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Plot Summary:
Ray is a man obsessed with his own mortality. When Ray's best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray is convinced that all of his aches and pains are an indication of his own imminent death. His life turns into a slapstick farce of health-crazed anxiety and hypochondria, until he finally learns that all he has to fear is fear itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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The Martins (2001)
Plot Summary:
Out of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family - long suffering wife accident prone son and pregnant teenage daughter in a shabby house next door to a giant shopping center in the London suburbs. The Martins are the family from hell! Robert dreams if winning a dream holiday for his family, and when he fails to win yet another competition he flips, out tracks down the elderly winners, ties them up in the cellar and steals their tickets!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, clever, offbeat, realistic
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A Bit of Tom Jones? (2009)
Plot Summary:
In a late night bar, Henry is approached by a mysterious woman who offers to sell him the severed "manhood" of Wales' greatest vocal entertainer. Believing he can make a fortune selling the infamous appendage on to obsessive fans, Henry stumps up the cash. To help find the right buyer, Henry teams up with his slightly dodgy best friend Teddy and together the two head off on an insane journey that leads them deep into the secret world of celebrity body part trading.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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The Nugget (2002)
Plot Summary:
'The Nugget' looks at how instant wealth suddenly changes the lives of three working class men - not necessarily for the better, but always with hilarious consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, exciting
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Killer Babes (2007)
Plot Summary:
When three wealthy women hire a hit man to get rid of one of their cheating husbands, everything goes wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, melancholic, captivating, exciting
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Edie & Pen (1996)
Plot Summary:
In this comedy, two women head for Reno to get simultaneous quicky divorces and end up becoming friends. Edie was married years ago, but her husband abandoned her two weeks after the wedding. Pen spent nine years married to an ice-cold businessman who neglected her.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, slapstick
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Mary Had a Little... (1961)
Plot Summary:
A theatrical impresario tries to win a bet with a psychiatrist over the production of a perfect baby.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Second Best (2004)
Plot Summary:
Jealousy overwhelms a group of friends, particularly struggling writer Elliot, as they prepare for the homecoming of their old friend, a wildly successful L.A. producer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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Who's Your Monkey? (2007)
Plot Summary:
In Jacksonville, Florida, four friends since grade school who are now in their early 30s face the challenges of adulthood: Hutto is about to become a father, Laith is intimidated by his girlfriend's sexuality, a grieving Bobby drinks heavily and sleeps on the grave of a girlfriend who's been dead 18 months, and Mark, an OB/GYN who loves his work, can't practice medicine because he can't afford malpractice insurance. Things come to a head when Mark needs his three friends' help after a belligerent animal-abusing pornographer attacks Mark with a gun over something Laith did. A midnight road trip tests friendship: can the guys help each other?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, tense, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Critical Condition (1987)
Plot Summary:
Eddie is a con artist. But this time he's framed and comes before a judge. By claiming insanity, he hopes to get off the hook. He manages end up in a hospital for a mental examination. That night, a storm breaks out over New York, and the electricity to the hospital is broken. In the ensuing chaos that follows, Eddie is taken for a doctor. Suddenly he is in charge of a whole hospital!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, intense, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, black comedy, realistic, sexy, feel good
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Martin & Orloff (2002)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a marketing man and his shrink. A suicide attempt and a softball game; A PHD-toting stripper and a deranged Desert Storm vet; A giant sparerib costume and the world's largest peenis; John Woo-style violence and Steel Magnolia-esque pathos. This is the story of Martin & Orloff.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 873
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: clever, realistic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, witty, not serious, biting, suspense, alternative comedy
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The Dog Problem (2006)
Plot Summary:
In the film, Solo is a down-on-his-luck writer who is encouraged by his psychiatrist to get a dog. Solo meets his love interest, who he assumes to be a dog owner when meeting her at a dog play park, but dog problems stand in their way.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, clever, realistic, independent film, offbeat
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Junkie (2012)
Plot Summary:
A drug addict tries to sabotage his brother's struggle to get sober once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, non-linear, independent film
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Mystics (2003)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Sticky Fingers (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly and Hattie are asked by a drug-dealing friend-of-a-friend Diane to baby-sit a bag containing nearly a million dollars while she scoots out of town in order to avoid trouble. Once the money is in their possession, however, temptation proves too much for them.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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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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Floundering (1994)
Plot Summary:
When a young man's unemployment benefits run out, the IRS freezes his bank account, and his druggie brother needs help, things can't get any worse...until he discovers his girlfriend is cheating on him!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, absurd, light, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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Skills Like This (2007)
Plot Summary:
Max Solomon faces the awful truth that he will never be a writer. So, in a desperate attempt to find his true calling, he turns to crime. In this inventive comedy, three friends have their lives turned upside down when one of them realizes that larceny might be his best skill.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Shut Up and Shoot Me (2005)
Plot Summary:
Colin Frampton is an Englishman who never stops worrying, not even on holiday in Prague. When Colin's wife is accidentally squashed by a statue, he decides that he can't face life without her. So Colin bribes Pavel to help him die. An unlikely friendship develops as Pavel's plans for Colin's death spin out of control, attracting the violent interest of local gangster Karel Karlovic.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, dark comedy, offbeat
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Cold Dog Soup (1990)
Plot Summary:
Randy Quaid as the taxi driver drives Zen parables (Is time money - Is time the root of all evil?) into his passenger/protegee in a high-speed, idiosyncratic tour of their city's ethnic coteries. All the boy wants is to dispose of his date's dead dog Jasper and get back to the babe who's so hot she mutters darkly about being a Pressure Cooker: his conventional efforts are continually thwarted. Quaid is respected by the peculiar groups he interests in the dog's corpse and effects, and our one-gloved heroine is much keener on him than on her rather lackluster date.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy
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The Couch Trip (1988)
Plot Summary:
The escaped delinquent John W. Burns, Jr. replaces Dr. Maitlin on a radio show, saying he's the psychiatrist Lawrence Baird.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, parody, unusual plot structure, bad ending
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Pardon Mon Affaire, Too! (1977)
Plot Summary:
The film is the immediate continuation of Un éléphant ça trompe énormément, released the previous year. Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, clothed with a chequed jacket, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous, and imagines various stratagems to identify the lover. In the meantime, Étienne and his friends acquire a weekend house for a very low price. As in the previous work, the film is largely narrated by the character Étienne, whose tone shifts with the reality of the images. The film contains a certain number of allusions to the films of Blake Edwards (the Pink Panther series).
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, sex comedy, sexual, sexy, hot
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Barbecue (2014)
Plot Summary:
On his 50th birthday, a man who's been watching his weight, health and temper all his life suffers a heart attack. He's been doing everything he was told he should do and it still didn't help. He decides to turn the page and let loose.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, profound
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The Big Bad Wolf (2013)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering about the meaning of their lives and were swamped by a wave of existential doubts. An entirely new situation for this bourgeois trio in their forties, one which opened a door to the novel and indeed the forbidden... and to the big bad wolf!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, feel good, sex comedy
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Love & Slaps (2010)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about generational conflict between two parents who do not want to grow old and a seventeen year old daughter who wants to become an adult. During a weekend with some friends in their country house in Tuscany, Marcello and Marina, relieved that the love affair of their teenage daughter Rose with another boy, Luke, is over, prepare to meet their daughter's new boyfriend. The problem is that the two adults, who still feel pretty young, do not know what to expect, and what they are about to discover will leave them speechless.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, realistic, talky, not serious
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Stella Street (2004)
Plot Summary:
Michael Caine, Robert De Niro, Jack Nicholson and Roger Moore all live on a quiet street in Surbiton and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards run their corner shop - who knew?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, clever, realistic, parody, mockumentary, offbeat, biting, suspense
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Dumb and Dumber To (2014)
Plot Summary:
20 years after the dimwits set out on their first adventure, they head out in search of one of their long lost children in the hope of gaining a new kidney.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 143000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: road movie, buddy comedy, humorous, hilarious, slapstick, stylized, not serious, funny, teen, disgusting
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Homie Spumoni (2006)
Plot Summary:
All his life, African-American Renato has been raised in an Italian-American family. Completely unaware that he is Black, his life is upended when his birth parents materialize, causing Renato to examine what he true heritage is.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 757
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, black comedy, offbeat
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Pretty Bird (2008)
Plot Summary:
A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of American dreams and delusions.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good, light, captivating, melancholic, independent film, exciting
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That's What She Said (2012)
Plot Summary:
Longtime best friends Bebe and DeeDee are both wrestling with love. Bebe has met someone new and is in the exuberant phase of a budding romance. DeeDee is trying to move on from someone she can’t forget – mostly in destructive ways. As Bebe waits for the perpetually late DeeDee at their favorite coffee shop, she meets Clementine, a distraught young woman with love problems of her own. With Clementine in tow, Bebe and DeeDee soon embark on the kind of outrageous misadventure that only New York City can offer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, sincere, feel good
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Downhill (2014)
Plot Summary:
Four old school friends reunite to attempt the epic coast to coast walk, across the United Kingdom. As their journey unfolds, this comically incompatible foursome walk full tilt into their mid-life crises.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie, fake documentary