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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
Best tv shows and movies like The Neighbor (2019):
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Gringolandia (2013)
Plot Summary:
Web series that follows Peter, a Chilean immigrant struggling to succeed in New York City.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Comedy
Country: Chile
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, mockumentary
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Lazer Team 2 (2017)
Plot Summary:
After Woody goes missing while working on secret alien research, scientist Maggie Wittington must recruit the former members of Lazer Team to join her in rescuing their lost friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, futuristic, absurd, psychotronic, visually appealing
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Exit (2019)
Plot Summary:
When an unknown toxic gas strikes Seoul in an unprecedented act of terror, Yong-nam has just met Eui-ju from college by chance at his mother's birthday banquet. The city falls under sudden noxious gas attack and together, they must escape the panic-stricken city.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: South Korea
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, teen comedy, disaster movie
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Poor people (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of an intelligent loser who lives in a communal apartment in St. Petersburg works as a “literary Negro” by Olga Buzova and writes an autobiography on her behalf.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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LA to Vegas (2018)
Plot Summary:
An ensemble workplace comedy about a group of underdogs trying to find their place in the world, set on the Friday night flight from LAX to Vegas and the returning flight on Sunday, who all share the same goal: to come back a winner in the casino of life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating
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The End of Comedy (2014)
Plot Summary:
The life of Ignatius Farray. A stand-up comedian struggling with his troubles while trying to have fun doing monologues.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sincere
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Richie Rich (2015)
Plot Summary:
Richie Rich is just a normal kid, except that he has a trillion dollars.Following his overnight success, he moves his father and his sister into his newly built mansion. He also shares his success with his two best friends, Darcy and Murray.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good, children's program
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Bad Samaritans (2013)
Plot Summary:
Bad Samaritans is an American comedy series produced by Walt Becker, Kelly Hayes, and Ross Putman. It premiered on Netflix on March 31, 2013.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, light, feel good, sitcom
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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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Kroll Show (2013)
Plot Summary:
Kroll Show is an American sketch comedy television series created by and starring comedian Nick Kroll. Kroll, John Levenstein, and Jonathan Krisel serve as the show's executive producers. The series premiered on January 16, 2013, on the American cable television network Comedy Central.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sketch comedy, humorous, parody, feel good, light, captivating, skit, offbeat, realistic, not serious
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The Jack and Triumph Show (2015)
Plot Summary:
The series will feature Jack McBrayer playing a version of himself who was the child star of a Lassie-like series and Triumph, the dog who went into the world of decadence and took Jack with him. 15 years later, Jack managed to put his life together until Triumph came back into his life. The live-action series will be created by Robert S. Smigel, Michael Koman and David Feldman.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, sitcom, dark comedy, offbeat, independent film
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Eagleheart (2011)
Plot Summary:
Eagleheart is an action-comedy television series that premiered on February 3, 2011, on Adult Swim. Eagleheart is produced by Conan O'Brien's production company, Conaco, and stars Chris Elliott as Chris Monsanto. Eagleheart has been renewed for a third season.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: parody, humorous, not serious, realistic, captivating, feel good, suspenseful, disturbing, detective, spoof
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Recep Ivedik 5 (2017)
Plot Summary:
During his visit of condolence to Ismet's funeral, Recep Ivedik feels sorry about Ismet's remaining family members due to his latest unfinished job contract which would cause hard financial situation for the family. Therefore, Recep decides to finish Ismet's last job by replacing himself as a bus driver and to transport group of athletes. Although Recep and his accompanying friend Nurullah were expecting this could be a short trip, they learn that it is not because they have to transport young national athletes to sports organization in a foreign country. This becomes the beginning for them to have irreversible adventure. When they are on the road, unfortunate things happen and crisis appears for the team. Recep, who believes only in victory, takes control of the situation and develops his own methods in order to make the team successful while he face with all funny events.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, not serious, disgusting
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The Countryside (2019)
Plot Summary:
A group of urbanites flee the city for different reasons: existential, economic crisis, need for fresh air, search for peace, inspiration to compose ... The intention of these strangers is to settle in an abandoned town and start their lives from scratch, but when they arrive they discover that there are still some neighbors: rural people with a very different way of seeing life.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 914
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: sincere, entertaining, light, captivating
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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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Sunnyside (2019)
Plot Summary:
A disgraced New York politician who was the city's youngest city councilman in history until he was brought down by a public intoxication incident gets an opportunity to rebuild his life when he is hired by a group of immigrants who hope to become American citizens.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 979
