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Plot Summary:
The best italian film of the 90's, the most extreme and radical work since SALO', a ruthless representation, in a surreal-metaphorical key, of a civilization condemned to worshipping its own blindness. The two sicilian directors use a language free from compromise and from the traditional storyline rules: the movie is photographed in a sharp and very contrasting black & white, with no beautiful pimp music, and lacks a logical story. There are no women (the ones we see are actually men), and the language is strict sicilian dialect. The directing style is characterized by long fixed shots on a post-atomic world, which is really present-day Palermo, inhabited by fat people in socks and underwear who burp and fart while roaming around smelly alleyways and waste dumps.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
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The Good Bad Guy (1997)
Plot Summary:
Italian immigrant Joe is hired by mobster Vince to kill a witness before he can testify against him. Joe dresses up as a policeman to be able to get close to his victim, but he's mistaken for a real cop by everyone and will reluctantly have to enforce the law to avoid blowing his cover.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mr. Nice Guy (1987)
Plot Summary:
A hitman by the name of Mr. Nice Guy is about to be married and his fiancee doesn't know his true profession. On top of that, his future father-in-law has a contract out on him. A zany mafia comedy!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 268
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Joker's Wild (1992)
Plot Summary:
A jealous mobster chases a screenwriter, who likes his friend, from New York to the Caribbean.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Romeo & Julio (2009)
Plot Summary:
Break-dance trash musical comedy/parody based on William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Comedy
Country: Croatia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: parody
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Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son (1969)
Plot Summary:
An experimental feature made by rephotographing the 1905 Biograph short Tom, Tom, the Piper's Son.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: underground film, experimental, avant garde, independent film, art film, silent, silent film
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La Bomba (1999)
Plot Summary:
Three young Italian actors move from Roma to NY to try to improve their careers. While attending the Actor's Studio they set up as a joke an extortion, acting like real mafiosi do. After the first extortion succeed they decide to continue on that way. But the NY mafia realize what is happening and.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 330
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Diamonds and Guns (2008)
Plot Summary:
In this romantic comedy, set in Las Vegas, "Diamonds & Guns" follows best friends Ashley(Renee O'Connor, of Xena:Warrior Princess) and Bria as they set off to change their luck. From the Sunset Strip to the Vegas Strip, they cannot seem to escape their troubles. In a comedy of errors, they find themselves wrapped up with the mob, chased by a hitman, and falling in love with the least likeliest guys. What happens in Vegas...just may alter their fortunes forever. Who will make it out alive? Who will end up with who? Place your bets... "Diamonds & Guns".
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 359
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
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7 and 8 (2007)
Plot Summary:
6th January 1975, in an infant nursery in Palermo (Italy), for a mysterious reason, a male nurse exchanges the labels of baby number 7 and 8. Thirty-one years later Tommaso (7) and Daniele (8) meet each other by accident.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
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Vedo nudo (1969)
Plot Summary:
Seven episodes about sex.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: anthology, italian comedy
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Package, Double Package and Counterpackage (1993)
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 118 min
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No More Excuses (1968)
Plot Summary:
A bizarre portrait of the New York singles scene.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
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You and I Are Three (1962)
Plot Summary:
When Manolina saw a picture of Rodolfo, a South American poet, she falls in love for him. Three months after marriage by proxy, Rodolfo meets with her, which takes a major surprise to meet the twin brother of her husband.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 89 min
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Il commissario Lo Gatto (1986)
Plot Summary:
Police commissioner Lo Gatto is in charge of the local Italian police station within Vatican State. During an investigation, following the murder of a Vatican priest, he decides to question the Pope!!! For this reason Lo Gatto is sent to a Sicilian remote island Favignana. There is very little for the commissioner to do on the quiet island, so Lo Gatto decides to investigate the vanishing of a tourist which quickly becomes a very complicated affair.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 760
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Football Crazy (1974)
Plot Summary:
A small-time soccer referee gets the chance of a lifetime when he gets to referee a major-league game. He becomes a celebrity because and suddenly finds himself having to choose between his future as a referee and the temptations that come his way--especially the women--now.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags:
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Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight (1975)
Plot Summary:
A film without a beginning or an end, Moment to Moment is a rush of curious sketches, scenes, and shots that takes on a rhythmic life of its own.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: absurd, avant garde
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Toto Who Lived Twice (1998)
Plot Summary:
The film has three stories. First is about local village idiot Paletta, who can not afford the services of a whore and so steals a locket from a holy shrine belonging to local mafia don. Second shows the story of betrayal of Pitrinu (who's dead now) by his lover Fefe. Final episode is about lowlife Lazarus. He is killed by mob boss Toto, but raised from the dead by a local messiah, who is also known as Toto (and is played by same actor).
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: experimental, controversial, anthology, aesthetic, disturbing, avant garde, grotesque
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The Film Crew: Wild Women of Wongo (2007)
Plot Summary:
What if there was a primitive island tribe where all the women were gorgeous and all the men were nasty-looking uggos? Might Mother Nature fix this by creating a tribe on a nearby island where all the men are hunks, and the women are brutes? You’d think not, but the makers of Wild Women of Wongo are not you. Wild Women of Wongo is a sex farce without the sex or the farce, set in a never-never land of uncivilized island dwellers who all look like someone going to a Halloween party as “uncivilized island dweller.” Add a crocodile who comes in the form of stock footage and rubber model, a lot of awkward dancing, and an actress named “Adrienne Bourbeau” who refuses to actually be Adrienne Barbeau, and you got yourself a movie. Mike, Kevin and Bill will DANCE their way into your hearts with this riff.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
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The Two Cops (1984)
Plot Summary:
Episodic comedy drama about two recruits who join Italy's carabinieri, become friends and work together on several cases.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 971
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Fantozzi Strikse Back (1990)
Plot Summary:
Fantozzi is now retired but continues to go to the office where it is held up as a fine example of employees intending to do career.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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Boogie Vision (1977)
Plot Summary:
Struggling hippie independent filmmaker Mick gets his big break after he finds out that his girlfriend Marlene's father Burt is a movie producer. Unbeknown to Mick, Burt only specializes in porno pictures. Mick cranks out a cruddy science fiction stinker in three days for Burt, who demands countless changes and has a hard time figuring out how to distribute Mick's lousy movie.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: parody, independent film, spoof, sketch comedy
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Il ritorno di Cagliostro (2003)
Plot Summary:
In the Sicily of the late 1940s, two brother sculptors, tired of selling madonnas to the local churches, finally realize their dream, and set up a Sicilian production company, thanks to the help of a local bishop. They start producing one box-office failure Z-movie after the other, all with terribly bad local non-pros as actors. Covered in debts, they finally have their great chance, when a local nobleman obsessed by magic decides to invest all his wealth in the making of a movie about Cagliostro, just one year after Orson Welles' Black Magic (1949). They hire a famous American actor (Robert Englund) and start shooting "The Return of Cagliostro".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 387
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: avant garde, grotesque, fake documentary
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The New Monsters (1977)
Plot Summary:
15 years after the monumental "I mostri" which was a great example of Italian sketch comedy, 3 of the greatest Italian directors ever (Risi, Monicelli, Scola) the best Italian writers ever (Age, Scarpelli) the best Italian actors ever (Tognazzi, Gassmann, Sordi) one of the most beautiful woman in the world (Ornella Muti) participate to this great tribute.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: anthology, black comedy, grotesque, italian comedy
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I Hate Summer (2020)
Plot Summary:
Three families end up in the same rented house. Throughout the summer, they become friends and rediscover how to enjoy life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, not serious, atmospheric
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Blame Freud (2014)
Plot Summary:
Francesco Taramelli is a psychoanalyst who is dealing with three patients going through various hurdles in their love lives: Marta is chasing a deaf-mute man who has stolen things from her book shop, Sara is a lesbian who was left by her girlfriend just after she proposed to her, and 18-year-old Emma is seeing a 50-year-old architect called Alessandro, who is already married. Unfortunately, these three patients are Francesco's three beloved daughters.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, talky, semi serious, touching, entertaining, feel good
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A Chinese in a Coma (2000)
Plot Summary:
A tale about a talent agent with a talentless client roster. Ercole Preziosi (Verdone) represents middling girl groups, bad magicians, and even worse comics. When a grizzly traffic accident leaves his star comedian client bed-ridden, he turns to his young plucky driver to do stand-up duty.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, not serious
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The Hole (2014)
Plot Summary:
Ambulance-chasing lawyers takes on the case of a convicted murderer who, just being released after doing 27 years in jail, claims he was innocent.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 374
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, captivating, light, feel good, offbeat, realistic
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Finding Momo (2017)
Plot Summary:
One evening, when they come home, Mr. and Mrs. Prioux are astounded to find that a certain Patrick has moved into their place. This strange young man has returned home to his parents in order to introduce his wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
Plot Summary:
A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, anthology, surreal, parody, funny, absurd, hilarious, humorous, witty, sexual
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Max mon amour (1986)
Plot Summary:
A French wife takes a zoo chimp named Max to be her lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: disturbing, clever, humorous, realistic, erotic, controversial, sex comedy, offbeat, surreal, witty
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It’s the Law (2017)
Plot Summary:
A small Sicilian town elects a new, honest major but quickly learns that playing by the rules is not as easy as it seems.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining