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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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SBK The-Movie (2014)
Plot Summary:
A film 35 years in the making. One man's journey to become a legend of the Boardwalk by claiming the title of World Champion in the fast paced sport of professional Skeeball.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Unexpected Love (2013)
Plot Summary:
Juanito moved to New York to succeed as an actor. Years have gone by but success has not come his way and now he takes an odd jobs to survive. One day he is visited by his apparently successful cousin. However, their life together will discover the reality behind each of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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A Kiss for Jed Wood (2011)
Plot Summary:
Nineteen year old Orla from Country Antrim wins 'Follow a Star' on the Irish national TV station. Her prize is a quest - to find C&W star Jed Wood, give him a kiss, and report on her adventure on the following week's show. Ray Timmons, a middle aged documentary cameraman, is the only person available to document her on her quest. Together they travel to New York, meet up with a jaded sound recordist, Mike, and set about chasing down Jed - arriving at film sets, recording studios, everywhere Jed is due to be. Their progress is followed by a couple of DJs on a local radio station. During the week the chase continues, their relationship changes, and they learn a lot about each other and bout pursuing their own dreams, before they return to face the music back home. Written by Anonymous (IMDB.com).
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ireland, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sincere, feel good, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Unemployed (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jamal and Dex are two hapless out of work actors who come to terms with reality when they realize they've been pursuing their dreams for over ten years and still haven't booked a single speaking role. When the two run out of cash and face eviction from their small apartment, they hit the pavement in search of a job. With no job experience, no skill set and little ambition, the audience gets a front row seat to this hilarious journey in which these two bad-luck prone losers can't seem to catch a break.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, slasher, realistic, independent film
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Kwik Stop (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers discover you really can find anything at a convenience store -- even love. An aspiring actor stuck in a small town who has big plans of moving to Hollywood so he can strike it rich. One night, while on his way into a corner store, he meets Didi, a pretty but aimless girl hanging out in the parking lot. Mike and Didi strike up a conversation, and she discovers there's a big dose of self-doubt lurking beneath his confident exterior. Mike, on the other hand, finds that the longer he talks to Didi, the more he finds himself thinking she might be a good reason to stick around.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie, independent film
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Out on Parole (2004)
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With one more day of parole left, J.T. vows to play by the book. But when he finds out his mom will lose their home unless they come up with a serious amount of money, J.T. takes a chance by entering a lowrider contest that violates his parole.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Weather Girl (2009)
Plot Summary:
After learning her boyfriend (Harmon) cheated on her with his co-host (Olson), a Seattle morning show weather girl (O’Kelley) freaks out on-air and is fired. Forced to move in with her little brother (Devlin) and deal with his best friend (Adams), she has to learn to cope with being 35, single, unemployed, and unfortunately famous for being the Sassy Weather Girl who lost it on live television.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, romantic, indie film, sentimental, touching, feel good, realistic
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She Wants Me (2012)
Plot Summary:
A neurotic writer working on his new film gets into a tricky situation when an A-list actress shows interest in the role intended for his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, sincere, independent film
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I Married Who? (2012)
Plot Summary:
Straight-laced Jordan (Martin) is about to marry Peter (Snedeker), a clean-cut ambitious attorney. Before she walks down the aisle, Jordan and her best friends, Claire (Adrienne Frantz) and Jessica (Daphnee Duplaix), head to Vegas for a bachelorette party, because what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right? But when Jordan wakes up the next morning unable to recall the night before, she panics when she finds she’s in movie star Matt's (Ethan Erickson) hotel suite with a gigantic diamond on her finger and a marriage certificate lying nearby. Before Jordan can have the marriage annulled and put this nightmare behind her, the impromptu wedding explodes into a publicity stunt fueled by Matt’s manager Eric (Bruce Nozick) to promote his latest movie. With her wedding day approaching, Jordan finds herself more confused than ever when she starts falling in love with the movie star she’s married to instead of the fiancé she thought was her perfect match.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, cute, feel good
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Playing Mona Lisa (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young pianist is looking for love in all the wrong places once her fiancee drops her. Maybe her flame will be rekindled both for the piano and a new love?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, independent film
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Closing Escrow (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three quirky families seeking to buy their next home collide when trying to purchase the same property. The bidding war tests the limits of their marriages and the resolve of their agents.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, cynical, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, witty, semi serious
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3 Days of Normal (2012)
Plot Summary:
3 Days of Normal follows the story of straight-laced deputy Bill Morgan who is quite content literally living within the quaint boundaries of Washington, New Hampshire. Bill’s stable and rather uneventful life is thrown for a loop when he finds and arrests a woman, Nikki Gold, passed out in her car from inebriation. Unbeknownst to him, the woman happens to be a popular movie actress longing for some normalcy in her hectic life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, independent film, realistic, semi serious
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These Old Broads (2001)
Plot Summary:
"These Old Broads" is a 2001 television film written by Carrie Fisher and starring her mother Debbie Reynolds, as well as Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor in her final starring film role. Network television executive Gavin (Nestor Carbonell) hopes to reunite celebrated Hollywood stars Piper Grayson (Reynolds), Kate Westbourne (MacLaine), and Addie Holden (Collins) in a TV special after their 1960s movie musical "Boy Crazy" is re-released in the 1990s. Though the three women share the same agent, Beryl Mason (Taylor), Gavin's seemingly insurmountable obstacle is that they all cannot stand each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, biting, suspense
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Magicians (2007)
Plot Summary:
A pair of rivaling stage magicians are forced to confront their falling out over a guillotine mishap when they compete in a magic competition.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, captivating, light, feel good, entertaining, funny, clever, offbeat, realistic
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Authors Anonymous (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a dysfunctional group of unpublished writers accept Hannah into their fold, the last thing they expect is her overnight success. Can these lovable misfits achieve their artistic dreams and avoid killing one another in the process?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, not serious
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Plot Summary:
Romance gets complicated in modern-day Beijing.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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Already Famous (2011)
Plot Summary:
A light hearted comedy about a girl from a small town in Malaysia who dreams of becoming a star in neighboring Singapore.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy
Country: Singapore
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Leading Ladies (2010)
Plot Summary:
A zany comedy about two sisters, their gay best friend, and their overzealous stage mom.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 248
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, offbeat, realistic, independent film, queer cinema
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Plot Summary:
After breaking up with his longtime stage partner, a famous but jaded Vegas magician fights for relevance when a new, "hip" street magician appears on the scene.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, entertaining, hilarious, light, intense, not serious, realistic, stylized, slapstick
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The Breakdance Kid (2004)
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In 1984, loser pizza guy Whitey Johnson is run over by a semi truck on live television, making him a local hero. The world watches as Whitey vows to not only walk again but to win his town's breakdance competition. Whitey struggles to conquer bully breakdancers, to win the heart of a disinterested girl, and live up to the name, "The Breakdance Kid".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, mockumentary
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Two Tickets to Paradise (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three guys on the verge of forty begin to realize all the best things in their lives happened before they were twenty. A spontaneous road trip adventure gives them a chance to balance the ledger.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 892
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic
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Farm Girl in New York (2007)
Plot Summary:
Sam and Matt flee their small mid-western town for New York City, where hot girls roam the streets! After months of trying to pick up ladies and failing miserably, they come up with the idea to hold a fake audition to meet chicks. Hilarity ensues when dozens of sexy, talentless, babes show up and compete for a job that doesn t exist. However, when an out of town farm girl shows up for the audition they are instantly smitten. Will these phony auditions come in the way of them finding true love?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, independent film, romantic comedy, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Kissing Cousins (2008)
Plot Summary:
A "relatively" romantic comedy about a professional heartbreaker (and cynical bachelor) who teams up with his attractive cousin from the UK in order to fool his friends into believing he is capable of a relationship. Hijinks and laughs ensue with a hilarious cast!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, slang
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Falling for Mala (2015)
Plot Summary:
Maria Laura "Mala" is an actress with little luck, but she is successful working for other women, seducing their boyfriends to know if they are faithful or not. But everything changes when her dream to perform in her acting career depends on a job to be performed with Santiago who breaks the pattern and shakes her professional convictions.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, captivating, light
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6 Month Rule (2011)
Plot Summary:
A womanizer teaches his clueless friend the rules about being single and avoiding emotional attachment.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, thought provoking
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Should've Put a Ring On It (2011)
Plot Summary:
Robin Givens, Miguel Nunez, and Bobby Valentino star in this faith-based romantic drama about Thea Johnson, terribly desperate to be married to her longtime boyfriend Jamar. When he takes too long to propose, she decides to propose to him instead. Thea creates an elaborate proposal, but is thwarted by his reluctance. An obsessed ex-boyfriend, married & single friends, and Thea s father & pastor all take part in the tug of war for her heart.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, independent film, sexual
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Plot Summary:
Tom Murphy, a middle-aged Irish-American man from Cleveland, travels to Ireland for his best friend’s wedding and to find the perfect woman.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good, independent film
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Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy taking a lighthearted look at a wedding planning business run by a Honolulu mom and three daughters from three different dads. Triple-divorcee Miriam is having her own lack of luck in love, her eldest daughter Lily heads home after rejecting her boyfriend's marriage proposal and her two half-sisters are running the business into the ground.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, sincere, feel good, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Neil Simon's The Goodbye Girl (2004)
Plot Summary:
Musical dancer on the way out (at 36) Paula McFadden had it swell with actor Tony DeSanti, but instead of taking her to Hollywood he gets a European movie part. He even sublets their (his) New York apartment to Elliot Garfield, who generously lets her stay, even keeping the master bedroom. Pragmatic pre-teen daughter Lucy soon takes to his charm, but Paula remains determined to hate all actors. Despite the stress of a Broadway Shakespeare lead he must play too queer for Frisco, he's determined to snatch romance from ingratitude.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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Plot Summary:
A coming of age romantic comedy centered around the lives of twin brothers Luke and Corey Frankenstein in the pivotal months following college graduation. Orphaned at the age of five, the brothers inherited their family brewery and were left in the care of their uncle, a well-meaning but less than ideal paternal figure. Raised on beer, with the assumption they're all grown up, Luke and Corey decide it's time to finish their family beer; a beer their parents started but were never able to finish twenty years ago. But when the idealistic Luke meets a girl whose family shows him the home life he's always wanted, he abandons Corey and their family beer in pursuit of this budding relationship. Corey, however, refuses to go down without a fight, and the ensuing mayhem that follows pits brother against brother and forces the Colorado wild boys to finally grow up and decide what kind of men they really want to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious, independent film