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Plot Summary:
After Nanase's father drops death due to a drug that causes temporal death for 2 days. She is named the president of her dad's Pharmaceutical company. Nanase endeavors to prevent her father's enemies from prematurely cremating his body before the drug can wear off and allow him to revive.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 529
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: crying
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Miko Girl (2018)
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Shiwasu's mother left their home when Shiwasu was a little girl. Shiwasu does not understand why. She is a woman now and working at a Shinto shrine as a shrine maiden under her father who is a priest. She is listless until she finds a little boy alone on the shrine's grounds. The boy's mother shows up and retrieves her son a couple of days later. That is not the end of it however. The boy is back soon and has marks and bruises on his body. In the meantime, there was petty theft going on.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: detective
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Ayazon (2006)
Plot Summary:
A businessman returns back to home country, Egypt, after living for a long time abroad where he became a multi-millionaire. Upon his return, he starts a search for his daughter that he abandoned when he was young.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Comedy
Country: Egypt
Duration:
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Tupla-Uuno (1988)
Plot Summary:
Tupla-Uuno.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 101 min
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Mustard Chocolate (2017)
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Tsugumi Rinko can't wait to escape the tedium of high school for the challenges and rewards that accompany life at a fine arts college. She only has two problems: 1) She has few social skills and fewer friends. 2) With less than nine months remaining before her crucial admissions test, she has no practical art experience.
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Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
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Mad About You (1988)
Plot Summary:
A 1990 film starring Claudia Christian.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film
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Too Much (1987)
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When Suzie and her parents take a visit to Japan her father's business partner, an inventor called Tetsuro decides to make Suzie a robot. The robot's name is 'Too Much' (or TM for short) and he and Suzie become the best of friends. But when the day comes for Suzie to return home she finds she's not allowed to take TM with her, so they run away together. However, they must watch out for a rival inventor of Tetsuro's is looking for them so that he can examine TM's programming. Will TM and Suzie manage to escape from his clutches and prove that love conquers all?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Not My Type (2022)
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Marcia, a classy young Parisian singer, is recording an album with her idol Daredjane, a '70s rock icon. When Daredjane dies accidentally, Marcia needs to get approval from Daredjane's rights-holder, Anthony, a suburban market vendor in his thirties, to release their album. But Anthony never liked his distant relative, let alone her music. Their two worlds clash between good and bad taste, sophistication and rudeness, sincerity and lies. Unless love gets in the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
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The Curtain Rises (2015)
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Saori (Kanako Momota) is a high school student at a provincial city. She is a member of playgroup at her school. Yoshioka (Haru Kuroki) begins to work at the same high school as a new teacher. Yoshioka performed in plays when she was in college back in Tokyo. Saori, Yukko (Shiori Tamai), Garuru (Reni Takagi), Nakanishi (Momoka Ariyasu), Akemi (Ayaka Sasaki) decides to compete in a play competition. Their goal is to make it through the regional competions, but Teacher Yoshioka tells them their aiming low and that they should think about the national competition.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 452
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
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Instant Swamp (2009)
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After being forced to resign from her publishing company job when her magazine goes out of circulation, office worker Haname Jinchoge (Kumiko Aso) is given the name of her real father-Noburo Jinchoge when her mother (Keiko Matsuzaka) falls into a coma after nearly drowning in a pond while searching for kappa. Unsure if Noburo (Morio Kazama) is her father, Haname decides to visit him but tells him that she is a distant relative, he happens to be the shopkeeper at an odd antiquities shop called Light Bulb Co., working for her father is a punk rocker named Gas (Ryo Kase).
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, entertaining, offbeat, not serious, weird
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I'm Dead But I Have Friends (2015)
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Four bearded, hairy rock musicians - and Belgians - bury the singer of their group. Out of friendship and to prove to itself that nothing can stop them, they decide to leave on tour to Los Angeles with its ashes. The day before the departure, a serviceman with a moustache appears as the lover of their friend. Their journey takes an at least unexpected tour.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, captivating, semi serious
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Lady of the Manor (2021)
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An aimless ne'er-do-well becomes a tour guide in a historic estate and winds up befriending the manor's resident ghost.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Let's Go, Jets! (2017)
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Female students, including Hikari Tomonaga, from a high school cheerdance club follow strict instructions from their teacher Kaoruko Saotome. They compete at the USA Cheerdance Championship.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 829
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
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The 12 Days of Christmas Eve (2022)
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When Brian Conway, a successful businessman whose family relationships have suffered, gets in a car accident on Christmas Eve, Santa gives him twelve chances to redo the day and repair the relationships in his life, including with his daughter Michelle.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: gay cinema
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A New Diva's Christmas Carol (2022)
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Aphrodite was made famous back in the day for performing THE timeless love song of the era. The song that everyone plays at their weddings, in every sappy commercial for diamonds or rings or puppies or soldiers coming home. It made her a ton of money, but Aphrodite HATES this song. She’s now the meanest judge on Pop The Question but her life changes when Brianna, becomes the breakthrough contestant, exuding love and purity. When Aphrodite reluctantly becomes her mentor, she does everything possible to steer her away from love and love anthems and so is visited by three spirits who take Aphrodite on a journey through love (and Christmas) past, present and future to try and shake her out of her funk and let love back in!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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Drugstore Girl (2003)
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Pharmaceutical student, Keiko witnesses her boyfriend having an affair. Shocked and disappointed, she jumps on a train ("destination anywhere, east or west, she don't care") and ends up in a town named Masao in Tokyo's remote suburbs. There, she gets a part-time job at a newly opened drugstore. What do ya know.. The local shopping district's middle-aged men all fall for the young girl's charms, and they start practicing lacrosse once they have found out that that's her favourite sport.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
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Mortuary Academy (1988)
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"Police Academy" clone, about some nerds who inherit an academy for morticians, which is run by a corrupt closet necropheliac. Of course, the most incompetent students possible are accepted, so that the academy will fail, and all sorts of wacky hijinks ensue.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: crying, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Den enskilde medborgaren (2006)
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Insurance Director Stig Roxby is worth a hundred times more than an ordinary high school teacher. But he doesn't think that's enough, but sees himself forced to work with four other director colleagues to lift the bonus cap to be even more valuable. After some complications, Stig Roxby realize the brutal truth: he has everything but the essentials.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 104 min
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Drops in Your Hand (2014)
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Hajime asks his friend Yoshi to set him up with his classmate Ann. Yoshi tries to do this for Hajime, but this just upsets Ann. Yoshi's relationship with Ann is now awkward. Yoshi doesn't know exactly why, but Ann becomes absent from school frequently. One day, during their summer vacation, Yoshi hears that Ann has dropped out of school.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags:
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Ibitsu (2013)
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High school girl Madoka may look pretty and cute, but there is another side to her. She can exact revenge, land a good punch or a kick and not care about limits. She opts to inflict pain, coerce and blackmail a virgin when she is sensually touched on the train. She begins making his life hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: manga
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Yarukkya Knight (2015)
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Makoto Gousuke has just transferred to a new high school with the intention of being the toughest kid there. Little does he know that there‘s an entire group of toughs who already rule the school, and they‘re all girls! After being humiliated by their leader, the pretty Misaki Shizuka, he vows revenge and starts a lengthy battle between the sexes at the school.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: ecchi, humorous, light, sexy, feel good, unusual plot structure, entertaining, manga
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Kamikaze Girls (2004)
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Momoko is an ordinary girl, living an ordinary life. Ordinary, that is, if you define ordinary as wearing elaborate lolita dresses from the Rococo period in 18th Century France. However, when punk girl and self-styled 'Yanki' Ichiko comes calling, her days as 'ordinary' are most certainly numbered.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, sweet, light, melancholic, talky, stylized, feel good, semi serious, cult classic
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The Six Wives of Henry Lefay (2009)
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A presumed-dead man's current wife and former wives squabble over his funeral arrangements.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, sex comedy, realistic, semi serious
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Akko's Secret (2012)
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Young Atsuko Kagami comes into possession of a magical mirror that lets her transform into anything she wishes. Atsuko Kagami then attempts to save a company which is about to be sold by using her transformation abilities. She also falls in love as a 22-year-old college student.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, romantic, sentimental, offbeat, cute, sweet
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Christmas in Paradise (2022)
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Joanna’s plans for a quiet, cozy holiday season are shattered when her sisters call with the news that their dad has been dumped by his fiancée and has disappeared to Nevis, a tiny Caribbean island, and is not responding to any calls. The sisters decide to go to the island to save their father and bring him home for Christmas. Can the newly reconnected Christmas family survive a crazy Christmas?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Judge! (2014)
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A major advertising festival is held each year to determine the best television commercial in the world. A rookie ad man at a big advertising company named Otan is selected as a judge on the festival jury. Meanwhile, a coworker also named Ota (although the Japanese characters are slightly different) poses as his wife so that he can attend an open party which is held nightly. Knowing that he’ll get fired if his company doesn’t win the Grand Prix, he’s forced to resort to a variety of desperate tactics.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Christmas on the Nile (2002)
Plot Summary:
While a curse chase two brothers in the Nile a father and daughter together with another dysfunctional family aboard a cruise to crash in an adventure full of fun.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain, UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sex comedy
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The Beach Bum (2019)
Plot Summary:
An irreverent comedy about the misadventures of Moondog, a rebellious stoner and lovable rogue who lives large.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Switzerland, UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, ironic, feel good, funny, humorous, absurd, surreal, cult classic, queer cinema, weird
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My Dad and Mr. Ito (2016)
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He is rejected by his sister when the brother floats the idea that their father move from his house to her apartment. The father has other ideas however and shows up unannounced at her doorstep with his belongings. She has little space, a boyfriend she lives with it and does not need a cranky father.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, captivating
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The Christmas Consultant (2012)
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Christmas is just around the corner but suburban workaholics Maya Fletcher and her husband Jack are too busy to get into the holiday spirit. As their Christmas to do list grows and deadlines fast approach, holiday spirit is at an all time low. Maya forgets she promised to host a Christmas Eve party for her and Jack’s whole family. In an effort to impress a potential new client, Maya has also invited him to spend the holidays with the family.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, psychotronic
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Father Christmas Is Back (2021)
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Four sisters – Caroline, Joanna, Paulina, and Vicky – reunite for the Christmas Holiday in a Yorkshire mansion. However, their estranged father, James, joins in for the first time since he left the family behind decades prior. The group attempts to get through the holiday despite comedic misunderstandings, while also uncovering the long-buried secret that tore their family apart, so many years ago.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, happy, christmas comedy