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Plot Summary:
Two mildly retarded truckers hired to transport toxic waste across the country get caught up with a teen genius who stows away on their truck.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 765
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Truck Rascals (1975)
Plot Summary:
The first of many movies featuring the lighthearted adventures of two truck drivers. Momojiro and his best friend Kinzo take to the road on their cargo trucks impressing each other with their skills in driving fast and evading the police while transporting commodities throughout the country. Chance encounters with people along the way help them to come to terms with events clouding their past and offer them a shot at redemption.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Action, Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Catch of the Day (2014)
Plot Summary:
Officer Rod Davis becomes embedded undercover when a cartel starts bringing drugs into the city through fish shipments. He soon finds himself and his city under siege when a scientist accidentally creates mutant fish people with a poisonous bite. It's up to the rookie cop and a sexy lab assistant to find the drug stash and destroy the crime lord controlling the mutant monsters, but it turns personal when Rod's sister is kidnapped. Are they fighting giant mutant fish monsters just for the halibut? See the badge, bass, and ass in a horror-comedy that you won't want to throw back... because it's the "Catch of the Day.".
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (1976)
Plot Summary:
Witchipoo and the Wicked Witch of the West give Paul Lynde three wishes for Halloween. KISS performs three songs. Florence Henderson sings a disco version of "That Old Black Magic.".
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Drive-In (1976)
Plot Summary:
The adventures of a group of teenagers at a drive-in theatre in Texas one weekend night.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 505
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, parody, teen comedy
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Family (2018)
Plot Summary:
An emotionally stunted aunt tries to bond with her thirteen year old niece, who wants nothing more than to run away from home and become a juggalo.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, captivating, realistic, funny
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High School Record (2005)
Plot Summary:
Four awkward 17-year-olds struggle through their senior year. Like most high school students, they ride a continual wave of embarrassment: crappy after-school jobs, attempted sex in the science room, tinfoil shorts, guitar-strumming hippie teachers and brushes with the law. The only difference is that their moments of humiliation are caught on tape--our gang of four are the subjects of a documentary shot by fellow classmates.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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The Beast (1974)
Plot Summary:
An experienced truck-driver is forced to become assistant to a young Sicilian driver. The Beast, the truck they drive around Europe, becomes their ground for mutual respect and trust.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 204
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: road movie, poliziottesco
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Didi auf vollen Touren (1986)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Heavy Load (2003)
Plot Summary:
The show presents the misadventures of two truck drivers, Pedro and Bino, who struggle to make their livings on the roads of Brazil, trying not to be misled by life's traps.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 202
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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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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Miguel Wants to Fight (2023)
Plot Summary:
In a neighborhood where fighting is stitched into the fabric of everyday life, Miguel has never found himself in one. However, when a combination of events turn his life upside down, Miguel and his friends enter into a series of misadventures.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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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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The Great Mom Swap (1995)
Plot Summary:
When two girls think the other has it better, they swap places to see who's right!.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: teen comedy
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Serial (1980)
Plot Summary:
It's the end of the 70s. Hippies are assimilating, women are raising their consciousness, and men are becoming confused and ineffectual. Don't expect to be able to keep track of all the names or who's sleeping with who; the picture very skillfully conveys the hopeless muddle through which the many characters move as they try to find themselves.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, cult classic, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, suspense, cult film
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Double Trouble (1992)
Plot Summary:
Two beefed-up twins (played by the Paul brothers, Peter and David, who have appeared in several programmers as The Barbarian Brothers) operating on opposing sides of the law, team up to stop a nefarious crook in this actioner. Peter Jade is a notoriously arrogant burglar who ends up with the key to an enormous underground cache of diamonds. David Jade is a cop who joins forces with Peter after greedy Philip Chamberlain, wanting the diamonds for himself, kills David's partner.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective, exciting, rough, humorous, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious, buddy comedy
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The Night Before (1988)
Plot Summary:
The Night Before is a 1988 film starring Keanu Reeves and Lori Loughlin. Reeves plays Winston Connelly, the so-called high school nerd and vice president of the Astronomy club. Loughlin plays Tara Mitchell, the pretty and popular head cheerleader who also happens to be the local police chief's daughter. The Tagline was: "You lost your father's car. Sold your prom date. And a guy named 'Tito' wants you dead." It was filmed and set entirely in Los Angeles, California.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: retro, cult classic, humorous, semi serious, independent film, teen comedy
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Take This Job and Shove It (1981)
Plot Summary:
A junior executive is ordered to boost output in the hometown brewery where his old friends work.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 921
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, neo western, light, sexy, feel good, suspense, entertaining
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Steal Big Steal Little (1995)
Plot Summary:
Ruben and Robby are twin brothers, adopted by Mona, one of the wealthiest - and most eccentric - women in Santa Barbara. Ruben is devoted to Mona, but Robby is more devoted to her money. So when Mona leaves her fortune and estate to Ruben it starts a battle between brothers that soon leads to madness, mayhem, and even attempted murder. On Ruben's side is Lou Perilli an ex-Chicago cop and used car dealer who knows the law - and how to get around it. On Robby's side is ruthless businessman Reed Tyler, who is out to turn a swift profit on Mona's property. Walking a shifty line between them is Eddie Agopian, the family lawyer, who doesn't care which side wins as long as he's on the winner's side. But whether they're stealing big or stealing little, they're all stealing in this hilarious comedy about greed, power... and brotherly love.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, road movie, clever, feel good, unusual plot structure, bad ending
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Slumber Party (2005)
Plot Summary:
When Naomi, a fine, young sexy thing from South Central LA is invited to Palm Springs by her rich Uncle Bob to house sit for the weekend, she jumps at the chance to get out of the hood.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, independent film, black comedy
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The Van (1977)
Plot Summary:
Bobby blows all his college savings on a van and tries to get the girl of his dreams. It's a wild time with Bobby and his friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, cult classic, sex comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, sexual, independent film, sexy
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The Hollywood Knights (1980)
Plot Summary:
Led by their comedic and pranking leader, Newbomb Turk, the Hollywood Knights car gang raise hell throughout Beverly Hills on Halloween Night, 1965. Everything from drag racing to Vietnam to high school love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, grindhouse, humorous, sex comedy, feel good, realistic, not serious, independent film, parody, funny
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Used Cars (1980)
Plot Summary:
When the owner of a struggling used car lot is killed, it's up to the lot's hot-shot salesman to save the property from falling into the hands of the owner's ruthless brother and used-car rival.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, witty, talky, melancholic, semi serious, cult classic, satirical, dark comedy, feel good
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Twin Sitters (1994)
Plot Summary:
An evil business executive (played by George Lazenby), is releasing dangerous toxins and the Barbarian Brothers set out to stop his evil work.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, sincere, parody, independent film, realistic, slapstick, not serious
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Don't be a dick about it (2018)
Plot Summary:
A hilarious and beautiful portrait of two brothers growing up. The film follows the brothers around for one summer capturing the nuances of pissing each other off.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 69 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, contemplative, non fiction, cinema verite
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The F**k-It List (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a prank blows up a studious high school senior's life, he shares a list of certain things he wishes he'd done differently — and maybe still can.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous
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Stuck on You (2003)
Plot Summary:
In Martha's Vineyard, Mass., conjoined twins Walt (Greg Kinnear) and Bob Tenor (Matt Damon) make the best of their handicap by being the fastest grill cooks in town. While outgoing Walt hopes to one day become a famous actor, shy Bob prefers to stay out of the spotlight. When a fading Hollywood actress, Cher (Cher), decides to get her show "Honey and the Beaze" cancelled, she hires Walt -- and his brotherly appendage -- as her costars. But their addition surprisingly achieves the opposite.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, touching, humorous, light, semi serious, witty, slapstick, hilarious, clever
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License to Drive (1988)
Plot Summary:
Teenager Les Anderson thinks his life can't get any worse after he flunks his driver's exam, but he's wrong. Even though he didn't receive his license, Les refuses to break his date with the cool Mercedes Lane, and he decides to lift his family's prize luxury car for the occasion. Unfortunately, Mercedes sneaks some booze along and passes out drunk, and a confused Les makes the bad decision of enlisting his rebellious friend, Dean, to help.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, road movie, entertaining, humorous, not serious, feel good, colorful, realistic, hilarious
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American High School (2009)
Plot Summary:
Small lives begin at the end of high school for this surreal society. A senior who married young must contend with her life, love, and pursuit of individuality and femininity in a narcissistic, misogynistic world of irony. Gwen Adams, her husband Holden, and school rival Hilary complete the love triangle as Principal Mann makes their lives living hell.
IMDB Rating: 2.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, teen sex comedy, teen, sexual, sex comedy, hot
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Hamburger: The Motion Picture (1986)
Plot Summary:
Russell has been expelled from several schools for lewd, crude and nude conduct. Busterburger University is his last chance at education and satisfying his disappointed parents.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sex comedy, sexy, touching, captivating, cult classic, independent film, cynical
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Ferris Bueller's Day Off (1986)
Plot Summary:
A high school slacker pretends to be sick to skip school and have an exciting day off alongside his girlfriend and his best buddy through Chicago, while trying to outwit his obsessive school principal and his unconformited sister along the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 380000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, funny, light, teen, humorous, hilarious, intense, semi serious, inspirational