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Explore comic situations, funny characters and humorous storytelling.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 24,289 films · Page 570.

A Great Wall (1986)

Comedy drama

When a Silicon Valley Chinese American executive goes back to his homeland of China for the first time in 30 years, he and his family encounter many culture clashes between the lives that they lead in the United States and the lives of their relatives in China. The finale of the movie includes an exciting table tennis match involving the Chinese-American son played by Kelvin Han Yee.

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Beer and Pretzels (1933)

Comedy, musical film

Ted Healy and his Stooges are entertainers. But because Healy is much more interested in women than he is in performing, they are thrown out of the Happy Hour Theatre. Unable to keep a job anywhere else, they are reduced to waiting tables at a high-class restaurant.

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Poppy (1936)

Comedy

Eustace McGargle, a con artist, snake oil salesman and shell game trickster, tries to escape the sheriff while taking care of his beloved adopted daughter Poppy, who, after pretending to be an heiress to win an inheritance, is found to be an actual heiress.

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Did You Hear the One About the Traveling Saleslady? (1968)

Comedy

Missouri, 1910: In town trying to sell player pianos, traveling saleslady Agatha Knabenshu doesn't have much luck. She lends $1,000 to struggling inventor Bertram Webb, whose new invention, a cow-milking machine, promptly causes $1,500 in damages. With heartless banker Hubert Shelton about to foreclose on the Webb family's home, Bert has one last hope, a wood-burning automobile that he's created.

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Carolina (1934)

romantic comedy

Forty years after the Civil War, the Connelly family is romantically restored to their former glory when Will Connelly (Robert Young) marries a Yankee farm girl, Joanna Tate (Janet Gaynor), despite the objections of his temperamental mother. Lionel Barrymore plays Will's Uncle Bob Connelly.

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Between Showers (1914)

Comedy

Two young men, Masher and Rival Masher, fight over the chance to help a young woman cross a muddy street. The Rival Masher first sees the woman trying to cross and offers her an umbrella he stole from a policeman. He asks her to wait for him as he goes to get something to help her.

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Pups Is Pups (1930)

Comedy

thumb|thumbtime=10|Pups Is Pups (1930) Wheezer attempts to find his puppies after they run off and travel across the city. At the same time, the rest of the gang crash a high-society dog conformation show where Farina is working as a page. The kids bring all manner of wild animal pets (frogs, turtles, mice, ducks, and even a pig) into the show and cause commotion and fear among the ritzy attendees.

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Macadam Stories (2015)

Comedy, Comedy drama, Drama

The elevator in the apartment complex breaks down and residents have to pay for the repair, but the dull middle-aged Sternkowitz, who lives on the first floor, refuses to pay for the repair. In the end, Sternkowitz was exempt from paying on the condition that he didn't use the elevator, but shortly after, he was injured and began using a wheelchair. Then, he secretly uses the elevator so that no one can see him, and goes out to buy food in the middle of the night in the vending machine of a hospital.

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Operation Bullshine (1959)

Comedy

During World War II, a Royal Artillery officer is assigned to an anti-aircraft battery that is filled with female soldiers of the Auxiliary Territorial Service. His wife who has enlisted is mistakenly posted to the battery in violation of regulations of husbands and wives serving together in the same formation. She becomes jealous of what she perceives as his paying too much attention to the other Auxiliary Territorial Service women.

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The Prankster (2010)

comedy television program, teen film

The Pranksters are a secret society that rights the wrongs of high school. Its leader, Chris, longs for more with graduation looming. Under the guidance of his eccentric Uncle Nick, Chris embarks on a challenging path of self-discovery and romance.

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A Thousand Junkies (2017)

Comedy drama

One sunny day in Los Angeles, three heroin junkies, Tommy, T.J. and Blake, try to find some heroin so they can get high. Over the course of the day, with impending and growing withdrawal setting in, each character's backstory is explored to a degree as they embark on a seedy Odyssey and increasingly desperate measures to stave off dope sickness.

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Some More of Samoa (1941)

Comedy

The Stooges are professional arborists commissioned by a wealthy elderly gentleman to procure a suitable companion for his prized puckerless persimmon tree. Embarking on a journey to the fictitious tropical island of Rhum-Boogie, the Stooges encounter adversity upon arrival, finding themselves captured by the indigenous inhabitants who threaten them with consumption unless Curly consents to marry the Chief's unattractive sibling. Through resourcefulness and fortitude, the Stooges successfully evade captivity and secure the prized tree.

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A Tale of Five Cities (1950)

Drama, Tragicomedy

Englishman Bob Mitchell leaves his longtime home in America to enlist in the Royal Air Force. After the war has ended, a drunken accident in a Berlin nightclub results in his losing his memory. As he has no identity tags, doctors mistakenly repatriate him to America, where magazine writer Lesley learns of his condition.

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Off Season (2001)

After the death of his parents in a car crash, Jackson Mayhew is sent to live with his aunt who works in a hotel. He comes across an elderly gentleman named Sam and tells his aunt and the other children that Sam is actually Santa Claus on vacation. Sam recommends a psychiatrist to help Jackson work through his grief and enlists Jackson to help him give away some presents to vacationing children at the hotel.

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Girls' School (1938)

Comedy, Drama, high school film

The film revolves around wealthy high school teenagers who are sent to Magnolia Hall, a boarding school to learn proper etiquette. One of the girls causes a scandal when she stays out all night, then announces on planning to elope with a boy. She gets in trouble when the faculty finds out through a monitor's report from a reluctant poor girl attending on scholarship.

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