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Plot Summary:
"Bags" the boxer (funnyman Tim Conway) and his manager, Shake (Don Knotts), are quite a pair: One is a dim bulb, and the other has a mean streak. Times are tough and they must save their gym, so they line up some moneymaking fights. But when Bags and Shake discover that the bouts have been rigged, they end up with their backs to the wall and must fight back -- literally.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 388
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny
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Ricky 1 (1986)
Plot Summary:
In this parody of the Rocky films, Ricky Wanero is a male gigolo and stripper who sets out to beat "The Champ" in the boxing ring.
IMDB Rating: 1.4
IMDB Votes: 749
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody, independent film
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Jimmy the Kid (1982)
Plot Summary:
Gang of bumbling crooks kidnap a bratty little kid, find out they got more than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 333
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Most Offensive Comedy Ever Made (2007)
Plot Summary:
From the twisted mind of Bill Zebub (ASSMONSTER), this film goes beyond BORAT and farther than FREDDY GOT FINGERED. But THE MOST OFFENSIVE COMEDY EVER MADE isn't content to just get laughs and gasps from the audience. Instead, it investigates how far humor should (or shouldn't) go when it comes to race, religion, and other usually off-limits topics.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 39
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 67 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Swim Team (1979)
Plot Summary:
A new swimming coach is hired to break a team's seven-year losing streak.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 90
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, teen sex comedy, independent film
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The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976)
Plot Summary:
Witchipoo and the Wicked Witch of the West give Paul Lynde three wishes for Halloween. KISS performs three songs. Florence Henderson sings a disco version of "That Old Black Magic.".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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The Love God? (1969)
Plot Summary:
Abner Peacock's (Knotts) beloved bird-watcher's magazine, "The Peacock," is in financial crisis. Desperate to stay afloat, Abner takes on new partners who have an agenda of the own: to publish a sexy gentleman's magazine. Before he can stop them, the first issue sells over 40 million copies, and Abner becomes the unwilling spokesman for First Amendment rights. Swept up in adulation, the unwitting playboy quickly begins settling into the swinging bachelor lifestyle in this quirky comedy featuring the loveable actor at his best.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, cult film
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No Dessert, Dad, Till You Mow the Lawn (1994)
Plot Summary:
A couple manages to quit smoking by using hypnosis, but then their children decide to use it to manipulate their parents into more submissive behavior.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, nostalgic
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Spike of Bensonhurst (1988)
Plot Summary:
Spike Fumo is an Italian kid apsiring to be a boxer. He falls in love with a rich girl, who turns out to be the daughter of a Mafia boss. Spike is threatened to leave Bensonhurst by the mob, and then goes to a poverty-stricken Puerto Rican part of Brooklyn.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, gay cinema, cult film
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Skatetown, U.S.A. (1979)
Plot Summary:
A street-gang leader challenges a handsome young skater in a championship contest at the local roller-disco rink.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, campy
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Doin' Time (1985)
Plot Summary:
Duke Jarrett is sent to jail at the John Dillinger prison. However, the prison looks more like a zoo, more or less ruled by the prisoners themselves.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: independent film, parody, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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The Longshot (1986)
Plot Summary:
Four losers borrow money from gangsters to bet on a "sure thing", but lose. The gangsters go after them to get their money.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, exciting, humorous, realistic
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Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mike Tyson's one-man show is a fascinating journey into his storied life and career. MIKE TYSON: UNDISPUTED TRUTH is a rare, personal look inside the life and mind of one of the most feared men ever to wear the heavyweight crown. Directed by Academy Award® nominee Spike Lee, this riveting one-man show goes beyond the headlines, behind the scenes and between the lines to deliver a must-see theatrical knockout.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, realistic, talky, hood, humorous, semi serious, independent film
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Lil Rel Howery: Live in Crenshaw (2019)
Plot Summary:
Known for his well-crafted storytelling and hilarious impressions of the myriad characters he encounters in life, Lel Rel Howery draws on his personal experiences in his relatable, uproarious stand-up. Howery's HBO stand-up comedy debut was filmed before a live audience at Susan Miller Dorsey High School in Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min
Plot tags: funny
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Ali Wong: Don Wong (2022)
Plot Summary:
In her third Netflix stand-up special, Ali Wong reveals her wildest fantasies, the challenges of monogamy and how she really feels about single people.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 59 min
Plot tags: funny, fun
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They Went That-A-Way & That-A-Way (1978)
Plot Summary:
Dewey (Tim Conway) and Wallace (Chuck McCann) are small-town lawmen who are ordered by the governor to go undercover as prison inmates to find out where a gang of thieves have hidden their loot. While they're undercover, however, the governor dies, and because no one else knows about the ruse Dewey and Wallace are stranded in prison.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 358
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, slapstick, exciting, parody, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, not serious
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Take the Hit, Kid! (2016)
Plot Summary:
A funny story about the adventures of two tween sisters - TV star and boxing champion.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, light, captivating, humorous
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Who Do I Gotta Kill? (1994)
Plot Summary:
Who says crime doesn't pay? The mob will pay Jimmy Corona anything to stay away. But, then again, so would most people. His agent brushes off Jimmy's latest book proposal: detailing the conspiracy between Lee Harvey Oswald and Marylin Monroe to assassinate JFK. His girlfriend gives him his walking papers in the midst of wild sex when he can't give her one good reason to stay. Actually he's too exhausted to speak. And to top it all off, he's suffering from writer's block. So what's a poor guy to do? Join the mob? Written by.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 627
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick
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Chesty Anderson U.S. Navy (1976)
Plot Summary:
It's a tidal wave of laughs When "CHESTY" puts her deadly weapons into action!.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, sexploitation film
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Brighton Beach Memoirs (1986)
Plot Summary:
Eugene, a young teenage Jewish boy, recalls his memoirs of his time as an adolescent youth. He lives with his parents, his aunt, two cousins, and his brother, Stanley, whom he looks up to and admires. He goes through the hardships of puberty, sexual fantasy, and living the life of a poor boy in a crowded house.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, realistic, semi autobiographical, independent film, sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, tense
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The Private Eyes (1980)
Plot Summary:
Don Knotts and Tim Conway star in The Private Eyes, a 1980 comedy about two bumbling detectives solving a murder. It's an impressively incompetent affair. Every ancient joke falls with a muffled thud as Knotts and Conway ham their way through the pointless story: The lord and lady of a capacious manor are killed, and the lord's ghost seems to have returned to knock off the staff one by one. There'.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, humorous, spooky, suspenseful, not serious, surprise ending, independent film, scary, funny
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Bully (2018)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age comedy about Jimmy, a quiet, heavy-set high school kid who is constantly tormented by the resident school bully Miles and his cronies. After an altercation on his way home from school lands him a chance meeting with former professional boxer "Action" Jackson and trainer Manny, Jimmy decides to learn how to fight back.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 572
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Sgt. Bilko (1996)
Plot Summary:
The army is known for churning out lean mean fighting machines intent on protecting our great nation. Martin is the inexplicable the incorrigible the invicible sgt. Ernie bilko leader of a ragtag group of the sorriest soldiers ever to enlist in the armed forces.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, light, hilarious, exciting, captivating, feel good, surprise ending, offbeat, realistic
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The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again (1979)
Plot Summary:
Amos and Theodore, the two bumbling outlaw wannabes from The Apple Dumpling Gang, are back and trying to make it on their own. This time, the crazy duo gets involved in an army supply theft case -- and, of course, gets in lots of comic trouble along the way!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, slapstick, family comedy, spoof, exciting, feel good, realistic, semi serious, fairy tale
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Dorf's Christmas Specials (2015)
Plot Summary:
This Christmas extravaganza is filled with sidesplitting short films and joyous comedy sketches starring Santa's favorite elf, Dorf (Tim Conway.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags:
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Father of the Year (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two college grads return to their hometown, where a hypothetical question -- whose dad would win in a fight? -- leads to mass mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, absurd, buddy comedy
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Quick Pick (2006)
Plot Summary:
Eddie, a lovable loser who's strapped for cash and on the verge of getting evicted from his apartment, thinks he's lost the 135 million dollar winning lottery ticket and enlists the help of his two best friends to help him search for it all over Miami.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, independent film
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My Baby's Daddy (2004)
Plot Summary:
A trio of young men are forced to grow up quick when their girlfriends all become pregnant around the same time.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, funny, black comedy, realistic
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Real Life (1979)
Plot Summary:
A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, funny, satirical, humorous, witty, comedy drama, clever, realistic, not serious, biting
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Harlem Nights (1989)
Plot Summary:
"Sugar" Ray is the owner of an illegal casino, who contend with the pressures of vicious gangster and corrupt policemen who want to see him go out of business. In the world of organized crime and police corruption in the 1920s, any dastardly trick is fair!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: hood, funny, black comedy, humorous, stylized, retro, action comedy, cult classic, action adventure, exciting
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Broadway Danny Rose (1984)
Plot Summary:
A hapless talent manager named Danny Rose, by helping a client, gets dragged into a love triangle involving the mob. His story is told in flashback, an anecdote shared amongst a group of comedians over lunch at New York's Carnegie Deli. Rose's one-man talent agency represents countless incompetent entertainers, including a one-legged tap dancer, and one slightly talented one: washed-up lounge singer Lou Canova (Nick Apollo Forte), whose career is on the rebound.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: black and white, funny, clever, touching, humorous, witty, talky, postmodern, mind blowing, independent film