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Plot Summary:
1960s musical showcasing Cliff Richard. Four bus mechanics working for London Transport strike up a deal with the company: they do up a one of the company's legendary red double decker buses and take it to southern Europe as a mobile hotel. If it succeeds, they will be put in charge of a whole fleet. While on the road in France they pick up three young British ladies whose car breaks down and offer to take them to their next singing job in Athens. They also pick up a stowaway, who hides the fact that she's a famous American pop star on the run, chased by the media and her parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, slang
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Oklahoma! (1999)
Plot Summary:
London stage reproduction of the classic Broadway musical.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Musical, Romance, Western
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Seeing Double (2003)
Plot Summary:
When the members of S Club complain about how tough it is to stay on top, they find themselves replaced by lookalikes... or are they?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, stylized
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Hot Summer (1968)
Plot Summary:
The 1968 East German film Heißer Sommer brought six million East Germans into the theaters and today is regarded as one of the greatest DEFA films. Actors Frank Schobel and Chris Doerk were made famous from the film.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: East Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Live a Little, Love a Little (1968)
Plot Summary:
Pin-up photographer, who doesn't want to get pinned down, comes up against a girl who won't take no for an answer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, psychotronic, offbeat
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Speedway (1968)
Plot Summary:
A race car driver tries to outrun the beautiful tax auditor out to settle his account.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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A Hard Day's Night (1964)
Plot Summary:
Capturing John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison and Ringo Starr in their electrifying element, 'A Hard Day's Night' is a wildly irreverent journey through this pastiche of a day in the life of The Beatles during 1964. The band have to use all their guile and wit to avoid the pursuing fans and press to reach their scheduled television performance, in spite of Paul's troublemaking grandfather and Ringo's arrest.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, mockumentary, not serious, funny, surreal, black and white, cult classic, hilarious, inspirational
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Goddess (2013)
Plot Summary:
Elspeth Dickens dreams of finding her "voice" despite being stuck in an isolated farmhouse with her twin toddlers. A web-cam becomes her pathway to fame and fortune, but at a price.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Victor/Victoria (1995)
Plot Summary:
An out-of-work singer, Victoria Grant (Julie Andrews), meets a just-fired, flamboyant gay man in a diner in 1920's Paris. He convinces her to pretend to be a man who is a female impersonator in order to get a job. The act is a hit in a local nightclub, but things get complicated when a gangster and nightclub owner from Chicago, King Marchan (Michael Nouri) falls in-love with "her." Flimed live on stage on Broadway, 1995.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 146 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, remake of american film, queer cinema
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Beach Ball (1965)
Plot Summary:
Edd Byrnes tries to get an ethnic-music-studies grant to buy instruments for his rock and roll group.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 196
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang
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It Happened at the World's Fair (1963)
Plot Summary:
Mike and Danny fly a cropduster, but because of Danny's gambling debts, a local sheriff takes custody of it. Trying to earn money, they hitch-hike to the World's Fair in Seattle. While Danny tries to earn money playing poker, Mike takes care of a small girl, Sue-Lin, whose father has disappeared. Being a ladies' man, he also finds the time to court a young nurse, Diane.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic, cult film
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Frankie and Johnny (1966)
Plot Summary:
Elvis plays Johnny, a riverboat entertainer with a big gambling problem. Donna Douglas plays Johnny's girl, Frankie. A fortune teller tells Johnny how he can change his luck. Enter a new lady luck played by Nancy Kovack and the cat fight begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, road movie, sexy, clever, bad ending
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He's a Woman, She's a Man (1994)
Plot Summary:
Wing is a devoted fan of popular singer Rose who is involved in a topsy-turvy relationship with her charismatic producer Sam. Willing to go to any length to meet Rose, the willowy Wing disguises herself as a man, and with a twist of fate is chosen to be the next budding star for the record company.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Having a Wild Weekend (1965)
Plot Summary:
Dinah (Barbara Ferris) is a famous model and actress who is getting tired of life in the limelight and wants to take a break. While shooting a commercial spot for meat, she meets Steve (Dave Clark), a stuntman. Dinah and Steve hit it off and decide to head to an island to get away from it all (bringing along four of Steve's friends, Mike Smith, Lenny Davidson, Denis West Payton, and Rick Huxley, who -- surprise! -- play music with him). Before long, Dinah is reported missing and everyone is looking for her, making their getaway anything but tranquil.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, period piece, clever, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, psychotronic
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The Bobo (1967)
Plot Summary:
Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book him, but only on the condition that Juan first manages to spend an evening with Olimpia, a "shrewd merciless beauty" who seems effortlessly to collect apartments and Maserati sports cars while leaving a trail of broken hearts behind her. Juan approaches the challenge by pretending to her he is an emissary for a rich count. Written by Jeremy Perkins.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 958
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious
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From Justin to Kelly (2003)
Plot Summary:
A lonely, sexually repressed man. A depressed woman. A summer camp. On this fateful night, they will meet... and their hearts will become one.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, light, feel good, touching, realistic, semi serious, romantic, road movie, rough
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Girl Happy (1965)
Plot Summary:
A Chicago mobster hires a rock and roll singer and his band to keep an eye on his daughter during Spring Break in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: retro, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, psychotronic
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French for Beginners (2006)
Plot Summary:
The story of Henrik, who takes part in a student exchange program with France. The only reason for this journey is to conquer the heart of his dream girl. Wild Partys, exciting trips, a crazy host family and of course his trouble with the French language turn the - at first unmeant - holidays into a memorable summer.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic, teen comedy
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Beach Party (1963)
Plot Summary:
Anthropology Professor Robert Orwell Sutwell and his secretary Marianne are studying the sex habits of teenagers. The surfing teens led by Frankie and Dee Dee don't have much sex but they sing, battle the motorcycle rats and mice led by Eric Von Zipper and dance to Dick Dale and the Del Tones.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, psychotronic, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slang, teen sex comedy
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Beach Blanket Bingo (1965)
Plot Summary:
In the fourth of the highly successful Frankie and Annette beach party movies, a motorcycle gang led by Eric Von Zipper kidnaps singing star Sugar Kane managed by Bullets, who hires sky-diving surfers Steve and Bonnie from Big Drop for a publicity stunt. With the usual gang of kids and a mermaid named Lorelei.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, stylized, psychotronic, funny, independent film, exciting, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Fancy Dancing (2002)
Plot Summary:
A composer finds love with a co-worker after taking a job at his uncle's advertising agency.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating, emotional, semi serious, feel good, realistic
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Not on the Lips (2003)
Plot Summary:
A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He's negotiating a deal with an American, Eric Thomson, who turns out to be Gilberte's first husband from an annulled and secret stateside marriage. Along with her sister Arlette, Gilberte begs Eric not to tell Georges about the marriage. Meanwhile, a young artist, Charly, pursues Gilberte while Arlette tries to match him with the young Huguette, who loves him. Will Eric play along or try to re-win Gilberte's affection? Can Gilberte play one off against another? And who will manage to kiss whom on the lips?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, clever, offbeat, stylized
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The Boy Friend (1971)
Plot Summary:
The assistant stage manager of a small-time theatrical company is forced to understudy for the leading lady at a matinée performance at which an illustrious Hollywood director is in the audience scouting for actors to be in his latest "all-talking, all-dancing, all-singing" extravaganza.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, feel good, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, spoof, parody
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Death of a Dynasty (2003)
Plot Summary:
A story which centers around Dave Katz, a journalist at a hip-hop magazine who is sent on assignment to uncover the often comedic underworld of Roc-a-Fella Records run by Damon Dash and Jay-Z.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Musical, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, talky, semi serious, independent film, mockumentary, witty
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30 Days Until I'm Famous (2004)
Plot Summary:
A Latina working in Los Angeles as a messenger is randomly discovered and fashioned into a pop music star.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
Plot Summary:
An update of the classic Shakespeare story, director Kenneth Branagh shot this movie like a classic 30s musical. Love's Labour's Lost tells the story of four best friends who swear off love. The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honour is immediately put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France and her three lovely companions. It's love at first sight for all concerned followed by the men's highly entertaining but hopeless efforts to disguise their feelings.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Romance, Comedy, Musical
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, semi serious, humorous, witty, sex comedy, anamorphic, offbeat, independent film, slapstick comedy
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I'll Be There (2003)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about a has-been rock star (Craig Ferguson) that discovers he has a teenage daughter (Charlotte Church), from a long forgotten love affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, touching, humorous, feel good, semi serious
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The Music Man (2003)
Plot Summary:
Contemporary rethinking of the legendary Broadway musical and 1962 film, updated to reflect a few early twenty-first-century sensibilities: A masterful con artist tries to bilk a staid Midwestern community, with unexpected results.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical, Romance, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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1234 (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ian Bonar is Stevie, a wannabe musician whose look is a hybrid of Jarvis Cocker and early Elvis Costello. Working with his drummer pal Neil (Matthew Baynton) in a call centre, they dream of breaking into the indie music scene. To do this they require additional band members. Step forward the driven (and drinking) guitarist Billy (Kieran Bew) and slightly scatty bassist Emily (Lyndsey Marshal), who has a sideline in making sculpture from hair.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sentimental, uplifting, touching, feel good, realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious
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Electric Apricot (2007)
Plot Summary:
Electric Apricot is a spoof of jam bands centered around the band, Electric Apricot, in the style of "This Is Spinal Tap".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, mockumentary, offbeat, semi serious, fake documentary
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So This Is Romance? (1997)
Plot Summary:
Mike is a composer who dreams of creating symphonies but instead, dashes off jingles for TV commercials -- all the while pining over ex-girlfriend Helen. But Mike's life takes several unexpected turns when he meets Sara. After the two depart for an idyllic vacation together, Mike locates his mother (Susannah York), who, 35 years previous, had left his father. Writer-director Kevin W. Smith's feature-film directorial debut.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 189
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy