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Plot Summary:
An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min
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Mrs. Rettich, Czerni and I (1998)
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Three women travel together to Spain for different reasons. The pregnant Mrs. Rettich wants to marry her Spanish lover in Barcelona, while Czerni, bored by her husband Bart, wants to have fun. Sophie, the 1st person narrator, tries to forget the man she admires not knowing that he and Bart follow the crazy ladies.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
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How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days (1984)
Plot Summary:
A kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min
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Chop Chop (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dennis and Carl are brothers who live on a small farm in the country. None too bright, Dennis wants a girlfriend for Christmas. Carl makes sure that Dennis gets just that when he meets Rita at the local pub. She is on the run from her husband and she doesn't turn down the chance to hide away at Carl and Dennis's place.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Louder! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp!! (2018)
Plot Summary:
Shing (Sadao Abe) is a rock star. He has an amazingly loud voice with a range of four octaves. His secret is that he has created his voice through a method of vocal cord doping. His voice is now teetering on the edge, due to side effects from the vocal cord doping. Around this time, Shing meets Fuuka (Riho Yoshioka) who is a street musician. When Fuuka sings, her vice is so small. Due to Fuuka, Shing looks back upon his past.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
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My Stupid Boss (2016)
Plot Summary:
My Stupid Boss recounts the story of an absurd boss and his employees. Bossman (Reza Rahadian) is an Indonesian who owns a company in Kuala Lumpur. A large but disorganized company. The culprit for the disarray in the organization is the bossman himself. His first principle of management is that Bossman Is Always Right. Which means whatever the Bossman fancies, he'll get it done. And that is his following principle: Impossible We Do Miracle We Try. In the midst of this is Diana, the Bossman's secretary, who has to juggle at every turn with the odds that never seem to add up in the company. Diana's daily confronted with her boss's antics and her patience and good sense are all put to the test.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Indonesia
Duration: 108 min
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The Ernest Film Festival (1986)
Plot Summary:
Before he went to camp, before he went to jail, before he saved Christmas, before he was scared stupid, before he went to Africa and before he was in the army, Ernest P. Worrell hosted a variety of commercials, and a lot of them are here on this video. He even makes public service announcements. It also features many of his bloopers.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 55 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ringo (1978)
Plot Summary:
Ringo, stressed out by fame, trades places with a schmuck who looks exactly like him. Then the problems start!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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Oh Boy! (1991)
Plot Summary:
Slapstick by the director of The Taste of Water also a film within a film. Boy, otherwise known as the shy actor Pim, runs a financially unsuccessful service station somewhere in the desert. His life is severely disrupted when he gets a professional competitor. The film is a homage to the silent film hero Buster Keaton.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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An Ideal Husband (1981)
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Sir Robert Chiltern is a successful Government minister, well-off and with a loving wife. All this is threatened when Mrs. Cheveley appears in London with damning evidence of a past misdeed. Sir Robert turns for help to his friend Lord Goring, an apparently idle philanderer and the despair of his father. Goring knows the lady of old, and, for him, takes the whole thing pretty seriously.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 93 min
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The Vixen (1969)
Plot Summary:
Clara becomes a secretary who must cater to all the desires of the womanizing writer Jérôme, while he tries to write his memoirs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Bad Meat (2004)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Butcher's Mill, Illinois, home to a meat-packing plant, a junk yard, and Buddy and Earl, two likable losers who crave the sweet smell of success. Earl is a simple man with a simple desire--to marry Pam, the only available girl in town. But she'll only give herself to a man who meets her strict criteria, including trailer-home ownership. And Earl's conniving boss at the meat-packing plant will do anything to win Pam's heart first. Buddy, on the other hand, wrongly fancies himself a master criminal, scheming big and failing big while avoiding both legitimate employment and his heartless parole officer. When Buddy hatches a brainless scheme to kidnap a corrupt U.S. Congressman for ransom.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: absurd, light, humorous, independent film, black comedy
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Happy He Who Like Ulysses (1970)
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For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life with a horse named Ulysse. What a shock when Pascal, the farmer, tells him he has decided to sell Ulysse to a picador for being too old. Not only will he be separated from his faithful companion, but he is well aware too that the arenas of Arles mean death for Ulysse. Being unable to stand such injustice, Antonin runs away from the farm in the company of Ulysse. Together, they go through the Lubéron, the Baux de Provence, the Alpilles, the Crau and the Vaccarès. Yet, their journey is no pleasure cruise, specially when it comes to crossing National Road 7. After a visit to Marcellin, an old friend of his, Antonin sets off again with Ulysse, this time towards the Rhône River.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Strike It Rich (1990)
Plot Summary:
A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Gidget Grows Up (1969)
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After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian Sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Black Barons (1992)
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Komedie vás přesvědčí o tom, že i na chmurné stránky naší historie je možné se dívat s nadhledem a humorem. Čo bolo, to bolo... Major Terazky vede svůj šik pétépáků od průšvihu k průšvihu vstříc světlým zítřkům. Česká filmová komedie podle románu Miloslava Švandrlíka.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min
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Adam in Sweden (1966)
Plot Summary:
Rikard Adamsson, a young man dreaming of becoming a writer, lives a wild and dissolute bohemian life. A ferocious fighter with a heart of gold and a great taste for women. In the military service he gets in trouble, runs away, returns and is sentenced to prison. Inside he finishes his first novel. However, no publisher is interested.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min
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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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Crazy Paradise (1962)
Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy, based on the discovery that eggs from a particular island provide men with great virility and make them irresistible.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min
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Rebel High (1987)
Plot Summary:
Rebel High is a 1987 social satire film about the chaos and mayhem that modern western cities' high schools became. It is based on a US novel by Evan Keliher.Made in Canada, most of the cast is relatively unknown and in many cases uncredited.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, independent film
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The 11,000 Sexes (1975)
Plot Summary:
Adaptation of the erotic novel by Guillaume Apollinaire.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic
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I Could Never Have Sex with Any Man Who Has So Little Regard for My Husband (1973)
Plot Summary:
In this sex farce, two middle-aged pairs of aspiring swingers rent a summer cottage. There they sit around discussing the pros and cons of having affairs.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Josefine Mutzenbacher (1970)
Plot Summary:
Josefine is a young streetwalker in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century. She manages to sleep her way to the top by marrying a British aristocrat, and she delights in telling ribald stories of her sordid past to moralistic prudes.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy
Country: Austria, West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic
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Una cavalla tutta nuda (1972)
Plot Summary:
The youngsters Folcacchio and Guffardo must bring an embassy to the Bishop of Volterra, and during the trip, the two boys meet the beautiful Gemmata. The woman is a poor peasant who is married to Nicholas. Folcacchio and Guffardo, to have a night of love with the girl, pretends to be magicians who can turn humans into beasts.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, erotic, decamerotic
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The Feud (1989)
Plot Summary:
All Dolph Beeler wanted was a can of paint remover when he went to Bud Bullard's hardware store in Millville. But a simple misunderstandling between two men has turned into an outright war between two towns in this outrageous comedy of errors.--Summary from container. -- WorldCat.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Russ Meyer's Fanny Hill (1964)
Plot Summary:
Cult filmmaker Russ Meyer takes on directorial duties in Zugsmith s adaptation of the notorious erotic classic Fanny Hill. Set in pre-Victorian London, young Fanny finds herself taken in by a madame at one of the city s most elite brothels. A strange mix of Zugsmith s surreal slapstick and Meyer s trademark buxom beauties and thoughtful satire, Fanny Hill is an over-the-top saga of low-rent thrills in high-brow settings.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, psychotronic, hot, cult film
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Moriah's Lighthouse (2022)
Plot Summary:
Moriah is a woodworking artisan living in a French, seaside town, who dreams of restoring the local lighthouse. When Ben, an American architect, comes to town, it seems as though her dreams will never become reality after she learns he’s there to give the lighthouse a makeover… but for another buyer.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, France
Duration: 84 min
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Drops in Your Hand (2014)
Plot Summary:
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
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The Great Mom Swap (1995)
Plot Summary:
When two girls think the other has it better, they swap places to see who's right!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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Love, Passion and Pleasure (1972)
Plot Summary:
Cecco Angiolieri has joined, as storytellers and acrobats, the traveling company of Camillo. The stupidity of this man is so great that Cecco, inventing contagious childhood diseases, replacing it with his wife Dinda until the woman becomes pregnant. Meanwhile, the company has come in a city ruled by poetastro ser Gianni: Cecco, using his poetic vocation, getting license show for his teammates and conquers the woman, Tessa. Another victim of his jokes is fierce mother Lucrezia, new superior of the local monastery: Cecco, after forcing her to strip naked in the brothel of Filippa, precedes the convent pretending to it. Later, he clarified the misunderstanding, it becomes the lover and requires it to give shelter to Dinda, until Camillo is not ready to accept happily the unborn child as his.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, decamerotic
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My Last Five Girlfriends (2009)
Plot Summary:
My Last Five Girlfriends traces the romantic journey of thirtysomething bachelor Duncan. As the film opens, the despondent Duncan is apparently preparing to take his own life, but not before taking the time to send a message to the last five women he dated. Taking the form of a whirlwind tour through Duncan World, the film is a comedic exploration of his failed relationships.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, clever, independent film