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Plot Summary:
A Hispanic family find hope in their extraordinary son named Sailboat when a personal gesture awakens a global desire. Armed with a "little guitar", Sailboat leads an offbeat cast into the miraculous story of the greatest secret never told.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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At eye level (2016)
Plot Summary:
11-year-old Michi lives in a children's home, every day fighting to win the respect of the other kids, till the day he finds his real dad, Tom - who happens to be a dwarf, even shorter than Michi is, the opposite of his idea of manliness and strength. When the kids find out, Michi's life becomes hell and he flees. With nowhere to go, he moves in with Tom, who is new to this fatherhood thing, while Michi tried to hide his embarrassment and shame from his fellow school kids. This forces Tom, who had coped well till now, to confront his handicap head on. As time passes, they discover they have more in common than other sons and fathers, until their relationship is again suddenly put to the hard test.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, feel good, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, educational
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Life Inside Out (2013)
Plot Summary:
When a mother returns to her musical roots, she rediscovers the passion of her youth, and finds a way to connect with her troubled youngest son.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 281
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, independent film
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H Is for Happiness (2019)
Plot Summary:
A twelve year old girl with boundless optimism and a unique view of the world is inspired by the strange new boy at school, and sets out to mend her broken family – whatever it takes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 662
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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Len and Company (2015)
Plot Summary:
A successful music producer quits the industry and exiles himself in upstate New York, but the solitude he seeks is shattered when his estranged son and the pop star he's created come looking for answers.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Billionaire Boy (2016)
Plot Summary:
The story of Len, who made a billion dollars from inventing a new toilet roll, and his 12-year-old son Joe who appears to have everything he could want but what he really needs is a friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 711
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Spin (2021)
Plot Summary:
Rhea lives with her tight-knit multigenerational family. After her mother’s death, she has been her father’s emotional rock, and her life revolves around her family’s restaurant, her eclectic group of friends, and her after-school coding club. Everything changes when she falls for aspiring DJ Max and a long lost passion for music is reignited. Rhea discovers that she has a natural gift for creating beats and producing music that blends her Indian heritage, but must find the courage to follow her true inner talent.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, teen
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3 Days with Dad (2019)
Plot Summary:
The last thing Eddie Mills wants to do is go home to deal with his dying Dad. But the Catholic guilt gnaws at him, and he returns home to his crazy family, an overbearing step-mother, and his bear of a father. Once there, Eddie is confronted with a revelation that forces him to deal with the past he has always avoided.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 279
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Cheer Up, Mr. Lee (2019)
Plot Summary:
Chul-soo is a man with an intellectual disability. One day, Chul-soo finds out that a young girl, Saet-byul, who is in hospital is his daughter. And soon, Saet-byul sneaks out of the hospital and travels by herself to a faraway city for her friend's birthday. As Chul-soo accompanies Saet-byul's journey, friendship develops between the two.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 517
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: South Korea
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Dany (2018)
Plot Summary:
Dany, the king of petty thefts, did not wait until the end of his prison sentence to reunite with his 13-year-old son Sullivan. The only thing he now needs is a job and an apartment to regain custody of his son.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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When You Finish Saving the World (2022)
Plot Summary:
Evelyn and her son, Ziggy, seek out replacements for each other. As Evelyn tries to parent an unassuming teenager at her shelter, Ziggy fumbles through his pursuit of a brilliant young woman at school.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious, comedy drama, independent film, interesting
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Loveling (2018)
Plot Summary:
On the outskirts of Rio de Janeiro, Irene has only a few days to overcome her anxiety and renew her strength before sending her eldest son out into the world.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil, Uruguay, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, feel good
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Punching Henry (2016)
Plot Summary:
Comedian Henry Phillips is lured to LA by a renowned TV producer who wants to bring his story of failure to the screen. But when a major network gets involved, Henry must decide whether he wants to make jokes for a living, or be the butt of them.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 895
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: entertaining, feel good, humorous, captivating, satirical, semi serious, funny, cult classic
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Seeds (2017)
Plot Summary:
The coming of age story of a boy that after a traumatic event is taken to beautiful Cuernavaca, where he has to find his father while trying to adapt to life with his grandmother, who has problems of her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 369
Genere: Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, queer cinema
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Little Nicholas' Treasure (2021)
Plot Summary:
In the peaceful world of Little Nicholas, there is Daddy, Mommy, the school, but above all, his band of friends. They are called The Invincibles, but above all they are inseparable. At least they think so. But when Dad gets a promotion and announces that the family is moving to the south of France, Nicolas' world falls apart. How can he imagine life without his best friends?.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Christmas in the Heartland (2018)
Plot Summary:
Kara and Jessie are two teenage girls from very different worlds, but with a little Christmas magic, they find they have much more in common than they ever imagined.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Country Comfort (2021)
Plot Summary:
When an up-and-coming young country singer accepts a job as a nanny with a musical family, she finds the bond she's always missed.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min
Plot tags: sitcom, psychological, sincere, captivating, entertaining
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Mixtape (2021)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of Y2K, orphaned 12-year-old Beverly discovers a broken mixtape crafted by her teen parents. Raised by her grandmother - who struggles talking about her late daughter - Beverly sees the mixtape as a chance to finally learn more about her parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, semi serious, emotional, dramatic, teen, inspirational
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A Family Reunion Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
M'Dear and her sisters struggle to keep their singing act together before a church Christmas pageant while Grandpa teaches the kids a valuable lesson.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Mom Went On Vacation (2019)
Plot Summary:
A husband has to take care of his four children while his wife takes a vacation away from the family.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Mexico
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Cheaper by the Dozen (2022)
Plot Summary:
This remake of the beloved classic follows the raucous exploits of a blended family of 12, the Bakers, as they navigate a hectic home life while simultaneously managing their family business.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, semi autobiographical, family comedy
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Sunset in My Hometown (2018)
Plot Summary:
On the day that underground rapper Hak-soo fails his 7th audition, he receives a call from his hometown that his father is in the hospital. But he finds out that it was his father's plot to bring him to Byeon-san. To top it all, he is suspected as a phishing scam criminal and locked up in this small, boring suburb.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 425
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: South Korea
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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Storm Boy (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a highly successful retired businessman, Michael Kingley, starts to see things he at first can't explain, his life takes a dramatic turn. And when his grand-daughter rebels against her father, he is forced to re-evaluate his life and to act to prevent her going down a similar path to one he took years before. He tells her his story, when as a boy he lived a lonely existence with his father, Hideaway Tom, on an isolated coastline and how a bond with an orphaned pelican, Mr. Percival, changed his life forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, touching, captivating, disturbing, motivational, extraordinary
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In Memory of My Father (2005)
Plot Summary:
The youngest son of a legendary Hollywood producer, a Robert Evans type, accepts a bribe from his father to document his death.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 650
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Austria
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, cynical, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, clever, offbeat, realistic, witty
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First Dog (2010)
Plot Summary:
A foster boy is befriended by a lost dog who turns out to belong to the President of the United States. The boy decides to run away from the foster home to return the canine to the White House -- "Because it's the right thing to do!".
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 648
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, feel good, touching, realistic
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The Santa Con (2014)
Plot Summary:
Small-time con man Nick DeMarco is ordered by his parole officer to take a minimum-wage job as a department store Santa during the holidays...and he hates it. Near the end of his first shift, he hastily promises a young boy, Billy, that Santa will bring his estranged parents back together by Christmas. Nick decides to make good on his promise to the child, somehow. But after meeting the boy's mother Carol, will Nick ultimately choose to put the happiness of others ahead of his own?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, sincere, captivating, entertaining, touching, realistic
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Mayor Cupcake (2011)
Plot Summary:
A hard-working cupcake maker is inadvertently elected mayor of a small town burdened with debt. Uneducated, she relies on her street smarts to clean up the town.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 685
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, sincere, captivating, entertaining, touching, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Mind the Gap (2004)
Plot Summary:
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, semi serious, captivating, sincere, sentimental, clever, touching, offbeat, realistic
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Lapland (2011)
Plot Summary:
Recently widowed Eileen Lewis,son Pete and his wife Mandy and daughter Paula with her spouse Ray,plus the grandchildren, leave Birkenhead to spend Christmas in Lapland.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Babysitters Beware (2009)
Plot Summary:
Seven-year-old Danny Parker is a good kid who loves his parents. But they have to go out on business dinners all the time, leaving him stuck with a sitter. It's not so bad when it's his favorite babysitter, Janelle but he also gets stuck with sitters like Ms. Greene who won't let him have any fun. Danny just wants to spend more time with his Mom and Dad.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 428
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012)
Plot Summary:
A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all that he appears.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 48000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: touching, funny, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sad, inspirational, melancholic, crying