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Plot Summary:
Doctor Knock is a former thug who has become a doctor and arrives in the small village of Saint-Maurice to make his fortune according to a particular method. It will make the villagers believe that they are not as healthy as they might think. It is thus that he will find in each one an imaginary symptom, or not, and thus will be able to exercise his profession lucratively. Under his seductive looks and after gaining the confidence of the village, Knock is on the verge of achieving his ends. But his past catches up with him and an old acquaintance disrupts the doctor's plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, sentimental, captivating, uplifting, motivational
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Those Happy Days (2006)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1992, a manager Vincent has to run a children's holiday camp for three weeks and to face the unexpected concerning the place, his colleagues, various problems linked to children about the rooms, trips, their belongings.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Selfie (2019)
Plot Summary:
In a world where digital technology has invaded our lives, some of us end up cracking. Addict or technophobe, with family or at school, at work or in love, SELFIE tells the comic and wild destinies of Homo Numericus on the verge of a nervous breakdown.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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My Brother Has Come (1985)
Plot Summary:
Ovidio Ceciotti is a teacher, he is plump and he is not a man of character. He is treated badly by his school-master, by his students, by Lidia, his girl and even by his dog. One day his twin arrives. He calls himself Ralph Benson and has a completely different character. He is impudent, genial, he is popular with women, he is not plump, he spent six months in a jail. Even the dog likes him more than Ovidio. Ralph plays in a bar with the beautiful Esmeralda. They will have to live together. How long will it last?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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The Rascals (1980)
Plot Summary:
Late spring 1942: France is under German occupation. But this doesn't much concern the boarders of a school lost in the French country. Bernard, a rather frivolous teenager, is in love for the first time; he's fond of Marie-Helene, an older and more mature girl. To approach her is not so easy.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Vive les femmes! (1984)
Plot Summary:
The love affairs of Bob, a womanizer and seducer and Mammouth, the unhappy loner.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Honey and the Pig (2005)
Plot Summary:
Manos (Christos Loulis) seems to have problems with his love life. He leaves the capital and coercive girlfriend to be close to his only relatives in the province. There, apart from his uncle (Paul Chaikalis) - that is looking frantically for donuts with honey - and beloved aunt (Bright Baxevani), he will meet Xenia (Fay Xila), an old friend who now works in the funeral home. With the help of the clever and cute pink piggy Marikaki he will try to reveal a old secret on the whole village and break out the lies that prevent redemptive truth.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sweet
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The Joy of Singing (2008)
Plot Summary:
Agents des services secrets, Muriel et Philippe forment un improbable duo amoureux. Dans leur nouvelle mission, ils sont chargés de mettre la main sur une clé usb cachée par Constance, la veuve d'un trafiquant d'uranium fraîchement assassiné. Cette jeune bourgeoise étrangement ingénue conduira le duo dans un cours de chant lyrique où s'entremêlent d'autres espions aux voix ensorcelantes.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, erotic, realistic, semi serious, sexual, dark comedy, sexy
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My Friend's Rubber Ducky (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two old college buddies, Joseph and Oliver, reconnect over drinks, eventually arguing about an unpaid film school debt. Joseph demands the $5,000, unsuccessfully, and then locks Oliver in a closet. He convinces his girlfriend, Mauve, and stoner roommate, Tee, to help extort the money from Oliver. The rules are simple - "No money. No bathroom. No food". To break the prisoner, Tee decides to fill the closet with pot smoke. Oliver's escape attempts are futile, eventually caving into the demands and repaying the money. In the end, Oliver learns, if you don't repay your debts, they'll catch up to you.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, entertaining
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A Very Bad Friend (2019)
Plot Summary:
Mika, a little crook, took a quick tour of the prison, where he got to know "Putin", a crazy and unpredictable detainee. As soon as his sentence has been served, he decides to start from scratch and start his life over again. As he prepares to marry the daughter of a wealthy businessman, his past catches up with him: Putin arrives without warning! Mika will quickly realize that we do not easily get rid of such a ball.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, exciting, funny, light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Election Day (2007)
Plot Summary:
The employees of a radio station in Moscow are forced to organize the elections campaign for a future governor in one of Russia districts.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, funny, satirical
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Lost in Paris (2016)
Plot Summary:
Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: non-linear, slapstick comedy, slapstick, whimsical
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In the Game (2018)
Plot Summary:
Roland is reached by the illness of'Alzheimer's and his family is the small-care with him, except his grandson JB which n'has that'a single goal to play the final of basketball in Paris. But the parents of JB blocked this weekend, asking him to monitor his grand-father. Therefore nothing will happen as expected because JB will lead Roland with him in his trip.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining
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A Pain in the Ass (2008)
Plot Summary:
An unlikely friendship develops between a hitman and a suicidal guy who have both checked into the same hotel for different reasons.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, realistic, cynical, semi serious, buddy comedy, modern day adaptation, remake of french film
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Shankar Dada MBBS (2004)
Plot Summary:
Shankar Dada (Chiranjeevi) is a local goon with a good heart who defends his extortion and settlement business as social service to maintain peace in society. But he pretends to be a doctor to his parents to make them contended about their son's achievement. One fine day, Dr. Rama Lingeswara Rao (Paresh Rawal) - dean of the biggest medical college in Hyderabad - exposes the real identity Shankar Dada to his parents. Gravely disappointed, Shanakr Dada's parents vow not to visit their son's place and leave him. An emotionally wrecked Shankar Dada decides to become doctor in real to teach a lesson to Dr. Lingam and his beautiful daughter Sunita (Sonali Bendre) and at the same time to prove to his parents that their son is a doctor, in deed!.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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School Is Over (2018)
