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Plot Summary:
After the indomitable and beloved founder of a scrappy theater camp in upstate New York falls into a coma, the eccentric staff must band together with her clueless "crypto-bro" son to keep the thespian paradise afloat.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Those Happy Days (2006)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1992, a manager Vincent has to run a children's holiday camp for three weeks and to face the unexpected concerning the place, his colleagues, various problems linked to children about the rooms, trips, their belongings.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Pete Holmes: Faces and Sounds (2016)
Plot Summary:
Over the course of his silly, high-energy performance, Holmes shares his thoughts on such disparate topics as: the keys to happiness; the illogicality of nightmares; being an "easy laugh"; what to wear on a flight; bizarre quirks of language; filling one's "joy quota"; how the British deal with awkward situations; the ridiculousness of porn; and more.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 57 min
Plot tags: tense, funny, light, humorous
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Let's All Sing Around (1991)
Plot Summary:
A comedy on a typical children summer camp from the socialist time, telling the truth about it: combination of strange cynical leaders, absent-minded young assistants with complexes, teenage girls desperately in love with them etc. What a pioneer camp pretended to be and what it really was about. All this produces many embarrassing situations.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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I'm Dead But I Have Friends (2015)
Plot Summary:
Four bearded, hairy rock musicians - and Belgians - bury the singer of their group. Out of friendship and to prove to itself that nothing can stop them, they decide to leave on tour to Los Angeles with its ashes. The day before the departure, a serviceman with a moustache appears as the lover of their friend. Their journey takes an at least unexpected tour.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 398
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, captivating, semi serious
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Never Say Macbeth (2007)
Plot Summary:
Danny; a science teacher, tries to reunite with his ex-girlfriend Ruth, who has dumped him to become an actress in Hollywood. Stumbling into an LA theater during auditions asking: "Is this the audition for Macbeth?" he starts a series of unfortunate events that not only curse the production, but his ex-girlfriend as well, all but ruining his chance for love. Never Say Macbeth is a high-spirited no holds barred comedy about the biggest taboo in theater. Macbeth is believed to be cursed because it is the only Shakespeare play based on black magic and witchcraft, which is why this film, Never Say Macbeth, is also cursed.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Misery Loves Company (2012)
Plot Summary:
MISERY LOVES COMPANY is a film about personal growth and emotional understanding in the guise of a dark romantic comedy. Brian Norton (Peter O'Brien) is a broken-hearted projectionist with a chip on his shoulder. After getting dumped by his current love interest, Alison (Priscilla Wilson), he inverts to a retrospective state in search of the source of his dilemma, but when your reality is primarily fantasy, it's easy to lose sight of things. Brian struggles for understanding as his best friend, Cliff (Steven Bendler), encourages him to put his emotions aside and focus on friendships instead of relationships. It is through Cliff that Brian meets Veronica (Carly Ballister) and his inner conflict begins. His problems are exacerbated by the adolescent advice of his friends, Les (Shawn Stephens) and Wayne (Konrad Mann). What follows is an exploration of options, expectations and experiences that serve to remind Brian of one thing... You're never as alone as you feel.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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He's My Girl (1987)
Plot Summary:
Bryan and Reggie are best friends who are in the music business in Missouri. When Reggie enters Brian for a chance to go to L.A., Bryan wins the contest and wants to bring Reggie with him. However, Bryan must bring a girl. In an effort to make sure Bryan gets his shot, Reggie decides to pose as a girl. When the duo arrive in L.A., both fall in love with two women and they must stop the promoter of the contest when he steals Bryan's song for his star, Simon Sledge.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Party Camp (1987)
Plot Summary:
A teenage boy takes a job as a counselor at a summer camp. He finds that the camp is run like a military training camp, and he resolves to turn it into Party Central.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, teen sex comedy, independent film, teen comedy, hot
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Nickelodeon's Sizzling Summer Camp Special (2017)
Plot Summary:
Nickelodeon’s Sizzling Summer Camp Special features all of your favorite Nickelodeon stars as they head off to a sleep-away camp together — but they soon find themselves in danger! The friends find out that their campsite has been haunted. The mysterious and legendary creatures have been haunting the camp for years! This is the third Nickelodeon Special in the series starring Nickelodeon stars such as Lizzy Greene, Jack Griffo, Kyla Drew Simmons, Jade Pettyjohn, Casey Simpson, and Mace Coronel.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 111
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: entertaining, funny, light, humorous, captivating
