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Plot Summary:
Jack of all trades and master of none, Al Baxter (Sam Taft) stays afloat by working four jobs. As if that weren't enough, happenstance leads Al to place four ads in the phone book, resulting in four more jobs. Trouble is, none of them is real. Now, Al has to juggle his actual responsibilities with his make-believe ones, all the while trying to extricate himself from an FBI sting, a stolen microchip scam and hordes of Chinese tourists.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Fake (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set amongst a tapestry of fairy tale excess, Michael is reared and mentored by an African American maid, Annie Mae. Michael is caught in a triangle of lies and deception by dysfunctional, quirky, upscale family and friends.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Filthy Rich Filthy Uncle Phil (2010)
Plot Summary:
Filthy Rich Filthy Uncle Phil is the tale of Pierce Pierson, the Eternal Izod Ingrate (an acrid sneer, frozen in the yuppie bilge of circa 1987), who disrespects his house-proud spouse and pays excessive lip service to his revolting-yet-rich-and-radically-free Uncle Phil. Sure, he despises the old Saturnalian, but oh, that fortune... When Uncle Phil offers a path to his riches that would repel marginally-moral mankind, Pierce takes the bait. How much soul, health and integrity will Pierce compromise in his greedy quest?!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Sexina (2007)
Plot Summary:
Teen pop sensation Sexina is also a private detective that fights evil in the music industry. When she finds out a missing scientist been forced to create a robot boy band for "The Boss" of Glitz records, all hell breaks loose!.
IMDB Rating: 3.2
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: detective
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A Global Affair (1964)
Plot Summary:
Bob Hope becomes surrogate father to a baby found abandoned at the United Nations. Director Jack Arnold's 1964 comedy also stars Yvonne De Carlo, Robert Sterling, John McGiver and Lilo Pulver.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Going Berserk (1983)
Plot Summary:
John Bourgignon, a drummer/chauffeur engaged to the daughter of a United States senator encounters a sleazy film director, the leader of an aerobics cult, and other crazed characters in the days leading up to his wedding.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious
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The Chastity Belt (1972)
Plot Summary:
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity belts in the market place, but on this day Sir Graggart de Bombast arrives to sack the castle, and to get the lovely Lobelia Custard in the sack! Lurkalot must help Custard cream the knight in pining armour.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, spoof, independent film, slapstick comedy, double entendre, parody
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Got Papers? (2003)
Plot Summary:
Got Papers?, is a comedy about a newly relocated immigrant from Mexico to the US, who encounters a variety of characters, including a drug smuggling nun using an orphanage as a cover, crooked lawyers, well-meaning angels in heaven and Satan himself. Along the way, our unlikely hero saves the world, when all he wants is to help others and get his "papers".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, spoof, parody
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Tamizh Padam 2.0 (2018)
Plot Summary:
A stringent cop tries all the possible ways to nab a dreaded don who poses a big threat to the society.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: spoof
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Cheaper to Keep Her (1980)
Plot Summary:
A newly divorced swinger on the prowl goes to work as a detective for a neurotic feminist attorney.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, detective
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Everybody Loves It (1964)
Plot Summary:
A janitor finds a four-leaf clover and dreams of his good luck turning him into a television star. Somehow, this translates to "naked women all over the place.".
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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Murder Can Hurt You (1980)
Plot Summary:
Spoof of TV crime dramas. Someone is murdering all the great detectives and cops, and it's up to the remaining few to find the killer and stop him.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 235
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: parody, detective, spoof
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What's Up, Hideous Sun Demon (1989)
Plot Summary:
Z-grade horror flick "The Hideous Sun Demon" re-dubbed and re-edited into a monster-movie spoof about a suntan lotion that works from the inside out (it also has a certain side effect).
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 185
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: spoof, independent film, parody
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Wedding Band (1989)
Plot Summary:
A couple who both work at wedding receptions encounter complications when they decide to marry.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 155
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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A Joke of Destiny, Lying in Wait Around the Corner Like a Bandit (1983)
Plot Summary:
The internal minister's very sophisticated ultra-technological and plated car stops for a mechanical accident in front of a villa. The owner of the villa is De Andreis that immediately offers his help to save the minister entrapped inside the car. Everything has to be done in secret to avoid a scandal within the Roman politic world. Many attempt are done but the result is unexpectedly terrific.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Spic-O-Rama (1993)
Plot Summary:
John Leguizamo's follow-up to Mambo Mouth.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, sketch comedy, one man show
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I Could Never Have Sex with Any Man Who Has So Little Regard for My Husband (1973)
Plot Summary:
In this sex farce, two middle-aged pairs of aspiring swingers rent a summer cottage. There they sit around discussing the pros and cons of having affairs.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Road Lawyers and Other Briefs (1990)
Plot Summary:
A collection of short films put out on VHS by A.I.P., includes "Road Lawyers", "Escape from Heaven", "Radar Men On the Moon", and "Hairline".
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 49
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: anthology, independent film, weird, cult film
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The Last of the Secret Agents? (1966)
Plot Summary:
A wacky 60s spy spoof.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 263
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, spy comedy, parody, psychotronic, spoof
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Serenade for Two Spies (1965)
Plot Summary:
Another Eurospy flick.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Comedy
Country: West Germany, Italy
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: meta, parody, spoof, eurospy, comic, cult film
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In God We Tru$t (1980)
Plot Summary:
A naive monk, named Brother Ambrose (Marty Feldman), is sent by the abbot on a mission to raise $5,000 in order to save their monastery from closing. He goes to Hollywood where he encounters a number of eccentric characters.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, spoof, parody
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Rock Slyde (2009)
Plot Summary:
Between trying to get Judy Bee (Elaine Hendrix) back and tracking down a sexy client's stalker, droll Det. Rock Slyde (Patrick Warburton) has his hands full in this comedy that also stars Rena Sofer and includes cameos by Jason Alexander, Brian Bosworth and Jerry Cantrell. Andy Dick plays a wigged-out cult leader who has successfully brainwashed Judy. Chris Dowling (The Plight of Clownana) writes and directs.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 658
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, captivating, entertaining, realistic, slapstick, parody, neo noir, detective, spoof
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The People We Hate at the Wedding (2022)
Plot Summary:
A dysfunctional family that can't seem to get along and get it together reluctantly reunites for a family wedding. As their many skeletons are wrenched from the closet, it turns out to be just what this singular family needs to reconnect.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Who's Minding the Store? (1963)
Plot Summary:
Jerry Lewis plays Norman Phiffer, a proud man in a humble life, who doesn't know that his girlfriend, Barbara, is heir to the Tuttle Department Store dynasty. Mrs. Tuttle, Barbara's mother, is determined to split the two lovers, and hires Norman in an attempt to humiliate him enough that Barbara leaves him. Will she ruin their love, or will he ruin her store?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, slapstick, light, feel good, esoteric, surprise ending, slapstick comedy
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The Brady Girls Get Married (1981)
Plot Summary:
Made-for-tv movie, the pilot for a "Brady Bunch" revival series, "The Brady Brides." Jan and Marcia have met the men of their dreams and decide to tie the knot. They agree to hold the weddings together in the family's back yard, but fight over whether to have a modern ceremony or a traditional one. Can the marriages be saved? All of the original cast members (except cousin Oliver) put in a return appearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sitcom, tv series pilot
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Farce of the Penguins (2006)
Plot Summary:
In this spoof of "March of the Penguins," nature footage of penguins near the South Pole gets a soundtrack of human voices. Carl and Jimmy, best friends, walk 70 miles to the mating grounds where the female penguins wait. The huddled masses of females - especially Melissa and Vicki - talk about males, mating, and what might happen this year. Carl, Jimmy, and the other males make the long trek talking about food, fornication and flatulence. Until this year, Carl's sex life has been dismal, but he falls hard for Melissa. She seems to like him. A crisis develops when Jimmy comes upon something soft in the dark. Can friends forgive? Does parenthood await Carl and Melissa?.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: parody, feel good, humorous, not serious, spoof, mockumentary, offbeat, banned, fake documentary
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You Should Meet My Son! 2 (2018)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about a religious mother who is determined to stop her gay son's wedding. But her plans go awry when she accidentally befriends his fiancé and begins dispensing relationship advice.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, lgbt cinema, gay cinema
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Don't Drink the Water (1994)
Plot Summary:
Somewhere behind the early 1960s cold-war iron curtain, the Hollander family cause an international spying incident when Walter photographs a sunset in a sensitive region. In order to stay out of jail, the Hollanders take refuge in the American Embassy, which is temporarily being run by the absent Ambassador's diplomatically incompetent son, Axel.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, not serious
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Ace Ventura: Pet Detective (1994)
Plot Summary:
He's Ace Ventura: Pet Detective. Jim Carrey is on the case to find the Miami Dolphins' missing mascot and quarterback Dan Marino. He goes eyeball to eyeball with a man-eating shark, stakes out the Miami Dolphins and woos and wows the ladies. Whether he's undercover, under fire or underwater, he always gets his man . . . or beast!.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 319000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, absurd, humorous, funny, detective, entertaining, slapstick, hilarious, parody, talky
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Bachelor Party (1984)
Plot Summary:
This outrageously funny look at one man's final moments of bachelorhood stars Tom Hanks as Rick, reluctant recipient of a bachelor bash given by a group of friends who view partying as their full-time religion. Rick's worried fiancée, Debbie (Tawny Kitaen), dresses up in disguise and crashes the party to spy on her future husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, humorous, funny, light, entertaining, absurd, intense, not serious, cult classic
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The Hangover Part II (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Hangover crew heads to Thailand for Stu's wedding. After the disaster of a bachelor party in Las Vegas last year, Stu is playing it safe with a mellow pre-wedding brunch. However, nothing goes as planned and Bangkok is the perfect setting for another adventure with the rowdy group.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 526000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, absurd, sex comedy, realistic, bad ending, entertaining, action comedy, teen, suspense