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Plot Summary:
Got Papers?, is a comedy about a newly relocated immigrant from Mexico to the US, who encounters a variety of characters, including a drug smuggling nun using an orphanage as a cover, crooked lawyers, well-meaning angels in heaven and Satan himself. Along the way, our unlikely hero saves the world, when all he wants is to help others and get his "papers".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody
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Flush (1982)
Plot Summary:
As a cruel joke, billionaire William Randolph Hughes planted a series of boxes around the Southwest, in the hopes that someone would find them. The first box told the discoverer that an enormous fortune was buried in a box somewhere, along with directions to the hiding place. When the box is uncovered, however, all it contains is instructions on how to find the next box, and so on. As luck would have it, the first box is discovered by several people at once, leading to a frantic chase from one hiding spot to the next in the hopes that one of them will finally hold the loot.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Love and the Midnight Auto Supply (1977)
Plot Summary:
An auto-theft ring decides to help out migrant workers from Mexico with the proceeds from their racket.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Hello Ladies: The Movie (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Stuart learns that his British ex-girlfriend is planning to visit Los Angeles with her husband, he sets out to impress them with his glamorous lifestyle, enlisting a Russian model he’s just met to play the role of his beautiful girlfriend. What could go wrong?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse
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Brock Wilbur: 28 Years Later (2012)
Plot Summary:
Zombies, literary allusions, unrepentant alcoholism, mental illness, esoteric pop-culture references, cocaine-fueled indie-rock dance moves, and more.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: lovecraft, live comedy
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Almost Hollywood (1994)
Plot Summary:
In this tasty blend of sleaze and thriller, a producer of exploitation and sex videos finds himself accused of killing his own mistress and the boyfriend of one of his most promising stars.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Yellow Pages (1999)
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Jack of all trades and master of none, Al Baxter (Sam Taft) stays afloat by working four jobs. As if that weren't enough, happenstance leads Al to place four ads in the phone book, resulting in four more jobs. Trouble is, none of them is real. Now, Al has to juggle his actual responsibilities with his make-believe ones, all the while trying to extricate himself from an FBI sting, a stolen microchip scam and hordes of Chinese tourists.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Rabbit Test (1978)
Plot Summary:
Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mystic, independent film, spoof, parody
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Tamizh Padam 2.0 (2018)
Plot Summary:
A stringent cop tries all the possible ways to nab a dreaded don who poses a big threat to the society.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
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Plot Summary:
Two friends, both named Frank, accidentally obtain a suitcase at the airport. It contains incriminating evidence against a mafia boss, who sends his Terminator-like lackie to find them. The Franks hide by impersonating make-up women for a beauty pageant. While in drag, the mafioso falls in love with one of the Franks.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody
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Many Happy Returns (1986)
Plot Summary:
In this satire of the I.R.S., George Segal plays an Average Joe targeted for the Audit from Hell. His bank accounts are frozen, his home and business are attached by the government, and his wife leaves him. Segal is forced to move into the house of his obnoxious brother-in-law where lot of Odd Couple-type comedy ensues. Segal then plots to turn the tables on the I.R.S., and win back his wife and life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Plot Summary:
Two unemployed stuntmen smuggle marijuana out of Mexico. Early embarassing roles by Reiner and Marshall!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Everybody Loves It (1964)
Plot Summary:
A janitor finds a four-leaf clover and dreams of his good luck turning him into a television star. Somehow, this translates to "naked women all over the place.".
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Hollywood Boulevard II (1990)
Plot Summary:
A studio finds itself in the middle of a bizarre murder mystery when an exploding teddy bear kills the latest star. Soon more actresses get violently eliminated as the desperate search for the killer begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Top Coppers (2015)
Plot Summary:
Top Coppers follows the adventures of cops John Mahogany and Mitch Rust, as they attempt to rid the fictional world of Justice City from its deranged criminal underworld. The universe and its characters are derived from the conventions of American and British cop shows of the Seventies and Eighties, from Starsky & Hutch to The Professionals, but is set in no specific time or country. With big, silly characters and hilarious stories, Top Coppers is filled with familiar tropes and references from the police and action genres, as well as drawing on relatable British situations, problems and relationships.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: spoof
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Plot Summary:
Spoof of TV crime dramas. Someone is murdering all the great detectives and cops, and it's up to the remaining few to find the killer and stop him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: parody, detective, spoof
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Mad About You (1988)
Plot Summary:
A 1990 film starring Claudia Christian.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film
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This Won't Hurt a Bit (1993)
Plot Summary:
This Won't Hurt a Bit is a 1993 Australian comedy film about a dentist.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Comedy
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Duration: 85 min
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Secret agent Poontang Plenty, who works to defeat evil while trying to crack the secret of invisibility.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, spoof, parody, cult film
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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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Tripping Forward (2009)
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Ford Coleman is a struggling actor in Hollywood who fears never achieving fame other then appearing in local TV commercials. After over a year living in L.A., Ford is broke and in danger of being evicted from his apartment. His slacker roommate Tripp, who has given up his music career out of hopelessness, convinces Tripp to become a drug dealer to buy and sell cocaine to supermodels as their extra income, which brings both Ford and Tripp into danger as they venture into the Los Angeles underworld which also puts a risk on Ford's budding romance with Gwen, a struggling actress herself unaware of Ford's secret arrangement with Tripp.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 459
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Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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A Million to Juan (1994)
Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling oranges on a street corner. One day a limousine pulls up and he is handed a check for $1,000,000 with instructions that he is to give the check back in 30 days. Initially he uses the check to convince people to extend credit to him. In the meantime he also attracts a woman who is in a dead end relationship with a bossy businessman. At the end of the 30 days, he finds his life in turmoil, the things he got on credit is repossessed, and he is being evicted from his dwelling and being sent back to Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales (2003)
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Tracey Ullman's comedy special features the one-and-only 'Ruby Romaine'--the memorable character from HBO's 'Tracey Takes On.' After an illustrious career, veteran Hollywood makeup artist Ruby has decided to call it quits. Or has she? In her trailer, Ruby tells a series of hilarious tales and explains why she reconsidered her retirement. With Debbie Reynolds, Jane Kaczmarek.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, parody, talky, independent film, spoof
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Plot Summary:
15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi, Monicelli, Scola) the best Italian writers ever (Age, Scarpelli) the best Italian actors ever (Tognazzi, Gassmann, Sordi) one of the most beautiful woman in the world (Ornella Muti) participate to this great tribute.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: anthology, black comedy, grotesque, italian comedy
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The Deported (2009)
Plot Summary:
An Italian-American actor is deported to Mexico by some crooked INS Agents, and a pack of orphans helps him find his way back to America.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Superfast! (2015)
Plot Summary:
Undercover cop Lucas White joins Vin Serento's LA gang of illegal street racers. They are fast and they are furious and they plan to double cross LA crime kingpin Juan Carlos de la Sol who hides his cash in a downtown Taco Bell. The gang's outrageous plan is as daring as it is ridiculous and will see them towing the whole damn restaurant, at crazy speeds.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining, light, realistic, fast
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Born in East L.A. (1987)
Plot Summary:
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, funny, entertaining, light, talky, feel good, not serious, realistic, witty