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Plot Summary:
Sung geun, a physical education teacher, is at risk of losing his job when the school decides it needs an English teacher instead of a PE teacher. Therefore, he starts to devise a plan to change his job as an English teacher.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Italians (2009)
Plot Summary:
The film consists of two episodes, telling two different stories about two different countries.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Dr. Park’s Clinic (2022)
Plot Summary:
Since young, Dr.Park worked and studied really hard to become a successful doctor. After he gets the license, he opens a clinic of his own, but struggles between the art of medicine and his business ability in a clinic without patients.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Hell's Garden (2021)
Plot Summary:
Naoko Tanaka is a 26-year-old office lady (OL). Her job is typical, but her workplace has fierce fights among different cliques. Other OLs are absorbed in the daily clique fighting. One day, due to an OL at the company, Naoko Tanaka's company is targeted by OL from all over Japan.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Castaways (2016)
Plot Summary:
A shady businessman ,about to be arrested after ruining his country (and more) ,has to get away from his native France ;he meets a dry cleaner,William ,who's got a private plane and they crash on an island.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Wedding Bells (2007)
Plot Summary:
The Wedding Bells is an American television comedy-drama that ran on Fox from March 7 to April 6, 2007. The series was greenlighted after the network became interested in a series centered on wedding planners. The network approached David E. Kelley to create the show, and he essentially remade a rejected pilot he created for ABC in 2004 entitled DeMarco Affairs which starred Selma Blair, Lindsay Sloane and Sabrina Lloyd as three sisters who inherit a wedding planner service. Though the show had a moderately strong premiere, it faded in the ratings and was cancelled after seven episodes had been produced and five episodes were aired.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Comedian's Guide to Survival (2016)
Plot Summary:
One man's journey around the world to discover the secret of comedy.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Pirates (2021)
Plot Summary:
On New Year's Eve 1999, three friends, who are attempting to break into the music scene through pirate radio, drive through London in a desperate search for tickets for the best millennium party ever.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Baciato dalla fortuna (2011)
Plot Summary:
Gaetano is a divorced traffic cop in a relationship with a beautiful and exuberant woman, for whom he happily provides standards of living well above his means. He plans to propose to her, but she is thinking to run away with his handsome superior. In the midst of debts, unpaid alimony and other serious financial issues, Gaetano unexpectedly wins the lottery, turning the fortune around.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 353
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Bad Education Movie (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mr Wickers and his class go on one final school trip after they finish their GCSEs.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Mr. Donkey (2016)
Plot Summary:
From the same team that brought you “Goodbye Mr Loser” comes the hilarious dark comedy "Mr Donkey". In order to pay for the donkey that brings them water, a countryside village registers it as a teacher at its local school. But when the charity group that funds the school visits for an inspection, the village has to find ways to hide their secret.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Nala Damayanthi (2003)
Plot Summary:
A village cook Ramji goes to Australia to become a chef at a multi-millionaire Indian's home. Unfortunately, the millionaire dies of indigestion the day Ramji arrives, leaving him jobless with an expired visa. Desperate to stay and earn, he starts working illegally as a cook, but to stay on, he needs to get legal. A solution comes up when Damayanthi, a free-spirited biker, agrees to marry the docile cook for a price.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Hotel Deluxe (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hotel Deluxe is basically "All's Well Ends Well 2013", with almost the same cast and crew, and some new faces added in. It tells the story of a team of hotel management trying their best to score a 5-star rating for their hotel, with some supporting characters and stories added in along the way.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Crush and Blush (2008)
Plot Summary:
With her frumpy hair, blushing face, and awkward mannerisms, Yang Mi Sook has spent her entire life being unnoticed. Nicknamed Miss Carrot, she diligently teaches Russian to high school students who don?t listen, and ceaselessly pines after colleague Seo, her crush of ten years. Content with her uneventful, self-delusional existence, Mi Sook is sparked into action when hot young teacher Yuri comes strolling in and steals her class and her man. To nip their blooming romance in the bud, Mi Sook forms an unlikely alliance with Seo?s misfit teenager daughter, who?s every bit as eccentric as she is!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sex comedy, black comedy, dark comedy
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Fat Camp (2017)
Plot Summary:
Fitness buff Hutch Daily is a foul-mouthed 27 year-old with the maturity of a pre-teen. After refusing to find employment or his own apartment, his mom gives him two choices: move to the homeless shelter or work at his uncle’s fat camp. Though he thinks fatties are disgusting, Hutch finds himself supervising an irreverent group of chunky boys, who ultimately help him grow up.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Hanasaki Mai Speaks Out (2014)
Plot Summary:
Hanasaki Mai is but an ordinary employee of a bank, with zero diplomacy. She doesn't think twice about pointing out her boss' mistakes. Her job is to investigate any wrongdoings in the bank branches. She is the voice of the suppressed staff who are unable to go against their bosses. Her partner is the veteran staff, Soma Ken, whose career with the bank had reached a dead end, no promotions in sight. Together, they resolve all the non-compliance issues at the bank.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Secret Zoo (2020)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer is given the mission of revitalising a bankrupt zoo that has no animals. When he and a group of zookeepers come up with the idea to dress like animals and his fake polar bear goes viral, the zoo becomes a hit, before his law firm’s real intentions are revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Looking for Teddy (2018)
Plot Summary:
A father enlists the help of an airport employee on a quest to find his daughter's teddy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 803
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Bla Bla Baby (2022)
Plot Summary:
After a freak accident, a nursery school janitor finds out he can now understand babyspeak.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Camera Cafe: The Movie (2022)
Plot Summary:
Jesús Quesada, an incompetent executive, is appointed as the new director of a company in decline whose survival will now depend on both the ingenuity and ambition of his former colleagues.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, Portugal
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Complexity of Happiness (2015)
Plot Summary:
Enrico Giusti works for a big corporation: his job is to save dying companies by persuading young scions to sell. However, his latest assignment is proving more difficult than anticipated, since it concerns two teens whose parents just died in a car accident.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Class Reunion 3 (2021)
Plot Summary:
The approaching baptism of his ex-wife's new baby destroys Antti's ability to function and puts him in catatonic state. Tuomas and Nippe take action to cheer him up and decide to take him on a singles cruise.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 783
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious
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Work Matters (2012)
Plot Summary:
A dysfunctional office faces hilarious obstacles in this Hungarian rendering of "The Office".
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Dignity of Special Temporary Staff (2007)
Plot Summary:
Oomae Haruko is an A+ Temp worker who never cracks a smile or minces words, and leaves work on the dot. But her cynical nature indicates she has something painful to hide. Satonaka Kensuke has just been promoted to head S&F's new Marketing Division. Saddled with a rag-tag group of subordinates, he is struggling to lift his division off the ground. When Oomae is placed in Kensuke's department, she finds herself doing more work than she's ever done before. This is a timely drama that examines the different attitudes toward temp workers and regular employees, and the ways to overcome frictions in interpersonal relationships. This follows an October report on labor conditions by the Labor Ministry, which showed that, after regulations were relaxed, the proportion of regular employees to Temps had doubled compared to that of eight years ago.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Acapulco (2021)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-something Máximo Gallardo's dreams comes true when he gets the job of a lifetime as a cabana boy at the hottest resort in Acapulco. He soon realizes the job is far more complicated than he ever imagined and in order to succeed, he must learn to navigate a demanding clientele, a mercurial mentor, and a complicated home life, without losing his way to shortcuts or temptations.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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La escuelita (2004)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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YG Future Strategy Office (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kpop star Seungri, BIGBANG youngest member, tries to lead a team of blumbing staff at YG's Future Strategy Office in this mockumentary sitcom.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, mockumentary
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The Jake Effect (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Jake Effect is an American NBC situation comedy starring Jason Bateman, Nikki Cox, and Greg Grunberg. Seven episodes were produced to premiere in midseason of 2002, but NBC cancelled the series before a single episode aired. In 2006, Bravo started airing the series on the "Brilliant But Cancelled" block.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Mr. Nietzsche in the Convenience Store (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Nietzsche in the Convenience Store tells the story of part-time convenience store worker Matsukoma, and the new part-time worker, Tomoharu Nii, nicknamed Nietzsche-sensei. Despite Matsukoma’s enthusiastic approach to his job, his teachings are lost on Nietzche-sensei, who, much like his namesake, has a bleaker outlook on things.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Those Who Can't (2016)
Plot Summary:
There are teachers who inspire, enlighten, and challenge us. These are not those teachers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sitcom
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You Call It Passion (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ra-hee is ready for the real world. She has graduated from a respectable college and begins to apply for full-time jobs but is rejected by every company that she applies to. When all hope is lost, she gets a phone call from a newspaper company and is recruited as an intern in the entertainment section. Although reluctant at first, as she believes herself to be over-qualified for the job, she soon learns and understands the passion of the press. During her rollercoaster experience as an entertainment journalist/intern, she discovers the dirty and hidden aspects of the journalism industry.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious