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Plot Summary:
After many years of marriage Ken and Barbara decide to change their way of living radically. In order to become more attractive they submit themselves not only under modern diets and physical education but also try plastic surgery.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Tracy Morgan: Staying Alive (2017)
Plot Summary:
In his first special since his serious car accident, Tracy Morgan cracks jokes about life in a coma, his second marriage and his family's dark side.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, realistic
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Joker's Wild (1992)
Plot Summary:
A jealous mobster chases a screenwriter, who likes his friend, from New York to the Caribbean.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Mimic (2020)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story, ‘the Narrator’ is befriended by his young new neighbor, after he joins the local newspaper team. Obsessed with the idea that ‘the Kid’ may be a sociopath, ‘the Narrator’ goes to extreme lengths to uncover the truth about him. After unsettling rendezvous, the truth he finds is anything but what he expected.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Change Me (2007)
Plot Summary:
A story about an ordinary man searching for the fulfillment of dreams and emotions. Well-known Belgrade dentist lives in long and happy marriage. As a fulfilled and happy man, he despises all his friends who are struggling with the "backward puberty syndrome" - as he called sensitive age where men are desperate to stay young. But he has no idea that he will be hit by the "mid-life crisis" and suddenly "strike" love, which, he thought, become immune. In order to overcome the emotional and erotic temptation, it seems everything to be changed, in the true sense of the word.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Comedy
Country: Serbia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Spies, Lies & Naked Thighs (1988)
Plot Summary:
In this spoof of spy films, Alan, a U.N. translator, and his kindergarten teacher wife, Beverly, get roped into helping foil a presidential assassination plot by an unlikely G-man-who just so happens to look like Alan's old college buddy, Freddie. But before "Freddie" can finger the real hired-gun-a cold-hearted killer with a penchant for using kitchen tools to do the deed-he, Alan, and Beverly must first rule out some strange and unusual suspects.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Modern Love (1990)
Plot Summary:
Modern relationships are examined in this comedy drama.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Throw Out the Anchor (1974)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about an unemployed widower who heads to Florida with his children for a vacation on a houseboat. When he gets there there is no houseboat.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Numbskull Emptybrook (1973)
Plot Summary:
Uuno goes with his wife to spend summer holiday to their villa in country, studies playing of the violin in a correspondence course and constructs an own violin with do-it-yourself-method, but quits his career when he perceives that takes his free time too much and comes back to live the life "in the shadow of a fridge". In the start scene of film a priest (Ere Kokkonen as voice) says in the Uuno's weddings that his complete name is Uuno Eero Turhapuro, whereas it's in the all later Uuno-films Uuno Daavid Goljat Turhapuro.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Many Happy Returns (1986)
Plot Summary:
In this satire of the I.R.S., George Segal plays an Average Joe targeted for the Audit from Hell. His bank accounts are frozen, his home and business are attached by the government, and his wife leaves him. Segal is forced to move into the house of his obnoxious brother-in-law where lot of Odd Couple-type comedy ensues. Segal then plots to turn the tables on the I.R.S., and win back his wife and life.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Outside Sales (2006)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy about a depressed salesman coping with a cheating wife, his sadistic boss and the beautiful sales rep hired to replace him.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Cheech & Chong Roasted (2008)
Plot Summary:
Cheech and Chong, the stoner pair who dominated the comedy scene in the 1970s and ’80s and recently reunited for their Light Up America tour, take their place in the hot seat to be roasted by close friends and fellow comedians. The duo made a name for themselves with their drug-laced humor, which kept audiences rolling in the aisles with such comedy routines as “Earache My Eye,” “Basketball Jones,.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: hispanic
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A Better You (2014)
Plot Summary:
A hypno-therapist in midlife crisis must tackle his own personal challenges before helping others and getting joint custody of his kids.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Cassanova Was a Woman (2016)
Plot Summary:
A married woman falls in love with another woman but struggles with her bisexual tendencies.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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CHO Revolution (2004)
Plot Summary:
Filmed live at the Wiltern Theatre in Los Angeles, REVOLUTION is comedian Margaret Cho's triumphant return to the screen with the same unbridled, no holds-barred humor that infused her previous two concert films. In REVOLUTION, Margaret tackles the axis of evil, her travels through Thailand's red light district, the explosion of child birth, bartering sex for household chores, revolutionizing one's self-esteem, the joy of bodily functions, her loser ex-boyfriend, and of course, her now world-famous mother. Known as much for her social activism as she is for her raunchy humor, Margaret is a one-of-a-kind phenomenon who once again brings her distinctive and empowering personal voice to her devoted and adoring fans.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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The Opera Lover (1999)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged produce salesman finds his love of opera and singing reawakened when his childhood love returns to town.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Wild Girls Gone (2007)
Plot Summary:
In the Spring Break capital of White Sands, Florida, Sheriff Terry Moran outlaws the town's world famous ass contests to win the elderly vote in his campaign for Mayor - even though he is married to the town's former Ass Contest Queen, Doreen. Unhappy with how her husband is changing, Doreen breaks out of her bored drunk housewife existence to recapture her youth and to subvert her husband's campaign.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 157
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, alternative comedy
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Paris Follies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Long married 50-somethings Brigitte and Xavier are prize cattle breeders in regional France. Life is good, but the departure of their children from home has thrown Brigitte’s world into flux, as she finds herself locked into routine. She keeps hoping for something else, something more. A party held by students on the adjoining property accelerates this latent crisis and Brigitte impulsively sets off for Paris under the guise of a doctor’s appointment. The city immediately invigorates her, and when she meets a charming Danish gentleman, she impulsively allows herself to be flattered by his attentions….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic drama
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The Muse (1999)
Plot Summary:
What happens when a screenwriter (Brooks) loses his edge, he turns to anyone he can for help... even if it's the mythical "Zeus's Daughter" (Stone). And he's willing to pay, albeit reluctantly, whatever price it takes to satisfy this goddess, especially when her advice gets him going again on a sure-fire script. However, this is not the limit of her help, she also gets the writer's wife (MacDowell) going on her own bakery enterprise, much to the chagrin of Brooks, who has already had to make many personal sacrifices for his own help.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: satirical, funny, light, feel good, surprise ending, clever, humorous, witty, inspirational, captivating
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Frank and Cindy (2015)
Plot Summary:
G.J. Echternkamp tells the story of his relationship with his parents, his mother Cindy and his step-father, Frank. Frank used to be a member of OXO, a band from the '80s whose one hit wonder scored with the song "Whirly Girl". Cindy was the ultimate groupie who married Frank and thought life would be glamorous and award shows, but it's not how it turned out.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Appena un minuto (2019)
Plot Summary:
Claudio is 50 years old and tired of his job as an real estate agent. He is also separated from his wife who left him for the "King of Zumba".
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Easy Money (1983)
Plot Summary:
To inherit his mother-in-law's colossal fortune, a hard living, gambling addict must change his unhealthy ways before it gets the best of him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, talky, epic, sex comedy, independent film, surprise ending, exciting, realistic, not serious
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Plot Summary:
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, clever, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, funny, cult classic, realistic, biting, neurotic
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Shy of Normal: Tales of New Life Experiences (2011)
Plot Summary:
An author (Brinke Stevens) cures her struggle with writer's block by making up funny short stories about random people she sees in public.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, independent film, cult film
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Threesome (2017)
Plot Summary:
Estelle, 34, wife and mother of the family without history, sinks into a tidy, predictable life. But a series of events puts her identity in question. Worse, she realizes that the crux of the crisis is sexual. She decides to organize a "threesome". Challenge away from his comfort zone. She plunges into this mad quest, resulting with her spouse who feels just as incompetent.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 802
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Last of the Red Hot Lovers (1972)
Plot Summary:
A middle aged restaurateur begins to feel the desire to roam and realizes that one day each week, his mother's apartment will be empty all afternoon. He makes several attempts at seduction, only to learn that it is much more complicated and difficult than he could have imagined.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 642
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, colorful, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, hot
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Unbecoming Age (1992)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged woman frees herself from the spirit-crushing influence of her husband by refusing to remember what her age is.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Fixed (2017)
Plot Summary:
Allan is a married father of three whose sex life takes another hit when his wife can no longer take the pill. He soon finds himself with an appointment for a vasectomy and a nagging identity crisis. Although he is by all reasonable accounts a good, responsible man, the thought of getting "fixed" drives him to lose himself to an action-packed midlife crisis along with his best friends. Allan will refuse to grow up anymore.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sex comedy
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Passed Away (1992)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of eccentric relatives gather for their patriarch's funeral.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Divorce American Style (1967)
Plot Summary:
After 17 years of marriage in American suburbia, Richard and Barbara Harmon step into the new world of divorce.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: funny, retro, romantic comedy, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious
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The Big Year (2011)
Plot Summary:
Three fanatical bird-watchers spend an entire year competing to spot the highest number of species as El Nino sends an extraordinary variety of rare breeds flying up into the U.S., but they quickly discover that there are more important things than coming out on top of the competition.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, scenic, semi serious, hilarious, thought provoking, inspirational, uplifting, art house