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Plot Summary:
In this satire of the I.R.S., George Segal plays an Average Joe targeted for the Audit from Hell. His bank accounts are frozen, his home and business are attached by the government, and his wife leaves him. Segal is forced to move into the house of his obnoxious brother-in-law where lot of Odd Couple-type comedy ensues. Segal then plots to turn the tables on the I.R.S., and win back his wife and life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Non-Stop Trouble with My Double (1984)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy businessman and the owner of a rundown pub share one thing in common - they look like identical twins! When the businessman hears of a plot against him, he hires the pub owner as a decoy. However, the pub owner is accident prone and causes more trouble than he is worth. An action-packed, physical comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Finding Normal (2013)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Lisa Leland is a brilliant surgeon with absolutely no bedside manner. She is leaving her practice at UCLA Hospital to move to the Hamptons where she will join her boyfriend as a concierge doctor, treating the rich and famous. As she drives cross-country to her new life she hits a tractor in Normal, North Carolina and her BMW is wrecked. Dr. Leland is found guilty of speeding and ordered to do community service as a doctor in Normal, population 332. In a town with no wi-fi, no lattes and no credit cards, Lisa Leland begins to find herself and discovers what a meaningful life is all about.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, christian film, inspirational, spiritual
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Favorite Deadly Sins (1995)
Plot Summary:
America's three top leisure-time activities come roaring to life in National Lampoon's Favorite Deadly Sins. This film consists of three short stories: Greed (Joe Mantegna), Anger (Andrew Clay) and Lust (Denis Leary).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Better You (2014)
Plot Summary:
A hypno-therapist in midlife crisis must tackle his own personal challenges before helping others and getting joint custody of his kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Odd Job (1978)
Plot Summary:
Arthur Harris is a happily married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife, Fiona, is leaving him. Devastated he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few setbacks and while he is trying to electrocute himself with a lamp, the door bell rings. An odd man in a leather coat asks if there are any odd jobs that he can perform. Arthur hires the man to kill him. The next day his wife returns, but the man he hired is still trying to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody
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Cassanova Was a Woman (2016)
Plot Summary:
A married woman falls in love with another woman but struggles with her bisexual tendencies.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Living Dangerously (1987)
Plot Summary:
A gifted electrician, Michalis Karamanos works for OTE - Greek Telecommunications Organization and it seems that he is the only one who hasn't been completely absorbed by the corrupt and all-devouring system. Acting as a member of the revolutionary organization Constitutional Struggle, which is fighting against the unpopular policy of the government, he connects the computer of the director of OTE to an explosive device. He threatens to destroy the telecommunications of the country if he is not allowed to broadcast on television his revolutionary message during the broadcast of an important football game. The Authorities, thinking that he has gone crazy, try to bring him around using his old friends from the army, whom they pick up one by one as intermediaries. This is a situation comedy with excellent, mature plot development, plenty of suspense as well as masterful criticism of socio-political reality.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 729
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece, West Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Reno 911!: The Hunt for QAnon (2021)
Plot Summary:
The Reno Sheriff’s Department find themselves in their stickiest situation yet, hunting down “Q," the person supposedly behind all of the conspiracy theories concocted by the QAnon movement. In their valiant efforts, the officers find themselves stuck at the QAnon convention at sea, and ultimately end up in more trouble when they escape only to discover that they’ve landed on Jeffrey Epstein’s infamous island.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious, parody, funny
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The Film Crew: Wild Women of Wongo (2007)
Plot Summary:
What if there was a primitive island tribe where all the women were gorgeous and all the men were nasty-looking uggos? Might Mother Nature fix this by creating a tribe on a nearby island where all the men are hunks, and the women are brutes? You’d think not, but the makers of Wild Women of Wongo are not you. Wild Women of Wongo is a sex farce without the sex or the farce, set in a never-never land of uncivilized island dwellers who all look like someone going to a Halloween party as “uncivilized island dweller.” Add a crocodile who comes in the form of stock footage and rubber model, a lot of awkward dancing, and an actress named “Adrienne Bourbeau” who refuses to actually be Adrienne Barbeau, and you got yourself a movie. Mike, Kevin and Bill will DANCE their way into your hearts with this riff.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Happy Hour (1986)
Plot Summary:
A chemist experimenting with different formulas stumbles upon an ingredient that, when added to beer, makes it absolutely irresistible. Before he realizes it, an international spy is after him to try to get the formula for himself.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, not serious, cult film, cult movie cast
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Employee of the Month (2022)
Plot Summary:
Vincent, a civil servant, has always enjoyed the benefits of his family's status. When the government votes on a massive savings plan, Vincent is pushed out. When he is transferred to the North Pole, he meets Eva and finds love. It's time for him to choose.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Round Numbers (1992)
Plot Summary:
A housewife who despises society's obsession with health and looks suspects her husband of cheating on her with a hot model in a local health spa. She decides to infiltrate the spa, find the woman and get her revenge. But is it that simple?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Wheels of Fortune (2020)
Plot Summary:
To claim a big inheritance, a down-on-his-luck mechanic must win a series of competitions as outlined in his birth father's will.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy
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Trashology (2012)
Plot Summary:
College student Tracy (Laura Lee Black) has just received an assignment to write a report on her favorite film genre. In her research she discovers a book, now Tracy is taken into three interlocking tales of the unexpected. First in THE VAT, two women (Jenny Coulter / Rodney Horn) are harassed by a religious fanatic (Angie Keeling) about their worldly ways. When the bible thumping hypocrite threatens violence, chaos takes it's toll. Next in BIG DEBBIE, a robust woman (Rodney Horn) is abandoned at the altar, she runs into two guys that use her to fulfill their odd sexual fetish. When one accidentally dies, they're forced to get rid of the body... the only problem: a woman on the edge (Rachel Stout) witnesses the ditching and blackmails them into killing her cheating girlfriend (Kelli Ellis). Finally in INGLOURIOUS BITCHES, a quirky pair of female vigilantes (Douglas Conner / Brian Dorton) use an app on a cellphone to track down and murder sex offenders.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Wild Girls Gone (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the Spring Break capital of White Sands, Florida, Sheriff Terry Moran outlaws the town's world famous ass contests to win the elderly vote in his campaign for Mayor - even though he is married to the town's former Ass Contest Queen, Doreen. Unhappy with how her husband is changing, Doreen breaks out of her bored drunk housewife existence to recapture her youth and to subvert her husband's campaign.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, alternative comedy
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What Else Men Talk About (2011)
Plot Summary:
A year later the men are still talking, but this time on the 31st of December and still about the women, football, children, and, of course, about the approaching New Year’s celebration. But what can they do, if their beloved wives and girls are waiting for them at Kamil’s, busy with New Year tree decoration and cooking, and the husbands are accidentally got stuck in the advertising agency office? Will they manage to get home in time to celebrate the New Year together?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, parody, exciting, sincere, humorous, entertaining, thought provoking
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The World's Greatest Lover (1977)
Plot Summary:
When frustrated movie studio mogul Adolph Zitz announces a talent search for a romantic leading man to rival the great Rudolph Valentino, thousands of hopefuls decend upon Hollywood. Rudy Valentine, a neurotic baker from Milwaukee, knows little about romance or acting. But when his wife leaves him for the real Valentino, Rudy goes to outrageous lengths to win the role of a lifetime and win back the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, not serious
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Operation Cupcake (2012)
Plot Summary:
When Army Colonel Griff Carson (Dean Cain) returns home from Germany on a two-month leave, he considers retiring if he doesn't get promoted to General. Being away on deployment has been hard on Griff, separating him from his wife Janet (Kristy Swanson) and two teenagers, Kim (Galadriel Stineman) and Ollie (Alec Gray).
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Frank and Cindy (2015)
Plot Summary:
G.J. Echternkamp tells the story of his relationship with his parents, his mother Cindy and his step-father, Frank. Frank used to be a member of OXO, a band from the '80s whose one hit wonder scored with the song "Whirly Girl". Cindy was the ultimate groupie who married Frank and thought life would be glamorous and award shows, but it's not how it turned out.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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I Feel Better (2017)
Plot Summary:
A fifty-year-old man suffers from a sore back. All the world's doctors, radiologists, and oesteopaths can do nothing for him : the roots of his illness are pyschological. But what should he change about his work, his wife and his family in order to get better ?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Scandal: Lawful Entry (2000)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: erotic, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sex comedy, semi serious, sexploitation film
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Cassette Love (1981)
Plot Summary:
A comedy directed by Rolf Lyssy.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Hankyu Railways - A 15-Minute Miracle (2011)
Plot Summary:
"Hankyu Densha" follows the lives of various people who commute on Hankyu Railway's Imazu Line - connecting the cities of Nishinomiya and Takarazuka in Hyogo prefecture. One of the commuters is Shoko (Miki Nakatani), an office worker in her 30s who lost her boyfriend to a younger colleague. There's also a college student (Erika Toda) who is so easily persuaded by her no good boyfriend. Other commuters include a grandmother & granddaughter, a house wife, a female high school student, and a female otaku college student. Although the train ride takes only 15 minutes between two stations, the lives of these commuters are changed as they interact with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Fool (2019)
Plot Summary:
Pontagnac, a married man, tries to seduce Victoire, the wife of his good friend. Little does he know, Victoire has plans of her own to punish her cheating husband. The would-be fling ignites a dizzying spell of complications as characters arrange trysts, attempt to expose each other’s deceits, and are ultimately forced to come clean.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Carpool (1996)
Plot Summary:
A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick. Stopping to get donuts for the kids, things go even more awry when he finds himself a victim of a robbery. However, the situation only gets worse as a desperate man who had been contemplating a bank robbery robs the robbers and takes the man and the kids hostage in their van as his truck is blocked by an armored car. The thing then proceeds into a comedic chase movie. The father finds his kids don't really respect him and they react better to the robber. The end result is everyone gets a lifestyle change, including the original store owner.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, satirical, sexy, independent film, realistic, not serious, parody, absurd
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Making Babies (2018)
Plot Summary:
After years of "manually" trying to conceive, John and Katie Kelly put their bodies, wallet and marriage through the ringer of modern infertility treatments.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Doula (2022)
Plot Summary:
After the sudden death of their midwife, an L.A. couple hires her hippie son to be their live-in doula.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical, semi serious
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The Out-of-Towners (1999)
Plot Summary:
The remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy follows the adventures of a couple, Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for a job interview.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, feel good, realistic, entertaining, romantic comedy, witty, not serious, funny, road movie
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Till Luck Do Us Part 3 (2015)
Plot Summary:
After waking from a coma, Tino learns his future in-laws have given him a high-powered financial job, for which he is woefully unqualified.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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No Way Jose (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jose Stern, an erstwhile indie-rocker relegated to playing children's birthday parties, is on the verge of turning 40 and at a crossroads in his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 771
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious