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Plot Summary:
Mr. Hedges, the somewhat naive and idealistc teacher of the rebellious Class 5C, lobbies to have them allowed on the school camping trip despite much precedent to the contrary. Once on the camping trip Mr. Hedges pursues the local barmaid and the class indulge in their usual activities. A small feud with some stereotypical upper class children in red blazers is resolved with a false rape allegation. A case of some stolen money is resolved through Mr. Hedges trusting the class. At the final dance Mr. Hedges is ensnared in the romantic clutches of Miss Cutforth, contrary to his wishes.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 825
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Scottish Mussel (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ritchie is a Glaswegian chancer with low hopes and no prospects. Disillusioned with city life, he goes undercover at a Highland conservation centre to make his fortune as an illegal pearl fisher with the help of his two hapless and accident prone mates, Danny and Fraser. Here he meets Beth, a pretty English conservationist passionate about saving endangered mussels from the clutches of pearl thieves in the Scottish Highlands. Falling for her instantly, Ritchie must beat off competition in the form of Highland Ranger Ethan, a smooth talking American Adonis convinced that Beth can't resist his charms forever. After the success of pearl fishing attracts the unwanted attentions of old school Glaswegian mobster Gavin and his work at the centre leads him to question his true motivations, Ritchie must risk life and limb to save the Highlands from ecological disaster and win Beth's heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 809
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, psychological, feel good, contemplative, independent film
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Grow Your Own (2007)
Plot Summary:
An English community gets testy when a refugee family is granted a plot of land on which to grow vegetables.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: weird
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Snowdrops and Aces (1983)
Plot Summary:
A quarter century after the release of the original film, this sequel brings us a drama about platonic love, life retrospective and memories. Former schoolmates meet again in the mountains and it turns out they have not changed much. Even though so many years have passed, we can still see the souls of boys and girls we know from the teenage comedy Snowdrops and Aces; kids who participated in that legendary skiing course. Its nostalgic humour gives the film a bitter-sweet touch. Thawing Out follows the lives of the main heroes during a period of great changes. How did they manage to escape the traps and what scars have they suffered? Where did they want to go, how far have they got and what is still in front of them?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 579
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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High School Record (2005)
Plot Summary:
Four awkward 17-year-olds struggle through their senior year. Like most high school students, they ride a continual wave of embarrassment: crappy after-school jobs, attempted sex in the science room, tinfoil shorts, guitar-strumming hippie teachers and brushes with the law. The only difference is that their moments of humiliation are caught on tape--our gang of four are the subjects of a documentary shot by fellow classmates.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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Professor Albeit (1998)
Plot Summary:
High school teacher falls in love with his "best" female student.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Romance, Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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To Miss with Love (1992)
Plot Summary:
When a new teacher (Sharla Cheung) arrives, she finds herself caught up in the affairs of the students from her class. Jimmy Lin is harbouring an unrequited crush on childhood friend Athena Chu. However, he is too shy to reveal his feeling to her when he discovers that she has fallen for the cool kid in class, Nicky Wu. Meanwhile, another student Dicky Cheung has gotten himself into trouble with the triads after failing to pay a debt owed to them. With so much going on, how will Sharla Cheung find a way to solve the troubles of her students and get them to study hard to pass their exams?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Plot Summary:
This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are connecting together. The son must teach the math and physics his own father. The father getting to know, that the life of the students is not simple as he supposed.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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P.R.O.F.S. (1985)
Plot Summary:
A clique of four young teachers at a high school looks critically at their colleagues. To avoid falling in the same routine, they bring new ideas into the school lessons and play little games and pranks in their spare time -- sometimes get even more childish than their pupils. When they get opposition from the other teachers, they play tricks to get rid of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 946
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Carry on Camping (1969)
Plot Summary:
Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea, so when they decide to take them on a holiday to Paradise Camp, they think they're off to a nudist colony - but they couldn't be more wrong, and meet up with the weirdest bunch of campers you can imagine! Coach-loads of sex-starved schoolgirls and a party of hippies all add to the laughs.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sitcom, slapstick comedy, double entendre, humorous, realistic, not serious, sexy, spoof, sex comedy, independent film
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Suck Me Shakespeer 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Mr. Müller is not satisfied with his new work at the Goethe-Gesamtschule. The early getting up and correcting exams annoy him. Director Gerster wants to improve the image of the Goethe-Gesamtschule because she wants to be a symbol of the new company. To achieve this, she wants to take away the partnership from the Schillergymnasium with a Thai school. So, Mr. Müller, Mrs. Schnabelstedt and the 10b must go on a school trip to Thailand.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, not serious, freeze frame
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Miguel Wants to Fight (2023)
Plot Summary:
In a neighborhood where fighting is stitched into the fabric of everyday life, Miguel has never found himself in one. However, when a combination of events turn his life upside down, Miguel and his friends enter into a series of misadventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Holiday on the Buses (1973)
Plot Summary:
Due to a female passenger falling out of her top whilst running for the bus Stan is distracted and crashes the bus resulting in the depot managers car being written off. As a result Stan, Jack and Blakey are fired. Stan and Jack soon get new jobs as a bus crew at a Pontins holiday resort but discover that Blakey has also gotten a job there as the chief security guard.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, realistic, not serious, independent film
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Cherry Hill High (1977)
Plot Summary:
Five recent graduates of an all-girl high school - Kippy, Sarah, Michelle, Peaches and Alison - attempt to lose their virginity during a two-week bicycle trip with their seemingly repressed teacher Miss Woodruff. The girls hold a contest to see who can lose their virginity in the most creative and original manner.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, independent film, teen sex comedy
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School Teacher in College (1978)
Plot Summary:
Edwige Fenech stars in this Italian sex-comedy as the new teacher in all-boys Catholic school. All of the boys desire for the chance to "learn" more about their new teacher, but only 1 student gets the opportunity.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, vintage, hot
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Suck Me Shakespeer 3 (2017)
Plot Summary:
A comedy that follows an ex-con who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good
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P'tang, Yang, Kipperbang (1982)
Plot Summary:
An enchanting comedy set in post-World War Two Britain. It studies a teenage boy's relationships and period of sexual awakening. A cricket-obsessed adolescent, Alan Duckworth lusts after his classmate Ann. When the pair score the lead roles in the school's drama production, Alan finds himself in the awkward situation of having to pull off a proper snog scene with his real-life crush.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 982
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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School Is Over (2018)
Plot Summary:
Agathe Langlois, Parisian until the end of the nails well varnishes, is delighted: she is going to be confirmed as a professor of English. The happiness of the good news will not last as she learns that she is deployed to the countryside.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, entertaining, funny, crying
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Tit for Tat (1978)
Plot Summary:
Professor Herceg struggling with difficulties, it is not easy to determine how students conveyed knowledge, and even harder to avoid the hatred of the disciples, and sympathy for the students. Arrival of television in school, a poll about the new school, students' imaginations and similar conditions will not relieve his problem.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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On the Buses (1971)
Plot Summary:
Stan gets a little annoyed when his Mum and Sister keep buying expensive items on hire purchase, but the money he earns for overtime working as a bus driver means that he can afford it... just! His job is secure, as bus drivers are hard to come by, and his overtime prospects are good, until the bus company decide to revoke a long standing rule and employ women bus drivers. Aghast at the thought of.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Sparkle (2007)
Plot Summary:
Liverpool chancer Sam moves to London with his aspiring chanteuse mum and begins an affair with a PR boss. But problems arise when he falls for her estranged daughter, too.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, offbeat, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious
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Man Down (2013)
Plot Summary:
