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Plot Summary:
Benson, is a Casanova who tricks women into having sex with him before leaving them. He is content with his game until he meets Jamison, a real operator who poses as an exiled prince and not only gets women to share his bed but also to give him money to help him fund his supposed counter-revolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, not serious, biting, surprise ending, suspense
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Who's Minding the Mint? (1967)
Plot Summary:
A bumbling government employee accidentally destroys a small fortune and decides to break into the US Mint to replace it, but before long everyone wants a slice of the action - and the money.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Corner Gas: The Movie (2014)
Plot Summary:
It’s been a few years, and there’s still not a lot going on 40 kilometers from nowhere. But that’s all about to change as the fine folks of Dog River, Saskatchewan face their biggest crisis ever. Brent and the gang discover that the town’s been badly mismanaged, leaving residents with little choice but to pack up and leave. As residents make one last rally to save Dog River as they know it, they discover a devious plan by a corporate chain that would change life for Dog Riverites forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, cynical, not serious, offbeat
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The Living Wake (2007)
Plot Summary:
“The Living Wake” is a dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered rickshaw. In a final attempt to probe life’s deepest mysteries, Binew endures one ridiculous trial after the next. He concludes his day with a final performance, his living wake. On a makeshift stage in an open field, Binew’s friends and enemies gather to witness his madness one final time.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, suspense, black comedy, offbeat, independent film
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Boeing, Boeing (1965)
Plot Summary:
Living in Paris, journalist Bernard has devised a scheme to keep three fiancées: Lufthansa, Air France and British United. Everything works fine as long as they only come home every third day. But when there's a change in their working schedule, they will be able to be home every second day instead. Bernard's carefully structured life is breaking apart.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, buddy comedy, hot, situational comedy
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The World's Greatest Lover (1977)
Plot Summary:
When frustrated movie studio mogul Adolph Zitz announces a talent search for a romantic leading man to rival the great Rudolph Valentino, thousands of hopefuls decend upon Hollywood. Rudy Valentine, a neurotic baker from Milwaukee, knows little about romance or acting. But when his wife leaves him for the real Valentino, Rudy goes to outrageous lengths to win the role of a lifetime and win back the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, not serious
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Made for Each Other (2009)
Plot Summary:
The best part of any marriage is consummating it. However after 3 months of a sexless marriage Dan, in a moment of weakness, finds himself in the throws of casual sex with another woman. Dan decides the only way to morally rectify this is of course to get his wife to cheat on him and thus he sets out to find the right man to put the hurt on his old lady.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 975
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, sexy, sex comedy, realistic, cynical, slapstick, sexploitation film
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Who's Got the Action? (1962)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious
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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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Happy Easter (1984)
Plot Summary:
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle (Jean-Paul Belmondo) drops his wife Sophie (Marie Laforet) off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie (Sophie Marceau), who has just had a fight with her married boyfriend. He gets her back to his apartment and is preparing for a sexy weekend, when his wife suddenly returns home. He makes up a bizarre, on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment story that the gorgeous girl is actually his long-lost daughter. Julie plays along, but this leads to a whole series of increasingly ridiculous lies and comical situations (such as when her real mother shows up).
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, sex comedy, light, erotic, surprise ending
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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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Comic Book Villains (2002)
Plot Summary:
When word hits the street that a nearby elderly gentleman has a cache of old, rare, and very valuable mint condition comic books, rival comic book shop owners Raymond McGillicuddy (Donal Logue) and Norman Link (Michael Rapaport) both set out to be the first to buy them. But when the old man declines to sell, the former friends turn into enemies, and a friendly rivalry becomes tainted with greed and turns to murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, dark comedy, cynical, clever, entertaining, black comedy, anime, offbeat, realistic
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Sour Grapes (1998)
Plot Summary:
Richie, a sneaker sole designer, and his cousin Evan, a brain surgeon, are spending this weekend with their girlfriends in Atlantic City. When one of them ends up with a $436,000 jackpot, sour grapes is what results. Even though Richie uses two quarters from Evan to win the progressive jackpot, he sees no connection with that and sharing the jackpot. This ignites a hilarious, runaway chain of even.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, intense, semi serious, witty, dark comedy, clever, black comedy, offbeat, realistic, cynical
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Opportunity Knocks (1990)
Plot Summary:
Eddie and Lou are a couple of two-bit con men on the lam from a loan shark. They hide out in someone's house and they hear on the answering machine that (A) the owner of the house is out of the country for a month or two and (B) the housesitter supposed to watch the house for the absent owner won't be able to watch the house due to a new job in another part of the country. This provides for a pretty nifty arrangement for Eddie and Lou...until the relatives of the house owner drop by to visit. Eddie quickly adopts the guise of the person supposedly housesitting for the owner, and the shenanigans start from there.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous, independent film, realistic, semi serious, hilarious, sentimental
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100 Mile Rule (2002)
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, cynical, semi serious, humorous, clever
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Casino Royale (1967)
Plot Summary:
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, psychedelic, funny, surreal, cult classic, psychotronic, spy comedy, exciting, humorous
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Turf (2013)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering away the little spare cash they have, they agree to give up gambling. But no sooner have they taken this pledge than Fate intervenes, in the guise of the turf king, Monsieur Paul. The latter persuades the four friends to buy a champion racehorse, not knowing that it is in fact an old nag….
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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These Old Broads (2001)
Plot Summary:
"These Old Broads" is a 2001 television film written by Carrie Fisher and starring her mother Debbie Reynolds, as well as Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor in her final starring film role. Network television executive Gavin (Nestor Carbonell) hopes to reunite celebrated Hollywood stars Piper Grayson (Reynolds), Kate Westbourne (MacLaine), and Addie Holden (Collins) in a TV special after their 1960s movie musical "Boy Crazy" is re-released in the 1990s. Though the three women share the same agent, Beryl Mason (Taylor), Gavin's seemingly insurmountable obstacle is that they all cannot stand each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, biting, suspense
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The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
Plot Summary:
Henry J. Tyroone leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: retro, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense, vintage
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The Best and the Brightest (2010)
Plot Summary:
Set in the world of New York City's elite private kindergartens, The Best and the Brightest centers on a fresh-faced young couple, Samantha and Jeff, who have only recently moved into town. The comedy centers on their dawning realization of the lengths they must go to in order to get their five-year-old daughter into school.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, realistic, not serious
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Any Wednesday (1966)
Plot Summary:
Ellen Gordon, a New York executive's mistress falls for the executive's young business associate when the young man is accidentally sent to use the apartment where the executive and his mistress get together every Wednesday. More complications arise when the executive's wife shows up with plans to redecorate the apartment.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, witty, sex comedy
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Would I Lie to You? 2 (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dans le quartier du Sentier, Eddie Vuibert, Dov et Yvan sont confrontés aux procédés pour le moins expéditifs de leur nouveau client, Eurodiscount, une chaîne européenne d'hypermarchés. Karine, lasse des turpitudes de son volage époux, Dov, le chasse du foyer. La bande de copains se disloque.Dov et Patrick partent tenter leur chance sous le soleil de Californie, tandis qu'Eddie et Yvan font les marchés. Entre temps, Serge, devenu livreur, noue une idylle avec Chochana Boutboul, une jeune fille de bonne famille à qui il fait croire qu'il est très fortuné.C'est alors qu'Eddie découvre que sa faillite dépasse le simple échec commercial et qu'il a été victime d'une scandaleuse escroquerie. Dès lors, il décide de se venger et conçoit un plan qui va réunir et mobiliser tous ses amis.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, light, feel good, cult film
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The Hustle (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two female scam artists, one low rent and the other high class, compete to swindle a naïve tech prodigy out of his fortune. A remake of the 1988 comedy "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels.".
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: entertaining, feel good, light, clever, humorous, funny, romantic, action comedy, hilarious, happy
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The Foot Fist Way (2006)
Plot Summary:
An inept taekwondo instructor struggles with marital troubles and an unhealthy obsession with fellow taekwondo enthusiast Chuck "The Truck" Williams.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, harsh, dark comedy, stylized, tragicomedy, realistic, witty, not serious, cult classic
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Manna from Heaven (2002)
Plot Summary:
Manna From Heaven is a comedic fable about what happens when you get a gift from God (a financial windfall), but many years later you find out it was a just a loan and it's due immediately. Once upon a time, many years ago, a neighborhood in Buffalo, NY is mysteriously showered with 20 dollar bills. Theresa, a young girl who everyone thinks is a saint, doesn't have much trouble convincing her loose-knit "family" that the money is a gift from Heaven. Years later, Theresa, who has become a nun, has an epiphany that it is time to pay the money back, so she calls the eccentric group together to repay the "loan." The problem is, nobody wants to give back the money, nobody has the money, they don't know to whom it belongs, and most of them can't stand each other. Along the way, the characters learn about family, romance, reconciliation and redemption, and by working together they begin to realize their full potential.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 487
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous, independent film, offbeat, fable
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How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
Plot Summary:
Stanley Ford leads an idyllic bachelor life. He is a nationally syndicated cartoonist whose Bash Brannigan series provides him with a luxury townhouse and a full-time valet, Charles. When he wakes up the morning after the night before - he had attended a friend's stag party - he finds that he is married to the very beautiful woman who popped out of the cake - and who doesn't speak a word of English. Despite his initial protestations, he comes to like married life and even changes his cartoon character from a super spy to a somewhat harried husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surprise ending, black comedy, clever, humorous, witty, retro, sex comedy, black and white, feel good
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Splinterheads (2009)
Plot Summary:
SPLINTERHEADS introduces Thomas Middleditch as Justin Frost, a twenty-something slacker whose “thing” is that he has no “thing” at all. When a small-time carnival rolls into town, he meets Galaxy (Rachael Taylor), a gorgeous con artist, or “splinterhead,” who has more “things” going for her than anyone he has ever met.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Brain Donors (1992)
Plot Summary:
Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run the ballet.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, witty, light, clever, unusual plot structure, surreal, absurd, talky, stylized
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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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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000 first.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: clever, surprise ending, feel good, funny, humorous, light, entertaining, slapstick, hilarious, witty
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Family Plan (2005)
Plot Summary:
Charlie MacKenzie is an ambitious young career woman who stretches the truth in a job interview by professing to be married with a family. But her little white lie leads to a great big problem when her new boss moves next door. Desperate to maintain her ruse, Charlie “borrows” her best friend’s daughter and scrambles to find a husband-for-hire. When a charming actor accepts the role, Charlie’s charade just may lead her to true love!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, sincere, witty, family comedy