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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
Plot tags:
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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
Plot tags:
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Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid (1986)
Plot Summary:
The plot revolves around two brothers who befriend an escaped mental patient and accompany him on his misadventures in the big city. A new low in bad comedy flicks. Most of the humor is in the title "Fat Guy Goes Nutzoid." The rest is somewhere in between the vomiting and the Auschwitz joke and the enormous amount of body hair on display.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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I Love Vienna (1991)
Plot Summary:
I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy
Country: Austria
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: islamic
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La Sicilia (1997)
Plot Summary:
When his car breaks down, Luigi, a retired miner, meets the rebellious Anita, an orphanage refugee. Together, they have to run from the law.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Comedy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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African Time (2014)
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
Plot tags:
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The Craic (1999)
Plot Summary:
When Fergus and Wesley get in the bad books of a local rough in their home town in Northern Ireland they decide to flee to Australia. After making a new life for themselves in Sydney they soon outstay their visas and must go on the run again, this time from the immigration officials.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: road movie, slang, independent film
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Chop Chop (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dennis and Carl are brothers who live on a small farm in the country. None too bright, Dennis wants a girlfriend for Christmas. Carl makes sure that Dennis gets just that when he meets Rita at the local pub. She is on the run from her husband and she doesn't turn down the chance to hide away at Carl and Dennis's place.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Got Papers? (2003)
Plot Summary:
Got Papers?, is a comedy about a newly relocated immigrant from Mexico to the US, who encounters a variety of characters, including a drug smuggling nun using an orphanage as a cover, crooked lawyers, well-meaning angels in heaven and Satan himself. Along the way, our unlikely hero saves the world, when all he wants is to help others and get his "papers".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody
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El jardín del Edén (1994)
Plot Summary:
Looking for a better destiny for their lives, a group of people arrives to Tijuana, in the Mexico-USA borderline. A widow and her children, a chicano woman without a firm identity, a "gringa" writer fascinated with Mexico and her hermit brother, plus a mexican peasant who wants to cross the border are the main characters looking for "the garden of eden".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, Canada, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Viva Max! (1969)
Plot Summary:
In order to prove his greatness to his unimpressed girlfriend, Mexican general Max (Peter Ustinov) takes a group of men across the border and recaptures the Alamo - international hijinks ensue!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, slapstick comedy
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29 Reasons to Run (2006)
Plot Summary:
Murphy's Law takes over when a slacker (Jack Paradise) runs out of couches to sleep on and decides to take a road trip to find his lost love, but only after tricking his novel-challenged writer and best friend (Peter Jonson) into believing that this trip could be the story he's been searching to write all of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lonely in America (1990)
Plot Summary:
An East Indian native immigrates to New York City and stumbles his way onto the corporate fast-track.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Coyote (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two Americans find that smuggling illegal immigrants into the country is more lucrative than a regular job.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, rough, bilingual
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Stop and Go (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters embark on a hilarious, mile-a-minute road trip to rescue their grandmother and her beloved dog from her retirement home before their reckless sister gets there first.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, road movie
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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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The Swissmakers (1978)
Plot Summary:
This romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship. Among the applicants they must screen are a French psychiatrist and his wife, and a ballet dancer. The married couple are quickly accepted, but the dancer's life offers some objections. However, since the younger policeman has fallen in love with her, there is a chance that she, too, will win Swiss citizenship.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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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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Room to Rent (2000)
Plot Summary:
Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has little money, his student visa is about to expire and he has been thrown out of his lodgings. And so Ali moves in with a succession of eccentric and colourful London flatmates: Mark, a photographer with a very individual style, Linda, a young, blonde, very sexy model and Marilyn Monroe impersonator, and Miss Stevenson who is convinced that Ali is the reincarnation of her long dead Egyptian lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, independent film, offbeat, sexual
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Barbie & Kendra Save the Tiger King (2020)
Plot Summary:
After narrowly escaping the contagious catastrophe of the Corona Zombies, ditsy American beauties Barbie and Kendra battle their deadliest foe yet: social distancing boredom. Hooked on binge-watching a television show about a man and his tigers on a nature channel, the two ladies hatch the perfect plan to save the Tiger King himself. From the living rooms of LA to the wilds of Africa, our dynamic duo embark on a curve-flattening journey to free Joe from a fate worse than Carole Baskin.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Off Course (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two young Spanish men, with a university education, are tired of unemployment and decide to move to Germany. But soon they will find out that finding a better living is not as easy as they expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, feel good, funny, social, realistic, not serious
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Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
Plot Summary:
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, realistic, semi autobiographical, independent film, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, tense
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El cuartito (2021)
Plot Summary:
The dreams of five strangers traveling to Puerto Rico are put on hold when immigration authorities confine them in 'El cuartito'.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, social, hispanic
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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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The Prince and the Pirate (2001)
Plot Summary:
After his father's death, elementary school teacher Leopoldo discovers he has to share the inheritance with a half-brother he didn't know existed: hustler and small-time crook Melchiorre, currently in jail.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Don't be a dick about it (2018)
Plot Summary:
A hilarious and beautiful portrait of two brothers growing up. The film follows the brothers around for one summer capturing the nuances of pissing each other off.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, contemplative, non fiction, cinema verite
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Born in East L.A. (1987)
Plot Summary:
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, funny, entertaining, light, talky, feel good, not serious, realistic, witty
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Little Saints (1999)
Plot Summary:
After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza to challenge her own beliefs and face her fears in order to be reunited with her beloved daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cult classic, sentimental, uplifting, touching, offbeat, humorous, serious, emotional, realistic, soap opera
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Queen of Hearts (1989)
Plot Summary:
Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a cafe in an Italian neighbourhood. One day their father loses the cafe, the home and his wedding ring by gambling.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Last Stop for Paul (2006)
Plot Summary:
Charlie and Cliff decide they want to go to the Full Moon party in Thailand. Along the way they travel around the world sprinkling the ashes of their dead friend Paul. As they go from country to country they meet a wide variety of crazy people and have insane adventures.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, scenic, entertaining, road movie, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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1 Night in San Diego (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two life long friends, Hannah, a former reality starlet, and her conscious cuddling best friend, Brooklyn, road trip to San Diego to meet a high school crush and attend Comic Con. When things don't go as planned, their trip turns into a night of chaos, debauchery, and ultimately tests the deepest bonds of their friendship.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious