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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
As a baby, Bobo gets separated from his family during a camping trip. After being raised by wild dogs for twenty years, Bobo is discovered by animal researcher Penny, who brings him back to his family and attempts to teach Bobo how to readjust to ...
Style:
funny, light, sentimental, humorous, slapstick ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
fish out of water, farce, lost child, stupidity, getting home, misfit, self discovery, family life, inheritance, feral man, judge, cat ...
Time:
80s, year 1987
Place:
alaska, boston
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Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
Via a magic mirror, Twilight Sparkle travels into an alternate universe in order to recover a crown that was stolen from the Crystal Empire. Upon her arrival she is horrified to learn that she has turned into a human.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, stylized, feel good, lighthearted ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, preschool
Plot:
friendship, pony, unicorn, imaginary kingdom, my little pony, fish out of water, high school, parallel world, young heroes, teenage life, disorder, social relations ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
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260
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, Australia
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story:
Supernova is a British comedy television programme produced by Hartswood Films and jointly commissioned by the BBC in the UK and UKTV in Australia. It follows Dr Paul Hamilton, a Welsh astronomer, who leaves a dull academic post and unloved ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sitcom, offbeat
Plot:
astronomer, fish out of water, nothing goes right, wilderness, dull life, disorder, outback, englishman abroad, culture shock, unfulfillment, astronaut, astronomy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
australia
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
3rd Rock from the Sun is an American sitcom that aired from 1996 to 2001 on NBC. The show is about four extraterrestrials who are on an expedition to Earth, which they consider to be a very insignificant planet. The extraterrestrials pose as a human ...
Style:
sitcom, humorous, not serious, witty, light ...
Audience:
teens, date night, family outing
Plot:
alien, space and aliens, fish out of water, disguise, friendship, hidden identity, goofy hero, family life, eccentric family, family secret, fall in love, misfit ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
ohio, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A Beverly Hills housewife in the middle of a divorce tries to find focus in her life by taking over her daughter's Wilderness Girls troop.
Style:
family comedy, independent film, realistic, not serious, witty ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, kids, teens, family outing ...
Plot:
wilderness, camp, divorce, female bonding, friendship between girls, girl scout, fish out of water, self discovery, scout, female protagonist, wealth, competition ...
Time:
80s, year 1989, 20th century
Place:
california, beverly hills, los angeles, usa, southern california
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16K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
A Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation when photographs he's taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world. The young man is called "Pecker" because he pecks at his food like a bird.
Style:
cult classic, absurd, not serious, witty, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
photography, art, photograph, teenage girl, dysfunctional family, artist, gay, vegan, sex, voyeur, art gallery, gallery ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
baltimore, new york, maryland, usa
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31K
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Bud and Doyle are two losers who are doing nothing with their lives. Both of their girlfriends are actively involved in saving the environment, but the two friends couldn't care less about saving the Earth. One day, when a group of scientists ...
Style:
slapstick comedy, funny, humorous, surprise ending, lighthearted ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
stupidity, friendship between men, slacker, biosphere, environmentalism, fish out of water, mad scientist, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, environmentalist, scientist, party, stoner ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
arizona, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Jimmy Dolan is a college basketball coach who wants a big promotion. To get it, he needs to make a dramatic find. He ends up deep in Africa, hoping to recruit Saleh, a huge basketball prodigy Jimmy glimpsed in a home movie. But Saleh is the ...
Style:
black comedy, funny, realistic, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens, girls' night
Plot:
basketball, culture clash, fish out of water, american abroad, wager, basketball coach, student athlete, brother brother relationship, father son relationship, ritual, language barrier, nun ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 20th century
Place:
africa, kenya
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
The story follows the misadventures of a New York City beautician who is mistakenly hired as the school teacher for the children of the president of a small Eastern European country.
Style:
humorous, not serious, feel good, romantic comedy, rom com ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, kids, family outing, date night ...
Plot:
culture clash, opposites attract, dictatorship, female protagonist, couples, single parent, nanny, couple relations, fish out of water, love and romance, society, dictator ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
europe, eastern europe
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Clark Kellogg is a young man starting his first year at film school in New York City. After a small time crook steals all his belongings, Clark meets Carmine "Jimmy the Toucan" Sabatini, an "importer" bearing a startling ...
Style:
parody, funny, witty, humorous, black comedy ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
mafia, gangster, fish out of water, zoo, endangered species, food, college, affection, godfather, taxi driver, mobster, corruption ...
Time:
80s, 90s
Place:
vermont, new york, manhattan new york city, grand central station manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Sweet, unsophisticated Sunny is working as a cocktail waitress. She saves a visiting dignitary and as a reward she gets a top-office job in the Washington beehive. She has to fight against a devious protocol officer but with her charms, she saves ...
