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Plot Summary:
A group of Swedish tourists are on the way to a Russian village to witness the so called 'Festivity of Neptunus', in which the inhabitants take a dive in a hole in the ice. This tradition, however, does not exist at all. The inhabitants try to make a good impression by starting the 'tradition' to please the tourists.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)
Plot Summary:
A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Cuba
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: experimental, manga, mondo, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Arzt mit Nebenwirkung (2017)
Plot Summary:
Although opposites, general practitioner into extreme sports Fabian Lauber and control-freak legal alternative healer Janne fall into a love-hate relationship meeting by chance in a compulsory Chinese medicine course she gave and he needs for patient refund permission. After a motorcycle crash, Fabian's injured shoulder forces him to accept her as interim, her Chinese style. He refuses to give up his shot at a base-jumping sponsor, but the injury wrecks his key demo.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
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Europa Camping (1992)
Plot Summary:
A pretty mixed society get together in a camping area. They enjoy their vacation and do not know that two of the vacationists are demolition experts, who are looking for a huge bomb which may explode in any minute. Written by Tamas Patrovics.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 72 min
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Sideburns (1990)
Plot Summary:
A small provincial town is home to two rival teenage gangs, one devoted to loose living and punk music and the other a collection of narrow-minded bodybuilders obsessed with order and convinced of their own moral rectitude. However, this cosy state of affairs is upset by the arrival of two strangers dressed like Pushkin, the famous early 19th century Russian poet, who proceed to found their own organisation, dedicated ostensibly to the memory of the great writer and the "salvation of Russia". Gradually, they begin to assume control of the town.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 458
Genere: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Ryaba My Chicken (1994)
Plot Summary:
In Soviet days an old peasant woman's hen begins to lay golden eggs. Of course, everyone agrees that she should share the wealth like a good citizen.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: folk tale
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Pohjan tähteet (1969)
Plot Summary:
Triangle comedy about a movie crew shooting a no-budget artsy film. Director Pohja is a clumsy beginner, cinematographer Törrönen an old pro, and the leading actors Igor and Merju first detest each other although the script is supposed to make them lovers. The two gradually grow closer even in real life, but the director too has set his eyepiece on Merju.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Snow Day (2022)
Plot Summary:
A pair of siblings make the most of a school snow day, while trying to avoid their nemesis, the Snowplowman.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags:
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A Jungle Book of Regulations (1974)
Plot Summary:
Nie ma róży bez ognia title in Polish: There is no rose without fire, in reference to two mixed up proverbs – There is no rose without thorns, and There is no smoke without the fire – is a Polish comedy film from 1974 directed by Stanisław Bareja.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, absurd
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Drei Herren (1998)
Plot Summary:
Misters Dölken, Ivo and Sichel, all living peacefully in a lunatic asylum in Austria, are about to spend their summer in a special camp for those who are challenged by life. When their driver suffers a heart-attack near a little village, the three men think they have reached their destination. Instantly feeling at home in the village, they all soon meet new people. When the townsfolk hear that three lunatics have broken out, they start searching for them frantically - and as the mayor's old mother is reported missing, this search looks like the one for Frankenstein's monster. Actually, the everyday people of the village are mentally not that far away from the three sympathetic strangers, who blend in perfectly, enriching the little villages' strange normalness by their presence.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Comedy
Country: Austria, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Swim Team (1979)
Plot Summary:
A new swimming coach is hired to break a team's seven-year losing streak.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, teen sex comedy, independent film
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In the Pool (2005)
Plot Summary:
3 people suffering from psychiatric problems, and a doctor stranger than any of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 229
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Tropical Tease (1994)
Plot Summary:
Bernie's a bumbling hit man married to a buxom beauty. When he arrives at a resort in beautiful Miami Beach, he is incensed to find his wife in bed with a local lifeguard. It's not long before hilarious adventures ensue when the world's worst assassin wreaks all kinds of havoc in an attempt to protect his honor. The topless beach resort will never be the same as Bernie seeks redemption among the cabana boys and the bikini clad residents at one of the Sunshine State's tropical hot spots.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Chekhov's Motifs (2002)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on A. P. Chekhov’s play “Tatiana Repina” and short story “Difficult People”. At his wedding, the groom is horrified to see among the church crowd his former mistress who had recently committed suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ukraine, Russia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Football Crazy (1974)
Plot Summary:
A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity because and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his way--especially the women--now.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Recep Ivedik 7 (2022)
Plot Summary:
Recep and Nurullah decide to go village house, which is inherited from his grandma. Recep finds out the existence of a big project, that will damage the village and the surrounding forests. Villagers will fight against the project with Recep's leadership.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags:
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Beim Jodeln juckt die Lederhose (1974)
Plot Summary:
A comedy directed by Alois Brummer.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy
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Uncle Nick (2015)
Plot Summary:
A drunk uncle attempts to score with his flirtatious step-niece on Christmas Eve.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Run Ronnie Run (2002)
Plot Summary:
A redneck with an uncanny knack for getting arrested becomes the star of his own reality program.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, absurd, funny, cult classic, realistic, independent film, whimsical
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It's a Wonderful Binge (2022)
Plot Summary:
Like the original film, the sequel is set in a near future where all drinking and drugs are banned except for on one glorious day known as The Binge. This year, that day happens to miraculously land on Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Employee of the Month (2022)
Plot Summary:
Vincent, a civil servant, has always enjoyed the benefits of his family's status. When the government votes on a massive savings plan, Vincent is pushed out. When he is transferred to the North Pole, he meets Eva and finds love. It's time for him to choose.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Beverly Kills (2005)
Plot Summary:
Whacked-out, muscle-bound, cross-dressing actor Beverly Jackson has been rejected for a role in Pride Playhouses nude theatrical production of "Balls Out." Furious, Beverly decides to form a diabolical cult of revenge! Meanwhile, back at the Playhouse, adorable employee Shane falls right into the arms of Ray, a lighting designer, and the two are swept into Beverly's bizarre scheme. Featuring lots of cuties, a hot romance and a twisted drag queen, you are guaranteed loads of laughs with this riotous comedy from the twisted mind of filmmaker Damion Dietz.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Yusuf Yusuf (2014)
Plot Summary:
Since his childhood, interested in cars, car races and dreamed to be a rally pilot but became a minibus driver in Ankara. This movie tells Yusuf's story full of action as well as comedy.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, road movie
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Boys (1992)
Plot Summary:
In this light-hearted low-budget comedy, two very different Flemish tween bachelors are best buds. Peter is a responsible professional, who's excited to get his first proper account as copy-writer in a small Belgian publicity firm- for condoms, a product the conservative boss dreads as slightly obscene. Tom however is a dare-all without much sense of decency, who earns his living as process-server and repo-man for a judicial bailiff. In their free time they're nearly inseparable, Tom cheering up his somewhat gloomy realistic friend and urging him to take silly risks during a weekend at the seaside and even cheat on his steady girlfriend. When the graphics department refuses to execute Peters idea for the condom campaign without a live male model, only Tom is pleasantly mad enough to pose stark-naked.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Comedy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy
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A Farewell to Jinu (2015)
Plot Summary:
Takeharu Takami (Ryuhei Matsuda) is a bank teller, but he becomes allergic to money. He decides not to use money at all. Takeharu decides to move to a small village in the Tohoku region. There, he encounters residents who are not so easy.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Farce of the Penguins (2006)
Plot Summary:
In this spoof of "March of the Penguins," nature footage of penguins near the South Pole gets a soundtrack of human voices. Carl and Jimmy, best friends, walk 70 miles to the mating grounds where the female penguins wait. The huddled masses of females - especially Melissa and Vicki - talk about males, mating, and what might happen this year. Carl, Jimmy, and the other males make the long trek talking about food, fornication and flatulence. Until this year, Carl's sex life has been dismal, but he falls hard for Melissa. She seems to like him. A crisis develops when Jimmy comes upon something soft in the dark. Can friends forgive? Does parenthood await Carl and Melissa?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: parody, feel good, humorous, not serious, spoof, mockumentary, offbeat, banned, fake documentary
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Last Minute (2013)
Plot Summary:
Widowed geography teacher wins a trip to Egypt. Takes with him energetic mother, teenage daughter and son resolute. Life adventure soon turns into a range of problems - are lost luggage at the airport, the hotel family receives the wrong room, the tour operator goes bankrupt. Possessed cash disappears quickly, with no contact consulate. The downside of the Hotel Tom meets high-school love with the ideal of a man at his side.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 847
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, parody
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Pottersville (2017)
Plot Summary:
Maynard, a beloved local businessman is mistaken for the legendary Bigfoot during an inebriated romp through town in a makeshift gorilla costume. The sightings set off an international Bigfoot media spectacle and a windfall of tourism dollars for a simple American town hit by hard times. When Brock Masterson, reality TV’s “Monster Hunter,” arrives to hunt the beast, Maynard agonizes over whether to come clean, destroying the rebirth of his beloved town, or perpetuate the inadvertent hoax.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, surprise ending
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Mr. Donkey (2016)
Plot Summary:
From the same team that brought you “Goodbye Mr Loser” comes the hilarious dark comedy "Mr Donkey". In order to pay for the donkey that brings them water, a countryside village registers it as a teacher at its local school. But when the charity group that funds the school visits for an inspection, the village has to find ways to hide their secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Bygones Be Bygones (2017)
Plot Summary:
Zafer, a sailor living with his mother Döndü in a coastal village in Izmir, has just broke up with his girlfriend Mehtap whose father is also a sailor. While Döndü and her friend, Fahriye try to help Zafer to marry someone and have his own family, a famous and talented actress, Asli surprisingly attends Zafer's boat tour. Then Asli and Zafer find themselves getting to know each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Daddy's Home 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
Brad and Dusty must deal with their intrusive fathers during the holidays.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 80000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, funny, sentimental, feel good, humorous, captivating, emotional, saga, meta, cult classic