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Plot Summary:
Though Eddie's fired right at Christmastime, his boss sends him and his family on a South Pacific vacation, hoping Eddie won't sue him after being bitten by a lab monkey. When the Tuttle family winds up trapped on a tropical island, however, Eddie manages to provide for everyone and prove himself a real man.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sincere, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy
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The Trailer Park Boys Xmas Special (2004)
Plot Summary:
In this holiday prequel, it’s 1997 and Sunnyvale Trailer Park is getting ready for the holiday season. Julian’s got a great idea to make money this Christmas, Ricky gets confused between God and Santa, and Bubbles tries to get the Boys together for an annual Christmas bonfire. Meanwhile, Mr. Lahey is thrilled because Christmas is the only day of the year that his wife Barb allows him to have a few drinks. Directed by series creator Mike Clattenburg, this hour-long special takes place before Jamie was J-Roc, before Randy and Lahey were a couple, and before the Shitmobile was missing a door.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, mockumentary, light, offbeat, realistic, not serious
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Santa with Muscles (1996)
Plot Summary:
Penurious but muscle-bound Blake Thorne has made a vast fortune marketing health food and health supplements. He once was a nice fellow, but as his wealth increases, he becomes increasingly self-centered and decadent. One day, he gets in a great paint-gun fight that goes too far. Blake escapes the cops by running into a shopping mall, quickly donning a Santa Suit and pretending to be St. Nick. A head injury causes Blake to suffer amnesia, and an opportunistic "elf" decides to convince Blake that he is indeed Santa. This leads "Santa" to help save an orphanage, filled with adorable moppets, from the machinations of a greedy, insane doctor.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, road movie, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, bad ending
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The Santa Incident (2010)
Plot Summary:
During a ride on his sleigh Santa is mistaken for an alien in a UFO. After an attack, he ends up seriously injured in a small town. Two children must help him, so Christmas is not jeopardized.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sincere, captivating, light, entertaining
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The Worst Christmas of My Life (2012)
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Paolo needs to reach the castle of Alberto Caccia, where he was invited to spend Christmas with his family and Margherita, the ninth month of pregnancy. With them there will also be blessed, daughter of Alberto and childhood friend of Margherita, who was also pregnant. Among various mishaps and blunders, Paolo will combine another of his, coming to make everyone believe, because of a misunderstanding, that Alberto's died for his fault.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, funny, sweet, captivating
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Where's the Money (2017)
Plot Summary:
A quick witted young man from the streets of South Central must rush a lily-white USC fraternity to recover a stash of stolen money.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Take the 10 (2017)
Plot Summary:
A day in the life of two best friends, a drug dealer, and a store manager collide at a hip-hop concert in the Inland Empire.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, dark comedy, buddy comedy
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A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
Amy, Kiki and Carla – three under-appreciated and over-burdened women – rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for mothers: Christmas. And if creating a more perfect holiday for their families wasn’t hard enough, they have to do all of that while hosting and entertaining their own mothers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, buddy comedy, feel good, humorous, captivating, sexy, saga, teen, light, banned
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Christmas on Chestnut Street (2006)
Plot Summary:
A store decides to start a contest to sell off 60,000 Christmas lights, ordered by accident. The competition soon causes unrest among the locals, but the store's owner, Diane, wants to keep what has become a very profitable competition going, at all costs.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, christmas comedy
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Meeting Spencer (2011)
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After a series of Hollywood flops, famed director Harris Chappell (Jeffrey Tambor) returns to New York to relaunch his Broadway career. But Chappell's triumphant comeback begins to spiral out of control into a wild night of comic misadventure after meeting struggling actor Spencer (Jesse Plemons) and his old flame Didi (Melinda McGraw).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, exciting, realistic, witty, not serious, independent film
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Together Again for the First Time (2008)
Plot Summary:
"Together Again for the First Time" tells the story of a blended family reuniting on Christmas Eve. It's the first time they've all been in the same house at the same time since the parent's marriage seven years before--which wouldn't be a problem if they all liked each other. But they don't. And matters only get worse with the unexpected arrival of an ex-boyfriend, an unannounced live television broadcast, and the outing of well-kept family secrets. This is a comic, touching movie about what it means to be a family--even when you don't like each other very much.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, christmas comedy, realistic, semi serious
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A Madea Christmas (2013)
Plot Summary:
Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: christmas special, light, sincere, feel good, captivating, christian film, happy, sentimental, humorous, realistic
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Kissing Cousins (2008)
Plot Summary:
A "relatively" romantic comedy about a professional heartbreaker (and cynical bachelor) who teams up with his attractive cousin from the UK in order to fool his friends into believing he is capable of a relationship. Hijinks and laughs ensue with a hilarious cast!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, slang
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A Merry Friggin' Christmas (2014)
Plot Summary:
Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, entertaining, slapstick, hilarious, independent film, interesting
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A Nanny for Christmas (2010)
Plot Summary:
Ally (Emmanuelle Vaugier) is a smart young career woman who needs a new job. Samantha (Cynthia Gibb) is a busy Beverly Hills advertising executive/mom whose too-well-mannered kids need some fun in their lives. And Danny Donner (Dean Cain) is the tough-guy owner of a chocolate company who wants a major ad campaign immediately. Could it all somehow lead to the Christmas that changes everyone's lives forever? Richard Ruccolo, Sierra McCormick, Jared Gilmore and Sarah Thompson co-star in this surprising comedy about little white lies, big holiday wishes, and a woman who may just find love in the most unexpected places by becoming A NANNY FOR CHRISTMAS.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, sentimental, touching, semi serious, realistic, ridiculous
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Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008)
Plot Summary:
While trying to avoid an obsessed girl, rocker Drake Parker meets a young girl, who makes him promise to give her family the best Christmas ever. Later, at the Premiere's first ever Christmas party, a group of teens start to make trouble. Concerned, Josh, Drake's stepbrother, calls the cops about a disturbance, but they are confused and think the entire party is the disturbance, and even arrest the kind Josh. Requiring Josh's help to keep his promise, Drake tries to break his brother out of prison, but is caught. At court, the judge decides that the two must give the girl and her foster family the best Christmas ever, or face years in jail. They face many problems along the way, including Officer Perry, a strict detective that hates Christmas; a colorful group of foster children; and a wild wood chipper. It is up to Drake and Josh to save Christmas for the good-hearted children, or face the consequences.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: christmas special, semi serious, humorous, feel good, realistic, buddy comedy
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That's What She Said (2012)
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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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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, psychotronic
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Vegas Vacation (1997)
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The Griswold family hits the road again for a typically ill-fated vacation, this time to the glitzy mecca of slots and showgirls—Las Vegas.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, light, slapstick, not serious, feel good, dark comedy, scenic, offbeat
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Santa Hunters (2014)
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Four children trIn Santa Hunters, Alex and his cousins Zoey (Yde) and Richard (Coronel) create an elaborate setup of traps to catch Santa on tape, but their plan backfires when they realize that seeing Santa will cause him to lose his Christmas magic. The kids have to protect the tape to save Christmas, learning that believing is more important than seeing.y to claim that Santa Claus is real.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, light, captivating
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A Christmas Story 2 (2012)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, sincere, uplifting, realistic, semi serious
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All Ira Finkelstein wants for Christmas is...Christmas. Unfortunately, his parents are sending him to Florida to be with his Grandparents. Ira's spirit soars as he manages to land in Christmas Town, USA, instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious
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Call Me Claus (2001)
Plot Summary:
If She's Going To Save Christmas, She's Got Some Big Shoes To Fill.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining
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Christmas in Compton (2012)
Plot Summary:
Big Earl, the owner of a Christmas tree lot in Compton, California runs into some trouble when his son Derrick crosses the line to prove to his father that he is a success.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious
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The Irony of Love (2010)
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An affair which starts as a bet between a three girls suddenly become a big love story.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 313
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia, Kazakhstan
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 699
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Country: Italy
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Giacomo befriends a man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 908
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Country: Italy
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Plot Summary:
Brad and Dusty must deal with their intrusive fathers during the holidays.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 80000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, he revisit his old childhood home in the hope of reliving some old holiday memories – but he finds that the house in which he was raised is no longer the home in which he grew up.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
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It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 211000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, feel good, christmas special, slapstick, light, hilarious, entertaining, sentimental, inspirational