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Plot Summary:
While attempting to seduce gorgeous lawyer Diane Lightson, wealthy gadabout Chris Thorne agrees to drive her to Atlantic City, N.J. But, when some reckless driving draws the attention of a deeply critical cop, they and the flamboyant "Brazillionaires" who tagged along end up in the court of a grotesque and vengeful judge, who has a special vendetta against the wealthy and erudite.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, melancholic, disturbing, not serious, horror comedy, black comedy, brutal, dark, twisted
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Back by Midnight (2004)
Plot Summary:
The warden of a small, rundown, minimum-security prison plots revenge against the the prison's dishonest owner by having four inmates break out and plan a department store robbery to spruce up the prison's faculties.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating, independent film
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Erkan & Stefan (2000)
Plot Summary:
Editor Eckernförde has come into the possession of an audiocassette that contains a recording of the last minutes of deceased politician Uwe Barschel. The circumstances of his untimely death have never been completely resolved - until now. Unfortunately, the editor's daughter Nina accidentally takes the tape with her to Munich, where she is about to visit her paralyzed Mom in a sanatorium. When this information reaches the CIA and the BND, both organizations compete to get hold of the tape. Meanwhile Erkan & Stefan, two loveable wannabe supercheckers from Munich, are assigned as bodyguards for Nina - of course, they are expected to mess up their job, so that the tape can be retrieved. But the two friends prove to be a bit more streetwise than CIA or BND ever expected.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, entertaining, realistic
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Disorderlies (1987)
Plot Summary:
As not-quite-orderlies who're downright Disorderlies, rap-music favorites The Fat Boys rule. Playing the freewheeling caretakers of the frail Dennison (Hollywood legend Ralph Bellamy), they stir up a comedic culture clash in Palm Beach society that only proves laughter is the best medicine this side of a tax refund.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, not serious, talky, slapstick, black comedy, independent film, slapstick comedy, funny, romantic
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Saturday Night Live: The Best of Steve Martin (1998)
Plot Summary:
A collection of Steve Martin's best skits.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 962
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, not serious, parody, spoof, sketch comedy
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The Groove Tube (1974)
Plot Summary:
Chevy Chase makes his film debut in this riotous collection of live skits. Directed by Ken Shapiro and featuring Chase, Richard Belzer and others, The Groove Tube mocks TV Land and its trappings by spoofing kids' shows -- from a marijuana-smoking Koko the Clown who resides in Make Believe Land, to Safety Sam, the penis with a plan who gleefully informs the audience of the perils of casual sex.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, not serious, sketch comedy, surreal, cult classic, clever, offbeat, independent film
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Farce of the Penguins (2006)
Plot Summary:
In this spoof of "March of the Penguins," nature footage of penguins near the South Pole gets a soundtrack of human voices. Carl and Jimmy, best friends, walk 70 miles to the mating grounds where the female penguins wait. The huddled masses of females - especially Melissa and Vicki - talk about males, mating, and what might happen this year. Carl, Jimmy, and the other males make the long trek talking about food, fornication and flatulence. Until this year, Carl's sex life has been dismal, but he falls hard for Melissa. She seems to like him. A crisis develops when Jimmy comes upon something soft in the dark. Can friends forgive? Does parenthood await Carl and Melissa?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: parody, feel good, humorous, not serious, spoof, mockumentary, offbeat, banned, fake documentary
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Kabluey (2007)
Plot Summary:
Leslie is left with few options when her husband is sent back to war in the Middle East. A modest amount of help arrives in the form of his brother, Salman, who is less than prepared to care for the couple's two preadolescent boys. When Leslie still can't make ends meet on her own, Salman is forced to find employment, but, with minimal qualifications, his only option is to become a mascot for a digital company by donning a bulbous blue costume.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, dark comedy, light, absurd, black comedy, disturbing, touching, offbeat, realistic
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Adventures of Serial Buddies (2011)
Plot Summary:
Gregory is a devout Catholic who wants to kill evil people in order to grant them safe passage to heaven, Gary is an assembly worker at a trophy shop who wants to kill potential trophy winners, Graham is Gary's intern who will do anything to become a trophy maker and Vinny Van Go drives a road emergency van just to make friends. A coincidental encounter forces these four dim witted rejects to join forces and embark upon an idiotic and altogether hilarious road trip adventure - encountering the likes of skinheads, fraternity jocks, sorority babes, missing children, bikers, porn-stars, clowns, and Kathie Lee Gifford! If the boys aren't careful they might just become human, in what is "the very first serial killer buddy movie of all time.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, feel good, captivating, light, offbeat, realistic
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Getting Away with Murder (1996)
Plot Summary:
When the very moralistic college ethics instructor Jack Lambert finds himself living next door to an accused German death camp commander, he takes it upon himself to rid the world of this man.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, independent film, cynical, black comedy, funny, light
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Three Amigos (1986)
Plot Summary:
Three unemployed actors accept an invitation to a Mexican village to replay their bandit fighter roles, unaware that it is the real thing.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, parody, feel good, light, talky, not serious, spoof, slapstick, cult classic
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High Strung (1992)
Plot Summary:
Thane Furrows, an extremely cynical but unintentionally hilarious children's book writer, wakes up one morning, and, since pretty much everyone and everything annoys him, begins another day of complaining to himself. However, the day proves to be much different than normal when Thane begins to recieve strange phone calls, letters, and voices in his head, all indicating that something will happen at 8 o'clock. As the day goes on, Thane rants and raves about the things that annoy him, as the clock slowly ticks closer and closer to his destiny.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating, cult classic, independent film, black comedy
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Weekend at Bernie's (1989)
Plot Summary:
Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets shot and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe he's still alive. The killer wants to do his job so when he is informed that the stiff is still alive he's got to shoot him again, and again, and again.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, black comedy, hilarious, dark comedy, entertaining, absurd, not serious, buddy comedy, slapstick comedy
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Funny Money (2006)
Plot Summary:
Henry Perkins, a mild-mannered accountant, accidentally trades briefcases with another man, to find out that there's a million dollars inside. Henry tells his unsuspecting wife of their new-found fortune, but she doesn't embrace it as well as he does. Soon they're joined by their best friends, a cop on the take, a cop on the hunt, and the dreaded Mr. Big, who has come to claim his money.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, Romania, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, witty, dark comedy, offbeat
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Bio-Dome (1996)
Plot Summary:
Bud and Doyle are two losers who are doing nothing with their lives. Both of their girlfriends are actively involved in saving the environment, but the two friends couldn't care less about saving the Earth. One day, when a group of scientists begin a mission to live inside a "Bio-Dome" for a year without outside contact, Bud and Doyle mistakenly become part of the project themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick comedy, humorous, mockbuster, romantic comedy, independent film, offbeat, experimental, witty, not serious
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Clifford (1994)
Plot Summary:
When his brother asks him to look after his young son, Clifford, Martin Daniels agrees, taking the boy into his home and introducing him to his future wife, Sarah. Clifford is fixated on the idea of visiting a famed theme park, and Martin, an engineer who helped build the park, makes plans to take him. But, when Clifford reveals himself to be a first-rate brat, his uncle goes bonkers, and a loony inter-generational standoff ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, realistic, funny, melancholic, not serious, black comedy, independent film, offbeat, crying
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The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
Plot Summary:
Cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, with the help of their eye-catching cousin, Daisy and moonshine-running Uncle Jesse, try and save the family farm from being destroyed by Hazzard County's corrupt commissioner, Boss Hogg. Their efforts constantly find the 'Duke Boys' eluding authorities in 'The General Lee', their 1969 orange Dodge Charger that keeps them one step ahead of the dimwitted antics of the small southern town's Sheriff, Roscoe P. Coltrane.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, entertaining, hilarious, funny, absurd, ironic, scenic, sex comedy, southern gothic
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The 'Burbs (1989)
Plot Summary:
When secretive new neighbors move in next door, suburbanite Ray Peterson and his friends let their paranoia get the best of them as they start to suspect the newcomers of evildoings and commence an investigation. But it's hardly how Ray, who much prefers drinking beer, reading his newspaper and watching a ball game on the tube expected to spend his vacation.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 82000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, funny, witty, cult classic, black comedy, horror comedy, allegory, feel good, satanic
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The Dark Backward (1991)
Plot Summary:
A man pursues stand-up comedy encouraged by his fellow garbage man. Though his friend, who accompanies him on accordion, continues to tell him how great he is, he actually stinks. When the "comedian" grows a third arm out of his back, the friend uses this twist to get him signed up with a sleazy talent agent, and it begins to look like his career is on the move, even though his girlfriend has left him.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, christian film, horror comedy, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, black comedy, postmodern
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Don't Tell Mom the Babysitter's Dead (1991)
Plot Summary:
Sue Ellen Crandell is a teenager eagerly awaiting her mother's summer-long absence. While the babysitter looks after her rambunctious younger siblings, Sue Ellen can party and have fun. But then the babysitter abruptly dies, leaving the Crandells short on cash. Sue Ellen finds a sweet job in fashion by lying about her age and experience on her résumé. But, while her siblings run wild, she discovers the downside of adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, dark comedy, not serious, realistic, teen, black comedy, cult classic
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House Party: Tonight's the Night (2013)
Plot Summary:
A pair of high school rappers have two major goals - make music and get hot girls. The best way to get both is to throw the biggest and best house party ever! The night of the party, one of the boys is grounded by his parents, so it's up to his best friend to break him out of his house confinement and get the party started.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, light, feel good, realistic, independent film, black cinema
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Coneheads (1993)
Plot Summary:
With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason, everyone believes them when they say they're from France! As the odd "Saturday Night Live" characters settle into middle-class life in this feature-length comedy, a neighbor admires their daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, absurd, not serious, satirical, feel good, skit, cult classic, offbeat
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Cedar Rapids (2011)
Plot Summary:
A naive Midwesterner insurance salesman travels to a big-city convention in an effort to save the jobs of his co-workers.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, melancholic, sentimental, entertaining, stylized, disturbing, sex comedy, realistic
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Funny Farm (1988)
Plot Summary:
Chevy Chase stars as Andy Farmer, a sportswriter who moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth (Madolyn Smith) to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every turn.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: hilarious, slapstick comedy, humorous, slapstick, social, colorful, offbeat, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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The Great Outdoors (1988)
Plot Summary:
It's vacation time for outdoorsy Chicago man Chet Ripley, along with his wife, Connie, and their two kids, Buck and Ben. But a serene weekend of fishing at a Wisconsin lakeside cabin gets crashed by Connie's obnoxious brother-in-law, Roman Craig, his wife, Kate, and the couple's two daughters. As the excursion wears on, the Ripleys find themselves at odds with the stuffy Craig family.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, absurd, slapstick, cult classic, epic, romantic comedy, spectacular, colorful
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Vegas Vacation (1997)
Plot Summary:
The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, slapstick, not serious, feel good, dark comedy, scenic, offbeat
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National Lampoon's Vacation (1983)
Plot Summary:
Clark Griswold is on a quest to take his family on a quest to Walley World theme park for a vacation, but things don't go exactly as planned.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 118000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, road movie, humorous, realistic, feel good, hilarious, cult classic, inspirational, entertaining, stylized
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Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
Plot Summary:
Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric relatives. His uncle decides that he needs to be cured from a neurotic speech defect and exaggerated bursts of fear: he gives him a shock therapy with palace ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, funny, melancholic, absurd, not serious, slapstick, scary, horror comedy, spooky
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Little Nicky (2000)
Plot Summary:
After the lord of darkness decides he will not cede his thrown to any of his three sons, the two most powerful of them escape to Earth to create a kingdom for themselves. This action closes the portal filtering sinful souls to Hell and causes Satan to wither away. He must send his most weak but beloved son, Little Nicky, to Earth to return his brothers to Hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, humorous, not serious, absurd, slapstick, hilarious, predictable, romantic, feel good
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The Addams Family (1991)
Plot Summary:
Uncle Fester has been missing for 25 years. An evil doctor finds out and introduces a fake Fester in an attempt to get the Addams Family's money. The youngest daughter has some doubts about the new uncle Fester, but the fake uncle adapts very well to the strange family. Can the doctor carry out her evil plans and take over the Addams Family's fortune?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 177000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, black comedy, dark comedy, humorous, cult classic, funny, not serious, stylized, light, scary
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Plot Summary:
It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 211000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, feel good, christmas special, slapstick, light, hilarious, entertaining, sentimental, inspirational