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Plot Summary:
Fifteen stories, contemporary and some historical, where humorous, sarcasm and courage passed bills to pain, old age, death and love, but above all with human stupidity, without concessions, watching her face the difficult life balance and human misery.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 116
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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A Family of Three (2011)
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When novelist Andrea Dewenter dies in a car accident, the lives of her husband Christian, grown-up son Lars, and adolescent daughter Elaine go off the rails. For all three, the few days between Andrea's sudden death and her funeral turn into an emotional roller coaster that eventually shows them the virtue of being a family.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, rough, touching, disturbing, independent film, dark comedy
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The Summer Side (2012)
Plot Summary:
Comedy about a family of Gran Canaria island that shown in a "situation totally on edge" and reflects the way to be the canaries, as its author.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Bad Behaviour (2023)
Plot Summary:
Lucy, a former child actor, seeks enlightenment at a retreat led by spiritual leader Elon while she navigates her close yet turbulent relationship with her stunt-performer daughter, Dylan.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 242
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: New Zealand
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: spiritual, absurd, independent film, dark comedy
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As You Want Me (1996)
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Pasquale is a policeman in Roma. During a roundup he meets Desideria. He/she is a transsexual, living together with other two trans , Gaia and Gioia. But overall Desideria is an old friend of Pasquale, they already been attending the same schools. Desideria immediately fall in love for Pasquale. But the policeman has a fiancé, Nellina, even if too far so they meet rarely. That's why Pasquale could change idea about Desideria.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 100 min
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Folie à Famille (2023)
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IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, independent film
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Overseas and Under Your Skin (2009)
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Ida is a woman who was adopted to Finland from Africa as a child. Ida is an unemployed seamstress approaching her thirties and still lives at home with her activist mother Kati. Kati wants to fix her daughter's life and offers her a job at her work. Encouraged by her new friend Ville, Ida, however, sets out for Berlin in order to find a job and to prove to her mother that she can manage on her own. Meanwhile, Kati has been told that she is seriously ill, but she does not want to mention it to Ida in fear of standing in the way of her daughter's struggle for independence. Ida wants to have a life of her own, but what will she have left at the end of the day?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 191
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 86 min
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Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself (1989)
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Pepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live together in a deserted house. Fanatic communist, Zelmira, wants to turn their world upside-down.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 110 min
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The Liar (1981)
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Talkative, hyperactive young drifter Ville Alfa goes around Helsinki, basically trying to borrow money from friends and strangers by means of an incessant delivery of quirky and snappy quasi-intellectual lines and fabricated excuses.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, West Germany
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: black and white, student film
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Barrier (1966)
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A dream-like meditation on post-industrial life in Communist Poland.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 515
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Poland
Duration: 77 min
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Shadow of a Chance (1974)
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Mathias is an anarchist who lives with his 27 year old son, Michel, in late 1960s type communal weirdness.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
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My Precious (2023)
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Tong and his group of friends are in love with the same girl, Lin. Tong is forced to be supervised by another student due to his bad behavior. And his school life changes learning, playing and finding the first love.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 120 min
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A father and son reunites for a summer vacation after the tragic loss of their cancer ill mother and ex-wife.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 13
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Norway
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: serious, suspense, realistic, suspenseful
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Day and Night (1997)
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Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic life in Paris for a more peaceful existence upon a Mexican hacienda with his wife Ariane (Marianne Denicourt). Lucien (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) also accompanies them. There, Alexandre meets the strange lady-oracle Sonia (Lauren Bacall). As the film opens, the melancholy Alexandre is visited by the sensuous actress Laure (Arielle Dombasle) and her producer Raoul Fillipi (Karl Zero) who is going to make a movie of one of Alexandre's best-loved books. Laure is determined to play the part of the heroine and is willing to resort to seduction to get it. At the same time, Ariane is involved in a passionate affair with French-Mexican seismologist Carlo (Xavier Beauvois). While all of these characters wrangle and tangle with their different agendas, the local residents prepare for a violent revolution. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi.
IMDB Rating: 1.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: France, Spain, Belgium, Canada, Mexico
Duration: 108 min
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In My Life (2009)
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Shirley is a woman who wants to be in control of everything. Working as a librarian in a public school, a firm "Sshhh!" from her makes the students tremble in fear. But in her family, her unwarranted intervention in the lives of her children and their families keeps her emotionally detached from them. Realizing that she has lost the command she once had, she goes to New York to reunite with Mark , her estranged gay son who is now suffering from colon cancer. But Shirley doesn't know this and living with Mark in New York comes with a cost. She has to live with her son's lover Noel who is an illegal immigrant. Everything is going right until circumstances forces Shirley to go back to the Philippines. Now that she's back with her family, she realizes that something is wrong she is not happy.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Philippines
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: realistic, serious, sincere, psychological, captivating, suspenseful, tagalog, queer cinema
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A School Trip (1983)
Plot Summary:
Italy, 1914. Two teachers take their pupils for a school outing from Bologna to Florence.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
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Tit for Tat (1978)
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Professor Herceg struggling with difficulties, it is not easy to determine how students conveyed knowledge, and even harder to avoid the hatred of the disciples, and sympathy for the students. Arrival of television in school, a poll about the new school, students' imaginations and similar conditions will not relieve his problem.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 348
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 97 min
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Dream with the Fishes (1997)
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A suicidal man who can't kill himself agrees to finance his terminally ill neighbor's bucket list of fantasies if, at the end, the neighbor will kill him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: independent film, grim, humorous, realistic, gloomy, semi serious, surprise ending, crying, black comedy, scary
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Jacques is an actor who runs away to the countryside to escape his gambling debts. He meets Simon, a rough and wily farmer who manipulates him into a business relationship. After a difficult start, the men help each other grow marijuana. They happen to meet Francesca, a sharp young woman who soon embraces their venture. By the time they get to the winter harvest, the three have learned to live together, but outside forces threaten the delicate balance of their little business.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 526
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, sexy, unusual plot structure, humorous, entertaining, gay cinema
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Fifty-something widow Anita loses her lifetime dream job as a cinema attendant when the new owner wants to tear down the old theater and build a trendy multiplex in its stead. Depressed at first, Anita finds comfort in watching the shirtless hunks on the theater's construction site. She befriends a married excavator operator, Antonio, and the two start their secret candlelit trysts in the site's office cabin. But soon Anita learns that excavators are only needed in the early phase of a construction project.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, humorous, sexual, sexy
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The Perfect Stranger (2011)
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The mysterious arrival of a foreigner to a small village in a Mediterranean island, awake the sudden interest from a diverse group of residents, who will appear unexpectedly in the stranger's life, believing that he's going to reopen an old shop. In contrast, the real intentions of the stranger are hidden behind an old Polaroid photo, which has led him to that place in search of answers.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere, light
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The Flower of My Secret (1995)
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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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Love of Man (1997)
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Set in Madrid, Spain, this engaging comedy chronicles the complex relationship between single female Esperanza (Loles León), who can't buy a date, and her best friend Ramón (Andrea Occhipinti), a gay divorce attorney whose bed is never empty. The pair's friendship is put to the test when Esperanza introduces Ramón to her fellow teacher Roberto (Armando del Rio) -- who soon sends Ramón's life spinning out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, crying, sex comedy, sexy
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Unable to cope with a recent personal tragedy, LA's top celebrity shrink turns into a pothead with no concern for his appearance and a creeping sense of his inability to help his patients.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, psychological, depressing, emotional, sentimental, serious, sincere, touching, dark comedy, philosophical
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I Couldn't Care Less (2000)
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This European take on twenty-something woe introduces viewers to Jorge (Alejandro Cano), a self-help author suffering from writer's block who thinks he may be gay. Living with Jorge is Marta (Maria Jurado), a bisexual who wants to have a baby. Included in their circle are Eva (Melanie Olivares), Jorge's ex, and Alberto (Alvaro Gallegos), a gay man Jorge meets at a New Age healing session presided over by Ines (Begona Hernando). A number of encounters ensue, Marta moves in with the piggish Mario (Fernando Cayo), and Jorge decides to write a book based on his own experiences.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 91
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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No Shame (2001)
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A script fell to Isabel by chance. In reading it you realize it's the same story of the romance she had with the film director Mario Fabra, author of the script. Isabel decides appointment with Mario, who was not seen again, but at the moment of truth she feels ridiculous and pretends not to recognize him. He has also recognized that, reacts the same way. Both have young lovers: Mario has to Cecilia, a soap opera actress with self-esteem issues, Isabel has to Albert, a professor of physical expression, as primal as a dependent. Mario needs new actors for his film. After thinking, Isabel chooses to use and your school to get them. Actually he wants to be near as much as Isabel Isabel wants encounter him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, clever, realistic, biting, parody, suspense
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The Sale of Paradise (2012)
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Many immigrants, when they arrived in Spain, thought they had found paradise, soon thwarted all their dreams of prosperity. Many of them then decided to return to their land, but not so simple. In a pension match various immigrants end up discovering that deportation is the only way to return to his country.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, surreal, light, offbeat
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World's Greatest Dad (2009)
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In the wake of a freak accident, Lance suffers the worst tragedy and the greatest opportunity of his life. He is suddenly faced with the possibility of fame, fortune and popularity, if he can only live with the knowledge of how he got there.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, clever, melancholic, dark, disturbing, cult classic, hilarious, offbeat, philosophical
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Lovelife (1997)
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Lovelife is a 1997 romantic comedy film written and directed by Jon Harmon Feldman. The ensemble cast includes Matt Letscher, Sherilyn Fenn, Saffron Burrows, Carla Gugino, Bruce Davison, Jon Tenney and Peter Krause. Lovelife was nominated for a Feature Film Award at the 1997 Austin Film Festival, and won an Audience Award at the Los Angeles Independent Film Festival. The film was winner of the screenplay award at the L.A. Indie fest.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious
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What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
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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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Nanban (2012)
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The plot of the film illustrates the embankment of two friends on a quest for a lost buddy, who was once an optimistic and successful student. On their journey, they recount their college life and special moments that the three shared up until their lost friend secretly parted ways after convocation. During their quest, the two encounter a rival classmate who once made a long forgotten bet with them, a funeral that goes impossibly out of control, and a wedding they must crash.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, light, sincere, captivating, realistic, semi serious