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Plot Summary:
Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Dances From The Bible. But the show's comedian Raymond sees a way of wrong-footing the local do-gooders by announcing the new Paris sensation "Mme Fifi" and putting on Rachel's performance as the place is raided. All too complicated, the more so since her father is scouring the town for her and both Raymond and his straight-man Chick are falling for Rachel.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Uncle Nick (2015)
Plot Summary:
A drunk uncle attempts to score with his flirtatious step-niece on Christmas Eve.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: dark comedy
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What's Good for the Goose (1969)
Plot Summary:
Timothy Bartlett (Norman Wisdom) is a middle-aged banker who is sent to a seaside resort for a banker's convention. He fears the meetings will be frightfully dull, but things change when two amorous hippie girls take Timothy for a sail on the sea of love. Timothy goes middle-aged crazy, making a spectacle of himself in hippie clothes as he tries to fit into the swinging scene. Nude dips in the ocean are followed and preceded by wild parties as he tries to recapture the days of his flaming youth. After he feels remorse and embarrassment over his behavior, he calls on his wife to join him at the convention to rekindle their love in this lowbrow comedy. The British rock group The Pretty Things provides the music.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, sex comedy, independent film
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A slacker turns P.I. to solve a rock star's murder.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 317
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, neo noir, independent film, spoof, parody
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IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 954
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Stagehand at a nightclub falls for one of the performers. He wins her heart after taking lessons on suavity from a gigolo "count".
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The People I've Slept With - a promiscuous woman who finds herself with an unplanned pregnancy and needs to figure out who the baby daddy is...NOW. Angela Yang loves sex. She loves it so much she needs to make baseball cards of her lovers to help her remember where she's been. She doesn't think twice about her lifestyle until she finds out that she's pregnant. Her gay best friend, Gabriel Lugo tells her to "take care of it," but her conservative sister, Juliet persuades Angela to get married to the baby's father and lead a "normal" life like her. Angela listens to her sister, chooses to keep the baby, and goes on a quest to find the identity of the father by any means necessary.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 805
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, light, captivating, realistic, not serious, sexual, sex comedy, hispanic, sexy
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Bikini Squad (1993)
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IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, teen sex comedy, parody, sexy, humorous, realistic, not serious, independent film, spoof, weird
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A dysfunctional family of adult film stars reunites for a memorial porn shoot following the death of legendary producer Mo Saltzman. Along the way, the film's hapless director must contend with dueling divas, bickering couples, emotionally-scarred tag-team brothers, and a dominatrix with low self-esteem. Given its all-star cast and lofty pedigree, the film should be the greatest porno of all time.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 354
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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Two strangers discover you really can find anything at a convenience store -- even love. An aspiring actor stuck in a small town who has big plans of moving to Hollywood so he can strike it rich. One night, while on his way into a corner store, he meets Didi, a pretty but aimless girl hanging out in the parking lot. Mike and Didi strike up a conversation, and she discovers there's a big dose of self-doubt lurking beneath his confident exterior. Mike, on the other hand, finds that the longer he talks to Didi, the more he finds himself thinking she might be a good reason to stick around.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie, independent film
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Heavy Petting (2007)
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Charlie thinks he's met the perfect woman, but in order to be with her, he must first get past her dog. Just when he thinks all is lost, he realizes that he loves the dog too! Now he must do everything he can to keep them both.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
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A trio of friends scheme to find a wife for their socially inappropriate friend Barry, and end up finding a girl just like him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, funny, feel good, light, realistic, independent film
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3 Days of Normal (2012)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 450
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, independent film, realistic, semi serious
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Plot Summary:
While traveling to be the groomsmen in the wedding of their friend Scott, the wolf Dewey proposes two bets to his monogamist friend Jay: if he had sex along the weekend he would give his valuable convertible car to Jay; and if Jay did not score any woman in the same period, he would date Jay's sister. They arrive in a huge property with their loser friend Phil, and the trio is introduced to the bridesmaids. When Jay meets the fiancée Reese, he realizes that she is his former sweetheart and passion. Along the weekend, the bets and the love of Jay for Reese gets the guests into very complicated situations.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 595
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IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, independent film
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 457
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 62
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Country: USA
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A womanizer teaches his clueless friend the rules about being single and avoiding emotional attachment.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 733
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IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 143
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Country: USA
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IMDB Votes: 1000
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