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Plot Summary:
A parody of the hit television show, Downton Abbey, following the lives of the upper class and their servants.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Young Hyacinth (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in the late 1950s, a young Hyacinth will be seen desperately trying to force her family to climb the social ladder.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags:
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Cunk on Christmas (2016)
Plot Summary:
Philomena Cunk is on a festive mission to track down the true meaning of Christmas, and find out exactly what it wants. It's an insightful documentary which takes her on a journey from pagan winter festivals and the nativity story, via 'Sir Charles Dickings', all the way up to today's obsession with Santa. Along the way Philomena will be grilling a variety of experts, trying to expose the truth about Christmas, such as why people still put up with 'brussels sprouts'.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, spoof, parody
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Cunk on Britain (2016)
Plot Summary:
Landmark mockumentary-maker Philomena Cunk traces the history of Britain and Earth.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, sitcom, cult classic, parody
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Maid, Thief and Guard (1958)
Plot Summary:
Otello, an amateur thief, tries a burglary on New Year Eve but he finds the maid Adalgisa in the supposedly empty house. Adalgisa likes Otello who, all things considered, is a good guy, unlike Amerigo the night watchman who tries to profit from the situation.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Tales from the Golden Age (2009)
Plot Summary:
Tales from the Golden Age is composed of 5 unconventional short stories, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title of the film refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceauşescu's regime.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, anthology, offbeat, gloomy
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A Better You (2014)
Plot Summary:
A hypno-therapist in midlife crisis must tackle his own personal challenges before helping others and getting joint custody of his kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Peter Cook & Co. (1980)
Plot Summary:
A TV Special consisting of various sketches with the titular comedian and fellow comics in guest appearances.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy
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The Queen and I (2018)
Plot Summary:
A new republican prime minister strips the British monarch and her family of their money and assets, and forces them to live on a rundown council estate.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags:
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Pictures of Superheroes (2012)
Plot Summary:
After being dumped and fired on the same day, Marie, a maid, gets a job cleaning up after an overworked businessman and the aggressively messy roommate he’s forgotten about, sending her into a surreal world of candy, insult comics, and pretend marriages.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, absurd, independent film
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Let Them Eat Cake (1999)
Plot Summary:
Let Them Eat Cake is a British sitcom that aired on BBC One in 1999. Starring Dawn French and Jennifer Saunders, it is one of the few programmes in which French and Saunders have appeared which they did not create themselves.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: parody, sitcom, weird, period drama, alternative comedy
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The Dumbfounded King (1991)
Plot Summary:
Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King (Gabino Diego) is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa (Laura del Sol), the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen (Anne Roussel) naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Spain, France, Portugal
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: manga, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy, masterpiece
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The Film Crew: Wild Women of Wongo (2007)
Plot Summary:
What if there was a primitive island tribe where all the women were gorgeous and all the men were nasty-looking uggos? Might Mother Nature fix this by creating a tribe on a nearby island where all the men are hunks, and the women are brutes? You’d think not, but the makers of Wild Women of Wongo are not you. Wild Women of Wongo is a sex farce without the sex or the farce, set in a never-never land of uncivilized island dwellers who all look like someone going to a Halloween party as “uncivilized island dweller.” Add a crocodile who comes in the form of stock footage and rubber model, a lot of awkward dancing, and an actress named “Adrienne Bourbeau” who refuses to actually be Adrienne Barbeau, and you got yourself a movie. Mike, Kevin and Bill will DANCE their way into your hearts with this riff.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong (2017)
Plot Summary:
The Mischief Theatre Company return as the Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society who are this time determined to ignore a BBC blacklisting by hijacking a live production of Charles Dickens' famous festive fable. Yet they struggle with studio direction and special effects, and trying to keep a professional cast at bay.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: parody, christmas horror
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Firehouse (1987)
Plot Summary:
Some sexy women get out of Fire Fighter School and go for the jobs they trained for, but first they must survive their male counterparts teasing them.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, parody, absurd, independent film, spoof, hot, cult film
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Samurai Shifters (2019)
Plot Summary:
Shunnosuke Katagiri is a samurai and a bookworm. He receives a mission to help a daimyo move. With the assistance of Genemon Takamura and Oran, Shunnosuke Katagiri carries out his mission.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, realistic, semi serious
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Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
Plot Summary:
An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and aristocratic, the other poor and somewhat dim. They find themselves involved in palace intrigues as history happens around them. Based, very loosely, on Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities," Dumas's "The Corsican Brothers," etc.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, black comedy, humorous, witty, political, surreal, surprise ending, spoof, realistic
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Up Pompeii (1971)
Plot Summary:
A funny thing happens to Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls into his hands, listing the names of all the conspirators plotting to murder Emperor Nero. And when the upstart slave is elected to infiltrate the ringleader's den, the comical ups-and-downs lead to total uproar.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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This is Sodom (2010)
Plot Summary:
When ancient Sodom is doomed to destruction due to its people's corrupt ways, Lot is the only righteous man destined to be spared.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Israel, Bulgaria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, feel good, light, captivating, idiotic
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Upstart Crow (2016)
Plot Summary:
Comedy about the life and times of William Shakespeare as he starts to make a name for himself in London, whilst also trying to balance life as a husband and father for his family in Stratford-upon-Avon.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags: sitcom, light, humorous, entertaining, period piece, satirical
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Jeff Dunham: Relative Disaster (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ventriloquist Jeff Dunham brings his rude, crude and slightly demented posse of puppets to Ireland for a gleeful skewering of family and politics.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Employee of the Month (2022)
Plot Summary:
Vincent, a civil servant, has always enjoyed the benefits of his family's status. When the government votes on a massive savings plan, Vincent is pushed out. When he is transferred to the North Pole, he meets Eva and finds love. It's time for him to choose.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Ginger Meggs (1982)
Plot Summary:
Ginger Meggs (Paul Daniel) is a young "Dennis the Menace" who first appeared in Australian comic strips in 1921. In this film meant for the pre-teen set, Ginger is constantly getting himself in trouble in spite of his good intentions -- at the same time, he prevaricates, he disobeys his teachers and parents, he skips school, or while in school, fights it out with the bullies -- all activities that are bound to capture the attention of children who can vicariously enjoy the forbidden behavior.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Wheels of Fortune (2020)
Plot Summary:
To claim a big inheritance, a down-on-his-luck mechanic must win a series of competitions as outlined in his birth father's will.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy
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Trashology (2012)
Plot Summary:
College student Tracy (Laura Lee Black) has just received an assignment to write a report on her favorite film genre. In her research she discovers a book, now Tracy is taken into three interlocking tales of the unexpected. First in THE VAT, two women (Jenny Coulter / Rodney Horn) are harassed by a religious fanatic (Angie Keeling) about their worldly ways. When the bible thumping hypocrite threatens violence, chaos takes it's toll. Next in BIG DEBBIE, a robust woman (Rodney Horn) is abandoned at the altar, she runs into two guys that use her to fulfill their odd sexual fetish. When one accidentally dies, they're forced to get rid of the body... the only problem: a woman on the edge (Rachel Stout) witnesses the ditching and blackmails them into killing her cheating girlfriend (Kelli Ellis). Finally in INGLOURIOUS BITCHES, a quirky pair of female vigilantes (Douglas Conner / Brian Dorton) use an app on a cellphone to track down and murder sex offenders.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Delusions of Grandeur (1971)
Plot Summary:
Don Sallust (Louis de Funès) is minister of the King of Spain. It is a being disingenuous, hypocritical and greedy that collects the taxes himself, he turns in part to his advantage. He is hated by the people he oppresse.Accusé by Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery. Decided to revenge, it comes in contact with his nephew seducing Caesar.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, History
Country: France, Spain, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: anthology, cult classic, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, slapstick, spoof, parody, cult film
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Carlota Joaquina, Princess of Brazil (1995)
Plot Summary:
A hot blooded Spanish princess plots to conquer her enemies and become queen.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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The Missionary (1982)
Plot Summary:
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new assignment - to minister to London's prostitutes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: clever, sexy, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, inspirational, thought provoking, touching, enigmatic
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The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer (1970)
Plot Summary:
Fresh-faced young Michael Rimmer worms his way into an opinion poll company and is soon running the place. He uses this as a springboard to get into politics and in the mini-skirted flared-trousered world of 1970 Britain starts to rise through the Tory ranks.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: political, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, not serious, biting, suspense, cult film
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Miranda Hart’s Maracattack (2013)
Plot Summary:
Miranda Hart releases an exclusive DVD featuring brand new comedy sketches together with fitness routines. Miranda Hart is to bring her unique brand of comedy and tom-foolery to fitness, with the release of never-seen-before comedy and fitness DVD Miranda Hart’s Maracattack, which is exclusive to DVD and Digital Download to Own. It’s the first time the incredibly popular entertainer has issued a DVD and Digital only release, which will be available on 18th November 2013.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Help (2004)
Plot Summary:
22-year-old Maria was on her way to becoming a beautician when a family crisis forced her to take a new path, and she now finds herself employed as the maid for the extremely wealthy Ridgeway family. As one of many servants who dote on the demented and dysfunctional family, Maria discovers there's not only a class struggle between the upstairs and the downstairs, but there's an all out war among "The Help.".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious