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Plot Summary:
For Ed Poole, clarity comes when a secret from his past has seemingly destroyed his future. He soon realizes the only thing that will make his life worth living is to forget the past, screw the future and just live in The Now.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 629
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 10 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, semi serious
Best tv shows and movies like The Now (2021):
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Ana (2020)
Plot Summary:
Ana was raised to be famous and beautiful. After realizing that his life has been controlled by appearances, he takes a new path. This is the story of a late adolescence of those who are not afraid of getting lost, only to find themselves again.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Comedy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing
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Small World (2003)
Plot Summary:
A prominent doctor wants to commit a suicide. Two cops chose a wrong way while driving down the road. The suspected one believes that he'll never be caught. His pretty wife who works in a confectionery and she's able only to love. One boy will help them all, but he's not even born yet... Just an ordinary day.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Serbia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, black comedy, dark comedy
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Frat Pack (2018)
Plot Summary:
A shy British graduate student gets dragged on a wild road trip across America to a raging fraternity party by his soon-to-be stepbrothers, as his mother marries into a larger than life, all-American family. His worst nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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A Small Southern Enterprise (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mamma Stella is on edge. As if she hadn't got enough trouble already with her daughter Rosa Maria, who has left her husband now Costantino, her son, has disrobed. Afraid to be the talk of the village, relegates him to a distant lighthouse belonging to the family. But Costantino does not remain far from the madding crowd for long. It does not take long indeed before all the local (or even distant) outcasts flock together there: Magnolia, a retired escort girl; Arturo, Rosa Maria's estranged husband; Valbona, a lesbian; Rosa Maria herself; and, to crown it all, two eccentric workers accompanied by a little girl... After a period of chaos, this small world gradually discovers that unity makes strength.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 791
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, semi serious
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Mr. Black (2019)
Plot Summary:
Gen X man versus Millennial man. Real man versus new man. An ailing father strives to fulfill one last wish - to break up the relationship between his daughter and her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Out of Her Mind (2020)
Plot Summary:
Heartbreak, family and how to survive them - and just why is everyone pairing up and having babies? A deliriously surreal journey into the mind of Sara Pascoe.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 518
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Lopez (2016)
Plot Summary:
Exploring the real George Lopez we rarely get to see, pushed and pulled between the worlds of race, class and fame, yet always having a hard time fitting in.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 603
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, sitcom
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King Knight (2021)
Plot Summary:
The High Priest of a modern-day coven finds his life thrown into turmoil and ventures out on a journey of self-discovery.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 674
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, funny, suspense, surreal
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Cracking Up (2004)
Plot Summary:
Cracking Up is an American television sitcom created by School of Rock writer Mike White, who also served as the series' head writer. It aired on the Fox Network on Monday nights from March to May 2004. The title of the program and the name of the psychiatrist, Dr. Bollas, are comic allusions to Christopher Bollas, a psychoanalyst, and to his book Cracking UP.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Welcome to Flatch (2022)
Plot Summary:
When a documentary crew sets out to explore the lives of residents in a small American town – their dreams, their concerns – they stumble upon the midwestern town of Flatch, which is made up of many eccentric personalities. It’s a place you want to visit and maybe even stay. If there was a decent motel. Which there is not.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Run The Burbs (2022)
Plot Summary:
Run the Burbs follows the Phams, a young, bold Vietnamese-South Asian-Canadian family taking a different approach to living life to the fullest, while changing the way we think about contemporary family values and life in the burbs.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 622
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Superwog (2017)
Plot Summary:
Follow Superwog and best friend Johnny as their misadventures cause Superwog's primitive, highly-strung father stress as he battles to keep his delusional, but loyal wife happy.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Hold the Sunset (2018)
Plot Summary:
Edith's dreams of retirement to the sun with her long-term suitor Phil are shattered when her 50-year-old son Roger arrives home, seeking to recapture his boyhood happiness.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, surreal
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Home Economics (2021)
Plot Summary:
The heartwarming yet uncomfortable relationship between three adult siblings: one in the 1%, one middle-class and one barely holding on.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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The Letdown (2017)
Plot Summary:
Audrey is determined not to be defined by motherhood. In theory, this seems fairly easy. In practice, her career-focused husband, self-obsessed mother & fancy-free best friend, make it damn near impossible.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Fragile Sex (2003)
Plot Summary:
Alex, Edu, Fred and Beto are four friends who live torn between the role of man in society and the need to be more sensitive. They try to understand the female head and put themselves in the place of the opposite sex. They appear to be very safe, but feel totally lost around safe, independent women.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Homecoming Queens (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two best friends reinvent themselves after chronic illness changes their friendship, their futures and... their pubic hair.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 53
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Comedy.tv (2010)
Plot Summary:
Some say laughter is the best medicine. It’s true. Standup comedy has been known to cure everything from bad moods and frowns to fits of pouting. So for those who need a heavy dose of hilarity, try a spoonful of “Comedy.TV.” With no traffic jams, parking debacles, or two-drink minimums of the local comedy clubs, the most clever comedians jump onstage for a full-fledged funny fest.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, non fiction
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Shrink (2017)
Plot Summary:
After being rejected from every medical residency program on his list, Dr. David Tracy scrambles to perform 1750 hours of clinical therapy out of his garage to become a licensed therapist before his $500,000 activate and destroy his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 991
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Dice (2016)
Plot Summary:
Hickory, dickory, dock — the Dice Man's back and he's ready to rock. The semi-true stories of Andrew Dice Clay, whose unique brand of humor often gets him in trouble. Once on top, the comedian now must work to resurrect his career, pay his gambling debts, manage his sons’ rock band, fend off old fans and keep his family afloat.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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No Way Jose (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jose Stern, an erstwhile indie-rocker relegated to playing children's birthday parties, is on the verge of turning 40 and at a crossroads in his life.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 771
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Bob Patterson (2001)
Plot Summary:
Bob Patterson is a popular self-help motivational speaker. What his adoring public doesn't know is Bob is an insecure husband and dad who often fails at basic human interactions.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, psychological, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, realistic
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Priceless (2012)
Plot Summary:
Originally a mid-level manager (Kimura Takuya) with a promising future in a big corporation and loved by his subordinates, the life of this elite employee changes dramatically one day. Having for some reason attracted the attention of the senior management, he is framed for a crime which he knows nothing of and forced out of the workplace. Even after that, he is assailed by a series of surprises and in one day, he loses his house, wealth and handphone until he is without a cent to his name. At his wits end, he comes to a park where he encounters two children. Learning from them how to survive even if he does not have money, he somehow weathers this crisis and discovers the truly important and priceless things in life. The good thing about him is that his carefree personality amazingly does not shift. It is not resentment and bitterness that become his driving force, but the love and help of the people he meets that enables him to keep go forward step by step.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 339
Genere: Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 54 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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I Feel Bad (2018)
Plot Summary:
Emet is the perfect mom, boss, wife, friend and daughter. Okay, she's not perfect. In fact, she's just figuring it out like the rest of us. Sure, she feels bad when she has a sexy dream about someone other than her husband, or when she pretends not to know her kids when they misbehave in public, or when she uses her staff to help solve personal problems. But that's okay, right? Nobody can have it all and do it perfectly.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Choufli Hal (2005)
Plot Summary:
Sboui, a comic character, lives with his brother and mother many funny adventure in the old building of a fortune teller, and fall in love with her daughter. he works at the office of his brother, a psychotherapist, as a secretary.
IMDB Rating: 9.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Tunisia
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Loot (2022)
Plot Summary:
After divorcing her husband of 20 years, Molly Novak must figure out what to do with her $87 billion settlement. She decides to reengage with her charitable foundation and reconnect with the real world—finding herself along the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, funny, dark comedy, queer cinema
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Lady Dynamite (2016)
Plot Summary:
A single-camera half-hour comedy based on what Maria Bamford has accepted to be "her life." It's the sometimes surreal story of a woman who loses — and then finds — her s**t.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, dark comedy, offbeat
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Japani Toy: Web - Series (2018)
Plot Summary:
Director:- Sourav Chakraborty Cast:- Rajdeep Gupta, Ishaa Saha, Rajat Ganguly, Kaushiki Guha Plot:- What happens when you want to open a sex toy shop in Kolkata? Watch this hoichoi Original social satire.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 261
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration:
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, entertaining, ironic, satirical, sex comedy, semi serious
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The Help (2004)
Plot Summary:
22-year-old Maria was on her way to becoming a beautician when a family crisis forced her to take a new path, and she now finds herself employed as the maid for the extremely wealthy Ridgeway family. As one of many servants who dote on the demented and dysfunctional family, Maria discovers there's not only a class struggle between the upstairs and the downstairs, but there's an all out war among "The Help.".
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Work in Progress (2019)
Plot Summary:
Abby is a 45-year-old self-identified fat, queer dyke whose misfortune and despair unexpectedly lead her to a vibrantly transformative relationship.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, sincere, romantic, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, queer cinema