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Plot Summary:
An alien intending to claim Earth for his people before their homeworld is destroyed by a comet decides not to eliminate humanity when he hears their music. Instead, he lives among them until another alien is sent to find and kill him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, tense, light, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, offbeat, independent film
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Rhinestone (1984)
Plot Summary:
After a big-time country singer brags that she can turn anybody in to a country-singin' star, she's out to prove she can live up to her talk when she recruits a cab-driver as a country singer. He's scheduled to sing at a big-time NYC country night club and she puts her ample powers to work in preparing her protege.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, entertaining, semi serious, inspirational, retro, anamorphic, cult classic, realistic, parody
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Hail Caesar (1994)
Plot Summary:
Caesar is having a hard time dividing his time between his band and his rich girlfriend, Buffer. Buffer's dad doesn't like Ceasar for her. He called in Caesar to make a bet. If Caesar gets to make a hundred thousand dollars within six months, he can have Buffer but if he does not, he won't see her forever. How can Ceasar win the bet if what he only knows is jam with his band mates?.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, independent film, realistic
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Marci X (2003)
Plot Summary:
A Jewish-American Princess is forced to take control of a hard-core hip-hop record label and tries to rein the one of the label's most controversial rappers.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, spooky, satirical, controversial
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The Pee-Wee Herman Show on Broadway (2011)
Plot Summary:
Subversive humor and childlike wonder based on both Reubens' original stage show, "The Pee-wee Herman Show," and the Emmy-winning Saturday morning TV show, "Pee-wee's Playhouse.".
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, offbeat, surreal, not serious, independent film, slapstick, campy
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Brooklyn Brothers Beat the Best (2011)
Plot Summary:
Recently dumped by his girlfriend, underachiever Alex (O'Nan) embarks on an impromptu road trip with his new bandmate, the eccentric Jim (Michael Weston). By channeling their inner children and giving a new meaning to the term "lo-fi," Alex and Jim find their unique style by bringing the sound of children's instruments to their unsuspecting fans. Playing a series of bizarre shows and experiencing multiple near-disasters, Alex and Jim's persistence takes them on a true coming-of-age journey.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 566
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, romantic, romantic comedy
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A Mighty Wind (2003)
Plot Summary:
In "A Mighty Wind", director Christopher Guest reunites the team from "Best In Show" and "Waiting for Guffman" to tell tell the story of 60's-era folk musicians, who inspired by the death of their former manager, get back on the stage for one concert in New York City's Town Hall.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, funny, light, talky, stylized, lyrical, not serious, realistic, parody
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Tapeheads (1988)
Plot Summary:
The story of Ivan and Josh, two dim witted ex-security guards who love music videos. Out of work, with no job prospects, they form a music video production company. They soon learn the in's and out's of the business in LA and with some help from Mo Fuzz, they soon become hot property. But not all goes smoothly when they try to resurrect the career of their favorite R&B duo, the Swanky Modes.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, satirical, semi serious, cult classic, intense, offbeat, realistic, witty, independent film
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Garfunkel and Oates (2014)
Plot Summary:
Garfunkel and Oates stars Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci as both themselves and their musical comedy alter-egos, "Garfunkel and Oates," following the pair as they try to expand the reaches of their meager celebrity. Well-known on the improv-comedy scene, Micucci and Lindhome met at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in LA, naming their band for "two famous rock-and-roll second bananas," Art Garfunkel and John Oates. In five bite-sized episodes, Riki and Kate skewer taboos and perform tongue-in-cheek songs about their woeful lives as single, late-20-something Los Angelinos.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, captivating, feel good, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic, independent film
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Trail of the Screaming Forehead (2007)
Plot Summary:
A small town infestation of crawling alien foreheads that begin attaching to people and taking them over collides with a scientist's experiments to extract foreheadazine and things go horribly horribly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 871
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, stylized, semi serious, scary, creepy, exciting, offbeat, feel good, weird
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Fatal (2010)
Plot Summary:
Fatal... c'est Fatal Bazooka, un rappeur bling-bling et hardcore. En fait, un personnage de sketch créé par Michaël Youn dans son show-télé "Morning Live", puis développé dans l'album "T'as vu" vendu à plus de 500 000 exemplaires. Ce film raconte ce que serait devenu ce rappeur s'il en avait vendu... 15 millions ! Fatal est désormais une énorme star. Des millions de fans, des dizaines de tubes, 4 Music Awards de la Musique du meilleur artiste de l'année, une ligne de vêtements, un magazine et prochainement l'ouverture de son propre parc d'attraction : Fataland. Il est le N°1 incontesté.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, captivating, witty, realistic
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The Neighbors (2012)
Plot Summary:
When the Weavers move to a gated community in New Jersey, they discover that the entire neighborhood is comprised of aliens from the planet Zabvron. But as the Weavers and the aliens face the struggles of everyday life together, they discover that some things -- the ups and downs of marriage, the desire to be a good parent and raise a happy family -- are universal. Intergalactic, even.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, feel good, entertaining, absurd, erotic, sensual, offbeat
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Marvin Marvin (2012)
Plot Summary:
