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Plot Summary:
A writer attempts to raise some cash by writing a book about the Loch Ness Monster. No publisher will take it because they all think there isn't really a monster. The writer and some of his friends make a fake monster and take photographs and then travel to Scotland to see if they can convince the locals.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: black and white, independent film
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Scottish Mussel (2015)
Plot Summary:
Ritchie is a Glaswegian chancer with low hopes and no prospects. Disillusioned with city life, he goes undercover at a Highland conservation centre to make his fortune as an illegal pearl fisher with the help of his two hapless and accident prone mates, Danny and Fraser. Here he meets Beth, a pretty English conservationist passionate about saving endangered mussels from the clutches of pearl thieves in the Scottish Highlands. Falling for her instantly, Ritchie must beat off competition in the form of Highland Ranger Ethan, a smooth talking American Adonis convinced that Beth can't resist his charms forever. After the success of pearl fishing attracts the unwanted attentions of old school Glaswegian mobster Gavin and his work at the centre leads him to question his true motivations, Ritchie must risk life and limb to save the Highlands from ecological disaster and win Beth's heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 809
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, psychological, feel good, contemplative, independent film
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Fast Romance (2011)
Plot Summary:
The interweaving stories of seven very different people in the cosmopolitan city of Glasgow who decide that, in their pursuit of love, it is time to try something new. Little do they know that after one night of speed dating their lives will take dramatic new twists - and we'll be there to witness each and every one of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags:
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Numbskull Emptybrook (1973)
Plot Summary:
Uuno goes with his wife to spend summer holiday to their villa in country, studies playing of the violin in a correspondence course and constructs an own violin with do-it-yourself-method, but quits his career when he perceives that takes his free time too much and comes back to live the life "in the shadow of a fridge". In the start scene of film a priest (Ere Kokkonen as voice) says in the Uuno's weddings that his complete name is Uuno Eero Turhapuro, whereas it's in the all later Uuno-films Uuno Daavid Goljat Turhapuro.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: black and white
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Carry on Regardless (1961)
Plot Summary:
It's non stop romps as the Carry On team deliver the goods in one of the rudest and funniest of the Carry On films. The cast are all on top form as a bunch of no-hoppers who join an agency in the search for a job. The anarchy mounts as they do a series of odd jobs, including a chimps tea party, trying to stay sober at a wine tasting and demolishing a house.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, spoof, sketch comedy, independent film, parody, campy
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The Girl in the Picture (1985)
Plot Summary:
Alan and Mary are pretty miserable together and split up. As an very presentable Glaswegian photographer Alan soon has chances to find consolation elsewhere, but more and more thinks of Mary. She however seems a lot less keen to try again.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Vixen (1969)
Plot Summary:
Clara becomes a secretary who must cater to all the desires of the womanizing writer Jérôme, while he tries to write his memoirs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 449
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy
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The Hater (2022)
Plot Summary:
After losing her job on a U.S. Senate campaign, a liberal environmentalist returns to her conservative Texas hometown to regroup. Upon learning her childhood nemesis is running for state legislature, she creates an elaborate scheme to go undercover as his opponent on the Republican ticket with the ultimate goal of forcing a Democratic victory.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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The Women's Club (1987)
Plot Summary:
Patrick is a struggling screenwriter who takes a second job as a male prostitute. He is supposed to write by day and do right by his lonely clientele at night, but he develops writer's block. When Patrick decides to draw from his amorous experiences as inspiration for his next screenplay, the women conspire to prevent it.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Two Tons of Turquoise to Taos Tonight (1975)
Plot Summary:
A film without a beginning or an end, Moment to Moment is a rush of curious sketches, scenes, and shots that takes on a rhythmic life of its own.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 232
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: absurd, avant garde
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Gregory's Two Girls (1999)
Plot Summary:
Twenty years after his teenage crush on a football-mad schoolgirl, Gregory is back at his old school, teaching English. When two of his pupils uncover evil practices at a local factory they want their teacher to help them expose the wrong-doer, who happens to be Greg's old schoolfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 640
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Late Night Shopping (2001)
Plot Summary:
Four friends Sean, Vincent, Lenny and Jody find themselves at something of a deadend. Trapped in a twilight world of permanent night shift work, they hang out together in the local cafe, drinking coffee and entertaining themselves by observing Vincent's unwavering success in pulling women. There seems to be little prospect of change...until Vincent accidently sleeps with Sean's girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, clever, talky, crying, independent film, feel good
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Special Correspondents (2016)
Plot Summary:
A radio journalist and his technician get in over their heads when they hatch a scheme to fake their own kidnapping during a rebel uprising in South America and hide out in New York instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, entertaining, satirical, sweet, buddy comedy, parody, thought provoking, clever
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How to Build a Girl (2019)
Plot Summary:
The journey of Midlands teenager Johanna Morrigan, who reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde: fast-talking, lady sex-adventurer, moves to London, and gets a job as music critic in the hope of saving her poverty stricken family in Wolverhampton. Based on Caitlin Moran's bestselling semi-autobiographical novel.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, funny, captivating, colorful, sentimental, visually appealing, social, colourful
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The Fast Lady (1962)
Plot Summary:
A Scottish civil servant (Stanley Baxter) must learn how to drive a Bentley to impress his girlfriend's (Julie Christie) tycoon father (James Robertson Justice).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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Carry on Abroad (1972)
Plot Summary:
A group of holidaymakers head for the Spanish resort of Elsbels for a 4-day visit. When they get there, they find the Hotel still hasn't been finished being built, and the weather is awful. And there is something strange about the staff. They all look very similar. To top it all off, the weather seems to be having an adverse affect on the Hotel's foundations.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, humorous, realistic, not serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, double entendre, independent film
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Carry on at Your Convenience (1971)
Plot Summary:
This is the tale of industrial strife at WC Boggs' Lavatory factory. Vic Spanner is the union representative who calls a strike at the drop of a hat; eventually everyone has to get fed up with him. This is also the ideal opportunity for lots of lavatorial jokes.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, political, parody, humorous, witty, not serious, double entendre, independent film, campy
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Carry on Doctor (1967)
Plot Summary:
Francis Bigger, a notorious charlatan who tours the country lecturing on the subject of mind over matter, slips off the platform in the middle of his performance and ends up in hospital under the care of Dr Tinkle. The hospital is about to enter a period of total chaos. The regular Carry On team is joined by Frankie Howerd as the fraudulent Francis in this 'bed-panorama of hospital life'.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: double entendre, parody, humorous, not serious, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick, sex comedy, independent film, campy
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Carry on Camping (1969)
Plot Summary:
Sid and Bernie keep having their amorous intentions snubbed by their girlfriends Joan and Anthea, so when they decide to take them on a holiday to Paradise Camp, they think they're off to a nudist colony - but they couldn't be more wrong, and meet up with the weirdest bunch of campers you can imagine! Coach-loads of sex-starved schoolgirls and a party of hippies all add to the laughs.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sitcom, slapstick comedy, double entendre, humorous, realistic, not serious, sexy, spoof, sex comedy, independent film
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Carry On... Up the Khyber (1968)
Plot Summary:
Sir Sidney Ruff-Diamond looks after the British outpost near the Khybar pass. Protected by the kilted Third Foot and Mouth regiment, you would think they were safe. But the Khazi of Kalabar has other ideas. He wants all the British dead! But his troops fear the "skirted-devils"; they are rumoured not to wear anything underneath. Then one is caught with his pants on.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, slapstick comedy, double entendre, humorous, realistic, not serious, surreal, sex comedy, independent film
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Carry on Again Doctor (1969)
Plot Summary:
Dr Nookey is disgraced and sent to a remote island hospital. He is given a secret slimming potion by a member of staff, Gladstone Screwer, and he flies back to England to fame and fortune. But others want to cash in on his good fortunes, and some just want him brought down a peg or two.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, humorous, realistic, not serious, slapstick, spoof, independent film, parody, campy
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Them who? (2015)
Plot Summary:
David's life is changed forever after his meeting with Marcello, a clever con man.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: funny, light, enigmatic, feel good, humorous, captivating, smart, whimsical
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Where the Bullets Fly (1966)
Plot Summary:
In a spoof of the spy genre a secret agent chases a missing formula that can drain nuclear energy from an element named Spurium,.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 77
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: spy comedy, parody, psychotronic, independent film, spoof, eurospy, comic
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Three on a Spree (1961)
Plot Summary:
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Staggered (1994)
Plot Summary:
Very much in love, Neil's wedding plans are sabotaged, beginning when he is abandoned, naked, on a Scottish island. A road trip ensues, with Neil encountering many obstacles as he makes his way to London for what he believes is to be his wedding day. Or is it?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 786
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Mountain Goats (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set around the antics of a ragtag group of Mountain Rescue volunteers, Mountain Goats celebrates the Highlands of Scotland, with proper kilt wearing maniacs fighting disaster on a weekly basis against the stunning backdrop of the Glencoe hills. When our heroes aren't out rescuing people, or being rescued themselves, they spend their time in 'The Old Goat' pub - a place of great warmth and camaraderie, where people come in for a quick pint and never want to leave. The regulars in the pub are Jimmy, an old school mountain goat with a fag burn in his jumper and a glint of mischief in his bloodshot eyes, the wild and mysterious Bill; Bernie, a cheery, hard-working woman, who keeps the others on the straight and narrow; and Conor, a handsome, easy-going young man who is more than a little bit naive. Their HQ is in the local pub, and the landlady is Jules - a formidable force of nature who'll have you out on your ear at the first sign of trouble.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom
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The Big Tease (1999)
Plot Summary:
Thinking he's competing in Los Angeles' hot Platinum Scissors contest, Scottish hairstylist Crawford (Craig Ferguson) leaves Glasgow with a film crew to capture the event. When he learns he's a mere audience member, Crawford must find a way to become the mane event. Abhorrent Norwegian Stig is his stiff-as-gel competition. Drew Carey and others make cameo appearances in this hysterical mockumentar.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, clever, humorous, witty, talky, offbeat, feel good, realistic, not serious, parody
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Comfort and Joy (1984)
Plot Summary:
Radio host Alan Bird witnesses how an icecream van is attacked and destroyed by angry competitors. This leads him into the struggle between two Italian families over the icecream market of Glasgow.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Bedtime Story (1964)
Plot Summary:
Benson, is a Casanova who tricks women into having sex with him before leaving them. He is content with his game until he meets Jamison, a real operator who poses as an exiled prince and not only gets women to share his bed but also to give him money to help him fund his supposed counter-revolution.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, not serious, biting, surprise ending, suspense
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A Midwinter's Tale (1995)
Plot Summary:
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: black and white, clever, witty, talky, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, light
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Nina's Heavenly Delights (2006)
Plot Summary:
A feisty young woman returns to Glasgow to run her deceased father's curry house.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, multicultural, sexual, queer cinema, gay cinema