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Plot Summary:
Jesse is nine months pregnant and lives with her underemployed husband Hank in a dilapidated mobile home in a rusty trailer park. During an afternoon of talk, Jesse discovers that Hank has been spending time with Bonnie, their young, bovine neighbour. Jesse is hurt and furious, and Hank is defensive, claiming that the baby has pushed him out. While Hank is elsewhere, the other woman pays a surprise visit to Jesse. Healing begins, and when Jesse's labour starts, it's Bonnie who comes to the rescue.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, minimal cast
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How to Seduce a Woman (1974)
Plot Summary:
A man attempts to sleep with five different women.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: anthology, sex comedy, independent film, flamboyance
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Romeo & Julio (2009)
Plot Summary:
Break-dance trash musical comedy/parody based on William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Comedy
Country: Croatia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: parody
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Laughter on the 23rd Floor (2001)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by Neil Simon's early career experience as a junior writer for Your Show of Shows, the play focuses on Sid Caesar/Jackie Gleason-like Max Prince, the star of a weekly comedy-variety show circa 1953, and his staff, including Simon's alter-ego Lucas Brickman, who maintains a running commentary on the writing, fighting, and wacky antics which take place in the writers' room.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min
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International Falls (2019)
Plot Summary:
A wife and mom with secret dreams of being a stand-up comic uses a one night stand with a burned-out touring comedian to face the harsh but funny truths of her failing marriage, neglected aspirations, and individual identity.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
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Favorite Deadly Sins (1995)
Plot Summary:
America's three top leisure-time activities come roaring to life in National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins. This film consists of three short stories: Greed (Joe Mantegna), Anger (Andrew Clay) and Lust (Denis Leary).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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I don't owe a 100 times (1990)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about a young girl who gets pregnant on a traditional Argentinean family.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Comedy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 91 min
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Hollywood Boulevard II (1990)
Plot Summary:
A studio finds itself in the middle of a bizarre murder mystery when an exploding teddy bear kills the latest star. Soon more actresses get violently eliminated as the desperate search for the killer begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, psychotronic, independent film, cult film
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Stork (1971)
Plot Summary:
Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his way through life, bungling job interviews, upsetting ‘respectable’ people, and getting drunk. The only girl in the house, Anna resists Stork’s advances, because she’s already involved with the other two resident males, Tony and Clyde. But when she becomes pregnant and Clyde and Anna decide to marry, Stork, Tony, Clyde and Westy are shocked when they realize that either one of the foursome could be the father. Then the fun begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, slapstick, cult film
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American Drive-In (1985)
Plot Summary:
The goings-on at a typical drive-in on a summer night.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, cult film
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A Great Guy at Heart (1981)
Plot Summary:
After confronting his professor, a student of medicine loses his illegal bed in student housing and finds a job as a housemaid at Sava Mitrovic house. The family happiness soon turns into a chaos, falling apart like a Robert Hall suit.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min
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Girls at Arms (1975)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about girls joining the army in Denmark. Marianne joins to keep up a long family tradition as her brother won't. Both her brother and her boyfriend find her decision difficult to accept.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 110 min
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Women in Oversized Men's Shirts (2015)
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The dorkiest thing in the world, according to feminist poet Sigrid, is the movie cliche of the young woman who in the morning dons her male lover's shirt, looking adorably "indie cute". But when she begins a relationship with Kåre Tryvle, she has difficulties living up to her ideals. Meanwhile, pregnant performance artist Trine is planning to give birth in a cage, dressed up as Marie Antoinette, on camera, and factory worker Astrid is looking for the son she had adopted away.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min
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A Severed Head (1971)
Plot Summary:
Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and Antonia want to deal with the situation in a civilized way, by remaining friends with Martin. Meanwhile Martin tries to keep his mistress, Georgie Hands, a secret, but Palmer's sister, Honor Klein, who taught Georgie at Oxford, tells Palmer and Antonia about her. Furthermore, Honor introduces Georgie to Martin's womanizing brother, Alexander. This is just the beginning of the various liaisons.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, black comedy
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Mutande Pazze (1992)
Plot Summary:
Four ambitious women are ready to do anything to make a name in show business. The translation of the Italian title is "Mad Underpants".
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
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My Mother-in-law Hates Me (2022)
Plot Summary:
Clara is a woman who has been rejected all her life for being extremely neat and clean. When the love of her life invites her to meet his family, Clara will do everything possible to win her approval without knowing that they are polar opposites: her mother-in-law is a compulsive hoarder, a nudist and an extreme vegetarian.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico, Chile
Duration: 90 min
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The Drop (2022)
Plot Summary:
In this clever cringe comedy, a seemingly happy married couple confronts a test of their marriage when one of them drops a baby while at a destination wedding at a tropical island.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
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Vagenda Stories (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Leila discovers at her sister Amanda's wedding that the latter is pregnant, she promptly reveals the carefully guarded secret. While the guests are happy, Amanda worries about her career and Leila about her fertility. Panic-stricken, Leila sets herself a goal: get pregnant. So together with her friend Sophie she throws herself into the nightlife. Sophie is more concerned with the search for babysitters and probably won't snatch a man from her.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Comedy
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
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Champagne! (2022)
Plot Summary:
Springtime in the French vineyards of Champagne. Patrick has gathered his oldest friends for his bachelor party. The trouble is, everyone hates his future wife. This could thus become one hellish weekend in gourmet paradise.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
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Bikini Goddesses (1996)
Plot Summary:
An American teenager shipped off to spend the summer with his dad, a Greek resort manager, happens upon an ancient ruin where three sensual demi-goddesses have been imprisoned for the last few millennia. He speaks the magic words, returning them to life as delectable bikini-clad beauties who can't get enough of the fun-in-the-sun... and in his bed.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, gay cinema
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The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet (1969)
Plot Summary:
Romeo and Juliet love each other, but they also love everyone else in town.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: parody, sex comedy, independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick, grindhouse
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Cougar School (2009)
Plot Summary:
Karen leaves Zack to go on the hunt with her Step Mother for wealthy younger men.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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Pierino medico della SAUB (1981)
Plot Summary:
Alvaro Gasperoni, alias Peter returned to Rome with their families from Addis Ababa, where he received his bachelor's degree in medicine. Helped by his father through a recommendation from the P2 Lodge, he manages to get in a hospital in Rome as assistant to the primary. Here begins the struggle with other colleagues to buy up the post of deputy prime. As any good doctor is measured by the number of patients who, the whole family and all his friends are hospitalized; He, in this way, comes from the league winner. The fatal destiny wants its affair is discovered by an inspector of the Ministry of Health, and Peter will be dismissed from the hospital. This will not deter the protagonist by the medical profession; who continue to indulge in a private clinic run "family".
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Divorce Law (1993)
Plot Summary:
How can anyone expect a fair divorce case when all the lawyers are out to do a little hanky-panky on their own?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anthology, sensual, independent film
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When Women Were Called Virgins (1972)
Plot Summary:
When women were called Madonna is a film of 1972 directed by Aldo Grimaldi . The film is one of the first Italian erotic comedies in which a licentious bursting Edwige Fenech struggles with the nagging demands of three suitors.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, West Germany
Duration:
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, decamerotic
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Tripping Forward (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ford Coleman is a struggling actor in Hollywood who fears never achieving fame other then appearing in local TV commercials. After over a year living in L.A., Ford is broke and in danger of being evicted from his apartment. His slacker roommate Tripp, who has given up his music career out of hopelessness, convinces Tripp to become a drug dealer to buy and sell cocaine to supermodels as their extra income, which brings both Ford and Tripp into danger as they venture into the Los Angeles underworld which also puts a risk on Ford's budding romance with Gwen, a struggling actress herself unaware of Ford's secret arrangement with Tripp.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Generation (1969)
Plot Summary:
Jim Bolton, a well-off businessman from Chicago hears that his daughter Doris is pregnant in New York. Since he did not even know she was seeing anyone he fears the worst. Unbeknownst to him, his daughter and the father of his grandchild, Walter marry shortly before Jim's arrival in New York. Upon his arrival he is shocked to hear that Doris and Walter plan not only a natural childbirth but the birth will take place in their apartment NOT a hospital. To make matters worse, Walter states that he personally will deliver their child. Jim at first doubts Walter's sincerity and expertise but begins to gain respect for Walter after he calls in a doctor to consult and is told that Walter is very prepared for almost any contingency.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sweater Girls (1978)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenage girls forms a club, The Sweater Girls, to preserve their virginity.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, independent film
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Gas Pump Girls (1979)
Plot Summary:
June and her friends take over a service station formerly run by her uncle. They perform every trick in the book to attract the customers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, grindhouse, funny, sexy, humorous, realistic, not serious, sexual, independent film
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Almost Pregnant (1992)
Plot Summary:
Charlie (Conaway) is a happy man with a beautiful wife (Roberts), a wonderful career and every blessing a man could want except "...children". When the wife demands a "star child" and Charlie can't deliver the goods, they turn to their crazy neighbor (Calvin) to get the job done, so to speak. Very hilarious and bawdy comedy where "one rooster to a hen-house" is not always the truth.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Open Season (1995)
Plot Summary:
When the television ratings machines suddenly malfunction, public television suddenly, but mistakenly, soars to #1 in this humorous satire.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, sexy, clever, unusual plot structure, suspense, entertaining