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Plot Summary:
An aspiring actor and his sister Brooke, a former professional dancer, try to find their place in the world while wrestling with their feelings about their 13-year-old brother Chase's sudden rise to internet fame.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, sitcom, light, sincere, sweet, queer cinema, situational comedy
Best tv shows and movies like The Other Two (2019):
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Merry Happy Whatever (2019)
Plot Summary:
A strong-willed dad navigates the stress of the holiday season when his daughter brings her new boyfriend home for Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, funny, light, sweet, entertaining, children's program, queer cinema
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Love, Sidney (1981)
Plot Summary:
Love, Sidney is an American situation comedy which ran on NBC from October 28, 1981 until June 6, 1983. The series was based on a short story written by Marilyn Cantor Baker, which was subsequently adapted into a TV movie entitled Sidney Shorr: A Girl's Best Friend, which NBC aired on October 5, 1981, a few weeks before the series premiered. The premise involved a gay man and his relationship with a single mother and her five year-old daughter whom he invites to live with him. Tony Randall stars as Sidney Shorr, with Swoosie Kurtz as Laurie Morgan and Kaleena Kiff as her daughter Patti. The series was produced by Warner Bros. Television. Love, Sidney was the first program on American television to feature a gay character as the central lead, although for the series, Sidney's homosexuality was almost entirely downplayed from its subtle yet unmistakable presence in the two-hour pilot.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: retro, sitcom, queer cinema
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Brothers (1984)
Plot Summary:
Two conservative men support their younger brother when he comes out as gay, and help him navigate being openly homosexual in 1980s Philadelphia.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom
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Dollface (2019)
Plot Summary:
After being dumped by her longtime boyfriend, a young woman must deal with her own imagination in order to literally and metaphorically re-enter the world of women, and rekindle the female friendships she left behind.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 29 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, sweet, ironic, light, sitcom
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Players (2010)
Plot Summary:
Players is an American comedy series which premiered on the Spike network on March 2, 2010. The series is a partially scripted/mostly improvised comedy about two brothers who run a sports bar together. After airing 3 episodes, Players was removed from the Spike schedule and put on hiatus. The remaining seven episodes from season one were pushed back to air beginning July 21, 2010. Spike aired the final four episodes back-to-back on August 14, 2010.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, captivating, funny, light, realistic, not serious, alternative comedy
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The Michael J. Fox Show (2013)
Plot Summary:
After being diagnosed with Parkinson's disease, Mike Henry had to give up his career as a news anchor for New York's WNBC and focus on his health and his family. Four years later, Mike decides to get back to work and struggles between family and career.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, sincere, touching, feel good, light, funny, mockumentary, dark comedy, hilarious
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Grandfathered (2015)
Plot Summary:
Successful restaurateur and man-about-town Jimmy Martino is used to being the most suave, most handsome and most single person in the room. All that changes with the surprise appearance of Jimmy’s adult son, Gerald, and his baby daughter, Edie. Now Jimmy has to unlearn a lifetime of blissful selfishness and grapple with the fact that he went straight from single to grandfather in six seconds flat.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, offbeat
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Ben and Kate (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ben and Kate are a pair of odd-couple siblings - one, a responsible single mom; the other, an exuberant dreamer - who reunite to help raise Kate's daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: realistic, sitcom, sentimental, humorous, not serious
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The McCarthys (2014)
Plot Summary:
A multi-camera comedy about a close-knit, sports-crazed Boston family whose somewhat athletically challenged son, Ronny, is chosen by his father to be his assistant high school basketball coach, much to the surprise of his more qualified siblings. Ronny wants nothing more than to move away, join the singles scene and find a partner. His distraught mother, Marjorie is not upset that her favorite son is gay, but that he wants to leave Boston and his family. Ronny's plans change, however, when his politically incorrect and outspoken father, Arthur stuns everyone with his choice for an assistant. Touched by his father's offer, Ronny embarks on a completely different future and he can be sure that his loving family, including his twin brothers Sean and Gerard and his sister Jackie, are going to have a very vocal opinion about it.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: humorous, not serious, realistic, sitcom, light, feel good
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Brothers (2009)
Plot Summary:
Mike Trainor seemingly has it all—he's a good-looking, wealthy and recently retired NFL player living the high-life in New York City, but he's about to get sidelined. When his mom learns that Mike's business manager took off with all his money, she orchestrates a plan to keep Mike in Houston, save his brother Chill's restaurant and bring the dysfunctional family back together under one roof again.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 284
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, captivating, light, feel good, realistic, not serious
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Grace and Frankie (2015)
Plot Summary:
Elegant, proper Grace and freewheeling, eccentric Frankie are a pair of frenemies whose lives are turned upside down - and permanently intertwined - when their husbands leave them for each other. Together, they must face starting over in their 70s in a 21st century world.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, realistic, light, touching, sweet, grindhouse, not serious, buddy comedy, queer cinema
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From Here on OUT (2014)
Plot Summary:
A gay writer makes a low budget gay spy movie, with lots of laughs along the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 109
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, erotic
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Vicious (2013)
Plot Summary:
Freddie and Stuart are an old couple who have been together for decades and bicker constantly. Their lives are turned upside down by their new upstairs neighbor Ash, who is sure to cause trouble in their mundane lives.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 23 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, not serious, sitcom, entertaining, colorful, realistic, atmospheric, hilarious, queer cinema
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Crashing (2016)
Plot Summary:
A comedy drama that crashes straight into the lives and loves of six twenty-something adults living together as Property Guardians in a disused hospital.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, ironic, funny, sweet, light, sitcom, weird, queer cinema, whimsical
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Sordid Lives: The Series (2008)
Plot Summary:
Sordid Lives: The Series is an American television series created, written, and directed by Del Shores and acts as a prequel to 2000 film Sordid Lives, also by Shores, self-described as a "Black comedy about white trash". The show is set in small town Texas and centers around the Ingram family. It stars Rue McClanahan, Olivia Newton-John, Caroline Rhea, Leslie Jordan, Beth Grant and most of the original cast of the film. It premiered on Logo in July 2008. In Canada, Sordid Lives the uncut version can be seen on Super Channel and the censored version on Out TV. According to Logo's contact page a second season will not be produced due to a lack of funding, and the Logo online web page for the series is no longer available. The series premiered in the UK on Film24 in August 2009.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 872
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, hilarious
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Indebted (2020)
Plot Summary:
Young parents Dave and Rebecca are ready to reclaim their lives after years of diapers and sleepless nights. However, things take an unexpected turn when Dave's parents show up unannounced and broke.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: sitcom, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Real O'Neals (2016)
Plot Summary:
A contemporary take on a seemingly perfect Catholic family, whose lives take an unexpected turn when surprising truths are revealed. Instead of ruining their family, the honesty triggers a new, messier chapter where everyone stops pretending to be perfect and actually starts being real.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, visually appealing, queer cinema
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Schitt's Creek (2015)
Plot Summary:
Formerly filthy rich video store magnate Johnny Rose, his soap star wife Moira, and their two kids, über-hipster son David and socialite daughter Alexis, suddenly find themselves broke and forced to live in Schitt's Creek, a small depressing town they once bought as a joke.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 140000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, not serious, ironic, light, funny, realistic, feel good, captivating, satirical
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The Grinder (2015)
Plot Summary:
Television lawyer Dean Sanderson moves back to his small home town after his hit series, "The Grinder," is canceled thinking his time on TV qualifies him to run his family's law firm.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, captivating, funny, light, feel good, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt (2015)
Plot Summary:
When a woman is rescued from a doomsday cult and lands in New York City, she must navigate a world she didn’t think even existed anymore.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, light, humorous, sincere, funny, entertaining, tense, serious, hilarious, captivating
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Awkwafina is Nora From Queens (2020)
Plot Summary:
Nora Lin leans on her family as she navigates life and young adulthood in outer borough-NYC.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sitcom
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Life with Bonnie (2002)
Plot Summary:
The host of the local morning talk show Morning Chicago creatively balances family commitment—to her husband John, a hard-working family practice doctor, and their three young children— and career obligations.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 653
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, semi serious, funny, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, realistic
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Odd Mom Out (2015)
Plot Summary:
Acclaimed author Jill Kargman plays a version of herself as she navigates the treacherous and elite ecosystem of New York's Upper East Side, and the uber-wealthy mommy clique inhabiting this fantastically outrageous domain.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sitcom, feel good, funny, light, captivating, entertaining, hilarious, realistic
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Yes, Dear (2000)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about two young couples and their outrageously contrasting views on parenting. Greg and Kim Warner struggle on a daily basis to become perfect at the job. Kim is a neurotic, stay-at-home mother, and although her husband, Greg, is a success in his career, his more difficult job is keeping his wife calm as they raise their two young children. While Kim is determined to be the perfect mother and perfect wife and to raise the perfect children, her sister, Christine Hughes, a very down-to-earth mother of two, continually reminds her that life will never be perfect. Christine's husband, Jimmy, often feels compelled to share with his brother-in-law his philosophy about being a husband and a parent while still remaining a man.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, realistic, not serious, entertaining, funny, light, feel good, captivating, game show
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Last Man Standing (2011)
Plot Summary:
A married father of three tries to maintain his manliness in a world increasingly dominated by women.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 37000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, entertaining, funny, feel good, captivating, game show, hilarious, sitcom, family comedy
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Life in Pieces (2015)
Plot Summary:
Comedy about one big happy family and their sometimes awkward, often hilarious and ultimately beautiful milestone moments as told by its various members. Of the three siblings, middle child Matt may have just found his true love, his co-worker, Colleen; his coddled youngest brother, Greg, and his wife, Jen, are overwhelmed by the birth of their first child; and the eldest, Heather, and her husband, Tim, are dreading their impending empty nest so much, they're considering having another baby. Their parents are Joan the family's adoring matriarch who would do anything for her kids - as long as she agrees with it - and John, the gregarious patriarch who's searching for ways to soften the blow of turning 70. As the family's lives unfold in four short stories each week, they try to savor these little pieces of time that flash by but stay with you forever, because these moments add up to what life's all about.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: light, sitcom, feel good, funny, uplifting, humorous, entertaining, captivating, buddy comedy, costume drama
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Call Your Mother (2021)
Plot Summary:
An empty-nester mom wonders how she ended up alone while her children live their best lives thousands of miles away. She decides her place is with her family and as she reinserts herself into their lives, her kids realize they might actually need her more than they thought.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: sitcom, funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Gentefied (2020)
Plot Summary:
Three Latinx cousins navigate their differences as they work to keep their grandfather's taco shop afloat in their rapidly gentrifying L.A. neighborhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, sincere, queer cinema
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Hunting Season (2012)
Plot Summary:
Hunting Season is an American LGBT-themed comedy-drama web series created by Jon Marcus. Following the romantic and sexual exploits of Alex (Ben Baur) and his small group of friends in New York City, the story was inspired by and largely based on the 2005–08 blog The Great Cock Hunt and the 2008 novel of the same name published by Kensington Books.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, entertaining, contemplative, erotic, sex comedy, queer cinema
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Shameless (2011)
Plot Summary:
Chicagoan Frank Gallagher is the proud single dad of six smart, industrious, independent kids, who without him would be... perhaps better off. When Frank's not at the bar spending what little money they have, he's passed out on the floor. But the kids have found ways to grow up in spite of him. They may not be like any family you know, but they make no apologies for being exactly who they are.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 272000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min
Plot tags: offbeat, emotional, entertaining, biting, realistic, humorous, sexy, funny, ironic, thought provoking