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Plot Summary:
A jealous mobster chases a screenwriter, who likes his friend, from New York to the Caribbean.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Perfect People (1988)
Plot Summary:
After many years of marriage Ken and Barbara decide to change their way of living radically. In order to become more attractive they submit themselves not only under modern diets and physical education but also try plastic surgery.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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The Chicago Teddy Bears (1971)
Plot Summary:
The Chicago Teddy Bears is an American sitcom that aired on CBS. The series was part of the network's 1971 fall lineup, premiering on September 17, 1971.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Mr. Nice Guy (1987)
Plot Summary:
A hitman by the name of Mr. Nice Guy is about to be married and his fiancee doesn't know his true profession. On top of that, his future father-in-law has a contract out on him. A zany mafia comedy!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Mimic (2020)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, ‘the Narrator’ is befriended by his young new neighbor, after he joins the local newspaper team. Obsessed with the idea that ‘the Kid’ may be a sociopath, ‘the Narrator’ goes to extreme lengths to uncover the truth about him. After unsettling rendezvous, the truth he finds is anything but what he expected.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Lady Liberty (1971)
Plot Summary:
The story concerns the difficulties and reactions of Maddalena (Sophia Loren), an Italian visitor to New York City. She has come to the country carrying a huge mortadella sausage which she intends as a gift for her fiancé. But Customs do not allow processed meat to enter the U.S., so she is held at JFK airport.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: italian comedy
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Goofballs (1987)
Plot Summary:
Another entry in the Canadian "Balls" comedy era, this time set in a golf resort.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, independent film, neo screwball comedy
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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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A Global Affair (1964)
Plot Summary:
Bob Hope becomes surrogate father to a baby found abandoned at the United Nations. Director Jack Arnold's 1964 comedy also stars Yvonne De Carlo, Robert Sterling, John McGiver and Lilo Pulver.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Free Ride (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of teenagers borrow a car, unaware that gangsters have stashed mob money in it. The gangsters are determined to get the money back.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: entertaining, teen sex comedy, independent film
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In the Spirit (1990)
Plot Summary:
A woman moves back to New York and hires a ditzy New Age woman to redecorate her apartment in this Odd Couple styled comedy. The movie takes a turn as the two escape to a New Age retreat in upstate New York to get away from a murderer who is pursuing them. Melanie Griffith also shows up briefly as a hooker as the two hide out acting as hookers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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La Bomba (1999)
Plot Summary:
Three young Italian actors move from Roma to NY to try to improve their careers. While attending the Actor's Studio they set up as a joke an extortion, acting like real mafiosi do. After the first extortion succeed they decide to continue on that way. But the NY mafia realize what is happening and.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Diamonds and Guns (2008)
Plot Summary:
In this romantic comedy, set in Las Vegas, "Diamonds & Guns" follows best friends Ashley(Renee O'Connor, of Xena:Warrior Princess) and Bria as they set off to change their luck. From the Sunset Strip to the Vegas Strip, they cannot seem to escape their troubles. In a comedy of errors, they find themselves wrapped up with the mob, chased by a hitman, and falling in love with the least likeliest guys. What happens in Vegas...just may alter their fortunes forever. Who will make it out alive? Who will end up with who? Place your bets... "Diamonds & Guns".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags:
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Wild 90 (1968)
Plot Summary:
Norman Mailer’s first feature filmmaking effort stars the director and his two longtime collaborators Buzz Farbar and Mickey Knox as a trio of gangsters holed up in a ramshackle New York apartment, drinking, braying, and fighting.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cinema verite, fake documentary
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Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)
Plot Summary:
Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema, cult film
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Inside Monkey Zetterland (1992)
Plot Summary:
An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Women's Club (1987)
Plot Summary:
Patrick is a struggling screenwriter who takes a second job as a male prostitute. He is supposed to write by day and do right by his lonely clientele at night, but he develops writer's block. When Patrick decides to draw from his amorous experiences as inspiration for his next screenplay, the women conspire to prevent it.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Tropical Tease (1994)
Plot Summary:
Bernie's a bumbling hit man married to a buxom beauty. When he arrives at a resort in beautiful Miami Beach, he is incensed to find his wife in bed with a local lifeguard. It's not long before hilarious adventures ensue when the world's worst assassin wreaks all kinds of havoc in an attempt to protect his honor. The topless beach resort will never be the same as Bernie seeks redemption among the cabana boys and the bikini clad residents at one of the Sunshine State's tropical hot spots.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Attack Of The Bat Monsters (1999)
Plot Summary:
Join schlock impresario Francis Gordon as his intrepid crew attempt to shoot an impromptu monster movie in the three days left over from the film they’ve just wrapped. From the Saul Bass opening title homage to its highly authentic, comic evocation of 1950s’ grade-Z grind house, this was lost when it was made in 1999. But ace restorer Mark Rance (who restored Tobe Hooper’s Eggshells) found it and has lovingly refurbished it under writer/director Kelly Greene’s supervision.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody, cult film
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South Beach Academy (1995)
Plot Summary:
Brothers come to the aid of their uncle, who bet his Miami beach-sports school on a fixed volleyball game.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 652
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sexy, independent film, hot
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Spring Break USA (1989)
Plot Summary:
"Porky" style teen comedy with plenty of gross out jokes and nudity. A nerd and his out-of-control friend chase a dream girl to a beach on Florida where all the expected carrying on occurs.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, road movie, independent film, teen comedy, cult film
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Who Do I Gotta Kill? (1994)
Plot Summary:
Who says crime doesn't pay? The mob will pay Jimmy Corona anything to stay away. But, then again, so would most people. His agent brushes off Jimmy's latest book proposal: detailing the conspiracy between Lee Harvey Oswald and Marylin Monroe to assassinate JFK. His girlfriend gives him his walking papers in the midst of wild sex when he can't give her one good reason to stay. Actually he's too exhausted to speak. And to top it all off, he's suffering from writer's block. So what's a poor guy to do? Join the mob? Written by.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick
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So Fine (1981)
Plot Summary:
While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success - the bottomless pants.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, entertaining, humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, funny, romantic, thought provoking
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Ultrachrist! (2003)
Plot Summary:
What would Jesus do if he returned to Earth and discovered he could no longer relate to the youth of today?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, captivating, independent film, clever, offbeat, biting, suspense, campy
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The Don's Analyst (1997)
Plot Summary:
Don Vito Leoni, the Godfather, is clinically depressed. The world has changed and he hasn't. He'd like to retire, but if he left the "family business" to his two idiot sons, they'd be dead in a minute. So he decides to go legit, which convinces everyone that he must be completely off the deep end. To preserve their cushy lives, his dysfuntional family conspires to get him some psycho-therepy. So his boys kidnap a "piasan" shrink and order him to "fix" their father. This film, which premired on Showtime, pre-dated the very similarly plotted "Analyze This" by over a year.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 328
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, not serious
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Funny Money (2006)
Plot Summary:
Henry Perkins, a mild-mannered accountant, accidentally trades briefcases with another man, to find out that there's a million dollars inside. Henry tells his unsuspecting wife of their new-found fortune, but she doesn't embrace it as well as he does. Soon they're joined by their best friends, a cop on the take, a cop on the hunt, and the dreaded Mr. Big, who has come to claim his money.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, Romania, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, witty, dark comedy, offbeat
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Analyze This (1999)
Plot Summary:
Countless wiseguy films are spoofed in this film that centers on the neuroses and angst of a powerful Mafia racketeer who suffers from panic attacks. When Paul Vitti needs help dealing with his role in the "family," unlucky shrink Dr. Ben Sobel is given just days to resolve Vitti's emotional crisis and turn him into a happy, well-adjusted gangster.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 160000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, hilarious, psychological, clever, suspense, spoof, realistic, witty, light
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Crimes of Fashion (2004)
Plot Summary:
Brooke, a plain but creative and hard-working student at the top fashion school in the nation, who has come a long way from her tough childhood spent going from one foster home to another as an orphan. She has always dreamed of becoming a fashion designer, and is thrilled to finally be on her way. But, when the grandfather she never knew about passes away, her life is suddenly turned upside down. Not only has he left her his estate, but he's left her in charge of the family business, as mob boss to one of the top crime syndicates that has been trying to go legit. If that isn't enough, the handsome new student she's falling for is actually an undercover FBI agent aiming to get dirt on her to bring down the family empire.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, cute, teen, realistic
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Rough Night (2017)
Plot Summary:
Five best friends from college reunite 10 years later for a wild bachelorette weekend in Miami. Their hard partying takes a hilariously dark turn when they accidentally kill a male stripper. Amidst the craziness of trying to cover it up, they're ultimately brought closer together when it matters most.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, captivating, humorous, teen, feel good, sexy, cult classic, hilarious, dark comedy, sex comedy
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Bullets Over Broadway (1994)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1920's New York City, this movie tells the story of idealistic young playwright David Shayne. Producer Julian Marx finally finds funding for the project from gangster Nick Valenti. The catch is that Nick's girl friend Olive Neal gets the part of a psychiatrist, and Olive is a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist as well as being a dreadful actress. Agreeing to this first compromise is the first step to Broadway's complete seduction of David, who neglects longtime girl friend Ellen. Meanwhile David puts up with Warner Purcell, the leading man who is a compulsive eater, Helen Sinclair, the grand dame who wants her part jazzed up, and Cheech, Olive's interfering hitman / bodyguard. Eventually, the playwright must decide whether art or life is more important.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, funny, atmospheric, talky, witty, clever, parody, ironic, black comedy
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Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Plot Summary:
A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte), whose career is on the rebound.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: black and white, funny, clever, touching, humorous, witty, talky, postmodern, mind blowing, independent film