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Plot Summary:
A couple on the brink of divorce attempts to hide their crisis at a grand wedding, but it turns out they are not the only ones with false appearances.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min
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Remember Me? (1997)
Plot Summary:
A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film
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Numbskull Emptybrook (1973)
Plot Summary:
Uuno goes with his wife to spend summer holiday to their villa in country, studies playing of the violin in a correspondence course and constructs an own violin with do-it-yourself-method, but quits his career when he perceives that takes his free time too much and comes back to live the life "in the shadow of a fridge". In the start scene of film a priest (Ere Kokkonen as voice) says in the Uuno's weddings that his complete name is Uuno Eero Turhapuro, whereas it's in the all later Uuno-films Uuno Daavid Goljat Turhapuro.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Unseen Wonder (1984)
Plot Summary:
The peace of a small fishing village is shattered by the coming of a young, and stunningly beautiful, wife of a local guest-worker. She intends to live in her father's house, which in the mean-time became a pub. From that moment her revenge begins, toying with to people, their passions and interests.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 929
Genere: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: epic, dark comedy
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Horned Bastion (1965)
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 78 min
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The Branch Office (1988)
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min
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Lab En Kisses (1996)
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This is a story of an odd couple, Labrador, a woman hater and Kisses, a stubborn stow away from Cebu, who is trying to escape her uncle who pushes her to marry a man she doesn't love. A love and hate relationship brew between the two until they found themselves facing the same odds... but this time, together.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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The Honeymoon (2022)
Plot Summary:
Englishman Adam and his American bride Sarah are about to embark on the romantic honeymoon of a lifetime in Venice, Italy. But when the newlyweds’ trip is gatecrashed by Adam’s excessively needy best friend, Ed, it inadvertently turns their perfect lovers’ holiday into a complete disaster.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 97 min
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Cha Cha Cha (1989)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä (Matti Pellonpää), a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an American aunt of his. The sum 1,000,000 Fmk would be his, if only he meets the qualifications set by his aunt. He must show that he is capable of 'living properly' and possessing a 'respectable occupation and a family he can support'. Otherwise the money would go to a foundation the chairman of which the lawyer himself happens to be!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Icing (2014)
Plot Summary:
Explosive conversational comedy based on the successful theater plays, which takes place one evening in a remote local pub, during the match of Ice Hockey World Championship. What can happen and can be told, when the kidnapped bride is getting drunk together with the best woman of her husband and experienced barmaid and the only one, who is able to stop and save everything, is not coming.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, witty, crying, dark comedy
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My Bloody Wedding (2010)
Plot Summary:
Doug, a dorky young mamma's boy, who is about to get married to his beautiful bride, Callista, when he notices a change come over her. He catches her sneaking around at night and lying to him, and she's begun to display flu-like symptoms. So naturally Doug thinks she caught a disease while cheating on him. In reality she has become possessed via an ancient stone and she's been eating his friends and family without him knowing.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Svensson, Svensson - In Sickness and in Health (2011)
Plot Summary:
Gustav and Lena Svensson are facing their 30-year wedding anniversary , but Lena can't stand Gustav anymore and therefore wants to divorce him. The only thing Gustav does is to watch sport - any sport at any time - and doesn't give Lena any attention at all. Gustav however, thinks that everything is great and doesn't think they can give up just a week before their anniversary . Lena gives Gustav one absolute last chance and they go off on a love weekend where Gustav will have to prove that Lena is more important than football and TV. But at the hotel football legend Tommy Franzén shows up and messes everything up for Gustav!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 748
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 84 min
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The American Bride (1986)
Plot Summary:
Edoardo meets and immediately falls in love for Edith. They soon decide to marry. During the wedding Edoardo knows Anna, Edith's best friend and wife of her brother. This last is a fake marriage since Sacha is homosexual. Incredibly Edoardo loses his mind for Anna, and they become soon lovers. The two couples spend time together in Venezia. Edoardo is continuously shared between Edith and Anna. But this won't take long.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, surprise ending
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Wedding Band (1989)
Plot Summary:
A couple who both work at wedding receptions encounter complications when they decide to marry.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Her mit den kleinen Schweinchen (1984)