Dan is a childish idiot trapped in an adult’s life, whose world is at near collapse. His girlfriend Naomi is fast running out of patience with his inability to navigate the simplest of life tasks. He has two uniquely dysfunctional friends and a listless teaching career that sees him begrudgingly teach a version of the same lesson every day, inexplicably popular with all but one of the pupils, with his only highlight coming in the form of Miss Lipsey, a head mistress who views Dan with a mixture of pity and despair. To make matters worse, he is tormented daily by his willfully insane father, whose driving motivation in life seems to be to ensure his son is humiliated at every turn.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, psychological, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Wet Dreams (2002)
Plot Summary:
Dong-hyun, Seok-gu, Sang-min and Young-je are typical adolescent high school boys deeply curious about sexual matters. When a female apprentice teacher, Ms. Kim Yoo-ri begins teaching at their all boys school, she captures the lust and imagination of four of her students, who cannot stop fantasizing about her. Dong-hyuns secret 'love' for his teacher is shattered by news of her affections for another teacher Mr Gong. Yoo-ri has already fallen for the homeroom teacher, Mr Gong, and has her own daydreams about what it would be like with him. Unfortunately, Mr Gong has forsaken love in his life, and is immune to her come-ons. Yoo-ri must get him to accept her advances, while rejecting the rapid-fire advance of her four students.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 352
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sex comedy
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Suck Me Shakespeer (2013)
Plot Summary:
A comedy that follows an ex-con who lands a position at a school that sits over the spot where money from one of his earlier robberies was stashed.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, humorous, romantic, not serious, witty, realistic, crying, fairy tale, sexy
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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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Hot for Teacher (2006)
Plot Summary:
Strict teachers, all those hours inside four walls, all your desires and youthful energy repressed. School is an endless drag - until she comes along. Uhm Ji Young (Kim Sa Rang of A Love to Kill) has a perfect body and metric tons of sex appeal, and she knows it. Needless to say, all the students go crazy, and the male teachers too! They should be preparing for the annual school festival, but they're all occupied with other matters. Then a scandal erupts. The three major suspects are the school's trio of professional playboys, Kim Tae Yo (Ha Suk Jin of See You After School), Bae Jae Sung (Park Jun Kyu of My Wife is a Gangster 2), and Ahn Myung Seop (Ha Dong Hoon of My Boss, My Teacher). A particularly strict teacher is after them. His mission: find out who slept with her?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Mutiny on the Buses (1972)
Plot Summary:
Bus driver Stan Butler agrees to marry Suzy, much to the anguish of Mum, her son-in-law, Arthur, and daughter Olive. How, they wonder, will they ever manage without Stan's money coming in? Then Arthur is sacked, and Stan agrees to delay the wedding. Meanwhile, he hits on an idea: Arthur should learn to drive a bus. Somehow he does just that, and even gets a job. Stan then blackmails the Depot Manager into giving him the job of driver on the new money-making Special Tours Bus. A great idea ...if only the inspector hadn't taken Stan on his trial run to the Windsor Safari Park.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, sitcom, semi serious, slapstick, biting, sexual
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A.B. Normal College (Todo na 'yan! Kulang pa 'yun!) (2003)
Plot Summary:
Dominic (Ogie Alcasid) and Miguel (Mikey Macapagal Arroyo), the school's most notorious students, are challenged when the school participates in a quiz show to upgrade the image of the school. With the gorgeous Professor Eula Yulo (Rufa Mae Quinto) as their mentor, the three are out to prove to everyone that they are more than just troublemakers.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Our School's E.T. (2008)
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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Some Girls (2012)
Plot Summary:
Some Girls is a British comedy series written by Bernadette Davis that airs on BBC Three. The show stars Adelayo Adedayo, Mandeep Dhillon, Alice Felgate, Natasha Jonas, Dolly Wells, Colin Salmon, Jassa Ahluwalia and Franz Drameh. It debuted on 6 November 2012 and the first series ran for six episodes. BBC Three announced at the end of the first series that the show would return for a second series. On 18 September 2013, they confirmed that each episode of the second series will premiere on BBC iPlayer a week ahead of being broadcast on BBC Three. The first episode became available on iPlayer on 23 September and will be broadcast on BBC Three on 30 September with the rest of the series following that trend.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, sincere, realistic, semi serious
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Plot Summary:
A high school slacker pretends to be sick to skip school and have an exciting day off alongside his girlfriend and his best buddy through Chicago, while trying to outwit his obsessive school principal and his unconformited sister along the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 380000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, funny, light, teen, humorous, hilarious, intense, semi serious, inspirational