THAI COMEDY MOVIES
Thai comedy are very popular. Nowadays most popular movies are either horror, action or comedy movies. Thai comedies remain popular in Thailand but not abroad. Jokes remain targeted for local audience. Some comedy Thai movies (หนังตลก) are based on romantic stories taking place on the countryside. Comedies, which are a base for Thai audiences, has narrow potential for non-Thai viewers since the Thai home grown jokes can hardly be understood by people non used to Thai culture.
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This funny movie is about Teng Mo, the daughter of a district officer.
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This funny movie is the second opus about the daughter of a district officer. Teng Mo has just married when another woman claims that she is already the wife of her husband! Funny moments happen until Teng Mo and her husband fall in love again.
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Two families making a living on agriculture don't esteem each other. They unite when some gangsters threaten them in order to buy goods at low price. Love stories happen between young people from both families.
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A young poor lady Oi is leaving Bangkok and finds her-self adopted in a farmer family lead by a strong mother with her three sons. She is the new daughter. Many funny situations happen as the three sons are fond of Oi.
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In Nan province, animist forest people (คนป่า) are discovered. They are called "Phi Tong Leuang" (ผีตองเหลือง) or Mlabri ethnic group. They do not possess anything and share everything within the group. They are exploited by Bangkokian people to cut trees in forest. They stop to cut trees because deities (ผีฟ้า) are angry. A professor sends a group of students including a young lady called Doktawan to study and to catch a "Phi Tong Leuang" in the forest. In Ta Wa Dung village, people from Chinese origins are living. They are far from civilization and are friend of the Mlabri ethnic group. Cheng is a young man living in Ta Wa Dung village. The students mistakes Cheng as a Mlabri ethnic group member and catches him. Cheng is same as French Asterix and his magic potion. Cheng gets high strength when getting exposed to sun. As he wishes to visit Bangkok, he lets himself captured. There, he is exposed like an animal in a cage. Doktawan educates him to modern world (radio, music, dance). A romance happens between Cheng and Doktawan. The illegal logging company sends ruffians to get rid of Cheng so he has to flee. Police catches him and sends him to hospital for crazy people as he is walking half naked. Meanwhile Cheng's parents are worried and decide to go to Bangkok to search for him. They arrive in Bangkok with elephants and horses to look for him! Finally Cheng is reunited with his family but it is discovered that he is not a Mlabri so he needs to help Doktawan to find real Mlabri ethnic group members. Meanwhile the illegal logging company wants to kill all Mlabri people to be able to exploit the forest. Gun fight happens in famous Earth Pillars site at Sao Din. Police arrives on time to rescue the students and Mlabri. This is a typical Thai comedy from the 1980s decade with a "katoey" (กะเทย) in the funny and silly role, gags from "Raiders of the Lost Ark" and "The Gods Must Be Crazy" (1981). There is very bad taste as the illegal logging company ruffians often carry a nazi flag to emphasize their badness. In 2009 the operator of a waxworks museum in Pattaya has been forced to cover up a giant billboard of Adolf Hitler giving a Nazi salute after complaints. This movie includes first introduction of hidden advertisement with beer brand name promotion.
An important thing in everyday life is to have fun (สนุก - "SANUK"). Thai people love to have fun together. "SANUK" can represent many things : eat together, to be with friends and chat, to go out with friends. For Thai people "SANUK" happens with several persons. Of course Thai comedy are very popular. Some comedy Thai movies (หนังตลก) are based on romantic stories.
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Four young women want to become policemen. They face harsh selection inside the police school. One of them is coming from a wealthy family but still wants to be a policeman same as her father. The trainer is aware of this and is helping them though gags during the selection and their first assignments.
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A business man is looking for a secretary. He finally finds one, who is going to upset his life!
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A 70 years old man discovers he has a hidden daughter. Of course his daughter in law doesn't want to share the heritage with this girl and tries many stratagems...
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Vickie, Thai lady, is seduced by an Austrian man, who is already married. Being pregnant, she decides to go back to Thailand. Before leaving, she leaves her daughter, Diana, to the Austrian man. Being an adult, Diana decides to go back to Thailand to find her mother. Will she succeed?
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A Thai thief is accomplishing spectacular robberies with his associate. One day, he is caught by a policewoman. In order to avoid being jailed, he has to help her to get a precious diamond back.
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A mother is separated from her Thai husband and move to Austria with her daughter. During her childhood, the daughter has also a half-Thai friend. When growing up, the daughter wants to know her Thai father and decide with her best friend to gather the money to buy the air ticket to Thailand. They try different opportunities (play Molam, simulate red cross helpers, get money from wish fountains).
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In a remote village two young people love each other. As the man has a nice voice, he decides to go to Bangkok to become a singer. Having some financial problems, her fiancee also has to go to Bangkok to work. She fails to find him and is rescued by two nice guys after being attacked by a taxi driver. After many funny confusions, her fiance is marrying another woman and she is marrying her rescuer.
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Two friends are unfortunately making funny mistakes by trying to seduce two young ladies. During Chinese New Year, while trying to earn money in order to repair their mistakes, one of the young lady discovers that she is the Mr Liu's daughter. As Mr Liu is very rich, will it change their frienship and love?
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Three jobless men after a few failed tests finally find a job in a detective agency. They have to look for the daughter of a rich man. This lady left home following misunderstanding with her step-mother. This latter doesn't help the apprentice detectives as her daughter then become the only heir.
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A young man opens a strange bottle containing a woman genius. This woman genius loves the young man but the young man wants the genius help to win the heart of another Thai lady.
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Tun is a guy selling Buddha amulets. He has no girlfriend. One night at a Karaoke his best friend pays a girl, called Nok, to seduce him. Tun is not aware of the trick and falls in love with her. But Nok is already the girlfriend of a mafia boss, who asks for 3M Baht to release her. Tun and his best friend are getting in serious trouble to get the money...
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Kluey is working in a Likay theater (ลิเก) in Nakhon Pathom. One day Kluey makes an offering to a shrine spirit and invites the spirit to watch Likay. A comic deity comes every evening to enjoy the Likay performance. Kluey is single and always dreams about Fa, a Thai actress (ดารา). Kluey gets always mocked (โดนแกล้ง) by others. Only a young woman called Oum has interest in him but he is not aware of it. He is so sad that the comic deity (เทวดา) decides to help him. Kluey asks wishes to the deity. He wishes to get 500 000 baht and Fa to be his girlfriend. But the deity makes the reality different from his dreams! He has to become a robber to get 500 000 baht from a 7-11 eleven shop and has Fa as hostage. As the deity always misinterprets Kluey's wishes, it creates various humorous sequences. In one sequence, he is the monk wishing to expulse the spirit from Buppha Rahtree (บุปผาราตรี) played by Fa. It is an hommage to Thai director Yuthlert Sippapak for his Buppha Rahtree movie saga blending horror and comedy. Then in another sequence Kluey is a grandfather (ปู่) in a hospital visited by his granddaughter as he wished that Fa takes care about him. In the last sequence he wishes to be a rich star to be able to seduce Fa. Finally he understands that he has to be himself (เป็นตัวเอง). He also realizes that love was close to him with Oum. There is a happy ending.
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Mam comes to Bangkok for the first time to search for a work. He can stay in the house of a relative. He come from Isan area and loves to eat Mama noodles. He wishes to learn Chinese language. One evening he found a child ghost called Dio in the house! He claims to be his son (ลูกพ่อ) but not yet born. In order to be born, he needs his father to seduce his mother! The future mother is as beautiful (งาม) as a model and is working as Chinese teacher in a language centre. Her name is Fa. Hopefully the son is helping with love letter, flowers but to no avail. Mam finally finds a job but only as manual people counter. If he doesn't succeed to seduce the mother, his son will be reincarnated into a dog. Mam tries to be a hero by helping Fa assaulted by ruffians but she punched them before he can help. He buys new clothes to be more modern. Fa only calls him "uncle" (ลุง). He is lucky to win a gold ingot thanks to Mama noodles. With the money he buys a motorbike to impress Fa and brings her home after work but as he doesn't know to drive well so she has to drive herself! One day he gives her drugged orange juice as her mother suggests her father has done this way 40 years ago to seduce her mother. Anyway when she is asleep he doesn't dare to do anything and gets drugged also by drinking the orange juice. When he wakes up, he gets punched by Fa. He finally realizes that Dio lied to him. Dio is a kid from a rich family (ลูกเศรษฐี) living in the neighbourhood and playing tricks to everybody. Mam forgives him as Dio's parents have no time to take care about him. After a Chinese opera performance, Fa's boyfriend wishes to bring her back home and tries to drug her. Hopefully Mam and Dio were passing by and help Fa. The movie finishes on good mood with Dio getting sincere interest from his busy parents and Mam having Fa as girlfriend. Mum Jokmok has already tried romantic comedies with movie "midnight love" in 2005. The issue regarding the orange juice to force a woman might prevent it to be a real family comedy.
Some Comedy Thai movies (หนังตลก) deal about arrangement made between parents and the young man, who must follow the custom. Not so long ago, wedding were arranged by parents. Now as children often leave the house to find a job in big cities, the young boys and girls prefer to choose their mate.
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A young feminine seller is in love with a Thai Boxer but her family doesn't want her to marry him. So her family tries to present other bachelors to her. The Thai Boxer becomes famous and is contacted to cheat a boxing match. As he refused, he is seriously injured by the mafia. Will their love story become a reality?.
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Coming from a wealthy family and fed up by his mother still looking for a mate for him, a young man decides to flee his parents' home. He is living with an uncle on a boat on the Chayo Praya and is selling goods. During his adventure, he meets a rich young woman whom father is alcoholic, a young woman whom father is a local godfather, a young poor woman. Who will he choose? This movie contains many nice "LOOK TOUNG" (ลูกทุ่ง) songs.
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Following a promise done by his father 20 years ago, Ekarat has to marry Yee hoop, a young lady educated in old style. Ekala's mother doesn't want his son to marry a bumpy country side girl. Yee Hoop's parents leave her in Ekarat's parents home so she can get used to urban life. She gets introduced to the family. Only Ekarat's younger brother, who is a katoey, is supporting her to learn things about modern life. She does many hilarious mistakes. Is she really a bumpy girl or is she simulating? Ekarat is first puzzled then seduced by Yee Hoop. Finally following his mother disapproval, he marries her in country side. When Yee Hoop goes back to Ekarat's mother home, she is subject to bad tricks, bad jokes from the mother relatives. One girl who always wanted to marry Ekarat for his money, even engages a hitman to get rid of Yee Hoop. Everything is finally settled but Yee Hoop flees to England believing that Ekarat is involved. She arrives at the time of Lady Di wedding with Prince Charles. Real images of the wedding are used. Finally Ekarat and Yee Hop get reunified. A second opus was done 12 years later and a Thai TV serie based on the movie was shot in 2004.
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Yot is a young lady that has fled her home because her father wants to force her for an arranged wedding. Not a love wedding but only planned in order that the assets of two rich families are not dispersed. She is now in Pattaya, hanging around and doing small jobs. She is wearing boy clothes and acts like a boy to avoid any problems. She meets a young man Tee Wa, who is renting watersport equipments on Pattaya beach. He recruits Yot to take care about his house. Yot can ride horses very well. As Tee Wa's friend has been injured by local mafia, Yot has to replace him as a jockey in a horse racing. She wins but her parents succeeds to find her path. They ask Tee Wa's help. Tee Wa convinces Yot to go back home and her parents agree to let her choose her mate. It will be Tee Wa...
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Two young woman from different backgrounds (one from a rich family and one from a poorer family) are bothered by bachelors they don't love. Having a similar appearance to each other, confusions between them happen and finally bachelors are replaced for everybody's happiness. But the son of a local kingpin is still fond of one of the lady...
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A young woman is back from Germany. Her older relatives are quarreling in order to take care about her and find the best husband for her. But the young lady has other ideas in her mind...
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Parents want to arrange a wedding between two young people, who never see each other before. As their parents must go abroad during a few weeks, the two young people ask friends to play their role. As both of them do this trick, this is leading to funny acting.
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Chaew is engaged as a new maid in a big house. She has no experience so makes silly and funny mistakes. The employer's son starts to get fond of Chaew. Of course his girlfriend tries to oppose. But such a wedding between a maid and the son of a rich family is socially impossible. Chaew has to flee. Hopefully it is discovered that in fact Chaew is coming from a rich family...
Some Comedy Thai movies (หนังตลก) are based on gay characters. Gays usually play as supporting characters to the heroes and heroines as assistants and also a comic relief. Starting in 1997, the "New Wave" of Thai Cinema brought back into highlight a genre that already had been present in 1980's Thai cinema, i.e. gay movies. The huge commercial success of "Iron Ladies" triggered a whole series of gay-related movies with diverse story lines. Instead of depicting everyday gay life and promoting political rights, many are operating within the sphere of the family. Whereas in the past, funny gays characters dominated the scene, now gender normative homosexuals are becoming increasingly visible on screen.
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It is based on a true story. In 1996 several friends living in Lampang decided to make a volley-ball team. All of them were gay ("KATOEI" - กะเทย). They were not allowed to play in other teams so they decided to make their own team. They win the national championship. This film shows them to the public in another way and also does a good job for their wider acceptance in Thai society.
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Some members have quit the Iron ladies team. One of the member even joined a competitor team called the "tip-top". Some Iron ladies members decide to reunify the whole team in order to confront the "tip-top" team. It is the opportunity to remember how the Iron ladies team was created and the problems they faced due to their gay status.
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It is also based on "KATOEI". Several gay friends decided to participate to a cheerleader contest. They were not allowed to play in other teams so they decided to make their own team and win the national championship.
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4 travesties in desperate need of money decide to rob a bank in order to achieve their dream. Unfortunately the bank they started to rob is also the target of professional robbers. Who will get the money?
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This comedy movie takes place at the beginning of last century. Three Chinese mafia gangs are fighting to be the biggest powerful criminal organization in town and are confronted to new foreign mafia coming and wishing to get their share. Ma Yong Hai is the mafia boss of The Golden Dragon gang. Ma Yong Hai is old and disabled so his son Tao leds the gang. But his son, Tao, is injured and has lost one arm. His brother, Tien, is a "KATOEI" (กะเทย - man dressed like a woman and behaves according to the gender role of a woman) but he shall become the head of the gang and replace Tao. So many funny situations happen as he has to force him-self to be a strong and viril man. He has also to handle a lovely girlfriend! How can The Golden Dragon gang survive with Tien facing hardship from other gangs?
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