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Plot Summary:
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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A Chorus of Disapproval (1989)
Plot Summary:
Guy Jones (Irons) moves to a small British town and joins the local amateur dramatics society as a way to meet people. However he soon finds the drama offstage far outweighs those onstage.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 928
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Lady Maiko (2014)
Plot Summary:
Country bumpkin Haruko only ever wanted to become a maiko, an apprentice geisha. Initially rebuffed for lack of references, Haruko's strong accent intrigues a linguistics professor, who undertakes to coach her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, thrilling
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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)
Plot Summary:
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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Dollybirds (1997)
Plot Summary:
The movie is set in the actual "Ki Mit Tud?" talent contest in 1962. In reality the contest in dance music category was won by an army brass band. "Omega" which later became one of the most successful Hungarian rock bands came out in the second place.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Hungary
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: cult classic, parody, independent film, cult film
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Let Him Face the Music! (1978)
Plot Summary:
School supply teacher timid folk art Ales Brabec won first prize at a music festival and will therefore offer to work for the Prague little theater in the basement. Its director Soukup just needs a few songs for the upcoming musical, and so is willing to do everything to Alex to create the right atmosphere for composing.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: freeze frame
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Influence Peddling (1999)
Plot Summary:
Maxime and Gerard are a couple of white-collar criminals condemned to 5 years in prison. Sandrine Athan, an honest and principled young police officer, is assigned the banal task of escorting them to the nearest prison in Melun. Things get complicated when killers try to knock them off. Meanwhile, they must contend with strikes which have paralyzed the country and make travelling a nightmare. Added to this mess are the prisoners' many botch escape attempts. All these complications turn a simple transfer into a hellish adventure.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
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Annie B. (2004)
Plot Summary:
Annie who comes from a poor family is the epitome of an active and lively teenager. Fernando is the owner of an ad agency. The story begins when Annie halts Fernando's wedding thinking it was Fernando who got her sister pregnant. It just so happened that Fernando and Annie's sister's BF share the same name. The two meet again when Annie auditions for a TV commercial. Despite their rocky start, the two get to know each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Philippines
Duration:
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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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Let's Make Love 2 (1989)
Plot Summary:
Lepa Brena goes to one of the islands of the Adriatic, on a working holiday, but due to the holidays and planning the next tour, false news that the notorious island Lepa Brena requested a special guest for the tour. The news will completely disrupt the thrill and to potential tour guests, tourists and members of the Sweet Sin and the whole island.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
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Kummeli Stories (1995)
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
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Many Happy Returns (1986)
Plot Summary:
In this satire of the I.R.S., George Segal plays an Average Joe targeted for the Audit from Hell. His bank accounts are frozen, his home and business are attached by the government, and his wife leaves him. Segal is forced to move into the house of his obnoxious brother-in-law where lot of Odd Couple-type comedy ensues. Segal then plots to turn the tables on the I.R.S., and win back his wife and life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Macken - Roy's & Roger's bilservice (1990)
Plot Summary:
Roy and Roger decide to close their gasstation for the summer, to try to find where, what and how their lost father is. Roger also falls in love and much more.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min
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The Shark Who Knew Too Much (1989)
Plot Summary:
Samuel Plottner is a stockdealer who only wants to get richer, but suddenly things starts to get complicated: His sons meets their longlost mother which not only is after Samuels money, but also can tell them what happened to them the day they were borned. The financial exper Benny Hörnsteen is also after Samuels money, and so is the clown Conny Corny and Lennart K. Brons too.How will this end?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 82 min
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Monopol (1996)
Plot Summary:
Egil (Knut Agnred) is just an ordinary painter. But one day, when he's about to paint a fence, incredible stuff starts to happen!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 106 min
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Lab En Kisses (1996)
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This is a story of an odd couple, Labrador, a woman hater and Kisses, a stubborn stow away from Cebu, who is trying to escape her uncle who pushes her to marry a man she doesn't love. A love and hate relationship brew between the two until they found themselves facing the same odds... but this time, together.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
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Opening Night (2016)
Plot Summary:
A failed Broadway singer who now works as a production manager must save opening night on his new production by wrangling his eccentric cast and crew.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Die Aufschneider (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two hospitals that lie next to each other get told that only one will be kept open. Both have a few days to prove they're the better hospital. Thus, shenanigans arise between doctors, nurses and hospital directors.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
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Superheroes (2010)
Plot Summary:
Hilarious comedy that tells the fight of three brothers, something ridiculous, trying to free his sister police, unfairly accused of selling drugs.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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For Better and Worse (2015)
Plot Summary:
A couple on the brink of divorce attempts to hide their crisis at a grand wedding, but it turns out they are not the only ones with false appearances.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Crazy in Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of four raw facing different situations of life: love, heartache and endless tragicomic adventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Peru
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Yrrol: An Enormously Well Thought Out Movie (1994)
Plot Summary:
Yrrol: An Enormously Well Thought Out Movie. Sketch comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, black comedy, sketch comedy, dark comedy, fun
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Taxi Girl (1977)
Plot Summary:
Marcella (Fenech) inherits a taxi business from her father and now sets out on the job of her life. With each new fare she becomes involved with sex and crime all done up 70's Italian comedy style.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, perverse
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Den enskilde medborgaren (2006)
Plot Summary:
Insurance Director Stig Roxby is worth a hundred times more than an ordinary high school teacher. But he doesn't think that's enough, but sees himself forced to work with four other director colleagues to lift the bonus cap to be even more valuable. After some complications, Stig Roxby realize the brutal truth: he has everything but the essentials.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Deadhead Miles (1972)
Plot Summary:
Alan Arkin, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-wierding cops and weigh stations with his new cryptic, overcoated hitchhiker buddy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious
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Shock Treatment (1981)
Plot Summary:
Janet and Brad Majors, unhappily married, are separated after appearing on a game show. Janet becomes a superstar while Brad is thrown into a mental hospital. But what does fast food magnate Farley Flavors have up his sleeve?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: surreal, cult classic, allegory, spoof, horror musical, black comedy, horror comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous
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A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum (1966)
Plot Summary:
A wily slave must unite a virgin courtesan and his young smitten master to earn his freedom.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, melancholic, talky, light, realistic, semi serious, retro, epic, historically accurate
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True Stories (1986)
Plot Summary:
A small but growing Texas town, filled with strange and musical characters, celebrates its sesquicentennial and converge on a local parade and talent show.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: cult classic, surreal, postmodern, parody, offbeat, feel good, humorous, witty, not serious, absurd
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Monty Python's The Meaning of Life (1983)
Plot Summary:
Life's questions are 'answered' in a series of outrageous vignettes, beginning with a staid London insurance company which transforms before our eyes into a pirate ship. Then there's the National Health doctors who try to claim a healthy liver from a still-living donor. The world's most voracious glutton brings the art of vomiting to new heights before his spectacular demise.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 124000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, surreal, philosophical, absurd, spoof, existential, hilarious, black comedy, sketch comedy
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Moving Violations (1985)
Plot Summary:
A group of careless and unlucky drivers are sentenced to attend traffic school to keep their records clean.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, independent film, exciting, offbeat, realistic, witty, not serious, surprise ending, campy