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Plot Summary:
Based on the book "Ich bin dann mal weg" by Hape Kerkeling where the author describes his journey on the Way of St. James, a pilgrimage route, and the people he encounters there.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Mrs. Rettich, Czerni and I (1998)
Plot Summary:
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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Willi and the Windsors (1996)
Plot Summary:
The British parliament has decided to get rid of the royal family. All of them have to leave the county and so they move to Germany, where they want to live by their distant relatives, the Bettenberg family. But these are not amused about their snobbish visitors, which all want to reside in their little house without doing any work to earn their living.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Comedy
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 85 min
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Go Trabi Go (1991)
Plot Summary:
Family Struutz lives in Bitterfeld (GDR). After the fall of the wall, they take the opportunity to go on holiday with their car, an old Trabant. They simply want to visit Italy. But there are some incidents during their journey. (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Single Bells (1997)
Plot Summary:
Kati, successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend since eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at all, they start an argument. Kati finally decides to go to her sister Luise on Christmas instead of flying to Mauritius with Jonas. This turns out to be a bad idea because she isn't the only guest Luise's family has to bear... Kati, successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend since eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at all, they start an argument. Kati finally decides to go to her sister Luise on Christmas instead of flying to Mauritius with Jonas. This turns out to be a bad idea because she isn't the only guest Luise's family has to bear.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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A Bun in the Oven (2016)
Plot Summary:
There is one thing that Nicole, who is soon turning fifty, would have loved to be spared, is to learn that the symptoms that have been ruining her life for some time are not those of a latent menopause, but those of a real pregnancy! What a drag….
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: crying
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A Houseboat to Fall in Love (2009)
Plot Summary:
Three children of a single father escape from the town in order to find a houseboat which was once owned by their mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Hotel Lux (2011)
Plot Summary:
In 1938 Hans Zeisig, an apolitical comedian, impersonator and cabaret actor, flees with a Russian passport (instead of American, which he would have preferred) from Nazi-Berlin, and finds himself in the legendary Hotel Lux, the 'lost paradise' of the Comintern, in Moscow. Everyone believes that Zeisig is a man named Hansen, Hitler's personal astrologer. But Zeisig quickly realizes that he's gone from the frying pan into the fire. In the Hotel Lux he meets his friends Frida and later Meyer again, still passionate communists. For the three idealists an adventure between love and death begins to run his course.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, Liechtenstein, France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, sexual
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Meier (1986)
Plot Summary:
Meier, a paperhanger in East Berlin, inherits from his father in West Berlin. With this money he wants to fulfil himself the dream of his life: a journey around the world. He buys a forged West German passport and pretends to go on a trip to Bulgaria while he really is off to see the free world. When he wants to return to East Berlin he finds himself in an unbelievable predicament and his double life begins. He can't keep away from his East German friends. As with all the best comedies, the action builds up to an eventual crisis. It's a light comedy, which won several national Film Academy Awards. The film is very political, with lots of political jokes/innuendos which only Germans will understand. One is left feeling what a total obscenity that stupid Wall was, dividing one people for 30 years (1-2 Generations) simply by the coincidence on where you just happen to be in the early morning on the 13th August 1961.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 99 min
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Club Las Piranjas (1995)
Plot Summary:
Karl-Heinz, a filling-station attendant, and his family, Herta, a retiree, Kurt, a drugstore branch manager, and Margot, a divorced man-hunter, have only one thing in common: they have booked a holiday at Club Las Piranjas, where they want to relax from their nerve-racking occupations. But there are three people knowing a way to prevent this. Most notably the two animators Edwin and Biggy, who don't allow any amusement outside their own plans, and of course the always drunken club chief Mrs. Wenger, whose only thought is, that there shouldn't be any reclamation from the travel agency. Apart from the scruffy condition of the Club (no water in the pool, etc). and the obscure Club activities involving Biggy and Edwin, the vacation becomes a complete horror trip, with only one end in sight, which is to part from the club as soon as possible. Written by Stefan Fey.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
