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Plot Summary:
Simon, 35, has returned to live temporarily with his father. They make life unbearable for each other. To add spice to this situation, Uncle Maurice and Aunt Mala, Ernest's brother and sister, meddle in everything and, notably, try to find a "nice little Jewish girl" for Simon to marry. When Ernest passes away, Simon fulfils his father's last request: bury him in the village where he was born, in the depths of Ukraine. And so Simon finds himself caught up in an event-packed road movie in the company of his paranoid old uncle, his aunt who nags him endlessly about his "Goy dancer", his six-years-old son, his father's body and his ghost, and also a rabbit. Not to mention his ex who hassles him by phone. The journey will be nothing like a cruise down the Nile!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, Canada
Duration: 100 min
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Bad Joke 4 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Its ten years later and the popular protagonists of the town of Kamenákov are back in fine form. Pepa's wife Vilma has left for Australia to be with their daughter and so Pepa (Václav Vydra) and his son Pepík are living in a purely bachelor household with no cooking or ironing skills and with eggs exploding in the microwave oven. The teacher Vlasta (Dana Morávková) is intensively circling around Pepa, sensing an opportunity to fill the hole that Vilma left. Pepa, however, is completely absorbed by his new future - he has become the Mayor of Kamenákov. He has inherited his predecessor's flexible secretary Bohous (Bohumil Klepl). Their first mission together at town hall is to establish a local police force since, as everybody knows, the income from the fines goes right to the town's coffers. The local Rambo, Franta Cloumal (Martin Dejdar), becomes the police Chief, finally earning some recognition from his wife.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 83 min
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Recruits (1986)
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Within two weeks, Sgt. Hardbutt has to clean up the crime in the streets before the Governor arrives. Hardbutt is forced to supplement his overworked staff with civilian "recruits" who he schemes to use to a disastrous advantage.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, teen sex comedy
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Hook, Line And Sinker (1969)
Plot Summary:
Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive (Jerry Lewis) goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake. This 1969 comedy, directed by George Marshall, also stars Anne Francis, Peter Lawford and Kathleen Freeman.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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I Hate Mondays (1971)
Plot Summary:
An acute case of Mondayitis in Warsaw. Interwoven stories of a few inhabitants of Warsaw, including one very unlucky Italian on a governmental mission and a charitable Polish American.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 98 min
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Bilibid Gays (1981)
Plot Summary:
a film by Jose 'Pepe' Wenceslao.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Karma Calling (2009)
Plot Summary:
This zany take on the American Dream follows the Raj clan, who are just like any other family in Hoboken, N.J.: drowning in debt, driving one another crazy and ... mixed up with the mob by way of a call center in India.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 66
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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A Woman Very Very Very Much in Love (1997)
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IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy
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Knowhutimean? Hey Vern, It's My Family Album (1983)
Plot Summary:
Ernest finds his old family album in the attic and discusses his family members from the album to his neighbor, Vern.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy
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The Don Juans (2013)
Plot Summary:
An opera troupe in a small town decides to perform Mozart's Don Giovanni. The view behind the scenes uncovers the world of opera without the glitter. A tale of love and disappointment, about music and passionate love-making and about people that live their lives in spite of the opera.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, entertaining, witty
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Gimme an 'F' (1984)
Plot Summary:
Can a squad of misfit cheerleaders with an over-age trainer possibly win the big cheerleading competition.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, independent film, cult film
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Our Futures (2015)
Plot Summary:
Yann who is trying, albeit unsuccessfully, to cope with his life generally and especially bereavement decides to look up Thomas, his best friend from high school. Thomas is thee same crazy character as he ever was and between them they cook up a plan to rearrange Yann's birthday party from their high school days and get all their old friends to come along. This means locating their friends and a journey to visit and convince some of them to join in their plan. How their friends have changed, their lives and the revelations provide plenty of humour. But why is his friend Thomas just the same as he ever was ?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, humorous, captivating, surprise ending
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Brother for All the Money (1979)
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Honza and Zuzana are very young husband and wife. They have a little daughter of whom willingly occasionally take care the grandparents and Honza's fifteen-year-old brother Martin. Zuzana continues studying and Honza devotes all weekends as an amateur competitor to the motor-cycles at the speedway. Zuzana is not interested in motor-cycles. Martin holds responsible for his brother's marriage and at the advice of his friend Magda, who is of the same age, invites her sister-in-law to the club of Hucul horses so that she does not feel bored. But by misfortunes and unexplained quarrels both young husband and wife start being jealous of one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Homolka and Pocketbook (1972)
Plot Summary:
The husband and wife Ludva and Hedus Homolkas with their twins Péta and Máta and Ludva's parents - the granny and grandpa - arrive in the snowy Spindleruv Mlýn for a holiday. They promise to each other that they will not spoil the quite expensive holiday by quarrels. If somebody hurts the other one he/she will kneel as a punishment.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: educational
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Behold Homolka (1970)
Plot Summary:
This light comedy finds a Czech taxi driver taking his family on a weekend outing in the country. His wife, daughter-in-law, son and two grandchildren are the passengers who disturb the solitude of two young lovers. While the women attend the horse races, the father sits home getting drunk and watching football. The overweight daughter-in-law is upset because she has blown her chances to become a ballerina. All members of the family are caught up in their own individual problems in this realistically portrayed family comedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min
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Holidays by the Sea (2011)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about funny adventures of the group of French people during the summer vacation.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 412
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, contemplative, not serious, funny, offbeat, realistic, slapstick, silent, freeze frame, dark comedy
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The Nurse on a Military Tour (1977)
Plot Summary:
The routine of a military camp is shaken by the arrival of a non-commissioned medical shapes bursting. The beautiful female soldier awakens fantasies of graduates and recruits, putting in turmoil all over the field, but only a nice rebel soldier can drop it. The comrades do not just have to console themselves with a group of young auxiliary.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 276
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy
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The Volcano (2013)
Plot Summary:
The eruption of the Icelandic volcano Eyjafjallajökull causes major disruptions to travelers' plans around the world. For Alain and Valérie, it's a catastrophe. Because to make it to the small Greek village in time for their daughter's wedding, this divorced couple, whose mutual hatred knows no bounds, will be obliged to set out on the road together.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, absurd, cynical, romantic, realistic, semi serious
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Taxi Girl (1977)
Plot Summary:
Marcella (Fenech) inherits a taxi business from her father and now sets out on the job of her life. With each new fare she becomes involved with sex and crime all done up 70's Italian comedy style.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, perverse
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Tigers in Lipstick (1979)
Plot Summary:
8 comic sketches set in Italy, with 4 of the most famous European sex symbols of the 70's playing 2 roles each.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, erotic, hot
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Why Do They Call It Love When They Mean Sex? (1993)
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Gloria is a porn artist that performs live-sex. When his mate gets sick he brings her a young substitute, Manu. The boy works surprisingly well and then Gloria decides to go into business with him. Things get complicated when Gloria discovers that Manu is in trouble because of his gambling debts.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: eros, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy
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Sous le figuier (2012)
Plot Summary:
Nathalie, Christophe and Joëlle are in the midst of an existential crisis. Brought together by Selma, 95 and seriously ill, they will spend a memorable summer on the banks of the Moselle. How ironic that the one whom they had intended to help to die should help them to live.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, contemplative, semi serious
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Lost in Paris (2016)
Plot Summary:
Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: non-linear, slapstick comedy, slapstick, whimsical
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In the Game (2018)
Plot Summary:
Roland is reached by the illness of'Alzheimer's and his family is the small-care with him, except his grandson JB which n'has that'a single goal to play the final of basketball in Paris. But the parents of JB blocked this weekend, asking him to monitor his grand-father. Therefore nothing will happen as expected because JB will lead Roland with him in his trip.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, light, captivating, entertaining
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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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The Rendez-Vous of D?j?-Vu (2013)
Plot Summary:
Hector meets Truquette on Bastille Day and becomes obsessed with seducing her. The plan is to get her to the seaside pronto. Pator is not complaining, especially if her friend Charlotte comes along for the ride. So off they go, down the country roads of a broke and broken France. Times are hard ! Suddenly the government cancels a month of summer. Everyone back to work! A wad of cash and two gun shots later, the group splits in two like France itself. But careering away from work in no way daunts the remaining trio, dead set on relocating the Bastille Girl and reveling in an endless summer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, road movie
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Hello, Goodbye (2008)
Plot Summary:
French film icons Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant star in this romantic comedy about a Parisian couple in their fifties who share a comfortable life, a beautiful home, a posh country club and a midlife crisis. Following a dream vacation to Israel where Alain (Depardieu) explores his Jewish roots, Gisèle (Ardant) insists they change their life and move to Tel Aviv. While Gisèle, a Jewish convert, finds her new life inspiring; Alain fights to embrace Hebrew, Jewish tradition and a new circumcision. Will Alain and Gisèle learn whether Shalom represents Hello or Goodbye?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Israel, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, offbeat, realistic
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The Morning After (2020)
Plot Summary:
Fed up with her cheating husband, Louise, 45, takes off for a weekend in Corsica. But after a wild night of unbridled passion with a man who winds up dead, Louise is unwittingly mistaken for his secret, longtime girlfriend by his Corsican fearsome but loving mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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MILF (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three best friends in their forties start a relationship with younger men while on vacation.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, captivating, funny, scenic, sensual, happy, humorous, fun, teen comedy
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Flirting with Disaster (1996)
Plot Summary:
Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin (Ben Stiller) decides he cannot name his son until he knows his birth parents, and determines to make a cross-country quest to find them. Accompanied by his wife, Nancy (Patricia Arquette), and an inept yet gorgeous adoption agent, Tina (Tea Leoni), he departs on an epic road trip that quickly devolves into a farce of mistaken identities, wrong turns, and overzealous and love-struck ATF agents (Josh Brolin, Richard Jenkins).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie, black comedy, witty, funny, light, talky, not serious, independent film, humorous, dark comedy
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Made in Italy (2020)
Plot Summary:
A bohemian artist travels from London to Italy with his estranged son to sell the house they inherited from his late wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, sincere, romantic, atmospheric, touching, entertaining, manga, hentai