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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
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Forget about Nick (2017)
Plot Summary:
A German woman in New York is busy redesigning her life from model to designer, but is forced to live with her husband’s ex-wife when he disappears.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min
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Asteroid City (2023)
Plot Summary:
In an American desert town circa 1955, the itinerary of a Junior Stargazer/Space Cadet convention is spectacularly disrupted by world-changing events.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: entertaining, romantic, humorous, captivating, existential, avant garde, metafiction, meta, independent film, alternative comedy
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Konopielka (1982)
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Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree - a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
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Extramarital Travels (1988)
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Tugomir, a student, wants to write a dissertation on Love, but fails to complete it before being obligatory drafted in the army. There, he succumbs to paranoia that his girlfriend is cheating on him. He decides to cheat on her too.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: surprise ending
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Do We Match Each Other, Darling? (1975)
Plot Summary:
Czech comedy from the 70ties.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 138
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Screw Loose (1999)
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The owner of an Italian natural food company has a heart attack and asks his son, Bernardo, to find the man who saved his life in World War II and bring him to his deathbed. He does so and finds the man in a sanitarium and must deal with his hijinks all the way back to Milan.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 998
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: parody
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Abgeschminkt! (1993)
Plot Summary:
An original satire about women of the 90s in search of the men of their dreams. Franzy believes she's through with men, but desperately needs new amorous story lines for the comic strip she writes for a newspaper. So she observes her friend Maischa struggling to satisfy her need for love -- and someone who knows how to install her new shelf. Since joiner Klaus demands too much attention, she sets her eyes on the good-looking footballer Rene.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 596
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 55 min
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The Middle of the World (1974)
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Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Where Paul falls deeper and deeper into the relationship and is ready to leave his wife, Adriana feels the social pressure growing and has to make her own decision.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Switzerland, France
Duration: 115 min
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Heaven's Tears (1995)
Plot Summary:
Drama - - Stephen Nichols, Beata Pozniak, Lisha Snelgrove.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Impossibly Yours (2006)
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Mit seiner pedantischen und verklemmten Art trieb Leonhard (Tobias Moretti) einst seine Gattin Marlene (Barbara Auer) geradewegs in die Arme seines besten Freundes Jan (Ulrich Thomsen). Nur mit Mühe gelang es dem Trio danach, die gemeinsame Freundschaft aufrecht zu erhalten. Inzwischen ist die Situation wieder einigermaßen stabil. Da heiratet Leonhard eine sehr viel jüngere Studentin. Und auch Anja (Jessica Schwarz) wird es in der Obhut Leonhards bald zu kalt und eng. Starke Darsteller in einer dramatischen Beziehungsgeschichte. Torsten C. Fischer inszenierte nach dem gleichnamigen Roman von Dieter Wellershoff.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 112 min
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Amanda & the Alien (1995)
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Amanda, an employee at an upscale clothing store, is leading a relatively lonely and unremarkable life. All this changes when an alien that's been held a secret military installation excapes by taking over the body of one of the base employees. Amanda finds the fugitive alien and decides to help it hide from the government agents chasing it, a seemingly easy task, as the alien must change host bodies every few days. Will she be able to help her new companion make a clean getaway?.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 736
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: psychotronic, learning
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Rich in Love 2 (2023)
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When the idealistic Paula resumes her work as a volunteer doctor in the Amazon, Teto convinces his partners to establish their tomato cooperative in a village in the region. But to win back Paula's heart and save the company from bankruptcy, Teto must definitely overcome his spoiled playboy habits and face the interests of a powerful farmer, who stands in his way.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 389
Genere: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 88 min
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Thalavattam (1986)
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Vinod/Vinu (played by Mohanlal) is mentally ill and is hospitalized in the institution run by Dr. Ravindran ( M G Soman). Story progresses as Vinod recovers with the help of Dr. Savithri, Dr. Ravindran's daughter (Karthika) and Dr. Unnikrishnan (Nedumudi Venu) who finds that Vinu fell ill after the accidental death of his fiancée Anitha (Lizy). Later Vinu and Savithri fall in love but Savithri is already engaged to be married to her cousin, Hari(Mukesh). Plot progresses as Dr. Ravindran opposes the romance between the doctor and the recovered patient.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 147 min
Plot tags: touching
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Ladies (2017)
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Lucie is in remission and her illness is almost a distant memory. Her family pushes her to live life to the fullest, and in doing so Lucie meets the charming and arrogant Clovis, who is immediately beguiled by her wit and humor. It is Dalila, however, an eccentric and delightful dance teacher, who inspires Lucie to rebuild her life and to grow into the woman she always wanted to be. For her mother, for her daughter, for Clovis.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 555
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 99 min
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Partly Sunny (2012)
Plot Summary:
Two young guys in a bar hit on the woman they fancy by sending one of them over who tells her that the other one is terminally ill.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
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There Lived a Doctor (1985)
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A young doctor Nikolai Alexandrovich Zaostrovtsev, a fourth generation medical professional, found himself in the Gladuny village directly after the Institute. Neither he himself, nor his father, a town surgeon, expected that he would linger long their. But having become a real doctor in this working village community, he remains true to his profession without any dreams of glory or city life….
