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Plot Summary:
After one of the founding partners at a prestigious Chicago law firm suddenly dies, his co-founding partner, the rather eccentric Richard Hedd is charged with deciding who will become the next partner. Planning to take six months off sailing around the world with his wife, four associates are randomly chosen to compete for the open partnership position in a most unusual manner-They must each donate their time for the next six months to charitable work picked randomly out of a hat by Richard. The four driven lawyers are literally forced into becoming kind and compassionate individuals. At the end of six months, founding partner Hedd will presumably choose the new partner based upon the sacrifices, ingenuity and character decisions made by the associates.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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Mixing Karma (2009)
Plot Summary:
Comedy about a Seattle family whose son wants to go into art with encouragement from their Indian neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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Jeremy's Family Reunion (2005)
Plot Summary:
Film front Abel Garcia.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mixing Nia (1998)
Plot Summary:
An ad agency copywriter, ordered to push a new brand of beer to black ghetto kids, resigns from her job and goes searching for her racial identity.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Good Fight (1992)
Plot Summary:
Grace Cragin is a bright young lawyer who has a passion for the fight against injustice. Her ex-husband Henry is a lawyer too, but his passion is only to win. The two were divorced ten years earlier when Henry's lust for conquest led him to other women. Now, Grace has a case she cannot win alone and, although she hates to admit it, she needs Henry's help.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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Lip Service (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two very different former college roomates reunite under strange circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Never On A Sunday (2006)
Plot Summary:
Julio Salas dies after a long illness, but it is Sunday and due to financial difficulties, his family is forced to contract the services of a modest funeral home, whose owner having taken charge of the corpse, sells it to the University. The nephew learns of the deal and demands that his uncle s body end up in the cremation oven, falling in love with the funeral owner s daughter in the process. This story about a corpse that cannot find peace, is handled in accordance with the canons of black comedy over which the director displays a skillful mastery, provoking, with the aid of some excellent actors, grotesquely hilarious situations.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Knuckle Sandwich (2004)
Plot Summary:
After leaving his small Georgia town behind to start a new life in Los Angeles, aspiring businessman Carter quickly becomes a success. But when he loses his girlfriend and his job in the same morning, he decides to return to his old town with hopes of finding some clarity. With the help of his offbeat parents, his beer-guzzling buddies and an old flame, Carter discovers what is really important in life. Douglas Callan, Morgan Fairchild, John O'Hurley star.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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Un Quijote sin mancha (1969)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
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The Re-Education of Molly Singer (2023)
Plot Summary:
In college, attorney Molly Singer was the life of every party. Now, she's about to be fired because she can't leave her partying ways behind. Molly's boss, Brenda, tells Molly there's one way to save her job: re-enroll at her old alma mater, befriend Brenda's socially awkward son, Elliot, and take him from zero to campus hero.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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Head Full of Honey (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young girl tries to help her grandfather, who is suffering from Alzheimer’s, navigate his increasing forgetfulness, and ends up going on a remarkable adventure with him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: touching, thought provoking, sincere, funny, sad, inspirational, depressing, comedy drama, family comedy
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Fun and Games (1980)
Plot Summary:
Carol Hefferman is an ambitious factory worker looking for promotion to an office job, but when she turns down her boss's lecherous advances he stands in her way. Could a chance meeting with a company lawyer help her out?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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State of Mind (2007)
Plot Summary:
A look at the private and professional lives of therapists -- and whether or not these professionals are typically crazier than their patients.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
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Head Cases (2005)
Plot Summary:
Head Cases is an American primetime comedy-drama television program, best known as the first show cancelled for the 2005–2006 season. It was broadcast by FOX and premiered on September 14, 2005. It was cancelled after two episodes on September 22 after disastrous ratings and critical drubbing. Attorney Jason Payne (Chris O'Donnell) had a superstar career at a prestigious Los Angeles law firm -- that is, until his wife, Laurie, kicked him out of the house and he had a nervous breakdown. After three months at a "wellness center," Jason finds himself with no job, no place to live and no support system. Enter Russell Shultz (Adam Goldberg), an unkempt, unpredictable sufferer of explosive disorder, assigned to be outpatient "buddies" with Jason by their mutual therapist, Dr. Robinson. Payne and Shultz ultimately decide to open a law firm of their own.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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The Summer of Ben Tyler (1996)
Plot Summary:
Set early during World War II, the film has a lot to say about love, honor, relationships, commitment and power. Keeping their promise to their dying black housekeeper, a white family takes in her teenage mentally-slow son. The movie details the joys and conflicts the family faces as a result of their decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
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Free, White and 21 (1963)
Plot Summary:
A motel owner in Texas is accused of raping a civil-rights worker from Sweden.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film
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Crazy Like a Fox (2004)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of Nat Banks, an 8th generation Virginian gentleman farmer living in the past, who loses his family farm, Greenwood, to a pair of land speculators from Washington, D.C. When the predatory couple manipulates a "legal" real estate transaction that turns into a hostile possession of the manor house, he temporarily loses his mind, leaving his family but not the farm. Instead he hides out in a cave on Goose Creek, waging guerilla warfare against expansionism and the destruction of historic property with the help of his family, friends, and neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, clever, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, independent film
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Trust (2003)
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In a busy corporate law firm, Cooper-Fozard in the City of London, Stephen Bradley and his team work fast and furiously to put together mergers, takeovers and buyouts for a range of clients. But it's never as clear and clinical as that. When colleagues work hard they often play hard too; and working closely sometimes brings people together after hours. Soon you develop a taste for a good deal, and you can sense a suspicious one at forty paces. And above all, though you don't have to like the people you work with, you learn that you do need to trust them.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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American Fiction (2023)
Plot Summary:
Thelonious “Monk” Ellison's writing career has stalled because his work isn’t deemed “Black enough.” Monk, a writer and English professor, writes a satirical novel under a pseudonym, aiming to expose the publishing world's hypocrisies. The book’s immediate success forces him to get deeper enmeshed in his assumed identity and challenges his closely-held worldviews.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 966
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: satirical, dark comedy, alternative comedy
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Second Thoughts (1983)
Plot Summary:
Lawyer Amy finds herself courted by two very different men: her client, a roguish street musician named Will, and her ex John Michael. A curious triangle develops as Amy gets pregnant by Will and both men vie for her affections.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Carbon Copy (1981)
Plot Summary:
A white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a black teen-age son who can't wait to be adopted into the, almost-exclusively-white community of, San Marino, California.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, intelligent, independent film, clever, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, hilarious
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People Who Are Well (2014)
Plot Summary:
Umberto Maria Durloni is a successful lawyer and a socialite who likes parties and a lavish life. He's got it all, except any ethical qualms.Only a step away from the top, his perfect world crumbles, showing him the brutal do downside to his life; in a tragicomic downward spiral of deceptions and setbacks, he understands he must fight back to regain his place in society, with some changes.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Showing Roots (2016)
Plot Summary:
Set in the year 1977, two women look to integrate their small town, inspired by the miniseries "Roots" as it hits the airwaves.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Accidental Stripper (2003)
Plot Summary:
College girl Janie inherits a rundown strip club from her uncle. She tries to learn the business and turn it into a money maker.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: erotic, captivating, disturbing, semi serious, sexploitation film
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Lembi 8 Giga (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lembi.. a poor lawyer who marries a school teacher and he causes her troubles due to his bad financial status, and then he meets with an accident which changes the way he was living.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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So Happy Together (2009)
Plot Summary:
Famille : Groupe de personnes réunies par des liens de parenté et un fort sentiment de solidarité morale et matérielle. Quand Alain a épousé Nathalie, il ne savait pas qu'il épouserait aussi sa famille. Ce samedi, comme toutes les semaines, ils sont invités à dîner chez son beau-frère, Jean-Pierre à Créteil. C'est vrai, Alain en a marre de ces dîners familiaux, mais il ne sait pas encore ce qui l'attend véritablement ce soir-là... Ni les jours qui suivent.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, cynical, witty
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Forgiving the Franklins (2006)
Plot Summary:
A conservative, God fearing Southern family is spiritually changed by an auto accident, but who they become puts them at odds with the highly conservative values around them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, talky
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The Key to Sex (1999)
Plot Summary:
When brainy office assistant Simon is left in charge of the boss's Hollywood mansion, the weekend becomes an opportunity of a lifetime. Entrusted by power-hungry movie producer Alan to guard the estate, Simon thinks he's finally made the grade until he learns that his friends and co-workers have their own plans for the place.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, sexploitation film
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Diary of a Tired Black Man (2008)
Plot Summary:
Diary of a Tired Black Man is a simple story about the complex relationships between black men and black women.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, independent film
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Men Cry in the Dark (2003)
Plot Summary:
The future has never looked better for Derrick Reed. Bachelorhood is great, he has a group of guys he can really call friends, and he's the publisher of a magazine that he named after his philosophy of life, Happily Single. Little does Derrick know, appearing on Atlanta's hottest radio station morning talk show to promote his new magazine, he is about to go on a whirl-wind ride, which will eventually take him to the heart of a woman who will change his life forever. He finds the perfect woman and the perfect reason to stop womanizing and make a commitment. This mystery woman is about to have a lasting impact on Derrick's life by changing the way he thinks and feels about women and relationships.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, romantic, humorous, contemplative
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All the Rage (1999)
Plot Summary:
A rich cross-section of urban USA find their lives changed when their fates collide at gunpoint.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: clever, melancholic, intense, satirical, realistic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, witty, semi serious