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Plot Summary:
An employee of an insurance company, Hercules (Sotiris Moustakas) undertakes with the help of two friends (Stathis Psaltis and Antonis Papadopoulos) to protect the chastity of his daughter (Katie Finos) an entrepreneur (Yiannis Michalopoulos). The possible failure in this mission can be the end of the company. Are the shadow of the girl and get entangled in various comic situations.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 93 min
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Me... and my bird (1982)
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A photo reporter, shortly before leaving for a job in Cyprus, becomes unwittingly the recipient of a golden owl, who stole a gang from the archaeological museum, who are following him in order to take the owl back.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece, Cyprus
Duration: 90 min
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When I Grow Up, I'll Be a Kangaroo (2004)
Plot Summary:
The film consists of three parallel stories that are interwoven and played in Vozdovac. In the first story, Braca tries to seduce Iris, a model from the city center. Although they try not to be "two worlds" they certainly are. In another story, Dule i Somi, in the football match Ipswich - Manchester, they bet on Ipswich to win because it defends their classmate. The third story takes place on the roof of the skyscraper where Avaks and Hybrid, proponents of the philosophy of "most cost effective when I'm sitting in the house - no income, but no expenses", spending the day doing nothing, expecting something to happen. Something happened - an unusual occurrence Avaks saw in the sky.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Serbia
Duration: 92 min
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The Gift (2008)
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A man who has recently lost his wife and forced to retire contemplates suicide. His friends take him on a trip to a senior resort, and invite his former sweetheart.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy
Country: Chile
Duration: 108 min
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Gefsi apo... Ellada! (1980)
Plot Summary:
Anthology film with a number of sketches that satirize modern Greece.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 138 min
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O dynasteias (1985)
Plot Summary:
The adventurous life of a man who wandered around the world, spent a few years playing "Tarzan" in the jungle, became rich and eventually returned back in his birth-place.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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O roz gatos (1985)
Plot Summary:
Panos and Archimedes (Panos Michalopoulos and Sotiris Moustakas) are colleagues (teachers) and roommates. The first is a new modern, and the second is more conservative. Panos will attempt to dynamically put Archimedes in life. The second will develop a dual personality. The day is reserved professor, and the night reveler and flirtatious. When his sister would abducted, Archimedes will enter the clinic in order to overcome the problem.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 859
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 98 min
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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
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The Cow's Orgasm (1996)
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High school galpals Balta and Stylianou buy into romantic dreams about love and marriage but, after a series of tragicomic incidents in their Greek village, topped off by a cow's emotional fulfillment, decide to go after a waiter/musician and that "cool" slaughterhouse director.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Mitsos, the Laughing Stock (1984)
Plot Summary:
Gender-bender comedy directed by Omiros Efstratiadis.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 360
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: romantic, intellectual
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Yuppies (1986)
Plot Summary:
Willy, Giacomo, Lorenzo e Sandro sono 4 giovani yuppies rampanti nella "Milano da bere" degli anni '80, che vivono nel mito dell'Avvocato Gianni Agnelli e di Silvio Berlusconi; il loro unico scopo nella vita è apparire anziché essere. Giacomo è un pubblicitario, Lorenzo è un notaio, Sandro è un dentista, e Willy è un venditore di automobili.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 744
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
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Kamikazi, agapi mou (1983)
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Stathis loves bikes, Rena wants to dance all the time and Aleksis goes crazy for rock music. They are three crazy siblings. One of them, Stathis, doesn't seem capable to keep a job and when he loses his girlfriend, his mother decides to give him what he loves the most, a motorcycle!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 98 min
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Happy Romance (1972)
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Countryman Dato falls in love with uptown girl Eka. But, their romance faces difficulties due to Dato's revolver-like lighter, which Eka's tough father mixes with a real gun.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 71 min
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The Baldheaded Agent and the Land of Destruction Mission (1969)
Plot Summary:
Undercover cop takes to find and restore a rich girl who ran away from home.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie, slapstick comedy, hilarious, funny, eurospy
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The Game (2008)
Plot Summary:
A funny comedy about the Russian footfall team and their adventures during the World Cup.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
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My Little Bossings (2013)
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Torky is a bookkeeper working for Baba a millionaire cash management specialist. Because of some conflict in her business that puts her life in danger, Baba entrusts the safety of her son Justin to Torky who takes him home to meet his daughter Ice and Ching the street urchin that the latter took under her wing. Given that Justin is not particularly fond of Torky, how all four of them would get along under one roof becomes the focus of the story.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 106 min
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The Swingin' Pussycats (1969)
Plot Summary:
An eighteen year-old girls wants to preserve her virginity, living in a family that manages the erotic arts.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min
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A Tight Spot (1982)
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At 56 years of age Mita Pantić (Nikola Simić) is still only a junior clerk in his company. Another typical workday for him is starting at 6 a.m. as frustration awaits at every turn from the moment he gets up. Trying to get ready to go to work, he can barely get a turn to use the bathroom in the crowded apartment. Other members of the household are not without their frustrations either, meaning that nagging and shouting are a staple of their home life at any time of day.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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The Guardian Angel (1996)
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Madrid, 1981. Jorge has just arrived in Madrid to live in beautiful large house with his brother, mother, grandmother Obdulia, a wealthy woman who is somewhat deaf, and his grandfather, an aged and senile octogenarian.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min
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Finding Lenny (2009)
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"Everything happens for a reason" - on his 50th birthday, Lenny Vincent is fired from his job as a sports writer for a daily newspaper, his wife of 19 years leaves him for a much younger man and he and his best friend Dave are caught in a gang heist at a restaurant. He ends up being hi-jacked by the gang and dumped in a rural village. Here he befriends the local chief and embarks on the adventure of a lifetime; helping to reunite the chief's warring sons, fighting a money grabbing property company from turning the chief's land into a golf course, coaching the village soccer team and ultimately.. finding himself!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Africa
Duration: 94 min
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Taste of Life (1988)
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Elvio Battistini works as a ticket taker in the local cinema of the small town where he lives. He has a prosthesis in one leg, the result of an accident, but he tells anyone who will listen it is a war injury. Giuseppe Mondardini, is also an older man living alone in what was the splendid family home. When Elvio and Giuseppe meet, they hit it off immediately. A trip to a cooler area is in order, so Mordardini unveils his ancient automobile.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
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Grace Quigley (1984)
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Grace Quigley is nearing the end of her life, living alone in her New York apartment. One day she witnesses a murder being committed by top hit-man, Seymour Flint. She decides to blackmail him into killing her, however, she has one or two friends he has to get rid of first. Written by Col Needham.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Killing Poe (2016)
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In this hilarious college comedy, five students find themselves in the most infuriating class on Edgar Allan Poe ever. After weeks of abuse from their professor - and a 'shroom-fueled trip with a beat-boxing groundskeeper and a TV horror host - the group plots revenge. But their "simple" plan spirals out of control and they learn the hard way what Poe's stories are really all about.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, dark comedy
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Life Doesn't Scare Me (1999)
Plot Summary:
We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Lady Football (1983)
Plot Summary:
In Italy in the early 1980s, a Brazilian football ace is afflicted by nostalgia for his country and for his beautiful girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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My Chauffeur (1986)
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A feisty young woman accepts a mysterious offer to become a chauffeur for a Beverly Hills limousine business, much to the chagrin of her older male coworkers and the disbelief of her customers.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, humorous, sex comedy, independent film, captivating, realistic, semi serious, sexual, fairy tale, light
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Loaf and Camouflage (1984)
Plot Summary:
The film is the story of a group of soldiers, who, in the course of their compulsory military service in 1967 and 1968, before and during the military dictatorship in Greece, are assigned to the then recently founded Armed Forces Television. This TV station, founded for the civilian population, was run by the Cinematographic Unit of the army which until then had only produced propaganda films and newsreels and was responsible for entertaining the troops and other charity organizations with movie screenings. The personnel was composed mostly of soldiers, who already had experience in the film business in their civilian lives, as well as those who received their training in the army. The story may be only 95% true, but that is simply because the true story is even more absurd.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Greece
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: exciting, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, cult film
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Borat Subsequent Moviefilm (2020)
Plot Summary:
14 years after making a film about his journey across the USA, Borat risks life and limb when he returns to the United States with his young daughter, and reveals more about the culture, the COVID-19 pandemic, and the political elections.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 150000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, UK, Romania
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, funny, controversial, dark comedy, humorous, satirical, absurd, political, social, surreal
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Mom's Day Away (2014)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated stay-at-home mom takes a weekend away when her family ignores her over Mother's Day.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Poppitz (2002)
Plot Summary:
Car salesman Gerry Schartl is on his way to dream holidays in an all-inclusive club at Cosamera. He´s a smart guy, great in his job, and his life is perfect - well, nearly perfect.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Austria
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, spoof, parody
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The First Time (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young film student pursues a woman while studying under a bizarre, eccentric film professor.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, teen sex comedy, psychotronic, psychological, offbeat, humorous, realistic, experimental, semi serious