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Jean-Claude Brialy

Adriana Asti

Milena Vukotiu0107

Monica Vitti

The Phantom of Liberty (1974)

7.5 330 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: France

Duration: 104 min.

Story: This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.

Plot: sniper, paris, france, society, monk, incest, anarchic comedy

Cast

Jonathan Cohen

Ana Girardot

Adu00e8le Exarchopoulos

Gu00e9raldine Nakache

The Flame (2020) TV Show

7.4 123 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: France

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 9

Story: For nine weeks, thirteen contenders will have to compete in a beautiful villa to try to seduce Marc, an airline pilot, looking for love. Which of these women will manage to light the flame?

Plot: parody, comedy

Cast

Christopher Guest

Michael McKean

Harry Shearer

Rob Reiner

This Is Spinal Tap (1984)

7.4 1.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Music

Country: United States of America

Duration: 82 min.

Audience: R

Story: "This Is Spinal Tap" shines a light on the self-contained universe of a metal band struggling to get back on the charts, including everything from its complicated history of ups and downs, gold albums, name changes and undersold concert dates, along with the full host of requisite groupies, promoters, hangers-on and historians, sessions, release events and those special behind-the-scenes moments that keep it all real.

Plot: rock star, groupie, parody, mockumentary, rock band, found footage, aftercreditsstinger, duringcreditsstinger, ...

The League (2009) TV Show

7.3 231 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 7

Episodes: 84

Audience: TV-MA

Story: The League is an American sitcom and semi-improvised comedy about a about a fantasy football league and its members and their everyday lives.

Plot: chicago, illinois, american football, male friendship, geek, sitcom, fandom, bar, ...

Cast

Robert Hays

Julie Hagerty

Leslie Nielsen

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Airplane! (1980)

7.3 5.1K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 88 min.

Audience: PG

Story: An ex-fighter pilot forced to take over the controls of an airliner when the flight crew succumbs to food poisoning.

Plot: chicago, illinois, post-traumatic stress disorder (ptsd), airplane, cataclysm, nun, guitar, alcohol, ...

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!

Cast

Leslie Nielsen

Priscilla Presley

Ricardo Montalban

George Kennedy

The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad! (1988)

7.3 4.6K votes

Genre: Comedy, Crime

Country: United States of America

Duration: 86 min.

Audience: PG-13

Story: When the bumbling Lieutenant Frank Drebin investigates events following the shooting of his partner, he stumbles upon an attempt to assassinate Queen Elizabeth II.

Plot: assassination, police, aquarium, baseball, satire, parody, slapstick comedy, los angeles, ...

Cast

Cleavon Little

Gene Wilder

Slim Pickens

Harvey Korman

Blazing Saddles (1974)

7.2 2.1K votes

Genre: Comedy, Western

Country: United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: R

Story: A town—where everyone seems to be named Johnson—stands in the way of the railroad. In order to grab their land, robber baron Hedley Lamarr sends his henchmen to make life in the town unbearable. After the sheriff is killed, the town demands a new sheriff from the Governor, so Hedley convinces him to send the town the first black sheriff in the west.

Plot: governor, saloon, gun, parody, marching band, breaking the fourth wall, spoof, racism, ...

Cast

Mara Wilson

Danny DeVito

Rhea Perlman

Embeth Davidtz

Matilda (1996)

7.2 4.9K votes

Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 98 min.

Audience: PG

Story: Matilda Wormwood is an brilliant and intelligent little girl. Unfortunately, her parents, Harry and Zinnia, fail to see that fact. As time passes, she finally starts school and has a kind teacher, loyal friends, and a terrifying, sadistic headmistress. As she becomes fed up with the constant cruelty, she discovers she has a special gift that she just might be able to use to outwit the unruly adults around her.

Plot: based on novel or book, parent child relationship, classroom, difficult childhood, child prodigy, childhood trauma, dysfunctional family, telekinesis, ...

Cast

u00c9ric Judor

Ramzy Bedia

Sophie Mounicot

Jamel Debbouze

H (1998) TV Show

7.2 75 votes

Genre: Comedy

Seasons: 4

Episodes: 71

Audience: TV-MA

Story: At a dysfunctional hospital in Paris, three bumbling, eccentric medical employees embark on zany misadventures with surgical imprecision.

Plot: comedy

Place: france

Cast

Melvil Poupaud

Daphnu00e9 Patakia

Michel Vuillermoz

Gu00e9raldine Pailhas

UFOs (2021) TV Show

7.1 52 votes

Genre: Comedy, Science Fiction

Country: France

Seasons: 2

Episodes: 24

Story: As the dreams of Didier Mathure, a brilliant space engineer, literally go up in smoke when his rocket explodes on take-off, he is transferred to head GEPAN, a unit specializing in UFOs. He is tasked with coming up with scientific explanations for the UFO sightings that are currently dominating the headlines. This is a nightmare job for a die-hard rationalist like him, and he is determined to find a way out as soon as he can.

Plot: flying saucer, ufo, skepticism, space centre, aliens, flying saucers, comedy

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Lars Nordh

Stefan Larsson

Bengt C.W. Carlsson

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Songs from the Second Floor (2000)

7.1 315 votes

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Country: Sweden, Denmark

Duration: 99 min.

Story: A monumental traffic jam serves as the backdrop for the lives of the inhabitants of a Swedish city.

Plot: poem, insanity, witness, poet, surrealism, traffic jam, apocalypse, crucifix, ...

Cast

Jonathan Cohen

Gu00e9rard Darmon

Liliane Rovu00e8re

Julia Piaton

Family Business (2019) TV Show

7.0 142 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: France

Seasons: 3

Episodes: 18

Audience: TV-MA

Story: After learning France is about to legalize pot, a down-on-his-luck entrepreneur and his family race to turn their butcher shop into a marijuana café.

Plot: drug dealer, family relationships, marijuana, weed, comedy

Cast

Jonathan Cohen

Ramzy Bedia

Ana Girardot

Adu00e8le Exarchopoulos

The Torch (2022) TV Show

7.0 85 votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: France

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 9

Story: Goodbye villa and hello Chupacabra. After THE FLAME, Marc and 15 other contestants will have to compete and survive on a deserted island. Physical challenges, mental manipulation, and emotional betrayals will be the ingredients of this tropical cocktail.

Plot: parody, mockumentary, spoof, reality show, comedy

Cast

Seth MacFarlane

Wendy Schaal

Rachael MacFarlane

Scott Grimes

American Dad! (2005) TV Show

7.0 2.4K votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 22

Episodes: 399

Audience: TV-14

Story: The series focuses on an eccentric motley crew that is the Smith family and their three housemates: Father, husband, and breadwinner Stan Smith; his better half housewife, Francine Smith; their college-aged daughter, Hayley Smith; and their high-school-aged son, Steve Smith. Outside of the Smith family, there are three additional main characters, including Hayley's boyfriend turned husband, Jeff Fischer; the family's man-in-a-goldfish-body pet, Klaus; and most notably the family's zany alien, Roger, who is "full of masquerades, brazenness, and shocking antics."

Plot: central intelligence agency (cia), alien, social satire, adult animation, sitcom, domestic comedy

Cast

Gilbert Gottfried

Rob Reiner

Mel Brooks

Judy Gold

The Last Laugh (2016)

7.0 21 votes

Genre: Documentary

Country: United States of America

Duration: 89 min.

Story: Feature documentary about humor and the Holocaust, examining whether it is ever acceptable to use humor in connection with a tragedy of that scale, and the implications for other seemingly off-limits topics in a society that prizes free speech.

Style: taboo

Plot: holocaust (shoah), dark comedy, political correctness, woman director, coping mechanisms, comedy, jewish humor

Cast

Tadanobu Asano

Nao Omori

Shinya Tsukamoto

SABU

Ichi the Killer (2001)

7.0 1.1K votes

Genre: Action, Crime, Horror

Country: Japan

Duration: 129 min.

Audience: 18

Story: As sadomasochistic yakuza enforcer Kakihara searches for his missing boss he comes across Ichi, a repressed and psychotic killer who may be able to inflict levels of pain that Kakihara has only dreamed of.

Plot: assassin, pain, yakuza, gore, dominatrix, violence against women, piercing, based on manga, ...

Cast

John Belushi

Karen Allen

Tom Hulce

Stephen Furst

Animal House (1978)

7.0 1.7K votes

Genre: Comedy

Country: United States of America

Duration: 109 min.

Audience: R

Story: At a 1962 College, Dean Vernon Wormer is determined to expel the entire Delta Tau Chi Fraternity, but those troublemakers have other plans for him.

Plot: college, fraternity, dean, fraternity house, national lampoon's, probation, college freshman, anarchic comedy

Time: 1960s

Cast

Oscar Isaac

Charlize Theron

Chlou00eb Grace Moretz

Javon Walton

The Addams Family 2 (2021)

6.9 1.4K votes

Genre: Adventure, Animation, Comedy

Country: Canada, United States of America

Duration: 93 min.

Audience: PG

Story: The Addams get tangled up in more wacky adventures and find themselves involved in hilarious run-ins with all sorts of unsuspecting characters.

Style: absurd

Plot: kidnapping, supernatural, grand canyon, sequel, niagara falls, family, san antonio, texas, ...

Cast

Xiao Liansha

Sheng Feng

Yuntu Cao

Shan Xin

Hitori No Shita - The Outcast (2016) TV Show

6.9 56 votes

Genre: Action, Animation, Comedy

Country: China, Japan

Seasons: 6

Episodes: 94

Audience: TV-MA

Story: Zhang Chulan leads a very common college student's life until he finds himself caught up in a terrible incident that happened in a small village. As he was walking through a graveyard, he is assaulted by zombies. Thinking that it was over for him, a mysterious girl carrying a sword suddenly saves him and disappears.

Plot: fighting, city, based on manhua, fantasy, urban fantasy, passionate, donghua, comedy, ...

Ghostbusters (1986) TV Show

6.8 82 votes

Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family

Country: United States of America

Seasons: 1

Episodes: 65

Audience: TV-Y7

Story: Jake Kong Jr. and Eddie Spencer Jr. are sons of the original Ghost Busters, and they work alongside Tracy the Gorilla (who also worked with their fathers). Together, they are dedicated to ridding the world of the evil ghost wizard Prime Evil and his cast of henchmen.

Plot: ghostbuster, time travel, time machine, paranormal phenomena, ghost hunting, paranormal investigation, ghost hunter, ghost, ...

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