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Plot Summary:
Three carhops try to help save a failing drive-in restaurant.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Stewardess School (1986)
Plot Summary:
A group of varied misfits (including a former prostitute/stripper and a bumbler who can't see more than 6 inches in front of his face) enter a school to become flight attendants. Somehow, the group makes it through to the final test: a cross-country flight.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, parody, teen sex comedy, sexy, humorous, realistic, not serious, hot, teen comedy
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Swim Team (1979)
Plot Summary:
A new swimming coach is hired to break a team's seven-year losing streak.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, teen sex comedy, independent film
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Lunch Wagon (1981)
Plot Summary:
Three women start a lunch wagon business but run into stiff resistance from a competitor.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, spoof, sexy, independent film, parody, hot
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Skatetown, U.S.A. (1979)
Plot Summary:
A street-gang leader challenges a handsome young skater in a championship contest at the local roller-disco rink.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, campy
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The Unfinished Works Of Sean Weathers (2004)
Plot Summary:
During the early-2000s filmmaker Sean Weathers took 3 projects into production which he would not finish (Gangz vs. Cults, The Erotic Adventures of Samson & Delilah and Escape from Bloodbath Island).
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, grindhouse, campy, cult film
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The Adventures of Lucky Pierre (1961)
Plot Summary:
A man imagines that everybody he sees is naked. That's... that's really about it.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, sexy, psychotronic, sex comedy, independent film, sexploitation film, hot, cult film
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Summer Camp (1979)
Plot Summary:
The director of a failing summer camp decides to invite campers from ten years ago for a free weekend event, hoping that he can trick them into fixing up the place and also get their families to provide them some financial support. The boys and girls return to the camp and play pranks on each other and try to score with the other campers and the staff.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, independent film, humorous, fun
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Gas Pump Girls (1979)
Plot Summary:
June and her friends take over a service station formerly run by her uncle. They perform every trick in the book to attract the customers.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, sex comedy, grindhouse, funny, sexy, humorous, realistic, not serious, sexual, independent film
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Zero to Sixty (1978)
Plot Summary:
A divorced man hooks up with a street-smart 16-year-old who makes her living by repossessing cars from their owners.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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College Girls (1968)
Plot Summary:
What Is College Life... But... Kicks!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, anthology, independent film
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They Still Call Me Bruce (1987)
Plot Summary:
Bruce Won arrives in America in search of an American G.I. who saved his life in the Korean War. He meets an orphan boy and together they land themselves in a string of outrageous situations. This high-strung farce culminates when a case of mistaken identity leads a gang of thugs to think Bruce is a karate master. They arrange a nationally-televised match which pits our hero against a monstrous brute, and Bruce is beaten to a bloody pulp.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, not serious, fast, surprise ending, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Hollywood Hot Tubs (1984)
Plot Summary:
A teen and his friends get into trouble for vandalizing the Hollywood sign, and rather than going to prison he opts to work for his uncle's hot tub repair company. The sleazy salesman drums up business by sabotaging the tubs at Hollywood Hot Tubs and by wooing the owner. The nephew begins falling in love with the secretary at his uncle's company, but risks losing her when caught in compromising but unintentional situations while he goes about his duties as tub repairman.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, psychotronic, independent film, teen comedy, sexploitation film, hot, cult film
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The Bit Part (1987)
Plot Summary:
Career counsellor Michael Thornton decides to change his career and become an actor. He dreams of performing Shakespeare but ends up in a television ad where only his hands appear on camera. He finds a friend in actress Mary McAllister (Nicole Kidman) until she is called to Hollywood to star in a horror feature. Katrina Foster plays Michael's understanding wife Helen, who supports him while he pursues his elusive dream.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 224
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Cherry Hill High (1977)
Plot Summary:
Five recent graduates of an all-girl high school - Kippy, Sarah, Michelle, Peaches and Alison - attempt to lose their virginity during a two-week bicycle trip with their seemingly repressed teacher Miss Woodruff. The girls hold a contest to see who can lose their virginity in the most creative and original manner.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, grindhouse, independent film, teen sex comedy
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Surf II (1983)
Plot Summary:
Evil Nerd Menlo wants to get revenge on some surfers by selling a bad batch of soda called Buzz Cola which turns people into mutant zombies. Its up to Jocko, Chuck, Bob and their surfer buddies to save the day.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, horror comedy, cult classic, spoof, independent film, parody, hot, scatology, cult film
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Supervixens (1975)
Plot Summary:
Clint Ramsey has to leave his job working at Martin Bormann's gas station and flee after his wife is murdered by psycho cop Harry Sledge, who tries to pin the murder on Clint. Crossing America, Clint gets sexually harassed on all sides by various voluptuous nymphomaniacs, and it all ends in a literally explosive climax.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: erotic, grindhouse, sensual, sex comedy, sexy, surreal, disturbing, dark comedy, cult classic, offbeat
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Serial (1980)
Plot Summary:
It's the end of the 70s. Hippies are assimilating, women are raising their consciousness, and men are becoming confused and ineffectual. Don't expect to be able to keep track of all the names or who's sleeping with who; the picture very skillfully conveys the hopeless muddle through which the many characters move as they try to find themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, cult classic, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, suspense, cult film
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Your Three Minutes Are Up (1973)
Plot Summary:
Charlie is a sad sack of a man, working at a depressingly dull office job and stuck in a passionless engagement to a neurotic woman. One of the few bright spots in his life is his friend Mike, who seems to be living a life of carefree bohemianism.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film
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Ratboy (1986)
Plot Summary:
A failed window dresser exploits a being with rat-like features in an effort to make money.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 763
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Denise Calls Up (1995)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends in New York, working away at their PCs and laptops, keep in touch exclusively by phone and fax. They are all too busy to meet face to face. Gale plays matchmaker, by phone, to Jerry and Barbara who, in turn, hit it off beautifully – via phone and fax. Martin gets a telephone call from someone he's never met. It's Denise, with some extraordinary news. Tapping away at his computer all the while, he develops a sort of friendship with Denise – via phone. And so it goes as the friends, tap, tap, tapping away, share news, hopes, and dreams – via phone and fax. Finally Gale has an unfortunate encounter with a phone, Denise has some more news for Martin, and Frank plans a gala New Year's Eve party, but will he answer the door?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: ironic, satirical, humorous, independent film, realistic, witty, semi serious, funny, light, thought provoking
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The Seniors (1978)
Plot Summary:
Four college seniors open a bogus sex clinic, which unexpectedly mushrooms into a multi-million dollar business. Featuring a young Dennis Quaid in one of his earliest roles and Alan Reed (the original voice of Fred Flintstone) in his final film appearance.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sexy, grindhouse, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, hot
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Campus Man (1987)
Plot Summary:
Todd Barret is an aspiring businessman. He's got what it takes, but what he doesn't have is enough money to stay in college. So he cooks up a plan to make the first ever all male sports calendar. He eventually convinces Cactus Jack, a very shadowy and tough loan shark, to give him enough money to make the deal. Todd makes enough to pay for his education, but what about the money he owes Cactus Jack?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, homoerotic
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Outrageous Fortune (1987)
Plot Summary:
Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actress, decides through happenstance to also study with Korzenowski. The two women end up dating the same man (who turns out to be a double agent) and follow him across the country to force him to choose between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, retro, exciting, realistic, witty, semi serious, buddy comedy, light, philosophical
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The Hollywood Knights (1980)
Plot Summary:
Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. Everything from drag racing to Vietnam to high school love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, grindhouse, humorous, sex comedy, feel good, realistic, not serious, independent film, parody, funny
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Clifford (1994)
Plot Summary:
When his brother asks him to look after his young son, Clifford, Martin Daniels agrees, taking the boy into his home and introducing him to his future wife, Sarah. Clifford is fixated on the idea of visiting a famed theme park, and Martin, an engineer who helped build the park, makes plans to take him. But, when Clifford reveals himself to be a first-rate brat, his uncle goes bonkers, and a loony inter-generational standoff ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, realistic, funny, melancholic, not serious, black comedy, independent film, offbeat, crying
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The Big Steal (1990)
Plot Summary:
Danny wants two things in life more than anything else, one is a Jaguar and the other is Joanna Johnson. After Danny is conned into trading his Nissan Cedric for a 1973 Jaguar, he plots to win Joanna and get revenge against the sleazy car dealer Gordon Farkes.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Fraternity Vacation (1985)
Plot Summary:
A nerd gains the friendship of two of his frat brothers when his dad offers them his condo for the week in Palm Springs, and also offers the fraternity a hot tub and jacuzzi if they can help his son find a girl. They meet two guys from a rival fraternity, and make a bet on who can nail the Designated Babe first.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, funny, independent film, humorous, realistic, not serious, crying, feel good, unusual plot structure
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H.O.T.S. (1979)
Plot Summary:
Four girls spurned by the popular Sorority on campus decide to start their own and steal all the men on campus away from the house that rejected them.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, grindhouse, humorous, sexual, independent film, offbeat, realistic, not serious, scary
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Dance 'Til Dawn (1988)
Plot Summary:
It's prom night and the kids of Hoover High will be having a night they will never forget. Popular girl Shelley ditches her prom and ends up spending the night with unpopular Dan; Popular guy Kevin goes out with nerdy Angela because he heard she was easy; Patrice continues to blame her boyfriend Roger for everything that doesn't go the way she wants it to.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, teen comedy
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Hot Pursuit (1987)
Plot Summary:
Young Danny is following his rich girlfriend's family to the Caribbean. But suddenly he simply must make a chemistry test and cannot go with them. After they have left, he gets a leave from his professor and takes a plane to find them. But he is not quite sure where they are, and meets smugglers, crazy captains and murderers.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, road movie, entertaining, humorous, hilarious, exciting, semi serious, funny, romantic