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Plot Summary:
When Fujio, Yoshio and Akiko were children, they saw a fantastic "Ryoumou Deer," but nobody believed them. The three siblings lived in a mountain village.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
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A Lousy 10 Grand (2004)
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Owing $10,000 to a loan shark, a suburban family man/toilet designer for NASA secretly agrees to marry a rich foreign princess in order to keep her in the U.S. in exchange for cash. But when his new bride turns his life upside down, he starts to regret his actions.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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The Octopuses from the Second Floor (1987)
Plot Summary:
While on vacation with their bickering parents, young Eva and her little brother Johnny find in a polluted lake two strange friendly sentient octopuses made of strange material that attracts electricity. They take them as pets.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anime, psychotronic
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Miko Girl (2018)
Plot Summary:
Shiwasu's mother left their home when Shiwasu was a little girl. Shiwasu does not understand why. She is a woman now and working at a Shinto shrine as a shrine maiden under her father who is a priest. She is listless until she finds a little boy alone on the shrine's grounds. The boy's mother shows up and retrieves her son a couple of days later. That is not the end of it however. The boy is back soon and has marks and bruises on his body. In the meantime, there was petty theft going on.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: detective
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Karaage USA (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ayane is the daughter of a karaage (fried food) store owner, but she never liked karaage. Eventually, she left home, only to return 5 years later. Her family lives in the city of Usa in Oita Prefecture, Japan. She brings with her a young girl named Shirley, who is her step-daughter from her ex-husband.
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Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 95 min
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Three Angels and Five Lions (1982)
Plot Summary:
Three Angels and Five Lions is a 1982 comedy-family film written by Sven Methling and Bjarne Reuter, directed by Sven Methling.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags:
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My Kuya's Wedding (2007)
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Inseparable as siblings, Jeff and Kat grew up very close to each other through thick and thin. Kat being overzealous and very wary of girls who likes her brother Jeff. Her Kuya simply means the world to her. Years later, Kat is all grown-up and lovely, and soon awaits her Kuyas return after four years of hard work from abroad. But all this excitement of a sibling reunion is foiled at the airport upon sight of Heidi, Kats worst nightmare and her brothers fiancée. Fueled with envy, Kat embarks on an all-out scheme to pull out all the stops to their impending wedding with the help of her gay bestfriend of all seasons. However, as Kat schemes to freeze the marital icing off her siblings cake, she finds herself falling for the charms of an evicted reality show superstar - Aris who happens to be Heidis brother. As she desperately clings to her last semblance of family, her Kuya Jeff, will Kat be able to stop this bridezilla from snatching away her only Kuya in her life?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration: 116 min
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Don Quixote's Children (1966)
Plot Summary:
The head of maternity clinic is nicknamed Don Quixote by his neighbors. He spends days and nights with newborn children, forgetting about his own growing sons.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Pearls and Pigs (2003)
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When their bootlegging father ends up in jail, four twenty-something brothers need money to pay his debts to local crooks. Next, their 9-year-old half-sister is dumped on their doorstep by her prostitute mother. A karaoke set helps reveal that the little girl is quite a singer, just as a talent contest for children is coming up on national television offering more than enough money to the winner. If only the kid weren't so hopelessly shy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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The Adults (2023)
Plot Summary:
The treasure hunt deep within as individuals and as a family is an admirable trio whose interpretation is as nuanced as it is poignant.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: poignant
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Girls at Arms (1975)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about girls joining the army in Denmark. Marianne joins to keep up a long family tradition as her brother won't. Both her brother and her boyfriend find her decision difficult to accept.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min
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Sox: A Family's Best Friend (2013)
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A new family is having difficulty adjusting, when an adorable dog comes into their life. Once his special powers are discovered, the local dog catcher and the (F.B.D.I) Federal Bureau of Dog Investigation will stop at nothing to get him.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Take My Brother Away (2018)
Plot Summary:
Bickering siblings Shi Miao and Shi Fen tackle friendship matters, school drama and the pitfalls of growing up with little parental supervision.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: captivating, dorama, entertaining
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My Story Is Long (2019)
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A young man has college and a failed business behind him. Unemployed and planning his next steps he is lodging with is mother, a small business owner. His sister and her family also move in with the two, albeit temporarily. She sees him as a loser and a lush and wants him out. She also whispers in their mother's ear to ask him to leave the house in order to find his own way and begin the rest of his life. She probably has noble intentions, but is she right and will she succeed?.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, thrilling
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Monkeys, Go Home! (1967)
Plot Summary:
Henry Dussard, a young American, inherits a picturesque but badly neglected olive farm in southern France and is determined to make it operational again despite cautionary advice from the local priest and a pretty villager. Desperate for laborers, the inventive Dussard turns to the zaniest crew of olive pickers ever recruited - four mischievous monkeys! As former members of an Air Force space team, these intelligent chimps quickly pick up on their new responsibilities - but prove to have a turbulent effect on the local townspeople.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sexy
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Bento Harassment (2019)
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Kaori (Ryoko Shinohara) is a single mother and she raises her high-school age daughter Futaba (Kyoko Yoshine). Her daughter is in a rebellious phase and ignores her mother. Kaori decides to take measures to communicate with her daughter and also get some revenge. Kaori creates messages in her daughter's bento meals.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, feel good, humorous, sincere, touching, entertaining
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From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler (1973)
Plot Summary:
Precocious Claudia and her brother run away from home and hide in the Metropolitan Museum in New York.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Family, Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Grandmother's Gold (2018)
Plot Summary:
A brother and sister embark on a journey to retrieve an inheritance from their grandmother in the wake of economic collapse and impending apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, not serious, light, entertaining
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Bernie the Dolphin (2018)
Plot Summary:
A brother and sister who befriend a badly sunburned dolphin separated from his family and uncover a secret plan that could destroy the beach and their new friend's home. The kids must devise a clever plan to stop the bad guys, protect the sea life, and, most importantly, save their best friend, Bernie.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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No Deposit, No Return (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two rich children devise a way to escape their grandfather and visit their mother. Unfortunately for two hapless safe crackers, they become part of the plan.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Father There Is Only One 2 (2020)
Plot Summary:
The success of the Conchy virtual assistant (which was developed by Javier) has earned him a favorable spot in the parents chat room - until something unexpected ruins it all.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sitcom
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Playing with Fire (2019)
Plot Summary:
A crew of rugged firefighters meet their match when attempting to rescue three rambunctious kids.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sweet, captivating, ironic, sitcom, slapstick comedy, slapstick, low brow humor, teen comedy
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The Town Christmas Forgot (2010)
Plot Summary:
An urban family that can’t seem to get along gets stranded in a remote, impoverished lumber town two days before Christmas. When they become involved in the town’s home-grown Christmas pageant, they not only help solve the town’s problems but learn to connect with each other just in time for the holidays.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, captivating
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Life with Mikey (1993)
Plot Summary:
Michael Chapman was once a child TV star. But when he grew up, he couldn't get work. So he and his brother, Ed start their own talent agency that specializes in child acts. They can't seem to find the next big thing and they have to deal with another agency who's not above bribery to get the kids to sign with them. One day Michael meets a girl named Angie and she's a real spitfire. Michael thinks she could be what they are looking for. Problem is that she has a big chip on her shoulder.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, semi serious, exciting, sentimental, funny, light, clever, unusual plot structure
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The Retrievers (2001)
Plot Summary:
After the Lowry Family moves from New York to Placerville in California, a golden retriever comes to their house. The family starts to take care of her and the retriever, now named Pilot, has puppies. They give all of the puppies away, but later realize that they are an important part of their family. They try to find all of the puppies, which they do. Throughout the movie, Tom, the dad, is caught up in his business and has to choose between family or business multiple times.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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The Boatniks (1970)
Plot Summary:
Young and awkward, The Coast-Guard's ensign Thomas Garland suffers from the comparison with his late father, a war hero. Which does not prevent him from falling for pretty Kate Fairchild, a young woman who runs a sailing school. Of course the way he expresses his deep sympathy for the lady leaves to be desired. And the situation does not improve when a trio of bumbling jewel thieves interferes.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 839
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick, vintage, cult film
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The Even Stevens Movie (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Stevens think that they've won an all-expenses-paid trip to an island that's halfway around the world. When their house is destroyed, their food stolen, and their bacon eaten, the Stevens family breaks apart in front of all their friends on live national television, while the island itself is only a short distance away from Sacramento!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, teen
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The Family Holiday (2007)
Plot Summary:
A selfish con-man must show that he can be a family man to inherit his uncle's estate. As he tries to set up his scam family, he realizes that he really wants to have a one.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, touching, realistic, family comedy
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When Mom Is Away (2019)
Plot Summary:
A father left in charge of his three children while mum goes away on a 10-day holiday… What could possibly go wrong?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous
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Yours, Mine and Ours (1968)
Plot Summary:
When a widower with 10 children marries a widow with 8, can the 20 of them ever come together as one big happy family?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: light, sentimental, touching, feel good, funny, witty, romantic comedy, retro, black and white, cult classic
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Richie Rich: A Christmas Story (1998)
Plot Summary:
After getting blamed for spoiling Christmas, the richest kid in the world wishes he'd never been born. Unfortunately, a wishing machine, invented by professor Keenbean, picked up the wish and made it come true. Now Richie finds himself in a parallel world where his only hope is to find professor Keenbean and the wishing machine so he can wish things back to normal. Written by Peter Huiskes.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, semi serious