Best movies like Aurora
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Plot Summary:
One night at a hot-dog stand in Finnish Lapland, a commitment-phobic party animal, Aurora, meets Iranian Darian. Darian suddenly asks her to marry him. Darian needs to marry a Finnish woman to get an asylum for himself and his daughter. Aurora turns him down, as she is busy working as a nail technician and plans to move to Norway, away from her shit life. However, after meeting his sweet daughter, Aurora agrees to help him. As Aurora introduces numerous women to Darian, the two of them grow close. When the perfect wife candidate comes along, Darian and Aurora are faced with a difficult choice: pretend to be happy or to finally stop running.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Love in Lapland (2017)
Plot Summary:
When an administrator in Paris is sent to Sweden to close a toy company before Christmas, she meets the manager, who plays with her heartstrings.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, disturbing, sentimental, light, captivating
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A Charming Mass Suicide (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two men, who both have tried to commit a suicide, decide to found a "Let's do it together"-suicide association to help the self-destructive people to succeed in their goal. Soon they have a bus load of candidates and together they start a bus tour in order to find a suitable place for the mass suicide.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 628
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Hustlers (2010)
Plot Summary:
The director Lauri Nurkse tells that Veijarit is a film about "arjensietokyvyttömyys" (= inability to tolerate everyday life) and about the Peter Pan complex. The main actor Mikko Leppilampi says it's about "kolkyttoistavuotiaat" (= thirtyeenagers = people of thirty behaving like teenagers). An immediate reference point is the commedia all'italiana of the 1950s and the 1960s, the black comedy often exposing the infantile stage of development of the Italian male. Saku and Ässä are anti-heroes, but we never fail to sense the humanity behind their shallow and crazy ways. Veijarit is a satire and a parody of a superficial way of life, but there is a vitality in the protagonists that we feel can lead them to a more meaningful stage of existence after the prolonged youth full of sound and fury. There is a motif of transcendence in the imagery of flying: will the balloons carry me or will they burst.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 979
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: neo noir
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Akaton mies (1983)
Plot Summary:
Farmer wants a wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 164
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags:
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Bittersweet (1995)
Plot Summary:
Finnish movie.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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The Man Who Couldn't Say No (1975)
Plot Summary:
Young priest returns from America to work in an old Helsinki neighbourhood with idyllic wooden houses. The shy but handsome bachelor is assigned the duty of marriage counseling but is soon overwhelmed by the ladies' romantic interest directed at himself. Trying to please everybody, he also creates confusion by taking both sides in the issue of whether to preserve the neighbourhood or to go along with the modernisation plans offered by property developers.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 367
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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Love Trap (2004)
Plot Summary:
Law student Thijs shares a house in which every room is the HQ of constant cruising for one night stands, relationships are considered a waste of lives. Suddenly Ben, his best mate since childhood, announces he passed on his room to Susan, who brings her studly boyfriend Stef, because Ben is- getting married to heiress Talita Bekooy. Thijs now remembers his old ambition to start his own restaurant, but can't get a bank loan- until Ben recommends Thijs, the till then reluctant best man, to his in-laws-to-be as MC for the society wedding of the year, Sir is pleased to hear the extravaganza budget 'reduced' to 150,000 Euros. Then Cupid's arrow hits Thijs himself and Susan, but when the banker tells dad Bekooy he's totally inexperienced and poor, it all crumbles down. Yet the boy bravely perseveres.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 434
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: juvenile
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Thirst Street (2017)
Plot Summary:
Gina, an American flight attendant, falls in with a Parisian bartender on a layover only to find herself tangled in a web of deception, delusion and unrequited amour fou.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, visually stunning, psychosexual thriller
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Off the Map (2016)
Plot Summary:
Career woman finds out that her boyfriend is living a secret double life. She finds a bag of money and decides to make a run for it. She is accompanied by a little girl who is also on a run from her criminal step-father. Together they're trying to make it to her grandmothers house.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: road movie
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Santa (2014)
Plot Summary:
A trip to Lapland leads to immense changes in the life of a single mother and her seven- year- old son. Love, hope and efforts to save the life of the little boy will change dramatically the lives of the two grown-ups. “Santa” - is a story about human relations and often painful challenges that life poses. In order to overcome these challenges one must believe in the miracle of a fairy-tale and... breath in deeply the fresh air of the North. It’s so fresh, you almost want to drink it. And it’s worth living for. The movie contains breathtaking Lapland views and is peppered with Marius Ivaškevičius specialty humor.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 345
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Lithuania, Finland
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, tense, touching, captivating, suspense
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2 Nights Till Morning (2015)
Plot Summary:
Caroline, a French architect in Vilnius, Lithuania, on business, has to spend an extra night in the city due to a delayed work meeting. At the bar of her hotel she meets Jaakko, a Finnish DJ who is in Vilnius for a gig. Caroline lets him understand that she doesn’t speak English, and Jaakko doesn’t speak French. Although they lack a common language, they find themselves enjoying each other’s company.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Lithuania
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, sexy
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Twogether (1992)
Plot Summary:
An artist and an environmentalist go through an up and down relationship over the years. They get married in an early fling, she gets pregnant as they celebrate their divorce together, they deal with his nude artwork and her tempermental situation as they learn about her strict upbringing and her fear of commitment based on her father's unflinching attitudes.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: erotic, sexy, independent film
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Lapland Odyssey (2010)
Plot Summary:
Lapland Odyssey is a comedy about Janne, a man from Lapland in northern Finland, a man who has made a career out of living on welfare. Inari, his girlfriend, is tired of Janne's incapability of getting a grip on life, Janne wasn't even able to buy a digital TV box that Inari had given money for. Inari gives an ultimatum: a digital box needs to arrive by dawn or she leaves. Janne sets out into the night with his two friends to find a box. On their way to the city of Rovaniemi, Janne and his friends face many challenges, obstacles and temptations. They learn that they need to be daring. There's no room to give into bitterness. The most important thing isn't success, but rather the journey in itself.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, Sweden, Ireland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, entertaining, intense, funny, unusual plot structure, humorous, stylized, visually appealing, offbeat, realistic
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Love in a Fish Bowl (1993)
Plot Summary:
Waitress Saara meets handsome journalist Joni, and soon moves in to live with him. Joni tries his best to satisfy Saara sexually but, disturbed by violent lesbian fantasies, she is unable to experience orgasm. Trying to cope with the situation, Saara has another brief affair back in her old home town.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Drama
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: erotic
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Ripa Hits the Skids (1993)
Plot Summary:
A film by Christian Linblad.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 340
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Tempting Devils (2018)
Plot Summary:
A woman discovers curious erotic messages on a lost cell phone in the train. When she meets the owner of the phone, a liberated young woman, the two of them embark on an erotic journey.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: erotic, romantic, uplifting, touching, sweet, art house, erotic drama
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Welcome to Christmas (2018)
Plot Summary:
Resort developer Madison Lane is tasked with finding a location for a new ski resort. Her boss tells her to take a trip to Christmas, Colorado, to consider the location. On her way into town, Madison has a minor fender-bender with the town’s welcome sign. Town Sheriff Gage McBride gives Madison a ride into town so she can attend her meeting with the mayor while the car is towed and repaired. Little does Madison know that the town is on a mission to convince Madison that Christmas is the best place for the new ski resort.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Destination Wedding (2018)
Plot Summary:
Frank and Lindsay two emotionally broken people, must attend a destination wedding. They meet and, over the course of the weekend and against all odds, find themselves drawn to one another even as they are repulsed by one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: romantic, witty, ironic, talky, sweet, cynical
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Master Cheng (2019)
Plot Summary:
Cheng, 45, a restaurant owner from China, has travelled with his young son halfway around the world to a remote village in Finland. His wife died recently in an accident, and Cheng wanted to have a break from everything by traveling with his son to see an old Finnish friend who lives on a farm in the countryside of Finland. It’s the most remote place Cheng can imagine with endless forests, thousands of lakes, a country with entire population of one-fifth of Cheng’s home town, Shanghai.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Finland, China
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Gloriously Wasted (2012)
Plot Summary:
Juha Berg is a 30-year-old hopeless drunk in the Kallio neighborhood of Helsinki. Juha doesn't have the first intention of changing his way of life - just the opposite. He really enjoys sundry sexual relationships, adrenalin-inducing violence and, of course, alcohol for which he gets money even if by collecting bottles. But the hilarity in a drunken haze soon gets a run for its money as the passionate Juha falls in love with his AA group leader. The relationship with Tiina progresses quickly to dating and Juha has to make pivotal decisions. Juha has to begin balancing between maintaining a functional intimate relationship and his old lifestyle. Juha's best friend Kristian does his best to sabotage the relationship, and Juha's shaky decision to stay sober is further hindered by Mikael, an expert on German erotica. But how far can you go before there is only one solution left?.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, sexual, sexy
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Christmas Getaway (2017)
Plot Summary:
When a reservation mix-up at a mountain resort forces a newly-single travel writer to share a cabin with a handsome widower and his precocious daughter over the holidays, their lives are transformed by the magic of Christmas and the unexpected power of love.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, light, sincere, feel good, romantic drama, romantic comedy
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Holiday Date (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Brooke’s boyfriend, Ethan, breaks up with her just before the holidays, she agrees to go home with Joel, an actor who will pose as her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, touching, humorous, captivating
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Sensuela (1973)
Plot Summary:
Laila is an innocent Lappish girl and the only daughter of a reindeer herder. During world war II Laila rescues crashed German fighter pilot Hans and the two develop warm feelings for each other during his convalescence. Years later, after the war, Hans returns to Lapland as a freelance photographer and manages to lure Laila to run away with him to capital Helsinki to start a career as a photo model, much to the chagrin of her traditional father Aslak. After initial happiness, however, Hans abandons Laila and the decadent lifestyle of a big city sends her life into a downward spiral.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Sweetest Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
After breaking up with her long-term boyfriend just before the holidays, passionate baker Kylie reconnects with her high school sweetheart, Nick. Thanks to their newly rekindled friendship, Kylie uses Nick’s restaurant to prepare for a gingerbread baking competition with a large cash prize that would help her open her own bakery.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, romantic comedy
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Paris, 13th District (2021)
Plot Summary:
Émilie meets Camille who is attracted to Nora, who crosses paths with Amber. Three girls and a boy – They’re friends, sometimes lovers and often both.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sexy, black and white, romantic, touching, emotional, psychological, erotic, stylized, comedy drama, humorous
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Snowed Inn Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jenna Hudson (Bethany Joy Lenz) and Kevin Jenner (Andrew Walker) are polar opposites working for the same online publication in New York City. With both having nowhere they want to be for Christmas, they volunteer for a special writing assignment. After a snowstorm forces their plane to land in none other than Santa Claus, Indiana, the two are placed in a Christmas Wonderland and the focus of their story shifts to saving the historic town inn run by Carol and Christopher Winters. As the two overcome their differences, they also rediscover the magic of Christmas. But with the inn's fate in jeopardy and the return of someone from Jenna's past, Carol and Christopher lend a helping hand to bring Jenna and Kevin together.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sweet, entertaining, disturbing, emotional, captivating
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Baby Love (1983)
Plot Summary:
Those Lemon Popsicle boys are at it again!..Naughtier than ever in.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, West Germany
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, slapstick comedy, teen comedy
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Love, etc. (1996)
Plot Summary:
A triangle: love, obsession, and choice. Pierre, a ladies' man who has little cash and no fixed residence, describes his best friend Benoît as the world's oldest 32-year-old. The shy, well-employed Benoît's life changes when he answers the personal ad of Marie, a 25-year-old who restores paintings. He's attracted to her and she likes his steady calm and his honest attention. They're soon a couple, and they include Pierre in their dinners, outings, and trips. What will happen when Pierre realizes that he too is in love with Marie?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 746
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious, crying
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Jersey Girl (2004)
Plot Summary:
Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having to move in with his father. To bounce back, it takes a new love and the courage instilled in him by his daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 69000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, feel good, sentimental, touching, sexy, sincere, humorous, entertaining, anamorphic
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Dan in Real Life (2007)
Plot Summary:
Advice columnist, Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious daughters. Things get even more complicated when Dan finds out that the woman he falls in love with is actually his brother's new girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 106000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, humorous, feel good, funny, sweet, entertaining, semi serious, light, emotional