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Bommarillu (2006)
Plot Summary:
Siddu is the son of an over-protective business man. Every decision of his is made by his father, which leads him into frustration. He half-heartedly agrees to become engaged to a rich man's daughter, but then falls for a middle-class man's daughter called Hasini. The film focuses on his realization that he has to stand on his own and come out of his father's protective shell- and try to succeed in love
Duration: 170 min
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Plot tags: overprotective parent, adulthood, family disapproval, father son relationship, respect, maturity, family relations, parents and children, fall in love, self discovery, self fulfillment, identity crisis, engagement, marriage, decision, wedding planning, love, love and romance, meet the parents, arranged marriage, reconciliation, overbearing parent, happiness, father, coffee
Khosla's Nest (2006)
Plot Summary:
Upon retirement, cranky control freak Kamal Kishore Khosla obsesses about procuring a plot of land in Delhi, where he plans to build his dream house. After investing his entire life's savings to acquire the land, he discovers the plot's been stolen by a greedy land shark. Now, Khosla must rely on his comically dysfunctional family to pull off a scam on the biggest goon in real estate and win back
Duration: 135 min
IMDB Rating: 8.2/10
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Plot tags: businessman, obsession, success, betrayal, parents and children, deception, corruption, greed, materialism, false identity, revenge plot, police, fraud, revenge, hindu, urban, middle class, agent, politics, dream, cheating, freak, society, unemployment, retired
Colour It Yellow (2006)
Plot Summary:
A young idealistic English filmmaker, Sue, arrives in India to make a film on Indian revolutionaries Bhagat Singh, Chandrashekhar Azad and their contemporaries and their fight for freedom from the British Raj. Owing to a lack of funds, she recruits students from Delhi University to act in her docu-drama. She finds DJ, who passed out five years back but still wants to be a part of the University because he doesn't think there's too much out there in the real world to look forward to. Karan, the son of Industrialist Rajnath Singhania, who shares an uncomfortable relationship with his father, but continues to live off him, albeit very grudgingly. Aslam, is a middle class Muslim boy, who lives in the by-lanes near Jama Masjid, poet, philosopher and guide to his friends. Sukhi, the group's baby, innocent, vulnerable and with a weakness for only one thing - girls. Laxman Pandey
Duration: 167 min
IMDB Rating: 8.1/10
IMDB Votes: 122000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Plot tags: politics, sikh, rebelliousness, murder, patriotism, coming of age, courage, society, state affairs, patriot, corruption, filmmaker, protest, hindu, friends, dancing, investigation, muslim, pilot, indians, meaning of life, resistance, independence, war, rebellion
Carry On, Munna Bhai (2006)
Plot Summary:
A hilarious underworld gangster known as Munna Bhai falls comically in love with a radio host by the name of Jahnvi, who runs an elders' home, which is taken over by an unscrupulous builder, who gets the residents kicked out ironically with the help of Munna's sidekick, Circuit, while Munna is busy romancing Jahnvi elsewhere
Duration: 144 min
IMDB Rating: 8.0/10
IMDB Votes: 49000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Plot tags: friendship, friends, love and romance, contests and competitions, fall in love, best friend, professor, disorder, love, medicine, psychiatrist, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, hindu, friendship between men, radio station, politics, satire, innovation, radio, college campus, historical figure, dream, deception, couples
Little Miss Sunshine (2006)
Plot Summary:
A family loaded with quirky, colorful characters piles into an old van and road trips to California for little Olive to compete in a beauty pageant
Duration: 101 min
IMDB Rating: 7.8/10
IMDB Votes: 508000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Plot tags: road trip, dysfunctional family, on the road, nothing goes right, loser, gay, honest, obsessive quest, family relations, escapades, journey, suicide attempt, coming of age, parenthood, human relationship, depression, bittersweet, father daughter relationship, family holiday, homosexual, travel, heartwarming, lgbt, feminist, mother son relationship
The Girl Who Leapt Through Time (2006)
Plot Summary:
When 17-year-old Makoto Konno gains the ability to, quite literally, "leap" backwards through time, she immediately sets about improving her grades and preventing personal mishaps. However, she soon realises that changing the past isn't as simple as it seems, and eventually, will have to rely on her new powers to shape the future of herself and her friends
Duration: 98 min
IMDB Rating: 7.7/10
IMDB Votes: 70000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Japan
Plot tags: time travel, high school, friendship, supernatural ability, teenage girl, school, classmate, changing the past or future, time loop, coming of age, teenage love, friends, love, shyness, frustration, stopped time, imaginary, teenage life, tragedy, vengeance, transformation, imagination, storytelling, fantasy world, twists and turns
To Return (2006)
Plot Summary:
Raimunda (Penélope Cruz) works and lives Madrid with her husband Paco and daughter Paula. Her sister Sole (Lola Dueñas) lives nearby and they both miss their mother Irene (Carmen Maura), who died several years ago in a house fire along with their father. A former neighbor from their hometown reports that she has seen the ghost of Irene and both daughters do not believe her. After a murder and a family tragedy, Irene's spirit materializes around her daughters to help comfort them
Duration: 121 min
IMDB Rating: 7.6/10
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, USA
Plot tags: secret, death, ghost, rape, child abuse, lust, twists and turns, family secret, dark secret, superstition, adultery, women, dysfunctional family, murder, haunted by the past, incest, neighbor, disposing of a dead body, family relations, life & death, secrets, abusive father, parents and children, life is a bitch, self discovery
Stranger Than Fiction (2006)
Plot Summary:
Everybody knows that your life is a story. But what if a story was your life? Harold Crick is your average IRS agent: monotonous, boring, and repetitive. But one day this all changes when Harold begins to hear an author inside his head narrating his life. But when the narration reveals he is going to die, Harold must find the author and convince them to change the ending
Duration: 113 min
IMDB Rating: 7.5/10
IMDB Votes: 235000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Plot tags: literature, paranoia, philosophy, publisher, novelist, writer's life, existentialism, human nature, love story, heartwarming, professor, hearing voices, love and romance, self discovery, life turned upside down, hipster, death, imaginary, artists and showbiz, cooking, happy ending, imagination, transformation, metaphysics, magic realism
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (2006)
Plot Summary:
Kazakh journalist Borat Sagdiyev travels to America to make a documentary. As he zigzags across the nation, Borat meets real people in real situations with hysterical consequences. His backwards behavior generates strong reactions around him exposing prejudices and hypocrisies in American culture
Duration: 84 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 434000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA, UK
Plot tags: satire, racism, travel, culture clash, dark humor, road trip, stereotypes, stupidity, fish out of water, toilet humor, male pubic hair, dumb, irreverent, on the road, anti semitism, lgbt, stoner, nudity, racist, irony, found footage, shame, hospitality, friend, tv reporter
The Magician (2006)
Plot Summary:
İskender (Cem Yılmaz) hokkabazdır. Yani aslında sihirbazdır. Ama onun ve çocukluk arkadaşı Maradona'nın (Tuna Orhan) dışında herkes onun hokkabaz olduğunu düşünmektedir. İstanbul'dan hızla kaçmak zorunda kalan ikili, turne programına Sait'i (Mazhar Alanson) de dahil ederek büyük risk alırlar. Baba Sait, İskender'i takdir etmeyi uzun yıllar evvel bırakmıştır. Turne üçlüyü kaynaştırırken, aynı zamanda görkemli bir dağılmaya sebep olur. İskender, Maradona ve Sait, yol arkadaşları Fatma ile bir dağılıp bir toparlanırlar
Duration: 122 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Plot tags: follow your dream, ambition, performer's life, on the road, life is a bitch, down on your luck, introspection, buddies, artists and showbiz, magician, stage magician, turk, witchcraft, wizards and magicians, found footage, misdirection, wizard, friends, family relations, parents and children, partner, bittersweet, wedding, hypnosis, fiancee
Golmaal: Fun Unlimited (2006)
Plot Summary:
Gopal, Lucky, Madhav and Laxman - four guys bound together by their child-like notoriety, aimlessness and petty business of conning people for fun and money. Laxman is an intelligent student who is not allowed to pass by his mischievous band of friends Gopal, Madhav and mute Lucky. This is because all four friends use his hostel room to conduct their activities. He is peer-pressured into running a series of scams in order to earn himself and his friends some money. Once thrown out of college bag-n-baggage, the naughty foursome finds refuge in the bungalow of a blind couple as their grandson. A cat mouse game unfolds as Laxman's body and Gopal's voice makes for Sameer (The grandson from US)
Duration: 150 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Plot tags: stupidity, family relations, fall in love, on the run, blind character, gangster, treasure, friendship, comedy team, exploitation, dream girl, friends, love and romance, gem, urban, siblings relations, fight, motorcycle, diamond, lie, friendship between men, valentine's day, diamonds, boss, slacker
Hogfather (2006)
Plot Summary:
It's the night before Hogswatch, usually a time of joy on Discworld, but there are suspicious going-on and the criminal underworld is abuzz. The beloved Hogfather - the jolly bearer of glee and pork-related gifts for children everywhere - has vanished. Suddenly, Discworld's entire mythical system is under threat. The fate of this magical time rests in the hands of a very motley group: A band of wizards headed up by a mystical university president named Mustrum Ridcully (Joss Ackland), a loyal manservant called Albert (David Jason), a level-headed governess called Susan Sto Heilt (Michelle Dockery), and her grandfather, who happens to be - Death (Marnix van den Broeke)
Duration: 189 min
IMDB Rating: 7.4/10
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Plot tags: christmas, fantasy world, death, children, magic, holiday, heroic mission, disguise, escapades, boar, supernatural, disappearance, xmas, family secret, saving christmas, assassin, snow, sword and sorcery, magical, machine, pagan, machinery, fantasy life, sorcery, santa claus
Clerks II (2006)
Plot Summary:
A calamity at Dante and Randall's shops sends them looking for new horizons - but they ultimately settle at Mooby's, a fictional Disney-McDonald's-style fast-food empire
Duration: 97 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 140000
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Plot tags: friendship, workplace, jay and silent bob, masturbation, geek, voyeur, fast food restaurant, bromance, slacker, human relationship, everyday life, weed, loser, friends, fall in love, deadend life, new job, social misfits, partner, buddies, love and romance, workplace romance, engaged, workplace situations, stoner
Taxi Number 9 2 11 (2006)
Plot Summary:
A cabbie and businessman both in need of big money partake in a two-hour adventure together
Duration: 116 min
IMDB Rating: 7.3/10
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Plot tags: taxi, buddies, taxi driver, police station, attempted murder, lawsuit, rivalry, insurance, passenger, disorder, unlikely partners, down on your luck, revenge, lawyer, double life, driver, spoiled brat, hit and run, hostage, salesman, heir, plan gone awry, fight, money, church
The Science of Sleep (2006)
Plot Summary:
A man entranced by his dreams and imagination is lovestruck with a French woman and feels he can show her his world
Duration: 105 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 71000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Plot tags: dream, surrealism, magic, daydreamer, artist, escape from reality, insanity, existentialism, magic realism, imagination, melancholy, love story, friendship, painting, new job, childhood, introspection, alternate reality, memory, young man, imaginary, unfulfilled love, visionary, loser, fictional reality
Wristcutters: A Love Story (2006)
Plot Summary:
Zia, distraught over breaking up with his girlfriend, decides to end it all. Unfortunately, he discovers that there is no real ending, only a run-down afterlife that is strikingly similar to his old one, just a bit worse. Discovering that his ex-girlfriend has also "offed" herself, he sets out on a road trip, with his Russian rocker friend, to find her. Their journey takes them through an absurd purgatory where they discover that being dead doesn't mean you have to stop livin'!
Duration: 88 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 57000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Plot tags: suicide, afterlife, road trip, depression, suicide attempt, hitchhiker, friendship, on the road, mental illness, dealing with death, love story, surrealism, love and romance, death, unlikely friendships, mental health, mental disorder, coming of age, hipster, love, destiny, post apocalyptic, desert, purgatory, illness
Cars (2006)
Plot Summary:
Lightning McQueen, a hotshot rookie race car driven to succeed, discovers that life is about the journey, not the finish line, when he finds himself unexpectedly detoured in the sleepy Route 66 town of Radiator Springs. On route across the country to the big Piston Cup Championship in California to compete against two seasoned pros, McQueen gets to know the town's offbeat characters
Duration: 117 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 456000
Genere: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Sport
Country: USA
Plot tags: car, friendship, car race, road trip, small town, happy ending, social relations, mentor, auto racing, on the road, racing, unlikely friendships, competition, desert, small town life, desire for fame, journey, rivalry, chase, contest, reporter, anthropomorphism, friends, teamwork, society
Paris, I Love You (2006)
Plot Summary:
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice
Duration: 120 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 74000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Liechtenstein, Switzerland, Germany, USA
Plot tags: tourist, multiple storylines, dating, fall in love, love story, love, new love, looking for love, justice, love affair, lifestyle, young woman, love and romance, couples, city life, siblings relations, human nature, encounter, couple relations, art, dialogue, loneliness, divorce, cancer, gay
The Bothersome Man (2006)
Plot Summary:
Forty-year-old Andreas arrives in a strange city with no memory of how he got there. He is presented with a job, an apartment - even a wife. But before long, Andreas notices that something is wrong. Andreas makes an attempt to escape the city, but he discovers there's no way out. Andreas meets Hugo, who has found a crack in a wall in his cellar. Beautiful music streams out from the crack. Maybe it leads to "the other side"? A new plan for escape is hatched
Duration: 95 min
IMDB Rating: 7.2/10
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Norway, Iceland
Plot tags: dystopia, suicide attempt, parallel universe, exile, accountant, nightmare, emotionless, new job, isolation, captivity, confined, confusion, friendship, couples, surrealism, solitude, suicide, post apocalypse, consciousness, lonely, death, time travel, psychology, mental disorder, fantasy world
Cashback (2006)
Plot Summary:
After a painful breakup, Ben develops insomnia. To kill time, he starts working the late night shift at the local supermarket, where his artistic imagination runs wild
Duration: 102 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 90000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Plot tags: breakup, supermarket, introspection, artist, stopped time, nudity, sexual attraction, workplace, insomnia, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, time freeze, student, painting, art school, girlfriend, time, coming of age, love story, female nudity, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, nightshift, lifestyle, love, supernatural ability, workplace romance
Trailer Park Boys: The Movie (2006)
Plot Summary:
Set in a separate storyline not related to the "Trailer Park Boys" Television show, but with the same lovable characters. The boys get arrested for robbing an ATM machine and spend 18 months in jail. When the get out, they decide to pull off "The Big Dirty" which is to steal a large amount of coins because they are untraceable and quit their life of crime forever
Duration: 95 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Crime
Country: Canada
Plot tags: buddies, dark humor, trailer park, misfit, life is a bitch, robbery, society, social misfits, disorder, criminal heroes, marijuana, drug dealing, anti hero, trailer park boys, stoner, male nudity, drug, working class, friends, theft, white trash, partner, chaos and mayhem, heist, cat
Venus (2006)
Plot Summary:
Maurice is an aging veteran actor who becomes absolutely taken with Jessie - the grandniece of his closest friend. When Maurice tries to soften the petulant and provincial young girl with the benefit of his wisdom and London culture, their give-and-take surprises both Maurice and Jessie as they discover what they don't know about themselves
Duration: 95 min
IMDB Rating: 7.1/10
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Plot tags: aging, age difference, art, elderly, friendship, older man younger woman relationship, art class, teenage life, lifestyle, actor's life, peeping tom, old age, bittersweet, unlikely relationship, dirty old man, senior citizen, love, loneliness, filmmaking, drinking, planet, beach, mission, affair, aged person
OSS 117: Cairo, Nest of Spies (2006)
Plot Summary:
Secret agent OSS 117 foils Nazis, beds local beauties, and brings peace to the Middle East
Duration: 99 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Country: France
Plot tags: spy, espionage, farce, james bond spoof, secret agent, undercover agent, secret service, female spy, state affairs, villain, embassy, dance, danger, political conspiracy, head of state, race against time, dishonesty, goofy hero, spying, spy spoof, agent, nazi, dark humor, hitman, summer
A Scanner Darkly (2006)
Plot Summary:
An undercover cop in a not-too-distant future becomes involved with a dangerous new drug and begins to lose his own identity as a result
Duration: 100 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 116000
Genere: Animation, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Plot tags: cyberpunk, drug abuse, trippy, schizophrenia, losing-it hero, addiction, dystopia, dystopian future, society, fighting crime, consciousness, drug, undercover, twists and turns, surveillance, disorder, conspiracy, philosophy, surrealism, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, working undercover, hallucination, greed, suicide attempt
Priceless (2006)
Plot Summary:
A beautiful young gold-digger mistakes a lowly hotel clerk as a rich and therefore worthwhile catch
Duration: 106 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: France
Plot tags: lifestyle, prostitution, fall in love, luxury hotel, hot and sexy, mistaken identity, farce, love and romance, couple relations, greed, obsession, mentor, love story, fashion, gigolo, resort, battle of the sexes, talented, relationships, passion, golddigger, prostitute, hotel, manipulation, love at first sight
I'm a Cyborg, But That's OK (2006)
Plot Summary:
Young-goon, mentally deranged and frequently electro-charging herself with a transistor radio, has been admitted into a mental institution. Firmly believing herself to be a cyborg, she refuses to consume like a human being. Il-soon is another patient, who catches the eye of Young-goon and soon becomes a close friend. Il-soon is now confronted with the biggest task - to cure Young-goon’s mental problem and have her eat real food
Duration: 107 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Plot tags: love story, surrealism, mental institution, psychology, escape from reality, cyborgs, mental illness, androids and robots, love, relationships, mental disorder, misfit, antisocial behavior, schizophrenia, obsession, women, mental health, patient, insanity, prison, robot, psychopath, youth, experiment, illness
Outsourced (2006)
Plot Summary:
After his entire department is outsourced, an American novelty products salesman heads to India to train his replacement
Duration: 103 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Plot tags: workplace, self discovery, arts and culture, human nature, travel, office, call center, fish out of water, love and romance, manager, workplace romance, corporate world, boss and employee, american abroad, salesman, staff, workplace situations, power relations, boss, culture clash, business, economics, love, traveler, job
Find Me Guilty (2006)
Plot Summary:
Based on the true story of Jack DiNorscio, a mobster who defended himself in court for what would be the longest mafia trial in U.S. history
Duration: 125 min
IMDB Rating: 7.0/10
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: Germany, USA
Plot tags: courtroom drama, mafia, courtroom, lawyer, jury, gangster, court, lone hero, mobster, legal, justice, outsmarting, organized crime, trial, vengeance, crime gone awry, legal action, court case, criminal heroes, judge, cosa nostra, drug, police officer, gang, italian mafia
The Devil Wears Prada (2006)
Plot Summary:
The Devil Wears Prada is about a young journalist who moves to New York to work in the fashion industry. Her boss however is extremely demanding and cruel and won’t let her succeed if she doesn’t fit into the high class elegant look of their magazine when all she really wants to be a good journalist
Duration: 109 min
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10
IMDB Votes: 451000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Plot tags: fashion, fashion industry, women, journalism, city life, strong female character, workplace intrigue, workplace situations, journalist, career woman, designer, relationship vs career, ambitious woman, personal assistant, obnoxious boss, mentor, ambition, workplace, assistant, young woman, magazine editor, fish out of water, boss and employee, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, new job
A Good Year (2006)
Plot Summary:
Failed London banker Max Skinner inherits his uncle's vineyard in Provence, where he spent many childhood holidays. Upon his arrival, he meets a woman from California who tells Max she is his long-lost cousin and that the property is hers
Duration: 117 min
IMDB Rating: 6.9/10
IMDB Votes: 100000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Plot tags: wine, vineyard, fall in love, countryside, character change, love story, love and romance, starting over, workaholic, doubts and hesitations, inheritance, businessman, stock broker, success, self discovery, travel, love, life, life philosophy, wanderlust, childhood, lifestyle change, finance, lifestyle, relationships