Comedy, a list by jkawaky

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75

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3.5

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100

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73

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In 2011 Montreal’s indie music scene, Grace Pine, a 24-year-old music critic moves to the Canadian city to write a book on Alanis Morissette’s classic 'Jagged Little Pill' album. But her plans take an unexpected turn when she gets romantically involved with members of an indie band for whom she serves as their publicist.

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29

7.1

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40

/2/

100

/1/

3.6

/974/

100

/12/

A wealthy teenager from New York City tries to win over his activist crush by traveling to Texas and befriending a would-be mass shooter.

63

39

3.9

/62/

48

/6/

37

/3/

100

/54/

94

/694/

One day, a struggling couple, Jack and Ashley, notice a truck stopped in their driveway with a dying man and duffel bags filled with a life changing amount of cash, leading them to grapple with moral dilemmas and dangerous consequences as they attempt to change their lives. Their decision to keep the money intertwines their fate with the suspicions of Sheriff Dolion and the menacing forces of the local criminal underworld, escalating tensions and jeopardizing their dreams of a better future.

77

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5.5

/122/

57

/8/

100

/24/

98

/9/

Best friends Carmen and Bolude must travel from NYC to Sydney, Australia, where they have ten days to collect 100 'welcomes' so that Bolude's traditional Nigerian father will agree to let her marry an Australian.

76

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7.8

/63/

60

/1/

70

/1/

3.7

/365/

100

/14/

Freshly tossed into a private Catholic high school by his devout mother, John falls head over heels for a devious classmate ready to push his faith (and morals) to the brink with a series of increasingly uncomfortable actions, all in the name of love.

79

58

7.2

/2364/

70

/51/

77

/15/

3.7

/27955/

100

/66/

85

/20/

Wallflower Colin leads a humdrum existence until he meets the impossibly handsome Ray, a mysterious biker he is soon desperately devoted to. As Colin submits to Ray and enters an exciting new world of desire, he must decide the limits of his devotion.

80

7.5

/1772/

78

/232/

75

/23/

3.8

/9233/

100

/16/

81

/4/

3.0

Casa Bonita opened in 1974 in an unassuming strip mall. The massive "Disneyland of Mexican restaurants" is an Old West and Acapulco-inspired fever dream made famous by its indoor waterfall, cliff divers, and haunted caves, and was featured in a classic 2003 episode of South Park. When its creators, Trey Parker and Matt Stone, learn that Casa Bonita might close its doors for good, they attempt to preserve a crumbling piece of their childhood and Denver history.

75

39

7.4

/833/

73

/83/

62

/10/

3.7

/2650/

100

/10/

71

/3/

age 15+

This rapturous documentary steps into the dynamic world of queer stand-up and examines the powerful cultural influence it has had on social change in America. The film combines rare archival materials, stand-up performances, and interviews with a show-stopping lineup to present a definitive history of queer comedy.

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100

/22/

82

/5/

In the year 2015, a disgraced space commander stumbles upon a top-secret mission to save planet Earth from uncertainty.

82

35

7.2

/224/

60

/7/

100

/1/

3.3

/201/

100

/19/

98

/169/

Foul-mouthed mother-from-hell Karen Matthews is fed up being a nobody, until she hatches a cunning plan for a shot at the big time. Henpecked common-law husband Craig Meehan has an unhealthy obsession with his laptop. Simple-minded uncle Michael Donovan just wants to fill the void left by his two daughters getting taken into care. Stereotypical Yorkshire copper D.I. Radgitt faces a race against time to unravel the web of lies and find the missing girl, little Shannon Matthews, aged 9.

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56

7.1

/3309/

72

/96/

67

/14/

3.6

/6982/

100

/12/

After the loss of his mother, Amay, a struggling young architect is forced to live for 48 hours with the one person he cannot stand, his father. It seems like a recipe for disaster. Wrong! It's much worse. Will the young architect crumble or will this bumpy ride help him rebuild his relationship with his crabby old man?

79

7.3

/10781/

76

/1348/

73

/147/

3.8

/80483/

100

/12/

81

/46/

Pioneering documentary maker Philomena Cunk returns with her most ambitious quest to date: venturing right up the universe and everything to examine life and existence in an attempt to find out the point of it all. Along the way, she interrogates experts on subjects from the big bang to biology and art to artificial intelligence. Really get to the nub of it.

75

54

7.1

/1973/

68

/35/

68

/29/

3.5

/8864/

100

/17/

Matthias is a master of pretense, from cultured boyfriend to perfect son or marital coach. He makes a career of being someone else. The real challenge begins when he has to be himself.

94

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8.5

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100

/12/

97

/54/

In 1980 Las Vegas, a Native Paiute cleaning lady enters a slots room at the MGM Grand Casino, setting off a chain of strange and unexplained events. Meanwhile, in-house comic Pete plays shrink to a host of colorful misfits while dodging mobsters and collectors. Struggling with a gambling addiction, he faces a life-altering decision that may determine his fate.

96

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9.3

/80/

100

/63/

97

/6763/

A man struggling with the end of a relationship goes down a fever-dream rabbit hole involving isolation, the millennium, 9/11, viruses and strange coincidences.

80

65

7.4

/2388/

73

/70/

79

/37/

3.8

/7221/

100

/21/

80

/6/

Mother Lissy, father Gerd, son Tom and daughter Ellen: the members of the Lunies family are estranged. But confronted with death, they finally meet each other again.

72

6.7

/2025/

62

/131/

65

/21/

3.7

/26419/

100

/85/

64

/63/

84

/22/

2.5

As an imminent construction project looms over their beloved small-town baseball field, a pair of New England rec-league teams face off for the last time. Tensions flare up and ceremonial laughs are shared as an era of camaraderie and escapism fades into an uncertain future.

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40

6.7

/359/

63

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66

/8/

3.6

/2747/

100

/11/

After receiving the diagnosis of an incurable brain tumor, Claudia decides to undertake her last trip to Switzerland. There she can decide how and when to end her life thanks to the help of an assisted suicide association.

69

34

6.7

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60

/15/

55

/8/

3.3

/1390/

100

/11/

Christchurch, Aotearoa New Zealand, 1979. During a fortnight with his world-weary father, Angus is drawn to the underground post-punk music scene. With the support of his friend Kirsten, Angus navigates self doubt, derision and a family tragedy to take the stage for the first time.

71

28

6.3

/181/

37

/5/

85

/4/

3.5

/706/

100

/13/

After hitting emotional and financial rock bottom, best friends Ben and Jordan come up with a scheme to spend an entire year living “rent free” with the help of friends, family and strangers alike in a rapidly changing Austin.

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6.5

/115/

50

/4/

70

/1/

100

/10/

Betrayal spawns an unexpected night through the streets of Tokyo for two strangers left questioning the meaning of life and love.

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59

8.7

/308/

78

/12/

4.5

/5172/

100

/34/

86

/6/

When their plan to book a show at the Rivoli goes horribly wrong, Matt and Jay accidentally travel back to the year 2008.

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47

6.0

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51

/15/

55

/22/

3.1

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100

/10/

78

/5/

What does it mean, to go to the movies? Why have people been going for over one hundred years? I set out to celebrate movie theaters and their manifold magic. So I walked in the footsteps of young Paul Dédalus, as if in a filmgoer’s coming-of-age story. Memories, fiction, discoveries come together in an irrepressible torrent of pictures.

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7.0

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69

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78

/25/

3.8

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100

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67

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87

/28/

4.0

On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.

78

6.8

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71

/138/

72

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3.6

/2817/

100

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91

/20/

3.0

When her only daughter goes off to university, an empty nest mother gets stuck taking care of her daughter's heart-broken ex-boyfriend, who she can't stand.

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62

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57

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3.1

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100

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A Mohawk woman is hired as a social media influencer but gets caught in a deadly cat-and-mouse game, as she's forced to go to war to preserve her people's heritage from corporate interests.

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76

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75

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3.8

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3.5

age 7+

Gromit’s concern that Wallace is becoming too dependent on his inventions proves justified, when Wallace invents a “smart” gnome that seems to develop a mind of its own. When it emerges that a vengeful figure from the past might be masterminding things, it falls to Gromit to battle sinister forces and save his master… or Wallace may never be able to invent again!

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64

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3.4

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100

/14/

77

/10/

In 1994, a closeted teen struggles to part ways with his four high school drama friends at their final murder mystery party before they leave for college.

78

7.4

/13491/

76

/819/

72

/87/

3.9

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99

/122/

81

/167/

74

/28/

3.0

age 15+

When Will Ferrell's good friend Harper comes out as a trans woman, they take a road trip to bond and reintroduce Harper to the country as her true self.

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7.5

/7808/

76

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71

/81/

4.0

/24344/

99

/108/

92

/153/

82

/21/

3.5

age 15+

When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet alongside his estranged teenage daughter, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.

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53

6.9

/784/

71

/97/

69

/13/

3.5

/2607/

98

/306/

88

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After nearly a decade away, Kumail Nanjiani returns to Chicago, where he got his start in standup, in a new special that tackles anxiety, the perils of buying drugs pre-legalization, and most importantly, cat medication.

86

IMDb 22

7.6

/22853/

75

/835/

78

/362/

4.2

/228999/

98

/172/

94

/26/

85

/39/

4.0

age 16+

Looking for a job? When a happy family man is dismissed after twenty-five years of loyal service at a paper company, he finds the perfect solution to land his next role: truly eliminate the competition.

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53

7.3

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58

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3.8

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98

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94

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Seven-time BAFTA Award-winner Steve Coogan plays four roles in the world premiere stage adaptation of Stanley Kubrick’s comedy masterpiece Dr. Strangelove. This explosively funny satire, about a rogue U.S General who triggers a nuclear attack. Based on the motion picture directed by Stanley Kubrick, screenplay by Stanley Kubrick, Terry Southern and Peter George, based on the book 'Red Alert' by Peter George.

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6.3

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69

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62

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3.7

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98

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28

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A space princess is thrust out of her sheltered life and into a galactic quest to save her bounty hunter ex-girlfriend from evil incel aliens.

68

5.7

/2720/

Trakt

57

/116/

61

/28/

3.5

/17993/

98

/81/

53

/37/

75

/19/

3.0

age 15+

In Mumbai, an arranged marriage spirals into darkness as the spineless husband watches his wife morph into a ruthless, feral force within their marital confines.

72

6.2

/688/

60

/48/

57

/7/

3.5

/5465/

98

/51/

82

/10/

3.0

Two friends trudge through a Michigan forest with the intention of following through on a disturbing pact. Once their plan goes shockingly awry, the haunting consequences of their failure can't stay hidden for long.

78

7.0

/26926/

70

/2221/

69

/353/

3.7

/125461/

98

/208/

83

/150/

77

/42/

3.5

age 12+

When 93-year-old Thelma Post gets duped by a phone scammer pretending to be her grandson, she sets out on a treacherous quest across the city to reclaim what was taken from her.

72

6.4

/1190/

64

/112/

66

/20/

3.5

/3478/

98

/41/

86

/21/

70

/9/

2.5

A man and a woman find their orbits repeatedly colliding over the course of 12 years, four planets, three dimensions and one space cult.

72

6.5

/7772/

66

/944/

68

/169/

3.4

/15723/

98

/44/

70

/77/

69

/8/

3.0

age 15+

Broke and depressed, Ray is mistaken for a dangerous hitman and given an envelope of cash. Along with his P.I. friend Skip, he must escape the actual hitman to make it out of LaRoy alive.

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40

3.5

/1164/

50

/62/

40

/12/

2.5

/323/

98

/57/

96

/65/

Sam, a seemingly poised and glamorous real estate agent in a small mountain community, is revealed to be an unhinged and troubled alcoholic with a dark secret, when a charismatic man named Peter shows up in town one day. As she tries to keep her life from unravelling, an older co-worker named Brenda is targeted by Peter for information at the behest of his powerful and shadowy boss, Mr. Lock.

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33

6.4

/78/

80

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10

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3.5

/732/

97

/31/

73

/12/

The estranged children of a once-famous artist hire a forger to complete his unfinished works so they can be discovered and sold after his death.

83

IMDb 84

7.2

/17203/

71

/731/

68

/186/

4.1

/237787/

97

/187/

85

/58/

90

/36/

4.0

age 15+

Agnes feels stuck. Unlike her best friend, Lydie, who’s moved to New York and is now expecting a baby, Agnes still lives in the New England house they once shared as graduate students, now working as a professor at her alma mater. A ‘bad thing’ happened to Agnes a few years ago and, since then, despite her best efforts, life hasn’t gotten back on track.

78

34

7.8

/67/

75

/4/

60

/1/

3.5

/358/

97

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90

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When a narcissistic tattoo artist tries to get a selfie with a world-famous client, his refusal to take no for an answer embroils him in a nightmarish battle of wills that threatens to destroy his business, his personal life, and his sanity.

81

7.4

/8497/

74

/473/

71

/70/

3.8

/96584/

97

/131/

94

/53/

80

/25/

3.5

age 15+

Two young men meet in a twin support group and form an unlikely friendship.

81

7.1

/20908/

72

/997/

69

/254/

3.8

/124239/

97

/150/

82

/173/

83

/39/

4.0

age 15+

Emotions run high when three estranged sisters reunite in a cramped New York City apartment to watch over their ailing father during his final days.

58

36

4.3

/498/

54

/68/

46

/8/

2.7

/2351/

97

/29/

After the death of her best friend Izzy, Anna focuses all her attention on Booger, the stray cat which she and Izzy took in. When Booger bites her, she begins to undergo a strange transformation.

86

IMDb 26

7.9

/28374/

78

/679/

77

/284/

4.2

/341725/

97

/218/

94

/51/

86

/44/

4.0

age 14+

Sisters Nora and Agnes reunite with their estranged father, the charismatic Gustav, a once-renowned director who offers stage actress Nora a role in what he hopes will be his comeback film. When Nora turns it down, she soon discovers he has given her part to an eager young Hollywood star.

83

7.6

/15681/

74

/1086/

72

/237/

4.1

/158644/

97

/108/

82

/160/

82

/16/