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 6.5
 74K
Bowfinger (1999)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: On the verge of bankruptcy and desperate for his big break, aspiring filmmaker Bobby Bowfinger concocts a crazy plan to make his ultimate dream movie. Rallying a ragtag team that includes a starry-eyed ingenue, a has-been diva and a film studio ...
Style: parody, funny, humorous, witty, talky ...
Audience: family friendly, date night
Plot: filmmaking, hollywood, movie business, satire, dog, actor, cameraman, audition, desire for fame, african american, deception, actress ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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 6.0
 11K
Lady Ballers (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: A once-great basketball coach is on a journey back to victory by reuniting his former high school championship basketball team, but this time, he’s challenging them to play like girls.
Style: parody
Plot: satire, basketball, transgender, basketball coach, woman, cross dressing, transphobia, sexist, basketball team, male to female cross dressing, women in sport, press conference ...
Time: 2020s, 2000s
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 6.9
 31K
UHF (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The eccentric new manager of a UHF television channel tries to save the station from financial ruin with an odd array of programming.
Style: parody, spoof, slapstick, funny, cult classic ...
Audience: teens
Plot: satire, television, janitor, mad scientist, kidnapping, workplace, fired from the job, filmmaking, absurd humor, gambling, imagination, loser ...
Time: 80s, year 1989
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 7.8
 3K
W1A (2014)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: The follow-up to 'Twenty Twelve' as Ian Fletcher takes up the position of 'Head of Values' at the BBC. His task is to clarify, define, or re-define the core purpose of the BBC across all its functions and to position it ...
Style: sitcom, mockumentary, humorous, semi serious, light ...
Plot: satire, workplace situations, workplace, intern, disorder, nothing goes right, television, journalism, new job, supportive coworker, unsupportive coworkers, joke ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, london
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Looking for Comedy in the Muslim World (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: To improve its relations with Muslim countries, the United States government sends comedian Albert Brooks to south Asia to write a report on what makes followers of Islam laugh.
Style: funny, parody, satirical, witty, clever ...
Plot: culture clash, satire, politics, sarcasm, stand up comedian, farce, nothing goes right, islam, society, actor's life, business, political satire ...
Place: india, middle east, new delhi, asia, pakistan
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Freddy Got Fingered (2001)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An unemployed cartoonist moves back in with his parents and younger brother Freddy. When his parents demand he leave, he begins to spread rumors that his father is sexually abusing Freddy.
Style: funny, humorous, dark comedy, controversial, cult classic ...
Audience: boys' night, teens
Plot: surrealism, satire, slacker, stupidity, insanity, goofy hero, parents and children, unsuccessful, dull life, stoner, bad taste humour, dysfunctional family ...
Time: 20th century, year 2001, 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa, california, pakistan
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 6.8
 4K
Putney Swope (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Swope is the only black man on the executive board of an advertising firm, and is accidentally put in charge after the death of the chairman of the board.
Style: independent film, surreal, black and white, black comedy, funny ...
Plot: advertising, satire, business, absurdism, advertising executive, advertising agency, employer employee relationship, husband wife relationship, ceo, board of directors, blaxploitation, racism ...
Time: year 1969, 60s
Place: new york, usa, philadelphia
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 4.9
 103K
Year One (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When a couple of lazy hunter-gatherers are banished from their primitive village, they set off on an epic journey through the ancient world.
Style: parody, funny, biblical, humorous, satirical ...
Audience: teens, adult
Plot: caveman, satire, buddy, road trip, farce, slavery, buddies, religion, stupidity, stoner, friendship between men, circumcision ...
Time: prehistoric times, prehistory, stone age, year 2009
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The Bonfire of the Vanities (1990)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min.
Story: After his mistress runs over a young teen, a Wall Street hotshot sees his life unravel in the spotlight, and attracting the interest of a down and out reporter.
Style: stylized, humorous, semi serious, witty, cult classic ...
Plot: journalist, wall street, redemption, politics, interracial relations, society, courtroom, justice, media, finance, legal action, dark humor ...
Time: 80s, 90s
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city, bronx new york city
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 5.6
 3K
Vixen! (1968)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story: Vixen lives in a Canadian mountain resort with her naive pilot husband. While he's away flying in tourists, she gets it on with practically everybody including a husband and his wife, and even her biker brother. She is openly racist, and she ...
Style: erotic, sexy, independent film, serious, realistic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: sexploitation, incest, taboo, satire, cuckold, sex scene, jealousy, racism, lesbian sex, nymphomaniac, seductress, sexually aggressive woman ...
Time: 60s
Place: british columbia, canada, seattle
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 6.8
 10K
Bedazzled (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Stanley is infatuated with Margaret, the statuesque waitress who works with him. He meets George Spiggott AKA the devil and sells his soul for 7 wishes, which Stanley uses to try and make Margaret his own first as an intellectual, then as a rock ...
Style: witty, funny, surreal, dark comedy, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: satire, deal with the devil, wish come true, devil, unrequited love, fantasy world, hopes, love and romance, heaven, transformation, religion, god ...
Place: london, europe, england
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 7.7
 44K
Zelig (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Fictional documentary about the life of human chameleon Leonard Zelig, a man who becomes a celebrity in the 1920s due to his ability to look and act like whoever is around him. Clever editing places Zelig in real newsreel footage of Woodrow Wilson, ...
Style: mockumentary, surreal, black and white, humorous, parody ...
Plot: celebrity, psychiatrist, satire, character study, justice, fictional biography, artists and showbiz, switching roles, missing person, disappearance, therapy, celebrity culture ...
Time: 1920s, 1930s, 20th century, year 1983
Place: new york, paris france, germany, bronx new york city
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 7.9
 14K
Kin-dza-dza! (1986)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The story takes place on the desert planet "Pluke" in the "Kin-dza-dza" galaxy, where two Soviet humans previously unknown to each other ("Uncle Vova", a gruff construction foreman from Moscow, and "The ...
Style: surreal, philosophical, offbeat, humorous, enigmatic ...
Plot: desert, surrealism, alien, totalitarianism, satire, distopia, absurdism, time travel, society, post apocalyptic, racism, capitalism ...
Time: future
Place: soviet union, ussr, russia
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The Invention of Lying (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.
Style: philosophical, funny, humorous, romantic, satirical ...
Audience: chick flick, teens, teen drama
Plot: atheism, society, alternate reality, rags to riches, love and romance, misfit, truth, love triangle, satire, life after death, life philosophy, existentialism ...
Time: year 2009, 2000s, 13th century, 21st century
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Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex * But Were Afraid to Ask (1972)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A collection of seven vignettes, which each address a question concerning human sexuality.
Style: sex comedy, parody, anthology, surreal, funny ...
Audience: adult
Plot: zoophilia, satire, sex, mad scientist, surrealism, sexual fantasy, sex scene, bestiality, transsexuality, looking for sex, nudity, sarcasm ...
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 5.5
 22K
War, Inc. (2008)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: War Inc. is set in the future, when the fictional desert country of Turaqistan is torn by a riot after a private corporation, Tamerlane, owned by the former Vice President of the United States, has taken over the whole country. Brand Hauser, a hit ...
Style: satirical, cynical, black comedy, suspenseful, political ...
Plot: hitman, satire, politics, fictional country, corporation, political satire, mistaken identity, state affairs, dishonesty, dark humor, assassin, mercenary ...
Time: future, year 2008
Place: bolivia, asia, virginia, canada
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A Very Brady Sequel (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A man claiming to be Carol Brady's long-lost first husband, Roy Martin, shows up at the suburban Brady residence one evening. An impostor, the man is actually determined to steal the Bradys' familiar horse statue, a $20-million ancient ...
Style: parody, funny, humorous, satirical, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: satire, surfing, dysfunctional family, culture clash, kidnapping, family vacation, television, camp, wedding, architecture, gay, coming of age ...
Time: 70s, 90s, year 1996, 20th century
Place: hawaii
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South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (1999)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Spain
Duration: 81 min.
Story: When the four boys see an R-rated movie featuring Canadians Terrance and Philip, they are pronounced "corrupted", and their parents pressure the United States to wage war against Canada.
Style: funny, parody, adult animation, black comedy, spoof ...
Audience: kids, teens, adult
Plot: satire, music, profanity, political satire, stoner, mature, elementary school, dark humor, violent, death, devil, insult ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: colorado, canada, usa
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 7.9
 77K
Being There (1979)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany, 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, thought provoking, philosophical, surreal, clever ...
Plot: politics, comedy of errors, lawyer, impotence, satire, president, fish out of water, wealth, secret service, innocence, television, eviction ...
Time: year 1979, 70s, 20th century
Place: washington d.c., north carolina, usa
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 6.1
 1K
Fat Actress (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Fat Actress is an American sitcom television series starring Kirstie Alley. It aired on Showtime in the United States in the spring of 2005, on Movie Central in Western Canada, The Movie Network in Eastern Canada, FX in the UK, Network Ten in ...
Style: sitcom, not serious, realistic, humorous, witty ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: satire, artists and showbiz, actor's life, lifestyle, showbiz, media satire, physical appearance, media, hypocrisy, celebrity culture, hollywood, comeback ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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 7.5
 36K
Contempt (1963)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 103 min.
Story: A philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of his director. Prokosch has hired Fritz Lang (as himself) to direct an adaptation of "The Odyssey," but when it seems that the legendary filmmaker ...
Style: art house, philosophical, erotic, grindhouse, visual ...
Audience: adult
Plot: filmmaking, screenwriter, satire, femme fatale, film producer, writers, relationships, marriage, female nudity, estranged couple, film industry, passive aggression ...
Time: year 1963, 20th century, 60s
Place: france, rome italy, italy, mediterranean sea, southern italy ...
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It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (2005)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Four egocentric friends who run a neighborhood Irish pub in Philadelphia try to find their way through the adult world of work and relationships. Unfortunately, their warped views and precarious judgments often lead them to trouble, creating a ...
Style: sitcom, humorous, witty, black comedy, funny ...
Audience: teens
Plot: slacker, pub, stupidity, satire, bartender, buddies, friends who hate each other, alcoholic, friends, bad taste humour, misfit, drunkenness ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s, 2000s, 21st century
Place: philadelphia, usa, pennsylvania
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Ryan Hansen Solves Crimes on Television (2017)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: In this series, the LAPD thinks it's a good idea to form a task force partnering actors with homicide detectives. A super meta half hour comedy, the show within a show within a show is as much about Hollywood as it is an action-comedy ...
Style: parody, humorous, captivating, semi serious, realistic ...
Plot: satire, police captain, lapd, buddy cop, police investigation, pop culture, film industry, policewoman, cop, actor, self referential humor, celebrity culture ...
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 8.1
 27K
Daria (1997)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Daria Morgendorffer lives with her stressed-out, career-fixated parents, Helen and Jake, and her relentlessly cute and popular little sister, Quinn. Daria and her fellow outcast and best friend, Jane Lane, attend Lawndale High School where they are ...
Style: clever, adult cartoon, witty, cynical, adult animation ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: sarcasm, loner, social misfits, high school life, everyday life, antisocial behavior, teenage life, adolescence vs adulthood, society, school, lifestyle, adolescence ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
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 7.3
 18K
Brickleberry (2012)
Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 22 min.
TV show
Story: Brickleberry National Park is facing closure, but not if the park’s dysfunctional park rangers can help it! “Brickleberry,” an animated half-hour series, follows the crazy bunch of park rangers as they do their worst to keep the park running. ...
Style: not serious, absurd, humorous, adult cartoon, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, kids, adult
Plot: park ranger, workplace situations, dark humor, friendship, sexual tension, satire, workplace, animal life, national park, disorder, lesbian, escapades ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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Twenty Twelve (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
TV show
Story: Twenty Twelve is a BBC television comedy series written and directed by John Morton. Starring Hugh Bonneville, Jessica Hynes and Amelia Bullmore, the programme is a spoof on-location documentary following the organisation of the 2012 Summer Olympics ...
Style: sitcom, mockumentary, semi serious, humorous, talky ...
Plot: satire, workplace situations, nothing goes right, boss and employee, secretary, disorder, power relations, team, olympics, boss, workplace, loner ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: england, london, europe
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The Exterminating Angel (1962)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The guests at an upper-class dinner party find themselves unable to leave. The Exterminating Angel is a 1962 surrealist film, written and directed by Luis Buñuel, starring Silvia Pinal. Sharply satirical and allegorical, the film contains a view ...
Style: surreal, dark comedy, avant garde, black comedy, allegory ...
Plot: surrealism, room, social satire, religion, dinner party, satire, isolation, mansion, piano, class differences, philosophy, trapped ...
Time: year 1962, 60s, 20th century
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 7.2
 29K
A Mighty Wind (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In "A Mighty Wind", director Christopher Guest reunites the team from "Best In Show" and "Waiting for Guffman" to tell tell the story of 60's-era folk musicians, who inspired by the death of their former manager, ...
Style: mockumentary, humorous, funny, talky, stylized ...
Plot: music, satire, musician, folk singer, singer, love and romance, music band, showbiz, musician's life, buddies, lifestyle, lovers reunited ...
Time: 2000s, 60s, 20th century, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
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Waiting for Guffman (1996)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Corky St. Clair is a director, actor and dancer in Blaine, Missouri. When it comes time to celebrate Blaine's 150th anniversary, Corky resolves to bring down the house in Broadway style in this hilarious mockumentary from the people who brought ...
Style: mockumentary, funny, parody, independent film, witty ...
Plot: satire, backstage, small town, improv, city council, theater, coming of age, chinese restaurant, alien contact, travel agent, dentist, director ...
Time: year 1996, 90s, 20th century
Place: missouri, usa, north america, florida
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And Now for Something Completely Different (1971)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: And Now for Something Completely Different is a film spin-off from the television comedy series Monty Python's Flying Circus featuring favourite sketches from the first two seasons.
Style: surreal, funny, absurd, spoof, cult classic ...
Plot: monty python, satire, social commentary, obstacle course, surrealism, serial killer, exploitation, sketch, migration, legal, buddies, explosions ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 70s
Place: england, europe
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