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Plot Summary:
When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including Waldo Zane, a New York executive in the process of stealing a fortune from his company, and two people whose paths he's destined to cross, Broadway actress Margaret Garrison and her husband, Peter.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 962
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966)
Plot Summary:
The divine Didi, a European actress known more for her bubble bath scenes than for her acting, decides she has had enough with bubble baths and wants to be taken seriously as an actress. So much so that she runs away during the middle of a scene while filming in Hollywood and winds up in Oregon. While she is staying in a hotel, the operator accidentally connects her with a real estate agent named Tom Meade. She asks Tom to bring her some food and when he does he suggests that she go to his cabin in the woods. She also asks him not to tell anyone where she is because she doesn't want to go back to Hollywood. Now Tom must keep the secret, especially from his wife and from his suspicious housekeeper Lily.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Lily in Love (1984)
Plot Summary:
Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young Italian.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, neo screwball comedy
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Why Is Mother in My Bed? (1994)
Plot Summary:
Young boy Antoine is trying to prevent his parents divorce.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
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Found Money (1983)
Plot Summary:
Max and Sam, disillusioned with people's day-to-day callousness toward each other, and angered by a pension-stealing bank, invent The Invisible Friend, Inc. The intention was to reward kind acts, but things rarely turn out as planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Honeymoon Hotel (1964)
Plot Summary:
A man left at the alter goes on his honeymoon trip anyway, taking his best man along instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Movie Star, American Style or; LSD, I Hate You (1966)
Plot Summary:
Producer/director Albert Zugsmith's acid-therapy "comedy," complete with a tinted trip sequence "in hilarious LSD color." A suicidal film star named Honey Bunny is sent by her producer to a rest home run by an unhinged Dr. Horatio, who gives his patients LSD as a cure. The wacky patients include female impersonator Skippy Roper as an effeminate dress designer, a midget, a fat lady, and lots of actors, directors, and producers, including Zugsmith himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, psychotronic, independent film
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Love and Marriage (1964)
Plot Summary:
An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Norman... Is That You? (1976)
Plot Summary:
Parents (Redd Foxx, Pearl Bailey) discover their son is gay and lives in Hollywood with his white lover (Dennis Dugan).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, queer cinema
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They Still Call Me Bruce (1987)
Plot Summary:
Bruce Won arrives in America in search of an American G.I. who saved his life in the Korean War. He meets an orphan boy and together they land themselves in a string of outrageous situations. This high-strung farce culminates when a case of mistaken identity leads a gang of thugs to think Bruce is a karate master. They arrange a nationally-televised match which pits our hero against a monstrous brute, and Bruce is beaten to a bloody pulp.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, not serious, fast, surprise ending, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad (1967)
Plot Summary:
A mother drops her son and husband off at a tropical vacation spot for a little rest and relaxation. The only problem is that the husband has been dead for quite some time, and his wife had him stuffed and carries him around with her. Complications ensue.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surreal, black comedy, slapstick comedy, crying, freeze frame, campy
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Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968)
Plot Summary:
George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over the world, she leaves him. While she is away, George converts her family home into a discotheque, when she returns, she threatens to send George to jail for fraud, cause she didn't give her approval. George needing some fast bucks, decides to turn to an old cohort of his, William Homer but Willy's a little short. George then decides to steal the plans to a new drill, Pamela's suitor, Dudley Heath is working on. But when George gets the mumps, he can't make it to the meeting place and refuses to give Willy the plans unless he gives him the cash first. And the buyers won't give unless they see the merchandise first. Written by [email protected].
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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One, Two, Three (1961)
Plot Summary:
A Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin tries to keep the boss's daughter from marrying a Communist.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, fast paced, black and white, clever, witty, talky, biting, parody, sweet, humorous
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Critic's Choice (1963)
Plot Summary:
Bob Hope is a New York theater critic and his wife (Lucille Ball in their final motion picture pairing) writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Hope must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage. Based on the Broadway play by Ira Levin.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick comedy, technicolor
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The Loved One (1965)
Plot Summary:
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, witty, surreal, suspenseful, funny, satirical, fast paced, cult classic
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In a World... (2013)
Plot Summary:
An underachieving vocal coach is motivated by her father, the king of movie-trailer voice-overs, to pursue her aspirations of becoming a voice-over star. Amidst pride, sexism and family dysfunction, she sets out to change the voice of a generation.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, clever, light, witty, talky, sincere, semi serious, entertaining, romantic comedy
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The Out of Towners (1970)
Plot Summary:
George & Gwen Kellerman make a trip to New York, where George is going to start a new job, it turns out to be a trip to hell.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, witty, road movie, uplifting, poignant, romantic comedy, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
Plot Summary:
Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, slapstick, light, feel good, esoteric, surprise ending, slapstick comedy
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Happy Easter (1984)
Plot Summary:
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle (Jean-Paul Belmondo) drops his wife Sophie (Marie Laforet) off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie (Sophie Marceau), who has just had a fight with her married boyfriend. He gets her back to his apartment and is preparing for a sexy weekend, when his wife suddenly returns home. He makes up a bizarre, on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment story that the gorgeous girl is actually his long-lost daughter. Julie plays along, but this leads to a whole series of increasingly ridiculous lies and comical situations (such as when her real mother shows up).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, sex comedy, light, erotic, surprise ending
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How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1967)
Plot Summary:
A young but bright former window cleaner rises to the top of his company by following the advice of a book about ruthless advancement in business.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, witty, stylized, technicolor, feel good, realistic, not serious, parody, light
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Oscar (1967)
Plot Summary:
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 amount of money from his company, his maid is about to resign in order to marry a wealthy neighbor and his body builder is interested in marrying his daughter. The seemingly complicated story-line is full of comedy or errors and some of the most hilarious mime scenes of the French cinema.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, sincere, entertaining, funny, realistic, not serious, surprise ending
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Do Not Disturb (1965)
Plot Summary:
"Doris Day continues her reign as America's sweetheart" (Motion Picture Herald) in this "bright, colorful comedy of marital misunderstanding" (The Film Daily). Co-starring Rod Taylor (The Glass Bottom Boat) and featuring whip-smart dialogue, a hilarious plot, sumptuous locales and costumes and the song "Au Revoir Is Goodbye With a Smile," Do Not Disturb is a delightful romp from start to finish! What's a devoted wife to do when her husband spends more time "working" with his sexy secretary than helping her with their new home? For Janet Taylor (Day), an American who has relocated to England with her executive husband Mike (Taylor), there's only one solution - make him jealous by inventing an admirer. But as soon as Janet creates her make-believe Romeo, a real suitor arrives, whisks Janet off to Paris, wines and dines her...and comes face-to-face with an insanely irate Mike!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Plot Summary:
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, clever, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, funny, cult classic, realistic, biting, neurotic
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What's New Pussycat (1965)
Plot Summary:
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sex comedy, esoteric, feel good, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, romantic comedy, erotic
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Any Wednesday (1966)
Plot Summary:
Ellen Gordon, a New York executive's mistress falls for the executive's young business associate when the young man is accidentally sent to use the apartment where the executive and his mistress get together every Wednesday. More complications arise when the executive's wife shows up with plans to redecorate the apartment.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, witty, sex comedy
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Game of Four (2007)
Plot Summary:
When a man & woman discover their spouses are having an affair with each other, they secretly plot to break them up and win them back.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 766
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, happy
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Don't Drink the Water (1994)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset in a sensitive region. In order to stay out of jail, the Hollanders take refuge in the American Embassy, which is temporarily being run by the absent Ambassador's diplomatically incompetent son, Axel.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, not serious
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Boys' Night Out (1962)
Plot Summary:
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, retro, satirical, black and white, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
Plot Summary:
Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat harried husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surprise ending, black comedy, clever, humorous, witty, retro, sex comedy, black and white, feel good
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Sibling Rivalry (1990)
Plot Summary:
Marjorie Turner is suffocating. Her younger sister Jeanine has no ambition, and her 8 year marriage to Harry puts her in constant competition with his family (all doctors).
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, entertaining, black comedy, cynical, dark comedy, realistic, not serious, independent film, exciting
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The First Wives Club (1996)
Plot Summary:
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining, hilarious, captivating, romantic comedy, sweet, satirical