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Plot Summary:
As Middleview High School's woeful boys basketball team prepares for another certain loss, several unusual dramas take shape around its periphery.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min
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Going Down Under (2005)
Plot Summary:
Coming of age is difficult for any young boy, but it is a little harder for Jono Smith. His secret fetish for kitchen appliances has caused him to lose his manhood in a flight of passion. Fortunately the recent death of a porn star makes a transplant possible and with the help of his crazy friends Jono just might get laid again.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Boy Genius (2019)
Plot Summary:
A twelve year-old child prodigy teams up with a quirky retiree to solve a crime and save his family from splitting up.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Leaving Virginia (2020)
Plot Summary:
A-Lie and Big D are friends and both virgins. To celebrate Big D’s birthday, A-Lie suggest to Big D that he should lose his virginity. On the Internet, the duo hire an escort called Wonderland. However, in a love hotel, Wonderland dies from a drug overdose and her body leaves the duo in shock. Eager to dispose the body, A-Lie takes advantage of his online celebrity status and asks Xi-Shi, a fan of A-Lie’s, to use her van and help the duo get rid of corpse. They stumble into numerous weird accidents, a journey full of desire, suspicion and betrayal and in the end, the cruelest summertime they have ever had.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Let's Make a Movie (2012)
Plot Summary:
Let's Make a Movie is the story of Cassie Thompson (Played by Hallie York), a college dropout and ex-film student who is tired of being disrespected and downtrodden, has decided that she's had enough. In a subconscious effort to turn her life around, she decides to make a movie with a rag-tag group of friends. The only problem is the movie is impossible for her to film without a $100 million budget, and her cast and crew are neurotic and inexperienced, to say the least. Will Cassie prevail and finish her movie, or will this become another mark on her long list of failures?.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, interesting
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Who's a Good Boy? (2022)
Plot Summary:
Chema has a mission: to date Claudia, the attractive new girl at his school, and lose his virginity. Can he fulfill his dream before graduating?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 613
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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You Are My Problem (2021)
Plot Summary:
Sebastian, a sharp and clever teenager is once again expelled from school, just when his mother Luisa, a reputed psychologist, is about to take a very important step in her career. As a ticking time bomb that just explode, Sebastián runs away from home thinking that his father, whom he hasn't seen in years, will grant him the solutions to all his problems.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 111 min
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Rebel High (1987)
Plot Summary:
Rebel High is a 1987 social satire film about the chaos and mayhem that modern western cities' high schools became. It is based on a US novel by Evan Keliher.Made in Canada, most of the cast is relatively unknown and in many cases uncredited.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, independent film
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Miguel Wants to Fight (2023)
Plot Summary:
In a neighborhood where fighting is stitched into the fabric of everyday life, Miguel has never found himself in one. However, when a combination of events turn his life upside down, Miguel and his friends enter into a series of misadventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
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Life Doesn't Scare Me (1999)
Plot Summary:
We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Church Ball (2006)
Plot Summary:
Dennis Buckstead has the hardest calling in his church. Not only has he been asked to coach a group of non-basketball players in his church but the bishop has demanded that he lead the team to the Basketball Championship. Word from the top is that this is the last season of church ball and Bishop Linderman isn't about to have his team lose for the 20th year in a row in the last season of church ball history! What was supposed to strengthen the body, invigorate the mind and cultivate brotherly love seems to bring out the worst in these church-going ball players. Dennis must find a way to bring his team together and build unity along the way to win the championship or go down in church ball history as the worst team that ever played.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Six Pack (2011)
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High school is almost over and four friends are going their separate ways as they go to college. But they have one more chance to spend some time together: Inspection 12, their favorite band, is playing one last concert in Jacksonville, FL.
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Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, independent film
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New Waterford Girl (1999)
Plot Summary:
A gifted teenager, dreaming of life beyond her small town, becomes inspired when a 15-year-old girl from New York moves in next door.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, sentimental, touching, semi serious, funny, light, road movie, sexy
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Annie O (1995)
Plot Summary:
When a 15-year-old becomes the first female starter on her high school's male basketball team, her achievement is marred by the treatment she receives at the hands of her teammates, her brother and even her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Meatballs (1979)
Plot Summary:
Tripper is the head counselor at a budget summer camp called Camp Northstar. In truth, he's young at heart and only marginally more mature than the campers themselves. Tripper befriends Rudy, a loner camper who has trouble fitting in. As Tripper inspires his young charges to defeat rival Camp Mohawk in the annual Olympiad competition, Rudy plays matchmaker between Tripper and Roxanne, a female counselor at Northstar.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, entertaining, grindhouse, teen sex comedy, feel good, captivating, retro, epic
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Sadie's Last Days on Earth (2016)
Plot Summary:
Everything in high school is like the world ending and Sadie Mitchell's crippling fear of the coming apocalypse is the heightened version of that.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, teen comedy
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The F**k-It List (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a prank blows up a studious high school senior's life, he shares a list of certain things he wishes he'd done differently — and maybe still can.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous
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No Pain, No Gain (2001)
Plot Summary:
David is a teenager who feels he doesn't belong to a life where his family, friends and the girl he loves seem not to understand him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious
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Goats (2012)
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Having a self-absorbed New Age mother and an estranged father means 15-year-old Ellis Whitman has grown up relying on an unconventional guardian: a goat-trekking, marijuana-growing sage called Goat Man. So when Ellis decides to leave the alternative ways of his desert homestead for a stuffy East Coast prep school, major changes are in store. But not in the way you’d think. Though often stoned, the exceedingly smart and capable Ellis effortlessly aces school and excels at track. As the year progresses, it’s his relationships with the adults in his life that test him, challenging his beliefs about responsibility and trustworthiness.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, funny, art house, indie film, independent film
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The Real Life of Teachers (2013)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about a band of voyeuristic students who take their jobs at the school paper to extremes, deciding to uncover the real lives of their teachers.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, exciting, realistic, semi serious
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The Rage in Placid Lake (2003)
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Placid Lake has always been different. As an odd fish in a sea of mediocrity, his brilliant ideas are bound to get him into more trouble than success. So when he finds himself flying off the school roof and breaking every bone in his body on graduation night, Placid decides to make a bid for the elusive normal life. To his parents' horror, he gets a normal job.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, cult classic, hilarious, offbeat, realistic
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Girls on Top (2001)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of three teenage girls - Inken, Vicky and Lena - and their quest to have their first orgasm.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, humorous, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, sex comedy, touching, realistic, sexual, erotic
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The Secret Lives of Dorks (2013)
Plot Summary:
In The Secret Lives of Dorks, Payton (Gaelan Connell) is a pathetic dork, a comic book geek whose high school career is one hopeless faux pas after another. Yet he's a dreamer and madly in love with the head cheerleader Carrie (Riley Voelkel), who he is determined to win over. But she is wise to his desperate advances, so to get off his radar she creates a plan to push him into the arms of a dorkette at the school, Samantha (Vanessa Marano).
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, romantic, scenic, teen, realistic, semi serious
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Bernadette (2018)
Plot Summary:
In the summer of 1994, an awkward 15 year-old boy enlists the help of the Park District's least valuable employee--a local lothario and suburban legend-- to win the heart of Bernadette, an 18 year-old French foreign exchange student, local lifeguard and, according to all reliable reports, the most beautiful girl ever seen in the suburb of Forest Lake.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, psychological, sexy, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative, retro
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All I Wanna Do (1998)
Plot Summary:
If there's one thing this wild group of friends at an all-girls high school has learned, it's how to get what they want! So when word leaks out that their school is about to merge with an all-boys academy, some of the students strike back... and the girls wage an all-out assault in an outrageous battle of the sexes!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, sweet, melancholic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, period piece, relaxing, realistic
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Cheats (2002)
Plot Summary:
While other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher's report book, Handsome Davis sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind. That's why Handsome and his three best friends Sammy, Victor and the cribsheet genius Applebee have banded together and found ways to cheat on their tests all through their school years.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, realistic
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Expelled (2014)
Plot Summary:
Felix (Cameron Dallas) is a legendary prankster who gets expelled from his high school and, with his friend’s help, stops at nothing to hide it from his parents.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: witty, humorous, realistic, funny, disgusting, cynical, feel good, not serious, offbeat
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Bad Girls (2007)
Plot Summary:
A rebellious teen butts heads with the teachers at an all-girl charm school in Mexico City.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, dark comedy, black comedy
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The Night Before the Exams (2006)
Plot Summary:
Rome, 1989. Luca Molinari meets Claudia in a party, both of them are stressed about the upcoming final exams. Luca falls in love with the girl and now spends his time looking for her. He is assisted by his inseparable friends: Alice, Richard, Simon and Maximilian in his journey to find the girl he has fallen in love with.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Trippin' (1999)
Plot Summary:
Greg is near the end of his senior year in high school, wanting to go to the prom, eyeing Cinny (the school's beauty with brains) from afar, and regularly trippin', daydreaming about being a big success as a poet, a student, a lover. His mom wants him to apply to colleges, but Greg hasn't a clue. One of his teachers, Mr. Shapic, tries to inspire him, too. He finally figures out he can get close to Cinny if he asks her for help with college applications. But friendship isn't enough, he wants romance and a prom date. So, he tells a few lies and, for awhile, it seems to be working. Then, things fall apart and Greg has to figure out how to put the trippin aside and get real.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: hood, humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, entertaining, black comedy, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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Hating Alison Ashley (2005)
Plot Summary:
Classmates Erica Yurgen and Alison Ashley vie with each other to become the undisputed star of their class.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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