Best movies like Six Bears and a Clown
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Plot Summary:
The owner of a circus decides to swap his trained bears for trained pigs, and fires clown Cibulka. The clown gets a job at a local school, bears escape and seek him out and a school inspector comes into town.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, campy
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Parade (1974)
Plot Summary:
Two children go behind the scenes of a small circus.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: France, Sweden
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Rudy, the Racing Pig (1995)
Plot Summary:
Flat-dwelling urban family win a pig in a raffle, and decide to keep it. They lose their flat (no pets allowed) but eventually Rudi the pig makes good.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Solo for Elephant and Orchestra (1975)
Plot Summary:
To Moscow have arrived the participants of the international conference of the zoophilologists and also the international jury which is to elect for the world festival the best performance of the program of Moscow circus. Mrs Whistler (Iva Janzurová), British associate professor, makes her understood with the animals in their language but the Czech professor Ruzicka (Jirí Sovák), though he is capable of using the animals language, prefers teaching the animals the human language. Ruzicka's friend, the poodle Archibald, speaks "in Human" very well. The scientific dispute ends with a bet - if Ruzicka teaches the circus elephant to sing, Mrs Whistler will eat up her hat.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Billie Turf contra Kwel (1983)
Plot Summary:
Denheuvel boarding school. Billie Turf, the fattest student in the world, is always in conflict with Master Kwel. This time Turf studies hypnosis, pretends to be baroness and thieves arrive who have paid for the school fees.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Straw Hat (1972)
Plot Summary:
Slacker Maurice Fadinar wasted his whole inheritance and the only way out of this situation, as it seems, to marry Helen Nonankur - daughter of a wealthy farmer. At the last meeting with his mistress in a nearby forest Fadinar's horse eats straw hat which belongs to a married lady, spending time in the company of young and hot Lieutenant Emil. Emil literally puts a knife to Maurice throat - or the lady will get back the exact same hat immediately, or he will arrange such a scandal that no wedding will not happen.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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Four Murders Are Enough, Darling (1971)
Plot Summary:
Two criminal gangs are ruthlessly fighting for a 1-million dollar check that, purely by chance, got into the flat of shy high school teacher George Camel. As the number of victims sharply increases, Camel is mistakenly regarded as a mass murderer and cunningly uses his horrifying reputation to get the respect and heart of his beloved Sabrina, a journalist from a local newspaper. But this game turns out to be risky and in the end, both gangs don't hesitate to seize the check at all costs, including an improvised operation.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, parody, psychedelic, psychotronic, detective, spoof, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, poliziottesco, metafiction
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I Killed Einstein, Gentlemen (1970)
Plot Summary:
This futuristic science fiction comedy features an atomic bomb blast that causes women to grow beards and lose the ability to have children. A summit meeting is held at the United Nations, with the proposed solution of building a time machine. The decision is made to travel back in time and murder Einstein, with the hopeful result being that without the noted mathematician's research there will be no atomic bombs.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 564
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: black comedy, apocalyptic, parody, psychotronic, spoof, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, costume drama, alternative comedy, period drama
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Marecek, Pass Me the Pen! (1976)
Plot Summary:
This comedy is about one average family. The father works as master in the factory and his son is studying on high school. One day father must start to visit the evening school. It's the same school as his son visiting. The lives both students are connecting together. The son must teach the math and physics his own father. The father getting to know, that the life of the students is not simple as he supposed.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Clockwise (1986)
Plot Summary:
An uncompromising British school headmaster finds himself beset by one thing going wrong after another.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, road movie, witty, cult classic, colorful, black comedy, sentimental, humorous, realistic, not serious
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Attention, Turtle! (1970)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1970's Soviet Union, the story follows a group of young children and a pet turtle. When one of the children becomes ill and taken to hospital, his turtle falls into the hands of two mischievous boys who test the turtle's indestructible shell. A group of girls spring the sick boy from the institution and a race ensues to rescue the poor creature out from under the treads of a giant tank!.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Katya and the Crocodile (1966)
Plot Summary:
It is the summer holiday and little Mísa Horák has taken a few animals from the school's so-called "Corner of Living Nature" home to care for. But when he brings home two Angora rabbits, a starling, a little monkey, a tortoise and a small crocodile, his parents order him to take them away. He is helped by Káta, who offers to place the animals in the child's room of her family's apartment. Mísa leaves for her friend where the animals will hopefully be able to stay. Káta goes shopping. In the meantime, Káta's younger sister Minka wakes up and begins to play with the animals, who gradually run off in disarray.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags:
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Emil and the Piglet (1973)
Plot Summary:
Nursing a piglet back to life because it´s the runt of the litter earns Emil a friend for life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden, West Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Dinner for Adele (1978)
Plot Summary:
When the famous detective Nick Carter visits Prague, he becomes involved in strange case of a missing dog and even stranger carnivorous plant. He becomes convinced that he is standing against his greatest enemy - the Gardener, who supposedly died years ago in a swamp.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: parody, surreal, detective, ambiguous ending, crying, psychotronic, spoof, black comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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A Nice Plate of Spinach (1977)
Plot Summary:
The heroes of this absurd comedy, full of confusion and humor are Dzharda Zemanek and Frantisek Liska.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 762
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychotronic, buddy comedy, slapstick comedy, dark comedy, alternative comedy, campy, cult film
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Beware the Gorilla (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lorenzo is a lawyer who files a lawsuit against the zoo of his town but after winning it he has to take home a gorilla.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, slapstick comedy
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Long Live Ghosts! (1977)
Plot Summary:
