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Plot Summary:
Dazza's passion in life is barbecuing, but unfortunately he accidentally gives his neighbours food poisoning. To make amends, he receives tutelage from a Scottish chef, and together they enter an international barbecue competition.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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The Life of Harry Dare (1995)
Plot Summary:
Harry Dare is a shambolic Adelaide private investigator. He’s still not certain why he’s in the business; perhaps to understand his father’s disappearance, 20 years earlier? But now Harry’s got a real case: who stole his father’s old Kombi van, nicked (oddly) just after Harry finished restoring it?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dallas Doll (1994)
Plot Summary:
Dallas, an American golf tutor, arrives in a quiet Sydney suburb to teach at the local school and sets about causing chaos with the family she stays with.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sexy, hot
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A Little Bit of Soul (1998)
Plot Summary:
Richard and Kate are former lovers who are now working independently to find the secret of the aging process. Both apply for funding from the Michael Foundation, and are asked to spend the weekend discussing the proposals with the Head of the Foundation, who happens to be married to the Australian Treasurer. They have a very interesting weekend.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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Groundswell (2022)
Plot Summary:
On the heels of a professional and personal setback, Atlanta chef Emma travels to Hawaii, where she meets Ben, a reclusive surf instructor.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Babovresky 2 (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story begins where the first film ended: the gossip-monger Mrs. Horácková (Jana Synková) runs out from her house to greet the young hockey players who have come to visit their friend and teammate in a nearby cottage. Horácková immediately comes up with the idea of inviting her granddaughter and adroitly putting her in the athletes' way - perhaps one of them will notice her and the girl will hit the jackpot. The plot also revolves around Horácková's revenge on Mayor Stehlík (Pavel Kikincuk), as he was the reason she had to give up the position of the secretary at the municipal office. An inspector comes to the village and he has no idea what is in store for him and a young priest with a bit of an unconventional and ambiguous name is watching over all of this.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 166
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Around the World in Eighty Ways (1987)
Plot Summary:
Mavis Davis has had enough! Younger son Eddie wears headphones all day and almost electrocutes her. Older boy Wally is gay and lives in a huge over-ripe banana. And her husband Roly has grown into a blind, motionless, emotionless vegetable. So pack the bags, Mavis is off on an around the world package trip leaving them all behind. However, when Dad finds out she has been joined by their hated next door neighbour long dead passions begin to stir. Blind, senile old Dad decides to chase his wife around the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Serving Up the Holidays (2021)
Plot Summary:
Scarlett is a chef and co-owner of a restaurant. This year, her best friend buys her a ticket to a holiday cooking getaway, where Scarlett will relearn festive cooking, and maybe find love in a handsome rival chef from her past.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Here Come The Habibs (2016)
Plot Summary:
After winning the lottery, the Habib family move into Sydney's richest suburb to live the Australian dream, but their poshy next door neighbours are not all to happy about it.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags:
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Barry McKenzie Holds His Own (1974)
Plot Summary:
Barry McKenzie's Aunt Edna is kidnapped by Count Von Plasma, the vampire head of an isolated Eastern European dictatorship who mistakes her for the Queen of England and thinks that kidnapping her will draw tourists to his country. Barry and his mates set out to rescue her and bring her back to Australia.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: anamorphic, parody, offbeat, humorous, slasher, witty, not serious, independent film
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Pacific Banana (1981)
Plot Summary:
The story of a pair of Australian pilots working for a small South Pacific airline. Paul, a wildly successful womanizer, leaving conquests at every port and Martin, sad and lonely in his search for a true love. Together, they... well, they don't do much of anything besides chase girls on various Polynesian islands.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, independent film, hot
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Stork (1971)
Plot Summary:
Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his way through life, bungling job interviews, upsetting ‘respectable’ people, and getting drunk. The only girl in the house, Anna resists Stork’s advances, because she’s already involved with the other two resident males, Tony and Clyde. But when she becomes pregnant and Clyde and Anna decide to marry, Stork, Tony, Clyde and Westy are shocked when they realize that either one of the foursome could be the father. Then the fun begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, slapstick, cult film
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All Night Gaming (2016)
Plot Summary:
A teenage slacker has only one night to finish a major English assignment, his grades depends on it. He is forced to finish the work over night at a local Internet cafe where he encounters gamers, nocturnal goth-ghouls and drunken Clubbers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Father, Dear Father (1978)
Plot Summary:
The hugely successful British television series Father Dear Father is transplanted to Australia when novelist Patrick Glover and his assistant Nanny trek down under to write the great Australian crime novel, and end up supervising Patricks boisterous young nieces while their own father is abroad.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Alvin Rides Again (1974)
Plot Summary:
Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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The Ex-PM (2015)
Plot Summary:
As our third longest serving Prime Minister, Andrew Dugdale mattered. He dined with presidents and kings, hosted world summits and changed the lives of millions of his fellow Australians. But now he's retired; a not-so-elder statesman with time on his hands to ponder the question - was it all worth it? Not that he's asking of course. No, his inquisitive and over enthusiastic ghostwriter Ellen has an unhelpfully insatiable appetite for the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Boeing Boeing (1985)
Plot Summary:
The movie is an adaptation of the 1960 French play of the same name and is considered to be a cult comedy classic in Malayalam. It was also one of the first commercial successes of the Mohanlal-Mukesh-Priyadarashan team. Shyam (Mohanlal) is a struggling journalist who gets an opportunity to be the caretaker of a flat in the city. Even while engaged to his childhood sweetheart Sreekutty (Menaka); he uses his charms and resourcefulness to make three air-hostesses (Lissie, Ashwini, Madhuri) fall in love with him. With the help of his maid (Sukumari) and friend (Raju) he carefully manages their schedule in the flat so that none of his girlfriends meet each other. Life is good for Shyam, till his former colleague and friend Anil (Mukesh) comes to visit him.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: remake of american film
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This Won't Hurt a Bit (1993)
Plot Summary:
This Won't Hurt a Bit is a 1993 Australian comedy film about a dentist.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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True Story with Hamish & Andy (2017)
Plot Summary:
In each half-hour episode Hamish and Andy meet one regular Australian who tells them an amazing, true story from their life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration:
Plot tags:
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The Very Excellent Mr. Dundee (2020)
Plot Summary:
Paul tries to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being knighted.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Reckless Kelly (1993)
Plot Summary:
A satirical take on a modern day Ned Kelly who is forced to Hollywood in order to make enough money to save his family's land. As it goes against his belief, he cannot simply rob banks for his own benefit (all money goes to the poor). Ned is forced to find another way to come up with the $1 million required to save his family island.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick, neo screwball comedy
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My Entire Life (1996)
Plot Summary:
All Wally Mellish, an ex-convict in 1960s Australia, wants to do is live a quiet life with his girlfriend Beryl. Unfortunately when two police officers come around to disturb this, a misunderstanding quickly becomes out of control, resulting Wally, Beryl and her child being trapped in their house, surrounded by armed police under the impression that Wally is holding everyone hostage. Events quickly spiral into a media circus as, through the siege, Wally - inadvertently - manages to become a symbol for the anti-war movement.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Kath & Kimderella (2012)
Plot Summary:
Fountain Lakes' foxy ladies who turn more than just heads when they go on an overseas trip and end up being the centre of their very own fairytale.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, captivating, realistic, weird
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Young Einstein (1988)
Plot Summary:
Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beatuiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surreal, slapstick, humorous, parody, mind bending, psychedelic, offbeat, not serious, thinking, funny
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The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990)
Plot Summary:
Carlos has failed in show-biz and currently works as a waiter in a Mexican restaurant. There he meets Alex and dumb footballer Bruce celebrating their engagement with her parents. Alex' father is less than thrilled of her fiancée and says he'd rather accept anybody else. Eventually Alex hires Carlos to present him as her new fiancée.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, funny, romantic, road movie, sexy, clever
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Consuming Passions (1988)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless manager Ian Littleton (Tyler Butterworth) accidentally knocks several employees into a huge chocolate vat. The tragic mishap at the chocolate factory results in candy lovers getting an unexpected 'extra' in their sweets.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, biting, black comedy, horror comedy
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Mr. Accident (2000)
Plot Summary:
Mr Accident is a satirical, romantic rocket ride through the lives of a bunch of losers hurtling into the chaos that is contemporary life. It's a circus of cool catastrophes underpinned by a moral tale about the downside of addiction and corporate globalisation. It's a trip!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, touching, captivating, slapstick, independent film, exciting
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You and Your Stupid Mate (2005)
Plot Summary:
Phillip (Phillips) and Geoffrey (Sampson) are two Aussie larrikins, whose lives centre around running the un-official "Sons and Surf" website.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 696
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, witty, semi serious, soap opera
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The Wog Boy (2000)
Plot Summary:
Steve liked Celia from the moment they met. But following a clash with her boss, Raelene Beagle-Thorpe, Minister for Employment, he finds himself on national television branded as Australia's biggest dole bludger. Now Steve has to prove to Celia, to himself, and to the whole country, that there's more to him than meets the eye. With a little help from his friends, he might just do it.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, semi serious, independent film, offbeat, slang, black comedy, dark comedy
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I Love You Too (2010)
Plot Summary:
Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to befriend a talented dwarf who helps him find the words to get her back.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, touching, offbeat, realistic, talky, weird
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Kenny (2006)
Plot Summary:
From the biggest festival to the smallest church social, Kenny Smyth delivers porta-loos to them all. Ignored and unappreciated, he is one of the cogs in society's machinery; a knight in shining overalls taking care of business with his faithful 'Splashdown' crew.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, funny, clever, talky, feel good, semi serious, independent film, black comedy, touching