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Plot Summary:
Ginger Meggs (Paul Daniel) is a young "Dennis the Menace" who first appeared in Australian comic strips in 1921. In this film meant for the pre-teen set, Ginger is constantly getting himself in trouble in spite of his good intentions -- at the same time, he prevaricates, he disobeys his teachers and parents, he skips school, or while in school, fights it out with the bullies -- all activities that are bound to capture the attention of children who can vicariously enjoy the forbidden behavior.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Tales from the Golden Age (2009)
Plot Summary:
Tales from the Golden Age is composed of 5 unconventional short stories, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title of the film refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceauşescu's regime.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, anthology, offbeat, gloomy
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Mr. Love (1986)
Plot Summary:
An elderly mild-mannered gardener becomes a lovable legend in his town for his talent to romantically please every woman that fancies him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Return of the Hero (2018)
Plot Summary:
1809, France. Captain Neuville is called to the front, leaving his future bride heartbroken. Her sister decides to write letters on his behalf to cheer her up.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, stylized, humorous, entertaining, funny, crying
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Undercover (1983)
Plot Summary:
The uniquely Australian underwear invention of the Berlei Bra and under corsetry of the time is lovingly and lavishly depicted in David Elfick's lush and amusing production.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anamorphic
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Comic Relief: Uptown Downstairs Abbey (2011)
Plot Summary:
A parody of the hit television show, Downton Abbey, following the lives of the upper class and their servants.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags:
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A Virgin for Caligula (1982)
Plot Summary:
The erotic adventures of Emperor Caligula.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexploitation film
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Vedo nudo (1969)
Plot Summary:
Seven episodes about sex.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: anthology, italian comedy
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Who Has Seen the Wind (1977)
Plot Summary:
The coming-of-age of adolescent Brian O'Connal in small town Depression-era Saskatchewan is told. The son of the local pharmacist Gerald O'Connal, Brian is in many ways a typical boy, who dislikes school if only because of his run-ins with the nervous schoolteacher, Miss MacDonald, and who tries to catch gophers with his friends, Artie and Forbsie. His best friend and protector is slightly older Jonathan Ben, better known as The Young Ben (as his father is referred to as The Ben), who is highly regarded as a problem by those in town who see themselves as the moral authority if only because of The Young Ben's association to The Ben, the town still keeper and drunk. Brian's life takes a turn when his parents have to leave town temporarily, while Brian stays on his Uncle Sean's farm. That stint leads to a series of events which make Brian see life around him through slightly older and wiser eyes.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dimboola (1979)
Plot Summary:
Dimboola follows the interaction of various characters at a country wedding reception.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Big Wash (1968)
Plot Summary:
Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, slapstick comedy
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Start the Revolution Without Me (1970)
Plot Summary:
An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and aristocratic, the other poor and somewhat dim. They find themselves involved in palace intrigues as history happens around them. Based, very loosely, on Dickens's "A Tale of Two Cities," Dumas's "The Corsican Brothers," etc.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, black comedy, humorous, witty, political, surreal, surprise ending, spoof, realistic
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They Still Call Me Bruce (1987)
Plot Summary:
Bruce Won arrives in America in search of an American G.I. who saved his life in the Korean War. He meets an orphan boy and together they land themselves in a string of outrageous situations. This high-strung farce culminates when a case of mistaken identity leads a gang of thugs to think Bruce is a karate master. They arrange a nationally-televised match which pits our hero against a monstrous brute, and Bruce is beaten to a bloody pulp.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, not serious, fast, surprise ending, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Clinic (1982)
Plot Summary:
A comedic, dramatic day in the lives of employees and patients at a venereal disease clinic.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)
Plot Summary:
Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful sheilas, but he soon settles into the Australian ghetto in Earls Court, where his old mate Curly has a flat.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 913
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, cult film
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The Bit Part (1987)
Plot Summary:
Career counsellor Michael Thornton decides to change his career and become an actor. He dreams of performing Shakespeare but ends up in a television ad where only his hands appear on camera. He finds a friend in actress Mary McAllister (Nicole Kidman) until she is called to Hollywood to star in a horror feature. Katrina Foster plays Michael's understanding wife Helen, who supports him while he pursues his elusive dream.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Young Einstein (1988)
Plot Summary:
Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beatuiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surreal, slapstick, humorous, parody, mind bending, psychedelic, offbeat, not serious, thinking, funny
