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Plot Summary:
Mike works on a boat in Acapulco. When the bratty daughter of the boat owner gets him fired, Mike must find new work. Little boy Rauol helps him get a job as a lifeguard and singer at a local hotel. Clashes abound when Mike runs into the rival lifeguard, who is the champion diver of Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, retro, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, technicolor, exotic
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Easy Come, Easy Go (1967)
Plot Summary:
Lieutenant Ted Jackson spends his lat day on active duty in the Navy disarming an underwater mine. While disarming the explosive he sees what appears to be a sunken ship. Overcome with curiosity, he investigates and finds a treasure chest filled with what he thinks are Spanish gold coins.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
Plot Summary:
Pin-up photographer, who doesn't want to get pinned down, comes up against a girl who won't take no for an answer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, psychotronic, offbeat
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Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966)
Plot Summary:
Blacklisted by the major airlines for endlessly chasing female staff, pilot Rick Richards returns to Hawaii to set up a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny. Having a girl on every island is a good way to get business but it becomes clear that romance and flying don't always mix.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, exotic
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Double Trouble (1967)
Plot Summary:
When singer Gut Lambert goes on tour in Europe, he is pursued by two beautiful women, bumbling jewel thieves, and a mysterious killer.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult classic, romantic comedy, exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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Rhinestone (1984)
Plot Summary:
After a big-time country singer brags that she can turn anybody in to a country-singin' star, she's out to prove she can live up to her talk when she recruits a cab-driver as a country singer. He's scheduled to sing at a big-time NYC country night club and she puts her ample powers to work in preparing her protege.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, entertaining, semi serious, inspirational, retro, anamorphic, cult classic, realistic, parody
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Podium (2004)
Plot Summary:
Bernand Fréderic is a mediocre bank executive. He's married and have a son. He used to have antother profession: to be French star Claude Francois. Now, with the Imitators Gala Night coming up, he must choose between his wife or the only thing that makes him fully happy: the applause.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, surprise ending
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Girls! Girls! Girls! (1962)
Plot Summary:
Elvis plays Ross Carpenter, a fishing guide/sailor who loves his life out on the sea. When he finds out his boss is retiring to Arizona, he has to find a way to buy the Westwind, a boat that he and his father built. He is also caught between two women: insensitive club singer Robin and sweet Laurel.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: retro, black and white, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, tense, light, sexy
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Blue Hawaii (1961)
Plot Summary:
Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, melancholic, stylized, intense, feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, psychotronic, retro
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Adventures of Power (2008)
Plot Summary:
In his quest to become the world's greatest air-drummer, a small-town dreamer must overcome obstacles and ridicule to save the day.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, captivating, funny, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, cult film
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Right This Way Folks! (1964)
Plot Summary:
Elvis plays a bad-boy singer roaming the highways on his Japanese motorcycle; laid up after an accident, he joins a carnival owned by the feisty Barbara Stanwyck.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, retro, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, tense, light, romantic
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Follow That Dream (1962)
Plot Summary:
When the Kwimper family car runs out of gas on a new Florida highway and an officous state supervisor tries to run them off, Pop Kwimper digs in his heels and decides to do a little homesteading. He and his son Toby and their "adopted" children - Holly, Ariadne and the twins - start their own little community along a strip of the roadside.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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Frankie and Johnny (1966)
Plot Summary:
Elvis plays Johnny, a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. Donna Douglas plays Johnny's girl, Frankie. A fortune teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck. Enter a new lady luck played by Nancy Kovack and the cat fight begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, road movie, sexy, clever, bad ending
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Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Plot Summary:
Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, hilarious, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, exciting
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Girl Happy (1965)
Plot Summary:
A Chicago mobster hires a rock and roll singer and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: retro, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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Disco (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, captivating, realistic
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Marci X (2003)
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A Jewish-American Princess is forced to take control of a hard-core hip-hop record label and tries to rein the one of the label's most controversial rappers.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, spooky, satirical, controversial
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Roadie (1980)
Plot Summary:
A young Texas good ol' boy has a knack with electronic equipment, and that talent gets him a job as a roadie with a raucous traveling rock-and-roll show.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: offbeat, funny, cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie, independent film, cult film
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA, Iceland, Canada
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, funny, touching, humorous, cult classic, inspirational, slapstick comedy, motivational, buddy comedy
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Every college campus has its rivalries and UTS is no different. At this university, the Geeks run the campus and the greatest Steppers are king of the hill. When a local radio station announces the beginning of the step competition season, the campus fraternities and sororities fight to recruit the best talent that will help them win the big-money prize.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, hood, captivating, independent film
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cult classic, humorous, witty, independent film, realistic, cynical, semi serious, light, sexy, feel good
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Svengali (2013)
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Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts them down and offers them his management services. They are young, arrogant, sexy and utterly magnificent. Putting their demo on a cassette tape, Dixie heads out onto the streets of London….
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, sincere
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Sueño (2005)
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A Mexican immigrant new to Los Angeles enters into a love triangle with two very different women.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, humorous, semi serious, crying, freeze frame
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Thank God It's Friday (1978)
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It's Friday and everyone is going to the hot new disco. The Commodore's are scheduled to play if Floyd shows up with the instruments and Nicole dreams of becoming a disco star. Other characters are there to win the dance contest, or to put a little excitement into a fifth anniversary.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, grindhouse, offbeat, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, sexual, campy
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Killing Bono (2011)
Plot Summary:
Neil and Ivan McCormick, two Irish brothers who attempt to become rock stars but can only look on as their high school friends U2 become the biggest band in the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, freeze frame
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City of Rock (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young musician from a small town in China tries to save his town's treasured Rock Park by organizing a charity rock concert.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: China
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Down and Out with the Dolls (2001)
Plot Summary:
The raunchy, spunky tale of the rise and fall of an all-girl rock band from Portland, Oregon.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, suspense, erotic, offbeat, independent film, biting, campy
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Breakin' (1984)
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A struggling young dancer joins forces with two breakdancers and together they become a street sensation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, hood, cult classic, independent film, psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, freeze frame
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That Thing You Do! (1996)
Plot Summary:
A Pennsylvania band scores a hit in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as it can, with lots of help from its manager.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
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Plot Summary:
A group of aspiring entertainers try to establish careers for themselves in the city of Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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Plot Summary:
G.G. Sparrow faces off with her choir's newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, over the group's direction as they head into a national competition.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, black comedy