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Plot Summary:
A teenage girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" meets a dashing rebel who teaches her a more sinister way to play social politics.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Voyage of the Rock Aliens (1984)
Plot Summary:
Aliens land in the mythical town of "Speelburgh, U.S.A" searching for the source of rock & roll. What they find is a gang of teenagers, led by Dee Dee (the inimitable Pia Zadora) and Frankie, along with Frankie's posse/rock band, the Pack. The leader of the aliens takes a shine to Dee Dee and all sorts of trouble breaks out.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: horror musical, absurd, freeze frame, spoof, parody, independent film, urban fantasy
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Strangers in Paradise (1984)
Plot Summary:
Mesmerist Jonathan Sage escapes Nazi Germany via a cryogenic tube. In the 1980s, a group of Fascist Americans thaw him out, hoping to use him as a way to rid their community of homosexuals, free-thinkers, and other "radicals." The story is interspersed with many rock dance numbers. -Joe Arthur(via imdb).
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: political, independent film, scary, rough, bleak, serious, suspenseful
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Boy Genius (2019)
Plot Summary:
A twelve year-old child prodigy teams up with a quirky retiree to solve a crime and save his family from splitting up.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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It's Trad, Dad! (1962)
Plot Summary:
The hero and heroine want to popularize a trad jazz in their town. Some older people feel displeased about a trad jazz, and prevent their trying. The hero and heroine go to London television studio to ask trad jazz musician to support their trial.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, black and white, cult film
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Diggin' Up Business (1990)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy set in a funeral home.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film
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George Carlin: 40 Years of Comedy (1997)
Plot Summary:
George Carlin celebrates 40 years of comedy and here, he presents 2 new standup bits, comedian Jon Stewart gives an interview with him, and we look at his old comedy work through the last 4 decades.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, live comedy
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Can Heironymus Merkin Ever Forget Mercy Humppe and Find True Happiness? (1969)
Plot Summary:
Heironymus Merkin screens an autobiographical movie of his life, growth and moral decay.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, absurd, weird, cult film
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Oh! Calcutta! (1972)
Plot Summary:
Based on the controversial off-Broadway musical comedy revue, "Oh! Calcutta! is a series of musical numbers about sex and sexual mores. Most of the skits feature one or more performers in either a state of undress, simulating sex, or both.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: erotic, sketch comedy, independent film
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The Excitement of the Do-Re-Mi-Fa Girl (1985)
Plot Summary:
A country girl visits a college in Tokyo in search of her high school band heartthrob. In the course of finding him, she runs into various odd inhabitants of the college campus--a constantly horny coed, a psychology professor in search of the theory of shame, and of course her Mr. Yoshioka who still sings but has become an elusive campus nobody. Other students also come in and out, engaged in a rather bored campus life-- flirting, having sex, joining campus group activities, running around posing as revolutionaries.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Surf Party (1964)
Plot Summary:
Arizona youth enjoy sun, surf and music in Malibu, Calif.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Waitress: The Musical (2023)
Plot Summary:
A waitress and expert pie-maker dreams of a way out of her small town and rocky marriage.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 144 min
Plot tags:
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Shock Treatment (1981)
Plot Summary:
Janet and Brad Majors, unhappily married, are separated after appearing on a game show. Janet becomes a superstar while Brad is thrown into a mental hospital. But what does fast food magnate Farley Flavors have up his sleeve?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surreal, cult classic, allegory, spoof, horror musical, black comedy, horror comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous
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Muscle Beach Party (1964)
Plot Summary:
Local beach-goers find that their beach has been taken over by a businessman training a stable of body builders.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, freeze frame, campy
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Blue Hawaii (1961)
Plot Summary:
Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, melancholic, stylized, intense, feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, psychotronic, retro
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Teenage Millionaire (1961)
Plot Summary:
A teenager whose father is a millionaire radio station owner secretly records a song and plays it on one of his father's stations. It becomes a hit.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Without You I'm Nothing (1990)
Plot Summary:
Sandra Bernhard stars in a studio version of her off-Broadway show, blending re-enactments of the original show's pieces with concept vignettes and 'testimonials' to underscore the relationship between a performer and an audience.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, not serious, semi serious, biting
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Victor/Victoria (1995)
Plot Summary:
An out-of-work singer, Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews), meets a just-fired, flamboyant gay man in a diner in 1920's Paris. He convinces her to pretend to be a man who is a female impersonator in order to get a job. The act is a hit in a local nightclub, but things get complicated when a gangster and nightclub owner from Chicago, King Marchan (Michael Nouri) falls in-love with "her." Flimed live on stage on Broadway, 1995.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, remake of american film, queer cinema
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Beach Ball (1965)
Plot Summary:
Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang
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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas (1982)
Plot Summary:
The town sheriff and a madame team up to stop a television evangelist from shutting down the local whorehouse, the famed "Chicken Ranch.".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, entertaining, satirical, sexy, retro, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy
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True Stories (1986)
Plot Summary:
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cult classic, surreal, postmodern, parody, offbeat, feel good, humorous, witty, not serious, absurd
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Viva Las Vegas (1964)
Plot Summary:
Lucky Jackson arrives in town with his car literally in tow ready for the first Las Vegas Grand Prix - once he has the money to buy an engine. He gets the cash easily enough but mislays it when the pretty swimming pool manageress takes his mind off things. It seems he will lose both race and girl, problems made more difficult by rivalry from Elmo Mancini, fellow racer and womaniser.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: retro, psychotronic, hilarious, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, exciting
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Back to the Beach (1987)
Plot Summary:
Cowabunga! The surfing '60s ride into the new wave as Frankie and Annette star in this hip update of their old-time, good-time beach movies. With special appearances by Bob Denver, Tony Dow, Pee-Wee Herman, Jerry Mathers and other familiar faces. Frankie and Annette grow up and have kids in the midwest. They return to LA to visit their daughter who is shacked up with her boyfriend and tries to hide the fact. They begin to have marriage problems when Frankie runs into Connie, who has erected a shrine to him in her night club. Their punk son has joined up with the local surf toughs, and things all come to a head when the toughs challenge the good guys to a surfing duel.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spoof, humorous, offbeat, feel good, realistic, witty, not serious, parody, light, sexy
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It's a Bikini World (1967)
Plot Summary:
Male chauvinist Mike attempts to get an intelligent burgeoning feminist Delilah into his harem. When she resists, Mike then poses as his brother Herbert, but in the process falls in love with Delilah.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
Plot Summary:
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, retro, black and white, hilarious, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, satirical, vintage
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Cry-Baby (1990)
Plot Summary:
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, light, parody, teen, feel good, surreal, cult classic, dark comedy, retro
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Three O'Clock High (1987)
Plot Summary:
A high school nerd, Jerry Mitchell (Siemaszko) is assigned to write a piece for the school paper about new boy Buddy Revell (Tyson), who is rumored to be a psychopathic nutcase. When Jerry accidentally touches Buddy, he says that they must fight in the parking lot at 3pm. Jerry will just about do anything to avoid the confrontation.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: black comedy, entertaining, cult classic, clever, feel good, funny, colorful, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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School Daze (1988)
Plot Summary:
In the South of the United States are taking place confrontations between two groups of students who have different ideas and are not able to accept the one of the oponent.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: hood, cult classic, black comedy, social, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, light
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Heathers (1988)
Plot Summary:
A girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" of her school meets a rebel who teaches her a more devious way to play social politics: by killing the popular kids.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, cult classic, teen, witty, semi serious, aesthetic, realistic, retro, parody
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Bottoms (2023)
Plot Summary:
Two unpopular queer girls in their senior year start a fight club to try to impress and hook up with cheerleaders so they can lose their virginities before graduation.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: witty, sex comedy, dark comedy, queer cinema, teen comedy
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Spork (2010)
Plot Summary:
A frizzy-haired, pink-cheeked outcast named Spork navigates her way through the annals of junior high.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, independent film, captivating, queer cinema