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Plot Summary:
Paul tries to restore his sullied reputation on the eve of being knighted.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Drop Box (2006)
Plot Summary:
'Drop Box' is a comedy about a spoiled pop princess who accidentally returns her sex tape to a local video store, then must try everything to get it back from an uncooperative clerk. Fearing that if she fails, her next big hit won't be musical.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy, independent film, sexual, sexy
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Laughing to the Bank (2011)
Plot Summary:
A down-on-his-luck actor is frustrated with Hollywood and makes a plan to write, direct, and distribute his own project. When the money goes missing, it proves to just be the beginning of an adventure to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 67
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, dark comedy, black comedy
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The Extendables (2014)
Plot Summary:
A struggling and publicly disgraced Hollywood icon gets another shot at mega stardom when he is hired to star and direct an action movie in Uzbekistan.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious, spoof
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Nobody's Watching (2006)
Plot Summary:
Gail Mancuso film.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 424
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: sitcom, semi serious, light, humorous, captivating, realistic, mockumentary
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Bad Actress (2011)
Plot Summary:
Alyssa Rampart Pillage is a washed up TV queen whose career has been reduced to starring in commercials for her husband Bernie’s appliance empire. When their tree hugging daughter Topanga dies in a tragic golf ball accident, Bernie goes off the spiritual deep end and tries to give away their fortune with disastrous results. But what starts off as tragedy quickly turns into career re-invention for Alyssa. And as the body counts rises, so does her star. Bad Actress is a guilty pleasure of a film that gleefully mocks the world of Hollywood and Fame, which reminds us that Justice has nothing on Celebrity.Written by Anonymous (www.imdb.com).
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, offbeat, dark, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Friggin' Mafia Movie (2001)
Plot Summary:
Filmmaker Vance Gordon struggles to pull a team of wannabe actors together for his new Mafia movie. After a stint of quitting actors, Vance is forced to cast the crew members in his film in a last ditch effort to save the production. As the team of filmmakers struggle, Lynch grows angrier by the second when Vance decides to change the ending of the movie in the middle of the production.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: rough, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, mockumentary, cinema verite, cult film
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Who's the Caboose? (1997)
Plot Summary:
A documentary team gets a grant to do a film on a rare fatal disease that is attacking homeless people. However, they quickly find the film too depressing. Ducking into a nightclub, they discover a young Manhattan comedienne and decide instead to follow her as she makes the circuit of auditions in L.A. as she tries to get a TV pilot. Unfortunately, she has failed to tell her boyfriend of this move. He decides he will trail her out west. There, the boyfriend runs into an old friend who has already made a break on a TV pilot. Seizing the opportunity, the actress turns her attentions to the established actor. However, the actress goes nowhere in auditions, but her ex-boyfriend is suddenly noticed and becomes the next hot prospect.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, documentary filmmaking, fake documentary
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Kevin Pollak: The Littlest Suspect (2010)
Plot Summary:
THE LITTLEST SUSPECT is the third one hour stand-up special by Kevin Pollak. Although best known for his award-winning work as an actor in over sixty films (A Few Good Men, Casino and The Usual Suspects), Kevin started out as a stand-up comedian, and was recently named on of the Top 100 Comedians of All Time by Comedy Central. Kevin is also the host of an award-winning talk show, Kevin Pollak’s Chat Show, which streams live online.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic, light, feel good
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A True Story (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mike and Matt own nothing and share everything, including their life's work, a screenplay, which seems to be their only escape from the harsh reality that is the Hollywood machine.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 256
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, independent film, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense, student film
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Strange Bedfellows (2004)
Plot Summary:
Two 'very straight' old timers have to learn how to pass as a loving gay couple after falsely claiming same-sex status to take advantage of newly legislated tax laws.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, queer cinema, cult film
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She Wants Me (2012)
Plot Summary:
A neurotic writer working on his new film gets into a tricky situation when an A-list actress shows interest in the role intended for his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, light, sincere, independent film
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I Married Who? (2012)
Plot Summary:
Straight-laced Jordan (Martin) is about to marry Peter (Snedeker), a clean-cut ambitious attorney. Before she walks down the aisle, Jordan and her best friends, Claire (Adrienne Frantz) and Jessica (Daphnee Duplaix), head to Vegas for a bachelorette party, because what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas, right? But when Jordan wakes up the next morning unable to recall the night before, she panics when she finds she’s in movie star Matt's (Ethan Erickson) hotel suite with a gigantic diamond on her finger and a marriage certificate lying nearby. Before Jordan can have the marriage annulled and put this nightmare behind her, the impromptu wedding explodes into a publicity stunt fueled by Matt’s manager Eric (Bruce Nozick) to promote his latest movie. With her wedding day approaching, Jordan finds herself more confused than ever when she starts falling in love with the movie star she’s married to instead of the fiancé she thought was her perfect match.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, cute, feel good
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Kathy Griffin: Allegedly (2004)
Plot Summary:
Kathy Griffin's all new feature-length stand-up DVD featuring the D-List Diva herself destroying the A-list stars we know and love.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, realistic, cynical, semi serious, clever, biting, suspense
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Hollywoo (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sometimes, when you think you have it all, everything falls apart. That is exactly the story of Jeanne .Just when she is offered the chance to dub famous American actress Jennifer Marshall in a successful American TV Show and her salary is about to triple, Marshall decides to withdraw from the show. So Jeanne makes a crazy decision, fly to Hollywood herself and make Jennifer change her mind about leaving the series.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Nickelodeon (1976)
Plot Summary:
Going from a lawyer to a writer, and then to a film director, is the career path on which we find the bashful Leo Harrigan. But Leo has problems as well, such as being hopelessly smitten with his leading lady, who chooses to reward his attentions by getting herself hitched to Harrigan's vulgar leading man, Buck Greenaway! This movie is based, extremely loosely, on the early career on Cecil B. De Mille. - Written by Alfred Jingle.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Tracey Ullman in the Trailer Tales (2003)
Plot Summary:
Tracey Ullman's comedy special features the one-and-only 'Ruby Romaine'--the memorable character from HBO's 'Tracey Takes On.' After an illustrious career, veteran Hollywood makeup artist Ruby has decided to call it quits. Or has she? In her trailer, Ruby tells a series of hilarious tales and explains why she reconsidered her retirement. With Debbie Reynolds, Jane Kaczmarek.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, parody, talky, independent film, spoof
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Development Hell (2013)
Plot Summary:
The story of a failed director and his hodgepodge crew as they search, in vain, for fame and success in the crazy world of Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating, fake documentary, cult film
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He's Way More Famous Than You (2013)
Plot Summary:
When once-up-and-coming indie film starlet Halley Feiffer loses her boyfriend, her agent and her career in one fell swoop she finally realizes that something in her life has got to change... she has to become WAY MORE FAMOUS! Armed with a stolen script and two pitchers of sangria, Halley enlists the help of her brother Ryan and his boyfriend to make her own movie, starring herself (of course) as herself, and any A-list celebrity she can land along the way.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 811
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: not serious, humorous, feel good, captivating, realistic
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Holyman Undercover (2010)
Plot Summary:
An Amish man comes to Hollywood to be a missionary, and gets cast as Satan on a nighttime soap opera.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 296
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, captivating, independent film, realistic, christian film
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Breaking & Entering (2013)
Plot Summary:
Breaking & Entering is an independent series about three friends seeking to enter Hollywood by breaking their backs working as assistants. B&E is based on and inspired by the lives of industry assistants who live and work in REAL HOLLYWOOD with NO ENTOURAGE. B&E speaks to the willingness to do whatever it takes to PAY YOUR DUES for your dreams while asking at what cost?.
IMDB Rating:
IMDB Votes:
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, captivating
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Southbound Heist (2011)
Plot Summary:
Chaz and his friends take a road trip after discovering his landlord's plot to kill the creator of the Showboy magazine. Chaz must choose between his beloved magazines, his best friends, the girl of his dreams, or saving an innocent man's life.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, sex comedy, independent film
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Garbage (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two best friends, garbage truck drivers in Hollywood become celebrities overnight after they find Cuba Gooding Jr.’s Best Supporting Actor Oscar for JERRY MAGUIRE in the trash and suddenly their lives go topsy-turvy.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Hollywood North (2003)
Plot Summary:
The making of a serious, Canadian art house film descends into Hollywood farce when its producer is forced to compromise his vision to accommodate his drug-addled star, his leading lady and his venal backers.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, clever, biting, black comedy, dark comedy, suspense
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Being Michael Madsen (2007)
Plot Summary:
Actor Michael Madsen turns the tables on notorious paparazzo, Billy Dant, by hiring a trio of documentary filmmakers to chronicle Dant's life, loves, and troubles.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, cynical, semi serious, mockumentary, suspense, independent film, clever, realistic
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Just Write (1997)
Plot Summary:
A Hollywood tour bus driver poses as a screenwriter to romance an up-and-coming young actress.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, witty, humorous, semi serious, inspirational, art house, independent film, realistic
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Love On The Cloud (2014)
Plot Summary:
Romance gets complicated in modern-day Beijing.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating
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Mel Brooks and Dick Cavett Together Again (2011)
Plot Summary:
For four decades comic genius Mel Brooks and talk show king Dick Cavett have partnered to give the world scintillating conversation and sidesplitting humor. In 2010 they reunited on stage to share show business memories and hilarious stories for loyal fans and a new generation of viewers.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, witty
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The Last Producer (2000)
Plot Summary:
An old-time mogul struggles to reenter the club where power and money make the rules.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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I Love You Too (2010)
Plot Summary:
Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to befriend a talented dwarf who helps him find the words to get her back.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, touching, offbeat, realistic, talky, weird
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Pittsburgh (2006)
Plot Summary:
Jeff Goldblum put his Hollywood actor life on hold to star alongside his new girlfriend in a Pittsburgh regional theater production of The Music Man. Co-directors Bradley and LaBrache tread a surprisingly elegant line between genuine documentary and outright self-parody improv in this deliciously deadpan comedy.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: realistic, witty, semi serious, humorous, mockumentary, clever, talky