Best movies like Friends, Lovers, & Lunatics
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Plot Summary:
An artist fired from his job comes home and discovers that his wife is having an affair and that she is leaving with her lover. He then sets off in pursuit of them, but in the process runs into another woman who is on the run from her crazed lover who is chasing her as much to get his stolen motorcycle back as he is to actually find her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mr. Roosevelt (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young woman returns home and must confront her ex-boyfriend when an unexpected tragedy occurs.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sensual, independent film
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Young Hyacinth (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in the late 1950s, a young Hyacinth will be seen desperately trying to force her family to climb the social ladder.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 28 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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Many Happy Returns (1986)
Plot Summary:
In this satire of the I.R.S., George Segal plays an Average Joe targeted for the Audit from Hell. His bank accounts are frozen, his home and business are attached by the government, and his wife leaves him. Segal is forced to move into the house of his obnoxious brother-in-law where lot of Odd Couple-type comedy ensues. Segal then plots to turn the tables on the I.R.S., and win back his wife and life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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How Come Nobody's on Our Side? (1974)
Plot Summary:
Two unemployed stuntmen smuggle marijuana out of Mexico. Early embarassing roles by Reiner and Marshall!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Can It Be Love (1992)
Plot Summary:
Tim and David want to have fun during vacation so they join a private detective agency. Their first job is to find a delta girl who has inherited a fortune. But the job seems easier than it turned out to be... Written by Volker Boehm.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, independent film, detective
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Pictures of Superheroes (2012)
Plot Summary:
After being dumped and fired on the same day, Marie, a maid, gets a job cleaning up after an overworked businessman and the aggressively messy roommate he’s forgotten about, sending her into a surreal world of candy, insult comics, and pretend marriages.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, absurd, independent film
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Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966)
Plot Summary:
The divine Didi, a European actress known more for her bubble bath scenes than for her acting, decides she has had enough with bubble baths and wants to be taken seriously as an actress. So much so that she runs away during the middle of a scene while filming in Hollywood and winds up in Oregon. While she is staying in a hotel, the operator accidentally connects her with a real estate agent named Tom Meade. She asks Tom to bring her some food and when he does he suggests that she go to his cabin in the woods. She also asks him not to tell anyone where she is because she doesn't want to go back to Hollywood. Now Tom must keep the secret, especially from his wife and from his suspicious housekeeper Lily.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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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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Guest House (2020)
Plot Summary:
A newly engaged couple finds the home of their dreams and it quickly becomes a nightmare when the previous owner's friend continues squatting in their guest house. It leads to a turf war that ultimately ruins their house, their marriage and their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous
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Rid of Me (2011)
Plot Summary:
A scathing black comedy of embarrassment that charts the emotional breakdown and rebirth of a woman ripe for self-discovery.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sentimental, captivating, feel good, melancholic, dark comedy, indie film
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Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider (1979)
Plot Summary:
A World War I deserter competes in the first long-distance motorcycle race.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Party Camp (1987)
Plot Summary:
A teenage boy takes a job as a counselor at a summer camp. He finds that the camp is run like a military training camp, and he resolves to turn it into Party Central.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, independent film, teen comedy, hot
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Cruising Bar (1989)
Plot Summary:
In this outrageous comedy (where the lead characters are played by the same actor), four men from very different backgrounds set out to go "babe-hunting" on a Saturday night. Follow a very shy nerd, a... read more broken- hearted junkie, a snob yuppy, and a middle-aged married man through their amazing ordeal!.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, sex comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Round Numbers (1992)
Plot Summary:
A housewife who despises society's obsession with health and looks suspects her husband of cheating on her with a hot model in a local health spa. She decides to infiltrate the spa, find the woman and get her revenge. But is it that simple?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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The Female Brain (2017)
Plot Summary:
The neurological inner workings of romantic relationships between men and women are studied for science.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, thought provoking, touching, sweet, funny, romantic comedy, cute
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No Manches Frida 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ex-con Zequi and company come back for a new adventure.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining
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Pink Angels (1971)
Plot Summary:
Six rough and tumble motor cyclists meet at the side of an empty highway to plan their adventurous excursion cycling to Los Angeles. The burly bunch are Michael (John Alderman), David (Tom Basham), Henry (Bob Bihiller), Arnold (Bruce Kimbal), Eddie (Henry Olek) and Ronnie (Maurice Warfield). They're deceptive: although they look like the adventure addicted non-conformists of today out to raise Hell as they brawl their way over countryside and local towns, actually the six are on a different type of trip to the City of the Angels.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: cult classic, surreal, grindhouse, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, queer cinema
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Serial (1980)
Plot Summary:
It's the end of the 70s. Hippies are assimilating, women are raising their consciousness, and men are becoming confused and ineffectual. Don't expect to be able to keep track of all the names or who's sleeping with who; the picture very skillfully conveys the hopeless muddle through which the many characters move as they try to find themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, cult classic, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, suspense, cult film
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Good Mourning (2022)
Plot Summary:
Movie star London Clash gets his world turned upside down when he must choose between pursuing his one true love and landing a life-changing starring role in a major motion picture.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, funny, feel good, captivating, weird
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Moving (1988)
Plot Summary:
Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, humorous, slapstick, black comedy, feel good, witty, semi serious, sitcom, independent film
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Nature Calls (2012)
Plot Summary:
Polar-opposite brothers Randy and Kirk never saw eye-to-eye, but their rivalry is taken to a new level when Randy hijacks Kirk's son's sleepover, taking the boys on a Scout Trip to remember.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, funny, exciting, independent film
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Life After Love (2000)
Plot Summary:
After 20 years of marriage and almost perfect love, Sophie leaves her husband Gilles for another guy. Many misadventures await Gilles in his nervous breakdown, while trying to get a way to reclaim his love back to Sophie.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, funny, light, entertaining
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The Boss' Wife (1986)
Plot Summary:
Daniel Stern stars as a stockbroker trying to climb the corporate ladder. There's only one thing stopping him...his boss' beautiful and flirtatious wife! THE BOSS' WIFE is a full-bodied, high-spirited, bedroom comedy about lust, love and lechery.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, buddy comedy
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Born in East L.A. (1987)
Plot Summary:
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, funny, entertaining, light, talky, feel good, not serious, realistic, witty
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One Hot Summer (2009)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful Cuban-American lawyer is caught in the greatest dilemma of her life stay with Ariel, her Cuban-American husband who is eager to start a family at any cost or reignite a past love with Luther, the romance of her life who unexpectedly returns to try and capture her heart once again. Set against the backdrop of one hot summer in the sultry city of Miami, this romantic comedy examines the lives and loves of Margarita Santos, a contemporary woman and her two best friends (Anabel and Viviana) as they straddle two cultures to navigate through the dilemmas they face to find love and happiness once again.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Freebird (2008)
Plot Summary:
A Rock and Roll Road Movie Comedy set in Wales.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, light, captivating
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Lost in America (1985)
Plot Summary:
David and Linda Howard are successful yuppies from LA. When he gets a job disappointment, David convinces Linda that they should quit their jobs, liquidate their assets, and emulate the movie Easy Rider, spending the rest of their lives traveling around America...in a Winnebago.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, witty, talky, funny, feel good, realistic, semi serious, cynical, cult classic
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Buddymoon (2016)
Plot Summary:
When David is left by his fiancé just days before the wedding, his relentlessly upbeat best man, Flula, insists that the pair go on David's previously planned honeymoon: a seven-day backpacking trip through the breathtaking mountains of Oregon. Their adventures are bookended with passages from William Clark's diary describing his friendship with Meriwether Lewis and the terrain they crossed during their expedition.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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American Pie Presents: The Book of Love (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after the first American Pie movie, three new hapless virgins discover the Bible hidden in the school library at East Great Falls High. Unfortunately for them, the book is ruined, and with incomplete advice, the Bible leads them on a hilarious journey to lose their virginity.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, parody, sexy, teen, funny, melancholic, absurd, humorous, not serious, realistic