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Plot Summary:
Set during a period of depression, the film chronicles the daily lives of a single urban building split up into several separate units, and the actual people that dwell within.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 161
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 101 min
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White Lions (2011)
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The film is about the workers unpaid for six years who decide to lay down the driveway in front of their factory. Oki is an unemployed factory worker and union leader. His son Gruja is a movie director unemployed for ten years, he shoots weddings and funerals in order to survive and save enough money to shoot his first feature film. White, unemployed opera singer and Gruja's girlfriend, is trying to make money by singing opera arias from house to house. The story is about ruined factories and workers without someone to lead them to a better life.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 692
Genere: Comedy
Country: Serbia
Duration: 90 min
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Long Live the Republic (1997)
Plot Summary:
A group of young unemployed people from Le Mans (France) decide to create a new political party.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 142
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
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It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World II (1988)
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After losing their lottery winnings during the bank's closure, the Biu family's luck changes again as Bill's job promotion and daughters' education and work careers sent them and the entire family to lead their new lives in Canada, where new misadventures await.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 97 min
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The Fortune Buddies (2011)
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Lam Luk (Cho-lam Wong), Jit Sau (Johnson Lee), Fook Cheung (Louis Yuen) are three unemployed friends who come together to help Lam Luk get married. After Lam Luk proposed to his girlfriend (Fiona Sit), his future father-in-law (Eric Tsang) stipulated that he will allow the marriage only if Lam Luk can come up with $500,000 for the downpayment of their future apartment. The three friends must now do everything they can to come up with the money ….
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 89 min
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The Subtenant (2008)
Plot Summary:
A farce about blackmailing, a kidney transplant operation performed at home, deviants and human relationships.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min
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A Jungle Book of Regulations (1974)
Plot Summary:
Nie ma róży bez ognia title in Polish: There is no rose without fire, in reference to two mixed up proverbs – There is no rose without thorns, and There is no smoke without the fire – is a Polish comedy film from 1974 directed by Stanisław Bareja.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, absurd
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Honest Candidate 2 (2022)
Plot Summary:
As a politician, Joo Sang-Sook (Ra Mi-Ran) attempted to run for the fourth time as a member of the nationally assembly. After visiting her grandmother, Joo Sang-Sook was unable to tell a lie. Now, Joo Sang-Sook attempts to return to the political world.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
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Lan Kwai Fong Swingers (1993)
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The sexy antics of four now-adult classmates. Chu, the only male, is unsure which of two of the group he really fancies. The girls are conveniently named Lan, Kwai and Fong. Lan fools around with her wealthy boss. Later, the group make an amateur X-rated film to make money.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 80 min
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BDE (2023)
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The story of four lifelong friends who met in the 2000s when they were presidents of the BDE of the Nantes Institute of Business. At the time, they were the "Bioman": the kings of partying, excess and "transmutation". 20 years later, they have mellowed out and lead well-ordered lives. Except... Once a year, when they get together for the WEB: the Bioman Weekend. There, they "transmute" hard as they like to say. In short: they drink and sing in a pathetic way.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 106 min
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Vulgaria (2012)
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Struggling movie producer To Wai-Cheung (Chapman To) is hardly able to make ends meet, yet his daughter (Fiona Sit) hopes to one day sees him being interviewed on TV. In order to fulfill his daughter's dream, he meets Tyrannosaurus (Ronald Cheng), a Guangxi based triad head and a movie investor with a peculiar taste. Tyrannosaurus wants to remake a category III movie starring his childhood idol Siu Yam-yam called Confessions of Two Concubines.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, light, sexy, feel good, erotic, offbeat, sexual, weird
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Surprise Trip (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 97 min
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What Fault Is It of Ours? (2003)
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Seven people in a therapy group are forced to find new ways of coping with their problems when their therapist dies in the middle of a session.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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The Blue Collar Worker and the Hairdresser in a Whirl of Sex and Politics (1996)
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This Italian political satire from filmmaker Lina Wertmuller will be most enjoyable for those well-grounded in Italian politics. Covering the late March through April general elections of 1994 in which right-wing conservatives routed the incumbent leftists. This is particularly upsetting for Tunin, a mechanic with a firm belief in communism. Fearing that his party is about to lose, he journeys to a northern village to stir up trouble. He isn't there long before he is arguing with a beautiful hairdresser. Their debate is fiery as is his growing and impossible-to-disguise passion for her. She too is intrigued with him, but their disparate ideologies threaten to keep them apart.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 253
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
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Overnight Republic (2017)
