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Plot Summary:
After another spat with her kids, Dona Hermínia decides to take some time off from them and hides away in her aunt's house, where she reminisces about her kids in an age when they still needed her.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, light, entertaining, funny, feel good, captivating, lgbt cinema
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Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Moore Street market-trader Agnes Brown finds her livelihood under threat from a ruthless developer, she and her family embark on a campaign to save her stall, aided as only the Browns will be by a motley troop of blind trainee Ninjas, an alcoholic solicitor, and a barrister with Tourettes Syndrome.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, happy, realistic, witty, not serious
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Best Enemies Forever (2016)
Plot Summary:
What would happen if two sworn enemies, two opposed women in temperament and lifestyle find out to share the most incredible legacy: the child of their ex - husband?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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How to murder a dead husband (2017)
Plot Summary:
A divorced woman gets destroyed by her ex-husband in all phases of her life and tries to get back on her feet.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Pretty the Series (2010)
Plot Summary:
These are the trials and tribulations of the Champagne family, and all their collective friends and enemies, on their bumpy road to temporary reality stardom.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: parody, humorous, realistic, not serious, light, feel good, captivating, talky, mockumentary
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My Mom is a Character 2 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Dona Hermínia is back, but now rich and famous since she is the host of her own successful TV show. However, the overprotective character will have to deal with her children's departures, as Marcelina and Juliano decide to move out. In counterpart, she will welcome, as a visitor, her sister Lúcia Helena, who's been living in New York.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, feel good, not serious, light, touching, realistic, lgbt cinema
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To Soi sou (2014)
Plot Summary:
Savvas and Lydia are happily married for a decade with two daughters. Every Sunday morning they visit either Savvas' family or Lydia's in order to eat and speak about their lives. Most of the times, these Sunday meals lead to peculiar situations,misunderstandings,fights and funny moments.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Big Family (2001)
Plot Summary:
A Grande Família is a Brazilian television comedy, and is one of the most watched primetime shows. The show airs on the Globo Network, and tells the story of a typical lower middle-class family living in a suburb neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. The family consists of a working father, Lineu, a housewife and mother, Nenê, their son Tuco, their daughter Bebel, and Bebel's fiancée, Agostinho, a taxi driver portrayed as the typical carioca malandro. The family's grandfather, Floriano, was written out of the story after the death of actor Rogério Cardoso. Since its debut on March 29, 2001, the show has broadcast 442 episodes and the thirteenth season starts on April 4, 2013. A Grande Família is the longest-running Brazilian sitcom. A movie based on the series premiered on January 10, 2007.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, absurd
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My Mom is a Character 3 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dona Herminia will have to rediscover and reinvent herself because her children are forming new families. This supermom will have to deal with a new life scenario: Marcelina is pregnant and Juliano is getting married.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: funny, light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Good Intentions (2010)
Plot Summary:
Meet Etta Milford. Loving Wife. Doting Mother. Armed Robber. Etta's husband constantly blows their money on make-shift inventions. When she decides to secretly take "investment" matters into her own hands - things quickly go awry! With their savings gone, her husband suspicious, and their children out of control, Etta concocts a scheme to get back their money and save her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: uplifting, feel good, not serious, realistic, indie film, offbeat, humorous
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Mothers & Daughters (2008)
Plot Summary:
Comedy about three very different women and the complex relationship they have with their mothers.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, independent film, mockumentary
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What's with This Granny!? (2019)
Plot Summary:
Aurora's life suddenly gets complicated after her seven grandkids arrive to her house for vacation.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, sincere, captivating, entertaining
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To The Heritage With Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
A dispute for the inheritance of the father of this family is the motor for this comedy, where siblings Andrea and Hector start a discussion with their aunt, who turns out to be the universal heiress of their father's because they don't comply with the rules established by their father.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Sotto una buona stella (2014)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy broker, Federico Picchioni, within two days forfeits his partner and work, finishing well to living with two children and granddaughter (abandoned by her father). He is, at this point, in the face of many difficulties of adjustment but finds comfort in the help of his neighbor.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic
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Us in the U.S. (2013)
Plot Summary:
Five people who never met are convened by a notary for the reading of a will, and learn they are all brothers and sisters, children of the same father. They’ll share a large inheritance if they can deliver the ashes to their father’s favorite lake in Arizona.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 949
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Disconnected (2018)
Plot Summary:
Well-known writer Ettore takes his family on a mountain chalet getaway for his birthday, in an effort to create a bond between his two sons, Claudio and Giulio, and his second wife, Margherita. The group is also joined by Margherita's brother, Claudio's girlfriend, a Ukraininan cook and her daughter. When an internet outage strikes, a series of exciting adventures ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 563
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Nine and a Half Moons (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two contrasting visions of life: on the one hand, the "rock" and adventurous of the brave Livia, cellist without maternal instinct; on the other hand, the reassuring routine of his sister Tina, shy urban vigilant with an ardent desire for maternity.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Wedding in Paris (2011)
Plot Summary:
A businessman in Italy, who doesn't pay any taxes, and a financier always on the hunt for tax evaders come into contact because their sons share an apartment in Paris.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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The Family House (2017)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Cleaver Family Reunion (2013)
Plot Summary:
Members of a dysfunctional family settle their differences after a series of misadventures during their summer reunion.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, not serious, independent film
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The Patriarch (2016)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Villegas, an old man with old-fashioned thoughts, has to move with his son after he has been kicked out from his retirement home.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Dating My Mother (2017)
Plot Summary:
Dating My Mother explores the intimate and sometimes tumultuous relationship between a single mother and her gay son as they navigate the dizzying world of online dating.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, queer cinema
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An Italian Name (2015)
Plot Summary:
Paolo and his wife are waiting a baby and deciding his name, but it seems that Paolo's family and friends don't really like the chosen name.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, witty, contemplative, talky, semi serious, feel good, funny, light, entertaining
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Madea's Big Happy Family The Play (2010)
Plot Summary:
Shirley has important news for her family, but she has five grown children with different lifestyles and finds it difficult to get them and the kids all together. So in steps Madea, the Matriarch General, to put the family's life in perspective with a hilarious twist on financial difficulties, drugs and, most important, family secrets. The next generation has a lot to learn. In her own way, Madea expresses how deliverance won't change you to be someone else, but will allow you to be who you really are.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental
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A Moody Christmas (2012)
Plot Summary:
Focused on the lovable, yet seasonally dysfunctional Moody family, A Moody Christmas is set against the backdrop of the one occasion that can bring out the best (and the worst) in people … Christmas Day.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, captivating, light, feel good, entertaining, sentimental, realistic, not serious
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Love & Slaps (2010)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about generational conflict between two parents who do not want to grow old and a seventeen year old daughter who wants to become an adult. During a weekend with some friends in their country house in Tuscany, Marcello and Marina, relieved that the love affair of their teenage daughter Rose with another boy, Luke, is over, prepare to meet their daughter's new boyfriend. The problem is that the two adults, who still feel pretty young, do not know what to expect, and what they are about to discover will leave them speechless.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, realistic, talky, not serious
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Johnson Family Vacation (2004)
Plot Summary:
AAA can't help the roadside emergency that is the JOHNSON FAMILY VACATION. Even the on-board navigation system has a meltdown on Nate Johnson and his family's cross-country trek to their annual family reunion/grudge match. Reluctantly along for the ride are Nate's wife, who's only in it for the kids; their rapper-wannabe son; their teenage daughter who's fashioned herself as the next Lolita; and their youngest, whose imaginary dog Nate just can't seem to keep track of. Can the Johnsons survive each other and all the obstacles the road throws at them to make it to Caruthersville, Missouri? Can they find Missouri?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sexy, road movie, intense, not serious, black comedy, light, absurd, feel good
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Party Crashers (2012)
Plot Summary:
"Party Crashers" chronicles the amusing encounter between Marco Polo (Marcelo Adnet), a Copacabana's trickster, and Beto (Eduardo Sterblitch), a boy passionate and somewhat pixilated, on the New Year's Eve in Rio. Together they crashes at parties and create a lot of confusion in search of the beautiful Laura.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, not serious
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Sweet Mother (2014)
Plot Summary:
Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. At 85 years old, she pushes the limits of her age and does everything she can for her family and friends. Sweet Mother illustrates the everyday life of the elderly with clarity and levity, and shows that youth actually starts at 80. In the role that earned her the 2013 International Emmy® Awards for Best Actress, Fernanda Montenegro adds another success to her list of characters, which includes an Oscar nomination for the film Central Station.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, feel good, funny, light, uplifting, captivating
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Three Perfect Daughters (2020)
Plot Summary:
Three families go into crisis when their daughters get engaged. Three desperate fathers see their worst nightmare come true: they are convinced that their young daughters have all chosen a wrong boyfriend. Sure to act for their own good, they will join forces to get rid of the three suitors as soon as possible, putting a strain on the patience of their wives so much that they risk wrecking their own marriages. In the end, the good will win, but who will?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, light, thought provoking, touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, realistic, witty
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All in Good Time (2012)
Plot Summary:
East is East writer Ayub Khan-Din returns with another funny, tender-hearted portrait of family strife. Based on his popular play Rafta, Rafta (itself inspired by Bill Naughtons 1960s classic All in Good Time), the film is set in Bolton where Atul and Vina are celebrating their marriage. However, a honeymoon spent with his parents was not part of their plans. Thoughtless patriarch Eeshwar seems determined to emasculate and embarrass his son. As the weeks pass, consummating their union becomes an impossibility that threatens the couples entire future. A breezy mixture of heartbreak and hilarity, All in Good Time also offers peerless performances from original stage stars Harish Patel and Meera Syal.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, captivating, light, multicultural, sentimental, realistic, semi serious