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Plot Summary:
The uniquely Australian underwear invention of the Berlei Bra and under corsetry of the time is lovingly and lavishly depicted in David Elfick's lush and amusing production.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anamorphic
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Mixed by Erry (2023)
Plot Summary:
The rise and fall of the pirate mixtape empire of three brothers from Naples, Italy, during the '80s.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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North Korean Guys (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two friends accidentally drift from North Korea into South Korea after falling asleep during a fishing trip. Broke and unable to get home, they enter a singing contest whose grand prize is a trip to North Korea!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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The Life of Harry Dare (1995)
Plot Summary:
Harry Dare is a shambolic Adelaide private investigator. He’s still not certain why he’s in the business; perhaps to understand his father’s disappearance, 20 years earlier? But now Harry’s got a real case: who stole his father’s old Kombi van, nicked (oddly) just after Harry finished restoring it?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: 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
Plot tags:
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Dave Chappelle: What's in a Name? (2022)
Plot Summary:
Dave Chappelle delivers a speech at his prestigious alma mater that reflects on his comedy roots, his rise to fame and why artists should never behave.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: USA
Duration: 39 min
Plot tags:
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It Was Beyond the Narva Gate (1981)
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Comedy, History, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: period piece
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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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Tales from the Golden Age (2009)
Plot Summary:
Tales from the Golden Age is composed of 5 unconventional short stories, each one dealing with the late communist period in Romania, told through its urban myths from the perspective of ordinary people. The title of the film refers to the alluded "Golden Age" of the last 15 years of Ceauşescu's regime.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, anthology, offbeat, gloomy
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Comic Relief: Uptown Downstairs Abbey (2011)
Plot Summary:
A parody of the hit television show, Downton Abbey, following the lives of the upper class and their servants.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: UK
Duration:
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Stork (1971)
Plot Summary:
Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his way through life, bungling job interviews, upsetting ‘respectable’ people, and getting drunk. The only girl in the house, Anna resists Stork’s advances, because she’s already involved with the other two resident males, Tony and Clyde. But when she becomes pregnant and Clyde and Anna decide to marry, Stork, Tony, Clyde and Westy are shocked when they realize that either one of the foursome could be the father. Then the fun begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, slapstick, cult film
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The Picture Show Man (1977)
Plot Summary:
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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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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This Won't Hurt a Bit (1993)
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
Plot tags:
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The Dumbfounded King (1991)
Plot Summary:
Spain, under Philip IV (1621-1665). The film is based on a novel by Gonzalo Torrente Ballester. The King (Gabino Diego) is stunned to see the naked body of Marfisa (Laura del Sol), the most beautiful prostitute of the town and Court. After that, he also wants to see the Queen (Anne Roussel) naked. However, the King, despite the opposition and the scandal of the Church, will not stop until he reaches his wishes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 856
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Spain, France, Portugal
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: manga, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy, masterpiece
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Agamenon: The Film (2012)
Plot Summary:
The trajectory of the clumsy reporter Agamenon Mendes Pereira, always present in key events of history, his biggest scoops and his eternal love for Isaura, who survives his unexpected travels around the world, in search of news and fame.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Brazil
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, mockumentary, fake documentary
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True Story with Hamish & Andy (2017)
Plot Summary:
In each half-hour episode Hamish and Andy meet one regular Australian who tells them an amazing, true story from their life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 200
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration:
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The Vocational Masseur (1981)
Plot Summary:
A soccer player is injured and decides to recuperate at a secluded villa accompanied by a sexy masseuse.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 59
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sex comedy
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The Cat Samurai Goes to Southern Island (2015)
Plot Summary:
The Edo period. Once a famous swordsman, Kyutaro Madarame, aka “Madara the Devil,” is now a masterless samurai. When a white cat called Tamanojo appears before Kyutaro, the encounter changes him forever. Starring Kazuki Kitamura. This offbeat tale of samurai spirit and adorable animal antics returns to the screen on a breathtaking scale!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, dorama
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Up Pompeii (1971)
Plot Summary:
A funny thing happens to Lurcio (Frankie Howerd) on the way to the rent-a-vestal-virgin market stall. A mysterious scroll falls into his hands, listing the names of all the conspirators plotting to murder Emperor Nero. And when the upstart slave is elected to infiltrate the ringleader's den, the comical ups-and-downs lead to total uproar.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Outlaw Michael Howe (2013)
Plot Summary:
1814. Van Diemen’s Land, the notorious British penal colony, has dissolved into chaos. Outlaws roaming the wilderness have pushed the colonial government to breaking point. Driven by a deep sense of loyalty and an unquenchable hatred towards those he once served, English convict Michael Howe and a young aboriginal girl turn a desperate band of convicts, deserters and bushmen into a fearsome guerrilla army and lead them in open rebellion against the brutal, corrupt establishment. As the British hunt the outlaws, Howe remains an elusive prize. In desperation, the Governor makes the capture of Howe’s pregnant girl his priority. An epic story of love and betrayal, The Outlaw Michael Howe chronicles the astonishing true story of the man who pushed Australia to the brink of civil war.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 135
Genere: History
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Ginger Meggs (1982)
Plot Summary:
Ginger Meggs (Paul Daniel) is a young "Dennis the Menace" who first appeared in Australian comic strips in 1921. In this film meant for the pre-teen set, Ginger is constantly getting himself in trouble in spite of his good intentions -- at the same time, he prevaricates, he disobeys his teachers and parents, he skips school, or while in school, fights it out with the bullies -- all activities that are bound to capture the attention of children who can vicariously enjoy the forbidden behavior.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Longwave (2013)
Plot Summary:
It is April 1974 and Julie Dujonc-Renens, young feminist journalist and the cunning Joseph-Marie Cauvin, leading reporter for the Swiss radio, have been sent to Portugal to investigate Switzerland’s aid to poor countries. Sparks fly during the bus trip with Bob, sound engineer approaching retirement. The projects financed by Switzerland prove to be calamitous and the workers’ revolution that suddenly breaks out doesn’t help, obliging our heroes to disregard first the radio’s management, and then their own codes of conduct.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 621
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Switzerland, France, Portugal
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, witty, semi serious, realistic
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Frances Ferguson (2019)
Plot Summary:
Frances Ferguson, the eponymous character at the center of Bob Byington’s new film, is discontent. Like a lot of us, she does a bit of “acting out” and pays the price —an arrest, a trial, incarceration. And then a new identity, one that’s not terribly comfortable. Nick Offerman narrates this deviant comedy, based on actual events.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: weird
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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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I Love You Too (2010)
Plot Summary:
Written by comedian Peter Helliar, I LOVE YOU TOO stars Brendan Cowell as Jim, a 30-something emotionally stunted man whose inability to declare his love to his girlfriend, Alice, threatens to cost him the best thing he ever had but leads him to befriend a talented dwarf who helps him find the words to get her back.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, touching, offbeat, realistic, talky, weird
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Wild Nights with Emily (2018)
Plot Summary:
Explore Emily Dickinson's vivacious, irreverent side that was covered up for years — most notably her lifelong romantic relationship with another woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: period piece, costume drama, historical drama, independent film, queer cinema
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Elvis & Nixon (2016)
Plot Summary:
In 1970, a few days before Christmas, Elvis Presley showed up on the White House lawn seeking to be deputized into the Bureau of Narcotics and Dangerous Drugs by the President himself.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, History
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, factual, light, tricky, captivating, realistic, serious, funny, surreal, art house
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Babylon (2022)
Plot Summary:
A tale of outsized ambition and outrageous excess, tracing the rise and fall of multiple characters in an era of unbridled decadence and depravity during Hollywood's transition from silent films and to sound films in the late 1920s.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 155000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 189 min
Plot tags: visual, costume drama, meta, family comedy, comedy drama, crying, postmodern, masterpiece, period drama
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Hating Alison Ashley (2005)
Plot Summary:
Classmates Erica Yurgen and Alison Ashley vie with each other to become the undisputed star of their class.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Dish (2000)
Plot Summary:
The true story of how the Parkes Radio Telescope was used to relay the live television of man's first steps on the moon, during the Apollo 11 mission in 1969.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, suspense, factual, funny, witty, independent film, realistic, semi serious