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Plot Summary:
Max and Sam, disillusioned with people's day-to-day callousness toward each other, and angered by a pension-stealing bank, invent The Invisible Friend, Inc. The intention was to reward kind acts, but things rarely turn out as planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Life of Harry Dare (1995)
Plot Summary:
Harry Dare is a shambolic Adelaide private investigator. He’s still not certain why he’s in the business; perhaps to understand his father’s disappearance, 20 years earlier? But now Harry’s got a real case: who stole his father’s old Kombi van, nicked (oddly) just after Harry finished restoring it?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Balladen om Carl-Henning (1969)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Lene & Sven Grønlykke.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Computer Beach Party (1987)
Plot Summary:
Greedy locals are trying to turn some beach property into a tourist attraction, and a computer expert sets out to use is knowledge of computers--along with the help of several local "beach bunnies"--to stop them.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: cult film
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One in a Million (1995)
Plot Summary:
Torsten Södergren lives in a normal house with his normal family in a completely normal city. Every morning he greets his normal neighbours before getting into his normal car and drives the usual way to his ordinary work at an ordinary bank. But one day he is fired from his work after twenty years of loyal service. Now he is prepared to do anything to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Hog Wild (1980)
Plot Summary:
A boy (Tim Warner), expelled from military school, returns home to his fathers disappiontment. He discovers that a motorcycle gang has been terrorizing his high school, and falls in love with the girlfriend (Angie Barnes) of the gang's leader (Bull). He battles the gang, and wins both the admiration of his father and the love of the girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Le Mentor (2012)
Plot Summary:
A ruined old man turned homeless overhears the conversation of a young couple. He decides to intervene and become their mentor.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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The Guardian Angel (1996)
Plot Summary:
Madrid, 1981. Jorge has just arrived in Madrid to live in beautiful large house with his brother, mother, grandmother Obdulia, a wealthy woman who is somewhat deaf, and his grandfather, an aged and senile octogenarian.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Supercock (1975)
Plot Summary:
An American cowboy in the Philippines gets mixed up in cockfighting.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Who's Minding the Mint? (1967)
Plot Summary:
A bumbling government employee accidentally destroys a small fortune and decides to break into the US Mint to replace it, but before long everyone wants a slice of the action - and the money.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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A Head for Business (2000)
Plot Summary:
Dutillard is an amateur film maker working as a computer programmer for a small French investment bank. When the bank finds that it has been forced to fork over $104 million to fund Dutillard's film, Chekov's "Three Sisters", and that it has no legal recourse against him, the bank must find a way to make the film profitable. They float around a few ideas including a nude gang bang with the prettier sister, but the horrified Dutilliard comes up with a plan, buy the rights to a blockbuster and package the TV rights with those for the Three Sisters. Before they know it the bankers find them self flying to London and New York to raise money and buy a major film studio.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Breaking the Bank (2014)
Plot Summary:
With ruthless US and Japanese investment banks circling Tuftons, a struggling two-hundred-year-old, family-run British bank, can its bumbling, incompetent chairman, Sir Charles Bunbury, fend off the onslaught and save the bank?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Where Were You When the Lights Went Out? (1968)
Plot Summary:
When the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965 hit, millions of people were left in the dark, including Waldo Zane, a New York executive in the process of stealing a fortune from his company, and two people whose paths he's destined to cross, Broadway actress Margaret Garrison and her husband, Peter.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 962
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Stoogemania (1985)
Plot Summary:
Howard F. Howard idolizes The Three Stooges. His friends and familiy are worried, and consider having him committed.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, slapstick comedy
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The Sublet (2008)
Plot Summary:
WALTER is lonely. He is 71 and has no friends. He lives in a small apartment in Upper West Side in Manhattan and every morning he goes through the same monotonous routine: pills, fiber, canned food, cleaning, TV and the book with all his expenses. His apartment is very quiet until today when his phone rings, which really surprises him. It's a wrong number, someone was looking for a sublet. However, it gives him an idea, a fake ad.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, suspenseful, independent film, realistic
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Blue in the Face (1995)
Plot Summary:
Auggie runs a small tobacco shop in Brooklyn, New York. The whole neighborhood comes to visit him to buy cigarettes and have some small talk. During the movie Lou Reed tries to explain why he has to have a cut on his health insurance bill if he keeps smoking and Madonna acts as a Singing Telegram.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, witty, talky, mumblecore, art house, colorful, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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Floundering (1994)
Plot Summary:
When a young man's unemployment benefits run out, the IRS freezes his bank account, and his druggie brother needs help, things can't get any worse...until he discovers his girlfriend is cheating on him!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, absurd, light, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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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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Skills Like This (2007)
Plot Summary:
Max Solomon faces the awful truth that he will never be a writer. So, in a desperate attempt to find his true calling, he turns to crime. In this inventive comedy, three friends have their lives turned upside down when one of them realizes that larceny might be his best skill.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Bedtime Story (1964)
Plot Summary:
Benson, is a Casanova who tricks women into having sex with him before leaving them. He is content with his game until he meets Jamison, a real operator who poses as an exiled prince and not only gets women to share his bed but also to give him money to help him fund his supposed counter-revolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, not serious, biting, surprise ending, suspense
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House Broken (2010)
Plot Summary:
In order to enjoy his retirement, a father takes drastic measures to get his twentysomething, slacker sons to move out and fend for themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, not serious, independent film
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For Pete's Sake (1974)
Plot Summary:
Henry (Streisand) is a woman who would do anything for her husband Pete-- including borrow money so he has a chance of making his dreams come true. But now there's the loan sharks to deal with.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: hilarious, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, neo screwball comedy
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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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7 Chinese Brothers (2015)
Plot Summary:
Larry is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. Taking a part-time job vacuuming and washing windshields, Larry finds himself mixed up with hostile co-workers and unsatisfied customers, while also finding himself smitten with his lovely boss, Lupe Torrez. Will Larry keep it together long enough to win the girl, provide for man's best friend (his dog Arrow), and do his grandmother proud?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, independent film
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Going in Style (2017)
Plot Summary:
Desperate to pay the bills and come through for their loved ones, three lifelong pals risk it all by embarking on a daring bid to knock off the very bank that absconded with their money.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, entertaining, touching, humorous, sad, black comedy, anamorphic, comedy drama, relaxing
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The Cult of Sincerity (2008)
Plot Summary:
A New York hipster sets out on a a quest to create the most sincere T-shirt ever.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, cynical, offbeat, independent film
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Mutual Appreciation (2005)
Plot Summary:
Alan is a musician who leaves a busted-up band for New York, and a new musical voyage. He tries to stay focused and fends off all manner of distractions, including the attraction to his good friend's girlfriend. Film of the "Mumblecore" genre.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, sincere, touching, humorous, witty, black and white, independent film, romantic, romantic comedy, clever
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Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989)
Plot Summary:
Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's reduced to stealing from one family member to buy presents for others. It's looking pretty bleak until her daughter pushes her into buying a 'guilt gift' of a PC, complete with modem. Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, cult film
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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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The Hustle (2008)
Plot Summary:
Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at the opportunity that might save his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good, entertaining, black comedy, 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