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Plot Summary:
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into a killing of a black dignitary of an embassy by a CIA agent and then into his own killing by another colleague. In a television film, the police are befooled by a fake bomb and put a real one in order not to be derided by the public. In a film inquisition show, the bishop of Naples speaks highly of the importance of the family, but a child who lives a miserable family life kills himself. In the debate that follows it is proposed that they should eat the children, as Swift had said. In the next episode, a general who is in the toilet is called for the NATO parade, but the flasher breaks and in his effort to fix it, he dirts allover and kills himself. In a children's show an inspector finds excuses and delays the arrest of a powerful man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surreal, parody, anthology, crying, detective, spoof, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, poliziottesco
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Caprice Italian Style (1968)
Plot Summary:
The film consists of six short stories created by different directors, but all the stories share one thing: a warm irony to current events.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, anthology, spiritual, crying, detective, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, poliziottesco, italian comedy
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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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Plot Summary:
Kuba, a young cartoon artist who works as a waiter at sophisticated parties, falls in love with beautiful Noemi and accidentally gets involved in gangster affairs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy
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Let's Have a Riot (1970)
Plot Summary:
Episodes centering on different aspects of early 1970s Italian life:set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: intellectual
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Plot Summary:
A French comedy with comedians Eric & Ramzy made by Quentin Dupieux a.k.a. Mr. Oizo.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, realistic, surreal, not serious, offbeat, slapstick comedy, slapstick, freeze frame, dark comedy
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Che casino... con Pierino! (1982)
Plot Summary:
Italian comedy.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, crying, freeze frame, sexploitation film
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Agent 38-24-36 (1964)
Plot Summary:
In this Eduardo Molinaro Spy-Spoof, Anthony Perkins plays a Russian spy sent out to steal sensitive information from NATO about military mobilization. Without much intelligence of his own, the distrusted agent of Soviet intelligence needs all the help he can get from his "talented" partner Penelope Lightfeather (Bardot) as they scatter around the French countryside for secret rendez-vous' while trying to avoid being caught by counter intelligence agents and distrustful communist operatives.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, exciting, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, parody, surprise ending
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Perched on a Tree (1971)
Plot Summary:
Henry Roubier, a French promoter, and Enrico Mazzini, an Italian, have signed an agreement guaranteeing them a stranglehold on European highways. While driving on the roads of the south, Roubier takes two young hitchhikers, but an unfortunate swerve the car rushes by Henri and its occupants on the top of a pine tree onto the side of a cliff.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, ambiguous ending, crying, spoof, freeze frame, dark comedy, parody
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Be Sick... It's Free (1968)
Plot Summary:
The eventful ascent of a doctor in the corrupted Italian healthcare system.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: italian comedy
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Plot Summary:
A mother drops her son and husband off at a tropical vacation spot for a little rest and relaxation. The only problem is that the husband has been dead for quite some time, and his wife had him stuffed and carries him around with her. Complications ensue.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surreal, black comedy, slapstick comedy, crying, freeze frame, campy
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Should a Schoolgirl Tell? (1969)
Plot Summary:
Schoolgirl Josefine learns from an early age to use sex to gain advantages. The school's gym teacher is arrested and accused of indecent behavior but the court dismisses the case when Josefine uses her female charm on the jurors.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, freeze frame
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Killing Dad (1989)
Plot Summary:
A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He meats a seducing older woman prone to drinking and her aged boyfriend whom she grew tired of.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: non-linear, crying, independent film, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy
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Plot Summary:
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: anthology, crying, detective, freeze frame, dark comedy, italian comedy
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A successful Spanish executive from a telecommunications company working in Argentina is about to face the most important week of his life, but all his plans will be sabotaged by an eccentric character who will make his week a living hell….
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, unusual plot structure, contemplative, crying, freeze frame, dark comedy
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I Can Quit Whenever I Want (2019)
Plot Summary:
Pedro, Arturo and Eligio are three college professors who lost their job because of economic crisis. Accidentally they find a solution for all of their problems; a multi-vitamin that allows them to party all night long without any side effects. The three professors will be launched into the world of nightclubs and the shady business, in order to market the merchandise. Of course, it seems that they are not as prepared for it as they thought.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
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Wet and Wild Summer (1993)
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A property developer wants to take over an Australian beach for a high rise resort. He sends his son to Australia to check out the situation, posing as an exchange lifeguard. He falls in love with a woman who owns the land his father needs for the development and finds himself sympathising with the locals.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crying, sex comedy, independent film, freeze frame
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: surreal, anthology, humorous, ironic, crying, slapstick comedy, dark comedy
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Plot Summary:
The film is about an old fashioned Italian with moral values of the 1930/40's ,who has to find a wife in the modern, woman's liberated society of Australia of the 1960/70's.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Australia
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, epic, crying
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IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
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Going Overboard (1989)
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IMDB Rating: 1.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slapstick, humorous, realistic, not serious, neurotic, detective, slapstick comedy, poliziottesco
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The Apple War (1971)
Plot Summary:
A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called "Deutschneyland" (a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland). Some of the locals dislike the idea, including the magically talented Lindberg family, and work to frustrate the development plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: satirical, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, biting, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, slapstick, low brow humor
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The New Monsters (1977)
Plot Summary:
15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi, Monicelli, Scola) the best Italian writers ever (Age, Scarpelli) the best Italian actors ever (Tognazzi, Gassmann, Sordi) one of the most beautiful woman in the world (Ornella Muti) participate to this great tribute.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: anthology, black comedy, grotesque, italian comedy
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Serial Teachers (2013)
Plot Summary:
With only 12 percent of its pupils obtaining their baccalaureate, Jules Ferry High School is the worst school in France. The Inspector of Schools has already exhausted all the conventional means to raise standards at the school and he has no choice but to take the advice of his deputy. It is a case of having to fight fire with fire: the worst pupils must be taught by the worst teachers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, slapstick, crying, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, low brow humor
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The Sensuous Nurse (1975)
Plot Summary:
Greedy relatives hire a sensual caregiver to hasten the demise of a wealthy count suffering from a heart condition.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, crying, sex comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, low brow humor, hot
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The Scopone Game (1972)
Plot Summary:
An aging American millionairess journeys to Rome each year with her chauffeur George to play the card game scopone with destitute Peppino and his wife Antonia.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, crying, dark comedy
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The Phantom of Liberty (1974)
Plot Summary:
Bourgeois convention is demolished in Luis Buñuel’s surrealist gem. Featuring an elegant soiree with guests seated at toilet bowls, poker-playing monks using religious medals as chips, and police officers looking for a missing girl who is right under their noses, this perverse, playfully absurd comedy of non sequiturs deftly compiles many of the themes that preoccupied Buñuel throughout his career—from the hypocrisy of conventional morality to the arbitrariness of social arrangements.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, art house, atmospheric, disturbing, meditative, talky, dark comedy, thought provoking, witty
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Plot Summary:
A couple with a newborn baby face unexpected difficulties after they are forced to live next to a fraternity house.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 325000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, not serious, entertaining, humorous, hilarious, teen, sex comedy, slapstick, absurd, romantic