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Plot Summary:
An comedy set in 1960s Helsinki. The story revolves around Elsa, a resolute hatmaker who is in complete control of her life. Besides running her shop, she sometimes doubles as a fortune teller. When Jan, a Czechoslovakian jazz musician and Elsa's old lover comes to town to perform at a "peace and friendship festival", her well-organised life is jolted out of balance.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 291
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Norway, Czech Republic
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, melancholic, suspenseful, exciting
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Right On, Man! (1980)
Plot Summary:
In the punk rock era of the late 1970s three restless teenagers, two boys and a girl, spend their time in and out of a special class for problem kids. Jussi seldom sees his parents at home, so he is free to indulge in petty crimes, pranks, and getting drunk with his friend Pete. Jussi falls in love with equally rebellious classmate Lissu (Aki Kaurismäki's favourite actress Kati Outinen in her debut role), but the lovers' plan to run away together fails dramatically.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 796
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Love by Request (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two people: Igor, an ex-athlete aimlessly living and chasing rubles to get drunk and Vera, an ugly duck librarian, try to find their luck by planning to fall in love with each other based on "psychological conditioning".
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 800
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, sentimental, touching, humorous
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Hamlet Goes Business (1987)
Plot Summary:
A bizarre black-and-white film noir reworking of Shakespeare's 'Hamlet'.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, neo noir, black and white, surprise ending, avant garde
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Shadows in Paradise (1986)
Plot Summary:
An episode in the life of Nikander, a garbage man, involving the death of a co-worker, an affair and much more.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: art house, dark comedy, contemplative, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Juha (1999)
Plot Summary:
A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who enslaves her in a brothel.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: silent, black and white, contemplative, sentimental, bleak, serious, realistic, gloomy, modern day adaptation, silent film
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Take Care of Your Scarf, Tatiana (1994)
Plot Summary:
Lugubrious Finns Valto and Reino take to the road in search of coffee and vodka, without which their lives are not worth living. But their reveries are interrupted by the arrival of garrulous Russian Klaudia and Estonian Tatiana - who are clearly interested in the two men, despite the language barrier. But what are the chances of getting a response from men who prefer staring at vodka bottles to talking?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 62 min
Plot tags: road movie, black and white, offbeat, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Girl with a Pistol (1968)
Plot Summary:
A Sicilian woman is dishonored by her lover, then goes to London with a pistol intending to murder him.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Italy
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: road movie, sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending, crying, freeze frame, dark comedy, sexual
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Love with the Proper Stranger (1963)
Plot Summary:
When a one-night stand results in pregnancy, a musician and a young girl try to resolve the issue together.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, retro, offbeat, depressing, black and white, sincere, humorous, realistic, witty, contemplative
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Steve + Sky (2004)
Plot Summary:
Steve + Sky is a story about two struggling teenagers who are trying to find their own place in the world. He is a small-time crook recently released from prison and she is a prostitute craving some love and affection. They find each other in an obscure part of Gent. Jean-Claude is responsible for their meeting ; he is also an ex-inmate who has just traded the low-life crime scene for life as a pimp. Will their love survive?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Romance, Drama, Comedy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous, sincere, touching, melancholic, suspenseful, romantic comedy, stylized
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Beloved Berlin Wall (2009)
Plot Summary:
Berlin, 1989. Sascha is a young East German border guard and Franzi is a lively young West German woman who's just moved into a flat next to Sascha's watchtower at the Berlin Wall. It takes only a slight mishap and a selfless act of chivalry and the two fall in love. But soon the Stasi believes they are witnessing the start of a revolt. This is the time of mass protests and East Germans taking refuge in the West German embassy in Prague after all. Franzi and Sascha have to find their ways to stand up for their love and strive for the impossible; to bring down the wall.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 477
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, captivating, semi serious
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The Man Without a Past (2002)
Plot Summary:
The second part of Aki Kaurismäki's "Finland" trilogy, the film follows a man who arrives in Helsinki and gets beaten up so severely he develops amnesia. Unable to remember his name or anything from his past life, he cannot get a job or an apartment, so he starts living on the outskirts of the city and slowly starts putting his life back on track.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Germany, France
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: bleak, satirical, black comedy, touching, humorous, semi serious, dark comedy, clever, contemplative, art house
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Ali's Wedding (2017)
Plot Summary:
After a "white lie" which spirals out of control, a neurotic, naive and musically gifted Muslim cleric's eldest son must follow through with an arranged marriage, except he is madly in love with an Australian born-Lebanese girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sweet, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, touching, feel good, independent film, black comedy, dark comedy
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A Summer's Tale (1996)
Plot Summary:
A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: art house, artsy, anthology, cute, sincere, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, talky
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Sun Alley (1999)
Plot Summary:
A group of kids grow up on the short, wrong (east) side of the Sonnenallee in Berlin, right next to one of the few border crossings between East and West reserved for German citizens. The antics of these kids, their families, of the "West German" friends and relatives who come to visit, and of the East German border guards, all serve to illustrate the absurdity of everyday life on the Sonnenallee, and therefore throughout the former East Germany.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: political, sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, controversial, talky, semi serious, surprise ending
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Ice Mother (2017)
Plot Summary:
After her husband's death, Hana lives on alone in the family villa. Her two sons visit her with their families, but these visits frequently end in quarrels. When Hana meets Brona, a hardy fellow, inured to winter swimming, a new world opens before her. Brona's team-mates absorb her into their team and Hana gradually learns to overcome her fear of icy water. Her relation with Brona grows into love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, France, Slovakia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, captivating, realistic, funny, light, romantic, entertaining
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The Red Cockatoo (2006)
Plot Summary:
A coming-of-age story set in Germany in the 1960s. Siggi becomes involved in a love triangle when he falls for Luise, but the tightening political climate forces him to make a fateful decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 870
Genere: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
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The Elusive Summer of '68 (1984)
Plot Summary:
For the young man who lives in Serbian province town, the maturing coincides with the turbulent political events of the year 1968.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: parody, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Dreamfactory (2019)
Plot Summary:
A romantic drama set in 1961 that follows a young studio extra's ambitious efforts to reunite with the French girl he loves after being separated by the construction of the Berlin Wall.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: romantic, uplifting, touching, sweet, sentimental
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Beside Still Waters (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young man struggles for closure after the death of his parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sad, clever, realistic, talky, independent film
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Good Bye Lenin! (2003)
Plot Summary:
An affectionate and refreshing East/West-Germany comedy about a boy who’s mother was in a coma while the Berlin wall fell and when she wakes up he must try to keep her from learning what happen (since she was an avid communist supporter) to avoid shocking her which could lead to another heart attack.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 151000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: political, humorous, sentimental, witty, touching, feel good, comedy drama, clever, offbeat, realistic
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Kiss Me You Fucking Moron (2013)
Plot Summary:
Some teenagers are ambitiously setting up a famous Jon Fosse-play. They hire a well known actor to be their mentor, unaware that he's going through a life crisis. Their new mentor chooses Vegard, promising footballer and local douchebag, to play the leading role.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 799
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, humorous, captivating
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Jealousy, Italian Style (1970)
Plot Summary:
A three-way love affair in the Rome of the early seventies. Construction worker Oreste and young fiancee Adelaide meet Nello, cook in a pizzeria. This love triangle often go to communist rallies, and enjoy the filthy beach of Ostia. Will the hostile environment leave a way to jealousy?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, non-linear, crying, detective
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Letter to Brezhnev (1985)
Plot Summary:
The factories, pubs, clubs, hotels and streets of 1980s Liverpool form the backdrop for this tale of love, friendship, sex and a letter to the Soviet leader, Leonid Brezhnev. Two Liverpool lasses, Teresa and Elaine meet two Russian sailors, Sergei and Peter and hook up for a night of fun and frolics. Teresa is looking for sex and a smile, Elaine wants love, romance and the dream of a life far away from the grime of the Liverpool docklands. A classic British romantic comedy filled with new wave tunes, 80s fashion, a little politics and a lot of heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: retro, comedy drama, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, eighties
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Sweetheart (2019)
Plot Summary:
A working woman, mother a three children, realizes that, when her youngest one is about to go to Canada to continue her education, she will end up out of her most precious goal, being a mother.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 916
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, melancholic, social
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Carefree (2016)
Plot Summary:
What starts as a crazy one-night stand ends up in a relationship. But Dharam and Shyra fall out of love just as quickly. Where will life take them now?.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: non-linear, sexy, psychological, sincere, unusual plot structure, contemplative, one man show, neo screwball comedy
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Premam (2015)
Plot Summary:
Three stages in George's life, and three girls he encounters in each stage.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: sentimental, psychological, sincere, touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, compassionate, romantic, epic
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Meet My Valentine (2015)
Plot Summary:
When Tom learns that he has terminal brain cancer, he decides to find a replacement husband for his wife and a father to his daughter, before it is too late. Unbeknownst to his wife Valentine, Tom sets up an on-line dating profile for her, and realizes that he doesn't know much about her anymore. Tom endeavors to get to know Valentine, and learns why he fell in love with her all those years ago... just in time to say goodbye.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, disturbing, serious, emotional, realistic
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Elizabethtown (2005)
Plot Summary:
Drew Baylor is fired after causing his shoe company to lose hundreds of millions of dollars. To make matters worse, he's also dumped by his girlfriend. On the verge of ending it all, Drew gets a new lease on life when he returns to his family's small Kentucky hometown after his father dies. Along the way, he meets a flight attendant with whom he falls in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 72000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: emotional, sweet, feel good, melancholic, road movie, sentimental, romantic, light, touching, sincere
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Moscow on the Hudson (1984)
Plot Summary:
A Russian circus visits the US. A clown wants to defect, but doesn't have the nerve. His saxophone playing friend however comes to the decision to defect in the middle of Bloomingdales. He is befriended by the black security guard and falls in love with the Italian immigrant from behind the perfume counter. We follow his life as he works his way through the American dream and tries to find work as a musician.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, retro, romantic comedy, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, witty, semi serious
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Before We Go (2014)
Plot Summary:
A woman who is robbed on her way to catch the 1:30 train to Boston is left stranded in New York City. She meets a man who helps her during the course of the night and the two form a romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, romantic, sweet, light, witty, romantic comedy, cute, emotional, talky, humorous