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Plot Summary:
Good Dog is a Canadian television comedy-drama series which aired for one season on HBO Canada. The show follows the life of character George, a role that Ken Finkleman reprised from The Newsroom.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, witty, semi serious, realistic, talky
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Rock Me Baby (2003)
Plot Summary:
Rock Me Baby is an American television series set in Denver, Colorado. It is a comedy / drama that debuted on September 15, 2003 on UPN. Rock Me Baby stars actor and comedian Dan Cortese as Jimmy Cox, co-host of a popular Denver radio show with his best friend, Carl, played by Carl Anthony Payne II. Bianca Kajlich plays Beth Cox, Jimmy's wife, and the two have a baby named Otis. Tammy Townsend plays Beth's best friend, Pamela, who is obsessed with the glamorous life.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 115
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, semi serious, entertaining
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Hard (2008)
Plot Summary:
Hard is a French television series created and produced by Cathy Verney, airing since 9 May 2008 on Canal+ in France, and later internationally. The series focuses on the pornographic movie industry. It is part of the "New Trilogy" collection on Canal+.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 314
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, humorous, witty, semi serious, sensual, clever, realistic, sexual
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The Newsroom (1996)
Plot Summary:
The Newsroom is a Canadian television comedy-drama series which ran on CBC Television in the 1996–97, 2003–04 and 2004–05 seasons. A two-hour television movie, Escape from the Newsroom, was broadcast in 2002. The show is set in the newsroom of a television station which is never officially named, but is generally understood to be based on the CBC itself. Inspired by American series The Larry Sanders Show and similar to such earlier series as the British Drop the Dead Donkey and the Australian Frontline, the series mined a dark vein of comedy from the political machinations and the sheer incompetence of the people involved in producing City Hour, the station's nightly newscast. Although not originally intended as an ongoing series, the initial run of 13 episodes led The Newsroom to become one of the most critically acclaimed programs on Canadian television in the 1990s. Following the end of The Newsroom, Finkleman produced three different short-run series for the CBC, More Tears, Foolish Heart and Foreign Objects, all of which included Findlay as a linking character.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, black comedy
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Robson Arms (2005)
Plot Summary:
Robson Arms is a Canadian television series that began airing on CTV on June 17, 2005 and ended on June 30, 2008. Robson Arms is a co-production between Vancouver-based Omni Film Productions Limited and Halifax's Creative Atlantic Communications. The show is a comedy-drama anthology organized around the Robson Arms, an apartment building in Vancouver, at the fictional address of 951 Pendrell Street. Each of the show's episodes focuses principally on a different tenant of the building, although the core cast members interact in minor roles throughout the series. The show was created to fulfill a licensing requirement of CTV's Vancouver station, CIVT, which originally promised, as an independent station, to produce 20 episodes of an anthology series entitled The Storytellers. Only ten such episodes were produced. The Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission did not agree that CIVT's new network programming supplanted this commitment and asked the station to fulfill its promise. CTV believed the anthology would be more successful as a series with common characters, and Robson Arms was the result. Two of the show's regular cast members, Gabrielle Miller and Fred Ewanuick, appeared in this series concurrent with their continuing roles in another CTV production, Corner Gas.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, sitcom, anthology, realistic
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If I Were You (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a woman tries to outwit her husband's sexy young mistress, the unexpected consequences include starring as King Lear in a very amateur production - with the mistress, an aspiring actress, playing The Fool.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: witty, touching, humorous, semi serious, funny, light, realistic
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Dinner at Eight (1989)
Plot Summary:
A wry, insightful comedy of manners in which somewhat dizzy society matron Millicent Jordan arranges a dinner party to honor some visiting aristocrat while remaining oblivious to her husband's health and financial problems as well as her daughter's feelings and emotions. Party guests include the vain, the greedy, and the self-absorbed.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 194
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, cynical, semi serious
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For Better or Worse (2011)
Plot Summary:
Follow the the ups-and-downs of Angela Williams, the owner of a successful beauty salon, and her husband of 13 years, Marcus, a former professional football player who has recently partnered with Richard Ellington and Joseph Jetson on a new sports news program called "C-Sports Now.".
