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Plot Summary:
Hooch is an inexpensive regional exploitation action-comedy (hicksploitation) about a small county in the Appalachians and its many moonshine-brewing inhabitants, who are all struggling to make a living. The older "brewers" are pissed off at the success of handsome young upstart Eddie Joe, who is charmingly stealing their regular customers. Meanwhile, the owner of the country store (also a moonshiner) conspires with a trio of carpetbagging Mafioso who want to take over the moonshine business in that county as an extension of their Northern business ventures.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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POP-U-larity! (2012)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Penskeegee's 25th Annual POP-U-larity singing contest! Join our celebrity host, Marcellas Reynolds from the hit reality show 'Big Brother,' as our contestants compete to become Penskeegee's most POP-U-lar person! This years competitors include four-time diva champion Katrina Whitman aided by her loyal gay assistant Sebastian, cowboy Charlene Hornsby and her new age musical therapist Celeste, and housewife Marcia Anderson singing with her edgy performance artist son, Darque. Our contestants come from all walks of life and some from no walks of life. Each performance is as unique as the package it comes in. Because whatever they decide to do... There's no wrong way to be POP-U-lar!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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MetalHeads: The Good, the Bad, and the Evil (2008)
Plot Summary:
A tragic-comedy that finally offers an accurate representation of the heavy metal lifestyle, Bill Zebub's Metalheads stars Emily Thomas as a hard rock honey who just can't get enough of long hair, ripped jeans, and loud guitars.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Throw Out the Anchor (1974)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about an unemployed widower who heads to Florida with his children for a vacation on a houseboat. When he gets there there is no houseboat.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Better Living (1998)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about families, the elements that bind them together, and about hope in the face of hardship.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Dzidzio Contrabass (2017)
Plot Summary:
When three boneheads decide to make an illegal deal, you will wait for the end of the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, exciting, sentimental, captivating, entertaining, grim, gloomy
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Hot Summer in Barefoot County (1974)
Plot Summary:
A city cop is sent out to the country to go undercover and bust up a ring of moonshiners run by a woman and her three hot teenage daughters.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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I'll Take Sweden (1965)
Plot Summary:
Bob Holcomb will do anything to stop his daughter JoJo from tying the knot with her lazy boyfriend, even move her all the way to Sweden! But once they're "safely" out of the country, JoJo falls for a sly Swedish playboy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Playing for Keeps (1986)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious trio of inner-city high school grads tries to hit the big time by turning a run-down country hotel into a rock & roll resort with around-the-clock music and live entertainment. Standing in their way are fearful townsfolk, unscrupulous businessmen and the tax collector, all threatening to bring the curtain down on the teens' aspirations. But this is one threesome who refuses to give up on their lifelong goal without a fight — and a song.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 740
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Inbred Rednecks (1998)
Plot Summary:
There's rednecks. And redneck jokes. Lots of them. There's also a giant chicken. For some goddamn reason, this thing runs 135 minutes. Over two hours of redneck idiocy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Mad About You (1988)
Plot Summary:
A 1990 film starring Claudia Christian.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film
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The Lustful Vicar (1970)
Plot Summary:
During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who pushed through the accusations and promises that her offspring will avenge her. During the Caroline the priest's son take over as vicar of the congregation, and the daughter of the witch bewitches him so that he suffers constant erection. This is off course very embarrassing for the vicar. The local women has to step in and try to set things right.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
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Preacherman (1971)
Plot Summary:
Phony backwoods preacher Amos T. Huxley stays in a small North Carolina town long enough to fleece his congregation, swindle the profits from a moonshine still, and seduce dumb blonde Mary Lou. Mary Lou's ex-boyfriend becomes suspicious of the preacher and gets the local police to investigate his actions.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Moonrunners (1975)
Plot Summary:
Grady and Bobby Lee run moonshine for Uncle Jesse, who prides himself on his old-school moonshining methods, and refuses to buckle in to the 'big business moonshine' of Jake, who controls these parts for New York mobsters.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 375
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: road movie
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The Feud (1989)
Plot Summary:
All Dolph Beeler wanted was a can of paint remover when he went to Bud Bullard's hardware store in Millville. But a simple misunderstandling between two men has turned into an outright war between two towns in this outrageous comedy of errors.--Summary from container. -- WorldCat.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (1981)
Plot Summary:
Jed Clamplett and his backwoods family help solve an energy crisis in their own rustic ways for their Beverly Hills neighborhood they still cannot adjust to.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Tobacco Roody (1970)
Plot Summary:
A southerner comforting his buxom stepdaughter, his young wife seducing a sheriff and getting sexually blackmailed by a banker, their sleeping daughters approached by drunk farmers. Just another standard day in a hillbilly farm.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: disturbing, independent film, weird
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Merry Christmas (2001)
Plot Summary:
Four Italian men are suddenly involved in awkward situations, while they are spending the Christmas holiday, stuck in Amsterdam.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min
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Country Cuzzins (1972)
Plot Summary:
A young woman living in L.A. goes back to her family's homestead way up in the mountains for a family reunion. At first put off by her relatives' hillbilly ways, she soon decides to let her hair down and join in the fun. Before she leaves she invites them all to stop by her place in Los Angeles if they're ever in the area. They soon are, and they do.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, cult film
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Held Up (1999)
Plot Summary:
While they're on vacation in the Southwest, Rae finds out her man Michael spent their house money on a classic car, so she dumps him, hitching a ride to Vegas for a flight home. A kid promptly steals Michael's car, leaving him at the Zip & Sip, a convenience store. Three bumbling robbers promptly stage a hold up. Two take off with the cash stranding the third, with a mysterious crate, just as the cops arrive. The robber takes the store hostage. As incompetent cops bring in a SWAT team and try a by-the-book rescue, Michael has to keep the robber calm, find out what's in the crate, aid the negotiations, and get back to Rae. The Stockholm Syndrome asserts its effect.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, absurd, semi serious, surprise ending, hood, independent film, realistic, freeze frame, parody
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American Cowslip (2009)
Plot Summary:
In Blythe, California, a small town in the remote California desert, Ethan Inglebrink is an eccentric, agoraphobic heroin addict who is obsessed with his garden. This dark comedy follows the last days of Ethan's life as he struggles to find purpose at a time when it might be too late to even matter.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, cynical, dark comedy, clever, offbeat, witty, independent film
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Houseguest (1995)
Plot Summary:
In hot water with the mob over an unpaid debt, a con man poses as a family friend in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, black comedy, realistic, witty, semi serious, scary, funny, light, clever, feel good
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Protocol (1984)
Plot Summary:
Sweet, unsophisticated Sunny is working as a cocktail waitress. She saves a visiting dignitary and as a reward she gets a top-office job in the Washington beehive. She has to fight against a devious protocol officer but with her charms, she saves the day when she gets involved in an arms deal with an Arab country.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: political, light, happy, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, romantic, sexy
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Bad Georgia Road (1977)
Plot Summary:
New York City woman inherits a moonshine farm in the South.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Soggy Bottom, U.S.A. (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a small Southern town, the local sheriff tries to keep everything peaceful and under control.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Sassy Sue (1973)
Plot Summary:
Pa, a moonshining chicken farmer, is worried that his dim-witted son Junior is becoming way more attracted to their cow Sassy Sue than he should be, so he sets out to gather up all the nubile young farmgirls in the area and get them to show Junior what he's missing.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychotronic, grindhouse, erotic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, independent film
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My Best Day (2012)
Plot Summary:
Karen can't believe that she has to work her receptionist gig on a gorgeous Fourth of July. Then a call comes from her long-lost father and sets in motion a crazy chain of events that will change one small town forever. Meanwhile, Megan must decide between the stability of her longtime girlfriend and the thrill of a new love. Young Ray fends off bullies and organized sports to woo the girl he likes. In a little burg like this, you’d better believe everything is connected, which means that pretty soon everyone is mixed up in each other’s business.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, independent film, contemplative, queer cinema
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The Dukes of Hazzard (2005)
Plot Summary:
Cousins, Bo and Luke Duke, with the help of their eye-catching cousin, Daisy and moonshine-running Uncle Jesse, try and save the family farm from being destroyed by Hazzard County's corrupt commissioner, Boss Hogg. Their efforts constantly find the 'Duke Boys' eluding authorities in 'The General Lee', their 1969 orange Dodge Charger that keeps them one step ahead of the dimwitted antics of the small southern town's Sheriff, Roscoe P. Coltrane.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 81000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, entertaining, hilarious, funny, absurd, ironic, scenic, sex comedy, southern gothic
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Napoleon Dynamite (2004)
Plot Summary:
A listless and alienated teenager decides to help his new friend win the class presidency in their small western high school, while he must deal with his bizarre family life back home.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 233000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, funny, humorous, witty, talky, cult classic, hilarious, teen, melancholic, absurd
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Feed the Fish (2010)
Plot Summary:
Follows the journey of Joe Peterson, a burned out children's book writer who's approaching a midlife crisis.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, independent film
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Mobsters and Mormons (2005)
Plot Summary:
A mafia family from New Jersey is placed in the witness relocation program to an all-Mormon community in Utah.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious