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Plot Summary:
A scathing black comedy of embarrassment that charts the emotional breakdown and rebirth of a woman ripe for self-discovery.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sentimental, captivating, feel good, melancholic, dark comedy, indie film
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The Auteur (2008)
Plot Summary:
THE AUTEUR follows formerly renowned porn director Arturo Domingo (Five Easy Nieces, Requiem for a Wet Dream) through a bizarre weekend as he receives a lifetime achievement award at a film festival in Portland, OR. Encountering crazed fans, former collaborators, bitter enemies and free-loving hippies, Arturo attempts to put the pieces of his broken career and personal life back together.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, mockumentary, touching, feel good, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Diminished Capacity (2008)
Plot Summary:
A Chicago journalist suffering from memory loss takes leaves from his job and returns to his rural hometown, where he bonds with his Alzheimer's impaired uncle Rollie and his old flame.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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The Living Wake (2007)
Plot Summary:
“The Living Wake” is a dark comedy set in a timeless storybook universe. Self-proclaimed artist and genius, K. Roth Binew, has one day to live. He has enlisted his best and only friend, Mills Joquin, to take him around on a bicycle powered rickshaw. In a final attempt to probe life’s deepest mysteries, Binew endures one ridiculous trial after the next. He concludes his day with a final performance, his living wake. On a makeshift stage in an open field, Binew’s friends and enemies gather to witness his madness one final time.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, suspense, black comedy, offbeat, independent film
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Mr. Wrong (1996)
Plot Summary:
A single and lonely woman finds the seemingly perfect man to date, but soon regrets it when his deranged and possessive other personality emerges and worst still, she cannot convince anyone else of his Jekyll/Hyde true nature.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, erotic, scary, funny
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Late Last Night (1999)
Plot Summary:
After a fight with his wife, who's leaving him, Dan's day is getting worse by the minute. He calls an old friend for a night of binge drinking and intoxication. They start a cathartic ride through the city's underbelly.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy
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Smile (1975)
Plot Summary:
It's time again for California's "Young American Miss" beauty pageant, the biggest event of the year for Big Bob Freelander and Brenda DiCarlo, who give their all to put on a successful pageant. But Brenda is having marital difficulties and Bob's son is up to some mischief. Could this year's pageant be in jeopardy?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, realistic, biting, satirical, funny, mockumentary, cult classic, clever, offbeat
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American Cowslip (2009)
Plot Summary:
In Blythe, California, a small town in the remote California desert, Ethan Inglebrink is an eccentric, agoraphobic heroin addict who is obsessed with his garden. This dark comedy follows the last days of Ethan's life as he struggles to find purpose at a time when it might be too late to even matter.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 614
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, cynical, dark comedy, clever, offbeat, witty, independent film
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Not Dead (2012)
Plot Summary:
An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, longstanding comic crusaders against capitalism, again set out to surprise and shock the bourgeois audience.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, captivating, black comedy, realistic, tragic
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Camp Takota (2014)
Plot Summary:
With her personal and professional life in shambles, Elise ends up having to take a job as a counselor at her old summer camp. There, she reunites with two estranged friends who attended camp and never left. When the future of the camp is put in jeopardy, the three friends must band together to save it, changing the course of their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sincere, feel good, captivating, teen, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Phat Girlz (2006)
Plot Summary:
Two plus-sized ladies meet the men of their dreams in the most unexpected of ways.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, inspirational, feel good, semi serious, black comedy, sentimental, touching, realistic, sexy, unusual plot structure
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Hollidaysburg (2014)
Plot Summary:
Home for Thanksgiving break after their first semester at college, five friends discover just how much things change (and don't) after high school.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, independent film
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The Penthouse (2010)
Plot Summary:
Girl trouble starts when a man and two good buddies becomes roommates.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, humorous, semi serious, feel good, captivating, entertaining, melancholic, tense, light
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Growing Up and Other Lies (2014)
Plot Summary:
After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends – Billy, Rocks and Gunderson – to help him retrace their greatest adventure together: a walk down the entire length of Manhattan.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, sentimental, realistic, contemplative, talky, independent film
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Skills Like This (2007)
Plot Summary:
Max Solomon faces the awful truth that he will never be a writer. So, in a desperate attempt to find his true calling, he turns to crime. In this inventive comedy, three friends have their lives turned upside down when one of them realizes that larceny might be his best skill.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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3 Days of Normal (2012)
Plot Summary:
3 Days of Normal follows the story of straight-laced deputy Bill Morgan who is quite content literally living within the quaint boundaries of Washington, New Hampshire. Bill’s stable and rather uneventful life is thrown for a loop when he finds and arrests a woman, Nikki Gold, passed out in her car from inebriation. Unbeknownst to him, the woman happens to be a popular movie actress longing for some normalcy in her hectic life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, independent film, realistic, semi serious
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Film Geek (2005)
Plot Summary:
The story of Scotty Pelk, a socially inept video store clerk who gets fired from his job and becomes a sensation as an online film critic.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, cynical, semi serious, indie film, independent film, clever, offbeat, realistic
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The Love Guide (2011)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about a woman who saves her chicken farm and her family by agreeing to be the subject of a "reality show" with a celebrity Hollywood weight loss expert. Both women change and discover the true meaning of success (Imdb.com).
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, offbeat, independent film, biting, suspense
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Moms' Night Out (2014)
Plot Summary:
Yearning for an evening without their kids, some friends plan a night out. But to do this, their husbands need to watch the kids. What can go wrong?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, inspirational, sweet, entertaining, melancholic, sentimental, not serious, realistic, christian film
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Staying Alive (2015)
Plot Summary:
Marianne (34) discovers that her boyfriend Håkon is having an affair. Supported by her best friend's revenge tips and wisdom, Marianne stumbles into her new life where she discovers that coziness is overrated and having fun is what matters.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, melancholic, sentimental, light, captivating
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The First Wives Club (1996)
Plot Summary:
After years of helping their hubbies climb the ladder of success, three mid-life Manhattanites have been dumped for a newer, curvier model. But the trio is determined to turn their pain into gain. They come up with a cleverly devious plan to hit their exes where it really hurts - in the wallet!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 53000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining, hilarious, captivating, romantic comedy, sweet, satirical
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Buddymoon (2016)
Plot Summary:
When David is left by his fiancé just days before the wedding, his relentlessly upbeat best man, Flula, insists that the pair go on David's previously planned honeymoon: a seven-day backpacking trip through the breathtaking mountains of Oregon. Their adventures are bookended with passages from William Clark's diary describing his friendship with Meriwether Lewis and the terrain they crossed during their expedition.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Two Tickets to Paradise (2006)
Plot Summary:
Three guys on the verge of forty begin to realize all the best things in their lives happened before they were twenty. A spontaneous road trip adventure gives them a chance to balance the ledger.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 892
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, touching, realistic
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Romy and Michele's High School Reunion (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two not-too-bright party girls reinvent themselves for their high school reunion. Armed with a borrowed Jaguar, new clothes and the story of their success as the inventors of Post-It notes, Romy and Michele descend on their alma mater, but their façade crumbles quickly.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 52000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, cult classic, hilarious, light, teen, entertaining, romantic comedy, relaxing, touching
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Lola Versus (2012)
Plot Summary:
Just three weeks before her wedding, Lola (Greta Gerwig) finds herself suddenly without a partner when her longtime fiance, Luke (Joel Kinnaman), dumps her. With her 30th birthday looming and being forced to re-enter the New York City dating scene, she feels adrift in a cold world. She leans on her friends (Zoe Lister-Jones, Hamish Linklater) for support but, after a series of romantic humiliations, professional blunders and boozy antics, Lola realizes that she alone is in charge of her fate.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, mumblecore, independent film, inspirational, sexy, talky
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The Cult of Sincerity (2008)
Plot Summary:
A New York hipster sets out on a a quest to create the most sincere T-shirt ever.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, cynical, offbeat, independent film
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Happy Birthday, Harris Malden (2008)
Plot Summary:
Harris Malden wears his insecurity on his face in a curious disguise for everyone to see. No one in the neighborhood, not even his best friend Paul or his brother Melvin, has the heart to tell him how ridiculous he looks with the thick black line above his lip. Harris Malden fakes his facial hair, and as far as he's concerned, nobody can tell.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, touching, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Pretty Bird (2008)
Plot Summary:
A comic tale of three would-be entrepreneurs who set out to invent a rocket belt. The clash of their mismatched personalities soon dissolves the business into a morass of recriminations and retaliations, kidnapping, and murder in this parable of American dreams and delusions.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sentimental, feel good, light, captivating, melancholic, independent film, exciting
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That's What She Said (2012)
Plot Summary:
Longtime best friends Bebe and DeeDee are both wrestling with love. Bebe has met someone new and is in the exuberant phase of a budding romance. DeeDee is trying to move on from someone she can’t forget – mostly in destructive ways. As Bebe waits for the perpetually late DeeDee at their favorite coffee shop, she meets Clementine, a distraught young woman with love problems of her own. With Clementine in tow, Bebe and DeeDee soon embark on the kind of outrageous misadventure that only New York City can offer.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 724
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, sincere, feel good
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Flakes (2007)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring rock musician Neal Downs manages a cereal bar. Stylish Miss Pussy Katz is the creator of radically-themed art clothing. When the cereal bar, brings in an offbeat crew of locals, who debate the arcana of cereal history and ideal milk/flake ratios, an aspiring capitalist rips off their concept.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, feel good, light, sincere, captivating, offbeat, whimsical
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She-Devil (1989)
Plot Summary:
A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: black comedy, funny, dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, light, retro, mysterious, aesthetic