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Plot Summary:
A young photographer moves to Praga, the most notorious district of Warsaw, known for common crime and alcoholism as well as unique folklore. This experience will have much impact on both his personal and professional life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 848
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
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The Photographers (1998)
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In a nonaligned country, where a civil conflict is raging, a team of photographers follows a mercenary war lord, whose men wreak havoc among enemies and innocents alike. The story is a modern version of the tragedy Antigone, in a time when TV and the other media present unrelieved visions of war and bloody mayhem.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Adventure, Drama
Country: Greece, Cyprus, Bulgaria
Duration: 110 min
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Collage of Our Lives (2003)
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A young cameraman receives a letter from an old girlfriend, announcing that she is to hold a photo exhibition in the United States. Having heard rumors that she has died, he follows his curiosity to New York City.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
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The Journey Is the Destination (2016)
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The inspiring life story of the late photojournalist, artist and activist Dan Eldon, who abandoned a comfortable life in London to document the struggle, heartbreak and hope of a war-torn and famine-ridden region of Africa.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 678
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
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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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Nowhere (2016)
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Young Danny has left his home town in the middle of nowhere (="Nirgendwo") behind and moved to Berlin to study business. The twentysomething enjoys big city life and independence. When his father dies unexpectedly, however, Danny has to return to the Bavarian hinterlands for better or worse. He reunites with friends from his youth, Kirsten, Rob and Fresi, and the eternal couple of Tom and Mischa. Moreover, Danny's feelings for his first love Susu are rekindled. Everything seems like it used to be. It soon turns out, however, that Danny's friends are all still searching and have not found their places in life yet.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 280
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
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The House of Fools (1985)
Plot Summary:
The feature film debut of director Marek Koterski. Thirty-year-old Adaś Miauczyński visits his parents, which ends with his nervous breakdown.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 478
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 93 min
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Across the Sea (2015)
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A former war photographer tries to ward off his personal ghosts by taking pictures of trees only. He lives alone among olive trees in southern Italy. One day he decides to cross the sea. Once in Albania, he goes near the location where he had made his last war picture, as if he was retracing his steps. He finds a tree he wants to photograph. He is just about to do so, when he discovers a runaway girl hiding in it with the sole objective of crossing the sea and getting to the other side. The man has no choice. He has to flee with her, follow her and guide her along until a storm separates them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Albania
Duration: 110 min
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Sauna (1992)
Plot Summary:
A film based on a simple situation: several men talk in the sauna.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
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Girlfriends (1978)
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A photographer and her girlfriend are roommates. She is stuck with small-change shooting jobs and dreams of success. When her roommate decides to get married and leave, she feels hurt and has to learn how to deal with living alone.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, independent film, art house, cult classic
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Barrier (1966)
Plot Summary:
A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 77 min
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The Women on the Roof (1989)
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An innocent and beautiful girl, Linnea rents an apartment in Stockholm just before WWI. As she works for an old man who owns a photography studio she meets Anna, a photographer with whom she develops a complex friendship. Anna’s circus-performer boyfriend and European politics complicate Linnea’s routine.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min
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Gaz Bar Blues (2003)
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This is the story of Mr. Brochu, whose friends like to call "the Boss". He runs his gas station the best he can and tries to stay happy no matter what happens. This movie relates all the small tragedies surrounding the gaz bar, such as hold-ups, competition from the big companies invading the neighbourhood, and the fact that is sons don't seem to be interested in the gas station.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sincere, contemplative, semi serious, humorous, realistic
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Calendar (1993)
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A photographer and his wife travel across Armenia photographing churches for a calendar project. Travelling with them is a local man acting as their driver and guide. As the project nears completion, the distance between husband and wife grows.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, Armenia, Germany
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: spiritual, independent film, psychological, clever, touching, serious, realistic, contemplative, fake documentary
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Camera Buff (1979)
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Filip buys an 8mm movie camera when his first child is born. Because it's the first camera in town, he's named official photographer by the local Party boss. His horizons widen when he is sent to regional film festivals with his first works but his focus on movie making also leads to domestic strife and philosophical dilemmas.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Poland
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: biting, existential, art house, poetic, clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious, parody, meta
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Camouflage (1977)
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A group of students are spending the summer vacation at a university camp studying the science of linguistics. One of the camp directors, Jaroslaw, is a young professor who prefers the straightforward, intimate approach to students. He is opposed in his liberal views by Jakub, who likes to manipulate people. There is a confrontation from the beginning when Jaroslaw allows to attend the seminar a student who presents the views not according to the official line. In the end, a jury prize is given to mediocre paper, while the suspected school of thought still draws a recommendation. Finally the deputy rector arrives for the closing ceremonies, and since he disfavors the line of thought awarded by the recommendation the tensions rise. They climax when student in question bites the rector in the ear while receiving recommendation. The confrontation results in a scandal and the police is called in.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: intellectual, thought provoking, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, cynical, semi serious, biting, crying
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Among Ravens (2014)
Plot Summary:
The story of a group of friends who reunite for their annual 4th of July weekend only to be confronted by Chad, a strange and beautiful nature photographer who begins to change their lives one by one.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, realistic, semi serious, captivating, light, independent film
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Mug (2018)
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Jacek loves heavy metal and his dog. He converts the country lanes outside his door into a racing track and bombs down them in his little car. When he and his girlfriend Dagmara take to the dancefloor, everyone runs for cover. He enjoys his existance as a cool misfit in an otherwise stuffy environment, and keeps his muscles toned working on a building site close to the Polish-German border where the world’s largest statue of Jesus is being constructed. But then his life is thrown badly off course by a terrible accident at work that completely disfigures him. Eagerly followed by the Polish media, Jacek becomes the first person in the country to receive a face transplant. He may be celebrated as a national hero and martyr, but he no longer recognises himself in the mirror. Meanwhile, the statue of Jesus grows taller and taller. Whilst events around Jacek come thick and fast, the film never loses sight of the bigger picture and instead brings things even more into focus.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, uplifting, ironic, compassionate, social, crying, weird
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The Photographer (2000)
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A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night before his make-or-break gallery opening, surrounded by the trappings of success but devoid of inspiration, Max embarks on a bizarre trek through the city in search of ten mysterious photographs that could save his career. Shot in brilliant color and dramatic black and white, first-time director Jeremy Stein's industrial New York City is a wonderland, roamed by witches and magical creatures, where survival hinges on the completion of a simple quest. Accompanied by an unlikely crew of strangers he meets along the way, Max trips through a modern-day Oz and rediscovers the easily forgotten value of seeing magic reflected in everyday life.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat
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Big Animal (2000)
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Left behind by a circus, a camel wanders to the house of a simple middle-aged couple in a Polish village. Although the wife is initially bewildered by the strange and unexpected animal, her husband immediately adopts it as a pet.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, contemplative
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Lies I Told My Little Sister (2014)
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After the death of her oldest sister, a 30 year old globe-trotting nature photographer is guilted onto a family trip to Cape Cod - along with the younger sister she used to torment. Amid recriminations, revelations, a very weird shopkeeper and an old romance, they square off against the patterns of childhood.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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For Lovers Only (2011)
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FOR LOVERS ONLY is a story of a MAN and a WOMAN in love. After seeing each other for the first time in years while on separate work assignments in Paris, the LOVERS flee together and travel by train, car and motorcycle, as their love affair takes them across France-from Normandy to St. Tropez. Throughout their trip, both characters experience long periods of carefree bliss and unrepentant joy punctuated by brief moments of guilt and confusion. The final outcome of the affair is left open to interpretation.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, realistic, black and white, captivating, light, humorous, sexy, offbeat, independent film, sentimental
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Silent Night (2017)
Plot Summary:
Adam unexpectedly visits his family house at Christmas after a few years of working abroad. No family member knows about his secret plans and the real reasons of his visit.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Tamako in Moratorium (2013)
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Tamako (Atsuko Maeda) graduated from a university in Tokyo, but she now lives with her father back in Kofu. Tamako doesn't help her father or tries to get a job. She spends her time just eating and sleeping throughout the four seasons of the year.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 789
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags:
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Panic Attack (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tragedy meets comedy in seven stories about how our entire world can collapse at any given moment.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, neurotic, non-linear, dark comedy, light, feel good, humorous, black comedy, crying
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The Wedding (2004)
Plot Summary:
Wojnar is a wealthy man who is marrying off his beautiful daughter Kasia, in a small town in present day Poland. Wojnar had to bribe the groom with a fancy car, since Kasia was pregnant by another man. At the end of the ceremony, the car is delivered by a gangster, who immediately demands the promised money and the deed to land from Kasia's grandfather. Unfortunately grandpa is unwilling to let go of the land. Meanwhile each of the workers at the reception demand to be paid, so Wojnar, who is very reluctant to part with his money, tries to haggle and bribe his way out of all the situations.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, realistic
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Drop Dead Gorgeous (2010)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring model, Cynthia, becomes the focus of a documentary when she is chosen as the face for the world's biggest fashion designer, Claudio. Cynthia accidentally overdoses and with deadlines looming they decide to use her corpse to continue filming.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 408
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic, black comedy, mockumentary, dark comedy
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Pecker (1998)
Plot Summary:
A Baltimore sandwich shop employee becomes an overnight sensation when photographs he's taken of his weird family become the latest rage in the art world. The young man is called "Pecker" because he pecks at his food like a bird.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: absurd, humorous, witty, not serious, dark comedy, cult classic, independent film, art house, erotic, controversial
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Smoke (1995)
Plot Summary:
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, intellectual, feel good, mumblecore, anthology, art house
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Photo de famille (2018)
Plot Summary:
Gabrielle is a "statue" for tourists, much to the chagrin of her teenage son. Elsa is in angry at the world and desperate to become pregnant. Mao is a chronically depressed video game designer who drowns his melancholy in alcohol and psychoanalysis. They are brother and sisters but do not hang out. Ever. Their parents Pierre and Claudine, separated for a long time, have really done nothing to strengthen the bonds of the family - yet, at their grandfather's funeral, they are going to have to meet, and together answer the question: "What to do with grandma?".
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 861
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
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Somers Town (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek (Piotr Jagiello) lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and Euston stations, where his dad is working on a new rail link.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, black and white, social, humorous, witty