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Plot Summary:
An aging out of work clown returns to his small hometown, resigned to spend the rest of his days in a drunken stupor. But when his passion for clowning is reawakened by the local amateur circus he finds his smile.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Jean of the Joneses (2016)
Plot Summary:
Chaos ensues after the estranged patriarch of the Jones family dies on their doorstep. When the paramedic who answers their 911 call tries to win over acerbic Jean Jones, his attempts are disrupted by old conflicts that come to a boil at the funeral.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 511
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Fake (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set amongst a tapestry of fairy tale excess, Michael is reared and mentored by an African American maid, Annie Mae. Michael is caught in a triangle of lies and deception by dysfunctional, quirky, upscale family and friends.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
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The Twelve Chairs (1962)
Plot Summary:
When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the treasures he believes rightfully belong to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Comedy
Country: Cuba
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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If It's Tuesday, It Still Must Be Belgium (1987)
Plot Summary:
When a tour bus driver plans to save his daughter from her captors, a Belgian circus performer, the Americans on his European bus tour lend a help hand.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic
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Gimme an 'F' (1984)
Plot Summary:
Can a squad of misfit cheerleaders with an over-age trainer possibly win the big cheerleading competition.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, independent film, cult film
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Cedric the Entertainer: Live from the Ville (2016)
Plot Summary:
Donning his signature suit and fedora, the dapper comic offers a unique spin on getting old, the presidential election and "Honky Tonk Badonkadonk.".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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DeRay Davis: How to Act Black (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dynamic comic DeRay Davis hits the stage like a ball of fire, nailing the finer points of living, dating and handling show business as a black man.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 482
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags:
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Money Shot (2012)
Plot Summary:
When given keys to a mansion for the weekend, two friends decide to make a film but end up throwing a huge party and trashing the house. Now they race to get the "money shot" and finish their film to pay for all the damages done.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slasher, independent film
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Never Too Late (1965)
Plot Summary:
A 60-year-old lumber supply businessman is dismayed to learn his 50-year-old wife is pregnant. A film adaptation of the hit Broadway comedy, with Paul Ford repeating his stage role as the flabbergasted papa-to-be.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film
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Fishbowl California (2018)
Plot Summary:
A man struggling to find purpose in life is enlightened by a drunk ailing widow.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 925
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, crying, independent film, cult film
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My Third Wife, George (1968)
Plot Summary:
Ralph Higbee is a 40-year-old drunkard who lives with his mother to take care of her. When his mother dies, he picks up three women who persuade him to take LSD for an experience. Seeking a companionship to replace his mother, Ralph meets and soon marries Josephine, but he is unable to satisfy her constant desire for sex. He leaves her when he finds out that she has other male and female lovers. Ralph marries a second time, but his second wife, Amanda, is also unfaithful and wants to scam him out of most of his money. Marring for the third time, Ralph is finally happy... until he cheats on her for no good reason and when she finds out... there will literal hell to pay.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, sex comedy, independent film
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Steve-O: Guilty as Charged (2016)
Plot Summary:
Comedy special starring comedian, author and all-round lunatic Steve-O, who went from humble beginnings as a circus clown to hitting the big time in 'Jackass'. Expect the unexpected as he performs hilariously outrageous stunts and riotous tricks that hold nothing back.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Hot T-Shirts (1980)
Plot Summary:
In order to avoid the closure a bar the owner and some friends organize a wet-T-shirt competition. As they thought this attracks new people and certainly money.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, independent film, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, teen sex comedy, teen comedy
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Aziz Ansari: Live at Madison Square Garden (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ansari headlines the iconic Madison Square Garden and delivers his most hilarious and insightful stand-up yet. Filmed in front of a sold-out audience, Ansari's latest special is an uproarious document of the comic in top form -- covering topics ranging from the struggle of American immigrants to the food industry to relationships to gender inequality.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: funny, hilarious, fun
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Mulletville (2002)
Plot Summary:
A hipster film student returns to his rural hometown to make a scathing documentary about his former tormentors, focusing on the annual 'kick-ass bash' at his cousin's trailer. He learns the hard way that revenge rarely goes as planned, especially when generic beer and big hair are involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, independent film, mockumentary, offbeat, realistic, fake documentary, campy
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Hardly Working (1980)
Plot Summary:
In Jerry Lewis's first film in a decade, he plays Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who can't seem to hold down a job. The film opens with a brief montage of clips from past Lewis movies. He then moves into a succession of jobs that he gets himself fired from including a gas station attendant and a mailman - all with disastrous results.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slapstick, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, slapstick comedy, cult film
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The Living Wake (2007)
Plot Summary:
“The Living Wake” is a dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered rickshaw. In a final attempt to probe life’s deepest mysteries, Binew endures one ridiculous trial after the next. He concludes his day with a final performance, his living wake. On a makeshift stage in an open field, Binew’s friends and enemies gather to witness his madness one final time.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, suspense, black comedy, offbeat, independent film
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The Amateurs (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sex sells in America and these guys know it. The Amateurs follows a small town band of loveable losers who hit upon an idea that can make their dreams and fantasies come true. Thinking they've found the road to riches and fame they decide to make the world's most innocent adult film. Everyman's fantasy turns into a hilarious misadventure when they find they're in way over their heads.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, erotic, philosophical, independent film, offbeat, sexy, teen sex comedy
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Hitting the Nuts (2010)
Plot Summary:
Hitting the Nuts is the 'true' story of the 2009 Scott County, Indiana Poker Championship as told by those who were there. This mockumentary follows the town preacher, busty waitress, lovable redneck dad, portly returning champion and a simple Amish farmer as they do battle in the town's annual, illegal Texas Hold 'em Tournament.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, mockumentary
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Tig Notaro: Happy To Be Here (2018)
Plot Summary:
Comedian Tig Notaro unleashes her inner prankster in a playful stand-up special packed with funny anecdotes, parenting confessions and more.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: funny, fun
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Camp Takota (2014)
Plot Summary:
With her personal and professional life in shambles, Elise ends up having to take a job as a counselor at her old summer camp. There, she reunites with two estranged friends who attended camp and never left. When the future of the camp is put in jeopardy, the three friends must band together to save it, changing the course of their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sincere, feel good, captivating, teen, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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3 Days of Normal (2012)
Plot Summary:
3 Days of Normal follows the story of straight-laced deputy Bill Morgan who is quite content literally living within the quaint boundaries of Washington, New Hampshire. Bill’s stable and rather uneventful life is thrown for a loop when he finds and arrests a woman, Nikki Gold, passed out in her car from inebriation. Unbeknownst to him, the woman happens to be a popular movie actress longing for some normalcy in her hectic life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, independent film, realistic, semi serious
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The Deported (2009)
Plot Summary:
An Italian-American actor is deported to Mexico by some crooked INS Agents, and a pack of orphans helps him find his way back to America.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Mangus! (2011)
Plot Summary:
When Mangus Spedgwick suffers an unforeseen tragedy that causes him to lose the role of Jesus in his high school's production of Jesus Christ Superstar, he fights with all he's got to get back the part, and carry on the family tradition.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, offbeat
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Shadows and Fog (1991)
Plot Summary:
With a serial strangler on the loose, a bookkeeper wanders around town searching for the vigilante group intent on catching the killer.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, black and white, philosophical, talky, semi serious, realistic, suspenseful, mind bending, sexy
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The Beach Party at the Threshold of Hell (2006)
Plot Summary:
Based on the concept of "New America" in the year 2097, two decades after a nuclear apocalypse, Tex Kennedy, two robotic ex-secret service agents, and a female cannibal journey to find a famously dangerous area known as the "Threshold of Hell" to gain access to a radio tower to unite the survivors of the apocalypse.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, apocalyptic, dark comedy, futuristic, political comedy
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Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Plot Summary:
A portrait of a fictional town in the mid west that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Dwayne Hoover is a wealthy car dealer-ship owner that's on the brink of suicide and is losing touch with reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, talky, black comedy, dark comedy, tragicomedy, humorous, witty, cult classic, intense, independent film
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Splinterheads (2009)
Plot Summary:
SPLINTERHEADS introduces Thomas Middleditch as Justin Frost, a twenty-something slacker whose “thing” is that he has no “thing” at all. When a small-time carnival rolls into town, he meets Galaxy (Rachael Taylor), a gorgeous con artist, or “splinterhead,” who has more “things” going for her than anyone he has ever met.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Grown Ups (2010)
Plot Summary:
After their high school basketball coach passes away, five good friends and former teammates reunite for a Fourth of July holiday weekend.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 269000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, buddy comedy, teen, hilarious, romantic comedy, predictable, slapstick, light
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Funny Farm (1988)
Plot Summary:
Chevy Chase stars as Andy Farmer, a sportswriter who moves with his schoolteacher wife Elizabeth (Madolyn Smith) to the country in order to write a novel in relative seclusion. Of course, seclusion is the last thing the Farmers find in the small, eccentric town, where disaster awaits them at every turn.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: hilarious, slapstick comedy, humorous, slapstick, social, colorful, offbeat, feel good, realistic, semi serious