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Plot Summary:
Gang of bumbling crooks kidnap a bratty little kid, find out they got more than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Growing Pains (1984)
Plot Summary:
Four teens on the run from an orphanage spring a fellow orphan recently adopted by a rich family, then trash the whole house.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Heavy Weather (1995)
Plot Summary:
At Blandings Castle, the Earl of Emsworth only cares about his prize pig 'The Empress' and is wilfully ignorant of the fact that his brother is planning to publish a book which might ruin the family name forever. Moreover, the Earl's nephew might cause the family some major damage by getting married to a terribly unsuitable chorus girl. An adaptation of P.G. Wodehouse's novel of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Ein Kaktus ist kein Lutschbonbon (1981)
Plot Summary:
A comedy directed by Rolf Olsen.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Soup for One (1982)
Plot Summary:
A neurotic young New Yorker believes he has found his perfect match and desperately tries to win her over.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: indie film, sex comedy
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The Most Offensive Comedy Ever Made (2007)
Plot Summary:
From the twisted mind of Bill Zebub (ASSMONSTER), this film goes beyond BORAT and farther than FREDDY GOT FINGERED. But THE MOST OFFENSIVE COMEDY EVER MADE isn't content to just get laughs and gasps from the audience. Instead, it investigates how far humor should (or shouldn't) go when it comes to race, religion, and other usually off-limits topics.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: independent film
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No Dessert, Dad, Till You Mow the Lawn (1994)
Plot Summary:
A couple manages to quit smoking by using hypnosis, but then their children decide to use it to manipulate their parents into more submissive behavior.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, nostalgic
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Bad Meat (2004)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Butcher's Mill, Illinois, home to a meat-packing plant, a junk yard, and Buddy and Earl, two likable losers who crave the sweet smell of success. Earl is a simple man with a simple desire--to marry Pam, the only available girl in town. But she'll only give herself to a man who meets her strict criteria, including trailer-home ownership. And Earl's conniving boss at the meat-packing plant will do anything to win Pam's heart first. Buddy, on the other hand, wrongly fancies himself a master criminal, scheming big and failing big while avoiding both legitimate employment and his heartless parole officer. When Buddy hatches a brainless scheme to kidnap a corrupt U.S. Congressman for ransom.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: absurd, light, humorous, independent film, black comedy
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American Drive-In (1985)
Plot Summary:
The goings-on at a typical drive-in on a summer night.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, cult film
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The Treehouse (2014)
Plot Summary:
A 30 year old, delusional, no talent musician kidnaps a girl that he thinks is in love with him and stalks a guy who he believes is a record company scout.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy
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Omaha (1995)
Plot Summary:
From the co-founder of Slamdance comes the story of a young man who returns home from a trip abroad to confront not just his peculiar family and friends, but also a pair of Colombian jewel thieves and a roving gang of Iowa kickboxers, culminating in a showdown at Carhenge. A seminal movie in the history of independent film, "Omaha: The Movie" was the film that spearheaded the birth of the Slamdance Film Festival.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, student film
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W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975)
Plot Summary:
Story of a happy-go-lucky small time crook who runs into a country music group looking for their big break. They end up helping each other out in unexpected ways.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Jesus, The Total Douchebag (2011)
Plot Summary:
Follow the story of Jesus in this slapstick satire. With a name like "Jesus, the Total Douchebag" the movie should only be seen by people who enjoy blasphemous comedy, and as such, the comedy is focused on targets that are usually exempt. Director Bill Zebub explains, "Indie movies should revel in their freedom. They are not confined to the same boundaries as the big budget movies. They should give what Hollywood can't.".
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Laid in America (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two foreign exchange high-school students are kidnapped during their quest to get laid on their last night in America.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, sexy, light, humorous, sex comedy, student film, hot
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Teen Lust (1978)
Plot Summary:
Kirsten Baker and Leslie Cedarquist are the Girls Next Door in this buoyant sexploitationer. The ladies move in bag and baggage into a sleepy suburban community. Before long, every husband in the vicinity has fallen for their charms. A few trousers have fallen as well, which is why the film carries an R rating. The Girls Next Door is worth watching for an early performance by TV favorite Perry Lang.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, teen sex comedy, independent film, cult 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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Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968)
Plot Summary:
George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over the world, she leaves him. While she is away, George converts her family home into a discotheque, when she returns, she threatens to send George to jail for fraud, cause she didn't give her approval. George needing some fast bucks, decides to turn to an old cohort of his, William Homer but Willy's a little short. George then decides to steal the plans to a new drill, Pamela's suitor, Dudley Heath is working on. But when George gets the mumps, he can't make it to the meeting place and refuses to give Willy the plans unless he gives him the cash first. And the buyers won't give unless they see the merchandise first. Written by [email protected].
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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The Prize Fighter (1979)
Plot Summary:
"Bags" the boxer (funnyman Tim Conway) and his manager, Shake (Don Knotts), are quite a pair: One is a dim bulb, and the other has a mean streak. Times are tough and they must save their gym, so they line up some moneymaking fights. But when Bags and Shake discover that the bouts have been rigged, they end up with their backs to the wall and must fight back -- literally.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny
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Where's Poppa? (1970)
Plot Summary:
When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears that his batty mom's eccentricities will shortly lead to Louise's departure.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, funny, clever, humorous, surreal, offbeat, realistic, witty, cynical
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Love, Passion and Pleasure (1972)
Plot Summary:
Cecco Angiolieri has joined, as storytellers and acrobats, the traveling company of Camillo. The stupidity of this man is so great that Cecco, inventing contagious childhood diseases, replacing it with his wife Dinda until the woman becomes pregnant. Meanwhile, the company has come in a city ruled by poetastro ser Gianni: Cecco, using his poetic vocation, getting license show for his teammates and conquers the woman, Tessa. Another victim of his jokes is fierce mother Lucrezia, new superior of the local monastery: Cecco, after forcing her to strip naked in the brothel of Filippa, precedes the convent pretending to it. Later, he clarified the misunderstanding, it becomes the lover and requires it to give shelter to Dinda, until Camillo is not ready to accept happily the unborn child as his.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, decamerotic
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Chesty Anderson U.S. Navy (1976)
Plot Summary:
It's a tidal wave of laughs When "CHESTY" puts her deadly weapons into action!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, sexploitation film
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Houseguest (1995)
Plot Summary:
In hot water with the mob over an unpaid debt, a con man poses as a family friend in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, black comedy, realistic, witty, semi serious, scary, funny, light, clever, feel good
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Nympho Diver: G-String Festival (1981)
Plot Summary:
A once thriving Japanese village is in dire need of young, beautiful ladies to help with diving duties. Times are tough and the current diver is definitely no spring chicken, so the mayor’s son finds some beautiful maidens to fill the position. Plot quickly takes a back seat, as the arrival of the new recruits gets a rise out of the village’s male members. Let the sex games begin! Culminating in a celebration in which the new diving girls parade around in their tiny bathing suits to bring in cash-laden tourists, this film is a crazy, comedic take on timeless Japanese traditions.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: sexploitation film
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Disorderlies (1987)
Plot Summary:
As not-quite-orderlies who're downright Disorderlies, rap-music favorites The Fat Boys rule. Playing the freewheeling caretakers of the frail Dennison (Hollywood legend Ralph Bellamy), they stir up a comedic culture clash in Palm Beach society that only proves laughter is the best medicine this side of a tax refund.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, not serious, talky, slapstick, black comedy, independent film, slapstick comedy, funny, romantic
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Clifford (1994)
Plot Summary:
When his brother asks him to look after his young son, Clifford, Martin Daniels agrees, taking the boy into his home and introducing him to his future wife, Sarah. Clifford is fixated on the idea of visiting a famed theme park, and Martin, an engineer who helped build the park, makes plans to take him. But, when Clifford reveals himself to be a first-rate brat, his uncle goes bonkers, and a loony inter-generational standoff ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, realistic, funny, melancholic, not serious, black comedy, independent film, offbeat, crying
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Carpool (1996)
Plot Summary:
A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick. Stopping to get donuts for the kids, things go even more awry when he finds himself a victim of a robbery. However, the situation only gets worse as a desperate man who had been contemplating a bank robbery robs the robbers and takes the man and the kids hostage in their van as his truck is blocked by an armored car. The thing then proceeds into a comedic chase movie. The father finds his kids don't really respect him and they react better to the robber. The end result is everyone gets a lifestyle change, including the original store owner.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, satirical, sexy, independent film, realistic, not serious, parody, absurd
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The Toy (1982)
Plot Summary:
On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, satirical, humorous, entertaining, touching, realistic, black comedy, cult classic, sentimental
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Me, Myself & Irene (2000)
Plot Summary:
Rhode Island State Trooper Charlie Baileygates has a multiple personality disorder. One personality is crazy and aggressive, while the other is more friendly and laid back. Both of these personalities fall in love with the same woman named Irene after Charlie loses his medication.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 248000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, hilarious, not serious, parody, slapstick, psychological, road movie, feel good, black comedy
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The Hustle (2008)
Plot Summary:
Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at the opportunity that might save his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good, entertaining, black comedy, independent film
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Nothing But Trouble (1991)
Plot Summary:
While attempting to seduce gorgeous lawyer Diane Lightson, wealthy gadabout Chris Thorne agrees to drive her to Atlantic City, N.J. But, when some reckless driving draws the attention of a deeply critical cop, they and the flamboyant "Brazillionaires" who tagged along end up in the court of a grotesque and vengeful judge, who has a special vendetta against the wealthy and erudite.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, dark comedy, melancholic, disturbing, not serious, horror comedy, black comedy, brutal, dark, twisted