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Plot Summary:
Bert Kreischer faces a familial crisis and the arrival of his estranged father when the ghost of his booze-soaked past arrives: a murderous mobster hellbent on kidnapping Bert back to the motherland to atone for his crimes. Together, he and his father must retrace the steps of his younger self in the midst of a war between a sociopathic crime family while they attempt to find common ground.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: action comedy, dark comedy
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Better Start Running (2018)
Plot Summary:
An eclectic band of misfits becomes an unlikely family as they take a wild journey in the name of love while on the run from an overzealous FBI duo who want them dead or alive - preferably dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 902
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie
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The Feud (1989)
Plot Summary:
All Dolph Beeler wanted was a can of paint remover when he went to Bud Bullard's hardware store in Millville. But a simple misunderstandling between two men has turned into an outright war between two towns in this outrageous comedy of errors.--Summary from container. -- WorldCat.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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D.C. Cab (1983)
Plot Summary:
The tale of a hapless group of cabbies and a rundown cab company owned by Harold. Albert comes to town with a dream of starting his own cab company but needs to motivate Harold's employees to want to make something out of themselves. It is only when Albert is kidnapped that the cabbies must decide whether or not they are loyal to Albert and his cause.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sex comedy, action comedy, realistic, semi serious, feel good, unusual plot structure, entertaining, slasher
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The Crime of Cacaro Gumaro (2014)
Plot Summary:
After their fathers death, two brothers dispute the inheritance: the local movie theater known as Linterna Mújica. Their dispute may or not bring the town to its apocalypse, but it will for sure turn it upside-down.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, futuristic, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Big Sleaze (2010)
Plot Summary:
Chuck Peterson is a young slacker with big dreams. Disowned by his family and ignored by his peers, he diligently pursues his dreams of writing a fantastic children's book to become famous and strike it rich. But due to a bipolar disorder and lack of creative talent, he slums his way through life relying on small time scams to keep himself afloat. When his gangster roommate makes him an offer he can't refuse, Chuck immediately takes the chance to clear himself of all his debts. But things go from bad to worse when the plan makes Chuck a prime murder suspect among a plethora of pornographers and terrorists!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, independent film, 2d animation
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The Little Dragons (1979)
Plot Summary:
Karate experts attempt to rescue a girl who was kidnapped by a mother and her two psycho sons.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, campy, cult film
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Killing Poe (2016)
Plot Summary:
In this hilarious college comedy, five students find themselves in the most infuriating class on Edgar Allan Poe ever. After weeks of abuse from their professor - and a 'shroom-fueled trip with a beat-boxing groundskeeper and a TV horror host - the group plots revenge. But their "simple" plan spirals out of control and they learn the hard way what Poe's stories are really all about.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, dark comedy
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...Watch Out, We're Mad (2022)
Plot Summary:
Estranged, quarreling brothers Carezza and Sorriso have to put aside their differences to reclaim their father's beloved dune buggy from predatory real estate developer Torsillo, with the help of beautiful circus performer Miriam, whose family business is threatened by Torsillo's enforcers.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: action comedy
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Bert Kreischer: Secret Time (2018)
Plot Summary:
Comedian Bert Kreischer is ready to take his shirt off and "party hardy" with his debut Netflix Original stand-up special, Bert Kreischer: Secret Time. Considered one of the best storytellers of his generation, Bert regales the audience at the Trocadero Theatre in Philadelphia with stories about zip-lining with his family, his daughter practicing softball with an imaginary ball, and upstaging ex-NBA player Ralph Sampson at a childhood basketball camp.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country:
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags:
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Coffee & Kareem (2020)
Plot Summary:
A Detroit cop reluctantly teams with his girlfriend's 11-year-old son to clear his name and take down the city's most ruthless criminal.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: exciting, funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining, action comedy, hilarious
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Ninja Cheerleaders (2008)
Plot Summary:
3 college cheerleaders use their martial arts know-how to save their Sensei from mafia kidnappers, but must keep their extra curricular activities a secret in order to make it into an Ivy League school.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, realistic
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Ready (2008)
Plot Summary:
Always one for helping the course of true love, college student Chandu decides to steal away a friend's sweetheart from her unwanted arranged marriage. But instead of reuniting the lovers, Chandu abducts the wrong bride! However, this bride, Pooja, is grateful for the mix-up as she was already planning her own escape. On the run, the pair fall in love. But to take Pooja's hand in marriage, Chandu will first have to win over her family, which is made up of two feuding uncles and their clans.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags: touching, suspenseful, exciting, tense, captivating
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Supercon (2018)
Plot Summary:
A ragtag group of former TV stars and comic book artists who make their living working at conventions decide to steal the loot from a crooked promoter and an overbearing former TV icon.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: action comedy, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Frat Pack (2018)
Plot Summary:
A shy British graduate student gets dragged on a wild road trip across America to a raging fraternity party by his soon-to-be stepbrothers, as his mother marries into a larger than life, all-American family. His worst nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Being Frank (2018)
Plot Summary:
A seventeen-year-old boy blackmails his father after discovering his secret second family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, satirical, semi serious, independent film, hilarious
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Bert Kreischer: The Machine (2016)
Plot Summary:
Storyteller Bert Kreischer expounds on a series of incredible and hilarious tales - from an unforgettable run-in with a grizzly bear to his legendary travels in Russia.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Bert Kreischer: Hey Big Boy (2020)
Plot Summary:
Still the ultimate comedy party animal, Bert Kreischer tells more stories about parenthood and family life in a stand-up special from Cleveland.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Hyperions (2022)
Plot Summary:
In 1960, Professor Ruckus Mandulbaum invented the Titan badge - a device that enables humans to have a particular super power. He took in three down-on-their-luck youths, creating an unusual family of superheroes and they quickly rose to fame and prestige. Over time, however, the commercial family fractured and the Professor replaced the team with a new set of super hero teens. Cut to 1979, when two of the original superheroes are all grown up and wanting their Titan badges back, even if it means robbing the Professor's museum and taking a few hostages accidentally.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, feel good, surreal
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Catfight (2016)
Plot Summary:
The rivalry between two former college friends comes to a head when they both attend the same glamorous event.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological, light, action comedy, dark comedy, independent film
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Game Over, Man! (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three friends are on the verge of getting their video game financed when their benefactor is taken hostage by terrorists.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: action comedy, absurd, funny, humorous, not serious, anamorphic, perverse, buddy comedy, talky, gay cinema
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Black Dynamite (2009)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of 1970s African-American action legend Black Dynamite. The Man killed his brother, pumped heroin into local orphanages, and flooded the ghetto with adulterated malt liquor. Black Dynamite was the one hero willing to fight The Man all the way from the blood-soaked city streets to the hallowed halls of the Honky House.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, grindhouse, humorous, funny, talky, entertaining, witty, heroic, not serious
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Team America: World Police (2004)
Plot Summary:
Team America World Police follows an international police force dedicated to maintaining global stability. Learning that dictator Kim Jong il is out to destroy the world, the team recruits Broadway star Gary Johnston to go undercover. With the help of Team America, Gary manages to uncover the plan to destroy the world. Will Team America be able to save it in time? It stars… Samuel L Jackson, Tim Robbins, Sean Penn, Michael Moore, Helen Hunt, Matt Damon, Susan Sarandon, George Clooney, Danny Glover, Ethan Hawke, Alec Baldwin… or does it?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 177000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, black comedy, political, adult animation, witty, not serious, cult classic, clever
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Tooken (2015)
Plot Summary:
Spoof of the "Taken" franchise. An ex-CIA agent who is now a mall security guard discovers that things are being taken from him. He must team up with his mom, also an ex-CIA agent, to defeat his rival and save his family.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, exciting, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Stop! Or My Mom Will Shoot (1992)
Plot Summary:
A tough cop's (Sylvester Stallone) seemingly frail mother (Estelle Getty) comes to stay with him and progressively interferes in his life. She buys him an illegal MAC-10 machine pistol and starts poking around in his police cases. Eventually, the film draws to a denouement involving the title of the film and the revelation that even though she seems frail and weak she is capable of strong actions in some circumstances, i.e. when her son is threatened by thugs and she shoots herself in the shoulder.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, not serious, action comedy, cult classic, family comedy, realistic, surprise ending, romantic
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Gas (2004)
Plot Summary:
Upon returning to Los Angeles to attend his father's funeral, Damon (Alexander) soon learns that in order to claim his share of the family inheritance he must work alongside his brother, Mookie (Kain) — a former drug-dealer who had previously cost Damon a college scholarship — in keeping the family's long-running gas station in business for at least one year. As the siblings repeatedly butt heads over matters both great and small, they soon come to realize that it takes more than money to hold a family together.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good, independent film
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Search and Destroy (2020)
Plot Summary:
When American Ranger John Cutter fails to save a family being held hostage and loses his entire team in a battle with infamous Ukrainian Arms Dealer Igor Rodin, John is discharged from the army. Three years later he is approached by his old General to go on a private contract mission when Igor resurfaces.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: tense, exciting, serious, captivating, realistic, surprise ending, psychotronic, independent film, black comedy, freeze frame
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American Ultra (2015)
Plot Summary:
American Ultra is a fast-paced action comedy about Mike, a seemingly hapless and unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 95000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA, Switzerland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: black comedy, feel good, entertaining, stylized, scenic, independent film, action comedy, spy comedy, light, visually appealing
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Acceptance (2009)
Plot Summary:
"Acceptance" is a movie that is equivalent of being slapped on the wrist by your mother for not being like everyone. Forget about being different from others and being yourself. In the movie it shows how crazy students and parents can get when it comes to being accepted in different colleges.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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22 Jump Street (2014)
Plot Summary:
After making their way through high school (twice), big changes are in store for officers Schmidt and Jenko when they go deep undercover at a local college. But when Jenko meets a kindred spirit on the football team, and Schmidt infiltrates the bohemian art major scene, they begin to question their partnership. Now they don't have to just crack the case - they have to figure out if they can have a mature relationship. If these two overgrown adolescents can grow from freshmen into real men, college might be the best thing that ever happened to them.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 399000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: parody, buddy comedy, funny, humorous, exciting, action comedy, hilarious, teen, entertaining, spoof
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Deadpool (2016)
Plot Summary:
Deadpool tells the origin story of former Special Forces operative turned mercenary Wade Wilson, who after being subjected to a rogue experiment that leaves him with accelerated healing powers, adopts the alter ego Deadpool. Armed with his new abilities and a dark, twisted sense of humor, Deadpool hunts down the man who nearly destroyed his life.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 11000000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, stylized, entertaining, absurd, humorous, funny, parody, action comedy, dark comedy, witty