Best movies like Brakes
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Plot Summary:
Brakes is an ensemble cast, improv-based dark comedy set in London. Divided into two parts, it tells the story of each couples relationship in reverse, starting with the break-ups.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, entertaining, independent film
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Love's Labour's Lost - Live at Shakespeare's Globe (2010)
Plot Summary:
When the King of Navarre and his three courtiers forswear all pleasure - particularly of the female variety - in favour of a life of study, the arrival of the Princess of France and her ladies plays havoc with their intentions. Using every kind of verbal gymnastics to poke fun, Shakespeare's most intellectual comedy is brought to hilarious life in this highly entaining production, rich in visual humour and sexual innuendo.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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My Big Gay Italian Wedding (2018)
Plot Summary:
A father, who calls himself "open" and tolerant and fights against any form of discrimination, reveals himself as not so liberal when his son announces the engagement to his partner. Overwhelmed by the news, he regresses into the most fierce opponent of same sex marriage, and tries to undermine his son's happiness with a series of embarrassing situations.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, feel good, captivating, gay cinema, queer cinema
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Seven Dinners (2019)
Plot Summary:
After five years of marriage, their relationships have come to a dead end – no kids, no common interests, almost no more love is left… When the wife asks for divorce, the husband tries the last remedy to cure their relationships – a scientific method known as "7 dinners".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, sentimental, humorous, touching
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Adult Camp (2015)
Plot Summary:
Adult Camp is a comedy about the bumpy road to personal growth. A group of men and women, strangers to each other, choose to spend a different kind of summer holiday week by traveling to the beautiful Turku archipelago to participate in an inviting, upgraded version of an adult camp. When they discover that the galloping horses from the camp's sales video are just symbols of a free mind, and the guru of the camp takes off to witness his dog in labour, the participants are forced to examine themselves and each other to find the necessary elements for growth. Perhaps the camp doesn't fulfill its promise of the "most wonderful week of your life", but one thing's for sure - no one returns home the same.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, light, feel good, entertaining
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Life Is Life (2015)
Plot Summary:
Pedantic policeman Frantisek (Ondrej Vetchý) wants to bring up his three daughters with a firm hand. He would like to see the girls coupled with capable and successful men, but instead they have the talent to find the opposite. Moreover, one of them is constantly trying to get pregnant, second one is only dating exotic fools and the third one is expecting a baby without knowing who is the father. Frantisek and his wife (Simona Stasová) always spend their vacation at the local lake, although the wife is dreaming of the seaside. One day she meets a bohemian writer with slightly suicidal tendencies (Miroslav Táborský) and an attractive colleague with Spanish roots (Kristína Peláková) walks into Frantisek's office and things get moving.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: parody, humorous, psychological, funny, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, captivating, entertaining, contemplative
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Sextape (2018)
Plot Summary:
-In the absence of her sister Rim, what was Yasmina doing in a parking with Salim and Majid, their cronies? If Rim knows nothing, it is because Yasmina done everything for it that she does not find out. What therefore? The unmentionable - the worst - The shame XXL, the all immortalized by Salim in a video potentially very volatile.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, humorous, light, sincere, sexy, entertaining, contemplative
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Crazy About Work (2018)
Plot Summary:
Alicia is a workaholic executive who suddenly loses her job and her family. In her process of rebuilding, she associates with a neighbor and helps her in her business. This is how she manages to be the most successful businesswoman in the country. During this process, she tries to reconquer her husband, only to realize that in order to return with him, she will have to learn to balance work and family life.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, touching, feel good, entertaining
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The Missionary (1982)
Plot Summary:
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: clever, sexy, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, inspirational, thought provoking, touching, enigmatic
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West Hollywood Motel (2013)
Plot Summary:
Various lives intersect in and around a West Hollywood motel in this kaleidoscopic comedy about sex, love, and the meaning of life.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 747
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: tense, romantic, sexy, feel good, humorous, entertaining, melancholic, queer cinema, gay cinema
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Steam Room Stories: The Movie! (2019)
Plot Summary:
Failing cosmetics magnate Sally Fay (Traci Lords) will stop at nothing to possess the waters of the Steam Room to help lift her sagging empire. What she doesn’t count on is the Steam Room Guys banding together to thwart her evil plans.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, sexy, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, entertaining, queer cinema
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Suicide Kale (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jasmine and Penn, a new couple with an uncertain future, struggle through a lunch party after they stumble upon an anonymous suicide note in the home of the hosts.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, unusual plot structure, entertaining, queer cinema
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The Merry Wives of Windsor (2011)
Plot Summary:
The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher’s tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. Gutsy, colloquial and bustling with vivid characters, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a brilliantly constructed farce and the only comedy Shakespeare set in his native land. It is also the ancestor of English bourgeois comedy and gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom. The production made merry with the relationship between the life of middle-class Elizabethan England and the late medieval period in which the play is set.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Love Type D (2019)
