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Plot Summary:
A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a truck, a trucker's dream. The father, practical joker, and larger-than-life lover, keeps a watchful eye. The children are his accomplices. One is his heroine. His daughter is his other heroine. A puzzle of life's desires in which all veers into the imaginary, into dreams of far-off lands.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark 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
Plot tags:
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Better Living (1998)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about families, the elements that bind them together, and about hope in the face of hardship.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Dead by Monday (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dead by Monday is a darkly comic tale of love and death... but not necessarily in that order. Julie is a sweet, vulnerable young woman who lacks confidence and is obsessed with the memory of her dead husband whom she idealizes. Alex is an angry writer. Talented but unable to repeat the success of his first novel, he has nothing left to say. Or live for. He just wants to die. Fate introduces these two lost souls at the edge of a cliff. While picking flowers Julie accidentally falls off. Alex, who has come to blow his brains out, is interrupted by her cry for help, just before he pulls the trigger.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Comedy
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie, black comedy, dark comedy
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Around the World in Eighty Ways (1987)
Plot Summary:
Mavis Davis has had enough! Younger son Eddie wears headphones all day and almost electrocutes her. Older boy Wally is gay and lives in a huge over-ripe banana. And her husband Roly has grown into a blind, motionless, emotionless vegetable. So pack the bags, Mavis is off on an around the world package trip leaving them all behind. However, when Dad finds out she has been joined by their hated next door neighbour long dead passions begin to stir. Blind, senile old Dad decides to chase his wife around the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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A Woman Very Very Very Much in Love (1997)
Plot Summary:
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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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Three for Two (1975)
Plot Summary:
THREE FOR TWO presents Lucy with the Great One, Jackie Gleason, combining their comedic talents for the first time, in a trio of comedy-dramas centered on the various aspects of marriage.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Ealing Comedy (2008)
Plot Summary:
Alfie Singh, accountant turned film producer, has a great idea for a film. It's called Ealing Comedy and it's about an accountant turned film producer called Alfie Singh. Alfie will play himself and his real son, Paul, will play his son in the film. Turned down by all the financiers, Alfie vows to make the film himself. His life with his wife and teenage son and his struggles to finance and make films in the UK are all woven together in a series of mad-cap events, resulting in a very British film.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Demandez la permission aux enfants ! (2007)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious
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Why Is Mother in My Bed? (1994)
Plot Summary:
Young boy Antoine is trying to prevent his parents divorce.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Camerieri (1995)
Plot Summary:
Four waiters and a cook working at a seaside restaurant hate each other but still keep working together for lack of better opportunities. One day the old owner sells the restaurant to a wealthy industrialist, who must decide whether to keep it or turn it into a furniture showroom. During a last luncheon for the new owner the waiters will have to prove their worth to save their jobs.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Mean Spirit (2003)
Plot Summary:
Vincent Poirel dirige une multinationale du BTP. Il a tout obtenu dans la vie sauf un enfant. Sa société est retenue pour construire un stade olympique. Le projet original apporté par son architecte est en fait celui de Simon Variot, imaginé durant ses études.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: absurd, feel good, entertaining
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Brother for All the Money (1979)
Plot Summary:
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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The Guardian Angel (1996)
Plot Summary:
Madrid, 1981. Jorge has just arrived in Madrid to live in beautiful large house with his brother, mother, grandmother Obdulia, a wealthy woman who is somewhat deaf, and his grandfather, an aged and senile octogenarian.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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The Yen Family (1988)
Plot Summary:
Comedy about a family and their obsession for making money.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy
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The Feud (1989)
Plot Summary:
All Dolph Beeler wanted was a can of paint remover when he went to Bud Bullard's hardware store in Millville. But a simple misunderstandling between two men has turned into an outright war between two towns in this outrageous comedy of errors.--Summary from container. -- WorldCat.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Yrrol: An Enormously Well Thought Out Movie (1994)
Plot Summary:
Yrrol: An Enormously Well Thought Out Movie. Sketch comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, black comedy, sketch comedy, dark comedy, fun
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Friedliche Zeiten (2008)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1968. It has been seven years since the Striesow family fled the GDR to a quiet suburb in West Germany. But Irene, the mother, does not support her situation as a housewife. Especially since Dieter, her husband, is absent more and more. Their three children watch the couple tear each other apart, wondering if the divorce might end up being good.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Not Dead (2012)
Plot Summary:
An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, longstanding comic crusaders against capitalism, again set out to surprise and shock the bourgeois audience.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, captivating, black comedy, realistic, tragic
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Paris Follies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Long married 50-somethings Brigitte and Xavier are prize cattle breeders in regional France. Life is good, but the departure of their children from home has thrown Brigitte’s world into flux, as she finds herself locked into routine. She keeps hoping for something else, something more. A party held by students on the adjoining property accelerates this latent crisis and Brigitte impulsively sets off for Paris under the guise of a doctor’s appointment. The city immediately invigorates her, and when she meets a charming Danish gentleman, she impulsively allows herself to be flattered by his attentions….
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic drama
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Five on the Black Hand Side (1973)
Plot Summary:
Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Family Business (2018)
Plot Summary:
When their aunt's inheritance is given to their annoying cousin, three brothers and sisters have to work to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Mom's Day Away (2014)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated stay-at-home mom takes a weekend away when her family ignores her over Mother's Day.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The First Star (2009)
Plot Summary:
A married father of three, lives in Créteil doing odd jobs and spends his time at the local PMU bar. One day, to please his daughter, he promises a little too quick to take the whole family on vacation to ski. The only problem: if he breaks his promise, his wife will divorce him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Big Bad Wolf (2013)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering about the meaning of their lives and were swamped by a wave of existential doubts. An entirely new situation for this bourgeois trio in their forties, one which opened a door to the novel and indeed the forbidden... and to the big bad wolf!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, feel good, sex comedy
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Sunkist Family (2019)
Plot Summary:
Joon-Ho (Park Hee-Soon) and Yoo-Mi (Jin Kyung) have been married for 20 years and they are still madly love in with each other. The couple have three children: first son Chul-Won (Jang Sung-Bum), first daughter Kyung-Joo (Yoon Bo-Ra) and youngest daughter Jin-Hae (Lee Go-Eun). The parents have difficulty having sex at night, because their youngest daughter Jin-Hae keeps going into their bedroom. One day, Joon-Ho’s female friend Mi-Hee (Hwang Woo Seul Hye) moves in next door to them. Mi-Hee is a beautiful woman and Yoo-Mi misunderstands the relationship between her husband and Mi-Hee.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Finding Momo (2017)
Plot Summary:
One evening, when they come home, Mr. and Mrs. Prioux are astounded to find that a certain Patrick has moved into their place. This strange young man has returned home to his parents in order to introduce his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Passed Away (1992)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of eccentric relatives gather for their patriarch's funeral.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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We Are Family (2016)
Plot Summary:
Thirteen-year-old Bastien is the center of a reconstructed family: 6 half-brothers and sisters, 8 "parents," and as many houses. His tasks within the family are far more complex than what he has to do at school. But enough's enough: the children decide to wage a revolution and turn the rules upside down. All together, the squat a large apartment and now it'll be up to the parents to come to them!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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She-Devil (1989)
Plot Summary:
A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: black comedy, funny, dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, light, retro, mysterious, aesthetic