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Plot Summary:
Comedy about a shithead who tries to sell his baby for drugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: weird
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Pipe Dream (2015)
Plot Summary:
A story of two wannabe Schoolies on the Gold Coast during a state-wide crackdown on drugs. The boys stumble upon a stash of "weed", and through the misguidance of an older brother trying to replace his earlier Schoolies experience, they get caught up in the war on drugs waged by the authorities. Selling drugs to earn enough money to replace a broken heirloom they are oblivious to the battle around them. As they are pursued by an overzealous Police Chief and a violent underworld, they aim to be kings and make this the best Schoolies ever.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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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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A Global Affair (1964)
Plot Summary:
Bob Hope becomes surrogate father to a baby found abandoned at the United Nations. Director Jack Arnold's 1964 comedy also stars Yvonne De Carlo, Robert Sterling, John McGiver and Lilo Pulver.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Getting Wasted (1980)
Plot Summary:
An uptight military school gets a dose of hippie-infused rebellion when a group of students gather in support of the 1960s uprising going on around them. When a few students decide to bring the more liberal, artsy side of the revolution onto campus, they face opposition from much of the school's staff.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Evicted (1999)
Plot Summary:
Micro is the leader of a group of pals who enjoy life to the fullest. Unfortunately, their landlord isn't fond of their shenanigans and they're slated to be evicted. With their time in their apartment coming to a close, the guys plan a party to end all parties.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Me and My Sister (1987)
Plot Summary:
Carlo is a responsible sibling who deals with his black-sheep sister Silvia in this situation comedy. When Silvia returns after many years to attend her mother's funeral, Carlo deals with the fallout caused by her many love affairs. Carlo is convinced to kidnap Silvia's child whom she left in a Hungarian children's home, but she soon abandons Carlo and the baby when she takes up with a British rock star.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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The Branch Office (1988)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Wait 'Till Your Mother Gets Home (1983)
Plot Summary:
An award winning high school football coach finds himself out of work, and switching roles with his wife for the summer when she goes back to work for the first time in 15 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Cheech & Chong Roasted (2008)
Plot Summary:
Cheech and Chong, the stoner pair who dominated the comedy scene in the 1970s and ’80s and recently reunited for their Light Up America tour, take their place in the hot seat to be roasted by close friends and fellow comedians. The duo made a name for themselves with their drug-laced humor, which kept audiences rolling in the aisles with such comedy routines as “Earache My Eye,” “Basketball Jones,.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: hispanic
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Getting Doug with High (2013)
Plot Summary:
Comedians getting high with Doug Benson.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: alternative comedy, live comedy
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Jeremy's Family Reunion (2005)
Plot Summary:
Film front Abel Garcia.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Cassanova Was a Woman (2016)
Plot Summary:
A married woman falls in love with another woman but struggles with her bisexual tendencies.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags:
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Inside Monkey Zetterland (1992)
Plot Summary:
An off beat comedy about an out of work screen writing/artist that complains about being too cool, too talented and way too gay.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Movie Star, American Style or; LSD, I Hate You (1966)
Plot Summary:
Producer/director Albert Zugsmith's acid-therapy "comedy," complete with a tinted trip sequence "in hilarious LSD color." A suicidal film star named Honey Bunny is sent by her producer to a rest home run by an unhinged Dr. Horatio, who gives his patients LSD as a cure. The wacky patients include female impersonator Skippy Roper as an effeminate dress designer, a midget, a fat lady, and lots of actors, directors, and producers, including Zugsmith himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, psychotronic, independent film
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My Third Wife, George (1968)
Plot Summary:
Ralph Higbee is a 40-year-old drunkard who lives with his mother to take care of her. When his mother dies, he picks up three women who persuade him to take LSD for an experience. Seeking a companionship to replace his mother, Ralph meets and soon marries Josephine, but he is unable to satisfy her constant desire for sex. He leaves her when he finds out that she has other male and female lovers. Ralph marries a second time, but his second wife, Amanda, is also unfaithful and wants to scam him out of most of his money. Marring for the third time, Ralph is finally happy... until he cheats on her for no good reason and when she finds out... there will literal hell to pay.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, sex comedy, independent film
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Arnold's Wrecking Co. (1973)
Plot Summary:
A student tries pot for the first time, loves it and decides to distribute it in a big business kind of way. Soon he has the police and the mafia on his tail.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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The Great Divide (2012)
Plot Summary:
At a monthly gathering of her friends, a student of the Tantra and Kama Sutra introduces an unusual game designed to elicit the feelings and impressions men and women have about one another.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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Road Lawyers and Other Briefs (1990)
Plot Summary:
A collection of short films put out on VHS by A.I.P., includes "Road Lawyers", "Escape from Heaven", "Radar Men On the Moon", and "Hairline".
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anthology, independent film, weird, cult film
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The Planters (2019)
Plot Summary:
Awkward telemarketer Martha Plant is down and out — sucking at her job and grieving her recently deceased parents. When she finds unlikely friendship in Sadie Mayflower, a bubbly vagrant with multiple personalities, Martha discovers having three friends in one may be more than she bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 500
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: surreal, weird
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Mama's Foot (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two low-life twins from South Central have two days to make $1,000 to save their mama's foot. The fun kicks in as the guys resort to everything from chili cook-offs to rappin' their way to riches in this outrageous comedy.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Binge (2020)
Plot Summary:
In the not-so-distant future, all drinking and drugs have been made completely illegal by the government, except for one night a year. High school seniors Griffin, Hags, and Andrew make a pilgrimage to get to the best party in town where all their dreams will come true. They will have to avoid their crazed principal, violent siblings, and the wild animals roaming the streets.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, captivating, parody, black comedy, dark comedy
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Puff, Puff, Pass (2006)
Plot Summary:
Danny Masterson (TV's 'That '70s Show') leads a hilarious ensemble cast in a tale about two hapless stoners who get involved in a scheme to rip off a shady character named Mr. Big after the duo sours on rehab.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, entertaining, funny, realistic
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House Party (2023)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring club promoters and best buds Damon and Kevin are barely keeping things together. Out of money, down on their luck and about to lose the roofs over their heads—and freshly fired from their low-lift jobs as house cleaners—the pair needs a huge windfall to make their problems go away. In a ‘what the hell?’ move, they decide to host the party of the year at an exclusive mansion, the site of their last cleaning job, which just happens to belong to none other than LeBron James. No permission? No problem. What could go wrong?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Frances Ferguson (2019)
Plot Summary:
Frances Ferguson, the eponymous character at the center of Bob Byington’s new film, is discontent. Like a lot of us, she does a bit of “acting out” and pays the price —an arrest, a trial, incarceration. And then a new identity, one that’s not terribly comfortable. Nick Offerman narrates this deviant comedy, based on actual events.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: weird
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Grow House (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two guys start a risky new business to pay off a debt.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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How High 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
When two jobless friends discover a hidden weed bible and the ultimate bud, they think that they’ve got it made…with 'seed' money to start a new snack delivery app. But, when nearly all of their stash and weed bible are stolen, the two potpreneurs set off on an outrageous, mind-bending adventure through Atlanta to find them. Stoned with supernatural powers, they search 'high' and low, stopping at nothing to recover their ticket to starting a legit business.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, entertaining, absurd, buddy comedy, ridiculous
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A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
Amy, Kiki and Carla – three under-appreciated and over-burdened women – rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for mothers: Christmas. And if creating a more perfect holiday for their families wasn’t hard enough, they have to do all of that while hosting and entertaining their own mothers.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, China
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, buddy comedy, feel good, humorous, captivating, sexy, saga, teen, light, banned
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Clerks (1994)
Plot Summary:
Convenience and video store clerks Dante and Randal are sharp-witted, potty-mouthed and bored out of their minds. So in between needling customers, the counter jockeys play hockey on the roof, visit a funeral home and deal with their love lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 230000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: black and white, funny, dark comedy, clever, offbeat, humorous, witty, philosophical, surreal, entirely dialogue
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High Road (2011)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Matt Walsh, a co-founding member of world-renowned comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade, High Road showcases a totally improvised script about Glenn “Fitz” Fitzgerald (James Pumphrey), a young man whose loyalties are split among his band, his girlfriend Monica(Abby Elliottt) and selling drugs. After his band breaks up, Fitz finds himself dealing drugs out of his garage and bonding with 16-year-old neighborhood kid Jimmy (Dylan O’Brien). As his former band mates (Zach Woods, Matt L. Jones, Lizzy Caplan) begin finding success and one of his drug deals goes awry, Fitz hits the road with Jimmy. Amid car chases, guns, broken bones, sassy cabbies and a suspicious doctor (Horatio Sanz), Fitz has to navigate their way to safe harbor--and he doesn’t even know about the surprise Monica has in store for him back home!.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, entertaining, feel good, indie film, realistic, independent film, alternative comedy
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Bad Moms (2016)
Plot Summary:
When three overworked and under-appreciated moms are pushed beyond their limits, they ditch their conventional responsibilities for a jolt of long overdue freedom, fun, and comedic self-indulgence.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 133000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, China
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, entertaining, absurd, teen, slapstick, buddy comedy, humorous, touching, captivating