Best movies like The New King of Comedy
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Plot Summary:
A young woman strives to pursue the actors' dream despite being an extra and stand-in.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sincere, thought provoking, captivating
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The Bartender (2015)
Plot Summary:
Vadim is an ordinary office worker with no prospects, desperate to somehow change his boring life. One afternoon, while pondering his life in a pub, a mysterious bartender offers Vadik a cocktail. Upon drinking this cocktail, Vadik's world is instantly transformed beyond recognition. He is now successful, attractive and interesting. However, Vadik needs to learn how to sustain this new mirage, once the cocktails run out.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, funny, feel good
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Class Reunion 1.0 (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three former classmates reunite for their 30-year high school reunion.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, sincere, feel good
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A Flat for Three (2012)
Plot Summary:
Three divorced fathers are forced to live together.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Mongolian Ping Pong (2005)
Plot Summary:
Bilike has never seen a ping-pong ball before. He and his family live without electricity and running water in a solitary tent home among the vast steppe grasslands. The magnificent landscape here has changed little since the days of Genghis Kahn. But life in the middle of nowhere can be exciting for a young boy. The smallest of details become big events for curious Bilike and his best friends Erguotou and Dawa. The mystery of the small white ball floating in the creek leads to questions about the world around them, as well as innocent mischief.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 827
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, contemplative, feel good, semi serious
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The Waiters (2006)
Plot Summary:
Taylor Starks and his co-workers, all aspiring actors, toil in a Los Angeles restaurant while "waiting" for their big break.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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The Legacy of a Whitetail Deer Hunter (2018)
Plot Summary:
A star of hunting videos strives to bond with his 12-year-old son on a wilderness trip but learns familial connections can't be forced.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sincere, light, touching, humorous, captivating, cult classic
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A Jar Full of Life (2018)
Plot Summary:
Marleen (Jella Haase) is 20, but can't choose, what to do with her life. Her older brother (Matthias Schweighöfer) traveled the world for years but never has been to the Antarctic. He is at home for a few days, but the ticket for the next ship is already bought. He loves adventures and just before he dies in a car crash, Marleen has to promise him, to start enjoying life and adventures. While her family mourns over his death, Marleen decides to fulfill her brothers last will and takes his trip to the Antarctic with no money in her pocket - and soon with a little goat at her side.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, sentimental, sincere, humorous, captivating
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American Dreams in China (2013)
Plot Summary:
During the economic reform period of the 80’s, three undergraduates bind together by a common ambition – to live the American dream. They are Cheng Dongqing, a hillbilly who refuses to accept his destiny of being a farmer; Meng Xiaojun, a self-confident, cynical intellectual; and Wang Yang, an idealistic romantic poet. Xiaojun is the first to obtain an US Visa for studying abroad. Yang follows but decides to remain in China for his beloved. Poor Dongqing is rejected by the US Embassy repeatedly. Baffled, he reluctantly accepts the job as an English instructor in the university but eventually gets fired for teaching tutorial classes in private. Across the Pacific, Xiaojun fails to find a decent job and is driven to work as a busboy in a diner.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: inspirational, realistic, captivating, thought provoking, clever, humorous, semi serious
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Serial (Bad) Weddings 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
Claude and Marie Verneuil face a new crisis. The four spouses of their daughters, David, Rachid, Chao and Charles decided to leave France for various reasons. Here they are imagining their lives elsewhere.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, light, humorous, sincere, captivating, romantic comedy
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Kiss through the Wall (2011)
Plot Summary:
Kesha, a young magician assistant, is desperately in love with a young journalist Alisa. He is ready to do everything possible to conquer her.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Happy 140 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends and family reunite at the fancy new holiday home of a woman who is about to turn 40.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, light, touching, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Instructions for Su (2021)
Plot Summary:
Su, a woman whose friends are only men, finds herself forced to follow a series of absurd instructions to overcome the unexpected death of her fiancé.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Adopt a Daddy (2019)
Plot Summary:
Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from the land, Damien reconnects with his parents' militant past and convinces his sister Mélanie, who has become a formidable business lawyer, her best friend Rudy and a bunch of unlikely pals to accompany him in his new fight. Together, they will break the law by solidarity. And very quickly to be completely exceeded.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, entertaining, funny, sincere, humorous, captivating
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Couch Potatoes (2017)
Plot Summary:
Giorgio and Tito, father and son. A successful journalist and a lazy teenager apparently impossible to understand. Giorgio's dream is to take Tito to the Nasca Hill in Liguria, but Tito prefers to spend his entire day with his group of friends, eating, talking about nothing and playing video games. Until one day when he suddenly informs his father that he would join him in this trip. After a series of accidents and misunderstandings, at the end, somehow father and son will find the way to communicate … or at least they will try.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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The Carer (2016)
Plot Summary:
Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope their wish will be fulfilled.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, inspirational, touching
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The Best Is Yet to Come (2019)
Plot Summary:
Following a huge misunderstanding, two friends always decide to tackle everything to make up for lost time.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, sentimental, thought provoking, sincere, mind bending, touching, inspirational, buddy comedy, humorous
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The Dream Kids (2013)
Plot Summary:
JB suffers from a heart malformation .He falsifies his medical file ,so that he can enter a top athlete training center.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, captivating, humorous, serious, realistic
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Breakup Buddies (2014)
Plot Summary:
Recently cuckolded and reeling from a messy divorce, a hapless former singer hits the road - and the bar - with his all-too-helpful best bud, in this hilarious romantic comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, light, feel good, realistic, not serious
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Saudade (2011)
Plot Summary:
A film that explores the true meaning of a word by medical professionals, feelings of real people and the images that represent the word to the filmmaker. The viewer will get into a journey through true stories and feelings, chasing the true meaning of the Portuguese word 'Saudade'.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, captivating, entertaining
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The Quitter (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a failed baseball player's ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old daughter, he realizes he carries more regrets than how he handled his baseball career.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, realistic, independent film
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The Man Cave (2014)
Plot Summary:
Quotas for women, parking spaces for women, online shopping, small talk and gossip. Software developer Erol, porta-potty rep Lars, and commercial pilot Helmut are licking the wounds of their masculinity – a female-free zone is what’s needed! In the boiler room of their recently built housing complex, the three stressed husbands create a secret refuge where they can watch football, eat fast-food, drink beer and curse the opposite sex undisturbed. When Aykut, the complex’s facility manager, discovers their last bastion of masculinity, he threatens to close it down. One thing is for sure, the men are not going to give up their little slice of paradise without a fight. Based on the stage play bearing the same name, director Franziska Meyer Price allows men to return to rebellious ladhood.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, captivating, realistic
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Like Father (2018)
Plot Summary:
When a workaholic young executive, is left at the altar, she ends up on her Caribbean honeymoon cruise with the last person she ever expected: her estranged and equally workaholic father. The two depart as strangers, but over the course of a few hilarious adventures, a couple of umbrella-clad cocktails and a whole lot of soul-searching, they return with a renewed appreciation for family and life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, sweet, touching, humorous, captivating, entertaining, psychological, funny, happy
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Dad for Rent (2014)
Plot Summary:
A unemployed father, due to his laziness, is supported by his wife. Their daughter decides to put their lazy dad up for rent on a secondhand site.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Great Wall Is a Great Wall (1986)
Plot Summary:
When computer programmer, Leo Fang, is passed up for promotion, he feels it is because he is Chinese, and quits. He takes his Chinese-American family to Mainland China to visit his relatives, the Chao's for a vacation. The clash of cultures, between the men, wives, and teenagers, leads to some confusion, and misunderstanding.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, China
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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LOL (2006)
Plot Summary:
The relationships of three men are examined through their use of technology.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 910
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, sincere, humorous, talky, clever, touching, offbeat, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Newlyweds (2011)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple's honeymoon is upended by the arrivals of their respective sisters.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, sincere, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Balls (2010)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Sweden
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sincere, captivating, light, sentimental, touching, realistic, witty
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2 Francs, 40 Pesetas (2014)
Plot Summary:
Madrid, 1974. Six years have passed since Martin and his family have returned to Spain from Switzerland. A visit to their adopted country will bring complications.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, sentimental, realistic
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Fisherman's Friends: One and All (2022)
Plot Summary:
Following the unexpected success of the band’s debut album “No Hopers, Jokers and Rogues”, we re-join them almost a year later, struggling with the pressures, pitfalls and temptations of their newfound fame, second album syndrome, and performing on the pyramid stage at Glastonbury.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, funny, sincere, captivating
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Love is Not Blind (2011)
Plot Summary:
Xiaoxian’s life is right on track. She has a steady job at an upscale wedding planning company, a cute apartment, and most importantly, a loving boyfriend of 7 years. Any day now, Xiaoxian is sure that he’ll pop the question. But everything comes crashing down when she discovers that he’s actually cheating on her— with her best friend. How could things go so wrong? Dumped and heartbroken, Xiaoxian is a total mess. It doesn’t help that she has to face perky brides every day. Things go from bad to worse until her sassy, but jaded, co-worker Jian intervenes. It’s not that Jian really cares. It’s more that he’s sick of witnessing her pathetic decline. Xiaoxian seriously needs to get a grip. 33 days into her breakup, Jian’s brand of tough love is working, but Xiaoxian still can’t help wondering: will she ever get a chance at love again?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: China
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, light, captivating, sentimental, semi serious