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Plot Summary:
In the prohibition years, the 'rumrunners' travel through the Caribbean Sea with the forbidden liquor barely escaping the ship patrols. While on the run, one of the bootleggers falls in love with an actress on a movie set.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 592
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy, Spain
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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Sky High (1985)
Plot Summary:
A group of American students traveling in Greece find themselves accidentally involved with a new type of drug--and the gang that wants it.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy
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Greed in the Sun (1964)
Plot Summary:
Marec, a truck driver is sent by his boss to track down through the Morroccan desert a reckless youngster who stole a brand-new truck and its payload. Riddled with bad luck, Marec will face the dangers of the desert, as well as a fishy partner, and a reluctant, misogynist tow-truck helper until the climactic fight.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Viva Max! (1969)
Plot Summary:
In order to prove his greatness to his unimpressed girlfriend, Mexican general Max (Peter Ustinov) takes a group of men across the border and recaptures the Alamo - international hijinks ensue!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, slapstick comedy
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Oh Boy! (1991)
Plot Summary:
Slapstick by the director of The Taste of Water also a film within a film. Boy, otherwise known as the shy actor Pim, runs a financially unsuccessful service station somewhere in the desert. His life is severely disrupted when he gets a professional competitor. The film is a homage to the silent film hero Buster Keaton.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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Crazy Hong Kong (1993)
Plot Summary:
In the early 1990s, Nǃxau was cast in three low-budget unofficial sequels that continued the fish-out-of-water aspects of the first two films.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Vixen (1969)
Plot Summary:
Clara becomes a secretary who must cater to all the desires of the womanizing writer Jérôme, while he tries to write his memoirs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Twelve Plus One (1969)
Plot Summary:
Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that one of them contains documents worth a lot of money. So he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair. On the way he meets many strange people who would like to help or to swindle him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Going Bananas (1987)
Plot Summary:
An evil circus owner chases a chimp and his friends through Africa. Not necessarily 'Dyn-O-Mite!', but this silly monkey business is decent family fun.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 502
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA, Israel
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, eighties, neo screwball comedy
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Where the Spies Are (1965)
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 892
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, eurospy
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Kiss Kiss... Bang Bang (1966)
Plot Summary:
Kirk Warren, a former spy, is to be executed because he tried to steal a million dollars. But he is saved by Colonel Smithson because Sir Wilcox has prepared a mission for him. Warren has to steal a secret formula in Switzerland and try to expose the real identity of Mr. X. Kirk leaves London and Alina, his girl, together with three clumsy friends to accomplish his not so secret mission. But Kirk's great love is always a million dollars and not a secret formula.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco, eurospy, campy
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The Chaos Class Is Waking Up (1976)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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Black Jack (1979)
Plot Summary:
In this fascinating adventure of the England of the 1750s, the huge Frenchman Black Jack (Jean Franval) miraculously survives a hanging by the British authorities in Yorkshire and escapes from the grim jaws of "justice." He takes to the countryside in the company of Tolly, a teenaged boy who is able to translate Black Jack's odd speech into something comprehensible. They join up with Belle, an aristocratic teenager who has escaped from the madhouse her family imprisoned her in when she grew troublesome. Together, the three join a carnival. However, as it becomes clear that the girl is far from crazy, love between Tolly and Belle grows. This story, set in the mid-18th century, is based on a novel by Leon Garfield.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 745
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Viva Maria! (1965)
Plot Summary:
Traveling players invent the strip tease while mixed up in a Central American revolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Romance, Western
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: spaghetti western, sexy, funny, political, sensual, romantic comedy, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Agent 38-24-36 (1964)
Plot Summary:
In this Eduardo Molinaro Spy-Spoof, Anthony Perkins plays a Russian spy sent out to steal sensitive information from NATO about military mobilization. Without much intelligence of his own, the distrusted agent of Soviet intelligence needs all the help he can get from his "talented" partner Penelope Lightfeather (Bardot) as they scatter around the French countryside for secret rendez-vous' while trying to avoid being caught by counter intelligence agents and distrustful communist operatives.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, exciting, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, parody, surprise ending
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Ghost in the Noonday Sun (1974)
Plot Summary:
A pirate crewman kills his captain after learning where he has hidden his buried treasure. However, as he begins to lose his memory, he relies more and more on the ghost of the man he just murdered to help him find the loot.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mystical, independent film, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, parody
