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Plot Summary:
Since she was young, Soo-Nam has been able to do anything well with her hands. She holds 14 different certificates for typing excellence, but a computer takes over her job. Luckily, she finds a new job and marries. Soo-Nam and her husband decide to buy a house. They take out a loan to pay for their home. Soo-Nam works hard to pay off the loan, but she falls into more debt. Then an opportunity arises to pay off all her debts at once.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, black comedy
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Godmother (2017)
Plot Summary:
A humble housewife becomes an assassin for money, gaining self-confidence and rebuilding her life.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Action, Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, captivating, black comedy, entertaining
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Beasts Clawing at Straws (2020)
Plot Summary:
The destinies of hard-luck lowlifes slowly converge and come crashing down: Jung-man barely gets by working at a sauna and taking care of his sick mother until he finds a bag full of cash in the locker room; Tae-young is in trouble after his girlfriend runs away with the money he borrowed from a loan shark. Soon, a dead body mysteriously turns up; Mi-ran, caught between her husband’s violence and a dead-end job as a bar hostess, she finds a young lover, Jin-tae who offers to kill her husband… And now their dog-eat-dog game starts.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, exciting, disturbing, thought provoking, serious, captivating, black comedy
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The Little Book of Revenge (2006)
Plot Summary:
Bernard, an accountant in an upscale jewellery store, suffers from daily psychological abuse by his boss Vendôme. Thanks to his pal Robert, also victim of harassment by this cruel man, Bernard will toy with the consequence of a well-deserved retaliation at the expense of his boss. However, as not everything is perfect in this world, Bernard will also have to experience the sometimes less pleasant after effects of this ruthless act of revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, dark comedy, black comedy
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Blue Ridge (2014)
Plot Summary:
Paranoid and unpredictable, J.T. lives a solitary life of used tires and decaying trailers. Despite his situation, J.T. wins the love of Sara, an innocent young girl left alone in the world after losing the last of her family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, suspense, suspenseful, semi serious
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Life for Sale (2011)
Plot Summary:
Life for Sale is the story of one unlucky man's descent into disaster, a dramatic, human-destiny thriller with contemporary social undertones.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 576
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Finland
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, suspense, contemplative, tragic
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What Happened to Mr. Cha? (2021)
Plot Summary:
With the peak of his career long behind him, an actor clings to his past glory — until a sudden wake-up call forces him to face who he's become.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 390
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating
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Pawn (2020)
Plot Summary:
A loan shark takes a girl hostage as pawn for her parents' debt.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: South Korea
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, entertaining
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Smothered by Mothers (2019)
Plot Summary:
A football star loses all of his and his relatives money in a Ponzi scheme and becomes a father with three different women, all at the same time. The Ponzi scheme forces them to all live under one roof, and he has to pull off an elaborate caper in order to get his money back.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Last Will Be the Last (2015)
Plot Summary:
Luciana is a factory worker married to the love of her life. She is living the simple and quiet life she’s always desired: she works and she is deeply in love with her husband Stefano, even if he doesn’t always have a job and they both need to struggle to keep on going. They are happy and always on each other’s side, but shortly after she finds out she’s pregnant, she gets fired and her world starts falling apart. After having tried to have a baby for years, the joy of impending motherhood lasts only a few months. Begging for help but with no one ready to listen to her, completely desperate and shattered, Luciana decides to kidnap the managing director of her former company, asking for the justice she deserves.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 940
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Visions of Europe (2004)
Plot Summary:
Twenty-five films from twenty-five European countries by twenty-five European directors.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria, Belgium, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Denmark, Estonia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg, Malta, Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, UK
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: anthology, humorous, captivating, disturbing
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Tre tocchi (2014)
Plot Summary:
Several actors are members of a amateur soccer team. They followed in their preparations for a particular audition and in their personal life. With about 6 actors this delivers a broad picture of Italian life in which the question what it means to be a man is posed in the challenging circumstances of familily life, sex relationships, sport, cross gender roles and mafia.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating
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I Can Speak (2017)
Plot Summary:
A grumpy old woman befriends a young civil servant and learns English from him. She then reveals to him her shocking past.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, captivating, satirical, cult film
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We Accept Miracles (2015)
Plot Summary:
Fulvio is the only one of the three brothers to have left the village to go to work in the city. Deputy chief of staff in a large company, he dismisses people without remorse until he gets fired himself and after being jailed for beating his superior, is entrusted to his brother, who's a pastor in the village where they grew up. Forced into a place far from the modern world, Fulvio decides to help the local church in crisis by inventing a miracle that makes everyone believe that the saint's statue weeps. Tourists and pilgrims rush to the village and are filling the pockets of local businesses until the Vatican decides to send someone to certify the event. Fulvio must confess the scam, but the entire village will rise to convince the envoys of the Holy City for the veracity of the invented miracle.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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Uranya (2006)
Plot Summary:
Summer 1969. Dictatorship. In a small country town, young Achileas breaks his leg by falling off the yard wall of the local cinema. He wanted to see Brigit Bardot naked... However, during his visit to the city to treat his broken leg, for the first time in his life he sees a television! The program informs about the launching of Apollo to the moon. The idea of the launching becomes Achileas' obsession and along with his friends they collect money, in order to purchase a TV set. However, soon, the dilemma becomes imperative. Will they buy a television or "visit" all together Uranya in order to be taught the secrets of love?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Predators (2020)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of two completely opposite households: the Pavone are intellectual and bourgeois, the Vismara are proletarian and fascists. They are two tribes sharing the same jungle: Rome. A trivial accident brings these two poles together. The madness of a 25-year old youth will set them on a collision course, discovering the cards to reveal that everyone has a secret. People are never what they seem – but we are all predators in the end.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, comedy drama
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3 Days in Havana (2013)
Plot Summary:
A businessman gets caught up in an assassination plot when he travels to Cuba.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, Cuba
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, suspenseful, captivating, tense, realistic, semi serious
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Go! Mrs. Go! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Go Bong-sil is separated from her husband by death and almost comes to bankruptcy when she becomes a writer for the best seller.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 33
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing, touching
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Your Family or Your Life (2019)
Plot Summary:
A doctors life is turned upside down when her lawyer husband is found dead.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 133
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense
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Kolamavu Kokila (2018)
Plot Summary:
A young woman takes up drug peddling to make money for the treatment of her mom, who has cancer.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, disturbing, suspense, dark comedy
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Paradise Highway (2022)
Plot Summary:
A truck driver has been forced to smuggle illicit cargo to save her brother from a deadly prison gang. With FBI operatives hot on her trail, Sally's conscience is challenged when the final package turns out to be a teenage girl.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA, Switzerland
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing, road movie
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Plot Summary:
A young woman decides to sell her virginity to pay off her mother's debts when she realises that her earnings as an online x-rated model are not enough.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 571
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating
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Plot Summary:
Follows Georgian ex-wrestler’s journey to Brooklyn, New York. His aim is to get his son out of a gambling debt. He meets people who help him and people who ignore him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, USA, Monaco
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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A Boy Named Flora A (2017)
Plot Summary:
A 28-year-old layabout begins to re-examine his life when his dysfunctional family assembles to pay respects to a dying grandmother who won’t pass on.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 350
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Taiwan
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Good Life (2007)
Plot Summary:
A story about a mostly normal young man who makes the most out of fitting in when he obviously doesn't.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, semi serious, humorous, realistic, captivating, cult classic, whimsical
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Inseparable Bros (2019)
Plot Summary:
Se-ha who is a physically handicapped and Dong-gu who is a mentally handicapped are not their own brothers. But while living 20 years together, the two became indispensable to each other. One day, the mother of Dong-gu suddenly visits him and acts as his guardian.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 852
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, entertaining, semi serious, comedy drama
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Dad for Rent (2014)
Plot Summary:
A unemployed father, due to his laziness, is supported by his wife. Their daughter decides to put their lazy dad up for rent on a secondhand site.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 102
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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It Was the Son (2012)
Plot Summary:
The Ciraulo family lives in the miserable district of Palermo called "Zen". When one of their children dies in a shootout between mafia gangsters they receive compensation and buy a luxury black Volvo. Things go wrong when Trancredi, another son, takes the car out and damages the car door.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: captivating, psychological, light, humorous, serious, realistic, black comedy, dark comedy
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Kitchen Brigade (2022)
Plot Summary:
Cathy is a sous-chef wanting to open a restaurant. With financial difficulties, Cathy accepts a job at a shelter for young migrants. At first she hates the job then her passion for cuisine starts to change children's lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 974
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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The Roommates Party (2015)
Plot Summary:
An unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to accommodate some poor fellow citizens. The decree called "Le Grand Partage" creates some trouble among the residents of a Paris upscale apartment block.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, satirical
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Parasite (2019)
Plot Summary:
All unemployed, Ki-taek's family takes peculiar interest in the wealthy and glamorous Parks for their livelihood until they get entangled in an unexpected incident.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 910000
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: South Korea
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: suspense, black comedy, exciting, dark comedy, captivating, tragic ending, psychological thriller, political, social, disturbing