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Plot Summary:
Hilarity ensues when a casino manager spends a day at Disneyland with a cute but troublesome little girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Perfectly Prudence (2011)
Plot Summary:
Versatile technician Nigel and daughter Annie MacIntyre, officially her producer, are the only people people classy Prudence McCoy lets intervene in the traditional show on household tips she presents, third generation. But the TV station was bought by a tycoon, who sends his son Michael Merchant to modernize the show, assisted by studio executive Jack Jameson, Prue's ex. That includes a make over and, even worse, co-host Angelica Adams, an immature bikini whether program presenter, who looks up to 'maternal' Prue. Her counter-move is no less daring.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: romantic, surprise ending
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The Chicken Chronicles (1977)
Plot Summary:
A late-1960s teen (Steve Guttenberg) working in a chicken-takeout stand cannot get his mind off his dream-girl (Lisa Reeves).
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 368
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, independent film, teen sex comedy
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Cheaper to Keep Her (1980)
Plot Summary:
A newly divorced swinger on the prowl goes to work as a detective for a neurotic feminist attorney.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Do It for Uncle Manny (2002)
Plot Summary:
Struggling actor Danny and his pal Stuart are ready to rock the L.A. nightlife -- with help from a Rolls Royce and Rolex "borrowed" from Stuart's uncle Manny, a big-time producer. But plans go awry when the boys meet the too-good-to-be-true Jenny.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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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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Where Is Parsifal? (1984)
Plot Summary:
Tucked away in his castle, a hypochondriac inventor plays generous host to a revolving cast of wacky guests. But to pay off his mounting debts, he must sell either a powerful businessman or a rich gypsy on his latest creation: a laser skywriter.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Don't Make Waves (1967)
Plot Summary:
New York tourist Tony Curtis falls asleep on a Southern California beach on his first night in the West and wakes up to The New Phantasmagoria--catamarans, surfers (including a dog), bodybuilders, acrobats, motorcycle chicken races, a nut fishing in the shallows . . . and Sharon Tate as a skydiver named Malibu who gives Curtis the rapture of artificial respiration when he is conked on the head by a flying surfboard.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, retro, erotic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cliffhanger, sex comedy, freeze frame, hot
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Starry Night (1999)
Plot Summary:
Comedy - Vincent Van Gogh comes back to life after being the recipient of a magic potion. He finds that his work has become quite valuable, and begins stealing his works. At the same time, he has a hard time getting anyone to believe he's really Van Gogh. - David Abbott, Lisa Waltz, Lou Wagner.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, detective
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The Cool Ones (1967)
Plot Summary:
A young, millionaire rock promoter creates a new boy/girl team for his teen TV dance show. Will the ambitious go-go dancer and has-been pop star fall in love for real?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Opera Lover (1999)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged produce salesman finds his love of opera and singing reawakened when his childhood love returns to town.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Sex and the Single Girl (1964)
Plot Summary:
A womanizing reporter for a sleazy tabloid magazine impersonates his hen-pecked neighbor in order to get an expose on renowned psychologist Helen Gurley Brown.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, retro, romantic comedy, cute, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Boeing, Boeing (1965)
Plot Summary:
Living in Paris, journalist Bernard has devised a scheme to keep three fiancées: Lufthansa, Air France and British United. Everything works fine as long as they only come home every third day. But when there's a change in their working schedule, they will be able to be home every second day instead. Bernard's carefully structured life is breaking apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, buddy comedy, hot, situational comedy
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Moving On (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two old friends reconnect at their friend's funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged all three of them decades earlier.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Who's Got the Action? (1962)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious
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Jinxed! (1982)
Plot Summary:
Harold, a professional gambler, and his girlfriend Bonita, a lounge singer, follow Willie, a young blackjack dealer, around the western U.S. Harold has a jinx on Willie and can't lose with him. Bonita and Willie meet and fall for each other and plot to do away with Harold and collect on his life insurance.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, cult film
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Late Last Night (1999)
Plot Summary:
After a fight with his wife, who's leaving him, Dan's day is getting worse by the minute. He calls an old friend for a night of binge drinking and intoxication. They start a cathartic ride through the city's underbelly.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy
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My Six Loves (1963)
Plot Summary:
A celebrated actress discovers six runaway children living on her country property.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Little Miss Marker (1980)
Plot Summary:
Sorrowful Jones is a cheap bookie in 1930's. When a gambler leaves his daughter as a marker for a bet, he gets stuck with her. His life will change a great deal with her arrival and his sudden love for a woman also involved in gambling operations.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: family comedy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious
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The Alarmist (1997)
Plot Summary:
Young Tommy Hudler decides to become a security systems salesman, and is an instant success. Everything seems to be going great until he discovers there's more to this business and his boss Heinrich than he previously suspected.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, black comedy, independent film, realistic, cynical, semi serious, light, romantic, sexy, clever
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Wild and Wonderful (1964)
Plot Summary:
Cognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pretty owner Giselle when he becomes jealous of her new husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Six Wives of Henry Lefay (2009)
Plot Summary:
A presumed-dead man's current wife and former wives squabble over his funeral arrangements.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious
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Looking for Lola (1997)
Plot Summary:
Looking for Lola is a comical look at the world of relationships and highlights just how far we will go to impress that special someone... Mike (Mark Kassen) has moved to L.A. with dreams of being a writer. In order to keep his parents satisfied, he lies to them, telling of his instant success and wealth as an author. Lola (Ara Celi) has dreams of being a dancer; however her illegal status in the country has left her looking after her sleazy boss' mansion. the hilarity begins after the two meet. Both weave an intricate set of lies, painting a picture of success and wealth, in an attempt to woo the other. However, when their parents decide to visit them in California, it becomes extremely challenging to keep the comical facade alive!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, touching, independent film
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The Pleasure of His Company (1961)
Plot Summary:
Just as San Francisco debutante, Jessica Poole, is set to get married, her absentee father arrives, disrupting the household of his ex-wife. Is he there to break up the wedding? Or to steal back his ex-wife? Or is Pogo finally ready to be a father after all these years?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 821
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: technicolor, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Adopted (2009)
Plot Summary:
For hundreds of years, Africa has existed in a state of despair. Famine, civil wars and rampant disease have left the continent without hope, but for the efforts of Western do-gooders. At first, they arrived with food, bibles and the magic of penicillin; more recently they have hosted rock concerts and sent plane loads of grain. And in the last decade of the 20th century they arrived and took babies home with them. First there was Angelina, then Madonna, and now...Pauly Shore! The film builds its comedy foundation on the international interest in Celebrity Adoptions, and the debate that surrounds these transactions on both sides of the Atlantic. Sometimes politically incorrect and never scared to tread on manicured toes.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, suspense, mockumentary, biting, fake documentary
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Don't Drink the Water (1994)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset in a sensitive region. In order to stay out of jail, the Hollanders take refuge in the American Embassy, which is temporarily being run by the absent Ambassador's diplomatically incompetent son, Axel.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, not serious
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Scenes from a Mall (1991)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about a married couple -- he's a sports lawyer, she's a psychologist -- which takes place on their 16th wedding anniversary, when they make some startling confessions.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: talky, intense, realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, suspense, biting, erotic, light
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Boys' Night Out (1962)
Plot Summary:
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, retro, satirical, black and white, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Divorce American Style (1967)
Plot Summary:
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: funny, retro, romantic comedy, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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The First Wives Club (1996)
Plot Summary:
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining, hilarious, captivating, romantic comedy, sweet, satirical
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It's Not You, It's Me (2013)
Plot Summary:
Serial commitment-phobe, Dave, is reeling from his decision to break up with his near perfect, now ex-girlfriend. As he tries to forget her, his battling inner voices come to life and cloud his mind with conflicting desires. Meanwhile, Carrie's own disjointed inner voices push her to move on with someone less complicated. Sensing time is short, Dave embarks on a sincere and sometimes fumbled personal journey to conquer his fear of commitment.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious