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Plot Summary:
Celeste (Margaret Cho) and Bam Bam (Bruce Daniels) escape their Midwest hometown for New York, and take on their high-school nemeses - the dictators of the world-famous Salon Mirage - while discovering that true beauty lies within.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, touching, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film, multicultural
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Margaret Cho: Beautiful (2009)
Plot Summary:
Learning to love her luscious self over the past forty years, comedian Margaret Cho realized that the eye of the beholder doesn't hold all the power when it comes to beauty. Our tastes may be groomed by the media, but how we feel about how we look brings our self-image into focus. Armed with something more potent than lip gloss - a mouth so shocking and raunchy it should be stamped with a warning - Cho toured America with her manifesto: "This show is really about how we should feel beautiful," says Cho. "When you feel beautiful, you're going to have more of a willingness to use your voice to speak." Shot at the Long Beach Terrace Theater, Cho's latest stand-up concert film, Beautiful, explores the good, bad, and downright ugly in beauty, and the unattractive politicians and marketers who shape our world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
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Pastor Shepherd (2010)
Plot Summary:
The tale of a down-on-his-luck freeze-dried-pet-salesman and his journey to become the first-ever-cyber-evangelist.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, touching, offbeat, realistic, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Cho Dependent (2011)
Plot Summary:
Miss Margaret Cho is back, and she has a few things she'd like to share with you. From her hilarious recounting of her backstage feud with the Palins during 'Dancing with the Stars' to musical interludes featuring Cho's witty original songs, this new concert film from our favorite all-American girl will have you howling from beginning to end. (You'll also never look at the 'American Idol' contestants the same way again, but you'll just have to hear Margaret explain that one.).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, realistic, talky, not serious
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Route 30 (2007)
Plot Summary:
3 interconnecting stories set along the Lincoln Highway in South Central Pennsylvania.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, offbeat, realistic, witty, semi serious
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The Sublet (2008)
Plot Summary:
WALTER is lonely. He is 71 and has no friends. He lives in a small apartment in Upper West Side in Manhattan and every morning he goes through the same monotonous routine: pills, fiber, canned food, cleaning, TV and the book with all his expenses. His apartment is very quiet until today when his phone rings, which really surprises him. It's a wrong number, someone was looking for a sublet. However, it gives him an idea, a fake ad.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, suspenseful, independent film, realistic
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Hollidaysburg (2014)
Plot Summary:
Home for Thanksgiving break after their first semester at college, five friends discover just how much things change (and don't) after high school.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, independent film
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Floundering (1994)
Plot Summary:
When a young man's unemployment benefits run out, the IRS freezes his bank account, and his druggie brother needs help, things can't get any worse...until he discovers his girlfriend is cheating on him!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, absurd, light, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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The Catechism Cataclysm (2011)
Plot Summary:
Father William Smoortser drops his bible into a toilet at a rest stop just before embarking on a day-long canoe trip, breaking loose all glorious hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 743
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, surreal, not serious, captivating, light, independent film, buddy comedy, offbeat, realistic, talky
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Growing Up and Other Lies (2014)
Plot Summary:
After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends – Billy, Rocks and Gunderson – to help him retrace their greatest adventure together: a walk down the entire length of Manhattan.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, sentimental, realistic, contemplative, talky, independent film
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Sherman's Way (2008)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric Olympic has-been who prefers leisure to work, finds himself stuck with a rigid pre-law Yale student with no time for wasting time. Between skinny-dipping and stealing cars, this odd-couple learn from each other that balance is the key to getting the girl, getting the job and getting a life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat
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The Deported (2009)
Plot Summary:
An Italian-American actor is deported to Mexico by some crooked INS Agents, and a pack of orphans helps him find his way back to America.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Southbound Heist (2011)
Plot Summary:
Chaz and his friends take a road trip after discovering his landlord's plot to kill the creator of the Showboy magazine. Chaz must choose between his beloved magazines, his best friends, the girl of his dreams, or saving an innocent man's life.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, sex comedy, independent film
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Trailer Park Boys: Live at the North Pole (2014)
Plot Summary:
Bubbles and the other boys get a letter from a TPB fan club president in Minneapolis, Minnesota to do a live show at the State Theatre for Christmas. Ricky goes along with it to make nice with Santa Jesus God after a rough-up the previous year, while Julian brings along Randy to sell 60/40 raffle tickets and make some money. Mr. Lahey sneaks along to spoil the boys' fun. A Netflix original production.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, captivating, entertaining, light, feel good, offbeat, realistic, mockumentary
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29th and Gay (2005)
Plot Summary:
Following a year in the life of James Sanchez, it's a story about a guy rapidly approaching thirty, who doesn't have a six-pack, full head of hair or a boyfriend. While his best friend Roxy, an actress-turned-activist, struggles with showing him there's life beyond the glitz of the disco ball, his other friend, Brandon, one of those gay boys comfortable in his own gay skin, works on getting James to at least talk to a boy. Feeling out of place in the world of circuit boys, caught between his Hispanic-American heritage and being gay, we watch James find his place in the world, realizing that life is in the journey, not the destination.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, sexy, feel good, independent film, sexual
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The Foursome (2006)
Plot Summary:
Four old friends reconnect at their 20-year college reunion.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sex comedy
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Killer Bud (2001)
Plot Summary:
After losing another job, two idiots embark on an adventure of mythic proportion: to acquire "Feed Bags," the discontinued entire-meal-in-a-bag, to impress their two equally dim-witted dates. When the only convenience store in town that carries the discontinued food item is found closed, Waylon and Buzz break in and can't break out.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, feel good, light, entertaining, spooky, independent film, realistic, cult film
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The Book of Caleb (2008)
Plot Summary:
A comfortable underachiever and serial prankster, in the midst of their quarter life crisis, reunite against childhood enemies in a contemporary suburban epic.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, feel good, independent film
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Harold (2008)
Plot Summary:
A teenager with an early onset of male-pattern baldness befriends his high school's janitor.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, indie film
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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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Two Tickets to Paradise (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three guys on the verge of forty begin to realize all the best things in their lives happened before they were twenty. A spontaneous road trip adventure gives them a chance to balance the ledger.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 892
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic
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Nora's Hair Salon II (2008)
Plot Summary:
The hilarious cast of Nora's Hair Salon is back in this outrageous, bust-a-gut comedy! Featuring familiar faces and fresh new names, Nora's Hair Salon 2: A Cut Above will have you cutting up all over again! As co-owner of Nora's Hair Salon, Lilliana (Tatyana Ali) is in way over her head. When she's not caught up in the daily dramas between her coworkers - the flamboyant stylist Delicious, the hotheaded ex-stripper Xenobia and the outspoken manicurist Ming - Lilliana is busy combing out hair disasters, breaking up client catfights and raising a son on her own. But when the salon's other owner Simone (Stacey Dash) decides to sell the shop and pocket the profits, Lilliana must choose whether to take her cut and run...or stand her ground and fight for a place they all call home.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: talky, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, touching, semi serious, independent film
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The Cult of Sincerity (2008)
Plot Summary:
A New York hipster sets out on a a quest to create the most sincere T-shirt ever.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, cynical, offbeat, independent film
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Happy Birthday, Harris Malden (2008)
Plot Summary:
Harris Malden wears his insecurity on his face in a curious disguise for everyone to see. No one in the neighborhood, not even his best friend Paul or his brother Melvin, has the heart to tell him how ridiculous he looks with the thick black line above his lip. Harris Malden fakes his facial hair, and as far as he's concerned, nobody can tell.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, touching, realistic, witty, semi serious
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We the Party (2012)
Plot Summary:
In Los Angeles, five high-school friends deal with romance, money, prom, college, sex, bullies, Facebook, fitting in, standing out, and finding themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 849
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, feel good, light, scenic, sincere, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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I Love You Too (2010)
Plot Summary:
Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to befriend a talented dwarf who helps him find the words to get her back.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, touching, offbeat, realistic, talky, weird
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Pretty Bird (2008)
Plot Summary:
A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of American dreams and delusions.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good, light, captivating, melancholic, independent film, exciting
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Dumbbells (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dumbbells is a light-hearted buddy comedy set amongst a group of misfit employees that work in a struggling fitness center in Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, realistic, independent film
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That's What She Said (2012)
Plot Summary:
Longtime best friends Bebe and DeeDee are both wrestling with love. Bebe has met someone new and is in the exuberant phase of a budding romance. DeeDee is trying to move on from someone she can’t forget – mostly in destructive ways. As Bebe waits for the perpetually late DeeDee at their favorite coffee shop, she meets Clementine, a distraught young woman with love problems of her own. With Clementine in tow, Bebe and DeeDee soon embark on the kind of outrageous misadventure that only New York City can offer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, sincere, feel good
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My Life as Liz (2010)
Plot Summary:
My Life as Liz is a mockumentary style American television series that centers on the life of Liz Lee, a misfit high-school senior living in small town Texas. The series debuted on MTV on January 18, 2010. The first season finale aired on March 8, 2010. Filming for the second season began early 2010 in New York City, mostly at Pratt Institute, the college which series star Liz Lee attends. During the My Life As Liz marathon that aired on December 27, 2010, MTV previewed the season 2 trailer and officially confirmed that season two would premiere on Tuesday, February 8, 2011 at 11:00 PM EST. MTV's January 24 press release confirmed that Season 2 would have 12 episodes. The series was not renewed for a third season, and the series finale aired on May 3, 2011.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, mockumentary
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The Outcasts (2017)
Plot Summary:
After falling victim to a humiliating prank by the high school Queen Bee, best friends and world-class geeks, Mindy and Jodi, decide to get their revenge by uniting the outcasts of the school against her and her circle of friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, independent film, touching, realistic