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Plot Summary:
Awkward telemarketer Martha Plant is down and out — sucking at her job and grieving her recently deceased parents. When she finds unlikely friendship in Sadie Mayflower, a bubbly vagrant with multiple personalities, Martha discovers having three friends in one may be more than she bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: surreal, weird
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The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023)
Plot Summary:
A fragmented, experiential look at the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: experimental, art house, independent film
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The Perfect Nonsense (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jaythan Rubin, an awkward and socially anxious twenty-something meets Bethany "G-Code" Jones, a hardcore gangsta rapper. Together they wander an absurd landscape.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: surreal, bizarre
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Remember Me? (1997)
Plot Summary:
A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film
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Love You More (2017)
Plot Summary:
Karen Best has a big life. She's a big girl with a big personality and a big love of Chardonnay, which occasionally, causes her to make some big mistakes with men. But the biggest thing about Karen is her big heart, a heart she uses to excel at her job as a counselor at a group home for young adults with Down syndrome located in an old brownstone in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 823
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 33 min
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Margot vs. Lily (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters make a bet on New Year's eve: Lily challenges Margot to make a fitness web show and get 1000 followers, and Margot challenges Lily to make at least three friends. Game on.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
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Sea Oak (2017)
Plot Summary:
A lonesome woman comes back from the dead to live the life she was too afraid to live.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 32 min
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Kidnap Ding Ding Don (2016)
Plot Summary:
Don wakes up to find a kidnapped girl, Ding Ding, who claims Don is her kidnapper, except Don has no memory of the kidnapping.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Computer Chess (2013)
Plot Summary:
Set over the course of a weekend tournament for chess software programmers thirty-some years ago, COMPUTER CHESS transports viewers to a nostalgic moment when the contest between technology and the human spirit seemed a little more up for grabs. We get to know the eccentric geniuses possessed with the vision to teach a metal box to defeat man, literally, at his own game, laying the groundwork for artificial intelligence as we know it and will come to know it in the future.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, melancholic, atmospheric, enigmatic, mumblecore, black and white, mockumentary, talky, philosophical
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Doggie Woggiez! Poochie Woochiez! (2012)
Plot Summary:
Those krazed VHS-hunting pupz from Everything Is Terrible! (everyone’s favorite found footage chop shoppe) are back with their third inner-eye-opening feature, containing a feat never before attempted in either human or canine history. EIT! asks but two simple questions, “What if we make a movie composed ENTIRELY out of dog-related found footage?” and ‘'What if this magickal movie, made up of thousands of other dog movies, is also a remake of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s 1973 masterpiece The Holy Mountain?” Well, let’s stop asking dumb rhetorical questions because this never-ending spiral of World-Pup winning, sunglasses-wearing, murder-solving, skateboarding pooches is real! No Bonez about it, this is it! Are you dog enough to go fetch it? ARFFFFFF!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, surreal, cult classic, weird, bizarre
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Sleeping with the Fishes (2013)
Plot Summary:
A woman's journey of self-discovery and the dynamics of her zany family. Alexis Fish is left broke and broken-hearted after the death of her cheating husband, working as a phone sex operator and a walking meatball hero. As she returns to her hometown of Brooklyn for a distant aunt's funeral, she fears to admit to her family and overbearing mother that her life is a mess. With help from her quirky sister Kayla and a new love interest, Alexis realizes she must let go of her past to define her own future.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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My Father's Mexican Wedding (2023)
Plot Summary:
Ana, a young Spanish woman who has just been dumped by her boyfriend, and her brother Tono, receive a call from their father to tell him that he is getting married in Mexico to a woman he met on the Internet. When they get there, they discover that the girl is 30 years younger than her father and they begin to live with her new in-laws, with the inevitable cultural clashes that this will entail.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy
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First Lady (2020)
Plot Summary:
A woman not married to the President runs for First Lady, but she winds up getting a better proposal than she ever expected. First Lady is a classic romantic comedy with the backdrop of Presidential Politics and Royal Charm.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 310
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Dawn Breaks, Which Is No Small Thing (1989)
Plot Summary:
Theodore, a young Spanish engineer who works as a professor at the University of Oklahoma, returned to Spain to enjoy a sabbatical year. Upon arrival, he discovers that his father killed his mother and, to compensate for the loss, he bought a motorcycle with sidecar to travel together. Father and son arrive in a remote mountain village seems empty, what happens is that all residents are in church every day, because the Mass is a true spectacle. Jimmy and Theodore are discovering the peculiarities of the people, attend the elections held each year to appoint mayor, priest, teacher, bitch ... In addition, the town has come a group of students at the American University of Eaton, a Belgian meteorologists, a dissident group of the Russian Army Choir, invading people's hidden above.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, absurd, weird, cult film
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Shithead (2020)
Plot Summary:
Comedy about a shithead who tries to sell his baby for drugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: weird
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Mascots (2016)
Plot Summary:
Eager contestants don big heads and furry suits to vie for the title of World's Best Mascot.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, satirical, surreal, absurd, mockumentary, light, sexy, clever, enigmatic, breathtaking
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Road Lawyers and Other Briefs (1990)
Plot Summary:
A collection of short films put out on VHS by A.I.P., includes "Road Lawyers", "Escape from Heaven", "Radar Men On the Moon", and "Hairline".
