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Plot Summary:
A Japanese businessman travels to Iceland and has a series of misadventures while venturing to a remote area to perform a traditional burial ritual where his parents died several years back.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA, Japan, Iceland, Denmark, Germany
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: road movie, cult classic, bleak, humorous, independent film, spiritual, offbeat, realistic, witty, semi serious
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Gaudi Afternoon (2001)
Plot Summary:
An American abroad finds herself falling in with an eccentric group of fellow expatriates in Spain in this comedy. Cassandra (Judy Davis) is a nomadic American who finds herself stranded in Spain, where she's found temporary work translating books into English. However, Cassandra's limited translating skills are not bringing home the bacon, so when she encounters a strange woman named Frankie (Marcia Gay Harden), she's willing to help her find a missing friend for a price.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: Spain
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: intense, talky, semi serious, entertaining, independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, erotic, sexy
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Children of Nature (1991)
Plot Summary:
An elderly couple leave their retirement home to make one last journey back to their home in the Western Fjords.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Iceland, Norway, Germany
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic
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Noi the Albino (2003)
Plot Summary:
17 year old Noi drifts through life on a remote fjord in Iceland. In winter, the fjord is cut off from the outside world, surrounded by ominous mountains and buried under a shroud of snow. Noi dreams of escaping from this white-walled prison with Iris, a city girl who works in a local gas staion. But his clumsy attempts at escape spiral out of control.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Germany, UK, Denmark
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: harsh, touching, depressing, enigmatic, bleak, realistic, art house, compassionate, philosophical, experimental
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Enlightenment Guaranteed (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two middle aged German brothers - one New Age and recently divorced, the other uptight and sceptical - travel to a Zen monastery in Japan in search of enlightenment, or perhaps just in search of themselves.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, spiritual, inspirational, poignant, existential, feel good, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious
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Factotum (2005)
Plot Summary:
This drama centers on Hank Chinaski, the fictional alter-ego of "Factotum" author Charles Bukowski, who wanders around Los Angeles, CA trying to live off jobs which don't interfere with his primary interest, which is writing. Along the way, he fends off the distractions offered by women, drinking and gambling.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway, USA, Germany, France, Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, philosophical, humorous, serious, realistic, dark, grim, meditative, sad, tense
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The Sea (2002)
Plot Summary:
Wealthy, aging patriarch Thordur assembles his scattered heirs in his remote Icelandic fishing village to discuss the future of the family fishery. But bringing everyone together unleashes a storm of long-repressed dark family secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, France, Norway
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, bleak, contemplative, talky, biting, sexual, dark comedy
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Bartleby (2001)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Herman Melville's short story "Bartleby, the Scrivener" told in the setting of a modern office.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: surreal, humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, art house, black comedy, cult classic, atmospheric, clever, offbeat
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The Human Resources Manager (2010)
Plot Summary:
A tragic comedy centered on the HR manager of Israel's largest industrial bakery, who sets out to save the reputation of his business and prevent the publication of a defamatory article.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel, Germany, France, Romania
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, sincere, road movie, humorous, captivating, touching, serious, realistic, grotesque
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8 ? Women (1999)
Plot Summary:
After the death of his wife, wealthy businessman Philip Emmenthal and his son Storey open their own private harem in their family residence in Geneva (they get the idea while watching Federico Fellini's 8½ and after Storey is "given" a woman, Simato (Inoh), to waive her pachinko debts). They sign one-year contracts with eight (and a half) women to this effect. The women each have a gimmick (one is a nun, another a kabuki performer, etc.). Philip soon becomes dominated by his favourite of the concubines, Palmira, who has no interest in Storey as a lover, despite what their contract might stipulate. Philip dies, the concubines' contracts expire, and Storey is left alone with Giulietta (the titular "½", played by Fujiwara) and of course the money and the houses.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Netherlands, Luxembourg, Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: surreal, erotic, sexy, clever, talky, sex comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, contemplative
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Autumn Moon (1992)
Plot Summary:
A Japanese tourist, Tokio, meets a 15-year-old Hong Kong girl and her grandmother left behind in Hong Kong while their family emmigrates to Canada.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong, Japan
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying
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Mystery Train (1989)
Plot Summary:
Three stories are connected by a Memphis hotel and the spirit of Elvis Presley.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: independent film, anthology, humorous, stylized, atmospheric, realistic, meditative, cult classic, art house, dark comedy
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Eldorado (2008)
Plot Summary:
Yvan finds a burglar in his house. After some consideration, Yvan decides not to call the police and to drop the lad near the nearby city but he ends up giving him a lift home to his parents. Together, they travel through Belgium and meet some extraordinary people and find themselves in ditto situations.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, captivating, entertaining, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Wise Blood (1979)
Plot Summary:
A Southerner--young, poor, ambitious but uneducated--determines to become something in the world. He decides that the best way to do that is to become a preacher and start up his own church.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: southern gothic, spiritual, existential, philosophical, gothic, surreal, grim, cult classic, clever, humorous
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Cannes Man (1997)
Plot Summary:
Film producer Sy Lerner makes a bet with a fellow film executive that he can turn any nobody into a star at the Cannes Film Festival. A New York cab driver who is visiting the festival is chosen as the test subject to settle the bet and Sy uses his skills of hype and manipulation to try and turn the cab driver named Frank into the talk of the town. Many celebrities make cameos throughout the film.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody, mockumentary, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film
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Humboldt County (2008)
Plot Summary:
Peter is a medical student about to graduate and begin his residency. When his professor fails him, he winds up in bed with an actress and singer named Bogart rolling through Los Angeles. He accompanies her to the redwoods of northern California, where he encounters her eccentric family of pot farmers. But when Bogart runs away without a word, Peter is thrust into the picturesque and bizarre world.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sincere, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, independent film, realistic, offbeat, feel good, contemplative, crying
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Orphans (1998)
Plot Summary:
The star of Ken Loach's MY NAME IS JOE, Mullan proves that his talent isn't relegated to acting. As a writer/director, he has crafted a supremely entertaining motion picture. ORPHANS tells the grittily realistic, hysterical, and deeply moving tale of a group of siblings who reunite in Glasgow on the eve of their mother's funeral. The four children mourn their mother's passing in a variety of ways, some of which are heartfelt and some of which are bizarre. As a potential thunderstorm threatens to damage the city, the situation compounds itself even further.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: emotional, intense, surreal, dark comedy, touching, humorous, depressing, witty, rough, offbeat
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Aaltra (2004)
Plot Summary:
In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems they are doomed to stay together. They no longer focus their rage on each other but on the manufacturer of the tractor, in Helsinki. So get ready for a hilarious wheelchair road movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie, dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, black and white, black comedy, dark, offbeat, tragic
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Kikujiro (1999)
Plot Summary:
Brash, loudmouthed and opportunistic, Kikujiro is the unlikely companion for Masao who is determined to see the mother he has never met. The two begin a series of adventures which soon turns out to be a whimsical journey of laughter and tears with a wide array of surprises and unique characters along the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: road movie, sad, uplifting, touching, surreal, stylized, emotional, social, contemplative, art house
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Box of Moon Light (1996)
Plot Summary:
Al Fountain, a middle-aged electrical engineer, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he decides to take his time coming home from a business trip, rents a car, and heads out looking for a lake he remembers from his childhood. But his wandering takes him into the life of Kid, a free-spirited young man who helps Al escape from the routine of everyday life and find freedom to enjoy himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: road movie, scenic, thought provoking, touching, humorous, independent film, sincere, mumblecore, mind blowing, clever
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Vincent Wants to Sea (2010)
Plot Summary:
Vincent, a young man who suffers from Tourette's syndrome, has just lost his mother. His father, a successful politician, does not want to take care of him and therefore places him into a mental institution. He is put into a room with Alexander, a guy with a compulsive disorder, and is shown around by Marie, an anorectic girl.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, semi serious, sincere, captivating, enigmatic, scenic, neurotic, feel good, independent film, indie film
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Stranger Than Paradise (1984)
Plot Summary:
Rootless Hungarian émigré Willie, his pal Eddie, and visiting sixteen-year-old cousin Eva always manage to make the least of any situation, whether aimlessly traversing the drab interiors and environs of New York City, Cleveland, or an anonymous Florida suburb.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, road movie, black and white, art house, contemplative, atmospheric, stylized, cult classic, indie film, aesthetic
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The Last Detail (1973)
Plot Summary:
Two Navy men are ordered to bring a young offender to prison but decide to show him one last good time along the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: road movie, atmospheric, cult classic, realistic, witty, dark comedy, entertaining, black comedy, sincere, touching
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Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
Plot Summary:
A film based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, in which a young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II, in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, road movie, tragicomedy, clever, scenic, sentimental, melancholic, humorous, feel good, sad
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Here and There (2009)
Plot Summary:
Here and There (Serbian: Tamo i ovde) is a Serbian film which was premiered at the Belgrade Film Festival FEST 2009. Here and There follows two interconnected stories on two different continents. Robert (Thornton), a depressed New Yorker, tries to make quick cash and ends up in Serbia, where instead of money he finds his soul. At the same time, a young Serbian immigrant, Branko (Trifunović), struggles in an unforgiving New York, desperately trying to bring his girlfriend from Serbia to the United States. Mirijana Karanović plays Branko's mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia, USA, Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, cynical
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues (1993)
Plot Summary:
Sissy Hankshaw is born with enormous thumbs that help her hitchhiking through the US from a young age. She becomes a model in advertising and her NY agent 'the Countess' sends her to his ranch in CA to shoot a commercial, set against the background of mating whooping cranes. There, she befriends Bonanza Jellybean, one of the cowgirls at the beauty- ranch.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: road movie, surreal, humorous, entertaining, stylized, melancholic, realistic, witty, semi serious, cult classic
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Night on Earth (1991)
Plot Summary:
An anthology of 5 different cab drivers in 5 American and European cities and their remarkable fares on the same eventful night.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 65000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: intellectual, anthology, independent film, dark comedy, road movie, melancholic, surreal, entirely dialogue, art house, clever
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Around the Bend (2004)
Plot Summary:
A tale of four generations of men, all of whom have had their offspring at a young age: a great-grandfather, a grandfather, a father in his twenties and a son who is about 7 years old. When the oldest member passes away, the trio heads out on the road together in the Southwest to search out an old family secret that connects to their past.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, road movie, emotional, semi serious, humorous, family saga, realistic, crying, funny
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Downhill (2014)
Plot Summary:
Four old school friends reunite to attempt the epic coast to coast walk, across the United Kingdom. As their journey unfolds, this comically incompatible foursome walk full tilt into their mid-life crises.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, road movie, fake documentary
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Plot Summary:
A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 157000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, road movie, light, funny, touching, humorous, hilarious, cult classic, buddy comedy, sentimental
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Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Plot Summary:
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 508000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: road movie, feel good, funny, melancholic, independent film, emotional, black comedy, dark comedy, sweet, humorous