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Radio Day (2008)
Plot Summary:
One (and not the most easy one) day from the life of a big Moscow radio station.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sitcom, buddy comedy
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The Libertine (2000)
Plot Summary:
French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, captivating, sex comedy, clever, realistic, period piece, beautiful, campy
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Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977)
Plot Summary:
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not his dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid. He also feels physically and emotionally isolated. There, he bonds primarily with two townsfolk. Harris Montgomery sees Max as an obvious choice to espouse the politics of socialism. And Alice Field sees in Max a person like herself: being a British war bride, she is an alien in a harsh environment. Alice is in an unsatisfying marriage and turns to Max for emotional support. As Max goes through his first year in Willowgreen, he learns to understand life in a rural prairie town, both from the viewpoint of his students and for his own benefit.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, thinking
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School Is Over (2018)
Plot Summary:
Agathe Langlois, Parisian until the end of the nails well varnishes, is delighted: she is going to be confirmed as a professor of English. The happiness of the good news will not last as she learns that she is deployed to the countryside.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, entertaining, funny, crying
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Outrageous Fortune (1987)
Plot Summary:
Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actress, decides through happenstance to also study with Korzenowski. The two women end up dating the same man (who turns out to be a double agent) and follow him across the country to force him to choose between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, retro, exciting, realistic, witty, semi serious, buddy comedy, light, philosophical
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The Death of Stalin (2017)
Plot Summary:
When tyrannical dictator Joseph Stalin dies in 1953, his parasitic cronies square off in a frantic power struggle to become the next Soviet leader. Among the contenders are the dweebish Georgy Malenkov, the wily Nikita Khrushchev and Lavrenti Beria – the sadistic secret police chief. As they bumble, brawl and back-stab their way to the top, the question remains – just who is running the government?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: France, UK, Belgium, Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, satirical, political, period piece, parody, surreal, art house, psychological, sexy
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The Hollywood Knights (1980)
Plot Summary:
Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. Everything from drag racing to Vietnam to high school love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, grindhouse, humorous, sex comedy, feel good, realistic, not serious, independent film, parody, funny
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Clifford (1994)
Plot Summary:
When his brother asks him to look after his young son, Clifford, Martin Daniels agrees, taking the boy into his home and introducing him to his future wife, Sarah. Clifford is fixated on the idea of visiting a famed theme park, and Martin, an engineer who helped build the park, makes plans to take him. But, when Clifford reveals himself to be a first-rate brat, his uncle goes bonkers, and a loony inter-generational standoff ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, realistic, funny, melancholic, not serious, black comedy, independent film, offbeat, crying
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The Big Steal (1990)
Plot Summary:
Danny wants two things in life more than anything else, one is a Jaguar and the other is Joanna Johnson. After Danny is conned into trading his Nissan Cedric for a 1973 Jaguar, he plots to win Joanna and get revenge against the sleazy car dealer Gordon Farkes.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dance 'Til Dawn (1988)
Plot Summary:
It's prom night and the kids of Hoover High will be having a night they will never forget. Popular girl Shelley ditches her prom and ends up spending the night with unpopular Dan; Popular guy Kevin goes out with nerdy Angela because he heard she was easy; Patrice continues to blame her boyfriend Roger for everything that doesn't go the way she wants it to.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, teen comedy
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Lonely Hearts (1982)
Plot Summary:
In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, crying, independent film
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Hot Pursuit (1987)
Plot Summary:
Young Danny is following his rich girlfriend's family to the Caribbean. But suddenly he simply must make a chemistry test and cannot go with them. After they have left, he gets a leave from his professor and takes a plane to find them. But he is not quite sure where they are, and meets smugglers, crazy captains and murderers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, road movie, entertaining, humorous, hilarious, exciting, semi serious, funny, romantic
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Phar Lap (1983)
Plot Summary:
Phar Lap, the big bold chestnut reigned as the king of the turf in the depression that gripped Australia of the 1930s. From his humble beginnings the New Zealand bred horse raced on to become the hero of a nation.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Biography, Drama, Family, History, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: anamorphic, sentimental, serious, realistic
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The Dish (2000)
Plot Summary:
The true story of how the Parkes Radio Telescope was used to relay the live television of man's first steps on the moon, during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, suspense, factual, funny, witty, independent film, realistic, semi serious