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Plot Summary:
Two Americans (Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna), stranded in the mideastern country of Fawzia, help an Arab leader (Peter Ustinov) build a football team so it can play and hopefully beat Notre Dame. Director J. Lee Thompson's once-highly-controversial 1965 comedy also features Scott Brady, Jim Backus, Charles Lane, Jerome Cowan, Fred Clark, Wilfred Hyde-White, Harry Morgan, Telly Savalas, Richard Deacon, Jackie Coogan, Jerry Orbach, Barbara Bouchet, Patrick Adiarte, Irene Tsu and Angela Douglas.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Romanoff and Juliet (1961)
Plot Summary:
Political satire has Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet story updated for the cold war era, with the children of the US and Russian ambassadors falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: heartfelt, independent film
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Viva Max! (1969)
Plot Summary:
In order to prove his greatness to his unimpressed girlfriend, Mexican general Max (Peter Ustinov) takes a group of men across the border and recaptures the Alamo - international hijinks ensue!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, slapstick comedy
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The Baldheaded Agent and the Land of Destruction Mission (1969)
Plot Summary:
Undercover cop takes to find and restore a rich girl who ran away from home.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie, slapstick comedy, hilarious, funny, eurospy
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Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (1979)
Plot Summary:
A newspaper editor decides to send his girlfriend, who is also a reporter on the paper, undercover to try out for the cheerleading team for the Dallas Cowboys in order to do an "insider's" story.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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Little Amy (1962)
Plot Summary:
Little Amy is a 1962 failed television pilot written by Norman Paul and starring Debbie Megowan. Other cast members include Bill Leslie, Shary Marshall, and Jack Nicholson in a small part as a football coach. It was filmed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and was produced by the CBS Television Network. The failed pilot is widely considered to be based on the popular cartoon series Little Audrey.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Relax Freddie (1966)
Plot Summary:
The sequel of the famous "Slå Først, Frede!".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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The Girl from S.I.N. (1966)
Plot Summary:
Secret agent Poontang Plenty, who works to defeat evil while trying to crack the secret of invisibility.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, spoof, parody, sex comedy, comic
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The Experts (1989)
Plot Summary:
Travis and Wendell are two down-on-their-luck New Yorkers who think they're relocating to a small town in Nebraska to open a nightclub. What they don't know is they have actually been abducted by a KGB operative and flown to the Soviet Union, where they'll unwittingly serve as "experts" on all things cool in America. The town, created expressly for KGB spies-in-training is meant to serve as a training ground for Soviet agents. What can these two hapless Americans possibly teach the Soviet spies and will they ever learn they are not actually in Nebraska?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, satirical, humorous, exciting, realistic, semi serious, parody, funny, feel good
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Nudes On Credit (1963)
Plot Summary:
Two slick con men down and out in the seedy end of London discover an attaché case in the trash. Inside are some mysterious documents and several credit cards belonging to "Sir James". Using the credit cards, they lavishly rack up debt for food, drink, women, clothes and hotel suites. Little do they know, the attaché case belongs to a murdered spy and contains secret plans for Russian world conquest!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Out of Sight (1966)
Plot Summary:
Teenage beach party/spy spoof/musical comedy about a plot to bomb a music fair. As his boss is on vacation, a superspy's butler must come to the rescue, while being pursued by a trio of gorgeous assassins who're agents of F.L.U.S.H. Features George Barris hotrods, along with the musical talents of Gary Lewis and the Playboys, The Astronauts, The Knickerbockers, Freddy and the Dreamers, and the only film appearance of The Turtles.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, spy comedy, psychotronic, spoof, comic
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Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title (1966)
Plot Summary:
A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slapstick, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, sitcom, semi serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, parody
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The Man from the Diners' Club (1963)
Plot Summary:
Mobster Foots Pulardos, who operates a health gym as a front, plans to flee to Mexico to evade government tax officials. His girl friend, Sugar Pye, suggests that he first arrange for the cremation of a man having his own peculiar identifying characteristic--feet of different sizes--and then apply for a Diners' Club card for use in paying his fare. The request for the credit card comes to the desk of Ernie Klenk, a timid clerk. Nervous about his forthcoming marriage to the boss's secretary, Lucy, Ernie inadvertently okays the application, then, discovering his mistake, rushes to the health gym to recover the club card he has issued.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick
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Agent 8 3/4 (1964)
Plot Summary:
A young man travels to Prague for his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: parody, political thriller, spy comedy, humorous, realistic, not serious, independent film, spoof, eurospy, comic
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The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966)
Plot Summary:
A wacky 60s spy spoof.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, spy comedy, parody, psychotronic, spoof
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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968)
Plot Summary:
A housewife, bored with her bra-manufacturer husband, who spends most of his time obsessed with classical music, strikes up an affair with one of his employees whom she hides in the attic--something both she and the lover find quite a suitable arrangement.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, absurd
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Serenade for Two Spies (1965)
Plot Summary:
Another Eurospy flick.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: meta, parody, spoof, eurospy, comic, cult film
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Strike First Freddy (1965)
Plot Summary:
Frede Hansen, a game salesman, is mistaken for a secret service agent on a ferry and kidnapped by enemy agents. He escapes and now the secret service want to use him as bait to track the enemy. They assign their best agent, Smith to be his partner and supervisor. Their main task is to eliminate the head of the enemy conspiracy, the mysterious 'Dr. Pax' who's real identity is unknown. Freddy accompanies Smith to Stockholm where they are to meet Sonja, an agent for Dr. Pax, who is also on Smith's liquidation list. Thanks to his bag of game tricks, Freddy manages to avoid being done in by Kolick, a killer for Dr. Pax. Freddy falls for Sonja, and he, she and Smith are taken as prisoners to Dr. Pax's hideout, a remote island fortress from which a major power is to be attacked by missiles guided by trained pigeons. Freddy manages to teach Dr. Pax a lasting lesson in the difference between trained pigeons and homing pigeons.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, eurospy
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Waiting for the Light (1990)
Plot Summary:
A former vaudevillian magician (MacLaine) moves her straight-laced niece (Garr) and her two mischievous children to a small town. When the two kids get in trouble with a neighbor for stealing vegetables from his garden, the aunt concocts an illusion of ghosts in revenge. Only trouble is the whole town believes it is real and soon the press is swarming the town and a major magic trick is required for everyone to save face.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Don't Drink the Water (1969)
Plot Summary:
The Hollander family's European vacation is interrupted when their plane is forced to land in Vulgaria. The Hollanders leave the plane to take pictures which results in accusations of spying. Chased by Vulgarian soldiers, they take refuge in the American Embassy under the protection of the absent ambassador's hapless son.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 962
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, sitcom
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The Nasty Rabbit (1964)
Plot Summary:
Russian spies secretly infect rabbits with a deadly bacteria, then let them loose in the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, art house, psychotronic
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One, Two, Three (1961)
Plot Summary:
A Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin tries to keep the boss's daughter from marrying a Communist.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, fast paced, black and white, clever, witty, talky, biting, parody, sweet, humorous
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Adult Interference (2017)
Plot Summary:
Stuck in his hometown after being sentenced to 90 days of house arrest, a failed actor takes up residence in his niece's little pink playhouse. Fueled by booze and boredom, he agrees to teach the neighbor kid how to play football in order to help him fit in at middle school. Their unlikely friendship teaches them both what it means to be a man.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, psychological, light, feel good, unusual plot structure
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Protocol (1984)
Plot Summary:
Sweet, unsophisticated Sunny is working as a cocktail waitress. She saves a visiting dignitary and as a reward she gets a top-office job in the Washington beehive. She has to fight against a devious protocol officer but with her charms, she saves the day when she gets involved in an arms deal with an Arab country.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: political, light, happy, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, romantic, sexy
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These Old Broads (2001)
Plot Summary:
"These Old Broads" is a 2001 television film written by Carrie Fisher and starring her mother Debbie Reynolds, as well as Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor in her final starring film role. Network television executive Gavin (Nestor Carbonell) hopes to reunite celebrated Hollywood stars Piper Grayson (Reynolds), Kate Westbourne (MacLaine), and Addie Holden (Collins) in a TV special after their 1960s movie musical "Boy Crazy" is re-released in the 1990s. Though the three women share the same agent, Beryl Mason (Taylor), Gavin's seemingly insurmountable obstacle is that they all cannot stand each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, biting, suspense
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The Dictator (2012)
Plot Summary:
The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 329000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: hilarious, parody, funny, absurd, humorous, entertaining, realistic, political, spoof, witty
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Paper Lion (1968)
Plot Summary:
Sportswriter George Plimpton poses as a rookie quarterback for the Detroit Lions for a "Sports Illustrated" article.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Home Team (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two years after a Super Bowl win when NFL head coach Sean Payton is suspended, he goes back to his hometown and finds himself reconnecting with his 12-year-old son by coaching his Pop Warner football team.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, funny, humorous, feel good
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Summer Rental (1985)
Plot Summary:
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to regain his pride and family's respect.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, funny, light, road movie, intense, scenic, colorful, realistic, semi serious
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Just One of the Girls (1993)
Plot Summary:
Chris has to change school to attend a music program, but a bully named Kurt is going to make his life impossible so he decided to dress as a girl to avoid this. Taking advantage of his condition he became (girl-)friend with Marie, and fell in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, teen sex comedy, entertaining, sentimental, light, captivating, erotic, sex comedy
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The New Guy (2002)
Plot Summary:
Nerdy high school senior Dizzy Harrison has finally gotten lucky -- after purposely getting expelled, he takes lessons in 'badass cool' from a convict and enrolls at a new school. But can he keep up the ruse?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, parody, hilarious, teen, humorous, not serious, sex comedy, entertaining, realistic