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 86 min
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Imitation Girl (2017)
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A mysterious young woman materializes in the middle of the southwestern desert, where each step teaches her about her new world and her new body. As she assumes her new life, she discovers she has a twin with whom she shares more than just an outward appearance.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 661
Genere: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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Baikonur (2011)
Plot Summary:
“Whatever falls from heaven, you may keep.” So goes the unwritten law of the Kazakh steppes. A law avidly adhered to by the inhabitants of a small village, who collect the space debris that falls downrange from the nearby Baikonur space station. The last two youthful members of the village are the radio operator Iskander, known as Gagarin, and the spirited Nazira. While Nazira finds it increasing difficult to conceal her love for Iskander by means of her unconventional behaviour, Iskander is evidently not only crazy about Baikonur and the vastness of outer space, but also deeply smitten with the beautiful French astronaut Julie Mahé, whose journey to the stars he wistfully follows on television.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 574
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Russia, Kazakhstan
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, offbeat
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Where the Grass Is Greener (2008)
Plot Summary:
A romantic comedy about an unemployed young woman from East Germany who ends up taking a summer job in the Swiss Alps and has to contend with stubborn cows, an amorous dairyman and illegal workers from the Balkans after a German passport.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 97 min
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Idlers of the Fertile Valley (1978)
Plot Summary:
In this black comedy, the men in a lovely mansion slowly give in to a kind of terminal sloth after they are freed from the need to actually work. The father takes to his bed after his hernia acts up and never leaves it. Of his three sons, only one wants to do much about leaving, and he does in fact cross the front threshold of the house with his lover, who is also the maid. However, before he has gotten very far, he is very tired, and goes to sleep where he stands. One of the sons outdoes them all by sleeping literally all the time. He is not in a coma -- he is just very, very lazy and tired. Some critics have viewed this film as a sharply delineated social satire.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Greece
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: allegory, black comedy, cult film
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Elly Beinhorn: Solo Flight (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of Elly Beinhorn, the first German aviator ever to fly around the world which made her a national hero in the 1930s.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Biography, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
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All You Need is Love (2009)
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When Katharina got an unexpected letter from her son Hans announcing that he was getting married and that he and his fiancé Nicki were leaving Berlin to come visit her.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 632
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, feel good, humorous, crying, queer cinema
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To Her (2017)
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Gwang-ho is bored except for the time he's taking off his girlfriend's underwear. He visits his Seoul home at the news that his grandfather is dying. Amidst the awkwardness, he remembers something. Ji-yoon is his cousin who has grown up to be a young lady. Gwang-ho is attracted to the fully grown woman and the same is said for Ji-yoon.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 23
Genere: Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration:
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Too Hard to Handle (2016)
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It's no surprise when Karo is fired. She is loud, over-emotional and egocentric, more so than the average Berliner wise-ass, says her best friend Anna. Karo is not one to give up easily, though: she opts for radical change and goes into therapy. Although her therapist advises her to keep calm, Karo throws herself into it.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
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Coming In (2014)
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Notoriously hip Berlin based hairdresser Tom Herzner falls in love with beauty parlor owner Heidi, turning both of their worlds upside down. So far so good. Only one problem: Tom is gay.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: lgbt cinema, homoerotic, light, humorous, crying, gay cinema
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Poor Things (2023)
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Bella Baxter is brought back to life by the brilliant and unorthodox scientist Dr. Godwin Baxter. Hungry for the worldliness she is lacking, Bella runs off with Duncan Wedderburn, a slick and debauched lawyer, on a whirlwind adventure across the continents.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland, UK, USA
Duration: 141 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, interesting
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The Red Cockatoo (2006)
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A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
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13 Semesters (2009)
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When Momo leaves his small home town to go to university, he is full of enthusiasm and confidence, but slowly the pressures of study and campus living begin to grind him down. Half way through his course he finds himself at a crossroads with both his relationship and studies.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, atmospheric, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Runaway Horse (2007)
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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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Free Fall (2013)
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A promising career with the police, a baby on the way... Marc's life seems to be right on track. Then he meets fellow policeman Kay and during their regular jogs Marc experiences a never-before-felt sense of ease and effortlessness -- and what it means to fall in love with another man. Torn between his family and his new feelings for Kay, Marc sees his world careening more and more out of control. Suddenly, his life is in free fall and Marc realizes that try as he may, he can't make everyone happy. Least of all, himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: emotional, sexual, disturbing, atmospheric, touching, sincere, lgbt cinema, serious, erotic, sexy