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Plot Summary:
Get ready to experience everyone’s favourite mother hen at her most outrageous in her very first Live Tour DVD. Prepare for a riot of bad behaviour as you see Mrs Brown Live and unleashed for the first time in a show jam packed with all the laughs and drama you can expect from the mother of all comedy. Featuring your favourite characters from the series, the live show is even ruder and cruder than the hit TV show and guaranteed loads of big laughs. So if you loved Mrs Brown’s Boys the series you will love Mrs Brown’s Boys Live Tour: Good Mourning Mrs Brown - Too rude for TV.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, witty, not serious, hilarious, offbeat, realistic, live comedy, nostalgic
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2point4 Children (1991)
Plot Summary:
2point4 children is a 1990s British sitcom that was created and written by Andrew Marshall. It follows the lives of the Porter family; an average family that is persistently faced with surreal situations and sheer bad luck. The show was originally broadcast on BBC One from 1991 to 1999, and ran for eight series, ending in a special Millennium edition that would be the last due to the death of Gary Olsen, who died from cancer in 2000. The show is now repeated regularly in the UK on Gold, and in Australia on UKTV. The title of the show refers to the once average size of a UK family. There are two children in the Porter family, however Andrew Marshall has indicated that the father, Ben, could be considered almost another child, making up the "point four". The show regularly picked up large audiences of up to 14 million in the early 1990s, with an average of between 6 - 9 million, the final episode was viewed by 9.03 million people. In 1997 a remake of the show debuted in the Netherlands: 'Kees & Co' starring Simone Kleinsma.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious
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A comedy series about the lovable, seasonally dysfunctional Moody family. Each episode is set on a different holiday gathering which includes fights, bad gifts, boring uncles, shocking family secrets and bizarre eccentricities.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 906
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration:
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, not serious, sitcom, mockumentary
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The Royle Family (1998)
Plot Summary:
British comedy series focusing on the lives of a working-class family in Manchester who love the TV.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Mrs. Brown's Boys D'Movie (2014)
Plot Summary:
When Moore Street market-trader Agnes Brown finds her livelihood under threat from a ruthless developer, she and her family embark on a campaign to save her stall, aided as only the Browns will be by a motley troop of blind trainee Ninjas, an alcoholic solicitor, and a barrister with Tourettes Syndrome.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, Ireland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, happy, realistic, witty, not serious
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, witty, hilarious, cynical, fun, mad
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, sitcom, feel good, captivating, light, offbeat, witty, hilarious, clever
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IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, hilarious, psychedelic, deep, cult classic, clever
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IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, Australia
Duration:
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, light, feel good, funny, dark comedy, realistic
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Plot Summary:
Two siblings share their Friday night dinners at their parents home and, somehow, something always goes wrong.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
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IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
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IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 140
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
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IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
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Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 543
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Shani and her husband Shai visit her Sephardic family, then his Ashkenazi brood, for regular weekend meals that reveal both clans' quirks and foibles.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 214
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 223
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 801
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 204
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Country: UK
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IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 168
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Country: UK
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
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