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IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic, light, humorous, captivating, crying, freeze frame, spooky, urban fantasy
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One Foot in Heaven (1991)
Plot Summary:
Bull Webster is a taxi driver with some work problems on his hands: the Spider Corporation, a giant financial holding company, has decided to buy out his taxi co-operative in order to make it go bankrupt and purchase its land at a low cost. Bull is almost driven to desperation, but then he finds the winning ticket in his pocket to a lottery with the biggest prize of all time: $150 million! With money like that, he can afford to make his enemies eat their plan. But at this point, Bull's future begins to interest those responsible for the destiny of human affairs: Heaven and Hell send an Angel and a Devil to tempt Bull into evil or to convince him to do good. The appearance of these characters in earthly events creates a maze of situations that are amusing, dramatic and full of action. And for once it's the humans, and especially our hero Bull, who come out winning.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: freeze frame, feel good, urban fantasy
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How to Shake Off a Bride (2016)
Plot Summary:
Eva, the owner of a pastry shop hopes to re-unite with her ex-husband Honza, with whom she has a son Tobias. Honza surprises Eva with the request for a wedding cake. He is planning to marry Linda, his new girlfriend. Eva and Tobias don't like the idea and the new couple breaks up for a while. But finally their wedding plans come true.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious, crying, freeze frame, neo screwball comedy
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Doubles (2016)
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Comedy tells the story of two men who are much alike but their temperament and life story are as different as day and night. They have never seen each other, they have no idea about each other's mutual existence and it would remain like that if faith had not put them together... And from now on it is a great comedy of confusion.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, suspenseful, intense, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Nebyt dnesni (2005)
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Gerard, Mara and Jiri are addicted to heroin. The trio's struggle to kick the habit is more complicated than they expected. And then something happens that changes everything.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: crying, psychotronic, dark comedy
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Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
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This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are connecting together. The son must teach the math and physics his own father. The father getting to know, that the life of the students is not simple as he supposed.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min
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Dwarf (2017)
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, captivating, entertaining, contemplative, urban fantasy
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It's Not Me (1986)
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Suck Me Shakespeer 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Müller is not satisfied with his new work at the Goethe-Gesamtschule. The early getting up and correcting exams annoy him. Director Gerster wants to improve the image of the Goethe-Gesamtschule because she wants to be a symbol of the new company. To achieve this, she wants to take away the partnership from the Schillergymnasium with a Thai school. So, Mr. Müller, Mrs. Schnabelstedt and the 10b must go on a school trip to Thailand.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, not serious, freeze frame
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The Watermill Princess (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young man Jindrich goes looking for a princess only to find a girl in the country mill.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: fairy tale
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Rumburak (1985)
Plot Summary:
Wizarding criminal Rumburak, exiled to the Mortal Realm, uses a supercomputer to recreate his lost spell formulas. His software falls into the hands of humans, chaos ensues, and Rumburak suddenly finds himself on the side of good.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, urban fantasy
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Women in running (2019)
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Women on the Run. Vera has lived a wonderful life with Jindrich, and she is fully determined to fulfill his last wish - running a marathon. The emancipated and spirited mother of three daughters doesn't think that doing so will be a problem. She and her daughters will split up the route into four parts, and they'll overcome the over 42-kilometer-long challenge as a family relay team. Of course, the fact that neither of them has ever ran even a meter poses no problem.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, witty, crying, detective
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Ants in the Pants (2000)
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Flo is not quite a normal teenager: While all his friends only think about sex he can't even pronounce the word "S - E - X". But everything changes completely when one morning Flo wakes up from a strange call. His penis, excited for the first time, begins to talk to him. He claims that Flo severely neglected him for 15 years and it's time to release him.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: entertaining, teen sex comedy, humorous, sexy, sex comedy, crying, freeze frame, not serious, absurd, modern day adaptation
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School Spirit (1985)
Plot Summary:
The only thing keeping Billy Batson from the girl of his dreams is one little condom -- or rather the lack of one. Lucky Billy finds one at an all-night roadhouse -- but speeding back to his girl, he is killed in a head-on collision with a truck. Now invisible, Billy must find his sweetheart and rekindle her fire -- but when he comes back to school as a ghost, his first stop is the girl's locker room, and he's beginning to "see" all the possibilities!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, dark comedy, cult classic, independent film, crying, psychotronic, teen sex comedy, urban fantasy, teen comedy
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I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2019)
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Pedro, Arturo and Eligio are three college professors who lost their job because of economic crisis. Accidentally they find a solution for all of their problems; a multi-vitamin that allows them to party all night long without any side effects. The three professors will be launched into the world of nightclubs and the shady business, in order to market the merchandise. Of course, it seems that they are not as prepared for it as they thought.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, detective, freeze frame
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School Is Over (2018)
Plot Summary:
Agathe Langlois, Parisian until the end of the nails well varnishes, is delighted: she is going to be confirmed as a professor of English. The happiness of the good news will not last as she learns that she is deployed to the countryside.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, entertaining, funny, crying
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Honey Bunny (2017)
Plot Summary:
Vincent, 18 years old, is dumped by Elina. It is his first love, it is the end of the world! His parents decide to take matters into their own hands and will try everything to make him forget this girl: he will have to follow them in a loving detoxification of which they will imagine the program.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, entertaining
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The Apple War (1971)
Plot Summary:
A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called "Deutschneyland" (a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland). Some of the locals dislike the idea, including the magically talented Lindberg family, and work to frustrate the development plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: satirical, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, biting, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, slapstick, low brow humor
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Hunk (1987)
Plot Summary:
A "devilish" tale about an ordinary guy who is visited by a beautiful apparition promising him popularity and drop-dead good looks in exchange for his soul. Transformed overnight into a "hunk," he soon discovers there may be hell to pay for his new lifestyle!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, sexy, humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, freeze frame, eighties
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I Wake Up Yesterday (2012)
Plot Summary:
Czech teacher Peter experiences journey into the past to late 80´s to recover his true love Eliška. At present he´s nothing but relationship´s loser so he tries to find his true love at least at the past. During his journey he passes not just through relationship´s problem but thanks to his radical opinions also encounters problems with communists, even if he knows already from the future that totalitarian regime won´t last forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, psychotronic, teen comedy
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The Girl on the Broomstick (1972)
Plot Summary:
Dívka na koštěti or The Girl on the Broomstick is a 1972 Czechoslovak fantasy-comedy film directed by Václav Vorlíček. It tells a story of a teenage witch, Saxana (played by Petra Černocká), frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, who finds herself in a modern world. A sequel was released in 2011 - Saxána a Lexikon Kouzel.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, cult classic, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, metafiction, urban fantasy, neo screwball comedy, teen comedy, campy, cult film
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Teen Vamp (1989)
Plot Summary:
An unimpressive, boring high-school geek is bitten and contracts vampirical symptoms, transforming him into a confident coolio.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, scary, suspense, crying, psychotronic, independent film, freeze frame, dark comedy, horror comedy, urban fantasy
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What Men Want (2018)
Plot Summary:
The charismatic and self-confident man, Karel Král, is the editor-in-chief of men's magazine. Although a chauvinistic type, he is very popular with women. However, he struggles in his personal life. He frequently argues with his ex-wife over their 17 year-old daughter Julie, who despises his new way of life. Then the consequences of his behavior catch up with him. He loses his job, and the editor-in-chief position is given to a young and beautiful woman. But his bad luck does not end there. After another fight with his ex-wife and daughter, and a woman driver crashing into his car, Karel and his best friend Cestmír have an evening of binge drinking. During the wild night, he expresses a wish to be a woman. When he wakes up the next morning he discovers that his wish has been granted.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, witty, crying, psychotronic, urban fantasy
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The True Knight (2016)
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The king is returning from war - and awaiting him at home is a great surprise: he has a son - though one a bit different than the king - a true knight - had expected. He loves music and literature, and is the very opposite of his father.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: fairy tale, exciting, humorous, captivating, psychotronic
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Crazy Kingdom (2016)
Plot Summary:
By some quirk of fate, the two small-time thieves and the spoiled princess find themselves in the Black Forest full of magic beings who believe that everyone has a chance to mend his ways. However, sometimes even the best intentions need to take a pretty long way round to be achieved... Funny fairy tale full of action, excitement, fun, magic but also love.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: fairy tale, crying, psychotronic
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The Promised Princess (2016)
Plot Summary:
A narrative fairy tale in which golden-haired princess Radost is promised as wife to a pirate. Will brave Jirík fulfill three tasks, defeat the suitor, keep his promise and bring Radost to his cruel prince?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, tense, humorous, suspense, freeze frame
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Full Moon High (1981)
Plot Summary:
A teenager (Adam Arkin) becomes a werewolf after a family vacation in Transylvania.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, horror comedy, independent film, offbeat, parody, neurotic, psychotronic, detective
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The Visitors: Bastille Day (2016)
Plot Summary:
Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social upheavals: the French Revolution... specifically, The Terror, time of great dangers, during which the descendants of Godefroy and Jacquouille had their castle and all their property confiscated by arrogant aristocrats, fleeing and lifes hanging by a thread.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: entertaining, light, feel good, humorous
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Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996)
Plot Summary:
A girl, sent by her parents to live with her two eccentric aunts, finds out on her sixteenth birthday that she is a witch.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada, Hungary
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: not serious, feel good, humorous, touching, cult classic, teen, psychotronic, teen comedy, tv series pilot
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The Addams Family (1991)
Plot Summary:
Uncle Fester has been missing for 25 years. An evil doctor finds out and introduces a fake Fester in an attempt to get the Addams Family's money. The youngest daughter has some doubts about the new uncle Fester, but the fake uncle adapts very well to the strange family. Can the doctor carry out her evil plans and take over the Addams Family's fortune?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 177000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, black comedy, dark comedy, humorous, cult classic, funny, not serious, stylized, light, scary
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Addams Family Values (1993)
Plot Summary:
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: gothic, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, funny, cult classic, parody, scary, visually appealing, spooky