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Plot Summary:
Herbie Altman is framed for Stock fraud by his boss when the SEC starts investigating his company. Sent to prison, he helps a fellow inmate successfully invest his money. Soon all the inmates want his help. To manage all the money, he forms CON INC. and runs it from the prison under the noses of the warden and the guards. But when the IRS and SEC begin to investigate this successful company, it looks like he may be in trouble again.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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New York, 4 A.M. (1988)
Plot Summary:
Coming soon.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Lovelines (1984)
Plot Summary:
Greed, lust, dirty tricks and bloody fist fights... All those things that make life worth living. When Piper and Rick, the two hottest properties in the Battle of the Bands want to make it, only one thing stands in their way. They're from opposing High Schools. And Malibu High's 6'6" muscle-bound monster Godzilla is going to do everything and anything stop his sweet little sister getting it on with some jerk from the Coldwater Canyon High. When all else fails, only Lovelines answering service can keep them together.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, cult film
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Computer Beach Party (1987)
Plot Summary:
Greedy locals are trying to turn some beach property into a tourist attraction, and a computer expert sets out to use is knowledge of computers--along with the help of several local "beach bunnies"--to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Frozen Assets (1992)
Plot Summary:
A man is hired to run a bank which turns out to be a sperm bank.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: double entendre, independent film
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The Shark Who Knew Too Much (1989)
Plot Summary:
Samuel Plottner is a stockdealer who only wants to get richer, but suddenly things starts to get complicated: His sons meets their longlost mother which not only is after Samuels money, but also can tell them what happened to them the day they were borned. The financial exper Benny Hörnsteen is also after Samuels money, and so is the clown Conny Corny and Lennart K. Brons too.How will this end?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Go for Broke (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two friends purchase a winning lottery ticket, only to have it stolen by a Woman while she is robbing the cafe in which they are having lunch. The Woman is caught and sent to prison, having managed to smuggle the lottery ticket inside. The two friends devise a plan to dress up in drag, commit a minor felony, get caught and then sent to the same prison in order to retrievie the ticket. "Some Like it Hot" meets "Stir Crazy" describes the antics of the film.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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American Drive-In (1985)
Plot Summary:
The goings-on at a typical drive-in on a summer night.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, cult film
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Coming Attractions (1978)
Plot Summary:
Broad satire and buffoonery presented as a series of movie trailers. Among the titles and subjects are: "The Howard Huge Story", "Skate-boarders from Hell", "The Invasion of the Penis Snatchers", Woody Allen (pre-Mia), movie trailer come-ons, Charlie Chaplin, war movies, Billy Jack. The source of the title is presented about an hour into the film.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 600
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, humorous, anthology, parody, independent film, spoof
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Money Shot (2012)
Plot Summary:
When given keys to a mansion for the weekend, two friends decide to make a film but end up throwing a huge party and trashing the house. Now they race to get the "money shot" and finish their film to pay for all the damages done.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Doin' Time (1985)
Plot Summary:
Duke Jarrett is sent to jail at the John Dillinger prison. However, the prison looks more like a zoo, more or less ruled by the prisoners themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, parody, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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The Unfinished Works Of Sean Weathers (2004)
Plot Summary:
During the early-2000s filmmaker Sean Weathers took 3 projects into production which he would not finish (Gangz vs. Cults, The Erotic Adventures of Samson & Delilah and Escape from Bloodbath Island).
