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Plot Summary:
A goofy limo driver does his best to maintain his professionalism and sanity amidst the unrelenting chaos brought into his life by his passengers.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration:
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Help (2005)
Plot Summary:
Help is a BBC television comedy series first screened on BBC Two in 2005. Written by and starring Paul Whitehouse and Chris Langham, it concerns a psychotherapist and his therapy sessions with a variety of patients almost all played by Whitehouse.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags:
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Obliterated (2023)
Plot Summary:
A special forces team thwarts a deadly plot in Sin City and parties accordingly. But when the real threat emerges, they must sober up to save Las Vegas.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags:
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Merry Men: The Real Yoruba Demons (2018)
Plot Summary:
Four promiscuous businessmen must scheme to save the poor people of a village after a corrupt politician challenges them.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Nigeria
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Justimus presents: Duo (2019)
Plot Summary:
Samu and Joona are an inseparable couple, each other's only friends. They don’t leave each other in the lurch, even if they run the risk of getting fired from school or a badge in their buttocks. In fact, the boys are so intertwined that they are willing to do anything to be together. Like breaking into the principal’s office, lapping at millionaires, escaping half-brother Mark from the grenade, or being buried alive.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 20 min
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Bad Guys Always Die (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young Chinese man and his friends visit Jeju Island in South Korea. There, they meet a mysterious Korean woman.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: China, South Korea
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Idiots Product & Money 2 (2012)
Plot Summary:
The movie follows the comedic adventure of Timmy “TJ” Jackson & Jackie “YoYo” Chan as they embark on a mission to rescue their landlords home from foreclosure. In the process they discover that no one is who they think they are.
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Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
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The Tail Job (2016)
Plot Summary:
Nicholas Moore hires taxi driver Trevor to help catch his fiance cheating. With misunderstandings, and mistaken identity, these defective detectives find themselves on an adventure more dangerous than they bargained for.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Drive Share (2017)
Plot Summary:
Comedy show focusing on the drivers and bizarre passengers who use the world’s most popular ride share app.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: sketch comedy
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The Anonymous Heroes (1971)
Plot Summary:
A perennial Chang Cheh favorite, Anonymous Heroes focuses on two vagabond brothers, Meng Kang (David Chiang) and Tieh (Ti Lung) who, in the search for fame and fortune, join in a rebellion against a provincial general. Used to shaking down local vendors for food and gambling away their limited funds, they are recruited by a local rebel leader (Ku Feng) who promises them a glorious adventure. The rebels plan is to steal a huge cache of new rifles set to be delivered to the barracks of the local army. With the help of an officer’s daughter (Ching Li), their plan starts out well, but inevitably slips toward a heroic but tragic finale.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 181
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Snake Eater II: The Drug Buster (1989)
Plot Summary:
A Vietnam vet breaks out of a mental institution to go after drug-dealing gangsters who are selling contaminated product that is killing people.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: perverse, independent film
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Sztos (1997)
Plot Summary:
Two friends recall the PRL. After serving time in jail, they took up an illegal currency exchange. Cheated by partner - they decide to take revenge. Preparations take many months, but the action ends differently than it was planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Warigami (2019)
Plot Summary:
Wendy Ohata has just made three startling realizations: One, she has a twin brother named Vincent. Two, she’s a kami-jin - a descendent of an ancient Japanese people who can turn paper into deadly weapons. And three, there’s a kami-jin warrior named Sadako hunting her down for reasons she doesn’t understand.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration:
Plot tags: exciting, light, captivating
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Traxx (1988)
Plot Summary:
Traxx has battled his way through El Salvador, the Middle East and Nicaragua, spitting lead with two-handed good grace. He decides to retire to a life of baking designer cookies. Running out of dough to buy more dough, he hires himself as a "Town Tamer" and begins cleaning up Hadleyville, Texas, telling the lowlife street scum, "You got three choices. Be good, be gone, or be dead." Like all bacteria, the scum are resistant: crime boss Aldo Palucci (Robert Davi) brings in the dreaded Guzik brothers to rid the town of the town tamer, setting the stage for a showdown in the streets.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, independent film, spoof, parody, cult film
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Web Therapy (2011)
Plot Summary:
Fiona Wallice is a therapist with little patience for her patients. Tired of hearing about people's problems for fifty long minutes, she devises a new treatment, the three-minute video chat. And still, the sessions end up being largely about her. If she's your therapist, you've got problems.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, talky, funny, sitcom, mockumentary, hilarious, realistic, independent film
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Good Advice (1993)
Plot Summary:
Good Advice is an American situation comedy series that aired for two seasons on CBS from 1993 to 1994. It was co-created and executive produced by Danny Jacobson and Norma Safford Vela; and starred Shelley Long and Treat Williams. The Show was a hit, but it was cancelled because Long had suffered health problems that made her unable to film any new episodes for a long period of time.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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First Round Down (2016)
Plot Summary:
Tim Tucker was a star forward who broke a knee and never got drafted to the NHL. After the injury, Tim left hockey and became a hitman. Ten years later he finds himself back in town to look after his brother Matthew, with a chance to set things right. But will his past wreak havoc with his shot at redemption?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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La Famiglia (2015)
Plot Summary:
A hilarious family sitcom that follows the lives of a perfectly normal suburban family living in the divorce capital of the country. With many reasons to be happy, they have even more reasons to go to therapy – their sex life, his best friend, her complaints, and of course, his mother. Their therapy sessions provide the entertaining basis for the series, through which we flashback to the comical, stand-alone scenes from their daily life. Each episode is a new therapy session in which they bring up the most embarrassing, bizarre, awkward and insane moments that are a part of every family’s life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Comedy
Country: Israel
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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The Debt Collector (2018)
Plot Summary:
A classically-trained martial artist goes to work as a debt collector for the mob. The job seems easy enough, until one “client” pulls him into a situation deeper than could ever be expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: entertaining, buddy comedy, semi serious, brutal, humorous, erotic, perverse, action adventure
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The Coopers vs The Rest (2016)
Plot Summary:
The Cooper family share a small house, and absolutely no DNA. Mum Tess wanted to save as many kids as she could from the sort of childhood she had. So, along with her husband Toby, she now divides just about enough money and nowhere near enough time between their three adopted children Frankie, Alisha and Charlie.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom
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Things Are Tough All Over (1982)
Plot Summary:
Cheech and Chong are hired to drive a limo from Chicago to Las Vegas by two shady Arabs - Mr. Slyman and Prince Habib. Unbeknownst to them, five million dollars of dirty money has been stuffed throught the car.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, road movie, grindhouse, hispanic, exciting, realistic, semi serious, funny, light, clever
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The Dukes of Hazzard (1979)
Plot Summary:
Cousins Bo and Luke Duke and their car "General Lee", assisted by Cousin Daisy and Uncle Jesse, have a running battle with the authorities of Hazzard County (Boss Hogg and Sheriff Coltrane), plus a string of ne'er-do-wells often backed by the scheming Hogg.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: retro, sitcom, exciting, humorous, realistic, witty, not serious, semi serious, spaghetti western, slapstick comedy
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Clark (2022)
Plot Summary:
This is the incredible story behind Sweden's most notorious gangster, Clark Olofsson, whose infamous crimes gave rise to the term "Stockholm Syndrome".
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Sweden
Duration: 362 min
Plot tags:
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Sledge Hammer! (1986)
Plot Summary:
Sledge Hammer! is an American satirical police sitcom produced by New World Television that ran for two seasons on ABC from 1986 to 1988. The series was created by Alan Spencer and stars David Rasche as Inspector Sledge Hammer, a preposterous caricature of the standard "cop on the edge" character. Al Jean and Mike Reiss, best known for their work on The Simpsons, wrote for the show and worked as story editors.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: parody, spoof, detective, sitcom, humorous, not serious, witty, feel good, light, hilarious
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Martial Law (1998)
Plot Summary:
Martial Law is an American/Canadian crime drama that aired on CBS from 1998 to 2000, and was created by Carlton Cuse. The title character, Sammo Law, portrayed by Sammo Hung, was a Chinese law officer and martial arts expert who came to Los Angeles in search of a colleague and remains in the US. The show was a surprise hit, making Hung the only East Asian headlining a prime-time network series in the United States. At the time, Hung was not fluent in English, and he reportedly recited some of his dialogue phonetically. In many scenes, Hung did not speak at all, making Martial Law perhaps the only US television series in history that featured so little dialogue from the lead character.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Action
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, exciting, semi serious, detective, crime drama, fast
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Hackney's Finest (2014)
Plot Summary:
A small-time drug-dealer gets into big trouble when a corrupt East London cop tries to steal a consignment meant for Welsh-Jamaican Yardies.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 431
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: UK, France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, suspense, independent film
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Twin Dragons (1992)
Plot Summary:
Twins, separated at birth, end up as a Hong Kong gangster and a New York concert pianist. When the pianist travels to Hong Kong for a concert, the two inevitably get mistaken for each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, entertaining, exciting, realistic, semi serious, road movie, action comedy, harsh, cult classic, action adventure
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The Good Guys (2010)
Plot Summary:
The Good Guys is an American action-comedy series about an old-school cop and a modern-day detective that premiered with a preview episode on Fox on May 19, 2010, and began airing regularly on June 7. The series stars Bradley Whitford as Dan Stark, a mustachioed, former big-shot detective with the Dallas Police Department, and Colin Hanks as Jack Bailey, a young, ambitious, by-the-book detective who has been assigned as Dan's partner because of his snarky attitude. On December 15, 2010, The Good Guys was cancelled by Fox Television Studios.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: humorous, parody, not serious, captivating, detective, light, funny, hilarious, sensitive, exciting
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Weekend (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two gangsters, fighting for influence in the city, decide to get suitcases filled with money and drugs. Meanwhile, another criminal group has the same purpose.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 722
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime
Country: Poland
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: exciting, tense, humorous, suspense, suspenseful
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The Neighbor (2019)
Plot Summary:
Javier is going through a bad patch: he can hardly make it to the end of the month, his business of T-shirts with de-motivational slogans is not quite getting the attention, and his relationship with Lola is shacking. The least thing he needed was for an alien to fall on him and transfer his powers to him before dying.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, absurd
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The War Next Door (2000)
Plot Summary:
Ex-CIA agent Kennedy Smith is ready to live a normal live with his family in the suburbs. Unfortunately, Kreigman, his evil nemesis refuses to let him get away so easily and moves in next door.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, exciting, humorous, suspenseful, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining