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Plot Summary:
Can two clueless Georgia homegirls with big hearts -- and even bigger hair -- find happiness, fame and thrills in the swank hills of Beverly? Anything is possible when you are B.A.P.'s. They revive Blakemore's interest for life, and he teaches them to be "Black American Princesses" in return.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: black comedy, cult classic, humorous, realistic, cynical, not serious, biting, suspense, black cinema, neo screwball comedy
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A Million to Juan (1994)
Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling oranges on a street corner. One day a limousine pulls up and he is handed a check for $1,000,000 with instructions that he is to give the check back in 30 days. Initially he uses the check to convince people to extend credit to him. In the meantime he also attracts a woman who is in a dead end relationship with a bossy businessman. At the end of the 30 days, he finds his life in turmoil, the things he got on credit is repossessed, and he is being evicted from his dwelling and being sent back to Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Punching the Clown (2009)
Plot Summary:
A satirical songwriter comes to Los Angeles and puts his life's work in jeopardy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 897
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, satirical, captivating, entertaining, cult classic, sincere, touching, realistic, not serious, independent film
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Bringing Down the House (2003)
Plot Summary:
Straight-laced lawyer, Peter Sanderson (Steve Martin) meets and falls in love with online chat friend "Lawyer-Girl", Charlene Morton (Queen Latifah), only to discover she's a convicted bank robber. Charlene escapes from jail and comes looking for Peter to help clear her name.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, melancholic, feel good, semi serious, romantic comedy, happy, raunchy, realistic
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The Breaks (1999)
Plot Summary:
Derrick, a racially-confused Irishman raised in the hood by a black family is having the worst day ever. Determined to prove to his fed-up mother and would-be girlfriend that he's not a screw-up, he sets out to do one thing right (get some milk) and even that proves to be a challenge! Hilarious encounters with racist red-neck cops, local gangsters and 'flamboyant' pawn shop owners ensue, and along the way Derek shows that he can actually do things for others and maybe even get his own life together.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: black comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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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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Lottery Ticket (2010)
Plot Summary:
Kevin Carson is a young man living in the projects who has to survive a three-day weekend after his opportunistic neighbors find out he's holding a winning lottery ticket worth $370 million.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, hood, light, scenic, black comedy, teen, independent film, black cinema
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Never Been Thawed (2005)
Plot Summary:
A hilarious mockumentary about the delicious hobby of frozen food collecting and Christian rock band, The Christers. The film follows the Mesa Frozen Entree Enthusiast's Club as they plan their first Frozen Entree Enthusiasts Convention.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, cynical, not serious, mockumentary, clever, offbeat, realistic, biting, suspense
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Phat Girlz (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two plus-sized ladies meet the men of their dreams in the most unexpected of ways.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, inspirational, feel good, semi serious, black comedy, sentimental, touching, realistic, sexy, unusual plot structure
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Disorderlies (1987)
Plot Summary:
As not-quite-orderlies who're downright Disorderlies, rap-music favorites The Fat Boys rule. Playing the freewheeling caretakers of the frail Dennison (Hollywood legend Ralph Bellamy), they stir up a comedic culture clash in Palm Beach society that only proves laughter is the best medicine this side of a tax refund.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, not serious, talky, slapstick, black comedy, independent film, slapstick comedy, funny, romantic
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Class Act (1992)
Plot Summary:
Duncan is a genius straight A student, Blade is juvenile delinquent. But because of a mix up with their school records, everyone thinks each is the other one. Now, Duncan kind of likes the attention from being thought of as a real bad dude, if only the school bully would stop trying to rough him up. And Blade definitely likes being thought of as important instead of as trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: hood, funny, black comedy, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, buddy comedy
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Ride (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of young people leave Harlem for a bus trip down to Miami. The voyage starts off with problems, but it ends up becoming a learning experience, as they end up learning things about each other they had not previously known.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 819
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: hood, black comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Hair Show (2004)
Plot Summary:
Peaches, a hair stylist from Baltimore, and her estranged sister, Angela, the owner of an upscale salon in Beverly Hills, get reacquainted when Peaches decides to attend a celebration for Angela in LA. The reunion is bittersweet and worsens when Angela finds out that Peaches is on the run from the IRS and has only a few days to pay $50,000 in back taxes. After some hilarious moments and passionate exchanges, the two sisters join forces to fight off a pesky rival salon owner Marcella and save Peaches from her troubles by competing for a lucrative cash prize and bragging rights at the city's annual hair show. BEAUTY SHOP proves that blood and family run thicker than water.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, black comedy, clever, offbeat, realistic, talky, biting
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How to Be a Player (1997)
Plot Summary:
Dray is a young playboy whose only objective in life seems to be to have sex with as many girls as he can without getting caught by his girlfriend Lisa. Dray's sister Jenny and her friend Katrina plan to show him that the way he lives is wrong and organize a party in Malibu, inviting all of his girlfriends.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: hood, humorous, black comedy, independent film, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy, absurd, sex comedy
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Irish Jam (2006)
Plot Summary:
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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The Cookout (2004)
Plot Summary:
When Todd Anderson signs a $30 million deal with his hometown team, the New Jersey Nets, he knows that his life is set for a big change. To keep things real, he decides to throw a barbeque at his place -- just like the ones his family used to have. But when you have new and old friends, family, agents, and product reps in the same house, things are bound to get crazy.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, funny, captivating, entertaining, satirical, black comedy, realistic, biting
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The Toy (1982)
Plot Summary:
On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, satirical, humorous, entertaining, touching, realistic, black comedy, cult classic, sentimental
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Johnson Family Vacation (2004)
Plot Summary:
AAA can't help the roadside emergency that is the JOHNSON FAMILY VACATION. Even the on-board navigation system has a meltdown on Nate Johnson and his family's cross-country trek to their annual family reunion/grudge match. Reluctantly along for the ride are Nate's wife, who's only in it for the kids; their rapper-wannabe son; their teenage daughter who's fashioned herself as the next Lolita; and their youngest, whose imaginary dog Nate just can't seem to keep track of. Can the Johnsons survive each other and all the obstacles the road throws at them to make it to Caruthersville, Missouri? Can they find Missouri?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sexy, road movie, intense, not serious, black comedy, light, absurd, feel good
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Made in America (1993)
Plot Summary:
A young black woman discovers that her father was a sperm donor, and if that weren't bad enough, he's white.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, witty, semi serious, hilarious, black comedy, touching, offbeat, realistic
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Soul Plane (2004)
Plot Summary:
Following a ridiculously awful flight that leads to his pet's death, Nashawn Wade files a lawsuit against the airline, and wins a multimillion-dollar settlement. Determined to create a better flying experience, Nashawn starts his own airline, one that caters to an African-American clientele. Going into business with a tricked-out plane piloted by the smooth Capt. Mack, the airline hits a snag when it has to deal with the family of Elvis Hunkee.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, funny, absurd, hood, not serious, realistic, black comedy, slapstick, hilarious
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The Wash (2001)
Plot Summary:
With the rent due and his car booted, Sean (Dr. Dre) has to come up with some ends...and fast. When his best buddy and roommate Dee Loc (Snoop Dogg), suggests that Sean get a job busting suds down at the local car wash.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, absurd, hood, not serious, black comedy, offbeat, realistic, buddy comedy, parody, funny
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Next Friday (2000)
Plot Summary:
Ice Cube returns as Craig Jones, a streetwise man from South Central Los Angeles who has a knack for getting into trouble. This time out, Craig is still trying to outsmart neighborhood bully Debo (Tommy "Tiny" Lister Jr.); after Craig gets the better of Debo in a fist fight, Debo is determined to flatten Craig in a rematch. Looking to stay out of Debo's way, Craig's dad decides that it would be a good idea for Craig to hide out with his Uncle Elroy and cousin Day-Day in Rancho Cucamonga... but trouble seems to find him there also.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 43000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, hood, feel good, light, not serious, black comedy, stylized, philosophical, independent film
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3 Strikes (2000)
Plot Summary:
Brian Hooks plays a character who is just released from jail. And the state adopts a "3 strikes" rule for felons that involves serious penalties. Hooks has 2 strikes, and wants to change his life for the better. When a friend picks him up, they are pulled over, and his friend shoots at police officers, and Hooks escapes. Now Hooks, a wanted man, must clear his name of having nothing to do with the shooting.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, intense, feel good, not serious, realistic, hood, black comedy, independent film
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Beauty Shop (2005)
Plot Summary:
You thought you'd heard it all in the barbershop, but you haven't heard anything yet - the women get their own chance to shampoo, shine, and speak their minds in Beauty Shop.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, feel good, realistic, touching, semi serious, funny, teen, hood, black comedy
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The Hustle (2008)
Plot Summary:
Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at the opportunity that might save his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good, entertaining, black comedy, independent film
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Love Don't Cost a Thing (2003)
Plot Summary:
High school loser (Cannon) pays a cheerleader (Milian) to pose as his girlfriend so he can be considered cool. Remake of 1987's Can't Buy Me Love, starring Patrick Dempsey.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, black comedy, romantic, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, intense
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Trading Places (1983)
Plot Summary:
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 162000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: funny, hilarious, feel good, light, dark comedy, humorous, thought provoking, black comedy, parody, retro
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House Party 3 (1994)
Plot Summary:
Hip Hop duo Kid & Play return in the second follow-up to their 1990 screen debut House Party. Kid (Christopher "Kid" Reid) is taking the plunge and marrying his girlfriend Veda (Angela Means), while his friend Play (Christopher Martin) is dipping his toes into the music business, managing a roughneck female rap act called Sex as a Weapon. Play books the ladies for a concert with heavy-hitting pr.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: hood, black comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, not serious, semi serious, funny, light, romantic
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Strictly Business (1991)
Plot Summary:
Waymon has a great job in real estate and a promising future, but he's also trapped in a loveless longterm relationship. He meets Natalie, a beautiful club-hopping hipster, and quickly falls in love. Realizing he's just not cool enough to attract her on his own, he seeks the help of his friend Bobby, a free-spirited smooth talker who works in the mail room at Waymon's firm and utilizes the predicament as leverage to advance in the company.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: black comedy, hood, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, surprise ending, black cinema
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Head of State (2003)
Plot Summary:
When a presidential candidate dies unexpectedly in the middle of the campaign, the Democratic party unexpectedly picks a Washington, D.C. alderman, Mays Gilliam (Rock) as his replacement.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, absurd, realistic, witty, semi serious, parody, hilarious
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Two Can Play That Game (2001)
Plot Summary:
Vivica A. Fox sizzles as a woman scorned who plans to get her man back by any means necessary. In this comedy about players and those who "get played." As corporate overachiever and all-around fly chick Shanté Smith, Fox thinks she's got the goods to keep her slickster boyfriend (Morris Chestnut) from straying - until he discovers a greener pasture, Shanté's archrival (Gabrielle Union).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, sexy, satirical, romantic comedy, feel good, clever, talky, black comedy, hood
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