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Plot Summary:
Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front yard. Pee-wee, along with an outlandish cast of animals and circus performers, puts on the best show ever.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, slapstick, surreal, captivating, entertaining, mysterious, offbeat, not serious
Best tv shows and movies like Big Top Pee-wee (1988):
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The Pee Wee Herman Show (1981)
Plot Summary:
An adult-oriented version of what would eventually become an award-winning children's classic. This version of the show features Pee-wee's playhouse and many of the characters of the later series, but with adult and sexual overtones and jokes including "mirror shoes" and others.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: offbeat, feel good, humorous, surreal, not serious, slapstick, spoof, parody, campy
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FRED: The Movie (2010)
Plot Summary:
Fred Figglehorn has a crush on Judy, the girl next door. Fred's stalker, Kevin, lives across the street and thwarts each attempt Fred makes to see her. When Fred finally succeeds in making it to Judy's, he finds out she has moved so he embarks on a journey to find her.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, captivating, freeze frame, realistic, independent film, mockumentary
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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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Safari (2009)
Plot Summary:
Richard Dacier owns a tour agency specialized on organizing safaris for European tourists eager to confront the African wild life. Actually, he took the job after his father and never went into the savanna by himself. As he owes big money to some mobster, he is compelled to convey a fake tourist, with a suspicious suitcase, toward Mozambic. To avoid suspicion from the authorities, he is supposed to tour a group of tourists as usual. The only problem - he is completely unexperienced as a guide!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, light, captivating
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Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986)
Plot Summary:
Pee-wee's Playhouse is an American children's television program starring Paul Reubens as the childlike Pee-wee Herman. The show was developed from Reubens' popular stage show and the one-off TV special The Pee-wee Herman Show, produced for HBO, which was similar in style but featured much more adult humor. In 2004 and 2007, Pee-wee's Playhouse was ranked #10 and #12 on TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, mysterious, absurd, offbeat, feel good, surreal, not serious, weird, campy, cult film
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Dudley Do-Right (1999)
Plot Summary:
Based on the 60's-era cartoon of the same name. Royal Canadian Mountie Dudley Do-right is busy keeping the peace in his small mountain town when his old rival, Snidely Whiplash, comes up with a plot to buy all the property in town, then start a phony gold rush by seeding the river with gold nuggets. Can this well-meaning (though completely incompetent) Mountie stop Whiplash's evil plan?.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, satirical, light, intense, feel good, not serious, entertaining, cult classic, offbeat, psychotronic
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Lenny The Wonder Dog (2005)
Plot Summary:
After being implanted with a microchip that gives him special powers, a dog engages a young boy in conversation and adventure. Befriended by a local police officer, the dog, the boy and his friend go on a quest to save the world by undoing the insidious plot of an evil scientist to turn all kids into mindless robots.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, sentimental, semi serious
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Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder (2014)
Plot Summary:
By helping Doctor Proctor getting recognition for his amazing invention in a world quite different from ours, two lonely children gets help to stand on their own two feet.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Norway, Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, captivating, entertaining, light
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King Ralph (1991)
Plot Summary:
As the only relative to take over the Royal throne, a down on his luck American slob must learn the ways of the English.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, absurd, satirical, humorous, witty, not serious, entertaining, retro
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Every Christmas Has a Story (2016)
Plot Summary:
A TV personality has an on-air snafu and admits she hates Christmas. Following the debacle, she is invited to the Most Christmas-y town in America to try and repair her image. Forced to work with her ex-boyfriend Jack, the show’s producer, the magic of Christmas and this special town will change the way she views Christmas and her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, emotional
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Roxanne (1987)
Plot Summary:
Based on the play "Cyrano de Bergerac", large nosed C.D. Bales falls for the beautiful Roxanne while she falls for his personality but another man's looks.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, funny, romantic comedy, sexy, sentimental, romantic, entertaining, clever, offbeat
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Beverly Hills Chihuahua (2008)
Plot Summary:
A pampered Beverly Hills chihuahua named Chloe who, while on vacation in Mexico with her owner Viv's niece, Rachel, gets lost and must rely on her friends to help her get back home before she is caught by a dognapper who wants to ransom her.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, melancholic, slapstick, family comedy, not serious, fairy tale, clever, touching
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Lovemakers (2011)
Plot Summary:
Small time Hungarian matchmakers get the job to make a Hollywood star fall in love with a Russian businessman's spoiled brat sister. They get one million dollars if they succeed, but if they fail, they will have to pay with their lives.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hungary, USA, UK, Russia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, offbeat, realistic, not serious
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The Man On Her Mind (2014)
Plot Summary:
Nellie is a seemingly prim young woman who is conducting a clandestine affair with Jack, a super-suave, fast-talking lawyer. It doesn't matter that the pair seems mismatched because Jack doesn't really exist; he is a figment of Nellie’s imagination--someone she dreamed up out of bits and pieces of Leonard, a somewhat bland man with whom she had a blind date months earlier. Meanwhile, we meet Leonard, and learn that he too has an imaginary lover, whom he has fashioned after the attractive attributes of Nellie. When the two characters come together again, they are forced to compare and contrast their ideal—but, sadly, nonexistent--partners, with their flesh and blood counterparts. The question is, will Nellie choose the man on her mind over the man in her arms?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, entertaining, offbeat, independent film
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Love Wrecked (2005)
Plot Summary:
On a Caribbean cruise, Jenny (Bynes) is marooned on a beach with her rock and roll idol. Deliriously in love with the idea of time alone with him, she manages to hide the fact that they're a stone's throw away from their resort.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, romantic, entertaining, romantic comedy, teen, semi serious, teen comedy
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Bored Silly (2000)
Plot Summary:
What starts out as a boring day for Bobby, Johnnie and Chuck quickly escalates into a riotous backyard adventure. A swarming beehive, a lawn mower with a mind of its own, a mysterious junkman and the neighborhood bully are just some of the hilarious encounters these close-knit friends will experience on a day that began with the classic kid question of all time: "What do you guys wanna do?".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating
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Zeus and Roxanne (1997)
Plot Summary:
Mary Beth is a marine biologist that gets annoyed when a dog called Zeus stows aboard her research boat. Nevertheless she is intrigued when the intrusive canine makes best-friends with her captive dolphin, Roxanne. She falls in love with Zeus's owner, Terry, a musician who rides a bike.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sweet, melancholic, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, clever, unusual plot structure, entertaining
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Plot Summary:
The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen. Armed with information from a fortune-teller and a relentless obsession with his prized possession, Pee-wee encounters a host of odd characters and bizarre situations as he treks across the country to recover his bike.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, humorous, surreal, hilarious, entertaining, dark comedy, cult classic, uplifting, mind bending
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Prince Charming (2001)
Plot Summary:
After an extramarital indiscretion, a fairy-tale prince and his sidekick are turned into frogs for all eternity or until the prince can convince a maiden to kiss and then marry him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, fairy tale, touching, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, mysterious, sex comedy, period piece, costume drama
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George of the Jungle (1997)
Plot Summary:
Baby George got into a plane crash in a jungle, stayed alive and was adopted by a wise ape. Ursula Stanhope, US noble woman is saved from death on safari by grown-up George, and he takes her to jungle to live with him. He slowly learns a rules of human relationships, while Ursula's lover Lyle is looking for her and the one who took her. After they are found, Ursula takes George to the USA.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 83000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, slapstick comedy, parody, spoof, slapstick, feel good, semi serious, funny, light, absurd
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Bingo (1991)
Plot Summary:
Bingo, the runaway circus dog, is off the leash and saving Chuckie's life! Bingo and the boy become the best of friends in this canine comedy featuring doggy disguises and skateboarding, pinball and prison. Chuckie and his parents (Cindy Williams and David Rasche) are moving house, a thousand miles away, but Bingo won't be allowed to join them. Chuckie and Bingo's determination to be reunited is t.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, not serious, spoof, entertaining, feel good, parody, funny, clever, unusual plot structure
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Honey I Blew Up the Kid (1992)
Plot Summary:
Wayne Szalinski is at it again. But instead of shrinking things, he tries to make a machine that can make things grow. As in the first one, his machine isn't quite accurate. But when he brings Nick & his toddler son Adam to see his invention, the machine unexpectedly starts working. And when Adam comes right up to the machine, he gets zapped along with his stuffed bunny.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 46000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, light, clever, feel good, humorous, slapstick, hilarious, epic, cult classic, not serious
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I Heart Shakey (2012)
Plot Summary:
Shakey is a family film about a 35-year-old widower named J.T. O'Neil, his precocious 10-year-old daughter and their devoted mutt Shakey. After moving from a small town to Chicago and missing the fine print in their rental contract, J.T. is forced to try and get rid of his lovable pooch. Shakey and Chandler won't have it and hatch a plan to keep Shakey and teach J.T. a valuable lesson about loyalty and the importance of keeping family together.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Beethoven's 5th (2003)
Plot Summary:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. When Sara takes Beethoven to spend summer vacation with wacky Uncle Freddie in an old mining town, the mischievous canine "digs up" the missing clue to a legendary hidden fortune of Rita and Moe Selig. Now everybody wants to be the dog's best friend as his discovery unleashes a frenzy of treasure hunting among the community's cast of kooky creatures. With help from Uncle Freddie and Garrett (a friend or maybe more), Sara and Beethoven try to help uncover a secret that has been in the crazy little town for years. Description above from the Wikipedia article Beethoven's 5th (film), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, light
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Little Monsters (1989)
Plot Summary:
A young boy is scared of the monster under his bed. He asks his 6th grade brother to swap rooms for the night as a bet that the monster really exists. Soon the brother becomes friends with the monster and discovers a whole new world of fun and games under his bed where pulling pranks on kids and other monsters is the main attraction.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, melancholic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, epic, mysterious, visual, creepy
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A Perfect Plan (2012)
Plot Summary:
Successful woman in love tries to break her family curse of every first marriage ending in divorce, by dashing to the alter with a random stranger before marrying her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, romantic, funny, humorous, semi serious, sweet, exciting, realistic, crying
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New in Town (2009)
Plot Summary:
Lucy Hill is an ambitious up-and-coming executive living in Miami. She loves her shoes, she loves her cars and she loves climbing the corporate ladder. When she is offered a temporary assignment – in the middle of nowhere – to restructure a manufacturing plant, she jumps at the opportunity, knowing that a big promotion is close at hand. What begins as a straight-forward assignment becomes a life-changing experience as Lucy discovers greater meaning in her life and, most unexpectedly, the man of her dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, sweet, light, entertaining, romantic, romantic comedy, cute, teen, philosophical
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Mr. Deeds (2002)
Plot Summary:
When Longfellow Deeds, a small-town pizzeria owner and poet, inherits $40 billion from his deceased uncle, he quickly begins rolling in a different kind of dough. Moving to the big city, Deeds finds himself besieged by opportunists all gunning for their piece of the pie. Babe, a television tabloid reporter, poses as an innocent small-town girl to do an exposé on Deeds.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, humorous, romantic comedy, hilarious, light, not serious, romantic, slapstick, predictable
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Bedtime Stories (2008)
Plot Summary:
Skeeter Bronson is a down-on-his-luck guy who's always telling bedtime stories to his niece and nephew. But his life is turned upside down when the fantastical stories he makes up for entertainment inexplicably turn into reality. Can a bewildered Skeeter manage his own unruly fantasies now that the outrageous characters and situations from his mind have morphed into actual people and events?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, fairy tale, funny, romantic, humorous, light, sweet, predictable, slapstick, surreal
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Elf (2003)
Plot Summary:
When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic publisher.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 298000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, christmas special, light, entertaining, hilarious, touching, sweet, absurd