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First Period (2013)
Plot Summary:
New girl Cassie (Brandon Alexander III) and outcast Maggie (Dudley Beene) are easily the most awkward girls in high school. Together, they decide the way to win the hearts of the cute boys and popular girls is to come in first at the school talent show. But rivals Heather, Other Heather, and their popular boyfriends Brett and Dirk will stop at nothing to keep our heroes the laughing stock of the school. It's going to take makeovers, courage, and maybe even a little rapping to beat them in true 80s style.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: queer cinema, campy
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Beverly Kills (2005)
Plot Summary:
Whacked-out, muscle-bound, cross-dressing actor Beverly Jackson has been rejected for a role in Pride Playhouses nude theatrical production of "Balls Out." Furious, Beverly decides to form a diabolical cult of revenge! Meanwhile, back at the Playhouse, adorable employee Shane falls right into the arms of Ray, a lighting designer, and the two are swept into Beverly's bizarre scheme. Featuring lots of cuties, a hot romance and a twisted drag queen, you are guaranteed loads of laughs with this riotous comedy from the twisted mind of filmmaker Damion Dietz.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Go Go Crazy (2011)
Plot Summary:
The mockumentary follows the contests, judges, and hostess of a go go boy dancing contest. With a little sex, sabotage, and a few dirty tricks, this movie will turn you on, bend you over with laughter and then give you a happy ending.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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Fag Hag (1998)
Plot Summary:
Fag Hag is the touching inspirational story of how two hopeless no-talent losers find each other in a cruel world, and through the strength of their deep bond are empowered to become two hopeless no-talent losers. Featuring a tour de force performance cameo by Wil Wheaton (Stand by Me, TV’s Star Trek: Next Generation) as a Christian bookstore manager, Fag Hag pays homage to John Waters while launching a bold new message to the gay community. The film is set in Hope Springs, CA where we meet Destiny Rutt (Stephanie Orff; RESPECT MY ASS), a pathological liar and last place shoe-in for the first annual Miss Hope Springs Pageant. When Destiny meets Scott Bushey – a gay drifter whose ambition is to make it big as the worlds first white HIV-positive rap star “T-Cell”, the two make fast friends and resolve “to take this town of outdated gay guys by storm!”.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, cult film
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Meatballs Part II (1984)
Plot Summary:
The second in-name-only sequel to the first Meatballs summer camp movie sets us at Camp Sasquash where the owner Giddy tries to keep his camp open after it's threatened with foreclosure after Hershey, the militant owner of Camp Patton located just across the lake, wants to buy the entire lake area to expand Camp Patton. Giddy suggests settling the issue with the traditional end-of-the-summer boxing match over rights to the lake. Meanwhile, a tough, inner city punk, nicknamed Flash, is at Camp Sasquash for community service as a counselor-in-training where he sets his sights on the naive and intellectual Cheryl, while Flash's young charges befriend an alien, whom they name Meathead, also staying at the camp for the summer.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, teen sex comedy, realistic, not serious, psychotronic, slapstick comedy, parody, road movie, feel good, unusual plot structure
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Saugatuck Cures (2015)
Plot Summary:
Drew and his best friend Brett set out on a road trip to pose as ex-gay ministers using exuberant high jinks to scam churchgoers, all in order to raise money for his mother's experimental cancer treatment.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Camp Takota (2014)
Plot Summary:
With her personal and professional life in shambles, Elise ends up having to take a job as a counselor at her old summer camp. There, she reunites with two estranged friends who attended camp and never left. When the future of the camp is put in jeopardy, the three friends must band together to save it, changing the course of their lives forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, sincere, feel good, captivating, teen, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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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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The Deported (2009)
Plot Summary:
An Italian-American actor is deported to Mexico by some crooked INS Agents, and a pack of orphans helps him find his way back to America.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Eating Out: Drama Camp (2011)
Plot Summary:
With raging boy hormones and the laugh quotient turned on full, Chris Salvatore and Daniel Skelton return, along with Rebekah Kochan and cult icon Mink Stole in the fourth installment of Q. Allan Brocka's hilarious and over-the-top sexual antic-laden Eating Out series!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, not serious, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sexy, erotic, funny, touching, independent film
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Coming Out Party (2003)
Plot Summary:
"Coming Out Party" is a celebration of love, life and freedom as seven gay and lesbian comic storytellers share their personal stories of "coming out" to family, friends, and co-workers, and living "out" and proud. Features: Rene Hicks (World Comedy Tour 2002), Sabrina Matthews, John Riggi (“The Dennis Miller Show”), Dan Renzi (MTV’s “The Real World”), Jackie Beat, Terry Sweeney (“Saturday Night Live”), and Bob Smith.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags:
