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Plot Summary:
An adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Le Graphique de Boscop (1976)
Plot Summary:
In Saint-Rupert, Basse Lozère, the son of a family of garbage collectors, Pissenlit, who has played the mentally deficient since childhood so as not to be forced to go to school, is in fact a prodigy in mathematics: by reading a book found in a trash can, he revolutionizes a mathematical theory. Meanwhile, his father is making a computer from objects recovered from garbage cans, and capable of composing musical "hits" that may make him a star.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Rebecca's Daughters (1992)
Plot Summary:
The Rebecca riots took place in the rural parts of west Wales, including Pembrokeshire, Cardiganshire, and Carmarthenshire, around 1839-1843. Based on a script that Dylan Thomas wrote for Gainsborough Pictures in 1948, "Rebecca's Daughters" explores the tension between the working and ruling classes in 19th century Wales. Young aristocrat Anthony Raine returns home from India to find the farmers of Pembrokeshire protesting about the rates of a tollgate run by something called "The Whitman Turnpike Trust", headed by the drunken Lord Sarn (Peter O'Toole). So Raine dresses up as a woman, calls himself Rebecca, and leads the common people to victory over their masters.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 182
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days (1984)
Plot Summary:
A kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min
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Spaghetti House (1982)
Plot Summary:
Three black militants kidnap the waiters in an Italian restaurant in London. Soon the victims befriend their kidnappers.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
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Romanoff and Juliet (1961)
Plot Summary:
Political satire has Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet story updated for the cold war era, with the children of the US and Russian ambassadors falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: heartfelt, independent film
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Laughter on the 23rd Floor (2001)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by Neil Simon's early career experience as a junior writer for Your Show of Shows, the play focuses on Sid Caesar/Jackie Gleason-like Max Prince, the star of a weekly comedy-variety show circa 1953, and his staff, including Simon's alter-ego Lucas Brickman, who maintains a running commentary on the writing, fighting, and wacky antics which take place in the writers' room.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Great Catherine (1968)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of George Bernard Shaw's play.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 297
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
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Mack the Knife (1989)
Plot Summary:
In the 19th century London, a young girl falls for a famous womanizing criminal and they decide to get married. Her family strongly disapproves so her father "the king of thieves" gets the gangster arrested.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Musical, Romance
Country: Netherlands, Hungary
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ginger Ale Afternoon (1989)
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Jesse is nine months pregnant and lives with her underemployed husband Hank in a dilapidated mobile home in a rusty trailer park. During an afternoon of talk, Jesse discovers that Hank has been spending time with Bonnie, their young, bovine neighbour. Jesse is hurt and furious, and Hank is defensive, claiming that the baby has pushed him out. While Hank is elsewhere, the other woman pays a surprise visit to Jesse. Healing begins, and when Jesse's labour starts, it's Bonnie who comes to the rescue.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 100
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, minimal cast
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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
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The Marriage-Go-Round (1961)
Plot Summary:
An anthropology professor and his professor wife have the perfect marriage--until a Swedish colleague's daughter comes to visit. Not only is the little girl all grown up, but she's ready to start a family--with him!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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International Falls (2019)
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A wife and mom with secret dreams of being a stand-up comic uses a one night stand with a burned-out touring comedian to face the harsh but funny truths of her failing marriage, neglected aspirations, and individual identity.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Not Now Darling (1973)
Plot Summary:
A married British furrier gives a mobster's mistress a cheap mink coat.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 250
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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The Odd Job (1978)
Plot Summary:
Arthur Harris is a happily married man who returns from his job to discover that his wife, Fiona, is leaving him. Devastated he gets really drunk and tries to commit suicide. After a few setbacks and while he is trying to electrocute himself with a lamp, the door bell rings. An odd man in a leather coat asks if there are any odd jobs that he can perform. Arthur hires the man to kill him. The next day his wife returns, but the man he hired is still trying to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody
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King Guillaume (2009)
Plot Summary:
Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love, they share modest dreams and their baby is about to come. But an unexpected news upsets their routine: a man appears and announces that he is Guillaume's estranged father and also reveals that Guillaume is his legitimate heir of a kingdom offshore of France and England. Guillaume and Magali start to dream of a life as monarchs, surrounded by faithful subjects in their castle, enjoying their wealth. But reality is often different to what you can imagine.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
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The Sidelong Glances of a Pigeon Kicker (1970)
Plot Summary:
An aimless college graduate drives a taxi while rebelling against his parents, the Establishment and whatever else he happens to loathe on any given day (including pigeons). Then he meets a girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: political, psychedelic, independent film
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Wedding Band (1989)
Plot Summary:
A couple who both work at wedding receptions encounter complications when they decide to marry.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Never Too Late (1965)
Plot Summary:
A 60-year-old lumber supply businessman is dismayed to learn his 50-year-old wife is pregnant. A film adaptation of the hit Broadway comedy, with Paul Ford repeating his stage role as the flabbergasted papa-to-be.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three men perform the entire 37 play canon from William Shakespeare in under two hours. A lot of quick costume changes and even more laughs.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)
Plot Summary:
The second televised production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Helen Mirren in the cast, although this time in a different role (Titania). In the 1968 production, which was released to movie theatres in Europe, but premiered in the U.S. on CBS-TV, Ms. Mirren played Hermia.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
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The Comedy of Errors (1983)
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Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransome's paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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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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Norman... Is That You? (1976)
Plot Summary:
Parents (Redd Foxx, Pearl Bailey) discover their son is gay and lives in Hollywood with his white lover (Dennis Dugan).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, queer cinema
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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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Critic's Choice (1963)
Plot Summary:
Bob Hope is a New York theater critic and his wife (Lucille Ball in their final motion picture pairing) writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Hope must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage. Based on the Broadway play by Ira Levin.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick comedy, technicolor
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Club Paradise (1986)
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When Chicago firefighter Jack Moniker retires and moves to a small Caribbean island, he is befriended by the owner of a run-down resort. Together they renovate the resort and lure tourists to Club Paradise in an effort to fight off corrupt officials and businessmen who want to claim the resort as their own.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, realistic, not serious, black comedy, slapstick comedy, parody, funny, light, sexy
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Baby on Board (1993)
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Maria (Carol Kane) is the wife of a murdered Mafia bookkeeper. With her baby in tow, she tracks the hitman to the airport, intending to shoot the man. A pickpocket causes the gun to discharge prematurely, and now it's Maria who is being pursued. She commandeers a cab driven by Ernie (Judge Reinhold), and the chase is on.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick
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Christmas in Paradise (2022)
Plot Summary:
Joanna’s plans for a quiet, cozy holiday season are shattered when her sisters call with the news that their dad has been dumped by his fiancée and has disappeared to Nevis, a tiny Caribbean island, and is not responding to any calls. The sisters decide to go to the island to save their father and bring him home for Christmas. Can the newly reconnected Christmas family survive a crazy Christmas?.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
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What's New Pussycat (1965)
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A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sex comedy, esoteric, feel good, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, romantic comedy, erotic
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Tyler Perry's Aunt Bam's Place - The Play (2012)
Plot Summary:
One weekend, Aunt Bam's nephew-in-law Stewart is granted a court-ordered visitation with his children. Although his new, much-younger wife Mona is a bundle of nerves, Stewart seizes the opportunity to reconnect with his children, whom he loves dearly. Then their mother, his ex-wife Gloria, shows up drunk. It will take Madea's partner-in-crime, Bam, to tame this situation and set a few things straight.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, emotional, realistic, independent film