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Plot Summary:
A London accountant on his honeymoon gets swept away by gambling fever.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 199
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Balkanisateur (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two friends from a small Greek town travel to Bulgaria and Switzerland, hoping they can gain money from the difference in foreign exchange rates.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Greece, Bulgaria, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Mad Cows (1999)
Plot Summary:
When her TV star husband Alex decides to divorce her so that he can start a career in politics, newly single mother Maddy goes shoplifting and ends up in jail. Losing custody of her infant child, Maddy hatches a scheme to break out of prison with the assistance of her friend Gillian, who's avoiding the law herself for credit card fraud. Now Maddy has to find the couple who have adopted her son and avoid falling in love with selfish Alex all over again.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 381
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ticket to Vegas (2013)
Plot Summary:
Four Russian friends come from Moscow to Las Vegas to get 5 million dollars they've won in lottery. But everything goes wrong, when they discover that someone stole their winning ticket.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 961
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, entertaining, disturbing, cult classic, cult film
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Press for Time (1966)
Plot Summary:
Norman is quite happy selling newspapers outside Westminster station but his Grandfather (the Prime Minister) wants to get him "a more responsible job". A few favours are called in and Norman becomes the newest reporter at the seaside town of Tinmouth. After causing chaos at a local council meeting and causing the demolition of a new house he tries to organise a beauty pageant. A slapstick tale of corruption in high and low places.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Luisa Omielan: What Would Beyoncé Do? (2017)
Plot Summary:
Luisa shot to fame following one of the most successful debut stand-up shows at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, described as “one of the biggest stand up hits of the decade” by the Guardian. This seventy-five minute special captures the infectious energy of Luisa’s shows by joining the queues and audience in the build-up to the event, discovering why her loyal army of fans love her unique approach to stand up and her Beyoncé ethos. The show is set to a soundtrack of Beyoncé’s best known hits.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Remember Me? (1997)
Plot Summary:
A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film
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The Adding Machine (1969)
Plot Summary:
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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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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The More You Ignore Me (2018)
Plot Summary:
Based on Jo Brand's critically acclaimed novel of the same name, The More You Ignore Me is a warm, comedy drama focusing on the life of an unconventional family in 1980s rural England. The film focuses on Gina, a young mother, whose efforts to be a loving mother and wife are undermined by her declining mental health. Things deteriorate when she develops an obsession with the local weatherman, which leads to an admission to the nearby psychiatric hospital. Over the years, as she grows up, her daughter Alice struggles to relate to her heavily medicated mum, and causes chaos when she comes up with a plan to reconnect with her, which divides the family forever and leads to a moving climax. Set to the songs of The Smiths, The More You Ignore Me provides a sometimes stark, yet comical insight into life within this quirky household, whilst addressing mental health issues and their impact on the family.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Dr. Jekyll Likes Them Hot (1979)
Plot Summary:
A lusty young woman decides to use her sexual powers to "tame" the evil and murderous Dr. Jekyll.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sexy, hot
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The Black Barons (1992)
Plot Summary:
Komedie vás přesvědčí o tom, že i na chmurné stránky naší historie je možné se dívat s nadhledem a humorem. Čo bolo, to bolo... Major Terazky vede svůj šik pétépáků od průšvihu k průšvihu vstříc světlým zítřkům. Česká filmová komedie podle románu Miloslava Švandrlíka.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Chekhov's Motifs (2002)
Plot Summary:
The film is based on A. P. Chekhov’s play “Tatiana Repina” and short story “Difficult People”. At his wedding, the groom is horrified to see among the church crowd his former mistress who had recently committed suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 365
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ukraine, Russia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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There Was a Castle with Forty Dogs (1990)
Plot Summary:
This movie was based on the novel "Au bonheur des chiens" (To the Happiness of Dogs), by Rémo Forlani.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France, Spain, Belgium
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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The Halo Effect (2004)
Plot Summary:
Fatso is the proprietor of what may be the worst eaterie in the city, and is struggling to keep a sinking ship afloat. His compulsive gambling is getting the better of him and he has to contend with an endless succession of loan sharks and debt collectors. He employs hopelessly incompetent staff and generally manages to keep the entire community around him ticking over. However just as Fatso seems to be getting everything under control, he is faced with a dilemma that could destroy him for good.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ireland
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Cry of the Cormoran (1971)
Plot Summary:
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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I Could Never Have Sex with Any Man Who Has So Little Regard for My Husband (1973)
Plot Summary:
In this sex farce, two middle-aged pairs of aspiring swingers rent a summer cottage. There they sit around discussing the pros and cons of having affairs.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Nobody's Perfekt (1981)
Plot Summary:
While everyone knows you can't fight City Hall, there are those who, for whatever reason, can't resist the challenge. Three slightly disturbed psychiatric patients decide to take on the government. What ensues includes car chases, a ferry boat hijacking, strip-teases and lots of fun!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Breaking the Bank (2014)
Plot Summary:
With ruthless US and Japanese investment banks circling Tuftons, a struggling two-hundred-year-old, family-run British bank, can its bumbling, incompetent chairman, Sir Charles Bunbury, fend off the onslaught and save the bank?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Foreign Body (1986)
Plot Summary:
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Dead Babies (2000)
Plot Summary:
When a group of college kids get together for a weekend of partying, they find themselves mixed up in a murderous plot. Having planned on a weekend of hard-core debauchery, the English students and their visiting American friends do not notice when a series of mindless murders and acts of terrorism are carried out around them.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 855
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, witty, twisted, psychological, clever, serious, realistic, talky
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Don't Raise the Bridge, Lower the River (1968)
Plot Summary:
George Lester is a man who is chasing rainbows, looking for the pot of gold at the end. When his wife, Pamela grows tired of being dragged all over the world, she leaves him. While she is away, George converts her family home into a discotheque, when she returns, she threatens to send George to jail for fraud, cause she didn't give her approval. George needing some fast bucks, decides to turn to an old cohort of his, William Homer but Willy's a little short. George then decides to steal the plans to a new drill, Pamela's suitor, Dudley Heath is working on. But when George gets the mumps, he can't make it to the meeting place and refuses to give Willy the plans unless he gives him the cash first. And the buyers won't give unless they see the merchandise first. Written by [email protected].
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Percy (1971)
Plot Summary:
Edwin Antony (Hywel Bennett) is emasculated in an accident which kills a young philanderer. Doctors successfully replace his member with that of the dead man, but refuse to tell him the full story of the organ's origin. So Edwin begins a search which takes him to the philanderer's wife - and also to his many, many girlfriends.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, psychotronic, sexy
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Three on a Spree (1961)
Plot Summary:
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Who's Got the Action? (1962)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer begins to win after his wife secretly becomes his bookie to save their money.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 469
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious
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The People We Hate at the Wedding (2022)
Plot Summary:
A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, it turns out to be just what this singular family needs to reconnect.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Idiot in Paris (1967)
Plot Summary:
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 371
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting (2002)
Plot Summary:
Seguito de Febbre da cavallo!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Brewster's Millions (1985)
Plot Summary:
Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, entertaining, humorous, sweet, black comedy, light hearted, colorful, realistic
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We Think the World of You (1988)
Plot Summary:
An aimless young man, Johnny, is sent prison. He entrusts his beloved dog, Evie, to the care of his former lover and best friend, Frank. When he gets out of prison, he has to face difficulties at home. Added to this, is the fact that he may have to give up Evie to Frank.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, eighties, cult film
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My Last Five Girlfriends (2009)
Plot Summary:
My Last Five Girlfriends traces the romantic journey of thirtysomething bachelor Duncan. As the film opens, the despondent Duncan is apparently preparing to take his own life, but not before taking the time to send a message to the last five women he dated. Taking the form of a whirlwind tour through Duncan World, the film is a comedic exploration of his failed relationships.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, clever, independent film