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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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Le Graphique de Boscop (1976)
Plot Summary:
In Saint-Rupert, Basse Lozère, the son of a family of garbage collectors, Pissenlit, who has played the mentally deficient since childhood so as not to be forced to go to school, is in fact a prodigy in mathematics: by reading a book found in a trash can, he revolutionizes a mathematical theory. Meanwhile, his father is making a computer from objects recovered from garbage cans, and capable of composing musical "hits" that may make him a star.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Fake (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set amongst a tapestry of fairy tale excess, Michael is reared and mentored by an African American maid, Annie Mae. Michael is caught in a triangle of lies and deception by dysfunctional, quirky, upscale family and friends.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
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Almost Hollywood (1994)
Plot Summary:
In this tasty blend of sleaze and thriller, a producer of exploitation and sex videos finds himself accused of killing his own mistress and the boyfriend of one of his most promising stars.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Laughter on the 23rd Floor (2001)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by Neil Simon's early career experience as a junior writer for Your Show of Shows, the play focuses on Sid Caesar/Jackie Gleason-like Max Prince, the star of a weekly comedy-variety show circa 1953, and his staff, including Simon's alter-ego Lucas Brickman, who maintains a running commentary on the writing, fighting, and wacky antics which take place in the writers' room.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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In the Spirit (1990)
Plot Summary:
A woman moves back to New York and hires a ditzy New Age woman to redecorate her apartment in this Odd Couple styled comedy. The movie takes a turn as the two escape to a New Age retreat in upstate New York to get away from a murderer who is pursuing them. Melanie Griffith also shows up briefly as a hooker as the two hide out acting as hookers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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International Falls (2019)
Plot Summary:
A wife and mom with secret dreams of being a stand-up comic uses a one night stand with a burned-out touring comedian to face the harsh but funny truths of her failing marriage, neglected aspirations, and individual identity.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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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 Unemployment of Danny London (2010)
Plot Summary:
When Danny London, a star PR guy, finds himself without a job due to layoffs, he struggles to adapt to his new life and those around him that just don't understand.
IMDB Rating: 9.4
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 8 min
Plot tags:
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Otley (1969)
Plot Summary:
A petty crook finds himself mistaken for a murderer and a secret agent.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, independent film, eurospy
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The Love God? (1969)
Plot Summary:
Abner Peacock's (Knotts) beloved bird-watcher's magazine, "The Peacock," is in financial crisis. Desperate to stay afloat, Abner takes on new partners who have an agenda of the own: to publish a sexy gentleman's magazine. Before he can stop them, the first issue sells over 40 million copies, and Abner becomes the unwilling spokesman for First Amendment rights. Swept up in adulation, the unwitting playboy quickly begins settling into the swinging bachelor lifestyle in this quirky comedy featuring the loveable actor at his best.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, cult film
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Bottom Live The Stage Show (1993)
Plot Summary:
Richie buys an inflatable doll named Monica as his lover, and he tries to conceal it from Eddie. But it all goes terribly wrong when Richie accidentally super glues Monica to his groin, mistaking Eddie's super glue for Handcream.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, live comedy, alternative comedy
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When Grandpa Loved Rita Hayworth (2000)
Plot Summary:
1969, the first winter after the violent end of the Spring of Prague: 13-year-old Hannah and her crazy young parents land as though on a completely different planet in the German economic wonderland.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, Czech Republic, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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They All Died Laughing (1964)
Plot Summary:
An English professor decides that there are too many useless people in the world and invents a gas that will kill them off. But first they'll at least have a good laugh.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 101
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film
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Strike It Rich (1990)
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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Work is a 4-Letter Word (1968)
Plot Summary:
Dreamlike satire about a young man who resists getting a job at the lone employing conglomerate in his dreary industrial town, but changes his mind when he discovers the plant's boiler room has the perfect climate to assist him with his pet horticultural (fungal) project.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, dark comedy
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)
Plot Summary:
The second televised production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Helen Mirren in the cast, although this time in a different role (Titania). In the 1968 production, which was released to movie theatres in Europe, but premiered in the U.S. on CBS-TV, Ms. Mirren played Hermia.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags:
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The Comedy of Errors (1983)
Plot Summary:
Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransome's paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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What's Good for the Goose (1969)
Plot Summary:
Timothy Bartlett (Norman Wisdom) is a middle-aged banker who is sent to a seaside resort for a banker's convention. He fears the meetings will be frightfully dull, but things change when two amorous hippie girls take Timothy for a sail on the sea of love. Timothy goes middle-aged crazy, making a spectacle of himself in hippie clothes as he tries to fit into the swinging scene. Nude dips in the ocean are followed and preceded by wild parties as he tries to recapture the days of his flaming youth. After he feels remorse and embarrassment over his behavior, he calls on his wife to join him at the convention to rekindle their love in this lowbrow comedy. The British rock group The Pretty Things provides the music.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, sex comedy, independent film
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Zeroes (2018)
Plot Summary:
When best friends, Ray and Kenneth, drunkenly foil a robbery, Philadelphia becomes abuzz with the antics of these local heroes.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, cult film
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Generation (1969)
Plot Summary:
Jim Bolton, a well-off businessman from Chicago hears that his daughter Doris is pregnant in New York. Since he did not even know she was seeing anyone he fears the worst. Unbeknownst to him, his daughter and the father of his grandchild, Walter marry shortly before Jim's arrival in New York. Upon his arrival he is shocked to hear that Doris and Walter plan not only a natural childbirth but the birth will take place in their apartment NOT a hospital. To make matters worse, Walter states that he personally will deliver their child. Jim at first doubts Walter's sincerity and expertise but begins to gain respect for Walter after he calls in a doctor to consult and is told that Walter is very prepared for almost any contingency.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Pretty Stoned (2023)
Plot Summary:
A total stoner with no commitment to her job and a type-A high-achiever join forces when they find themselves in trouble after one of them disposes of $20,000 worth of pot from a drug queenpin and her henchwomen.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Kai Rabe gegen die Vatikankiller (1998)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: black comedy
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The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968)
Plot Summary:
A housewife, bored with her bra-manufacturer husband, who spends most of his time obsessed with classical music, strikes up an affair with one of his employees whom she hides in the attic--something both she and the lover find quite a suitable arrangement.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 666
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual, absurd
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The Best House in London (1969)
Plot Summary:
In Victorian London, the British Government attempts a solution to the problem of prostitution by establishing the world's most fabulous brothel.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 383
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, hot
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Who Do I Gotta Kill? (1994)
Plot Summary:
Who says crime doesn't pay? The mob will pay Jimmy Corona anything to stay away. But, then again, so would most people. His agent brushes off Jimmy's latest book proposal: detailing the conspiracy between Lee Harvey Oswald and Marylin Monroe to assassinate JFK. His girlfriend gives him his walking papers in the midst of wild sex when he can't give her one good reason to stay. Actually he's too exhausted to speak. And to top it all off, he's suffering from writer's block. So what's a poor guy to do? Join the mob? Written by.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick
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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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Mary Had a Little... (1961)
Plot Summary:
A theatrical impresario tries to win a bet with a psychiatrist over the production of a perfect baby.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, independent film, sexy
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Mystics (2003)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy about two old-time conmen who pretend to be able to communicate with the dead.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Ritz (1976)
Plot Summary:
On his deathbed Carmine Vespucci's father tells him to "get Proclo". With "the hit" on, Gaetano tells a cab driver to take him where Carmine can't find him. He arrives at the Ritz, a gay bathhouse where he is pursued amorously by "chubby chaser" Paul B. Price and by entertainer Googie Gomez who believes him to be a broadway producer. His guides through the Ritz are gatekeeper Abe, habitue Chris, and bellhop/go-go-boys Tiger and Duff. Squeaky-voiced detective Michael Brick and his employer Carmine do locate Gateano at the Ritz, as does his wife Vivian. Written by Ed Stephan.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, queer cinema
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Hotel (2001)
Plot Summary:
While a British film crew are shooting a version of The Duchess of Malfi in Venice, they in turn are being filmed by a sleazy documentary prima donna while the strange staff share meals which consist of human meat. Then there is the hit man, the call girl and the Hollywood producer all managing to become part of the madness.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, serious, surreal, clever, offbeat, realistic, experimental, talky, period piece