A trespassing gang of boys encounter a ghost in the ruins of a castle. When they rescue the ghost who is caught in a trapset, they become allies in a fight to prevent ruins from being turned into mushroom farm by the city authorities.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, fairy tale, urban fantasy, cult film
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How to Seduce Your Teacher (1979)
Plot Summary:
There's a new girl in school, Angela, the Headmaster's neice. Every male will try to seduce her, even her uncle. Meanwhile she will drive the philosophy's teacher mad and her best friend Irma will have a good time with the classmates. Will they get the grades?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 370
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, teen sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick, teen comedy
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Waiter, Scarper! (1981)
Plot Summary:
It is the story of a man who had financial troubles. He was married several times and had to pay for several kids. He wanted to earn some extra money by playing in a cafe. But one drunken guest supposes he is a waiter and pays his bill to him. So the main hero finds his chance - he goes through restaurants, pretending that he is a waiter and asks people to hand their cash to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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Krummerne (1991)
Plot Summary:
The tween, Mads, finds it hard to fit in. Having feelings for a girl in class and a clumsy farther who is a teacher at his school doesn't help. By an uforseen chance of events, Mads becomes somewhat of a hero, but will he win the girl?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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The Magic Quill (2018)
Plot Summary:
A fairy tale, featuring the landlady Margaret, the devil Boniface, the bribable councilors Fake and Chatterbox and the lazy tailor Greasy. In Hell, the devils have a quill that writes human sins into the Book of Sins and the devils go and pull the sinners down to Helll. One day, Boniface goes on Earth, Greasy the Tailor steals the quill from him. The Devils back in Hell think nobody is sinning and everything is all topsy-turvy. Boniface admits to Margaret that he is responsible for the whole mess. Together, they not only save the town of Pytlov from destruction, but Boniface learns what true love is.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, humorous, psychological, light, feel good, fairy tale, allegory, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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The Girl on the Broomstick (1972)
Plot Summary:
Dívka na koštěti or The Girl on the Broomstick is a 1972 Czechoslovak fantasy-comedy film directed by Václav Vorlíček. It tells a story of a teenage witch, Saxana (played by Petra Černocká), frozen in time as a punishment for 300 years, who finds herself in a modern world. A sequel was released in 2011 - Saxána a Lexikon Kouzel.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, cult classic, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, metafiction, urban fantasy, neo screwball comedy, teen comedy, campy, cult film
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Sune's Summer (1993)
Plot Summary:
It's summer and Sune Anderssons family is planning a holiday in Greece. Sunes father, Rudolf is sulking because then he won't be able to go on his beloved fishing trip. But after seeing how much the Greek trip is going to cost, he comes up with a great idea: Let's go on a camping trip instead. A lot is happens during this trip and after a while Rudolf discovers that the camping trip might not be as cheat as he thought.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, not serious, semi serious
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The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (1983)
Plot Summary:
This is a made for tv adaptation of Barbara Robinson's novel The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Loretta Swit of M*A*S*H stars as Grace Bradley who inherits the job of running her church's Christmas pageant when the woman who usually does it breaks her leg tripping over the extremely long wire she has on her telephone.Not only does Grace inherit this disaster it gets worse when the Herdman kids - all six of them. The Herdmans are notorious for abusing each other and stealing from and abusing other kids as well. They smoke, steal, lie, bully and generally create havoc in their town.Their father disappeared years earlier and mother works two shifts at the shoe factory to support herself and the kids while the kids run wild.But this WILL be the best Christmas pageant ever when the Herdman kids learn the Christmas story and about the true meaning of Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: christmas special
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How Not to Marry a Princess (2021)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic, Slovakia, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, crying, psychotronic
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Good Burger (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two hapless youths lead their burger joint in a fight against the giant fast-food chain across the street.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, stylized, black comedy, slapstick comedy, feel good, realistic, semi serious, buddy comedy, parody
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Slappy and the Stinkers (1998)
Plot Summary:
Five 2nd-grade kids who don't follow strict rules by their school principal Brinway are dubbed "Stinkers" by him. On the class visit to an aquarium the Stinkers decide that a sea lion called Slappy doesn't feel too good there, "free" him, and plant him into Brinway's hot-tub.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: epic, family comedy, feel good, humorous, semi serious, slapstick comedy
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How to Eat Fried Worms (2006)
Plot Summary:
During the first day of his new school year, a fifth grade boy squares off against a bully and winds up accepting a dare that could change the balance of power within the class.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious, epic
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Nativity! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Martin Freeman is lovelorn teacher Mr Maddens, a former am-dram star whose girlfriend (Ashley Jensen) dumped him over Christmas five years ago and upped sticks, inexplicably, to La-La Land. Yuletide cheer is not his forte, but he's forced to drum some up when Pam Ferris's headmistress earmarks him to direct the Nativity play.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, entertaining, captivating, sentimental, realistic, not serious, christmas special
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Madeline (1998)
Plot Summary:
The adventurous, young Madeline is very good at getting into trouble, but she's also fantastic at solving problems as well, and her school-mistress Miss Clavel is not too approving of her. The biggest problem comes up when Lord Covington decides to sell Madeline's school.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, melancholic, talky, feel good, humorous, surprise ending, semi serious, inspirational, sad, juvenile
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Cheaper by the Dozen (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Baker brood moves to Chicago after patriarch Tom gets a job coaching football at Northwestern University, forcing his writer wife, Mary, and the couple's 12 children to make a major adjustment. The transition works well until work demands pull the parents away from home, leaving the kids bored -- and increasingly mischievous.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, humorous, funny, teen, family comedy, hilarious, light, inspirational, epic