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Plot Summary:
Henedy plays Taimor, a Young man studies music. He loves his colleague and intends to marry her. Her mother, who believes in magic, refuses their marriage.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 90 min
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The Secret Men Club (2019)
Plot Summary:
A dentist called Adham establishes a secret men club because his relationship with his wife escalates after a marriage that lasted more than 10 years. The secret club helps him and other members to find creative ways to cheat on their wives.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, light, uplifting, feel good, humorous, ironic, talky, semi serious
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Hello America (2000)
Plot Summary:
After being suspended from the People's Council, Bakhit and Adeela travel to New York at the request of Bakhit's cousin Nawfal who is a wealthy man living with his wife and two kids. Bakhit and Adeela notice the cultural differences as they try to earn a decent living in America and get married after years of waiting.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Ayazon (2006)
Plot Summary:
A businessman returns back to home country, Egypt, after living for a long time abroad where he became a multi-millionaire. Upon his return, he starts a search for his daughter that he abandoned when he was young.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration:
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She Made Me a Criminal (2006)
Plot Summary:
The movie is about a very naive young man (Ahmad Helmi), who wants to fix his house before it falls, but does not have the money, and rich girl who likes to spend money uncontrollably (Ghada Adel), whose father is scrooge (Hassan Hosni), who would not give her access to her trust fund. In order to force her father to give her money, she stages a kidnapping with the assistance of her best friend (Reham Abdul Ghafoor) and the naive young man, who ends up falling in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way (1978)
Plot Summary:
Dewey (Tim Conway) and Wallace (Chuck McCann) are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor dies, and because no one else knows about the ruse Dewey and Wallace are stranded in prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, slapstick, exciting, parody, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, not serious
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Nobody's Perfekt (1981)
Plot Summary:
While everyone knows you can't fight City Hall, there are those who, for whatever reason, can't resist the challenge. Three slightly disturbed psychiatric patients decide to take on the government. What ensues includes car chases, a ferry boat hijacking, strip-teases and lots of fun!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Scavenger Hunt (1979)
Plot Summary:
Old Mr. Parker has made millions inventing and selling games. At the beginning of the movie, he dies and his relatives gather for the reading of the will. However, Old Mr. Parker is a game player to the last, and his will stipulates a Scavenger Hunt to determine which relative will get the inheritance. The winner of the scavenger hunt gets all the money, the rest get nothing.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: entertaining, offbeat, humorous, not serious
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Corner Gas: The Movie (2014)
Plot Summary:
It’s been a few years, and there’s still not a lot going on 40 kilometers from nowhere. But that’s all about to change as the fine folks of Dog River, Saskatchewan face their biggest crisis ever. Brent and the gang discover that the town’s been badly mismanaged, leaving residents with little choice but to pack up and leave. As residents make one last rally to save Dog River as they know it, they discover a devious plan by a corporate chain that would change life for Dog Riverites forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, cynical, not serious, offbeat
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Reckless Kelly (1993)
Plot Summary:
A satirical take on a modern day Ned Kelly who is forced to Hollywood in order to make enough money to save his family's land. As it goes against his belief, he cannot simply rob banks for his own benefit (all money goes to the poor). Ned is forced to find another way to come up with the $1 million required to save his family island.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick, neo screwball comedy
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Young Einstein (1988)
Plot Summary:
Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beatuiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surreal, slapstick, humorous, parody, mind bending, psychedelic, offbeat, not serious, thinking, funny
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Americathon (1979)
Plot Summary:
In a story told in narrative flashbacks, a young TV consultant is hired by the President of a bankrupt USA to organize a telethon in order to prevent the country from being repossessed by wealthy Native Americans.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 943
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, political, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Wooly Boys (2001)
Plot Summary:
Grizzled North Dakota rancher Stoney heads to the big city to see his daughter and winds up bonding with the grandson he never knew in this heartwarming tale. Stoney's city-bred grandson, Charles, tricks him into getting help for a serious health issue. But with the aid of his rancher pal, Stoney escapes the hospital with Charles in tow.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: uplifting, touching, realistic, independent film, feel good, humorous, semi serious, neo western
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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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Out on a Limb (1992)
Plot Summary:
While heading to the town where his sister, Marci, lives, big-city banker Bill Campbell is robbed by a woman who takes everything he has, including his clothes and a business document worth millions of dollars. Bill eventually reunites with Marci, who is in a tizzy because she thinks their stepfather has been killed. While trying to determine if his sister is right, Bill must also get back his valuable paperwork.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Protocol (1984)
Plot Summary:
Sweet, unsophisticated Sunny is working as a cocktail waitress. She saves a visiting dignitary and as a reward she gets a top-office job in the Washington beehive. She has to fight against a devious protocol officer but with her charms, she saves the day when she gets involved in an arms deal with an Arab country.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: political, light, happy, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, romantic, sexy
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The Wrong Guys (1988)
Plot Summary:
Five former cub scouts have a reunion and go camping on the mountain they never conquered. High jinks ensue due to their childhood enemies and a group of escaped convicts who mistake them for an FBI unit.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, independent film, not serious, neurotic, nostalgic
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Mama's Boy (2018)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about a gang leader ( Chico ) who gets into a fight and is seriously injured, after which he is transferred to the hospital in a critical condition where he needs a heart transplant. At the same time, the mother of another young man ( Hesham Maged ) dies and doctors resort to transferring her heart to the gang leader to save his life, but he starts acting in a motherly way towards the young man.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Great Fava Beans of China (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mohy Al-Sharqawi is a young man whose grandfather and his uncles form a smuggling gang. As Mohy is a coward who cannot go along with them, he goes to live with his mother and step-father but they send him to China to represent Egypt in a cooking competition which gets him into a lot of troubles.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Lembi 8 Giga (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lembi.. a poor lawyer who marries a school teacher and he causes her troubles due to his bad financial status, and then he meets with an accident which changes the way he was living.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Under the Rainbow (1981)
Plot Summary:
In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel Rainbow and overbooks with royalty, assassins, secret agents, Japanese tourists, and munchkins (from the cast of _Wizard of Oz, The (1939)_ ). Secret Service agent Bruce Thorpe and casting director Annie Clark find romance amidst the intrigue and confusion.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, funny, feel good, realistic, not serious, parody, humorous, offbeat, surprise ending, psychological
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Police Academy 3: Back in Training (1986)
Plot Summary:
When police funding is cut, the Governor announces he must close one of the academies. To make it fair, the two police academies must compete against each other to stay in operation. Mauser persuades two officers in Lassard's academy to better his odds, but things don't quite turn out as expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, slapstick, absurd, relaxing, realistic, semi serious, fast, unusual plot structure
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Santa with Muscles (1996)
Plot Summary:
Penurious but muscle-bound Blake Thorne has made a vast fortune marketing health food and health supplements. He once was a nice fellow, but as his wealth increases, he becomes increasingly self-centered and decadent. One day, he gets in a great paint-gun fight that goes too far. Blake escapes the cops by running into a shopping mall, quickly donning a Santa Suit and pretending to be St. Nick. A head injury causes Blake to suffer amnesia, and an opportunistic "elf" decides to convince Blake that he is indeed Santa. This leads "Santa" to help save an orphanage, filled with adorable moppets, from the machinations of a greedy, insane doctor.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic, road movie, enigmatic, unusual plot structure, bad ending
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Jack and Jill (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jack Sadelstein, a successful advertising executive in Los Angeles with a beautiful wife and kids, dreads one event each year: the Thanksgiving visit of his twin sister Jill. Jill's neediness and passive-aggressiveness is maddening to Jack, turning his normally tranquil life upside down.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 89000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, not serious, slapstick, entertaining, feel good, romantic, cult classic, relaxing, realistic
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Young Frankenstein (1974)
Plot Summary:
A young neurosurgeon inherits the castle of his grandfather, the famous Dr. Victor von Frankenstein. In the castle he finds a funny hunchback, a pretty lab assistant and the elderly housekeeper. Young Frankenstein believes that the work of his grandfather was delusional, but when he discovers the book where the mad doctor described his reanimation experiment, he suddenly changes his mind.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 167000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, funny, black and white, gothic, humorous, cult classic, slapstick, hilarious, horror comedy
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The Toy (1982)
Plot Summary:
On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, satirical, humorous, entertaining, touching, realistic, black comedy, cult classic, sentimental
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Zelig (1983)
Plot Summary:
Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, Babe Ruth, and others.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, surreal, black and white, humorous, parody, melancholic, compassionate, not serious, clever, intellectual
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The Big Year (2011)
Plot Summary:
Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, scenic, semi serious, hilarious, thought provoking, inspirational, uplifting, art house
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Rosalie Goes Shopping (1989)
Plot Summary:
Rosalie loves to shop too much to let a little thing like no money stop her. When the local shopkeepers no longer take her bad checks or bad credit cards, she's reduced to stealing from one family member to buy presents for others. It's looking pretty bleak until her daughter pushes her into buying a 'guilt gift' of a PC, complete with modem. Master shopper becomes master hacker, and Rosalie is back on top.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, cult film
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Christmas Eve (2015)
Plot Summary:
Hilarity, romance, and transcendence prevail after a power outage traps six different groups of New Yorkers inside elevators on Christmas Eve.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, touching, feel good, sweet, romantic, happy, christmas comedy
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Uncle Buck (1989)
Plot Summary:
As an idle, good-natured bachelor, Uncle Buck is the last person you would think of to watch the kids. However, during a family crisis, he is suddenly left in charge of his nephew and nieces. Unaccustomed to suburban life, fun-loving Uncle Buck soon charms his younger relatives Miles and Maizy with his hefty cooking and his new way of doing the laundry. His carefree style does not impress everyone though - especially his rebellious teenage niece, Tia, and his impatient girlfriend, Chanice. With a little bit of luck and a lot of love, Uncle Buck manages to surprise everyone in this heartwarming family comedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, entertaining, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, hilarious, sweet