Farce movies and TV shows – page 2
Best films
New films
List of farce movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
To the amusement of their adult children and friends, long divorced couple Don and Ellie Griffin are once again forced to play the happy couple for the sake of their adopted son's wedding after his ultra conservative biological mother ...
Style:
entertaining, feel good, funny, not serious, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, date night, teens
Plot:
wedding, couples, family gatherings, twists and turns, parents and children, marriage, farce, family relations, family reunited, couple relations, family feud, in-laws ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
George Washington McLintock, 'GW' to friends and foes alike, is a cattle baron and the richest man in the territory. He anxiously awaits the return of his daughter Becky who has been away at school for the last two years. He's also ...
Style:
humorous, funny, light, captivating, exciting ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
farce, ranch, cowboy, greed, mogul, rivalry, father daughter relationship, indians, wild west, couples, vengeance, shakespeare ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, year 1963, 60s, 1930s
Place:
oklahoma, arizona, california, ireland, alaska
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Construction worker Doug Kinney finds that the pressures of his working life, combined with his duties to his wife Laura and daughter Jennifer leaves him with little time for himself. However, he is approached by geneticist Dr. Owen Leeds, who ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, light, not serious, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
cloning, clone, farce, husband wife relationship, experiment gone awry, scientist, same actor playing two characters simultaneously on screen, mistaken identity, disorder, family life, family relations, switching roles ...
Time:
year 1996
Place:
england, europe, miami
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
As a swingin' fashion photographer by day and a groovy British superagent by night, Austin Powers is the '60s' most shagadelic spy, baby! But can he stop megalomaniac Dr. Evil after the bald villain freezes himself and unthaws in the ...
Style:
parody, spoof, humorous, satirical, entertaining ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, adult
Plot:
time travel, spy spoof, spy, dumb, farce, james bond spoof, secret agent, satire, 007, stupidity, sarcasm, time machine ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1997, 60s, year 1967
Place:
las vegas, usa, london, seattle
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Guinevere Pettigrew, a middle-aged London governess, finds herself unfairly dismissed from her job. An attempt to gain new employment catapults her into the glamorous world and dizzying social whirl of an American actress and singer, Delysia Lafosse.
Style:
touching, romantic, emotional, light, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night, teen drama
Plot:
love affair, love and romance, social differences, couples, fall in love, friendship, high society, farce, actress, fish out of water, destiny, happy ending ...
Time:
1930s, year 1939, 1900s, year 2008, 20th century ...
Place:
england, london, britain, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A winter day at a Polish castle, half owned by a fatalistic notary and half by a volcanic old soldier's niece. The old soldier, Cupbearer, and the notary are sworn enemies, which may doom the love between the niece, Klara, and the notary's ...
Style:
period piece, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot:
farce, young lovers, dishonesty, love and romance, rivalry, infidelity, soldier, eccentric family, vengeance, love triangle, uninhibited rivalry, couples ...
Time:
17th century
Place:
poland
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: France, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
When a lawyer shows up at the vampire's doorstep, he falls prey to his charms and joins him in his search for fresh blood. Enter Dr. van Helsing, who may be the only one able to vanquish the count.
Style:
parody, funny, spoof, horror comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vampire, dracula, farce, satire, vampire bite, stupidity, sexy female vampire, insane asylum, goofy hero, hypnosis, save the day, heroic mission ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, 1890s, 20th century, 90s ...
Place:
transylvania, europe, england, romania, london
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Four retired mobsters plan one last crime to save their retirement home.
Style:
humorous, dark comedy, funny, stylized, witty ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
farce, drug lord, father daughter relationship, gangster, vengeance, old man, voice over narration, female police officer, male bonding, friendship between men, retirement, long lost daughter ...
Time:
year 1968, 90s, 60s
Place:
miami, florida, usa, miami beach, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
When a serial killer interrupts the fun at the swanky Coconut Pete's Coconut Beach Resort -- a hedonistic island paradise for swingers --- it's up to the club's staff to stop the violence ... or at least hide it!
Style:
parody, sexy, horror comedy, sex comedy, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
serial killer, farce, masked killer, machete, resort, nothing goes right, satire, voyeurism, voyeur, oral sex, campfire story, characters killed one by one ...
Time:
80s, 21st century
Place:
costa rica, central america
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Sherlock Holmes is as dashing as ever, but with a little secret: Dr. Watson is the brains behind the operation. When Reginald Kincaid, the actor he has hired to play Holmes becomes insufferable, Watson fires him and tries to go out on his own, but ...
Style:
parody, spoof, entertaining, humorous, detective ...
Plot:
private detective, who done it, farce, investigation, sherlock holmes, comedy of errors, disorder, hidden identity, storytelling, doctor, actor, drunkenness ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s, victorian era
Place:
england, europe, london
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the ...
Style:
humorous, not serious, realistic, exciting, tense ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
gendarme, kidnapping, farce, beach, nothing goes right, policewoman, police, yacht, mother superior, law enforcement, comedy of errors, goofy hero ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
saint tropez, france, provence, riviera, mediterranean sea ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, France
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
Style:
funny, humorous, sex comedy, esoteric, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
farce, hotel, psychiatrist, sex, women, police, chase, adultery, psychoanalysis, parachutist, psychotherapy, therapy ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
paris france, france, europe, new york
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Roberta is a bored suburban housewife who is fascinated with a woman, Susan, she only knows about by reading messages to and from her in the personals section of the newspaper. This fascination reaches a peak when an ad with the headline ...
Style:
feel good, light, clever, humorous, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night, teens, date night
Plot:
mistaken identity, amnesia, fish out of water, farce, obsession, female protagonist, magician's assistant, adultery, locker, intrigue, feminist, magic show ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1985
Place:
new york, new jersey, usa, atlantic city new jersey, manhattan new york city ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Each week, Pierre and his friends organize what is called as "un dîner de cons". Everyone brings the dumbest guy he could find as a guest. Pierre thinks his champ -François Pignon- will steal the show.
Style:
humorous, funny, feel good, hilarious, light ...
Plot:
farce, misfit, food, class differences, stupidity, telephone call, husband wife relationship, social satire, mistaken identity, screwball, dinner, mistress ...
Time:
90s, year 1998, 20th century
Place:
france, paris france, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, History
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
An account of the adventures of two sets of identical twins, badly scrambled at birth, on the eve of the French Revolution. One set is haughty and aristocratic, the other poor and somewhat dim. They find themselves involved in palace intrigues as ...
Style:
parody, funny, black comedy, humorous, witty ...
Plot:
french revolution, satire, farce, twins, woman in labor, mistaken identity, voice over narration, sibling rivalry, nobleman, swashbuckler, revolution, identical twins ...
Time:
18th century, georgian era, 1780s, 70s
Place:
france, paris france, england, spain
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Thriller
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
In comic Woody Allen's film debut, he took the Japanese action film "International Secret Police: Key of Keys" and re-dubbed it, changing the plot to make it revolve around a secret egg salad recipe.
Style:
spoof, parody, spy comedy, grindhouse, cult classic ...
Plot:
farce, espionage, spy spoof, food, sex, boat, casino, organized crime, recipe, fictitious country, pun, absurd humor ...
Time:
year 1966, 60s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
japan, asia, tokyo
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
A mobster named Jimmy the Tulip agrees to cooperate with an FBI investigation in order to stay out of prison; he's relocated by the authorities to a life of suburban anonymity as part of a witness protection program. It's not long before a ...
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, black comedy, dark comedy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
hitman, mafia, assassin, adultery, dark humor, twists and turns, killer, farce, organized crime, gangster, contract killer, opposites attract ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s, 2000s ...
Place:
montreal, chicago, canada, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
'Allo 'Allo! is a British sitcom broadcast on BBC One from 1982 to 1992 comprising eighty-five episodes. The story is set up in a small town café in Nazi-occupied France during World War II. It is a parody of another BBC programme, the ...
Style:
sitcom, parody, humorous, surreal, realistic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
world war two, german army, farce, satire, french resistance, cafe, world war, soldier, german soldier, gestapo, nazi, absurdism ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Two friends are invited for a weekend to a luxury island with their boss. The boss gets shot and nobody seems to notice, except for the two friends. In order not to become suspects of murder they treat the body as a puppet and make people believe ...
Style:
funny, humorous, black comedy, hilarious, buddy comedy ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night, kids
Plot:
dark humor, beach, murder, farce, insurance, comedy of errors, heat wave, vacation gone wrong, weekend getaway, businessman, summer job, organized crime ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, labor day
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He's negotiating a deal with an American, Eric Thomson, who turns out to be ...
Style:
realistic, humorous, feel good, semi serious, witty ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night
Plot:
farce, couple relations, uncover truth, disorder, love triangle, love and romance, ambition, opposites attract, lifestyle, dishonesty, couples, unfulfilled love ...
Time:
year 2003, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
japan, paris france, asia, europe, france
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Brian and Charlie work for a gangster. When the boss learns they want to "leave" he sets them up to be killed, after they help rob the local Triads of their drug dealing profits. B&C decide to steal the money for themselves, but ...
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, entertaining, laugh out loud ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
cross dressing, nun, chase, priest, fish out of water, misfit, gangster, on the run, money, disguise, convent, disorder ...
Time:
80s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK, USA, Switzerland, France
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The famous Pink Panther jewel has once again been stolen and Inspector Clouseau is called in to catch the thief. The Inspector is convinced that 'The Phantom' has returned and utilises all of his resources – himself and his Asian ...
Style:
slapstick, witty, humorous, laugh out loud, colorful ...
Plot:
farce, pink panther, spying, false accusation, resort, law enforcement, chase, fictional country, valet, assassination attempt, cat burglar, jewel thief ...
Time:
year 1975, 70s, 20th century
Place:
france, europe, south of france, switzerland, cote d'azur ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Spain, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The film is an ensemble comedy written and directed by Pedro Almodóvar. When it appears as though the end is in sight, the pilots, flight crew, and passengers of a plane heading to Mexico City look to forget the anguish of the moment and face the ...
Style:
sexy, erotic, road movie, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
airplane, farce, gay, stewardess, lgbt, gays and lesbians, workplace, aviation, disorder, friends, lgbtq, lgbtqi ...
Time:
year 2013, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
spain, new jersey, mexico, australia, boston
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
225K
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power ...
Style:
parody, spoof, funny, cult classic, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
space opera, space and aliens, space travel, space battle, wilhelm scream, satire, alien, farce, star wars, outer space, stupidity, rescue ...
Time:
future, 80s
Place:
space western
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Secret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East.
Style:
parody, spoof, humorous, light, suspense ...
Plot:
spy, james bond spoof, espionage, undercover, farce, secret agent, undercover agent, dance, embassy, villain, agent, secret service ...
Time:
20th century, 1950s, year 2006, 2000s, 50s ...
Place:
france, africa, usa, europe, middle east ...
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story:
Black Books centres around the foul tempered and wildly eccentric bookshop owner Bernard Black. Bernard’s devotion to the twin pleasures of drunkenness and wilful antagonism deepens and enriches both his life and that of Manny, his assistant. ...
Style:
humorous, sitcom, witty, not serious, talky ...
Audience:
teens, family friendly
Plot:
bookstore, workplace, friends, workplace situations, uptight character, workplace problem, store, best friend, drunkenness, farce, coworker, weirdo ...
Time:
near future, 20th century, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
england, london, europe
Is relevant?
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
Derek and Hansel are modelling again when an opposing company attempts to take them out from the business.
Style:
parody, humorous, feel good, slapstick, hilarious ...
Audience:
date night, teens
Plot:
satire, fashion model, stupidity, model, fashion show, farce, orgy, absurd humor, desert, public humiliation, fashion, serial killer ...
Time:
year 2016, year 2001, 2000s
Place:
rome italy, italy, new jersey
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A pair of well-meaning, but socially inept brothers try to find their perfect mates in order to provide their dying father with a grandchild.
Style:
humorous, not serious, ironic, realistic, funny ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
pregnancy, sexual attraction, farce, dumb, eccentricity, goofy hero, misfit, love and romance, family relations, brother brother relationship, socially awkward, father son relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, antarctica
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In an attempt to resurrect the slapstick comedy of Laurel and Hardy or The Marx Brothers, Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt team-up as two out-of-work actors who accidentally stow away on a ship to hide from a drunken, belligerent lead actor who has ...
Style:
humorous, light, absurd, feel good, witty ...
Plot:
farce, nothing goes right, eccentricity, sarcasm, deadpan, cruise, goofy hero, hidden identity, down on your luck, artists and showbiz, satire, ship ...
Time:
1930s, year 1998, 20th century, 1920s
Place:
new york, usa
Is relevant?
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
An American gets a ticket for an audience participation game in London, then gets involved in a case of mistaken identity. As an international plot unravels around him, he thinks it's all part of the act.
Style:
funny, spoof, spy comedy, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, teens
Plot:
espionage, spy, mistaken identity, hitman, misunderstanding, farce, secret agent, peace treaty, conspiracy, sabotage, assassination plot, telephone call ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
london, england, europe, big ben london, united kingdom ...
Is relevant?
Related movie lists
