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Plot Summary:
After a boy's parents decide to divorce, he creates a "support group" for all the kids from failed marriages in his school. When kids who's parents aren't divorced start to pick on them, they agree to cause their parents to divorce as well.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Boy Genius (2019)
Plot Summary:
A twelve year-old child prodigy teams up with a quirky retiree to solve a crime and save his family from splitting up.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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International Falls (2019)
Plot Summary:
A wife and mom with secret dreams of being a stand-up comic uses a one night stand with a burned-out touring comedian to face the harsh but funny truths of her failing marriage, neglected aspirations, and individual identity.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Social Animals (2018)
Plot Summary:
Determined not to turn into her parents, or be drawn into any relationship longer than a one night stand, Zoe constantly struggles with her failing business and love life. Then she falls in love for the first time with Paul. But there's one problem: Paul is married.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, funny, light, sincere, independent film
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What Happens When Love Comes to Town (1984)
Plot Summary:
Misa in the music school falls in love with a young Russian girl Natasha, who was then located in Belgrade. But their parents think that they are too young for love. Natasha's parents do not allow that connection, so they go back to Moscow. Unlike parents who want to end their relationship Zika and Milan are on their side. Zika begins to learn the Russian language.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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No Dessert, Dad, Till You Mow the Lawn (1994)
Plot Summary:
A couple manages to quit smoking by using hypnosis, but then their children decide to use it to manipulate their parents into more submissive behavior.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, nostalgic
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Yellow Bird (2023)
Plot Summary:
A once successful P.R. Specialist deals with the trials and tribulations of managing a local grocery store known as "The Yellow Bird" while struggling with his loveless marriage, an unhappy stepdaughter and his own sobriety.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Beverly Hills Brats (1989)
Plot Summary:
A rich young boy arranges to be kidnapped so he'll get more attention from his parents.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Beginner's Guide to Sex (2015)
Plot Summary:
Plucky and innocent Laci Cox is hired to teach a rowdy and experienced group of hormonal high schoolers about sex. The only problems is... she's a virgin! Laci must lose her virginity before she loses her job.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, humorous, entertaining, light, captivating, sexy, hot
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You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah (2023)
Plot Summary:
Stacy and Lydia are BFFs who've always dreamed about having epic bat mitzvahs. But things start to go comically awry when a popular boy and middle school drama threatens their friendship and their rite of passage.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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Miguel Wants to Fight (2023)
Plot Summary:
In a neighborhood where fighting is stitched into the fabric of everyday life, Miguel has never found himself in one. However, when a combination of events turn his life upside down, Miguel and his friends enter into a series of misadventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978)
Plot Summary:
Stella Johnson is a single mother living in the town of Harper Valley. Most of the townsfolk, particularly those on the school PTA, think she is a little too liberal so they're making things tough for her and her daughter. So she runs for the position of PTA President, which infuriates them. Stella decides to get revenge with the help of her friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, sexual, sexy, suspense
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Keeping Up with the Steins (2006)
Plot Summary:
All hilarity breaks loose in this heartwarming coming-of-age comedy when three generations of Fiedlers collide in a crazy family reunion. As they prepare for the biggest Bar Mitzvah on the block, they begin to see that they're much more alike than they'd originally thought.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, witty, realistic, independent film
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Worst. Prom. Ever. (2011)
Plot Summary:
Clark has planned the perfect prom for his girlfriend Sharon. His plans are hijacked when Sharon invites her two best girlfriends, Neve and Heather, and their dates along on the perfect evening, but things only get worse. When all three are deserted by their dates at the beginning of prom, the trio go back out to their limo, where the driver has cleaned out the mini bar and takes them on a wild ride that lands them in a holding cell and ends with them crashing another school's prom.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, light, feel good, realistic, suspenseful
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White on Rice (2009)
Plot Summary:
40-year-old Jimmy is growing up, or at least he's getting older. While mooching the upper bunk of his ten-year-old nephew's bed, he enjoys the never-ending generosity of his sister Aiko, and dodges the wrath of his impatient brother-in-law Tak. He thinks that if only he could get married all his problems would be solved. But when he falls head over heels for Tak's niece things only go from bad to worse.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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Herpes Boy (2009)
Plot Summary:
A social outcast with a facial birthmark finds his world flipped upside down after he posts videos of his quirky life onto the Internet and becomes an unwilling cyber-celebrity.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, offbeat, realistic, not serious
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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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Christmas In Palm Springs (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jessica has a big presentation in Palm Springs. There are a couple of problems though: her two kids who will do anything to get mom and dad back together again - even if they have to hack mom's phone or pose as a secretary to make sure dad's in Palm Springs too. And father Joe who'll do anything to charm his way back into Jessica's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: family comedy, christmas comedy
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Don't be a dick about it (2018)
Plot Summary:
A hilarious and beautiful portrait of two brothers growing up. The film follows the brothers around for one summer capturing the nuances of pissing each other off.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, contemplative, non fiction, cinema verite
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The Incredible Jessica James (2017)
Plot Summary:
Burned by a bad breakup, a struggling New York City playwright makes an unlikely connection with a divorced app designer she meets on a blind date.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, romantic, sexy, romantic comedy, independent film
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The Book of Caleb (2008)
Plot Summary:
A comfortable underachiever and serial prankster, in the midst of their quarter life crisis, reunite against childhood enemies in a contemporary suburban epic.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good, independent film
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Rich Kids (1979)
Plot Summary:
Two 12 year olds, the products of Upper West Side broken homes, struggle to make sense of their parents lives and their own adolescent feelings.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: stylized, grindhouse, independent film, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious
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General Education (2012)
Plot Summary:
Levi Collins is set to go to the local University on a tennis scholarship, but he forgot to tell his parents one thing - he didn't graduate. As a result, he must take summer school before his mom and dad discover he's failed senior science. At school, Levi falls in love with his classmate, Katie, and learns that he has to make a choice between playing tennis and receiving a proper education. General Education is a quirky comedy about a family learning to grow together.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, realistic, independent film
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Car Babes (2006)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age story about the quirky lives of car salesman.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating
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Lower Learning (2008)
Plot Summary:
Barry Goldwater Elementary is on the brink of collapse: the lowest test scores in the state, teachers who are either drunk or having sex on school grounds, and a principal who extorts money from parents. It's up to Tom, the down-on-his-luck vice-principal, to rally the lazy teachers, expose the principal's corruption, and turn the school around before an end of the day board decision.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Bernadette (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1994, an awkward 15 year-old boy enlists the help of the Park District's least valuable employee--a local lothario and suburban legend-- to win the heart of Bernadette, an 18 year-old French foreign exchange student, local lifeguard and, according to all reliable reports, the most beautiful girl ever seen in the suburb of Forest Lake.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, psychological, sexy, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, retro
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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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Harold (2008)
Plot Summary:
A teenager with an early onset of male-pattern baldness befriends his high school's janitor.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, indie film
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We the Party (2012)
Plot Summary:
In Los Angeles, five high-school friends deal with romance, money, prom, college, sex, bullies, Facebook, fitting in, standing out, and finding themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, feel good, light, scenic, sincere, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Tucker (2000)
Plot Summary:
Tucker is a television family comedy series that aired on NBC from October 2, 2000 to March 27, 2001.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Outcasts (2017)
Plot Summary:
After falling victim to a humiliating prank by the high school Queen Bee, best friends and world-class geeks, Mindy and Jodi, decide to get their revenge by uniting the outcasts of the school against her and her circle of friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, independent film, touching, realistic