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Plot Summary:
In this movie, TV sets are full of life. If a person is in TV (e.g. because it was filmed on the street) it has a double that's right in the TV set. This double needs energy from the true character to survive. Each time, the real human watches TV, his Double will pull life energy from him. So there's a mysterious Death-serial. Many persons die in front of their TV set and nobody knows why. Olda, the main character, is one of the persons, that get more and more weak. He is near death, till Fisarek, the natural healer appears. He teaches Olda how he can resist this magic force and how he can fight it.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: clever, offbeat, humorous, captivating, surreal, semi serious, biting, absurd, psychotronic, metafiction
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Nice Girls Don't Explode (1987)
Plot Summary:
April has a problem. Whenever she gets anything like passionate with a guy all sorts of things seem to spontaneously combust. The only men she meets more then once are firefighters. Actually, it's Mom's way of trying to keep her little girl to herself, but new boyfriend Andy is having none of such nonsense. So the heat's on. Unfortunately it's Fluffy the cat who keeps getting caught in the middle.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 521
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, semi serious
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Camping Cosmos (1996)
Plot Summary:
On a Belgian beach at Camping Cosmos. The delegate send by the Ministry is confronted with sex and murder. The residents enjoy their holidays in a peculiar way.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 335
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Belgium
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: erotic, touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sex comedy, sexy
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Weather Girl (1995)
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Keiko, a young, newly hired weather woman, is eager to give her channel's flagging ratings a boost. She decides a panty shot might do the trick, so during her forecast she lifts her skirt, thereby capturing the attention and the hearts of viewers. Keiko's stunt creates such a stir of excitement over the weather report that viewers begin religiously turning in to see what she'll do next. However, this showboating routine earns the ire of Kaori, the beautiful and ambitious daughter of JTV's chairman. Jealous of her success and aching to take over the weather report, Kaori is willing to do just about anything to get what she wants.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 423
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sexy, clever, offbeat, humorous, surreal, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, sexual
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Nothing Lasts Forever (1984)
Plot Summary:
An artist fails a test and is required to direct traffic in New York City's Holland Tunnel. He winds up falling in love with a beautiful woman, who takes him to the moon on a Lunar Cruiser.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 941
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: surreal, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious, banned, banned film, weird, cult film
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Hey, Happy! (2001)
Plot Summary:
Set in empty junkyards of Winnipeg, Sabu works in a pornography store and we view him as he approaches the end of his quest to sleep with 2000 men (which is eased by the fact that he works at a porno store). For his final conquest, he desires someone special and has chosen the eccentric character Happy to be his 2000th lover. Throughout out all of this, the town in impending doom as a flood of biblical proportions approaches.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 366
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, surreal, offbeat, sexual, sexy, sex comedy, futuristic, queer cinema, hot
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Earthbound (2012)
Plot Summary:
At eleven years old Joe Norman is told by his dying father that he is an alien hiding on earth. Joe believes him. He grows up to be a die-hard fan-boy working in a comic shop. When he falls for down-to-earth Maria, a fellow sci-fi fan, he is inspired to lead a more normal social existence. Until intergalactic bounty hunters track Joe down at his new office and the couple soon learn the dangerous truth about who Joe really is.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 710
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Ireland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, suspenseful, psychotronic, offbeat
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Teknolust (2002)
Plot Summary:
Anxious to use artificial life to improve the world, Rosetta Stone, a bio-geneticist creates a Recipe for Cyborgs and uses her own DNA in order to breed three Self Replicating Automatons, part human, part computer named Ruby, Olive and Marine.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: futuristic, semi serious, humorous, sexy, exciting, captivating, sex comedy, black comedy, intelligent, independent film
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His Majesty Minor (2007)
Plot Summary:
Dans une île imaginaire perdue en Mer Egée, aux temps très lointains d'avant Homère, Minor, mi-homme mi-cochon, orphelin et muet, file des jours tranquilles dans la douce tiédeur de la porcherie en compagnie de sa bonne amie la Truie. Au cours d'une escapade en forêt mythologique, il fait la rencontre d'un des personnages les plus influents de son époque, le Dieu Pan - alias Satyre, qui l'initie à sa manière de bouc aux imprévus du paganisme.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, offbeat
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Bestiarium (2007)
Plot Summary:
Bestiar is the story of the fateful relationship Karolina - a political science major and a journalist - has with Alex, who, despite being extremely successful in his career, is actually emotionally torn inside. Each new relationship and experience (no matter how fleeting) has a profound impact on Karolína, who realizes that although women aren't born beasts, they can become them. But without innate bestial instincts it's futile! Bestiar is a tragicomic tale of the personal quest of a woman attempting to find the right values in a labyrinth of interpersonal relationships. Until now, that luxury - "experiencing the world" - has been granted mostly only to male characters.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, captivating, emotional, sentimental, light, tragicomedy, realistic, semi serious
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Citizen Dog (2004)
Plot Summary:
Follow the life of Pod as he moves to Bangkok from the country. Pod's new life starts with getting a job, loosing a finger and dreaming about a girl. A movie were nothing is impossible, and just because you get killed by raining red helmets doesnt mean you have to stop driving motorcycle taxi.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Thailand
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: surreal, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sad, art film, offbeat, weird
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What's It All About (1995)
Plot Summary:
Minimalistic frieze fifteen episodes about human behavior (desire, submission, love, jealousy, wisdom, honesty, sincerity, passion, faith, ...) located between two fantastic stories about the will and doubt.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 259
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: anthology, manga, clever, humorous, realistic, talky, cynical, semi serious, biting, sexual
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King of the Airways (1994)
Plot Summary:
Be careful what you wish for...it just may come true. This is the underlying theme of this French-Canadian comedy drama that follows the travails of a TV addict who wins a talent contest and finds himself the subject of an embarrassingly revealing television series. Louis Jobin is a rather depressive young salesman who works in an electronics store. At night he is a passionate channel surfer, sitting upon his couch staring at his television. When Channel 19 announces a talent contest. Louis immediately enters. The contest winner will become the subject of a TV show with Channel 19 filming every movement, 24 hours a day for three months. Louis wins the contest and is at first elated by his prize but then begins to feel otherwise after he becomes a celebrity.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 578
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, spoof, parody, suspense
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More Ants in the Pants (2002)
Plot Summary:
In the sequel of "Ants in the Pants" we again meet Flo and his friends.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy, sexual, hot
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Asylum Seekers (2009)
Plot Summary:
Six people on the verge of a breakdown decide to check themselves into an insane asylum, only to discover there is just room for one.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, surprise ending, mindfuck, cult classic, independent film, offbeat, cult film
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Bedazzled (1967)
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Stanley is infatuated with Margaret, the statuesque waitress who works with him. He meets George Spiggott AKA the devil and sells his soul for 7 wishes, which Stanley uses to try and make Margaret his own first as an intellectual, then as a rock star, then as a wealthy industrialist. As each fails, he becomes more aware of how empty his life had been and how much more he has to live for.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: witty, funny, surreal, dark comedy, humorous, psychedelic, intellectual, psychotronic, mind bending, satanic
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Britannia Hospital (1982)
Plot Summary:
Britannia Hospital, an esteemed English institution, is marking its gala anniversary with a visit by the Queen Mother herself. But when investigative reporter Mick Travis arrives to cover the celebration, he finds the hospital under siege by striking workers, ruthless unions, violent demonstrators, racist aristocrats, and African cannibal dictator and sinister human experiments.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surreal, mind bending, psychedelic, cult classic, independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, witty
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King Size (1988)
Plot Summary:
A comedy. The story follows a young scientist in the contemporary world, who actually came from the world of dwarves, thanks to a magic potion, held by the Big Eater, ruler of the dwarves. The dwarf kingdom, Shuflandia, exists in a cellar of a library, and only the most obedient get the chance to grow to king size and inhabit the larger world. Once there, nobody wants to return to Shuflandia. Also, there are no women in Shuflandia.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Poland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: mind bending, psychedelic, surreal, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, semi serious, biting, fairy tale, surprise ending
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I Heart Doomsday (2010)
Plot Summary:
A scientist builds an android to reconnect with his amnesiac lover.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 37
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, futuristic, semi serious, captivating, suspense
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The Miracle of P. Tinto (1998)
Plot Summary:
Wafer factory-owner P. Tinto and his wife Olivia want a child of their own more than anything else in the world. Years of trying, however, have left them with nothing but a pair of extraterrestrial midgets living in the spare bedroom. When they decide to try adoption, a series of misroutings and chance encounters results in an escaped adult mental patient arriving at their door with adoption papers in hand. P. Tinto and Olivia accept this without question and welcome him in as their son. Can this family arrangement work?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: manga, offbeat, humorous, surreal, semi serious, spoof, parody, weird
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Witch Way Love (1997)
Plot Summary:
Michael Firch is very skilled in computers and he goes to Paris to meet very important persons to discuss a contract. Michael was born on a special astral date. On arriving in Paris, he meets Morgane and her son. Morgane is a witch, she is beautiful, she is good and she needs Michael to save her son from evil powers. Molok is a sorcerer and he opposes Morgana's plan.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, sincere, sweet, offbeat, stylized
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Future '38 (2017)
Plot Summary:
An American Agent from 1938 travels through time to hamstring Hitler! Transported to the year 2018, he hoodwinks hoodlums, infuriates the Fuhrer, and goes gaga for a gal 80 years his junior!.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 252
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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Mr. Emmett & Los Melocotones Enlatados (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Diego's girlfriend decides to leave him after a disastrous anniversary getaway, he will find any means possible to amend or fix what happened. Even if it means competing with different versions of himself when traveling through time.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Dominican Republic, UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, captivating, semi serious, black comedy
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Cineman (2009)
Plot Summary:
A maths teacher acquires the power to travel into movies to save the woman of his dreams and bring her back to her correct film.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 684
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: exciting, feel good, stylized, humorous, semi serious, captivating
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Princess Raccoon (2005)
Plot Summary:
Amechiyo (the banished prince) falls in love with Tanukihime (a princess of raccoon dog disguised as human). This is an operetta which includes comedy, singing and dancing, and a love story.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: captivating, sentimental, humorous, emotional, stylized, semi serious, fairy tale
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Empties (2007)
Plot Summary:
Czech literature teacher Josef Tkaloun, who is past retirement age, realises one day that he no longer understands his pupils, and so he quits… dramatically. What he does not predict is that in doing this he will lose his sense of place in society.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic, UK, Denmark
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, sentimental, sincere, emotional, realistic, existential, independent film
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A.R.O.G (2008)
Plot Summary:
Commander Logar fools Arif and sends him 1.000.000 years back in the time. He must civilize people from past to reach today.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Turkey
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: exciting, humorous, not serious, parody, captivating, cult classic, offbeat, stylized, prehistoric
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Gagamboy (2004)
Plot Summary:
Gagamboy (Spiderboy) is -you guessed it- Spiderman parody. both the main villain and Spiderboy gain their powers by eating radioactive bugs.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Action, Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Country: Philippines
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: parody, humorous, exciting, captivating, entertaining, offbeat, witty, stylized, semi serious, spoof
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Monkeybone (2001)
Plot Summary:
After a car crash sends repressed cartoonist Stu Miley (Fraser) into a coma, he and the mischievous Monkeybone, his hilariously horny alter-ego, wake up in a wacked-out waystation for lost souls. When Monkeybone takes over Stu's body and escapes to wreak havoc on the real world, Stu has to find a way to stop him before his sister pulls the plug on reality forever!.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: stylized, humorous, absurd, not serious, cult classic, black comedy, dark comedy, surreal, funny, adult animation
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L.A. Story (1991)
Plot Summary:
With the help of a talking freeway billboard, a "wacky weatherman" tries to win the heart of an English newspaper reporter, who is struggling to make sense of the strange world of early-90s Los Angeles.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, cult classic, clever, touching, humorous, surreal, witty, talky, satirical
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The Purple Rose of Cairo (1985)
Plot Summary:
Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mudane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 54000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, humorous, surreal, touching, sweet, melancholic, feel good, semi serious, bleak