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Plot Summary:
After losing her job on a U.S. Senate campaign, a liberal environmentalist returns to her conservative Texas hometown to regroup. Upon learning her childhood nemesis is running for state legislature, she creates an elaborate scheme to go undercover as his opponent on the Republican ticket with the ultimate goal of forcing a Democratic victory.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
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Nobody Said Anything (1971)
Plot Summary:
Surrealism "a la chilena" sees four drunken, literary bohemians write a short story about a pact with the Devil just as that very story is happening to them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Chile
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: intellectual
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Between Two Worlds (2016)
Plot Summary:
The tale of a young writer trying to get over the girl that left him behind and survive the intricacies of the capital's nightlife with only the help of his hard partying, wisecracking friends as they drag him from one London nightspot and party to the next.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags:
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Bliss (2017)
Plot Summary:
A philandering travel writer balances two associates lives in the U.S. and the U.K.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags:
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Let's Eat (2021)
Plot Summary:
A food-blogging insurance agent encounters a friend from elementary school with a vendetta against him -- but soon becomes her sidekick.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 14
Genere: Comedy
Country: Thailand
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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The Vixen (1969)
Plot Summary:
Clara becomes a secretary who must cater to all the desires of the womanizing writer Jérôme, while he tries to write his memoirs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Me, Myself and I (1992)
Plot Summary:
Me, Myself & I is a 1992 dark romantic comedy starring JoBeth Williams and George Segal. The movie is the directorial debut of editor and producer Pablo Ferro. Bill Macy, Shelley Hack and Ruth Gilbert also appear in this independent film.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Women's Club (1987)
Plot Summary:
Patrick is a struggling screenwriter who takes a second job as a male prostitute. He is supposed to write by day and do right by his lonely clientele at night, but he develops writer's block. When Patrick decides to draw from his amorous experiences as inspiration for his next screenplay, the women conspire to prevent it.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967)
Plot Summary:
Advertising golden boy Andrew Quint is fed up with his fabulously successful life. In very dramatic fashion, he quits his job to return to writing for a small literary magazine. He wants to leave his former life behind, going as far as saying good-bye to his wife and mistresses. He finds, however, that it's not so easy to escape the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: erotic, weird
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Women in Oversized Men's Shirts (2015)
Plot Summary:
The dorkiest thing in the world, according to feminist poet Sigrid, is the movie cliche of the young woman who in the morning dons her male lover's shirt, looking adorably "indie cute". But when she begins a relationship with Kåre Tryvle, she has difficulties living up to her ideals. Meanwhile, pregnant performance artist Trine is planning to give birth in a cage, dressed up as Marie Antoinette, on camera, and factory worker Astrid is looking for the son she had adopted away.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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After the Wedding (2017)
Plot Summary:
Newlywed Diego Diaz heads down to Miami Beach for a few weeks to finish his latest novel, but when he becomes emotionally intimate with a sexy bartender, he and his wife are left to examine the true state of their young marriage.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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Otherhood (2019)
Plot Summary:
Three suburban moms travel to New York City to visit their sons.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, sincere, touching, semi serious, profound, thought provoking, realistic, feel good
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Spivak (2018)
Plot Summary:
A self-loathing, failed Eastside novelist living in the ‘hipster’ neighborhood of Echo Park in Los Angeles is shocked to find himself falling in love with everything he hates, including a simple All-American blonde girl from the Westside.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 833
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, suspenseful
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Sex Appeal (1986)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of young Tony Cannelloni as he attempts to break away from his overbearing mom and strike out on his own. He sets himself up with a new apartment, look, and lifestyle to improve his "sex appeal". Through a series of encounters with a variety of women he gets ever closer to achieving his goal. However, a never-ending series of calamities always seem to interrupt his progress.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Date What is Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
Yoriko Yabushita works at a Yokohama research laboratory. She tracks trends in relation to macroeconomics. She is 29-years-old and enthusiastic about her work. She also enjoys efficiency and having a regular life. Although she doesn't excel in social settings with other people, her next goal is getting married and having a baby. Yoriko believes that she marry by the age of 30, because everyone around her did including her late mother. If Yoriko finds a man who fills 24 items listed on her ideal husband list, she will marry him.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 213
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: romantic
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Humor Me (2017)
Plot Summary:
An adult son who is slowly drifting towards rock bottom reconnects with his joke-loving dad.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Less Than 30 (2016)
Plot Summary:
Alexa Cavender, pressured to find a relationship, takes an interesting approach by only dating those matched at less than 30%.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 79
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Not Dead Yet (2023)
Plot Summary:
Nell Serrano is a broke and newly single self-described disaster. She works to restart the life and career she left behind some 10 years ago. When writing obituaries is the only job she can find, Nell starts getting life advice from an unlikely (and dead) source.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
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The Pact (2021)
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Aged 63, Karen Blixen is at the pinnacle of her fame and next in line to win the Nobel Prize for literature. It has been 17 years since she gave up her famous farm in Africa, only to return to Denmark with her life in ruins. Devastated by syphilis and having lost the love of her life, she has reinvented herself as a literary sensation. She is an isolated genius, however, until the day she meets a talented 30-year-old poet. She promises him literary stardom if he in return will obey her unconditionally – even at the cost of him losing everything else in his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 846
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Denmark, Belgium, Norway, Finland
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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The Creator (1999)
Plot Summary:
Auteur à succès, Darius voit des affiches annonçant sa nouvelle pièce. Soudain pris de panique, il se rappelle qu'il a oublié de l'écrire.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, fun
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The Argument (2020)
Plot Summary:
A couple get into an argument at their cocktail party that escalates until it brings an abrupt end to the festivities. They and their guests decide to re-create the entire night again and again to determine who was right.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 883
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, sweet, entertaining, talky, semi serious
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Critic's Choice (1963)
Plot Summary:
Bob Hope is a New York theater critic and his wife (Lucille Ball in their final motion picture pairing) writes a play that may or may not be very good. Now Hope must either get out of reviewing the play or cause the breakup of his marriage. Based on the Broadway play by Ira Levin.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: retro, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick comedy, technicolor
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The Creatress (2019)
Plot Summary:
Young, bestselling author Eryn Bellow concludes her bookstore tour with her agent selling film rights and closing a six figure advance for her follow-up. Headwinds arise as critics get offended by the claims that Eryn is being declared a living literary legend. The storm gathers force as the assaults gravitate from bad reviews to a fake-memoir designed to obliterate her from the field. Through the noise, Eryn attempts to write her way out of the public fray, and reclaim her voice in the minds of her readers. Along the way, she hopes to prove a happy ending is not always a bad thing.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
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High Society (1995)
Plot Summary:
High Society is the title of an American television sitcom that aired Monday nights on CBS in 1995 and early 1996; it was entered into the CBS schedule as a replacement for If Not for You, a sitcom starring Elizabeth McGovern, which was quickly canceled by the network. The theme song was the Lady is a Tramp sung by Chaka Khan. Its premise was similar to the campy British comedy series Absolutely Fabulous.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, social
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Surrender (1987)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy writer who has had terrible experiences with money-hungry girlfriends & ex-wives pretends to be a broke, washed-up novelist to see if the woman he loves wants him for himself or just for his money.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Muse (1999)
Plot Summary:
What happens when a screenwriter (Brooks) loses his edge, he turns to anyone he can for help... even if it's the mythical "Zeus's Daughter" (Stone). And he's willing to pay, albeit reluctantly, whatever price it takes to satisfy this goddess, especially when her advice gets him going again on a sure-fire script. However, this is not the limit of her help, she also gets the writer's wife (MacDowell) going on her own bakery enterprise, much to the chagrin of Brooks, who has already had to make many personal sacrifices for his own help.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: satirical, funny, light, feel good, surprise ending, clever, humorous, witty, inspirational, captivating
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Nickelodeon (1976)
Plot Summary:
Going from a lawyer to a writer, and then to a film director, is the career path on which we find the bashful Leo Harrigan. But Leo has problems as well, such as being hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, who chooses to reward his attentions by getting herself hitched to Harrigan's vulgar leading man, Buck Greenaway! This movie is based, extremely loosely, on the early career on Cecil B. De Mille. - Written by Alfred Jingle.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Authors Anonymous (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a dysfunctional group of unpublished writers accept Hannah into their fold, the last thing they expect is her overnight success. Can these lovable misfits achieve their artistic dreams and avoid killing one another in the process?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, not serious
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Ink (1996)
Plot Summary:
Ink is a television sitcom which aired on CBS from 1996-1997 that starred real-life husband and wife Ted Danson and Mary Steenburgen as newspaper journalists, allegedly inspired by the film His Girl Friday. The show was also produced by Danson and Steenburgen. The show was canceled after one season due to lower than expected ratings. The distribution rights to the series are currently owned by Disney-ABC Domestic Television. The show's pilot was drastically changed and reshot from the original version. Ink was filmed at the soundstages of CBS Studio City in the Studio City area of Los Angeles. Outdoor scenes were usually shot at the small backlot streets of the same studio.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 98
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious
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Girl Most Likely (2012)
Plot Summary:
A failed New York playwright stages a suicide in an attempt to win back her ex, only to wind up in the custody of her gambling-addict mother.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, melancholic, absurd, romantic, entertaining, black comedy, romantic comedy, cute, teen
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Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Plot Summary:
This film tells the story of a successful writer called Harry Block, played by Allen himself, who draws inspiration from people he knows in real-life, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, surreal, cult classic, funny, independent film, clever, black comedy, dark comedy, existential