc, victime d'un assassinat. Détail surprenant : le verrou était fermé de l'intérieur. S'ensuit une enquête pour le moins loufoque, dans laquelle les deux policiers se lancent sur des pistes improbables, avant que le commissaire Pichard ne parvienne finalement à faire la lumière sur cette affaire.
The Alphabet Murders (1965)
, 1h30Directed by Frank Tashlin
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Tony Randall, Anita Ekberg, Robert Morley, Maurice Denham, Sheila Allen, Drewe Henley
Albert Aachen, a clown with a unique diving act, is found dead, the murder weapon a poison dart. When a woman named Betty Barnard becomes the next victim, detective Hercule Poirot suspects that Sir Carmichael Clarke could be in grave danger.
A Shriek in the Night (1933)
, 1h6Directed by Albert Ray
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Horror comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Horror
Themes Comedy horror films
Actors Ginger Rogers, Lyle Talbot, Harvey Clark, Purnell Pratt, Arthur Hoyt, Louise Beavers
Steelyard Blues (1973)
, 1h33Directed by Alan Myerson
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Films about prostitution, Aviation films, Erotic thriller films
Actors Donald Sutherland, Jane Fonda, Mel Stewart, Peter Boyle, Howard Hesseman, John Savage
It concerns the lives of a group of misfits trying to find a happier life against the norms of society. Sutherland plays an ex-con with a passion for demolition derbies. He has wrecked almost every possible car, but violates his parole when confronted by a 1950 Studebaker. This embarrasses his brother, a politically ambitious district attorney (Howard Hesseman, in an unlikely respectable role). Fonda plays a prostitute with an off-on relationship with Sutherland's character. The gang tries to get an old Consolidated PBY Catalina plane flying, and much humor ensues.
Hollywood Homicide (2003)
, 1h56Directed by Ron Shelton
Origin USA
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Adventure, Crime
Themes Buddy films
Actors Harrison Ford, Josh Hartnett, Lena Olin, Bruce Greenwood, Isaiah Washington, Lolita Davidovich
Sergeant Joe Gavilan (Harrison Ford) is a financially strapped Hollywood homicide detective who began moonlighting as a real estate broker seven years ago. His partner is K. C. Calden (Josh Hartnett), a much younger officer who teaches yoga on the side and wants to be an actor. The duo are assigned to investigate the murders of four men, members of a rap group called H2OClick who were gunned down in a nightclub by two unidentified assailants. While investigating the murders, the detectives discover there had been a witness in the nightclub who later escaped unnoticed, and work together to track him down. In the midst of it all, Gavilan has to deal with a looming real estate deal that may be the key to getting out of debt, while Calden further pursues his dreams of acting by trying to be scouted by talent agents.
Pete the Tender (1960)
, 1h24Directed by François Villiers
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy-drama, Comedy thriller, Crime
Actors Michel Simon, Claude Brasseur, Dany Saval, Marie Daëms, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Maurice Biraud
À Paname, Pierrot la Tendresse exerce le métier de tueur à gages. Son patron lui a confié la mission de buter Tony le Baratineur après avoir récupéré son magot. Mais Pierrot doit d’abord enjôler Tony pour découvrir sa planque. La police, elle aussi, aimerait bien savoir où Tony a camouflé son butin (un braquage de plusieurs millions de francs). Pendant que les flics fricotent, Pierrot va utiliser les charmes d’une jolie poupée du pavé, sa protégée Marie la Crêpe (qui n’est pas à un retournement près) pour séduire Tony. Cette histoire de fric et de flics va se muer en douce poésie.
Paris Pigalle (2018)
, 1h59Directed by Cédric Anger
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about pornography
Actors Guillaume Canet, Gilles Lellouche, Michel Fau, Camille Razat, Xavier Beauvois, Marilyn Jess
À Paris, en 1982. Franck et Serge sont les patrons d'un peep show nommé Le Mirodrome. Criblés de dettes, ils décident pour se relancer de produire et tourner des petits films pornographiques avec leurs danseuses. Mais leur succès rapide va attirer la convoitise de leurs concurrents. Un soir, des hommes cagoulés font irruption et détruisent Le Mirodrome. Ces derniers ne savent pas que Franck et Serge sont en réalité Martin et Georges, des policiers infiltrés. Leurs supérieurs les ont chargés d'enquêter sur le blanchiment d'argent dans l'industrie du porno parisien, principalement sur le producteur Maurice Vogel. C’est le début d’une aventure dans le cinéma pornographique du début des années 1980 qui va les entraîner loin. Très loin.
Massacre in Lace (1952)
, 1h37Directed by André Hunebelle
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Adventure, Crime
Themes Films about writers, Films about journalists
Actors Raymond Rouleau, Anne Vernon, John Kitzmiller, Tilda Thamar, Bernard Lajarrige, Jacques Dynam
Grand reporter à "Paris-Matin", le désinvolte et séduisant Georges Masse est un homme couvert de femmes. Il interrompt ses vacances pour éliminer une bande de gangsters opérant sur la Lagune de Venise. Aidé du gaffeur mais fidèle P'tit-Louis, il démasque successivement l'énigmatique Sophocle Zélos et Alessandro Cassidi, époux trop âgé de la troublante Clara qui meurt dans ses bras. Il ne reste plus à Masse qu'à poursuivre ses vacances avec l'adorable commissaire de police Thérésa Larsen.
The Happy Thieves (1962)
, 1h28Directed by George Marshall
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Heist films
Actors Rita Hayworth, Rex Harrison, Joseph Wiseman, Alida Valli, Grégoire Aslan, Virgílio Teixeira
A painting belonging to Duchess Blanca is stolen from a castle in Spain by the clever Jim Bourne and his partner in crime, Eve Lewis. It is stolen from the thieves, however, by Dr. Munoz, the cousin of the duchess.
Big Momma's House (2000)
, 1h35Directed by Raja Gosnell
Origin USA
Genres Comedy, Comedy thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Medical-themed films, Obésité, Films about racism, Films about sexuality, LGBT-related films, Transgender in film, Films about disabilities, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Cross-dressing in film
Actors Martin Lawrence, Nia Long, Terrence Howard, Paul Giamatti, Jascha Washington, Anthony Anderson
The film begins in an illegal underground dog-fighting arena in Korea, where an FBI agent named John Maxwell (Paul Giamatti) has been identified. John is ordered to be killed by a Korean mob boss, but is eventually rescued by his undercover partner and master of disguise, Malcolm Turner (Martin Lawrence). Suddenly, a group of FBI agents storm around the arena. Meanwhile, a criminal named Lester Vesco (Terrence Howard), who was originally serving a life sentence in prison for murder and armed robbery, escapes from his cell by killing the doctor and stealing his car. The FBI assigns Malcolm and John to capture Lester by sending them to small-town Cartersville, Georgia to stake out the house of a fat, elderly African American woman named Hattie Mae Pierce (Ella Mitchell; whom her friends call "Big Momma"), the estranged Southern grandmother of Lester's ex-girlfriend, Sherry Pierce (Nia Long), who supposedly aided Lester in his original bank robbery by giving him the key to the vault. After Big Momma unexpectedly leaves town to help her ill friend within a couple of weeks, Malcolm and John sneak into her house to plant security cameras and tap the phones. Sherry later calls Big Momma's house and Malcolm disguises his voice as Big Momma in order to lure Sherry and possibly obtain a confession. The plan works, in which Malcolm and John work together on a Big Momma disguise costume before Sherry's arrival the next day.
Sale temps pour les mouches (1966)
, 1h29Directed by Guy Lefranc, Maurice Delbez
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy thriller, Crime
Themes Spy films
Actors Gérard Barray, Jean Richard, Patricia Viterbo, Nicole Maurey, Paul Préboist, Philippe Clay
Des savants atomistes de renom sont enlevés sur le sol français. Le commissaire San-Antonio et son fidèle adjoint Bérurier s'infiltrent dans un gang soupçonné de tremper dans l'affaire, afin de remonter la filière.