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Plot Summary:
Stan gets a little annoyed when his Mum and Sister keep buying expensive items on hire purchase, but the money he earns for overtime working as a bus driver means that he can afford it... just! His job is secure, as bus drivers are hard to come by, and his overtime prospects are good, until the bus company decide to revoke a long standing rule and employ women bus drivers. Aghast at the thought of.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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That's Carry On! (1977)
Plot Summary:
Celebrating twenty years of classic Carry On films, two of the films’ best-loved stars, Kenneth Williams and Barbara Windsor return to Pinewood film studios to unwrap some rib-tickling moments from the series. From the original, military mayhem of Carry On Sergeant, through to the really ancient archaeological gags of Carry On Behind, our saucy hosts get their titters out for this laugh-a-second gallop through the most successful series of British comedy films ever made.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, anthology, spoof, independent film, parody
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Holiday on the Buses (1973)
Plot Summary:
Due to a female passenger falling out of her top whilst running for the bus Stan is distracted and crashes the bus resulting in the depot managers car being written off. As a result Stan, Jack and Blakey are fired. Stan and Jack soon get new jobs as a bus crew at a Pontins holiday resort but discover that Blakey has also gotten a job there as the chief security guard.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, realistic, not serious, independent film
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The Martins (2001)
Plot Summary:
Out of work, scrounger Robert Martin lives with his dysfunctional family - long suffering wife accident prone son and pregnant teenage daughter in a shabby house next door to a giant shopping center in the London suburbs. The Martins are the family from hell! Robert dreams if winning a dream holiday for his family, and when he fails to win yet another competition he flips, out tracks down the elderly winners, ties them up in the cellar and steals their tickets!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, clever, offbeat, realistic
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Foreign Body (1986)
Plot Summary:
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Percy (1971)
Plot Summary:
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, psychotronic, sexy
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Little Britain: Live (2006)
Plot Summary:
The many hilarious characters of Little Britain are taken to the stage in this brilliant live performance by Matt Lucas and David Walliams.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, witty, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, slapstick, sketch comedy, live comedy
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Man About the House (1974)
Plot Summary:
An unscrupulous property developer wants to flatten the street to make way for new buildings.Householder George Roper is happy to take the offered money and run but his wife Mildred and their lodgers join with other residents to take a stand and keep things as they are, finally winning the day.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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George and Mildred (1980)
Plot Summary:
Big screen spin-off of the Seventies sitcom. Mildred Roper (Yootha Joyce, who died shortly after filming was completed) is determined to make husband George (Brian Roper) celebrate their wedding anniversary in style, at a posh hotel in London. However, upon arrival George is mistaken by a gangland criminal for a rival hitman, and soon the Ropers find themselves up to their necks in trouble on the wrong side of the law!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 744
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sitcom, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Stiff Upper Lips (1997)
Plot Summary:
Stiff Upper Lips is a broad parody of British period films, especially the lavish Merchant-Ivory productions of the 'eighties and early 'nineties. Although it specifically targets A Room with a View, Chariots of Fire, Maurice, A Passage to India, and many other films, in a more general way Stiff Upper Lips satirises popular perceptions of certain Edwardian traits: propriety, sexual repression, xenophobia, and class snobbery.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, India
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, humorous, realistic, witty, black comedy, feel good, semi serious, independent film, fairy tale
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Closing Escrow (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three quirky families seeking to buy their next home collide when trying to purchase the same property. The bidding war tests the limits of their marriages and the resolve of their agents.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, cynical, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, witty, semi serious
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The Likely Lads (1964)
Plot Summary:
The Likely Lads is a British sitcom created and written by Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, and produced by Dick Clement. Twenty episodes were broadcast by the BBC, in three series, between 16 December 1964 and 23 July 1966. However, only eight of these shows have survived. This show was followed by a popular sequel series, in colour, entitled Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads?, broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 24 December 1974. This was followed in 1976 by a spin-off feature film The Likely Lads. Some episodes of both the original black and white series and the colour sequel were adapted for radio, with the original television cast.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 756
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Roger & Val Have Just Got In (2010)
Plot Summary:
Roger & Val Have Just Got In is a British sitcom that stars Dawn French and Alfred Molina playing married couple Roger and Val Stevenson. The show premiered on BBC Two on 6 August 2010 and six episodes were broadcast for the first series. The show was created by Dawn French, directed by Jamie Rafn, and written by Beth Kilcoyne and Emma Kilcoyne. Each episode is set in the half hour after Roger and Val arrive home from work. Episodes play out in real time with no laughter track. The deeper issues in the couple's lives are often underplayed by being glossed over in conversation. The longing for escape is a trait prevalent in both characters' personalities. Episode by episode, the series gradually permits the viewer an insight into the reality of Roger and Val's life. Underneath the mundane middle aged couple's daily routine, the viewer becomes aware of a real heartache which both characters avoid talking about but which has altered their life fundamentally: the death of their infant son Christopher. The screenwriters include subtle hints in regard to Roger and Val's heartache - a photo of Val holding a baby, for example - rather than introduce the topic directly. Over the series the viewer slowly realises that both Roger and Val's lives have been devastated.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, entertaining, sitcom, sincere, realistic, talky
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The Merry Wives of Windsor (2011)
Plot Summary:
The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher’s tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. Gutsy, colloquial and bustling with vivid characters, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a brilliantly constructed farce and the only comedy Shakespeare set in his native land. It is also the ancestor of English bourgeois comedy and gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom. The production made merry with the relationship between the life of middle-class Elizabethan England and the late medieval period in which the play is set.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Reggie Perrin (2009)
Plot Summary:
Reggie Perrin is a modern update of the 1970s BBC sitcom The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin, which starred Leonard Rossiter. The revival stars Martin Clunes and was first broadcast on 24 April 2009. Series 1 was released on DVD in Region 2 by 2entertain on 1 June 2009.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Wedding Fever in Campobello (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Jan decides to marry his girl-friend Sara, he is not aware of his opponent: her father, who is an Italian.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, sentimental, realistic, feel good, captivating, semi serious
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Mutiny on the Buses (1972)
Plot Summary:
Bus driver Stan Butler agrees to marry Suzy, much to the anguish of Mum, her son-in-law, Arthur, and daughter Olive. How, they wonder, will they ever manage without Stan's money coming in? Then Arthur is sacked, and Stan agrees to delay the wedding. Meanwhile, he hits on an idea: Arthur should learn to drive a bus. Somehow he does just that, and even gets a job. Stan then blackmails the Depot Manager into giving him the job of driver on the new money-making Special Tours Bus. A great idea ...if only the inspector hadn't taken Stan on his trial run to the Windsor Safari Park.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, sitcom, semi serious, slapstick, biting, sexual
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My Best Holidays (2012)
Plot Summary:
Over this long hot summer, Claude and Isabelle get their marriage back on track, while Bibou and Simon, spend a memorable summer discovering the world of grown-ups.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Closer You Get (2000)
Plot Summary:
Irish bachelors take out an ad in the Miami Herald, looking for love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy
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We Think the World of You (1988)
Plot Summary:
An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets out of prison, he has to face difficulties at home. Added to this, is the fact that he may have to give up Evie to Frank.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, eighties, cult film
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Mom's on Strike (2002)
Plot Summary:
She was an overworked mom trying to get her family's attention. She didn't know she would become a national sensation.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Caffeine (2006)
Plot Summary:
A fanciful battle of the sexes ensues when the relationships of the staff and patrons of a quirky London café are unexpectedly turned upside down by sudden revelations of terribly embarrassing secrets having to do with their sexual misadventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: talky, feel good, humorous, semi serious, funny, clever, realistic, witty
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The Great Outdoors (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Great Outdoors was a British television sitcom. The show follows the friendships of a misfit rambling club in Southern England in which patronising group-leader Bob becomes embroiled in a battle of wills against new arrival and deputy group-leader Christine, who is determined that things should be done her way. She previously lived and rambled in Barnstaple and appears to perhaps be autistic and have an obsessive-compulsive personality disorder. The show comprised three episodes, first airing on Wednesdays between 28 July and 12 August 2010 on BBC Four.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sitcom, captivating, offbeat, realistic, talky, stylized
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A House of Your Dreams (2006)
Plot Summary:
On a mission to loosen up, a miser's sets about buying a house in the country for his family.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Relative Values (2000)
Plot Summary:
A comedy of discriminating taste and dirty little secrets, the story is set in 1952 England, where Nigel, the Earl of Marshwood, woos Hollywood star Miranda Frayle, upsetting both his mother, Countess Felicity of Marshwood, and her former love, fellow Hollywood star Don Lucas. Right before the engagement party to be held at Marshwood, Moxie, the Countess's personal maid and best friend reveals that Miranda is her estranged sister. Crestwell, the Countess's butler, quickly devises a plan-but an inebriated Lucas's arrival at Marshwood to try to talk to Miranda causes all chaos to break loose.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, witty, stylized, independent film, clever
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The Search for John Gissing (2001)
Plot Summary:
Matthew Barnes is a young exec on the move up who finds himself a pawn in corporate in-fighting when he's sent to London to oversee a merger.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, funny
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The Smell of Success (2009)
Plot Summary:
When a tragic accident ends the life of Mr. Rose, the genius behind Rose's Manure Company, the livelihood of its loyal fleet of salesmen threatens to go, as they say, into the toilet. Enter estranged daughter Rosemary, a high-class- cosmetics salesgirl, who steps in to take control. She is not sure she has a nose for the family business, but she is determined to make foul into profit. Little does she know that a ruthless, slick-talking fertilizer rep is plotting a takeover. Whether she likes it or not, she must trust her top salesman, Patrick Fitzpatrick, to devise a plan to regain Rose's rightful position on top of the heap.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, atmospheric, realistic, semi serious
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The Security Men (2013)
Plot Summary:
Duckers, Jimmy and Ray are three work-shy security guards at a shopping mall who spend much of their time mocking their Jobsworth boss Kenneth. One night they bunk off to watch and bet on a boxing match at the electrical shop, only to find on their return that the mall's jewellers has been robbed. To save face - and their jobs - they bring in computer ace Rhys to help concoct a new CCTV film in which two of them pose as robbers and the other two pursue them but lose them. It looks very genuine but P.C. Greaves has his doubts. Can they get away with it?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, semi serious, realistic, sitcom
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A Matter of Principles (2009)
Plot Summary:
A man with seemingly unwavering ethics is challenged by his new boss, who believes everyone has a price and it willing to prove it. In this Capra-esque tale no one leaves unscathed when principles and pragmatism collide.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Comedy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious, clever, realistic
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Family Plan (2005)
Plot Summary:
Charlie MacKenzie is an ambitious young career woman who stretches the truth in a job interview by professing to be married with a family. But her little white lie leads to a great big problem when her new boss moves next door. Desperate to maintain her ruse, Charlie “borrows” her best friend’s daughter and scrambles to find a husband-for-hire. When a charming actor accepts the role, Charlie’s charade just may lead her to true love!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, sincere, witty, family comedy
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All in Good Time (2012)
Plot Summary:
East is East writer Ayub Khan-Din returns with another funny, tender-hearted portrait of family strife. Based on his popular play Rafta, Rafta (itself inspired by Bill Naughtons 1960s classic All in Good Time), the film is set in Bolton where Atul and Vina are celebrating their marriage. However, a honeymoon spent with his parents was not part of their plans. Thoughtless patriarch Eeshwar seems determined to emasculate and embarrass his son. As the weeks pass, consummating their union becomes an impossibility that threatens the couples entire future. A breezy mixture of heartbreak and hilarity, All in Good Time also offers peerless performances from original stage stars Harish Patel and Meera Syal.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, captivating, light, multicultural, sentimental, realistic, semi serious