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Plot Summary:
A Korean film about a group of women who end up barricaded on the roof of their apartment building in the middle of a heat wave.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy
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12 Hours (2001)
Plot Summary:
A night in the life of a cab driver in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music
Country: Puerto Rico
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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Le Harem de Madame Osmane (2000)
Plot Summary:
In Algiers in 1993, while the civil war is starting, Mrs Osmane's tenants have to endure her bad temper. Her husband left her and the fear to lose her respectability haunt her. The former member of the Resistance during the Independence War persists in controlling the slightest moves of the households rather than struggle against her own frustrations. Learning her daughter is in love, the possibility of finding herself alone will push her to the limit: The symbolical Mrs Osmane "harem" is about to collapse.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 131
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Spain, Morocco
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags:
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Pass the Ammo (1987)
Plot Summary:
A corrupt television preacher and his congregation are held hostage by a woman, her lover, and her two cousins in an attempt to avenge the theft of her inheritance. A quirky look at the dishonesty of the televangelist industry.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 637
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: black comedy, independent film, cult film
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In the Thick of It (1995)
Plot Summary:
This optimistic Italian slice-of-life drama chronicles a typical day in the lives of teenagers living in the grim suburbs of Rome. The story is set in the suburb of Tuscolano which is located near the Cinecitta studios and concerns a group of friends in their mid-teens. In the beginning, Lorenzo, the imaginative leader of the group convinces the rest of them one of them is terminally ill. The rest then become determined that the dying group member should have at least one fling with the local whore, that is if they can convince her into performing the merciful act. Two years pass and the youths are seen engaging in various endeavors ranging from petty theft to manual labor, or both. The boys are also seen pursuing romance. Troubles ensue when Lorenzo's brother disappears, and when one of the thieves is captured.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Plainlands (1988)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel of the same name by the Finnish author, Antti Tuuri, this delicious late-80's comedy builds its dark humour on the stereotypical mentality of the northern part of Finland. While perhaps not as entertaining to a person unfamiliar with Finnish traditions, the brilliant acting, directing, plus the warm, beautiful Finnish summer more than make up for the cultural gap.The story begins with a group of brothers with their families coming up to honour the memory of their recently deceased father. Spending time together, opening old wounds and creating new ones... it all boils down to brotherhood. No matter what happens, brothers take care of their own.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Men Cry Bullets (1998)
Plot Summary:
A young man wants to be a female impersonator, but gets mocked in his very first performance by a fierce older woman. He finds out where she lives and goes to her house expecting an apology. Instead, she locks him in her shed and rapes him. It makes him fall for her. But soon her even darker side reveals itself when she believes he is attracted to her more beautiful visiting cousin.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Round Trip (1978)
Plot Summary:
The story of a group of people who came to France to the temporary work, their sufferings, persecutions, and a constant struggle for survival.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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Vice (2000)
Plot Summary:
Details the trial of a young Texas "erotic dancer" on charges of lurid behavior and indecent exposure and the various witnesses who testify both for and against her.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Dog Who Loved Trains (1977)
Plot Summary:
A fugitive girl, a stuntman and a young man who lost his dog quite some time before, are joining together on a trip to reach each of their own destination. A youngster gets emotionally connected to the girl, and he'd try to help her to leave the bossy stuntman, to get false passport and escape to Paris.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 549
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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Property Is No Longer a Theft (1973)
Plot Summary:
A lowly bank clerk, literally allergic to money and revolted by its nefarious influence on humanity, launches a campaign of harassment against a wealthy butcher, stealing small, insignificant items— but never money—from the man. The victim uses the thefts to make large and fraudulent insurance claims, refusing to finger the thief for fear his own financial improprieties might be exposed.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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Farewell My Darling (1996)
Plot Summary:
When old Mr. Park dies, his first son Chan-Wu, a film director, and his troublesome daughter Mi-Seon hurriedly come back to their rural hometown, and third son Chan-Se comes back to Korea from America. As the quiet country village gets busy preparing funeral, the house in mourning becomes a meeting place where villagers gather to ask how they are getting along and meet old friends. The children mourn their father's death and above all Mi-Seon, who caused her parents a lot of grief, can't stop crying. Chan-Wu, the chief mourner, has a revelation about his career, and Chan-Se prepares to sing hymns for the Confucian funeral service. Old Man Park's sister sells insurance products and gradually the funeral service becomes for the living rather then the dead.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags:
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Quasi (2023)
Plot Summary:
A hapless hunchback who only yearns for love, finds himself in the middle of a murderous feud between the Pope and the King of France when each orders the hunchback to kill the other.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: satirical, slapstick comedy
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As Luck Would Have It (2011)
Plot Summary:
Roberto is an unemployed publicist who achieved success when he thought of a famous slogan: "Coca-Cola, the spark of life." Now he is a desperate man, trying to remember the happy days, back to the hotel where he spent the honeymoon with his wife. However, instead of the hotel, he finds a museum built around the Roman theater in the city. While walking through the ruins, he has an accident, an iron rod sticks into his head and leaves him completely paralyzed. If he tries to move he would die. Roberto becomes the focus of the media, which will change his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: realistic, melancholic, sincere, rough, touching, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, dark comedy, humorous
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The Marriage Escape (2020)
Plot Summary:
Jan is married to Gedda. Gedda loves him só much, it stifles Jan. When he has to move to a nursing home because of early onset dementia, their lives take a special turn.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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The Snake Brothers (2015)
Plot Summary:
Brothers Grass and Cobra Snake, in their late and early thirties respectively, live in a small Czech town not far from Prague. Coming from a disfunctional family, they both feel unable to build up a life to be satisfied with. Grass, unemployed and still without a girl, does not know how to escape from the shadow of his druggie and troublemaker brother Cobra. Things seem to change for Grass when all at once he gets the opportunity to be part of a promising business and starts a relationship with the waitress of a local pub. It is just then when Cobra and his addiction show up in his life once more to put him on the verge of losing everything he achieved. But this time Grass is determined to not let anybody or anything stop his last chance in life to be happy and he decides to teach his brother a life lesson he should never forget.... A lesson that uncontrollably turns into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, captivating, suspenseful, entertaining
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Man About Town (2006)
Plot Summary:
A top Hollywood talent agent finds his cushy existence threatened when he discovers that his wife is cheating on him and that his journal has been swiped by a reporter out to bring him down.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, cynical, romantic drama, clever, realistic, biting, crying, suspense
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Police Chief Pepe (1969)
Plot Summary:
A police commissioner in a little town in the Italian Venetian province investigates a prostitution ring run by two pensioners; during his investigations he also learns that a former manicurist shacks up with ten students, the prefect's daughter prostitutes to keep her pimp, a famous doctor has sex with his young patients, a headmaster has his eyes on the pupils, a noblewoman organizes orgies in her villa, the local convent is run by a dyke and his actual girlfriend poses for a hardcore magazine. He wants everything to come out in the open but his superiors try to put obstacles in his way.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: poliziottesco
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Loving (1970)
Plot Summary:
Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Grace, and also between his career as a successful illustrator and his feeling that he might still produce something worthwhile.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, disgusting, cult film
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Little Brothers (1999)
Plot Summary:
Talia runs away from home taking her beloved dog with her. When her dog is stolen Talia enlists the help of a gang of boys to help her find her pet.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: rough, serious, realistic, crying, detective
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Small Time (1996)
Plot Summary:
Follows a gang of small time crooks in an English town. Malc is in danger of losing his girlfriend Kate if he doesn't spend more time at home and the gang leader Jumbo looks like he is about to lose control.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 497
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: independent film, atmospheric, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Cooking with Stella (2009)
Plot Summary:
A woman cooks for clients and tries to keep her thefts of food and money from being discovered.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 321
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, India
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: clever, realistic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, intercultural, uplifting, inter cultural
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Daughters, Daughters (1973)
Plot Summary:
In this Israeli comedy, a father is afraid that after having sired eight daughters, that he will never produce a son.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Sweet Killing (1993)
Plot Summary:
A business man decides to kill his wife but the plan sets off a chain of weird events that cause his life to become a living hell.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 119
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France, Canada, UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: suspense, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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Very Well, Thank You (2007)
Plot Summary:
The tough lives of two ordinary individuals: Alex, an accountant and his wife Béatrice, a taxi driver.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, biting, suspense
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The Firemen's Ball (1967)
Plot Summary:
In Milos Forman's satire on Communism set in a small Czechoslovakian town in the 1960s, the local firemen decide to organize a ball, however the proceedings are dogged by difficulty at every step. They plan to organize a beauty pageant at the ball, yet struggle tremendously to find enough pretty contestants. A lottery is planned for later in the evening, but the guests begin stealing the prizes. Then, inevitably, there is a fire in the town... It seems that whatever can go wrong, does go wrong.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, Italy
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, surreal, cult classic, allegory, humorous, witty, biting, mind bending, thought provoking
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The Holy Child (2001)
Plot Summary:
Marc (Lambert Wilson) is a man of the cloth who's gained a bit of celebrity for his public espousal of religious celibacy. In fact, he's even written a book about the subject. But Marc's 15 minutes of fame could be up when a bratty teenager turns up claiming to be the priest's son. Together, they forge a pact that will keep the "secret" under wraps … but all bets are off when the celibate priest finds himself falling for the boy's mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious, crying
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Irma Vep (1996)
Plot Summary:
A Chinese movie actress, in France to star in a remake of "Les Vampires", finds petty intrigues and clashing egos on the set.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: stylized, art house, clever, witty, mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, cult classic, thought provoking, offbeat
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Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
Plot Summary:
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful and blatantly sadistic writer. Finally after George has tormented Tina in much the same manner Jonathan has, and has been unfaithful to boot, she goes back to her husband and begins group therapy.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, sex comedy, suspense
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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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The Castle (1997)
Plot Summary:
A Melbourne family is very happy living near the Melbourne airport. However, they are forced to leave their beloved home (by the Government and airport authorities) to make way for more runways. 'The Castle' is the story of how they fight to remain in their home.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, compassionate, melancholic, talky, realistic, not serious, funny, cult classic