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Plot Summary:
This story humorously uses different events to explore the habit of late coming among Africans. While addressing some of the challenges that several Africans face with being on time, the story also unveils how to combat the infamous African Time. Ironically, many Africans that are late to various social events are seldom late to work and other self-benefiting engagements. (Chijindu Kelechi Eke).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Jean of the Joneses (2016)
Plot Summary:
Chaos ensues after the estranged patriarch of the Jones family dies on their doorstep. When the paramedic who answers their 911 call tries to win over acerbic Jean Jones, his attempts are disrupted by old conflicts that come to a boil at the funeral.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 82 min
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Pepe & Santo vs. America (2009)
Plot Summary:
Pepe travels to America with Santo (The Patron Saint of Immigrants) in search of his grandmother's dying wish..."The Mexican Dream." Pepe hops across the border from Mexico to the United States.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 95 min
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America 101 (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers leave their home in Mexico in search of the 'American Dream', only to realize it was in front of them all the time. Angel is tired of living in his small Mexican town and has no interest in following in his father's footsteps. Instead he resolves to run away, across to cross the border and find his American dream. His older brother, Carlos, has plans of his own and they don't involve leaving home. When Angel tells his older brother of his grand scheme Carlos knows he won't be able to stop him, so he decides to tag along in order to watch over his headstrong little brother. Double-crossed by a smuggler, they find themselves alone in the desert. What follows is a strange and hilarious adventure filled with crazy characters and eye-opening truths until they finally realize the dream they were chasing was back home where they started.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
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Does This Mean We're Married? (1991)
Plot Summary:
It's a green-card marriage romance. Deena, an American standup comic living in Paris, has an expired visa. So, she marries Nick Foulliet, a struggling musician with a different woman for every day of the week. First the immigration investigation, and then a series of financial disasters push Deena and Nick into spending time together, and they fall in love. But can their in-name-only marriage become real?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World II (1988)
Plot Summary:
After losing their lottery winnings during the bank's closure, the Biu family's luck changes again as Bill's job promotion and daughters' education and work careers sent them and the entire family to lead their new lives in Canada, where new misadventures await.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Inspector Tahar's Holiday (1972)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Moussa Haddad.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy
Country: Algeria
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny
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Grow Your Own (2007)
Plot Summary:
An English community gets testy when a refugee family is granted a plot of land on which to grow vegetables.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: weird
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Potato Potahto (2017)
Plot Summary:
A divorced couple who decide to share equal space in their ex-matrimonial home soon realize that the ingenious idea is easier said than done. Bent on flexing their egos and scoring points, the two implore various hilarious tactics that soon inflames emotions and turns an already complicated situation into a roller coaster ride.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ghana
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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The Gong Show Movie (1980)
Plot Summary:
A week in the life of "The Gong Show" host and creator Chuck Barris.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: thinking, dark comedy, game show, psychotronic, black comedy, eighties
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Orkney Snork Nie (Die Movie) (1992)
Plot Summary:
We go on vacation to Margate with the van Tonder Family. Hendrik wants to go fishing, the kids swim and play Yollie and Maggie wants to sunbathe and Ouboet has a self built modded speedboat (Spuitpoep II) which he wants to test out at sea. Their dream vacation gets sabotaged by a Joburg company, who wants to buy the caravan park where they are vacationing to demolish it and build a shopping mall. But then they get to deal with the van Tonders who doesn't let anyone mess with them. Hillarious from beginning to end.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Africa
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Test (2012)
Plot Summary:
A guy puts his unwitting bride-to-be through a series of increasingly bizarre "stress tests" to see if she's worthy of marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Two Marines and a General (1965)
Plot Summary:
In May 1943, two American soldiers, Joe and Frank, of Italian descent are searching the North African desert for a German general called Von Kassler, when they are captured by Von Kassler aide Inge Schultze who lets them escape with fake war plans, only Joe and Frank steal the real war plans which pave way for the Allied victory. Months later, the duo once again come up against Von Kassler when they are captured at Anzio and try to outwit the Nazis a second time.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: macaroni combat
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A Good Man in Africa (1994)
Plot Summary:
Morgan Leafy is a secretary to the British High Commissioner to an Africa nation. Leafy is a man that makes himself useful to his boss, the snobbish Arthur Fanshawe, who has no clue about what's going on around him, but who wants to use his secretary to carry on his dirty work, which involves getting one of the most powerful men in the country to do business with his country.The young secretary has an eye for beautiful women around him, especially Hazel, a native beauty, with whom he is having an affair. Things get complicated because Sam Adekunle, a man running for president of the country, wants a favor from Leafy in return after he has accepted the invitation to visit London. The proposition involves swaying a prominent doctor's opposition to a plan that will make Adenkule filthy rich.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, independent film, captivating, realistic, semi serious, parody, funny, light, sexy, political
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Jim Jefferies: This Is Me Now (2018)
Plot Summary:
The gleefully irreverent Jefferies skewers “grabby” celebrities, political hypocrisy and his own ill-advised career moves in a brash stand-up special.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: humorous, fun
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Tolo Tolo (2020)
Plot Summary:
Checco is a young Apulian entrepreneur dreamer who has opened a sushi restaurant in his Apulia. However, after one month, the restaurant went bankrupt and he chose to emigrate to Africa to escape from debt. Here he adapts to being a waiter in a resort in Kenya, but at the outbreak of a civil war he decides to embark on a stowaway trip on a boat for migrants to Europe and chooses to do it with his African friends. However, he would not like to return to Italy, but rather to go to Liechtenstein where banking secrecy is in force and there is a lower tax burden than in Italy.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, funny, light, neorealism, controversial
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Finding Lenny (2009)
Plot Summary:
"Everything happens for a reason" - on his 50th birthday, Lenny Vincent is fired from his job as a sports writer for a daily newspaper, his wife of 19 years leaves him for a much younger man and he and his best friend Dave are caught in a gang heist at a restaurant. He ends up being hi-jacked by the gang and dumped in a rural village. Here he befriends the local chief and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime; helping to reunite the chief's warring sons, fighting a money grabbing property company from turning the chief's land into a golf course, coaching the village soccer team and ultimately.. finding himself!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Africa
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Okafor's Law (2016)
Plot Summary:
A slick serial seducer bets his friends that he can bed three old flames in six weeks, in this risqué comedy from the director of the smash hit Wives on Strike.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Man from the Diners' Club (1963)
Plot Summary:
Mobster Foots Pulardos, who operates a health gym as a front, plans to flee to Mexico to evade government tax officials. His girl friend, Sugar Pye, suggests that he first arrange for the cremation of a man having his own peculiar identifying characteristic--feet of different sizes--and then apply for a Diners' Club card for use in paying his fare. The request for the credit card comes to the desk of Ernie Klenk, a timid clerk. Nervous about his forthcoming marriage to the boss's secretary, Lucy, Ernie inadvertently okays the application, then, discovering his mistake, rushes to the health gym to recover the club card he has issued.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick
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LOVE by CHANCE (2017)
Plot Summary:
Love By Chance is a film about two aspiring actors from South Africa (Altovise Lawrence and Atandwa Kani) who are independently in America, trying to crack into an extremely difficult and over saturated Hollywood industry. They meet by chance, but between the everyday struggle of auditioning, dealing with daily rejection, self-doubt, financial hardship, crazy friends and a mad dating scene, who has time for love?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, independent film
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Walk of Fame (2017)
Plot Summary:
A motley crew of aspiring performers come under the guidance of an eccentric and volatile acting coach.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Jeff Ross Roasts the Border (2017)
Plot Summary:
Roastmaster Jeff Ross explores the world surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border, speaking to immigrants, DREAMers, detainees, border patrolers, human traffickers and Trump supporters. Then he puts on a show next to the border wall to roast American immigration policies, random audience volunteers and every ethnicity imaginable.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags:
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Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero (2016)
Plot Summary:
A wannabe private investigator wins the Green Card lottery and moves to America to pursue his dream only to find himself embroiled in a conspiracy to start the next world war.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, fun
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Trevor Noah: African American (2013)
Plot Summary:
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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Mad Buddies (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two sworn enemies, Boetie (Leon Schuster) and Beast (Kenneth Nkosi) are forced to do a road trip together on foot, only to discover that they have been conned into being part of a TV reality show.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Africa
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, buddy comedy, feel good, light, realistic
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Five on the Black Hand Side (1973)
Plot Summary:
Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Watch It (1993)
Plot Summary:
Mike, Danny, and Rick are grown men who share a house in Chicago. They take on a fourth house mate, John, who is Mike's estranged first cousin. John's welcome to the house is crowned by his introduction to a game of perpetual pranks called "Watch it!" When not playing pranks on each other, the three men spend their time womanizing, avoiding commitment, treating women badly, and talking about women in the coarsest terms. John, somewhat of a drifter with a fear of commitment, is nonetheless a man apart from this trio of feckless cowards. He takes a shine to Anne, recently jilted by his cousin Mike. Meanwhile, Rick is doing his best to ruin a promising relationship with the fetching and sincere Ellen. How Annie, Ellen, Rick, Mike, and John sort out (or fail to sort out) their social lives becomes the focus of the movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, 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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Meet the Malawas (2019)
Plot Summary:
A news anchor, a comedian, an actress, and a soccer player with big egos have to travel across the globe to meet the Malawa tribe for a TV show.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, funny, light, humorous, semi serious, entertaining
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Down Dog (2015)
Plot Summary:
A handsome, carefree yoga instructor has breezed through life, women, and jobs, but when he breaks up with his girlfriend -- who's also his partner at their successful yoga studio -- he's forced to face reality for the first time. A satirical look at LA's yoga culture that stars Josh Casaubon (I Just Want My Pants Back), Paget Brewster (Criminal Minds), and Kris Kristofferson (Lone Star).
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 32 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, feel good, light, sitcom, independent film
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The Gods Must Be Crazy II (1989)
Plot Summary:
Xixo is back again. This time, his children accidentally stow away on a fast-moving poachers' truck, unable to get off, and Xixo sets out to rescue them. Along the way, he encounters a couple of soldiers trying to capture each other and a pilot and passenger of a small plane, who are each having a few problems of their own.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Africa, Botswana, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, feel good, entertaining, light, talky, semi serious, slapstick, parody, mockumentary