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Plot Summary:
Dark comedy about a group of obnoxious friends who struggle to survive the Stag Weekend from hell, as a deer-stalking expedition in the Scottish Highlands quickly turns messier than expected.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, tense, suspenseful, disturbing, horror comedy, thrilling, dark comedy, mystical
Best tv shows and movies like Stag (2016):
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Witless (2016)
Plot Summary:
Leanne and Rhona are two ordinary flatmates whose lives are thrown into disarray after witnessing a gangland shooting. They find themselves whisked into witness protection, given new identities and left to fend for themselves in a grubby flat Swindon - and all before they can so much as collect their toothbrushes. Staying undercover doesn’t prove easy….
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 776
Genere: Comedy, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, light, humorous, feel good, entertaining, horror comedy, dark comedy
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Mystery Queen (2017)
Plot Summary:
Yoo Seol-Ok liked mystery novels and wanted to become a detective, but she gave up her dream after marrying. Now, she is a housewife with a husband who works as a prosecutor. She meets Ha Wan-Seung. He is a passionate detective and they decide to collaborate to solve cases.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: South Korea
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: detective, exciting, atmospheric, dorama, thought provoking, clever, intellectual, captivating, suspense, realistic
Similar in 76%
Murder, They Hope (2021)
Plot Summary:
After their trip to Middlesbrough turned a little more explosive than they thought, Gemma and Terry finally decide to pack up the smouldering remains of their coach tour business and set out on a new adventure as fully-fledged private detectives.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, suspenseful, semi serious, detective
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Year of the Rabbit (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set in the dark heart of Victorian London, Detective Inspector Rabbit is a hardened booze-hound who's seen it all. Rabbit's been chasing bad guys for as long as he can remember, but these days his heart keeps stopping at inopportune moments.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, captivating, semi serious, detective, funny, spoof, dark comedy, parody, offbeat
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Hitmen (2020)
Plot Summary:
Having stumbled into a career in contract killing, misfits Fran and Jamie are not your typical killers for hire. Working out of their scruffy van, each episode follows the hapless duo as they try to carry out their latest hit, inevitably derailed by incompetence, bickering, and inane antics. As each hit goes south, our (anti)heroes are thrown into one bizarre misadventure after another, each full of oddball characters and unexpected dilemmas.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: buddy comedy, funny, humorous, tense, light, unusual plot structure, disturbing, sitcom
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Getting On (2009)
Plot Summary:
Darkly comic series about life on a hospital ward and a nursing team who have to get on with the job despite challenges thrown up by the modern NHS.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, realistic, witty, dark comedy, light, feel good, offbeat, mockumentary
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Unprincipled (2020)
Plot Summary:
Collection of satirical sketches, telling about the decent inhabitants of the Patriarchal Ponds and their obscene stories. The series includes touching, outrageous and full of love intimate stories that are not accepted to speak out loud.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 47 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining, funny, thought provoking
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Impractical Jokers (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four comedians pull humiliating and hilarious pranks on each other in public.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, non fiction
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The Royal Bodyguard (2011)
Plot Summary:
The Royal Bodyguard is a British television sitcom, written by Mark Bussell and Justin Sbresni, and starring David Jason, Geoffrey Whitehead, Tim Downie and Timothy Bentinck. A series of six episodes began on 26 December 2011, concluding on 30 January 2012. The first episode picked up more than 8 million viewers but the series declined in ratings throughout, with the fifth episode barely achieving 2 million viewers. The series was heavily criticised by viewers and critics. At 71 Jason was widely felt to be too old for the lead role. The show was cancelled by the BBC and will not return for further episodes.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 575
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom, realistic, humorous, not serious, exciting, tense, captivating, slapstick
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Guilty Party (2021)
Plot Summary:
Beth Burgess, a discredited journalist, is desperate to salvage her career by latching on to the story of a young mother sentenced to life in prison for maiming and murdering her husband, crimes she claims she didn't commit. In trying to uncover the truth, Beth finds herself in over her head as she contends with Colorado gun-smugglers, clickbait culture, the doldrums of marriage and her own tarnished past.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 996
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, dark comedy
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McDonald & Dodds (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two detectives, DCI McDonald and DS Dodds, who seemingly have nothing in common, are thrown together and forge a rumbustious friendship and entertaining partnership in this two-part British detective drama miniseries set in modern-day Bath.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: tense, detective, intellectual, unusual plot structure, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing, contemplative
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Comrade Detective (2017)
Plot Summary:
In the 1980s, millions of Romanians tuned in to Comrade Detective, a gritty, sexy, communist buddy cop show that has now been digitally remastered and dubbed into English for the first time.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 40 min
Plot tags: parody, exciting, tense, humorous, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, funny, detective, unpredictable
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Tatau (2015)
Plot Summary:
Tatau follows Kyle and Budgie, two twenty-something friends from London that set off to travel the world. Ahead of the journey, Kyle gets a Maori-style tattoo to celebrate their eventual destination: the Cook Islands. When snorkeling in a lagoon, Kyle finds the dead body of a local girl, Aumea, tied up underwater. Returning to the lagoon with the police, Kyle finds her corpse has disappeared. But Kyle knows what he saw. Desperate to uncover what happened, Kyle and Budgie find themselves sucked deeper and deeper into a world of Maori myths, symbols, and hallucinatory visions... until finally the full meaning of Kyle’s tattoo is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: mind bending, clever, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible (2001)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Terrible's House of Horrible is a British comedy-horror anthology series created by Graham Duff, who co-wrote the series with Steve Coogan. BBC Two broadcast the series in 2001. It spoofs the British horror films of Amicus Productions, Hammer Film Productions, and Tigon British Film Productions. The title parodies Amicus Productions' anthology film Dr. Terror's House of Horrors.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: parody, anthology, humorous, suspenseful, not serious, spooky, scary, realistic, biting, suspense