Plot Summary:
After getting dumped for the 11th time in a row, Frankie discovers that she has a "loser in love" gene, which predisposes her to chronic failure and rejection for the rest of her life. She decides to embark on a quest to change her romantic future.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 474
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Notre univers impitoyable (2008)
Plot Summary:
Victor and Margot are both lawyers in a major consulting firm and form a solid couple in private. Yet one day they find themselves competing for the same job promotion. How will their relationship stand up to the outcome?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 437
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining, clever, witty, stylized, semi serious
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How to Train Your Husband (2018)
Plot Summary:
A marriage therapist attempts to fix her own marriage by focusing on how to change her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 924
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Sandy Wexler (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a hapless but dedicated talent manager signs his first client who actually has talent, his career finally starts to take off.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, uplifting, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, happy
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How to Break Up with Your Douchebag (2017)
Plot Summary:
This comedy takes its cue from such female-centered films as "Bridesmaids" and "Trainwreck." Pic centers on a woman who makes a living from breaking up couples and decides to take on the task of splitting up her sister's relationship with her jerk of a boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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My Last Five Girlfriends (2009)
Plot Summary:
My Last Five Girlfriends traces the romantic journey of thirtysomething bachelor Duncan. As the film opens, the despondent Duncan is apparently preparing to take his own life, but not before taking the time to send a message to the last five women he dated. Taking the form of a whirlwind tour through Duncan World, the film is a comedic exploration of his failed relationships.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, clever, independent film
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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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Caffeine (2006)
Plot Summary:
A fanciful battle of the sexes ensues when the relationships of the staff and patrons of a quirky London café are unexpectedly turned upside down by sudden revelations of terribly embarrassing secrets having to do with their sexual misadventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: talky, feel good, humorous, semi serious, funny, clever, realistic, witty
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A Skeleton in the Closet (2020)
Plot Summary:
Manuel goes back to his hometown for his parents’ wedding anniversary, but he actually wants to ask money to move to Denmark with his boyfriend. Last time he saw his family, he came out of the closet. Since then, their relationship became tense. Manuel’s plans get ruined when his boyfriend dumps him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, entertaining, contemplative, queer cinema
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Party Boat (2017)
Plot Summary:
Party Boat focuses on Max, who is throwing a 25th birthday party for his best friend Kiley. When Max finds out Kiley's boyfriend Greg plans to propose, he embarks on an adventure to win Kiley's heart and throw his greatest party ever.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, entertaining, contemplative
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Unlike Father, Unlike Son (2015)
Plot Summary:
A macho dad learns to accept the real identity of his gay son before it gets too late.
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IMDB Votes:
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: light, psychological, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Les Gazelles (2014)
Plot Summary:
Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by doubt. Her encounter with a handsome, dark-haired man forces her to make a decision.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Jenny, Juno (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jenny, Juno centers on the title characters of Jenny and Juno, two fifteen year old middle school students whose one night of romance has dramatic consequences for both their lives. After careful deliberation, the two expectant parents decide to keep the baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 795
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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El tamaño sí importa (2016)
Plot Summary:
A typical next door mexican girl –away from the beauty standards-, will try to conquer her old boss, a very handsome and charismatic socialite, who is now broken and alone.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (2014)
Plot Summary:
Shura journalist comes to the Caucasus to shoot a report about the local beauty and tradition, and into Gorski, fiefdom of the local city mayor George Gadzhievich Saahova. Those supporting fashion, given the governor planned to marry a young beauty, athlete, and even ekstremalka Nina, who was so pleased with Shurik. Using the hapless journalist CAAX and his henchmen kidnap Nina. But, realizing that it played, Shura rushes to save his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 1.2
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, entertaining, light
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A Beautiful Wife (2007)
Plot Summary:
Miranda is a beautiful Italian girl, she is married to Mariano. They live in a village called Anghiari.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Life Is a Wonderful Thing (2010)
Plot Summary:
A policeman who spies on the lives of others, an important banker married to a housewife who poses as a noblewoman. A precarious young masseuse and an electrician madly in love. Very different lives that end up intertwining. But also extremely complicated and troubled lives ... Even if, after all, life is a wonderful thing.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, entertaining, light, humorous, captivating
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Like a Cat on a Highway (2017)
Plot Summary:
The story of an encounter between a bourgeois man and a poor woman, because their teenage children fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, humorous, funny, light, thought provoking, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical