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Plot Summary:
A divorced husband desperately misses his daughter. In order to be with her, he takes up a job in his father-in-law's house. The only catch is that the job is that of a female governess.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Back to the USSR (1992)
Plot Summary:
A film by Jari Halonen.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 222
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Jack the Dog (2001)
Plot Summary:
Jack is a successful photographer who has always been a womanizer. But at one point in his life he wants to settle down. He marries Faith and together they have a son, Sam. But things aren't working out that well as the two, due to Jack's active working life, grow apart more and more. When Jack can't control himself anymore and starts an affair with Hope, the marriage is over. Faith moves to London to marry the wealthy Klaus and wants to take Sam with her. But Jack wants his son with him and both agree to shared custody. Jack desire for women doesn't vanish, but living together with his son slowly brings a change in him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Zindagi 50 50 (2013)
Plot Summary:
Zindagi 50 50 has three stories of common people's special dreams. And to fulfill those dreams they have to struggle hard. Sometimes few get it easily, where most of them must struggle very hard with lots of sacrifice, values, principals to achieve their dreams. Among them only few get it after long struggle time where most of them have to loose everything with a failure tag.
IMDB Rating: 2.8
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
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Tulsa (2020)
Plot Summary:
A desperate marine biker’s life is turned upside-down when he is united with the sassy 9-year-old daughter he never knew existed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 980
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Dil Hi To Hai (1963)
Plot Summary:
Children are exchanged by greedy aunt and uncle in childhood and they live undeserved lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags:
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Gone Are the Days! (1963)
Plot Summary:
A young, idealistic man returns home to the plantation where he grew up in servitude. With him, he brings his fiance, Lutiebelle, in hopes of convincing the plantation owner that she is really his cousin in order to secure the family inheritance. To aid in the comic complications that follow are his family members Missy and Gitlow, and the plantation owners endearing (but ineffectual) son Charlie.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 207
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Villain (2002)
Plot Summary:
One of the twins is a bus conductor and the other is handicapped. The elder one, Shiva, overhears his parents' plot to kill his mildly retarded brother, Vishnu. He runs away to another city, with his adorable brother, and strives hard to look after Vishnu. As a result of an incident when 'dada' Sundara Moorthy, who runs a beggar trade beats Vishnu brutally, Vishnu becomes handicapped for life. Matters worsen when Sundara Moorthy becomes the chairman of the institute for the physically handicapped. How Shiva deals with the situation forms the rest of the story. Meanwhile Thangam is in love with Shiva, though he does not know this. Later she gives up her love and lets Lavanya marry Shiva.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags:
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Cut! (1996)
Plot Summary:
Santiago wakes up like any other morning. He goes down to the kitchen and his whole family is waiting for him: it's his birthday. They all sing "Happy Birthday to You" and give him presents. But when he opens the present of his youngest son, he gets angry and says he doesn't like it. The boy starts crying and saying that he loves him, but Santiago answers that he doesn't believe him and he tells the boy that he is fired and that he wants another son, who is thinner, who doesn't need glasses and who resembles him more. Written by Pablo Montoya.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: mesmerizing
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Katha Parayumbol (2007)
Plot Summary:
the film is about how a barber's life is turned upside down when a film unit comes to the village for a shoot, and the news spreads that superstar Ashok Raj (Mammootty) is the barber's childhood friend. The script also by Srinivasan is so layered that every frame has a comment to make about the world and every line of the dialogue, on the mores of the society. The craze for celebrities and the problems of leading a principled life are discussed without being preachy.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 130 min
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Gharana Mogudu (1992)
Plot Summary:
Gharana Mogudu is a remake of tamil movie Mannan and it is a drama based movie in which, Raju (Chiranjeevi) is a do-gooder who helps his fellow co-workers while working in Visakhapatnam shipyard, but when his mother suffers a paralytic stroke, he moves back to Hyderabad and looks for a job.Uma Devi (Nagma) daughter of industrialist Bapineedu (Raogopal Rao) takes over the business from her father and helps it to reach new heights which also sees her head strongness reach new heights as well. In this scenario, she not only rejects Ranganayakulu.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 567
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 149 min
Plot tags:
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Thenali (2000)
Plot Summary:
Tenali is a comedy based movie in which, Panchabhootam (Delhi Ganesh) is a senior psychiatrist in Vizag. Kailash (Jayaram) is an upcoming psychiatrist. As Kailash takes over Panchabhootam over popularity.Panchabhootam wants to ruin the happiness of Kailash by sending him the coward 'Tenali' as the patient. Since Kailash wanted to go for family vacation to Kodaikanal with his wife Jalaja (Devyani) and two kids, he asks Tenali to wait for a month so that he can begin the treatment after Kailash Vacation.Panchabhootam, who wants to make the life of Kailash miserable,.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 164 min
Plot tags:
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Pammal K. Sambandam (2002)
Plot Summary:
A bachelor and a movie stuntman, Tamilian Pammal K. Sambandham, reprimands his brother, Anand, for hastily getting married to Malathi. He finds out that Malathi is being instigated by her single, male-hating friend, Janaki, who instructs her not to get intimate with Anand. Things only get worse after Pammal falls in love with Janaki, who not only dislikes him but also his profession, and is determined to ensure that this marriage ends in a divorce.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 155 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy
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Smiling Prince (1986)
Plot Summary:
Punnagai Mannan is a Tamil language film starring Kamal Haasan in the lead role of the protagonist. The film was directed by K. Balachander.The film opens with lead actor Kamal Hassan and his love interest Rekha,attempting suicide from a cliff. In this attempt, Rekha is killed but Kamal survives the fall. It is later revealed that the attempt was because of the obstacles in their love life placed by Rekha's father.At this point, Kamal is advised by his uncle (also played by Kamal) that suicide is escapist, and a sign of weakness. Kamal agrees and gets on with his.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 957
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags: sad, tragic ending
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Avargal (1977)
Plot Summary:
A triangular love story, it revolves around Anu (Sujatha) who is caught between Bharani (Ravikumar), the man she fell in love with and Ramanathan (Rajinikanth), her former sadistic husband who is supposedly reformed and wants to rejoin her and Janardhan (Kamal Haasan)a silent lover lurking on the sidelines.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 180
Genere: Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags:
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Jeans (1998)
Plot Summary:
Vishu and Ramu are a pair of Indian twins living in America with their father, Rajamani. When Madhumita (Aishwarya Rai) and her brother come to America to get medical treatment for their ailing grandmother, Vishu and Ramu end up meeting them at the airport. Vishu falls in love with Madhumita, and the couple has everyone's blessing, except for Rajamani, who is estranged from his own twin brother. He only wants his sons to marry twin sisters, so Madhumita pretends to have a twin in order to please him. As Madhumita puts on a charade by creating Vaishnavi, all goes well, until Ramu falls in love with Vaishnavi. Now the truth must come out, before Madhumita has to marry both of Rajamani's twin sons.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags:
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Lingaa (2014)
Plot Summary:
After being turned down by the ruling Britons, the rightful heir to a famous dynasty inspires local villagers to build a dam themselves. A small-time thief reforms after learning about the role played by his grandfather in building a dam.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 174 min
Plot tags:
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Mandi (1983)
Plot Summary:
This classic film is based on a classic Urdu short story 'Aanandi' by Pakistani writer Ghulam Abbas. It deals with a brothel at the heart of a city, in an area that some politicians want for its prime locality. They rally up against the brothel and its inhabitants in the name of morality, and soon everyone in the area jumps on the bandwagon. The politicians offer to put up an alternative residence for the prostitutes, only this place is miles away, isolated from the city. The madam of the house has no choice but to comply, but by the end things take a (logical) turn for the better. After all, men will be men.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 933
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: satirical, art film, parallel cinema, black comedy
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The Dancing Maharaja (1995)
Plot Summary:
A lavish Maharaja lived with his sister-in-law and stepbrother Rajasekhar, helping people incessantly. His sister-in-law has a son, to whom the Maharaja bequeaths a major portion of his property. At this juncture, a new baby is born to the Maharaja.His wife dies soon after. Brother Rajasekhar cheats the Maharaja as he fears that his son's property might be taken back and given to the Maharaja's own son. When the cheating comes to light, the Maharaja hands over all his property and his baby to his sister-in-law.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: cult classic, humorous, realistic, stylized, semi serious, cult film
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Ramji Rao Speaking (1989)
Plot Summary:
The story revolves around three unemployed people who get involved in a kidnapping saga due to a case of mistaken identity.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: clever, surprise ending
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Indhrudu Chandhrudu (1989)
Plot Summary:
Film starring Kamal Hassan, Vijayshanti and Charan Raj.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 158 min
Plot tags: political
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Manmadhan Ambu (2010)
Plot Summary:
Madhan is convinced that Ambu is unfaithful and refuses to pay detective Mannar when he reports otherwise. Wanting to make money to help a friend, Mannar cooks up stories about Ambu's infidelity.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 152 min
Plot tags:
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Panchathantiram (2002)
Plot Summary:
Ram is a playboy pilot. His marriage to Mythili disintegrates after a series of misunderstandings. To cheer him up, his buddies arrange for a steamy evening with a prostitute Maggie, but things go wrong and the men are stuck with a dead body and a load of diamonds. The corpse disappears, and Ram's efforts to cover up the event are thwarted by a pesky father-in-law of one of the friends who thinks Maggie was Ram's wife.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, disturbing, feel good
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Uttama Villain (2015)
Plot Summary:
Superstar Manoranjan learns that he has only a few days to live and approaches his mentor, director Margadarisi to direct his next project — a folklore-ish comedy about a man who keeps cheating death and his role in saving a kingdom. Meanwhile, he has to sort out his personal lives, which involves an estranged son and a daughter from the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 171 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Michael Madana Kamarajan (1990)
Plot Summary:
The film tells a story of quadruplets, Michael, Madhanagopal, Kameshwaran, and Raju, all played by Kamal Haasan. Kamal had distinguished each of those characters with his body language and language lingo. Michael has a husky voice, Madan has an English accent, Kameshwaran speaks Palakkad Tamil and Raju speaks Madras Tamil in keeping with their diverse upbringing as per the plot.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, realistic
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The Love Chariot (1987)
Plot Summary:
An unemployed youth dreams of living well. One evening, he finds a drunken industrialist passed out in a gutter, and takes the opportunity to switch places with him. He finds love, intrigue, and the good life in his new home, Pushpak, a hotel where the industrialist was staying. A silent masterpiece.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: silent, touching, satirical, experimental, cult classic, humorous, realistic, semi serious, silent film
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Vasool Raja MBBS (2004)
Plot Summary:
A goon, Rajaraman, enrols himself in a medical college to fulfil his father's dream. He defies the college rules and creates problems for Dr Vishwanathan.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, cult film
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Anbe Sivam (2003)
Plot Summary:
Nalla Sivam and Anbarasu meet under different circumstances and their lives are changed as they take the journey of their life.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 160 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, experimental, talky, inspirational, road movie, feel good, epic, crying, entertaining
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Stepmom (1998)
Plot Summary:
Jackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women realise they must put aside their differences to find a common ground and celebrate life to the fullest, while they have the chance.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sad, inspirational, touching, emotional, tear jerker, heartbreaking, romantic, romantic comedy, depressing
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Mrs. Doubtfire (1993)
Plot Summary:
Loving but irresponsible dad Daniel Hillard, estranged from his exasperated spouse, is crushed by a court order allowing only weekly visits with his kids. When Daniel learns his ex needs a housekeeper, he gets the job -- disguised as an English nanny. Soon he becomes not only his children's best pal but the kind of parent he should have been from the start.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 285000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, funny, hilarious, light, sentimental, romantic, sweet, romantic comedy, clever
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Nanban (2012)
Plot Summary:
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