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Plot Summary:
Thomas, former successful stand up comedian will do anything to get back on the top. Unfortunately at the same time his teenage daughter demands his whole attention threatening the comeback he wants so badly.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Mad Cows (1999)
Plot Summary:
When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up in jail. Losing custody of her infant child, Maddy hatches a scheme to break out of prison with the assistance of her friend Gillian, who's avoiding the law herself for credit card fraud. Now Maddy has to find the couple who have adopted her son and avoid falling in love with selfish Alex all over again.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Go Trabi Go (1991)
Plot Summary:
Family Struutz lives in Bitterfeld (GDR). After the fall of the wall, they take the opportunity to go on holiday with their car, an old Trabant. They simply want to visit Italy. But there are some incidents during their journey. (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Chop Chop (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dennis and Carl are brothers who live on a small farm in the country. None too bright, Dennis wants a girlfriend for Christmas. Carl makes sure that Dennis gets just that when he meets Rita at the local pub. She is on the run from her husband and she doesn't turn down the chance to hide away at Carl and Dennis's place.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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RobbyKallePaul (1989)
Plot Summary:
After a quarrel Henry leaves the apartment. New fellow-lodger of Robby and Kalle becomes Paul. The three guys couldn't be more different, but nevertheless all of them have the same problem: women. When the mysterious Malu appears, each of them wonders if she may be their dream-woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 95 min
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Ready, Steady, Ommm! (2013)
Plot Summary:
Alex and his girlfriend Anna have a problem: Anna couldn't be more pregnant, and neither can find an affordable flat. The only one who can help is Anna's father, Commander Reiker, a sweet but screwy military man who owns an empty house. Reiker, however, to whom the Swiss Army means everything, has problems of his own: how can Switzerland, nation of fabled warriors that even exports its troops to protect the Pope, maintain its fear-inspiring reputation with all the cost-cutting measures? The Army is being forced to save, to restructure, and to take itself seriously. To prevent his ramshackle troops from being axed, Reiker urgently needs help. And just about anyone will do. Like his future son-in-law Alex, the least capable man one could imagine. As a yoga teacher, house-husband and pacifist, Alex has what it takes to be discharged, not put in charge. The pact he concludes with Reiker will not only shake up the Swiss Army, but also Alex's relationship with Anna.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 98 min
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Loving and Laughing (1971)
Plot Summary:
Quebec sex farce about a straitlaced young man who spends time in a commune, while a hippie takes his place as a French tutor for a rich family's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Alibi (2008)
Plot Summary:
Youssef, a professional liar, falls in love with airhead waitress Andrea. Things get awry as she never wants to date a guy who keeps secrets or lies.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 86 min
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The Awkward Weekend (2023)
Plot Summary:
A close-knit group of friends gather in French Burgundy to finally scatter ashes of their dead friend. When the widow unexpectedly brings her new boyfriend, the weekend takes a turn, and all friendships and relationships are put on edge.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 583
Genere: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 89 min
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Confidence Reigns (2004)
Plot Summary:
Christel and Christoph have no education, no morals - they are working as servants in wealthy homes in order to clean out their hosts. Having decided to combine their talents and efforts, they are starting to work in the the house of Therions - wealthy bourgeoisie of Mulhouse.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
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Jesus is a Palestinian (1999)
Plot Summary:
Natasha (Kim van Kooten) goes to Limburg to collect her brother Ramses (Hans Teeuwen), who has joined a sect, so he can consent to cutting their father's life support.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min
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Fidibus (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kalle, a nice middleclass kid, who because of a debt and old friendship ends up as a 'fidibus', a gofer, for the hash baron Paten. But only until Paten is anything but innocently jailed and asks Kalle to mind the store while he is gone. No one touches Paten's money, Paten's car or, least of all, Paten's girl, Saby, who is dumber than water.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 107 min
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Overnite Models (1973)
Plot Summary:
A company trip to Berlin ends in many sexcapades.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Bar Esperanza (1983)
Plot Summary:
Group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, doomed to be closed to give way to the construction of a big building. Intellectuals, artists, night-people in general join forces to try to avoid its demolition. Among its costumers, we find Ana, an actress, her husband Zeca, an intellectual type in crisis about his work for TV, artists, newspapermen, a female researcher, and a couple who's always quarrelling, only to be reconciled moments later.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 127 min
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Italy is Rotten (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from Veneto, who had arrived in Turin in search of work, but due to a number of setbacks, had been forced into prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
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The Doctor Prefers Sailors (1981)
Plot Summary:
A doctor in a hotel has a lot of problems like a man repeatedly fails to commit suicide, a pair of window washers witness a murder by a hit man, a suspicious wife checks up on her husband who happens to be having an affair with her and many more.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Oh Marbella (2003)
Plot Summary:
Marbella, the original Costa del Sol paradise for the rich and famous and for those wishing they were.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Bedside Head (1972)
Plot Summary:
The young headmaster of a boy's boarding school has decided that due to the virility of his young charges, they are a sort of national treasure. He believes that his school should become co-educational as soon as possible. In order to raise funds for the changeover, the boys stay behind during their summer vacation and temporarily convert the school into a love hotel.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, hot
