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Plot Summary:
Far away from their native France, two men are in trouble in a Mexican town. One is a gentle missionary monk, Brother Benoît, the other is a tough stubborn boxer named Antoine Capella. Brother Benoît has saved a chimp he calls Mookie and who has become his pet but the trouble is that it is a talking monkey, which is the reason why a groups of scientists want to take it away from him. As for Capella, he has refused to lose a rigged fight and now a gang of badmen are after him to punish him. When the two men are forced to leave the town, they decide to travel together to Mexico. The road will be long and eventful.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
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Oolong Courtyard: Kung Fu School (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kung Fu apprentices at the Oolong Courtyard school are suspicious when two outsiders try to join the prestigious academy despite their strange behavior.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Cognac (1988)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy American on the quest for a perfect brandy runs afoul of petty criminal monks and falls in love with an impostor.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 327
Genere: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia, Canada
Duration: 89 min
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Influence Peddling (1999)
Plot Summary:
Maxime and Gerard are a couple of white-collar criminals condemned to 5 years in prison. Sandrine Athan, an honest and principled young police officer, is assigned the banal task of escorting them to the nearest prison in Melun. Things get complicated when killers try to knock them off. Meanwhile, they must contend with strikes which have paralyzed the country and make travelling a nightmare. Added to this mess are the prisoners' many botch escape attempts. All these complications turn a simple transfer into a hellish adventure.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
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Oh Egon! (1961)
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Radio Whirlwind Calls Andjelija (1979)
Plot Summary:
The phenomenon of tourism arrives to a remote village. A married couple sells their property to open a motel, which would be a starting point for their daughter Andjelija's singing career. The local radio-amateur (and Andjelija's boyfriend) helps them to achieve these goals, but Andjelija is more interested in her love life than her career.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia, West Germany
Duration: 99 min
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The Relationtrip (2017)
Plot Summary:
After bonding over their mutual disinterest in relationships, self-proclaimed loners, Beck and Liam, decide to go away together on a ‘friend’ trip where things get weird. Really, really weird.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Antonio in Wonderland (2016)
Plot Summary:
A young married couple spends the honeymoon in New York together with the wife's overbearing father.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Round Trip to Heaven (1992)
Plot Summary:
Since Larry works at a garage, he gets to use one of the Rolls Royces. There is only one problem, there is a briefcase full of money in the trunk. So when Larry and his cousin Steve decide to go to Palm Springs to look for Ms. Right at a popular beauty pageant, the owner of the briefcase will do the impossible to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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7 and 8 (2007)
Plot Summary:
6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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A Fare to Remember (1999)
Plot Summary:
A high powered business executive takes on an assignment on Christmas Eve, knowing she is to get married immediately after the holiday. Arriving at the Seattle airport, she discovered all flights are canceled and she has to get to LA. She then hires an obnoxious cabbie to transport her to LA. However, the cabbie eventually proves to be rather endearing while she maintains her upper class posturing.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, ridiculous
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The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck (1991)
Plot Summary:
This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Animal Behavior (1989)
Plot Summary:
Unfunny comedy about a love triangle between a music instructor, and an animal research scientist, and a chimp.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Marie and the Misfits (2016)
Plot Summary:
"Marie is dangerous", Antoine warns. It hasn't stopped Siméon from dropping everything, or, more precisely, letting go the little that he had, to secretly follow her. Oscar, his roommate, a musician with sleepwalking tendencies, and Antoine, a novelist lacking inspiration, quickly follow in his footsteps. Here they all are at the end of the Earth, which is to say, on an island. It's quite possible that these four are linked by something beyond their comprehension. Perhaps simply a taste for adventure. Or the desire to add some fantasy and a touch of the romantic to their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Hardcover (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Move Along, There is Nothing to See (1983)
Plot Summary:
Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is suspected of being involved in trafficking of stolen paintings. He is both intrigued and attracted by the young woman, follows her everywhere and finally falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Saru Lock the Movie (2010)
Plot Summary:
Saru is a talented young locksmith who unlocks any kind of lock. He is, however, a complete fool when it comes to women. One day a girl Mayumi asks him to open a safe full of stolen money. Knowing nothing about it, Saru takes the money briefcase with Mayumi and finds himself with yakuza gangsters and also police in hot pursuit.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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The Joint Brothers (1986)
Plot Summary:
le chichon.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, controversial, semi serious, cult film
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Cry of the Cormoran (1971)
Plot Summary:
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Alibi.com 2 (2023)
Plot Summary:
After closing his agency Alibi.com and promising Flo that he would never lie to her again, Greg's new life became quiet, too quiet... Not for long! When he decides to propose to Flo, Greg is up against the wall and has to introduce his family. But with his crooked father and his ex-charm actress mother, this could ruin his future union. He has no choice but to reopen his agency with his former accomplices for an ultimate Alibi and to find more presentable fake parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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A Crime in Paradise (2001)
Plot Summary:
In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, fairy tale, offbeat, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Antidote (2005)
Plot Summary:
JAM (Christian Clavier), a French "master of the universe" is on the brink of a major takeover when he starts suffering from anxiety attacks. His doctor (Lhermite) thinks it is to do with childhood experiences and suggests he searches back in his mind to something that could be the trigger and will prove to be the antidote.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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At Home with the Rozes (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about to celebrate its 20-year old marriage. Our duo has no other solution than to take this entire brood in hostage. But, contrary to all expectations, they are warmly greeted by the occupants who don't think twice before helping them, they are even ready to put their guests off, even to kill them if necessary.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, hilarious, realistic, dark comedy
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The Prize Fighter (1979)
Plot Summary:
"Bags" the boxer (funnyman Tim Conway) and his manager, Shake (Don Knotts), are quite a pair: One is a dim bulb, and the other has a mean streak. Times are tough and they must save their gym, so they line up some moneymaking fights. But when Bags and Shake discover that the bouts have been rigged, they end up with their backs to the wall and must fight back -- literally.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny
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2 Alone in Paris (2008)
Plot Summary:
A bumbling Paris policeman is doggedly determined to capture the master thief that repeatedly eludes him, even when they're the last two men on Earth.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, entertaining, offbeat, not serious
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The Long Dumb Road (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two guys serendipitously meet at a time when they both find themselves at personal crossroads and decide to embark on an unplanned road trip across the American Southwest.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, humorous, captivating, light, buddy comedy
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All Aboard! (2021)
Plot Summary:
Finally, the holidays are here! Vlad and his friends are so excited! Jérôme, Vlad’s father, is in charge. André, the grandfather of Jeanne and Basile, is also here to help. Six kids, two adults, an eight-hour train trip. Nothing could go wrong. But Jérôme and André miss the train… and watch it leave the station with the kids on board. It’s the beginning of a crazy race for the unlikely duo. While the unsupervised children go wild and have the time of their life, André and Jérôme go through various delays and adventures….
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Our Russia. Eggs of Destiny (2010)
Plot Summary:
Рафшан и Джумжуд, гастарбайтеры из Нубарашена, нелегально приезжают в Москву, где бригадир Леонид получил у одного олигарха заказ на супердорогой ремонт. Потеряв в столице «нацайника», Рафшан и Джумжуд пытаются найти и спасти его, сея повсюду разрушения и хаос. Но в самой безнадёжной ситуации судьба поворачивается к гастарбайтерам лицом — Рафшан и Джумжуд узнают страшную тайну, которая изменит всё….
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, exciting, cult classic, cult film
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Mother and Daughter: California Dream (2016)
Plot Summary:
Barbara was sellected for a fashion contest, the World Fashion Summer Dress, but the contest takes place in California and she lives in Paris. Barbara and Isabelle travels to Los Angeles where a great adventure waits for them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Max mon amour (1986)
Plot Summary:
A French wife takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, clever, humorous, realistic, erotic, controversial, sex comedy, offbeat, surreal, witty
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The Dinner Game (1998)
Plot Summary:
Each week, Pierre and his friends organize what is called as "un dîner de cons". Everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest. Pierre thinks his champ -François Pignon- will steal the show.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, feel good, light, hilarious, sentimental, talky, dark comedy, sincere, sweet