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Dedicated to my ex (2019)
Plot Summary:
The film tells the story of Ariel, a 21-year-old who decides to form a rock band to compete for a prize of ten thousand dollars in a musical band contest, this as a last option when trying to get money to save their relationship and reunite with his ex-girlfriend, which breaks due to the trip she must make to Finland for an internship. Ariel with her friend Ortega, decides to make a casting to find the other members of the band, although they do not know nothing about music, thus forming a band with members that have diverse and opposite personalities.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Comedy
Country: Colombia, Ecuador
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, sketch comedy
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Housos (2011)
Plot Summary:
Housos is an Australian comedy television series created by Paul Fenech for SBS, that screens on SBS One. The series is a satirical parody of low income Australian residents of fictional suburb Sunnyvale, who are living in Housing Commission public housing. On 1 November 2012, a film based on the series was released in Australian cinemas, titled Housos vs. Authority. On 9 September 2012 it was announced that Housos would return for a second series, which premiered 22 July 2013.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, sitcom, offbeat, realistic, not serious
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The Ivanovs vs. The Ivanovs (2017)
Plot Summary:
The series tells about two Voronezh families of different incomes. Both families learn that in the maternity hospital their children were mixed up (it turned out only after 16 years). Adults decide to restore historical justice: now Vanya is forced to learn to survive in the home of his poor biological parents, and Danila is to get acquainted with the rules of behavior in secular society.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy
Country: Russia
Duration: 24 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, touching
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Dangerous Moms (2019)
Plot Summary:
Mayte Soldevilla (Toni Acosta) is a mother who is currently selling copies of the TurboThunder 3000, a last-gen kitchen robot, but is struggling to sell enough copies. During an AMPA reunion, she offers all of the parents in it the idea of coming over to her house to give a demonstration of the machine out of desperation, but only her three friends - Lourdes Sanguino (Malena Alterio), Virginia Torres (Nuria Herrero) and Amparo Pérez (Mamen García) - accept. They are also joined last-minute by a fifth guest, Elvira (Marta Belenguer). Things go south when the machine malfunctions and somehow causes Elvira's death. Since Elvira constantly made the other four women's lives impossible and all of them had motivations to kill her, Mayte, Lourdes, Virginia and Amparo are fearful that people (specially their loved ones) will think they killed her on purpose and, because of this, they try to hide the tragic outcome of the demonstration - which will be easier said that done and will put the four women's lives in constant danger.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 373
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, buddy comedy, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Great Indoors (2016)
Plot Summary:
An adventure reporter must adapt to the times when he becomes the boss to a group of millennials in the digital department of the magazine.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, hilarious, teen comedy
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Manhattan Love Story (2014)
Plot Summary:
The unfiltered internal monologues of a young man and a young woman are exposed as they begin a new relationship together.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious, witty
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The Expanding Universe of Ashley Garcia (2020)
Plot Summary:
15-year-old scientist Ashley Garcia explores the great unknown of modern teendom after moving across the country to pursue a career in robotics.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sitcom, children's program, sincere
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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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Maniac Hero (2016)
Plot Summary:
Nakatsu was laid off at his company and now works part-time at a convenience store. One day, Nakatsu forms a vigilante group to protect his town with Toshida, who has a mysterious physical ability, Kanari, who is a female high school student with excellent information gathering abilities, and Kusaki, who wields hammers under his sleeves. As they punish evil doers, the group gains popular support and flourish.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Action, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Danger Force (2020)
Plot Summary:
Captain Man has a new crew of superhero sidekicks - Danger Force. Captain Man and Schwoz create a fake school to train the kids to harness their uncontrollable superpowers to fight crime.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, funny
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Famalam (2018)
Plot Summary:
Famalam shines a comedic light on everything - from alien encounters in the outer reaches of the galaxy to what happens when a man is left on his own in a house for 10 minutes holding only a phone and a remote. With a dazzling array of accents, cultural observations and colourful costumes, Famalam gives us a glimpse of the latest Nollywood blockbuster, reveals who might be responsible for internet spam and introduces us to the real rulers of the world - spoiler alert - it's not the G20.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 20 min
Plot tags: parody, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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The Tick (2001)
Plot Summary:
The Tick is an American sitcom based on the character Tick from the comic book of the same name. It aired on Fox in late 2001 and was produced by Columbia TriStar Television. With a pilot airing on November 8, the series ran nine episodes on broadcast television. It was released to DVD in 2003.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, parody, not serious, suspenseful, spoof, anime, offbeat, slapstick comedy, weird
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It's All About Karma (2017)
Plot Summary:
Giacomo befriends a man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Deadpool (2013)
Plot Summary:
Deadpool is hired and smitten by the enigmatically psychotic Typhoid Mary. But who is his target?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 11 min
Plot tags: captivating, exciting, light, feel good, humorous