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Peker Mengen wins the post of mayor in a remote town with the promise of a visit by the prime minister and making the town a province. When the people do not forget his promise, Mengen ends up persuading the prime minister to visit the town with his idiosyncratic methods. After consulting with his advisors, Peker prepares a grandiose welcome ceremony, but when the ceremony gets out of his control, the town of 5000 people suddenly ends up becoming a country, one that is at war with America. As Peker Mengen, his unwillingly married wife Mualla and his advisors try to keep America at bay and struggle with the difficulties of establishing a new country, they even get the help of an alien to achieve their goals.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: parody, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, political comedy
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Teenagers from Uranus: Sloppy Seconds (2006)
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A bizarre mix of sketch comedy, music videos, skating, graffiti, and mayhem. As Earth faces an attack from outer space, their TV transmissions are taken over with an onslaught of visual destruction and outrageous humor.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: parody, sketch comedy
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Saturday Night Live: 40th Anniversary Special (2015)
Plot Summary:
A three-hour prime-time special celebrating SNL 's fortieth year on the air.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, sketch comedy
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Foreign Body (1986)
Plot Summary:
Banerjee stars as Ram Das, a jobless Indian man who, tired of life in Calcutta, steals money from his father in order to afford a passage to Britain and while there, falls in love with a white woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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I Am Self Sufficient (1976)
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Michele Apicella lives in Rome, in an apartment paid for by his father. Abandoned by his wife and his son Andrea, he occupies his time acting in an experimental theater company under the artistic direction of his friend Fabio.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, experimental, semi serious, surreal, independent film
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Men on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (2022)
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Seven men, all city-dwellers aged between 17 and 70, with nothing in common apart from the fact that they are all on the verge of a nervous breakdown, meet up at a lonely sta- tion for an unusual course in the wild that is supposed to get them back on their feet. Each step in this boot camp, designed by an eccentric and feisty female coach, aims to reveal them to themselves. The task seems to be a tough one, especially as nothing goes as planned between these men.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Comedy
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 97 min
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Ricky Gervais Live 2: Politics (2004)
Plot Summary:
A year after Animals, Ricky Gervais comes back with his second stand up comedy tour: Politics.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: cynical, atmospheric, humorous, clever, witty, talky, realistic, not serious, funny, unusual plot structure
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Calls Controlled (1991)
Plot Summary:
Brilliantly funny comedy finds humor in what was otherwise a terrifying time, the outbreak of Martial Law in Poland in 1981.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense
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The Bubble (2022)
Plot Summary:
Sneaking out. Hooking up. Melting down. The cast and crew of a blockbuster action franchise attempt to shoot a sequel while quarantining at a posh hotel.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 28000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: funny, suspense, surprise ending, metafiction, humorous, fun
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Kung Fu Mahjong 2 (2005)
Plot Summary:
Fanny is a skilled mahjong player and young housewife, who's usually forbidden from her tile-clicking addiction by husband Johnny. However, when Johnny falls in with gambler Demon, Fanny gets sent packing. Johnny takes up with Demon's sister Curvy, and Fanny is left alone and seems to lose her mahjong-playing skills. Luckily, she receives additional training from her mahjong mentor Three Tiles, who also schooled Auntie Fei, as well as sexy player-in-training First Love. With the aid of her mahjong sisters, brother, plus Auntie Fei's husband Chi Mo Sai, Fanny regroups in time to take on Curvy, Demon, and Johnny at a climactic mahjong tournament.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, exciting, campy
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72 Tenants of Prosperity (2010)
Plot Summary:
Kung and Kin's rivalry goes way back to the seventies when they fought over the same girl, who eventually became Kung's wife. Now they run competing phone stores right across from each other on Mongkok's busiest street, and stretch their minds trying to outdo each other with crazy promotions.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 504
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Sarah Cooper: Everything's Fine (2020)
Plot Summary:
Comedian and Trump lip-synching sensation Sarah Cooper tackles politics, race and other light topics in a sketch special packed with celebrity guests.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 49 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, mockumentary
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The Sinking City: Capsule Odyssey (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hong Kong is just a ridiculous place full of lies. In this prosperous city, there are a group of people that have to live in the ‘space capsule’, which is a large seminar room subdivided into small living rooms. In such a small living space, this group of people all struggle to fight for their ideal lifestyle which reflects the spirit of Hong Kong.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, black comedy
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Escort in love (2011)
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35 year old Alice has a husband and a son. Her life seems a beautiful dream, but it soon turns out to be a nightmare. Her husband dies in a car accident and her lawyer tells her that she is on her uppers. The only way she finds to earn money in short time is to do the oldest job in history.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, captivating, entertaining, happy
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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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Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2005)
Plot Summary:
To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what makes followers of Islam laugh.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, satirical, witty, clever, offbeat, realistic, not serious, biting, humorous
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Noises Off... (1992)
Plot Summary:
A travelling theater group has so much action going on behind-the-scenes it almost ruins the performances.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, feel good, light, witty, talky, metafiction, offbeat, romantic comedy, realistic