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Plot Summary:
Jane Hall was a six-part British television comedy drama on ITV, written by Sally Wainwright and starring Sarah Smart, Stephen Mangan, Daniel Lapaine, Geraldine James, Nitin Ganatra, Gillian Taylforth, Ian Reddington, Ann Mitchell, Robert Glenister and Suzanna Hamilton. It revolved around Jane Hall's job training to be a bus driver and her home life in Hounslow, "the arsehole of London". The series was originally to be titled Jane Hall's Big Bad Bus Ride, but was renamed after the London bus bombings of 7 July 2005. It first aired in New Zealand in April 2006 on TV One achieving good viewing figures. It is produced by the independent Red Production Company, and was produced some two years before it eventually received its first UK broadcast in the summer of 2006. It was reported in September 2006 that no further episodes would be commissioned.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
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Chivalry (2022)
Plot Summary:
A successful producer and a woke writer and director are brought closer by a creeping attraction and a feeling that they are just pawns in the studio's agenda for a Saudi Arabian buyout.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic comedy
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Rain Dogs (2023)
Plot Summary:
A wild and punky tale of a mother's love for her daughter, of deep-rooted and passionate friendships, and of brilliance thwarted by poverty and prejudice.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: dark comedy
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Material Girl (2010)
Plot Summary:
Drama about dreams, love, clothes and how we all use them to run away from who we are and towards who we should be.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
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Baker Boys (2011)
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Baker Boys is an English-language Welsh television drama series, produced by BBC Wales and broadcast on BBC One Wales. The series was written by Helen Raynor and Gary Owen. Torchwood creator Russell T Davies also had a role as creative consultant, which he fulfilled from Los Angeles. The first episode of the series was broadcast on 23 January 2011. The programme follows the workers of Valley Bara bakery which is the economic centre of Trefynydd, a small fictional village in South Wales. Generations of people had earned a living and formed a life at the bakery but this is thrown into jeopardy when recession bites and the bakery workers find themselves unemployed overnight. Writer Helen Raynor describes it as "a blue collar drama", explaining "we wanted to tell the story of a community, with a workplace at the centre of it, who suddenly fall on hard times".
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
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Avoidance (2022)
Plot Summary:
Jonathan's life revolves around his nine year-old son Spencer, and he's always deferred the big and small decisions to his partner Claire. So when Claire asks him to leave, Jonathan realises he has no home, no friends and no ambition. Except one: to try to preserve his son's happiness in the face of his parents' break-up.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min
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I Hate Suzie (2020)
Plot Summary:
Suzie Pickles, a star on the wane, has her whole life upended when her phone is hacked and a photo of her emerges in an extremely compromising position.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 280 min
Plot tags: humorous, ironic, depressing, live comedy
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Home (2019)
Plot Summary:
What happens when you return from a family holiday to France and open the boot to find a Syrian refugee where your luggage was supposed to be? That’s the situation facing new couple Peter and Katy when they get back to Dorking from their first family holiday with Katy’s young son John, who has spent the journey from Calais winding up his would-be stepdad. Their unexpected passenger is a bloke called Sami who hopes to claim asylum in Britain.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 27 min
Plot tags: emotional, sitcom
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The Book Group (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Book Group is a comedy drama that aired on Channel 4 in the United Kingdom between 2002 and 2003 and ran for two series. It was written and directed by the American-born Glasgow resident Annie Griffin, who also wrote and directed Festival. It was the winner of two BAFTA Scotland awards. In January 2006, it was announced that screenwriter Andrew Davies would make a feature film adaptation of The Book Group for Film 4, but the project was never started.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, talky, sex comedy
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Flatmates (2019)
Plot Summary:
Two lads, three girls, one flat. Flatmates follows the lives of five teens as they take their first uncertain steps into adulthood whilst trying to fulfil the millennial dream.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min
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At Home with the Braithwaites is a British comedy-drama television series, created and written by Sally Wainwright. The storyline follows a suburban family from Leeds, whose life is turned upside down when the mother of the family wins 38 million pounds on the lottery. It was broadcast on ITV, for 26 episodes, from 20 January 2000 to 9 April 2003. At the beginning of the first series, each member of the Braithwaite family has an issue. Alison has to decide what to do with the winnings, and when to tell her family. David is having an affair with Elaine, his secretary at work. Virginia is on the verge of flunking out of university. Sarah has a crush on her drama teacher. Charlotte suspects that her mother may be the mystery lottery winner.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, cynical, semi serious, offbeat, dark comedy, surreal, black comedy
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All Creatures Great & Small (2020)
Plot Summary:
The heartwarming and humorous adventures of a young country vet in the Yorkshire Dales in the 1930s. A remake of the 1978 series.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: sentimental, funny, light, humorous, sweet, sincere, captivating, entertaining, atmospheric, satirical
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Dreamland (2023)
Plot Summary:
In town of Margate, Eldest sister Trish is pregnant and expecting a girl baby. Her sisters Clare and Leila rally around her with their mum. But other sister Mel makes an unexpected return threatens to destabilize the entire family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 22 min
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Fortysomething (2003)
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, humorous, hilarious
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Brassic (2019)
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IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 43 min
Plot tags: realistic, talky, humorous, funny, dark comedy
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Stella (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ruth Jones stars as a 40-something mum juggling the ups and downs of family life amid the chaos of her eccentric friends, relatives and children's fathers.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, psychological, light, realistic, semi serious
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, controversial
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 239
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Robyn, the sharp and witty publicity maven, is an expert at her craft but a complete self-saboteur when it comes to her personal life. Robyn’s work as a crisis PR strategist is fast-paced and unpredictable, as she counsels high-profile personalities in entertainment, fashion and sports.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing, erotic
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Plot Summary:
Derek is a loyal nursing home caretaker who sees only the good in his quirky co-workers as they struggle against prejudice and shrinking budgets to care for their elderly residents.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 35000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: sitcom, mockumentary, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, social, hilarious, sensitive
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: funny, psychological, light, humorous, ironic, emotional, tear jerker, queer cinema, tearjerker
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Flowers (2016)
Plot Summary:
Dark comedy about the eccentric members of the Flowers family. Maurice and Deborah are barely together but yet to divorce. They live with Maurice's batty mother and their maladjusted twin children.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, funny, emotional, satirical, dark comedy
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Sirens (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sirens is a British comedy-drama about an ambulance service team broadcast on Channel 4. It was first screened on 27 June 2011. The series is based on the book Blood, Sweat & Tea by Brian Kellett. The series is filmed predominantly in Leeds with some filmed in the surrounding areas. Locations featured including Headingley, Kirkstall, Adel, Hyde Park, Cookridge, Chapel Allerton and the main city centre including shopping areas of Briggate and Headrow. On 17 October 2011, Rhys Thomas and Channel 4 confirmed that there would not be a second series.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, touching, realistic, witty, semi serious, queer cinema
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Hotel Babylon (2006)
Plot Summary:
Hotel Babylon is a British television drama series based on the book of the same name by Imogen Edwards-Jones, that aired from 19 January 2006 to 14 August 2009, produced by independent production company Carnival Films for BBC One. The show followed the lives of workers at a glamorous five-star hotel. In 2009, actress Alexandra Moen mentioned in an interview that the show was cancelled after its fourth series, leaving the series 4 finale cliffhanger unresolved.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: sentimental, witty, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, entertaining, stylized
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Staged (2020)
Plot Summary:
David Tennant and Michael Sheen (playing themselves) were due to star in a production of 'Six Characters in Search of an Author' in the West End. The pandemic has put paid to that, but their director (Simon Evans) is determined not to let the opportunity pass him by.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: ironic, light, atmospheric, humorous, witty, funny, buddy comedy
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Rock & Chips (2010)
Plot Summary:
Prequel to Only Fools and Horses, set in the 1960s, Joan Trotter is in an unhappy marriage with the work-shy Reg, with whom she has a teenage son, Derek ("Del Boy"). However, the reappearance in Peckham of bank robber, "art connoisseur" and womaniser Freddie Robdal, recently released after a ten year prison sentence, would bring about changes in Joan's life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Ballykissangel (1996)
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Ballykissangel is a BBC television drama set in Ireland, produced in-house by BBC Northern Ireland. The original story revolved around a young English Roman Catholic priest as he became part of a rural community. It ran for six series, which were first broadcast on BBC One in the United Kingdom from 1996 to 2001.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Beaver Falls (2011)
Plot Summary:
Beaver Falls is a British comedy-drama that follows a trio of Oxford Brookes University graduates who managed to deceitfully get jobs at Beaver Falls, an elitist American summer camp for the beautiful teenage offspring of California's rich and powerful. The first episode aired on E4 at 27 July 2011. The show was renewed for a second series, which aired on Monday 6 August, also on E4. On 22 September 2012, it was reported that E4 had cancelled Beaver Falls.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, psychological, light, sexy, realistic, semi serious
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Fresh Meat (2011)
Plot Summary:
A group of six students about to embark on the most exciting period of their lives so far: university!.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, feel good, light, entertaining, erotic, dark comedy, sensual, realistic
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As We Are (2016)
Plot Summary:
An LGBT+ web series set in Brighton, about love, friendship, identity, and the complexities of attraction.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: psychological, light, sincere, sexy, unusual plot structure, melancholic
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After Life (2019)
Plot Summary:
Tony had a perfect life. But after his wife Lisa suddenly dies, Tony changes. After contemplating taking his own life, he decides instead to live long enough to punish the world by saying and doing whatever he likes from now on.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 149000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: uplifting, dark comedy, funny, ironic, compassionate, humorous, powerful, captivating, sad, atmospheric