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Plot Summary:
When a Tango dancer asks a Rabbi to enter a dance competition, there’s one big problem—due to his Orthodox beliefs, he’s not allowed to touch her! But the prize money would save his school from bankruptcy, so they develop a plan to enter the competition without sacrificing his faith, and the bonds of family and community are tested one dazzling dance step at a time in this lighthearted fable.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 439
Genere: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, light, humorous, spiritual, biblical, family comedy, fable
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Selfie Dad (2020)
Plot Summary:
Spiraling into a mid-life crisis and feeling disconnected from his family, Ben Marcus, a reality-TV editor, thinks he can only be happy by fulfilling his dream of becoming a professional comedian. Ben posts his stand-up routines to YouTube, and the videos fall flat. Then his tweener son posts Ben miserably failing on a home improvement project, and much to his teenage daughter’s dismay, it goes viral, launching Ben's social-media career as Selfie Dad. Although he quickly becomes an award-winning phenom, no amount of success brings Ben satisfaction. Through his friendship with a young coworker, Mickey, Ben finds the secret to a happy family . . . with his Bible in one hand, and his phone in the other.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: christian film, funny, light, touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The J Team (2021)
Plot Summary:
The story follows a young girl named JoJo whose life is turned upside down when her beloved dance coach decides to retire and is replaced by a sparkle-hating instructor named Poppy. Wanting to stay in the running for an upcoming dance competition, JoJo and her best friends, The Rubies, must try their hardest to abide by Poppy’s new, harsh rules. Realizing she cannot hide her sparkle or bow anymore, JoJo is kicked out of her dance troupe and must rediscover what dancing means to her.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Main Event (2020)
Plot Summary:
After discovering a magical mask, an 11-year-old aspiring wrestler enters a competition to become the next WWE superstar by using special powers from a magical mask.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: exciting, captivating, entertaining, light, humorous
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Made for Each Other (1971)
Plot Summary:
The pair who created "Lovers and Other Strangers" take on marriage and other impossibilities.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Cupcakes (2013)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends in a Tel Aviv suburb get together to watch Universong, a Eurovision-like television song contest. They gather to watch and are depressed by the lifelessness of the Israeli entry, a parody of many recent offerings, a flashy, grating song about "amour." Realizing that Anat is distraught over the crisis in her marriage, they decide to compose a song to cheer her up. As a lark, they enters their cellphone video of it in next year's contest, and it becomes Israel's entry.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 654
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Israel, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, romantic comedy, queer cinema
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Out on Parole (2004)
Plot Summary:
With one more day of parole left, J.T. vows to play by the book. But when he finds out his mom will lose their home unless they come up with a serious amount of money, J.T. takes a chance by entering a lowrider contest that violates his parole.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Bagboy (2007)
Plot Summary:
A teenager enters the competitive world of grocery store bagging.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Work It (2020)
Plot Summary:
A brilliant but clumsy high school senior vows to get into her late father's alma mater by transforming herself and a misfit squad into dance champions.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, not serious, teen
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Anything for a Pop Star (2018)
Plot Summary:
The pop band Slavabody Disco Disco Boys, a fever among girls from all over Brazil, announces that it will play in Rio de Janeiro. Gabi, Manu and Ritinha will do everything they can to watch the show far from the city where they live.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 305
Genere: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: Brazil
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Lenny The Wonder Dog (2005)
Plot Summary:
After being implanted with a microchip that gives him special powers, a dog engages a young boy in conversation and adventure. Befriended by a local police officer, the dog, the boy and his friend go on a quest to save the world by undoing the insidious plot of an evil scientist to turn all kids into mindless robots.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 386
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, sentimental, semi serious
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A Lesson in Romance (2014)
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A successful career Mom gets a case of empty nest syndrome when her children go off to college, and her husband decides to join them and follow his own dreams. Fearing she might be losing her family for good, she enrolls determined to save her family. Will she win her family back, or drive them farther away?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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The Mistle-Tones (2012)
Plot Summary:
Holly, blessed with an amazing singing voice, is all set to audition for the newly vacated spot in a legendary local Christmas group which was founded by her late mother years ago. Shocked and upset when the slot goes to the barely talented best friend of the group's leader, Marci, Holly sets out to create her own musical group, The Mistle-Tones. After challenging their rivals to a sing-off on Christmas Eve, Holly finds herself on a journey to the real meaning of Christmas with some new friends and a new love thrown in for good measure.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, psychotronic, christmas comedy
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Fred 3: Camp Fred (2012)
Plot Summary:
Schools out and Fred Figglehorn's dream of water slides, horseback riding and monkey butlers during the summer turns into a nightmare of gruel and poisonous berries when his mom signs him up to an unsanitary camp.
IMDB Rating: 2.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining, freeze frame, realistic, independent film
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A Loud House Christmas (2021)
Plot Summary:
Lincoln Loud gears up for the ultimate Christmas, until he finds out that most of his sisters have plans to be elsewhere for the big day. Determined to remind his family that they all need to be together, Lincoln and his best friend Clyde McBride embark on a mission to preserve the family’s holiday traditions.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Family Holiday (2007)
Plot Summary:
A selfish con-man must show that he can be a family man to inherit his uncle's estate. As he tries to set up his scam family, he realizes that he really wants to have a one.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, touching, realistic, family comedy
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Saving Christmas (2014)
Plot Summary:
Kirk is enjoying the annual Christmas party extravaganza thrown by his sister until he realizes he needs to help out Christian, his brother-in-law who has a bad case of the bah-humbugs.
IMDB Rating: 1.3
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, light, controversial, disgusting, freeze frame, independent film
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Brother in Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
A robbery leaves a proprietor penniless before his wedding, but becoming a son-in-law to a second family might be the financial solution he needs.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Where's the Money (2017)
Plot Summary:
A quick witted young man from the streets of South Central must rush a lily-white USC fraternity to recover a stash of stolen money.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Take the 10 (2017)
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A day in the life of two best friends, a drug dealer, and a store manager collide at a hip-hop concert in the Inland Empire.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, dark comedy, buddy comedy
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Grand-Daddy Day Care (2019)
Plot Summary:
A man has to figure out a way to make extra money when his father-in-law moves in.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 976
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny
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That's So Suite Life of Hannah Montana (2007)
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Raven Baxter checks into the Tipton Hotel while on a business trip with her boss; Zack and Cody try to seduce the models for Raven's photoshoot, Maddie tries to get London to wear one of Raven's dresses, and pop star Hannah Montana wants a Raven original to wear on her new tour.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: sentimental, funny, light, sincere, touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Honey Girls (2021)
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Mega pop star, Fancy G, hosts a contest to find the next big solo artist. But the young contestants realize they are "better together" and secretly form a band called Honey Girls and become a huge hit cloaked in mystery.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Let's Dance (2019)
Plot Summary:
After his crew breaks up, a gifted but insecure hip-hop dancer teaches at a top ballet school in Paris, where he falls for an aspiring ballerina.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Tommy and the Cool Mule (2009)
Plot Summary:
Tommy Braxxton's father went away to war and never returned leaving Tommy faced with the daunting journey of becoming a man and the responsibility of supporting his single mom and sister. Along the way Tommy finds an unusual friend - a mule...that talks! Driven by the possibility of winning money to help save his family's farm Tommy ignores the insults hurled at him by the older kids and trains on his new mule friend Jackie A. for the big county stock show. Going against all odds Tommy and Jackie A. triumph over the older kids on horses in a spectacular show of resolve and determination.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, light, semi serious
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Step Sisters (2018)
Plot Summary:
Jamilah has her whole life figured out. She's the president of her black sorority, captain of their champion step dance crew, is student liaison to the college dean, and her next move is on to Harvard Law School. She's got it all, right? But when the hard-partying white girls from Sigma Beta Beta embarrass the school, Jamilah is ordered to come to the rescue. Her mission is to not only teach the rhythmically-challenged girls how to step dance, but to win the Steptacular, the most competitive of dance competitions. With the SBBs reputations and charter on the line, and Jamilah's dream of attending Harvard in jeopardy, these outcast screw-ups and their unlikely teacher stumble through one hilarious misstep after another. Cultures clash, romance blossoms, and sisterhood prevails as everyone steps out of their comfort zones.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, funny, inspirational, feel good, humorous, captivating, motivational
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The Town That Banned Christmas (2006)
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The competition heats up at the annual Greenlawn Christmas Decorating Contest when Norbert Bridges moves to town and stirs up trouble with the reigning champion Donnie Manning. But when the town outlaws Christmas after things get out of control it s up to the feuding neighbors to save Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, entertaining, captivating, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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No Limit Kids: Much Ado About Middle School (2010)
Plot Summary:
Comedy - Bill Cobbs, Lee Meriwether, Blake Michael.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, serious, realistic
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Seven-year-old Danny Parker is a good kid who loves his parents. But they have to go out on business dinners all the time, leaving him stuck with a sitter. It's not so bad when it's his favorite babysitter, Janelle but he also gets stuck with sitters like Ms. Greene who won't let him have any fun. Danny just wants to spend more time with his Mom and Dad.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
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Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Shakey is a family film about a 35-year-old widower named J.T. O'Neil, his precocious 10-year-old daughter and their devoted mutt Shakey. After moving from a small town to Chicago and missing the fine print in their rental contract, J.T. is forced to try and get rid of his lovable pooch. Shakey and Chandler won't have it and hatch a plan to keep Shakey and teach J.T. a valuable lesson about loyalty and the importance of keeping family together.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 226
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Country: USA
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Yes Day (2021)
Plot Summary:
A mom and dad who usually say no decide to say yes to their kids' wildest requests — with a few ground rules — on a whirlwind day of fun and adventure.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, smart, family comedy