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Plot Summary:
Cantinflas is a man who hangs around the studios and helps anyone who needs his advice while at the same time envisioning his own versions of how certain scenes should be shot. Both angles provide ample opportunities for very witty, subtle barbs at the foibles of the industry.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
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Tomorrow Is Another Day (1967)
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With the intention of building a future in show business, Paco and Lisa flee to Barcelona in a stolen car. After unsuccessfully looking for work, The two youngsters will be immersed in crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min
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Les petites couleurs (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Let's Make a Movie (2012)
Plot Summary:
Let's Make a Movie is the story of Cassie Thompson (Played by Hallie York), a college dropout and ex-film student who is tired of being disrespected and downtrodden, has decided that she's had enough. In a subconscious effort to turn her life around, she decides to make a movie with a rag-tag group of friends. The only problem is the movie is impossible for her to film without a $100 million budget, and her cast and crew are neurotic and inexperienced, to say the least. Will Cassie prevail and finish her movie, or will this become another mark on her long list of failures?.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, interesting
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The Professor (1971)
Plot Summary:
Mario Moreno portrays a professor in this movie. A small town in the middle of no where requests the school Mario Moreno is working in for a teacher. He ends up going to give the town a hand. When he arrives he comes to know the corrupt leaders who through out the movie try to make him leave. Although he is being harassed you can see how much he cares for the kids and their circumstances. He deals with problems by using his hilarious comments.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 120 min
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Hawa (2022)
Plot Summary:
A teenage girl lives with her grandmother and worries she will be removed by social services. She sets off to get adopted by someone she admires more than anything, one of the most powerful women in the world.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Senegal, France
Duration: 104 min
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The Braves (2021)
Plot Summary:
Best friends Alma and Margot are inseparable, whether it’s terrorizing cheating lovers or crashing wedding parties. The two women also share the same dream of a successful career on the stage. They get one step closer when they are cast as lead and understudy in a high-profile play in Paris. Alma is keeping a secret that puts her role in jeopardy, but with the unwavering support of Margot, they will try their best to ensure that the show goes on.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 444
Genere: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
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Rosario (1971)
Plot Summary:
Rosario and Carlos, husbands, are part of a theater company. In a scene of jealousy, she should shoot and kill him. Carlos has had an affair with Zulma, another acriz of the company. On opening day, in the final scene, Rosario accidentally kills her husband. Someone change the gun.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 105 min
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The Case of the Witch Who Wasn't (1990)
Plot Summary:
Two girl pen pals and a simple summer in the country. They befriend a woman rumored to be a witch, and end up as amateur detectives when her pet pig is stolen.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
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Un Quijote sin mancha (1969)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer trying to fix everyone's problems, instead causes problems, which always end up in funny situations.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Sarah Q (2018)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of a young woman who moves to New York City from a small town to become an actress.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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That's Adequate (1989)
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This mockumentary about fictional movie studio Adequate Pictures boasts an interesting cast. Tony Randall hosts, and James CoCo (practically on his deathbed) stars as head of the studio. Includes parodies of everything from silent comedies to porn, including an ultra violent "three stooges" style comedy team who put a new spin on the eye poking gag.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, independent film, spoof, parody, fake documentary
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Boin-n-g (1963)
Plot Summary:
An inexperienced producer and director audition and film naked women for a nudie movie. Everything goes wrong.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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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 Little Priest (1964)
Plot Summary:
The young priest Father Sebastián (played by Cantinflas) is assigned to a parish in San Jeronimo el Alto, where he is not welcomed by the community, particularly the resident priest Father Damián (played by Ángel Garasa). The newcomer gradually earns the trust of the people through humor, but firmly captures their hearts by saving the town fiesta by fighting a bull when the hired torero failed to show.Father Sebastián counsels the townspeople, lecturing them on their duties in a modern society. He used the collection plate to redistribute the town's wealth more evenly. When accused of communism, he quoted the 1891 socially-conscious encyclical Rerum Novarum. He even ventured into politics, with a veiled attack on the municipal president couched into a sermon. Eventually, he brokers a deal with the local political boss for some concessions for the poor of his parish.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 920
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: social, feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious
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Wild Innocence (2001)
Plot Summary:
A movie director does a new film against heroine consumption, and the producers are heroine dealers.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 531
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Netherlands
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags:
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Shakespeare In... And Out (1999)
Plot Summary:
In the 1980s, a filmmaker begins a project to record the life of an average kid. In Perry, Ohio, he picks Rich Longfellow, a shy lad, and begins filming. Soon after, he dies in Mozambique. Sixteen years later, his son continues the project, finding Rich, now 23, in L.A., with dreams of being a Shakespearean actor, getting experience in porn films. We meet Betsy, Rich's sensible girlfriend, Lee, the impatient producer, and Carmichael, a director with artistic pretensions who inspires Rich. Problems with Besty and tension on the set bring Rich to a crisis; when his boyhood friend starts a Shakespeare company that tours nursing homes in the San Fernando Valley, Rich sees a way out.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, spoof, black comedy, mockumentary, parody, fake documentary, cult film
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The Minister and Me (1976)
Plot Summary:
Mateo Melgarejo (played by Mario Moreno "Cantinflas") is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, biting, suspense
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Digger (1993)
Plot Summary:
A young boy is sent to live with relatives when his parents break up. He befriends a dying boy who has an eerie connection with nature.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Family, Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Gossip (2000)
Plot Summary:
Ten actresses test films for the title role of a remake of "Queen Christina".
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 832
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Portraits of Women (1970)
Plot Summary:
Finnish porn movie producer Pertsa returns from America to his home country to continue his profession with hopelessly small budgets and incompetent casts and crews. A self-ironic satire about director Donner's scandalous fame in late 1960s Finland, notorious for a graphic long shot of his penis pointing northeast.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 302
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, sex comedy, cult film
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Red Post on Escher Street (2020)
Plot Summary:
A genius film director, Tadashi Kobayashi holds an audition for his new film project. Several actors and actresses answer the open call, but most will only be cast as extras. Can the film come to a completion without accident?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 928
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 148 min
Plot tags: captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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Cinnamon (2012)
Plot Summary:
Maria is a girl who loves to cook and lives with his grandmother, Doña Tere, in Mexico City's downtown. Doña Tere has a traditional Mexican restaurant called "El Molcajete". After the death of her daughter, Doña Tere abandoned his passion for cooking and stopped working in "El Molcajete", now operating under the direction of chef Rosi. Maria does everything possible to bring her grandmother back to the restaurant, while chef Rosi cooks dishes according to new trends in fusion cuisine which highlights the light food, but Maria and Doña Tere won't accept the traditional flavors and cooking secrets to be forgotten. The cuisine battle between Tere and chef Rosi is an epic fight not only between long-stablished mexican food and light food, but also a struggle of family bonds, friendship, cooking secrets, flavour’s passion and more than two hundred ingredients that are needed in order to prepare Mole, a traditional mexican sauce.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Jeremy (2015)
Plot Summary:
El Jeremías is a heartwarming comedy film about family love and the hard choices that come with opportunity. Set in Sonora Mexico, the film tells the story of Jeremías an eight year old who finds out he is a gifted child and initiates a journey of self discovery. When an opportunistic physiologist makes contact with Jeremías, a new world of experiences open up to him but at the expense of being away from the family he loves. Jeremías must choose between this exciting but lonely new world he finds himself in or returning home to his loving family.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Zeroville (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young actor arrives in Hollywood in 1969 during a transitional time in the Industry.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: ironic, talky, stylized, semi serious, humorous, sexy, dark comedy, cult classic, neo noir
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The Queen of Spain (2016)
Plot Summary:
After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to “The Girl of Your Dreams,” 1998.).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Your Excellency (1967)
Plot Summary:
Lopitos, who is horribly inefficient but quick-witted, is invited (because of the current ambassador's superstition about 13 sitting down to a meal) to a banquet attended by the ambassadors of both superpowers. After the news of a series of coups d'état in Los Cocos arrives throughout the meal, Lopitos becomes the official ambassador. At a summit of world leaders, the representatives of the two world superpowers court the allegiances of third-world diplomats to tilt the balance of global power in their favor. The last diplomat to remain unaligned, Lopitos instead harangues the superpowers for infringing on the rights of developing countries to self determination, talking to them with his point of view as a citizen not as ambassador because he arranged his demise as ambassador one day before his speech.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 133 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Hollywood Dreams (2006)
Plot Summary:
The tale of a young girl fresh off the bus from Iowa, who falls in love with a sexy and promising young actor, though their relationship threatens to complicate her own obsessive goal of becoming a famous actress. The film perfectly captures the delightful and desperate lives of those chasing dreams in Hollywood: One day they are shuffling down a boardwalk with too many suitcases, and the next they are lounging in contemporary hillside homes with a view of the city. Though neither state is permanent the more desirable one fuels the dream. The story's extraordinary execution portrays Hollywood as the fantastic and insane place that it is. Written by Lane Kneedler, American Film Institute Magazine.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 251
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, psychological, emotional, sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, talky
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The Last Producer (2000)
Plot Summary:
An old-time mogul struggles to reenter the club where power and money make the rules.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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The TV Set (2006)
Plot Summary:
As a writer named Mike struggles to shepherd his semi-autobiographical sitcom into development, his vision is slowly eroded by a domineering network executive named Lenny who favors trashy reality programming. The irony, of course, is that every crass suggestion Lenny makes improves the show's response from test audiences and brings the show a step closer to getting on the air.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: satirical, melancholic, witty, semi serious, funny, clever, entertaining, humorous, realistic, talky
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What Just Happened (2008)
Plot Summary:
During the course of an ordinary week in Hollywood, movie producer Ben (Robert De Niro) must navigate his way through shark-infested waters as he struggles to complete his latest projects. A demanding studio boss (Catherine Keener) demands extensive changes to a movie starring Sean Penn, while another chief won't greenlight a project unless star Bruce Willis shaves his beard. Meanwhile, Ben tries to reconcile with his wife and maintain a relationship with his young daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: melancholic, stylized, witty, humorous, realistic, satirical, black comedy, dark comedy, indie film, clever