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Plot Summary:
A German businessman wants to buy land in southern Sweden for a gigantic amusement park, his new project called "Deutschneyland" (a wordplay of Deutschland and Disneyland). Some of the locals dislike the idea, including the magically talented Lindberg family, and work to frustrate the development plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: satirical, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, biting, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, slapstick, low brow humor
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The Big Wash (1968)
Plot Summary:
Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: detective, slapstick comedy
Similar in 76%
Modern Problems (1981)
Plot Summary:
Jealous, harried air traffic controller Max Fielder, recently dumped by his girlfriend, comes into contact with nuclear waste and is granted the power of telekinesis, which he uses to not only win her back, but to gain a little revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, parody, entertaining, offbeat, psychotronic, romantic
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Coyote's Morning (2001)
Plot Summary:
Kuba, a young cartoon artist who works as a waiter at sophisticated parties, falls in love with beautiful Noemi and accidentally gets involved in gangster affairs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy
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Goodnight, Ladies and Gentlemen (1976)
Plot Summary:
An episodic satire of the political and social status of Italy in the seventies, through the shows of one day of a television channel. An English language lesson turns into a killing of a black dignitary of an embassy by a CIA agent and then into his own killing by another colleague. In a television film, the police are befooled by a fake bomb and put a real one in order not to be derided by the public. In a film inquisition show, the bishop of Naples speaks highly of the importance of the family, but a child who lives a miserable family life kills himself. In the debate that follows it is proposed that they should eat the children, as Swift had said. In the next episode, a general who is in the toilet is called for the NATO parade, but the flasher breaks and in his effort to fix it, he dirts allover and kills himself. In a children's show an inspector finds excuses and delays the arrest of a powerful man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surreal, parody, anthology, crying, detective, spoof, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, poliziottesco
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Agent 38-24-36 (1964)
Plot Summary:
In this Eduardo Molinaro Spy-Spoof, Anthony Perkins plays a Russian spy sent out to steal sensitive information from NATO about military mobilization. Without much intelligence of his own, the distrusted agent of Soviet intelligence needs all the help he can get from his "talented" partner Penelope Lightfeather (Bardot) as they scatter around the French countryside for secret rendez-vous' while trying to avoid being caught by counter intelligence agents and distrustful communist operatives.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, exciting, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, parody, surprise ending
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Up Your Teddy Bear (1970)
Plot Summary:
Clyde King, a toy store employee whose hobbies include making wooden toys and stalking women, is coveted by the female owner of one of the biggest toy companies in the world. She is enchanted by King's hand-carved toys, and she delegates the recruitment of the toy-maker to her second-in-command, Lyle "Skippy" Burns. However, King will not join her company as she reminds him of his mother. She becomes the subject of bizarre fantasies in which "Mother," the toy company owner as imagined by King, brow-beats and humiliates him. Discovering King's predeliction for leaving the toy store to stalk women, Skippy first tries to entice Clyde into signing an employemnt contract by supplying him with women, even going as far to dress himself up in drag as a prostitute. But every time he sets King up with a woman, the encounter ends disastrously, so Skippy finally decides to kill him.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: erotic, absurd, sex comedy, independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick, freeze frame, dark comedy, campy
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Swap Meet at the Love Shack (1973)
Plot Summary:
The film Liebesmarkt featuring a cute blonde Ingrid Steeger, not only became a cult actress stupidity of German youth who watched only American cinema. Ingrid was a true nudist and undressed in front of the camera without any pose. She wore a gold chain around the waist and a bracelet on his left ankle. Her walk was easy and graceful gestures. Actress she was so-so. But the beautiful graceful little creatures do not require a game in the Stanislavsky. It should please the eye movements smooth and not too often look into the lens.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Egg! Egg! A Hardboiled Story (1975)
Plot Summary:
A fairy tale and satire about a wealthy industrialist, whose son has been subdued and oppressed and totally uninterested in his father's business.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, tragicomedy, realistic, surreal, not serious, black comedy, dark comedy, campy
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Dracula Blows His Cool (1979)
Plot Summary:
An ancestor of the famous vampire gets a job as a photographer shooting beautiful fashion models at the family estate.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, low brow humor, vampire comedy
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Bizarre (1970)
Plot Summary:
Journey into the mind of the undead, as a talking mummy guides us on grand tour of the timeless "battle of the sexes" between man and woman. A cult classic from Executive Producer Richard Gordon, BIZARRE is an offbeat anthology film that certainly defies description. An interesting mix of sex, horror and humor filmed in varied styles, this is certainly one of the strangest films you are ever likely to see. It is truly… BIZARRE!.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, suspense, scary, rough, humorous, sex comedy, dark fairy tale, avant garde, psychotronic, black comedy
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Chatterbox! (1977)
Plot Summary:
A young woman who works in a beauty parlor discovers that her vagina can talk, which causes her no end of trouble.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 785
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, surreal, grindhouse, slapstick comedy, entertaining, absurd, crying, slapstick, weeping, feel good
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15 from Rome (1963)
Plot Summary:
The myths of the sixties are satirized in 20 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: anthology, crying, detective, freeze frame, dark comedy, italian comedy
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School Spirit (1985)
Plot Summary:
The only thing keeping Billy Batson from the girl of his dreams is one little condom -- or rather the lack of one. Lucky Billy finds one at an all-night roadhouse -- but speeding back to his girl, he is killed in a head-on collision with a truck. Now invisible, Billy must find his sweetheart and rekindle her fire -- but when he comes back to school as a ghost, his first stop is the girl's locker room, and he's beginning to "see" all the possibilities!.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, dark comedy, cult classic, independent film, crying, psychotronic, teen sex comedy, urban fantasy, teen comedy
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The Calendar Girls (1972)
Plot Summary:
A hitchhiking runaway tells the man who picks her up about her friends' sexual escapades.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Comedy
Country: Switzerland, West Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, teen sex comedy, anthology, sex comedy
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...aber Jonny! (1973)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: freeze frame
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Wet and Wild Summer (1993)
Plot Summary:
A property developer wants to take over an Australian beach for a high rise resort. He sends his son to Australia to check out the situation, posing as an exchange lifeguard. He falls in love with a woman who owns the land his father needs for the development and finds himself sympathising with the locals.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 288
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: crying, sex comedy, independent film, freeze frame
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Taking Chances (2009)
Plot Summary:
When he discovers that an Indian casino is about to be built over the town's historic battlefield, Chase Revere, the self-appointed protector of a small town's rather meager place in American history, joins forces with sexy but dangerous town siren Lucy Shanks to launch an all-out offensive against the project - earning the wrath of the entire town.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, feel good, realistic, independent film
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The Spooks (2016)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 71
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags: psychotronic, light, humorous, captivating, crying, freeze frame, spooky, urban fantasy
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Accidental Incest (2014)
Plot Summary:
Directed by Richard Griffin.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, black comedy, psychotronic, independent film, amateur film, urban fantasy
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Hunk (1987)
Plot Summary:
A "devilish" tale about an ordinary guy who is visited by a beautiful apparition promising him popularity and drop-dead good looks in exchange for his soul. Transformed overnight into a "hunk," he soon discovers there may be hell to pay for his new lifestyle!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, grindhouse, cult classic, independent film, sexy, humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, freeze frame, eighties
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The Love Factor (1969)
Plot Summary:
Women around the globe begin disappearing when a renegade race of top-heavy aliens from the planet Angvia begin snatching them off the streets.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, sex comedy, mysterious, parody, absurd, independent film, spoof, freeze frame, weird, cult film
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Serial Teachers (2013)
Plot Summary:
With only 12 percent of its pupils obtaining their baccalaureate, Jules Ferry High School is the worst school in France. The Inspector of Schools has already exhausted all the conventional means to raise standards at the school and he has no choice but to take the advice of his deputy. It is a case of having to fight fire with fire: the worst pupils must be taught by the worst teachers.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, slapstick, crying, slapstick comedy, freeze frame, low brow humor
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The Sensuous Nurse (1975)
Plot Summary:
Greedy relatives hire a sensual caregiver to hasten the demise of a wealthy count suffering from a heart condition.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, crying, sex comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, low brow humor, hot
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Teen Vamp (1989)
Plot Summary:
An unimpressive, boring high-school geek is bitten and contracts vampirical symptoms, transforming him into a confident coolio.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 240
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, scary, suspense, crying, psychotronic, independent film, freeze frame, dark comedy, horror comedy, urban fantasy
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The Happiness of the Katakuris (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Katakuri family has just opened their guest house in the mountains. Unfortunately their first guest commits suicide and in order to avoid trouble they decide to bury him in the backyard. Things get way more complicated when their second guest, a famous sumo wrestler, dies while having sex with his underage girlfriend and the grave behind the house starts to fill up more and more.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Musical
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, dark comedy, disturbing, dark, absurd, horror comedy, mind bending, horror musical, claymation
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What Men Want (2018)
Plot Summary:
The charismatic and self-confident man, Karel Král, is the editor-in-chief of men's magazine. Although a chauvinistic type, he is very popular with women. However, he struggles in his personal life. He frequently argues with his ex-wife over their 17 year-old daughter Julie, who despises his new way of life. Then the consequences of his behavior catch up with him. He loses his job, and the editor-in-chief position is given to a young and beautiful woman. But his bad luck does not end there. After another fight with his ex-wife and daughter, and a woman driver crashing into his car, Karel and his best friend Cestmír have an evening of binge drinking. During the wild night, he expresses a wish to be a woman. When he wakes up the next morning he discovers that his wish has been granted.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 462
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, witty, crying, psychotronic, urban fantasy
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Full Moon High (1981)
Plot Summary:
A teenager (Adam Arkin) becomes a werewolf after a family vacation in Transylvania.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, horror comedy, independent film, offbeat, parody, neurotic, psychotronic, detective
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The Visitors: Bastille Day (2016)
Plot Summary:
Stuck in the corridors of time, Godefroy de Montmirail and his faithful servant Jacquouille are projected to a time of profound political and social upheavals: the French Revolution... specifically, The Terror, time of great dangers, during which the descendants of Godefroy and Jacquouille had their castle and all their property confiscated by arrogant aristocrats, fleeing and lifes hanging by a thread.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium, Czech Republic
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: entertaining, light, feel good, humorous
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Wicked Stepmother (1989)
Plot Summary:
A mother/daughter pair of witches descend on a yuppie family's home and cause havoc, one at a time since they share one body & the other must live in a cat the rest of the time. Now it's up to the family's mother, a private detective and a suspended police officer to try and stop the witches.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, campy
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Neighbors (2014)
Plot Summary:
A couple with a newborn baby face unexpected difficulties after they are forced to live next to a fraternity house.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 325000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, not serious, entertaining, humorous, hilarious, teen, sex comedy, slapstick, absurd, romantic