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Explore comic situations, funny characters and humorous storytelling.

Matches come from recorded genres and theme tags; catalogue coverage can vary. 24,306 films · Page 660.

In Search of La Che (2011)

mockumentary

In Search of La Che, Mark follows the journey of hardcore music fan John Tavish (Played by Duncan Airlie James) on his quest to find out the circumstances behind the disappearance of Scotland most famous (fictional) son of rock and roll, Roxy La Che. Searching the internet, John finds that Roxy's life hasn't been very well documented and comes across very little other than an unofficial fan page for the rock star. The owner of the site, Larry, agrees to meet with John but his mental instability becomes visibly clear during the interview and John decides to make a quick exit after obtaining the information he needed.

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New Money (2018)

Comedy drama, Drama

Twenty-three year old Toun finds herself thrown into the world of the rich after her father left his multibillion-dollar company to her in his will. She learns that her mother, Fatima, was legally married to her father, Ifeanyi, although, due to strong opposition from his family, the marriage was annulled. He remarried, this time to Ebube, but they never had any children together.

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Undercover Maisie (1947)

Comedy

While moving to New York for work, Maisie Ravier loses her valuables to a confidence woman. When Maisie accurately and thoroughly describes the woman to the police, Lieutenant Paul Scott from the bunco squad is impressed at her observation skills. Paul convinces his boss, Captain Mead, to place Maisie in police training as he wants to use Maisie as an undercover agent to solve some of their unsolved frauds around the city.

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Smothered (2014)

Comedy horror

After a convention appearance gig turns out to be wildly unsuccessful and unpleasant, a group of cult horror icons find themselves reluctantly persuaded to haunt a trailer park. Lured by the promise of $1,000 apiece for what should be relatively easy work, the group arrives at the park but soon discovers that there is more to the job than they had initially been led to believe and that their own lives are at risk.

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That's My Baby! (1944)

Comedy drama

Phineas Moody, the head of Moody Comics is in terrible health. His worried daughter Betty calls in two doctors who discover that Phineas hasn't laughed in decades. Betty and her future husband Tim Jones fill the Moody mansion full of a variety of vaudeville acts to make Phineas laugh again.

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The Cowboy Quarterback (1939)

American football film, Comedy

Rusty Walker, a scout for the Chicago Packers professional football team, discovers a young fellow named Harry Lynn in remote Montana who has amazing prowess as a quarterback. He persuades Harry to come to Chicago, but because Harry is afraid to leave girlfriend Maizie alone with rival suitor "Handsome Sam" Saxon, he insists that Maizie be permitted to come along. Harry's play is as good as Rusty expects it to be, but Maizie is a constant distraction.

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A Bug and a Bag of Weed (2006)

Comedy

Peter Jordan is 31 years old, $35,000 in debt, and he's been working at Super Duper Computers for seven long years. Together with his equally down-on-their-luck co-workers Stan and Willie, Peter dreams of escaping the daily drudgery of "don't forget to sell the extended warranty", and "if you have time to lean, you have time to clean". Peter's existence in Big Box Retail Commission hell is further fueled by rival Salesman Rommel who steals Peter's customers and computer sales behind his back.

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Magic Rock (2001)

Comedy drama

When a beloved Summer Camp director dies, the popular boys' haven will be closed by the heartless attorney who inherits it unless a dedicated young camp counselor can change his mind over one last summer, with the comic help of his oddball campers.

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It's in the Air (1935)

Comedy

Con men Calvin Churchill (Jack Benny) and "Clip" McGurk (Ted Healy), in the business of fixing races, boxing matches and other sporting events, are forced to go on the run when Henry Potke (Nat Pendleton), special investigator from the Revenue Department, is after them for tax evasion. Potke tracks the con men to a hotel room, where they trick him by claiming they are suffering from a highly infectious influenza. Potke flees in terror.

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Who's the Boss (2020)

romantic comedy

Liah is a young, overtasked advertising agency executive who is forced to invent a boss to prevent her employer from finding out when her side-hustle startup advertising agency wins a major deal. Things go from bad to worse as she becomes increasingly successful and resorts to ludicrous ways to conceal the truth from her real boss.

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Holiday in Havana (1949)

musical film, musical comedy

The story about the difficult role of a Cuban bandleader Carlos Estrada. His romantic vis-a-vis is a peppery dancer named Lolita Valdez. Just before the lovers participate in a gala Havana festival, Carlos has a lot of explaining to do when Lolita catches him in the arms of another.

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The Social Lion (1930)

Comedy

Marco Perkins is a garage mechanic and a would-be-prizefighter who gets a place on the ritzy country club's polo team because he is the town's most proficient mallet-wielder, having learned to play polo while serving in the U.S. army. His hobnobbing with the town-elite and social upper-crust at the polo-matches gives him an inflated idea of his social position, and he decides he is moving on up.

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Glove Taps (1937)

Comedy

Butch explains that he clobbers every kid in school to prove that he is in charge. By a fluke, weak-kneed Alfalfa is chosen to face Butch in the barnyard boxing ring—and he has only one day to train for the big bout. Spanky volunteers to be Alfalfa's trainer, which consists mostly of Alfalfa pulling him around in a little red wagon.

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My Heart Belongs to Daddy (1942)

Comedy

Cecil Kellaway is driving Martha O'Driscoll to the hospital to have her baby. The taxi gets caught in a snowdrift and they take shelter in the home of widowed Nobel Prize laureate (Physics) Richard Carlson. The physician says she can't be moved, so there she rests, much to the anger of two sets of in-laws: her snobby in-laws who want the baby taken from his ex-bubble-dancer mother; and his in-laws, Florence and her daughter, Frances Gifford, whom they have been scheming since the funeral to marry Carlson.

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