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Plot Summary:
After refusing big and prestigious awards all over the world, Mr. Mantovani, Literature Nobel Prize winner, accepts an invitation to visit his hometown in Argentina, which has been the inspiration for all of his books. It turns out that accepting this invitation is the worse idea of his life. Expect the unexpected when you have used real people as characters in your novels!.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: parody, hispanic, road movie, black comedy
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Little Noises (1991)
Plot Summary:
A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Diamond Tongues (2015)
Plot Summary:
Edith dreams of being a successful actress but just can't seem to make things happen. When she can't figure out what she's doing wrong, she begins to do everything wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 214
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Let Them All Talk (2020)
Plot Summary:
A celebrated author takes a journey with some old friends to have some fun and heal old wounds. Her nephew comes along to wrangle the ladies and finds himself involved with a young literary agent.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, suspense, artsy, semi serious, funny, humorous, satirical, existential, comedy drama
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Olympia (2011)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around Olympia, an 18-year-old looking to become famous by entering the world of online pornography.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: realistic, contemplative, psychological, humorous, captivating, erotic, sexy, serious, stylized, sexual
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Gangs from Rosario (2001)
Plot Summary:
City of Rosario. After three decades in prison together in the same cell, Tito and Castor are released. Outside the youth's friends await, as well as mines, tango, nights of drunkenness and a suitcase full of money hidden in the Parana River. They will try to seize the time and live every second trying to retrieve each of those thirty years behind bars. And when things become complicated they will cover each other as they always did.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 162
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, suspenseful, exciting
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The Creatress (2019)
Plot Summary:
Young, bestselling author Eryn Bellow concludes her bookstore tour with her agent selling film rights and closing a six figure advance for her follow-up. Headwinds arise as critics get offended by the claims that Eryn is being declared a living literary legend. The storm gathers force as the assaults gravitate from bad reviews to a fake-memoir designed to obliterate her from the field. Through the noise, Eryn attempts to write her way out of the public fray, and reclaim her voice in the minds of her readers. Along the way, she hopes to prove a happy ending is not always a bad thing.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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CXL (2012)
Plot Summary:
This poignant and darkly comedic debut feature from Sean Gillane focuses on Nolan, an aspiring writer who feels stuck. He is frustrated with his career, his relationships, the world and ultimately with himself. Unable to keep from displaying his considerable disdain, he focuses on everything wrong in his life as he treads the same dissatisfying paths. When he meets the stunning and unpredictable Cassie, she invites him to let down his guard and enjoy the world around him. Nolan slowly gives in to Cassie’s exuberance, but just as he begins to change his perspective, circumstances conspire to throw his already fragile psyche into turmoil. Turning even more deeply inward, Nolan attempts escape, but must ultimately face his life as he has made it.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration:
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Live Twice, Love Once (2019)
Plot Summary:
A retired academic teacher tries to find the love of his youth after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: inspirational, sincere, thought provoking, sweet, road movie
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Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed (2013)
Plot Summary:
The unforgettable friendship between three people: an English teacher who travels to Almería when he hears that John Lennon is making a film there, a 16-year-old boy who has run away from home and a young girl who also seems to be running away from something.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: road movie, sincere, touching, serious, spiritual, realistic, gloomy
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My Masterpiece (2018)
Plot Summary:
Arturo (Guillermo Francella), a successful and gallant owner of an art gallery, and Renzo (Luis Brandoni), a talented but decadent painter, are united by an old friendship. However, they do not coincide in many of their ideals and cause endless discussions between them. The only thing that seems to keep Renzo afloat is his only student Alex (Raúl Arévalo), a young man with aspirations to be an artist. One day Arturo will be associated with Dudú (Andrea Frigerio), in order to overcome the career of his friend. But the idea they plan is more crazy and risky than they expected.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, sincere, captivating, neo screwball comedy
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The Flower of My Secret (1995)
Plot Summary:
Marisa Paredes is Leocadia ("Leo") Macias, a woman writing “pink” romance novels under the alias of Amanda Gris that are very popular all across Spain. Unlike her romantic novels, her own love life is troubled. Leo has a less than happy relationship with her husband Paco, a military officer stationed in Brussels then later in Bosnia, who is distant both physically and emotionally.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: clever, erotic, art house, hispanic, sensual, psychological, tense, touching, serious, realistic
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Chinese Take-Away (2011)
Plot Summary:
A comedy that chronicles a chance encounter between Robert and a Chinese named Jun who wanders lost through the city of Buenos Aires in search of his uncle after being assaulted by a taxi driver and his henchmen.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, social, existential, feel good
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Young Adult (2011)
Plot Summary:
A divorced writer from the Midwest returns to her hometown to reconnect with an old flame, who's now married with a family.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, realistic, talky, depressing, emotional, sincere, semi serious, melancholic, black comedy, cynical
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Metroland (1997)
Plot Summary:
After ten years absence Toni, Chris's best friend, suddenly reappears in London to bring chaos and doubt into Chris's calm, tranquil, slightly boring, predictable life. Chris starts to remember his carefree youth as a photographer in Paris when he lived with and enjoyed a torrid affair with Annick. It was also in Paris that he first met and fell in love with Marion. The temptations and pressure exerted on Chris by Toni to return to their former carefree life of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll soon starts to have an impact on Chris's marriage. He starts to question his values, his lifestyle choices and his relationship with Marion and even suspects her of starting an affair with Toni whom she dislikes! Eventually circumstances come to a head and Chris is forced to decide whether to follow Toni back to the hedonistic, irresponsible life of his youth or face the harsh realities of the present and stay with Marion.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cult classic, sexual, comedy drama, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, weeping
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The Good Life (1996)
Plot Summary:
This humorous movie charts the life of a 14-year-old (Tristan) as he deals with some major issues in his life. At the beginning of the movie, he has already decided to dedicate his life to writing and losing his virginity (while his parents are away on holiday). Things don't quite go to plan when, at the crucial moment, the phone rings to tell him his parents have been killed in a car crash. From then, he is on his own and in control of his destiny, or at least he thinks so.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 788
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic, sexual, non-linear, crying, sexy
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The World According to Garp (1982)
Plot Summary:
Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, offbeat, cult classic, clever, touching, humorous, black comedy, sad, period piece, picaresque
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Official Competition (2021)
Plot Summary:
When a billionaire entrepreneur impulsively decides to create an iconic movie, he demands the best. Renowned filmmaker Lola Cuevas is recruited to mastermind this ambitious endeavour. Completing the all-star team are two actors with massive talent but even bigger egos: Hollywood heartthrob Félix Rivero and radical theatre actor Iván Torres. Both are legends, but not exactly best friends. Through a series of increasingly eccentric trials set by Lola, Félix and Iván must confront not only each other, but also their own legacies. Who will be left when the cameras finally start rolling?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: comedy drama, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, meta, iconic
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Aaltra (2004)
Plot Summary:
In this pitch black comedy the rivalry between two neighbors escalates into an all out war. Through a maintenance error on a tractor they both end up, paralyzed, in a wheelchair. It seems they are doomed to stay together. They no longer focus their rage on each other but on the manufacturer of the tractor, in Helsinki. So get ready for a hilarious wheelchair road movie.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie, dark comedy, humorous, semi serious, black and white, black comedy, dark, offbeat, tragic
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Everything Is Illuminated (2005)
Plot Summary:
A film based on the semi-autobiographical novel of the same name by American writer Jonathan Safran Foer, in which a young Jewish American man endeavors—with the help of eccentric, distant relatives—to find the woman who saved his grandfather during World War II, in a Ukrainian village which was ultimately razed by the Nazis.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 60000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, road movie, tragicomedy, clever, scenic, sentimental, melancholic, humorous, feel good, sad
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Our Lovers (2016)
Plot Summary:
Carlos is a man who goes to a coffee shop-library to take a cup, where Irene is reading a book. Not a reason for it, Irene close to Carlos and talks with him, starting a friendship with a little rules: no pasts, no birth names, no modern ways to contact between them (as Internet or similar), and finally not falling in love each other. Calling themselves Hada Chalada ('Crazy Fairy') and Duende Chiflado ('Mad Goblin'), both pass the days walking around the city engaged with magic, surrealist and funnies conversations about life, love and themselves, at the same time that Carlos tries to end his new script with his friend Cristóbal, and eccentric writer obsessed with Japan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, light, cute, crying, whimsical
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Empty Nest (2008)
Plot Summary:
Empty Nest tells the story of a couple who have to struggle to find themselves after their children grow up and move out. It starts out as a fairly simple story of a couple but becomes complicated by a series of events that may or may not be occurring only in Leonardo’s mind.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 903
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005)
Plot Summary:
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, hilarious, powerful, clever, realistic, crying
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Truman (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Julián receives an unexpected visit in Madrid from his lifelong friend Tomás, who now lives in Canada, the encounter is bittersweet. Diagnosed with terminal cancer, Julián is focused on putting his affairs in order, while Tomás is still grasping at hope. For four intense days, the two men, accompanied by Julián's faithful dog, Truman, tour the city, sharing emotional, hilarious and surprising moments.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: tense, light, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative, sentimental, social, hispanic, existential, sensitive
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Stardust Memories (1980)
Plot Summary:
While attending a retrospect of his work, a filmmaker recalls his life and his loves: the inspirations for his films.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 24000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: black and white, philosophical, cult classic, clever, humorous, surreal, witty, talky, postmodern, existential
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Adaptation. (2002)
Plot Summary:
A love-lorn script writer grows increasingly desperate in his quest to adapt the book 'The Orchid Thief'.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 200000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: absurd, philosophical, psychological, satirical, black comedy, mind bending, dark comedy, postmodern, surreal, mindfuck
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What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
Plot Summary:
Almodóvar has described his fourth film as a homage to Italian Neorealism, although this tribute also involves jokes about paedophilia, prostitution, and a telekenetic child. The film, set in the towerblocks around Madrid, depicts female frustration and family breakdown.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surreal, stylized, black comedy, mind bending, psychedelic, social, hispanic, offbeat, humorous
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I Really Hate My Job (2007)
Plot Summary:
'Every day is another day closer to the day I'll never have to do this again.' Five women, one restaurant, one night, one birthday, one breakdown. Then the phone rings. A famous actor is coming for dinner. I Really Hate My Job is the story of an evening in a café in London's Soho.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, talky, independent film, clever, offbeat, witty
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Inseparables (2016)
Plot Summary:
Felipe a wealthy businessman who has been quadriplegic, due to an accident, is looking for a therapeutic assistant. There are several highly qualified, but he decides to take the assistant of his gardener, Tito who has decided to resign.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, humorous, captivating, surprise ending, crying, remake of french film
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Paper Man (2009)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-middle-age comedy that chronicles the unlikely friendship between failed author Richard Dunne and a Long Island teen who teaches him a thing or two about growing up, all under the disapproving eye of his long-suffering wife and his imaginary Superhero friend.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, tricky, enigmatic, psychological, offbeat, humorous, melancholic, independent film, indie film, feel good
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Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) (2014)
Plot Summary:
A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and family prove more difficult than expected.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 657000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: surreal, psychological, dark comedy, black comedy, psychedelic, independent film, clever, intellectual, atmospheric, enigmatic