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Plot Summary:
British sad sack Gary is a failed entrepreneur who has just arrived in Beijing's stylish Sanlitun district, allegedly to start a business. There are other reasons why he has uprooted himself — he's followed his ex-wife and young son, for one — but he soon finds out that China isn't the easiest place to succeed. Blissfully untouched by self-awareness, and only fitfully in tune with reality, Gary sallies forth to make money, armed with faith in himself and little to no knowledge of Chinese culture. He soon hooks up with Frank, a trust-fund kid from Australia who offers to mentor Gary in Eastern ways, although Frank's pedagogical method is restricted to yelling at Gary for being a Westerner and not being as "Chinese" as him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Comedy
Country: China, Iceland, Australia, Ireland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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Perfect People (1988)
Plot Summary:
After many years of marriage Ken and Barbara decide to change their way of living radically. In order to become more attractive they submit themselves not only under modern diets and physical education but also try plastic surgery.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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POP-U-larity! (2012)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to Penskeegee's 25th Annual POP-U-larity singing contest! Join our celebrity host, Marcellas Reynolds from the hit reality show 'Big Brother,' as our contestants compete to become Penskeegee's most POP-U-lar person! This years competitors include four-time diva champion Katrina Whitman aided by her loyal gay assistant Sebastian, cowboy Charlene Hornsby and her new age musical therapist Celeste, and housewife Marcia Anderson singing with her edgy performance artist son, Darque. Our contestants come from all walks of life and some from no walks of life. Each performance is as unique as the package it comes in. Because whatever they decide to do... There's no wrong way to be POP-U-lar!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 21
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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Chez n' Ham (1993)
Plot Summary:
Cheese and Ham are two men with nothing better to do in their lives. Until they meet a man dying of throat cancer who will pay the two men a large sum of money to kill a woman, whom he wants dead. The problem? She is the hottest chick, the two men have ever seen, and they are having a very difficult time trying to kill her.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 94 min
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Rabbit Fever (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Rabbit is the world's belling-selling vibrator. In the past year alone, millions have been sold all over the globe. Now experts are warning the Rabbit is becoming the new addiction; women who start using often find they simply cannot stop. RABBIT FEVER is the first film to follow the trials and tribulations of a group of Rabbit Addicts as they attempt to kick their Rabbit habit.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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Better Than Andy - The Crazy Finn is Here (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mock -documentary about a Finnish contemporary artist who took the world by a storm.
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Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, independent film
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The Bigfoot Project (2017)
Plot Summary:
A bush-league group of amateur filmmakers spend two weeks in the backwoods of Georgia searching for the mysterious Bigfoot.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, mockumentary, horror spoof
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Undecided: The Movie (2016)
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A camera crew follows two "undecided" voters along the actual campaign trail, and no Presidential candidate - on either side of the aisle - is spared.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 269
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, fake documentary
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Vance and Pepe (2011)
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In this mockumentary special based on characters from "The House of Venus Show", Vance and Pepe, two hosts of a renowned reality makeover series, find out their show has been canceled. Desperate for work, they devise a plan to use their 'fame' to find new careers in the porn industry.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 10
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: parody, mockumentary, queer cinema
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Aislados (2005)
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Adrià arrives at the port of San Antonio in Ibiza. No one has come to collect it. He s searchs "the Frenchman's house" in Santa Agnès, a town in the interior of the island, where Kike expect to spend the weekend. During those days, Adrià will discover something that makes him change his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: minimal cast
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That's Adequate (1989)
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This mockumentary about fictional movie studio Adequate Pictures boasts an interesting cast. Tony Randall hosts, and James CoCo (practically on his deathbed) stars as head of the studio. Includes parodies of everything from silent comedies to porn, including an ultra violent "three stooges" style comedy team who put a new spin on the eye poking gag.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, independent film, spoof, parody, fake documentary
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The Tangalanga Method (2022)
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Shy corporate employee Jorge Rizzi's life takes an uproarious turn when he participates in a hypnosis session that rips off his inhibitions and releases a hilarious alter ego.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 636
Genere: Comedy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: neo screwball comedy
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All My Friends Part 3 (1985)
Plot Summary:
This time the "amici" (friends) are just four: Necchi, Meandri, Mascetti and Sassaroli. Nevertheless they are older they still love to spend their time mainly organizing irresistible jokes to everyone in every kind of situation. Mascetti is hospitalized in a geriatric clinic. Of course the place become immediately the main stage for all their jokes. After some jokes they decided to place an ultimate incredible and farcical joke to the clinic guests.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: hilarious, italian comedy
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Plot Summary:
It’s Holiday Season in Reno, and Lieutenant Dangle wishes he’d never been born. With the help of a roller skating “Angel,” he learns how much better the lives of the other deputies would be if he never existed. Will he decide to live on anyway? There’s still Christmas criminals to catch!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 536
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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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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Polski film (2012)
Plot Summary:
“The fact that I’m playing myself doesn’t mean that it’s me.” Four old schoolmates, today well-known Czech actors (Pavel Liška, Tomáš Matonoha, Josef Polášek and Marek Daniel), decide to make a movie together. Their ambitious colleague Jan Budař takes up directing duties and financing has arrived from Poland. What started out pleasantly enough, however, soon goes awry. Liška’s pronunciation difficulties, Daniel’s alter ego Havlát, and Matonoha’s financial machinations turn the shoot into a fight for survival. More than just a film about friendship and the absurdity of actors’ lives, director Marek Najbrt gives us a witty meditation on reality and illusion, and a unique take on the reality film genre. One of Pavel Liška’s on-set comments (“I didn’t know if I should act as if I were acting, or act as if I weren’t acting, or just not act at all”) illustrates the provocative nature of Najbrt’s subversive, quasi-documentary game.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Comedy
Country: Czech Republic, Poland
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: mockumentary
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The Nugget (2002)
Plot Summary:
'The Nugget' looks at how instant wealth suddenly changes the lives of three working class men - not necessarily for the better, but always with hilarious consequences.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, exciting
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Mulletville (2002)
Plot Summary:
A hipster film student returns to his rural hometown to make a scathing documentary about his former tormentors, focusing on the annual 'kick-ass bash' at his cousin's trailer. He learns the hard way that revenge rarely goes as planned, especially when generic beer and big hair are involved.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, independent film, mockumentary, offbeat, realistic, fake documentary, campy
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The Icelandic Dream (2000)
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Comedy, Sport
Country: Iceland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Making of '...And God Spoke' (1993)
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A documentary on the making of a big budget Bible picture. This is a spoof that shows the inside action on a film set where everything that could possibly go wrong goes wrong.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, spoof, offbeat, humorous, epic, realistic, witty, not serious, biblical, independent film
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Death and Texas (2004)
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 128
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, mockumentary, dark comedy, offbeat, black comedy
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Longtime best friends Sid and Jonesie are dumped by their respective girlfriends. Both without a living situation, they decide to become "bromates", bros who are roommates, which puts their relationship to the ultimate test.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy
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Dumb Criminals: The Movie (2015)
Plot Summary:
Rabbit and Rongo, two dumb but kind-hearted criminals, want to help a young girl get the medical treatment she needs. Inspired by true crimes around the world, they attempt to raise money through a series of dumb plans and hopeless schemes.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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What a Wonderful Family! 2 (2017)
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Several years after Shuzo settled his wife’s birthday-surprise divorce proposal (What a Wonderful Family, 40th), the Hirata family faces new problems. Ignoring his family’s worry that he is too old to drive, Shuzo takes his old schoolmate for a spin after carousing. Soon, a new disturbance arises for the Hirata family. Veteran director Yamada Yoji continues his comedy about the “perfect“ Japanese family turned upside down in chaos, laughters and understanding. This time, with an additional taste of death.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 770
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Forgotten Silver (1995)
Plot Summary:
An epic documentary chronicling the extraordinary, unbelievable life of pioneer Kiwi filmmaker Colin McKenzie. Or is it?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, humorous, witty, offbeat, epic, semi serious, independent film, clever, funny, light
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Brother's Justice (2010)
Plot Summary:
Motivated by Box Office statistics, Dax Shepard has made a decision to leave comedy to pursue his dream of becoming an international Martial Arts action star.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 554
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, not serious, mockumentary, funny, light, feel good, independent film, fun
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Waiting for Guffman (1996)
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Corky St. Clair is a director, actor and dancer in Blaine, Missouri. When it comes time to celebrate Blaine's 150th anniversary, Corky resolves to bring down the house in Broadway style in this hilarious mockumentary from the people who brought you "This is Spinal Tap!".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, funny, parody, independent film, clever, humorous, witty, dark comedy, offbeat, realistic
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Real Life (1979)
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A pushy, narcissistic filmmaker persuades a Phoenix family to let him and his crew film their everyday lives, in the manner of the ground-breaking PBS series "An American Family".
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, funny, satirical, humorous, witty, comedy drama, clever, realistic, not serious, biting
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Everybody Wants Some!! (2016)
Plot Summary:
A comedy that follows a group of friends as they navigate their way through the freedoms and responsibilities of unsupervised adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 58000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: talky, realistic, independent film, stylized, melancholic, witty, humorous, semi serious, teen, romantic
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Beerfest (2006)
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, not serious, realistic, grindhouse, hilarious, sex comedy, teen, parody
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Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 434000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 84 min
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