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Dave Gorman: Googlewhack Adventure (2004)
Plot Summary:
Dave Gorman tells the story of his attempt to find 10 'Googlewhacks' (websites containing two unique words when searched on Google) and meet their owners before his 32nd birthday, in order to win a bet.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: live comedy
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Die Aufschneider (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two hospitals that lie next to each other get told that only one will be kept open. Both have a few days to prove they're the better hospital. Thus, shenanigans arise between doctors, nurses and hospital directors.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Volcano (2013)
Plot Summary:
The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull causes major disruptions to travelers' plans around the world. For Alain and Valérie, it's a catastrophe. Because to make it to the small Greek village in time for their daughter's wedding, this divorced couple, whose mutual hatred knows no bounds, will be obliged to set out on the road together.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, absurd, cynical, romantic, realistic, semi serious
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Oh No Not Rudy Again! (2015)
Plot Summary:
55 year old Bernd is looking forward to a quiet weekend at the lake with his best friend Klaus, 56 and his brother Peter, 53. But when Peter decides to bring along Casanova Murat, 37 hopes for a harmonic get together wane thanks to Bernd's dislike for him. He calms down a bit when Klaus opens up about his plan to extract revenge on Murat for breaking his daughter's heart. Upon arrival at the cabin tensions are high. So, in order to make the best of the trip, Bernd decides to go fishing. However, after an accident with the water swing on the pond, an unconscious Klaus is saved from drowning by Murat, landing Murat on Bernd's good side. The next morning Klaus regains consciousness asking for his dog Rudy. Rudy is dead and has been for two years. In order not to upset Klaus the four men go on a wild goose chase searching for Rudy, while they get tangled up deeper and deeper in their web of lies. They try to reason with their friend but their friendship has to survive a hard test. Or is.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, light, feel good, disturbing, contemplative
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Messy Christmas (2007)
Plot Summary:
A holiday celebration with the extended family gets stretched to the breaking point in this comedy from Germany. Sara is happily married to Jan, though this wasn't always the case -- Sara is Jan's second wife, while Sara has three ex-husbands, Gunnar, Andi and Erich, and she and Jan are raising children from each of their previous marriages. Jan is less than thrilled with the prospect of spending the holidays with Sara's mother, but things get worse when he learns his wife has planned a surprise for Christmas eve -- they'll be joined by Gunnar, Andi and Erich, as well as Erich's new wife Pauline, Andi's current spouse Rita and his own ex-wife, Eva. To call the atmosphere uncomfortable is an understatement, and things only get worse when Sara announces she's pregnant, which is quite troubling for Jan since he's been waiting for the right time to tell her he had a vasectomy several months before.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Resturlaub (2011)
Plot Summary:
Der 37-jährige Bamberger Brauerei-Marketingmanager Pitschi Greulich will weder mit seiner Freundin Sabine Kinder kriegen noch das von den Eltern geforderte Eigenheim bauen und schon gar nicht zum elften Mal in Folge mit seinen Kumpels in den Mallorca-Urlaub düsen. Also disponiert Pitschi am Flughafen kurzfristig um und landet mit einem Mal in Argentinien, wo er gedenkt, ein neues Leben zu beginnen. Doch in der Ferne merkt der krisengebeutelte Thirtysomething, dass all das, was er eigentlich sucht, längst zu Hause auf ihn wartet.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic
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Critical Condition (1987)
Plot Summary:
Eddie is a con artist. But this time he's framed and comes before a judge. By claiming insanity, he hopes to get off the hook. He manages end up in a hospital for a mental examination. That night, a storm breaks out over New York, and the electricity to the hospital is broken. In the ensuing chaos that follows, Eddie is taken for a doctor. Suddenly he is in charge of a whole hospital!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, intense, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, black comedy, realistic, sexy, feel good
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Complete Idiot (2007)
Plot Summary:
Based on Tommy Jaud's bestselling novel, this comedy focuses on a dispassionate clerk and his set-backs in life. 29-year-old Simon works in a phone shop, but his thoughts just circle around finding a new girl-friend after being left by his last one year ago. While his Croatian cleaner tries to procure him, his efforts to chat up women in clubs also fail. However, he finds the woman of his dreams (and mother of their future children) in his most hated coffee shop, although not having a clue how to win her heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, sexual, sexy, hot
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Russian Disco (2012)
Plot Summary:
Russendisko is the story of Wladimir, Andrej and Mischa. Three young Russian friends, who move from Moscow to Berlin in a lucky wave of emigration right after the fall of the Berlin wall. They take their chance looking for a better life and find themselves involved in the tales of everyday lunacy on the streets of Berlin and its spirit of the early nineties. Russendisko is a modern fairy tale, a story of friendship, of love, of dreams and the search for happiness and its fulfillment. The film is based on the mega selling novel by Wladimir Kaminer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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No More Mr. Nice Guy (1993)
Plot Summary:
Die Brüder Kipp (Joachim Król) und Most (Horst Krause) machen sich auf den Weg, um das Gut ihrer Oma zu erben. Auf diesem Weg begegnen sie Viktor (Konstantin Kotljarov), einem desertierten russischen Soldaten, der die beiden kidnappt und Nadine (Sophie Rois), die sich ihnen freiwillig anschließt. Zwischendurch gibt es noch einen Zusammenstoß mit Straßenrowdies, was diesen allerdings nicht gerade gut bekommt. Auf ihrem Weg zum Erbe (oder was davon übrig bleibt) geraten die Protagonisten in manche scheinbar ausweglose Situation.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, realistic, not serious
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Off Course (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two young Spanish men, with a university education, are tired of unemployment and decide to move to Germany. But soon they will find out that finding a better living is not as easy as they expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, feel good, funny, social, realistic, not serious
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Suck Me Shakespeer (2013)
Plot Summary:
A comedy that follows an ex-con who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, humorous, romantic, not serious, witty, realistic, crying, fairy tale, sexy
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Wedding Fever in Campobello (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Jan decides to marry his girl-friend Sara, he is not aware of his opponent: her father, who is an Italian.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, realistic, feel good, captivating, semi serious
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Men in the City (2009)
Plot Summary:
The comedy about men and their struggles in life and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, not serious
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Buddymoon (2016)
Plot Summary:
When David is left by his fiancé just days before the wedding, his relentlessly upbeat best man, Flula, insists that the pair go on David's previously planned honeymoon: a seven-day backpacking trip through the breathtaking mountains of Oregon. Their adventures are bookended with passages from William Clark's diary describing his friendship with Meriwether Lewis and the terrain they crossed during their expedition.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Last Stop for Paul (2006)
Plot Summary:
Charlie and Cliff decide they want to go to the Full Moon party in Thailand. Along the way they travel around the world sprinkling the ashes of their dead friend Paul. As they go from country to country they meet a wide variety of crazy people and have insane adventures.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, scenic, entertaining, road movie, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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One Day in Europe (2005)
Plot Summary:
One day in Europe shows stories set in four European countries. All of them involve thievery in some way or the other. The protagonists are strangers in the respective country. For none of them their stay turns out as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious
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Men Do what Men Can (2012)
Plot Summary:
Confirmed bachelor Paul falls for Iris, who’s unfortunately as good as married. Although his friends have women problems of their own, and all end up moving into Paul’s apartment, they concoct a daring plan to help Paul save Iris from marrying the wrong man.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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The Break Up Man (2013)
Plot Summary:
BREAK UP MAN is an odd couple road movie and tells the story of Henri, who works for a break up agency in Berlin and on behalf of those who want to separate themselves from their future “ex”-partners. To complete his most important mission he is confronted with an unwanted partner, Toto, who spoils more or less everything and makes Henri’s life a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, entertaining, funny, sincere, feel good, captivating, satirical, road movie
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EuroTrip (2004)
Plot Summary:
When Scott learns that his longtime cyber-buddy from Berlin is a gorgeous young woman, he and his friends embark on a trip across Europe.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 219000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, road movie, sex comedy, funny, hilarious, teen, parody, romantic, entertaining, feel good
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The Way (2010)
Plot Summary:
When his son dies while hiking the famed Camino de Santiago pilgrimage route in the Pyrenees, Tom flies to France to claim the remains. Looking for insights into his estranged child’s life, he decides to complete the 500-mile mountain trek to Spain. Tom soon joins up with other travelers and realizes they’re all searching for something.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: emotional, inspirational, thought provoking, uplifting, touching, scenic, poignant, realistic, road movie, sentimental