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse, campy, cult film
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Slammer Girls (1987)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, spoof, parody
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They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way (1978)
Plot Summary:
Dewey (Tim Conway) and Wallace (Chuck McCann) are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor dies, and because no one else knows about the ruse Dewey and Wallace are stranded in prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, slapstick, exciting, parody, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, not serious
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A Head for Business (2000)
Plot Summary:
Dutillard is an amateur film maker working as a computer programmer for a small French investment bank. When the bank finds that it has been forced to fork over $104 million to fund Dutillard's film, Chekov's "Three Sisters", and that it has no legal recourse against him, the bank must find a way to make the film profitable. They float around a few ideas including a nude gang bang with the prettier sister, but the horrified Dutilliard comes up with a plan, buy the rights to a blockbuster and package the TV rights with those for the Three Sisters. Before they know it the bankers find them self flying to London and New York to raise money and buy a major film studio.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Starhops (1978)
Plot Summary:
Three carhops try to help save a failing drive-in restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Working Tra$h (1990)
Plot Summary:
Two janitors (George Carlin, Ben Stiller) working as janitors at a brokerage firm become rich by making investments based on insider information they gather from the brokers' garbage.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy
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Walk of Fame (2017)
Plot Summary:
A motley crew of aspiring performers come under the guidance of an eccentric and volatile acting coach.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Moving On (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two old friends reconnect at their friend's funeral, and decide to exact revenge on the widower who wronged all three of them decades earlier.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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The Associate (1996)
Plot Summary:
Laurel Ayres is a businesswoman trying to make it but unfortunately she works at a investment firm where she does all the work but all the senior investors like Frank Peterson grab all the credit. She then leaves and starts her own firm. While trying to find clients Laurel pretends that she has a male partner named Robert Cutty. And when she starts to do well all of her clients wants to meet Cutty which is difficult since he doesn't exist.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, feel good, witty, clever, retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny
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Chesty Anderson U.S. Navy (1976)
Plot Summary:
It's a tidal wave of laughs When "CHESTY" puts her deadly weapons into action!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, sexploitation film
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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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Grow House (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two guys start a risky new business to pay off a debt.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Back by Midnight (2004)
Plot Summary:
The warden of a small, rundown, minimum-security prison plots revenge against the the prison's dishonest owner by having four inmates break out and plan a department store robbery to spruce up the prison's faculties.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating, independent film
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The Boss' Wife (1986)
Plot Summary:
Daniel Stern stars as a stockbroker trying to climb the corporate ladder. There's only one thing stopping him...his boss' beautiful and flirtatious wife! THE BOSS' WIFE is a full-bodied, high-spirited, bedroom comedy about lust, love and lechery.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, buddy comedy
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The Boss (2016)
Plot Summary:
A titan of industry is sent to prison after she's caught for insider trading. When she emerges ready to rebrand herself as America's latest sweetheart, not everyone she screwed over is so quick to forgive and forget.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, absurd, parody, hilarious, sincere, funny, sexy, clever, brutal, unusual plot structure
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Revenge of the Nerds II: Nerds in Paradise (1987)
Plot Summary:
The members of the Lambda Lambda Lambda fraternity travel to Fort Lauderdale for a fraternity conference. They'll have to beat off the attacks of their rival frat, the Alphas, if they want to maintain their self-respect -- and, of course, if they want to get anywhere with the pretty girls!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, sex comedy, sexual, cult classic, feel good, realistic, not serious, light, sexy, thought provoking
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Office Space (1999)
Plot Summary:
Three office workers strike back at their evil employers by hatching a hapless attempt to embezzle money.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 283000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, funny, clever, humorous, hilarious, feel good, absurd, witty, inspirational
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Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Plot Summary:
At Adams College, the jocks rule the school from their house on high, the Alpha Beta fraternity. So when a group of socially-challenged misfits try to go Greek, they're instantly rejected by every house on campus. Deciding to start their own fraternity to protect their outcast brothers, the campus nerds soon find themselves in a battle royale as the Alpha Betas try to crush their new rivals.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, funny, sex comedy, cult classic, teen sex comedy, slapstick, teen, captivating, entertaining
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Revenge of the Nerds III: The Next Generation (1992)
Plot Summary:
The nerds are now in control of the university, as a result of Lewis Skolnick and the rest's actions in the two previous movies. A new generation of sportsmen arrive, however, determined on winning the school back. The principle, himself an ex-nerd fighter, helps them, and the nerds return to suppression. Harold Skolnick needs help from his uncle Lewis, the hero of the first two movies. Lewis, however, are not too proud of his nerd past, and won't reveal any of it, much less help his nephew. However, his wife makes him change his mind, and with help from his friends from the first two movies, they start the fight to win the school back, using classic nerd tricks.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, teen comedy, eighties, fun
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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