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Plot Summary:
At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planning to publish a book which might ruin the family name forever. Moreover, the Earl's nephew might cause the family some major damage by getting married to a terribly unsuitable chorus girl. An adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's novel of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
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X-paroni (1964)
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Baron Wilhelm von Tandem, CEO of the Tandem Corporation, gets mixed up with a spitting image of himself, an innocent country boy Kalle. Both characters conveniently amnesiac, they start living each other's lives and dating each other's girlfriends, succeeding in their new roles better than in their original ones. Level-headed Kalle soon spots the bad guys who are after the Baron's money, and the Baron brings innovative ideas to the countryside.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 85 min
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Rebecca's Daughters (1992)
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The Rebecca riots took place in the rural parts of west Wales, including Pembrokeshire, Cardiganshire, and Carmarthenshire, around 1839-1843. Based on a script that Dylan Thomas wrote for Gainsborough Pictures in 1948, "Rebecca's Daughters" explores the tension between the working and ruling classes in 19th century Wales. Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by something called "The Whitman Turnpike Trust", headed by the drunken Lord Sarn (Peter O'Toole). So Raine dresses up as a woman, calls himself Rebecca, and leads the common people to victory over their masters.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mrs. Rettich, Czerni and I (1998)
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Three women travel together to Spain for different reasons. The pregnant Mrs. Rettich wants to marry her Spanish lover in Barcelona, while Czerni, bored by her husband Bart, wants to have fun. Sophie, the 1st person narrator, tries to forget the man she admires not knowing that he and Bart follow the crazy ladies.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
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Mad Cows (1999)
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When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up in jail. Losing custody of her infant child, Maddy hatches a scheme to break out of prison with the assistance of her friend Gillian, who's avoiding the law herself for credit card fraud. Now Maddy has to find the couple who have adopted her son and avoid falling in love with selfish Alex all over again.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Swingin' Swappers (1973)
Plot Summary:
German softcore sex comedy about... well, spouse swapping, one would assume.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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The Marital Crisis of Numbskull Emptybrook (1981)
Plot Summary:
Uuno's nose is proved to be so good, that he can smell behind the display window what goods are on the other side. With this fabulous smell talent Uuno is chosen to Police's police-dog school as a student among the other dogs. Meanwhile Director Tuura, Uuno's father-in-law has been chosen to a very high office and thinks that Uuno is just gaining bad reputation for him, so he decides to broake Uuno's and Elisabet's marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 866
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 91 min
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The Marriage-Go-Round (1961)
Plot Summary:
An anthropology professor and his professor wife have the perfect marriage--until a Swedish colleague's daughter comes to visit. Not only is the little girl all grown up, but she's ready to start a family--with him!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Cheaper to Keep Her (1980)
Plot Summary:
A newly divorced swinger on the prowl goes to work as a detective for a neurotic feminist attorney.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Three for Two (1975)
Plot Summary:
THREE FOR TWO presents Lucy with the Great One, Jackie Gleason, combining their comedic talents for the first time, in a trio of comedy-dramas centered on the various aspects of marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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An Ideal Husband (1981)
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Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs. Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min
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Jimmy the Kid (1982)
Plot Summary:
Gang of bumbling crooks kidnap a bratty little kid, find out they got more than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Odd Job (1978)
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Arthur Harris is a happily married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife, Fiona, is leaving him. Devastated he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few setbacks and while he is trying to electrocute himself with a lamp, the door bell rings. An odd man in a leather coat asks if there are any odd jobs that he can perform. Arthur hires the man to kill him. The next day his wife returns, but the man he hired is still trying to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody
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My Uncle Benjamin (1969)
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Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract, and marriage does not fit in with Benjamin's spirit of independence. For the same reason he resists the efforts of his sister Bettine to marry him off to Arabelle, the daughter of old Dr. Minxit. Benjamin does agree to go and meet the girl. But that evening his sister finds him at the inn together with Manette, who is arrested by her father. So she decides to go with Benjamin herself. But as result of an incident with the fat Marquis puts paid to the expedition. Benjamin is subjected by the Marquis to a humiliating practical joke. Benjamin is determined to got his revenge. He succeeds thanks to the gorgeous Vicomte Hector de Pont-Cassé, who also helps Manette with her problems against her father. But Benjamin is now arrested by the Marquis.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961)
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Don Camillo is now a bishop, Peppone is now a senator, but their rivalry is as fierce as when they were just a village priest, and a village administrator. Don Camillo learns that Peppone is about to promote the building of a communal house on the place of an old, derelict church, and that spurns the old flame. They descend from Rome onto quiet Brescello, and they will agitate their faithful hosts, christians against communists, using all devious ways. Even Christ makes a cameo appearance, when things are going a trifle too far.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Cha Cha Cha (1989)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä (Matti Pellonpää), a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an American aunt of his. The sum 1,000,000 Fmk would be his, if only he meets the qualifications set by his aunt. He must show that he is capable of 'living properly' and possessing a 'respectable occupation and a family he can support'. Otherwise the money would go to a foundation the chairman of which the lawyer himself happens to be!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 91 min
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Brother for All the Money (1979)
Plot Summary:
Honza and Zuzana are very young husband and wife. They have a little daughter of whom willingly occasionally take care the grandparents and Honza's fifteen-year-old brother Martin. Zuzana continues studying and Honza devotes all weekends as an amateur competitor to the motor-cycles at the speedway. Zuzana is not interested in motor-cycles. Martin holds responsible for his brother's marriage and at the advice of his friend Magda, who is of the same age, invites her sister-in-law to the club of Hucul horses so that she does not feel bored. But by misfortunes and unexplained quarrels both young husband and wife start being jealous of one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min
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The American Beauty (1961)
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Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Love and Marriage (1964)
Plot Summary:
An anthology comedy with segments about love and marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Round Numbers (1992)
Plot Summary:
A housewife who despises society's obsession with health and looks suspects her husband of cheating on her with a hot model in a local health spa. She decides to infiltrate the spa, find the woman and get her revenge. But is it that simple?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Truffle Runners (2018)
Plot Summary:
Steve and Gene have to deliver an expensive box of stolen chocolates to a notoriously violent gangster. Everything is going according to plan until Gene's wife mistakenly assumes the box is a romantic gift from Gene, and eats all of the chocolates.
IMDB Rating:
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Country: USA
Duration:
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Good Neighbor Sam (1964)
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To help his divorced neighbor claim a substantial inheritance, a family man poses as her husband. The ruse spills over into his career in advertising, and his recent promotion relies on his wholesome and moral appearance.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, retro, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy, vintage
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The Clandestine Marriage (1998)
Plot Summary:
A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: costume drama, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, stylized, semi serious, period piece, period drama
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Frankie and Johnny Are Married (2003)
Plot Summary:
Television director/producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune starring his wife, Lisa Chess. But their attempts to stage the play and work on their marriage keep running afoul, and everything's threatened by their difficult male lead, Alan Rosenberg. Michael's best hope, as a husband and producer, is to step into the character that Alan has abandoned.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, talky, realistic, independent film
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The People We Hate at the Wedding (2022)
Plot Summary:
A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, it turns out to be just what this singular family needs to reconnect.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Falling in Love with the Girl Next Door (2006)
Plot Summary:
Mark Lucas and Theresa Connolly fall in love but their overbearing mothers ruin their wedding plans and possibly their future together.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 702
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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With Open Arms (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and calling the wealthiest people to welcome home the families in need. While he promotes his book during a televised debate, his opponent criticized him for not applying what he himself advocates. While stuck, Jean-Étienne Fougerole accepts the challenge, for fear of being discredited. The same evening, a family of Roma rings the door of his Marnes-la-Coquette villa and the writer feels obliged to house them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: political, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, happy, intellectual
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A Midwinter's Tale (1995)
Plot Summary:
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: black and white, clever, witty, talky, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, light
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Boys' Night Out (1962)
Plot Summary:
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, retro, satirical, black and white, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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The First Wives Club (1996)
Plot Summary:
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining, hilarious, captivating, romantic comedy, sweet, satirical
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Relative Values (2000)
Plot Summary:
A comedy of discriminating taste and dirty little secrets, the story is set in 1952 England, where Nigel, the Earl of Marshwood, woos Hollywood star Miranda Frayle, upsetting both his mother, Countess Felicity of Marshwood, and her former love, fellow Hollywood star Don Lucas. Right before the engagement party to be held at Marshwood, Moxie, the Countess's personal maid and best friend reveals that Miranda is her estranged sister. Crestwell, the Countess's butler, quickly devises a plan-but an inebriated Lucas's arrival at Marshwood to try to talk to Miranda causes all chaos to break loose.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, witty, stylized, independent film, clever