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Plot Summary:
When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up in jail. Losing custody of her infant child, Maddy hatches a scheme to break out of prison with the assistance of her friend Gillian, who's avoiding the law herself for credit card fraud. Now Maddy has to find the couple who have adopted her son and avoid falling in love with selfish Alex all over again.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Radio Whirlwind Calls Andjelija (1979)
Plot Summary:
The phenomenon of tourism arrives to a remote village. A married couple sells their property to open a motel, which would be a starting point for their daughter Andjelija's singing career. The local radio-amateur (and Andjelija's boyfriend) helps them to achieve these goals, but Andjelija is more interested in her love life than her career.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Comeback (2015)
Plot Summary:
Thomas, former successful stand up comedian will do anything to get back on the top. Unfortunately at the same time his teenage daughter demands his whole attention threatening the comeback he wants so badly.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Secrets (2008)
Plot Summary:
After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar (Sergio Hernandez) is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current country, godless, far from the old ideologies and where all his old colleagues have changed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: Chile
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, black comedy, dark comedy
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Great Catherine (1968)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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She'll Be Wearing Pink Pyjamas (1985)
Plot Summary:
A humorous and revealing tale of a group of eight women from varying walks of life, who have volunteered for a rugged survival course at a tough mountain school in the English lakes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot (1979)
Plot Summary:
A lusty young woman decides to use her sexual powers to "tame" the evil and murderous Dr. Jekyll.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexy, hot
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Strike It Rich (1990)
Plot Summary:
A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Severed Head (1971)
Plot Summary:
Antonia, the pampered wife of Martin Lynch-Gibbon, an upper class wine merchant, tells her husband that she is in love with their best friend, the psychiatrist Palmer Anderson. Palmer and Antonia want to deal with the situation in a civilized way, by remaining friends with Martin. Meanwhile Martin tries to keep his mistress, Georgie Hands, a secret, but Palmer's sister, Honor Klein, who taught Georgie at Oxford, tells Palmer and Antonia about her. Furthermore, Honor introduces Georgie to Martin's womanizing brother, Alexander. This is just the beginning of the various liaisons.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, black comedy
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15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour (2022)
Plot Summary:
"Drinking, dancing and... killing me. It's the new life my neighbour Jose has decided to live. What better way to escape boredom than coming to kill me every thursday? His wife, Lucie, prefers to go to a shrink. To each their own therapy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Argentina, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Starry Sky Above Me (2017)
Plot Summary:
1996, Bruno publishes his first novel. He is critically acclaimed and is seen as the french John Fante. Twenty years later, Bruno is soon 50 and has not published anything since. He is single, has no children and lives with a young Femen as a roommate. For him, all goes well but his loved ones are worried and decide to take action.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags:
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Housewives on the Job (1973)
Plot Summary:
German sex comedy.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: fake documentary
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Jesus is a Palestinian (1999)
Plot Summary:
Natasha (Kim van Kooten) goes to Limburg to collect her brother Ramses (Hans Teeuwen), who has joined a sect, so he can consent to cutting their father's life support.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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The Spousals of God (1999)
Plot Summary:
After receiving a visit from a messenger of God, a man (Joao Cesar Monteiro) wins his buddy's girlfriend (Joana Azevedo) through a roll of the dice.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 772
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: eros, slow cinema, aesthetic, masterpiece
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Overnite Models (1973)
Plot Summary:
A company trip to Berlin ends in many sexcapades.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Secrets of a Door-to-Door Salesman (1973)
Plot Summary:
Lobster fisherman David decides to seek his fortune in London where he finds lodging in a boarding house for girls.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, independent film
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Bar Esperanza (1983)
Plot Summary:
Group of eccentric people gather at a popular bar in Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro, doomed to be closed to give way to the construction of a big building. Intellectuals, artists, night-people in general join forces to try to avoid its demolition. Among its costumers, we find Ana, an actress, her husband Zeca, an intellectual type in crisis about his work for TV, artists, newspapermen, a female researcher, and a couple who's always quarrelling, only to be reconciled moments later.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags:
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Italy is Rotten (1976)
Plot Summary:
Two Sicilian's, Peppe Truzzoliti and Antonio Mancuso, decide, after a misadventure with some mafia drug dealers, to leave the cold and racist Turin to return to their native land. Along for the ride with them is Domenica, a beautiful girl from Veneto, who had arrived in Turin in search of work, but due to a number of setbacks, had been forced into prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Bandit (1983)
Plot Summary:
The internal minister's very sophisticated ultra-technological and plated car stops for a mechanical accident in front of a villa. The owner of the villa is De Andreis that immediately offers his help to save the minister entrapped inside the car. Everything has to be done in secret to avoid a scandal within the Roman politic world. Many attempt are done but the result is unexpectedly terrific.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Die Rache der Ostfriesen (1974)
Plot Summary:
Bavarian sex comedy from Germany.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Confessions of a Window Cleaner (1974)
Plot Summary:
Young Timmy starts as a window cleaner in the little company of his brother. Soon he learns that some female customers expect additional service. Young and curious as he is, he reluctantly accepts the juicy duty. However his heart belongs to Liz, who demands the highest commitment until she lets him go all the way.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, cult film
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Paz! (2002)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of students live in an apartment in Bologna, during the 70's. This is a 24-hour sample of their ordinary life, where, between marjuana, school, university, girls and political contrasts, spectators can get a nice and colourful picture of that time, of those people and of their ideas and problems. Crazy, halucinated, somehow "Trainspotting Italian style", this movie was taken from comic strips by Andrea Pazienza and it respects very well their atmosphere and style.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Oh Marbella (2003)
Plot Summary:
Marbella, the original Costa del Sol paradise for the rich and famous and for those wishing they were.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse (1978)
Plot Summary:
Young Rosie Dixon starts her nurse training at St Adelaide's Hospital, but the student doctors and randy male patients just can't keep their hands off her.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Lover Boy (1978)
Plot Summary:
"The Pocket Lover" tells the story of Julien, a 15 year-old boy who falls in love with an older woman, later discovered to be a prostitute. Now, Julien will have to face several obstacles, which includes his parents opposition with this affair, and Julien's own perceptions about the woman's line of work, going out with wealthy guys.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Teenagers from Uranus: Sloppy Seconds (2006)
Plot Summary:
A bizarre mix of sketch comedy, music videos, skating, graffiti, and mayhem. As Earth faces an attack from outer space, their TV transmissions are taken over with an onslaught of visual destruction and outrageous humor.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: parody, sketch comedy
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Foreign Body (1986)
Plot Summary:
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Dead Babies (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a group of college kids get together for a weekend of partying, they find themselves mixed up in a murderous plot. Having planned on a weekend of hard-core debauchery, the English students and their visiting American friends do not notice when a series of mindless murders and acts of terrorism are carried out around them.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, witty, twisted, psychological, clever, serious, realistic, talky
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Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2022)
Plot Summary:
Seven men, all city-dwellers aged between 17 and 70, with nothing in common apart from the fact that they are all on the verge of a nervous breakdown, meet up at a lonely sta- tion for an unusual course in the wild that is supposed to get them back on their feet. Each step in this boot camp, designed by an eccentric and feisty female coach, aims to reveal them to themselves. The task seems to be a tough one, especially as nothing goes as planned between these men.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Comedy
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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¡Que viva México! (2023)
Plot Summary:
After his grandfather's death, a man travels with his wife and kids to his hometown, where chaos ensues with his relatives over the inheritance.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 191 min
Plot tags: satirical
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Hotel (2001)
Plot Summary:
While a British film crew are shooting a version of The Duchess of Malfi in Venice, they in turn are being filmed by a sleazy documentary prima donna while the strange staff share meals which consist of human meat. Then there is the hit man, the call girl and the Hollywood producer all managing to become part of the madness.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, surreal, clever, offbeat, realistic, experimental, talky, period piece