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Plot Summary:
A new infection that simply makes people feel happy is treated as a threat by the authorities while its "victims" work to spread it to others.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 558
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, cult film
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Soup for One (1982)
Plot Summary:
A neurotic young New Yorker believes he has found his perfect match and desperately tries to win her over.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: indie film, sex comedy
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Skidoo (1968)
Plot Summary:
Ex-gangster Tony Banks is called out of retirement by mob kingpin God to carry out a hit on fellow mobster "Blue Chips" Packard. When Banks demurs, God kidnaps his daughter Darlene on his luxury yacht.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult classic, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, psychedelic, psychotronic, weird, campy
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Getting Wasted (1980)
Plot Summary:
An uptight military school gets a dose of hippie-infused rebellion when a group of students gather in support of the 1960s uprising going on around them. When a few students decide to bring the more liberal, artsy side of the revolution onto campus, they face opposition from much of the school's staff.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Tom Dick & Harriet (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Tom loses his job at an advertising agency, he enlists a youthful con-man to help save his career.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 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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Found Money (1983)
Plot Summary:
Max and Sam, disillusioned with people's day-to-day callousness toward each other, and angered by a pension-stealing bank, invent The Invisible Friend, Inc. The intention was to reward kind acts, but things rarely turn out as planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 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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The Nude Restaurant (1967)
Plot Summary:
At a New York City restaurant, the patrons are men, nude but for a G-string, waited on by one woman, also clad in a G-string (played by Viva) and a G-bestringed (bestrung?) waiter.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: avant garde, independent film, cinema verite
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Stop and Go (2021)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters embark on a hilarious, mile-a-minute road trip to rescue their grandmother and her beloved dog from her retirement home before their reckless sister gets there first.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, road movie
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Let It All Hang Out (1969)
Plot Summary:
The girlfriend of a beatnik-hippy artist enjoys having her body painted, posing naked for her boyfriend and seducing other men.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy
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Kinky Kong (2006)
Plot Summary:
In Manhattan, Seymour is a fast-talking, flatulent, frustrated director of titillation flicks, in search of fame and fortune. With a crudely drawn map, he sets sail for Bone Island, his crew including Fanny, his latest discovery. The island is home to the legendary Kinky Kong, a massive gorilla. The crew overcomes the ape and takes him back to New York to exhibit - but chains break, and the ape is on the loose. Liberty is in danger. Source IMDB.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 264
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Donald Trump's The Art of the Deal: The Movie (2016)
Plot Summary:
Donald Trump has it all. Money, power, respect, and an Eastern European bride. But all his success didn’t come for nothing. First, he inherited millions of dollars from his rich father, then he grabbed New York City by the balls. Now you can learn the art of negotiation, real estate, and high-quality brass in this illuminating made-for-TV special feature, Funny Or Die Presents Donald Trump’s The Art Of The Deal: The Movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: parody, mockumentary, cult classic, non-linear
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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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Beer (1985)
Plot Summary:
An advertising firm, desperate to keep an account from a financially-ailing brewery, concocts a macho ad campaign centering on three losers who inadvertently prevent a robbery at a bar.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, not serious, slapstick, biting, independent film, spoof, parody, suspense
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The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968)
Plot Summary:
Rachel arrives in New York from her Amish community intent on becoming a dancer. Unfortunately Billy Minsky's Burlesque is hardly the place for her Dances From The Bible. But the show's comedian Raymond sees a way of wrong-footing the local do-gooders by announcing the new Paris sensation "Mme Fifi" and putting on Rachel's performance as the place is raided. All too complicated, the more so since her father is scouring the town for her and both Raymond and his straight-man Chick are falling for Rachel.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Some Kind of a Nut (1969)
Plot Summary:
A New York City bank teller becomes a media celebrity when he refuses to comply with his employer's demands that he shave his beard. Directed by Garson Kanin, this 1969 comedy stars Dick Van Dyke, Angie Dickinson, Rosemary Forsyth, Zohra Lampert, Carole Shelley, David Doyle, Elliott Reid, Pippa Scott, Connie Gilchrist, Roy Roberts and Peter Turgeon.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, biting, suspense
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Far Out Man (1990)
Plot Summary:
An aging hippie sets out on a trip across America to find his family.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Rude Awakening (1989)
Plot Summary:
In the later 1960s, two hippies are forced to leave their friends as they are wanted by the FBI, who sees them as criminals. They hide in the jungle for 20 years, secluded from the outside world. In the later 1980s, the find out that a secret war is about to start in the US, and decide to return to New York to tell someone about it.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, funny, romantic, clever, suspense, satirical, intense
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Growing Up and Other Lies (2014)
Plot Summary:
After living for years as a struggling artist in New York City, Jake is calling it quits and returning home to Ohio. On his last day in the city, he persuades his three oldest friends – Billy, Rocks and Gunderson – to help him retrace their greatest adventure together: a walk down the entire length of Manhattan.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, sentimental, realistic, contemplative, talky, independent film
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Putney Swope (1969)
Plot Summary:
Swope is the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm, and is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman of the board.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film, surreal, funny, mind bending, psychedelic, political, black comedy, art film, black and white, cult classic
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The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1975)
Plot Summary:
Mel Edison has just lost his job after many years and now has to cope with being unemployed at middle age during an intense NYC heat wave.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, clever, witty, semi serious, dark comedy, funny, cult classic, realistic, biting, neurotic
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Car 54, Where Are You? (1994)
Plot Summary:
Brash NYC policeman Officer Gunther Toody is partnered with stiff, by-the-book Officer Francis Muldoon to protect an important mafia witness prior to testifying against orgainzed crime in Brooklyn, all the while dealing with their personal lives, overbearing spouses, common criminals, arms dealers, and their officious boss Captain Anderson.
IMDB Rating: 2.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, independent film, realistic, not serious, inspirational, rough, clever, feel good, unusual plot structure, melancholic
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Meeting Spencer (2011)
Plot Summary:
After a series of Hollywood flops, famed director Harris Chappell (Jeffrey Tambor) returns to New York to relaunch his Broadway career. But Chappell's triumphant comeback begins to spiral out of control into a wild night of comic misadventure after meeting struggling actor Spencer (Jesse Plemons) and his old flame Didi (Melinda McGraw).
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, exciting, realistic, witty, not serious, independent film
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Beyond Therapy (1987)
Plot Summary:
Manhattanites Bruce and Prudence are each looking for a meaningful romantic relationship and have been encouraged by their psychiatrists to find someone through the personal ads. Their first meeting is disastrous, but they begin to hit it off during their second date. However, Bruce's bisexual, live-in lover does not want to share Bruce and is willing to do whatever it takes to keep him to himself.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, biting, sexual, sexy
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Kiss Me, Guido (1997)
Plot Summary:
When he discovers his girlfriend having sex with his brother, Frankie (Scotti) decides to head to Manhattan, leaving his Bronx pizza shop forever for the fame and fortune of show business. But before stardom, he needs a place to stay. Looking in the personals, he notices GWM. And thinking it "Guy with Money," he heads to the Village and the apartment of gay actor Warren (Barrile), who's in desperate need of this month's rent.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, talky, offbeat, feel good, realistic, witty, semi serious, funny, light
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Boys' Night Out (1962)
Plot Summary:
Fred, George, Doug and Howie are quickly reaching middle-age. Three of them are married, only Fred is still a bachelor. They want something different than their ordinary marriages, children and TV-dinners. In secret, they get themselves an apartment with a beautiful young woman, Kathy, for romantic rendezvous. But Kathy does not tell them that she is a sociology student researching the sexual life of the white middle-class male.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, retro, satirical, black and white, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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The Out-of-Towners (1999)
Plot Summary:
The remake of the 1970 Neil Simon comedy follows the adventures of a couple, Henry and Nancy Clark, vexed by misfortune while in New York City for a job interview.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, feel good, realistic, entertaining, romantic comedy, witty, not serious, funny, road movie
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Farm Girl in New York (2007)
Plot Summary:
Sam and Matt flee their small mid-western town for New York City, where hot girls roam the streets! After months of trying to pick up ladies and failing miserably, they come up with the idea to hold a fake audition to meet chicks. Hilarity ensues when dozens of sexy, talentless, babes show up and compete for a job that doesn t exist. However, when an out of town farm girl shows up for the audition they are instantly smitten. Will these phony auditions come in the way of them finding true love?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, independent film, romantic comedy, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Ted 2 (2015)
Plot Summary:
Newlywed couple Ted and Tami-Lynn want to have a baby, but in order to qualify to be a parent, Ted will have to prove he's a person in a court of law.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 227000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, hilarious, not serious, parody, action comedy, absurd, psychedelic, feel good, entertaining
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Deconstructing Harry (1997)
Plot Summary:
This film tells the story of a successful writer called Harry Block, played by Allen himself, who draws inspiration from people he knows in real-life, and from events that happened to him, sometimes causing these people to become alienated from him as a result.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 47000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, surreal, cult classic, funny, independent film, clever, black comedy, dark comedy, existential