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Plot Summary:
Jerry Lewis directed, co-wrote and starred in this riotously funny movie that set a new standard for screen comedy and inspired the hit remake. Lewis plays a timid, nearsighted chemistry teacher who discovers a magical potion that can transform him into a suave and handsome Romeo. The Jekyll and Hyde game works well enough until the concoction starts to wear off at the most embarrassing times.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: slapstick, funny, feel good, humorous, black comedy, cult classic, aesthetic, not serious, absurd, psychotronic
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The Errand Boy (1961)
Plot Summary:
Paramutual Pictures wants to know where all the money is going so they hire Morty to be their spy. Morty works for Mr. Sneak and gets a job in the mail room so that he can have access to the lot. But all that Morty ever finds is that he can cause havoc no matter what he does.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: black and white, parody, offbeat, feel good, humorous, witty, not serious, slapstick comedy, cult film
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The Disorderly Orderly (1964)
Plot Summary:
The Disorderly Orderly is a 1964 American comedy film released by Paramount Pictures, and starring Jerry Lewis. The film was produced by Paul Jones with a screenplay by director Frank Tashlin, based on a story by Norm Liebermann and Ed Haas.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: esoteric, feel good, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Family Jewels (1965)
Plot Summary:
A young heiress must choose between six uncles, one of which is up to no good and out to harm the girl's beloved bodyguard who practically raised her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: parody, cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, detective, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Patsy (1964)
Plot Summary:
When a star comedian dies, his comedy team decides to train a 'nobody' to play the Star in a big TV show (a Patsy). But the man chosen, bellboy Stanley Belt (Lewis), can't do anything right. The TV show is getting closer, and Stanley is getting worse.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: cult classic, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Hardly Working (1980)
Plot Summary:
In Jerry Lewis's first film in a decade, he plays Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who can't seem to hold down a job. The film opens with a brief montage of clips from past Lewis movies. He then moves into a succession of jobs that he gets himself fired from including a gas station attendant and a mailman - all with disastrous results.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slapstick, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, slapstick comedy, cult film
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Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
Plot Summary:
Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, slapstick, light, feel good, esoteric, surprise ending, slapstick comedy
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The Ladies Man (1961)
Plot Summary:
After his girl leaves him for someone else, Herbert gets really depressed and starts searching for a job. He finally finds one in a big house which is inhabited by many, many women. Can he live in the same home with all these females?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, absurd, parody, melancholic, talky, not serious, slapstick, black and white, slapstick comedy
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Soul Man (1986)
Plot Summary:
Soul Man is a comedy film made in 1986 about a man who undergoes racial transformation with pills to qualify for an African-American-only scholarship at Harvard Law School. It stars C. Thomas Howell, Rae Dawn Chong, Arye Gross, James Earl Jones, Leslie Nielsen, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, realistic, witty, controversial, semi serious, independent film, sentimental, funny, light
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Real Genius (1985)
Plot Summary:
Chris is the top brain who just wants to party, Mitch is the 15-year-old college wiz kid. Supposedly hard at work on a lab project with a mysterious deadline, they still find time to use their genius to discover new ways to have fun.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, cult classic, feel good, humorous, retro, epic, sex comedy, romantic comedy, anamorphic
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The Nutty Professor (1996)
Plot Summary:
Eddie Murphy stars as shy Dr. Sherman Klump, a kind, brilliant, 'calorifically challenged' genetic professor. When beautiful Carla Purty joins the university faculty, Sherman grows desperate to whittle his 400-pound frame down to size and win her heart. So, with one swig of his experimental fat-reducing serum, Sherman becomes 'Buddy Love', a fast-talking, pumped-up , plumped down Don Juan.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 122000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, humorous, hilarious, touching, slapstick, black comedy, feel good, grindhouse, romantic comedy
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Back to School (1986)
Plot Summary:
Self-made millionaire Thornton Melon decides to get a better education and enrolls at his son Jason's college. While Jason tries to fit in with his fellow students, Thornton struggles to gain his son's respect, giving way to hilarious antics.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, talky, semi serious, witty, hilarious, clever, sex comedy, sexual
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Nutty Professor II: The Klumps (2000)
Plot Summary:
The hilarity begins when professor Sherman Klump finds romance with fellow DNA specialist, Denise Gaines, and discovers a brilliant formula that reverses aging. But Sherman's thin and obnoxious alter ego, Buddy Love, wants out...and a big piece of the action. And when Buddy gets loose, things get seriously nutty.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, absurd, not serious, parody, hilarious, psychotronic, entertaining, anamorphic, black comedy
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Senseless (1998)
Plot Summary:
A student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, funny, entertaining, black comedy, romantic, suspense, experimental, disturbing, hood
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Book of Love (1990)
Plot Summary:
John Twiller takes down his high school yearbook and begins to reminiscence about that time he first moved into the neighborhood in 1956. His teenage self, Jack is obsessed with Lily one of the more popular girls around. The sole obstacle is Angelo, her bullying boyfriend. With the help of his pals Crutch, Floyd, and Spider, he makes every attempt possible to change her mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, independent film, teen sex comedy, teen comedy
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Bickford Shmeckler's Cool Ideas (2006)
Plot Summary:
When his journal of bright ideas is stolen, college freshman Bickford Schmeckler (Fugit) has to blanket the campus in order to locate it.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, funny, epic, offbeat
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Just One of the Guys (1985)
Plot Summary:
When Terry Griffith loses her high school's writing competition, she's convinced that it's because she's a girl. So Terry decides to change high schools and pose as a boy to prove her point. Her brother, Buddy, helps her pass as a guy so well that she is soon making friends with the boys at school, including the attractive Rick, who becomes her new best friend. But her gender-swapping makes things difficult when she falls in love with him.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: entertaining, feel good, humorous, not serious, teen sex comedy, sex comedy, sad, realistic, erotic, funny
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Van Wilder 2: The Rise of Taj (2006)
Plot Summary:
Taj Mahal Badalandabad leaves Coolidge College behind for the halls of Camford University in England, where he looks to continue his education, and teach an uptight student how to make the most out of her academic career.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, teen, funny, sex comedy, slapstick, teen sex comedy, entertaining, light, captivating, sexy
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Coneheads (1993)
Plot Summary:
With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason, everyone believes them when they say they're from France! As the odd "Saturday Night Live" characters settle into middle-class life in this feature-length comedy, a neighbor admires their daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, absurd, not serious, satirical, feel good, skit, cult classic, offbeat
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Multiplicity (1996)
Plot Summary:
Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves him with little time for himself. However, he is approached by geneticist Dr. Owen Leeds, who offers Doug a rather unusual solution to his problems: cloning.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, light, absurd, not serious, funny, hilarious, scary, anamorphic, cult classic
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Bubble Boy (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy is young man who was born without an immune system and has lived his life within a plastic bubble in his bedroom... who pines for the sweet caresses of girl-next-door Chloe. But when Chloe decides to marry her high school boyfriend, Jimmy -- bubble suit and all -- treks cross-country to stop her. Swoosie Kurtz, as Jimmy's overprotective mom, co-stars along with Fabio, who portrays the leader of a religious cult.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, melancholic, satirical, absurd, hilarious, light, semi serious, funny, cult classic
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Weird Science (1985)
Plot Summary:
Two unpopular teenagers, Gary and Wyatt, fail at all attempts to be accepted by their peers. Their desperation to be liked leads them to "create" a woman via their computer. Their living and breathing creation is a gorgeous woman, Lisa, whose purpose is to boost their confidence level by putting them into situations which require Gary and Wyatt to act like men.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 96000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, teen, light, cult classic, funny, romantic comedy, romantic, epic, sexual, horror comedy
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Better Off Dead... (1985)
Plot Summary:
Lane Meyer is obsessed with his girlfriend Beth and is crushed when she falls for the new captain of the ski team, Roy. After several failed suicide attempts, narrow escapes from the relentless paper boy, and nearly unbearable dinners at home with his crazy family, Lane finds a new love in French exchange student Monique Junot. Meanwhile, he must beat Roy on the slopes to regain his honor.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, humorous, dark comedy, light, sweet, cult classic, surreal, entertaining, romantic comedy
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Can't Hardly Wait (1998)
Plot Summary:
It's graduation day at Huntington Hills High, and you know what that means - time to party. And not just any party, either. This one will be a night to remember, as the nerds become studs, the jocks are humiliated, and freshman crushes blossom into grown-up romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, realistic, funny, light, humorous, semi serious, romantic comedy, cult classic, teen
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Honey I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
Plot Summary:
Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his invention, the machine unexpectedly starts working. And when Adam comes right up to the machine, he gets zapped along with his stuffed bunny.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, light, clever, feel good, humorous, slapstick, hilarious, epic, cult classic, not serious
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Son of Flubber (1962)
Plot Summary:
Medfield's lovable but hopelessly absent-minded professor -- Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) -- bounces back in this classic Disney film with hilarious new mishaps when he experiments with the amazing by-products of his startling anti-gravity substance, "flubber." Windows shatter, football players fly, and thunderstorms materialize indoors as Professor Brainard fights to keep Medfield College from falling into the hands of ruthless land developer Alonzo Hawk (Keenan Wynn).
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: melancholic, intense, feel good, not serious, humorous, offbeat, psychotronic, fairy tale, light, romantic
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Loser (2000)
Plot Summary:
On a university scholarship, a good natured student from the midwest gets a crash course in city life while dealing with three evil roommates. He befriends a virtually homeless college student whom he falls for, but she's dating a nasty professor.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, teen, sentimental, romantic, realistic, talky, semi serious, independent film, humorous
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National Lampoon's Van Wilder (2002)
Plot Summary:
Van Wilder has been attending college for far too many years and is scared to graduate, but Van’s father eventually realizes what is going on. When he stops paying his son's tuition fees, Van must come up with the money if he wants to stay in college, so he and his friends come up with a great fund-raising idea – throwing parties. However, when the college magazine finds out and reporter, Gwen is sent to do a story on Van Wilder, things get a little complicated.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 114000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, funny, humorous, light, romantic, sexy, hilarious, teen, feel good
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Pyaar Impossible (2010)
Plot Summary:
romantic comedy in which a geek and the most sought-after college beauty are paired together by a twist of fate. And under all odds, an impossible love story begins.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, touching, realistic, witty
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Flubber (1997)
Plot Summary:
Professor Phillip Brainard, an absent minded professor, works with his assistant Weebo, trying to create a substance that's a new source of energy and that will save Medfield College where his sweetheart Sara is the president. He has missed his wedding twice, and on the afternoon of his third wedding, Professor Brainard creates flubber, which allows objects to fly through the air.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 94000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, entertaining, slapstick, slapstick comedy, parody, grindhouse, cult classic, hilarious, disgusting
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She's All That (1999)
Plot Summary:
High school hotshot Zach Siler is the envy of his peers. But his popularity declines sharply when his cheerleader girlfriend, Taylor, leaves him for sleazy reality-television star Brock Hudson. Desperate to revive his fading reputation, Siler agrees to a seemingly impossible challenge. He has six weeks to gain the trust of nerdy outcast Laney Boggs -- and help her to become the school's next prom queen.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 102000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, teen, romantic comedy, light, humorous, sentimental, entertaining, realistic