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Plot Summary:
Richard Pryor plays three roles - a beleaguered, sex-starved farm worker named Leroy Jones; the farm worker's randy old father Rufus; and the hypocritical town preacher Rev. Lenox Thomas - and Pryor has never been so outrageously funny. The lives and love lives of these three men cross and crisscross as Leroy tries to get his life back on track.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: black comedy, feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious, campy, cult film
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California Casanova (1991)
Plot Summary:
Stagehand at a nightclub falls for one of the performers. He wins her heart after taking lessons on suavity from a gigolo "count".
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Breaks (1999)
Plot Summary:
Derrick, a racially-confused Irishman raised in the hood by a black family is having the worst day ever. Determined to prove to his fed-up mother and would-be girlfriend that he's not a screw-up, he sets out to do one thing right (get some milk) and even that proves to be a challenge! Hilarious encounters with racist red-neck cops, local gangsters and 'flamboyant' pawn shop owners ensue, and along the way Derek shows that he can actually do things for others and maybe even get his own life together.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: black comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Basic Training (1985)
Plot Summary:
Melinda comes to Washington DC to visit her friend Debbie, and to find a job in government, where she hopes to do her part to make it better. She gets a lower echelon administrative position at the Pentagon, and finds things pretty slack. Her boss seems to be more interested in getting into her pants than trying to find lost data on the Russians. Melinda resists his advances and begins working her way up in the Pentagon, finding subtle ways of getting her policies implemented by manipulating the slovenly males that populate the Pentagon, including finding a way to defuse the mounting conflict with the Russians.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, feel good, light, independent film, realistic, sexual, sexy
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So Fine (1981)
Plot Summary:
While trying to get his father out of a financial jam, a man comes up with an idea that turns into an unexpected overnight financial fashion success - the bottomless pants.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, entertaining, humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, funny, romantic, thought provoking
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Critical Condition (1987)
Plot Summary:
Eddie is a con artist. But this time he's framed and comes before a judge. By claiming insanity, he hopes to get off the hook. He manages end up in a hospital for a mental examination. That night, a storm breaks out over New York, and the electricity to the hospital is broken. In the ensuing chaos that follows, Eddie is taken for a doctor. Suddenly he is in charge of a whole hospital!.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, intense, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, black comedy, realistic, sexy, feel good
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Mail Order Wife (2004)
Plot Summary:
A documentarian funds a NYC doorman's Asian mail order bride in exchange for the right to film the experience.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, mockumentary, talky, biting, suspense
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The Alarmist (1997)
Plot Summary:
Young Tommy Hudler decides to become a security systems salesman, and is an instant success. Everything seems to be going great until he discovers there's more to this business and his boss Heinrich than he previously suspected.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, black comedy, independent film, realistic, cynical, semi serious, light, romantic, sexy, clever
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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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100 Mile Rule (2002)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: realistic, cynical, semi serious, humorous, clever
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Sherman's Way (2008)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric Olympic has-been who prefers leisure to work, finds himself stuck with a rigid pre-law Yale student with no time for wasting time. Between skinny-dipping and stealing cars, this odd-couple learn from each other that balance is the key to getting the girl, getting the job and getting a life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat
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Moving (1988)
Plot Summary:
Arlo accepts what seems to him to be a dream promotion to Idaho. He soon discovers, however, that moving has its own share of problems.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, entertaining, humorous, slapstick, black comedy, feel good, witty, semi serious, sitcom, independent film
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The Boss' Wife (1986)
Plot Summary:
Daniel Stern stars as a stockbroker trying to climb the corporate ladder. There's only one thing stopping him...his boss' beautiful and flirtatious wife! THE BOSS' WIFE is a full-bodied, high-spirited, bedroom comedy about lust, love and lechery.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, buddy comedy
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Down Dog (2015)
Plot Summary:
A handsome, carefree yoga instructor has breezed through life, women, and jobs, but when he breaks up with his girlfriend -- who's also his partner at their successful yoga studio -- he's forced to face reality for the first time. A satirical look at LA's yoga culture that stars Josh Casaubon (I Just Want My Pants Back), Paget Brewster (Criminal Minds), and Kris Kristofferson (Lone Star).
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 32 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, feel good, light, sitcom, independent film
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All's Faire in Love (2009)
Plot Summary:
Two rival Medieval shows vie for supremacy in the world of Renaissance Faires.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, fairy tale, offbeat, slapstick
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Would I Lie to You? 2 (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dans le quartier du Sentier, Eddie Vuibert, Dov et Yvan sont confrontés aux procédés pour le moins expéditifs de leur nouveau client, Eurodiscount, une chaîne européenne d'hypermarchés. Karine, lasse des turpitudes de son volage époux, Dov, le chasse du foyer. La bande de copains se disloque.Dov et Patrick partent tenter leur chance sous le soleil de Californie, tandis qu'Eddie et Yvan font les marchés. Entre temps, Serge, devenu livreur, noue une idylle avec Chochana Boutboul, une jeune fille de bonne famille à qui il fait croire qu'il est très fortuné.C'est alors qu'Eddie découvre que sa faillite dépasse le simple échec commercial et qu'il a été victime d'une scandaleuse escroquerie. Dès lors, il décide de se venger et conçoit un plan qui va réunir et mobiliser tous ses amis.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, light, feel good, cult film
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Recep Ivedik 2 (2009)
Plot Summary:
When his grandmother takes ill, foolish brute Recep tries to satisfy her wishes by getting a job and attempting to find a suitable wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good, disgusting, slapstick
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Incontrôlable (2006)
Plot Summary:
Georges, one morning, became uncontrollable despite himself. Something that has the donkey's voice in Shrek, can control his body.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, light, feel good, offbeat
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Brewster's Millions (1985)
Plot Summary:
Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit 300 million dollars if he can successfully spend 30 million dollars in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, light, entertaining, humorous, sweet, black comedy, light hearted, colorful, realistic
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Irish Jam (2006)
Plot Summary:
Upon discovering that their town is up for sale, crafty Irish villagers scheme to raise the money to prevent the buy-out. They hold a poetry contest with a tempting grand prize -- the deed to their local pub. But what could happen when a duplicitous American rapper emerges as the best poet around?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, light, feel good, black comedy, realistic, semi serious
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The Toy (1982)
Plot Summary:
On one of his bratty son Eric's annual visits, the plutocrat U.S. Bates takes him to his department store and offers him anything in it as a gift. Eric chooses a black janitor who has made him laugh with his antics. At first the man suffers many indignities as Eric's "toy", but gradually teaches the lonely boy what it is like to have and to be a friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, satirical, humorous, entertaining, touching, realistic, black comedy, cult classic, sentimental
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Hollywood Shuffle (1987)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring actor and hot-dog stand employee Bobby Taylor catches the ire of his grandmother for auditioning for a role in the regrettably titled exploitation film "Jivetime Jimmy's Revenge." When Tinseltown Studios casts Taylor in the title role, he has a series of conflicted dreams satirizing African-American stereotypes in Hollywood, and must reconcile his career goals with his desire to remain a positive role model for his little brother.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, witty, entertaining, light, absurd, spoof, feel good, semi serious, funny
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The Wash (2001)
Plot Summary:
With the rent due and his car booted, Sean (Dr. Dre) has to come up with some ends...and fast. When his best buddy and roommate Dee Loc (Snoop Dogg), suggests that Sean get a job busting suds down at the local car wash.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, absurd, hood, not serious, black comedy, offbeat, realistic, buddy comedy, parody, funny
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Kissing Cousins (2008)
Plot Summary:
A "relatively" romantic comedy about a professional heartbreaker (and cynical bachelor) who teams up with his attractive cousin from the UK in order to fool his friends into believing he is capable of a relationship. Hijinks and laughs ensue with a hilarious cast!.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 418
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, slang
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Falling for Mala (2015)
Plot Summary:
Maria Laura "Mala" is an actress with little luck, but she is successful working for other women, seducing their boyfriends to know if they are faithful or not. But everything changes when her dream to perform in her acting career depends on a job to be performed with Santiago who breaks the pattern and shakes her professional convictions.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, feel good, realistic, semi serious, captivating, light
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Dumbbells (2014)
Plot Summary:
Dumbbells is a light-hearted buddy comedy set amongst a group of misfit employees that work in a struggling fitness center in Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, realistic, independent film
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Carpool Guy (2005)
Plot Summary:
Joel Goodman is a hotshot advertising executive angling for a promotion, but he feels stuck - not least of all in traffic. A seeming answer to his prayers comes in the form of a homeless man whom Joel pays to sit in his passenger seat so he can use the carpool lane. The two form an unexpected bond, and Joel comes to realize that sometimes changing lanes can change your life.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 203
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, independent film, soap opera
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The Hustle (2008)
Plot Summary:
Disenchanted pest worker and single dad Freddie Manning unintentionally steals and then loses mob money and now he really is in trouble. So when a run-down Baptist church mistakes him and his best friend Junior for replacement ministers, he grabs at the opportunity that might save his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 397
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good, entertaining, black comedy, independent film
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Protect and Serve (2010)
Plot Summary:
A pair of bumbling French cops team up to take on the underworld.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, humorous, not serious, exciting
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What a Beautiful Day (2011)
Plot Summary:
Checco, an uneducated but self-satisfied fellow from Milan, who has always dreamed of becoming a police officer, fails his entrance exam for the third time. It must be said that at the oral examination Checco said that the reason why he wanted to join the police was benefits in kind and cronyism! But the young man has connections and he soon finds himself a security agent at the Milan Cathedral. Of course the bumbling idiot proves a living catastrophe! Spotted by Sufien, an Arab terrorist who is preparing an attack against the cathedral, Checco appears as the perfect sucker. To manipulate him, he sends his charming sister Farah to him, with the mission to seduce him.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, happy
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Car Wash (1976)
Plot Summary:
This day-in-the-life cult comedy focuses on a group of friends working at Sully Boyar's Car Wash in the Los Angeles ghetto. The team meets dozens of eccentric customers -- including a smooth-talking preacher, a wacky cab driver and an ex-convict -- while cracking politically incorrect jokes to a constant soundtrack of disco and funk. Some of the workers find romance as the day moves along, but most are just happy to get through another shift.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, entertaining, feel good, semi serious, cult classic, social, black comedy, anime, realistic