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Plot Summary:
Three psychological troubled young men are on the verge of suicide. Their only hope lies in pitching their makeshift VR headset to investors and hopefully turn their lives around.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: experimental, anime
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Sem Essa, Aranha (1970)
Plot Summary:
Banker, acting as an international front, lives dangerously among a blonde, a brunette and a dark woman, his lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 221
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: experimental
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Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969)
Plot Summary:
An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: underground film, experimental, avant garde, independent film, art film, silent, silent film
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You, Your Brain, & You (2019)
Plot Summary:
A comedic and episodic look at how the Brain Institute helped 81 people with their brain skills--from the ordinary (intelligence and creativity) to the extraordinary (controlling the weather and bending space-time). But one man is determined to show that the head of the Brain Institute is a fraud and a charlatan.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Bahamas, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, experimental, art house, mockumentary, fake documentary
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The Feeling That the Time for Doing Something Has Passed (2023)
Plot Summary:
A fragmented, experiential look at the life of a woman as time passes in her long-term casual BDSM relationship, low-level corporate job, and quarrelsome Jewish family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: experimental, art house, independent film
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Late Bloomer (2010)
Plot Summary:
Sean is a loser, spending his summer shoveling sawdust and wasting away. His best mate forms a plan to dig them out their rut until Sean falls for a local girl who quickly drags him (and his mind) back down into the gutter.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags:
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Coming Soon (2013)
Plot Summary:
A movie. And it's called Coming Soon.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 63
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Identity Crisis (1989)
Plot Summary:
A rapper finds himself possessed by the soul of a dead fashion designer; frequently switching personalities.
IMDB Rating: 2.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, humorous, not serious, surprise ending, experimental, avant garde, detective, cult film
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Una abuela virgen (2007)
Plot Summary:
Una madrugada frente del Cementerio, el trompetista Alirio Guaramato, borracho y nostálgico por la muerte de su mejor amigo, consigue tocar las notas musicales reservadas a los ángeles para la resurrección de los muertos. Alirio sólo toca estas notas unos instantes suficientes para que Antonieta García, quien había muerto a los 85 años, vuelva a la vida con la apariencia de 20. Antonieta buscará una dirección que permanece en su memoria y allí encontrará a su nieta Mónica. Mientras tanto, un amargado ángel será enviado con la misión de restablecer el Orden Universal que ha sido roto.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy
Country: Venezuela
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Night of Too Many Stars: America Unites for Autism Programs (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jon Stewart returns to television to host a live show presented from The Theater at Madison Square Garden in New York. Benefiting NEXT for Autism, the special features stand-up performances, sketches and short films.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Never Say Macbeth (2007)
Plot Summary:
Danny; a science teacher, tries to reunite with his ex-girlfriend Ruth, who has dumped him to become an actress in Hollywood. Stumbling into an LA theater during auditions asking: "Is this the audition for Macbeth?" he starts a series of unfortunate events that not only curse the production, but his ex-girlfriend as well, all but ruining his chance for love. Never Say Macbeth is a high-spirited no holds barred comedy about the biggest taboo in theater. Macbeth is believed to be cursed because it is the only Shakespeare play based on black magic and witchcraft, which is why this film, Never Say Macbeth, is also cursed.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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100% Teacher Pascal (2017)
Plot Summary:
Pascal-sensei is an elementary school teacher who is so stupid, he cannot even write his own name. He does whatever he likes in his classroom. Plus, by all appearances, he is not human.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, absurd
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Sex and the Future (2020)
Plot Summary:
When misfits Barry and Evan design their ideal woman as a robot, they realize a fortune could be made if they had the money to mass produce their prototype. A wealthy prince soon finds out about their invention and the three hatch a plan to rule the world and change sex and the future! If life were that simple.
IMDB Rating: 2.2
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, humorous, entertaining, futuristic, sex comedy
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Alter Egos (2012)
Plot Summary:
At a time when superheroes have lost government funding and public support, a superhero meets a girl who can help him overcome his own emotional crisis.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, epic, independent film, witty, not serious
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Diminished Capacity (2008)
Plot Summary:
A Chicago journalist suffering from memory loss takes leaves from his job and returns to his rural hometown, where he bonds with his Alzheimer's impaired uncle Rollie and his old flame.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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The Happy Hooker Goes to Washington (1977)
Plot Summary:
The world's most famous madame is called to Washington to testify before Congress.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 634
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, anime, grindhouse, independent film, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, parody
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Brand X (1970)
Plot Summary:
In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never paid him for any of the work he had done for him and Wynn said he would make a film especially for Taylor. Inspired by the banality of 1960's television, Chamberlain wrote and directed Brand X, an 87 minute series of faux television shows spoofing the politics and mass media of the day, complete with commercials for Sex, Sweat, Computer Dating and Peanut Butter. BRAND X follows Taylor Mead through a day in a wacky television studio as he portrays an exercise guru, a talk show host, a veteran returning from the American Civil War, a hospital patient in a soap opera, the President of the United States and a televangelist giving the Nightly Sermon. BRAND X satirizes President Nixon, the Vietnam War, sex, drugs, computers, money and race relations.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, experimental, independent film, spoof, sketch comedy, parody
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Meatballs Part II (1984)
Plot Summary:
The second in-name-only sequel to the first Meatballs summer camp movie sets us at Camp Sasquash where the owner Giddy tries to keep his camp open after it's threatened with foreclosure after Hershey, the militant owner of Camp Patton located just across the lake, wants to buy the entire lake area to expand Camp Patton. Giddy suggests settling the issue with the traditional end-of-the-summer boxing match over rights to the lake. Meanwhile, a tough, inner city punk, nicknamed Flash, is at Camp Sasquash for community service as a counselor-in-training where he sets his sights on the naive and intellectual Cheryl, while Flash's young charges befriend an alien, whom they name Meathead, also staying at the camp for the summer.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, teen sex comedy, realistic, not serious, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, parody, road movie, feel good, unusual plot structure
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The Telephone Book (1971)
Plot Summary:
The story of a day in the life of a lonely, sensitive, exhuberent, attractive, young woman. Her exploits, encounters, and frustrations as she attempts to find a "special" someone, a caller who has "class", as she puts it.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: surreal, sex comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, experimental, controversial, semi serious, dark comedy
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Lord, All Men Can't Be Dogs (2011)
Plot Summary:
Lord, All Men Can't Be Dogs is a riveting story of the lives of two people, Lisa and Tim Johnson, whose struggles are closely tied with the four spirits that reside in their home. It's a story of temptation, greed and finally, deliverance, mixed with just the right amount of humor! This show will keep you on the edge of your seat, saying, "Lord, All Men Can't be Dogs!".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good
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Gamers (2006)
Plot Summary:
Gamers is a comedy about the lives of four slacker friends (and one obsessive interloper) living at home, -"with my parents... it's just temporary... 'til they die"- working in the real world but playing in a fantasy world. Obsessed with a role playing game called Demons, Nymphs and Dragons these "gamers" are the subject of this hilarious comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, mockumentary
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Comic Book Villains (2002)
Plot Summary:
When word hits the street that a nearby elderly gentleman has a cache of old, rare, and very valuable mint condition comic books, rival comic book shop owners Raymond McGillicuddy (Donal Logue) and Norman Link (Michael Rapaport) both set out to be the first to buy them. But when the old man declines to sell, the former friends turn into enemies, and a friendly rivalry becomes tainted with greed and turns to murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, dark comedy, cynical, clever, entertaining, black comedy, anime, offbeat, realistic
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Mythic Quest (2020)
Plot Summary:
Meet the team behind the biggest multiplayer video game of all time. But in a workplace focused on building worlds, molding heroes, and creating legends, the most hard-fought battles don’t occur in the game—they happen in the office.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, sitcom, feel good, humorous, entertaining, light
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Supervized (2019)
Plot Summary:
Four aging superheroes in a retirement home in Ireland come together for one last hurrah.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sincere, unusual plot structure, captivating, entertaining, contemplative
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Psychic Kusuo (2017)
Plot Summary:
To the average person, psychic abilities might seem a blessing; for Kusuo Saiki, however, this couldn't be further from the truth. Gifted with a wide assortment of supernatural abilities ranging from telepathy to x-ray vision, he finds this so-called blessing to be nothing but a curse. As all the inconveniences his powers cause constantly pile up, all Kusuo aims for is an ordinary, hassle-free life—a life where ignorance is bliss. Unfortunately, the life of a psychic is far from quiet. Though Kusuo tries to stay out of the spotlight by keeping his powers a secret from his classmates, he ends up inadvertently attracting the attention of many odd characters, such as the empty-headed Riki Nendou and the delusional Shun Kaidou. Forced to deal with the craziness of the people around him, Kusuo comes to learn that the ordinary life he has been striving for is a lot more difficult to achieve than expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 680
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anime, parody, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, psychotronic, exciting
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Up the Academy (1980)
Plot Summary:
This puber-comedy is a kind of mixture between 'Animal House' and 'Police Academy'. Four boys are sent, for different reasons, to a the Sheldon R. Wienberg military academy. The life of dicipline asks a lot of the four geeks. Of course these boys know how to make a party out of the hard times. Will they be 'real men' after one year? Written by Evert Poppen.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, spoof, sex comedy, anime, not serious, parody, funny, rough, sexy, melancholic
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Dead Sexy (2018)
Plot Summary:
Meet Amber, Brandy and Cassie. These girls are about to encounter a paranormal force that is going to make them question the need for the opposite sex.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Don't be a dick about it (2018)
Plot Summary:
A hilarious and beautiful portrait of two brothers growing up. The film follows the brothers around for one summer capturing the nuances of pissing each other off.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, contemplative, non fiction, cinema verite
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Marquis de Sade (1989)
Plot Summary:
In pre-French Revolution Bastille, the Marquis is held being unjustly accused of working to overthrow the king. While his talking penis, Colin, longs for action, Marquis himself only desires to write his deviant stories in peace.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: experimental, surreal, dark, disturbing, controversial, psychotronic, sex comedy, anime, costume drama, erotic
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The First Time (1981)
Plot Summary:
A young film student pursues a woman while studying under a bizarre, eccentric film professor.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, teen sex comedy, psychotronic, psychological, offbeat, humorous, realistic, experimental, semi serious
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Cooking with Valkyries (2019)
Plot Summary:
Join the table with Valkyries this summer for a feast of mouth-watering food and heartwarming memories.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 19
Genere: Comedy
Country: China, Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: anime, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious