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Plot Summary:
Set in the late 1950s, a young Hyacinth will be seen desperately trying to force her family to climb the social ladder.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 498
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags:
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My Wife's Name Is Maurice (2002)
Plot Summary:
Georges, a wealthy Parisian, has a mistress who wants to marry him, but he has no intention of divorcing his wife, the source of his money. The mistress, meanwhile, has a jealous boyfriend, so when Georges dumps her, two people are angry with him. Add Georges' wife, who suspects the affair. The mistress calls Georges to say she's coming to tell his wife everything, so Georges asks Maurice, a stranger who's passing by, to pose as his wife and scare off the mistress. In this farce, nothing goes as Georges plans.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, sexy, touching, captivating, exciting
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Separate Vacations (1986)
Plot Summary:
A young architect finds himself in a situation that he never had to deal with before--now that he is successful (and married), sexy young women are throwing themselves at him!.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA, Mexico
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Who Pulled the Plug? (1981)
Plot Summary:
To secure an order for 1 000 cruise ships from an Arab prince, two companies have to compete by racing each other by canal from Stockholm to Gothenburg. A small family owned company on the brink of bankruptcy is pitted against their major competitor and they both have to resort to dirty tricks in order to reach the goal line first. Plot by Mattias Thuresson.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, not serious, eighties
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Friends, Lovers, & Lunatics (1989)
Plot Summary:
An artist fired from his job comes home and discovers that his wife is having an affair and that she is leaving with her lover. He then sets off in pursuit of them, but in the process runs into another woman who is on the run from her crazed lover who is chasing her as much to get his stolen motorcycle back as he is to actually find her.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 145
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Throw Out the Anchor (1974)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about an unemployed widower who heads to Florida with his children for a vacation on a houseboat. When he gets there there is no houseboat.
IMDB Rating: 3.1
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Remember Me? (1997)
Plot Summary:
A domestic farce exposes the eccentricities of a "typical" middle class, suburban family who find their lives thrown into a crisis with the unexpected arrival of one of the wife's old flames.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: surreal, independent film
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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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Ealing Comedy (2008)
Plot Summary:
Alfie Singh, accountant turned film producer, has a great idea for a film. It's called Ealing Comedy and it's about an accountant turned film producer called Alfie Singh. Alfie will play himself and his real son, Paul, will play his son in the film. Turned down by all the financiers, Alfie vows to make the film himself. His life with his wife and teenage son and his struggles to finance and make films in the UK are all woven together in a series of mad-cap events, resulting in a very British film.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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My House Husband - Ikaw Na! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Nothing prepared ROD (Ryan Agoncillo ) and MIA ALVAREZ (Judy Ann Santos) for the major changes that took place in their lives. ROD worked as a manager of a bank while MIA opted to remain a housewife taking care of their two children — MIGO and KAYE — with an occasional sideline of selling insurance. MIA gave up her promising career in sales because ROD wanted to be the padre de familia. For ROD, it was the role of the man to provide for his wife and children … in the same manner that there was a clear cut delineation as to what are the duties of a husband from that of the wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, contemplative, soap opera
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Single Bells (1997)
Plot Summary:
Kati, successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend since eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at all, they start an argument. Kati finally decides to go to her sister Luise on Christmas instead of flying to Mauritius with Jonas. This turns out to be a bad idea because she isn't the only guest Luise's family has to bear... Kati, successful advertising manager, dreams of a family with Jonas, who has been her boyfriend since eight years. As he doesn't like the plan at all, they start an argument. Kati finally decides to go to her sister Luise on Christmas instead of flying to Mauritius with Jonas. This turns out to be a bad idea because she isn't the only guest Luise's family has to bear.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 721
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: spoof, parody
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The More You Ignore Me (2018)
Plot Summary:
Based on Jo Brand's critically acclaimed novel of the same name, The More You Ignore Me is a warm, comedy drama focusing on the life of an unconventional family in 1980s rural England. The film focuses on Gina, a young mother, whose efforts to be a loving mother and wife are undermined by her declining mental health. Things deteriorate when she develops an obsession with the local weatherman, which leads to an admission to the nearby psychiatric hospital. Over the years, as she grows up, her daughter Alice struggles to relate to her heavily medicated mum, and causes chaos when she comes up with a plan to reconnect with her, which divides the family forever and leads to a moving climax. Set to the songs of The Smiths, The More You Ignore Me provides a sometimes stark, yet comical insight into life within this quirky household, whilst addressing mental health issues and their impact on the family.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 813
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Demandez la permission aux enfants ! (2007)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious
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Checking Out (1988)
Plot Summary:
Ray is a man obsessed with his own mortality. When Ray's best friend dies of a heart attack, Ray is convinced that all of his aches and pains are an indication of his own imminent death. His life turns into a slapstick farce of health-crazed anxiety and hypochondria, until he finally learns that all he has to fear is fear itself.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 475
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, cult film
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The Guardian Angel (1996)
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Madrid, 1981. Jorge has just arrived in Madrid to live in beautiful large house with his brother, mother, grandmother Obdulia, a wealthy woman who is somewhat deaf, and his grandfather, an aged and senile octogenarian.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 31
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Do Not Disturb (2016)
Plot Summary:
Anna's marriage is on the rocks after her husband John discovered she was having an affair with a much younger man. Confronted by her other half in the honeymoon suite of a Stratford-Upon-Avon hotel, Anna must try to save their marriage, deal with hapless hotel staff and come up with a plan to get through the experience. Unknown to either John or Anna, the suite’s bathroom is occupied by a semi-naked and comatose 21-year-old, who’s trying to sleep off a stag do.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags:
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Valentina... The Virgin Wife (1975)
Plot Summary:
Valentina and Giovannino have just got married, but the Honeymoon has gone by and nothing happened between the two. Tension grows and they are about to break up the marriage, until a French tourist satisfies Valentina, while Giovannino regains his virility with his mother in law.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy
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The Farmer Has a Wife (1986)
Plot Summary:
The farmer now has found a wife.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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For Better and Worse (2015)
Plot Summary:
A couple on the brink of divorce attempts to hide their crisis at a grand wedding, but it turns out they are not the only ones with false appearances.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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When a Man Comes Home (2007)
Plot Summary:
A small provincial town is buzzing with excitement: the town´s most illustrious son, a world-famous opera singer, is coming home. Meanwhile, Sebastian, a kitchen boy who is as good as married, falls head over heels in love with the new maid, Maria. Their love affair, along with rumours that the opera singer and the kitchen boy are related, turns the town upside down, threatening to ruin everyone´s high expectations and the opera singer´s triumphant return.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 932
Genere: Comedy
Country: Denmark, Sweden
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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The Little Bather (1968)
Plot Summary:
Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious
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Killing Dad (1989)
Plot Summary:
A man, always very devoted to his mother, decides to look for his father whom he never met. He meats a seducing older woman prone to drinking and her aged boyfriend whom she grew tired of.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: non-linear, crying, independent film, black comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy
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The Clandestine Marriage (1998)
Plot Summary:
A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: costume drama, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, stylized, semi serious, period piece, period drama
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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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The Sensuous Nurse (1975)
Plot Summary:
Greedy relatives hire a sensual caregiver to hasten the demise of a wealthy count suffering from a heart condition.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, sensual, crying, sex comedy, freeze frame, dark comedy, low brow humor, hot
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Christmas with the Tuches (2021)
Plot Summary:
After having resigned from his post as President of the Republic, Jeff and his family are happy to be back in their village of Bouzolles. As the end of the year holidays approach, Cathy asks for a unique gift: to reconnect with her sister Maguy, and her husband Jean-Yves, with whom Jeff has been angry for 10 years. The reconciliation could have gone smoothly, except that during a lunch, Jeff and Jean-Yves, will once again find a subject of contention: CHRISTMAS. This family feud, which should never have left Bouzolles, will turn into a standoff between Jeff and a giant of Internet distribution.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Dirty Clothes Are Washed at Home (2021)
Plot Summary:
Lupita and Toña work as housemaids at the Ruíz Palacio’s house, an aristocratic Mexican family. For a long time they have been mistreated and poorly paid. They’re now fed up with the abuse and lack of respect they get from their employers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 124
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Almost Pregnant (1992)
Plot Summary:
Charlie (Conaway) is a happy man with a beautiful wife (Roberts), a wonderful career and every blessing a man could want except "...children". When the wife demands a "star child" and Charlie can't deliver the goods, they turn to their crazy neighbor (Calvin) to get the job done, so to speak. Very hilarious and bawdy comedy where "one rooster to a hen-house" is not always the truth.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: erotic, independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Lovers and Other Relatives (1974)
Plot Summary:
Sandro dreams about a woman older than himself. He works as a lifeguard at the beach and at the same time he's caring for a large number of sexually unsatisfied women who are coming for the weekend without their husbands.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sexy, teen sex comedy, sex comedy, erotic, teen comedy
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Surviving Christmas with the Relatives (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters come together to spend Christmas with their families in their recently deceased parents’ falling down country house, with hilariously chaotic consequences, as ancient sibling rivalries flare up again to sabotage the hoped for season of good will.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Father Christmas Is Back (2021)
Plot Summary:
Four sisters – Caroline, Joanna, Paulina, and Vicky – reunite for the Christmas Holiday in a Yorkshire mansion. However, their estranged father, James, joins in for the first time since he left the family behind decades prior. The group attempts to get through the holiday despite comedic misunderstandings, while also uncovering the long-buried secret that tore their family apart, so many years ago.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, happy, christmas comedy