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Plot Summary:
A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Cuba
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: experimental, manga, mondo, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Padmashree Laloo Prasad Yadav (2005)
Plot Summary:
A Bollywood remake of A Fish Called Wanda (1988), Padmashree Laloo Prasad Yadav finds an assortment of eccentric characters in the search of missing diamonds.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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A Trip Down the River (1970)
Plot Summary:
A stowaway (Stanisław Tym) sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers and crew into silly and vaguely humiliating games. Before long, Tym has got everyone under his thumb and created his own comedic dictatorship.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: road movie, experimental
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The Twelve Chairs (1962)
Plot Summary:
When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the treasures he believes rightfully belong to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Comedy
Country: Cuba
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Too Afraid of Life or Splat (1988)
Plot Summary:
A superstitious middle-aged woman falls in love with a taxi driver, while trying to learn the identity of the unseen person tossing eggs at her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Comedy
Country: Cuba
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Nada+ (2001)
Plot Summary:
Carla, a young postal worker in Havana, spends her days postmarking thousands of letters and dreaming of the day when she can be reunited with her parents, who moved to Miami when she was fifteen. To fulfill her longing for intimacy, she opens random letters and rewrites them into lyrical prose, believing she is helping her fellow Cubans understand one another better. Beautifully filmed in black and white accented by brilliant colours, Nada+ has a stunning visual composition. With its delightful mix of visual humour, theatrical characters, bureaucratic satire and a lighthearted love story, it has a distinctly Cuban flair.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Cuba, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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A Jungle Book of Regulations (1974)
Plot Summary:
Nie ma róży bez ognia title in Polish: There is no rose without fire, in reference to two mixed up proverbs – There is no rose without thorns, and There is no smoke without the fire – is a Polish comedy film from 1974 directed by Stanisław Bareja.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, absurd
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Poltroon (1989)
Plot Summary:
In a typical Yugoslav company a relationship is developing between poltroon and CEO.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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The Battle of Love's Return (1971)
Plot Summary:
After a series of mishaps, a young man is fired from his job for failing to deliver a package. He goes on a journey to find himself, encountering various characters including a priest and the owner of a pornographic bookstore, who are seen in black and white interview segments.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, slapstick comedy, slapstick, campy
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Fear, Anxiety & Depression (1989)
Plot Summary:
This film focuses on the trials and tribulations of Ira (Todd Solondz), who is an unsuccessful playwright trying to find himself in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick, campy
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Grandpa Is Dead (2009)
Plot Summary:
A large family with lots of issues gather together to mourn the death of the family patriarch. But getting in the way of their genuine grief are a bunch of superstitions about the dead, and the family's inability to deal with their issues in a civilized way.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Good-bye Cruel World (1982)
Plot Summary:
The story involves newscaster Rodney Pointsetter (Shawn) who is so depressed between his job and his family that he tries to make a film about his life, which he intends to culminate with his own suicide. It is often interrupted with irrelevant comic sketches that an emcee claims that the audience prefers to see.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, dark comedy, parody
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Not My Type (2022)
Plot Summary:
Marcia, a classy young Parisian singer, is recording an album with her idol Daredjane, a '70s rock icon. When Daredjane dies accidentally, Marcia needs to get approval from Daredjane's rights-holder, Anthony, a suburban market vendor in his thirties, to release their album. But Anthony never liked his distant relative, let alone her music. Their two worlds clash between good and bad taste, sophistication and rudeness, sincerity and lies. Unless love gets in the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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What Fault Is It of Ours? (2003)
Plot Summary:
Seven people in a therapy group are forced to find new ways of coping with their problems when their therapist dies in the middle of a session.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Off Track (2022)
Plot Summary:
A mid-age hipster in Stockholm is a training freak and trains for the 90 km ski race Vasaloppet. His sister is the opposite, no job, drinks but has a daughter. Suddenly secrets reveals and promises are made.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, fun
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Carlos Ballarta: Furia ñera (2018)
Plot Summary:
Mexican comic Carlos Ballarta mocks himself and points out the absurdities of parenthood and how he uses his wife's pregnancies to avoid commitments.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical, semi serious
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Arpa Colla (1982)
Plot Summary:
"Arpa-colla" in Greek literally means "Grab and stick", a phrase used to show something that has been done quickly and therefore isn't good enough. This is what the 2 main heroes of the film are doing. The one is a director(Giorgos) and the other an author(Kostas) with communistic ideas, who has won a prize at a festival. They both want to make a movie for the cinema. But every idea they have never comes true, because every time they meet someone to whom they tell their idea, they change their mind, and they want to make a totally different movie, ideas varying from political cinema to Greek historical dramas and modern films with motorcycle gangs. Not a bad attempt for the Greek cinema of the early 80's, which starts to wake up from the hibernation of the 70's.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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D'Unbelievables D'Telly (1998)
Plot Summary:
Irish Comedy Starring Jon Kenny & Pat Shortt.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ireland
Duration:
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Brand X (1970)
Plot Summary:
In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never paid him for any of the work he had done for him and Wynn said he would make a film especially for Taylor. Inspired by the banality of 1960's television, Chamberlain wrote and directed Brand X, an 87 minute series of faux television shows spoofing the politics and mass media of the day, complete with commercials for Sex, Sweat, Computer Dating and Peanut Butter. BRAND X follows Taylor Mead through a day in a wacky television studio as he portrays an exercise guru, a talk show host, a veteran returning from the American Civil War, a hospital patient in a soap opera, the President of the United States and a televangelist giving the Nightly Sermon. BRAND X satirizes President Nixon, the Vietnam War, sex, drugs, computers, money and race relations.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, experimental, independent film, spoof, sketch comedy, parody
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Norm Macdonald: Nothing Special (2022)
Plot Summary:
In his final comedy special, Norm Macdonald ponders casinos, cannibalism, living wills and why you have to be ready for whatever life throws your way, all done in front of a camera, without an audience, and in one take. After his set, Norm's friends and fellow comics gather to salute him.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious, funny
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Mr. Mike's Mondo Video (1979)
Plot Summary:
Mike O'Donoghue's parody of "Mondo Cane" showcases curious performers, strange musicians, celebrity mutations and unusual short films, including Thomas Alva Edison's "Elephant Electrocution". In the tradition of films like Groove Tube (1974), The Kentucky Fried Movie (1977), and Saturday Night Live.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, sketch comedy, mondo, anthology, parody, independent film, offbeat, realistic, witty, cynical
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The Loved One (1965)
Plot Summary:
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, witty, surreal, suspenseful, funny, satirical, fast paced, cult classic
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Company Man (2000)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then sent to Cuba to locate "Agent X" for the CIA.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, funny, satirical, spy comedy, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, parody, clever
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Guantanamera (1995)
Plot Summary:
It is a satire about life in Cuba. The members of a funeral procession and some truckdrivers who have to take the same route begin to talk about god and the world ending up in discovering that life for both groups has many similarities as well as a lot of differences depending on the point of view.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Cuba, Spain, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, manga, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, black comedy, hispanic, dark comedy, erotic, sexy
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Small World (2003)
Plot Summary:
A prominent doctor wants to commit a suicide. Two cops chose a wrong way while driving down the road. The suspected one believes that he'll never be caught. His pretty wife who works in a confectionery and she's able only to love. One boy will help them all, but he's not even born yet... Just an ordinary day.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Serbia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, black comedy, dark comedy
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Victor (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a family wins a contest to adopt Victor, an 85-year-old man, the magazine intern who hatched the idea must undo what has been done.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Lil Rel Howery: RELevent (2015)
Plot Summary:
Lil Rel Howery describes how he found out that his father wasn't a doctor, the difference between raising a son and a daughter, and racism within the black community.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Just Believe (2018)
Plot Summary:
The owner of a bed and breakfast has an epiphany: in order to survive, he has to transform the B&B into a place of worship - where he will host tourists in exchange for a donation.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Fool (2019)
Plot Summary:
Pontagnac, a married man, tries to seduce Victoire, the wife of his good friend. Little does he know, Victoire has plans of her own to punish her cheating husband. The would-be fling ignites a dizzying spell of complications as characters arrange trysts, attempt to expose each other’s deceits, and are ultimately forced to come clean.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Bananas (1971)
Plot Summary:
When a bumbling New Yorker is dumped by his activist girlfriend, he travels to a tiny Latin American nation and becomes involved in its latest rebellion.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: slapstick, humorous, political, funny, talky, absurd, not serious, feel good, surreal, black comedy
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The Exchange Student (2016)
Plot Summary:
Malo and Stéphane are two students who are kind of losers and have just started high school. Their plan to become popular: to host a German exchange student with a lot of style. Too bad for Malo, who gets stuck with a Goth who will make his life hell.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious