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Plot Summary:
Nakatsu was laid off at his company and now works part-time at a convenience store. One day, Nakatsu forms a vigilante group to protect his town with Toshida, who has a mysterious physical ability, Kanari, who is a female high school student with excellent information gathering abilities, and Kusaki, who wields hammers under his sleeves. As they punish evil doers, the group gains popular support and flourish.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Problem Solver (2015)
Plot Summary:
Problem Solver is the former town benefactor, a local hero who is undervalued and detached from society. Together with his team Problem Solver attempts to rescue the mayor's son.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Lithuania
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, captivating
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Crazy Famous (2017)
Plot Summary:
A fame obsessed average Joe escapes a mental institution with a band of misfits for one last desperate attempt to be famous.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: captivating, light, humorous, entertaining
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Russell Howard: Recalibrate (2017)
Plot Summary:
Self-deprecating comic Russell Howard plows ahead through politics, porn, social media and his own shortcomings. Yet he somehow keeps it positive.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, captivating, fun
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Nick Swardson: Taste It (2015)
Plot Summary:
Nick returns to the Paramount Theater to drop his new TASTE IT hour special. Fans of Swardson get his fresh takes on booze, chicks and diarrhea, along with new stories, new jokes and a new t-shirt. Nick is back and it tastes good.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, captivating, hilarious, live comedy
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Jian Bing Man (2015)
Plot Summary:
Beijing, the present day. Popular TV personality Da Peng is invited by gangster businessman Wang Hai to make a film in which he will invest. Wang insists that Da Peng's co-star is TV drama actress Du Xiaoxiao. However, after a nightclub scandal involving Da Peng goes viral, he's blackballed by a powerful internet executive and finds himself unable to attract any male co-star. Wang also wants his investment back. Da Peng decides to make his own movie on the cheap, using a script he has about an alien, A Li, who arrives on Earth and has various adventures as a superhero.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Mr. Zoo: The Missing VIP (2020)
Plot Summary:
Top National Security agent and zoophobe Tae-ju suddenly receives an ability to talk to the animals after a freak accident?!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 509
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Roy Chubby Brown: Too Fat To Be Gay (2009)
Plot Summary:
Britain’s most outrageous comedian, bar none! Tackling subjects from motorway pile-ups to marriage counsellors & cancer-causing sausages this recording of another of Chubby's live performances will shock & offend those of a sensitive disposition.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, live comedy
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Undercover Brother 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sixteen years ago, Undercover Brother and his younger brother were hot on the heels of the leader of a racist, worldwide syndicate, but accidentally got caught in an avalanche of white snow. After they were discovered and thawed out, Undercover Brother remained in a coma. Now, it is up to his little brother to finish the job they started.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, action comedy, feel good
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Mac Daddy's Vegas Adventure (2017)
Plot Summary:
After Mac Daddy decides to quit being an international ladies man, two of his best pupils (Diego and Damon), who have been trained by him in the arts of seduction, decide to take over. Damon and Diego take their game to Vegas to become international ladies men. But Damon ends up hitting on the wrong woman, and both Damon and Diego get involved with the most dangerous Italian Mafia in Vegas. Now Mac Daddy must come back into the game, to help save their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Codename: Jackal (2012)
Plot Summary:
A legendary assassin takes on an elimination task targeting the famous pop singer. She succeeds in kidnapping the singer but is hesitant to kill him, while he is hesitant to run away.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Sexy Comedy (2001)
Plot Summary:
The children leave for the school trip and dad and mom board a nice girl who turns out to be the lover of their best friend. Which is then the husband of their best friend.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sex comedy
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Heroes (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of senior people will unite against the evil plan of a Spanish businessman who wants to get Chile out of Latin America to annex it to Europe.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy
Country: Chile
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic
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ABCs of Superheroes (2015)
Plot Summary:
ABCs of Superheroes brings you not only one or two or five, but no less than twenty-six of the most heroic and outrageous Superheroes and Supervillains of all time. From the Almighty Ape to the fabulous Zee-Men, this anthology feature film will have you laughing and screaming for more. The ultimate experience in Superpower!.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, splatter, anthology
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GoGo Sentai Boukenger vs. Super Sentai (2007)
Plot Summary:
"Even today there are those who risk their lives to protect the world. Thirty Super Sentai who protect the Earth from dangerous enemies." GoGo Sentai Boukenger vs. Super Sentai is a multiple Sentai crossover film that celebrates the 30th Anniversary of the Super Sentai series. The team-up includes the Boukengers and special guests MagiYellow, AbareBlack, HurricaneBlue, DekaBreak, and MagiShine. They are joined by an unknown Ranger named AkaRed.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Action
Country: Japan
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: super sentai, exciting, captivating, entertaining
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Bakuman (2015)
Plot Summary:
Moritaka Mashiro (Takeru Satoh) doesn't want to follow in the path of his uncle who worked as a manga artist, but ultimately died because of exhaustion. Moritaka Mashiro figures he will graduate from school and work at an office. Things change though when falls in love with a girl at school. The girl, who hopes to become a voice actress, tells Moritaka they can marry, but only after they both achieve their dreams. Moritaka then teams up with fellow classmate Akito Takagi (Ryunosuke Kamiki) to publish their first manga.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, stylized, anime, manga
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Ninja Kids!!! (2011)
Plot Summary:
The film stars Seishiro Kato as Rantaro who is sent to a ninja training school by his parents. During the summer, their teacher is invaded by a group of rival ninjas culminating in a race to ring a bell on top of a mountain.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Spider-Man: Vengeance (2016)
Plot Summary:
Peter Parker/Spider-Man's suit becomes attached to an alien symbiote, which makes him tough and bulletproof. Romance blossoms with new girl, Mary Jane Watson. Peter's best friend, Harry, takes on his dead father's legacy by becoming The Green Goblin. The battle has never been more personal.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Action, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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The Misadventures of Hedi and Cokeman (2021)
Plot Summary:
In Paris, two dysfunctional dealers use family ties to try to boost their small drug business in this crass comedy based on the webseries.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 727
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Marquez-Castillo Siblings (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of four siblings compete for the heritage of their father.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Detarame Hero (2013)
Plot Summary:
Kuzumi Kenta is a lowlife moocher whose tendency to always do absolutely nothing because he thinks doing anything is troublesome, is a sure sign that he is NOT a hero. However, upon eating mysterious candy, Kenta discovers that his physical strength and sensory abilities are increased tenfold for exactly ten minutes. When a police officer, his best friend Tanba Shuiji, discovers this ability, Kenta is forced to use his newly found abilities for good.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Magic Hour (2008)
Plot Summary:
A hustler who gets in trouble with a gang boss in the port town of Sukago agrees to make good with the don by putting him in contact with a mysterious hitman -- an assassin the hustler has no idea how to contact. Instead, he hires an actor to play the role, though the thespian has no idea what he's getting into.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The 2 Usual Idiots (2012)
Plot Summary:
The sequel to 2011 film "I soliti idioti".
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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The Sklar Brothers: What Are We Talking About? (2014)
Plot Summary:
Randy and Jason Sklar standup special recorded in Madison, Wisconsin.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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YouTube Poop: The Movie (2017)
Plot Summary:
50+ YouTube Poop videos have been edited together to create a ‘very loose’ storyline in this visual mixtape. This ‘movie’ functions as both a compilation ‘best of’ as well as portraying the experience of flipping channels through YouTube’s funniest & filthiest ‘poops’.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Jolly Life (2009)
Plot Summary:
Riza Senyurt is the world's most troubled Santa Claus at Christmas time. For one thing, he doesn't know who Santa Claus is. Whether fake or real however, he is Santa Claus now. Bearing the load of the whole world on his shoulders, Santa Claus finally finds a clue. Life as we knot it isn't more factual than the lies children believe in.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Judge! (2014)
Plot Summary:
A major advertising festival is held each year to determine the best television commercial in the world. A rookie ad man at a big advertising company named Otan is selected as a judge on the festival jury. Meanwhile, a coworker also named Ota (although the Japanese characters are slightly different) poses as his wife so that he can attend an open party which is held nightly. Knowing that he’ll get fired if his company doesn’t win the Grand Prix, he’s forced to resort to a variety of desperate tactics.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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700 Days of Battle: Us vs. the Police (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set on the backdrop of 1979 a group of troublemaking teenagers led by Mamachari (Hayato Ichihara) decide to prank Chuzai-san (Kuranosuke Sasaki) the local police officer who caught Mamachari’s friend Saijo (Takuya Ishida) for speeding on his scooter, Chuzai-san gets them suspended from school which only causes the teenagers to retaliate, They discover that Chuzai-san is married to an attractive woman named Kanako (Kumiko Aso) only making their pranks worse.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Job: The Last Grey Cell (2006)
Plot Summary:
A story of three friends - Adi, Pele and Chemik, who experience many adventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Famalam (2018)
Plot Summary:
Famalam shines a comedic light on everything - from alien encounters in the outer reaches of the galaxy to what happens when a man is left on his own in a house for 10 minutes holding only a phone and a remote. With a dazzling array of accents, cultural observations and colourful costumes, Famalam gives us a glimpse of the latest Nollywood blockbuster, reveals who might be responsible for internet spam and introduces us to the real rulers of the world - spoiler alert - it's not the G20.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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The Double-D Avenger (2001)
Plot Summary:
Three of the biggest and bustiest Russ Meyer stars - Kitten Natividad, Haji, and Raven De La Croix - make a comeback in 'The Double-D Avenger,' the first in a series of sexy action/comedy feature films by William Winckler Productions. Big, busty Chastity Knott must use her new amazing abilities as the super-stacked costumed crime fighter, the Double-D Avenger, to stop villainous bikini bar owner Al Purplewood and his sexy, murderous strippers.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, sexy, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, independent film, weird