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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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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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The Penthouse (2010)
Plot Summary:
Girl trouble starts when a man and two good buddies becomes roommates.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining, melancholic, tense, light
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Growing Up and Other Lies (2014)
Plot Summary:
After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends – Billy, Rocks and Gunderson – to help him retrace their greatest adventure together: a walk down the entire length of Manhattan.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, sentimental, realistic, contemplative, talky, independent film
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Holyman Undercover (2010)
Plot Summary:
An Amish man comes to Hollywood to be a missionary, and gets cast as Satan on a nighttime soap opera.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, captivating, independent film, realistic, christian film
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Let Them Chirp Awhile (2007)
Plot Summary:
The basic storyline of the film follows Bobby and Scott, two young men in their late twenties who are struggling to make careers out of their artistic dreams but their competitiveness with each other gets in the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat, independent film
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Reality & Stuff (2003)
Plot Summary:
COMEDY/MOCKUMENTARY - (2005) CAN'T GET TOO MUCH REALITY TV? CAN'T GET ENOUGH REALITY TV? You know the drill! Eight strangers are chosen to live in a house and have their lives recorded.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good, mockumentary, offbeat
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Irish Jam (2006)
Plot Summary:
Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize -- the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous American rapper emerges as the best poet around?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, feel good, black comedy, realistic, semi serious
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Meeting Spencer (2011)
Plot Summary:
After a series of Hollywood flops, famed director Harris Chappell (Jeffrey Tambor) returns to New York to relaunch his Broadway career. But Chappell's triumphant comeback begins to spiral out of control into a wild night of comic misadventure after meeting struggling actor Spencer (Jesse Plemons) and his old flame Didi (Melinda McGraw).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, exciting, realistic, witty, not serious, independent film
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Under the Gaydar (2009)
Plot Summary:
Parents hire a girl to turn their son straight, but the son is just pretending to be gay in order to pick up women.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, sexy, feel good, sexual
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Write & Wrong (2007)
Plot Summary:
They say with age comes wisdom, but unfortunately, in Hollywood, no one seems to care. Quickly approaching her fiftieth birthday, talented and once-famous screenwriter Byrdie has lately had a hard time finding work in the movie biz. As she's aged, the industry hasn't, and the new regime isn't interested in what a maturing wordsmith has to say. In desperation, Byrdie dreams up a script-selling scheme, enlisting her attractive nephew Jason, a car salesman, to pitch her work as his own. The ruse is a wild success: All the key players eat up his charm, and her scripts soon become the hottest thing in town! But once she's proved she's still got it, can Byrdie keep up this pretense - and watch someone else reap all the glory for her hard work? Kirstie Alley lights up the screen in this feel-good movie about one woman's quest to prove that life isn't over at a certain age and that youth doesn't have the market on worth.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, feel good
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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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Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again (2011)
Plot Summary:
For four decades comic genius Mel Brooks and talk show king Dick Cavett have partnered to give the world scintillating conversation and sidesplitting humor. In 2010 they reunited on stage to share show business memories and hilarious stories for loyal fans and a new generation of viewers.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, witty
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Women Who Flirt (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Zhang Hui is told by long-time best friend Xiao Gong that he has a new girlfriend, she is determined to learn new tricks to gain him back. Based on the novel written by Luo Fuman, "Everyone Loves Tender Women".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, romantic comedy, sentimental, realistic
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How to Go Out on a Date in Queens (2006)
Plot Summary:
A self-proclaimed dating expert tries to get his best friend, who lost his wife two years earlier, back into the dating scene, with disastrous results.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, independent film, 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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Lola Versus (2012)
Plot Summary:
Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dumps her. With her 30th birthday looming and being forced to re-enter the New York City dating scene, she feels adrift in a cold world. She leans on her friends (Zoe Lister-Jones, Hamish Linklater) for support but, after a series of romantic humiliations, professional blunders and boozy antics, Lola realizes that she alone is in charge of her fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, mumblecore, independent film, inspirational, sexy, talky
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How to Seduce Difficult Women (2009)
Plot Summary:
Philippe, a French-American writer living in Manhattan, decides to take on ten relationship-challenged men to help them learn the art of seduction.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sincere, sexy, realistic, witty, erotic, talky, sex comedy
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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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Pretty Bird (2008)
Plot Summary:
A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of American dreams and delusions.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good, light, captivating, melancholic, independent film, exciting
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Confessions of a Womanizer (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ritchie is the epitome of everything wrong with modern man: a pompous, foul-mouthed idiot, driven only to get the latest girl of the week Something changes after his first real relationship that includes Ritchie's two favorite things: frequent condomless sex and freshly baked cookies. Through his "confessions," we learn his womanizing goes much deeper, fueled by a scar caused years ago. But leave it to his new best friend, a transgendered prostitute named Ginger, to help Ritchie work through these psychological issues.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, teen, independent film, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy
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Life's a Beach (2012)
Plot Summary:
Darren gets stood up on the day of his wedding and uses his vacation tickets with his best friend, RJ, to spend his "honeymoon" at a Club Med-style resort.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, sexy, realistic, independent film
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That's What She Said (2012)
Plot Summary:
Longtime best friends Bebe and DeeDee are both wrestling with love. Bebe has met someone new and is in the exuberant phase of a budding romance. DeeDee is trying to move on from someone she can’t forget – mostly in destructive ways. As Bebe waits for the perpetually late DeeDee at their favorite coffee shop, she meets Clementine, a distraught young woman with love problems of her own. With Clementine in tow, Bebe and DeeDee soon embark on the kind of outrageous misadventure that only New York City can offer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, sincere, feel good
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The Yank (2014)
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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4 Wedding Planners (2011)
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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A Beer Tale (2012)
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
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Looking for Maria Sanchez (2013)
Plot Summary:
Raul, a Puerto Rican born in New York, meets Maria, a young Puerto Rican woman visiting NY, one night. Struck by love at first sight, he travels to Puerto Rico in search of this beautiful girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Puerto Rico, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, captivating, light, feel good, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Odd Mom Out (2015)
Plot Summary:
Acclaimed author Jill Kargman plays a version of herself as she navigates the treacherous and elite ecosystem of New York's Upper East Side, and the uber-wealthy mommy clique inhabiting this fantastically outrageous domain.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sitcom, feel good, funny, light, captivating, entertaining, hilarious, realistic
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Pipe Dream (2002)
Plot Summary:
A lonely plumber poses as a movie director to meet women, and the writer whose script he's stolen builds on his ruse to get her movie made.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, clever, semi serious, independent film