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Plot Summary:
Set in the underworld of debt-collecting and follows the homegrown hustler Peg Dahl, who will do anything to escape Buffalo, NY.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, social, freeze frame
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Chasing Luck(Y) (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a rented apartment in Belgrade lives Srećko, who always plays the same combination of lotteries in the hope to win a premium one day. Local seller of lottery tickets, Višnja, is In him the love him. One evening, Srecko gets premium worth of several million euros. Helpless Srećko looses his ticket and his memory. However, the winning lottery paper, by unfortunate circumstances, reaches the hands of Žile and Sale, the owner of the local cafes. Unprepared to manage this money, they go to the Greek island Corfu in the hopes that will inspired them for a business. Two suspicious Belgrade "businessman" fallow them to Corfu to steal them the ticket.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Comedy
Country: Serbia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Adventures in Public School (2017)
Plot Summary:
A socially awkward home-schooled kid forces his way into public-school against his suffocating but loving mother's wishes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, teen comedy
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Standing Up, Falling Down (2019)
Plot Summary:
An unlikely friendship kindles between a struggling stand-up comedian from L.A.—forced to move back home to Eastern Long Island with his tail between his legs—and a tragically flawed, but charming and charismatic, alcoholic dermatologist. Discovering to be kindred spirits, each helps the other find healing, in addition to the confidence to face the 'failures' in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, disturbing, romantic, entertaining, romantic comedy, cult classic
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Money Trap (2019)
Plot Summary:
Asim Noyan swindles people with his lies and games. Asim Noyan and his gang, who no one else has been able to catch, get into a ruse again.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, romantic
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We Accept Miracles (2015)
Plot Summary:
Fulvio is the only one of the three brothers to have left the village to go to work in the city. Deputy chief of staff in a large company, he dismisses people without remorse until he gets fired himself and after being jailed for beating his superior, is entrusted to his brother, who's a pastor in the village where they grew up. Forced into a place far from the modern world, Fulvio decides to help the local church in crisis by inventing a miracle that makes everyone believe that the saint's statue weeps. Tourists and pilgrims rush to the village and are filling the pockets of local businesses until the Vatican decides to send someone to certify the event. Fulvio must confess the scam, but the entire village will rise to convince the envoys of the Holy City for the veracity of the invented miracle.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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The Great Bikini Bowling Bash (2014)
Plot Summary:
With their minds in the gutter three gorgeous babes plot to win big as they struggle to save their grandfather's bowling alley.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sexy, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sex comedy, hot
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El taxista caliente (2016)
Plot Summary:
Pancho has a wife, fiance, and several girlfriends, and juggling them all can be messy, especially when one of their drug kingpin husbands finds out.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, scenic, campy
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Bankrolled (2021)
Plot Summary:
While blind drunk, two unemployed millennials entrepreneurs drunkenly post a video pitch about their revolutionary app to a crowdfunding site. When the app catches fire and they accidentally raise millions of dollars they actually have to create the app.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, social
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Killing Hasselhoff (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man in a high stakes celebrity death pool quickly loses everything - his business, his bank account, his home, his fiancé. He snaps, then realizes the only way to get his life back on track. He'll have to murder his own celebrity. He'll have to kill Hasselhoff.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, exciting, light, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Kiss through the Wall (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kesha, a young magician assistant, is desperately in love with a young journalist Alisa. He is ready to do everything possible to conquer her.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Rich, the Pauper and the Butler (2014)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy broker, his butler, and a poor abusive seller, following an economic meltdown, all see their social positions change. When the rich becomes poor, the former abusive seller accommodates the rich and the butler. The three thus learn to live together.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Win It All (2017)
Plot Summary:
A gambling addict faces a conflict when entrusted with keeping a bunch of money that isn't his.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light hearted
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2 Jacks (2012)
Plot Summary:
Jack Hussar is a legendary Hollywood director, whose persona commands respect and adoration from his fans. Can his son, Jack Jr. maintain his legacy?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, sentimental, serious, realistic, non-linear, independent film
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Landline (2017)
Plot Summary:
A teenager living with her sister and parents in Manhattan during the 1990s discovers that her father is having an affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, art house
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Late Night (2019)
Plot Summary:
A legendary late-night talk show host's world is turned upside down when she hires her only female staff writer. Originally intended to smooth over diversity concerns, her decision has unexpectedly hilarious consequences as the two women separated by culture and generation are united by their love of a biting punchline.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, sincere, entertaining, light, unpredictable, feel good, captivating
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Adopt a Daddy (2019)
Plot Summary:
Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from the land, Damien reconnects with his parents' militant past and convinces his sister Mélanie, who has become a formidable business lawyer, her best friend Rudy and a bunch of unlikely pals to accompany him in his new fight. Together, they will break the law by solidarity. And very quickly to be completely exceeded.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, entertaining, funny, sincere, humorous, captivating
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Waffle Street (2015)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Jimmy Adams, a V.P. of a $30 billion hedge fund, who loses his job and winds up working as a waiter at a waffle shop. Amidst the greasy madness of the 24-hour diner, Jimmy befriends Edward, an ex-con grill master who serves up hard lessons about life, finance, and grits.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: uplifting, light, captivating, entertaining, motivational, social, extraordinary
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Don Verdean (2015)
Plot Summary:
Biblical archaeologist Don Verdean is hired by a local church pastor to find faith-promoting relics in the Holy Land. But after a fruitless expedition he is forced to get creative in this comedy of faith and fraud.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, exciting, suspense, entertaining, funny, social, humorous, realistic, hot
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Bad Parents (2012)
Plot Summary:
A suburban mom relives her season with the soccer obsessed sports parents whose outrageous "win at all costs" behavior spirals out of control.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, dark comedy, exciting, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Breaking & Exiting (2018)
Plot Summary:
Harry, a charming house thief, gets more than he bargains for during an attempted burglary when he stumbles upon Daisy and decides to save her from herself, sending both of them into a darkly comedic journey of self discovery and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, independent film
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Helicopter Mom (2014)
Plot Summary:
Maggie Cooper thinks it would be really cool if her son Lloyd were gay. So cool, in fact, that she outs him to the entire school.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Brasserie Romance (2012)
Plot Summary:
Manager Pascaline and chef Angelo have been, for several years, striving toward earning the coveted "chef's hat" in the Gault Millau restaurant guide. Tonight is Valentine's Day: one of the busiest nights of the year. Angelo provides an appropriate menu and Pascaline lovingly sets the tables. As always, Pascaline has everything under control. Her customers expect a lot tonight. For every couple that has won a table they expect to get love on their plate. Hopefully nothing goes wrong.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 728
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, sweet, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Brittany Runs a Marathon (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young woman decides to make positive changes in her life by training for the New York City Marathon.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sincere, psychological, disturbing, thought provoking, feel good, emotional, captivating
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The Legendary Giulia and Other Miracles (2015)
Plot Summary:
Diego, Fausto and Claudio are three down-on-their luck men. When they meet by chance looking at a property in the country none of them are able to afford, the three men decide to combine forces and risk everything to start a Bed and Breakfast. They invest everything they have, physically and mentally, into the project, but the financial pressures mount and are made even more stressful with the local mafia demanding regular payments and threatening to suffocate their venture! It seems that only a miracle will bring them back on track. Indeed, the miracle they need arrives in the most unlikely of forms. But is it enough?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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It’s the Law (2017)
Plot Summary:
A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Ignorance Is Bliss (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ernesto and Filippo, two high school teachers, couldn’t be more different: Filippo is a cheerful liberal who is constantly online. Handsome and youthful, he is a serial seducer on the social networks. Ernesto, instead is a stern conservative, rigorously computerless. He is probably the last person around who still has a first-generation cell phone and his teaching methods are very traditional. They used to be best friends but an unresolved fight kept them far apart, until the day fate intervened and they found themselves teaching at the same school. Their opposite viewpoints will soon and inevitably lead to a new clash. The internet will force them to deal with their past, which resurfaces in the shape of Nina, a young woman who conducts an experiment on them: Filippo must try to leave the world of Internet and Ernesto must try to enter it.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Second Act (2018)
Plot Summary:
Maya, a 40-year-old woman struggling with frustrations from unfulfilled dreams. Until, that is, she gets the chance to prove to Madison Avenue that street smarts are as valuable as book smarts, and that it is never too late for a Second Act.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, inspirational, feel good, sweet, uplifting, funny, thought provoking, captivating, romantic comedy
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Father of Invention (2010)
Plot Summary:
Nearly a decade after a faulty product landed him in prison, an arrogant inventor is determined to restore his reputation and rebuild his fortune. But first, he has to convince his estranged daughter that he's worthy of a second chance.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, captivating, light, feel good, sentimental, realistic, witty, semi serious
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The Intern (2015)
Plot Summary:
70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 269000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: feel good, inspirational, light, sweet, touching, emotional, funny, sentimental, motivational, entertaining
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Rocket Singh: Salesman of the Year (2009)
Plot Summary:
Rocket Singh - Salesman of the Year is the sometimes thoughtless, sometimes thoughtful story of a fresh graduate trying to find a balance between the maddening demands of the 'professional' way, and the way of his heart - and stumbling upon a crazy way which turned his world upside down, and his career right side up. Welcome to the world of sales boss!.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, humorous, inspirational, light, melancholic, motivational, funny, powerful, realistic