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Plot Summary:
After falling for Alicia, greedy and powerful Mexican landowner Carlos has her fiancé thrown in prison on a bogus charge. To trick Carlos into releasing her man, Alicia teams up with her Aunt Delfina and tries to convince Carlos that he's a ghost.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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U Pana Boga za piecem (1998)
Plot Summary:
Królowy Most to miasteczko gdzieś przy wschodniej granicy, z kościelną wieźą górującą nad okolicą i złotą kopułą cerkwi, z charyzmatycznym proboszczem i posłusznymi parafianami. Świat, w którym czas łaskawie się zatrzymał. Senną atmosferę zakłóca pojawienie się energicznej Marusi, która przekracza polską granicę, źeby zarobić sprzedając towar na bazarze. Obrabowana przez raketierów, zwraca się o pomoc do miejscowej policji. Komisarz rozpoczyna śledztwo, a Marusia jako koronny świadek zostaje umieszczona na plebanii.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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POP-U-larity! (2012)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Penskeegee's 25th Annual POP-U-larity singing contest! Join our celebrity host, Marcellas Reynolds from the hit reality show 'Big Brother,' as our contestants compete to become Penskeegee's most POP-U-lar person! This years competitors include four-time diva champion Katrina Whitman aided by her loyal gay assistant Sebastian, cowboy Charlene Hornsby and her new age musical therapist Celeste, and housewife Marcia Anderson singing with her edgy performance artist son, Darque. Our contestants come from all walks of life and some from no walks of life. Each performance is as unique as the package it comes in. Because whatever they decide to do... There's no wrong way to be POP-U-lar!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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Babovresky 2 (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story begins where the first film ended: the gossip-monger Mrs. Horácková (Jana Synková) runs out from her house to greet the young hockey players who have come to visit their friend and teammate in a nearby cottage. Horácková immediately comes up with the idea of inviting her granddaughter and adroitly putting her in the athletes' way - perhaps one of them will notice her and the girl will hit the jackpot. The plot also revolves around Horácková's revenge on Mayor Stehlík (Pavel Kikincuk), as he was the reason she had to give up the position of the secretary at the municipal office. An inspector comes to the village and he has no idea what is in store for him and a young priest with a bit of an unconventional and ambiguous name is watching over all of this.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags:
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LiebesLuder (2000)
Plot Summary:
Meschede, Sauerland, Germany. In this little village, which is practically off any map, life goes at a slow pace. No issues of the wide world are much of a matter here. Until that one day, when Ina gets off the bus. She's a blonde, cute elf, just like one from a fairytale. After seducing several men from the village and blackmailing them all with her (fake) pregnancy, she's about to be shown how things are handled in Meschede. The victims of her play plan to kidnap her and beat her up a little, just to make sure. The plan goes terribly wrong and the former friends now face each other in mistrust. Also, Ina's attraction doesn't decrease at all.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Great Catherine (1968)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Yellow Pages (1999)
Plot Summary:
Jack of all trades and master of none, Al Baxter (Sam Taft) stays afloat by working four jobs. As if that weren't enough, happenstance leads Al to place four ads in the phone book, resulting in four more jobs. Trouble is, none of them is real. Now, Al has to juggle his actual responsibilities with his make-believe ones, all the while trying to extricate himself from an FBI sting, a stolen microchip scam and hordes of Chinese tourists.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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People (2004)
Plot Summary:
John-John is the best party promoter in Ibiza. He's responsible for the wildest parties ever. A party fixed by John-John is bound to be a success, and everyone will queue to get on the guest list. The former party prince among the jet setters in Paris, Charles de Poulignac, is therefore in no doubt about where he should go in order to revenge his former clients. He flies to Ibiza, where he hopes to make an alliance with John-John, and put an end to life as persona non grata in Paris, and again take his place as the party prince of Paris. Written by HardHouseClubber.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 657
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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My Mexican Shivah (2007)
Plot Summary:
After Moishe's death, family and friends sit Shiva in Mexico City. During seven days, secrets will be disclosed.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: indie film
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My Bloody Wedding (2010)
Plot Summary:
Doug, a dorky young mamma's boy, who is about to get married to his beautiful bride, Callista, when he notices a change come over her. He catches her sneaking around at night and lying to him, and she's begun to display flu-like symptoms. So naturally Doug thinks she caught a disease while cheating on him. In reality she has become possessed via an ancient stone and she's been eating his friends and family without him knowing.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Wedding Band (1989)
Plot Summary:
A couple who both work at wedding receptions encounter complications when they decide to marry.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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My Father's Mexican Wedding (2023)
Plot Summary:
Ana, a young Spanish woman who has just been dumped by her boyfriend, and her brother Tono, receive a call from their father to tell him that he is getting married in Mexico to a woman he met on the Internet. When they get there, they discover that the girl is 30 years younger than her father and they begin to live with her new in-laws, with the inevitable cultural clashes that this will entail.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, Mexico
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy
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Movie Star, American Style or; LSD, I Hate You (1966)
Plot Summary:
Producer/director Albert Zugsmith's acid-therapy "comedy," complete with a tinted trip sequence "in hilarious LSD color." A suicidal film star named Honey Bunny is sent by her producer to a rest home run by an unhinged Dr. Horatio, who gives his patients LSD as a cure. The wacky patients include female impersonator Skippy Roper as an effeminate dress designer, a midget, a fat lady, and lots of actors, directors, and producers, including Zugsmith himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, psychotronic, independent film
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The Man from the Diners' Club (1963)
Plot Summary:
Mobster Foots Pulardos, who operates a health gym as a front, plans to flee to Mexico to evade government tax officials. His girl friend, Sugar Pye, suggests that he first arrange for the cremation of a man having his own peculiar identifying characteristic--feet of different sizes--and then apply for a Diners' Club card for use in paying his fare. The request for the credit card comes to the desk of Ernie Klenk, a timid clerk. Nervous about his forthcoming marriage to the boss's secretary, Lucy, Ernie inadvertently okays the application, then, discovering his mistake, rushes to the health gym to recover the club card he has issued.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick
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Samba in Mettmann (2004)
Plot Summary:
Olaf is to take care of the family's cleaner's store, while his dad is away on a fair. In the evening he runs into three Brazilian ladies thrown out of a limousine not knowing where to go. Olaf invites them to stay with him and his deaf pot-smoking grandfather, which at first just causes some confusion as he soon is to marry his girlfriend Vera. The next day it's topsy-turvy all over.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good
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Fool's Paradise (2023)
Plot Summary:
A down-on-his-luck publicist discovers a recently released mental health patient who looks just like a misbehaving movie star. The publicist subs him into a film, creating a new star. But fame and fortune are not all they are cracked up to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: disgusting
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The Discord (1978)
Plot Summary:
Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick comedy, fun
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Waiting for the Light (1990)
Plot Summary:
A former vaudevillian magician (MacLaine) moves her straight-laced niece (Garr) and her two mischievous children to a small town. When the two kids get in trouble with a neighbor for stealing vegetables from his garden, the aunt concocts an illusion of ghosts in revenge. Only trouble is the whole town believes it is real and soon the press is swarming the town and a major magic trick is required for everyone to save face.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Life in the Fast Lane (1998)
Plot Summary:
Black comedy about an obsessive street graffiti artist, who falls obsessively in love with a frustrated artist he meets. Unfortunately, rather than trying to meet with her in a conventional way, he decides to mail himself to her with the help of a pet shop owner. Unfortunately, when he arrives, she is with another man, who immediately makes love to her against the box.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, surreal, witty, cynical, semi serious, slapstick
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The Clandestine Marriage (1998)
Plot Summary:
A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: costume drama, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, stylized, semi serious, period piece, period drama
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The People We Hate at the Wedding (2022)
Plot Summary:
A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, it turns out to be just what this singular family needs to reconnect.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Wild and Wonderful (1964)
Plot Summary:
Cognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pretty owner Giselle when he becomes jealous of her new husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 351
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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The Brady Girls Get Married (1981)
Plot Summary:
Made-for-tv movie, the pilot for a "Brady Bunch" revival series, "The Brady Brides." Jan and Marcia have met the men of their dreams and decide to tie the knot. They agree to hold the weddings together in the family's back yard, but fight over whether to have a modern ceremony or a traditional one. Can the marriages be saved? All of the original cast members (except cousin Oliver) put in a return appearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sitcom, tv series pilot
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The Deported (2009)
Plot Summary:
An Italian-American actor is deported to Mexico by some crooked INS Agents, and a pack of orphans helps him find his way back to America.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Love Will Keep Us Together (2013)
Plot Summary:
It'll be a slippery slope until their big day! Best friends since childhood, Tao and Bren are preparing to live out their dreams of an extravagant double-wedding in Hawaii. As the ladies' big day approaches, their jitters, envy, and outrageous expectations are met with emotional highs and lows. With faith and a little bit of luck, the brides-to-be just might make it to the chapel on time.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Government Woman (2013)
Plot Summary:
Xate is an ordinary woman from Midyat with eight children in tow. The only thing that sets her apart is her husband's job as Mayor of Midyat. Until, that is, an extraordinary day changes her life - and the lives of everyone else in Midyat. For the illiterate, uneducated Xate becomes Mayor of Midyat! While she takes on her mayoral duties much as she does those in her house, the infantile rivalry between her children in municipal matters leads to adventures that have the Midyat folk howling with laughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, realistic, not serious
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Bankrolled (2021)
Plot Summary:
While blind drunk, two unemployed millennials entrepreneurs drunkenly post a video pitch about their revolutionary app to a crowdfunding site. When the app catches fire and they accidentally raise millions of dollars they actually have to create the app.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 347
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, social
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The Week Of (2018)
Plot Summary:
The parents of a soon-to-be married couple make the final preparations for the wedding ceremony.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, funny, feel good, sincere, buddy comedy
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And the Winner Is... (2009)
Plot Summary:
Comedy - The hypocrisy lurking behind politics and small-town life is revealed in this sharp, hilarious satire that finds Centerville shaking up its mayoral election by forcing the candidates to participate in an "Election Pageant." Seven eccentric, competitive locals run for office despite their many flaws, and during the pageant, show off their skills at baby kissing, photo ops, handshaking and other skills needed by a savvy politician. - Jerry Springer, Kevin McClatchy, Doug Kusak.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, realistic, mockumentary
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Esmeralda Comes by Night (1997)
Plot Summary:
One bride, five grooms, a lot of explaining. Comedy by Jaime Humberto Hermosillo.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Tortilla Heaven (2007)
Plot Summary:
Isidor's Tortilla Heaven is the best restaurant in New Mexico maybe even the world. But though his tortillas are scrumptious, his enchiladas divine, Isidor has never made a dime. Why? He lives in Falfurrias, population 73. One Sunday, while all the town, including his wife and son, are piously praying mass, a miracle occurs. Upon one of his famous, hand-made tortillas appears the face of Jesus Christ.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, independent film, touching, offbeat, realistic, semi serious