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Wolfgang cannot make up his mind whether to choose a pretty young thing without money or a rich widow. Egon his friend advises him to choose the young girl and leads rich and ugly widow Olga to the altar himself. Now he lives in the lap of luxury, but his jealous wife never lets him out of her sight. Wolfgang takes the hen-pecked husband to the "Ball of the Piggies", where Egon promptly succumbs to the charms of an ever so sweet and sexy Piggy, those of his wife. While Olga ransacks the hotel in search of Egon the next morning, the real beneficiaries are Wolfgang and Eva who chalk up the nocturnal happenings to experience.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 47
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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The Farmer Has a Wife (1986)
Plot Summary:
The farmer now has found a wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Love and Marriage (1964)
Plot Summary:
An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Veinteañera, Divorciada y Fantástica (2020)
Plot Summary:
Regina, our young protagonist, always dreamed of getting married. And she did it - but the dream lasted much less than she thought and now she has to face life in a very funny way as a divorcee.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: witty, funny, romantic, sexy, entertaining, realistic, intense, semi serious, weird
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Samba in Mettmann (2004)
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Olaf is to take care of the family's cleaner's store, while his dad is away on a fair. In the evening he runs into three Brazilian ladies thrown out of a limousine not knowing where to go. Olaf invites them to stay with him and his deaf pot-smoking grandfather, which at first just causes some confusion as he soon is to marry his girlfriend Vera. The next day it's topsy-turvy all over.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good
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21 Ways to Ruin a Marriage (2013)
Plot Summary:
The film follows Sanna, who sets out to document the countless ways there are to ruin a marriage for her doctoral thesis.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, melancholic, sentimental, captivating, sexual, sexy
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Merry Christmas (2001)
Plot Summary:
Four Italian men are suddenly involved in awkward situations, while they are spending the Christmas holiday, stuck in Amsterdam.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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In Bed with Santa (1999)
Plot Summary:
In Bed with Santa (Swedish: Tomten är far till alla barnen) is a 1999 Swedish comedy film directed by Kjell Sundvall. A German remake was made under the tiltle Meine schöne Bescherung.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, hilarious, dark comedy, sentimental, touching, offbeat, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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The Cousin (2018)
Plot Summary:
A married woman, who's husband leaves her alone way too many times, is seduced by a junior spoiled young man, leading her into the fullfillment of her unsatisfied needs.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, captivating
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Pestonjee (1988)
Plot Summary:
Phirojshah (Naseeruddin Shah) and Pestonjee (Anupam Kher) are two close friends. They attempt to do everything together, and they hope that they will marry the same day as well. Unfortunately, both go to see the same young lady, Jeroo (Shabana Azmi), and Pestonjee ends up getting married to Jeroo. Phirojshah has been stricken by Jeroo's beauty and decides not to marry, and takes a transfer away from the couple. During the years, he keeps in touch with the couple by mail. While on a visit to the couple, he finds out that Pestonjee has a mistress, and Jeroo does not know of this. How will this effect Phirojshah's friendship with Pestonjee? Does Phirojshah stand a chance with Jeroo?.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: art film
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The People We Hate at the Wedding (2022)
Plot Summary:
A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, it turns out to be just what this singular family needs to reconnect.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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I Do & I Don't (2007)
Plot Summary:
A screwball comedy about a young couple that must endure premarital counseling and the horrific married couple they are assigned to.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, offbeat, realistic, not serious, independent film
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The Young Wife (2023)
Plot Summary:
A young woman grapples with the meaning of love and commitment over the course of her “non-wedding” day.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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No Thank You (2014)
Plot Summary:
Heli Valkonen is desperately in love with her husband. But Matti is just not in the mood. He is only interested in playing computer games, dressed in worn out fleece pants. For him, a shoulder massage is the highest form of intimacy. When subtle hints, nice words and fetching clothes won't help, Heli resorts in direct, and increasingly direct action - in vain.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Cassette Love (1981)
Plot Summary:
A comedy directed by Rolf Lyssy.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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A Fairy-Tale Wedding (2014)
Plot Summary:
After twenty years, five high school classmates meet again at Daniele's wedding, the only one who has built a career for himself. During a long weekend in Switzerland, the five friends rediscover the affection and complicity of the past, and they get a chance to straighten out their destinies. A whirlwind of misunderstandings will bring down their shaky balances, and they'll all find the courage to put themselves on the line and start their lives afresh.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Bachelors (2015)
Plot Summary:
Womanizing advertising executive Aaron tries to stop best friend Sean from falling into the "eternal damnation" of marriage by throwing a wild bachelor party to remind Sean of the joys of bachelorhood.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, buddy comedy, funny, entertaining, absurd, sexy, odd