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Plot Summary:
Five boys and girls, aged 20-25, take on an Interrail trip throughout Europe. After a first stop in Amsterdam, where they meet up with an old teacher of theirs who happens to be gay, they cross Germany and Italy, and eventually end up in a remote island in Greek Cyclades. There, they find a home at Knut's, a faded disco sensation who locked himself up in a beautiful mansion overlooking the sea. During their trip, everyone will discover who they really are.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Greece
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: road movie, sentimental, captivating, melancholic, tense, light, suspense, suspenseful, happy, exciting
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Staying Vertical (2016)
Plot Summary:
Screenwriter Leo is searching for the wolf in the south of France. During a scouting excursion he is seduced by Marie, a free-spirited and dynamic shepherdess. Nine months later she gives birth to their child. Suffering from post-natal depression and with no faith in Leo, who comes and goes without warning, Marie abandons both of them. Leo finds himself alone, with a baby to care for.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, captivating, entertaining, erotic, art house, sexual, deep, allegory, sexy
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Depression: The Movie (2012)
Plot Summary:
Four people deal with all the pain and sadness they have and find the root cause.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Everyone Says I Look Just Like Her (2010)
Plot Summary:
Two sisters, one white and one black, spend a week together at their famous father's summer home. A microscopic examination of the new American family unit, it's a deeply personal film about the human connections that bond us all together.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, light, captivating, entertaining, independent film
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Hugues (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hugues is an actor but does not want to play anymore. He took refuge with Serge, his companion, in the house where he grew up. Micheline, a director, insists that he go back on stage. Serge gives him an ultimatum: it’s him or the room.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Sex, Party and Lies (2009)
Plot Summary:
A youth group is preparing for what will be the summer of their life, including secrets, lies, sex, confusion, evenings and holidays.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, light, suspense, entertaining, art house, queer cinema, hot
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The Miracle (2015)
Plot Summary:
1960s Turkey countryside. A newly assigned teacher finds out that the solitary village is missing a school. He gets fond of the village people and especially a disabled man. The teacher helps the village to build a new school and educate the children and the disabled man.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: captivating, melancholic, sentimental, light, touching, suspenseful, inspirational, romantic, tear jerker
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Fool Circle (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two, very different, brothers are reunited for their father's funeral. But, when they arrive at the crematorium nobody is there, not even the corpse, except for Chloe who introduces herself as their sister.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 606
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, melancholic, sincere, captivating, exciting
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Like Crazy (2016)
Plot Summary:
Beatrice is a blabbermouth and a so-called billionaire countess who likes to believe she’s in intimacy with world leaders. Donatella is a young quiet tattooed woman, locked in her own mystery. They are both patients of a mental institution and subject to custodial measures.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, road movie, touching, social, melancholic, sincere, captivating, suspenseful, psychological, philosophical
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303 (2018)
Plot Summary:
On the way from Berlin to Portugal in her rusty '303' camper van, young biology student Jule picks up hitchhiker Jan. While having intense conversations about everything and the world, they try not to fall in love.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, sincere, melancholic, philosophical, noir, mumblecore, art house, aesthetic, independent film
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Lovely Rivals (2004)
Plot Summary:
A teacher and her student compete for the affection of a handsome man.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Everyone's Life (2017)
Plot Summary:
Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secrets, their hopes and their limitations, all beneath the same sun, each with their own dark side. In a lovely provincial town, during a jazz festival, life will juggle with their destinies.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, captivating, touching, melancholic, exciting, queer cinema
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Me You Them (2000)
Plot Summary:
A true story that comically depicts the relationship between an ordinary woman and her three husbands, who live in the same house in a poor and arid small village of the Brazilian northeast.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: melancholic, light, road movie, talky, stylized, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, sincere
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Open the Wall (2014)
Plot Summary:
A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the point of view of the confused border guards.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 858
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, light
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A Jar Full of Life (2018)
Plot Summary:
Marleen (Jella Haase) is 20, but can't choose, what to do with her life. Her older brother (Matthias Schweighöfer) traveled the world for years but never has been to the Antarctic. He is at home for a few days, but the ticket for the next ship is already bought. He loves adventures and just before he dies in a car crash, Marleen has to promise him, to start enjoying life and adventures. While her family mourns over his death, Marleen decides to fulfill her brothers last will and takes his trip to the Antarctic with no money in her pocket - and soon with a little goat at her side.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 581
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, light, sentimental, sincere, humorous, captivating
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Gone with the Woman (2007)
Plot Summary:
A woman moves into a young man's home and starts to run his life -- a process that makes him fall hopelessly in love with her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, melancholic, captivating, cult classic, cult film
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Kill the Monsters (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three men struggle to save their relationship while traveling across country in search of a doctor they believe will make one of them well.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 150
