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Plot Summary:
A psychiatric hospital patient pretends to be crazy. In charge of caring for this patient, a caregiver will begin to doubt the mental state of his "protégé".
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, exciting
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Operation Portugal (2021)
Plot Summary:
Hakim, 35, a friendly neighborhood cop, must infiltrate the Portuguese community for the purpose of an investigation. But can one become Portuguese in three days? Especially when we know that Hakim is a walking disaster at undercover operations. His clumsiness and bad luck turn his many infiltrations into cataclysms. The case is clearly too big for him. Quickly trapped between his feelings and his mission, Hakim, who lives alone with his mother, will discover a community, but also a family.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Don't Worry, We'll Think of a Title (1966)
Plot Summary:
A man is mistaken by foreign agents for a defecting cosmonaut and must prove his identity while evading capture.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: slapstick, exciting, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, sitcom, semi serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, parody
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Chasing Luck(Y) (2005)
Plot Summary:
In a rented apartment in Belgrade lives Srećko, who always plays the same combination of lotteries in the hope to win a premium one day. Local seller of lottery tickets, Višnja, is In him the love him. One evening, Srecko gets premium worth of several million euros. Helpless Srećko looses his ticket and his memory. However, the winning lottery paper, by unfortunate circumstances, reaches the hands of Žile and Sale, the owner of the local cafes. Unprepared to manage this money, they go to the Greek island Corfu in the hopes that will inspired them for a business. Two suspicious Belgrade "businessman" fallow them to Corfu to steal them the ticket.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Comedy
Country: Serbia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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5 Star Christmas (2018)
Plot Summary:
When the Italian Premier and his companion find a dead body in his hotel suite, while on a trip to Hungary, they find themselves embroiled in a series of comedic situations as they try to avoid a scandal.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical, dark comedy, happy
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A Very Secret Service (2015)
Plot Summary:
1960: the French intelligence service hires the 23-year-old André Merlaux. Handsome, well raised, intelligent but impressionable, Merlaux has much to learn to serve and defend the interests of France. Three officials must adequately train him to execute delicate and sometimes outlandish operations, as Merlaux discovers the intricacies of government and navigates diplomatic incidents.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, spoof
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Happily Mixed Up (2014)
Plot Summary:
A psychoanalyst learns to have an illness and as a consequence he decides to quit his job. All his patients get together to find a way to make him feel better.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 995
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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The New Adventures of Aladdin (2015)
Plot Summary:
A pair of losers working at department store plan to rob the place after it closes. When a bunch of kids show up begging for a story, the men launch into an improvised version of Aladdin.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: exciting, romantic, feel good, entertaining, sweet
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Lost on Journey (2010)
Plot Summary:
A boss of a toy corporation, Chenggong Li, tries to head back to Chan Sar to celebrate the Chinese New Year with his family. However, plans don't go as smoothly after he crosses paths with a stranger, Geng Niu.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, feel good, humorous, buddy comedy
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Good Guys Go to Heaven, Bad Guys Go to Pattaya (2016)
Plot Summary:
Franky and Krimo dream of leaving the grey grime of their neighborhood behind and of traveling to the famous and diabolical Thai beach resort of Pattaya. To get there cheaply, the two friends have the crazy idea of registering, unbeknownst to him, the local little person for the Thai Dwarf Boxing World Championship. But what was supposed to be a dream vacation will transform into the most insane and dangerous adventure of their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: entertaining, humorous, exciting, absurd, buddy comedy
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Vendors' Meeting (2020)
Plot Summary:
How much chaos can three white goods dealers who come to İstanbul from Anatolia get into in three days? The paths of Namık, Adem and Sadık, three men going through difficult periods in their lives, intersect at a dealer meeting. After a series of unexpected events, they find themselves caught in a crazy plan. To survive, the three dealers have no choice but trust each other and move fast.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Family is Family (2018)
Plot Summary:
Valentin D is a hot designer architect who claims to be an orphan because he is too ashamed to admit he is the son of working-class scrap metal merchants from the north of France.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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The Return of the Tall Blond Man (1974)
Plot Summary:
With 'little captain' Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy", Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Francois to play again the character of "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe" in some fake adventures. All this to stop the investigation into the death of Colonel Milan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, spy comedy, humorous, realistic, not serious, fast, eurospy, cult film
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Company Man (2000)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then sent to Cuba to locate "Agent X" for the CIA.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, funny, satirical, spy comedy, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, parody, clever
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Naughty Grandma 3 (2021)
Plot Summary:
1980, the whole country follows the events of the Moscow Olympics. Vova Rubinstein alone, on the sly, disguises himself as Soviet pop stars and tries to get rich by arranging fake concerts. At one of these concerts, he is exposed by the KGB and recruited as an undercover agent. Now, in order not to go to jail, Vova must fulfill a responsible mission - to find a deadly chemical developed in a secret laboratory on the black market. Vova will have to plunge headlong into the abyss of the spy passions of Moscow in the 80s: to find a chemical, to prevent the undermining of the Olympic Bear, to experience Brezhnev's passionate kiss, and to meet the love of his life ... And all this is in the image of the currency prostitute Louise Karpovna Rubinstein.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 660
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, feel good, light, humorous, captivating
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Bullit & Ripper (2012)
Plot Summary:
French filmmaker Eric Lartigau directs the anarchic buddy comedy Bullit and Riper, originally released as Mais qui a tue Pamela Rose? French comedic television stars Kad Merad and Olivier Barroux are both the protagonists and the screenwriters. As a parody of Hollywood cop films, the story is set somewhere in the American Midwest as fabricated by the French. After losing his regular partner, FBI agent Richard Bullit (Merad) gets assigned to the book-learned cop Riper (Barroux) to investigate the death of a stripper. American movie stereotypes abound, such as shock jock Phil Canon (Gérard Darmon) and sheriff Steve Marley (Jean-Paul Rouve).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, realistic, not serious, exciting
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All Aboard! (2021)
Plot Summary:
Finally, the holidays are here! Vlad and his friends are so excited! Jérôme, Vlad’s father, is in charge. André, the grandfather of Jeanne and Basile, is also here to help. Six kids, two adults, an eight-hour train trip. Nothing could go wrong. But Jérôme and André miss the train… and watch it leave the station with the kids on board. It’s the beginning of a crazy race for the unlikely duo. While the unsupervised children go wild and have the time of their life, André and Jérôme go through various delays and adventures….
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Undercover Brother 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Sixteen years ago, Undercover Brother and his younger brother were hot on the heels of the leader of a racist, worldwide syndicate, but accidentally got caught in an avalanche of white snow. After they were discovered and thawed out, Undercover Brother remained in a coma. Now, it is up to his little brother to finish the job they started.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, action comedy, feel good
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Under the Rainbow (1981)
Plot Summary:
In World War II era Los Angeles, the manager of the Culver Hotel leaves his nephew in charge for a weekend. The nephew changes the name to the Hotel Rainbow and overbooks with royalty, assassins, secret agents, Japanese tourists, and munchkins (from the cast of _Wizard of Oz, The (1939)_ ). Secret Service agent Bruce Thorpe and casting director Annie Clark find romance amidst the intrigue and confusion.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, funny, feel good, realistic, not serious, parody, humorous, offbeat, surprise ending, psychological
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Penny Pincher! (2016)
Plot Summary:
François Gautier is stingy! Saving puts the joy, it causes pay sweats. His life is set for the sole purpose of never spend anything. A life that will switch in one day: he falls in love and discovers he has a daughter he did not know existed. Forced to lie in order to hide his terrible default, this will be the beginning for François problems. Because lie can sometimes be expensive. Very expensive….
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, sincere, sweet, humorous
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The Fool (2019)
Plot Summary:
Pontagnac, a married man, tries to seduce Victoire, the wife of his good friend. Little does he know, Victoire has plans of her own to punish her cheating husband. The would-be fling ignites a dizzying spell of complications as characters arrange trysts, attempt to expose each other’s deceits, and are ultimately forced to come clean.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Stand Up Girl (2017)
Plot Summary:
Lila, grows up in the high-rises of the Marolles in Brussels. Along with her sister and her friends, she dreams of becoming a dancer and revolutionising the world of hip-hop. While her friends stay in Brussels, Lila leaves everything - comfort, family - behind to go to Paris, where she is certain her persistence will pay off. Except that life in Paris quickly takes an unexpected turn. The woman who dreamed of being a choreographer ends up as a lap dancer in a rap video, and that’s only the beginning of her disillusionment. After a chance meeting with a drama teacher, she bears her heart and soul on stage and begins doing stand-up. This time, her unusual dedication leads her to find her calling. However, she still has to fight one final battle: convincing her father that she has made the right choice.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Comedy
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Cold Feet (2018)
Plot Summary:
Although he actually just wanted to steal money, the crook Denis finds himself in the position of caretaking for the stroke patient Raimund. When Raimund's granddaughter Charlotte turns up, Denis has enough of it and wants to skip. But because of an huge blizzard, escape is unimaginable.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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The Hole (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after doing 27 years in jail, claims he was innocent.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, captivating, light, feel good, offbeat, realistic
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The Rich, the Pauper and the Butler (2014)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy broker, his butler, and a poor abusive seller, following an economic meltdown, all see their social positions change. When the rich becomes poor, the former abusive seller accommodates the rich and the butler. The three thus learn to live together.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Cubicle Cowboy (2012)
Plot Summary:
An acclaimed French filmmaker unearths the last true cowboy of the modern Texas frontier.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, tense, feel good, captivating, entertaining, independent film, mockumentary
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700 Days of Battle: Us vs. the Police (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set on the backdrop of 1979 a group of troublemaking teenagers led by Mamachari (Hayato Ichihara) decide to prank Chuzai-san (Kuranosuke Sasaki) the local police officer who caught Mamachari’s friend Saijo (Takuya Ishida) for speeding on his scooter, Chuzai-san gets them suspended from school which only causes the teenagers to retaliate, They discover that Chuzai-san is married to an attractive woman named Kanako (Kumiko Aso) only making their pranks worse.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 585
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Changing Sides (2008)
Plot Summary:
Ariane and Hugo decide to exchange the lives they lead to escape from their routine, which after ten years of marriage, gives them the feeling of being hamsters in a wheel. She suddenly finds herself at the head of a construction equipment rental company and he tries to take the role of a house calling jewelry salesman...But is life really better when you live it on the other side of the bed?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, feel good, emotional, witty, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Superchondriac (2014)
Plot Summary:
Romain Faubert is a 39 year old, single, medical photographer... and a raging hypochondriac. His doctor and only friend Dr. Dimitri Zvenka thinks he knows the cure for Romain: dating! But with the arrival of freedom fighter Anton Miroslav, everyone might get more then they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, funny, sincere, entertaining, feel good, realistic, light
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All Inclusive (2019)
Plot Summary:
Planted by his fiancee at the airport, Bruno flies away alone for a week in an All Inclusive Caribbean vacation club. Bad news never comes alone, he will have to share his room with Jean-Paul Cisse, eternal bachelor very invading.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Protect and Serve (2010)
Plot Summary:
A pair of bumbling French cops team up to take on the underworld.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, humorous, not serious, exciting