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Plot Summary:
The main character, nicknamed "Teddy Bear" by his friends and acquaintances, is a manager of a sports club in Poland. One day he is detained at the border just as his sport team is off to a tournament. It appears that somebody has torn out a few pages from his passport. It occurs to him that perhaps his ex-wife has done it in order to get her hands on their joint account in a London bank. Therefore, he has to get to London as soon as possible in order to transfer the money to a different bank. The solution is taking part in a movie, made by his friend. The script requires a double role, thus the search for another actor is announced. The double has to apply for the passport, and that is solved through a girlfriend who agrees to play the dope's new fiancée. At the engagement party he is slipped a drug, and Teddy Bear runs off to the airport with the false passport. On the plane, however, he meets his ex-wife.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, cult classic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, road movie, philosophical, sexy
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Plot Summary:
Falsely accused Warsaw art museum assistant goes into hiding as a woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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A Trip Down the River (1970)
Plot Summary:
A stowaway (Stanisław Tym) sneaks aboard a ship departing on a cruise down the Vistula River. The captain takes him for a Communist Party cultural coordinator and the intruder gladly adapts to his new role, immediately setting to work at manipulating the passengers and crew into silly and vaguely humiliating games. Before long, Tym has got everyone under his thumb and created his own comedic dictatorship.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 65 min
Plot tags: road movie, experimental
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A Jungle Book of Regulations (1974)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, absurd
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Plot Summary:
What Will You Do When You Catch Me? is a parody of comunist times in Poland. A state-owned company director is having an afair during his delegation. Later on, his mistress turns out to be the daughter of a Communist party bigwig and pregnant. He knows he'll have to marry her to save his reputation and his job. But divorce is never simple.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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Wait for Me in Heaven (1988)
Plot Summary:
Pepe Soriano plays a Madrid shopkeeper who is kidnapped by henchmen of Franco in this political comedy. After his kidnapping, he is forced to become the dictator's double for many official ceremonies. Due to his long and unexplained absence, Pepe's wife believes her husband has been abducted and killed, so she tries to reach her husband through spiritualism. After Pepe surprises her with a nocturnal visit, he tells her he will touch his ear to signal it is he and not Franco in public appearances.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, biting, parody, suspense
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Plot Summary:
An Italian laborer (Nino Manfredi) foils anyone who tries to stop him from selling espresso on the Milan-to-Naples train.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 706
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: road movie, culinary, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Life Is a Long Quiet River (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and (apparently) contented children. The other family is poor, with rambunctious (even delinquent) children, often hungry, but with lots of laughter in the house.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, cult classic, humorous, captivating, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, cult film
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Plot Summary:
A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the straightforward, intimate approach to students. He is opposed in his liberal views by Jakub, who likes to manipulate people. There is a confrontation from the beginning when Jaroslaw allows to attend the seminar a student who presents the views not according to the official line. In the end, a jury prize is given to mediocre paper, while the suspected school of thought still draws a recommendation. Finally the deputy rector arrives for the closing ceremonies, and since he disfavors the line of thought awarded by the recommendation the tensions rise. They climax when student in question bites the rector in the ear while receiving recommendation. The confrontation results in a scandal and the police is called in.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: intellectual, thought provoking, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, cynical, semi serious, biting, crying
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Zemsta (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, period piece, costume drama
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Plot Summary:
Spike Milligan's book about the divided Irish village of Puckoon comes to the big screen.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK, Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, black comedy, offbeat, realistic, biting, suspense
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min
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Plot Summary:
Welcome to the monotonous, oppressive modern American byproduct of suburban sprawl: the urban strip-mall. Native to this environment and products of outdated pop culture are Rob (Mark Greenfield) and Manny (Coolio), the unsuccessful, unrefined and uncouth sales force behind Affordable Mattress. When new employee Isabelle (Rocío Verdejo) is hired in hopes of improving dismal sales, some things do change and after recruiting fellow strip-mall burnout Martin (C. Clayton Blackwell), she's got everyone working together to split a common goal - 200,000 dollars.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, independent film, dark comedy, realistic, biting, suspense, fable
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous, independent film, realistic, semi serious, hilarious, sentimental
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IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, not serious, spoof, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 294
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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Plot tags: independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, black comedy
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IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, cult classic, grotesque
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, sitcom, semi serious, slapstick, biting, sexual
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Head Office (1985)
Plot Summary:
In this comic take on big-business wheelings and dealings, an ambitious senator's son (Judge Reinhold) moves up the corporate ladder through undeserved promotions. But against his better judgment, he falls for a woman (the chairman's daughter, no less) who's leading a protest against the company's shady business practices. "Saturday Night Live" writer-performer Michael O'Donoghue scripted this satire co-starring Danny DeVito and Jane Seymour.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, funny, entertaining, light, talky, feel good, not serious, realistic, witty
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Open Season (1995)
Plot Summary:
When the television ratings machines suddenly malfunction, public television suddenly, but mistakenly, soars to #1 in this humorous satire.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, entertaining, light, absurd, spoof, feel good, semi serious, funny
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Plot Summary:
Comedy featuring interweaving stories of seven households caught up in a property chain on moving day, each one dependent on the other.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 433
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 480
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Actor Michael Madsen turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant's life, loves, and troubles.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good, entertaining, black comedy, independent film
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, humorous, witty, talky, light, feel good, not serious, spoof, hilarious