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Plot Summary:
Pepe travels to America with Santo (The Patron Saint of Immigrants) in search of his grandmother's dying wish..."The Mexican Dream." Pepe hops across the border from Mexico to the United States.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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America 101 (2005)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers leave their home in Mexico in search of the 'American Dream', only to realize it was in front of them all the time. Angel is tired of living in his small Mexican town and has no interest in following in his father's footsteps. Instead he resolves to run away, across to cross the border and find his American dream. His older brother, Carlos, has plans of his own and they don't involve leaving home. When Angel tells his older brother of his grand scheme Carlos knows he won't be able to stop him, so he decides to tag along in order to watch over his headstrong little brother. Double-crossed by a smuggler, they find themselves alone in the desert. What follows is a strange and hilarious adventure filled with crazy characters and eye-opening truths until they finally realize the dream they were chasing was back home where they started.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Does This Mean We're Married? (1991)
Plot Summary:
It's a green-card marriage romance. Deena, an American standup comic living in Paris, has an expired visa. So, she marries Nick Foulliet, a struggling musician with a different woman for every day of the week. First the immigration investigation, and then a series of financial disasters push Deena and Nick into spending time together, and they fall in love. But can their in-name-only marriage become real?.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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I Love Vienna (1991)
Plot Summary:
I love Vienna is a social comedy that explores the clash of cultures and values.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy
Country: Austria
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: islamic
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La Sicilia (1997)
Plot Summary:
When his car breaks down, Luigi, a retired miner, meets the rebellious Anita, an orphanage refugee. Together, they have to run from the law.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Comedy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 93 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
Plot tags:
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Jennifer on My Mind (1971)
Plot Summary:
Marcus (Michael Brandon), a nice, rich, Jewish boy from New York, meets and falls in love with Jennifer (Tippy Walker), a girl from Oyster Bay, while they are both in Venice. He follows her to her home on Long Island and ultimately to the top of a high-rise on the New Jersey Palisades, where begins a romantic reminiscence in extended flashbacks, that ultimately leads to tragedy. Noel Black ("Pretty Poison") directed the film, and Erich Segal ("Love Story") wrote it. Robert De Niro has a small role as a gypsy cab driver.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic
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African Time (2014)
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This story humorously uses different events to explore the habit of late coming among Africans. While addressing some of the challenges that several Africans face with being on time, the story also unveils how to combat the infamous African Time. Ironically, many Africans that are late to various social events are seldom late to work and other self-benefiting engagements. (Chijindu Kelechi Eke).
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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The Craic (1999)
Plot Summary:
When Fergus and Wesley get in the bad books of a local rough in their home town in Northern Ireland they decide to flee to Australia. After making a new life for themselves in Sydney they soon outstay their visas and must go on the run again, this time from the immigration officials.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: road movie, slang, independent film
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Got Papers? (2003)
Plot Summary:
Got Papers?, is a comedy about a newly relocated immigrant from Mexico to the US, who encounters a variety of characters, including a drug smuggling nun using an orphanage as a cover, crooked lawyers, well-meaning angels in heaven and Satan himself. Along the way, our unlikely hero saves the world, when all he wants is to help others and get his "papers".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody
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El jardín del Edén (1994)
Plot Summary:
Looking for a better destiny for their lives, a group of people arrives to Tijuana, in the Mexico-USA borderline. A widow and her children, a chicano woman without a firm identity, a "gringa" writer fascinated with Mexico and her hermit brother, plus a mexican peasant who wants to cross the border are the main characters looking for "the garden of eden".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico, Canada, France
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags:
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Viva Max! (1969)
Plot Summary:
In order to prove his greatness to his unimpressed girlfriend, Mexican general Max (Peter Ustinov) takes a group of men across the border and recaptures the Alamo - international hijinks ensue!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, slapstick comedy
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29 Reasons to Run (2006)
Plot Summary:
Murphy's Law takes over when a slacker (Jack Paradise) runs out of couches to sleep on and decides to take a road trip to find his lost love, but only after tricking his novel-challenged writer and best friend (Peter Jonson) into believing that this trip could be the story he's been searching to write all of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Lonely in America (1990)
Plot Summary:
An East Indian native immigrates to New York City and stumbles his way onto the corporate fast-track.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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C.O.D. (1981)
Plot Summary:
Albert Zack is a struggling, bumbling, advertising salesman hired to save the Beaver Bra Company from impending doom. He is charged with signing five specific, world-famous, busty woman as endorsers for the bra line. Silly antics and situations occur as he tries, mostly in various costumes, to get close enough to these women to make his pitch for their signature. Working against him are two board members who stand to gain if the company fails. As he circles the globe in search of these signatures, he is faced with a variety of challenges, one of which is a relationship with his own secretary.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Coyote (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two Americans find that smuggling illegal immigrants into the country is more lucrative than a regular job.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, rough, bilingual
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Stop and Go (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters embark on a hilarious, mile-a-minute road trip to rescue their grandmother and her beloved dog from her retirement home before their reckless sister gets there first.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, road movie
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Jeff Ross Roasts the Border (2017)
Plot Summary:
Roastmaster Jeff Ross explores the world surrounding the U.S.-Mexico border, speaking to immigrants, DREAMers, detainees, border patrolers, human traffickers and Trump supporters. Then he puts on a show next to the border wall to roast American immigration policies, random audience volunteers and every ethnicity imaginable.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 63 min
Plot tags:
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The Swissmakers (1978)
Plot Summary:
This romantic drama follows two policemen whose job is to investigate the lives of foreigners who have applied for Swiss citizenship. Among the applicants they must screen are a French psychiatrist and his wife, and a ballet dancer. The married couple are quickly accepted, but the dancer's life offers some objections. However, since the younger policeman has fallen in love with her, there is a chance that she, too, will win Swiss citizenship.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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American Tickler (1977)
Plot Summary:
A ridiculous comedy that spoofs many different American made movies in multiple segments and skits.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: parody, independent film, spoof, sketch comedy
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Jimmy Vestvood: Amerikan Hero (2016)
Plot Summary:
A wannabe private investigator wins the Green Card lottery and moves to America to pursue his dream only to find himself embroiled in a conspiracy to start the next world war.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, fun
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Room to Rent (2000)
Plot Summary:
Ali is a young Egyptian screenwriter determined to succeed in London, where he has been a student. He loves the artistic and political freedom, the colours, the music, the individualism. But he has little money, his student visa is about to expire and he has been thrown out of his lodgings. And so Ali moves in with a succession of eccentric and colourful London flatmates: Mark, a photographer with a very individual style, Linda, a young, blonde, very sexy model and Marilyn Monroe impersonator, and Miss Stevenson who is convinced that Ali is the reincarnation of her long dead Egyptian lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 556
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, independent film, offbeat, sexual
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Barbie & Kendra Save the Tiger King (2020)
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After narrowly escaping the contagious catastrophe of the Corona Zombies, ditsy American beauties Barbie and Kendra battle their deadliest foe yet: social distancing boredom. Hooked on binge-watching a television show about a man and his tigers on a nature channel, the two ladies hatch the perfect plan to save the Tiger King himself. From the living rooms of LA to the wilds of Africa, our dynamic duo embark on a curve-flattening journey to free Joe from a fate worse than Carole Baskin.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Off Course (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two young Spanish men, with a university education, are tired of unemployment and decide to move to Germany. But soon they will find out that finding a better living is not as easy as they expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, feel good, funny, social, realistic, not serious
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El cuartito (2021)
Plot Summary:
The dreams of five strangers traveling to Puerto Rico are put on hold when immigration authorities confine them in 'El cuartito'.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, social, hispanic
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Born in East L.A. (1987)
Plot Summary:
Rudy, an American of Hispanic descent, whose south-of-the-border looks show him no mercy during an immigration raid in a migrant worker factory. As his luck goes, he is caught with neither money nor his ID and is deported to Mexico - without speaking a word of Spanish!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, funny, entertaining, light, talky, feel good, not serious, realistic, witty
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Little Saints (1999)
Plot Summary:
After St. Jude appears in Esperanza's oven, she sets out to find her daughter, who died under mysterious circumstances. The journey forces Esperanza to challenge her own beliefs and face her fears in order to be reunited with her beloved daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 573
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cult classic, sentimental, uplifting, touching, offbeat, humorous, serious, emotional, realistic, soap opera
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Chouchou (2003)
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Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a psychotherapist, known for his good mood, he also work as a waiter in a transvestite cabaret of Clichy where he meets Stanislas.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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Queen of Hearts (1989)
Plot Summary:
Eddie Luca is the youngest son in a family of Italian immigrants who has moved to London. Beginning from nowhere, they open a cafe in an Italian neighbourhood. One day their father loses the cafe, the home and his wedding ring by gambling.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 541
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Last Stop for Paul (2006)
Plot Summary:
Charlie and Cliff decide they want to go to the Full Moon party in Thailand. Along the way they travel around the world sprinkling the ashes of their dead friend Paul. As they go from country to country they meet a wide variety of crazy people and have insane adventures.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, scenic, entertaining, road movie, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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1 Night in San Diego (2020)
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Two life long friends, Hannah, a former reality starlet, and her conscious cuddling best friend, Brooklyn, road trip to San Diego to meet a high school crush and attend Comic Con. When things don't go as planned, their trip turns into a night of chaos, debauchery, and ultimately tests the deepest bonds of their friendship.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious