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Plot Summary:
Bosse works at an advertising agency while working on the novel of the century. At a burger restaurant he meets Lena, and before he knows it, she is pregnant. Bosse starts thinking that his life is all over, he won't get any more career opportunities, and never again will he have time for late night parties.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min
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Richard Peter Johnson (2015)
Plot Summary:
The world's most famous male porn star, Richard Peter Johnson, retires at the height of his career to pursue his dream of acting.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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The Rooster (1981)
Plot Summary:
In 1944, Cederqvist comes to a small cloth factory to see how the all-women employees can work more efficiently. At the beginning he is greeted with suspicion and his efforts at courting the young ladies are futile. But as soon as he buys himself a car it becomes much easier, especially since he has the power to relocate people to an easier line of work. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious
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Kamrer Gunnarsson I skärgården (1976)
Plot Summary:
Through a series of mishaps, the proper bank official Gunnarsson is forced to spend his first days of vacation in the archipelago of Stockholm, both in and out of the water.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 61 min
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Cudownie Ocalony (2004)
Plot Summary:
In 1960s Masuria a widower and ex-soldier wants to build a chapel to Virgin Mary for surviving the war. In the meantime, 20 female prisoners come to his village to work on the farm. One of them gets Mikolaj's attention.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min
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Grandhotel (2006)
Plot Summary:
Grandhotel je místo mezi nebem a zemí. Místo, kudy plují mraky a lidské touhy. Metaforický příběh je zasazený do slavného hotelu tyčícího se nad Libercem. V něm, jako strážný a vězeň zároveň, pracuje Fleischman, údržbář a amatérský meteorolog, který chtěl mít k nebi tak blízko, jak jen mu to život dovolí. A výš to už nejde.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 97 min
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Don't Do It (1994)
Plot Summary:
Story about three youthful couples in contemporary Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Woman Very Very Very Much in Love (1997)
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IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy
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Shall We Go to My Place or Your Place or Each Go Home Alone? (1973)
Plot Summary:
Arne, Calle, and Gunnar are friends, probably in their twenties. One telephones the others, and they decide to visit a nightclub. They hope to meet women and have sex. After they arrive at the club, each man meets with a certain degree of success or failure. Calle particularly is frustrated, for no woman agrees to dance with him. Meanwhile, Arne and Gunnar are busily conversing with women. Eventually the friends all leave with lady friends in tow, and spend the night in various apartments. In the morning, the couples depart differently. One couple has bonded amicably, another tenuously, and the third not at all. The next day, the men reconnect, and decide to try their luck again. Written by veloc.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 53 min
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Macken - Roy's & Roger's bilservice (1990)
Plot Summary:
Roy and Roger decide to close their gasstation for the summer, to try to find where, what and how their lost father is. Roger also falls in love and much more.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min
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Manay Po! 2 Overload (2008)
Plot Summary:
Luzviminda Dimagiba (Cherry Pie Picache) and her three gay sons: Oscar (Polo Ravales), Orson (John Prats) and Orwell (Jiro Manio) are back! And now they want to add a new member to their outrageous family – a cute little baby to make their new home happy and complete! But babies don’t just really just fall from heaven or can be fetched from a river, so when the Dimagibas are figuring out this dilemma, Bette (Rufa Mae Quinto) – the ditzy baby maker just came right on time to provide the answer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
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Impregnated (2022)
Plot Summary:
Martina and Sofía love each other and want to start a family, but the process is proving to be difficult and expensive… very expensive. Martina naively makes a reckless decision: she devises a crazy plan to get pregnant and she succeeds. Now he has two serious problems to solve: first, that Sofía never agreed with the plan and she is very furious, and second, that the "plan", whose name is Facundo, wants to enter their lives since he has just discovered his unexpected paternity.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Comedy
Country: Peru, Argentina
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: neo screwball comedy
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Why Is Mother in My Bed? (1994)
Plot Summary:
Young boy Antoine is trying to prevent his parents divorce.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Nina Frisk (2007)
Plot Summary:
Nina Frisk is a flight attendant who loves flying. She is happy above the clouds, far away from her dysfunctional family and superficial love life. But then one day Nina meets Marcus and his son William, and falls helplessly in love. For the first time ever in her life, Nina begins to long for a family of her own. But Nina soon discovers that life on earth can be just as turbulent as in the sky.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, sincere, romantic, captivating, realistic
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15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour (2022)
Plot Summary:
"Drinking, dancing and... killing me. It's the new life my neighbour Jose has decided to live. What better way to escape boredom than coming to kill me every thursday? His wife, Lucie, prefers to go to a shrink. To each their own therapy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Argentina, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 98 min
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The Great Divide (2012)
Plot Summary:
At a monthly gathering of her friends, a student of the Tantra and Kama Sutra introduces an unusual game designed to elicit the feelings and impressions men and women have about one another.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
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Bypass (2012)
Plot Summary:
An economist Basque (Gorka Ochoa) based in Barcelona becomes embroiled in a difficult emotional dilemma between his girlfriend (Bárbara Goenaga), who is pregnant, and a childhood friend (Sara Cozar), heart condition, which is declared by compassion convinced that he would die. The problem arises when the patient makes a miraculous recovery and he is forced to pretend he loves her.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, neo screwball comedy
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Distracted (1970)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, cult film
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Zingo (1998)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about a young man with a tendency to screw things up. After years of unhealthy living he is looking for calm and rest. But first he has to deal with a drug-dealing debt. He teams up with his cousin, who has spent five years writing a film script, and turns into a film producer. One of the problems is that the German financiers expect a porn film.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 976
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, meta, fun
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Messy Christmas (2007)
Plot Summary:
A holiday celebration with the extended family gets stretched to the breaking point in this comedy from Germany. Sara is happily married to Jan, though this wasn't always the case -- Sara is Jan's second wife, while Sara has three ex-husbands, Gunnar, Andi and Erich, and she and Jan are raising children from each of their previous marriages. Jan is less than thrilled with the prospect of spending the holidays with Sara's mother, but things get worse when he learns his wife has planned a surprise for Christmas eve -- they'll be joined by Gunnar, Andi and Erich, as well as Erich's new wife Pauline, Andi's current spouse Rita and his own ex-wife, Eva. To call the atmosphere uncomfortable is an understatement, and things only get worse when Sara announces she's pregnant, which is quite troubling for Jan since he's been waiting for the right time to tell her he had a vasectomy several months before.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Mary Had a Little... (1961)
Plot Summary:
A theatrical impresario tries to win a bet with a psychiatrist over the production of a perfect baby.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Dodging the Clock (2005)
Plot Summary:
The passage of time is probably the only concrete proof we have that justice exists in this cruel world. Some people would like to stop time in its tracks, while others choose to follow its path. In this story, three men in their early thirties have reached that age when it's time to start thinking about "getting a life", perhaps starting a family. But how do you handle the fact that your friendships are changing? That, slowly, your new family is becoming the center of your ever-shrinking world? What do you do when you realize your youth is a thing of the past?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Young, Beautiful and Screwed Up (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young boy from the south of France falls madly in love with a posh Parisian girl and follows her for crazy adventures to the big city.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Germany, UK
Duration: 92 min
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Rafters (2006)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about funny adventures of boys and girls during the summer vacation.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Man Camp (2013)
Plot Summary:
Attempting to compete for the love of a beautiful woman, a self-declared sissy joins a man camp that "transforms boys into men," only to discover it's run by his dream girl's macho boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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L!fe Happens (2011)
Plot Summary:
A comedy centered on two best friends, Kim and Deena, who fight to maintain normalcy in their lives after Kim gets pregnant and has a baby.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, teen, realistic
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My Life as a Dog (1985)
Plot Summary:
A boy, obsessed with comparing himself with those less fortunate, experiences a different life at the home of his aunt and uncle in 1959 Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, philosophical, existential, thought provoking, art house, cult classic, sincere, clever
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Me gusta, pero me asusta (2017)
Plot Summary:
Brayan Rodriguez is an innocent heir to a criminal Sinaloa family sent to Mexico City to expand the business, and where he meets Claudia, and their worlds collide. Love and fun are everywhere.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 616
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Bla Bla Baby (2022)
Plot Summary:
After a freak accident, a nursery school janitor finds out he can now understand babyspeak.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Judge! (2014)
Plot Summary:
A major advertising festival is held each year to determine the best television commercial in the world. A rookie ad man at a big advertising company named Otan is selected as a judge on the festival jury. Meanwhile, a coworker also named Ota (although the Japanese characters are slightly different) poses as his wife so that he can attend an open party which is held nightly. Knowing that he’ll get fired if his company doesn’t win the Grand Prix, he’s forced to resort to a variety of desperate tactics.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Look Who's Talking (1989)
Plot Summary:
Mollie is a single working mother who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby, Mikey, prefers James, a cab driver turned babysitter who has what it takes to make them both happy. But Mollie won't even consider James. It's going to take all the tricks a baby can think of to bring them together before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, sentimental, light, feel good, humorous, clever, epic, family comedy, terrifying, witty