Best movies like Throw Out the Anchor
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Plot Summary:
A comedy about an unemployed widower who heads to Florida with his children for a vacation on a houseboat. When he gets there there is no houseboat.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Tracy Morgan: Staying Alive (2017)
Plot Summary:
In his first special since his serious car accident, Tracy Morgan cracks jokes about life in a coma, his second marriage and his family's dark side.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, realistic
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Snapshot Around the Family Table (1980)
Plot Summary:
The exploits of an odd adulterous couple.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Hook, Line And Sinker (1969)
Plot Summary:
Told he is terminally ill, an insurance executive (Jerry Lewis) goes on a credit-card spending spree--and then learns his medical diagnosis was a mistake. This 1969 comedy, directed by George Marshall, also stars Anne Francis, Peter Lawford and Kathleen Freeman.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Spies, Lies & Naked Thighs (1988)
Plot Summary:
In this spoof of spy films, Alan, a U.N. translator, and his kindergarten teacher wife, Beverly, get roped into helping foil a presidential assassination plot by an unlikely G-man-who just so happens to look like Alan's old college buddy, Freddie. But before "Freddie" can finger the real hired-gun-a cold-hearted killer with a penchant for using kitchen tools to do the deed-he, Alan, and Beverly must first rule out some strange and unusual suspects.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 257
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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The Fat Spy (1966)
Plot Summary:
A mostly-deserted island, which is believed to be the home to the fountain of youth, is off the coast of Florida. The island gets some visitors in the form of a teenage boy band, "the Wild Ones", and their gang of swimsuit-clad young people, who head there in a crowded powerboat ostensibly for a scavenger hunt. However, they spend about half their screen time crooning to each other, or dancing on the beach. The island's owner, Wellington recruits his blonde daughter, Junior , to remove the teenagers from the island. Junior is eager to see her love interest, rotund toupee-wearing botanist Irving . However, Irving is more interested in flowers and his bicycle than in the amorous Junior. Wellington asks Irving to spy on the teenagers, which he does by donning a sweatshirt that reads "Fink University", and "getting their trust" by joining them in dancing the Turtle.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 577
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, psychotronic, independent film
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Better Living (1998)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about families, the elements that bind them together, and about hope in the face of hardship.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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So There (1997)
Plot Summary:
A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a truck, a trucker's dream. The father, practical joker, and larger-than-life lover, keeps a watchful eye. The children are his accomplices. One is his heroine. His daughter is his other heroine. A puzzle of life's desires in which all veers into the imaginary, into dreams of far-off lands.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Demandez la permission aux enfants ! (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious
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I'll Take Sweden (1965)
Plot Summary:
Bob Holcomb will do anything to stop his daughter JoJo from tying the knot with her lazy boyfriend, even move her all the way to Sweden! But once they're "safely" out of the country, JoJo falls for a sly Swedish playboy.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Guardian Angel (1996)
Plot Summary:
Madrid, 1981. Jorge has just arrived in Madrid to live in beautiful large house with his brother, mother, grandmother Obdulia, a wealthy woman who is somewhat deaf, and his grandfather, an aged and senile octogenarian.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Never Too Late (1965)
Plot Summary:
A 60-year-old lumber supply businessman is dismayed to learn his 50-year-old wife is pregnant. A film adaptation of the hit Broadway comedy, with Paul Ford repeating his stage role as the flabbergasted papa-to-be.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 538
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film
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Hooch (1977)
Plot Summary:
Hooch is an inexpensive regional exploitation action-comedy (hicksploitation) about a small county in the Appalachians and its many moonshine-brewing inhabitants, who are all struggling to make a living. The older "brewers" are pissed off at the success of handsome young upstart Eddie Joe, who is charmingly stealing their regular customers. Meanwhile, the owner of the country store (also a moonshiner) conspires with a trio of carpetbagging Mafioso who want to take over the moonshine business in that county as an extension of their Northern business ventures.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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The Return of the Beverly Hillbillies (1981)
Plot Summary:
Jed Clamplett and his backwoods family help solve an energy crisis in their own rustic ways for their Beverly Hills neighborhood they still cannot adjust to.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Kisses for My President (1964)
Plot Summary:
When the women of America join together on election day and elect a Leslie McCloud as the US President, things get a little awkward. Especially for her husband Thad McCloud. He, as First Husband, must take over the job as The First Lady, in the women's groups and garden parties.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 683
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: retro, political, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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How Sweet It Is! (1968)
Plot Summary:
All-American couple who try to bridge the generation gap with their free-spirited son on a trip, frisky business and misunderstandings galore ensue, all funny, vibrant and charming.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, retro, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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India Sweets and Spices (2021)
Plot Summary:
A college freshman confronts her parents’ values in order to understand her own evolving identity.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 807
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining
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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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Outing Riley (2004)
Plot Summary:
Bobby is a gay man in the closet in 2003, afraid to come out to his three older brothers, even though he's at least 30 and is being pressed by his sister, his boyfriend, and his lesbian beard to tell the lads. The death of his father and a fishing trip with his brothers provide occasions when he could tell them, but he fails. When he screws his courage to the sticking point, how will they react, and how will he deal with their reactions? He imagines a movie of his rather boring life - surrounded by possibilities - but can anything overcome the insular narrow-mindedness of a big Irish Catholic family in Chicago?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 814
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, feel good, captivating, funny, light, entertaining, crying, freeze frame
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Five on the Black Hand Side (1973)
Plot Summary:
Leonard Jackson plays a barber who is also the domineering head of a middle-class African American family. Jackson is forced to rethink his values when his previously docile wife (Clarice Taylor) joins their three children in rebelling against her husband's retrogressive behavior.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 476
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Mom's Day Away (2014)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated stay-at-home mom takes a weekend away when her family ignores her over Mother's Day.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 535
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Soggy Bottom, U.S.A. (1981)
Plot Summary:
In a small Southern town, the local sheriff tries to keep everything peaceful and under control.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The First Star (2009)
Plot Summary:
A married father of three, lives in Créteil doing odd jobs and spends his time at the local PMU bar. One day, to please his daughter, he promises a little too quick to take the whole family on vacation to ski. The only problem: if he breaks his promise, his wife will divorce him.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Christmas In Palm Springs (2014)
Plot Summary:
Jessica has a big presentation in Palm Springs. There are a couple of problems though: her two kids who will do anything to get mom and dad back together again - even if they have to hack mom's phone or pose as a secretary to make sure dad's in Palm Springs too. And father Joe who'll do anything to charm his way back into Jessica's life.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 486
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: family comedy, christmas comedy
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Greedy (1994)
Plot Summary:
Meet the McTeagues. They've come to stake a claim in their wealthy uncle's will… only he's not dead yet!.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, humorous, witty, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, twisted, light hearted, clever
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Shy of Normal: Tales of New Life Experiences (2011)
Plot Summary:
An author (Brinke Stevens) cures her struggle with writer's block by making up funny short stories about random people she sees in public.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, independent film, cult film
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Sunkist Family (2019)
Plot Summary:
Joon-Ho (Park Hee-Soon) and Yoo-Mi (Jin Kyung) have been married for 20 years and they are still madly love in with each other. The couple have three children: first son Chul-Won (Jang Sung-Bum), first daughter Kyung-Joo (Yoon Bo-Ra) and youngest daughter Jin-Hae (Lee Go-Eun). The parents have difficulty having sex at night, because their youngest daughter Jin-Hae keeps going into their bedroom. One day, Joon-Ho’s female friend Mi-Hee (Hwang Woo Seul Hye) moves in next door to them. Mi-Hee is a beautiful woman and Yoo-Mi misunderstands the relationship between her husband and Mi-Hee.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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One Hot Summer (2009)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful Cuban-American lawyer is caught in the greatest dilemma of her life stay with Ariel, her Cuban-American husband who is eager to start a family at any cost or reignite a past love with Luther, the romance of her life who unexpectedly returns to try and capture her heart once again. Set against the backdrop of one hot summer in the sultry city of Miami, this romantic comedy examines the lives and loves of Margarita Santos, a contemporary woman and her two best friends (Anabel and Viviana) as they straddle two cultures to navigate through the dilemmas they face to find love and happiness once again.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Passed Away (1992)
Plot Summary:
A bunch of eccentric relatives gather for their patriarch's funeral.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Summer Rental (1985)
Plot Summary:
Jack Chester, an overworked air traffic controller, takes his family on vacation to the beach. Things immediately start to go wrong for the Chesters, and steadily get worse. Jack ends up in a feud with a local yachtsman, and has to race him to regain his pride and family's respect.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, funny, light, road movie, intense, scenic, colorful, realistic, semi serious
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Rob Schneider: Asian Momma, Mexican Kids (2020)
Plot Summary:
Former "Saturday Night Live" star Rob Schneider returns to the stage and shares his take on life, love and dinosaur dreams in this stand-up special. Ending with a surprise duet performance with his daughter, singer-songwriter Elle King, Rob talks about potty training his young daughters and his own pig potential.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 874
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, humorous, captivating