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Plot Summary:
Little Amy is a 1962 failed television pilot written by Norman Paul and starring Debbie Megowan. Other cast members include Bill Leslie, Shary Marshall, and Jack Nicholson in a small part as a football coach. It was filmed at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios and was produced by the CBS Television Network. The failed pilot is widely considered to be based on the popular cartoon series Little Audrey.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Double Your Pleasure (1989)
Plot Summary:
A television movie about an FBI agent (Jackée) who breaks her leg while trying to capture drug runners, and her identical twin sister (also portrayed by Jackée), a waitress who is enlisted to take her place. Masquerading as a sophisticated financial analyst, the twin is thrust into a dangerous game of organized crime and official corruption with a shady business mogul.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Sunday League - Pepik Hnatek's Final Match (2012)
Plot Summary:
The film Sunday League is set just before the beginning of the TV series Okresni prebor (2010)). The film's story takes us back in time to Houslice and everything is once again centered around the local Slavoj football club, its players, functionaries and, primarily, its coach Pepik Hnátek. Pepik Hnátek (Miroslav Krobot) is a big man in Houslice. The authoritative coach is an indispensable strategist of the district football scene and the soul of the entire club. Football means everything to him which is something his wife finds hard to accept, but it is his heart that is affected the most and after years of stress and nervous exertion it is slowly beginning to give up. So far the obstinate Hnátek has been successfully hiding this fact from everyone, but when his heart is hit by its seventeenth heart attack the experienced coach will have to decide whether to choose life or football. Hnátek, quite logically, chooses football.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 104 min
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The Feminist and the Fuzz (1971)
Plot Summary:
A dedicated women's libber and a male chauvinist cop become roommates.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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My Mummy (2008)
Plot Summary:
While shopping at Earl’s All American Exquisite Antique-O-Rama, Brad and Cat decide to buy a mummy. But what begins as a joke quickly unravels in this crazy horror spoof starring J. Todd Anderson, Adam Rihacek and Natasha Randall. The visually striking comedy marks the sophomore feature of writer-director Anderson, the longtime storyboard artist and visual consultant for the Coen brothers.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
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John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! (1965)
Plot Summary:
Two Americans (Shirley MacLaine, Richard Crenna), stranded in the mideastern country of Fawzia, help an Arab leader (Peter Ustinov) build a football team so it can play and hopefully beat Notre Dame. Director J. Lee Thompson's once-highly-controversial 1965 comedy also features Scott Brady, Jim Backus, Charles Lane, Jerome Cowan, Fred Clark, Wilfred Hyde-White, Harry Morgan, Telly Savalas, Richard Deacon, Jackie Coogan, Jerry Orbach, Barbara Bouchet, Patrick Adiarte, Irene Tsu and Angela Douglas.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
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Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (1979)
Plot Summary:
A newspaper editor decides to send his girlfriend, who is also a reporter on the paper, undercover to try out for the cheerleading team for the Dallas Cowboys in order to do an "insider's" story.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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Gregory's Two Girls (1999)
Plot Summary:
Twenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils uncover evil practices at a local factory they want their teacher to help them expose the wrong-doer, who happens to be Greg's old schoolfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Laughing to the Bank (2011)
Plot Summary:
A down-on-his-luck actor is frustrated with Hollywood and makes a plan to write, direct, and distribute his own project. When the money goes missing, it proves to just be the beginning of an adventure to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, dark comedy, black comedy
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Chico and the Man (1974)
Plot Summary:
Chico and the Man is an American sitcom which ran on NBC for four seasons, from September 13, 1974, to July 21, 1978. It stars Jack Albertson as Ed Brown, the cantankerous owner of a run down garage in an East Los Angeles barrio, and Freddie Prinze as Chico Rodriguez, an upbeat, optimistic Chicano young man who comes in looking for a job. It was the first U.S. television series set in a Mexican-American neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, hispanic
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Play By Play (2017)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age comedy about an ESPN sportscaster who looks back on his life in the 90s and gives the play-by-play of his adolescence.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
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Frankenstein: The College Years (1991)