Style:
political, light, lighthearted, happy, realistic ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
satire, assassin, blonde, scandal, celebrity, conspiracy, press conference, fish out of water, naivete, coup d'etat, media, self discovery ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
middle east, oregon, washington d.c., usa
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Can two clueless Georgia homegirls with big hearts -- and even bigger hair -- find happiness, fame and thrills in the swank hills of Beverly? Anything is possible when you are B.A.P.'s. They revive Blakemore's interest for life, and he ...
Style:
black comedy, cult classic, rom com, cynical, biting ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
female bonding, fish out of water, ambition, impersonation, class differences, rags to riches, african american, terminal illness, inheritance, female protagonist, culture clash, friendship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa, georgia
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Tough-talking Detroit cop Axel Foley heads to the rarified world of Beverly Hills in his beat-up Chevy Nova to investigate a friend's murder. But soon, he realizes he's stumbled onto something much more complicated. Bungling rookie ...
Style:
buddy comedy, humorous, funny, entertaining, exciting ...
Audience:
kids, boys' night, teens, adult
Plot:
police, gunfight, buddy, murder, reluctant partners, fish out of water, death of friend, investigation, law enforcement, damsel in distress, cop, drug smuggling ...
Time:
year 1984, 20th century, 80s
Place:
los angeles, michigan, beverly hills, usa, detroit ...
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31K
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Jack and Caroline are a couple making a decent living When Jack suddenly loses his job. They agree that he should stay at home and look after the house while Caroline works. It's just that he's never done it before, and really doesn't ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, sentimental, realistic, cult classic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, chick flick, girls' night, teens
Plot:
parenthood, fired from the job, fish out of water, advertising, self discovery, switching roles, family life, parents and children, relationship vs career, misfit, unfulfillment, rise and fall ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1983, 90s
Place:
detroit, north america
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Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
After a big-time country singer brags that she can turn anybody in to a country-singin' star, she's out to prove she can live up to her talk when she recruits a cab-driver as a country singer. He's scheduled to sing at a big-time NYC ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, semi serious, inspirational, cult classic ...
Plot:
fish out of water, music business, happy ending, odd couple, against the odds, musician's life, love and romance, artists and showbiz, teaching the ways of the world, nightclub, taxi, music ...
Time:
80s
Place:
new york, tennessee, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Rabbi Avram arrives in Philadelphia from Poland en route to San Francisco where he will be a congregation's new rabbi. An innocent and inexperienced traveller, he is tricked by con men to pay for the trip to go west, then they leave him and his ...
Style:
humorous, talky, touching, semi serious, funny ...
Plot:
old west, rabbi, fish out of water, culture clash, friendship, partner, happy ending, heist, disorder, polish, odd couple, buddies ...
Time:
year 1979, 50s, 20th century, 1850s, 19th century
Place:
san francisco, california, poland, philadelphia, pennsylvania ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
FBI agent Barney Coopersmith is assigned to protect former Mafia figure turned informant Vincent Antonelli. In the witness protection program one is supposed to keep a low profile, but that is something that Antonelli has trouble doing. Coopersmith ...
Style:
humorous, light, funny, talky, absurd ...
Plot:
fbi, fbi agent, small town, gangster, witness protection, organized crime, switching roles, fish out of water, district attorney, hidden identity, witness protection program, vengeance ...
Time:
80s
Place:
california, new york, europe, italy, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story:
Keen Eddie is an American action, comedy-drama television series that aired in 2003 on the Fox Network. The series follows a brash NYPD detective who goes to London when one of his cases goes sour and remains to work with New Scotland Yard. The ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, realistic, offbeat, detective
Plot:
police detective, reluctant partners, law enforcement, fish out of water, police investigation, partner, fighting crime, roommate, police, murder, crime investigation, partners against crime ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
london, england, scotland yard, europe, britain
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
Helen Harris has a glamorous, big-city life working for one of New York's hottest modeling agencies. But suddenly her free-spirited life gets turned upside down when she must chose between the life she's always loved, and the new loves of ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, touching, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night, kids
Plot:
adoption, custody, happy ending, couple relations, parents and children, couples, teenage girl, destiny, family bonds, orphan, love, love and romance ...
Time:
year 2004, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, san francisco, new jersey
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Shep Ramsey is an interstellar hero, righting wrongs, etc. His ship is damaged after a fight with an interstellar nasty and he must hide out on Earth until it can recharge. He leaves his power suit at home, but still finds himself unable to allow ...
Style:
humorous, entertaining, light, intense, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, boys' night, teens, pre-teens
Plot:
benign alien, space and aliens, bounty hunter, fish out of water, space travel, one against many, rescue, mixed martial arts, lone hero, good versus evil, heroes, save the world ...
Time:
year 1991, 90s, 80s
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340K
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min.
Story:
In 2019, Lincoln Six-Echo is a resident of a seemingly "Utopian" but contained facility. Like all of the inhabitants of this carefully-controlled environment, Lincoln hopes to be chosen to go to The Island — reportedly the last ...
Style:
futuristic, exciting, psychological, suspense, action packed ...
Audience:
teens, manly, girls' night, boys' night
Plot:
distopia, conspiracy, cloning, escape, clone, dystopian future, dystopia, isolation, fugitives, technology gone awry, genetics, lookalikes ...
Time:
future, year 2019, year 2005, 2010s, near future ...
Place:
fictional island, los angeles
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A knight and his valet are plagued by a witch, and to repair the damage they make use of the services of a wizard. However, something goes wrong and they are transported from the 12th century to the year 2000. There the knight meets some of his ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, exciting, hilarious, funny ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
time travel, dumb, alternate timeline, medieval, fish out of water, destiny, wizard, culture clash, altering history, runaway, police investigation, creativity ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 12th century, year 2001, 2000s ...
Place:
france, usa, chicago, europe, seattle
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
A simple-minded gardener named Chance has spent all his life in the Washington D.C. house of an old man. When the man dies, Chance is put out on the street with no knowledge of the world except what he has learned from television.
Style:
political, clever, witty, black comedy, satirical ...
Plot:
politics, satire, comedy of errors, lawyer, secret service, impotence, mansion, funeral, eviction, country estate, wealth, garden ...
Time:
year 1979, 20th century, 70s
Place:
washington d.c., north carolina, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A senator arranges for his son, a rich white kid who fancies himself black, to be kidnapped by a couple of black actors pretending to be murderers to try and shock him out of his plans to become a rapper.
Style:
funny, humorous, satirical, hood, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
ghetto, hip hop, gangster, street gang, gang, fish out of water, satire, father son relationship, justice, betrayal, partner, family relations ...
Place:
california, malibu california, south central los angeles, los angeles, usa
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22K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
Style:
touching, sentimental, sweet, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, kids, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
baby, adoption, babies and infants, career woman, single parent, motherhood, single mother, baby girl, women, fish out of water, love affair, starting over ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century, 1930s
Place:
new york, vermont, manhattan new york city, usa, cleveland ohio ...
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
When minor-league hockey player Derek Thompson -- who has a penchant for knocking out his opponents' teeth every time he plays -- disillusions a fan, he is sentenced to a stint for one week as a bona fide, tutu-clad, real-life tooth fairy. ...
Style:
humorous, funny, light, surreal, fairy tale ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
fairy, hockey, curses spells and rituals, transformation, ice hockey, fish out of water, imaginary, dream, fantasy world, hockey player, teenager, wrestler ...
Time:
2010s, 80s
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
A crime she committed in her youthful past sends Piper Chapman to a women's prison, where she trades her comfortable New York life for one of unexpected camaraderie and conflict in an eccentric group of fellow inmates.
Style:
sexy, humorous, clever, offbeat, erotic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
lesbian, lgbt, strong female character, prison life, prison, lesbian relationship, sapphic, lesbian interest, women's prison, women in prison, lesbian love, lesbian romance ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
new york state, idaho, usa, new york
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2.5M
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story:
A man with a low IQ has accomplished great things in his life and been present during significant historic events - in each case, far exceeding what anyone imagined he could do. Yet, despite all the things he has attained, his one true love eludes ...
Style:
inspirational, touching, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night, chick flick, kids, teens ...
Plot:
life philosophy, philosophy, life, mentally challenged, destiny, storytelling, love, rise to the top, human spirit, selflessness, vietnam war, life & death ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, 50s, 60s, 1950s ...
Place:
china, alabama, vietnam, america, savannah georgia ...
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258K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A young boy, Josh Baskin makes a wish at a carnival machine to be big. He wakes up the following morning to find that it has been granted and his body has grown older overnight. But he is still the same 13-year-old boy inside. Now he must learn how ...
Style:
feel good, sweet, rom com, touching, funny ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick, girls' night, date night ...
Plot:
friendship, adolescence, body swapping, child as adult, magic, coming of age, longing, toys, child's point of view, wish fulfillment, teenager, fish out of water ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1988
Place:
new york, new jersey, manhattan new york city, arizona, bronx new york city ...
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Mystery
Country: USA, Italy, Canada, Japan, UK
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Alice, an unpretentious and individual 19-year-old, is betrothed to a dunce of an English nobleman. At her engagement party, she escapes the crowd to consider whether to go through with the marriage and falls down a hole in the garden after spotting ...
Style:
fairy tale, atmospheric, visually appealing, surreal, gothic ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, girls' night, teens, date night ...
Plot:
fantasy world, magic, escape from reality, imaginary kingdom, magical, transformation, alice in wonderland, teenage girl, imaginary, cat, animal, dream ...
Time:
19th century, year 2010, 1870s, 2010s, 2000s ...
Place:
england, cornwall, london, china
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