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Comedy movies

Explore comic situations, funny characters and humorous storytelling.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 24,300 films · Page 638.

Tengers (2007)

Comedy drama

The film opens with Rob's mistaken arrest for bank robbery. He explains to Marius that he was wearing the balaclava because he was cold, and that carrying a gun is standard practice in Johannesburg. In fact, he was at the bank to see Christine.

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The Gymnast (2006)

Comedy drama, LGBTQ-related film, romance film

Jane Hawkins (Dreya Weber) was once an Olympic gymnast whose career was ended by a devastating injury. Now in her 40s, she is in a loveless and childless marriage to her husband David (David de Simone) and works as a massage therapist, while still exercising religiously to keep herself in peak condition. After a chance meeting with a former friend from the gymnastics world, Denise (Allison Mackie), Jane takes an interest in aerial dance and begins lessons with gymnastics trainer Nicole (Mam Smith).

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Soólè (2021)

Comedy

Soole is the story of a Catholic nun named Veronica, played by Adunni Ade, who travels from Lagos to Enugu after failing to fund an orphanage home. In her journey to Enugu, she opts for a cheap ride option popularly called 'Soole,' where she meets different commuters. The journey from Lagos to Enugu features a lot of drama, including an armed robbery attack on the way to Enugu.

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Model Wife (1941)

Comedy

Joan and Fred Chambers are a married couple, struggling financially, who both work at Bensons department store. Company policy forbids the employment of married people and so they both pretend to be single. Things take a complicated turn when the wastrel son of the owner gets Joan as his secretary and decides she would make the perfect wife for him.

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The Wedding Tackle (2000)

Comedy

The film primarily takes place over the course of one night. Hal (Purefoy), an over sexed photographer is due to marry Vinni (Vidler) in one week but has cold feet. His friend, Little Ted (Slattery), a scheming, sexually frustrated cartoonist is obsessed with Vinni, even though he dumped her when they went out together.

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Love 101 (2000)

Over Thanksgiving break, while his roommate is away from campus, pretty boy Andrew (Michael Muhney) sleeps with Shayna (Mary Kay Cook), his roommate Joe's (Jim Slonina) dream girl. When Shayna starts a relationship with Joe, attempting to make Andrew jealous, it causes a rift in the boys' friendship.

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Abuja Connection (2003)

Action, Comedy drama, thriller film

The film reflects on the struggle for power, money and how having influential connections in Abuja, Nigeria, can bridge the line between poverty and wealth. Jennifer and Sophia are rivals in this game. They happen to belong to the same clan and have inside information of each other's mission.

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Full Grown Men (2006)

Comedy drama

Alby Cutrera is a pathologically nostalgic guy who, at 35 years of age with a wife and young son, really just wishes he could ride his Schwinn 5 speed around all day on a Cherry Slurpee high. His wife Suzanne and son Josh love him because he's funny and creative but Suzanne finally loses patience with Alby and kicks him out of the house. Alby moves back to Mom's house and looks up his old best friend from childhood, Elias Guber.

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Runaway Nightmare (1982)

mafia comedy film

Two Death Valley worm wranglers, Ralph (Mike Cartel) and Jason (Al Valetta) secretly watch strangers bury a coffin in an empty ravine. When the gravediggers leave, Ralph and Jason uncover the shallow grave to find a beautiful woman marked with the name "Fate" (Seeska Vandenberg) unconscious in the box. thumb|left| Ralph (Mike Cartel) takes a shotgun blast to the chest while wearing a cheap bullet-resistant vest.After saving Fate's life, the worm ranchers get abducted by several female cultists who were searching for their recently vanished sister-member, Fate.

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Fit for a King (1937)

romantic comedy

Newspaper reporter "Scoops" is sent out on assignment, to investigate the failed assassination attempts on Archduke Julio. Trying to get the story, he runs into Jane Hamilton who is really Princess Helen. He doesn't realize that she is the story: a princess in exile, in danger of assassination; and, falling in love with "Scoops", while engaged to a prince.

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Beauty and the Barge (1937)

Comedy

Bargee Captain Barley and young Navy Lieutenant Seton Boyne visit hot-tempered Major Smedley’s house, Barley to woo the housekeeper, Mrs Baldwin, and Boyne to court the Major’s daughter, Ethel. Facing her father’s displeasure for rejecting his choice of husband, Ethel begs Barley to secret her away to London aboard his barge. Thinking she is in love with him, Barley agrees.

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Girl Rush (1944)

Comedy

During the gold rush of 1849, two vaudevillians, Jerry Miles and Mike Strager, travel to find gold in a town called Red Creek which lacks women. The men of Red Creek promise them gold in return for their bringing women to the town. As Jerry's and Mike's vaudeville troupe, which includes women, nears Red Creek, they learn the town may not be welcoming.

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Scumbus (2012)

Comedy

Tom is an eager, ambitious policeman who takes his job seriously but his career prospects are being stymied by his squad partner (and flatmate) Red, a lazy, inept cop who is more concerned with perfecting his pick-up routines. After Red crashes their squad car into a McDonald's, their fed-up boss Brett assigns the two to the station's most unpopular job – manning the 'Scumbus', a campervan that serves as a mobile police station in the seedy part of town. Tom soon discovers the scumbus' previous occupants, a pair of surly detectives, appeared to have used the van to deal in narcotics.

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Three Loves Has Nancy (1938)

romantic comedy

The seduction plans of novelist Malcolm Niles go awry when actress Vivian Herford brings along her mother to a candlelight dinner in his New York apartment. When they talk of marriage, Malcolm decides to make a tour promoting his new book. In a small southern town, he meets Nancy Briggs at an autographing session at the local bookstore.

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Here and There (2009)

Comedy, Drama

Here and There follows two interconnected stories on two different continents. Robert (Thornton), a depressed New Yorker, tries to make quick cash and ends up in Serbia, where instead of money he finds his soul. At the same time, a young Serbian immigrant, Branko (Trifunović), struggles in an unforgiving New York as he tries to buy then fix a work moving van with a streetsmart and shrewd mechanic, Jose Escobar (Antone Pagán) who played him well, as Branko desperately tries to make money to bring his girlfriend from Serbia to the United States.

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Nightmare in Blood (1978)

Comedy horror, Horror, Vampire

Attendees at a horror-film convention in San Francisco keep disappearing. It turns out that the guest of honor is a real vampire, and his henchmen are kidnapping the convention guests. A horror writer, a Sherlock Holmes fan and an Israeli Nazi-hunter set out to stop him.

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