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Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971)
Plot Summary:
Mrs. Pollifax-Spy (1971) is a comedy film directed by Leslie H. Martinson, starring Rosalind Russell and Darren McGavin, and released by United Artists. This was Russell's last theatrical film role, with one TV movie in 1972. Russell adapted the novel The Unexpected Mrs. Pollifax, written by Dorothy Gilman under the pseudonym C. A. McKnight.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, hilarious, independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman (1971)
Plot Summary:
In 1594 in Brazil, the Tupinambás Indians are friends of the Frenches and their enemies are the Tupiniquins, friends of the Portugueses. A Frenchman (Arduíno Colassanti) is captured by the Tupinambás, and in spite of his trial to convince them that he is French, they believe he is Portuguese. The Frenchman becomes their slave, and maritally lives with Seboipepe (Ana Maria Magalhães). *Contains Spoilers* Later, he uses powder in the cannons that the Portuguese left behind to defeat the Tupiniquins in a battle. In order to celebrate the victory, the Indians decide to eat him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Pain in the Ass (1973)
Plot Summary:
Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, funny, fast paced, neurotic, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical
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Travels with My Aunt (1972)
Plot Summary:
A stodgy young man gets caught up in his free-living aunt"s shady schemes.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: retro, clever, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Mad Adventures of 'Rabbi' Jacob (1973)
Plot Summary:
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, slapstick, funny, anthology, slapstick comedy
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The Treasure of Jamaica Reef (1974)
Plot Summary:
An adventure film about the search for a more than 200-year-old treasure on the ocean floor.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 287
Genere: Adventure
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film
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Treasure Island (2007)
Plot Summary:
A treasure buried on an island of the Antilles. A pirate without a straight leg, without a boat, treacherous and bloodthirsty and without the treasure map. A baroness flamboyant, unscrupulous, praying mantis, penniless, but with a boat. A young man without fear and without brains, but with the treasure map engraved somewhere in his failing memory. A doctor without drinking, providential specialist of failing memories and other atypical amnesia ... It is this dream team that sails anchor one morning in the year of grace a thousand and seven hundred and a few, towards the treasure island and its coves of pink sand.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 635
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, UK, Hungary
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Money Money Money (1972)
Plot Summary:
When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense, campy
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The Prisoner of Zenda (1979)
Plot Summary:
Anthony Hope's classic tale gets a decidedly 'un-classic' treatment at the hands of Peter Sellers. Following the story somewhat, friends of the new King Rudolph of Ruritania fear for his life, and switch him with a look-a-like London cabby. Throw in two(!) lovely blondes, treachery, and a battle for life and honour, and enjoy life at its zaniest.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Up to His Ears (1965)
Plot Summary:
Up the Himalayas... Up the Yang-tze... Up in a balloon... Up-stage with a stripper... Up-town in Hong Kong... You can't keep a great adventurer down.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, parody, vintage, modern day adaptation
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The Exchange Student (1967)
Plot Summary:
Monsieur Bosquier, the owner of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send his wayward offspring to England to improve his English. In exchange, Philippe’s host, a wealthy whisky distiller, Mac Farrel, will send his daughter, Shirley, to live with the Bosquiers in France. However, Philippe has already decided to spend the summer holidays on a yacht with his friends, so he sends a fellow student, Michonnet, to England in his place. The deception is soon discovered but things go from bad to worse when Philippe and Shirley fall in love and fly to Scotland to get married.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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The Last Adventure (1967)
Plot Summary:
Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Congo stuffed with riches. The adventurers set off to find the loot.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, atmospheric, suspenseful, cult film
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Corvette Summer (1978)
Plot Summary:
Ken loves to design and build exotic cars. When the High School shop class project car, a fully tricked out dream Corvette, is stolen, he begins searching for it. His search leads him to Las Vegas, where Vanessa, a teenaged prostitute wannabe, helps him try to track it down.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, grindhouse, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Odd Couple II (1998)
Plot Summary:
30 years after the first film, Oscar and Felix embark on a road trip together, to attend the wedding of Oscar's son to Felix's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, slapstick, feel good, realistic, witty, not serious, semi serious, buddy comedy, funny
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Captain Ron (1992)
Plot Summary:
When mild-mannered Martin Harvey finds out that he has inherited a vintage yacht, he decides to take his family on a Caribbean vacation to retrieve the vessel. Upon arriving on a small island and realizing that the ship is in rough shape, Martin and his family end up with more than they bargained for as the roguish Captain Ron signs on to sail the boat to Miami. It doesn't take long before Ron's anything-goes antics get the Harveys into plenty of trouble.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, cult classic, hilarious, feel good, semi serious, exciting, light, clever, unusual plot structure