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Plot Summary:
Myron Breckinridge flies to Europe to get a sex-change operation and is transformed into the beautiful Myra. She travels to Hollywood, meets up with her rich Uncle Buck and, claiming to be Myron's widow, demands money. Instead, Buck gives Myra a job in his acting school. There, Myra meets aspiring actor Rusty and his girlfriend, Mary Ann. With Myra as catalyst, the trio begin to outrageously expand their sexual horizons.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychedelic, surreal, controversial, cult classic, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty
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Beneath the Valley of the Ultra-Vixens (1979)
Plot Summary:
Believe it or not even in Smalltown USA there are still people who are unfulfilled and unrelieved in the midst of plenty. Levonna & Lamar could have the perfect relationship if it were not Lamar's obsession with rear entry. After submitting to the one last time Levonna comes up with a plan. While Lamar is trying find other tail to try his technique on, Levonna becomes Lola with aid of a wig and a Mexican accent. A Mexican cocktail later Lola finally has Lamar straight, but he wasn't awake for it. The gay marriage counselor, attracted to Lamar's problem, couldn't help them and Lemar must finally seek redemption at the church of Rio Dio Radio and the laying on of hands by Sister Eufaula Roo.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, surreal, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, black comedy, humorous, realistic, not serious
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Britney, Baby, One More Time (2002)
Plot Summary:
Dude Schmitz, an independent filmmaker, attempting to secure funds for his second feature, blows an opportunity at what promises to be a lucrative interview with pop sensation Britney Spears. Dejected, Schmitz discovers Robert Stephens, a young, gay Britney impersonator. Schmitz takes off for New Orleans with Stephens, promising him a chance to meet his teen idol, all the while taking film of Stephens' cross-country exploits and pawning them off as footage of the real deal.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, France, Netherlands
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, independent film, offbeat, realistic, campy
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The Telephone Book (1971)
Plot Summary:
The story of a day in the life of a lonely, sensitive, exhuberent, attractive, young woman. Her exploits, encounters, and frustrations as she attempts to find a "special" someone, a caller who has "class", as she puts it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surreal, sex comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, experimental, controversial, semi serious, dark comedy
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20 Centimeters (2005)
Plot Summary:
Colloquially-told story of a few days in the life of Marieta, who's saving money for the last operation in her change from man to woman. She works as a prostitute in Madrid and longs for a legitimate job. Whenever she builds up her savings, her housemate and best friend Tomás finds ways to spend, lose, or cost her those funds. She meets Raúl, whom she likes and who likes her; the trouble is he also likes that part of her she wants removed. If that's not enough, she also has narcolepsy, and when she conks out, she dreams of musical-theater numbers in which she's the singing and dancing star. Are these dreams always going to be 20 centimeters out of reach?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, offbeat, sexual, sexy, queer cinema
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Grief (1993)
Plot Summary:
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
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, soap opera, biting
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The Loved One (1965)
Plot Summary:
Newly arrived in Hollywood from England, Dennis Barlow finds he has to arrange his uncle's interment at the highly-organised and very profitable Whispering Glades funeral parlour. His fancy is caught by one of their cosmeticians, Aimee Thanatogenos. But he has three problems - the strict rules of owner Blessed Reverand Glenworthy, the rivalry of embalmer Mr Joyboy, and the shame of now working himself at The Happy Hunting Ground pets' memorial home.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, witty, surreal, suspenseful, funny, satirical, fast paced, cult classic
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Women in Revolt (1971)
Plot Summary:
Three women join a militant feminist group, P.I.G. (Politically Involved Girls), but their newfound liberation doesn't make them any happier.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, independent film, political, disturbing, controversial, offbeat
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Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970)
Plot Summary:
A hip and happenin' all girl rock group head to LA to claim lead-singer Kelly's inheritance and make it (and make it) in LA. Soon the girls fall into a morass of drugs and deceit as their recording success soars. It takes several tragedies to make them stop and think... but is it too late?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: erotic, psychotronic, grindhouse, psychedelic, surreal, controversial, cult classic, humorous, biting, sexual
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The Underground Comedy Movie (1999)
Plot Summary:
A series of comedic short films guaranteed to offend.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, sexy, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, absurd, underground film
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Love Shack (2010)
Plot Summary:
A dysfunctional family of adult film stars reunites for a memorial porn shoot following the death of legendary producer Mo Saltzman. Along the way, the film's hapless director must contend with dueling divas, bickering couples, emotionally-scarred tag-team brothers, and a dominatrix with low self-esteem. Given its all-star cast and lofty pedigree, the film should be the greatest porno of all time.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, not serious, light, captivating, sex comedy, parody, sexy, realistic, sexual
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A Dirty Shame (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sylvia Stickles runs a convenience store with her husband and mother-in-law. One day, Sylvia is hit on the head and transforms from an uptight prude to a sex-crazed lunatic. As she goes on a rampage through town, Sylvia attracts the attention of Ray Ray, a sexual healer and tow truck driver in search of the world's greatest orgasm. Their sexual revolution, however, causes a class war in their tiny Baltimore community.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, black comedy, stylized, controversial, cult classic, light, dark comedy, satirical, disturbing
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Birds of a Feather 2 (1980)
Plot Summary:
In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy, who uses him as an unwitting courier of secret microfilm. Now on the run from ruthless agents, Albin and Renato flee to Italy where they attempt to hide out on a farm, with Albin posing as Renato's wife. Can Albin escape the deadly pursuit of these relentless spies or does he have to sustain this charade - as a woman - forever?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, surreal, sex comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, suspense, erotic, inspirational, romantic
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P.S. Your Cat Is Dead! (2002)
Plot Summary:
With his life already in shambles -- his girlfriend just dumped him, he's lost his acting gig, and his cat is seriously ill -- sad-sack Jimmy Zoole (Steve Guttenberg) comes home New Year's Eve to find a gay burglar (Lombardo Boyar) looting his apartment. Taking the intruder hostage, Jimmy threatens to unleash his pent-up rage on the would-be thief but instead begins to bond with his captive.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, talky, cynical, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, light, clever
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Butch Camp (1996)
Plot Summary:
Butch Camp is a 1996 comedy film. Filmed and set in Chicago, Illinois, it tells the story of a mild-mannered gay man who, tired of being pushed around by straights, enrolls in "Butch Camp," a program designed to turn wimpy gay men into assertive, confident gay men.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, homoerotic, queer cinema, weird, campy
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These Old Broads (2001)
Plot Summary:
"These Old Broads" is a 2001 television film written by Carrie Fisher and starring her mother Debbie Reynolds, as well as Shirley MacLaine, Joan Collins, and Elizabeth Taylor in her final starring film role. Network television executive Gavin (Nestor Carbonell) hopes to reunite celebrated Hollywood stars Piper Grayson (Reynolds), Kate Westbourne (MacLaine), and Addie Holden (Collins) in a TV special after their 1960s movie musical "Boy Crazy" is re-released in the 1990s. Though the three women share the same agent, Beryl Mason (Taylor), Gavin's seemingly insurmountable obstacle is that they all cannot stand each other.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, biting, suspense
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The Film Crew: Hollywood After Dark (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Film Crew gives a commentary track to Walk the Angry Beach (1968), aka Hollywood After Dark, featuring Rue McClanahan as a stripper. Beloved, sassy Golden Girl Rue McClanahan stars as an unbeloved, depressive stripper who wants to become a movie star but can’t get any roles better than, say “Stripper #3” in Mondo Topless. But love is in the air, mingling with LA smog, as Rue falls for assistant junkyard attendee Tony, played by Anthony Vorno (Sweet trash, Jailbait Babysitter). Surprisingly, things go wrong and one of them turns up dead. There’s plenty of dimly-lit Burlesque dancing on a bare, presumable filthy stage, plus pale, hairy men in tight swimsuits, and drug-laced creepy sex! HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD! It’s up to the Film Crew to turn this bleak cautionary tale into a hilarious, um, cautionary tale. Lunch is provided.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 416
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: parody, atmospheric, humorous, realistic, not serious, sexy, offbeat, sexual, campy
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Woman in Love (2011)
Plot Summary:
An actor's career takes a "Tootsie"-like turn when he lets himself be cast as a woman in a movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, realistic
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The Senator Likes Women (1972)
Plot Summary:
Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sex comedy, sensual, humorous, serious, realistic, surreal, slapstick, sexual
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Video Vixens (1974)
Plot Summary:
Video Vixens purports to be a satire of the phony liberalism that resulted in the permissiveness of the 1980s. A libidinous TV executive decides to stage an awards show. But not just any awards show: this one will honor the finest achievements in the world of filmed pornography.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 316
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sensual, parody
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The Groove Tube (1974)
Plot Summary:
Chevy Chase makes his film debut in this riotous collection of live skits. Directed by Ken Shapiro and featuring Chase, Richard Belzer and others, The Groove Tube mocks TV Land and its trappings by spoofing kids' shows -- from a marijuana-smoking Koko the Clown who resides in Make Believe Land, to Safety Sam, the penis with a plan who gleefully informs the audience of the perils of casual sex.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, not serious, sketch comedy, surreal, cult classic, clever, offbeat, independent film
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Sassy Sue (1973)
Plot Summary:
Pa, a moonshining chicken farmer, is worried that his dim-witted son Junior is becoming way more attracted to their cow Sassy Sue than he should be, so he sets out to gather up all the nubile young farmgirls in the area and get them to show Junior what he's missing.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, psychotronic, grindhouse, erotic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, independent film
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Pussycat, Pussycat, I Love You (1970)
Plot Summary:
An American playwright living in Rome consults a quack psychiatrist to combat his fears of balding and save his failing marriage.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, campy
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Brüno (2009)
Plot Summary:
Flamboyantly gay Austrian television reporter Bruno stirs up trouble with unsuspecting guests and large crowds through brutally frank interviews and painfully hilarious public displays of homosexuality.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 153000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, funny, parody, humorous, controversial, stylized, sex comedy, hilarious, sexual, absurd
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Kiss Me, Guido (1997)
Plot Summary:
When he discovers his girlfriend having sex with his brother, Frankie (Scotti) decides to head to Manhattan, leaving his Bronx pizza shop forever for the fame and fortune of show business. But before stardom, he needs a place to stay. Looking in the personals, he notices GWM. And thinking it "Guy with Money," he heads to the Village and the apartment of gay actor Warren (Barrile), who's in desperate need of this month's rent.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, talky, offbeat, feel good, realistic, witty, semi serious, funny, light
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Pepi, Luci, Bom and Other Girls Like Mom (1980)
Plot Summary:
Almodovar's first film of life in Madrid during the punk era and not one for the squeamish. He covers everything from drugs and sexual violence, to female masochism.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: social, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, underground film, independent film
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Kika (1993)
Plot Summary:
Kika, a young cosmetologist, is called to the mansion of Nicolas, an American writer to make-up the corpse of his stepson, Ramon. Ramon, who is not dead, is revived by Kika's attentions and she then moves in with him. They might live happily ever after but first they have to cope with Kika's affair with Nicolas, the suspicious death of Ramon's mother and the intrusive gaze of tabloid-TV star and Ramon's ex-psychologist Andrea Scarface.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sexy, erotic, dark comedy, art house, disturbing, manga, happy, offbeat, humorous, realistic
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Pink Flamingos (1972)
Plot Summary:
Notorious Baltimore criminal and underground figure Divine goes up against Connie & Raymond Marble, a sleazy married couple who make a passionate attempt to humiliate her and seize her tabloid-given title as "The Filthiest Person Alive".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, disturbing, controversial, underground film, black comedy, grindhouse, dark comedy, surreal, erotic, disgusting
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Relax... It's Just Sex (1998)
Plot Summary:
A mixed group of individuals - lesbian, gays, and heterosexuals who all frequent a local bar struggle to accept each others lifestyles. However when the two gays are attacked and fight back and ultimately rape one of their attackers, the group becomes strongly divided on their actions.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, melancholic, sincere, sexy, humorous, independent film, sex comedy, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Butch Jamie (2007)
Plot Summary:
The film follows the story of Jamie, a struggling butch lesbian actress who gets cast as a man in a film. The main plot is a romantic comedy between Jamie's male alter-ego, "Male Jamie," and Jill, a heterosexual woman on set. The film's subplots include Jamie's bisexual roommate Lola and her cat actor Howard, Lola's abrasive butch German girlfriend Andi, and Jamie's gay Asian friend David.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film, queer cinema
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The Birdcage (1996)
Plot Summary:
A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancé's right-wing moralistic parents.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 98000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, entertaining, feel good, slapstick, hilarious, lgbt cinema, clever, witty