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Plot Summary:
Modern relationships are examined in this comedy drama.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Baby Comes Home (1980)
Plot Summary:
A family drama directed by Waris Hussein.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour (2022)
Plot Summary:
"Drinking, dancing and... killing me. It's the new life my neighbour Jose has decided to live. What better way to escape boredom than coming to kill me every thursday? His wife, Lucie, prefers to go to a shrink. To each their own therapy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Argentina, Belgium, Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Never Too Late (1965)
Plot Summary:
A 60-year-old lumber supply businessman is dismayed to learn his 50-year-old wife is pregnant. A film adaptation of the hit Broadway comedy, with Paul Ford repeating his stage role as the flabbergasted papa-to-be.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film
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I'm All Yours (2015)
Plot Summary:
Charming thirty-year-old Hanna Belkacem has inherited the gene from her parents: she is unable to say no. And as she is the Director of Human resources of a big firm such infirmity is not without its problems, particularly when she has to fire someone. The only solution she has found to be forgiven is to... get laid with the men she lays off! One day, not wanting to upset someone as she is wont to, she finds herself in a very embarrassing situation: she is mistaken for a former school-friend of a hospital doctor mourning his mother. She of course goes to bed with him. As a result, Dr. Paul Martin falls in love with her while mistaking her once again... for a prostitute this time!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 677
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: inspirational, crying, non-linear
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Generation (1969)
Plot Summary:
Jim Bolton, a well-off businessman from Chicago hears that his daughter Doris is pregnant in New York. Since he did not even know she was seeing anyone he fears the worst. Unbeknownst to him, his daughter and the father of his grandchild, Walter marry shortly before Jim's arrival in New York. Upon his arrival he is shocked to hear that Doris and Walter plan not only a natural childbirth but the birth will take place in their apartment NOT a hospital. To make matters worse, Walter states that he personally will deliver their child. Jim at first doubts Walter's sincerity and expertise but begins to gain respect for Walter after he calls in a doctor to consult and is told that Walter is very prepared for almost any contingency.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Enormous (2019)
Plot Summary:
It takes him suddenly at 40 years: Frédéric wants a baby, Claire never wanted one and they agreed on that. He commits the unforgivable and makes a child behind her back. Claire turns into a whale and Frédéric becomes a doting father.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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When Nature Calls (1985)
Plot Summary:
When construction worker Greg becomes fed-up with his foreman and the "city life", he takes his wife and kids on a wilderness adventure.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: spoof, grindhouse, parody, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, not serious
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Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills (1989)
Plot Summary:
The widow's houseboy and the divorcee's chauffeur bet on which will bed the other's employer first.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, cult classic, dark comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, erotic
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Where's Poppa? (1970)
Plot Summary:
When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears that his batty mom's eccentricities will shortly lead to Louise's departure.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, funny, clever, humorous, surreal, offbeat, realistic, witty, cynical
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Serial (1980)
Plot Summary:
It's the end of the 70s. Hippies are assimilating, women are raising their consciousness, and men are becoming confused and ineffectual. Don't expect to be able to keep track of all the names or who's sleeping with who; the picture very skillfully conveys the hopeless muddle through which the many characters move as they try to find themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, cult classic, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, suspense, cult film
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The 24 Hour Woman (1999)
Plot Summary:
Grace tries to be the perfect mother and TV producer but finds trouble in juggling both.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: emotional, suspense, humorous, realistic, independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, witty, semi serious
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Easy Money (1983)
Plot Summary:
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living, gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, talky, epic, sex comedy, independent film, surprise ending, exciting, realistic, not serious
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Mom's Day Away (2014)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated stay-at-home mom takes a weekend away when her family ignores her over Mother's Day.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Kabluey (2007)
Plot Summary:
Leslie is left with few options when her husband is sent back to war in the Middle East. A modest amount of help arrives in the form of his brother, Salman, who is less than prepared to care for the couple's two preadolescent boys. When Leslie still can't make ends meet on her own, Salman is forced to find employment, but, with minimal qualifications, his only option is to become a mascot for a digital company by donning a bulbous blue costume.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, dark comedy, light, absurd, black comedy, disturbing, touching, offbeat, realistic
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Moving (1988)
Plot Summary:
Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, humorous, slapstick, black comedy, feel good, witty, semi serious, sitcom, independent film
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Greedy (1994)
Plot Summary:
Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, humorous, witty, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, twisted, light hearted, clever
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Me Time (2022)
Plot Summary:
With his family away, a devoted stay-at-home dad enjoys his first me time in years by joining his hard-partying old friend on a wild birthday adventure.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, humorous, entertaining, funny, light, captivating, exciting
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My Baby's Daddy (2004)
Plot Summary:
A trio of young men are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, funny, black comedy, realistic
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Neighbors 2: Sorority Rising (2016)
Plot Summary:
A sorority moves in next door to the home of Mac and Kelly Radner who have a young child. The Radner's enlist their former nemeses from the fraternity to help battle the raucous sisters.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 129000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, China
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, hilarious, humorous, exciting, ironic, saga, sex comedy, anamorphic, crying
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Fifty Shades of Black (2016)
Plot Summary:
An inexperienced college student meets a wealthy businessman whose sexual practices put a strain on their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spoof, feel good, parody, humorous, entertaining, satirical, sexy, romantic, experimental, colorful
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Almost Pregnant (1992)
Plot Summary:
Charlie (Conaway) is a happy man with a beautiful wife (Roberts), a wonderful career and every blessing a man could want except "...children". When the wife demands a "star child" and Charlie can't deliver the goods, they turn to their crazy neighbor (Calvin) to get the job done, so to speak. Very hilarious and bawdy comedy where "one rooster to a hen-house" is not always the truth.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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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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Fully Realized Humans (2020)
Plot Summary:
Parents-to-be Jackie and Elliott embark on a quest for self-actualization before the imminent birth of their first child in this strikingly honest and hilarious portrait of parents and children.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Fixed (2017)
Plot Summary:
Allan is a married father of three whose sex life takes another hit when his wife can no longer take the pill. He soon finds himself with an appointment for a vasectomy and a nagging identity crisis. Although he is by all reasonable accounts a good, responsible man, the thought of getting "fixed" drives him to lose himself to an action-packed midlife crisis along with his best friends. Allan will refuse to grow up anymore.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sex comedy
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Kidz (2020)
Plot Summary:
Sara and Nicola are expecting their second son. Through the late Mattia Torre's sharp look, all the joys and sorrows of being a parent in the modern day Italy are unraveled in an absolutely brilliant and witty way.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, light, sweet, captivating, realistic, semi serious, humorous, smart
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Look Who's Talking (1989)
Plot Summary:
Mollie is a single working mother who's out to find the perfect father for her child. Her baby, Mikey, prefers James, a cab driver turned babysitter who has what it takes to make them both happy. But Mollie won't even consider James. It's going to take all the tricks a baby can think of to bring them together before it's too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 86000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, sentimental, light, feel good, humorous, clever, epic, family comedy, terrifying, witty
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Grown Ups 2 (2013)
Plot Summary:
The all-star comedy cast from Grown Ups returns (with some exciting new additions) for more summertime laughs. Lenny (Adam Sandler) has relocated his family back to the small town where he and his friends grew up. This time around, the grown ups are the ones learning lessons from their kids on a day notoriously full of surprises: the last day of school.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 166000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, hilarious, teen, funny, feel good, not serious, predictable, slapstick, entertaining, light
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Why Him? (2016)
Plot Summary:
A dad forms a bitter rivalry with his daughter's young rich boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 122000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, light, humorous, feel good, absurd, hilarious, sincere, parody, romantic
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Neighbors (2014)
Plot Summary:
A couple with a newborn baby face unexpected difficulties after they are forced to live next to a fraternity house.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 325000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, not serious, entertaining, humorous, hilarious, teen, sex comedy, slapstick, absurd, romantic