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Plot Summary:
Meier, a paperhanger in East Berlin, inherits from his father in West Berlin. With this money he wants to fulfil himself the dream of his life: a journey around the world. He buys a forged West German passport and pretends to go on a trip to Bulgaria while he really is off to see the free world. When he wants to return to East Berlin he finds himself in an unbelievable predicament and his double life begins. He can't keep away from his East German friends. As with all the best comedies, the action builds up to an eventual crisis. It's a light comedy, which won several national Film Academy Awards. The film is very political, with lots of political jokes/innuendos which only Germans will understand. One is left feeling what a total obscenity that stupid Wall was, dividing one people for 30 years (1-2 Generations) simply by the coincidence on where you just happen to be in the early morning on the 13th August 1961.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 99 min
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Toto and Peppino Divided in Berlin (1962)
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Antonio, seguendo le indicazioni della "Smorfia", dategli in sogno da una zia monaca "attraversa l'Alto Adige" e arriva a Berlino Ovest per incontrare il magliaro Giuseppe e fare fortuna. Ma Antonio e somigliantissimo all'ammiraglio Canarinis, criminale di guerra ricercato. Greta, figlia dell'ammiraglio gli offre 20 milioni per far finta di essere il padre e Antonio accetta. Ma quando scopre che lo aspetta una condanna a morte grazie alla testimonianza di Giuseppe, pagato da Greta, rivele la verità agli americani e riesce a convincerli con l'aiuto della... Smorfia. Ma ci sono sempre i russi che, catturati i due, vogliono fare decifrare i codici segreti americani. La smorfia e la zia monaca (defunta) danno una mano ad Antonio e i guai sembrano finiti, ma le sorprese sono sempre in agguato.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
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Gorilla Bathes at Noon (1993)
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A Red Army major caught between East and West Berlin finds his wife gone and somebody else moved into his apartment.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Comedy
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, Germany
Duration: 83 min
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A young man from an early age falls in love with a girl whose family is not in good standing with the ruling Communist party. His father however is a member of the "Stasi", the secret state police. The father not only hinders his son's relationship with the girl, but he arranges for his son, after finishing school, to become a Stasi spy himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 93 min
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A comedy directed by Hans-Christoph Blumenberg.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody
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Go Trabi Go (1991)
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Family Struutz lives in Bitterfeld (GDR). After the fall of the wall, they take the opportunity to go on holiday with their car, an old Trabant. They simply want to visit Italy. But there are some incidents during their journey. (IMDb).
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
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1969 comedy about communism.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 85 min
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Favorite Deadly Sins (1995)
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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
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A Jungle Book of Regulations (1974)
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, absurd
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A man is thrown out by his girlfriend and moves in with a friend who is part of a group of terrorists plotting an assault on a department store.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 87 min
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Three children of a single father escape from the town in order to find a houseboat which was once owned by their mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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Jagdrevier der scharfen Gemsen (1975)
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About the film: Mr. Shimenger receives from his brother inherited the hotel. Then he flies to Germany, settling there as an ordinary guest, and finds out that his hotel has a reputation as a brothel.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
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Black Sheep (2006)
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Black Sheep (original title: Schwarze Schafe) is a german/swiss black and white movie. It's separated into five episodes, which tell stories of the Berlin city life. A hopeless impostor. An East German couple who dreams of the big money. Three Turkish teenagers who do everything to have sex. Two hapless Satanists. And gay boys who dream of a better world. An anarchist, humorous black comedy about life in Berlin.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 995
Genere: Comedy
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: stylized, humorous, realistic, not serious, black comedy, black and white, offbeat, homoerotic
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Arpa Colla (1982)
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"Arpa-colla" in Greek literally means "Grab and stick", a phrase used to show something that has been done quickly and therefore isn't good enough. This is what the 2 main heroes of the film are doing. The one is a director(Giorgos) and the other an author(Kostas) with communistic ideas, who has won a prize at a festival. They both want to make a movie for the cinema. But every idea they have never comes true, because every time they meet someone to whom they tell their idea, they change their mind, and they want to make a totally different movie, ideas varying from political cinema to Greek historical dramas and modern films with motorcycle gangs. Not a bad attempt for the Greek cinema of the early 80's, which starts to wake up from the hibernation of the 70's.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece, West Germany
Duration: 98 min
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D'Unbelievables D'Telly (1998)
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Irish Comedy Starring Jon Kenny & Pat Shortt.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ireland
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Happy Birthday, Lola! (2001)
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The film's hero, Lola, is getting ready for the celebration of her birthday. Because she knows she is in for a surprise, she lets two strangers with flowers and a cake into her apartment. The guests names are Bim and Bom; they are killers. They've chosen the girl's apartment as a shooting place to assassinate the president whose motorcade is to proceed by her house. Lola becomes a hostage and the main obstacle foiling the assassination plan.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 106
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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NVA (2005)
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The story of young recruits doing their compulsory military service in the East German army 'NVA' prior to the fall of the Berlin Wall.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, captivating, light, melancholic, exciting
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One, Two, Three (1961)
Plot Summary:
A Coca-Cola executive in West Berlin tries to keep the boss's daughter from marrying a Communist.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, fast paced, black and white, clever, witty, talky, biting, parody, sweet, humorous
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Beloved Berlin Wall (2009)
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Berlin, 1989. Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who's just moved into a flat next to Sascha's watchtower at the Berlin Wall. It takes only a slight mishap and a selfless act of chivalry and the two fall in love. But soon the Stasi believes they are witnessing the start of a revolt. This is the time of mass protests and East Germans taking refuge in the West German embassy in Prague after all. Franzi and Sascha have to find their ways to stand up for their love and strive for the impossible; to bring down the wall.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, captivating, semi serious
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Sun Alley (1999)
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A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life on the Sonnenallee, and therefore throughout the former East Germany.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political, sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, controversial, talky, semi serious, surprise ending
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Jesus Loves Me (2012)
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A girl who always tends to fall in love with the wrong guy meets one who believes the world is coming to an end next Tuesday.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, touching, light, feel good, offbeat
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Russian Disco (2012)
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Russendisko is the story of Wladimir, Andrej and Mischa. Three young Russian friends, who move from Moscow to Berlin in a lucky wave of emigration right after the fall of the Berlin wall. They take their chance looking for a better life and find themselves involved in the tales of everyday lunacy on the streets of Berlin and its spirit of the early nineties. Russendisko is a modern fairy tale, a story of friendship, of love, of dreams and the search for happiness and its fulfillment. The film is based on the mega selling novel by Wladimir Kaminer.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Till Eulenspiegel (1975)
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In medieval Germany, poor and witty Till Eulenspiegel fools and cheats citizens, churchmen, and landlords. Although in most cases he uses his wit for personal well-being, he often helps the poor and weak. Eventually, he gains an influential but also dangerous position as royal fool at the court of the emperor.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: East Germany
Duration: 100 min
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The Man on the Wall (1982)
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An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeeds in bringing his wife out as well, things are not quite as expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min
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Open the Wall (2014)
Plot Summary:
A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the point of view of the confused border guards.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 858
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, light
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Bullyparade: The Movie (2017)
Plot Summary:
A multi-episode movie based on the skit TV show "bullyparade".
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: parody, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious, surreal
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Late Show (1999)
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: parody, sincere, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious
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Vote and Die: Liszt for President (2008)
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A charismatic Billionaire runs for president as an independent candidate. His platform is simple: KILL EVERYONE NOW!!!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: political comedy
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Berlin Blues (2003)
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In October 1989, the part of the West Berlin borough of Kreuzberg called SO 36, had been largely shut off by the Wall from the rest of the city for 28 years. A lethargic sub-culture of students, artists, bohemians and barflys had flourished among crumbling buildings. Part of that microcosm is barkeeper Frank, semi-formally called 'Herr Lehmann' by friends and patrons. He hangs out drinking, sports utter disregard for anything beyond SO 36 and lazily pursues an affair with cook Katrin. His lifestyle is gradually disturbed, when his parents show up for a visit, things go awry with Katrin and his best friend Karl starts to act strange. Meanwhile, political turmoil mounts on the other side of the Wall.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cynical, atmospheric, bleak, melancholic, semi serious, stylized, depressing, political, social, clever
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Mrs. Ratcliffe's Revolution (2007)
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Based on a true story, MRS RATCLIFFE'S REVOLUTION, is the tale of a family from Bingley in Yorkshire, who defect to East Germany. Here they find a nightmare of rationing, censorship and the most spied upon people in history rather than the Marxist utopia they were expecting. But if they thought getting in was difficult wait until they try to get out.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hungary, UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious, humorous
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One Day in Europe (2005)
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One day in Europe shows stories set in four European countries. All of them involve thievery in some way or the other. The protagonists are strangers in the respective country. For none of them their stay turns out as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious