Genre "Urban Comedy" Movies
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| 1. A Night at the Roxbury (year: 1998) |
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This comedy extends and embellishes characters introduced on Saturday Night Live by regulars Will Ferrell and Chris Kattan in their sketch series of t ...
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| 2. And Then Came Love (year: 2007) |
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By conceiving a child via artificial insemination, hip, modern and thoroughly independent magazine writer Julie Davidson (Vanessa Williams) managed to ...
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| 3. Annie Hall (year: 1977) |
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Woody Allen's romantic comedy of the Me Decade follows the up and down relationship of two mismatched New York neurotics. Jewish comedy writer Alvy Si ...
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| 4. Barbershop (year: 2002) |
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Calvin (Ice Cube) never wanted to take over the family business, a barbershop on the south side of Chicago. Disgusted with the shop's crime-ridden nei ...
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| 5. Broadway Danny Rose (year: 1984) |
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A smaller, amusing comedy from writer/director Woody Allen, Broadway Danny Rose begins with a bunch of show business vets sitting around a table at Ne ...
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| 6. Coyote Ugly (year: 2000) |
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An aspiring musician becomes one of the most famous bartenders in New York in this high-spirited comedy-drama. Small-town girl Violet Sanford (Piper P ...
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| 7. Crocodile Dundee (year: 1986) |
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Accustomed to a simple life in the Australian Outback, a legendary crocodile hunter has trouble adjusting to his new surroundings when an American jou ...
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| 8. Downtown 81 (year: 2000) |
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Originally shot in 1980-81, this film, directed by Edo Bertoglio, is a rare real-life snapshot of ultra-hip subculture of post-punk era Manhattan. Sta ...
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| 9. Ferris Bueller's Day Off (year: 1986) |
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Teenaged Ferris Bueller (Matthew Broderick) is a legend in his own time thanks to his uncanny skill at cutting classes and getting away with it. Inten ...
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| 10. First Sunday (year: 2008) |
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Gospel-minded playwright David E. Talbert produces, writes, and directs this urban crime comedy concerning a pair of criminals who take a group of chu ...
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| 11. Friday (year: 1995) |
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Hard-core rapper Ice Cube, after appearing in such hard-hitting films as Boyz 'N the Hood and Higher Learning, played his first comic role in this pic ...
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| 12. Friday After Next (year: 2002) |
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The gang from Friday and Next Friday are back in this urban comedy, in which Craig (Ice Cube) and Day-Day (Mike Epps) have finally moved out of their ...
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| 13. High Fidelity (year: 2000) |
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A man discovers that there's more to love than a good mixed tape in this dramatic comedy about music and relationships. Rob (John Cusack), an obsessiv ...
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| 14. Hitch (year: 2005) |
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A man who teaches dateless wonders how to become irresistible to women learns just how hard it can be to do it yourself in this romantic comedy. When ...
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| 15. Hugo Pool (year: 1997) |
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Cult figure Robert Downey, Sr. directed this offbeat comedy set in the eccentric environs of Los Angeles. Hugo Dugay (Alyssa Milano) is a young woman ...
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| 16. I Want Someone to Eat Cheese With (year: 2006) |
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Jeff Garlin, best known for his role as Larry David's manager on Curb Your Enthusiasm, has directed standup comedy specials for Jon Stewart and Denis ...
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| 17. Juwanna Mann (year: 2002) |
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It's Big Momma's House on the three-point line in this broad farce, which marks the leading man/woman debut of longtime character actor Miguel A. Nune ...
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| 18. Last Night (year: 1998) |
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Don McKellar wrote and directed this comedy-drama about the last night of the world, part of the 12-film Arte series of movies about the Millennium. S ...
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| 19. Manhattan (year: 1979) |
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On the heels of Annie Hall, the Oscar-winning romantic comedy that rocketed Woody Allen to the front ranks of American filmmakers, Manhattan continued ...
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| 20. New York Stories (year: 1989) |
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The omnibus film New York Stories is the product of three powerhouse filmmakers. The film is divided into three stories, each exploring a different as ...
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| 21. Next Friday (year: 2000) |
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In this sequel to the urban comedy Friday, rap music star Ice Cube returns as Craig Jones, a streetwise man from South Central Los Angeles who has a k ...
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| 22. Notting Hill (year: 1999) |
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Can a beautiful and internationally famous American actress find happiness with a frumpy British bookstore clerk? She can — at least for a w ...
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| 23. Roger Dodger (year: 2002) |
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Writer/director Dylan Kidd got a chance to make his script for Roger Dodger into a feature film when he boldly approached Campbell Scott in a café in ...
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| 24. Sex and the City (year: 2008) |
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The hit cable series Sex and the City catwalks its way onto the big screen in this feature-film continuation that fans all over have been clamoring fo ...
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| 25. Singles (year: 1992) |
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Set amidst the burgeoning Seattle alternative music scene of the early '90s, Singles follows a group of twentysomethings as they try to find love and ...
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| 26. Six Degrees of Separation (year: 1993) |
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Two socialites find their view of the world changed when a young man takes advantage of their preconceptions in this thoughtful comedy-drama. Flan and ...
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| 27. Soul Plane (year: 2004) |
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After an excruciatingly humiliating in-flight experience that culminated in a messy breakup and the untimely death of a dog, Nashawn Wade (Kevin Hart) ...
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| 28. Sudden Manhattan (year: 1996) |
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In the bizarre style of director Hal Hartley, for whom she performed in The Unbelievable Truth and Trust, actress Adrienne Shelly's debut as a directo ...
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| 29. The Acid House (year: 1998) |
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This adaptation of three stories from Irvine Welsh's short-story collection of the same name reunites Annie Louise Ross, Kevin McKidd, and Ewen Bremne ...
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| 30. The Devil Wears Prada (year: 2006) |
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Lauren Weisberger's best-selling novel about a young woman who stumbles into the hectic worlds of high fashion and publishing comes to the big screen ...
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| 31. The Groomsmen (year: 2006) |
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Five longtime friends enjoy a few days of celebratory carousing as they try to forget their adult responsibilities in this slice-of-life comedy drama ...
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| 32. The Guru (year: 2002) |
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A visitor from the mysterious East arrives in New York — not to offer the wisdom of the ages, but to make it big as a dancer in this "f ...
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| 33. The Lonely Guy (year: 1984) |
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In a comedy as flat as the cardboard cut-outs of movie stars that appear in one scene, Steve Martin plays Larry Hubbard, a wild and lonely guy who has ...
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| 34. The Nanny Diaries (year: 2007) |
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Adapted from the bestselling novel, the whimsical, heartwarming comedy The Nanny Diaries concerns Annie Braddock (Scarlett Johansson), a recent colleg ...
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| 35. Themroc (year: 1973) |
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This extraordinary romp uses no language whatever, except gestures and grunts. When a salt crystal is dropped into a solution of water that contains a ...
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| 36. Three Can Play That Game (year: 2008) |
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Shante Smith reprises her role from Two Can Play at That Game for this sequel that finds the popular relationship expert who draws on her knowledge of ...
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| 37. Trick (year: 1999) |
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A shy musical comedy composer searches in vain for someplace to bed down with a sexy go-go dancer in this sweet-natured romantic comedy set in Manhatt ...
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| 38. When Harry Met Sally (year: 1989) |
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Rob Reiner's romantic comedy When Harry Met Sally stars Billy Crystal and Meg Ryan as the title pair. The film opens with the two strangers, both newl ...
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| 39. White Men Can't Jump (year: 1992) |
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Ron Shelton (Bull Durham) wrote and directed the basketball-oriented seriocomedy White Men Can't Jump. Woody Harrelson plays Billy Hoyle, a white con ...
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| 40. You've Got Mail (year: 1998) |
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Sleepless in Seattle director Nora Ephron originally made a name for herself as the writer of romantic comedies such as Heartburn and When Harry Met S ...
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