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Plot Summary:
Harry Dare is a shambolic Adelaide private investigator. He’s still not certain why he’s in the business; perhaps to understand his father’s disappearance, 20 years earlier? But now Harry’s got a real case: who stole his father’s old Kombi van, nicked (oddly) just after Harry finished restoring it?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Nullarbor Nymph (2012)
Plot Summary:
Following two Water Australia employees who travel out along the Nullarbor Plain only to discover they are being hunted by the mythological creature, the Nullarbor Nymph.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: Australia
Duration: 66 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, humorous, suspense, scary, tense, contemplative, road movie, mockumentary, cult movie cast
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Love and the Midnight Auto Supply (1977)
Plot Summary:
An auto-theft ring decides to help out migrant workers from Mexico with the proceeds from their racket.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dallas Doll (1994)
Plot Summary:
Dallas, an American golf tutor, arrives in a quiet Sydney suburb to teach at the local school and sets about causing chaos with the family she stays with.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sexy, hot
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A Little Bit of Soul (1998)
Plot Summary:
Richard and Kate are former lovers who are now working independently to find the secret of the aging process. Both apply for funding from the Michael Foundation, and are asked to spend the weekend discussing the proposals with the Head of the Foundation, who happens to be married to the Australian Treasurer. They have a very interesting weekend.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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The Craic (1999)
Plot Summary:
When Fergus and Wesley get in the bad books of a local rough in their home town in Northern Ireland they decide to flee to Australia. After making a new life for themselves in Sydney they soon outstay their visas and must go on the run again, this time from the immigration officials.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: road movie, slang, independent film
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The BBQ (2018)
Plot Summary:
Dazza's passion in life is barbecuing, but unfortunately he accidentally gives his neighbours food poisoning. To make amends, he receives tutelage from a Scottish chef, and together they enter an international barbecue competition.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Around the World in Eighty Ways (1987)
Plot Summary:
Mavis Davis has had enough! Younger son Eddie wears headphones all day and almost electrocutes her. Older boy Wally is gay and lives in a huge over-ripe banana. And her husband Roly has grown into a blind, motionless, emotionless vegetable. So pack the bags, Mavis is off on an around the world package trip leaving them all behind. However, when Dad finds out she has been joined by their hated next door neighbour long dead passions begin to stir. Blind, senile old Dad decides to chase his wife around the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Hog Wild (1980)
Plot Summary:
A boy (Tim Warner), expelled from military school, returns home to his fathers disappiontment. He discovers that a motorcycle gang has been terrorizing his high school, and falls in love with the girlfriend (Angie Barnes) of the gang's leader (Bull). He battles the gang, and wins both the admiration of his father and the love of the girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Go for Broke (2002)
Plot Summary:
Two friends purchase a winning lottery ticket, only to have it stolen by a Woman while she is robbing the cafe in which they are having lunch. The Woman is caught and sent to prison, having managed to smuggle the lottery ticket inside. The two friends devise a plan to dress up in drag, commit a minor felony, get caught and then sent to the same prison in order to retrievie the ticket. "Some Like it Hot" meets "Stir Crazy" describes the antics of the film.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Pacific Banana (1981)
Plot Summary:
The story of a pair of Australian pilots working for a small South Pacific airline. Paul, a wildly successful womanizer, leaving conquests at every port and Martin, sad and lonely in his search for a true love. Together, they... well, they don't do much of anything besides chase girls on various Polynesian islands.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 211
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sexy, sex comedy, independent film, hot
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Found Money (1983)
Plot Summary:
Max and Sam, disillusioned with people's day-to-day callousness toward each other, and angered by a pension-stealing bank, invent The Invisible Friend, Inc. The intention was to reward kind acts, but things rarely turn out as planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Stork (1971)
Plot Summary:
Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his way through life, bungling job interviews, upsetting ‘respectable’ people, and getting drunk. The only girl in the house, Anna resists Stork’s advances, because she’s already involved with the other two resident males, Tony and Clyde. But when she becomes pregnant and Clyde and Anna decide to marry, Stork, Tony, Clyde and Westy are shocked when they realize that either one of the foursome could be the father. Then the fun begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, slapstick, cult film
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Alvin Rides Again (1974)
Plot Summary:
Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Le Mentor (2012)
Plot Summary:
A ruined old man turned homeless overhears the conversation of a young couple. He decides to intervene and become their mentor.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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The Guardian Angel (1996)
Plot Summary:
Madrid, 1981. Jorge has just arrived in Madrid to live in beautiful large house with his brother, mother, grandmother Obdulia, a wealthy woman who is somewhat deaf, and his grandfather, an aged and senile octogenarian.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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This Won't Hurt a Bit (1993)
Plot Summary:
This Won't Hurt a Bit is a 1993 Australian comedy film about a dentist.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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91.1 (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of 3 different generations living in the same city. Alper, his best friend Soner and his long-time girlfriend Hazan are studying at the same university. Lately the relation between Hazan and Alper do not go well. Soner supports them for the recovery of the relationship. Hakan, Barker and Serhat who are their twenties live in another district of the same city. They plan a vacation at a resort. They steal money and the car of their parents. Another generation living in this city are 12-year-old friends Mutafa and Emre. Their dream is to make programs at a radio. These three lives knotted together at some point at an unexpected time.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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My Entire Life (1996)
Plot Summary:
All Wally Mellish, an ex-convict in 1960s Australia, wants to do is live a quiet life with his girlfriend Beryl. Unfortunately when two police officers come around to disturb this, a misunderstanding quickly becomes out of control, resulting Wally, Beryl and her child being trapped in their house, surrounded by armed police under the impression that Wally is holding everyone hostage. Events quickly spiral into a media circus as, through the siege, Wally - inadvertently - manages to become a symbol for the anti-war movement.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)
Plot Summary:
Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful sheilas, but he soon settles into the Australian ghetto in Earls Court, where his old mate Curly has a flat.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 913
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, cult film
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Young Einstein (1988)
Plot Summary:
Albert Einstein is the son of a Tasmanian apple farmer, who discovers the secret of splitting the beer atom to put the bubbles back into beer. When Albert travels to Sydney to patent his invention he meets beatuiful French scientist Marie Curie, as well as several unscrupulous types who try to take advantage of the naive genius and his invention.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surreal, slapstick, humorous, parody, mind bending, psychedelic, offbeat, not serious, thinking, funny
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The Nugget (2002)
Plot Summary:
'The Nugget' looks at how instant wealth suddenly changes the lives of three working class men - not necessarily for the better, but always with hilarious consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, exciting
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Mondo Trasho (1969)
Plot Summary:
A day in the lives of a hit-and-run driver and her victim, and the bizarre things that happen to them before and after they collide (sexual assault by a crazed foot-fetishist, visions of the Virgin Mary, strange chicken-foot grafting operations).
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: disturbing, controversial, perverse, cult classic, mondo, independent film, black comedy, bizarre, cult film
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We Can Be Heroes: Finding The Australian of the Year (2005)
Plot Summary:
We Can Be Heroes is a mockumentary TV series created and performed by comedian Chris Lilley. It follows the story of five unique Australians, who have each made a large achievement and been nominated by friends and family for the Australian of the Year award.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, sitcom, mockumentary, captivating, funny, offbeat, odd, campy
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Mr. Accident (2000)
Plot Summary:
Mr Accident is a satirical, romantic rocket ride through the lives of a bunch of losers hurtling into the chaos that is contemporary life. It's a circus of cool catastrophes underpinned by a moral tale about the downside of addiction and corporate globalisation. It's a trip!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, realistic, touching, captivating, slapstick, independent film, exciting
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You and Your Stupid Mate (2005)
Plot Summary:
Phillip (Phillips) and Geoffrey (Sampson) are two Aussie larrikins, whose lives centre around running the un-official "Sons and Surf" website.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 696
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, witty, semi serious, soap opera
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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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7 Chinese Brothers (2015)
Plot Summary:
Larry is an unqualified, unemployable, inebriated prankster who rides a tide of booze onto the glorious shores of an undiscriminating Quick-Lube. Taking a part-time job vacuuming and washing windshields, Larry finds himself mixed up with hostile co-workers and unsatisfied customers, while also finding himself smitten with his lovely boss, Lupe Torrez. Will Larry keep it together long enough to win the girl, provide for man's best friend (his dog Arrow), and do his grandmother proud?.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Greece
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, independent film
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Ten Canoes (2006)
Plot Summary:
A story within a story within a story. In Australia's Northern Territory, an Aboriginal narrator tells a story about his ancestors on a goose hunt. A youngster on the hunt is being tempted to adultery with his elder brother's wife, so an elder tells him a story from the mythical past about how evil can slip in and cause havoc unless prevented by virtue according to customary tribal law.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, melancholic, realistic, serious, parody, witty, disturbing, anthropological, touching, funny
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I Love You Too (2010)
Plot Summary:
Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to befriend a talented dwarf who helps him find the words to get her back.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, touching, offbeat, realistic, talky, weird
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Kenny (2006)
Plot Summary:
From the biggest festival to the smallest church social, Kenny Smyth delivers porta-loos to them all. Ignored and unappreciated, he is one of the cogs in society's machinery; a knight in shining overalls taking care of business with his faithful 'Splashdown' crew.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, funny, clever, talky, feel good, semi serious, independent film, black comedy, touching