Marvin Marvin is an American science fiction slapstick comedy television series that aired from November 24, 2012 to April 27, 2013. The series was set to premiere on Nickelodeon in 2013, but was pushed forward to November 24, 2012. It stars Lucas Cruikshank as the title character Marvin Marvin, an alien teenage boy adjusting to human life. On June 26, 2013, Cruikshank said that he had left Nickelodeon.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, sitcom, feel good, teen comedy
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Adventures of Serial Buddies (2011)
Plot Summary:
Gregory is a devout Catholic who wants to kill evil people in order to grant them safe passage to heaven, Gary is an assembly worker at a trophy shop who wants to kill potential trophy winners, Graham is Gary's intern who will do anything to become a trophy maker and Vinny Van Go drives a road emergency van just to make friends. A coincidental encounter forces these four dim witted rejects to join forces and embark upon an idiotic and altogether hilarious road trip adventure - encountering the likes of skinheads, fraternity jocks, sorority babes, missing children, bikers, porn-stars, clowns, and Kathie Lee Gifford! If the boys aren't careful they might just become human, in what is "the very first serial killer buddy movie of all time.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, feel good, captivating, light, offbeat, realistic
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Zenon: The Zequel (2001)
Plot Summary:
Zenon Kar is 15 and lives on a space station which the military has taken over and is dismantling. She receives a mysterious signal and must convince everyone that it's from aliens who have come to help them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, not serious, teen
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G.O.R.A. (2004)
Plot Summary:
A slick young Turk kidnapped by extraterrestrials shows his great « humanitarian spirit » by outwitting the evil commander-in-chief of the planet of G.O.R.A.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, stylized, not serious, cult classic, offbeat
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Good Intentions (2010)
Plot Summary:
Meet Etta Milford. Loving Wife. Doting Mother. Armed Robber. Etta's husband constantly blows their money on make-shift inventions. When she decides to secretly take "investment" matters into her own hands - things quickly go awry! With their savings gone, her husband suspicious, and their children out of control, Etta concocts a scheme to get back their money and save her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 709
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: uplifting, feel good, not serious, realistic, indie film, offbeat, humorous
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Drones (2010)
Plot Summary:
Brian Dilks is an Office Drone. He spends his days at OmniLink in comforting monotony: facilitating the movement of product around the country, faxing, copying, joking with his best friend, Clark, and harmlessly flirting with fellow cubicle-mate, Amy. But how well does anyone really know the people they work with? When Brian discovers an improbable secret about his best friend, everything in Brian’s world changes and his safe life of workplace detachment is no longer an option. Shocked out of his mind-numbing routine by this new discovery, Brian throws himself into a star-crossed romance with Amy––yet close encounters of the office kind, like sales or intergalactic war, is an uncertain business.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, independent film, offbeat
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The Country Bears (2002)
Plot Summary:
For Beary Barrington, The Country Bears' young #1 fan, fitting in with his all-too-human family is proving im-paws-ible. When he runs away to find Country Bear Hall and his heroes, he discovers the venue that made them famous is near foreclosure. Beary hightails it over the river and through the woods to get the Bears in the Band back together for an all-out reunion concert to save Country Bear Hall.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, feel good, not serious, hilarious, spoof, parody, touching, sweet, suspense
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Down and Out with the Dolls (2001)
Plot Summary:
The raunchy, spunky tale of the rise and fall of an all-girl rock band from Portland, Oregon.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 215
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, suspense, erotic, offbeat, independent film, biting, campy
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Electric Apricot (2007)
Plot Summary:
Electric Apricot is a spoof of jam bands centered around the band, Electric Apricot, in the style of "This Is Spinal Tap".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 673
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, mockumentary, offbeat, semi serious, fake documentary
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Farm Girl in New York (2007)
Plot Summary:
Sam and Matt flee their small mid-western town for New York City, where hot girls roam the streets! After months of trying to pick up ladies and failing miserably, they come up with the idea to hold a fake audition to meet chicks. Hilarity ensues when dozens of sexy, talentless, babes show up and compete for a job that doesn t exist. However, when an out of town farm girl shows up for the audition they are instantly smitten. Will these phony auditions come in the way of them finding true love?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, independent film, romantic comedy, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Invasion of the Star Creatures (1962)
Plot Summary:
Beautiful alien Amazonian women plan to conquer the world using an army of vegetable monsters. Dim-witted privates Philbrick and Penn bumble into a cave in search of atomic activity but collide instead with fierce carrot-topped tree mutants and their leaders, the 7-foot space sirens Prof. Tanga and Dr. Puna. This lavishly low-budget sci-fi romp has the bodacious aliens planning to overrun Earth with their vege-men army, but first they want the G.I.s to explain the meaning of love.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 919
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: retro, suspense, independent film, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, slapstick, parody, psychotronic, campy
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Morons from Outer Space (1985)
Plot Summary:
The story begins on a small spaceship docking with a refueling station. On board are a group of four aliens, Bernard, Sandra, Desmond, and Julian. During a particularly tedious period of their stay at the station, the other three begin playing with the ship’s controls while Bernard is outside playing spaceball. They accidentally disconnect his part of the ship, leaving him stranded while they crash into a large blue planet close by (Earth).
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: cult classic, humorous, spoof, mysterious, offbeat, semi serious, independent film, parody, light, road movie
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2001: A Space Travesty (2000)
Plot Summary:
Leslie Nielsen once again plays a bumbling detective in the vein of the 'Naked Gun' movies, but this time as Marshall Richard 'Dick' Dix. When odd reports are received through official channels stating that the President of the United States is being held captive on a secret international moon base called Vegan and that he has been replaced on Earth by a clone, the US Marshall Service immediately sends their 'best' man, Dix, on the mission. Dix travels to Vegan to rescue the president, but is quickly duped and ends up returning to Earth where he installs the clone-president and removes the real one. The bumbling Dix must then find a way to restore the real president before aliens take over the Earth, and restore in himself a belief in truth, justice and the American way.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, Germany, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, not serious, exciting, light, intellectual, captivating, slapstick, grindhouse
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Spaced Out (2006)
Plot Summary:
The planet earth is in peril of impending doom, and maniacal destructive forces from outer space are closely at hand! Twisted, demented alien terrorists are single-handedly about to reap horrific havoc on earth and threaten life itself. Meanwhile, ace investigative reporter extraordinaire, Al Manac (James Vallo), has been held captive for two years in their space lair.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, exciting, captivating, independent film, offbeat, spoof, parody, campy
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Rock Jocks (2012)
Plot Summary:
Imagine asteroids so large that they can wipe out all life on the planet constantly bombarding the Earth. The only things standing in the way are the Rock Jocks, a top-secret band of government employees, who pilot asteroid-killing satellites. The story takes place during a Rock Jocks night shift. Though they are there to fight off asteroids, they spend most of the night fighting off boredom, themselves, and the occasional meddling government bureaucrat hell-bent on cutting their department’s budget.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, feel good, semi serious, independent film, captivating, light, not serious
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My Stepmother Is an Alien (1988)
Plot Summary:
Trying to rescue her home planet from destruction, a gorgeous extraterrestrial named Celeste arrives on Earth and begins her scientific research. She woos quirky scientist Dr. Steve Mills, a widower with a young daughter. Before long, Celeste finds herself in love with Steve and her new life on Earth, where she experiences true intimacy for the first time. But when she loses sight of her mission, she begins to question where she belongs.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, humorous, parody, funny, erotic, spoof, offbeat, not serious, psychotronic
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Coneheads (1993)
Plot Summary:
With enormous cone-shaped heads, robotlike walks and an appetite for toilet paper, aliens Beldar and Prymatt don't exactly blend in with the population of Paramus, N.J. But for some reason, everyone believes them when they say they're from France! As the odd "Saturday Night Live" characters settle into middle-class life in this feature-length comedy, a neighbor admires their daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, absurd, not serious, satirical, feel good, skit, cult classic, offbeat
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Evil Alien Conquerors (2003)
Plot Summary:
Inept beings from the planet Kabijj land on Earth and attempt to behead all of its beings and take over the planet.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, funny, entertaining, slapstick
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Illegal Aliens (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three aliens morph into super-hot babes and arrive to protect the earth from the intergalactic forces of evil. Guided by Syntax, their holographic mentor, these Illegal Aliens are willing to use every trick in the book and every sexy outfit in their wardrobe to accomplish their mission! "Illegal Aliens" pokes fun at today's Hollywood and pays tribute to the so-called "Bad Movies" we all love to hate.
IMDB Rating: 2.7
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, sex comedy, independent film, spoof, exciting, parody