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Plot Summary:
An aimless college graduate drives a taxi while rebelling against his parents, the Establishment and whatever else he happens to loathe on any given day (including pigeons). Then he meets a girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: political, psychedelic, independent film
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Wacky Taxi (1972)
Plot Summary:
A man unsatisfied in his job decides to start a taxi service.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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Jennifer on My Mind (1971)
Plot Summary:
Marcus (Michael Brandon), a nice, rich, Jewish boy from New York, meets and falls in love with Jennifer (Tippy Walker), a girl from Oyster Bay, while they are both in Venice. He follows her to her home on Long Island and ultimately to the top of a high-rise on the New Jersey Palisades, where begins a romantic reminiscence in extended flashbacks, that ultimately leads to tragedy. Noel Black ("Pretty Poison") directed the film, and Erich Segal ("Love Story") wrote it. Robert De Niro has a small role as a gypsy cab driver.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 467
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, realistic
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Bombs Away (1985)
Plot Summary:
A cab driver becomes involved in a chase for a misplaced atomic bomb.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Annie B. (2004)
Plot Summary:
Annie who comes from a poor family is the epitome of an active and lively teenager. Fernando is the owner of an ad agency. The story begins when Annie halts Fernando's wedding thinking it was Fernando who got her sister pregnant. It just so happened that Fernando and Annie's sister's BF share the same name. The two meet again when Annie auditions for a TV commercial. Despite their rocky start, the two get to know each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags:
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How to Be a Perfect Person in Just Three Days (1984)
Plot Summary:
A kid strives to be perfect, and in the end realizes that individuality is more fun.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 86
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags:
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Kymmenen riivinrautaa (2002)
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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The Thin Pink Line (1998)
Plot Summary:
In this mockumentary, a film team in search of a new documentary project determines to find a wrongfully imprisoned death-row inmate. Enter Chauncey Ledbetter, the quirky, potentially gay, prisoner convicted of murdering his high school show choir teacher. As filming of the documentary progresses, evidence increases that Chauncey might be guilty after all. Will the team prove Chauncey's innocence before his impending execution or will this be the end of him? The title is a humorous reference to Errol Morris’ documentary The Thin Blue Line, which raised questions about the conviction of a prison inmate on death-row.
IMDB Rating: 3.4
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: parody, mockumentary, flamboyance
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Frozen Assets (1992)
Plot Summary:
A man is hired to run a bank which turns out to be a sperm bank.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 569
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: double entendre, independent film
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The Tail Job (2016)
Plot Summary:
Nicholas Moore hires taxi driver Trevor to help catch his fiance cheating. With misunderstandings, and mistaken identity, these defective detectives find themselves on an adventure more dangerous than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie
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A Fare to Remember (1999)
Plot Summary:
A high powered business executive takes on an assignment on Christmas Eve, knowing she is to get married immediately after the holiday. Arriving at the Seattle airport, she discovered all flights are canceled and she has to get to LA. She then hires an obnoxious cabbie to transport her to LA. However, the cabbie eventually proves to be rather endearing while she maintains her upper class posturing.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 274
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, ridiculous
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Drive Share (2017)
Plot Summary:
Comedy show focusing on the drivers and bizarre passengers who use the world’s most popular ride share app.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: sketch comedy
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The Journey to Paris (1999)
Plot Summary:
Shy and still living with his mother, a highway cashier one day decides to finally live his craziest dream: to visit Paris.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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Confessions of a Driving Instructor (1976)
Plot Summary:
Timothy Lea and his brother-in-law Sidney decide upon opening a driving school as their latest get-rich-quick scheme. Though he sincerely wants to teach, young Timmy finds that his female students are far more interested in keeping their eyes on him than on the road.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, independent film, hot
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I Could Never Have Sex with Any Man Who Has So Little Regard for My Husband (1973)
Plot Summary:
In this sex farce, two middle-aged pairs of aspiring swingers rent a summer cottage. There they sit around discussing the pros and cons of having affairs.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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The Feud (1989)
Plot Summary:
All Dolph Beeler wanted was a can of paint remover when he went to Bud Bullard's hardware store in Millville. But a simple misunderstandling between two men has turned into an outright war between two towns in this outrageous comedy of errors.--Summary from container. -- WorldCat.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 132
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Taxi Girl (1977)
Plot Summary:
Marcella (Fenech) inherits a taxi business from her father and now sets out on the job of her life. With each new fare she becomes involved with sex and crime all done up 70's Italian comedy style.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, perverse
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Man with a Plan (1996)
Plot Summary:
Fred Tuttle, faced with his father's impending hip operation and his failing farm, needs to make a six-digit salary with a fourth-grade education. So he runs for U.S. Representative from Vermont with a markedly bizarre campaign. Will he triumph over incumbent Bill Blachly?.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: political, independent film, fake documentary
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Deadhead Miles (1972)
Plot Summary:
Alan Arkin, dressed like a sea captain, aimlessly sails the American highways in his 18 wheeler mumbling manic, southern accented non sequiturs; carnivalizing roadside stops and happenstance towns while out-wierding cops and weigh stations with his new cryptic, overcoated hitchhiker buddy.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious
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A Wake in Providence (1999)
Plot Summary:
Going back home can be hard, particularly when you come from a traditional Italian family, and especially when the girlfriend you bring back is not Italian. But the roof caves in when she's African American. This is the problem that Anthony faces when he brings Alissa from Los Angeles to his boyhood home of Providence, Rhode Island to attend his grandfather's funeral.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Extra Man (2010)
Plot Summary:
THE EXTRA MAN is a sophisticated and moving comedy from filmmakers Shari Springer Berman and Robert Pulcini. THE EXTRA MAN follows Louis Ives (Paul Dano), a lonely dreamer who fancies himself the hero of an F. Scott Fitzgerald novel. When a deeply embarrassing incident forces him to leave his job at an exclusive Princeton prep school, Louis heads to New York City to make a fresh start. He quickly finds a 9 to 5 job at an environmental magazine, where he encounters an entrancing, green-obsessed co-worker Mary (Katie Holmes).
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, tragicomedy, offbeat, independent film, crying, hilarious
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My Chauffeur (1986)
Plot Summary:
A feisty young woman accepts a mysterious offer to become a chauffeur for a Beverly Hills limousine business, much to the chagrin of her older male coworkers and the disbelief of her customers.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, humorous, sex comedy, independent film, captivating, realistic, semi serious, sexual, fairy tale, light
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Chicago Cab (1997)
Plot Summary:
A day in the life of a Chicago cab driver is examined as he picks up fares from the good and bad parts of the city and emotionally connects to many of his passengers.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, cult classic, independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious
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The Wheeler Dealers (1963)
Plot Summary:
Henry J. Tyroone leaves Texas, where his oil wells are drying up, and arrives in New York with a lot of oil money to play with in the stock market. He meets stock analyst Molly Thatcher, who tries to ignore the lavish attention he spends on her but.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: retro, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense, vintage
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Taxi (1978)
Plot Summary:
Louie De Palma is a cantankerous, acerbic taxi dispatcher in New York City. He tries to maintain order over a collection of varied and strange characters who drive for him. As he bullies and insults them from the safety of his “cage,” they form a special bond among themselves, becoming friends and supporting each other through the inevitable trials and tribulations of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, witty, talky, not serious, atmospheric, clever, offbeat, realistic, vintage
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Baby on Board (1993)
Plot Summary:
Maria (Carol Kane) is the wife of a murdered Mafia bookkeeper. With her baby in tow, she tracks the hitman to the airport, intending to shoot the man. A pickpocket causes the gun to discharge prematurely, and now it's Maria who is being pursued. She commandeers a cab driven by Ernie (Judge Reinhold), and the chase is on.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, slapstick
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Brewster's Millions (1985)
Plot Summary:
Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, entertaining, humorous, sweet, black comedy, light hearted, colorful, realistic
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The Jerk (1979)
Plot Summary:
After discovering he's not really black like the rest of his family, likable dimwit Navin Johnson runs off on a hilarious misadventure in this comedy classic that takes him from rags to riches and back to rags again. The slaphappy jerk strikes it rich, but life in the fast lane isn't all it's cracked up to be and, in the end, all that really matters to Johnson is his true love.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: funny, slapstick, hilarious, clever, humorous, inspirational, feel good, entertaining, surprise ending, offbeat
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Crash Course (1988)
Plot Summary:
Some students taking driver's ed during the summer. Among the students is Riko, a cocky guy; Chad, a guy from a privileged background, who's terrified to get behind the wheel; Vanessa, who's over protective mom who wouldn't allow her to take the course, who went behind her back; and Maria, a spoiled foreign student. Now the principal wants the students to pass so he tells the instructor, who's still not over his wife leaving and is not exactly up to the task, that it's important for the students to pass so he brought in a special instructor, who's very tough. And the principal also tells one of his teachers to let, one of the students Maslanski who's the school football star, pass the test he failed so that he can concentrate on driver's ed. But the teacher, seeing this as an opportunity to expose the principal as not doing his job and thus paving the way for him to be the new principal, makes Maslanski take a make up test.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Brain Donors (1992)
Plot Summary:
Three manic idiots; a lawyer, cab driver and a handyman team up to run a ballet company to fulfill the will of a millionaire. Stooge-like antics result as the trio try to outwit the rich widow and her scheming big-shot lawyer, who also wants to run the ballet.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, witty, light, clever, unusual plot structure, surreal, absurd, talky, stylized
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Dr. Cabbie (2014)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed doctor turned cab driver becomes a local hero when he converts his taxi into a mobile clinic. Dr. CABBIE is the heart warming journey of a young Indian Doctor who immigrates to Canada with the selfless ambition of healing others while beginning a new life in the land of opportunity. Dr. CABBIE discovers his true purpose and true love when he embarks upon this journey of a doctor turned cabbie.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic, feel good, witty, biting, suspense