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Plot Summary:
Payton has known since childhood that he's going to be president. First he'll have to navigate the most treacherous political landscape: high school.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, entertaining, light, thought provoking, offbeat, political, anthology, crying, queer cinema
Best tv shows and movies like The Politician (2019):
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Graves (2016)
Plot Summary:
Former two-term President Richard Graves embarks on a Don Quixote-like quest to right the wrongs of his administration and reclaim his legacy 25 years after leaving the White House. His enlightenment takes place just as his wife Margaret Graves decides it’s finally time for her to pursue her own political ambitions.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, erotic, political, sensual
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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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Spin City (1996)
Plot Summary:
Spin City is a smart, sophisticated sitcom about the behind-the-scenes workings of City Hall in the biggest city in America. Workaholic Mike Flaherty is the Deputy Mayor of New York City, serving as Mayor Randall Winston's key strategist and much-needed handler. Mike runs the city with the help of his oddball staff: an anxious and insecure press secretary; a sexist, boorish chief of staff; an impeccably groomed gay activist running minority affairs; a sharp and efficient, man-crazy accountant; and an idealistic young speechwriter. Like Mike, they are all professionally capable but personally challenged.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, humorous, political, entertaining, light, feel good, captivating, parody, hilarious, clever
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Kevin Can F**k Himself (2021)
Plot Summary:
Explore the secret life of a woman we all grew up watching: the sitcom wife. The series looks to break television convention and ask what the world looks like through her eyes. Alternating between single-camera realism and multi-camera zaniness, the formats will inform one another as we imagine what happens when the sitcom wife escapes her confines, and takes the lead in her own life.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sitcom, psychological, humorous, captivating, exciting, anime, spoof, dark comedy, queer cinema
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Starved (2005)
Plot Summary:
Starved is an FX Network television situation comedy that aired for one season of seven episodes in 2005. The series was about four friends who each suffer from eating disorders, who met at a "shame-based" support group called Belt Tighteners. Its characters included those with bulimia, anorexia, and binge eating disorder. Eric Schaeffer created the show as well as writing, starring in and directing it, based upon his own struggle with eating disorders. In addition to his own life experiences, Schaeffer also drew upon the experiences of the other members of the principal cast, each of whom coincidentally had struggled with food issues of their own. Starved was the lead-in of FX's hour-long "Other Side of Comedy" block with It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia. FX executives wanted to use the two series to begin building comedy programming and broaden the network's demographic. The series debuted on August 4, 2005 to poor critical reviews and was cancelled in October 2005, when FX picked Sunny over Starved for renewal.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 513
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, sitcom, light, captivating, entertaining, clever, offbeat, realistic, witty, controversial
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Vote for Juan (2019)
Plot Summary:
Set in the world of Spanish politics, Vota Juan revolves around the character of Juan Carrasco (Javier Cámara), an uninspiring Minister of Agriculture who, after finding his political ambitions awoken by a series of chance political events, decides to take part in his party's primary elections thereby giving himself a chance to eventually run for the position of President of the Government. Party intrigues, jealousy, crises... as he undertakes this none too easy task he will count on the invaluable help of his press chief, his secretary and his personal advisor. His campaign team, much like him, try to make up for their lack of experience and political expertise through a mixture of guile and a whole host of other shenanigans. Will Juan Carrasco manage to make it all the way to the top?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 714
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, political, entertaining
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Battleground (2012)
Plot Summary:
Battleground is a mockumentary comedy-drama television series created by J. D. Walsh streamed on Hulu. The show follows a group of political campaign staffers working to elect a dark horse candidate to the U.S. Senate in the battleground state of Wisconsin. Walsh serves as executive producer alongside Hagai Shaham and Marc Webb. The show marks Hulu's first foray into original scripted programming. It premiered online on February 14, 2012.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, independent film, fake documentary
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Physics or Chemistry (2008)
Plot Summary:
Física o Química was a Spanish television series made by Antena 3. The first episode premiered on 4 February 2008. Before its televised broadcast, Física o Química was released on cell phones in Vodafone live! and on the official website of Antena 3. After the success of the first season, which ended on 31 March 2008, Antena 3 announced the filming of a new season which would feature more episodes and few cast changes. The second season premiered on 8 September 2008, with guest appearances by Michel Brown and María Casal, among others; it ended on 8 December 2008. The third season premiered on 13 April 2009 and included new characters portrayed by Óscar Sinela, Sandra Blázquez, Miriam Giovanelli, Adrián Rodríguez, Irene Sánchez and José Manuel Seda, and the entry of character actor Álex Barahona who had already appeared on the show, thus compensating for the departure of Michel Brown, Andrés Cheung, Karim El-Kerem and Xavi Mira. Antena 3 confirmed the filming of the fourth season with Adrián Rodríguez as a regular character and the return of Leonor Martín. Física o Química started its seventh season with the departure of Nuria González, Úrsula Corberó, Angy Fernández and José Manuel Seda. Filming began on 28 February 2011. In May 2011 the series was cancelled due to a fall in viewing figures. On 1 June 2011, the death of a main character caused considerable outcry on the Antena 3 website.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: realistic, erotic, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sensual, queer cinema
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Love, Victor (2020)
Plot Summary:
Victor is a new student at Creekwood High School on his own journey of self-discovery, facing challenges at home, adjusting to a new city, and struggling with his sexual orientation. When it all seems too much, he reaches out to Simon to help him navigate the ups and downs of high school.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, captivating, light, saga, sweet, gay cinema, queer cinema, teen comedy
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Glee (2009)
Plot Summary:
Glee is an American teen musical comedy-drama television series that airs on the Fox network in the United States. It focuses on the reconstituted William McKinley High School glee club, New Directions, which competes on the show choir competition circuit while its disparate members deal with relationships, sexuality, social issues, and learning to become an effective team.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 154000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min
Plot tags: feel good, stylized, humorous, witty, semi serious, teen, suspense, funny, light, offbeat
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Tanner '88 (1988)
Plot Summary:
In 1988, renegade filmmaker Robert Altman and Pulitzer Prize–winning Doonesbury cartoonist Garry Trudeau created a presidential candidate, ran him alongside the other hopefuls during the primary season, and presented their media campaign as a cross between a soap opera and TV news. The result was the groundbreaking Tanner ’88, a piercing satire of media-age American politics, in which actors Michael Murphy (as contender Jack Tanner) and Cynthia Nixon (as his daughter) rub elbows on the campaign trail with real-life political players Jesse Jackson, Gary Hart, Bob Dole, Ralph Nader, Kitty Dukakis, and Gloria Steinem, among many others. The Criterion Collection is proud to present the complete eleven-episode television series—more relevant today than ever.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 936
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 353 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, political, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Political Animals (2012)
Plot Summary:
Political Animals is a six-part miniseries. Elaine Barrish's husband Bud was a popular President of the United States during the 1990s despite his extramarital affairs. After leaving the White House, Elaine Barrish was elected Governor of Illinois and ran for the Democratic nomination for President, but lost to Paul Garcetti. The night Barrish conceded the nomination, she asked her husband for a divorce. Two years later, as Garcetti's Secretary of State, Barrish deals with State Department issues while trying to keep her family together.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 360 min
Plot tags: realistic, political, serious, talky, suspense, clever, captivating, queer cinema
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Transparent (2014)
Plot Summary:
An LA family with serious boundary issues have their past and future unravel when a dramatic admission causes everyone's secrets to spill out.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, sitcom, erotic, exciting, clever, mumblecore, sensual, heartfelt
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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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Special (2019)
Plot Summary:
A gay man with mild cerebral palsy decides to rewrite his identity as an accident victim and finally go after the life he wants.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 15 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, ironic, queer cinema
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Undressed (1999)
Plot Summary:
MTV peek behind closed doors at the intricacies of modern relationships. Each episode features three different fictional stories and follows various characters to see what happened during their most intimate moments. No subject is too taboo.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada, UK
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: anthology, humorous, realistic, art house, sincere, touching, teen, serious, sexual, sexy
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Insatiable (2018)
Plot Summary:
A bullied teenager turns to beauty pageants as a way to exact her revenge, with the help of a disgraced coach who soon realizes he's in over his head.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: ironic, cynical, dark comedy, twisted, captivating, entertaining, absurd, thought provoking, rough, humorous
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It's a Sin (2021)
Plot Summary:
A chronicle of four friends during a decade in which everything changed, including the rise of AIDS.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 239 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, humorous, emotional, entertaining, social, sad, saga, anthology, crying
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Everything Sucks! (2018)
Plot Summary:
It's 1996 in a town called Boring, Oregon, where high school misfits in the AV and drama clubs brave the ups and downs of teenage emotions in the VHS era.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, stylized, cult classic, colorful, light, queer cinema, colourful
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Grand Army (2020)
Plot Summary:
Five students at the largest public high school in Brooklyn take on a chaotic world as they fight to succeed, survive, break free and seize the future.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: thought provoking, captivating, cute, emotional, entertaining, queer cinema
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Ginny & Georgia (2021)
Plot Summary:
Angsty and awkward fifteen year old Ginny Miller often feels more mature than her thirty year old mother, the irresistible and dynamic Georgia Miller. After years on the run, Georgia desperately wants to put down roots in picturesque New England and give her family something they've never had... a normal life. But it's not all carpool and Kombucha as Georgia's past threatens her and her family's new way of life... and Georgia will do anything to protect her family.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: captivating, funny, humorous, light, deep, teen, comedy drama, feel good, entertaining, emotional
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Atypical (2017)
Plot Summary:
Sam, an 18-year-old on the autism spectrum, takes a funny, yet painful, journey of self-discovery for love and independence and upends his family.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 101000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, funny, saga, hilarious, teen, comedy drama, touching, emotional
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One Day at a Time (2017)
Plot Summary:
In a reimagining of the TV classic, a newly single Latina mother raises her teen daughter and tween son with the "help" of her old-school mom.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: sitcom, feel good, humorous, captivating, funny, light, entertaining, sweet, children's program, hilarious
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POSE (2018)
Plot Summary:
A dance musical that explores the juxtaposition of several segments of 1980s life and society in New York: the ball culture world, the rise of the luxury Trump-era universe and the downtown social and literary scene.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: light, atmospheric, entertaining, educational, visual, powerful, inspirational, sexy, cynical, queer cinema
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Master of None (2015)
Plot Summary:
30-year-old New York actor Dev takes on such pillars of maturity as the first big job, a serious relationship, and busting sex offenders on the subway.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 76000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, entertaining, sitcom, psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, comedy drama, dorama
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Six Feet Under (2001)
Plot Summary:
A darkly comic look at members of a dysfunctional L.A. family that run a funeral business. When death is your business, what is your life? For the Fisher family, the world outside of their family-owned funeral home continues to be at least as challenging as--and far less predictable than--the one inside.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 145000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: emotional, surreal, clever, captivating, dark comedy, tense, contemplative, dramatic, psychological, spiritual
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Primary Colors (1998)
Plot Summary:
In this adaptation of the best-selling roman à clef about Bill Clinton's 1992 run for the White House, the young and gifted Henry Burton is tapped to oversee the presidential campaign of Governor Jack Stanton. Burton is pulled into the politician's colorful world and looks on as Stanton -- who has a wandering eye that could be his downfall -- contends with his ambitious wife, Susan, and an outspoken adviser, Richard Jemmons.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA, France, Germany, Japan
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: political, intense, witty, talky, semi serious, thought provoking, humorous, realistic, clever, satirical
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The Candidate (1972)
Plot Summary:
Bill McKay is a candidate for the U.S. Senate from California. He has no hope of winning, so he is willing to tweak the establishment.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: political, witty, realistic, cynical, thought provoking, clever, talky, biting, entertaining, funny
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Never Have I Ever (2020)
Plot Summary:
After a traumatic year, all an Indian-American teen wants is to go from pariah to popular -- but friends, family and feeling won't make it easy on her.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 77000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: funny, light, humorous, sweet, captivating, entertaining, psychological, saga, scenic, teen comedy
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Generation (2021)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school students whose exploration of modern sexuality (devices and all) tests deeply entrenched beliefs about life, love and the nature of family in their conservative community.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, sex comedy, humorous, queer cinema, teen comedy