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The Afterparty (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a high school reunion’s afterparty ends in a stunning death, everyone is a suspect. A detective grills the former classmates one by one, uncovering potential motives as each tells their version of the story—culminating in the shocking truth.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 35 min
Plot tags: funny, captivating, suspense, disturbing, exciting, humorous, dark comedy
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Mr & Mrs Murder (2013)
Plot Summary:
Charlie and Nicola Buchanan are crime scene cleaners whose unique quirks and talents solve the most baffling murder mysteries.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Mystery
Country: Australia
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: humorous, detective, light, enigmatic, captivating, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
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Vexed (2010)
Plot Summary:
Comedy drama following a mismatched pair of police officers who disagree on everything with their partner, from policing to their personal life.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, captivating, humorous, detective, tense, exciting, anime, hilarious, realistic, suspenseful
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A Touch of Cloth (2012)
Plot Summary:
Hannah plays DI Jack Cloth, who is called in to investigate an apparent series of serial killings alongside his new partner, DC Anne Oldman, described as a "plucky, no-nonsense sidekick". Playing with the cliches and conventions of British police dramas, subplots include Cloth dealing with visions of his dead wife and the bisexual DC Oldman coming to grips with her feelings for both her female fiancee and Cloth.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, detective, exciting, captivating, tense, clever, slapstick, funny, hilarious
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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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Boomers (2014)
Plot Summary:
Sitcom following the ups and downs of three retired couples living in Thurnemouth, 'Norfolk's only West-facing resort'.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, sitcom, light, feel good
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Doll & Em (2013)
Plot Summary:
Doll & Em is a British comedy series starring real-life friends Emily Mortimer (Em) and Dolly Wells (Doll), filmed in the style of a reality TV show. After a breakup, Doll heads to Hollywood to be with her childhood best friend Em, who's now a successful actress.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, visually appealing, light, feel good, captivating, mockumentary, realistic, not serious
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Sneakerheads (2020)
Plot Summary:
Family man Devin falls back into his sneaker obsession after his pal Bobby talks him into a wheeling-dealing scheme to score a mythical pair of kicks.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: light, semi serious, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, buddy comedy, weird
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Together (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Tom and Ellen are together, things seem to work. It's only in the spaces outside the relationship - the intrusions of real life, and the deadly collaboration of parents, siblings, friends and exes - that the flailing attempts to make good first impressions, arrange first dates and hold a relationship together, seem to unravel.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 225
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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My Own Swordsman (2006)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about some friends and their stories in Qixia Town.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Comedy
Country: China
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, sitcom
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Lovesick (2014)
Plot Summary:
After finding out he has an STI, Dylan must get back in touch with every girl he has ever had sex with to let them know the bad news.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, humorous, not serious, light, entertaining, captivating, satirical, aesthetic, realistic
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The Smoking Room (2004)
Plot Summary:
The Smoking Room is a British television sitcom written by Brian Dooley, who won a BAFTA for the series in 2005. The first series, consisting of eight episodes, was originally transmitted on BBC Three between 29 June and 17 August 2004. The Christmas Special was first transmitted on 20 December 2004. A second series of eight episodes began airing on 26 July 2005. The first series, including the Christmas Special, was released on DVD by the BBC on 6 February 2006 and on CD in a four-disc set on 4 April 2005. The second series was released on 16 October 2006; a boxed set containing both series was released on the same date. There will not be a third series; in an interview for the BBC News website on 30 November 2006, the actor Robert Webb who plays Robin, said in passing, "...there is no more Smoking Room". England's smoking ban, which prohibits indoor smoking in workplaces, came into force on 1 July 2007, as a result of which internal smoking rooms, like the one in which the series is set, became illegal.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 938
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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As If (2021)
Plot Summary:
Yılmaz and İlkkan are two friends who are constantly fighting each other. Their biggest feature is always being able to do things that will turn their ordinary lives upside down. They magnify small events incredibly and give you a nervous breakdown. They are the embodiment of the misfortunes, strange events and despair we experience every day.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, dark comedy, buddy comedy
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Live at the Apollo (2004)
Plot Summary:
A British stand-up comedy programme performed from the Hammersmith Apollo Theatre in west London.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 707
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious, game show
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Limmy's Show! (2009)
Plot Summary:
Limmy's Show is a Scottish comedy sketch show written, animated and directed by Brian Limond. The show stars Brian Limond, Ryan Fletcher, Paul McCole, Alan McHugh and Kirstin McLean. Previous stars include Debbie Welsh, Tom Brogan and Raymond Mearns.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: sketch comedy, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious
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Ferris Wheel at Night (2013)
Plot Summary:
A drama about three families who live in an upscale neighborhood. On the surface, it appears they have attained wealth and happiness, but trouble brews behind closed doors.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 36
Genere: Mystery
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, psychological thriller