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Plot Summary:
The series is about how an American spy infiltrated the largest gas producing company in Russia.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, humorous, entertaining
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Gourmet Wars (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two family owned restaurants of conflicting styles open up shop across the street from one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Zaytsev+1 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sasha Zaitsev is a Moscow student. He is like millions of his peers, but also is very different from those around him. On the one hand, Sasha has glasses. And he also has the appearance of a nerd and unrequited love. On the other hand, Sasha has a split personality. No, he is not talking to himself in a foil cap. Just if Sasha is beaten on the head, he “turns” into Fedor. Fedor, unlike Sasha, knows what to do with his desires - immediately execute! Want to cheat neighbor? Clamp your classmate at the party? Grab a jeep? Few people decide on this, but Fedor can do anything.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, absurd, light, captivating, teen sex comedy
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Sveta From the Other World (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story about a charming swindler, a girl Sveta, who after an accident turned out to be limited in movement. To get back on her feet, Sveta needs a paid operation. But how to make money if you can not even leave the house? Sveta has an idea! She pretends to be Svetozara, a bioenergy therapist for a small fee, and help people solve their personal problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, entertaining, ironic, semi serious, funny, humorous, captivating
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How I Became a Russian (2015)
Plot Summary:
Contemporary Moscow. An American journalist, Alex Wilson (Mateusz Damiecki), is sent by his employer, The American Post, one of the largest newspapers in the world, on a long-term assignment in their Moscow office. In addition to his job there as an editor, Alex starts a blog, where he tries to answer important questions about Russians, Russian culture, and the mythical and elusive Russian soul, such as: Why is useless junk stored on the balcony? Why is there a package in every Russian home that contains other packages? And why do you have to bully people to avoid fights?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, entertaining, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical
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House Arrest (2018)
Plot Summary:
The current mayor of Sineozersk, Arkadiy Anikeev, is caught by police for bribes on a large scale. By the court decision, he placed under house arrest at the place of registration. His wife, who is a owner of all of their property on documents, left him. Once in a communal apartment, Anikeev confronts his childhood friend, Ivan Samsonov. Leaving aside all his past disagreements, Anikeev decides to help Samsonov to become the new mayor of Sineozyorsk to defeat his former ally who betrayed him in order to become a new mayor and also became his wife's lover.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: captivating, funny, entertaining, feel good, sincere, humorous, light
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HB (2013)
Plot Summary:
Humorous program, in which the main storyline of each new series is divided into 2 parts, one - the basis, the second is a different comic sketches, not related to each other. In total each episode has about 3 sketches. “HB” is the capital letters of the names of the main actors Kharlamov and Batrutdinov.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, entertaining, feel good, visually appealing
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Zhuki (2019)
Plot Summary:
Nikita, Den and Artemy have developed unique application, and they've almost sold it to become their dreams come true. But last moment guys had to serve in the military. They arrived to village Zhuki, and tried to finish application. But it's rather hard as there is no Internet.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Last of Magikyan (2013)
Plot Summary:
Karen Magikyan is almost 50 years old. He is the head of the family and the father of three daughters. At this age, people do not change. He has long formulated laws and rules by which he lives, and is not going to break anything. It seems to him that for the last 10-15 years he has not changed a bit, he has not aged a bit. Moreover, he considers himself to be quite a modern person, although he has a mobile phone with a black and white screen and no email. This, by the way, is especially annoying to him - why everyone is going crazy about these gadgets, iPads, iPhones. Why is the younger daughter, after returning from school, immediately goes to the Internet, and not kiss her father? To “communicate” is to sit at the table, drink wine and talk, and not stare at the computer screen and spoil your eyes. He does not understand modern relationships. How can a daughter stay overnight when they are not married? And he does not care about the assurances of his wife that "now everyone is doing this." Let everyone do that, but not in his family! He is Caucasian, he has principles! Karen - The Last of the Magikians. And not only because he has three daughters, and an heir at that age is clearly not foreseen. He is a representative of an endangered species of people who have never spoken on Skype, for whom a letter is a paper written in letters in an envelope, and most importantly, who do not bend under a changing world, because “now it’s accepted” and “you live in the 21st century ". Younger viewers should recognize their parents in him, older viewers should recognize themselves in him.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, humorous, entertaining, ironic
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The Island (2016)
Plot Summary:
Four girls and four guys are planted on an uninhabited tropical island for filming a reality show. Their task is by taking organizers' challengers to fight for the love of the audience: at the end of the winner is waiting for a big cash prize. But after the accident happens on the yacht with the film crew, everything will change radically. Heroes come into play without even realizing that no one is shooting them - they are participants of the show, which is not really there. But they will not know about it right away ... Their life on the island and attempts to return home will lead to a lot of funny adventures and romantic stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, light, humorous
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Hotel Eleon (2016)
Plot Summary:
The new series of CTC, which will continue the story of the hit comedy "Kitchen". Chef Victor Barinov retired and Eleanor Andreevna met the man of her dreams and moved to St. Petersburg - this ended the final season of "Kitchen". But life in the hotel and the restaurant continues: Michael Dzhekovich still responsible for order in the "Eleon" chef Victor restaurant appointed Senya, and her daughter gets an unexpected boost, which is not pleased with the bone. Everything goes on as usual, while the hotel is not headed by Paul - unlucky nephew of former mistress. In order not to disappoint Aunt and save the business, he entices Brussels Supermenedzher Sofia Tolstaya. New management sets its own rules, and now the hotel is waiting for major changes that overturned upside down not only the habitual way of "Eleon", but the characters and personal plans.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, funny, captivating, sitcom, situational comedy
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Daddy's Daughters (2007)
Plot Summary:
"Daddy's Daughters" is a Russian TV series produced in 2007—2012. Made by "Kinokonstanta" and "Kostafilm" film companies. It characterized the various aspects of life — there are themes of family, love, work, study, and friendship. The series has very high television ratings and many awards. This is an original sitcom, and is not an adaptation of a foreign show.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, funny, sincere, entertaining, talky, humorous
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Poor people (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of an intelligent loser who lives in a communal apartment in St. Petersburg works as a “literary Negro” by Olga Buzova and writes an autobiography on her behalf.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Grand (2018)
Plot Summary:
The series, spun off from the successful Eleon Hotel, continues the theme of adventurous hotel. It will be about Kseniya, student of the Barnaul Institute of Tourism and Hotel Business, who dreams of a career in managing her own hotel.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: entertaining, feel good, captivating, funny, light, humorous, sitcom, situational comedy
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The Countryside (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of urbanites flee the city for different reasons: existential, economic crisis, need for fresh air, search for peace, inspiration to compose ... The intention of these strangers is to settle in an abandoned town and start their lives from scratch, but when they arrive they discover that there are still some neighbors: rural people with a very different way of seeing life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 914
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, entertaining, light, captivating
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Jerks (2017)
Plot Summary:
Best buddies Christian Ulmen and Fahri Yardim can't help to embarrass themselves from time to time. The troublemakers they are they love to test the limits of ethics and political correctness.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Where's the Money (2017)
Plot Summary:
A quick witted young man from the streets of South Central must rush a lily-white USC fraternity to recover a stash of stolen money.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Sunnyside (2019)
Plot Summary:
A disgraced New York politician who was the city's youngest city councilman in history until he was brought down by a public intoxication incident gets an opportunity to rebuild his life when he is hired by a group of immigrants who hope to become American citizens.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 979
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Go guys! (2009)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic
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SashaTanya (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sasha and Tanya have graduated and moved out of the dormitory. They now live with their son Alyosha in their own two-room apartment in the Moscow suburb of Yuzhnoe Butovo. And, boy, are their neighbors ever weird.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Olga (2016)
Plot Summary:
Olga brings up two children from different marriages, cares about her alcoholic father and tries to adjust her personal life. The eldest daughter Anya is studying in a vocational school, she thinks that she is the only adequate member of the family, and in her life everything will be different. The younger son Timofey, whose father returned to the first family in Azerbaijan, believes that he is already a man, although he is only 11 years old. Olga's father, Yuri Gennadievich, a former football player, drinks hard and constantly lies, which often leads to scrape. And sister Lena is trying to live at the expense of men - mostly married. Eternally saving relatives from troubles, Olga lives a strange life and rarely thinks of herself until Grisha, a young and positive driver of the “Sable” hearse, falls in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Traffic Light (2011)
Plot Summary:
"Traffic Light" is a story about three childhood friends. They are slightly over 30. They are men in their prime. One is married, another is busy, the third is free as the wind. The characters are absolutely not similar, but they are united by friendship and a different, but still sincere love for women.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, humorous, sincere, captivating
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Patriot (2020)
Plot Summary:
Returning to his small town, after the army, Sanya Kuchin is trying to integrate into a peaceful civilian life: he gets a job as a security guard in the convenience store "Dream", achieves the heart of his former classmate and ... fights with the bourgeoisie, slovenliness, drunkenness and indifference of the local inhabitants. But real life is not an army in which everything is arranged clearly according to the charter, and very soon Sana will have to understand this.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: light, semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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The Great Indoors (2016)
Plot Summary:
An adventure reporter must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the magazine.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, hilarious, teen comedy
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Me and Mrs Jones (2012)
Plot Summary:
Gemma Jones balances her love life and motherhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 928
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, captivating, light, feel good, hilarious, sexy, realistic, not serious
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The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia (2020)
Plot Summary:
15-year-old scientist Ashley Garcia explores the great unknown of modern teendom after moving across the country to pursue a career in robotics.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sitcom, children's program, sincere
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University (2008)
Plot Summary:
The son of oligarch Sylvestre Sergeev, Sasha, fled from the university in London, where he studied finance, and entered the astronomical department of the physics department of a Moscow university. Sylvester Andreevich wants to return his son to his former life, but he wants to live "among the people" and wants to achieve everything in life himself. In parallel with this, many funny situations happen to the heroes of the series.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, humorous, light, teen comedy
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Kidnapping, Caucasian Style (2014)
Plot Summary:
Shura journalist comes to the Caucasus to shoot a report about the local beauty and tradition, and into Gorski, fiefdom of the local city mayor George Gadzhievich Saahova. Those supporting fashion, given the governor planned to marry a young beauty, athlete, and even ekstremalka Nina, who was so pleased with Shurik. Using the hapless journalist CAAX and his henchmen kidnap Nina. But, realizing that it played, Shura rushes to save his girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 1.2
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, entertaining, light
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An Almost Perfect Country (2016)
Plot Summary:
Pietramezzana, a remote village in the Lucan Dolomites, is likely to disappear. Its inhabitants, led by the volcanic Dominic do not give up and, believing that the opening of a factory may be the solution to all their troubles, they want to make sure that the project is successful.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining, remake of french film
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Ignorance Is Bliss (2017)
Plot Summary:
Ernesto and Filippo, two high school teachers, couldn’t be more different: Filippo is a cheerful liberal who is constantly online. Handsome and youthful, he is a serial seducer on the social networks. Ernesto, instead is a stern conservative, rigorously computerless. He is probably the last person around who still has a first-generation cell phone and his teaching methods are very traditional. They used to be best friends but an unresolved fight kept them far apart, until the day fate intervened and they found themselves teaching at the same school. Their opposite viewpoints will soon and inevitably lead to a new clash. The internet will force them to deal with their past, which resurfaces in the shape of Nina, a young woman who conducts an experiment on them: Filippo must try to leave the world of Internet and Ernesto must try to enter it.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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It's All About Karma (2017)
Plot Summary:
Giacomo befriends a man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining