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Plot Summary:
The Rebecca riots took place in the rural parts of west Wales, including Pembrokeshire, Cardiganshire, and Carmarthenshire, around 1839-1843. Based on a script that Dylan Thomas wrote for Gainsborough Pictures in 1948, "Rebecca's Daughters" explores the tension between the working and ruling classes in 19th century Wales. Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by something called "The Whitman Turnpike Trust", headed by the drunken Lord Sarn (Peter O'Toole). So Raine dresses up as a woman, calls himself Rebecca, and leads the common people to victory over their masters.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
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Heavy Weather (1995)
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At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planning to publish a book which might ruin the family name forever. Moreover, the Earl's nephew might cause the family some major damage by getting married to a terribly unsuitable chorus girl. An adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's novel of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
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Willi and the Windsors (1996)
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The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want to live by their distant relatives, the Bettenberg family. But these are not amused about their snobbish visitors, which all want to reside in their little house without doing any work to earn their living.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Comedy
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 85 min
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Pygmalion (1983)
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An adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min
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Great Catherine (1968)
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An adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
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The Test (2012)
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A guy puts his unwitting bride-to-be through a series of increasingly bizarre "stress tests" to see if she's worthy of marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
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The Naked Truth (1992)
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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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8 Minutes Idle (2012)
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Based upon Matt Thorne's award-winning novel about life in a call centre, "Eight Minutes Idle" is a warped urban comedy about what it really means to put your life 'on hold'! Dan Thomas has always taken the path of least resistance - in his work life, home life and love life! But when Dan finds himself kicked out of the family home, he's faced with no option but to secretly move into the call centre where he works. Suddenly, everything that he's previously taken for granted - a well-stocked fridge, clean clothes, his friends, his self respect, even his beloved cat - are either disappearing or conspiring against him. As Dan's work/life balance spirals dangerously out of control, he's forced to break out of old habits and to dare to do something he has never had to do before - really care about someone other than himself. Written by Sarah Cox.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 681
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, not serious, offbeat
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An Ideal Husband (1981)
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Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs. Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min
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Personal Services (1987)
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The story of the rise of a madame of a suburban brothel catering to older men, inspired by the real experiences of Cynthia Payne. The story follows Christine Painter (Julie Walters) as the down-at-heel waitress who, with the help of prostitute Shirley (Shirley Stelfox) and cross-dressing Wing Commander Morten (Alec McCowen), seeks to up her earnings by turning her suburban home into a brothel. Before long she and her girls are chaining up judges, spanking Generals and attending to the needs of Honourable Members. Christine sees herself as providing a vital service to these harmless pervs and when finally the house is busted and the case comes to court, it's fair to say that the presiding judge isn't unfamiliar with her work.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, sexy, independent film, thought provoking, humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good
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Ashi Hi Banwa Banwi (1988)
Plot Summary:
Dhananjay makes Parshuram and Sudhir to act as his and his brothers wife as the landlady only wants married couples. What will happen when the landlady will come to know the truth and how will they all face her as she is very lovable to all.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Love Feast (1969)
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Mr. Murphy, a photographer, lures models to his house on the pretense of legitimate modelling work, and then busies himself bedding them. After a while, his bedroom has gotten pretty crowded and he's exhausted, so he snags a taxi cab driver to help out. Soon, a trio of domineering women show up and force him (willingly) to dress in women's clothes and submit to their whims.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Solange and the living (2016)
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One day when Solange is studying the accumulated dust balls in her apartment, the doorbell rings. A delivery man claims to have a packet addressed to her. Solange is definite: it's impossible. The misunderstanding intensifies, Solange collapses. When a doctor suggests that someone watch over her for the night, her landlord accepts to do so. But he's called away on a mission and decides to find another watchman... A genuine human chain will then form so that Solange is not left alone because it seems that this relationship therapy is doing her good.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 67 min
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Take It Out In Trade (1970)
Plot Summary:
A couple hire a detective to locate their missing daughter. He finds her in a "house of ill-repute.".
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: detective, psychotronic
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Cats Don't Come When You Call (2016)
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Mitsuo is a boxer who prefers dogs but ends up looking after two cats that his brother rescues.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 103 min
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How to Get Girls (2017)
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Zach and Ben are two nerdy childhood best friends with a dream to go to Comic Con. When Ben is forced to move with his dad to Antarctica, the two make a vow that when Ben comes back they will finish writing their own comic book and get it into the hands of their hero, Marvel creator Stan Lee. Yet, plans change when after five years of total isolation and extreme puberty, Ben returns as the same geek now trapped inside the body of an Abercrombie model. With his new "golden ticket," Zach uses Ben to do what was once thought impossible - get girls.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 688
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: comic
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A Child's Christmases in Wales (2009)
Plot Summary:
One-off period comedy, peeping into the lives of a south Wales family's Christmases across the 1980s, written by comedian Mark Watson and inspired by a Dylan Thomas short story. Christmas in this household may be a less than poetic affair, but it is just as eventful. So much changes across a decade in any family, and yet so much manages to remain the same.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min
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Under Milk Wood (1971)
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This Dylan Thomas work is a delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" (read it backwards!). We meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts) through the 'eyes' of Blind Captain Cat. This is a true "Classic" of modern British writing with a wonderful, mischievous use of language. Under Milk Wood was Sinclair's first film and he was able to sign up Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor to the project with the help of O'Toole, Sinclair's long-term friend. Burton and Taylor were paid £10,000 each. Elizabeth Taylor was only available for three days of filming, which at her request took place in London. At £600, her three dresses took up half of the costume budget. It was the only film in which Burton, Taylor and O’Toole appeared together. It was shot on various locations in Wales and has since acquired a reputation among aficionados as a cult movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, stylized, semi serious, independent film
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Heavens Above! (1963)
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A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: parody, black and white, clever, humorous, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Set in Cape Town, South Africa Mama Jack is the story of Jack Theron, an ordinary person working on a film set. However, his movie producer boss hates him and wants to remove him from the production of the film. In a bid to get rid of Jack, the producer spikes his drink with a drug at a glamorous function, and before long Jack has got himself on the wrong side of the law. While on the run, Jack turns to his friend, a make-up artist, who turns him into "Mama Bolo". Mama Bolo soon finds “herself” employed by the producer’s fiancée, Angela. A series of deceptions and misunderstandings pile up and comic mayhem ensues with Jack Theron becoming another character, Doctor Donald, a tramp from Scotland.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Africa
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Adult Camp (2015)
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Adult Camp is a comedy about the bumpy road to personal growth. A group of men and women, strangers to each other, choose to spend a different kind of summer holiday week by traveling to the beautiful Turku archipelago to participate in an inviting, upgraded version of an adult camp. When they discover that the galloping horses from the camp's sales video are just symbols of a free mind, and the guru of the camp takes off to witness his dog in labour, the participants are forced to examine themselves and each other to find the necessary elements for growth. Perhaps the camp doesn't fulfill its promise of the "most wonderful week of your life", but one thing's for sure - no one returns home the same.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, light, feel good, entertaining
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Club Paradise (1986)
Plot Summary:
When Chicago firefighter Jack Moniker retires and moves to a small Caribbean island, he is befriended by the owner of a run-down resort. Together they renovate the resort and lure tourists to Club Paradise in an effort to fight off corrupt officials and businessmen who want to claim the resort as their own.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, realistic, not serious, black comedy, slapstick comedy, parody, funny, light, sexy
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Man About the House (1974)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Sparkle (2007)
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Liverpool chancer Sam moves to London with his aspiring chanteuse mum and begins an affair with a PR boss. But problems arise when he falls for her estranged daughter, too.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, offbeat, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious
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Naughty Grandma 3 (2021)
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1980, the whole country follows the events of the Moscow Olympics. Vova Rubinstein alone, on the sly, disguises himself as Soviet pop stars and tries to get rich by arranging fake concerts. At one of these concerts, he is exposed by the KGB and recruited as an undercover agent. Now, in order not to go to jail, Vova must fulfill a responsible mission - to find a deadly chemical developed in a secret laboratory on the black market. Vova will have to plunge headlong into the abyss of the spy passions of Moscow in the 80s: to find a chemical, to prevent the undermining of the Olympic Bear, to experience Brezhnev's passionate kiss, and to meet the love of his life ... And all this is in the image of the currency prostitute Louise Karpovna Rubinstein.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, feel good, light, humorous, captivating
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 930
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A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, France
Duration: 108 min
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After winning the 'trip of a lifetime' to a caravan park in Rhyl, North Wales, unlucky in love Northener, Janet, is ready for a holiday romance. Unfortunately, taking the advice of her best friend, Diana - that she should pretend to be the opposite of who she actually is in order to find love - doesn't quite lead to the happily ever after that Janet was hoping for.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
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Surviving Christmas with the Relatives (2018)
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Two sisters come together to spend Christmas with their families in their recently deceased parents’ falling down country house, with hilariously chaotic consequences, as ancient sibling rivalries flare up again to sabotage the hoped for season of good will.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining