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Plot Summary:
Chu Chu and the Philly Flash is a 1981 comedy film starring Alan Arkin, Carol Burnett, Jack Warden, Ruth Buzzi, and Danny Aiello. It was released in 1981 by 20th Century Fox. Arkin plays a down-his-luck former baseball player and Burnett plays a Carmen Miranda-style performer. The film was panned by critics and was not a box office success. Many of the scenes, particularly the exterior scenes of "Chu Chu" home, were filmed in San Francisco's Potrero Hill district.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: thinking
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An L.A. Minute (2018)
Plot Summary:
Best-selling author Ted Gold faces a moral dilemma when Velocity, an avant-garde performance artist and the living embodiment of integrity, rocks his 1% world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
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Dogpound Shuffle (1979)
Plot Summary:
A man who has lost his beloved pet dog enlists the help of a young drifter in finding the animal. This leads to a series of misadventures, including a confrontation with a hulking dog-pound worker and a stint providing the entertainment at a millionaire's party.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Chris Hardwick: Funcomfortable (2016)
Plot Summary:
The “@midnight” host makes things very funcomfortable for the packed house at The Palace of Fine Arts in San Francisco as he explores awkward and sometimes super creepy memories from both childhood and today. With “the energy of SpongeBob dipped in cocaine water,” Hardwick delves into dealing with anxieties, finds the humor in joining the “Dead Dad Club,” and shares deeply personal anecdotes that most people would be too embarrassed to say out loud.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
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The Gong Show Movie (1980)
Plot Summary:
A week in the life of "The Gong Show" host and creator Chuck Barris.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: thinking, dark comedy, game show, psychotronic, black comedy, eighties
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Evicted (1999)
Plot Summary:
Micro is the leader of a group of pals who enjoy life to the fullest. Unfortunately, their landlord isn't fond of their shenanigans and they're slated to be evicted. With their time in their apartment coming to a close, the guys plan a party to end all parties.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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On the Right Track (1981)
Plot Summary:
Lester is a homeless shoeshine boy living in a railway station. He's got this funny knack for picking the winning horses' names out of the paper while shining shoes. When word gets around, though, everyone wants a piece of the action.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, fable, cult film
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Cheaper to Keep Her (1980)
Plot Summary:
A newly divorced swinger on the prowl goes to work as a detective for a neurotic feminist attorney.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Gas (1981)
Plot Summary:
Susan Anspach stars in this comedy as a news reporter who investigates a story about stolen milk causing milk and gas prices to rise. During the course of her investigation, other people become involved, culminating in a multiple car chase.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 377
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
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Get to Know Your Rabbit (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young businessman goes to a magic expert to learn hardness and skill with his cynical and greedy collaborators. He becomes a very good tap dancer, but will he be able to get free of his old boss?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 987
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surreal, cult classic, independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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Found Money (1983)
Plot Summary:
Max and Sam, disillusioned with people's day-to-day callousness toward each other, and angered by a pension-stealing bank, invent The Invisible Friend, Inc. The intention was to reward kind acts, but things rarely turn out as planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Fresno (1986)
Plot Summary:
A long-format spoof of 1980s prime-time soap operas, set in raisin town Fresno, California.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof
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Nudes On Credit (1963)
Plot Summary:
Two slick con men down and out in the seedy end of London discover an attaché case in the trash. Inside are some mysterious documents and several credit cards belonging to "Sir James". Using the credit cards, they lavishly rack up debt for food, drink, women, clothes and hotel suites. Little do they know, the attaché case belongs to a murdered spy and contains secret plans for Russian world conquest!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Nobody's Perfekt (1981)
Plot Summary:
While everyone knows you can't fight City Hall, there are those who, for whatever reason, can't resist the challenge. Three slightly disturbed psychiatric patients decide to take on the government. What ensues includes car chases, a ferry boat hijacking, strip-teases and lots of fun!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Bad Medicine (1985)
Plot Summary:
Jeff Marx wants to study medicine and become a physician. However, his grades are far from enough to get him into an American medical school. But then he gets a chance to study medicine abroad in a small Latin American dictatorship governed by the dictator Ramon Madera who has a big interest in how the medical students behave.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Deadhead Miles (1972)
Plot Summary:
Alan Arkin, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-wierding cops and weigh stations with his new cryptic, overcoated hitchhiker buddy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious
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Desperate Acts of Magic (2013)
Plot Summary:
A magician competes in an international magic competition where he goes head to head with a female street magician he has fallen in love with. This film shows great magic performed by a cast of professional magicians. Like a great musical where the songs and the story are seamlessly intertwined, Desperate Acts of Magic does the same, mixing story and magic as one.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, independent film
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A Sinful Life (1989)
Plot Summary:
A former 'Sonny and Cher' dancer tries to pull her life together when social services threaten to take her daughter away from her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, thinking, independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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So Fine (1981)
Plot Summary:
While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success - the bottomless pants.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, entertaining, humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, funny, romantic, thought provoking
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Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
Plot Summary:
A junior executive is ordered to boost output in the hometown brewery where his old friends work.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, neo western, light, sexy, feel good, suspense, entertaining
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Dirty Work (1998)
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Unemployed and recently dumped, Mitch and his buddy Sam start a revenge-for-hire business to raise the $50,000 that Sam's father needs to get a heart transplant. The dirty duo brings down a movie theater manager and hires hookers to pose as dead bodies during a live TV ad. When a wealthy developer hires the guys to trash a building (so that he can have it condemned), problems arise and a feud ensues.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, melancholic, talky, semi serious, offbeat, realistic, witty, black comedy, slapstick comedy
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Steal Big Steal Little (1995)
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Ruben and Robby are twin brothers, adopted by Mona, one of the wealthiest - and most eccentric - women in Santa Barbara. Ruben is devoted to Mona, but Robby is more devoted to her money. So when Mona leaves her fortune and estate to Ruben it starts a battle between brothers that soon leads to madness, mayhem, and even attempted murder. On Ruben's side is Lou Perilli an ex-Chicago cop and used car dealer who knows the law - and how to get around it. On Robby's side is ruthless businessman Reed Tyler, who is out to turn a swift profit on Mona's property. Walking a shifty line between them is Eddie Agopian, the family lawyer, who doesn't care which side wins as long as he's on the winner's side. But whether they're stealing big or stealing little, they're all stealing in this hilarious comedy about greed, power... and brotherly love.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, road movie, clever, feel good, unusual plot structure, bad ending
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LolliLove (2004)
Plot Summary:
A hip, misguided Southern California couple decide to make a difference in the lives of the homeless by giving them lollipops with a cheery slogan on the wrapper.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, mockumentary, dark comedy, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, satirical
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Used Cars (1980)
Plot Summary:
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, witty, talky, melancholic, semi serious, cult classic, satirical, dark comedy, feel good
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Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972)
Plot Summary:
A middle aged restaurateur begins to feel the desire to roam and realizes that one day each week, his mother's apartment will be empty all afternoon. He makes several attempts at seduction, only to learn that it is much more complicated and difficult than he could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, colorful, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, hot
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Quick Pick (2006)
Plot Summary:
Eddie, a lovable loser who's strapped for cash and on the verge of getting evicted from his apartment, thinks he's lost the 135 million dollar winning lottery ticket and enlists the help of his two best friends to help him search for it all over Miami.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, independent film
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Passed Away (1992)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of eccentric relatives gather for their patriarch's funeral.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Noises Off... (1992)
Plot Summary:
A travelling theater group has so much action going on behind-the-scenes it almost ruins the performances.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, feel good, light, witty, talky, metafiction, offbeat, romantic comedy, realistic
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Raising Flagg (2006)
Plot Summary:
A comedy centered on a handyman (Arkin) and his lifelong competition with his neighbor (Pendleton.).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, feel good, realistic, independent film
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HealtH (1980)
Plot Summary:
HealtH is set at a health food convention at a Florida luxury hotel, where a powerful political organization is deciding on a new president.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 911
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: political, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, postmodern, suspense
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The Four Seasons (1981)
Plot Summary:
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, clever, semi serious, funny, light