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Plot Summary:
Best friends Toni and Paul decide to relinquish all of their belongings for 100 days, whereby they receive one of their items back on each day. During this challenge the two realize, that the only thing they cannot be without is their friendship. A story about contemporary materialism and the quest for the truely important things in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: inspirational, thought provoking, captivating, semi serious, sincere, satirical, realistic, happy, crying
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Oskar's Dress (2022)
Plot Summary:
Since Ben has been living apart from his ex-wife Mira and his children, his life has fallen apart. But unexpectedly, he gets a second chance: when Mira, pregnant to the teeth, has to be hospitalized, his children live with him again. This time, everything will be fine - he thinks! But his son Oskar brings a small problem: he wears a dress that he doesn't want to take off.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags:
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Legacy (2015)
Plot Summary:
What do you do when the party of the year kicks you to the curb? Simple... create your own! When Sean and his friends are refused entry to the night of their year, they embark on a mission to stage a monster event, whilst at the same time taking down the opposition.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Little White Lies (2010)
Plot Summary:
Despite a traumatic event, a group of friends decide to go ahead with their annual beach vacation. Their relationships, convictions, sense of guilt and friendship are sorely tested. They are finally forced to own up to the little white lies they've been telling each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 154 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, emotional, talky, thought provoking, melancholic, funny, romantic, sad, sincere
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Gigantics (1999)
Plot Summary:
The Hamburg friends Walter, Ricco and Floyd take each day as it comes between the estates of tower blocks and fast food restaurants. All three are in their early twenties and are dreaming of another life when Floyd suddenly takes a job on a freighter going to Singapore….
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: independent film, road movie, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, spoof, feel good, parody
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Coming In (2014)
Plot Summary:
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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The Cake General (2018)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1984, Hans Pettersson (Hasse P.) decides to create the largest sandwich cake ever made in order to put his home town, Köping, on the map.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: suspense, suspenseful, humorous, captivating, crying, exciting
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What a Man Wants (2018)
Plot Summary:
Two couples' windy comedy movie that is more dangerous than typhoons in Jeju Islands.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, crying, freeze frame
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My Blind Date with Life (2017)
Plot Summary:
An ambitious young man struggles to achieve his dream of becoming an employee in a Munich luxury hotel despite being strongly visually impaired.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Biography, Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: uplifting, tragicomedy, compassionate, sentimental, sincere, captivating, sweet, art house, crying, freeze frame
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That Trip We Took with Dad (2016)
Plot Summary:
Romania, 1968. Two very different brothers. Mihai is a secret police informant, Emil is a dedicated dissident. When they have the opportunity to have their ailing father’s eyes operated on in East Germany, the three set out on a moving odyssey.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Romania, Hungary, Sweden
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, entertaining, road movie, freeze frame
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The Year of the First Kiss (2002)
Plot Summary:
31 year-old Tristan remembers the time when he was 15 and had just hit puberty. But he is not alone in this, he is with a large group of friends: Specki, a fat kid who is always stuffing himself, Streusel, a cheeky boy covered with spots, Tümai, a pretty Turkish girl, Kerstin, best friend of Tümai and very sporty, Elrond, with a heavy stutter, but regardless extremely popular and good looking, Lars and Simone, so far the only couple in the class who spend most of their time smooching and Long Jana, a girl who is at least 6 foot tall and extremely skinny.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 325
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Disregarded People (2013)
Plot Summary:
Young man, Yusuke Mamiana, fed up with his life meats a unattractive ugly girl, Kyoko, at his hometown. Out of his impulsive desire, he had a relationship by nearly raping her. They started to live together and gradually feel 'Family' attachment in each other. As time passes, Yusuke starts to think more about 'Happiness' of his family and himself.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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About a Girl (2014)
Plot Summary:
Charleen is 15, melodramatic, mega depressed, and Kurt Cobain’s biggest fan. Her best friend Isa is getting really boring, her dad is out of the picture, and her mom has hooked up with her biology teacher. Even though she has an apprenticeship preparing bodies for funerals, which is pretty cool, her musical idols are all dead. It’s about time Charleen was, too.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 889
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, feel good
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Bonobo (2014)
Plot Summary:
Judith, an uptight divorcee, is appalled when her daughter Lily quits law school to move into a commune of hippie-misfits who live according to the behavioural principles of the bonobo monkey, a species famous for its 'make love not war' philosophy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, psychological, light, realistic, sexual
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Quality Time (2013)
Plot Summary:
You can’t choose your family – which is why Conrad limits his visits with his parents to an absolute minimum. When venomous, irritable Carl injures himself seriously in a fall, his reluctant son Conrad and the butt-of-all-jokes Jonas has no choice but to move back into his old childhood room. Three generations under one roof: a chance for reconciliation – or a total disaster?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, feel good, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, crying
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The Stag (2013)
Plot Summary:
At his fiancée’s urging, a very modern Irish groom-to-be reluctantly agrees to a stag weekend with his friends, camping in the western wilderness of Ireland. Much to their chagrin, these modern men are joined by the brother of the bride, a crazy, unpredictable alpha male known as “The Machine”, and an explosive Id to their collective Ego. The Machine is a force of nature, and under his leadership, the men—stripped of modern comfort, convenience and, finally, clothing—must begin their journey into the wild.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, not serious, black comedy, queer cinema
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Naked (2002)
Plot Summary:
Nackt is the story of three couples, one of which just broke up, one that seems to be about to and one perfectly okay. They are all friends and from time to time they gather to talk about everything.One time they gather for dinner at the second couple's "mansion" - the husband became rich with his business. We see each couple as they prepare themselves for the party and learn a lot about their relationships.At the dinner they get to talking about recognizing each other's peer with closed eyes and decide to try it (thus the title "Nackt"=naked in German).
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, melancholic, sincere, sexual, sexy
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Coconut Hero (2015)
Plot Summary:
It's not easy being a teenager and Mike, a sixteen-year-old, has it espcially hard. He lives in the sticks with his mother, a non-stop nagger, in Faintville, a Canadian timber industry town. He has no father, no friends, not even a favorite meal. Basically, his sole wish is simply to vanish from the face of the earth. One day, Mike writes his own obituary and shoots himself. To his great disappointment he wakes up the in the local hospital. During a routine examination, the doctors discover a plum-sized tumor in his brain. Mike can scarcely believe his luck and keeps the illness to himself to avoid undergoing surgery that would save him. Staring death directly in the eyes, however, changes Mike's point of view and he re-evaluates his opinion of both enchanting and crazy Miranda. Somebody seems to understand him after all.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 975
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, sincere, captivating, twisted
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Don's Party (1976)
Plot Summary:
Don's Party stars John Hargreaves as Don Henderson, a schoolteacher living with his wife, Kath (Jeanie Drynan), in 1969. Out of boredom, he invites a small group of friends to celebrate a predicted Australian Labor Party (ALP) election victory, much to the dismay of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film
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Good Kids (2016)
Plot Summary:
Four high school students look to redefine themselves after graduation.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, sexy, humorous, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, funny, scenic, teen, happy
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Frau Ella (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young man goes on a road trip with an old lady he saves from a hospital.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, road movie, feel good, captivating, light, touching, realistic, semi serious
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The Most Beautiful Day (2016)
Plot Summary:
The quirky, overambitious pianist Andi (33) and the more laid back and relaxed Benno (36) have just one thing in common: They will both die soon. So the two of them decide after some trouble at the hospice, to have the most awesome day before its too late. First thing is they need is money, which they cleverly scam, since going to prison is -considering the limited amount of time of the question. Then they set off for Africa! It will not only be a nightmare for Andi the hypochondriac, but also a huge deal for Benno, who will have to face his past for the first time in his life. The journey leads them through hazards, a number of comedic, tragic, dramatic and dangerous moments and finally to their original aspiration: The most awesome day of realizing that you need to take life into your own hands to not miss out on it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, sweet, sentimental, light, touching, road movie, art house
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Summer Holiday (2008)
Plot Summary:
On his spring break at the seaside, with his wife and his four year old son, Bogdan Ciocazanu runs into his best friends from high-school at the precise date and time that reminds all of them of their most glorious drinking trips and sexual escapades of their younger days. Frustrated that, between his job and his family, time is no longer his to manage and play with, Boogie now takes his shock dosage of freedom and spends a night to tick off all the items on the map of his youth (drinking, games, flirting, prostitutes). In the morning, after the disillusionment of the remake he experiences with his former friends, he returns to his wife.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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A Friend of Mine (2006)
Plot Summary:
An introverted insurance executive at a car rental service is annoyed by his hyperactive, garrulous coworker, but the two end up becoming friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, touching, non-linear
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The Prince of Pennsylvania (1988)
Plot Summary:
There's nothing wrong with the Marshetta family that a little felony can't cure. Rupert doesn't want to follow in his father's blue-collar footsteps, so he and his quirky friend kidnap his father for ransom, only nobody wants him back.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: retro, independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Box of Moon Light (1996)
Plot Summary:
Al Fountain, a middle-aged electrical engineer, is on the verge of a mid-life crisis, when he decides to take his time coming home from a business trip, rents a car, and heads out looking for a lake he remembers from his childhood. But his wandering takes him into the life of Kid, a free-spirited young man who helps Al escape from the routine of everyday life and find freedom to enjoy himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: road movie, scenic, thought provoking, touching, humorous, independent film, sincere, mumblecore, mind blowing, clever
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13 Semesters (2009)
Plot Summary:
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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The Road Within (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young man with Tourette's Syndrome embarks on a road trip with his recently-deceased mother's ashes.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: road movie, sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, teen, spiritual, sad, hilarious, comedy drama
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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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Tour de Force (2014)
Plot Summary:
Belgium, of all places. What's Belgium got besides chocolates and fries? No matter, this year it was Hannes' and Kiki's turn to choose the destination of their annual bike tour with their closest friends. They all looks forward to the adventure, after all they know that what counts the most is the time they spend together. It's only after the tour has begun that Hannes tells his friends that he's suffering from an incurable disease. The trip is to be his last. At first, the group is shocked and helpless, but after they hit the road again, they embark on a wild and one-of-a-kind adventure. Through Hannes, they realize how precious life is. Equipped with a list of things that still remain to do, and aware that nothing will be the same after this trip, they celebrate life as they never did before.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, touching, humorous, semi serious, captivating, realistic, stylized
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The Last of the High Kings (1996)
Plot Summary:
It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer organising a beach party, having lustful thoughts about two girls he believes are unobtainable and fending off the advances from a visiting American family friend, all whilst coping with his oddball family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Denmark, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, talky, sentimental, touching, feel good, semi serious, sincere, independent film, realistic