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Plot Summary:
Burt Reynolds stars as Jefferson Steel, a washed-up Hollywood action star desperate to revive his flagging career. When his sleazy agent signs him up for what he believes is a high-profile Royal Shakespeare Company production of King Lear at Stratford upon Avon, Steel thinks he has finally landed the plum role he has been waiting for. However, he soon discovers that he has been tricked into joining an amateur dramatics group for a charity production.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, realistic
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Doc Martin (2001)
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Doc Martin tells the tale of Martin Clunes' character in the film, in the months leading up to the Saving Grace story. Martin Bamford is a heart-broken London obstetrician, in a jealous rage after he finds out that his wife has been sleeping with three of his buddies. He escapes to a small Cornish fishing village, which he grows surprisingly attached to, and is extremely reluctant to return with his cheating wife when she comes to pick him up. Although he has only been looking for a week's R & R, Dr Bamford stumbles across a network of secrets in the village of Port Isaac, and finds himself embroiled in the most exciting scandal the village has seen for centuries.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, sincere, feel good
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Hoff the Record (2015)
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Shot like a documentary, the semi-improvised comedy Hoff The Record follows TV legend David Hasselhoff - playing a highly fictionalized version of himself - as he arrives in the UK in an attempt to reignite his flagging career. It's been thirty years since he rose to worldwide fame in Baywatch and Knight Rider and things have since gone a little stale for The Hoff. Will a move across the Atlantic change his luck?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good
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Most Promising Young Actress (2000)
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Yvon Rance, a born hairdresser and an elegant middle-aged man with a perfect toupee, reigns in his native Brittany over a clientèle of little old ladies. But his main reason for living, his masterpiece, is Laetitia, his only daughter, whom he has single-handedly brought up for eighteen years and whom he fondly pictures as heading a cutting-edge hairdressing salon. But she has secretly auditioned for the movies and has been cast in the leading role... her life is about to change! For her father, this is a real catastrophe.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic
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The Unexpected Love (2013)
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Juanito moved to New York to succeed as an actor. Years have gone by but success has not come his way and now he takes an odd jobs to survive. One day he is visited by his apparently successful cousin. However, their life together will discover the reality behind each of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Trevor Noah: African American (2013)
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Internationally acclaimed comedian Trevor Noah challenges the status quo through his unique perspective, breaking down cultural flaws on all sides and finding our mutual connections with laughter. Born a mixed-race child in South Africa under Apartheid, 'Trevor Noah: African American' is Noah¿s search for identity in a world obsessed with labels.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, captivating, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, not serious, independent film
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Little Britain: Live (2006)
Plot Summary:
The many hilarious characters of Little Britain are taken to the stage in this brilliant live performance by Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, witty, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, slapstick, sketch comedy, live comedy
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3 Geezers! (2013)
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Follow actor J Kimball as he researches what it's like to be old for a role in an upcoming movie. When he meets the residents at The Coconuts convalescent home, he quickly discovers that his perceptions of the elderly may be off from today's reality. After being on the wrong end of some pranks, J enlists the help of his Hollywood friends to turn the tides. Mayhem ensues.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 782
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, feel good
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No Problem (2008)
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Puckoon (2002)
Plot Summary:
Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, black comedy, offbeat, realistic, biting, suspense
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Hollywoo (2011)
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Sometimes, when you think you have it all, everything falls apart. That is exactly the story of Jeanne .Just when she is offered the chance to dub famous American actress Jennifer Marshall in a successful American TV Show and her salary is about to triple, Marshall decides to withdraw from the show. So Jeanne makes a crazy decision, fly to Hollywood herself and make Jennifer change her mind about leaving the series.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Cowboys (2013)
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Six men, one woman (and her brother) come together with one goal - to make the play. It would be probably another common story that this theater group is composed of anti-heroes who float lost in time and space, in a town where it seems that the sun sets in the east. Led by Sasha, a director who has recently returned to his hometown, this group of socially neadaptiranih amateurs starting the fight to their demons and the prejudices that surround them in the society. For dramaturgical template selection western and riding on stereotypes of the genre of the struggle between good and evil, the conflict between civilization and wilderness, the protagonists develop their life stories inevitably influencing and changing each other. Although, as time passes, the show looks increasingly like a mission impossible, almost all of its stakeholders is increasingly seen as a metaphor for their fate and get caught for it as the opportunity of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, funny, sentimental, feel good, realistic
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Stars 80 (2012)
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Die-hard fans of the 1980s, Vincent and Antoine run a company that supplies doubles of faded stars throughout the whole of France. What starts out as a promising business venture ends up as a calamity when Vincent and Antoine have over forty engagements booked but no one to attend them. They then have a brainwave. Why not get in touch with the real stars of the 1980s and persuade them to make a comeback? Why make do with an imitation when you can have the real McCoy?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 815
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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He's Way More Famous Than You (2013)
