Two TV salarymen uphold their duty by taking on a rival talent agency during the late-’80s bubble economy.
Category: Comedy
Comedy
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Anargyros the Charmer
Anargyros and Tasos are workers, public sector employees. Anargyros is a failed womanizer, engaged to Soula for many years, but he refuses to stop chasing women despite his failures and blunders. Tassos, after Anargyros’s encouragement, follows him into the high life he promises him…
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Esta noche cena Pancho
Four friends gather to organize a wild and sleazy bachelor party.
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Through Main Street with an Orchestra
Vasily Muravin, 50, a teacher at the Moscow Institute of Management, is experiencing a crisis. At work, the place of the head of the department is replaced by the more pragmatic, but limited person Valentin Romanovsky. At home, his wife Lida, who earns at work more than her husband, habitually reproaches him for indecision. It’s hard for Muravin to come to terms with his established attitude to himself, but he is most worried when his wife shows disrespect for his main hobby – playing the guitar. Once, unable to bear the bullying, Muravin suddenly leaves the family (wife and daughter) and from work.
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Manuel and Clemente
Manuel and Clemente, couple in the shower and in various scheming, try to do business with miraculous apparitions. Near the Sevillian town of El Palmar de Troya, in 1968, people begin to say that the Virgin appears and the two friends take advantage of the situation. Soon a network of economic interests and credulity is created that makes it easier for Manuel and Clemente to achieve their goal: a monumental basilica, a religious order of nuns, priests and bishops of their own, and even a pope, Gregory XVII. Satire on the curious origin of the Palmarian Catholic Church and its unique founders.
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Didi at Full Speed
German vehicle fanatic Dieter ‘Didi’ accepts to drive a truckload of waste barrels to a French dump site. Didi ignores the plant needs to dump toxic waste after a major incident, which made the international news. But while the French site exploiter’s agent Marcel believes it’s Did’s load, that’s in fact a deliberately obvious diversion. Now everyone chases everyone else.
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Club Paradise
When Chicago firefighter Jack Moniker retires and moves to a small Caribbean island, he is befriended by the owner of a run-down resort. Together they renovate the resort and lure tourists to Club Paradise in an effort to fight off corrupt officials and businessmen who want to claim the resort as their own.
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H.M. Deserters
Set in military barracks in a small town during World War I. The soldiers herded in the barracks are ‘politically suspect’ mix of characters from all over of the Austro-Hungarian Empire: Czechs, Jews, and even Italians, but officers in charge are Germans. A new lieutenant arrives with the mission to bring order to the unit. He is the sadist, enjoying humiliating the men. Fed up with his behaviour the lower ranks kidnap him one night and string him up in a public toilet. They also make sure that he fouls up during the inspection. Eventually the five ring leaders are imprisoned. They escape and end up in Budapest posing as guards as guards of veterinary surgeons. They are caught and sent back to face a court martial and their old tormentor.
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The Family Strikes Back
Professor Kiu is a mad scientist who developed mental disorders from grieving the death of his son. Kiu orders his assistants to kidnap men to his lab, located in a private container on a vessel, for experiments. Police inspector Uncle Wah had sent his subordinates to gather evidence in the vessel, but failed to find any. Shek La-mai, an acrobatic performer and a former commander of the Special Duties Unit is a single father of three children. One night during a performance with his protege, Lam Hong, witnessed and intervened in a kidnapping incident by Kiu’s henchmen, and the two became targets of Kiu. On the other hand, Uncle Wah discovers Shek’s resemblance to a Japanese scientist named Toyota, who colluded with Kiu. Wah formulates a plan for Shek to act undercover as Toyota in order to gather evidence from Kiu’s lab.
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The Gentlemen’s Alliance
Etsuko, a female college student, tries to beat the con artists at their own game after she gets scammed one after another.