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Divorce Club (2020)
Plot Summary:
After 5 years of marriage, Ben is still madly in love. Until the day he discovers in public that his wife is cheating on him: humiliated and dumped in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: light, touching, feel good, humorous, sweet
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The Reunion (2011)
Plot Summary:
'The Renion' is a new Danish comedy starring Troels Lyby, Nicolaj Copernicus and Anders W. Berthelsen. The three highschool friends Niels (Nicolaj Copernicus), Andreas (Anders W. Berthelsen) and Thomas (Troels Lyby) are invited to their 25 years anniversary. While Niels and Andrew struggles with not feeling like participating, Thomas is of a different opinion. Having arranged an all-time weekend of drinks, ladies and blowing off steam! The big question is: Will they actually survive the Copenhagen nightlife ... and will they even get to the reunion?. 'The Reunion' is a Danish comedy about old friends, that realises, at some point they are going to grow up and have to behave as adults... AS IF!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Wonderful Years That Sucked (1997)
Plot Summary:
Capturing the dark humor of Czech author Michal Viewegh's chronicle of life after the Velvet Revolution, this black comedy chronicles three decades in the life of a small Czech family. While the original novel centered on the protagonist Kvido from his conception through his adulthood, first time director Petr Nikolaev and screenwriter Jan Novak changed the focus to his parents Milena, an extremely self-effacing lawyer who acts on stage in her spare time, and Ales, a rather aimless government worker who tends to drift wherever the wind takes him. The lives of Ales and Milena change dramatically following the Russian invasion of Prague in 1968.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 713
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 109 min
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Ham from the Ardennes (1977)
Plot Summary:
During the height of the tourist season, the rivalry between the manager of a slightly fancy restaurant and the proprietor of a nearby fast-food stand becomes quite heated, and shots are fired. I n this comedy, the restaurant is run with an iron hand by its "patronne," (Annie Girardot), and the help eventually have had enough. If that weren't sufficient trouble, the children of the owners of both establishments are romantically entangled, further infuriating the passions of the feuding food fanatics. Such an unbearable situation naturally pits half of the population against the other.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Till Eulenspiegel (1975)
Plot Summary:
In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for personal well-being, he often helps the poor and weak. Eventually, he gains an influential but also dangerous position as royal fool at the court of the emperor.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: East Germany
Duration: 100 min
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Man Camp (2013)
Plot Summary:
Attempting to compete for the love of a beautiful woman, a self-declared sissy joins a man camp that "transforms boys into men," only to discover it's run by his dream girl's macho boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
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Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2022)
Plot Summary:
Seven men, all city-dwellers aged between 17 and 70, with nothing in common apart from the fact that they are all on the verge of a nervous breakdown, meet up at a lonely sta- tion for an unusual course in the wild that is supposed to get them back on their feet. Each step in this boot camp, designed by an eccentric and feisty female coach, aims to reveal them to themselves. The task seems to be a tough one, especially as nothing goes as planned between these men.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Comedy
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 97 min
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Wilderness Therapy (2022)
Plot Summary:
Deep in the Pyrenees, two close friends at rock bottom have the idea of the century: to pull themselves of their misery, they will launch a horse trekking tour, a voyage through the mountains for tourists in search of nature, silence and adventure.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Superclásico (2011)
Plot Summary:
Christian is a Copenhagen wine seller on the brink of bankruptcy. Equally unsuccessful in just about every other aspect of life, it has been 17months since his wife Anna left him. Anna works as a soccer agent in Buenos Aires and now lives a life of luxury with Argentina's top player Juan Diaz. Then one day Christian and their 16-year-old son Oscar get on a plane to Buenos Aires. Christian arrives under the pretense of wanting to sign the divorce papers, but in truth, he wants to try to win Anna back.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, clever, realistic, semi serious
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All inclusive (2014)
Plot Summary:
After finding out that her husband cheated on her, Lise and her two daughters Ditte and Sigrid decides to go on vacation to Malta. The two sisters are very different and tries to cheer the mother up in very different ways. All inclusive is a movie about love and figuring out how to be a family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, humorous, captivating
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Have Fun, Vasya! (2017)
Plot Summary:
Mitya accidentally proposed to his girlfriend. The problem is that Mitya is already married to Vasya, who refuses to grant him a divorce. Can Mitya and his friends convince Vasya to change her mind?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, entertaining, feel good, captivating
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Hotel (2001)
Plot Summary:
While a British film crew are shooting a version of The Duchess of Malfi in Venice, they in turn are being filmed by a sleazy documentary prima donna while the strange staff share meals which consist of human meat. Then there is the hit man, the call girl and the Hollywood producer all managing to become part of the madness.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, surreal, clever, offbeat, realistic, experimental, talky, period piece
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The Reunion 2: The Funeral (2014)
Plot Summary:
Thomas is finally getting married, and Andreas has arranged a bachelor party of the century... he thinks. But a shocking death during Thomas' bachelor party sends the three friends off on an unforgettable trip to a funeral; they probably won't be forgiven for. Speed-Dating, infidelity and near death experiences put their relationship on a serious test. The question is whether the three friends will survive the trip and the funeral - and will they make it home in time for Thomas' wedding.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, light, feel good