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Plot Summary:
Four girls and four guys are planted on an uninhabited tropical island for filming a reality show. Their task is by taking organizers' challengers to fight for the love of the audience: at the end of the winner is waiting for a big cash prize. But after the accident happens on the yacht with the film crew, everything will change radically. Heroes come into play without even realizing that no one is shooting them - they are participants of the show, which is not really there. But they will not know about it right away ... Their life on the island and attempts to return home will lead to a lot of funny adventures and romantic stories.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, light, humorous
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The Best Movie (2008)
Plot Summary:
Vadik Volnov (Garik Kharlamov) dies on his own wedding of cannabis overdose and has to prove to God that he is worthy to enter Heaven. During his conversation with God's secretary, Vadik recalls numerous memorable moments of his earthly existence, such as getting drunk on cognac on his 8th birthday, service in the Soviet Army in Afghanistan, bandit showdowns in crime-ridden 1990s Russia, and, finally, meeting the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 3.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: feel good, not serious, humorous, entertaining, exciting, captivating, funny, spoof, light, parody
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Gourmet Wars (2011)
Plot Summary:
Two family owned restaurants of conflicting styles open up shop across the street from one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Zaytsev+1 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sasha Zaitsev is a Moscow student. He is like millions of his peers, but also is very different from those around him. On the one hand, Sasha has glasses. And he also has the appearance of a nerd and unrequited love. On the other hand, Sasha has a split personality. No, he is not talking to himself in a foil cap. Just if Sasha is beaten on the head, he “turns” into Fedor. Fedor, unlike Sasha, knows what to do with his desires - immediately execute! Want to cheat neighbor? Clamp your classmate at the party? Grab a jeep? Few people decide on this, but Fedor can do anything.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 402
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, absurd, light, captivating, teen sex comedy
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Daddy is My Classmate (2020)
Plot Summary:
Author Tarō Obika is an obsessed single father who loves his daughter so much, he decides to go to the same college. Nicknamed Gatarō, he was widowed when his wife died of an illness and has raised his only child Sakura all on his own. Things are about to change drastically as Sakura prepares to enter a coeducational university after going to an all-girls school all her life. Worried sick, Gataro enrolls not only in the same school, but also in the same department, and the madness begins! Unable to control his anxiety, he sticks his nose in her every business, from classes to extracurricular activities, parties, dating events, cultural festivals, part-time jobs, and everything else college kids do. But as the 40-year-old middle-aged dad gets involved in the youthful pursuits of Sakura and her colleagues, he finds himself enjoying life even more than them.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Sveta From the Other World (2018)
Plot Summary:
The story about a charming swindler, a girl Sveta, who after an accident turned out to be limited in movement. To get back on her feet, Sveta needs a paid operation. But how to make money if you can not even leave the house? Sveta has an idea! She pretends to be Svetozara, a bioenergy therapist for a small fee, and help people solve their personal problems.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, entertaining, ironic, semi serious, funny, humorous, captivating
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How I Became a Russian (2015)
Plot Summary:
Contemporary Moscow. An American journalist, Alex Wilson (Mateusz Damiecki), is sent by his employer, The American Post, one of the largest newspapers in the world, on a long-term assignment in their Moscow office. In addition to his job there as an editor, Alex starts a blog, where he tries to answer important questions about Russians, Russian culture, and the mythical and elusive Russian soul, such as: Why is useless junk stored on the balcony? Why is there a package in every Russian home that contains other packages? And why do you have to bully people to avoid fights?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, entertaining, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical
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Zhuki (2019)
Plot Summary:
Nikita, Den and Artemy have developed unique application, and they've almost sold it to become their dreams come true. But last moment guys had to serve in the military. They arrived to village Zhuki, and tried to finish application. But it's rather hard as there is no Internet.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Borodach (2016)
Plot Summary:
The endless change of jobs, the incredible and insane situations in which the hero finds himself, the constant drives to the police and the amazing charm of the comedy character of the show “Our Russia” Alexander Borodach.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, funny, light, feel good, humorous
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Two Fathers and Two Sons (2013)
Plot Summary:
Pavel, Victor and Vlad are grandfather, father and son who are forced to live together.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 344
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, light, funny, captivating, entertaining, realistic, sitcom
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Pest! (2020)
Plot Summary:
This is a comedy about how people of the Middle Ages cope with new quarantine realities, while a plague rages outside the walls of the castle. According to the plot, the inhabitants of the fictional town of Nischburg are locked in a quarantine castle. The executioners executed people "remotely", the Pechenegs raided the city in masks.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 17 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, parody, absurd
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Smack Dab Kakha (2020)
Plot Summary:
Kakha fell for the beautiful Sophia, but in order to get to her heart, he needed to overtake the brand new BMW Ruslan on his “penny” and score a friendship with Sergo. What will Kakh choose - love or friendship?.
IMDB Rating: 1.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, feel good, entertaining
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Brothers with No Game (2012)
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IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 17
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Makarov and The Girls (2021)
Plot Summary:
The head of the Criminal Investigation Department of the Butovo region, Makarov, is completely replaced by the personnel as a result of a conflict with the leadership. Instead of experienced male cops, four young students are singled out.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sitcom, light, humorous, feel good, entertaining
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Have Fun, Vasya! Date in Bali (2021)
Plot Summary:
Pasha again had a great opportunity to cheat on his wife with beautiful Vasya. Max had the opportunity to destroy Mitya and return Nastya. All the characters converge on the island of Bali, where they are waiting for chases, fights without rules and incredible adventures.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny
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Adaptation (2017)
Plot Summary:
The series is about how an American spy infiltrated the largest gas producing company in Russia.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, humorous, entertaining
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Go guys! (2009)
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IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 255
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic
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SashaTanya (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sasha and Tanya have graduated and moved out of the dormitory. They now live with their son Alyosha in their own two-room apartment in the Moscow suburb of Yuzhnoe Butovo. And, boy, are their neighbors ever weird.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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University. The New Dorm (2011)
Plot Summary:
New mini-series about students' adventures at guesthouse.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 751
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, entertaining, funny, light, feel good, captivating
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Deffchonki (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four young girls: Masha(Boboylich), Lolya, Katya(Palna) and Vasilisa(Vasya). Come to Moscow from a provincial town Saratov, living together in an apartment. Lolya and Katya are classmates and old friends. Masha and Katya are introduced . Masha is the elder sister to Vasilisa. Despite the difference in the nature and way of life, the girls combines genuine affection for each other. In a large, strange city for themselves, they will work together to find their happiness and true love.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, entertaining, exciting, intense, funny, idiotic
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Private Security Company (2015)
Plot Summary:
The series tells about the life of the business center "Nightingale", in which the private security company "Kedr" works. Lev Borisovich, the head of the PSC, is, as he himself believes, not only a guardian of material, but also moral and ethical values. In his subordination are four guards - Fedya, Tolya, Slava and newcomer Andrey. Andrey dreams of becoming a rock star, so he does not value the work of a security guard, but on the very first working day he meets Snezhana, a spa worker, and slowly gets drawn into the workplace of the business center. It is not an action movie with Jason Statham, it's just a story about a couple of days from the humble life of the guards of the Nightingale business center.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sketch comedy
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Patriot (2020)
Plot Summary:
Returning to his small town, after the army, Sanya Kuchin is trying to integrate into a peaceful civilian life: he gets a job as a security guard in the convenience store "Dream", achieves the heart of his former classmate and ... fights with the bourgeoisie, slovenliness, drunkenness and indifference of the local inhabitants. But real life is not an army in which everything is arranged clearly according to the charter, and very soon Sana will have to understand this.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: light, semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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I Heart You, Pare! (2011)
Plot Summary:
I ♥ You, Pare! is a Philippine romantic comedy directed by Andoy Ranay and Joyce E. Bernal for GMA Network. It premiered on February 7, 2011, starring Regine Velasquez and Dingdong Dantes. The love story contains pseudo-homosexuality elements, where a heterosexual man does not initially know of the woman pretending to be a homosexual man's true gender. The show premiered on February 9, 2011, two days after its original premiere, on GMA Pinoy TV. Some of the musical sequences, particularly songs sung in "Club Love" in the story are being dubbed out on GMA Pinoy TV. It ended in May 27, 2011, and was replaced by Amaya.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 65
Genere: Comedy
Country: Philippines
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, 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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La escuelita (2004)
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IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 54
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Retired at 35 (2011)
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Retired at 35 is an American sitcom on TV Land starring George Segal, Jessica Walter, Johnathan McClain, Josh McDermitt, Marissa Jaret Winokur and Ryan Michelle Bathe. It is the network's second original scripted series after Hot in Cleveland. The series premiered on January 19, 2011. On March 21, 2011, the series was renewed for a second season. The second season premiered on Tuesday June 26, 2012, at 10:00 pm ET/PT, and concluded on Wednesday, August 29, 2012. On December 13, 2012, TV Land announced that they were not renewing Retired at 35 for another season and it was cancelled, making it the first TV Land original sitcom to be cancelled from the network.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 528
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, light, captivating, feel good, entertaining, realistic, not serious
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La familia P. Luche (2002)
Plot Summary:
A family that deals with the conflicts and problems of daily life but in a comical and exaggerated way with the particularity that they live in a city that is built entirely of stuffed animals and with all the stuffed accessories.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, visually appealing, weird, telenovela
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In the Motherhood (2009)
Plot Summary:
Rosemary, Jane and Emily try to juggle motherhood, work, friendships and love lives in an overly complicated modern world.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sitcom, feel good, funny, light, entertaining
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Dating Rules from My Future Self (2012)
Plot Summary:
A girl gets romantic advice from herself ten years in the future via text message.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, teen, sentimental, semi serious
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University (2008)
Plot Summary:
The son of oligarch Sylvestre Sergeev, Sasha, fled from the university in London, where he studied finance, and entered the astronomical department of the physics department of a Moscow university. Sylvester Andreevich wants to return his son to his former life, but he wants to live "among the people" and wants to achieve everything in life himself. In parallel with this, many funny situations happen to the heroes of the series.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: feel good, entertaining, humorous, light, teen comedy
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Mothers (2015)
Plot Summary:
Tree girl friends, which live differend but at same time same life styles.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 104
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia, Ukraine
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, funny, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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