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Plot Summary:
3 people suffering from psychiatric problems, and a doctor stranger than any of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Neptune's Holiday (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of Swedish tourists are on the way to a Russian village to witness the so called 'Festivity of Neptunus', in which the inhabitants take a dive in a hole in the ice. This tradition, however, does not exist at all. The inhabitants try to make a good impression by starting the 'tradition' to please the tourists.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min
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Husband to Rent (2014)
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Four swimmers - water polo players find themselves at the bottom of their existence after losing a match. So desperate that they even find themselves living at the bottom of their emptied pool. To save their "dignity" they start a questionable business "Husband to rent" fixing home items for local housewives. But as time will show the household items are not the only things they end up repairing.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
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Help! The Doctor Is Drowning (1974)
Plot Summary:
Comedy about a small town doctor.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 94 min
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Chyťte doktora (2007)
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Nothing very unusual has happened to Michal (Michal Malátný). He finds himself in the middle of a situation he is partly responsible for and partly not, but it's up to him to solve it. Everyone expects it of him and he himself would like to arrange things honorably and peacefully for everyone involved. But it isn't possible. There seem to be plenty of alternatives. And because this is a film, Michal can try all of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 93 min
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The Juliette Year (1995)
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Camille Prader, back from a physicians' meeting, is waiting for his suitcase on the Airport conveyor belt. Clémentine, his girlfriend of the day, has come to fetch him. With a radiant smile, she tells Fabrice that she left everything to live with him. When Camille picks a case he realizes ha has taken the wrong one. The label shows it belongs to a musician called Juliette Graveur. Hegrasps the occasion to run away from Clémentine by claiming Juliette is his mistress.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
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Louder! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp!! (2018)
Plot Summary:
Shing (Sadao Abe) is a rock star. He has an amazingly loud voice with a range of four octaves. His secret is that he has created his voice through a method of vocal cord doping. His voice is now teetering on the edge, due to side effects from the vocal cord doping. Around this time, Shing meets Fuuka (Riho Yoshioka) who is a street musician. When Fuuka sings, her vice is so small. Due to Fuuka, Shing looks back upon his past.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
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Genkai in a Black Company (2009)
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After the death of this mother, Masao Oneta (Teppei Koike) decides to leave the comfort of his room after years of self isolation and get a job. He lands a position at a small IT firm but doesn't yet realise this company is one of many 'black companies', known for overworking their employees.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 104 min
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Lab En Kisses (1996)
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This is a story of an odd couple, Labrador, a woman hater and Kisses, a stubborn stow away from Cebu, who is trying to escape her uncle who pushes her to marry a man she doesn't love. A love and hate relationship brew between the two until they found themselves facing the same odds... but this time, together.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
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How Poets Wait for a Miracle (2016)
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This time the "poets" are waiting for a miracle. Stepán, Kendy and Karas remained friends even after 12 years. Their inexhaustible sense of humor and self-irony, now perhaps with a touch of skepticism, help them to cope with their chaotic lives. Kendy had enough of advertising business and wants to shoot a film, Karas decided to pamper his Blue dream car just virtually and Stepán fights with the stubborn hospital director Vendulka.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
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Swim Team (1979)
Plot Summary:
A new swimming coach is hired to break a team's seven-year losing streak.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, teen sex comedy, independent film
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Any And Every Which Way (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sexy Momoko turns tricks in her taxi to boost business, until she's finally discovered by her employer. Running from the authorities, Momoko abandons her cab to begin life as a fugitive, accompanied by her most recent customer.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 75 min
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My Best Friend (2001)
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My Best Friend is the outrageous story of two men, friends since childhood, who have spent their lives tormenting one another. It is only when Constantinos discovers Alekos in bed with his wife that their friendship and their respective marriages finally collapse into a death spiral of sex, deceit and irrepressible humor. As events unfold another deception, one concealed by both men's wives, opens the door to incredible erotic intrigue. Antonis Kafetzopoulos delivers a virtuoso performance in this surrealistic comedy about lies, friendship, love and deadlock.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sitcom, sex comedy, romantic comedy
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Adrift in Tokyo (2007)
Plot Summary:
Leading a lazy life, Fumiya has been a university student for 8 years and owes money to loan sharks. One day, a man named Fukuhara comes to collect the loan, which Fumiya cannot pay. So Fukuhara makes a proposition: He will cancel the debt as long as Fumiya agrees to walk with him across Tokyo to the police station of Kasumigaseki, where he intends to turn himself in for a crime he deeply regrets. Not having much choice, Fumiya accepts the deal. Thus begins their journey which will lead them to various unusual encounters, most of all with themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, light, relaxing, clever, touching, offbeat, talky
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Instant Swamp (2009)
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After being forced to resign from her publishing company job when her magazine goes out of circulation, office worker Haname Jinchoge (Kumiko Aso) is given the name of her real father-Noburo Jinchoge when her mother (Keiko Matsuzaka) falls into a coma after nearly drowning in a pond while searching for kappa. Unsure if Noburo (Morio Kazama) is her father, Haname decides to visit him but tells him that she is a distant relative, he happens to be the shopkeeper at an odd antiquities shop called Light Bulb Co., working for her father is a punk rocker named Gas (Ryo Kase).