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anthology, independent film, weird, cult film
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A Christmas Karen (2022)
Plot Summary:
A reworking of A Christmas Carol where the protagonist is a typical Karen.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gay cinema
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Veinteañera, Divorciada y Fantástica (2020)
Plot Summary:
Regina, our young protagonist, always dreamed of getting married. And she did it - but the dream lasted much less than she thought and now she has to face life in a very funny way as a divorcee.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: witty, funny, romantic, sexy, entertaining, realistic, intense, semi serious, weird
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Strike First Freddy (1965)
Plot Summary:
Frede Hansen, a game salesman, is mistaken for a secret service agent on a ferry and kidnapped by enemy agents. He escapes and now the secret service want to use him as bait to track the enemy. They assign their best agent, Smith to be his partner and supervisor. Their main task is to eliminate the head of the enemy conspiracy, the mysterious 'Dr. Pax' who's real identity is unknown. Freddy accompanies Smith to Stockholm where they are to meet Sonja, an agent for Dr. Pax, who is also on Smith's liquidation list. Thanks to his bag of game tricks, Freddy manages to avoid being done in by Kolick, a killer for Dr. Pax. Freddy falls for Sonja, and he, she and Smith are taken as prisoners to Dr. Pax's hideout, a remote island fortress from which a major power is to be attacked by missiles guided by trained pigeons. Freddy manages to teach Dr. Pax a lasting lesson in the difference between trained pigeons and homing pigeons.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, eurospy
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The Calamari Wrestler (2004)
Plot Summary:
This wild comedy pokes fun at the world of pro-wrestling by placing its accomplished wrestler protagonist Koji Taguchi against a giant squid known as the Calamari Wrestler. The Calimari Wrestler not only proves to be Koji's most difficult opponent yet, but also has an effect on several people's personal lives when he becomes the unlikely object of a young girl's affection.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 786
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, captivating, surreal, offbeat, weird, campy
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The Telephone Book (1971)
Plot Summary:
The story of a day in the life of a lonely, sensitive, exhuberent, attractive, young woman. Her exploits, encounters, and frustrations as she attempts to find a "special" someone, a caller who has "class", as she puts it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surreal, sex comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, experimental, controversial, semi serious, dark comedy
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Avida (2006)
Plot Summary:
The kidnapping of a plump billionaire's dog by a deaf-mute and 2 ketamine addicts goes wrong. The wealthy woman takes advantage of the situation to make them fullfil her last wishes.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, semi serious, absurd, psychedelic, fairy tale, offbeat, experimental, avant garde, dark comedy
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Reality (2014)
Plot Summary:
A wanna-be director is given 48 hours by a producer to find the best groan of pain, worthy of an Oscar, as the only condition to back his film.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: mind bending, surreal, absurd, humorous, mindfuck, psychedelic, black comedy, cerebral, cult classic, mind blowing
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Four Rooms (1995)
Plot Summary:
It's Ted the Bellhop's first night on the job...and the hotel's very unusual guests are about to place him in some outrageous predicaments. It seems that this evening's room service is serving up one unbelievable happening after another.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 110000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: surreal, dark comedy, anthology, funny, black comedy, suspense, absurd, semi serious, cult classic, hilarious
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Frances Ferguson (2019)
Plot Summary:
Frances Ferguson, the eponymous character at the center of Bob Byington’s new film, is discontent. Like a lot of us, she does a bit of “acting out” and pays the price —an arrest, a trial, incarceration. And then a new identity, one that’s not terribly comfortable. Nick Offerman narrates this deviant comedy, based on actual events.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: weird
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Diani & Devine Meet the Apocalypse (2016)
Plot Summary:
A struggling comedy duo discovers that surviving the apocalypse is almost as difficult as surviving in Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, weird
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Bug (2002)
Plot Summary:
A small boy squashing an insect sets in motion a series of events, large and small, that include a lost restaurant reservation, a drunken fender-bender, disruption of basic cable television service, and more than one relationship falling apart. One person's disaster becomes another's boon, and vice versa--because a man loses his job, a young girl becomes the lead ballerina in the school play, which in turn causes the death of a pet pig. These characters weave around Los Angeles and each other as seemingly mundane events fall into place, putting them on a collision course with a common fate and one heroic act of competence.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, surreal, semi serious, clever, offbeat, realistic, independent film, weird
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Zelig (1983)
Plot Summary:
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, surreal, black and white, humorous, parody, melancholic, compassionate, not serious, clever, intellectual
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Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two guys get a billion dollars to make a movie, only to watch their dream run off course.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, surreal, entertaining, funny, cult classic, offbeat, slapstick, weird
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
Plot Summary:
Centred around a weekend party at the home of inventor Andrew Hobbs and his wife Adrian, attended by randy doctor Maxwell Jordan, his nurse Dulcy, renowned philosopher Dr.Leopold Sturgis and his fiancée, this is a light comedy concerning their various emotional, intellectual and sexual entanglements, loosely based on Ingmar Bergman's 'Smiles of a Summer Night'.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, clever, humorous, talky, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, romantic comedy, feel good