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When professor Lippzigger dies, his favorite student Mark inherits the key to his secret laboratory. There he and his friend Jay find the hundreds of years old body of Frankenstein - and revive it. But where to go with him? They take him with them to their dorms. He's dumb as a brick, but makes it into their football team and becomes popular. If there only wasn't Prof. Loman, who wants to become famous with Lipp's inventions.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 306
Genere: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Nobody's Watching (2006)
Plot Summary:
Gail Mancuso film.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: sitcom, semi serious, light, humorous, captivating, realistic, mockumentary
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The Great Mom Swap (1995)
Plot Summary:
When two girls think the other has it better, they swap places to see who's right!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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It's Your Move (1984)
Plot Summary:
It's Your Move is an American sitcom starring Jason Bateman, Tricia Cast, Caren Kaye, Ernie Sabella, David Garrison, and Garrett Morris. The show originally aired on NBC from 1984 to 1985.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, teen comedy
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Luis (2003)
Plot Summary:
Luis is an American sitcom starring Luis Guzmán that aired on Fox from September to October 2003. Scheduled in the Friday night death slot, the series received low ratings and was canceled after five episodes. The series was the first show of the 2003-2004 season to be canceled.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Double Trouble (1984)
Plot Summary:
Double Trouble is an American sitcom that aired from 1984 to 1985 on NBC. The series stars identical twins Jean and Liz Sagal as Kate and Allison Foster, two teenagers living under the watchful eye of their widowed father. The show was considered an updating of the "twins in mischief" concept seen in films like The Parent Trap or the Patty Duke Show of the 1960s.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Adult Interference (2017)
Plot Summary:
Stuck in his hometown after being sentenced to 90 days of house arrest, a failed actor takes up residence in his niece's little pink playhouse. Fueled by booze and boredom, he agrees to teach the neighbor kid how to play football in order to help him fit in at middle school. Their unlikely friendship teaches them both what it means to be a man.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, psychological, light, feel good, unusual plot structure
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The Turkey Bowl (2019)
Plot Summary:
A 30-something urbanite is pulled back to his rural hometown by his high school buddies on Thanksgiving to finish The Turkey Bowl - an epic football game against their cross town rivals that was snowed out fifteen years prior.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, emotional, realistic, meditative, funny
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Heartbreak High (1981)
Plot Summary:
Two long-time rival high school football coaches lead their respective teams into battle for the city football championship. However, before the opening kickoff, various students from each school try to do whatever it takes to throw the opposing team off of their game.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, sex comedy, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Holiday Reunion (2003)
Plot Summary:
Against the ardent wishes of his wife, eleven-year-old son, and sixteen-year-old daughter, ALBERT SNIDER (Judge Reinhold) is determined to have a festive family holiday. Albert doesn't seem to realize that his kids would rather stick needles in their eyes then spend time with their stuffy dad, and his wife is equally fed up by their dull life. When he receives an invitation from his long lost cousin Woodrow (Bryan Cranston), he decides to take his family out to the country for a down-home family holiday. However, Cousin Woodrow and his family turn out to be nuttier than a holiday fruitcake! What follows is a full course meal of nonstop laughs and holiday hilarity when the neurotic 'burbs clash with the hippy hicks from hell in National Lampoon's most outrageous family misadventure yet!.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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The Brady Girls Get Married (1981)
Plot Summary:
Made-for-tv movie, the pilot for a "Brady Bunch" revival series, "The Brady Brides." Jan and Marcia have met the men of their dreams and decide to tie the knot. They agree to hold the weddings together in the family's back yard, but fight over whether to have a modern ceremony or a traditional one. Can the marriages be saved? All of the original cast members (except cousin Oliver) put in a return appearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sitcom, tv series pilot
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The Godfather of Green Bay (2005)
Plot Summary:
Joe Keegan is the 'Rocky' of stand-up comedy. A fifteen-year comedy veteran who was pegged for stardom early on in his career but has blown every major audition he has ever had in legendary fashion. Fresh off a recent fiasco with a heckler that included a broken nose, Joe's friend Kenny tells him he can get them an audition for 'The Tonight Show' and that it's 'a can't miss.' The one catch is that it's at a roadside bar in tiny Pine Lake, Wisconsin, hometown of Tonight Show Talent scout, Harvey Skorik who never misses 'Rocktoberfest.' Having doubts but needing a break from L.A., Joe reluctantly agrees to go. Arriving in Wisconsin, Joe bombs his first night on stage when local emcee Dug sabotages him. Joe cannot get a break until he encounters his former high school English teacher, the beautiful Molly Mahoney who is also at a crossroads in her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 324