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When once-up-and-coming indie film starlet Halley Feiffer loses her boyfriend, her agent and her career in one fell swoop she finally realizes that something in her life has got to change... she has to become WAY MORE FAMOUS! Armed with a stolen script and two pitchers of sangria, Halley enlists the help of her brother Ryan and his boyfriend to make her own movie, starring herself (of course) as herself, and any A-list celebrity she can land along the way.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 811
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, feel good, captivating, realistic
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Holyman Undercover (2010)
Plot Summary:
An Amish man comes to Hollywood to be a missionary, and gets cast as Satan on a nighttime soap opera.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, captivating, independent film, realistic, christian film
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The Merry Wives of Windsor (2011)
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The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher’s tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. Gutsy, colloquial and bustling with vivid characters, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a brilliantly constructed farce and the only comedy Shakespeare set in his native land. It is also the ancestor of English bourgeois comedy and gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom. The production made merry with the relationship between the life of middle-class Elizabethan England and the late medieval period in which the play is set.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Wedding Fever in Campobello (2009)
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When Jan decides to marry his girl-friend Sara, he is not aware of his opponent: her father, who is an Italian.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, realistic, feel good, captivating, semi serious
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My Best Holidays (2012)
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Over this long hot summer, Claude and Isabelle get their marriage back on track, while Bibou and Simon, spend a memorable summer discovering the world of grown-ups.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Irish Jam (2006)
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Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize -- the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous American rapper emerges as the best poet around?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, feel good, black comedy, realistic, semi serious
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Twice Upon a Time (2006)
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Thirty years ago they were lovers. Their affair fascinated a nation. Louis was a director and Alice was his muse. Then came the breakup It too, was public and painful. They have not met since. But Alice, who has established herself as a first lady of English theatre is asked to present Louis with a lifetime achievement award. She is married and has a son and a dog that snores....but the game is on again....delightfully.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, UK, Romania
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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A Midwinter's Tale (1995)
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Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: black and white, clever, witty, talky, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, light
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Ricky Gervais Live 3: Fame (2007)
Plot Summary:
Ricky Gervais third stand-up comedy routine.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, cynical, witty, talky, realistic, not serious, clever, tense, sexy
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Stella Street (2004)
Plot Summary:
Michael Caine, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Roger Moore all live on a quiet street in Surbiton and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards run their corner shop - who knew?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, clever, realistic, parody, mockumentary, offbeat, biting, suspense
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Svengali (2013)
Plot Summary:
Svengali tells the story of Dixie, a postman from South Wales, and a music fanatic. All his life he’s dreamed of discovering a great band and then one day, trawling through YouTube, he finds them… ‘The Premature Congratulations’. He hunts them down and offers them his management services. They are young, arrogant, sexy and utterly magnificent. Putting their demo on a cassette tape, Dixie heads out onto the streets of London….
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, sincere
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Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again (2011)
Plot Summary:
For four decades comic genius Mel Brooks and talk show king Dick Cavett have partnered to give the world scintillating conversation and sidesplitting humor. In 2010 they reunited on stage to share show business memories and hilarious stories for loyal fans and a new generation of viewers.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, witty
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Sweet Liberty (1986)
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Michael has written a schollarly book on the revolutionary war. He has sold the film rights. The arrival of the film crew seriously disrupts him as actors want to change their characters, directors want to re-stage battles, and he becomes very infatuated with Faith who will play the female lead in the movie. At the same time, he is fighting with his crazy mother who thinks the Devil lives in her kitchen, and his girlfriend who is talking about commitment.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: melancholic, humorous, witty, feel good, realistic, semi serious, clever, funny, light, romantic
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One Day in Europe (2005)
Plot Summary:
One day in Europe shows stories set in four European countries. All of them involve thievery in some way or the other. The protagonists are strangers in the respective country. For none of them their stay turns out as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious
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Postmark Paradise (2000)
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The Dirty Shame is the only bar in the small town of Paradise, Michigan. A burnt out, chain-smoking fortyish bar maid is the only waitress at The Dirty Shame. A group of local red necks conspiring to bring a mail order bride to their Midwest town for their ne'er-do-well leader set the story in motion.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, realistic
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The Belgian Job (2012)
Plot Summary:
Willy Vander Brook, a world with Franco-Belgian roots, travels to Paris for an interview. He is welcomed by his childhood friend Serge, an ex pub operator, and his roommate Frank, a fierce supporter of the Walloon independence. When Willy discovers that his candidacy is not accepted because he is Belgian, he and his compatriots decide to take revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Tea & Sangria (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jilted in Madrid, a bewildered Englishman must learn to live and love again - the Spanish way.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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A Boss in the Living Room (2014)
Plot Summary:
Cristina lives a peaceful life until her older brother Ciro, who has to attend a trial, asks to spend house arrests at Cristina’s home.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, realistic