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Plot Summary:
Raymond Wong's Mandarin Films jumps back into the Lunar New Year fray with In-Laws, Out-Laws, an ensemble comedy which recalls the Lunar New Year flicks of years past. Like some of the other flicks Wong had his name on (Eighth Happiness, All's Well Ends Well), In-Laws, Out-Laws centers on family hijinks, and is generally steeped in cultural mores which may lose some Western audiences. However, unlike those films, In-Laws, Out-Laws has extra source material: it was based on a hit Guangzhou television show, which means an extra layer of cultural specificity which might make the film even more inaccessible to Western audiences. Another major difference: most of the cast members of this film are generally not "names" in the Hong Kong entertainment circle. Also, the movie is really not very good, though that's not really a function of the above-named differences. It's just the way things are.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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Mr Coconut (1989)
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Michael Hui plays the lovable "Mr. Coconut", who arrives in town from Hainan China where he lived with his coconuts. Here in the sophisticated urban jungles of Hong Kong. "Mr. Coconut" has finally reunited with his family, as he endures Hong Kong Streets of the late 1980s, filled with stock and property gamblers, heavy mobile phones etc..... "Mr. Coconut", a Hong Kong Lunar New Year film classic, is also Michael's first 30 million box office hit in which he received the Best Actor Nomination in 1989.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
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Stooges in Hong Kong (1992)
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James Wong stars as a late night talk show host who tells some of the dirtiest jokes and is insanely popular. His show is the biggest rated late night show on television. But all of his credit should go to his mistreated joke writer (Tommy Wong). Instead of paying him the money he truly deserves, James Wong short changes him every chance he can get. His personal life is a mess as well. He has a hot wife whom he can't satisfy and no friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spoof, black comedy, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, parody
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Plot Summary:
Kenny and Maggie, lovers of long standing, have been scrimping and saving for their marriage. One day Maggie suspects that she is pregnant, and suggests an early wedding. Kenny is thunder struck as he has just lost his every cent in the stock market.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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After losing their lottery winnings during the bank's closure, the Biu family's luck changes again as Bill's job promotion and daughters' education and work careers sent them and the entire family to lead their new lives in Canada, where new misadventures await.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
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Lam Luk (Cho-lam Wong), Jit Sau (Johnson Lee), Fook Cheung (Louis Yuen) are three unemployed friends who come together to help Lam Luk get married. After Lam Luk proposed to his girlfriend (Fiona Sit), his future father-in-law (Eric Tsang) stipulated that he will allow the marriage only if Lam Luk can come up with $500,000 for the downpayment of their future apartment. The three friends must now do everything they can to come up with the money ….
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
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Intrigue in Nylons (1972)
Plot Summary:
Essentially a comedy about the cut throat advertising business.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
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IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
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Plot Summary:
A man left at the alter goes on his honeymoon trip anyway, taking his best man along instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Good King Dagobert (1963)
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: parody
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IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
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Girls at Arms (1975)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about girls joining the army in Denmark. Marianne joins to keep up a long family tradition as her brother won't. Both her brother and her boyfriend find her decision difficult to accept.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 639
Genere: Comedy
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Stephen Chow plays a rich playboy who is blown up by a mafia boss when he flirts with the boss's girl. Through a series of circumstances his professor makes him a synthetic (robotic) body that allows him to change into a variety of "Mrs. Wong's Household products" like a microwave and toothpaste. Chow eventually goes to work at a school notorious for it's rowdy students and singlehandledly disciplines them all. He then goes on to marry a former classmate played by Gigi Leung. But before the wedding happens, the mafia boss finds out that Chow is still alive and sends in his own human-robot to take Chow out for once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: slapstick, slapstick comedy, humorous, semi serious
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
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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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Wild sex romp loosely based on Archie Comics characters.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, independent film, sex comedy
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When Nature Calls (1985)
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 271
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Country: Hong Kong
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: Argentina, Spain
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Stoogemania (1985)
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Howard F. Howard idolizes The Three Stooges. His friends and familiy are worried, and consider having him committed.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
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72 Tenants of Prosperity (2010)
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
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The Yuppie Fantasia 3 (2017)
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Leung Foon, 52 years old, his life experienced three waves: 1.when Ann made him by the boy into a man that day, 2.he married Ann and become a wife slave, 3.Ann take away their 8-years-old daughter and leave him alone. After these three storms, Leung Foon become Male chauvinism. Now, he is the fair-haired boy of the chairman in a listed company. He will do anything to make money without guilty. The property he had, it’s enough for him to live without worries. One thing that Leung Foon regret is Ann cannot see his “growth”. After Leung Foon become rich, he is afraid to face himself in the mirror. The 4th storm for Leung Foon is his daughter He He suddenly comes back, he doesn’t know how to be a father with a plump figure’s daughter. In Leung Foon’s memory, He He was just 8-years-old girl. He He’s return, made Leung Foon get some change, he can finally face with mirror. Because of He He, Leung foon has the courage to go young again and wayward again.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 99
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Country: Hong Kong
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Greedy (1994)
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Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
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El taxista caliente (2016)
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Pancho has a wife, fiance, and several girlfriends, and juggling them all can be messy, especially when one of their drug kingpin husbands finds out.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 103
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 218
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 751
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All's Well, Ends Well 2009 (2009)
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 506
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