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Plot Summary:
A bitter-sweet comedy about two people who wish to live life to the full despite their age. Ota is a retired high-school teacher and at this point in life has various foibles that complicate life for his son and daughter-in-law. Moreover, he has a complicated and risky eye operation ahead. That is why Ota decides that this is the time to look up Jana, the retired actress who had influenced the course of his life many years ago. However, his reunion with Jana - who lives in a retirement home - works out differently to his expectations. Although disappointed at first, it is actually this zestful lady who sets Ota in the right direction again. Thanks to Jana, Ota finds the courage to set out on an exciting road-movie trip of the kind he would never have had the courage for in his youth. Their meeting and the excursion, full of unexpected turns and new impressions, give their lives a new dimension.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative, social
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Love and Other Troubles (2012)
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Ville, 25, is a downbeat former child star who's successfully avoided his womanizing rock 'n' roll dad for years. Everything changes when his dad moves into his flat and they both fall in love with the same American line-dancing teacher.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, contemplative
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Every Million Comes Handy (2016)
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Vibrant lady Irena Ditrichová owns a large prosperous firm with subsidiaries abroad. After being involved in a serious car crash, she decides to sell the firm and use the proceeds for helping people in need. When her son Jaroslav finds out that she's started handing round her possessions which he was supposed to inherit, under the pressure of his very materialistic wife he starts trying to have his own mother declared legally incapacitated. But grandson Lukás comes to Granny's help and engages a lawyer, her friend of long standing. During the court hearing the lawyer develops an essential reflection: is it possible to declare that a parent is suffering of dementia only because she handles her possessions freely even despite the disapproval of her children?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, captivating, suspenseful
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Charlie & Boots (2009)
Plot Summary:
Paul Hogan plays Charlie McFarland and Shane Jacobson plays his estranged son, Boots. After a family tragedy Charlie and Boots try and put their differences aside and head off on the road trip of a lifetime - from regional Victoria to the Cape York Peninsula - they overcome many challenges to reach their dream - to fish off the northern most tip of Australia.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, road movie, sincere, humorous, contemplative
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Sex, Death and Bowling (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers separated by one continent and two decades reunite when one of them becomes sick with cancer.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, contemplative
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The Great Thaw (2008)
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IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 246
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 108 min
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Tiger Theory (2016)
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The last drop for Jan's resolution is the voluntary death of his father-in-law, whose strength and patience ran dry. Grandma made decisions about Grandpa's life, old age as well as the funeral. Jan is sure that he and his wife Olga are on the same route. He recalls his past life when he used to have his own will and dreams and he wants to live again with dignity and freedom. He longs to control his own life again. And his solution is escape from the present life. In this movie we watch, in parallel ,the fates of Jan's married daughters Olinka and Alenka and his sons-in-law Erik and Pepík.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 793
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, social, crying, freeze frame, dark comedy
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Nowhere in Moravia (2014)
Plot Summary:
When not serving regulars at a pub in the middle of a sleepy northern Moravian village, thirtysomething Maruna spends time with hesitant Jura and naïve outsider Olin – or fighting with her imperious mother. Lightened with a touch of black humor, this laconic village drama is the directorial debut of the artistic director of Prague’s Dejvice Theater who gave the members of his ensemble a one-of-a-kind acting opportunity in film.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, dark comedy
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The Midsummer Wreath (2015)
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Princess Verunka's marriage is to save the kingdom, impoverished as a result of its ruler's crazy ideas. She's not hard up for suitors: there's a talented poet, twins - one a general, the other a composer - as well as a mysterious marquis wielding the magic of his mother Morana, the Queen of Death. Could Ondra, an ordinary youth, desiring to become a rafts man on wild waters, stand a chance in competing with them? At first the game is about Verunka's hand in marriage, but later on the lives of all the kingdom's inhabitants are at stake. This time the path to a happy end will have many curves and turns. But there's also a small wreath floating on the river surface, and carrying a message of love, plus the king's latest invention - so that the end may be happy after all.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 108
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, fairy tale, light, feel good, humorous
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Crash Test Aglaé (2017)
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Aglaé, a young factory worker, has only one focus in life: her job at a car crash test site. When she learns that the factory is going to be relocated abroad, she accepts, to everyone's surprise, to go to India in order to hold on to her job. Accompanied by two colleagues, she sets out on a perilous road trip to the other side of the world.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 659
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, tense, light, feel good, contemplative, unusual plot structure
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The Bachelors (2017)
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After the early death of his wife, a mourning father moves with his teenage son across the country for a private school teaching job. Their lives begin to transform due to two unique women, who help them embrace life and love again.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, touching, feel good, humorous, romantic, sad, romantic comedy, road movie, teen comedy
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Ice Mother (2017)
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After her husband's death, Hana lives on alone in the family villa. Her two sons visit her with their families, but these visits frequently end in quarrels. When Hana meets Brona, a hardy fellow, inured to winter swimming, a new world opens before her. Brona's team-mates absorb her into their team and Hana gradually learns to overcome her fear of icy water. Her relation with Brona grows into love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, France, Slovakia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, captivating, realistic, funny, light, romantic, entertaining
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Unexpected Journey (2017)
Plot Summary:
Lasse is an old racist who has lives in an apartment block filled with a selection of refugees and immigrants. Kamal is a 16-year old boy who's fed up in his life in Finland, and dreams of moving to Nairobi to live with his father. Only problem is that he doesn't have the money to buy the ticket.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 320
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, psychological, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, contemplative
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The Leisure Seeker (2017)
Plot Summary:
A runaway couple go on an unforgettable journey from Boston to Key West, recapturing their passion for life and their love for each other on a road trip that provides revelation and surprise right up to the very end.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: road movie, tense, captivating, melancholic, inspirational, sad, novela
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The Teacher (2016)
Plot Summary:
The principal of an elementary school calls a special parents meeting after it’s alleged that the seemingly empathetic and kindly-looking teacher Mrs. Drazděchová uses her students to manipulate their parents.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Slovakia, Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, melancholic, tense, captivating, dark comedy, allegory, non-linear
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Stop the Wedding (2016)
Plot Summary:
A meddling man and woman determined to stop a wedding for the good of the bride and groom instead wind up falling in love with each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, romantic comedy
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What's Up, Scarlet? (2005)
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Scarlet Zabrinski, a successful, hard edged, L.A. matchmaker lives in the shadow of her overbearing mother, Ruth Zabrinski who relentlessly tries to find the perfect man for her daughter. Ben Zabrinski, Scarlet's pot smoking brother, an unemployed lawyer, becomes furious when Scarlet unknowingly sets him up with a porno star. When Sabrina Fisser, a homeless foreign actress, rear ends her on a calm sunny afternoon, Scarlet offers this seemingly helpless vagabond a place to stay for one night. One night becomes an eternity as the free spirited Sabrina outstays her welcome. When a vengeful Ben tries to seduce Sabrina, Scarlet finds herself protective of her new friend. A mutual attraction develops and the two unlikely characters explore the uncharted territory of unexpected love. Written by Randy Sinquefield.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, emotional, uplifting, independent film, touching, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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A Month of Sundays (2015)
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Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary there – apart from the fact that she died the year before.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, humorous, psychological, light, feel good, independent film
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Love and Pigeons (1985)
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Shown a life in the remote siberian village. Vasia, who never leave his family, village, comes to pass summer holiday on the Black Sea. New world, new people - so, hi's temted by a half-crazy woman (Raisa Zaharovna). And after short time Vasia returns to his wife and children.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, realistic, feel good, talky, sentimental, sincere, semi serious, touching
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Cloudburst (2011)
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When Dot (Brenda Fricker)'s granddaughter puts her into a nursing home, Stella (Olympia Dukakis) stages a breakout, and takes Dot to Canada so they can get married. They pick up a hitchhiker along the way.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: road movie, touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, offbeat, profound, queer cinema
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Josh and S.A.M. (1993)
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Josh and Sam are two brothers facing change, their mother is about to marry a French accountant and the kids are sent to go live with their father in Florida. Meanwhile Josh tells Sam that he is a "S.A.M." that is going to be sent to Africa to fight in a war and that Canada is a safe haven for any S.A.M. unwilling to fight. The cross-country journey begins when the 2 boys think they killed a drunk and steal his car en route to Canada where they encounter The Liberty Maid. Will Josh & S.A.M. make it to Canada or will they wish they should have never left home.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, exciting, light, melancholic, suspenseful, tense, road movie
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25 kmh (2018)
Plot Summary:
A road movie about two very different brothers who have not seen each other for 20 years: city manager Christian and cabinetmaker Georg, who never left their hometown and took care of their father until his passing. After their fathers funeral, the brothers decide on a whim, and with some help from the alcohol, to fulfil their old dream: travel trough Germany together on their mopeds.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: road movie, funny, humorous, captivating, light, feel good
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Harry and Tonto (1974)
Plot Summary:
Harry is a retired teacher in his 70s living in the Upper West Side of New York City where his late wife and he raised his children--where he's lived all his life. When the building he lives in is torn down to make way for a parking garage, Harry and his beloved cat Tonto begin a journey across the United States, visiting his children, seeing a world he never seemed to have the time to see before, making new friends, and saying goodbye to old friends.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: road movie, depressing, sentimental, touching, realistic, funny, romantic comedy, uplifting, thought provoking, feel good
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Love and Debate (2006)
Plot Summary:
A girl goes to Harvard and joins the debate team. She has to deal with a ton of issues, from boyfriends, to ethnicity, to religion, to sexual assault.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, independent film, sexy, touching, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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The Lucky Ones (2008)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around three soldiers — Colee, T.K. and Cheaver — who return from the Iraq War after suffering injuries and learn that life has moved on without them. They end up on an unexpected road trip across the U.S.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: road movie, sentimental, sincere, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, profound, contemplative, feel good
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The Relatives (2021)
Plot Summary:
One morning, the father of the family decides to fulfill his lifelong dream: to go with his family to the Grushinsky festival and perform his song there. The family is forced to come to terms with the desire of a tyrant father and go on a road trip across all of Russia. Along the way, they will have adventures, various tests and a test of their relationships for strength. But the most important thing they will understand only at the end of this extraordinary trip.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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About a Boy (2002)
Plot Summary:
Will Freeman is a hip Londoner who one day realizes that his friends are all involved with the responsibilities of married life and that leaves him alone in the cold. Passing himself off as a single father, he starts to meet a string of single mums, confident in his ability to leave them behind when they start to ask for a commitment. But Will's hope of a continued bachelorhood is interrupted when he meets 12-year old Marcus, in many ways his complete opposite.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 190000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, romantic, humorous, realistic, romantic comedy, hilarious, funny, light, sweet
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Book Club (2018)
Plot Summary:
Four lifelong friends have their lives forever changed after reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 32000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, humorous, ironic, feel good, romantic drama, melancholic
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The Trip to Spain (2017)
Plot Summary:
Steve Coogan and Rob Brydon embark on a road trip along the coast of Spain.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: road movie, humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, contemplative, exciting, freeze frame
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Aanandam (2016)
Plot Summary:
A group of students visit Goa and Hampi while on their college trip. Their experiences during their journey help them understand the intricacies of love and friendship.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, tense, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative
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Finding Fanny (2014)
Plot Summary:
A man embarks on a road trip to find his lost love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: road movie, feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating, offbeat, independent film, satirical, realistic