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags: road movie, psychological, tense, light, romantic, sexy, touching, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Lovely by Surprise (2007)
Plot Summary:
Lovely by Surprise follows the journey of novelist Marian Walker as she attempts to finish her first novel. Facing the age-old problem of writer’s block, Marian seeks advice from a mentor and ex-lover. His seemingly innocent advice to kill the book’s protagonist unleashes chaos in her life as a willful protagonist escapes from her novel and appears in the unresolved corners of her past.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 179
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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About Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
What is love? The heroes of the film try to answer this question. A series of the most different characters and their stories are woven together. Small stories about various things, all about love: a young pair who prefer to live through images of Japanese anime-heroes; a secretary who receives an obscene offer from her boss; a Japanese woman who arrives in Moscow in search of a Russian man; a graffiti artist in search of beauty; an ex-wife employed by her husband for an unusual task; and many other things.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: romantic, psychological, light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Grand Duke Of Corsica (2021)
Plot Summary:
A cantankerous and brilliant architect, Alfred, embarks on a highly unusual commission in Malta for a man who calls himself 'The Grand Duke of Corsica'. An epidemic hits the Island and all must flee, but Alfred remains to finish the job.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, tense, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous
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The Last Shift (2020)
Plot Summary:
Stanley, an aging fast food worker, prepares to work his final graveyard shift after 38 years. When he's asked to train his replacement, Jevon, Stanley's weekend takes an unexpected turn.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, light, humorous, captivating, melancholic
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Hi, Are You Alone? (1995)
Plot Summary:
Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 846
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie, captivating, light, feel good, humorous
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Adopt a Daddy (2019)
Plot Summary:
Damien is a pawn in a primary school, and leads a quiet life. To rescue one of his young students, Bahzad, and his mother from imminent expulsion from the land, Damien reconnects with his parents' militant past and convinces his sister Mélanie, who has become a formidable business lawyer, her best friend Rudy and a bunch of unlikely pals to accompany him in his new fight. Together, they will break the law by solidarity. And very quickly to be completely exceeded.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, entertaining, funny, sincere, humorous, captivating
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Three Quarter Moon (2011)
Plot Summary:
Hartmut Mackowiak, a German taxi driver, tries to help 6 year old Turkish girl to find her mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, realistic, melancholic, tense, captivating
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My Father's Bike (2012)
Plot Summary:
Grandfather's wife unexpectedly leaves him for another man and this sparks a series of events. His son and grandson arrive from abroad and set of for a journey to find a woman dear to each of them.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, emotional, road movie, captivating, light, entertaining, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Lapland (2011)
Plot Summary:
Recently widowed Eileen Lewis,son Pete and his wife Mandy and daughter Paula with her spouse Ray,plus the grandchildren, leave Birkenhead to spend Christmas in Lapland.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Runaway Horse (2007)
Plot Summary:
Helmut and Sabine Halm have always managed vacations of lazy privacy at their favorite retreat on Germany′s Lake Constance. So when the energetic, handsome Klaus Buch turns up with his beautiful girlfriend Helene, Helmut is quite ready to dismiss this dimly familiar acquaintance. But Klaus is overjoyed to recognize his old schoolmate Helmut, eager to recall every incident of their shared time, and to display every detail of this successful lifestyle as a fit sportsman and author. The precious days of privacy give way to an unwanted and awkward intimacy, as the Buchs and the Halms hike, dine and sail together. Their joint activities aggravate myriad psychological tensions among the four characters, which are all the more intensely ironic for their peaceful veneer and which must eventually erupt.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, light, sexy, realistic, semi serious
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The Bilingual Lover (1993)
Plot Summary:
Joan Mares obsession for the lovely and luscious Norma Valenti takes epic proportions because he cannot let go of her. After he is injured by some skin heads, he uses his scars to pursue his life as a street musician. He devices a plan to get to Norma and she never catches on to his deceit, except she realizes that as Juan Faneca his performance in bed is exactly what she had experienced with Joan Mares because she concludes they were taught sex by the same prostitute.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, erotic, sentimental, sincere, thought provoking, captivating, melancholic, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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Heartlands (2002)
Plot Summary:
Gentle Colin 'Col' Lawes happily lead a quiet life, running a news agency with his soiled-rotten wife Sandra and playing competition darts in the Atletic Arms team. Colin catches her committing adultery with team captain Geoff, a cop, who pretends Colin abused her. Col is thrown off the team just after it qualified for the league finals in Blackpool. He decides to travel there alone, hoping to win her back. The adventurous journey feels like the start of a more playful life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, funny, light, captivating, entertaining, road movie, feel good
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The Guilt Trip (2012)
Plot Summary:
An inventor and his mom hit the road together so he can sell his latest invention.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, road movie, touching, humorous, melancholic, hilarious, sentimental, semi serious, funny, bad ending
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Fandango (1985)
Plot Summary:
Five college buddies from the University of Texas circa 1971 embark on a final road trip odyssey across the Mexican border before facing up to uncertain futures, in Vietnam and otherwise.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: road movie, sentimental, touching, humorous, emotional, light, inspirational, melancholic, talky, semi serious