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Plot Summary:
When Man-seob comes back to school after completing military service, he organizes the school's Jokgu team to win Anna's heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Spin Kick (2004)
Plot Summary:
A school director is forced to train the 'worst' students of his school to master Taekwondo as the old coach, taking along the best of his athletes, left the school.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 382
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Oppai Volleyball (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mikako is a young junior high school teacher who has just transferred to a new school. Excited to be starting a new job, she volunteers for a coach for a boys volleyball club. But, she finds out that there is almost no activity in the club… There are only 5 members, and they are all losers who haven’t even touched a volleyball and only think about girls… To give them an incentive to try hard, she promises them that she will show them her boobs if they win a game! Since then, the boys start practicing extremely hard. Feeling uneasy but happy at the same time to see their attitude changing, Mikako starts to like and trust them. She also learns from them and gets back her confidence which once she lost. Right before the day of the first game, ‘the promise’ is discovered by the school side, and it becomes a big problem….
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Japan
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Le.Gen.D (2021)
Plot Summary:
According to the plot, because of his narcissism and selfishness, the undefeated MMA fighter does not notice how he is betrayed by the closest people. Now professional sports are closed to him. It could destroy another, but for the Legend it is only an excuse to accelerate and jump even higher.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 29
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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I, Potro (2018)
Plot Summary:
Former Club de Cuervos player Potro returns home to Argentina to crash the wedding of his famous soccer-star brother and confront his estranged family.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Mexico
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sexy, mockumentary
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Benchwarmers 2: Breaking Balls (2019)
Plot Summary:
A washed-up baseball player becomes an attorney. He gets a chance at redemption when his boss asks him to manage the company softball team in hopes of winning a championship.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: absurd, funny, exciting, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Flock of Dudes (2016)
Plot Summary:
A 30-something year old decides to "break up" with his best buds in order to finally grow up.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Night Club (2011)
Plot Summary:
Three friends - aided by one of the residents - start a night club in a retirement home, after taking a job there working the night shift to put themselves through USC.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Round Trip (2004)
Plot Summary:
Dante, a pony express in serious debt, meets Nina, a hostess stuck in Torino for the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Jian Bing Man (2015)
Plot Summary:
Beijing, the present day. Popular TV personality Da Peng is invited by gangster businessman Wang Hai to make a film in which he will invest. Wang insists that Da Peng's co-star is TV drama actress Du Xiaoxiao. However, after a nightclub scandal involving Da Peng goes viral, he's blackballed by a powerful internet executive and finds himself unable to attract any male co-star. Wang also wants his investment back. Da Peng decides to make his own movie on the cheap, using a script he has about an alien, A Li, who arrives on Earth and has various adventures as a superhero.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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A Hustlers Diary - The Series (2020)
Plot Summary:
The gangster Metin tries to get his life in order after a prison stay.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 221 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, masterpiece
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Secret Zoo (2020)
Plot Summary:
A lawyer is given the mission of revitalising a bankrupt zoo that has no animals. When he and a group of zookeepers come up with the idea to dress like animals and his fake polar bear goes viral, the zoo becomes a hit, before his law firm’s real intentions are revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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XXL (2004)
Plot Summary:
Fali (Oscar Jaenada) has been blessed with an ample gift below the belt. But his extra-large asset ends up getting him into trouble when he agrees to help his friend (Antonio Dechent) get rid of his annoying lover and save his marriage. Fali's romantic entanglements are all the more hilarious considering the only reason he's doing it is so he can get the dream car he's always wanted: a brand-new BMW.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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A Star Is Stillborn (2014)
Plot Summary:
Frank Mancini, a driven Australian stage dad, pushes his children and long suffering girlfriend into the entertainment industry in search of his own delusional dreams of stardom.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: tense, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, dark comedy
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Off Course to China (2019)
Plot Summary:
Braulio after his misadventures in Berlin, moves to Hong Kong along with Rafa and Hakan in search of new opportunities. However, it is not easy to succeed in a land where language, culture and customs are very different from Europe.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Horse Fever: The Mandrake Sting (2002)
Plot Summary:
Seguito de Febbre da cavallo!.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Amore, bugie e calcetto (2008)
Plot Summary:
Seven friends have a passion: every week they play futsal. Each of them forget the everyday's trouble playing futsal.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 881
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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The Usual Idiots: The Movie (2011)
Plot Summary:
A movie based on the italian sitcom "I Soliti Idioti".
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical
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Quick Pick (2006)
Plot Summary:
Eddie, a lovable loser who's strapped for cash and on the verge of getting evicted from his apartment, thinks he's lost the 135 million dollar winning lottery ticket and enlists the help of his two best friends to help him search for it all over Miami.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, independent film
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Four of Us (2014)
Plot Summary:
James prepares for his eighth grade oral exams while his family is going through different times.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Would I Lie to You: The Beginning (2019)
Plot Summary:
In 1980s Paris - Patrick, Dov, Yvan and Serge are young men seeking success in love and business... with varying success.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 267
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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No Country for Young Men (2017)
Plot Summary:
Every year five hundred thousand young people leave Italy and flee overseas. They call it “brain drain” but among the new emigrants there are a lot of ordinary young people seeking their fortune. Sandro and Luciano are two of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Back to School (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two adults go to their middle school reunion in order to show off their success to old bullies teenage crushes.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Job: The Last Grey Cell (2006)
Plot Summary:
A story of three friends - Adi, Pele and Chemik, who experience many adventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Travel Mates (2017)
Plot Summary:
Days before Eid, a salesman fired from his job drives to meet his girlfriend's family, but the trip goes astray due to his zany travel buddy.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, road movie
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Lanky Girls (2019)
Plot Summary:
Mikhail Kovalev, the protagonist, is a talented and successful coach of a Super League men's volleyball team. He is pretty short but compensates it with bad temper and aggressive behavior. He lives large and often drops his girlfriends whom he treats like sex objects. After his another escapade he is confronted by the new president of the Volleyball Federation, who is a woman. As a result, he is fired from the big sports. Now to have a chance to return, he has to make a university women's team the winner of a tournament in his provincial hometown. Such is a condition his mother set to him, a despotic and autocratic woman who used to be a famous volleyball player and the first coach of the current president of the Volleyball Federation. Mikhail has to change and learn to respect girls, accept their problems and stop treating them as sexual objects.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Move of the Penguin (2013)
Plot Summary:
Two precarious workers, a pensioner and an old bully discover the sport of curling by chance and convinced of their potential they plan to compete at the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Last Ride (2016)
Plot Summary:
Go-hwan, who suffers from Lou Gehrig’s disease realizes that he is going to die. When his best friends ask him what his wish is, he tells them he wants to have sex for the first and last time in his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sex comedy
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Class Reunion 3 (2021)
Plot Summary:
The approaching baptism of his ex-wife's new baby destroys Antti's ability to function and puts him in catatonic state. Tuomas and Nippe take action to cheer him up and decide to take him on a singles cruise.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 783
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious
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Water Polo Yankees (2014)
Plot Summary:
Water Polo Yankees is a 2014 Japanese television drama, starring Yuto Nakajima of Hey! Say! JUMP, Kento Yamazaki and Sakurako Ohara. It is the first drama to have water polo as their main sport. The drama aired from 12 July 2014 to 20 September 2014 with a total of 10 episodes.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Saving My Stupid Youth (2014)
Plot Summary:
Heisuke teaches at his alma mater, an all-boy’s Buddhist high school and leads a very ordinary life, except for the fact that he is still tortured by the memory of an unfortunate incident that took place there involving him and his school 14 years ago. In hopes of closure, he strikes upon a plan to jointly hold this year’s Culture Festival with a nearby girl’s school, with which there are chilly relations. Determined at all costs to make the event a success, Heisuke finds himself dealing with a constant stream of problems along the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 580
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sexy