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Plot Summary:
Julian Marsh is an out of work ladies' man who lands a job directing a bizarre adaptation of Hamlet. After casting his best friend and his ex-girlfriend in the show, Julian finds himself in the middle of a two thousand year old conspiracy that explains the connection between Shakespeare, the Holy Grail and some seriously sexy vampires. It turns out that the play was actually written by a master vampire name Theo Horace and it's up to Julian to recover the Grail in order to reverse the vampire's curse...If only being undead wasn't so much God-damned fun!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, sexy, suspense, independent film, clever, offbeat
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Vampires Anonymous (2003)
Plot Summary:
A vampire trying to get away from his "eating habits", joins a 12-step program.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, gothic, offbeat, campy
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Alter Egos (2012)
Plot Summary:
At a time when superheroes have lost government funding and public support, a superhero meets a girl who can help him overcome his own emotional crisis.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, epic, independent film, witty, not serious
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Who's Your Monkey? (2007)
Plot Summary:
In Jacksonville, Florida, four friends since grade school who are now in their early 30s face the challenges of adulthood: Hutto is about to become a father, Laith is intimidated by his girlfriend's sexuality, a grieving Bobby drinks heavily and sleeps on the grave of a girlfriend who's been dead 18 months, and Mark, an OB/GYN who loves his work, can't practice medicine because he can't afford malpractice insurance. Things come to a head when Mark needs his three friends' help after a belligerent animal-abusing pornographer attacks Mark with a gun over something Laith did. A midnight road trip tests friendship: can the guys help each other?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 427
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, tense, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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A Colbert Christmas: The Greatest Gift of All! (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hark! The Herald Pundit Sings! America’s favorite Christmas tradition is now on DVD! Families have gathered around the TV to enjoy Stephen Colbert’s Christmas specials every year since 2008. Now, you can experience the joy over and over! Join Stephen and his friends—Toby Keith, Elvis Costello, John Legend, Feist, Willie Nelson, and Jon Stewart —for a yuletide evening of song, dance and nog-induced dementia. (Parental discretion is advised.) Remember, every time you buy a copy of Stephen Colbert’s Christmas Special, an angel gets his wings.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, not serious, captivating, clever, offbeat, talky, independent film, biting, parody
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The Dog Problem (2006)
Plot Summary:
In the film, Solo is a down-on-his-luck writer who is encouraged by his psychiatrist to get a dog. Solo meets his love interest, who he assumes to be a dog owner when meeting her at a dog play park, but dog problems stand in their way.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, clever, realistic, independent film, offbeat
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Unemployed (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jamal and Dex are two hapless out of work actors who come to terms with reality when they realize they've been pursuing their dreams for over ten years and still haven't booked a single speaking role. When the two run out of cash and face eviction from their small apartment, they hit the pavement in search of a job. With no job experience, no skill set and little ambition, the audience gets a front row seat to this hilarious journey in which these two bad-luck prone losers can't seem to catch a break.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, slasher, realistic, independent film
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Mail Order Wife (2004)
Plot Summary:
A documentarian funds a NYC doorman's Asian mail order bride in exchange for the right to film the experience.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, mockumentary, talky, biting, suspense
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Ultrachrist! (2003)
Plot Summary:
What would Jesus do if he returned to Earth and discovered he could no longer relate to the youth of today?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, captivating, independent film, clever, offbeat, biting, suspense, campy
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Bring Me the Head of Dobie Gillis (1988)
Plot Summary:
It is nearly a generation since we've visited Dobie Gillis, and the middle-aged Dobie is nothing like he was as a youth, having has sown all of his wild oats. He's settled into the predictable adult life, married to the reliable Zelda (who was chasing him all through high-school), and assumed his father's role of running the family variety store. All of a sudden, key industries in the town shut down, putting hundreds out of work and severely threatening the local economy. Dobie, as head of the town council, is looked upon to lead the town out of this desperate crisis. When all seems lost, life-long friend Maynard G. Krebs appears, representing an old acquaintance who has a strange demand.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, sitcom, semi serious
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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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The Bogus Witch Project (2000)
Plot Summary:
A series of short films spoofing "The Blair Witch Project.".
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, not serious, light, entertaining, spoof, offbeat, horror spoof
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Sherman's Way (2008)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric Olympic has-been who prefers leisure to work, finds himself stuck with a rigid pre-law Yale student with no time for wasting time. Between skinny-dipping and stealing cars, this odd-couple learn from each other that balance is the key to getting the girl, getting the job and getting a life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat
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Back in the Day (2014)
Plot Summary:
Sometimes in order to move forward, you have to go back. And in this raunchy comedy, Jim Owens does just that when he heads home for his high school reunion. In an attempt to relive the glory days with his boys and explore an old romance, he nearly destroys his hometown and friendships.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, light, feel good, realistic, not serious
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The Merry Wives of Windsor (2011)
Plot Summary:
The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher’s tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. Gutsy, colloquial and bustling with vivid characters, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a brilliantly constructed farce and the only comedy Shakespeare set in his native land. It is also the ancestor of English bourgeois comedy and gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom. The production made merry with the relationship between the life of middle-class Elizabethan England and the late medieval period in which the play is set.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Living Will... (2010)
Plot Summary:
Will's best friend and roommate Belcher, (Ryan Dunn) a party bum slacker, returns from the dead as a cocky, mischievous, and perverted ghost. He soon discovers his cousin, Krista, has shacked up and moved in with his best friend, Will. Belcher will do anything and everything to destroy this relationship and get his prank buddy back.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, entertaining, light, captivating, sensual, independent film
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Any Wednesday (1966)
Plot Summary:
Ellen Gordon, a New York executive's mistress falls for the executive's young business associate when the young man is accidentally sent to use the apartment where the executive and his mistress get together every Wednesday. More complications arise when the executive's wife shows up with plans to redecorate the apartment.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, witty, sex comedy
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Drones (2010)
Plot Summary:
Brian Dilks is an Office Drone. He spends his days at OmniLink in comforting monotony: facilitating the movement of product around the country, faxing, copying, joking with his best friend, Clark, and harmlessly flirting with fellow cubicle-mate, Amy. But how well does anyone really know the people they work with? When Brian discovers an improbable secret about his best friend, everything in Brian’s world changes and his safe life of workplace detachment is no longer an option. Shocked out of his mind-numbing routine by this new discovery, Brian throws himself into a star-crossed romance with Amy––yet close encounters of the office kind, like sales or intergalactic war, is an uncertain business.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, independent film, offbeat
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Breaking Wind (2012)
Plot Summary:
A comedic spoof based on the worldwide phenomenon "The Twilight Saga.".
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, spoof, cynical, idiotic, vampire comedy, campy
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Knots (2004)
Plot Summary:
A male-centric take on contemporary relationships, where three guy friends look for love and commitment.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, humorous, light, romantic, funny, realistic, semi serious, sexual, erotic
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The Secret Lives of Dorks (2013)
Plot Summary:
In The Secret Lives of Dorks, Payton (Gaelan Connell) is a pathetic dork, a comic book geek whose high school career is one hopeless faux pas after another. Yet he's a dreamer and madly in love with the head cheerleader Carrie (Riley Voelkel), who he is determined to win over. But she is wise to his desperate advances, so to get off his radar she creates a plan to push him into the arms of a dorkette at the school, Samantha (Vanessa Marano).
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 732
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, romantic, scenic, teen, realistic, semi serious
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You Stupid Man (2002)
Plot Summary:
After a man finally gets over his former girlfriend, who has moved to Los Angeles and become a television star, and falls in love with another woman, the former girlfriend's show is canceled and she wants him back.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, independent film
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Farm Girl in New York (2007)
Plot Summary:
Sam and Matt flee their small mid-western town for New York City, where hot girls roam the streets! After months of trying to pick up ladies and failing miserably, they come up with the idea to hold a fake audition to meet chicks. Hilarity ensues when dozens of sexy, talentless, babes show up and compete for a job that doesn t exist. However, when an out of town farm girl shows up for the audition they are instantly smitten. Will these phony auditions come in the way of them finding true love?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, independent film, romantic comedy, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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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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How to Seduce Difficult Women (2009)
Plot Summary:
Philippe, a French-American writer living in Manhattan, decides to take on ten relationship-challenged men to help them learn the art of seduction.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sincere, sexy, realistic, witty, erotic, talky, sex comedy
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6 Month Rule (2011)
Plot Summary:
A womanizer teaches his clueless friend the rules about being single and avoiding emotional attachment.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 733
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, thought provoking
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Splinterheads (2009)
Plot Summary:
SPLINTERHEADS introduces Thomas Middleditch as Justin Frost, a twenty-something slacker whose “thing” is that he has no “thing” at all. When a small-time carnival rolls into town, he meets Galaxy (Rachael Taylor), a gorgeous con artist, or “splinterhead,” who has more “things” going for her than anyone he has ever met.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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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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Life's a Beach (2012)
Plot Summary:
Darren gets stood up on the day of his wedding and uses his vacation tickets with his best friend, RJ, to spend his "honeymoon" at a Club Med-style resort.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, sexy, realistic, independent film
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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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2 B Perfectly Honest (2004)
Plot Summary:
Business partners Frank and Josh go bankrupt after their dot-com start-up collapses before it goes online. Frank, a bachelor and broke, reluctantly moves back home to live with his parents while Josh, a hippie computer wiz who's married and has a son, is forced to consider the unthinkable - getting a real job.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious