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Plot Summary:
The war between Luxembourg and Finland sets the outline to a set of comedic stories about a rally team, gay couple's fishing trip, two hoodlums' last school days in the spring and a haunted hotel among others.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Sport
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Tamahine (1963)
Plot Summary:
The headmaster of a stuffy British boys' school receives a surprise visit from the now-grown, and very voluptuous, daughter he fathered years earlier in the Pacific islands. Director Philip Leacock's 1963 comedy stars Nancy Kwan, Dennis Price, John Fraser, Coral Browne, Michael Gough and James Fox.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Let's Make Love 3 (1990)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy guy from Australia travels to his birthplace in Bosnia so he'd make a giant wedding with Yugoslavia's biggest star Lepa Brena. Although it's a Brena doppelganger, media rush to publish the story so Lepa Brena must run across the country to stop the false wedding and tell everyone the true.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 587
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min
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Pang i bygget (1965)
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Directed by Ragnar Frisk and with a script by Rune Moberg – the two well known gentlemen behind Åsa-Nisse and Lilla Fridolf – Pang i bygget became one of the 60's biggest Swedish comedies. Thore Skogman is the merchant Valentin Skog, who runs the small town's grocery shop and folk park with little revenue but a lot of heart. But the no-good profiteers brothers Grym has their eyes on his business, and will use any means. The dirtier the better! But they haven't counted on "The Doll" (Lill Babs), a fresh breeze from the big city - or rather storm wind - who blows life in the struggle against the crooks.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Sweden
Duration: 76 min
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Point, Point, Comma... (1972)
Plot Summary:
A lyric comedy about eight-graders, their life and first love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 84 min
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Ralliraita (2009)
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This rollicking sports comedy from Finnish director Markku Polonen follows the exploits of Seppo 'Sladi' Pesonen, an ex-top-tiered race car driver now reduced to instructing students at a driving school. To relieve the monotony of this undesired career, Pesonen builds "Team Susan," a road rally team based at Pekkarinen's Garage in the Finnish countryside. Soon, Sladi's nephew Luumu arrives from Helsinki and learns of the team, his enthusiasm skyrockets and he hops on board with the assist of mechanic Suko. Yet the men encounter Machiavellian sabotage at the hands of the vile Torppo, the owner of the lot that contains Pekkarinen's Garage, who is determined to interfere with the plans of Team Susan.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, unusual plot structure, captivating, contemplative
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95 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Set in the final weekend of the year 1995 Ice Hockey World Championships, 95 tells through overlapping stories why Finland became a ice hockey world champion and how it affected the whole nation.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 106 min
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Richard Herring: The Headmaster's Son (2010)
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In The Headmaster's Son, a nostalgic and faintly disturbing juvenile romp through the 1980s, Richard Herring considers what could possibly be worse than being a podgy, swotty, virginal schoolboy. What if your dad's the headmaster too?.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: live comedy
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Let's Make Love (1987)
Plot Summary:
Story of Lepa Brena and her band, and their adventures during one of the tours through Yugoslavia.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min
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Towards the Day of Doom (2014)
Plot Summary:
Four stories about Finnish life intersect. In the first story, the ex- bassist Tom makes a mistake. He calls the old band mate, drum artist Monkki Mähönen renovation of this property to the wife 's summer home. The story starts to get "kauhuelokuvamaisia" features the Monkki and the lady of the house Stina on a collision course. The following story wannabee - motorcycle gang and its leader Jouni humiliated in the village shop. Jouni decides to avenge the humiliation robbing trade. He is a tough movie freak and draws its revenge plan inspired by the famous action movies. In the third story of the journey of the yellow press, the early days of the sixties to mid. During the film has become known for bad behavior Helsinki fantasy and sci-fi director Kurt von "Kurre" Riikonen, which rises at the center of the fourth story.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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The Subtenant (2008)
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A farce about blackmailing, a kidney transplant operation performed at home, deviants and human relationships.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min
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Leif (1987)
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The weaponfactory in Rotum is selling weapons illegal, a person called 'Leif' writes in the local newspaper. He must be stopped, even if what he has written happens to be true. Gunnar Volt and some of the other workers at the factory sets out to catch him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 808
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Sweden
Duration: 108 min
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Time Out (1998)
Plot Summary:
The whimsical and joyous parade of ridiculous events satirize the war that rages in Colombia right now and exposes the real spirit of those who inhabit such a beautiful country.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Spain, Italy, Colombia
Duration: 105 min
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Two Much for the Job (2022)
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After five years enduring horrible work conditions, Sophia finally gets chosen for a long-awaited transfer from her thankless teaching job at a rough middle school. Ecstatic to start a new life teaching at the French Lycée in Barcelona, her hopes are dashed to bits when a well- connected, over-qualified teacher at an upscale Paris school cuts in to take the position. Determined to stand her ground, Sophia and her clever neighbour Mr. Picard join forces to sabotage her competitor’s candidacy.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
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Beginners! (2012)
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Shimura Teppei (Fujigaya Taisuke) grew up watching his policeman father who would ride side-by-side in marathons because he was a motorcycle cop, and dreamt of being a marathon runner as a child. But Teppei’s father lost his job and disappeared. Teppei ruined himself by becoming a well-known delinquent in the area. Under the influence of his childhood friend, Yuichi, Teppei chose to become a policeman after graduating from high school. He miraculously passed the recruitment exam and entered the police academy. However, he has been assigned to a “class of reserves” (Goriki Ayame, Koyanagi Yu, Okamoto Azusa, Mizusawa Erina, Ishii Tomoya, Mori Ren) which is a gathering of odds and ends. There are eight of them and each day they are only instructed by the assistant teacher, Ryuzaki Misaki, to sweep the academy grounds … ….
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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Take Off 2 (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 2003 the year of Aomori Asian Games, Dae-woong, a former ice hockey player receives an offer to be a director of Korean national ice hockey team. Before he enjoys the moment, realizes it is a woman national team with bunch of losers; a figure skating player who wants to get married by becoming a national team, a former field hockey player, now a fat housewife, and an expelled short track skater. As an ace player, Ji-won, a former national team player of North Korea, joins the team. But they still have hope as only 5 teams participating this year. With the great victory of first match, they feel the medal is closer, yet Ji-won meets her sister left in North Korea alone as a next opponent.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Saru Lock the Movie (2010)
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Saru is a talented young locksmith who unlocks any kind of lock. He is, however, a complete fool when it comes to women. One day a girl Mayumi asks him to open a safe full of stolen money. Knowing nothing about it, Saru takes the money briefcase with Mayumi and finds himself with yakuza gangsters and also police in hot pursuit.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
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Kummeli Goldrush (1997)
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Psychiatric patient Elmeri knows about the existence of a gold treasure in Finnish Lapland, hidden there by his late father who somehow managed to capture it from withdrawing German troops on the last days of WW2. His openly gay nurse helps him escape from the mental institution, and the two men slowly find their way up north to reach the gold. On their way, the odd couple meets a cavalcade of even odder characters.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie, parody, funny, light, clever, brutal, feel good
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Movie Movie (1978)
Plot Summary:
Three movie genres of the 1930s, boxing films, WWI aviation dramas, and backstage Broadway musicals, are satirized using the same cast.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Sport
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, stylized, not serious, realistic, spoof, independent film, parody, sketch comedy
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Jackpot (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kummelin Jackpot, was released in February 2006. It was about a divorced man portrayed by Silvennoinen, who realises a way to trick himself a jackpot in football betting.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Perfectly Normal (1990)
Plot Summary:
A cab driver and an opera fan strike up an unusual friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty
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Goon: Last of the Enforcers (2017)
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During a pro lockout, Doug "The Thug" Glatt is injured and must choose whether to defend his team against a dangerous new enemy, or be there for his wife as she prepares to give birth to his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, humorous, funny, cult film
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Score: A Hockey Musical (2010)
Plot Summary:
Seventeen-year old Farley has the stick-handling skills of the next Sidney Crosby. Not that Farley has any idea who Crosby is. He’s led a sheltered life, homeschooled by parents whose idea of homework is trips to an art gallery or ashram. His best friend is Eve, the girl who’s lived next door since they were both three. Much to the dismay of his parents, Farley loves to play shinny with the local rink rats. To their even greater dismay, Farley is signed to a major hockey league, where he achieves instant stardom, throwing him into a world of hype. Farley soon finds that hockey fame comes with a price, including the expectation to fight. Throw in a changing relationship with Eve – and Farley is losing his way.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, uplifting
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Odd Man Rush (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Harvard hockey’s Bobby Sanders lands in Sweden’s minor leagues, his relationship with the girl at the local market forces him to confront the reality of his childhood NHL dream before the hockey gods intervene.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, thought provoking, touching, realistic, semi serious, funny
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Pierino torna a scuola (1990)
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Had come of age and unemployed, Peter decides to go back to school to take the elementary school. However, his academic performance continues to be poor so much so that his grandmother to play for the votes of a report card to the football pools coupon. The grandmother with the votes of Peter will win, using the amount paid to renew their tavern, without giving any money to his nephew, who will retaliate by closing all his family in the bathrooms of the new restaurant. Eventually Peter was rejected despite the efforts of his teachers, but Peter does not seem to be over: receives, in fact, a visit to Camazzo, her neighbor and Head of the third class of the Navy, which gives him an envelope containing the fateful "call to Arms".
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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The Handcuff King (2002)
Plot Summary:
It is winter in the mid-1970s in Tornio, a village near the northern border between Finland and Sweden. Esko is a boy with a lot of problems. He has succeeded in getting on the wrong side of his gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Finland, Sweden, France
Duration: 94 min
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The King of Jokgu (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Man-seob comes back to school after completing military service, he organizes the school's Jokgu team to win Anna's heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Snowboard Academy (1997)
Plot Summary:
A wacky free-for-all comedy about the riotous rivalry between snobby skiers and knuckle-dragging snowboarders.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick
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Puck Hogs (2009)
Plot Summary:
Puck Hogs follows a men's recreational hockey team, The Puck Hogs, through a brutally hilarious weekend tournament. In the tradition of the cult classic This is Spinal Tap, Puck Hogs is a hocku-mentary comedy about ice-prone boys turning into real-life men, and stick handling the puck over the goal line of life.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, captivating, mockumentary, slapstick
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Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice (2002)
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With the original Hanson Brothers still on the same minor league ice hockey team, the Chiefs are sold to a new owner who gives them a female coach and puts them in a league in which they are to be regularly humiliated by an opposing Harlem Globetrotters-like team.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick, teen comedy
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Slap Shot 3: The Junior League (2008)
Plot Summary:
Get ready for a rough-and-tumble comedy that knows how to kick some serious puck!.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, slapstick comedy, slapstick