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Plot Summary:
Duke Jarrett is sent to jail at the John Dillinger prison. However, the prison looks more like a zoo, more or less ruled by the prisoners themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, parody, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mike Tyson's one-man show is a fascinating journey into his storied life and career. MIKE TYSON: UNDISPUTED TRUTH is a rare, personal look inside the life and mind of one of the most feared men ever to wear the heavyweight crown. Directed by Academy Award® nominee Spike Lee, this riveting one-man show goes beyond the headlines, behind the scenes and between the lines to deliver a must-see theatrical knockout.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, realistic, talky, hood, humorous, semi serious, independent film
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Knock Outs (2011)
Plot Summary:
When call girl Cindy (Joslyn James, notorious from the golfing scandal) gets busted under the new 36 Strikes Law, she receives the maximum sentence of "Life in Prison without Parole". Desperate to beat the rap, Cindy agrees to become a Special Agent for the Feds on the condition that she infiltrates the illegal Female Fight Club that exists in the prison. What happens next is the sexy fight of her life as she uses her skills to get inside the club and bring it tumbling down!.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, sex comedy
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Deathrow Gameshow (1987)
Plot Summary:
Chuck Toedan's the host of a gameshow featuring death row convicts competeing in life-or-death contests in hopes of cheating the executioner or, at the very least, winning some nice prizes for their next of kin. Not surprisingly, Chuck has made more than a few enemies, from outraged viewers trying to ban his show, to families of losing contestants looking for revenge. A hitman hired by one such family has shown up at Chuck's office, and he'll need to enlist the help of his most outspoken critic to keep from ending up like most of his contestants.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 892
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slasher, grindhouse, game show, independent film, rough, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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The Orange Thief (2007)
Plot Summary:
Living on the outer boundaries of society, the eponymous orange thief and some other country-wise ruffians steal fruit for sustenance, sale, and the sheer excitement of courting danger. After the thief ends up in a Sicilian jail, his life takes an unexpected turn when his bunkmate promises him a deal.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, humorous, captivating
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They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way (1978)
Plot Summary:
Dewey (Tim Conway) and Wallace (Chuck McCann) are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor dies, and because no one else knows about the ruse Dewey and Wallace are stranded in prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, slapstick, exciting, parody, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, not serious
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Lookin' to Get Out (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two gamblers must leave New York City after one loses a lot of money. Doing what all gamblers in trouble would do, they hurry to the gambling capital Las Vegas to turn their luck around.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 873
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spectacular, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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The Bid (2021)
Plot Summary:
Loaded with a hilarious cast of comedians and internet personalities, The Bid follows Maurquis Boone and Richard “Philly Filthy Rich” Harris serving time for a crime they didn’t commit. Locked up, Boone & Rich encounter a variety of hardened, yet hilarious characters as they fight to prove their innocence and make it out the penitentiary in one piece.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, psychological, tense, funny, light, feel good
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Ninja Academy (1989)
Plot Summary:
"Police Academy" styled film offers its laughs at the expense of students of the obvious school for ninjas.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: action adventure, independent film, parody, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, fast, spoof, hilarious
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Love at Stake (1987)
Plot Summary:
Salem, 1692. The mayor and judge are accusing land owner of witchery in order to grab their land. No one knows that are handsome stranger is a real witch and has evil plans for the town.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, psychotronic, spoof
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At Home with the Rozes (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about to celebrate its 20-year old marriage. Our duo has no other solution than to take this entire brood in hostage. But, contrary to all expectations, they are warmly greeted by the occupants who don't think twice before helping them, they are even ready to put their guests off, even to kill them if necessary.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, hilarious, realistic, dark comedy
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Who Do I Gotta Kill? (1994)
Plot Summary:
Who says crime doesn't pay? The mob will pay Jimmy Corona anything to stay away. But, then again, so would most people. His agent brushes off Jimmy's latest book proposal: detailing the conspiracy between Lee Harvey Oswald and Marylin Monroe to assassinate JFK. His girlfriend gives him his walking papers in the midst of wild sex when he can't give her one good reason to stay. Actually he's too exhausted to speak. And to top it all off, he's suffering from writer's block. So what's a poor guy to do? Join the mob? Written by.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick
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Stars and Bars (1988)
Plot Summary:
Henderson Dores (Daniel Day Lewis), a New York based art dealer from England, travels to Georgia to persuade patriarch, Harry Dean Stanton, to sell a Monet previously thought lost.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, sexy, thought provoking, clever, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, bad ending
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Basic Training (1985)
Plot Summary:
Melinda comes to Washington DC to visit her friend Debbie, and to find a job in government, where she hopes to do her part to make it better. She gets a lower echelon administrative position at the Pentagon, and finds things pretty slack. Her boss seems to be more interested in getting into her pants than trying to find lost data on the Russians. Melinda resists his advances and begins working her way up in the Pentagon, finding subtle ways of getting her policies implemented by manipulating the slovenly males that populate the Pentagon, including finding a way to defuse the mounting conflict with the Russians.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, feel good, light, independent film, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Hollywood High Part II (1981)
Plot Summary:
It's another year at Hollywood High and the students are upholding the standards of their school. It's the end of the semester and finals are near, but that doesn't stop the girls of Hollywood High from having fun. From the pool to the beach, they cavort with their boyfriends, drink, and smoke a joint or two. But the fun stops when a teacher keeps one of the guys after school for some personal tutoring.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy
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Death and Texas (2004)
Plot Summary:
Barefoot Bobby Briggs, the legendary running back for the Austin Steers was today sentenced to die for his role in the armed robbery/murder at a downtown Stop 'n Go convenience store... It's five years later, and Bobby's appeals have all but run out, and the Austin Steers are - once again - on the march to the Superbowl, with a lock on the playoffs, when their wide receiver has a season ending injury. With their playoff hopes in shambles, the Governor of Texas controversially offers Bobby a furlough -- from death row -- to help rescue the Steers' post-season hopes, and even play in the Superbowl.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, mockumentary, dark comedy, offbeat, black comedy
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Critical Condition (1987)
Plot Summary:
Eddie is a con artist. But this time he's framed and comes before a judge. By claiming insanity, he hopes to get off the hook. He manages end up in a hospital for a mental examination. That night, a storm breaks out over New York, and the electricity to the hospital is broken. In the ensuing chaos that follows, Eddie is taken for a doctor. Suddenly he is in charge of a whole hospital!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, intense, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, black comedy, realistic, sexy, feel good
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Beer (1985)
Plot Summary:
An advertising firm, desperate to keep an account from a financially-ailing brewery, concocts a macho ad campaign centering on three losers who inadvertently prevent a robbery at a bar.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, not serious, slapstick, biting, independent film, spoof, parody, suspense
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George and Mildred (1980)
Plot Summary:
Big screen spin-off of the Seventies sitcom. Mildred Roper (Yootha Joyce, who died shortly after filming was completed) is determined to make husband George (Brian Roper) celebrate their wedding anniversary in style, at a posh hotel in London. However, upon arrival George is mistaken by a gangland criminal for a rival hitman, and soon the Ropers find themselves up to their necks in trouble on the wrong side of the law!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 744
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sitcom, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Da' Booty Shop (2009)
Plot Summary:
Tyrone Johnson is in jail. As a result his sister Yolanda, an exotic dancer, inherits Tyrone's struggling hair salon business. She first sees the shop as a burden and waste of her time and puts the shop up for sale. But Yolanda eventually sees that the beauty biz could be a better future than the stripping biz, and changes her mind, angering the buyer, who retaliates with a vengeance. Yolanda decides to get her exotic dancing girlfriends together in order to keep the shop open... with a twist.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty, offbeat, hood
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Sticky Fingers (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two dippy roommates, struggling musicians Lolly and Hattie are asked by a drug-dealing friend-of-a-friend Diane to baby-sit a bag containing nearly a million dollars while she scoots out of town in order to avoid trouble. Once the money is in their possession, however, temptation proves too much for them.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 499
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Pros & Cons (1999)
Plot Summary:
Framed for crimes they didn't commit, two small-timers are headed up the river without a paddle. Now, the only thing that can bail them out is a case of mistaken identity. It's the hysterical prison comedy that's so funny, it's criminal!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious
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Back by Midnight (2004)
Plot Summary:
The warden of a small, rundown, minimum-security prison plots revenge against the the prison's dishonest owner by having four inmates break out and plan a department store robbery to spruce up the prison's faculties.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating, independent film
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Taking Care of Business (1990)
Plot Summary:
An uptight advertising exec has his entire life in a filofax organizer which mistakenly ends up in the hands of a friendly convict who poses as him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, inspirational, realistic, semi serious, funny, feel good, hilarious, exciting, road movie
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Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986)
Plot Summary:
When police funding is cut, the Governor announces he must close one of the academies. To make it fair, the two police academies must compete against each other to stay in operation. Mauser persuades two officers in Lassard's academy to better his odds, but things don't quite turn out as expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, slapstick, absurd, relaxing, realistic, semi serious, fast, unusual plot structure
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Born in East L.A. (1987)
Plot Summary:
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, funny, entertaining, light, talky, feel good, not serious, realistic, witty
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Anarchy TV (1998)
Plot Summary:
A group of anarchists use their public-access TV show to satirize the government until a right-wing preacher attempts to shut them down.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, parody, suspense
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Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the title role, he has a series of conflicted dreams satirizing African-American stereotypes in Hollywood, and must reconcile his career goals with his desire to remain a positive role model for his little brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, entertaining, light, absurd, spoof, feel good, semi serious, funny
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My New Gun (1992)
Plot Summary:
Debbie and Gerald's lives drastically change after they get a gun. Their mysterious neighbor, Skippy, becomes an important and transforming figure in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Lost in America (1985)
Plot Summary:
David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, witty, talky, funny, feel good, realistic, semi serious, cynical, cult classic
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Cruisin' (2014)
Plot Summary:
Comedy - Devin Begley, Destiny Monique, Amanda Nix, Liana Mendoza, Noel Gugliemi.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, independent film