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1. The Blues Brothers (1980)
R | 133 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
Jake Blues rejoins with his brother Elwood after being released from prison, but the duo has just days to reunite their old R&B band and save the Catholic home where the two were raised, outrunning the police as they tear through Chicago.
Director: John Landis | Stars: John Belushi, Dan Aykroyd, Cab Calloway, John Candy
Votes: 214,415 | Gross: $57.23M
2. Major League (1989)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Sport
The new owner of the Cleveland Indians puts together a purposely horrible team so they'll lose and she can move the team. But when the plot is uncovered, they start winning just to spite her.
Director: David S. Ward | Stars: Tom Berenger, Charlie Sheen, Corbin Bernsen, Margaret Whitton
Votes: 76,410 | Gross: $49.80M
3. Masterminds (2015)
PG-13 | 95 min | Biography, Comedy, Crime
A guard at an armored car company in the Southern U.S. organizes one of the biggest bank heists in American history. Based on the October 1997 Loomis Fargo robbery.
Director: Jared Hess | Stars: Zach Galifianakis, Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig, Ross Kimball
Votes: 59,385 | Gross: $17.37M
4. A Fish Called Wanda (1988)
R | 108 min | Comedy, Crime
In London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool a very proper barrister.
Directors: Charles Crichton, John Cleese | Stars: John Cleese, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kevin Kline, Michael Palin
Votes: 153,879 | Gross: $63.49M
5. The Family (I) (2013)
R | 111 min | Comedy, Crime, Thriller
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.
Director: Luc Besson | Stars: Robert De Niro, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dianna Agron, John D'Leo
Votes: 123,003 | Gross: $36.92M
6. Johnny English (2003)
PG | 87 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
After a sudden attack on MI5, Johnny English, Britain's most confident, yet unintelligent spy, becomes Britain's only spy.
Director: Peter Howitt | Stars: Rowan Atkinson, John Malkovich, Natalie Imbruglia, Tasha de Vasconcelos
Votes: 174,151 | Gross: $28.08M
7. Vampires (1998)
R | 108 min | Action, Horror, Thriller
Recovering from an ambush that killed his entire team, a vengeful vampire slayer must retrieve an ancient Catholic relic that, should it be acquired by vampires, will allow them to walk in sunlight.
Director: John Carpenter | Stars: James Woods, Daniel Baldwin, Sheryl Lee, Thomas Ian Griffith
Votes: 63,747 | Gross: $20.24M
8. Blue Streak (1999)
PG-13 | 93 min | Action, Comedy, Crime
A former convict poses as a cop to retrieve a diamond he stole years ago.
Director: Les Mayfield | Stars: Martin Lawrence, Luke Wilson, Peter Greene, Dave Chappelle
Votes: 88,757 | Gross: $68.52M
9. So I Married an Axe Murderer (1993)
PG-13 | 93 min | Comedy, Romance
A San Francisco poet who fears commitment suspects his girlfriend may have a knack for killing off her significant others.
Director: Thomas Schlamme | Stars: Mike Myers, Nancy Travis, Anthony LaPaglia, Amanda Plummer
Votes: 42,846 | Gross: $11.59M
10. The Fighting Temptations (2003)
PG-13 | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
A New York advertising executive travels to a small Southern town to collect an inheritance but finds he must create a gospel choir and lead it to success before he can collect.
Director: Jonathan Lynn | Stars: Cuba Gooding Jr., Beyoncé, Mike Epps, Nigel Washington
Votes: 7,618 | Gross: $30.24M
11. Pure Luck (1991)
PG | 96 min | Comedy, Crime, Mystery
An accountant with super bad luck is sent in search of a missing boss's daughter, also an incredibly unlucky person.
Director: Nadia Tass | Stars: Martin Short, Danny Glover, Sheila Kelley, Sam Wanamaker
Votes: 7,680 | Gross: $22.64M
12. Free Money (1998)
R | 94 min | Comedy, Crime
A prison warden, with a nasty habit of killing escapees, has teen twin daughters claiming to be pregnant. Their boyfriends marry them. The husbands' only way out of hell is to rob the money train.
Director: Yves Simoneau | Stars: Marlon Brando, Donald Sutherland, Charlie Sheen, Thomas Haden Church
Votes: 3,160
13. What's Up, Tiger Lily? (1966)
PG | 80 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A Japanese James Bond -esque spy flick reused and redubbed into the plot of a secret agent searching to uncover a recipe for the world's greatest egg salad in Woody Allen's directorial debut.
Directors: Woody Allen, Senkichi Taniguchi | Stars: Woody Allen, The Lovin' Spoonful, Frank Buxton, Louise Lasser
Votes: 9,995
14. La Chèvre (1981)
91 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
A daughter of a millionaire, distinguished by incredible bad luck, goes missing. The idea how to find her is either insane or brilliant - to send after her an equally unlucky person.
Director: Francis Veber | Stars: Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, Pedro Armendáriz Jr., Corynne Charbit
Votes: 10,623
15. Shooting Fish (1997)
PG | 103 min | Comedy, Crime, Romance
Two con artists' plan to steal enough for a house are twisted when a pretty girl enters the picture.
Director: Stefan Schwartz | Stars: Dan Futterman, Stuart Townsend, Kate Beckinsale, Rowena Cooper
Votes: 7,850 | Gross: $0.30M
16. Swamp Women (1956)
Approved | 67 min | Adventure, Crime, Drama
An undercover policewoman helps three female convicts escape from prison so that they can lead her to a stash of stolen diamonds hidden in a swamp.
Director: Roger Corman | Stars: Marie Windsor, Carole Mathews, Beverly Garland, Mike Connors
Votes: 2,027
17. Swashbuckler (1976)
PG | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.
Director: James Goldstone | Stars: Robert Shaw, James Earl Jones, Peter Boyle, Geneviève Bujold
Votes: 1,882
18. Larceny, Inc (1942)
Passed | 95 min | Comedy
Three ex-cons buy a luggage shop to tunnel into the bank vault next door. But despite all they can do, the shop prospers...
Director: Lloyd Bacon | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford, Jack Carson
Votes: 3,145
19. Comrade X (1940)
Passed | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
An American reporter smuggling news out of Soviet Moscow is blackmailed into helping a beautiful Communist leave the country.
Director: King Vidor | Stars: Clark Gable, Hedy Lamarr, Oscar Homolka, Felix Bressart
Votes: 1,832
20. Invisible Agent (1942)
Passed | 81 min | Action, Adventure, Romance
The Invisible Man's grandson uses his secret formula to spy on Nazi Germany.
Director: Edwin L. Marin | Stars: Ilona Massey, Jon Hall, Peter Lorre, Cedric Hardwicke
Votes: 2,654
21. La confusion des genres (2000)
94 min | Comedy, Romance, Drama
No wonder Bisexual Attorney Alain is confused. He's bedding his female boss, his guilty of murder client, the client's hairdresser girlfriend and a precocious boy who knows what he wants ... See full summary »
Director: Ilan Duran Cohen | Stars: Pascal Greggory, Nathalie Richard, Julie Gayet, Alain Bashung
Votes: 1,121 | Gross: $0.05M
22. Miscellaneous Brigade in the Mountains and at the Sea (1971)
100 min | Comedy, Action, Crime
Three paroled inept Romanian convicts dream up get-rich-quick schemes on the Black Sea Riviera where a petty-crime police squad led by Captain Panait is vacationing.
Director: Mircea Dragan | Stars: Toma Caragiu, Dem Radulescu, Ion Fintesteanu, Puiu Calinescu
Votes: 2,030
23. You Are a Widow, Sir! (1971)
97 min | Comedy, Sci-Fi
After a soldier cuts off the arm of king's cousin, king decides to deactivate the army. Of course, generals don't like it at all and they try to kill the king. The assassin should be ... See full summary »
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Iva Janzurová, Olga Schoberová, Eduard Cupák, Jirí Sovák
Votes: 857
24. Släpp fångarne loss - det är vår! (1975)
97 min | Comedy, Family
Small and short Frida lives with her long, tall friend in a house in the countryside. Frida rejects the idea that people who has committed crimes should be locked up. One day their own ... See full summary »
Director: Tage Danielsson | Stars: Lena Nyman, Tage Danielsson, Georg Årlin, Margaretha Krook
Votes: 1,293
25. 3 Dumb Clucks (1937)
Not Rated | 17 min | Comedy, Short
The Stooges escape from jail in order to save their father from gangsters and a beautiful gold-digger.
Director: Del Lord | Stars: Moe Howard, Larry Fine, Curly Howard, Frank Austin
Votes: 635
26. Clear All Wires! (1933)
Passed | 78 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Buckley is an unethical reporter who manipulates the news for his own benefit as much as he reports it. When he is in Paris to get a medal for being rescued from his alleged kidnappers, he ... See full summary »
Director: George W. Hill | Stars: Lee Tracy, Benita Hume, Una Merkel, James Gleason
Votes: 184
27. Thirty Days (1922)
Passed | 50 min | Comedy
After being innocently friendly with an Italian woman, John Floyd tries to escape the wrath of Giacomo, her jealous husband, by having himself sentenced to jail for thirty days. But Giacomo... See full summary »
Director: James Cruze | Stars: Wallace Reid, Wanda Hawley, Charles Ogle, Cyril Chadwick
28. Composition for Victory Day (1998)
107 min | Action, Crime, Drama
On the eve of Victory Day, three elderly friends, veterans from the front lines in the Great Patriotic War, meet in Moscow. They soon involve themselves in an operation involving the Russian mafia and FSB.
Director: Sergey Ursulyak | Stars: Oleg Efremov, Vyacheslav Tikhonov, Mikhail Ulyanov, Zinaida Sharko
Votes: 121
29. The Baldlands (2015)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
When Baldness becomes a capital crime in New Zealand there is only one way out. Follow the struggles of four balding man in this imaginative dystopian black comedy as they attempt to avoid prison and find hope somewhere in The Baldlands.
Director: Bernie Rao | Stars: Murray Davidson, Christopher David Jacobs, Kimberly Buchan, Steven Macnamara
Votes: 12
30. The Count (1971)
92 min | Biography, Comedy, Drama
Sleazy impostor, then dance-band singer Pertti Ylermi Lindgren merrily re-enacts some of his real-life engagements to 76 different women in the late 1960s. After posing as an aristocrat, ... See full summary »
Director: Peter von Bagh | Stars: Pertti Ylermi Lindgren, Irma Martinkauppi, Titta Karakorpi, Elina Salo
Votes: 211
31. Interventsiya (1968)
127 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
The movie is set during the last days of foreign intervention agains Soviet Russia. Police are searching everywhere for a bolshevik named Brodsky but cannot find him. Meanwhile, a man named... See full summary »
Director: Gennadi Poloka | Stars: Vladimir Vysotskiy, Valeriy Zolotukhin, Olga Aroseva, Gelena Ivlieva
Votes: 311
32. Jail House Blues (1942)
Approved | 62 min | Action, Comedy, Musical
A prisoner about to be pardoned puts it off until he can put on one last variety show for his fellow inmates.
Director: Albert S. Rogell | Stars: Nat Pendleton, Anne Gwynne, Robert Paige, Horace McMahon