Plot Summary:
Agathe Langlois, Parisian until the end of the nails well varnishes, is delighted: she is going to be confirmed as a professor of English. The happiness of the good news will not last as she learns that she is deployed to the countryside.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, entertaining, funny, crying
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Back to Burgundy (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jean left his hometown ten years ago. When his father falls ill, he comes back and reunites with his sister Juliette and his brother Jérémie. As seasons go by around their vineyard, they'll have to trust each other again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, thought provoking, humorous, feel good
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Hallelujah! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Following his release from a seven-year stretch in prison, Mario Diccara discovers that his affairs with the underworld aren't completely settled. His brother Patrick, a priest, suggests that he stays with elderly Father Etienne in a small village in Ardeche until the conflict blows over. But their plan takes an unexpected turn when Father Etienne dies.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, entertaining, offbeat, realistic
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Iceberg! (2005)
Plot Summary:
Fiona is the manager of a fast-food restaurant. She lives comfortably with her family in the suburbs. In other words, Fiona is happy... until one day she accidentally gets locked into a walk-in fridge. She escapes the next morning, half frozen and barely alive, only to realize that her husband and two children didn't even notice she was missing. But when Fiona develops an obsession for everything cold and icy: snow, polar bears, fridges, icebergs--she drops everything, climbs into a frozen goods delivery truck and leaves home. For a real iceberg.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: road movie, captivating, entertaining, light, feel good, surreal, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Immature (2011)
Plot Summary:
Six high school friends who come to the quarantine and have to assume that they are far from their days of glory. With a lot of responsibilities above are all immersed in their various personal crises. But everything changes when a court to void the test they did to get into college ... so you have to repeat if they want their careers to stand.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, sentimental, semi serious, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, realistic
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The Bad Education Movie (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mr Wickers and his class go on one final school trip after they finish their GCSEs.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Mr. Donkey (2016)
Plot Summary:
From the same team that brought you “Goodbye Mr Loser” comes the hilarious dark comedy "Mr Donkey". In order to pay for the donkey that brings them water, a countryside village registers it as a teacher at its local school. But when the charity group that funds the school visits for an inspection, the village has to find ways to hide their secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Life Coach (2009)
Plot Summary:
Max Chêne is a life coach who helps to motivate everybody from professional athletes to government ministers to business executives. After his gambling debts get out of control and his wife throws him out, he is approached to take on a unique client.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, funny, light, feel good, captivating, clever, realistic
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Me, You, He, She (2018)
Plot Summary:
A married couple decides to divorce, but things don't quite go the way they planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ukraine
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, feel good
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Highway to Hellas (2015)
Plot Summary:
The life of Jorg Geissner, a German banker, totally transforms with a visit to Paladiki Island, Greece. A business trip to check on a project called “Galapagos in Greece” by the islanders and for which his bank extended a loan and credit, brought him there. Being a German, he wants to investigate thoroughly, but Panos, a mini-mart owner, and the mayor try their utmost to sabotage him—to camouflage a not-so-good reality. After every single trial resulted in nothing because of the islanders’ secret meddling, Jorg’s trip becomes elongated, like The Odyssey’s, forcing him to contemplate the priorities and responsibilities in life again.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, Greece
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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With Open Arms (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and calling the wealthiest people to welcome home the families in need. While he promotes his book during a televised debate, his opponent criticized him for not applying what he himself advocates. While stuck, Jean-Étienne Fougerole accepts the challenge, for fear of being discredited. The same evening, a family of Roma rings the door of his Marnes-la-Coquette villa and the writer feels obliged to house them.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: political, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, happy, intellectual
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Killing Hasselhoff (2017)
Plot Summary:
A man in a high stakes celebrity death pool quickly loses everything - his business, his bank account, his home, his fiancé. He snaps, then realizes the only way to get his life back on track. He'll have to murder his own celebrity. He'll have to kill Hasselhoff.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, exciting, light, feel good, humorous, captivating
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A.B. Normal College (Todo na 'yan! Kulang pa 'yun!) (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dominic (Ogie Alcasid) and Miguel (Mikey Macapagal Arroyo), the school's most notorious students, are challenged when the school participates in a quiz show to upgrade the image of the school. With the gorgeous Professor Eula Yulo (Rufa Mae Quinto) as their mentor, the three are out to prove to everyone that they are more than just troublemakers.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Week Of (2018)
Plot Summary:
The parents of a soon-to-be married couple make the final preparations for the wedding ceremony.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, funny, feel good, sincere, buddy comedy
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Back to School (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two adults go to their middle school reunion in order to show off their success to old bullies teenage crushes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Our School's E.T. (2008)
Plot Summary:
Sung geun, a physical education teacher, is at risk of losing his job when the school decides it needs an English teacher instead of a PE teacher. Therefore, he starts to devise a plan to change his job as an English teacher.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious