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Plot Summary:
Based on an Edgar Allan Poe story, this film tells the grimly comic tale of a bad-tempered old man (Howard Hesseman) who cheats death, only to go on tormenting the living. When a medical experiment leaves the grouch hovering between life and death (and able to describe the world beyond), things get tricky for his daughter (Jessica Capshaw) and her beau (Neil Patrick Harris, of "Doogie Howser, M.D." fame), who can't get their hands on his estate.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: semi serious, captivating, offbeat, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy
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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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It's Only Money (1962)
Plot Summary:
Lester is a clumsy and awkward TV repair man who is nevertheless gifted technically. In helping out a friend, he is drawn into a mystery involving a missing heir in a rich family. He begins to notice little things, like how much those family portraits look like him. Surely..no..he can't be...can he ?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: esoteric, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, detective
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Coffee, Kill Boss (2013)
Plot Summary:
When ten executives secretly meet to sell off their company, they're murdered one by one in this darkly comedic romp through the halls of corporate America.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, suspense, hilarious, teen, realistic
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The Scenesters (2009)
Plot Summary:
Someone is killing beautiful young Hipsters in East L.A. Charlie is a crime scene cleaner working for Aftershocks Inc. with a penchant for Sherlock Holmes type deduction. Wallace is an out-of-luck filmmaker working as a crime scene videographer. The detectives covering the murders are apathetic at best but with good names (Henry and Carlita, particularly Carlita). Good names, bad attitudes.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 523
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, cynical, semi serious, realistic, scary, offbeat, independent film, mockumentary
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Careless (2007)
Plot Summary:
Wiley Roth finds a severed human finger in his kitchen one night. Understandably freaked out, in a search across Los Angeles that brings them in contact with psychics, ineffectual police, crooked taxidermists, mysterious neighbors who might be on drugs, and a nine-fingered woman named Cheryl who might, improbably, end up being the girl of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 466
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, buddy comedy, romantic drama
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Excuse Me Darling, But Lucas Loved Me (1996)
Plot Summary:
Until Lucas appeared in their lives, Dani, Carlos and Toni had a quiet life with no major concerns. They shared almost everything: the house, housework, dogs, his homosexual tendencies and debts. It was these that forced them to rent one of the bedrooms of their floor. Then came Lucas, his hair long, his charming smile, and his muscular body to completely change the life and destiny of their lovers home. Lucas is found dead but ... Who killed him? All had reasons to do so, or maybe none.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 530
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, black comedy, campy
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Bad Actress (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alyssa Rampart Pillage is a washed up TV queen whose career has been reduced to starring in commercials for her husband Bernie’s appliance empire. When their tree hugging daughter Topanga dies in a tragic golf ball accident, Bernie goes off the spiritual deep end and tries to give away their fortune with disastrous results. But what starts off as tragedy quickly turns into career re-invention for Alyssa. And as the body counts rises, so does her star. Bad Actress is a guilty pleasure of a film that gleefully mocks the world of Hollywood and Fame, which reminds us that Justice has nothing on Celebrity.Written by Anonymous (www.imdb.com).
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, offbeat, dark, black comedy, dark comedy
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He's on My Mind (2009)
Plot Summary:
Elementary school teacher, Kayla King thought she had the perfect relationship, and after an impromptu wedding, Kayla discovers that not only is she the other women...she's the other wife. Devastated, Kayla vows to figure out "WHY MEN DO WHAT THEY DO", and is spontaneously imbued with the ability to intercept men's thoughts. That's when the fun begins. Kayla newfound ability will present her with more than she bargained for, both in her personal life and at work.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 228
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, romantic, captivating, sexual, sexy
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Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead (2009)
Plot Summary:
Julian Marsh is an out of work ladies' man who lands a job directing a bizarre adaptation of Hamlet. After casting his best friend and his ex-girlfriend in the show, Julian finds himself in the middle of a two thousand year old conspiracy that explains the connection between Shakespeare, the Holy Grail and some seriously sexy vampires. It turns out that the play was actually written by a master vampire name Theo Horace and it's up to Julian to recover the Grail in order to reverse the vampire's curse...If only being undead wasn't so much God-damned fun!.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, sexy, suspense, independent film, clever, offbeat
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Head of the Family (1996)
Plot Summary:
The "head" of the family is literally that--a giant head on a tiny body, who psychically controls the rest of his even weirder family.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, suspenseful, funny, surreal, spoof, grindhouse, horror comedy, slasher
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Life in the Fast Lane (1998)
Plot Summary:
Black comedy about an obsessive street graffiti artist, who falls obsessively in love with a frustrated artist he meets. Unfortunately, rather than trying to meet with her in a conventional way, he decides to mail himself to her with the help of a pet shop owner. Unfortunately, when he arrives, she is with another man, who immediately makes love to her against the box.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, surreal, witty, cynical, semi serious, slapstick
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Desire and Hell at Sunset Motel (1991)
Plot Summary:
Right after Disneyland opens in Anaheim, California, in 1955, a toy salesman in town for a convention brings his wife with him so they can both go to Disneyland. They stay at a rundown place called the Sunset Motel nearby. Soon the wife is having an affair with a man staying at the motel. The husband hires a psychotic criminal to spy on them, the wife and her lover plan to murder the husband, and the voyeuristic motel manager is spying on everybody.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Comedy, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film, clever, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, surprise ending, black comedy, cult film
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The Overnight (2015)
Plot Summary:
Alex, Emily, and their son, RJ, are new to Los Angeles. A chance meeting at the park introduces them to the mysterious Kurt, Charlotte, and Max. A family “playdate” becomes increasingly interesting as the night goes on.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, sex comedy, independent film, dark comedy, enigmatic, surreal, talky, tricky, semi serious
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Lucky (2011)
Plot Summary:
A wannabe serial killer wins the lottery and pursues his lifelong crush.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, dark comedy, light, funny, grindhouse, realistic, semi serious
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Junkie (2012)
Plot Summary:
A drug addict tries to sabotage his brother's struggle to get sober once and for all.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, non-linear, independent film
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Let the Game Begin (2010)
Plot Summary:
Successful entrepreneur Max learns that the woman he married has always really been interested more in his money than in being his wife. After his cousin Ricky gets burned by a gold-digger himself, Ricky introduces Max to the world of the pickup artist, hoping to give Max confidence and the tools to find a woman who likes him for who he is.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, sexual, sexy
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The Sublet (2008)
Plot Summary:
WALTER is lonely. He is 71 and has no friends. He lives in a small apartment in Upper West Side in Manhattan and every morning he goes through the same monotonous routine: pills, fiber, canned food, cleaning, TV and the book with all his expenses. His apartment is very quiet until today when his phone rings, which really surprises him. It's a wrong number, someone was looking for a sublet. However, it gives him an idea, a fake ad.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, suspenseful, independent film, realistic
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Septien (2011)
Plot Summary:
A reclusive sports hustler returns home to his family farm after years of absence to reunite with his two eccentric, unhinged and emotionally damaged brothers.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, atmospheric, humorous, captivating, contemplative, mumblecore, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Closing Escrow (2007)
Plot Summary:
Three quirky families seeking to buy their next home collide when trying to purchase the same property. The bidding war tests the limits of their marriages and the resolve of their agents.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, cynical, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Dark and Stormy Night (2009)
Plot Summary:
In the 1930s the family of old Sinas Cavinder, gathered for the reading of his will, find themselves being murdered by a mysterious phantom while two rival reporters compete for the story.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, suspenseful, not serious, captivating, black and white, offbeat, retro, spoof, spooky
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Drowning Mona (2000)
Plot Summary:
The recently deceased Mona Dearly (Bette Midler) was many things: an abusive wife, a domineering mother, a loud-mouthed neighbor and a violent malcontent. So when her car and corpse are discovered in the Hudson River, police Chief Wyatt Rash (Danny DeVito) immediately suspects murder rather than an accident. But, since the whole community of Verplanck, N.Y., shares a deep hatred for this unceasingly spiteful woman, Rash finds his murder investigation overwhelmed with potential suspects.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, absurd, stylized, clever, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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Floundering (1994)
Plot Summary:
When a young man's unemployment benefits run out, the IRS freezes his bank account, and his druggie brother needs help, things can't get any worse...until he discovers his girlfriend is cheating on him!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, absurd, light, independent film, offbeat, realistic
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Sherman's Way (2008)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric Olympic has-been who prefers leisure to work, finds himself stuck with a rigid pre-law Yale student with no time for wasting time. Between skinny-dipping and stealing cars, this odd-couple learn from each other that balance is the key to getting the girl, getting the job and getting a life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat
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The Michelle Apartments (1995)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy that sees a man on a business trip gets mixed up in the lives of the inhabitants of a low-rent apartment building, including a femme fatale with murder on her mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, sexual, black comedy, sexy
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Invitation to a Suicide (2004)
Plot Summary:
A black comedy set in the Polish immigrant neighborhood of Greenpoint, Brooklyn about a man selling tickets to his own suicide to save his father's life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious, black comedy
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Cold Dog Soup (1990)
Plot Summary:
Randy Quaid as the taxi driver drives Zen parables (Is time money - Is time the root of all evil?) into his passenger/protegee in a high-speed, idiosyncratic tour of their city's ethnic coteries. All the boy wants is to dispose of his date's dead dog Jasper and get back to the babe who's so hot she mutters darkly about being a Pressure Cooker: his conventional efforts are continually thwarted. Quaid is respected by the peculiar groups he interests in the dog's corpse and effects, and our one-gloved heroine is much keener on him than on her rather lackluster date.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 519
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy
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Tyler Perry's I Can Do Bad All By Myself - The Play (2002)
Plot Summary:
When Madea gets sick, her family comes to her aid. What they don't realize is that they're the ones who need her help. As always, Madea's cockeyed outlook on life saves the day and guarantees side-splitting laughs along the way.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic
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Netherbeast Incorporated (2007)
Plot Summary:
An offbeat comedy with a quirky twist on the vampire tale set in modern day corporate America.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: scary, humorous, semi serious, captivating, funny, suspense, horror comedy, offbeat, dark comedy
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The Hospital (1971)
Plot Summary:
A suicidal doctor struggles to find meaning in his life while a murderer stalks the halls of his hospital.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, cult classic, clever, talky, black comedy, funny, social, aesthetic, humorous, captivating
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Kissing Cousins (2008)
Plot Summary:
A "relatively" romantic comedy about a professional heartbreaker (and cynical bachelor) who teams up with his attractive cousin from the UK in order to fool his friends into believing he is capable of a relationship. Hijinks and laughs ensue with a hilarious cast!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, slang