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Plot Summary:
Torsten Södergren lives in a normal house with his normal family in a completely normal city. Every morning he greets his normal neighbours before getting into his normal car and drives the usual way to his ordinary work at an ordinary bank. But one day he is fired from his work after twenty years of loyal service. Now he is prepared to do anything to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 87 min
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Three Palms for Two Punks and a Babe (1998)
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The story takes place in 1993 Serbia, torn by hyperinflation and economic disaster. Milan, an avid fan of FC Partizan, lives with his friend, a painter, and makes money by selling his paintings to the "new elite". He meets a nice girl who works a phone sex hot line and the two eventually fall in love. An another friend so his is a treasury guard in a bank governed by a shady lady known as "Serbian mother", notorious for cheating the thousands of creditors. The couple is planning to rob the bank and run away to a remote sunny island with palms.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Federal Republic of Yugoslavia
Duration: 103 min
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Die Gruberin (2013)
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
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Teng Teng de sarapen (1983)
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Dolphy is a kind man who recycles bottles and newspapers for a living. But his kindness send him to prison when he helps a young lady get the right treatment at the hospital.
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Country: Philippines
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Oh My Goodness! (2022)
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Five nuns set their sights on winning the cash prize in a major cycling race to raise money to renovate a dilapidated hospice. The only hitch is that none of them can ride a bicycle.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
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Lottovoittaja UKK Turhapuro (1976)
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It is the first anniversary of Uuno and Elisabet. Uuno has placed a bet with his friend Härski-Hartikainen a year ago, that if Uuno can take just one year of marriage with Elisabet, Hartikainen will treat him a festive dinner. However, Hartikainen buys a lottery ticket for Uuno, who agrees to deduct it from his debt – and the festive dinner is reduced to a can of milk and half a sausage. As it happens, Uuno becomes the lottery winner of 1.5 million marks, only to soon realize he doesn't own a single penny yet. Mister Tossavainen arrives and offers to finance Uuno before he actually gets the jackpot. Thus, Uuno gets to live a rich live on credit. He buys a raccoon fur, leopard swimming trunks and a couple of Mercedes-Benzes. Women begin to fancy Uuno and so does his father-in-law. As time goes by it is revealed, though, that Uuno is not actually a lottery winner, and so he has to escape the anger of others to Härski's car repair shop.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min
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Two Lottery Tickets (2016)
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3 men from a provincial town who are in an urgent need for money so they decide to buy a lottery ticket. They win the lottery, but very soon, the ticket gets stolen.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, road movie
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I Won the New Year's Lottery (1989)
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Ciottoli is a journalist with absolutely no prospective for his career, with a lot of debts and a mobster that want him died. Unexpectedly he win the national lottery (almost Eur 2.5 Mln) and try to remain unanimous hiding the winner ticker into his typewriter. Ironically his director order to him to write an article on the mysterious winner. When he is back home he discovers all his furniture has been confiscate and will go on a public auction. He will try desperately to buy back the worthless typewriter while all his previous problems still follows him, especially the mobster.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, slapstick comedy
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Macken - Roy's & Roger's bilservice (1990)
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Roy and Roger decide to close their gasstation for the summer, to try to find where, what and how their lost father is. Roger also falls in love and much more.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 92 min
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One-Week Bachelors (1982)
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Gary's wife going away and he drives her to the airport. Gary has planned a week of hard work but at the airport he met Lasse, and then becomes nothing that Gary had in mind. An unlikely friendship develops between the two, and Gary succeed in the week causing a car crash, losing one of Lasse's children, get involved in a robbery and even missed his own architectural exhibition in which he will hold the opening speech.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 745
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, eighties
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If I Were a Rich Man (2002)
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Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share the bonanza, he keeps mum about it, all the more as he finds out Alice has an affair with Gérard, Aldo's former friend and ... new boss. However, Aldo, leading a double life, starts spending his money.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
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Found Money (1983)
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Max and Sam, disillusioned with people's day-to-day callousness toward each other, and angered by a pension-stealing bank, invent The Invisible Friend, Inc. The intention was to reward kind acts, but things rarely turn out as planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Cha Cha Cha (1989)
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A lawyer pays a visit to Matti Ojanperä (Matti Pellonpää), a bum living under a bridge in the Helsinki harbour, to inform him that he is about to inherit an American aunt of his. The sum 1,000,000 Fmk would be his, if only he meets the qualifications set by his aunt. He must show that he is capable of 'living properly' and possessing a 'respectable occupation and a family he can support'. Otherwise the money would go to a foundation the chairman of which the lawyer himself happens to be!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 91 min
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The Lustful Vicar (1970)
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During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who pushed through the accusations and promises that her offspring will avenge her. During the Caroline the priest's son take over as vicar of the congregation, and the daughter of the witch bewitches him so that he suffers constant erection. This is off course very embarrassing for the vicar. The local women has to step in and try to set things right.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
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Off and Running (2008)
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A missed highway exit and here is Darry Marzouki, unemployed conjurer, crossing the road with Irène Montier Duval, a beautiful bourgeois, the Hermès bag full of banknotes. Out of love, she served as an intermediary in an arms sale between a French minister and Korea. The case got publicized. The minister wants him to wear the hat. On the run, she offers Darry to pay him to drive her to Geneva in his beautiful BMW. The problem is that the BMW is not in Darry. He stole it on a whim from his brother-in-law, a little bit irritable, who promises to gut him if he doesn't return it. Unable to accept Irène's proposal, Darry invents the identity of an alter-globalist going to Locarno for a summit. Irene, who dreams of a change of scenery, gets caught up in the game. They have little in common. They will spend three days together. Three unforgettable days - On their heels, Koreans, the DST, a minister and the brother-in-law - At the end of the road, love for one, freedom for the other.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Black Sheep (2006)
