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Plot Summary:
James Stewart reprises his stage and 1950 film role as Elwood P. Dowd in this 1972 Hallmark Hall of Fame TV movie.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags:
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Alone in the T-Shirt Zone (1986)
Plot Summary:
Michael Mikaele is a young man in a catatonic state living in a psychiatric ward where his doctor thinks her sympathies for him justify raping him. It's all part of his mad world, and we see what brought him there. He's an artist from a broken home, working for eight years at a job that he loathes, drawing pictures from sayings on sexually suggestive T-shirts. Mike's unsympathetic boss, Bill, plays bad motivational tapes over the P.A., makes Mike's girlfriend (another employee) handle him during office hours, which is espied by co-worker Joni, and refuses to let Mike have the rest of the day off even though he is clearly ill. He ties together T-shirts out the bathroom window to escape, and befriends a man, Rod, whom, unbeknownst to him, is his girlfriends father. He, however, hallucinates that the cinematographer is walking around the apartment in nothing but a towel.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
Similar in 78%
Eftyhos... trellathika! (1961)
Plot Summary:
Charilaos Maraziotis (Nikos Stavridis) is a shopkeeper who owes the whole market and is in danger of going to jail, both because of his creditors and because of IKA and the tax administration. Iro is his secretary and fiancee, because she is poor, decides to make a rich marriage with an arrangement. The mid-person is Antigone, who wants to get Charilaos to marry her half-sister, Ismene, who is in love with her peer-to-peer Thanos. Iro and Ismene, who have learned about Charilaos' plans, conspire to prevent unwanted developments. Charilaos is forced to portray the madman and closes himself in a freak. His lenders, once informed that they are crazy, change their attitude towards them, they are promised and relieved of their debts, thus escaping the prison and marrying Iro.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mad
Similar in 89%
Mr. Sycamore (1975)
Plot Summary:
Jason Robards is a man who decides he'd rather be a tree.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: cult film
Similar in 90%
Die Physiker (1964)
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags:
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Move (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young playwright who writes porno novels to overcome a writer's block, lives the fantasies of one of his books, while trying to move with his wife from one apartment into a larger one.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Snide and Prejudice (1997)
Plot Summary:
At a mental institution, the resident physician, Dr Cohen, encourages his patients who believe they are important Nazi figures to act out their fantasies. The therapy sessions show Hitler consolidating his power by assembling his gang of supporters; however, they are interrupted at times, once because Davidson's uniform is at the dry cleaners, and another time because a patient who believes he is Picasso interrupts a session.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film, black comedy
Similar in 80%
The Switch or How to Alter Your Ego (1974)
Plot Summary:
A shy, withdrawn female scientist invents a formula that turns her into a horny, oversexed nymphomaniac.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
Similar in 89%
The Spousals of God (1999)
Plot Summary:
After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, a man (Joao Cesar Monteiro) wins his buddy's girlfriend (Joana Azevedo) through a roll of the dice.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: eros, slow cinema, aesthetic, masterpiece
Similar in 86%
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982)
Plot Summary:
Theseus has defeated Hippolyta in battle, and now claims her as his bride. But before the nuptials begin, a pair of young lovers flee into the forest to be married, pursued by a pair of not-lovers. There, in the forest, live the fairies whose lives are in turmoil, due to the heated lovers' quarrels between their rulers, Oberon and Titania. Between the fairies, an ass's head, the lovers, a troupe of unsuspecting would-be actors, and a magic flower that can make people fall in love at first sight, it's a merry night of chaos and comedy until everything is put to rights.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration:
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One Foot in Heaven (1991)
Plot Summary:
Bull Webster is a taxi driver with some work problems on his hands: the Spider Corporation, a giant financial holding company, has decided to buy out his taxi co-operative in order to make it go bankrupt and purchase its land at a low cost. Bull is almost driven to desperation, but then he finds the winning ticket in his pocket to a lottery with the biggest prize of all time: $150 million! With money like that, he can afford to make his enemies eat their plan. But at this point, Bull's future begins to interest those responsible for the destiny of human affairs: Heaven and Hell send an Angel and a Devil to tempt Bull into evil or to convince him to do good. The appearance of these characters in earthly events creates a maze of situations that are amusing, dramatic and full of action. And for once it's the humans, and especially our hero Bull, who come out winning.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: freeze frame, feel good, urban fantasy
Similar in 80%
Ghost Writer (1989)
Plot Summary:
A writer moves into a Malibu beach house, and comes up against the ghost of an actress who supposedly had committed suicide there 30 years previously, but had been murdered by her boyfriend. The ghost asks the writer's help in proving her boyfriend the killer.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 308
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags:
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The Tragic Burlesque (1995)
Plot Summary:
In a way of protesting for inhuman living conditions and the shortage of medications caused by the disintegration of Yugoslavia and its sanctions, a doctor in a hospital decides to close his clinic for mental illness. His wish is to return the patients to their homes or give them to someone who is willing to accept them temporarily.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Bulgaria, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: offbeat, black comedy
Similar in 84%
Delirious (1991)
Plot Summary:
A soap opera writer gets hit on the head and wakes up as a character in his own show.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, spoof, metafiction, soap opera, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious, hilarious, erotic
Similar in 89%
Harvey (1996)
Plot Summary:
An unlikely hero, Elwood P. Dowd. This mild-mannered-but-eccentric bachelor has, for several years, happily kept company with Harvey, a six-foot-tall rabbit that only he can see. All's well until Elwood's social-climbing sister, Veta, and her teenage daughter, Myrtle Mae, come to live with him and fear his odd behavior will undermine their ambitions. When Elwood disrupts the ladies' first afternoon tea party by introducing wealthy Aunt Ethel Chauvenet to Harvey, Veta sees that something must be done right away. She takes compliant Elwood to the Chumley Rest Home, leaving him in the car while she tells a Dr. Sanderson all about Elwood and Harvey. Sanderson concludes that Veta is the psychotic one and has her carted off to be committed. Meanwhile Elwood is treated with respect and dignity in light of his sister's mental state. When Dr. Chumley, head of the rest home, returns and hears of the case, he draws the opposite conclusion-that Elwood in fact hallucinates.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Similar in 81%
Chatterbox! (1977)
Plot Summary:
A young woman who works in a beauty parlor discovers that her vagina can talk, which causes her no end of trouble.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, surreal, grindhouse, slapstick comedy, entertaining, absurd, crying, slapstick, weeping, feel good
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Asylum Seekers (2009)
Plot Summary:
Six people on the verge of a breakdown decide to check themselves into an insane asylum, only to discover there is just room for one.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, surprise ending, mindfuck, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, cult film
Similar in 88%
School Spirit (1985)
Plot Summary:
The only thing keeping Billy Batson from the girl of his dreams is one little condom -- or rather the lack of one. Lucky Billy finds one at an all-night roadhouse -- but speeding back to his girl, he is killed in a head-on collision with a truck. Now invisible, Billy must find his sweetheart and rekindle her fire -- but when he comes back to school as a ghost, his first stop is the girl's locker room, and he's beginning to "see" all the possibilities!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, dark comedy, cult classic, independent film, crying, psychotronic, teen sex comedy, urban fantasy, teen comedy
Similar in 85%
Accidental Incest (2014)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Richard Griffin.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, black comedy, psychotronic, independent film, amateur film, urban fantasy
Similar in 87%
Hunk (1987)
Plot Summary:
A "devilish" tale about an ordinary guy who is visited by a beautiful apparition promising him popularity and drop-dead good looks in exchange for his soul. Transformed overnight into a "hunk," he soon discovers there may be hell to pay for his new lifestyle!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, sexy, humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, freeze frame, eighties
Similar in 90%
Barb and Star Go to Vista Del Mar (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story of best friends Barb and Star, who leave their small midwestern town for the first time to go on vacation in Vista Del Mar, Florida, where they soon find themselves tangled up in adventure, love, and a villain’s evil plot to kill everyone in town.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, parody, surreal, anamorphic, cult classic
Similar in 85%
Christmas Every Day (1996)
Plot Summary:
Billy Jackson is not having a good Christmas. He got a basketball for Christmas and just cannot make a jump shot. His Uncle David is coming to town to open a Valu-Mall, which will put his Dad's store out of business. When he tells his little sister Sarah that there is no Santa she makes a wish that it would be Christmas every day. Billy now has to relive Christmas Day over and over again.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
Similar in 76%
The Night Before (2015)
Plot Summary:
In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parties since their yearly reunion might be coming to an end.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, funny, talky, melancholic, stylized, intense, not serious, cult classic, hilarious
Similar in 84%
This Is the End (2013)
Plot Summary:
While attending a party at James Franco's house, Seth Rogen, Jay Baruchel and many other celebrities are faced with the apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 430000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, dark comedy, entertaining, not serious, hilarious, horror comedy, feel good, apocalyptic, humorous
Similar in 89%
How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
Plot Summary:
Pressure from his boss and a skin-cream client produces a talking boil on a British adman's neck.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: satirical, dark comedy, light, enigmatic, ironic, talky, cynical, humorous, surreal, black comedy
Similar in 75%
Switch (1991)
Plot Summary:
Steve Brooks, a sexist womanizer, is killed by a group of his angry former lovers. In heaven, he makes a bargain with God for redemption and agrees to return to Earth. Once there, he must have a sincere relationship with a female and make her fall in love with him. If not, Steve's soul will become the property of the devil. But the devil hedges his bet, and Steve is reincarnated as a woman named Amanda Brooks.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, satirical, semi serious, funny, inspirational, sex comedy, parody, anamorphic, feel good
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Hot to Trot (1988)
Plot Summary:
Fred P. Chaney receives as inheritance after the death of his mother a speaking horse that also has good knowledge about the stock-market. With the help of this horse Fred gains a lot at the stock-market of Chicago.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, offbeat, feel good, not serious, scary, parody, funny, light, inspirational, romantic
Similar in 89%
Like Father Like Son (1987)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Jack Hammond has best chances to become medical superintendent in the clinic. So he's completely absorbed in his work and has no understanding for his teenage son Chris' problems with school. By accident one of them drinks a brain-exchanging serum, and it switches their identities. This leads of course to extraordinary complications in school and at work, but also to insight in the problems and feelings of each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, not serious, inspirational, disgusting, independent film, feel good, unusual plot structure, melancholic, splatter
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Maid to Order (1987)
Plot Summary:
Spoiled Jessie Montgomery, whose wild behavior and spending excesses cause her well-meaning but exasperated millionaire father Charles to wish he never had her, is visited by fairy godmother Stella. In an effort to save Jessie, Stella casts a spell which causes Charles to no longer have a daughter. Jessie, now penniless and without a friend, must take a maid's job to earn a living, and hopefully to learn her lesson.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sweet, entertaining, melancholic, light, romantic, sentimental, humorous, feel good, semi serious, independent film
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Monkeybone (2001)
Plot Summary:
After a car crash sends repressed cartoonist Stu Miley (Fraser) into a coma, he and the mischievous Monkeybone, his hilariously horny alter-ego, wake up in a wacked-out waystation for lost souls. When Monkeybone takes over Stu's body and escapes to wreak havoc on the real world, Stu has to find a way to stop him before his sister pulls the plug on reality forever!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: stylized, humorous, absurd, not serious, cult classic, black comedy, dark comedy, surreal, funny, adult animation
Similar in 75%
The Fisher King (1991)
Plot Summary:
Two troubled men face their terrible destinies and events of their past as they join together on a mission to find the Holy Grail and thus to save themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, inspirational, compassionate, disturbing, dark comedy, clever, melancholic, cerebral, thought provoking