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Plot Summary:
Six people on the verge of a breakdown decide to check themselves into an insane asylum, only to discover there is just room for one.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, surprise ending, mindfuck, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, cult film
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SBK The-Movie (2014)
Plot Summary:
A film 35 years in the making. One man's journey to become a legend of the Boardwalk by claiming the title of World Champion in the fast paced sport of professional Skeeball.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Destiny to Order (1989)
Plot Summary:
A writer starts running into the characters he's created in real life. Alberta is his fantasy woman, who starts out as a sexy rock singer. However, when the bad guy in his novel (played by Michael Ironside) gets his hands on the manuscript and starts making changes of his own, they are all in for a wild ride.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, cult film
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Deadhead Miles (1972)
Plot Summary:
Alan Arkin, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-wierding cops and weigh stations with his new cryptic, overcoated hitchhiker buddy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious
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Happy Family (2010)
Plot Summary:
A blocked screenwriter, Ezio (Fabio De Luigi), is trying to finish a story about two off-kilter families thrown together when their teenage children announce they’re getting married. So Ezio writes himself into the story with a romantic part—a development his characters welcome, as they’ve got some ideas of their own for bigger and better roles.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surreal, semi serious, humorous, realistic, non-linear
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Pink Angels (1971)
Plot Summary:
Six rough and tumble motor cyclists meet at the side of an empty highway to plan their adventurous excursion cycling to Los Angeles. The burly bunch are Michael (John Alderman), David (Tom Basham), Henry (Bob Bihiller), Arnold (Bruce Kimbal), Eddie (Henry Olek) and Ronnie (Maurice Warfield). They're deceptive: although they look like the adventure addicted non-conformists of today out to raise Hell as they brawl their way over countryside and local towns, actually the six are on a different type of trip to the City of the Angels.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: cult classic, surreal, grindhouse, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, queer cinema
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RSO [Registered Sex Offender] (2008)
Plot Summary:
There may be one thing worse than being a sex offender sent to prison: Being a sex offender released from prison. RSO tells the story of one offender's unlikely rehabilitation.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 496
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, mumblecore, fake documentary
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Citizen Dog (2004)
Plot Summary:
Follow the life of Pod as he moves to Bangkok from the country. Pod's new life starts with getting a job, loosing a finger and dreaming about a girl. A movie were nothing is impossible, and just because you get killed by raining red helmets doesnt mean you have to stop driving motorcycle taxi.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sad, art film, offbeat, weird
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Funky Forest: The First Contact (2005)
Plot Summary:
An outrageous collection of surreal, short attention span non-sequiturs largely revolving around Guitar Brother, his randy older sibling, and the pair's portly Caucasian brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, humorous, stylized, semi serious, sketch comedy, cult classic, mind blowing, psychological, mind bending
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The Telephone Book (1971)
Plot Summary:
The story of a day in the life of a lonely, sensitive, exhuberent, attractive, young woman. Her exploits, encounters, and frustrations as she attempts to find a "special" someone, a caller who has "class", as she puts it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surreal, sex comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, experimental, controversial, semi serious, dark comedy
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Harvey (1996)
Plot Summary:
An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall rabbit that only he can see. All's well until Elwood's social-climbing sister, Veta, and her teenage daughter, Myrtle Mae, come to live with him and fear his odd behavior will undermine their ambitions. When Elwood disrupts the ladies' first afternoon tea party by introducing wealthy Aunt Ethel Chauvenet to Harvey, Veta sees that something must be done right away. She takes compliant Elwood to the Chumley Rest Home, leaving him in the car while she tells a Dr. Sanderson all about Elwood and Harvey. Sanderson concludes that Veta is the psychotic one and has her carted off to be committed. Meanwhile Elwood is treated with respect and dignity in light of his sister's mental state. When Dr. Chumley, head of the rest home, returns and hears of the case, he draws the opposite conclusion-that Elwood in fact hallucinates.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Life in the Fast Lane (1998)
Plot Summary:
Black comedy about an obsessive street graffiti artist, who falls obsessively in love with a frustrated artist he meets. Unfortunately, rather than trying to meet with her in a conventional way, he decides to mail himself to her with the help of a pet shop owner. Unfortunately, when he arrives, she is with another man, who immediately makes love to her against the box.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, surreal, witty, cynical, semi serious, slapstick
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Nothing (2003)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of two good friends who live together, Andrew (Andrew Miller), an agoraphobic travel agent who works from his home, and Dave (David Hewlett), a loser who works in an office where he is treated with contempt. Just when it seems things can't get any worse for the two, the entire world outside of their house disappears and is replaced with an endless white void.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, surreal, dark comedy, mind twisting, mind bending, mindfuck, psychological, psychological thriller, retro
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Gamers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Gamers is a comedy about the lives of four slacker friends (and one obsessive interloper) living at home, -"with my parents... it's just temporary... 'til they die"- working in the real world but playing in a fantasy world. Obsessed with a role playing game called Demons, Nymphs and Dragons these "gamers" are the subject of this hilarious comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, mockumentary
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White T (2013)
Plot Summary:
Rapping twins Herbert (Jerod Mixon) and Henry (Jamal Mixon) get a shot at stardom when they purchase a prize-winning T-shirt that lands them a chance to perform alongside a hip-hop legend, but they find their dreams going up in flames when their nemesis Kevin (Robbie Kaller) steals the shirt as well as the spotlight. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, semi serious, exciting, offbeat, independent film, hood
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The Search for One-eye Jimmy (1994)
Plot Summary:
While working on a documentary on his old neighborhood, a young film school graduate shifts the focus of his production onto the disappearance of a local resident and the strange characters who are conducting the search to find him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, absurd, humorous, surreal, independent film, realistic, witty, semi serious, surprise ending, detective
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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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American Cowslip (2009)
Plot Summary:
In Blythe, California, a small town in the remote California desert, Ethan Inglebrink is an eccentric, agoraphobic heroin addict who is obsessed with his garden. This dark comedy follows the last days of Ethan's life as he struggles to find purpose at a time when it might be too late to even matter.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, cynical, dark comedy, clever, offbeat, witty, independent film
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The Flying Scissors (2009)
Plot Summary:
Comedy starring Mason Pettit, Matthew Arkin, Devin Ratray.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, mockumentary, offbeat, independent film
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LolliLove (2004)
Plot Summary:
A hip, misguided Southern California couple decide to make a difference in the lives of the homeless by giving them lollipops with a cheery slogan on the wrapper.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, mockumentary, dark comedy, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, satirical
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The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway (2011)
Plot Summary:
Subversive humor and childlike wonder based on both Reubens' original stage show, "The Pee-wee Herman Show," and the Emmy-winning Saturday morning TV show, "Pee-wee's Playhouse.".
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, offbeat, surreal, not serious, independent film, slapstick, campy
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The Miracle of P. Tinto (1998)
Plot Summary:
Wafer factory-owner P. Tinto and his wife Olivia want a child of their own more than anything else in the world. Years of trying, however, have left them with nothing but a pair of extraterrestrial midgets living in the spare bedroom. When they decide to try adoption, a series of misroutings and chance encounters results in an escaped adult mental patient arriving at their door with adoption papers in hand. P. Tinto and Olivia accept this without question and welcome him in as their son. Can this family arrangement work?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: manga, offbeat, humorous, surreal, semi serious, spoof, parody, weird
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The Mother of Invention (2009)
Plot Summary:
A mockumentary about an aspiring inventor who dreams of winning an annual young inventor award. The only problem is... he's never made an invention that works.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, cult classic
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Rise of the Fellowship (2013)
Plot Summary:
Randall Dooley is a geek. His three best friends are geeks too. He works in a game shop, he spends all his free time playing online games, his older brother bullies him unmercifully, his.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, spoof
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The Book of Life (1998)
Plot Summary:
The end of the millenium has taken on a certain significance in modern day prophecies. What happens if Jesus Christ has second thoughts about the Apocalypse? It is December 31, 1999 and New Year's Eve takes on new meaning when the Devil, Jesus Christ, and Christ's assistant Magdelina discuss and debate the end of the world, the opening of the seven seals, and the essence of being human.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: humorous, enigmatic, surreal, futuristic, philosophical, indie film, offbeat, witty, semi serious, biting
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Let Them Chirp Awhile (2007)
Plot Summary:
The basic storyline of the film follows Bobby and Scott, two young men in their late twenties who are struggling to make careers out of their artistic dreams but their competitiveness with each other gets in the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat, independent film
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Bug (2002)
Plot Summary:
A small boy squashing an insect sets in motion a series of events, large and small, that include a lost restaurant reservation, a drunken fender-bender, disruption of basic cable television service, and more than one relationship falling apart. One person's disaster becomes another's boon, and vice versa--because a man loses his job, a young girl becomes the lead ballerina in the school play, which in turn causes the death of a pet pig. These characters weave around Los Angeles and each other as seemingly mundane events fall into place, putting them on a collision course with a common fate and one heroic act of competence.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, surreal, semi serious, clever, offbeat, realistic, independent film, weird
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The Taste of Tea (2004)
Plot Summary:
A spell of time in the life of a family living in rural Tochigi prefecture, north of Tokyo. Though her husband is busy working at an office, Yoshiko is not an ordinary housewife, instead working on an animated film project at home. Uncle Ayano has recently arrived, looking to get his head together after living in Tokyo for several years. Meanwhile, Yoshiko's daughter Sachiko is mainly concerned with why she seems to be followed around everywhere by a giant version of herself.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: surreal, touching, semi serious, mind bending, psychedelic, disturbing, contemplative, poignant, independent film, black comedy
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Escanaba in da Moonlight (2001)
Plot Summary:
A macho man in a family on the eve of deer-hunting season must deal with the eldest son's curse of never having bagged a buck.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, realistic, talky
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Homie Spumoni (2006)
Plot Summary:
All his life, African-American Renato has been raised in an Italian-American family. Completely unaware that he is Black, his life is upended when his birth parents materialize, causing Renato to examine what he true heritage is.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 757
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, black comedy, offbeat
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A Pigeon Sat on a Branch Reflecting on Existence (2014)
Plot Summary:
An absurdist, surrealistic and shocking pitch-black comedy, which moves freely from nightmare to fantasy to hilariously deadpan humour as it muses on man’s perpetual inhumanity to man.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Sweden, Germany, Norway, France, Denmark
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: surreal, realistic, talky, lyrical, dark comedy, humorous, philosophical, semi serious, absurd, art house