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Plot Summary:
Four students who work on different jobs during their vacations in summer are tired of doing the same thing every year. Therefore they decide to open up a moving company together and confront themselves with the former boss of one of them.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Combat High (1986)
Plot Summary:
"Police Academy"-style comedy set in a military school. Two errant high-school students are ordered by a judge to spend a year at a prestigious military academy, where one of the cadets finds out who is responsible for a spate of midnight thefts. Written by Mark Lennon.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, semi serious
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The Seniors (1978)
Plot Summary:
Four college seniors open a bogus sex clinic, which unexpectedly mushrooms into a multi-million dollar business. Featuring a young Dennis Quaid in one of his earliest roles and Alan Reed (the original voice of Fred Flintstone) in his final film appearance.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, grindhouse, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, hot
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Campus Man (1987)
Plot Summary:
Todd Barret is an aspiring businessman. He's got what it takes, but what he doesn't have is enough money to stay in college. So he cooks up a plan to make the first ever all male sports calendar. He eventually convinces Cactus Jack, a very shadowy and tough loan shark, to give him enough money to make the deal. Todd makes enough to pay for his education, but what about the money he owes Cactus Jack?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, homoerotic
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Answer This! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Brilliant trivia whiz Paul Tarson is great at answering little questions but horrible at answering the big ones – like what’s he going to do after grad school? When his father withdraws his funding, Paul is forced to confront his future and much procrastinated dissertation deadline…until he discovers the First Annual Ann Arbor Pub Trivia Tournament.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, captivating, independent film
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Dean Slater: Resident Advisor (2013)
Plot Summary:
After their overenthusiastic RA is imprisoned in Mexico, a group of college freshmen are plunged into their first semester under a renegade Resident Advisor, Dean "The Dean" Slater. The boys battle viral video stigma, psychotic girlfriends, and hangovers on their way to creating a more analogue college experience.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, social, exciting
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Fast Food (1989)
Plot Summary:
Auggie wants to make it big and has tried pretty much everything in order to do so. His next idea: turn his cousin's garage into a burger joint. To make it appealing, they develop a very very very special sauce. But beware, the king of fast food, Wrangler Bob, is out to get them.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, not serious
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Mystics (2003)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Show Stoppers (2008)
Plot Summary:
"Show Stoppers" is a comedy-drama set in the world of Greek stepping on a historically black university in Virginia "where Greek steppers get as much attention as star athletes.".
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, emotional, semi serious, hood, independent film, realistic
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Turf (2013)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering away the little spare cash they have, they agree to give up gambling. But no sooner have they taken this pledge than Fate intervenes, in the guise of the turf king, Monsieur Paul. The latter persuades the four friends to buy a champion racehorse, not knowing that it is in fact an old nag….
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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Head Office (1985)
Plot Summary:
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices. "Saturday Night Live" writer-performer Michael O'Donoghue scripted this satire co-starring Danny DeVito and Jane Seymour.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, clever, biting, satirical, suspense, eighties
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Irish Jam (2006)
Plot Summary:
Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize -- the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous American rapper emerges as the best poet around?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, feel good, black comedy, realistic, semi serious
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The Kid & I (2005)
Plot Summary:
Aaron Roman (Gores) is a teenager with cerebral palsy who dreams of starring in a big-time action movie. When his father (Mantegna) grants Aaron his wish for his 18th birthday, he experiences the reality a bit hard to manage.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, semi autobiographical
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Car Babes (2006)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age story about the quirky lives of car salesman.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, captivating
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Two Tickets to Paradise (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three guys on the verge of forty begin to realize all the best things in their lives happened before they were twenty. A spontaneous road trip adventure gives them a chance to balance the ledger.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 892
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic
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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
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Nora's Hair Salon II (2008)
Plot Summary:
The hilarious cast of Nora's Hair Salon is back in this outrageous, bust-a-gut comedy! Featuring familiar faces and fresh new names, Nora's Hair Salon 2: A Cut Above will have you cutting up all over again! As co-owner of Nora's Hair Salon, Lilliana (Tatyana Ali) is in way over her head. When she's not caught up in the daily dramas between her coworkers - the flamboyant stylist Delicious, the hotheaded ex-stripper Xenobia and the outspoken manicurist Ming - Lilliana is busy combing out hair disasters, breaking up client catfights and raising a son on her own. But when the salon's other owner Simone (Stacey Dash) decides to sell the shop and pocket the profits, Lilliana must choose whether to take her cut and run...or stand her ground and fight for a place they all call home.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: talky, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, touching, semi serious, independent film
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Cheats (2002)
Plot Summary:
While other kids buy into countless hours of studying just so they can get a mark in some teacher's report book, Handsome Davis sees it as nothing more than a system of control over your mind. That's why Handsome and his three best friends Sammy, Victor and the cribsheet genius Applebee have banded together and found ways to cheat on their tests all through their school years.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, realistic
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Kicking the Dog (2009)
Plot Summary:
Twelve friends spend one last great summer together, partying and reminiscing, ultimately realizing they will soon go their separate ways in life.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, entertaining, melancholic, captivating, disturbing, sexy, sex comedy, offbeat
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The Prankster (2010)
Plot Summary:
To the outer world CHRIS KARAS is a shy, handsome, "A" student, the son of a hard-working Greek contractor. But to his closest confidants he is none other than the celebrated Prince of Pranksters, a secret society dedicated to combating the inequities of high school through masterful acts of subterfuge.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, realistic
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Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986)
Plot Summary:
Russell has been expelled from several schools for lewd, crude and nude conduct. Busterburger University is his last chance at education and satisfying his disappointed parents.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy, sexy, touching, captivating, cult classic, independent film, cynical
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Trippin' (1999)
Plot Summary:
Greg is near the end of his senior year in high school, wanting to go to the prom, eyeing Cinny (the school's beauty with brains) from afar, and regularly trippin', daydreaming about being a big success as a poet, a student, a lover. His mom wants him to apply to colleges, but Greg hasn't a clue. One of his teachers, Mr. Shapic, tries to inspire him, too. He finally figures out he can get close to Cinny if he asks her for help with college applications. But friendship isn't enough, he wants romance and a prom date. So, he tells a few lies and, for awhile, it seems to be working. Then, things fall apart and Greg has to figure out how to put the trippin aside and get real.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: hood, humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, entertaining, black comedy, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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Acceptance (2009)
Plot Summary:
"Acceptance" is a movie that is equivalent of being slapped on the wrist by your mother for not being like everyone. Forget about being different from others and being yourself. In the movie it shows how crazy students and parents can get when it comes to being accepted in different colleges.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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PCU (1994)
Plot Summary:
Nervous high school senior Tom Lawrence visits Port Chester University, where he gets a taste of politically correct college life when he's guided by fraternity wild man Droz and his housemates at The Pit. But Droz and his pals have rivals in nasty preppy Rand McPherson and the school's steely president. With their house threatened with expulsion, Droz and company decide to throw a raging party where the various factions will collide.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, entertaining, melancholic, talky, semi serious, witty, parody, teen, sex comedy
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The Hustle (2008)
Plot Summary:
Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at the opportunity that might save his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good, entertaining, black comedy, independent film
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Where's the Party Yaar? (2003)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on Sunil Thakkar's own experiences running and throwing parties for the Music Masala radio station, and having to discriminate between "Fresh off the Boat" Indians and the more fashionable, hip, Americanized Indians. Ironically enough, Thakkar's character in the film is exactly the type of person he barred from parties in those days.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sexy, realistic, witty, hot
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Super Sweet 16: The Movie (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, predictable, teen
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Box Elder (2008)
Plot Summary:
Box elder bugs are loud, scary looking, and dependent on group swarming. Yet, they're also completely harmless and extremely passive aggressive. Using this metaphor to address a generation that thinks big, talks fast, and threatens to change the world, Box Elder is an unapologetic portrait of a youth movement at odds with its own ambivalence, exposing a generation defined by privilege, potential, and self-induced paralysis. The film follows four best friends through their last years of college. Dependant on their parents financially, and on each other emotionally, they spend their time sleeping in, hanging out, and eating lots of sandwiches. Using break-ups and re-occurring scholastic failures to impose a quarter-life crisis, they take turns postponing responsibility, avoiding accountability, and looking for someone or something to substantiate their lives, all the while hedging their bets and mastering the art of treading water and getting away with it. It's a collegiate love letter.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 323
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, mumblecore, independent film, offbeat, teen sex comedy, semi autobiographical
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Glory Daze (2010)
Plot Summary:
Glory Daze is an American comedy-drama television series. The one-hour series revolves around a group of college freshmen who pledge a fraternity in 1986. The series aired from November 16, 2010, to January 18, 2011 on TBS. On February 24, 2011, TBS announced that the series would not be renewed for a second season due to poor ratings.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, not serious, suspenseful, retro, sitcom, exciting
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Get a Job (2011)
Plot Summary:
In order to save his own job, an employment agent has to find work for the most unemployable man on Maui.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, buddy comedy, contemplative
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Staten Island Summer (2015)
Plot Summary:
Pals Danny and Frank spend the summer after high school working as lifeguards while figuring out their future.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, romantic, semi serious, sex comedy, realistic, sexy, feel good, melancholic