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Plot Summary:
Helena, a beautiful immigrant actress/model, way too old for modeling and too old for acting without credits finally lands a big job but overseas. Out of desperation and advice of her LA friends she commits a federal fraud to get her traveling documents. To escape jail time she gives out names. In this comedic/dramatic piece as she is still wondering where her career is going she needs to watch over her back wondering if she is going to end up getting whacked by the people she ratted out.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, entertaining
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Of Love and Lies (2019)
Plot Summary:
Twelve-year old Theo plays for a local soccer club and has enough talent to eventually go pro. But his father has been on a self-destructive spiral ever since he started drinking and got divorced, and Theo feels powerless and anxious as he watches his dad slowly destroying his own life. But he refuses to give up on him. When a recruiter for a prestigious British club takes notice of him, Theo sees an opportunity to rekindle his father’s hope, but despite all his efforts he is not selected. So he decides to lie and say he was, hoping to make his father happy and proud. Theo’s dad is so overjoyed that he puts all his heart into helping his son prepare for “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” gradually regaining his taste for life and motivation for the future. Until the lie reaches unforeseen proportions and completely spins out of control. Thankfully, Theo’s little lie has already operated big change and generated so much hope, that life is able to get back on track. Only better!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, entertaining
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Slip & Fall (2011)
Plot Summary:
What happens when a law student breaks the law to pay for law school? Graduation is only a "slip" away.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, unusual plot structure, captivating, independent film, psychological thriller, psycho film
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Marvelous and the Black Hole (2021)
Plot Summary:
A teenage delinquent befriends a surly magician who helps her navigate her inner demons and dysfunctional family with sleight of hand magic.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Maggie Marvel (2011)
Plot Summary:
About a single Mom who moonlights as a contract killer. Maggie Marvel must balance career and family, murder and math homework. She is pushed into this dangerous world... only to find out she is very good at it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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For Here or to Go? (2015)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring Indian tech entrepreneur in the Silicon Valley finds himself unexpectedly battling the bizarre American immigration system to keep his dream alive or prepare to return home forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Everyone Says I Look Just Like Her (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters, one white and one black, spend a week together at their famous father's summer home. A microscopic examination of the new American family unit, it's a deeply personal film about the human connections that bond us all together.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, light, captivating, entertaining, independent film
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Buffaloed (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set in the underworld of debt-collecting and follows the homegrown hustler Peg Dahl, who will do anything to escape Buffalo, NY.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, social, freeze frame
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Call Mom! (2019)
Plot Summary:
Parents wait all their lives for their children to say "Thank you!" And the children in turn wait for a "Sorry!". This impossible equation is the starting point in the comedy "Call Mom!" Niki has just turned 35 and has to suddenly grasp all the life choices and relationships she dug for.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, fun
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How It Ends (2021)
Plot Summary:
In this feel-good apocalyptic comedy, Liza embarks on a hilarious journey through LA in hopes of making it to her last party before it all ends, running into an eclectic cast of characters along the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, funny, road movie, humorous, apocalyptic
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Smothered by Mothers (2019)
Plot Summary:
A football star loses all of his and his relatives money in a Ponzi scheme and becomes a father with three different women, all at the same time. The Ponzi scheme forces them to all live under one roof, and he has to pull off an elaborate caper in order to get his money back.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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3 Days with Dad (2019)
Plot Summary:
The last thing Eddie Mills wants to do is go home to deal with his dying Dad. But the Catholic guilt gnaws at him, and he returns home to his crazy family, an overbearing step-mother, and his bear of a father. Once there, Eddie is confronted with a revelation that forces him to deal with the past he has always avoided.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Friendsgiving (2020)
Plot Summary:
Newly-divorced actress Molly, her recently-dumped lesbian best friend Abby and Molly’s mother Helen host a dysfunctional, comical and chaotic Thanksgiving dinner for their motley crew of close friends and strange acquaintances.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny, satirical
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When Jeff Tried to Save the World (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Jeff discovers that the bowling alley he manages is being sold, he must do everything he can to save the place he's come to call home.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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Pig Hag (2019)
Plot Summary:
Jodie, a woman in her mid-thirties, struggles with the pressure to find a partner and have children. When she attends a Guns N’ Roses concert, she thinks she may have met a potential match — until he immediately ghosts on her.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, rough, touching, captivating
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Money Trap (2019)
Plot Summary:
Asim Noyan swindles people with his lies and games. Asim Noyan and his gang, who no one else has been able to catch, get into a ruse again.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, romantic
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We Accept Miracles (2015)
Plot Summary:
Fulvio is the only one of the three brothers to have left the village to go to work in the city. Deputy chief of staff in a large company, he dismisses people without remorse until he gets fired himself and after being jailed for beating his superior, is entrusted to his brother, who's a pastor in the village where they grew up. Forced into a place far from the modern world, Fulvio decides to help the local church in crisis by inventing a miracle that makes everyone believe that the saint's statue weeps. Tourists and pilgrims rush to the village and are filling the pockets of local businesses until the Vatican decides to send someone to certify the event. Fulvio must confess the scam, but the entire village will rise to convince the envoys of the Holy City for the veracity of the invented miracle.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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My Best Friend's Famous (2019)
Plot Summary:
After Sean Reilly, an earnest, self-deprecating, NY to LA transplant learns his slothful, less talented best friend gets a starring role on a hit TV show, he must battle his own insecurities and jealousy as well as the egocentric, spray-tanned male star of the show that is threatening his childhood friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 87
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Lovely by Surprise (2007)
Plot Summary:
Lovely by Surprise follows the journey of novelist Marian Walker as she attempts to finish her first novel. Facing the age-old problem of writer’s block, Marian seeks advice from a mentor and ex-lover. His seemingly innocent advice to kill the book’s protagonist unleashes chaos in her life as a willful protagonist escapes from her novel and appears in the unresolved corners of her past.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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A Hustlers Diary - The Series (2020)
Plot Summary:
The gangster Metin tries to get his life in order after a prison stay.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 221 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, masterpiece
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Back to the Goode Life (2019)
Plot Summary:
Francesca Goode is a successful New York banker who goes from being a Boss to being Broke overnight after the feds freeze all her assets when she's wrongfully blamed for unethical banking practices. She's forced to give up her hard-earned, lavish lifestyle and move back home to her humble beginnings with her uniquely hilarious, Southern family that she thought she ditched and left behind in a small town in Georgia. However, it's here that she will rediscover her self-worth, an old love, and the true meaning of family.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Shy of Normal: Tales of New Life Experiences (2011)
Plot Summary:
An author (Brinke Stevens) cures her struggle with writer's block by making up funny short stories about random people she sees in public.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, independent film, cult film
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Kiss through the Wall (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kesha, a young magician assistant, is desperately in love with a young journalist Alisa. He is ready to do everything possible to conquer her.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Adopt a Daddy (2019)
Plot Summary:
Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from the land, Damien reconnects with his parents' militant past and convinces his sister Mélanie, who has become a formidable business lawyer, her best friend Rudy and a bunch of unlikely pals to accompany him in his new fight. Together, they will break the law by solidarity. And very quickly to be completely exceeded.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, entertaining, funny, sincere, humorous, captivating
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Ordinary Happiness (2019)
Plot Summary:
After a deadly accident, Paolo comes back on Earth just 92 minutes more, thanks to a calculation error made in a paradise office.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Breaking & Exiting (2018)
Plot Summary:
Harry, a charming house thief, gets more than he bargains for during an attempted burglary when he stumbles upon Daisy and decides to save her from herself, sending both of them into a darkly comedic journey of self discovery and love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, independent film
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Dad for Rent (2014)
Plot Summary:
A unemployed father, due to his laziness, is supported by his wife. Their daughter decides to put their lazy dad up for rent on a secondhand site.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Helicopter Mom (2014)
Plot Summary:
Maggie Cooper thinks it would be really cool if her son Lloyd were gay. So cool, in fact, that she outs him to the entire school.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Bob Funk (2009)
Plot Summary:
After he's fired from his job -- by his mother, no less -- Bob Funk agrees to quit drinking, see a therapist, and eventually report to a new boss, who might just be the woman of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 945
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, touching, realistic
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Miranda Hart’s Maracattack (2013)
Plot Summary:
Miranda Hart releases an exclusive DVD featuring brand new comedy sketches together with fitness routines. Miranda Hart is to bring her unique brand of comedy and tom-foolery to fitness, with the release of never-seen-before comedy and fitness DVD Miranda Hart’s Maracattack, which is exclusive to DVD and Digital Download to Own. It’s the first time the incredibly popular entertainer has issued a DVD and Digital only release, which will be available on 18th November 2013.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 24
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Life Is a Wonderful Thing (2010)
Plot Summary:
A policeman who spies on the lives of others, an important banker married to a housewife who poses as a noblewoman. A precarious young masseuse and an electrician madly in love. Very different lives that end up intertwining. But also extremely complicated and troubled lives ... Even if, after all, life is a wonderful thing.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, entertaining, light, humorous, captivating