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Black Sheep (original title: Schwarze Schafe) is a german/swiss black and white movie. It's separated into five episodes, which tell stories of the Berlin city life. A hopeless impostor. An East German couple who dreams of the big money. Three Turkish teenagers who do everything to have sex. Two hapless Satanists. And gay boys who dream of a better world. An anarchist, humorous black comedy about life in Berlin.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 995
Genere: Comedy
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: stylized, humorous, realistic, not serious, black comedy, black and white, offbeat, homoerotic
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For 200 Grand, You Get Nothing Now (1982)
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Influencés par une série de casses, Sam et Paul voient dans cette méthode un moyen facile de gagner l'argent qui leur fait cruellement défaut. Mais leur plan ne se déroule pas exactement comme ils l'avaient prévu.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 927
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
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Hurra, die Schwedinnen sind da (1978)
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Nikki Moser, a blond womanizer, made a deal with the burgomaster. He gave him money to buy a hotel, and for this Nikki should marry his daughter Marianne. And the catch is not even that the daughter of the Bavarian city head is a mulatto, but the fact that Nicky does not want to be bound by marriage to anyone. Buddy Tony throws the poor guy the idea of taking a loan, giving money to the burgomaster and sending him away with his daughter. However, to say is not to do. To knock out a loan is a complicated matter.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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A Head for Business (2000)
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Dutillard is an amateur film maker working as a computer programmer for a small French investment bank. When the bank finds that it has been forced to fork over $104 million to fund Dutillard's film, Chekov's "Three Sisters", and that it has no legal recourse against him, the bank must find a way to make the film profitable. They float around a few ideas including a nude gang bang with the prettier sister, but the horrified Dutilliard comes up with a plan, buy the rights to a blockbuster and package the TV rights with those for the Three Sisters. Before they know it the bankers find them self flying to London and New York to raise money and buy a major film studio.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Breaking the Bank (2014)
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With ruthless US and Japanese investment banks circling Tuftons, a struggling two-hundred-year-old, family-run British bank, can its bumbling, incompetent chairman, Sir Charles Bunbury, fend off the onslaught and save the bank?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
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For Better and Worse (2015)
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A couple on the brink of divorce attempts to hide their crisis at a grand wedding, but it turns out they are not the only ones with false appearances.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min
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Jackpot (2006)
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Kummelin Jackpot, was released in February 2006. It was about a divorced man portrayed by Silvennoinen, who realises a way to trick himself a jackpot in football betting.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Janis and John (2003)
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Insurance salesman tries to get money from his hippie cousin by fulfilling his dream: Arraigning for John Lennon and Janis Joplin's "second coming".
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 899
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, touching, realistic
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Yrrol: An Enormously Well Thought Out Movie (1994)
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Yrrol: An Enormously Well Thought Out Movie. Sketch comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, black comedy, sketch comedy, dark comedy, fun
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The Hold-Up (2001)
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Lola's a single mom, broke, working as a janitor and maid. Silvia is pregnant, and her lover (her boss) won't leave his wife. Maite, newly a widow, discovers she's penniless but wants to maintain appearances and give her daughter a fancy wedding, and Pecholata, a punk kid living in a youth center, will soon be turned out on the streets. Lola, who cleans a bank every morning, decides to rob it, convincing the others to join her: they'll use replica guns, dress as men, take Silvia hostage, and all will be smooth. But things go awry, including the fact that Lola's ex, Gustavo, is a cop. Desperation may be the mother of invention - and a corrupt bank manager its father.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 705
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, sexual
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Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story (1975)
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A fairy tale and satire about a wealthy industrialist, whose son has been subdued and oppressed and totally uninterested in his father's business.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, tragicomedy, realistic, surreal, not serious, black comedy, dark comedy, campy
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Getting Any? (1994)
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A slapstick comedy, about a goofy middle-aged man who is obsessed with the idea of having car sex. While pursuing his 'dream', he makes all the wrong moves possible, and ends up enrolling in a number of crazy escapades.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sexy, offbeat, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy, weird, scatology, hot
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Robbery at 3 O'clock (1962)
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Galindo works in a bank. One day he convinces the other employees in the bank to plan a hold-up in the bank they are working. They prepare everything carefully. However, real robbers come just before the fake ones.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: social, humorous, realistic, not serious
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Under the Same Roof (2019)
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Nadia and Adrián starts their particular world war when she files to divorce him.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining
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The Reunion (2002)
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35-year old Magnus Edkvist hates class reunions as much as anyone and usually skip them. Still he accepts an invitation for a reunion for class he left over twenty years ago. But he has his reasons, as there is a chance that his teen love Hillevi will show up. The girl he wanted to run away with and share the rest of his life. The girl that got away.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, offbeat
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Till Luck Do Us Part (2012)
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Check out the hilarious story of luck and misadventures of Tino, a family man whose life is transformed after he wins the lottery. Dazzled by wealth, this boaster spends all his money on a life of luxury and ostentation. But after finding out that he is bankrupt, he faces comical situations: besides not telling his wife he is broke because she is pregnant and cannot get upset, Tino must accept help from his neighbor who is an extremely thrifty financial adviser and the only one capable of getting him out of the rut.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining