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Plot Summary:
A lot of confusion and mixed situations between relatives in the middle of Mamá Cora's wake, the grandma, who supposely commit suicide throwing herself in front of a train.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: hispanic, parody, cult classic, black comedy, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, crying, dark comedy
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I don't owe a 100 times (1990)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about a young girl who gets pregnant on a traditional Argentinean family.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Comedy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Coopers' Camera (2008)
Plot Summary:
Using a professional grade video camera, a dysfunctional family records their Christmas Day in 1985, which descends into total chaos.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 645
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, funny, light, offbeat, realistic, cynical, not serious
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At Home with the Rozes (2003)
Plot Summary:
Two ex-convicts, MG and Gilbert find refuge in a charming middle-class house whose couple is about to celebrate its 20-year old marriage. Our duo has no other solution than to take this entire brood in hostage. But, contrary to all expectations, they are warmly greeted by the occupants who don't think twice before helping them, they are even ready to put their guests off, even to kill them if necessary.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, hilarious, realistic, dark comedy
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The Funeral (1984)
Plot Summary:
At the beginning of the film the father-in-law of the protagonist dies unexpectedly of a heart attack. The remainder of the film is episodic, moving from one incident to another over the course of the three-day funeral, which is held (as is customary) in the home. These incidents contrast old ways and new ways, young and old, ritual ceremony and true feelings, often comically, but sometimes with real poignancy.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: art house, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Tony n' Tina's Wedding (2004)
Plot Summary:
Tony and Tina are excited to get married but they dread having the ceremony. Tina's mother and Tony's father used to be an item and neither parent has gotten over their bitter breakup. As everyone comes together to help plan the event, the parents cannot stop bickering and they are constantly at each other's throat. Adding to their woes are an eccentric photographer, a stubborn priest, unhappy bridesmaids and hung over groomsmen.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious, independent film
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Where's Poppa? (1970)
Plot Summary:
When New York attorney Gordon Hocheiser meets Louise Callan, the girl of his dreams, he schemes to eliminate his aging, senile mother, even though he promised his late father that he'd always take care of her. He fears that his batty mom's eccentricities will shortly lead to Louise's departure.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, funny, clever, humorous, surreal, offbeat, realistic, witty, cynical
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Siblings (2004)
Plot Summary:
Joe (Alex Campbell) and his siblings have a couple of problems. First off, their stepparents are despicably evil. Secondly, they seemed to have killed them. Now this mixed up mess of half-sisters and step-brothers have to figure out how to dispose of the bodies, cover up the murders, collect their grandfather's inheritance and somehow stick together as a family -- all without getting caught. Not to mention Joe's incessant need to keep tabs on his promiscuous sister, an eye on the precocious little ones and a lustful watch on the girl next-door. Growing up has its complications. Murder's just one of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, dark comedy, erotic, offbeat, independent film, black comedy
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Frankie and Johnny Are Married (2003)
Plot Summary:
Television director/producer Michael Pressman mounts a production of Frankie and Johnny in the Clare de Lune starring his wife, Lisa Chess. But their attempts to stage the play and work on their marriage keep running afoul, and everything's threatened by their difficult male lead, Alan Rosenberg. Michael's best hope, as a husband and producer, is to step into the character that Alan has abandoned.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, talky, realistic, independent film
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Polyester (1981)
Plot Summary:
A suburban housewife's world falls apart when her pornographer husband admits he's serially unfaithful to her, her daughter gets pregnant, and her son is suspected of being the foot-fetishist who's been breaking local women's feet.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, disturbing, controversial, cult classic, independent film, black comedy, humorous, witty, biting, surreal
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Masquerades (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mounir Mekbek lives with his family in a small village in the heart of the Algerian countryside. Very proud and sure of himself, he has only one dream- to finally be appreciated by his fellow villagers. Screwing up his carefully maintained image is his headstrong, narcoleptic sister Rym who falls asleep anywhere and whom the village is convinced will end up a spinster. One evening, Mounir returns from town drunk and announces that he's found a suitor for his sister. The fake story snowballs and snowballs until the suitor morphs into a rich, blonde Australian. The village begins preparing for the wedding in earnest - but without a bridegroom in sight.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Comedy
Country: Algeria, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, humorous, realistic, offbeat, contemplative
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Checking Out (2005)
Plot Summary:
A famed stage actor reunites his family for a party, and plans to commit suicide after-wards, unless they are able to convince him not to.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, sincere, spoof, offbeat, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, parody
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Mad Sad & Bad (2009)
Plot Summary:
HARDEEP, RASHMI and ATUL are brothers and sisters. Which means they can say anything they like to each other, no matter how honest. Mad, Sad and Bad is a 90-minute comedy about mixed race relationships set in Luton. It's about mid-thirties siblings and friends whose personal lives are continuously messed up by their own selfish needs. Mad, Sad and Bad explores our contemporary metropolitan neuroses through the intersecting lives of these siblings and their friends. The narrative slips from one character to the next as they escape and attack each other. all reluctant members of the same dysfunctional family. Written by Ed Barratt.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, multicultural, sexual
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Consuming Passions (1988)
Plot Summary:
Adapted from a play written by two Monty Python vets, this toothy satire launches with a tragic accident at Chumley's chocolate factory when hapless manager Ian Littleton (Tyler Butterworth) accidentally knocks several employees into a huge chocolate vat. The tragic mishap at the chocolate factory results in candy lovers getting an unexpected 'extra' in their sweets.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, biting, black comedy, horror comedy
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But Forever in My Mind (1999)
Plot Summary:
Silvio (Silvio Muccino, the director's younger brother) has no interest in the student rebellion taking place at his high school. His fascination lies with Valentina (Giulia Carmignani), the prettiest girl in the school. However, Valentina already has a jealous boyfriend, Martino (Simone Pagani). After Silvio finally has a moment alone with Valentina (where they share a kiss), he makes the mistake of telling his gossipy best friend, Ponzi (Giuseppe Sanfelice). By the end of the day the entire school knows about the kiss, including a very angry Martino.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious, crying
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Trophy Wife (2010)
Plot Summary:
A housewife takes over her husband's umbrella business after his illness.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, funny, unusual plot structure, visually appealing, semi serious, clever, witty, stylized, political, period piece
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Comic Book Villains (2002)
Plot Summary:
When word hits the street that a nearby elderly gentleman has a cache of old, rare, and very valuable mint condition comic books, rival comic book shop owners Raymond McGillicuddy (Donal Logue) and Norman Link (Michael Rapaport) both set out to be the first to buy them. But when the old man declines to sell, the former friends turn into enemies, and a friendly rivalry becomes tainted with greed and turns to murder.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, stylized, dark comedy, cynical, clever, entertaining, black comedy, anime, offbeat, realistic
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Lovers and Other Strangers (1970)
Plot Summary:
Mike Vecchio and Susan Henderson are preparing for their upcoming wedding. However, they seem to be the only two people at the wedding that are happy. Mike's brother Richie and his wife Joan are going through a divorce, which is upsetting his overly devout Catholic mother Beatrice. Also, Susan's father is carrying on an affair and her sex starved older sister Wilma is going through her troubles with her husband Johnny. All this is going on while Mike's best friend Jerry is trying to bed the maid of honor, Susan's cousin Brenda.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: funny, independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, talky
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Madhouse (1990)
Plot Summary:
The luxurious villa of Mark and Jessie Bannister, a yuppie couple, is overrun by loads of uninvited guests who turn the house up side down.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, melancholic, semi serious, realistic, black comedy, independent film, psychological, funny, romantic, road movie
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The Big Bad Wolf (2013)
Plot Summary:
Once upon a time in 2012, three brothers lived happily. One day their mom fell into a coma. So Henri, Philippe, and Louis suddenly started wondering about the meaning of their lives and were swamped by a wave of existential doubts. An entirely new situation for this bourgeois trio in their forties, one which opened a door to the novel and indeed the forbidden... and to the big bad wolf!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 905
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, feel good, sex comedy
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Daddy's Dyin'... Who's Got the Will? (1990)
Plot Summary:
Bickering siblings are reunited at their Texas home as their father lies on his deathbed in this black comedy.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, independent film, cynical, biting, suspense
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Death at a Funeral (2007)
Plot Summary:
Chaos ensues when a man tries to expose a dark secret regarding a recently deceased patriarch of a dysfunctional British family.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 120000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Germany, UK, Netherlands
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, humorous, black comedy, slapstick, tragicomedy, funny, light, absurd, not serious, clever
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Flirting with Disaster (1996)
Plot Summary:
Adopted as a child, new father Mel Colpin (Ben Stiller) decides he cannot name his son until he knows his birth parents, and determines to make a cross-country quest to find them. Accompanied by his wife, Nancy (Patricia Arquette), and an inept yet gorgeous adoption agent, Tina (Tea Leoni), he departs on an epic road trip that quickly devolves into a farce of mistaken identities, wrong turns, and overzealous and love-struck ATF agents (Josh Brolin, Richard Jenkins).
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie, black comedy, witty, funny, light, talky, not serious, independent film, humorous, dark comedy
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With a Little Help from Myself (2008)
Plot Summary:
Besieged matriarch Sonia tries to make certain her daughter's nuptials come off flawlessly even as events spiral out of control is in this dark comedy helmed by François Dupeyron. With Sonia's wayward eldest son under arrest on drug charges, she then discovers that her no-account hubby has gambled away the money set aside for the reception. Will Sonia and her family triumph or crumble in the face of adversity?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, cynical, semi serious, gloomy, biting, suspense
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Breakfast of Champions (1999)
Plot Summary:
A portrait of a fictional town in the mid west that is home to a group of idiosyncratic and slightly neurotic characters. Dwayne Hoover is a wealthy car dealer-ship owner that's on the brink of suicide and is losing touch with reality.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, talky, black comedy, dark comedy, tragicomedy, humorous, witty, cult classic, intense, independent film
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Die, Mommie, Die! (2003)
Plot Summary:
You slipped into my life as easily as vermouth into a glass of gin, purrs reclusive singing star Angela Arden. Arden is not only haunted by a secret, she's treated like dirt by her louse of a husband, her snoopy maid, and her petulant daughter. Only her mentally defective son and a well-endowed gigolo treat her with love and affection. Is it any wonder she takes drastic action to improve her life?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, melancholic, satirical, light, parody, funny, captivating, spoof, slasher
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Sibling Rivalry (1990)
Plot Summary:
Marjorie Turner is suffocating. Her younger sister Jeanine has no ambition, and her 8 year marriage to Harry puts her in constant competition with his family (all doctors).
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, sexy, entertaining, black comedy, cynical, dark comedy, realistic, not serious, independent film, exciting
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Tyler Perry's Aunt Bam's Place - The Play (2012)
Plot Summary:
One weekend, Aunt Bam's nephew-in-law Stewart is granted a court-ordered visitation with his children. Although his new, much-younger wife Mona is a bundle of nerves, Stewart seizes the opportunity to reconnect with his children, whom he loves dearly. Then their mother, his ex-wife Gloria, shows up drunk. It will take Madea's partner-in-crime, Bam, to tame this situation and set a few things straight.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, emotional, realistic, independent film
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Hotel Splendide (2000)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of the Blanche family who run a dark and dismal health resort on a remote island which is only accessible by ferry. The spa program consists of feeding the guests seaweed and eel-based meals, then administering liberal colonic irrigation. The spa is run by the family matriarch Dame Blanche until her death. Things continue on with her children running the resort until Kath, the resort's former sous chef and love interest of one of the sons, comes back to the island unannounced. Stranded between monthly ferries, she is a catalyst for a series of events that turns life as it is known at Hotel Splendide on its ear.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, offbeat, captivating, entertaining, culinary, surreal, independent film, realistic, black comedy
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Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
Plot Summary:
Larry Abbot, speaker in the radio horror shows of Manhattan Mystery Theater wants to marry. For the marriage he takes his fiancée home to the castle where he grew up among his eccentric relatives. His uncle decides that he needs to be cured from a neurotic speech defect and exaggerated bursts of fear: he gives him a shock therapy with palace ghosts.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, funny, melancholic, absurd, not serious, slapstick, scary, horror comedy, spooky
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She-Devil (1989)
Plot Summary:
A cunning and resourceful housewife vows revenge on her husband when he begins an affair with a wealthy romance novelist.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: black comedy, funny, dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, light, retro, mysterious, aesthetic