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, talky
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Seed (2013)
Plot Summary:
Seed is a half-hour comedy follows that Harry, a likable bachelor and bartender whose previous foray into sperm donation resulted in offspring he was unaware of until now. Seed tells the story of Harry's relationship with his new-found relatives, and the interactions of these families with one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, not serious, touching, realistic, sitcom, semi serious, offbeat
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That's So Weird! (2009)
Plot Summary:
That's So Weird was a Canadian sketch comedy television show owned by the Halifax Film Company and was broadcast on YTV. The show has been described as SCTV or Mad TV for teenagers and includes an array of comedic skits.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty, clever, sketch comedy
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Sensitive Skin (2014)
Plot Summary:
Davina and her husband Al try to revamp their lives as they struggle with the uncertainties of middle age.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, witty
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Good God (2012)
Plot Summary:
Good God is a Canadian television comedy-drama series which premiered in April 2012 on HBO Canada. The show follows the life of character George Findlay, a role that Ken Finkleman reprised from The Newsroom and subsequent television projects. The series was originally slated to be the second season of Finkleman's previous HBO Canada project Good Dog, but was retitled in accordance with a change in the show's setting. The show was described in early media coverage as having been inspired in part by the launch of Sun News Network. In the show's first episode, for example, Findlay is forced to respond to allegations that his new venture is aspiring to be "Fox News North", an epithet which the real Sun News Network also faced both before and after its launch. The series was nominated for several awards at the 2013 Canadian Screen Awards, including Best Comedy Series, Best Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series for Jason Weinberg and Best Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series nods for both Samantha Bee and Jud Tylor.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, cynical, biting
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Show Me Yours (2004)
Plot Summary:
Show Me Yours is a Canadian comedy television series originally aired on Showcase between May 26, 2004 and May 31, 2005.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexy, clever, sexual
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Outnumbered (2007)
Plot Summary:
Partly-improvised sitcom looking at the trials and tribulations of bringing up three young children - a regal five-year-old girl with a talent for interrogation, a seven-year-old boy who could fib for Britain and an 11-year-old who is gearing up for his scary first day at secondary school.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental, touching, light, sincere, feel good, melancholic
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Mister Eleven (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mister Eleven is an ITV romantic drama starring Michelle Ryan and Sean Maguire. The two-part series was broadcast on 11 and 18 December 2009. It also stars Adam Garcia, Lynda Bellingham, Olivia Colman and Denis Lawson. It is written by Shameless writer Amanda Coe. Mister Eleven was released on DVD in February 2010.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 174
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sentimental, feel good, humorous, sex comedy, realistic
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The Easy Way Out (2014)
Plot Summary:
Patrick, a travel agent in his early 30s, lives with Arthur, an immigration lawyer; but for a long time, Patrick has been sleeping on an air mattress on the floor of their bedroom. His younger brother, Tony, plans to marry his high school sweetheart but is having an affair that is far more satisfying than his relationship with his fiancee. Their older brother, Ryan, is divorced, living at home and working at his parents’ hopelessly unprofitable men’s clothing store. And McCauley soon makes achingly clear that the parents’ marriage is far from happy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Film to Come (2013)
Plot Summary:
At fifty Louis Gravet, a serious actor, would like to become a comedian. His brother Peter, a film director, has the idea of hiring him for the lead role of a comedy. Family circumstances, their wives, their children, niece, lead him to make another film, new and unexpected.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, offbeat
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The Board (2006)
Plot Summary:
Ten years after hanging their diploma on the wall, four friends who graduated together from a business management school reach a conclusion: while they believed that their academic training would be the corner stone of their lives, that is not the case.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, atmospheric, captivating, semi serious
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Mutual Friends (2008)
Plot Summary:
Martin's comfortable world is upturned by his friend's mid-life crises, beginning with his best friend's suicide, and the secret affair he had with Martin's wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 254
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, realistic
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Jack & Jill (1999)
Plot Summary:
A lighthearted romantic comedy about post-collegiate life, love and career in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, talky, sexual
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Granny's Funeral (2012)
Plot Summary:
A provincial chemist in the throes of a mid-life crisis must choose between burying his dearly departed grandmother and cremating her in this quirky comedy of manners starring Valerie Lemercier, Denis Podalydes, and Isabelle Candelier.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, humorous
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Free Agents (2009)
Plot Summary:
Free Agents is a romantic black comedy starring Stephen Mangan, Sharon Horgan and Anthony Head. Originally a pilot for Channel 4 in November 2007, the series began on 13 February 2009. It spawned a short lived US remake, which was cancelled after just 4 episodes aired, although 4 more were later released on Hulu.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 396
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty, talky, sitcom, dark comedy, hilarious, fast
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Moving Wallpaper (2008)
Plot Summary:
Moving Wallpaper is a British satirical comedy-drama television series set in a TV production unit. It ran on ITV for two series in 2008–2009. The subject of the first series was the production of a soap called Echo Beach, each episode of which aired directly after the Moving Wallpaper episode about its production. The second series was based around the production of a "zombie show" called Renaissance. Ben Miller confirmed in May 2009 on his Twitter account that no further series will be made. The title, "Moving Wallpaper", is a disparaging term applied to uninspiring TV shows, or to television in general, referring to the perception that modern television viewers are "mindless absorbers of images", as if staring at wallpaper.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 311
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: semi serious, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky
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The Big Ask (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Big Ask is a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend heal after the death of his mother. They would do anything for him - except for the one thing he wants.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, psychological, captivating, realistic, independent film
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Borders of Love (2004)
Plot Summary:
Yabancı Damat, is a popular Turkish TV series distributed by Erler Film with 106 episodes in total. It deals with the relationship between a young Greek man Niko and a Turkish girl Nazlı, and the problems encountered in an intercultural marriage. Its comedic tone and play on historic Greco-Turkish antagonism made it a huge hit in both Turkey and Greece, as well as making stars out of the leading actors. The episodes are shot in Turkey and Greece. The music is Turkish and Greek. The series ran from November 12, 2004 through June 15, 2007 on the Turkish channel Kanal D Friday evenings at 20:00 hrs. The Greek channel Mega TV broadcast it from July 4, 2005. The first season was shown on a daily basis at 23:00 hrs, the second season was shown every Monday at 21:00. The third season was split, half of the episodes where shown Saturdays of 2007 at 21:00 and the other half episodes are shown in 2008, every Saturday at 17:00. The series used to have great success, especially when the first season was shown. The ratings of the third season are very low, so the channel decided to move the series in the evening schedule. The Bulgarian channel bTV broadcasts it since August 29, 2009 daily at 17:00 hrs. with the title Brak s chujdenets. The series was also dubbed into Arabic with the title Al-Gharib and aired in March 2009 on MBC+ Drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Old, New, Borrowed and Blue (2003)
Plot Summary:
Katrine is to be married. Her fiancé is gorgeous, their appartment is luxurious and her future in-laws are wealthy. Katrine only has one problem: she sometimes finds it difficult to tell the truth, and this sends her on a round-about jaunt with an old friend, Thomsen, who has just barged in unannounced from Kenya and who wants to return a favour and help Katrine with her wedding preparations. A labyrinthal excursion takes place. Tomorrow is another day, the wedding day!.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, sincere, feel good, semi serious, touching, offbeat, realistic
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Us & Them (2013)
Plot Summary:
For the past six months, New York pharmaceutical copywriter Gavin and Pennsylvania-based printing press employee Stacey have been flirting online and finally agree to meet... with their best friends in tow for double-date safety. Stacey's long-distance romance unnerves her family, who fears she might fall in love and move away to the big city. It's complicated enough trying to make a relationship work, but the biggest complications of all are the friends and family who are part of the package deal.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 293
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching, sentimental, realistic
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Imaginary Bitches (2008)
Plot Summary:
Imaginary Bitches is a web series created by Andrew Miller that premiered on May 2, 2008. Season one comprises 13 five to seven-minute webisodes. New episodes were released weekly on Friday nights at 11:00PM EST on the Imaginary Bitches Official Web Site, and on the Imaginary Bitches YouTube Partner Page. The Imaginary Bitches Season 1 DVD was released November 3, 2008.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 122
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Amar Akbar & Tony (2015)
Plot Summary:
Amar, Akbar & Tony follows the lives and loves of three childhood friends through twists and turns as the characters face sudden and unforeseen changes to their idealistic and trouble-free young lives. With hilarious and sometimes tragic consequences, the brotherly bond shared by the trio is forced to come to terms with some unexpected challenges. Interracial marriage, near fatal accidents and stints in prison will test old friendships and family values. A coming of age comedy drama showing the absurdities of life can also be the most amusing.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty
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Seeking Temporary Wife (2003)
Plot Summary:
Frederik is a happy man; he has a girlfriend he loves, a business running smoothely and he is going to be a father. But his happiness proves false. At a party, his girlfriend declares that she will leave him for her true love. Frederik is distraught. But his biological clock has started ticking, and his desire for a child is overwhelming. At an adoption agency he meets Milla, a woman who has also been treated unfairly by love. Could Milla be the answer to Frederik's dream?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, captivating, touching, feel good, realistic, semi serious
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Frenchmen 3 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Alex, Antoine and Manu meet Jean, a loner who ignores the pleasures of friendship. Little by little, they learn to know each other, to appreciate each other. Jean is moved by the complicity and affection that fuels the relationship with his new friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, light, feel good