Best movies like Never Say Macbeth
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Plot Summary:
Danny; a science teacher, tries to reunite with his ex-girlfriend Ruth, who has dumped him to become an actress in Hollywood. Stumbling into an LA theater during auditions asking: "Is this the audition for Macbeth?" he starts a series of unfortunate events that not only curse the production, but his ex-girlfriend as well, all but ruining his chance for love. Never Say Macbeth is a high-spirited no holds barred comedy about the biggest taboo in theater. Macbeth is believed to be cursed because it is the only Shakespeare play based on black magic and witchcraft, which is why this film, Never Say Macbeth, is also cursed.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
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Theater Camp (2023)
Plot Summary:
After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless "crypto-bro" son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Todd Barry: Spicy Honey (2017)
Plot Summary:
With bone-dry wit, stand-up comic Todd Barry dissects texting emergencies, Hitler's taste in wine, pricey soap, cheap pizza and much more.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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Lily in Love (1984)
Plot Summary:
Insulted when his screenwriter wife writes a leading role for a younger man, aging Broadway idol Fitz Wynn disguises himself as a handsome young Italian.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, neo screwball comedy
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That's Adequate (1989)
Plot Summary:
This mockumentary about fictional movie studio Adequate Pictures boasts an interesting cast. Tony Randall hosts, and James CoCo (practically on his deathbed) stars as head of the studio. Includes parodies of everything from silent comedies to porn, including an ultra violent "three stooges" style comedy team who put a new spin on the eye poking gag.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, independent film, spoof, parody, fake documentary
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three men perform the entire 37 play canon from William Shakespeare in under two hours. A lot of quick costume changes and even more laughs.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody
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National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well (2009)
Plot Summary:
National Theatre Live is an initiative operated by the Royal National Theatre in London, which broadcasts live via satellite, performances of their productions to movie theaters, cinemas and arts centres on the world. The second production, All's Well That Ends Well, showed at a total of around 300 screens, and today, the number of venues that show NT Live productions has grown to around 700.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
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The Comedy of Errors (1983)
Plot Summary:
Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransome's paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Dandelions by the Roots (1964)
Plot Summary:
Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case. A day later the gangster mysteriously has disappeared, but it turns out that he was carrying a bet ticket for a horse race now worth over a million. A turbulent run for the money begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surprise ending
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Boin-n-g (1963)
Plot Summary:
An inexperienced producer and director audition and film naked women for a nudie movie. Everything goes wrong.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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The Pirates of Penzance (1980)
Plot Summary:
This Pirates of Penzance is primarily a historical document, part of the Broadway Theater Archive television series. It presents, with some inevitable, tiny technical shortcomings, a live 1980 performance in Central Park, not the 1983 movie of the same name that also starred Linda Ronstadt and Kevin Kline. Those who remember that film, which had the benefit of retakes and editing, a lavish production budget, and the spaciousness of a Hollywood studio, may find this video less polished. On its own terms, it is nonetheless thoroughly enjoyable.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags:
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I Made a Splash (1980)
Plot Summary:
Three girls share a flat in Milano in the '80s. Luisa is a beginner actress dreaming about a career in the show business, Angela is university student and Carlina a part-time teacher. One day Maurizio go to visit them. Maurizio is fallen asleep in front of television when he was six years old and woke up just since few days after twenty! He doesn't speak at all and obviously he is very strange. The life of the three girls will change turning into a surreal experience.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Tripping Forward (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ford Coleman is a struggling actor in Hollywood who fears never achieving fame other then appearing in local TV commercials. After over a year living in L.A., Ford is broke and in danger of being evicted from his apartment. His slacker roommate Tripp, who has given up his music career out of hopelessness, convinces Tripp to become a drug dealer to buy and sell cocaine to supermodels as their extra income, which brings both Ford and Tripp into danger as they venture into the Los Angeles underworld which also puts a risk on Ford's budding romance with Gwen, a struggling actress herself unaware of Ford's secret arrangement with Tripp.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Walk of Fame (2017)
Plot Summary:
A motley crew of aspiring performers come under the guidance of an eccentric and volatile acting coach.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Lewis Black: Black to the Future (2016)
Plot Summary:
Lewis Black taps into his signature outrage and frustration as he tackles the economy, local government, and the 2016 Presidential election.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags:
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Brutal Massacre: A Comedy (2007)
Plot Summary:
Harry Penderecki, a once heralded horror auteur, finds himself on the outside looking in at Hollywood. He hasn't had a hit film in years, and most in the industry, including his close friends, think he's washed up. Harry is given one last chance to redeem himself with what could be his best or last picture. Brutal Massacre becomes just that, as the cast and crew find themselves battling one mishap after another as Harry struggles to keep his sanity against overwhelming resistance to finish the picture and find himself at the top once again.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: parody, not serious, humorous, mockumentary, suspense, independent film, offbeat, slasher, spoof, cult movie cast
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Lord, All Men Can't Be Dogs (2011)
Plot Summary:
Lord, All Men Can't Be Dogs is a riveting story of the lives of two people, Lisa and Tim Johnson, whose struggles are closely tied with the four spirits that reside in their home. It's a story of temptation, greed and finally, deliverance, mixed with just the right amount of humor! This show will keep you on the edge of your seat, saying, "Lord, All Men Can't be Dogs!".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead (2009)
Plot Summary:
Julian Marsh is an out of work ladies' man who lands a job directing a bizarre adaptation of Hamlet. After casting his best friend and his ex-girlfriend in the show, Julian finds himself in the middle of a two thousand year old conspiracy that explains the connection between Shakespeare, the Holy Grail and some seriously sexy vampires. It turns out that the play was actually written by a master vampire name Theo Horace and it's up to Julian to recover the Grail in order to reverse the vampire's curse...If only being undead wasn't so much God-damned fun!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, sexy, suspense, independent film, clever, offbeat
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Critic's Choice (1963)
Plot Summary:
Bob Hope is a New York theater critic and his wife (Lucille Ball in their final motion picture pairing) writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Hope must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage. Based on the Broadway play by Ira Levin.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick comedy, technicolor
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Desperate Acts of Magic (2013)
Plot Summary:
A magician competes in an international magic competition where he goes head to head with a female street magician he has fallen in love with. This film shows great magic performed by a cast of professional magicians. Like a great musical where the songs and the story are seamlessly intertwined, Desperate Acts of Magic does the same, mixing story and magic as one.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, independent film
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Outrageous Fortune (1987)
Plot Summary:
Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actress, decides through happenstance to also study with Korzenowski. The two women end up dating the same man (who turns out to be a double agent) and follow him across the country to force him to choose between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, retro, exciting, realistic, witty, semi serious, buddy comedy, light, philosophical
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Dickie Roberts: Former Child Star (2003)
Plot Summary:
TV child star of the '70s, Dickie Roberts is now 35 and parking cars. Craving to regain the spotlight, he auditions for a role of a normal guy, but the director quickly sees he is anything but normal. Desperate to win the part, Dickie hires a family to help him replay his childhood and assume the identity of an average, everyday kid.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, touching, satirical, hilarious, feel good, anamorphic, realistic, semi serious, parody
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Dead Sexy (2018)
Plot Summary:
Meet Amber, Brandy and Cassie. These girls are about to encounter a paranormal force that is going to make them question the need for the opposite sex.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Eating Out: Drama Camp (2011)
Plot Summary:
With raging boy hormones and the laugh quotient turned on full, Chris Salvatore and Daniel Skelton return, along with Rebekah Kochan and cult icon Mink Stole in the fourth installment of Q. Allan Brocka's hilarious and over-the-top sexual antic-laden Eating Out series!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, not serious, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, erotic, funny, touching, independent film
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Bill Maher: Victory Begins at Home (2003)
Plot Summary:
Maher addresses contemporary political, social and cultural topics -- Iraq, President Bush and the so called Axis of Evil. The opinionated Maher said about Victory Begins at Home: "We've heard everything about the War on Terrorism except what we can actually do to help win it. The government used to do that for us through propaganda (the positive kind) posters, so taking my cue from the great old posters of World War I and World War II ('Loose Lips Sink Ships,' 'Buy War Bonds,' 'Plant a Victory Garden,' etc.) I commissioned artists to paint the posters our government today should be putting out to help us win this war.".
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, witty, cynical, parody, clever, realistic, talky, biting, spoof
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29th and Gay (2005)
Plot Summary:
Following a year in the life of James Sanchez, it's a story about a guy rapidly approaching thirty, who doesn't have a six-pack, full head of hair or a boyfriend. While his best friend Roxy, an actress-turned-activist, struggles with showing him there's life beyond the glitz of the disco ball, his other friend, Brandon, one of those gay boys comfortable in his own gay skin, works on getting James to at least talk to a boy. Feeling out of place in the world of circuit boys, caught between his Hispanic-American heritage and being gay, we watch James find his place in the world, realizing that life is in the journey, not the destination.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, sexy, feel good, independent film, sexual
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A Midwinter's Tale (1995)
Plot Summary:
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: black and white, clever, witty, talky, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, light
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Noises Off... (1992)
Plot Summary:
A travelling theater group has so much action going on behind-the-scenes it almost ruins the performances.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, feel good, light, witty, talky, metafiction, offbeat, romantic comedy, realistic
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Waiting for Guffman (1996)
Plot Summary:
Corky St. Clair is a director, actor and dancer in Blaine, Missouri. When it comes time to celebrate Blaine's 150th anniversary, Corky resolves to bring down the house in Broadway style in this hilarious mockumentary from the people who brought you "This is Spinal Tap!".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, funny, parody, independent film, clever, humorous, witty, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic
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The Sunshine Boys (1975)
Plot Summary:
Lewis and Clark, aka The Sunshine Boys, were famous comedians during the vaudeville era, but off-stage they couldn't stand each other and haven't spoken in over 20 years of retirement. Willy Clark's nephew is the producer of a TV variety show that wants to feature the reunion this classic duo. It is up to him to try to get the Sunshine Boys back together again for the show.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, witty, talky, touching, realistic, semi serious, biting, sketch comedy, clever
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Pittsburgh (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jeff Goldblum put his Hollywood actor life on hold to star alongside his new girlfriend in a Pittsburgh regional theater production of The Music Man. Co-directors Bradley and LaBrache tread a surprisingly elegant line between genuine documentary and outright self-parody improv in this deliciously deadpan comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, semi serious, humorous, mockumentary, clever, talky