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Plot Summary:
Norman is quite happy selling newspapers outside Westminster station but his Grandfather (the Prime Minister) wants to get him "a more responsible job". A few favours are called in and Norman becomes the newest reporter at the seaside town of Tinmouth. After causing chaos at a local council meeting and causing the demolition of a new house he tries to organise a beauty pageant. A slapstick tale of corruption in high and low places.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Smazalnia story (1985)
Plot Summary:
Dwaj multi-instrumentaliści, Broda i Redaktorek, po kilku latach muzykowania w Finlandii wracają promem do kraju objętego stanem wojennym. Tomaszow Maz.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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The Sandwich Man (1966)
Plot Summary:
A man with a sandwich-board (advert) wanders around London meeting many strange characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Tender Scoundrel (1966)
Plot Summary:
Jean-Paul Belmondo is a lovable lothario who delights in his womanizing ways in this ribald comedy adventure. When two women can't get enough of him, he is chased to Tahiti and back to Paris by admiring females. His experiences are exhausting to the point that he considers giving up his life as a ladies man.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 411
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Luisa Omielan: What Would Beyoncé Do? (2017)
Plot Summary:
Luisa shot to fame following one of the most successful debut stand-up shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, described as “one of the biggest stand up hits of the decade” by the Guardian. This seventy-five minute special captures the infectious energy of Luisa’s shows by joining the queues and audience in the build-up to the event, discovering why her loyal army of fans love her unique approach to stand up and her Beyoncé ethos. The show is set to a soundtrack of Beyoncé’s best known hits.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Remember Me? (1997)
Plot Summary:
A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film
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Bottom Live The Stage Show (1993)
Plot Summary:
Richie buys an inflatable doll named Monica as his lover, and he tries to conceal it from Eddie. But it all goes terribly wrong when Richie accidentally super glues Monica to his groin, mistaking Eddie's super glue for Handcream.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, live comedy, alternative comedy
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Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island (1997)
Plot Summary:
Filmed during their sell-out 1997 tour, Bottom Live 3: Hooligan's Island features Rik Mayall and Adrian Edmondson at their comedic finest. This time around Richie Richard (Mayall) and Eddie Hitler (Edmondson) are marooned on a desert island in the middle of the Pacific.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, independent film, live comedy, fun
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Boy, Did I Get a Wrong Number! (1966)
Plot Summary:
The divine Didi, a European actress known more for her bubble bath scenes than for her acting, decides she has had enough with bubble baths and wants to be taken seriously as an actress. So much so that she runs away during the middle of a scene while filming in Hollywood and winds up in Oregon. While she is staying in a hotel, the operator accidentally connects her with a real estate agent named Tom Meade. She asks Tom to bring her some food and when he does he suggests that she go to his cabin in the woods. She also asks him not to tell anyone where she is because she doesn't want to go back to Hollywood. Now Tom must keep the secret, especially from his wife and from his suspicious housekeeper Lily.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Strike It Rich (1990)
Plot Summary:
A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Gigolos (2006)
Plot Summary:
Sacha is an aging, well-established London 'male escort' with a select clientèle of weekly socialite ladies, such as baroness James, who expect an impeccable service he can only provide thanks to his in-living 'orderly', handsome 'clever Trevor', who moonlights as nude arts class model. Ben is a rising novice, who seeks their coaching. When Sasha makes a bad fall, Trevor must cover during his recovery, but jealous Sasha is far from grateful.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Nudes On Credit (1963)
Plot Summary:
Two slick con men down and out in the seedy end of London discover an attaché case in the trash. Inside are some mysterious documents and several credit cards belonging to "Sir James". Using the credit cards, they lavishly rack up debt for food, drink, women, clothes and hotel suites. Little do they know, the attaché case belongs to a murdered spy and contains secret plans for Russian world conquest!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Cry of the Cormoran (1971)
Plot Summary:
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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The Fast Lady (1962)
Plot Summary:
A Scottish civil servant (Stanley Baxter) must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's (Julie Christie) tycoon father (James Robertson Justice).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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What's Good for the Goose (1969)
Plot Summary:
Timothy Bartlett (Norman Wisdom) is a middle-aged banker who is sent to a seaside resort for a banker's convention. He fears the meetings will be frightfully dull, but things change when two amorous hippie girls take Timothy for a sail on the sea of love. Timothy goes middle-aged crazy, making a spectacle of himself in hippie clothes as he tries to fit into the swinging scene. Nude dips in the ocean are followed and preceded by wild parties as he tries to recapture the days of his flaming youth. After he feels remorse and embarrassment over his behavior, he calls on his wife to join him at the convention to rekindle their love in this lowbrow comedy. The British rock group The Pretty Things provides the music.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, sex comedy, independent film
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Agent 8 3/4 (1964)
Plot Summary:
A young man travels to Prague for his new employer, unaware that he is being used as an espionage courier.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: parody, political thriller, spy comedy, humorous, realistic, not serious, independent film, spoof, eurospy, comic
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Foreign Body (1986)
Plot Summary:
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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The Knack... and How to Get It (1965)
Plot Summary:
In England, the times are a changing: it's mods and rockers. On the day Nancy gets off the London train, cases in hand, looking for the YWCA, Colin has had enough of missing out on the sexual revolution. He begs his smooth (and misogynistic) pal Tolen to teach him 'the knack' - how to score with women. Serendipitously, Colin and his new lodger Tom meet up with Nancy while Colin's buying a bed larger than Tolen's. The three hit it off, but their simple fun ends when Tolen meets Nancy. Colin is jealous but impotent, and Tolen both attracts and repels her. She swoons, wonders what happened, and cries 'rape.' Impish serendipity rubs against unsettling ambiguity.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, fast paced, clever, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Heavens Above! (1963)
Plot Summary:
A naive but caring prison chaplain, who happens to have the same last name as an upper class cleric, is by mistake appointed as vicar to a small and prosperous country town. His belief in charity and forgiveness sets him at odds with the conservative and narrow-minded locals, and he soon creates social ructions by appointing a black dustman as his churchwarden, taking in a gypsy family, and persuading the local landowner to provide free food for the church to distribute free to the people of the town. When the congregation leaders realise the mistake and call for the Church of England to remove him, this turns out to be a very, very difficult issue - until one clergyman realises that a British project to send a man into space is in need of an astronaut.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: parody, black and white, clever, humorous, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Where the Bullets Fly (1966)
Plot Summary:
In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy from an element named Spurium,.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, parody, psychotronic, independent film, spoof, eurospy, comic
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A Stitch in Time (1963)
Plot Summary:
An accident in the butchers shop leads Norman Pitkin and Mr Grimsdale to the hospital where, after causing the normal ammount of chaos, Pitkin finds Lindy, a little girl who hasn't spoken or smiled since her parents were killed in an aeroplane accident. Pitkin decides to help.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, independent film
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Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968)
Plot Summary:
George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over the world, she leaves him. While she is away, George converts her family home into a discotheque, when she returns, she threatens to send George to jail for fraud, cause she didn't give her approval. George needing some fast bucks, decides to turn to an old cohort of his, William Homer but Willy's a little short. George then decides to steal the plans to a new drill, Pamela's suitor, Dudley Heath is working on. But when George gets the mumps, he can't make it to the meeting place and refuses to give Willy the plans unless he gives him the cash first. And the buyers won't give unless they see the merchandise first. Written by [email protected].
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Three on a Spree (1961)
Plot Summary:
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Who's Got the Action? (1962)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious
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Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1968)
Plot Summary:
Jamie McGregor (Barry Evans) is a virginal sixth-former in suburbia delivering groceries for the local supermarket, but he is more interested in other matters - Mary, Linda, Paula and Caroline. He tries to seduce the girls of his dreams in the swinging sixties.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, psychedelic, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy, hot
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The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)
Plot Summary:
Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Dances From The Bible. But the show's comedian Raymond sees a way of wrong-footing the local do-gooders by announcing the new Paris sensation "Mme Fifi" and putting on Rachel's performance as the place is raided. All too complicated, the more so since her father is scouring the town for her and both Raymond and his straight-man Chick are falling for Rachel.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Idiot in Paris (1967)
Plot Summary:
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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The Magic Christian (1969)
Plot Summary:
Sir Guy Grand, the richest man in the world, adopts a homeless boy, Youngman. Together, they set out to prove that anyone--and anything--can be bought with money.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, captivating, light, entertaining, psychedelic, art film, cult classic, clever
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We Think the World of You (1988)
Plot Summary:
An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets out of prison, he has to face difficulties at home. Added to this, is the fact that he may have to give up Evie to Frank.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, eighties, cult film
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The Chain (1984)
Plot Summary:
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, suspense
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My Last Five Girlfriends (2009)
Plot Summary:
My Last Five Girlfriends traces the romantic journey of thirtysomething bachelor Duncan. As the film opens, the despondent Duncan is apparently preparing to take his own life, but not before taking the time to send a message to the last five women he dated. Taking the form of a whirlwind tour through Duncan World, the film is a comedic exploration of his failed relationships.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, clever, independent film