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Plot Summary:
When her country is taken over by socialist revolutionaries, a wealthy woman can't bear to give up all of her wealth and possessions to the new government, so she hides all of her treasures in the 12 chairs of a dining-room set. After her death her nephew finds out what she had done and, since the chairs had been "nationalized" and are now in the possession of a dozen different people, he sets out to track them down and get the treasures he believes rightfully belong to him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Comedy
Country: Cuba
Duration: 94 min
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Carmen from Kawachi (1966)
Plot Summary:
The ups and downs in the life of a young woman.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 89 min
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Little Big Top (2006)
Plot Summary:
An aging out of work clown returns to his small hometown, resigned to spend the rest of his days in a drunken stupor. But when his passion for clowning is reawakened by the local amateur circus he finds his smile.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 168
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Fake (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set amongst a tapestry of fairy tale excess, Michael is reared and mentored by an African American maid, Annie Mae. Michael is caught in a triangle of lies and deception by dysfunctional, quirky, upscale family and friends.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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Death of a Bureaucrat (1966)
Plot Summary:
A young man attempts to fight the system in an entertaining account of bureaucracy amok and the tyranny of red tape.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Cuba
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: experimental, manga, mondo, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Louder! Can't Hear What You're Singin', Wimp!! (2018)
Plot Summary:
Shing (Sadao Abe) is a rock star. He has an amazingly loud voice with a range of four octaves. His secret is that he has created his voice through a method of vocal cord doping. His voice is now teetering on the edge, due to side effects from the vocal cord doping. Around this time, Shing meets Fuuka (Riho Yoshioka) who is a street musician. When Fuuka sings, her vice is so small. Due to Fuuka, Shing looks back upon his past.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
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Clowning Around (1992)
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 183 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Too Afraid of Life or Splat (1988)
Plot Summary:
A superstitious middle-aged woman falls in love with a taxi driver, while trying to learn the identity of the unseen person tossing eggs at her.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 123
Genere: Comedy
Country: Cuba
Duration: 110 min
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Franky Banderas (2004)
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IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
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Once a Greek (1966)
Plot Summary:
An extravagant comedy with Heinz Rühmann.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min
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Give Me Five (1980)
Plot Summary:
Two episodes: A roman coachman fulfills the dream of his life and meets the Pope. A priest crazy about dancing wins the first prize in a contest.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 137 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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Easy Down There! (1971)
Plot Summary:
A priest gets a little hot under the collar when the wife he thought was dead unexpectedly returns.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 90 min
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Nasty Habits (1977)
Plot Summary:
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, cult film
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Happy He Who Like Ulysses (1970)
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For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life with a horse named Ulysse. What a shock when Pascal, the farmer, tells him he has decided to sell Ulysse to a picador for being too old. Not only will he be separated from his faithful companion, but he is well aware too that the arenas of Arles mean death for Ulysse. Being unable to stand such injustice, Antonin runs away from the farm in the company of Ulysse. Together, they go through the Lubéron, the Baux de Provence, the Alpilles, the Crau and the Vaccarès. Yet, their journey is no pleasure cruise, specially when it comes to crossing National Road 7. After a visit to Marcellin, an old friend of his, Antonin sets off again with Ulysse, this time towards the Rhône River.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 346
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
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Don Camillo: Monsignor (1961)
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Don Camillo is now a bishop, Peppone is now a senator, but their rivalry is as fierce as when they were just a village priest, and a village administrator. Don Camillo learns that Peppone is about to promote the building of a communal house on the place of an old, derelict church, and that spurns the old flame. They descend from Rome onto quiet Brescello, and they will agitate their faithful hosts, christians against communists, using all devious ways. Even Christ makes a cameo appearance, when things are going a trifle too far.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 109 min
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Gidget Grows Up (1969)
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After spending the last two years in Europe as an exchange student, Gidget returns home to California only to discover that things have changed. The letters she had been writing to her beloved "moondoggie" to try to make him jealous have had the wrong effect. Disillusioned with love, and after hearing a speech on television, she decides to make a real difference in the world by going to New York to become a youth worker at the United Nations. While there she has a proposal of marriage from an extremely wealthy Arabian Sheik, but instead she falls for a handsome but older Australian diplomat.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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The Black Barons (1992)
Plot Summary:
Komedie vás přesvědčí o tom, že i na chmurné stránky naší historie je možné se dívat s nadhledem a humorem. Čo bolo, to bolo... Major Terazky vede svůj šik pétépáků od průšvihu k průšvihu vstříc světlým zítřkům. Česká filmová komedie podle románu Miloslava Švandrlíka.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 99 min
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Capricious Summer (1968)
Plot Summary:
Middle-aged Antonin and his friends, the major, now retired, and the canon, are in the river, swimming and philosophizing. Then it starts to rain. It just seems to be that sort of summer. Antonin runs the swimming bath with his portly wife Katherine... A man appears with his horse-drawn caravan. He lays a striped pole across the river and walks over. With a handstand and a magic trick, Ernie the Conjuror invites everyone to that evening's performance... Ernie is a tightrope walker of only modest skill, but with a slim and beautiful assistant, Anna. Antonin speaks to her. The two spend the night in the change room by the river, Antonin massaging her feet all night long. Katherine decides to move into the caravan with Ernie. But now the major and even the canon sense Anna's attractiveness.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, metafiction
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Adam in Sweden (1966)
Plot Summary:
Rikard Adamsson, a young man dreaming of becoming a writer, lives a wild and dissolute bohemian life. A ferocious fighter with a heart of gold and a great taste for women. In the military service he gets in trouble, runs away, returns and is sentenced to prison. Inside he finishes his first novel. However, no publisher is interested.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 79 min
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Crazy Paradise (1962)
Plot Summary:
Romantic comedy, based on the discovery that eggs from a particular island provide men with great virility and make them irresistible.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 95 min
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The Lustful Vicar (1970)
Plot Summary:
During a witch trial in the seventeenth century a woman is accused of being a witch and burned at the stake. The witch curse the village priest who pushed through the accusations and promises that her offspring will avenge her. During the Caroline the priest's son take over as vicar of the congregation, and the daughter of the witch bewitches him so that he suffers constant erection. This is off course very embarrassing for the vicar. The local women has to step in and try to set things right.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 90 min
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Twelve Plus One (1969)
Plot Summary:
Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to sell off them to get some money. Afterwards he gets to know that one of them contains documents worth a lot of money. So he begins an adventurous trip to regain possession of the chair. On the way he meets many strange people who would like to help or to swindle him.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 90 min
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Soap and Water (1983)
Plot Summary:
La madre-manager di una giovanissima modella americana cerca un precettore per la figlia che deve lavorare per tre mesi a Roma. Le viene suggerito il nome di padre Spinetti, un sacerdote che insegna in un istituto femminile, ma la telefonata per l'incarico la intercetta Rolando, bidello laureato in cerca di fortuna. Rolando si presenta alla donna vestito da prete e viene assunto, la ragazza però non tarda a rendersi conto che l'impacciato professore non è un vero sacerdote e se ne innamora. Una commedia comico-sentimentale con un irresistibile Carlo Verdone.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
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The Married Priest (1970)
Plot Summary:
A young Sicilian priest who moved to Rome comes into contact with the high bourgeoisie and receives a lot of sexual attention.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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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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Fun Is Beautiful (1980)
Plot Summary:
Three stories, three characters all played by Verdone. The first is an awkward young man, who meets a Spanish tourist in Rome. The second has planned a trip towards East with a suitcase full of stockings and biro pens. The last one is a hippy whose father tries to convince him to get back home.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Hardly Working (1980)
Plot Summary:
In Jerry Lewis's first film in a decade, he plays Bo Hooper, an unemployed circus clown who can't seem to hold down a job. The film opens with a brief montage of clips from past Lewis movies. He then moves into a succession of jobs that he gets himself fired from including a gas station attendant and a mailman - all with disastrous results.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 923
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: slapstick, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, slapstick comedy, cult film
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Stripper: Natasha Kizmet (2009)
Plot Summary:
It's Borat with Boobs! A hottie from Uzbekistan fends off perverts and porn stars, spins with strippers and finds the American dream.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sex comedy, offbeat, realistic
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Company Man (2000)
Plot Summary:
Set in the 1960's, a school teacher pretends to be a CIA spy to get his nagging wife off his back. He helps a Russian ballet dancer defect and is then sent to Cuba to locate "Agent X" for the CIA.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, funny, satirical, spy comedy, dark comedy, realistic, semi serious, parody, clever
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The Twelve Chairs (1970)
Plot Summary:
A treasure hunt. An aging ex-nobleman of the Czarist regime has finally adjusted to life under the commisars in Russia. Both he and the local priest find that the family jewels were hidden in a chair, one of a set of twelve. They return separately to Moscow to find the hidden fortune.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: satirical, stylized, talky, philosophical, witty, funny, sweet, surreal, hilarious, clever
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No Country for Young Men (2017)
Plot Summary:
Every year five hundred thousand young people leave Italy and flee overseas. They call it “brain drain” but among the new emigrants there are a lot of ordinary young people seeking their fortune. Sandro and Luciano are two of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining