Films with a light and unobtrusive plot help to cheer up, distract from working days, and just laugh enough. Pay attention to the TOP 10 funniest comedies of 2019; the list contains the best pictures that will charge you with positive for the whole day!
The Belle Epoque (La Belle Époque)
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.9, IMDb - 7.6
- Director: Nicolas Bedos
- The premiere screening of the film took place at the Cannes Film Festival in May 2019.
Details about the film
Victor is a 60-year-old French artist with a family breakdown. The man decides to use the services of an unusual company that can restore the details of any era to order. The protagonist decides to go on a sunny May day in 1974, when he was twenty years old and he first met his future wife. Victor wants to feel happy and carefree again, but what consequences can an experiment, seemingly innocent, lead to?
Belle Epoque director on filming and nostalgia for the past
Jojo Rabbit
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.7, IMDb - 8.1
- Director: Taika Waititi
- Waititi calls his film "satire against hatred."
The film is set in Germany during World War II. Jojo Betzler is a ten-year-old boy who was left without a father. The young hero is trying to figure out how to live in an unfamiliar world. Due to modesty and slovenliness, he has no friends, classmates make fun of the poor guy, and his mother thinks that the child invents problems for himself. Jojo's only consolation is his imaginary friend Adolf Hitler, who does not at all look like the familiar Fuhrer of the Third Reich. Jojo's troubles multiply when he learns that his mother is hiding a Jewish girl in the house.
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The Peanut Butter Falcon
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.4, IMDb - 7.7
- Director: Tyler Nilson, Mike Schwartz
- Directors Mike Schwartz and Tyler Neilson met Zach at a nursing home in 2011. Then the boy said that he was happy to star in some film, after which the directors started writing the script.
Poor Zach lives in a medical facility because he has Down syndrome and needs special care. The boy enjoys video recordings of wrestling matches all day long and decides that one day he will become a great wrestler himself. Inspired by a dream, the boy escapes from the hospital and goes to a large and unknown world. Having stolen a small fishing boat, the hero meets a petty criminal Tyler. A new friend becomes a temporary trainer and best friend for Zach. Soon, they are joined by an employee of the Eleanor hospital, who was supposed to return the escaped boy back to the institution, but she really wants to help him fulfill his dream. How will the adventures of the newly made trinity end?
Instant Family
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.2, IMDb - 7.3
- Director: Sean Anders
- The plot is based on the story of children adopted by director Sean Anders.
Fast Family (2019) is one of the funniest comedies in the top 10, which has already been released. Ellie and Pete Wagner buy a luxurious five-bedroom home. They are happy in marriage, but they used to postpone the question of children until better times. Having crossed the threshold of their fortieth birthday, the heroes decide that their time has come. The Wagners go to an orphanage and unexpectedly choose a lively 15-year-old girl Lizzie from among the teenagers that no one wants to take. It turns out that she has a younger brother, Juan, a clumsy boy with a passion for sports, and Lita, who always argues with all family members. The Wagners have to take all three under their wing. Restless children make foster parents a difficult but fun life.
Give Me Liberty
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 7.2, IMDb - 7.2
- Director: Kirill Mikhanovsky
- The film was presented at the 72nd Cannes Film Festival.
In the center of the story is Vik, the son of Russian emigrants, who works as a driver of social transport - he delivers passengers with disabilities to work and back home. The young man cares about others and does not lose optimism, although his life can hardly be called happy: the grandfather is slowly starting to go crazy, the mother cannot get used to a foreign country, and his sister has contacted a scoundrel. Events take an unexpected turn when a Russian woman dies in a nursing home where grandfather Vic was placed. The relatives of the deceased break into the guy's van and demand to take them to the cemetery ...
Masterpiece (Mi obra maestra)
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 6.8, IMDb - 7.1
- Director: Gaston Duprat
- On the first weekend in Argentina, about 187 thousand viewers watched the picture.
The plot of the comedy revolves around two main characters. Arturo is a charming but unscrupulous art gallery owner. Renzo is a cynical and morose artist who hates critics, hangouts and journalists. The painter is on the verge of poverty and barely makes ends meet. Arturo tries to save the impoverished brush master from debt. He comes up with a risky adventure so that the name Renzo thundered again in the art world!
100 things nothing more (100 Dinge)
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 6.8, IMDb - 6.5
- Director: Florian David Fitz
- The film contains references to the film Fifty Shades of Gray and the 1959 TV series The Twilight Zone.
Details about the film
The gifted programmer Paul and the clever businessman Tony are literally one step away from wealth - they presented investors with a new project that they really liked. Vigorously celebrating great success, young people quarrel right in front of their loved ones. Eternal rivals and childhood friends pledge to live a hundred days on a bet without things on which they feel dependent. The stakes are too high, but their bet is jeopardized when a pretty and charming girl appears on the horizon. It's hard to impress a pretty woman when you're a millionaire without pants. Which hero will surrender first?
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Kings of Intrigue (El Cuento de las Comadrejas)
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 6.5, IMDb - 7.4
- Director: Juan Jose Campanella
- "Kings of Intrigue" is a remake of the 1987 Argentinean comedy "Boys Have Never Used Arsenic Before."
Mara Ortiz is a forgotten movie star who leads a reclusive lifestyle in an old mansion near Buenos Aires. The actress shares her shelter with her husband, an elderly screenwriter and former director. They were all witnesses to her faded glory. The relationship of this four is far from perfect: they skillfully balance on the verge of love and hatred for each other. In their life, everything changes dramatically when unexpected guests appear on the doorstep of the house, who have their eyes on the star estate. To sell the posh house, they pretend to be Mara's fans and try to convince the actress that she needs to return to the cinema. But Mara's friends are not ready to leave the place to which they have become accustomed for many years. A deadly duel begins between them ...
The Dead Don’t Die
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 6.1, IMDb - 5.5
- Director: Jim Jarmusch
- Filming took place in Fleischmanns Village, Dalaware County, New York.
Details about the film
A chain of mysterious events has fallen on the sleepy town of Centerville. Pets run into the forest, phones don't work, clocks stop, and the same song is played on the radio all day long. But these are only flowers compared to what will happen next. Police Cliff and Ronnie discover the brutally mutilated bodies in the diner. Were they really zombies? Armed to the teeth, the brave men try to stop the gluttonous monsters. A zombie invasion is coming, and it won't end well ...
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1 + 1: Hollywood Story (The Upside)
- Rating: KinoPoisk - 5.9, IMDb - 6.9
- Director: Neil Berger
- The slogan of the film is "Lonely billionaire in search of thrills."
1 + 1: A Hollywood Story (2019) is one of the best comedies on the list and deservedly made it to the top 10; This funny picture will give a cheerful mood and make you cheer up! As a result of the accident, Philippe Lacasse was left paralyzed and disabled. Hired assistants do not stay in his luxurious mansion, only the former prisoner Dell agreed to be for Philip "hands and feet" for a generous payment. He swears loudly, drags the poor invalid into dubious adventures and allows himself to let go of tactless taunts. Every day Philip likes more and more his unpredictable and slightly abnormal assistant. This is how two completely different men become soul mates.
