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Plot Summary:
A love story between a mythical Russian minister and an opportunist TV series actress.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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32 December (2004)
Plot Summary:
In a cozy country (senior-citizen) "pension", three inseparable friends - Sergei Petrovich, the father of the assistant to the Prime Minister, retired hypnotist Karen Zavenovich and the charming Margarita Nikolaevna prepare to greet the New year. They get a little sad, play little trick's on each other and write letters to Santa Claus (it's apparently easier to find HIM sober, than (the Russian's) Grandfather Frost). But then the most unexpected & improbable thing happens: mysteriously Karen Zavenovich's gift from Cagliostro's returns. At this point, some more strange & unexpected things start happening... on New Year's Eve, with magic in the air & the possibility a miracle or two occurring, the three friends have the same secret desire- to become young again, even if it's for 1 night. And when the clocks strike their final ring at midnight, the three friends get the unlikely opportunity to do that which they've been dreaming their whole lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: light, inspirational, touching, feel good
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Almost Hollywood (1994)
Plot Summary:
In this tasty blend of sleaze and thriller, a producer of exploitation and sex videos finds himself accused of killing his own mistress and the boyfriend of one of his most promising stars.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Spies, Lies & Naked Thighs (1988)
Plot Summary:
In this spoof of spy films, Alan, a U.N. translator, and his kindergarten teacher wife, Beverly, get roped into helping foil a presidential assassination plot by an unlikely G-man-who just so happens to look like Alan's old college buddy, Freddie. But before "Freddie" can finger the real hired-gun-a cold-hearted killer with a penchant for using kitchen tools to do the deed-he, Alan, and Beverly must first rule out some strange and unusual suspects.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Il sergente Rompiglioni diventa... caporale (1975)
Plot Summary:
An inept sergeant is mistaken for a secret agent and charged with finding a spy, but he is so stupid he is demoted and becomes a corporal.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Charlots Go to Spain (1972)
Plot Summary:
Four friends from Paris are living misadventures of all sorts in Spain when their group of travelers is forced to split due to a travel scam.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 406
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Tax Season (1989)
Plot Summary:
A man in a three-piece-suit from Cleveland buys the Hollywood tax service for cheap. His first big client accidentally gives him his account ledger with details of his cocaine trafficking. The pair then run around a country club before opening hours. The remainder of the film is shot entirely in windowless rooms.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Ringo (1978)
Plot Summary:
Ringo, stressed out by fame, trades places with a schmuck who looks exactly like him. Then the problems start!.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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The Game (2008)
Plot Summary:
A funny comedy about the Russian footfall team and their adventures during the World Cup.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Maniacs (1964)
Plot Summary:
Commedia all'italiana consisting of a series of brief comic sketches based on manias, mainly sexual, featuring several figures of Italian society.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, sketch comedy
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Happy He Who Like Ulysses (1970)
Plot Summary:
For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life with a horse named Ulysse. What a shock when Pascal, the farmer, tells him he has decided to sell Ulysse to a picador for being too old. Not only will he be separated from his faithful companion, but he is well aware too that the arenas of Arles mean death for Ulysse. Being unable to stand such injustice, Antonin runs away from the farm in the company of Ulysse. Together, they go through the Lubéron, the Baux de Provence, the Alpilles, the Crau and the Vaccarès. Yet, their journey is no pleasure cruise, specially when it comes to crossing National Road 7. After a visit to Marcellin, an old friend of his, Antonin sets off again with Ulysse, this time towards the Rhône River.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Relax Freddie (1966)
Plot Summary:
The sequel of the famous "Slå Først, Frede!".
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 589
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: eurospy
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)
Plot Summary:
The second televised production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Helen Mirren in the cast, although this time in a different role (Titania). In the 1968 production, which was released to movie theatres in Europe, but premiered in the U.S. on CBS-TV, Ms. Mirren played Hermia.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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The Comedy of Errors (1983)
Plot Summary:
Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransome's paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Happy Go Lucky (1972)
Plot Summary:
A sadly humorous story about a Siberian tractor driver, Ivan Rastorguyev (Vasili Shukshin), traveling with his wife (Lidiya Fedoseyeva-Shukshina) to a Black Sea resort, and about their first visit to Moscow.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Comedy
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title (1966)
Plot Summary:
A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slapstick, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, sitcom, semi serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, parody
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The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966)
Plot Summary:
A wacky 60s spy spoof.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, spy comedy, parody, psychotronic, spoof
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That's Not Me (2017)
Plot Summary:
Polly’s dreams of making it as an actor are shattered when her identical twin sister Amy lands the lead role in a huge TV show. Mistaken for her famous sister at every turn, Polly decides to use Amy’s celebrity for her own advantage – free clothes, free booze, casual sex… with hilarious and disastrous consequences for them both.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, feel good
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Fantozzi Strikse Back (1990)
Plot Summary:
Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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Serenade for Two Spies (1965)
Plot Summary:
Another Eurospy flick.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: meta, parody, spoof, eurospy, comic, cult film
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Strike First Freddy (1965)
Plot Summary:
Frede Hansen, a game salesman, is mistaken for a secret service agent on a ferry and kidnapped by enemy agents. He escapes and now the secret service want to use him as bait to track the enemy. They assign their best agent, Smith to be his partner and supervisor. Their main task is to eliminate the head of the enemy conspiracy, the mysterious 'Dr. Pax' who's real identity is unknown. Freddy accompanies Smith to Stockholm where they are to meet Sonja, an agent for Dr. Pax, who is also on Smith's liquidation list. Thanks to his bag of game tricks, Freddy manages to avoid being done in by Kolick, a killer for Dr. Pax. Freddy falls for Sonja, and he, she and Smith are taken as prisoners to Dr. Pax's hideout, a remote island fortress from which a major power is to be attacked by missiles guided by trained pigeons. Freddy manages to teach Dr. Pax a lasting lesson in the difference between trained pigeons and homing pigeons.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, eurospy
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Where the Bullets Fly (1966)
Plot Summary:
In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy from an element named Spurium,.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, parody, psychotronic, independent film, spoof, eurospy, comic
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Lady Football (1983)
Plot Summary:
In Italy in the early 1980s, a Brazilian football ace is afflicted by nostalgia for his country and for his beautiful girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Burning Down the House (2001)
Plot Summary:
A down-on-his-luck film director sets fire to his home so he can collect the insurance money and fund his new movie. But crime apparently does pay, because once the rumor mill gets wind of his plans, everyone suddenly wants a slice of his new project's pie.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, independent film
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The Great Match (2006)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about the attempts of tribal groups around the world to watch a soccer match.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, sentimental
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The Best Movie (2008)
Plot Summary:
Vadik Volnov (Garik Kharlamov) dies on his own wedding of cannabis overdose and has to prove to God that he is worthy to enter Heaven. During his conversation with God's secretary, Vadik recalls numerous memorable moments of his earthly existence, such as getting drunk on cognac on his 8th birthday, service in the Soviet Army in Afghanistan, bandit showdowns in crime-ridden 1990s Russia, and, finally, meeting the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, not serious, humorous, entertaining, exciting, captivating, funny, spoof, light, parody
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Turtles Are Surprisingly Fast Swimmers (2005)
Plot Summary:
Suzume Katagura, a bored housewife, spends her days doing chores and taking care of her husband's pet turtle. One day, she sees a wanted ad for spies. Hoping for some excitement in her life, she decides to give them a call.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 969
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, weird
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Meet the Malawas (2019)
Plot Summary:
A news anchor, a comedian, an actress, and a soccer player with big egos have to travel across the globe to meet the Malawa tribe for a TV show.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, funny, light, humorous, semi serious, entertaining
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Would I Lie to You? 2 (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dans le quartier du Sentier, Eddie Vuibert, Dov et Yvan sont confrontés aux procédés pour le moins expéditifs de leur nouveau client, Eurodiscount, une chaîne européenne d'hypermarchés. Karine, lasse des turpitudes de son volage époux, Dov, le chasse du foyer. La bande de copains se disloque.Dov et Patrick partent tenter leur chance sous le soleil de Californie, tandis qu'Eddie et Yvan font les marchés. Entre temps, Serge, devenu livreur, noue une idylle avec Chochana Boutboul, une jeune fille de bonne famille à qui il fait croire qu'il est très fortuné.C'est alors qu'Eddie découvre que sa faillite dépasse le simple échec commercial et qu'il a été victime d'une scandaleuse escroquerie. Dès lors, il décide de se venger et conçoit un plan qui va réunir et mobiliser tous ses amis.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, light, feel good, cult film
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Locked Out (2006)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, exciting, realistic, independent film
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One Day in Europe (2005)
Plot Summary:
One day in Europe shows stories set in four European countries. All of them involve thievery in some way or the other. The protagonists are strangers in the respective country. For none of them their stay turns out as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious