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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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The Hit (1981)
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: campy
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The Limping Devil (1968)
Plot Summary:
A baleful limping man walks through Prague. He is Asmodeus (Juraj Herz), the fiend of lustfulness, entertaining himself by putting together by magic couples of lovers. He only fails at the swimming pool. Zuzana (Jana Sulcová), the good-looking blonde, ignores the men whom the devil foists off onto her. She loves Honza (Václav Neckár) and the boy shares her feelings. The fiend is annoyed by the couple and tries to provoke a row. He sends heavy rain to force them into a hotel and then warns Zuzana's father by phone, but the young lovers manage to get out in time. Then the obstinate Asmodeus takes Honza in his sleep to the Institute for Emotional Disorders, where he shows him the ugly sides of love - hysteria, voyeurism, fetishism, suicide attempts.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, modern day adaptation, urban fantasy, campy
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30 Maidens and Pythagoras (1977)
Plot Summary:
A musical starring Jiří Menzel (whose part is sung by Achilles Michailidis) as a math and physics teacher employing innovative teaching methods.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, freeze frame, teen comedy, campy
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Snowdrops and Aces (1983)
Plot Summary:
A quarter century after the release of the original film, this sequel brings us a drama about platonic love, life retrospective and memories. Former schoolmates meet again in the mountains and it turns out they have not changed much. Even though so many years have passed, we can still see the souls of boys and girls we know from the teenage comedy Snowdrops and Aces; kids who participated in that legendary skiing course. Its nostalgic humour gives the film a bitter-sweet touch. Thawing Out follows the lives of the main heroes during a period of great changes. How did they manage to escape the traps and what scars have they suffered? Where did they want to go, how far have they got and what is still in front of them?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 579
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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Joachim, Put It in the Machine (1974)
Plot Summary:
A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts, marked according to his date of birth, there are trappy, precarious, unsuccessful and even critical days and few successful days. The clumsy luckless person Frantisek has finally a guidance for his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Straw Hat (1972)
Plot Summary:
Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a wealthy farmer. At the last meeting with his mistress in a nearby forest Fadinar's horse eats straw hat which belongs to a married lady, spending time in the company of young and hot Lieutenant Emil. Emil literally puts a knife to Maurice throat - or the lady will get back the exact same hat immediately, or he will arrange such a scandal that no wedding will not happen.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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Paradise, Hawaiian Style (1966)
Plot Summary:
Blacklisted by the major airlines for endlessly chasing female staff, pilot Rick Richards returns to Hawaii to set up a helicopter charter company with his friend Danny. Having a girl on every island is a good way to get business but it becomes clear that romance and flying don't always mix.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, exotic
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The Big Wash (1968)
Plot Summary:
Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, slapstick comedy
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How to Shake Off a Bride (2016)
Plot Summary:
Eva, the owner of a pastry shop hopes to re-unite with her ex-husband Honza, with whom she has a son Tobias. Honza surprises Eva with the request for a wedding cake. He is planning to marry Linda, his new girlfriend. Eva and Tobias don't like the idea and the new couple breaks up for a while. But finally their wedding plans come true.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 92
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious, crying, freeze frame, neo screwball comedy
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Doubles (2016)
Plot Summary:
Comedy tells the story of two men who are much alike but their temperament and life story are as different as day and night. They have never seen each other, they have no idea about each other's mutual existence and it would remain like that if faith had not put them together... And from now on it is a great comedy of confusion.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating, suspenseful, intense, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Saddest Music in the World (2003)
Plot Summary:
In Depression-era Winnipeg, a legless beer baroness hosts a contest for the saddest music in the world, offering a grand prize of $25,000. Contestants flock in from around the globe. Representing America is Chester Kent, a theatre producer who thinks he's an American despite being Canadian; representing Serbia is his brother, Gavrilo the Great, who is succumbing to madness over the death of his son; and representing Canada is their father, a pathetic drunkard. As the competition builds toward its climax, these estranged characters are brought together to express their deep feelings of pain and ultimately give in to treachery.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, breathtaking, black and white, lyrical, visual, light, talky, humorous, black comedy
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Grandmothers Recharge Well! (1984)
Plot Summary:
A family purchases a home robot designed to look like a grandmum. Their neighbours immediately buy a more expensivve model as the two families always try to up the other one. Both grandmums start to "terorize" their families because they were set up to ensure the mums exercise, the kids study etc. Apart from that they start causing problems to the other family ... cut ropes with hanging clothes, pierced tires, etc. Once they get to killing each other family's pets the parents get really worried about the safety of their kids. The grannys later destroy each other while fighting and the families decide that they'll be better off without any robots. (It's some time since I saw this so the details may be off.) Mainly thanks to the design of the robots it's rather a comedy than a horror. Unless you are ten. And a rather good comedy!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, psychotronic, black comedy, freeze frame, alternative comedy, campy
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It's Not Me (1986)
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Suck Me Shakespeer 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Müller is not satisfied with his new work at the Goethe-Gesamtschule. The early getting up and correcting exams annoy him. Director Gerster wants to improve the image of the Goethe-Gesamtschule because she wants to be a symbol of the new company. To achieve this, she wants to take away the partnership from the Schillergymnasium with a Thai school. So, Mr. Müller, Mrs. Schnabelstedt and the 10b must go on a school trip to Thailand.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, not serious, freeze frame
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Laissons Lucie faire ! (2000)
Plot Summary:
Lucie makes her living selling bathing costumes on the beach at Marseilles. Her boyfriend Lucien wants to become a policeman, but is rejected and, instead, is recruited as a secret agent. The couple’s ten-year long relationship looks as if it might be over when Lucie starts to fantasize about another man and Lucien embarks on an impromptu affair with an American woman. Then Lucie discovers a book about the psychology of love and decides to put what she reads into practice.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: crying, sexual, sexy
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A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Plot Summary:
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, mockumentary, not serious, funny, surreal, black and white, cult classic, hilarious, inspirational
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Perched on a Tree (1971)
Plot Summary:
Henry Roubier, a French promoter, and Enrico Mazzini, an Italian, have signed an agreement guaranteeing them a stranglehold on European highways. While driving on the roads of the south, Roubier takes two young hitchhikers, but an unfortunate swerve the car rushes by Henri and its occupants on the top of a pine tree onto the side of a cliff.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, ambiguous ending, crying, spoof, freeze frame, dark comedy, parody
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Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mama's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling So Sad (1967)
Plot Summary:
A mother drops her son and husband off at a tropical vacation spot for a little rest and relaxation. The only problem is that the husband has been dead for quite some time, and his wife had him stuffed and carries him around with her. Complications ensue.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surreal, black comedy, slapstick comedy, crying, freeze frame, campy
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Stuck with a Perfect Woman (2016)
Plot Summary:
Eliska's husband has left her for a younger woman. She is childless, in her early forties, yet still attractive. Till then she had taken care of her successful husband, but now she has to start anew without his financial support. Eliska starts teaching at a local village school. Since she can't find a lodging, she moves to a former morgue. The small house is already occupied by a quirky and grumpy graveyard keeper named Bozicek. Their house sharing leads to a series of comical conflicts, but they eventually fall in love and Eliska proves to her ex-husband that she is able to stand on her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, captivating, entertaining, crying
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Blue Hawaii (1961)
Plot Summary:
Chad Gates has just gotten out of the Army, and is happy to be back in Hawaii with his surf-board, his beach buddies, and his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, melancholic, stylized, intense, feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, psychotronic, retro
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How to Seduce Your Teacher (1979)
Plot Summary:
There's a new girl in school, Angela, the Headmaster's neice. Every male will try to seduce her, even her uncle. Meanwhile she will drive the philosophy's teacher mad and her best friend Irma will have a good time with the classmates. Will they get the grades?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, teen sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick, teen comedy
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...aber Jonny! (1973)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: freeze frame
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Wet and Wild Summer (1993)
Plot Summary:
A property developer wants to take over an Australian beach for a high rise resort. He sends his son to Australia to check out the situation, posing as an exchange lifeguard. He falls in love with a woman who owns the land his father needs for the development and finds himself sympathising with the locals.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crying, sex comedy, independent film, freeze frame
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Waiter, Scarper! (1981)
Plot Summary:
It is the story of a man who had financial troubles. He was married several times and had to pay for several kids. He wanted to earn some extra money by playing in a cafe. But one drunken guest supposes he is a waiter and pays his bill to him. So the main hero finds his chance - he goes through restaurants, pretending that he is a waiter and asks people to hand their cash to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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The Spooks (2016)
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IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic, light, humorous, captivating, crying, freeze frame, spooky, urban fantasy
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The Wild Goose Chase (1975)
Plot Summary:
The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, West Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slapstick, humorous, realistic, not serious, neurotic, detective, slapstick comedy, poliziottesco
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The Sensuous Nurse (1975)
Plot Summary:
Greedy relatives hire a sensual caregiver to hasten the demise of a wealthy count suffering from a heart condition.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, crying, sex comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, low brow humor, hot
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The Incredibly Sad Princess (1968)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 776
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, psychotronic, cult film
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Bye Bye Birdie (1963)
Plot Summary:
A singer goes to a small town for a performance before he is drafted.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, retro, black and white, hilarious, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, satirical, vintage
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If I Were Rich Man (2019)
Plot Summary:
A man which wife is filing to divorce him wins 25 million EUR in the lotto, hiding her to prevent sharing the half of the prize.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, humorous, entertaining, melancholic, disturbing, crying, remake of french film, neo screwball comedy