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Plot Summary:
A college freshman Ramsy, played by Corey Haim experiences love for the first time in the 1960s when he asks out Joy, played by Ami Dolenz. An education of the heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 226
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Eunice (1982)
Plot Summary:
Moments in four different years in the lives of the Harper family beginning with 1955 as a hopeful Eunice prepares to go to a party, and her brother Phillip, a recent college graduate, departs for New York In 1963, a married Eunice and her husband Ed Higgins help Mama welcome novelist Phillip home for a visit. In 1973, a divorced Eunice is living with Mama. In 1978, Eunice, Ellen, and Phillip return from Mama's funeral and Eunice makes a painful realization about her life.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Aloha Summer (1988)
Plot Summary:
It's the 60s and a bunch of crazy teenagers meet in the beautiful island of Hawaii during their summer holidays. Although they come from different backgrounds, they hang out together and shake up the island! They surf, dance, drink, fight and fall in love. As the summer approaches its end, they find themselves inseparable, friends for a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Three in the Attic (1968)
Plot Summary:
In the swinging sixties three girls discover they have the same boyfriend who has been playing around with them all while vowing fidelity to each. To teach him a lesson he won't forget, the trio contrive to lock him up and continually favour him with their attentions in turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, black comedy
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Histoire de famille (2006)
Plot Summary:
À travers les yeux de Julie, 'Histoire de famille' relate le chemin parcouru d'une famille québécoise durant la Révolution tranquille des années 1960.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 165 min
Plot tags:
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Legion of Doom (2018)
Plot Summary:
A loose mix of friends freeload through film school and beyond.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Creative Nonfiction (2009)
Plot Summary:
College student Ella is completely focused on her ambiguously romantic relationship with her dorm-mate, Chris. She is so consumed by trying to understand his behavior that she's neglecting the screenplay she is supposed to write in order to graduate. When she does sit down to work on the script, her increasingly awkward social life bleeds onto the page and her work begins to express her true feelings about her own situation.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 492
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, independent film
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Palm Springs Weekend (1963)
Plot Summary:
Set in Palm Springs during a long, fun-filled weekend where several Los Angeles college students flock to spring break, centering on Jim who finds romance with Bunny, the daughter of Palm Springs harred, stressful police chief. Jim's bumbling roommate, Biff, tries to get Amanda, a tomboyish girl's attention with a so-called love gadget. Meanwhile, Gayle Lewis is a high school senior posing as a wealthy college girl who is pursued by Eric Dean, a wealthy and spoiled college prepie, while Gayle has eyes for a cowboy from Texas, named Stretch. Also Jim and Biff's basketball coach, Campbell, tries to romance Naomi, the owner of the motel where all of the gang is staying at, which is interfered by Naomi's young, trouble-making, brat son who's dubbed, Boom-Boom.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sex comedy
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Professor Mack (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a confident college professor is courted by four eligible and well-established men, she struggles to decide who she likes the best.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 148
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Cha-Cha-Cha (1982)
Plot Summary:
Gruber is a normal 16-year-old growing up in Budapest in 1962, but he has a problem -- how does he get to know the opposite sex? At the Sunday afternoon dance classes the young "ladies and gentlemen" hold each other while dancing, and that makes the lessons worth something. Otherwise, the pianist's attention wanders and the orchestra does not exactly play with a single-minded dedication. In fact, everybody seems to have other things on their minds, except for the enthusiastic dance instructor and his ever-smiling assistant.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags:
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Lip Service (2001)
Plot Summary:
Two very different former college roomates reunite under strange circumstances.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 237
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Pink Lightning (1991)
Plot Summary:
California 1962, Five girls: beautiful Sharon, ugly-duckling Andy, nice Poo and hot-to-trot Jill support their best friend Tookie when she prepares to marry her boyfriend Pat. But the two of them realize that they are not prepared to get married, that the locks of marriage will prevent them from doing things they want to do first.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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The Naked Ape (1973)
Plot Summary:
Somewhat based on Desmond Morris's fascinating book of pop anthropology, this partially animated satirical docudrama produced by Playboy Magazine publisher Hugh Hefner, traces the evolution of human kind and offers insight into the reasons why we behave the way we do. Though often dealing with sexuality, nothing in the film is terribly offensive or graphic. A prime example of mainstream experimental film-making from the early 70's featuring a young and breathtakingly lovely Victoria Principal.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Papa (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young man, Ben Freidman (Scott Wilson) raised by wealthy adoptive Jewish parents in Beverly Hills, decides that he is ready to finally meet his biological parents. He faces disappointment upon learning of the death of his biological mother. His biological father, meanwhile, resides in a psychiatric care unit.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags:
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The Girls' Room (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two college roommates -- prim and proper Grace (Cat Taber) and wild and woolly Casey (Soleil Moon Frye) -- find themselves in a tense rivalry when Casey's conduct almost destroys Grace's engagement to preppie heartthrob Charlie (Wil Wheaton). Not too high-minded to seek revenge, Grace cozies up to Casey's pal Joey (Gary Wolf), setting off a cycle of envy and mistrust that may destroy both women's lives in director Irene Turner's well-paced indie.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Purple Haze (1982)
Plot Summary:
It's dynamite stuff.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 172
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film
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R.P.M. (1970)
Plot Summary:
R.P.M. stands for (political) revolutions per minute. Anthony Quinn plays a liberal college professor at a west coast college during the hedy days of campus activism in the late 1960s. Radical students take over the college, the president resigns, and Quinn's character, who has always been a champion of student activism, is appointed president. As the students continue to push the envelope of revolution, Quinn's character is faced with the challenge of restoring order or abetting the descent into anarchy.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: political
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King Frat (1979)
Plot Summary:
Set on the quiet campus of Yellowstream University, this comedy follows the rivalries that build between two of the college's fraternities. When they're not mooning everyone they pass and throwing garbage on the lawns of rival frats, the members of the Pi Kappa Delta fraternity are mainly interested in drinking and... well, drinking. When a campus-wide farting contest is announced, Grossout, the leader of the Deltas, is all too eager to stand up, bend over and defend the honor of his fraternity.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 665
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, colorful, teen sex comedy, independent film, cult film
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Go Go Tales (2007)
Plot Summary:
A financial struggle between owners of a go-go club threatens its future.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, erotic, sexy, offbeat, independent film, exciting
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Four Friends (1981)
Plot Summary:
Also known as Moritorium and Georgia's Friends, Four Friends follows the titular quartet from high school to young adulthood. The film is set during the tumultuous 1960s, an era when everyone's values were turned inside out, shaken around, and reassembled. The central character is first-generation American Craig Wasson, who confounds his Yugoslavian father (Miklos Simon) by pursuing his own let-it-all-hang-out lifestyle. Wasson's best friends are athlete Jim Metzler and chubby Michael Huddleston; all pursue the affections of bewitching Jodi Thelan. Though they are obviously deeply in love with one another, Wasson and Thelan continue to foolishly avoid a long-term commitment as the sixties unfold around them. Four Friends calls for a fresher approach than the one offered by director Arthur Penn, whose handling of the material is much too pat and old-fashioned.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: esoteric, sincere, serious, emotional, realistic, non-linear, independent film, intellectual, eighties, cult film
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Generic Thriller (2009)
Plot Summary:
The writer can do anything he wants, right? Or maybe not...as Steven, a handsome young theater history professor discovers when he sets out to write a stage thriller - a plain, old generic thriller - only to discover that his characters prefer a character study - and want it to be a movie, not a play. At least Steven can create the man of his dreams, right? But that character - Vertigo - named after Steven's sixth grade teacher Mr. Vertigo (Steven always dates men named Vertigo) - isn't really cooperating. Will Steven ever finish his play? Will Vertigo behave (or rather, misbehave) as Steven wishes? And what about the friends on whom Steven is basing his other characters - will they still be his friends when it's all over?.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, surreal, sexy, offbeat, sexual, meta
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Frat Star (2017)
Plot Summary:
"Frat Star" explores the alluring, superficial, manipulative, and dark world of Ivy League fraternity culture. An insecure, poor, and broken-hearted Nick enters freshman year with no interest in fraternities. This all changes when his old money roommate Billy convinces him to pledge.
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, psychological
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The Strip (2002)
Plot Summary:
The Strip is the story of corporate lawyer Melissa Walker, who decides her life needs a new direction and quits her job after finding her husband in bed with his male lover. She opens a male strip club, catering especially for women.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags:
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The Wild Life (1984)
Plot Summary:
Eighties teen romp involving Bill and his new apartment, Jim and his rebellious antics, Tom and his crazy self, and Anita with her older man David.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, funny, sex comedy, retro, feel good, sexy, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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There Goes My Baby (1994)
Plot Summary:
A group of high school seniors meets in the summer of 1965 and all struggle with the choices they have to make.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, nostalgic
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The Alumni Chapter (2011)
Plot Summary:
What happens when you graduate from college, only to find that jobs are practically nonexistent and your best friends aren't what they seem? Four old friends reunite after college graduation. The conversation quickly turns sour, and a series of flashbacks expose the bitter truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: humorous, contemplative, captivating, atmospheric, independent film, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy
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The New Year (2010)
Plot Summary:
A young woman is forced to return to her hometown to take care of her ailing father and, in turn, finds herself living a life she never imagined for herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 357
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, contemplative, psychological, captivating, realistic
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Tenure (2008)
Plot Summary:
Despite his outstanding intellect, associate professor Charlie Thurber is a chronic underachiever and has never received university tenure. Aided by his nutty best friend, Charlie launches a final effort to make the grade at Gray College. But a beautiful new teacher whose ascending star threatens to eclipse him shakes up Charlie's plans.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, feel good, entertaining, realistic, semi serious, independent film, hilarious
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Carnal Knowledge (1971)
Plot Summary:
The concurrent sexual lives of best friends Jonathan and Sandy are presented, those lives which are affected by the sexual mores of the time and their own temperament, especially in relation to the respective women who end up in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: controversial, sexy, depressing, sex comedy, realistic, witty, talky, cynical, sexual, erotic
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Cupid's Arrow (2010)
Plot Summary:
An innocent college couple unknowingly become involved in their Professor's illicit research into the manipulation of love and his recreation of the elusive "Cupid's Arrow".
IMDB Rating: 3.5
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, independent film
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With Honors (1994)
Plot Summary:
Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, inspirational, road movie, humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, sincere