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Plot Summary:
Wilder and Wallace are brothers and pyrokinetics. Ever since childhood they've been able to start fires with their minds but following a tragedy in which they accidentally killed a man, the brothers have grown up very differently. Wilder has become a regular 9-5 workaday joe but Wallace performs his feats with a traveling circus. When the circus comes to Wilder's home town Wallace starts coming on strong to Wilder's wife, Vida who, ironically, is a slight pyromaniac.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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Totally Blonde (2001)
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IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 954
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious
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In and Out (2017)
Plot Summary:
Two couples, Pierre and Aimée, Éric and Pénélope, all share four years of friendship without cloud. Only concern, Penelope and Pierre have become lovers ... The situation becoming untenable, they decide to break. But after a final night of passionate love, fate plays a trick on them: Peter and Penelope each wake up in the body of the other! To protect their secrecy, they each find themselves having to live the life of the other. This is the beginning of the complications.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 836
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Made for Each Other (1971)
Plot Summary:
The pair who created "Lovers and Other Strangers" take on marriage and other impossibilities.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 363
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Swing (2003)
Plot Summary:
Anthony is caught between dreams of being a musician and pleasing his father and fiance. Encouraged by his great uncle, Anthony finds inspiration from a mysterious older woman in an other worldly night club, who teaches him to find happiness through swing dancing.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 205
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, stylized, sexy, offbeat, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic
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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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Wu yen (2001)
Plot Summary:
Lost in the woods, the Emperor Qi (Anita Mui) stumbles across local chief Wu Yen (Sammi Cheng), his predestined bride, only to accidentally free a promiscuous fox fairy (Cecilia Cheung) who promptly falls in love with both of them, changing between man and woman to clumsily woo each, setting the scene for a constantly shifting triangle with the emperor torn between both the fox fairy and Wu Yen and the fox fairy after whichever one will agree to marry her/him first.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 715
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, fairy tale
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Willy/Milly (1986)
Plot Summary:
Milly is annoyed whenever her mom tells her to behave more appropriate for a girl. She's just not interested in fancy dresses or prom dances. Some day her best friend's little brother offers her a potion which can make her deepest wish come true during a solar eclipse. She goes through with it and ends up with male genitals, additionally. So she has to decide if she wants to life as boy or girl. Her father, who always wanted a son, supports her in checking out life as a boy. Hence Milly changes school and starts out as Willy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, semi serious
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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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Charley and the Angel (1973)
Plot Summary:
Charley is a workaholic family man that finds out from an angel that his "number's up" and he will be dying soon so he tries to change his ways and be a better husband and father with the time he has left.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 630
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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White on Rice (2009)
Plot Summary:
40-year-old Jimmy is growing up, or at least he's getting older. While mooching the upper bunk of his ten-year-old nephew's bed, he enjoys the never-ending generosity of his sister Aiko, and dodges the wrath of his impatient brother-in-law Tak. He thinks that if only he could get married all his problems would be solved. But when he falls head over heels for Tak's niece things only go from bad to worse.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 545
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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Pyrates (1991)
Plot Summary:
As soon as they meet Ari and Sam get into a pretty passionate - and combustible - relationship. Indeed, the scenes of their rendezvous often seem reminiscent of the Chicago Fire. But the course of true flaming lust never runs true, and as they try to handle their all-consuming passion their two best friends endlessly meet to compare notes on developments.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Just Another Pandora's Box (2010)
Plot Summary:
Qing Ye Se only knows how to be a thief, but he runs into major trouble when he accidentally steals the heart of Rose, an immortal fairy. During a chaotic chase, Qing gets ahold of the Pandora's Box, sending them both back in time to the Three Kingdoms era. Mistaken as a general, Qing is thrown right into the middle of the Battle of Red Cliff. Meanwhile, Rose continues to devise new ways to earn Qing's affection, even if it means having to be someone else.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 759
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, tense, entertaining
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GamerZ (2005)
Plot Summary:
A quirky love triangle comedy set in Glasgow in the weird, wonderful world of fantasy role-playing games.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: semi serious, futuristic, captivating, offbeat, humorous, gothic, teen comedy
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Mantecoza (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of office drone Sebastian King's tongue-in-cheek adventures in the magically steampunk world of Mantecoza. Using the magical ring and a magical word, Sebastian travels between worlds, trying to save both from the evil machinations of Lord Barr.
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Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, witty, semi serious, offbeat
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My Lucky Star (2003)
Plot Summary:
Yip is attractive but for some strange reason, no man has ever been interested in her. Yip meets Lai, a famous feng shui expert and she thinks that Lai can change her luck. But Duen, also a famous feng shui expert continually cast all kinds of spells on Yip. A fierce battle of feng shui and horoscope techniques ensues. Will Lai and Yip live happily afterwards?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 527
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, offbeat, realistic, stylized, semi serious
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Doula (2022)
Plot Summary:
After the sudden death of their midwife, an L.A. couple hires her hippie son to be their live-in doula.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical, semi serious
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Date with an Angel (1987)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring composer Jim Sanders is engaged to spoiled rich girl Patty. But the morning after his bachelor party, Jim wakes up to discover a beautiful, broken-winged angel in his pool. When everyone finds out about his heavenly houseguest, Jim must cope with a dangerously jealous fiancée, an exploitive future father-in-law and a group of buddies with an outrageous business plan!.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale, funny, light, romantic, sexy
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Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
Plot Summary:
Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancée Rupert. But soon her worst expectations come true, when not only her old memories haunt her, but also Jolly's ghost, who doesn't approve of her new mate. Invisible to anyone but Kay, he tries to prevent the wedding. Written by Tom Zoerner.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sad, sex comedy, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Maxie (1985)
Plot Summary:
When Nick and Jan move into their new apartment in San Francisco, the batty landlady upstairs tells them about a girl who used to live there in the 20's: a brash young party girl named Maxie, who died in a car crash the morning before her big audition for a Hollywood studio. The trouble is, Maxie, or rather her ghost, hasn't left the house. Worse, she can take over Jan's body. And the only way she's going to leave is if she gets that audition.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, independent film, offbeat
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Help! My In-Laws Are Vampires! (2021)
Plot Summary:
A young couple blossoms without her getting to know his family until she becomes pregnant. He then paints such an unflattering portrait of his relatives that prompts her to reply: "you talk as if they were monsters!" Little does she know.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious
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Escanaba in da Moonlight (2001)
Plot Summary:
A macho man in a family on the eve of deer-hunting season must deal with the eldest son's curse of never having bagged a buck.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, entertaining, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, realistic, talky
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It All Came True (1998)
Plot Summary:
A bachelor afraid of marriage angers his long-time girlfriend by buying a splendid townhouse just for himself, only to find it haunted by the ghosts of a famous theatrical couple, who teach him about love and commitment. The film was later re-released under the title "It All Came True". It was to be Peter Yates' last film made for cinema, although in most markets it went directly to TV or home entertainment.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, humorous, talky, spiritual, clever, independent film
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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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Lovers of Hate (2010)
Plot Summary:
A dark comedy which follows two brothers who are in love with the same woman.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 223
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic, mumblecore, gloomy, independent film, dark comedy
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A Beer Tale (2012)
Plot Summary:
A coming of age romantic comedy centered around the lives of twin brothers Luke and Corey Frankenstein in the pivotal months following college graduation. Orphaned at the age of five, the brothers inherited their family brewery and were left in the care of their uncle, a well-meaning but less than ideal paternal figure. Raised on beer, with the assumption they're all grown up, Luke and Corey decide it's time to finish their family beer; a beer their parents started but were never able to finish twenty years ago. But when the idealistic Luke meets a girl whose family shows him the home life he's always wanted, he abandons Corey and their family beer in pursuit of this budding relationship. Corey, however, refuses to go down without a fight, and the ensuing mayhem that follows pits brother against brother and forces the Colorado wild boys to finally grow up and decide what kind of men they really want to be.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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The Gamers (2002)
Plot Summary:
Sent on a quest to rescue a princess, four clueless players must guide their players through dangerous forests, ancient ruins, and past the girl next door.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, stylized, semi serious, parody, independent film, offbeat
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Little Nicky (2000)
Plot Summary:
After the lord of darkness decides he will not cede his thrown to any of his three sons, the two most powerful of them escape to Earth to create a kingdom for themselves. This action closes the portal filtering sinful souls to Hell and causes Satan to wither away. He must send his most weak but beloved son, Little Nicky, to Earth to return his brothers to Hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 111000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, parody, humorous, not serious, absurd, slapstick, hilarious, predictable, romantic, feel good
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Wicked Stepmother (1989)
Plot Summary:
A mother/daughter pair of witches descend on a yuppie family's home and cause havoc, one at a time since they share one body & the other must live in a cat the rest of the time. Now it's up to the family's mother, a private detective and a suspended police officer to try and stop the witches.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, offbeat, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, campy
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The Addams Family (1991)
Plot Summary:
Uncle Fester has been missing for 25 years. An evil doctor finds out and introduces a fake Fester in an attempt to get the Addams Family's money. The youngest daughter has some doubts about the new uncle Fester, but the fake uncle adapts very well to the strange family. Can the doctor carry out her evil plans and take over the Addams Family's fortune?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 177000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: gothic, black comedy, dark comedy, humorous, cult classic, funny, not serious, stylized, light, scary
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Addams Family Values (1993)
Plot Summary:
Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new "black widow" nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: gothic, humorous, dark comedy, black comedy, funny, cult classic, parody, scary, visually appealing, spooky