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Plot Summary:
Story of a happy-go-lucky small time crook who runs into a country music group looking for their big break. They end up helping each other out in unexpected ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Drive-In (1976)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of a group of teenagers at a drive-in theatre in Texas one weekend night.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, parody, teen comedy
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Omaha (1995)
Plot Summary:
From the co-founder of Slamdance comes the story of a young man who returns home from a trip abroad to confront not just his peculiar family and friends, but also a pair of Colombian jewel thieves and a roving gang of Iowa kickboxers, culminating in a showdown at Carhenge. A seminal movie in the history of independent film, "Omaha: The Movie" was the film that spearheaded the birth of the Slamdance Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, student film
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Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title (1966)
Plot Summary:
A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slapstick, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, sitcom, semi serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, parody
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Who's Minding the Mint? (1967)
Plot Summary:
A bumbling government employee accidentally destroys a small fortune and decides to break into the US Mint to replace it, but before long everyone wants a slice of the action - and the money.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Lookin' to Get Out (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two gamblers must leave New York City after one loses a lot of money. Doing what all gamblers in trouble would do, they hurry to the gambling capital Las Vegas to turn their luck around.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 873
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spectacular, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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The Man from the Diners' Club (1963)
Plot Summary:
Mobster Foots Pulardos, who operates a health gym as a front, plans to flee to Mexico to evade government tax officials. His girl friend, Sugar Pye, suggests that he first arrange for the cremation of a man having his own peculiar identifying characteristic--feet of different sizes--and then apply for a Diners' Club card for use in paying his fare. The request for the credit card comes to the desk of Ernie Klenk, a timid clerk. Nervous about his forthcoming marriage to the boss's secretary, Lucy, Ernie inadvertently okays the application, then, discovering his mistake, rushes to the health gym to recover the club card he has issued.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick
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Zero to Sixty (1978)
Plot Summary:
A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Adrenaline Drive (1999)
Plot Summary:
A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A cross-country chase ensues.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, road movie, offbeat, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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The Almost Perfect Bank Robbery (1997)
Plot Summary:
A cop and his expensive fiancée, a bank teller, plan the perfect bank robbery. All goes well until the FBI suspects, almost immediately, an inside job. Their plans to move the money out of the country, then just to cover their tracks, make them look more and more guilty.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Living Wake (2007)
Plot Summary:
“The Living Wake” is a dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered rickshaw. In a final attempt to probe life’s deepest mysteries, Binew endures one ridiculous trial after the next. He concludes his day with a final performance, his living wake. On a makeshift stage in an open field, Binew’s friends and enemies gather to witness his madness one final time.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, suspense, black comedy, offbeat, independent film
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Breaking In (1989)
Plot Summary:
Professional thief Ernie takes Mike on as an apprentice, but while Mike clearly has "larceny in his heart", it will take him a long time to get as good as Ernie.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, witty, independent film, realistic, semi serious, light, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, entertaining
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13 Moons (2002)
Plot Summary:
Can you solve the mystery of the 13 moons?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, absurd, offbeat, realistic, independent film
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Heaven Before I Die (1997)
Plot Summary:
Jacob's feet are so turned out that he walks like Charlie Chaplin. He is different because of that and decides to emigrate from Palestine to Canada, where "everyone is equal". There everybody treats him kindly, and a thief specializing in stealing money from cash machines takes him into his home and treats him like a son, waitress Selma finds him a job as a Chaplin imitator, "prophet" Khalil Gibran gives him wise advice.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Sticky Fingers (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly and Hattie are asked by a drug-dealing friend-of-a-friend Diane to baby-sit a bag containing nearly a million dollars while she scoots out of town in order to avoid trouble. Once the money is in their possession, however, temptation proves too much for them.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Never Been Thawed (2005)
Plot Summary:
A hilarious mockumentary about the delicious hobby of frozen food collecting and Christian rock band, The Christers. The film follows the Mesa Frozen Entree Enthusiast's Club as they plan their first Frozen Entree Enthusiasts Convention.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, cynical, not serious, mockumentary, clever, offbeat, realistic, biting, suspense
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Skills Like This (2007)
Plot Summary:
Max Solomon faces the awful truth that he will never be a writer. So, in a desperate attempt to find his true calling, he turns to crime. In this inventive comedy, three friends have their lives turned upside down when one of them realizes that larceny might be his best skill.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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RPM (1997)
Plot Summary:
A professional car thief pulls off the heist of a lifetime when he steals a prototype supercar.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 879
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, fast
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Harry and Walter Go to New York (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two hoplessly out of their class con-men attempt to pull off the largest bank heist of the l9th century. They gain the enmity of the most famous bank Robber in the world and the affection of a crusading newspaperwoman.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Bank Shot (1974)
Plot Summary:
A bank temporarily housed in a mobile home while a new building is built, looks like an easy target to break into. On the other hand, why not steal the whole bank, and rob it in a safer location.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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Jay and Silent Bob Get Irish: The Swearing o' The Green! (2013)
Plot Summary:
You may see one show, but you haven't senn them all! Following on from the amazingly successful JAY AND SILENT BOB TEA BAGGING IN THE UK, Fast-talking, foul mouthed Jay and his "hetero life partner' Silent Bob return with their second instalment of their highly peaised, extremely dynamic live comedy show, Jay & Silent Bob Get Old Mach II.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 240 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, realistic, witty, talky
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Turf (2013)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering away the little spare cash they have, they agree to give up gambling. But no sooner have they taken this pledge than Fate intervenes, in the guise of the turf king, Monsieur Paul. The latter persuades the four friends to buy a champion racehorse, not knowing that it is in fact an old nag….
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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We're Talkin' Serious Money (1992)
Plot Summary:
A couple of bumbling con men go on the lam when they can't repay a loan from the mob.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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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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Go, Masao! (2012)
Plot Summary:
Go, Masao! describes the relationship between people and their dogs. Comedian Hideki Matsumoto and a labrador retriever named Masao are selected to appear on the travel corner segment of a TV animal program. Until Hideki Matsumoto and the labrador retriever Masao become popular, they help each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Reality & Stuff (2003)
Plot Summary:
COMEDY/MOCKUMENTARY - (2005) CAN'T GET TOO MUCH REALITY TV? CAN'T GET ENOUGH REALITY TV? You know the drill! Eight strangers are chosen to live in a house and have their lives recorded.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good, mockumentary, offbeat
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Incognito (2009)
Plot Summary:
This offbeat musical drama stars Lucas (Bénabar), an up-and-coming singer ready to do anything to be on top of the French pop scene.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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The Hollywood Sign (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three washed-up actors must deliver the most convincing performances of their lives as part of a dangerous plot designed to finance their triumphant comeback.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 726
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany, USA, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Hustle (2008)
Plot Summary:
Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at the opportunity that might save his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good, entertaining, black comedy, independent film
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Going in Style (1979)
Plot Summary:
Three senior citizens in their 70s who live together are slowly decaying in endless days with nothing to do but feed the birds. One of them comes up with an idea - rob a bank. They certainly could use the money if they get away with it and if they are caught, what could happen to three old men?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: light, touching, humorous, realistic, entertaining, semi serious, black comedy, clever, tense, sentimental
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Family Plan (2005)
Plot Summary:
Charlie MacKenzie is an ambitious young career woman who stretches the truth in a job interview by professing to be married with a family. But her little white lie leads to a great big problem when her new boss moves next door. Desperate to maintain her ruse, Charlie “borrows” her best friend’s daughter and scrambles to find a husband-for-hire. When a charming actor accepts the role, Charlie’s charade just may lead her to true love!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, sincere, witty, family comedy