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Plot Summary:
Trojice venkovských fasádníků pracuje na montáži při obnově pražské zástavby. A když už se dostali do hlavního města, rozhodnou se, že by neškodilo si tady pořádně užít a vyhodit z kopýtka. Aby nedělali ostudu, nechají si dokonce dát "lekce" společenského chování a bontonu, přičemž svého školitele, jímž není nikdo jiný než Oldřich Nový, málem nechtěně zdeptají. Zkušená a podnikavá obyvatelka jednoho z jimi opravovaných domů jim pak připraví opravdu nečekané a silné zážitky.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min
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I'm All Good (2008)
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This Hrebejk’s comedy is set in Prague, four years after the democratic “Velvet revolution” of 1989. This was an era of sudden freedom, transition and confusion. Most people got carried away, quickly abandoning the old values and uncritically accepting the new. Some people just took a break….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min
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German sex comedy.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 26
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: fake documentary
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Marco Altoviti is an inspector at an insurance company. A trusted man of the owner Dr. Carletti, he also conducts courses for sellers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 60
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 97
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min
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A Touch of Grey (2009)
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Barb has the perfect life, or so she's been told. Somewhere down the road, she's gained a husband, kids and a career, but lost her freedom and passion for life. In an attempt to recapture the innocence of her carefree days, Barb calls her high school pals Patti, Karen and Liz together for a weekend reunion. Loosening up with a few bottles of wine, each shares their secrets and dreams. But they soon discover that they share much more - burden, responsibility and a deep dissatisfaction for where their decisions have taken them. The best friends reach out to one another for collective wisdom and guidance. But, is it enough to save these four friends and set them back on their chosen paths? A Touch of Grey is a bittersweet comedy. A poignant, soul-searching journey that explores the question, can we have it all and still be truly happy?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
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The Flying Saucers Over Velky Malikov City (1977)
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A model Communist village is visited by a flying saucer.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Sci-Fi, Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, campy
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Joachim, Put It in the Machine (1974)
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A sincere provincial young man, Frantisek Koudelka leaves to work in Prague. For the trip he buys a computer made horoscope with biorhythms charts, marked according to his date of birth, there are trappy, precarious, unsuccessful and even critical days and few successful days. The clumsy luckless person Frantisek has finally a guidance for his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Capricious Summer (1968)
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 74 min
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The rough Redneck may inherit from Stepfather a Million Dolars so the fun can begin.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 120 min
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Behold Homolka (1970)
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This light comedy finds a Czech taxi driver taking his family on a weekend outing in the country. His wife, daughter-in-law, son and two grandchildren are the passengers who disturb the solitude of two young lovers. While the women attend the horse races, the father sits home getting drunk and watching football. The overweight daughter-in-law is upset because she has blown her chances to become a ballerina. All members of the family are caught up in their own individual problems in this realistically portrayed family comedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min
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The American Bride (1986)
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Edoardo meets and immediately falls in love for Edith. They soon decide to marry. During the wedding Edoardo knows Anna, Edith's best friend and wife of her brother. This last is a fake marriage since Sacha is homosexual. Incredibly Edoardo loses his mind for Anna, and they become soon lovers. The two couples spend time together in Venezia. Edoardo is continuously shared between Edith and Anna. But this won't take long.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
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How to Gain Money, Women and Fame? (1970)
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Three ironic episodes showing how to get what every man dreams of - money, woman and fame.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
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Who Wants to Kill Jessie? (1966)
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In this zany Czechoslovakian comedy, a scientist invents a machine that projects a sleeping person's dream on a screen; disaster soon follows when the machine malfunctions and the cartoon-like dream characters become very real!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
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Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
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This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are connecting together. The son must teach the math and physics his own father. The father getting to know, that the life of the students is not simple as he supposed.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min
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Die Rache der Ostfriesen (1974)
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Bavarian sex comedy from Germany.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
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A young man travels to Prague for his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
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The accountant Arturo De Fanti has problems in the bank because he threatens to be hunted. But he does not import of this troubles, because he hopes to find comfort with his lover.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 762
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Country: Czechoslovakia
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A Night at Karlstein (1974)
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 597
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Country: Czechoslovakia
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 94 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: Czechoslovakia
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A campy chronicle of the lusts and loves of the men and women who work on a low-rent TV show called, "The Love Judge.".
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
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IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min
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My Sweet Little Village (1985)
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The movie's main storyline follows the life of Otík, a mentally retarded young man, in a tight-knit village community. The sweet-tempered Otík works as an assistant truck driver with Mr. Pávek, his older colleague and practical-minded neighbor. Pávek's family takes care of Otík, whose parents are dead. However, the two coworkers become at odds over Otík's inability to perform even the simplest tasks. Pávek demands that Otík be transferred to assist another driver, who happens to be a choleric and suspicious man named Turek (Turk in Czech). Rather than work with Turek, Otík decides to accept an offer of employment in Prague, but finds he does not fit in to the city life. After discovering that the transfer of Otík to Prague was a trick by a crooked politician to get a deal on Otík's large inherited house, Pávek agrees to give Otík a second chance and retrieves him from the city to resume their work together.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min
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Nick and Charlotte are a married couple. As both are more than busy earning money, there is no time for love or sex - only Tuesdays. Soon, Charlotte finds a lover, Luis, who is an unsuccessful, married artist. He and his wife Eva also have no time for sex, as Eva has to support her artist and the couple's 3 and 6 year old kids by working in a restaurant. The secret affair of Luis and Charlotte lasts quite a while, they decide to spend a romantic week in Venice, Italy. But by accident, Eva finds out about the couple and their destination. She forces Nick, Charlotte's husband, to join her on a trip to Venice in order to restore her marriage as well as his. On the way from Munich, Germany, where the first half of the story takes place, to Venice, Eva's car breaks down somewhere in the Alps, so she, Nick, and her two children walk and hitchhike the rest of the way. They arrive without money, passports, credit cards, their clothes torn and burnt, on a Friday evening, which means that they.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
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Shut Up and Shoot Me (2005)
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Colin Frampton is an Englishman who never stops worrying, not even on holiday in Prague. When Colin's wife is accidentally squashed by a statue, he decides that he can't face life without her. So Colin bribes Pavel to help him die. An unlikely friendship develops as Pavel's plans for Colin's death spin out of control, attracting the violent interest of local gangster Karel Karlovic.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Comedy
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Two teenage girls, both named Marie, decide that since the world is spoiled they will be spoiled as well; accordingly they embark on a series of destructive pranks in which they consume and destroy the world about them. This freewheeling, madcap feminist farce was immediately banned by the government.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, avant garde, surreal, experimental, art house, dark comedy, mind bending, social, disturbing, cult classic