Best movies like How Come Nobody's on Our Side?
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Plot Summary:
Two unemployed stuntmen smuggle marijuana out of Mexico. Early embarassing roles by Reiner and Marshall!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Sharp Stick (2022)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Jo is a naive 26-year-old living on the fringes of Hollywood with her mother and sister. When she begins an affair with her older employer, she is thrust into an education on sexuality, loss and power.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film
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Skidoo (1968)
Plot Summary:
Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, God kidnaps his daughter Darlene on his luxury yacht.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult classic, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, psychedelic, psychotronic, weird, campy
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The Last Request (2006)
Plot Summary:
Pop's last request is for his sons to continue the family name. When his brother dies trying, Jeff leaves the seminary and encounters crazy women and odd ball characters.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Got Papers? (2003)
Plot Summary:
Got Papers?, is a comedy about a newly relocated immigrant from Mexico to the US, who encounters a variety of characters, including a drug smuggling nun using an orphanage as a cover, crooked lawyers, well-meaning angels in heaven and Satan himself. Along the way, our unlikely hero saves the world, when all he wants is to help others and get his "papers".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody
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Friends, Lovers, & Lunatics (1989)
Plot Summary:
An artist fired from his job comes home and discovers that his wife is having an affair and that she is leaving with her lover. He then sets off in pursuit of them, but in the process runs into another woman who is on the run from her crazed lover who is chasing her as much to get his stolen motorcycle back as he is to actually find her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Bunny O'Hare (1971)
Plot Summary:
Bette Davis handles the title role in this highly offbeat crime comedy about two aging hippies who elect to rob a bank to restore Bunny O'Hare's financial affairs after she's been unjustly evicted and rendered homeless. When that heist ends up paying off, rather than take off for the border, Bunny opts for a life of crime with her new partner, Bill Green, played by fellow Oscar-winner Ernest Borgnine.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Hog Wild (1980)
Plot Summary:
A boy (Tim Warner), expelled from military school, returns home to his fathers disappiontment. He discovers that a motorcycle gang has been terrorizing his high school, and falls in love with the girlfriend (Angie Barnes) of the gang's leader (Bull). He battles the gang, and wins both the admiration of his father and the love of the girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Tax Season (1989)
Plot Summary:
A man in a three-piece-suit from Cleveland buys the Hollywood tax service for cheap. His first big client accidentally gives him his account ledger with details of his cocaine trafficking. The pair then run around a country club before opening hours. The remainder of the film is shot entirely in windowless rooms.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Cassanova Was a Woman (2016)
Plot Summary:
A married woman falls in love with another woman but struggles with her bisexual tendencies.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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J-Men Forever (1979)
Plot Summary:
The Lightning Bug has a multi-prong scheme to enslave the earth. First, rock and roll, which the JMen counter with Muzac, then marijuana. Finally, the JMen build a bomb to blow up the moon with, but the Bug beats them to it by self destructing the moon by playing his rock and roll too loud.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: parody, mindfuck, surreal, spy comedy, independent film, spoof, feel good, humorous, witty, not serious
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Arnold's Wrecking Co. (1973)
Plot Summary:
A student tries pot for the first time, loves it and decides to distribute it in a big business kind of way. Soon he has the police and the mafia on his tail.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Tripping Forward (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ford Coleman is a struggling actor in Hollywood who fears never achieving fame other then appearing in local TV commercials. After over a year living in L.A., Ford is broke and in danger of being evicted from his apartment. His slacker roommate Tripp, who has given up his music career out of hopelessness, convinces Tripp to become a drug dealer to buy and sell cocaine to supermodels as their extra income, which brings both Ford and Tripp into danger as they venture into the Los Angeles underworld which also puts a risk on Ford's budding romance with Gwen, a struggling actress herself unaware of Ford's secret arrangement with Tripp.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Fast Charlie... the Moonbeam Rider (1979)
Plot Summary:
A World War I deserter competes in the first long-distance motorcycle race.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Norman... Is That You? (1976)
Plot Summary:
Parents (Redd Foxx, Pearl Bailey) discover their son is gay and lives in Hollywood with his white lover (Dennis Dugan).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, queer cinema
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Midnight Madness (1980)
Plot Summary:
A genius grad student organizes an all-night treasure hunt in which five rival teams composed of colorful oddballs furiously match wits with one another while trying to locate and decipher various cryptic clues planted ingeniously around Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: cult classic, entertaining, sex comedy, feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious, psychotronic, funny, light
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Pink Angels (1971)
Plot Summary:
Six rough and tumble motor cyclists meet at the side of an empty highway to plan their adventurous excursion cycling to Los Angeles. The burly bunch are Michael (John Alderman), David (Tom Basham), Henry (Bob Bihiller), Arnold (Bruce Kimbal), Eddie (Henry Olek) and Ronnie (Maurice Warfield). They're deceptive: although they look like the adventure addicted non-conformists of today out to raise Hell as they brawl their way over countryside and local towns, actually the six are on a different type of trip to the City of the Angels.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: cult classic, surreal, grindhouse, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, queer cinema
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Harper Valley P.T.A. (1978)
Plot Summary:
Stella Johnson is a single mother living in the town of Harper Valley. Most of the townsfolk, particularly those on the school PTA, think she is a little too liberal so they're making things tough for her and her daughter. So she runs for the position of PTA President, which infuriates them. Stella decides to get revenge with the help of her friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, sexual, sexy, suspense
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A Million to Juan (1994)
Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy about an honest Mexican immigrant who struggles without a green card by selling oranges on a street corner. One day a limousine pulls up and he is handed a check for $1,000,000 with instructions that he is to give the check back in 30 days. Initially he uses the check to convince people to extend credit to him. In the meantime he also attracts a woman who is in a dead end relationship with a bossy businessman. At the end of the 30 days, he finds his life in turmoil, the things he got on credit is repossessed, and he is being evicted from his dwelling and being sent back to Mexico.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Serial (1980)
Plot Summary:
It's the end of the 70s. Hippies are assimilating, women are raising their consciousness, and men are becoming confused and ineffectual. Don't expect to be able to keep track of all the names or who's sleeping with who; the picture very skillfully conveys the hopeless muddle through which the many characters move as they try to find themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, cult classic, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, suspense, cult film
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Smile (1975)
Plot Summary:
It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital difficulties and Bob's son is up to some mischief. Could this year's pageant be in jeopardy?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, realistic, biting, satirical, funny, mockumentary, cult classic, clever, offbeat
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Five on the Black Hand Side (1973)
Plot Summary:
Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Gumball Rally (1976)
Plot Summary:
A group of people from different backgrounds have one thing in common: when they hear the world "gumball" whispered by one of the others, they know that it's time for the Gumball Rally: a no-holds barred, secret, winner-take-all rally across the USA.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, cult classic, exciting, humorous, semi serious, fast, cult film
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Nickelodeon (1976)
Plot Summary:
Going from a lawyer to a writer, and then to a film director, is the career path on which we find the bashful Leo Harrigan. But Leo has problems as well, such as being hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, who chooses to reward his attentions by getting herself hitched to Harrigan's vulgar leading man, Buck Greenaway! This movie is based, extremely loosely, on the early career on Cecil B. De Mille. - Written by Alfred Jingle.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Under the Rainbow (1981)
Plot Summary:
In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel Rainbow and overbooks with royalty, assassins, secret agents, Japanese tourists, and munchkins (from the cast of _Wizard of Oz, The (1939)_ ). Secret Service agent Bruce Thorpe and casting director Annie Clark find romance amidst the intrigue and confusion.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, funny, feel good, realistic, not serious, parody, humorous, offbeat, surprise ending, psychological
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Born in East L.A. (1987)
Plot Summary:
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, funny, entertaining, light, talky, feel good, not serious, realistic, witty
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Scenes from a Mall (1991)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about a married couple -- he's a sports lawyer, she's a psychologist -- which takes place on their 16th wedding anniversary, when they make some startling confessions.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: talky, intense, realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, suspense, biting, erotic, light
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Up in Smoke (1978)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed pot-smoking slacker and amateur drummer, Anthony Stoner ditches his strict parents and hits the road, eventually meeting kindred spirit Pedro de Pacas. While the drug-ingesting duo is soon arrested for possession of marijuana, Anthony and Pedro get released on a technicality, allowing them to continue their many misadventures and ultimately compete in a rock band contest, where they perform the raucous tune "Earache My Eye.".
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, grindhouse, cult classic, psychedelic, humorous, parody, road movie, mysterious, psychotronic, sexy
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Divorce American Style (1967)
Plot Summary:
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: funny, retro, romantic comedy, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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Nine to Five (1980)
Plot Summary:
Frank Hart is a pig. He takes advantage in the grossest manner of the women who work with him. When his three assistants manage to trap him in his own house they assume control of his department and productivity leaps, but just how long can they keep Hart tied up?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: funny, light, clever, humorous, witty, retro, feel good, slapstick, romantic comedy, offbeat
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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