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Plot Summary:
Follows the unconventional lives of a Brazilian pop artist who got out of the streets to reach stardom and his manager-wife-choreographer.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 83
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 40 min
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Uncle Marin, the Billionaire (1979)
Plot Summary:
A paysan is mistaken for a millionaire to whom he looks exactly like.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Romania
Duration: 88 min
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A New Wave (2006)
Plot Summary:
A frustrated artist is convinced by his eccentric roommate to rob a bank. Having planned the crime by watching bank-robber films, the amateur heist is doomed from the beginning.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 445
Genere: Action, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
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Cafe Artist (2019)
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Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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Take It, Give It (2005)
Plot Summary:
Brazilian comedy about two couples living next to each other in the same building. This show explores the antics between the two couples.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 540
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom
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Franky Banderas (2004)
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IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
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Fear, Anxiety & Depression (1989)
Plot Summary:
This film focuses on the trials and tribulations of Ira (Todd Solondz), who is an unsuccessful playwright trying to find himself in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 824
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick, campy
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Smother-in-Law (2022)
Plot Summary:
Living with her family since the pandemic struck, the meddling Isadir does her best to disrupt the lives of her bumbling son and rival daughter-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Basic Sanitation, the Movie (2007)
Plot Summary:
When they discover their town lacks funding for a sewage system, Brazilian villagers decide to make a short sci-fi monster movie about the problem.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, sentimental, feel good, captivating, funny, exciting, fun, amateur film
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Calendar Pin-Up Girls (1966)
Plot Summary:
Nudie-cutie that goes behind the scenes of the making of a pin-up calendar. Imagine that.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: independent film
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Fuzue (2023)
Plot Summary:
The department store Fuzue, specialized in popular items, is a success led by Nero Braga e Silva. Little does he know that the store's grounds have hidden relics for over 300 years.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: romantic comedy, soap opera, telenovela
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Women in Oversized Men's Shirts (2015)
Plot Summary:
The dorkiest thing in the world, according to feminist poet Sigrid, is the movie cliche of the young woman who in the morning dons her male lover's shirt, looking adorably "indie cute". But when she begins a relationship with Kåre Tryvle, she has difficulties living up to her ideals. Meanwhile, pregnant performance artist Trine is planning to give birth in a cage, dressed up as Marie Antoinette, on camera, and factory worker Astrid is looking for the son she had adopted away.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 307
Genere: Comedy
Country: Norway
Duration: 106 min
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Odd Brodsky (2014)
Plot Summary:
Audrey Brodsky is a lovable loser who hates her job. After 11 years, she finally quits the office to pursue her childhood dream of becoming an actress. There's just one problem - she's not very good at it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 169
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: meta
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Hard (2020)
Plot Summary:
A recent widow learns her deceased husband was in the porn production business and faces the challenge of saving the company she's inherited.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 432
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: erotic, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sensual
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Con Man (2015)
Plot Summary:
Con Man centers on the post-show life of Wray Nerely the co-star of “Spectrum,” a sci-fi series, which was canceled before its time and went on to become a cult classic beloved by fans. Wray’s good friend, Jack Moore starred as the series Captain and has gone on to become a major celebrity, while Wray hasn’t found his desired level of stardom. Wray is the begrudging guest of sci-fi conventions, comic book store appearances, and different pop culture events; however, everything is not as it seems from the outside. The series will explore these events and all the weird and crazy things that happen to them along the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 12 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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Barakamon (2023)
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A proud young calligrapher is punished for punching a critic by being sent to a faraway island in the east coast of Japan. But as he meets and lives with the island's friendly people, his attitude begins to improve.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 30
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
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Fonejacker (2007)
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Fonejacker is a British comedy programme broadcast on E4 featuring a series of prank calls involving a number of different characters performed by British Iranian television actor Kayvan Novak. It first appeared in May 2006 and became a full series in 2007. In 2005 Kayvan Novak and Ed Tracy created, wrote and directed Fonejacker, a prank call show, as part of Channel 4 Comedy Lab. After making the pilot together they were given a Christmas special and a six-part series which began airing in the UK on 5 July 2007 on E4 and lasted 6 episodes. They went on to make a second series which began airing on 17 September 2008 on E4, and started on Channel 4 on 6 November 2008. Kayvan Novak said that he was "not sure there will be a third series of Fonejacker" but despite this, several websites reported in October 2009 that a third series would air in May 2010. In November 2009, the third series was officially announced, with the news that it would be called "Fonejacker 3D" and feature Kayvan Novak portraying both old and new Fonejacker characters face-to-face in the public domain. Renamed Facejacker, the new show began airing on 16 April 2010. Fonejacker won the BAFTA award for the "Best Comedy Programme" in 2008. Novak plans to create a film based on the show's characters, and is currently in talks with Film4 and Hat Trick Productions.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, captivating, hilarious, exciting, realistic, fun, 2d animation
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Love, Sidney (1981)
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Love, Sidney is an American situation comedy which ran on NBC from October 28, 1981 until June 6, 1983. The series was based on a short story written by Marilyn Cantor Baker, which was subsequently adapted into a TV movie entitled Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend, which NBC aired on October 5, 1981, a few weeks before the series premiered. The premise involved a gay man and his relationship with a single mother and her five year-old daughter whom he invites to live with him. Tony Randall stars as Sidney Shorr, with Swoosie Kurtz as Laurie Morgan and Kaleena Kiff as her daughter Patti. The series was produced by Warner Bros. Television. Love, Sidney was the first program on American television to feature a gay character as the central lead, although for the series, Sidney's homosexuality was almost entirely downplayed from its subtle yet unmistakable presence in the two-hour pilot.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: retro, sitcom, queer cinema
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I Love Dick (2016)
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Adapted from the lauded feminist novel and set in a colorful academic community in Marfa, Texas, this is the story of a struggling married couple, Chris and Sylvere, and their obsession with a charismatic professor named Dick. Told in Rashomon-style shifts of POV, the series charts the unraveling of a marriage, the awakening of an artist and the deification of a reluctant messiah.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 32 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining, clever, hilarious, queer cinema
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Self-Criticism of a Bourgeois Dog (2017)
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The story of the dog from the title, who in a frame narrative explains how he came to be transformed from an unemployed communist filmmaker into a canine with a philosophical bent. Unable to finance his new project, young Berlin-based director Julian tells foreign exchange student Camille that his job in the countryside is research for an upcoming film. When Camille offers to help, he is forced to uphold the lie. The plantation isn’t the proletarian idyll he had hoped for, but fortunately the reincarnation of Francis of Assisi provides spiritual insight and a new aim in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny
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The Aspones (2004)
Plot Summary:
Moira, Anete and Caio are employees of a public office who do nothing in the office, which has lost some government attention over the years. Until a new boss arrives, Tales, with his intern Leda, and makes the old employees suffer with new and many jobs to do.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 225 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, witty, sitcom
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Z Rock (2008)
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Z Rock is an American television series, which airs on the IFC in the United States. The show is a semi-scripted comedy and is based on the double life of a Brooklyn band, ZO2. By night, they are a hard rock band but to pay the bills, they are the Z Brothers by day, playing kiddie parties. ZO2 consists of brothers Paulie Z, David Z and their childhood friend Joey Cassata. The series is filmed and produced in New York City by Mark Mark Productions.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, sitcom, offbeat
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Pé na Cova (2013)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric family from the suburbs of Rio de Janeiro, earns their living from the deaths of others: they own a funeral home.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, semi serious, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, queer cinema
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Big Family (2001)
Plot Summary:
A Grande Família is a Brazilian television comedy, and is one of the most watched primetime shows. The show airs on the Globo Network, and tells the story of a typical lower middle-class family living in a suburb neighborhood of Rio de Janeiro. The family consists of a working father, Lineu, a housewife and mother, Nenê, their son Tuco, their daughter Bebel, and Bebel's fiancée, Agostinho, a taxi driver portrayed as the typical carioca malandro. The family's grandfather, Floriano, was written out of the story after the death of actor Rogério Cardoso. Since its debut on March 29, 2001, the show has broadcast 442 episodes and the thirteenth season starts on April 4, 2013. A Grande Família is the longest-running Brazilian sitcom. A movie based on the series premiered on January 10, 2007.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, absurd
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Crashing (2016)
Plot Summary:
A comedy drama that crashes straight into the lives and loves of six twenty-something adults living together as Property Guardians in a disused hospital.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, ironic, funny, sweet, light, sitcom, weird, queer cinema, whimsical
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The Cleaning Lady (2004)
Plot Summary:
A Diarista was a Brazilian sitcom directed by José Alvarenga Jr. and written by Aloísio de Abreu and Bruno Mazzeo. The series premiered on April 13, 2004 at 11:00 PM and was aired from 2004 to 2007 on Tuesday nights on Rede Globo.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, not serious
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Portlandia (2011)
Plot Summary:
Satirical sketch comedy set and filmed in Portland, Oregon that explores the eccentric misfits who embody the foibles of modern culture.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, humorous, not serious, realistic, parody, hilarious, dark comedy, funny, sitcom, creepy
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Spaced (1999)
Plot Summary:
Spaced: the anti-Friends, in that it examines the lives of common 20 somethings, but in a way that is more down to earth and realistic. Here we have Daisy and Tim; two 'young' adults with big dreams just trying to get by in this crazy world. They are thrown together in a common pursuit of tenancy, which they find by posing as a couple. The house has a landlady and an oddball artist living there. The series explores the ins and outs of London living.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sitcom, surreal, humorous, funny, feel good, sweet, controversial, anime, dark comedy, hilarious
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Fragile Sex (2003)
Plot Summary:
Alex, Edu, Fred and Beto are four friends who live torn between the role of man in society and the need to be more sensitive. They try to understand the female head and put themselves in the place of the opposite sex. They appear to be very safe, but feel totally lost around safe, independent women.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Woke (2020)
Plot Summary:
Keef, an African-American cartoonist, is finally on the verge of mainstream success when an unexpected incident changes everything. He must now navigate the new voices and ideas that confront and challenge him, all without setting aflame everything he's already built.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Sweet Mother (2014)
Plot Summary:
Picucha may seem old-fashioned, but she has modern ideas and a great sense of humor. At 85 years old, she pushes the limits of her age and does everything she can for her family and friends. Sweet Mother illustrates the everyday life of the elderly with clarity and levity, and shows that youth actually starts at 80. In the role that earned her the 2013 International Emmy® Awards for Best Actress, Fernanda Montenegro adds another success to her list of characters, which includes an Oscar nomination for the film Central Station.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 89
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, feel good, funny, light, uplifting, captivating