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, entertaining, offbeat, not serious, weird
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Dandelions by the Roots (1964)
Plot Summary:
Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case. A day later the gangster mysteriously has disappeared, but it turns out that he was carrying a bet ticket for a horse race now worth over a million. A turbulent run for the money begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surprise ending
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The Vocational Masseur (1981)
Plot Summary:
A soccer player is injured and decides to recuperate at a secluded villa accompanied by a sexy masseuse.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy
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Il prof. Dott. Guido Tersilli, primario della clinica Villa Celeste convenzionata con le mutue (1969)
Plot Summary:
Story of an ambitious young doctor through unethical means intend to make a quick career. Now is primary in a luxury clinic where administers the sick with the same cynicism of his young years.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
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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
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Ultimatum (1999)
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IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 75 min
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Nurses Report (1972)
Plot Summary:
Reporters reveal intolerable conditions in Munich's St. Martin Hospital. The nurses are underpaid and overworked, and have sex with doctors and patients.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, mockumentary, fake documentary
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Techniques of Love (1973)
Plot Summary:
A pseudo-documentary story about what happens behind dance school walls.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, fake documentary
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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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Carry on Again Doctor (1969)
Plot Summary:
Dr Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, spoof, independent film, parody, campy
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Hot Times (1974)
Plot Summary:
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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The Doctor...the Schoolgirl (1976)
Plot Summary:
Claudia, a perky eighteen year-old girl, is crushed when her step mother prevents her from going on a vacation to London. She discovers her step mother is having an affair with a doctor and so, with the help of her friends, sets about getting her revenge.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy
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Adrenaline Drive (1999)
Plot Summary:
A gas leak explosion at a yakuza hideout provides a shy nurse and a rental car clerk with the opportunity to take a briefcase full of money. A cross-country chase ensues.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, road movie, offbeat, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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La Chambre des magiciennes (2000)
Plot Summary:
Claire Weygand, a thirty-year-old young woman who is about to defend her anthropology thesis, unfortunately not only feels bad but even worse and worse with each passing day. The migraine attacks she suffers from indeed keep her from working as hard as she should and in despair she decides to consult Doctor Fish. When the medicine the physician prescribes for her fails, Claire, who can't take it any more, asks him to hospitalize her. In hospital, Claire shares her room with Odette, a young woman who has lost the use of her legs and Eléonore, a frightening old woman. The third episode from "The Blindfold" by Siri Hustvedt.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Horror
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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The Telephone Book (1971)
Plot Summary:
The story of a day in the life of a lonely, sensitive, exhuberent, attractive, young woman. Her exploits, encounters, and frustrations as she attempts to find a "special" someone, a caller who has "class", as she puts it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surreal, sex comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, experimental, controversial, semi serious, dark comedy
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Dandelion (1985)
Plot Summary:
A pair of truck drivers happen onto a decrepit roadside fast food stop selling ramen noodles. The widowed owner, Tampopo, pleads them to help her turn her establishment into a paragon of the "art of noodle soup making".
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: funny, surreal, disturbing, humorous, witty, sexy, culinary, art house, buddy comedy, warmhearted
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Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers (2005)
Plot Summary:
Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband's pet turtle. One day, she sees a wanted ad for spies. Hoping for some excitement in her life, she decides to give them a call.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, weird