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The Gays (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wouldn't it be great if your parents taught you how to hold your own in a fag-eat-fag world? Rod Gay and Bob Gay-Paris are the streetwise gay mentors you never had. Come revel in the raunchy wisdom they pass along to their two gay sons - Alex and Tommy - advice that will empower the boys to bend the world over, lube it up, and snap one off!.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Homo Promo (1991)
Plot Summary:
How did Hollywood pitch movies about gays and lesbians between 1956 and 1977? Here are theatrical trailers for 27 mainstream and art-house films, presented chronologically from "Tea and Sympathy" to "Outrageous!" More than half are films released between 1968 and 1972. Half are dramas and half are comedies, with farce dominating the films released after 1971. At least three advertise X-rated films: "The Killing of Sister George," "Midnight Cowboy," and Visconti's "The Damned." There's no voice-over commentary for this compilation, but it does include advertisements for snacks and one warning against public displays of affection aimed at "her" to control "him.".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Authors Anonymous (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a dysfunctional group of unpublished writers accept Hannah into their fold, the last thing they expect is her overnight success. Can these lovable misfits achieve their artistic dreams and avoid killing one another in the process?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, not serious
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Life of the Party (2018)
Plot Summary:
Dumped by her husband, longtime housewife Deanna turns regret into reset by going back to college. Winding up at the same school as her daughter, Deanna plunges headlong into the campus experience – embracing fun, freedom and frat boys.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 39000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, realistic, light, feel good, humorous, sincere, captivating, entertaining, teen, touching
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Happy Campers (2001)
Plot Summary:
Chaos and rampant hormones reign when teenage counselors are left in charge during their summer-camp director's absence.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, dark comedy, funny, sexual, crying, sex comedy, black comedy
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Kiss Me, Guido (1997)
Plot Summary:
When he discovers his girlfriend having sex with his brother, Frankie (Scotti) decides to head to Manhattan, leaving his Bronx pizza shop forever for the fame and fortune of show business. But before stardom, he needs a place to stay. Looking in the personals, he notices GWM. And thinking it "Guy with Money," he heads to the Village and the apartment of gay actor Warren (Barrile), who's in desperate need of this month's rent.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, talky, offbeat, feel good, realistic, witty, semi serious, funny, light
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29th and Gay (2005)
Plot Summary:
Following a year in the life of James Sanchez, it's a story about a guy rapidly approaching thirty, who doesn't have a six-pack, full head of hair or a boyfriend. While his best friend Roxy, an actress-turned-activist, struggles with showing him there's life beyond the glitz of the disco ball, his other friend, Brandon, one of those gay boys comfortable in his own gay skin, works on getting James to at least talk to a boy. Feeling out of place in the world of circuit boys, caught between his Hispanic-American heritage and being gay, we watch James find his place in the world, realizing that life is in the journey, not the destination.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, sexy, feel good, independent film, sexual
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Oy Vey! My Son Is Gay! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Comedy - Carmen Electra, Lainie Kazan, Saul Rubinek.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 954
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, not serious, independent film, queer cinema
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The Curiosity of Chance (2006)
Plot Summary:
High school coming-of-age tale. It is the 1980's and new wave angst and gender-bending fashion are all the rage. Chance Marquis is the new kid at an American high school in Belgium and is a somewhat awkward teenager who is the target of the school bully. To deal with this dilemma, Chance turns to the opposite ends of the high school spectrum for help. On one end is the flamboyant drag queen and at the other end, the varsity jock.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Belgium, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, teen, offbeat, realistic, queer cinema, teen comedy, corny
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Camp (2003)
Plot Summary:
Misfits in their lives back home, a group of young people live it up at musical-theater camp. While the sports counselor is completely ignored, the kids' spend all their time in rehearsal for a grueling schedule that involves a new show every two weeks. Several personal stories come to the fore.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: talky, feel good, humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious, teen, inspirational, epic, independent film