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Plot Summary:
A large family with lots of issues gather together to mourn the death of the family patriarch. But getting in the way of their genuine grief are a bunch of superstitions about the dead, and the family's inability to deal with their issues in a civilized way.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Annie B. (2004)
Plot Summary:
Annie who comes from a poor family is the epitome of an active and lively teenager. Fernando is the owner of an ad agency. The story begins when Annie halts Fernando's wedding thinking it was Fernando who got her sister pregnant. It just so happened that Fernando and Annie's sister's BF share the same name. The two meet again when Annie auditions for a TV commercial. Despite their rocky start, the two get to know each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Philippines
Duration:
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Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)
Plot Summary:
A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Cuba
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: experimental, manga, mondo, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Village of Simpletons (1981)
Plot Summary:
A vignette of stories from the small town of Pölhölä, known as the Village of Simpletons.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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My Mexican Shivah (2007)
Plot Summary:
After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: indie film
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My House Husband - Ikaw Na! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Nothing prepared ROD (Ryan Agoncillo ) and MIA ALVAREZ (Judy Ann Santos) for the major changes that took place in their lives. ROD worked as a manager of a bank while MIA opted to remain a housewife taking care of their two children — MIGO and KAYE — with an occasional sideline of selling insurance. MIA gave up her promising career in sales because ROD wanted to be the padre de familia. For ROD, it was the role of the man to provide for his wife and children … in the same manner that there was a clear cut delineation as to what are the duties of a husband from that of the wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, contemplative, soap opera
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Who's That Girl? (2011)
Plot Summary:
Elizabeth Pedroza (Curtis) is a UST Architecture graduate infatuated with her long-time school crush, John Eduque (Luis Manzano). Her world comes crushing down when she learns about the death of Eduque. She immediately goes to the wake and gets the shock of her life. She sees an older man, instead of a young man, lying in the coffin. The wife of the deceased John Eduque Sr gets piqued with her visit. A family friend’s simple question ‘who’s that girl?’ soon escalates into a grand-scale inquisition complete with kidnapping and high-profile rescue.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tagalog
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Pinay Pie (2003)
Plot Summary:
A funny story about three female friends. Karen is the smart and fashionable one among the three. Love is the cousin of Karen. She works in the cosmetics section of a department store, and dreams of becoming a beauty queen someday. Yolly is the businesswoman of the group. She is into the buy and sell business. The story runs when Love joins a beauty contest, where they find out that her roommate, Greta, is the new girlfriend of Karen's philandering boyfriend, Artie, and is also the god brother of Yolly's policeman boyfriend, SPO Pablito, who dumped her. Karen, Love and Yolly tire out all their efforts for Love to win the contest and teach their ex-boyfriends a valuable lesson.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Manay Po! 2 Overload (2008)
Plot Summary:
Luzviminda Dimagiba (Cherry Pie Picache) and her three gay sons: Oscar (Polo Ravales), Orson (John Prats) and Orwell (Jiro Manio) are back! And now they want to add a new member to their outrageous family – a cute little baby to make their new home happy and complete! But babies don’t just really just fall from heaven or can be fetched from a river, so when the Dimagibas are figuring out this dilemma, Bette (Rufa Mae Quinto) – the ditzy baby maker just came right on time to provide the answer.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Jack & Jill (1987)
Plot Summary:
When the old man became ill Jack took over her father's job of chauffeuring for a handsome millionaire whose rather eccentric mother had decided to adopt Jill so she could fulfill her dream of having a daughter. But Jill was really Jack's sister or brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags:
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The Unkabogable Praybeyt Benjamin (2011)
Plot Summary:
When a civil war in the Philippines breaks out, a gay man born into a military family is forced to enlist in place of his ailing father.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, not serious
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A Great Guy at Heart (1981)
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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
Plot tags:
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I'm Dead But I Have Friends (2015)
Plot Summary:
Four bearded, hairy rock musicians - and Belgians - bury the singer of their group. Out of friendship and to prove to itself that nothing can stop them, they decide to leave on tour to Los Angeles with its ashes. The day before the departure, a serviceman with a moustache appears as the lover of their friend. Their journey takes an at least unexpected tour.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, captivating, semi serious
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Samba in Mettmann (2004)
Plot Summary:
Olaf is to take care of the family's cleaner's store, while his dad is away on a fair. In the evening he runs into three Brazilian ladies thrown out of a limousine not knowing where to go. Olaf invites them to stay with him and his deaf pot-smoking grandfather, which at first just causes some confusion as he soon is to marry his girlfriend Vera. The next day it's topsy-turvy all over.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good
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Stay With Us (2022)
Plot Summary:
Gad Elmaleh decides to leave New York and move back to Paris, to get baptized and become a Catholic. Despite his attempt to hide the truth from his Jewish family, Gad's parents discover their son's unconditional love for the Virgin Mary – and for them, it’s a nightmare! Determined to bring Gad back to reason and to his Jewishness, they turn his conversion into a battlefield - as Gad tries to make them understand by any means necessary that his sincere beliefs do not change his identity and the love he has for his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Juana C. The Movie (2013)
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A young woman from a far off province is sent to study in a prestigious Manila university. But she gets caught up in the wrong crowd and ends up becoming a high class prostitute. Her surprising skill gives her access to the most powerful figures in the government, which exposes her to corruption at the highest levels.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Oh, My Girl! A Laugh Story... (2009)
Plot Summary:
Little Opao and Biboy grew up together in an orphanage in Taal, Batangas and promised themselves to be best friends forever. As they grow older they head into separate ways; to be adopted by their respective new parents. Opao is adopted by a spinster whose failed career in acting prompts her to mould Opao into a superstar with the nickname Darling. Meanwhile, Biboy is adopted by Crisp Pops.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags:
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The Funeral (1984)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the film the father-in-law of the protagonist dies unexpectedly of a heart attack. The remainder of the film is episodic, moving from one incident to another over the course of the three-day funeral, which is held (as is customary) in the home. These incidents contrast old ways and new ways, young and old, ritual ceremony and true feelings, often comically, but sometimes with real poignancy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: art house, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Bromance: My Brother's Romance (2013)
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A young man is forced to pretend to be his estranged gay brother in order to keep a major business from falling through. Though he has always hated his brother, the young man gains a new appreciation as he lives his brother's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, feel good, humorous, queer cinema
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Bekikang: My Gay Mother (2013)
Plot Summary:
Bekikang is left and abandoned with a baby boy by friend, Fortunato. He loves and raises the child as his own flesh and blood. When things are going so well between Bekikang and the child, Fortunato and the mother of the child after years of absence reappear to take the child back.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Reunion (2002)
Plot Summary:
35-year old Magnus Edkvist hates class reunions as much as anyone and usually skip them. Still he accepts an invitation for a reunion for class he left over twenty years ago. But he has his reasons, as there is a chance that his teen love Hillevi will show up. The girl he wanted to run away with and share the rest of his life. The girl that got away.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, offbeat
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The Six Wives of Henry Lefay (2009)
Plot Summary:
A presumed-dead man's current wife and former wives squabble over his funeral arrangements.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious
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Die Beautiful (2016)
Plot Summary:
Trisha, a Filipino transgender woman, suddenly dies while being crowned in a beauty pageant. Her last wish was to be presented as a different celebrity on each night of her wake.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 934
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, psychological, light, sincere, unusual plot structure, humorous, queer cinema
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The Gays (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wouldn't it be great if your parents taught you how to hold your own in a fag-eat-fag world? Rod Gay and Bob Gay-Paris are the streetwise gay mentors you never had. Come revel in the raunchy wisdom they pass along to their two gay sons - Alex and Tommy - advice that will empower the boys to bend the world over, lube it up, and snap one off!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Sotto una buona stella (2014)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy broker, Federico Picchioni, within two days forfeits his partner and work, finishing well to living with two children and granddaughter (abandoned by her father). He is, at this point, in the face of many difficulties of adjustment but finds comfort in the help of his neighbor.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic
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Death at a Funeral (2007)
Plot Summary:
Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 120000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, slapstick, tragicomedy, funny, light, absurd, not serious, clever
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Dating My Mother (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dating My Mother explores the intimate and sometimes tumultuous relationship between a single mother and her gay son as they navigate the dizzying world of online dating.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, queer cinema
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Passed Away (1992)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of eccentric relatives gather for their patriarch's funeral.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Discoverers (2012)
Plot Summary:
Washed-up history professor Lewis Birch takes his begrudging teenagers Zoe and Jack on a road trip to a conference in hopes of jumpstarting his career and reconnecting with his kids. But, when Lewis’s estranged father Stanley goes missing on a Lewis and Clark historical reenactment trek, Lewis is forced to make a family detour. The Birch family find themselves on a journey of discovery and connection as they make their own passage west.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 565
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, realistic, independent film, whimsical
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I'd Like to Be Alone Now (2019)
Plot Summary:
After losing his wife and three kids, all Kyle wants is to mourn in peace. Unfortunately, his family insists on helping him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious
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Times Have Been Better (2006)
Plot Summary:
After moving in with his beau, 30ish banker Jérémy (Arnaud Binard) decides to let the cat out of the bag, telling his unsuspecting parents, Guy (Bernard Le Coq) and Rosine (Charlotte de Turckheim), that he's gay. Though they've always envisioned themselves as enlightened, the news staggers Guy and Rosine -- who are determined to get to the root of Jérémy's homosexuality. Olivier Guéritée also stars in this delicious French farce.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, semi serious, humorous, realistic, queer cinema