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Plot Summary:
A fateful meeting with a mysterious stranger inspires Pee-wee Herman to take his first-ever holiday.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, parody, humorous, surreal, scenic, colorful, absurd, road movie, exciting, clever
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Box Office 3D: The Filmest of Films (2011)
Plot Summary:
An Italian parody of the biggest U.S. blockbusters such as "Gladiator, " "Harry Potter", "Fast and Furious" and "The Da Vinci Code.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, light, unusual plot structure, humorous, satirical, absurd
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The Pee Wee Herman Show (1981)
Plot Summary:
An adult-oriented version of what would eventually become an award-winning children's classic. This version of the show features Pee-wee's playhouse and many of the characters of the later series, but with adult and sexual overtones and jokes including "mirror shoes" and others.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: offbeat, feel good, humorous, surreal, not serious, slapstick, spoof, parody, campy
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The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway (2011)
Plot Summary:
Subversive humor and childlike wonder based on both Reubens' original stage show, "The Pee-wee Herman Show," and the Emmy-winning Saturday morning TV show, "Pee-wee's Playhouse.".
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, offbeat, surreal, not serious, independent film, slapstick, campy
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Big Top Pee-wee (1988)
Plot Summary:
Paul Reubens stars as Pee-wee Herman in his second full-length film about a farmer who joins the circus after a storm drops a big tent in his front yard. Pee-wee, along with an outlandish cast of animals and circus performers, puts on the best show ever.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, slapstick, surreal, captivating, entertaining, mysterious, offbeat, not serious
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Recipe for Disaster (2003)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca Korda and her two brothers, Sam and Max, are left alone on opening night of their family-owned restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Pee-wee's Playhouse (1986)
Plot Summary:
Pee-wee's Playhouse is an American children's television program starring Paul Reubens as the childlike Pee-wee Herman. The show was developed from Reubens' popular stage show and the one-off TV special The Pee-wee Herman Show, produced for HBO, which was similar in style but featured much more adult humor. In 2004 and 2007, Pee-wee's Playhouse was ranked #10 and #12 on TV Guide's Top Cult Shows Ever.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, mysterious, absurd, offbeat, feel good, surreal, not serious, weird, campy, cult film
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Life Is Ruff (2005)
Plot Summary:
Calvin Wheeler is a scheming 13-year-old boy with everything going for him, except for an original issue of his precious comic book collection. When a prized show-dog chases him down while skateboarding one day, his owner inadvertently convinces him to adopt and train a dog of his own. However the only one available, is an uncouth stray Labrador/St. Bernard-mix named Tyko from a local animal shelter, who proves to be more than anybody can handle.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, light, humorous
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Mr. Bean's Holiday (2007)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers France, bicycling and true love, among other things.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 132000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: UK, France, Germany, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, funny, road movie, slapstick, sentimental, hilarious, parody, entertaining
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Max Embarrassing (2008)
Plot Summary:
Max is hitting puberty, and foxy Ofelia from class has touched his heart. He now plans to spend Christmas break with her or, at the very least, New Year's Eve. Watching her little boy grow up, his mother Agnete doesn't know what leg to stand on. Trying to give Max the best Christmas possible, she makes a mess of things, as usual. With his friends, Hassan and Ester, Max eventually tamps down the chaos and throws a super New Year's Eve bash. Everyone is there, and Ester seizes the moment to hook up with Max ahead of Ofelia.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, parody, realistic, not serious
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Playing with Fire (2019)
Plot Summary:
A crew of rugged firefighters meet their match when attempting to rescue three rambunctious kids.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sweet, captivating, ironic, sitcom, slapstick comedy, slapstick, low brow humor, teen comedy
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Beverly Hills Family Robinson (1997)
Plot Summary:
Marsha Robinson, host of a TV cooking show, takes her family on a working vacation to a South Seas Island, but their yacht is hijacked by pirates, and then shipwrecked, and the Robinsons must survive Marsha's complaints while they build a treehouse, meet a handsome carpenter, bond together as a family and fight off the pirates.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 677
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light
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Tooth Fairy 2 (2012)
Plot Summary:
Larry Guthrie, who loses his first love to the town hot shot, decides to win her back by volunteering with the children at her after-school program. When Larry accidentally tells the kids the Tooth Fairy is make-believe, he soon is transformed into a tutu-clad fairy with the "sentence" of collecting teeth.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, fairy tale
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Blurt! (2018)
Plot Summary:
When nice-guy Jeremy Martin puts on mysterious virtual reality glasses at the mall, he suddenly loses his “inside voice” and starts spouting every thought he has out loud. Making matters worse, Jeremy is running for student council president against his classmate Milly, who is full of great ideas to improve the school. Desperate to get back to normal, Jeremy and his sister Victoria must figure out how to convince his brain that he can speak up for himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 610
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: funny, light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Grand-Daddy Day Care (2019)
Plot Summary:
A man has to figure out a way to make extra money when his father-in-law moves in.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 976
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny
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A Family Reunion Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
M'Dear and her sisters struggle to keep their singing act together before a church Christmas pageant while Grandpa teaches the kids a valuable lesson.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Carpool (1996)
Plot Summary:
A man with an important business meeting finds himself having to take care of the carpool for the neighborhood school children when his wife gets sick. Stopping to get donuts for the kids, things go even more awry when he finds himself a victim of a robbery. However, the situation only gets worse as a desperate man who had been contemplating a bank robbery robs the robbers and takes the man and the kids hostage in their van as his truck is blocked by an armored car. The thing then proceeds into a comedic chase movie. The father finds his kids don't really respect him and they react better to the robber. The end result is everyone gets a lifestyle change, including the original store owner.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, satirical, sexy, independent film, realistic, not serious, parody, absurd
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Tommy and the Cool Mule (2009)
Plot Summary:
Tommy Braxxton's father went away to war and never returned leaving Tommy faced with the daunting journey of becoming a man and the responsibility of supporting his single mom and sister. Along the way Tommy finds an unusual friend - a mule...that talks! Driven by the possibility of winning money to help save his family's farm Tommy ignores the insults hurled at him by the older kids and trains on his new mule friend Jackie A. for the big county stock show. Going against all odds Tommy and Jackie A. triumph over the older kids on horses in a spectacular show of resolve and determination.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, light, semi serious
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The Town That Banned Christmas (2006)
Plot Summary:
The competition heats up at the annual Greenlawn Christmas Decorating Contest when Norbert Bridges moves to town and stirs up trouble with the reigning champion Donnie Manning. But when the town outlaws Christmas after things get out of control it s up to the feuding neighbors to save Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, entertaining, captivating, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Abner, the Invisible Dog (2013)
Plot Summary:
A bullied teen stumbles into possession of a top-secret government formula that turns his dog invisible and gives it the power of speech.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, semi serious, slapstick, psychotronic
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Pee-wee's Big Adventure (1985)
Plot Summary:
The eccentric and childish Pee-wee Herman embarks on a big adventure when his beloved bicycle is stolen. Armed with information from a fortune-teller and a relentless obsession with his prized possession, Pee-wee encounters a host of odd characters and bizarre situations as he treks across the country to recover his bike.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, humorous, surreal, hilarious, entertaining, dark comedy, cult classic, uplifting, mind bending
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Cool Dog (2010)
Plot Summary:
Jimmy lives in the tranquil town of Eagle Rock, Louisiana, with his father, stepmother and his best friend Rainy, a German Shepherd. When Jimmy's father gets a promotion, the family must relocate to an apartment in New York City that has a strict no pet policy. Unwilling to let his master go without a fight, Rainy embarks on a cross-country journey to New York but navigating the Big Apple is just the beginning of his challenging adventure.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, road movie, entertaining, exciting, independent film, slapstick
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Larger Than Life (1996)
Plot Summary:
Motivational Speaker Jack Corcoran is determined to get his career off the ground, but the biggest gigs he can get are the ones nobody wants. Then one day, he receives a telegram that his circus clown father has passed away, and has left a "huge" inheritance. When he gets there, he finds that his inheritance has come in the form of an elephant that was his father's pride and joy in circus acts. His main intention is to sell the pachyderm off. Jack must choose between loud and rude zookeeper Mo or attractive animal show owner Terry. As the two treks through the country Jack and the elephant develop a bond, and it changes his approach on life for the better.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: light, funny, touching, feel good, road movie, humorous, entertaining, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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Old Dogs (2009)
Plot Summary:
Charlie and Dan have been best friends and business partners for thirty years; their Manhattan public relations firm is on the verge of a huge business deal with a Japanese company. With two weeks to sew up the contract, Dan gets a surprise: a woman he married on a drunken impulse nearly nine years before (annulled the next day) shows up to tell him he's the father of her twins, now seven, and she'll be in jail for 14 days for a political protest. Dan volunteers to keep the tykes, although he's up tight and clueless. With Charlie's help is there any way they can be dad and uncle, meet the kids' expectations, and still land the account?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, melancholic, hilarious, slapstick comedy, not serious, light, entertaining, realistic, buddy comedy
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Santa Hunters (2014)
Plot Summary:
Four children trIn Santa Hunters, Alex and his cousins Zoey (Yde) and Richard (Coronel) create an elaborate setup of traps to catch Santa on tape, but their plan backfires when they realize that seeing Santa will cause him to lose his Christmas magic. The kids have to protect the tape to save Christmas, learning that believing is more important than seeing.y to claim that Santa Claus is real.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 430
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, light, captivating
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A Christmas Story 2 (2012)
Plot Summary:
The original traditional one-hundred-percent red-blooded two-fisted all-american christmas continues five years later with Ralphie, Randy mom and the old man. This time Ralphie has his eyes fixed on a car. But trouble is sure to follow.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, sincere, uplifting, realistic, semi serious
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House Arrest (1996)
Plot Summary:
High-schooler Grover Beindorf and his younger sister Stacy decide that their parents, Janet and Ned, are acting childishly when they decide to divorce after 18 years of marriage, so they lock them up in the basement until they'll sort out their problems. Their school friends also decide to do the same with their parents to solve their respective problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, touching, captivating, funny, hilarious, semi serious, slapstick comedy, sexy
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The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Bannister family including former K-9 police hero Zeus (voiced by Mario López) is back, and this time they're spending their holidays at a beautiful Rocky Mountain resort. But toss in an unexpected visit from cocky Uncle Randy (Casper Van Dien of 'Watch Over Me' and 'The Curse of King Tut's Tomb') and his foxy poodle Bella (voiced by Paris Hilton) and a familiar pair of bumbling jewel thieves (led by Dean Cain of 'Lois & Clark: The New Adventure of Superman' and 'The Dog Who Saved Christmas') and this holiday may be headed downhill fast! Can Zeus solve the crime, save Bella and hit the slopes, all in time for Christmas Day? Gary Valentine ('King of Queens') and Elisa Donovan ('Sabrina the Teenage Witch' and 'Clueless') co-star in the all-new four-legged family adventure!.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, touching, slapstick
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I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998)
Plot Summary:
Estranged from his father, college student Jake is lured home to New York for Christmas with the promise of receiving a classic Porsche as a gift. When the bullying football team dumps him in the desert in a Santa suit, Jake is left without identification or money to help him make the journey. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Allie, does not know where he is, and accepts a cross-country ride from Jake's rival, Eddie.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, semi serious, teen, christmas comedy, sentimental, funny, romantic, road movie
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Golden Winter (2012)
Plot Summary:
A runaway boy befriends a pack of homeless puppies. Together, they stop a bank robbery and find a family to adopt them all.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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3 Men and a Baby (1987)
Plot Summary:
Three bachelors find themselves forced to take care of a baby left by one of the guy's girlfriends.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, funny, touching, entertaining, romantic comedy, parody, retro, family comedy