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Explore comic situations, funny characters and humorous storytelling.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 20,759 films · Page 311.

Pulp (1972)

Comedy, comedy thriller, Crime, neo-noir, Parody, thriller film

British writer Mickey King lives in Malta churning out violent, sexually charged pulp fiction novels under an array of lewd pen names such as "S. Odomy". King is approached to ghostwrite the autobiography of a mystery celebrity.

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Blue Murder at St. Trinian's (1957)

Comedy

At St. Trinian's, with headmistress Amelia Fritton and its teachers gone, the students run wild, prompting the Ministry of Education to keep them under control with help from the army. In the meantime, the school's business associate Flash Harry sets up a marriage bureau for the sixth form girls, hoping to marry one of them to Prince Bruno.

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A Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa (2008)

Christmas film, Comedy, musical film

On Christmas Eve in New York City, the Muppets aren't planning to spend Christmas together, because Kermit the Frog and Miss Piggy are heading for the Caribbean for a romantic date, Gonzo the Great is going to Hawaii, and Fozzie Bear is embarking on a comedy road tour. Before they go, however, they go to the post office to deliver each of their letters to Santa Claus with Mayor Michael Bloomberg denying Piggy's offer to move the line along as people in New York should be polite. The Muppets deliver their letters as Gonzo accidentally speeds up the letter conveyor belt as a postal worker (Jesse L.

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The Matchmaker (1997)

romantic comedy

Marcy Tizard is assistant to Senator John McGlory from Boston, Massachusetts. In an attempt to court the Irish-American vote in a tough re-election battle, the bumbling senator's chief of staff, Nick, sends Marcy to Ireland to find McGlory's relatives or ancestors. Marcy arrives at the fictional village of Ballinagra (, literally the Town of Love) as it is preparing for the annual matchmaking festival.

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Holy Matrimony (1994)

Action, Comedy, Crime, Criminal Comedy Film

A young couple, Havana and Peter, robs a county fair of its daily receipts and escapes to Canada to hide out in the Hutterite community where Peter was raised. While there, they marry to satisfy the conservative elders in the community. Peter hides their loot but then is killed in a car wreck.

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The Road to Hong Kong (1962)

buddy film, Comedy, musical film

The story is told in flashback as Diane explains to American Intelligence how transmissions from passengers picked up from a missile to the moon are by Americans rather than Russians. Harry Turner and Chester Babcock are defrauding people in Calcutta by selling a "Do-it-yourself interplanetary flight kit" that ends up injuring Chester, giving him amnesia. An Indian doctor says the only way to cure Chester's amnesia is through the help of the monks in a lamasery in Tibet.

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Five Blind Dates (2024)

romantic comedy

Lia uses her grandmother's inheritance money to open an artisanal tea shop in Sydney which, although not being successful she keeps secret from her family. Returning home to Townsville for her younger sister Alice's wedding to Nigel, she brings Mason, her close friend and workmate, for support. At the engagement party, where their bitterly divorced parents constantly bicker, fortune teller Mrs.

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The Raspberry Reich (2004)

Comedy, LGBTQ-related film, Political Satire, Sex Film

The core plot begins with the kidnapping of Patrick (Andreas Stitch), the son of a wealthy industrialist. Sexual and romantic entanglements push the drama forward. At the film's climax, Gudrun delivers a soliloquy on the importance of personal life in revolution.

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Sometimes Always Never (2018)

Comedy drama, Family Drama, Tragicomedy

Alan is a stylish tailor with moves as sharp as his suits. But he has spent years searching tirelessly for his missing son, Michael, who stormed out over a game of Scrabble. With a body to identify and his family torn apart, Alan must repair the relationship with his younger son and identify an online player who he thinks could be Michael, so that he can finally move on and reunite his family.

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The Last Remake of Beau Geste (1977)

Adventure, Comedy, Parody

Spoofing the classic Beau Geste and a number of other desert motion pictures, the film's plotline revolves around the heroic Beau Geste (York) and his "identical twin brother" Digby's (Feldman) misadventures in the French Foreign Legion out in the Sahara, and the disappearance of the family sapphire, sought after by their money-hungry stepmother and the sadistic Sergeant Markov (Ustinov).

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Fearless (2020)

Comedy, Computeranimation, Science fiction

Reid, who goes by the username "Fe@rLeSS_" is a teen video gamer who is an expert at the superhero action-adventure video game Planet Master, and has become the first player to reach the second to last level. At this time, the game's protagonist, Captain Darius Lightspeed, reveals he has three children, Kira, Xander, and Titus, all of whom he brought with him. In-game, Reid decides to drop them off at a daycare before finding the final level of the game, where Lightspeed attaches an "interplanetary communicator" to one of the babies so the daycare workers can call Lightspeed in case of emergency.

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.45 (2006)

Comedy, Crime, Drama, Psychological Thriller, thriller film

Big Al (Angus Macfadyen), and his girlfriend Kat (Milla Jovovich), are small-time crooks dealing in guns and stolen goods in Queens, New York City while also cleverly avoiding the NYPD and ATF. Vic (Sarah Strange), is Kat's friend and ex-lover who still has a crush on her and hates Big Al. Big Al is almost arrested in a police sting, but is released when they realize he is unarmed...as Kat was holding the guns.

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Four Daughters (1938)

Comedy, Drama, musical film, romance film

The Lemp sisters, Emma (Gale Page), Thea (Lola Lane), Kay (Rosemary Lane), and Ann (Priscilla Lane) are accomplished musicians in a musical family headed by their widowed father, Adam (Claude Rains), who plays the flute. Harpist Emma, the oldest daughter, is the object of a neighbor's affection, but she rebuffs Ernest's (Dick Foran) attentions. Thea, a pianist and the second eldest, is courted by wealthy Ben Crowley (Frank McHugh), another neighbor, but she is not sure she loves him.

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Tom Sawyer & Huckleberry Finn (2014)

Adventure, Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama

The adventure unfolds as Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn – Tom's friend from the streets – witness a murder in the graveyard. Tom and Huck flee to Jackson's Island and make a pact never to tell anyone about the incident. However, when the good-natured Muff Potter, who has been blamed for the murder, is sentenced to death by hanging, Tom attempts to break Muff out of jail, but it does not go as planned and Muff returns to jail.

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Without Love (1945)

romantic comedy

Lonely widow Jamie Rowan helps the war effort by marrying a military research scientist, Patrick Jamieson, who has set up his lab in her house in Washington, D.C. Patrick has had all the worst of love, and Jamie all the best. They both believe a marriage could be a success without love, as it reduces the chances of jealousy and bickering and all the other marital disadvantages.

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Fast Break (1979)

Comedy, sport film

David Greene is a basketball fanatic living in Brooklyn, New York, who alternates his time between playing in neighborhood pickup basketball games and managing a delicatessen. Formerly a junior high-school coach, he dreams of making his living coaching basketball. He has sent numerous letters to colleges in the hope of fulfilling that dream—much to the chagrin of his long-suffering wife Jan, who wants only to buy a home and start a family.

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Numb (2007)

Drama, romantic comedy

When modestly successful screenwriter Hudson Milbank descends into a strange mood in which he feels detached from the world around him and unable to connect with his surroundings, either physically or emotionally, he initially attributes it to a night of excessive cannabis use. His writing partner Tom is disturbed by the sudden change in Hudson's demeanor and urges him to seek psychiatric help. Dr.

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Get Real (1998)

Comedy, Coming Out, Coming-of-age, Drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film, teen film

Steven Carter is an intelligent and introverted 16-year-old middle-class schoolboy in Basingstoke, England, who is secretly gay. Bullied at school and misunderstood by his parents, his only confidante is his best friend and next-door neighbour, Linda. One day, Steven, who occasionally cruises the public toilet in a local park, is surprised to find John Dixon, the school's star athlete, also cruising.

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Slap Shot 2: Breaking the Ice (2002)

Comedy, sport film

25 years after the events of the first film, the Charlestown Chiefs are still languishing in Pennsylvania. Sean Linden, a former NHL player whose name has been disgraced for betting on games, has replaced Reggie Dunlop as the main protagonist — initially a player-coach, just like Dunlop, Linden also serves as the team's captain. The Chiefs struggle both on and off the ice, and violence remains their hallmark as Sean does not try to control the fighting trio of the Hanson Brothers.

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