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Plot Summary:
This Won't Hurt a Bit is a 1993 Australian comedy film about a dentist.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
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Change Me (2007)
Plot Summary:
A story about an ordinary man searching for the fulfillment of dreams and emotions. Well-known Belgrade dentist lives in long and happy marriage. As a fulfilled and happy man, he despises all his friends who are struggling with the "backward puberty syndrome" - as he called sensitive age where men are desperate to stay young. But he has no idea that he will be hit by the "mid-life crisis" and suddenly "strike" love, which, he thought, become immune. In order to overcome the emotional and erotic temptation, it seems everything to be changed, in the true sense of the word.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 438
Genere: Comedy
Country: Serbia
Duration: 90 min
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The Treasure (2015)
Plot Summary:
Costi leads a peaceful life. At night he likes to read his 6-year-old son stories, to help him sleep. Their favourite is Robin Hood. Costi sees himself as the hero - righter of wrongs and defender of the oppressed. One evening, his neighbour pays him an unexpected visit and shares a secret: there's treasure buried in his grandparents' garden, he's sure of it. If Costi will hire a metal detector to help locate it, he'll give him half of whatever they get. Skeptical at first, in the end Costi can't resist. He's on board. The two accomplices have one weekend to locate the loot. Despite every obstacle in their path, Costi refuses to be discouraged. For his wife and son, he's a real hero - nothing and no one are going to stop him.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy
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The Craic (1999)
Plot Summary:
When Fergus and Wesley get in the bad books of a local rough in their home town in Northern Ireland they decide to flee to Australia. After making a new life for themselves in Sydney they soon outstay their visas and must go on the run again, this time from the immigration officials.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: road movie, slang, independent film
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The BBQ (2018)
Plot Summary:
Dazza's passion in life is barbecuing, but unfortunately he accidentally gives his neighbours food poisoning. To make amends, he receives tutelage from a Scottish chef, and together they enter an international barbecue competition.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
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Secrets (2008)
Plot Summary:
After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar (Sergio Hernandez) is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current country, godless, far from the old ideologies and where all his old colleagues have changed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: Chile
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, black comedy, dark comedy
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Got Papers? (2003)
Plot Summary:
Got Papers?, is a comedy about a newly relocated immigrant from Mexico to the US, who encounters a variety of characters, including a drug smuggling nun using an orphanage as a cover, crooked lawyers, well-meaning angels in heaven and Satan himself. Along the way, our unlikely hero saves the world, when all he wants is to help others and get his "papers".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody
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Rabbit Test (1978)
Plot Summary:
Lionel's life turns around after a one-night stand on top of a pinball table... he becomes the world's first pregnant man!.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: mystic, independent film, spoof, parody
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Help!!! (2000)
Plot Summary:
A trio of idealistic young doctors take on a corrupt, ineffective hospital management more interested in saving dollars than lives. Sub-plots crop up in the form of a love triangle, an electrical blackout, and a major car accident.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
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Around the World in Eighty Ways (1987)
Plot Summary:
Mavis Davis has had enough! Younger son Eddie wears headphones all day and almost electrocutes her. Older boy Wally is gay and lives in a huge over-ripe banana. And her husband Roly has grown into a blind, motionless, emotionless vegetable. So pack the bags, Mavis is off on an around the world package trip leaving them all behind. However, when Dad finds out she has been joined by their hated next door neighbour long dead passions begin to stir. Blind, senile old Dad decides to chase his wife around the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Sweet Talker (1991)
Plot Summary:
When scam artist Harry Reynolds gets out of jail, he makes his way to the depressed coastal village of Beachport, where according to local myth, an old Portuguese treasure ship lies buried in the sand. Harry is an old pro at manipulating this situation to his best advantage, but never anticipates how deeply he will be affected by the relationship he develops with a young boy and his mother. A delightful tale of greed, gullibility and grandiose schemes, "Sweet Talker" is a romantic comedy for everyone in the family.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sweet
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Young Nurses in Love (1987)
Plot Summary:
Russian agents raid an American sperm bank in order to get the sperm of geniuses Thomas Edison and Albert Einstein to take back to Russia with them.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy, spoof, parody
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If I Were a Rich Man (2002)
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Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share the bonanza, he keeps mum about it, all the more as he finds out Alice has an affair with Gérard, Aldo's former friend and ... new boss. However, Aldo, leading a double life, starts spending his money.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Take Her, She's Mine (1963)
Plot Summary:
Frank Michaelson, well respected President of the Pacific Pallisades Board of Education, is appearing in front of a Board hearing addressing the issue of the widespread public outcry asking for either his dismissal or resignation because of a series of salacious front page newspaper stories, complete with photographs, on his recent goings-on. In addressing these unsubstantiated charges, Frank attributes all the incidents on his eldest daughter, Mollie Michaelson, now just shy of her twentieth birthday, no longer being the sweet child he had always pictured her as, but now rather a desirable young woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Alvin Rides Again (1974)
Plot Summary:
Alvin Purple, a man who can't hold down a job because of his voracious sexual appetite, impersonates a dead American Gangster.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 231
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Too Much (1987)
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When Suzie and her parents take a visit to Japan her father's business partner, an inventor called Tetsuro decides to make Suzie a robot. The robot's name is 'Too Much' (or TM for short) and he and Suzie become the best of friends. But when the day comes for Suzie to return home she finds she's not allowed to take TM with her, so they run away together. However, they must watch out for a rival inventor of Tetsuro's is looking for them so that he can examine TM's programming. Will TM and Suzie manage to escape from his clutches and prove that love conquers all?.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Life Doesn't Scare Me (1999)
Plot Summary:
We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 277
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Reckless Kelly (1993)
Plot Summary:
A satirical take on a modern day Ned Kelly who is forced to Hollywood in order to make enough money to save his family's land. As it goes against his belief, he cannot simply rob banks for his own benefit (all money goes to the poor). Ned is forced to find another way to come up with the $1 million required to save his family island.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, slapstick, neo screwball comedy
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My Entire Life (1996)
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All Wally Mellish, an ex-convict in 1960s Australia, wants to do is live a quiet life with his girlfriend Beryl. Unfortunately when two police officers come around to disturb this, a misunderstanding quickly becomes out of control, resulting Wally, Beryl and her child being trapped in their house, surrounded by armed police under the impression that Wally is holding everyone hostage. Events quickly spiral into a media circus as, through the siege, Wally - inadvertently - manages to become a symbol for the anti-war movement.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Kath & Kimderella (2012)
Plot Summary:
Fountain Lakes' foxy ladies who turn more than just heads when they go on an overseas trip and end up being the centre of their very own fairytale.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, captivating, realistic, weird
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The Shrimp on the Barbie (1990)
Plot Summary:
Carlos has failed in show-biz and currently works as a waiter in a Mexican restaurant. There he meets Alex and dumb footballer Bruce celebrating their engagement with her parents. Alex' father is less than thrilled of her fiancée and says he'd rather accept anybody else. Eventually Alex hires Carlos to present him as her new fiancée.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, erotic, funny, romantic, road movie, sexy, clever
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Night Nurse (1979)
Plot Summary:
A dentist invites a elderly patient to stay at his home to recover, unaware that he is a jewel thief. He plans to steal a valuable diamond but then runs into a beautiful nurse who, aside from constantly stripping nude, has plans of her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sex comedy
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Paramedics (1988)
Plot Summary:
Two paramedics are transferred to the nasty part of the city where a gang is killing people to sell their organs.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, independent film, exciting, parody, offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, black comedy
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Salut cousin ! (1996)
Plot Summary:
Alilo arrives in Paris, met by his hip cousin Mok. Alilo is to pick up a suitcase of dresses to smuggle back to Algiers for resale. He's lost the dressmaker's address and his boss is gone for five days, so he stays in the Moskova neighborhood of the 18th arrondissement with Mok. Mok makes rap music of Jean de La Fontaine's fables, invents fabrications of his own, is in debt to his bookie, and in love with a punk rocker. Alilo's old-country sweetness, in contrast with Mok's big-city neuroses, gets the attention of Fatoumata, a lovely African neighbor. Once Alilo gets the dresses, he must return to Algiers, but it seems he's only started to live: is there any way he can stay?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Algeria, Belgium, Luxembourg
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Houseguest (1995)
Plot Summary:
In hot water with the mob over an unpaid debt, a con man poses as a family friend in an affluent Pennsylvania suburb.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, black comedy, realistic, witty, semi serious, scary, funny, light, clever, feel good
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Young, Beautiful and Screwed Up (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young boy from the south of France falls madly in love with a posh Parisian girl and follows her for crazy adventures to the big city.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Germany, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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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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What's New Pussycat (1965)
Plot Summary:
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, France
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, sex comedy, esoteric, feel good, realistic, semi serious, slapstick comedy, romantic comedy, erotic
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The Wog Boy (2000)
Plot Summary:
Steve liked Celia from the moment they met. But following a clash with her boss, Raelene Beagle-Thorpe, Minister for Employment, he finds himself on national television branded as Australia's biggest dole bludger. Now Steve has to prove to Celia, to himself, and to the whole country, that there's more to him than meets the eye. With a little help from his friends, he might just do it.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, semi serious, independent film, offbeat, slang, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Rage in Placid Lake (2003)
Plot Summary:
Placid Lake has always been different. As an odd fish in a sea of mediocrity, his brilliant ideas are bound to get him into more trouble than success. So when he finds himself flying off the school roof and breaking every bone in his body on graduation night, Placid decides to make a bid for the elusive normal life. To his parents' horror, he gets a normal job.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, cult classic, hilarious, offbeat, realistic