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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House Party (2023)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring club promoters and best buds Damon and Kevin are barely keeping things together. Out of money, down on their luck and about to lose the roofs over their heads—and freshly fired from their low-lift jobs as house cleaners—the pair needs a huge windfall to make their problems go away. In a ‘what the hell?’ move, they decide to host the party of the year at an exclusive mansion, the site of their last cleaning job, which just happens to belong to none other than LeBron James. No permission? No problem. What could go wrong?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Brother's Keeper (1998)
Plot Summary:
Brother's Keeper is an American television sitcom that ran for one season from September 25, 1998 to May 14, 1999 on ABC. Created by Donald Todd, the series chronicles the rocky coexistence of Porter Waide and his irresponsible pro-football player brother Bobby Waide, who is contractually forced to move into his brother's house, where Bobby's lifestyle often clashes with that of Porter's, and becomes an unwitting second parent to Porter's son Oscar.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Coach (1989)
Plot Summary:
Coach is an American television sitcom that aired for nine seasons on ABC from 1989 to 1997. The series stars Craig T. Nelson as Hayden Fox, head coach of the fictional Division I-A college football team the Minnesota State University Screaming Eagles. The program also starred Jerry Van Dyke as Luther Van Dam and Bill Fagerbakke as Michael "Dauber" Dybinski, assistant coaches under Fox. The role of Hayden's girlfriend Christine Armstrong, a television news anchor, was played by Shelley Fabares.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious, nostalgic
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Vir Das: Abroad Understanding (2017)
Plot Summary:
Comedian Vir Das tackles nationalism, globalism, good food and bad politics in two cleverly crosscut performances in New York and New Delhi.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sitcom
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Evening Shade (1990)
Plot Summary:
Evening Shade is an American sitcom television series that aired on CBS from 1990 to 1994. The series stars Burt Reynolds as Wood Newton, an ex-professional football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers, who returns to rural Evening Shade, Arkansas to coach a high school football team with a long losing streak. Reynolds personally requested to use the Steelers as his former team because he is a fan. The general theme of the show is the appeal of small town life. Episodes ended with a closing narration by Ossie Davis summing up the events of the episode, always closing with "... in a place called Evening Shade." The show's final episode saw the guest appearances of Willie Nelson and Buzz Aldrin as escaped convicts on the run from authorities, the final scene being a spectacular shoot-out reminiscent of the final scene of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. The opening segment included clips from around Arkansas, including the famous McClard's Bar-be-que, which is situated on Albert Pike Blvd. and South Patterson St. in Hot Springs National Park.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Home Team (2022)
Plot Summary:
Two years after a Super Bowl win when NFL head coach Sean Payton is suspended, he goes back to his hometown and finds himself reconnecting with his 12-year-old son by coaching his Pop Warner football team.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, funny, humorous, feel good
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Revenge of the Nerds (1984)
Plot Summary:
At Adams College, the jocks rule the school from their house on high, the Alpha Beta fraternity. So when a group of socially-challenged misfits try to go Greek, they're instantly rejected by every house on campus. Deciding to start their own fraternity to protect their outcast brothers, the campus nerds soon find themselves in a battle royale as the Alpha Betas try to crush their new rivals.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, funny, sex comedy, cult classic, teen sex comedy, slapstick, teen, captivating, entertaining
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Step Sisters (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jamilah has her whole life figured out. She's the president of her black sorority, captain of their champion step dance crew, is student liaison to the college dean, and her next move is on to Harvard Law School. She's got it all, right? But when the hard-partying white girls from Sigma Beta Beta embarrass the school, Jamilah is ordered to come to the rescue. Her mission is to not only teach the rhythmically-challenged girls how to step dance, but to win the Steptacular, the most competitive of dance competitions. With the SBBs reputations and charter on the line, and Jamilah's dream of attending Harvard in jeopardy, these outcast screw-ups and their unlikely teacher stumble through one hilarious misstep after another. Cultures clash, romance blossoms, and sisterhood prevails as everyone steps out of their comfort zones.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, funny, inspirational, feel good, humorous, captivating, motivational