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Plot Summary:
Directed by Lene & Sven Grønlykke.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 110
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 85 min
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Amerikana (2001)
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Following the Dogma rules does not make this film hard to watch... In the end, it is a great story and shows that Merendino can be a mature filmmaker. It's about two guys a Vespa and a trip from South Dakota to Los Angeles. It's funny, insightful and tragic.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 127
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Germany, Denmark
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: road movie, underground film, independent film
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In the Middle of the Night (1984)
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Denmark
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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Cats Don't Have Vertigo (2014)
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Job is kicked out of home by his father on his birthday. Having no place to go, he takes refuge in the terrace of Rose, who just lost her husband.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Portugal
Duration: 124 min
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Dakota (2007)
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Brian and Jack were inseparable; now they barely speak. Their formerly close-knit group has all but disbanded in the wake of encroaching adulthood. But when Jack tries to hang himself from a plant hook while house-sitting, he inadvertently triggers an impromptu reunion that brings the old gang back together and could change everything. Forever. Welcome to DAKOTA: friendship, fistfights, concussions, quarter-life crises, blow-ups, breakdowns, toy guns, telemarketing, love, lies, and breakfast - all in someone else's home. In this dark, offbeat comedy everyone comes together to examine what went wrong. Along the way, they may just remind each other what went right.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
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Hog Wild (1980)
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A boy (Tim Warner), expelled from military school, returns home to his fathers disappiontment. He discovers that a motorcycle gang has been terrorizing his high school, and falls in love with the girlfriend (Angie Barnes) of the gang's leader (Bull). He battles the gang, and wins both the admiration of his father and the love of the girl.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Found Money (1983)
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Max and Sam, disillusioned with people's day-to-day callousness toward each other, and angered by a pension-stealing bank, invent The Invisible Friend, Inc. The intention was to reward kind acts, but things rarely turn out as planned.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 48
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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In the Thick of It (1995)
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This optimistic Italian slice-of-life drama chronicles a typical day in the lives of teenagers living in the grim suburbs of Rome. The story is set in the suburb of Tuscolano which is located near the Cinecitta studios and concerns a group of friends in their mid-teens. In the beginning, Lorenzo, the imaginative leader of the group convinces the rest of them one of them is terminally ill. The rest then become determined that the dying group member should have at least one fling with the local whore, that is if they can convince her into performing the merciful act. Two years pass and the youths are seen engaging in various endeavors ranging from petty theft to manual labor, or both. The boys are also seen pursuing romance. Troubles ensue when Lorenzo's brother disappears, and when one of the thieves is captured.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 35
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Eastern Business (2016)
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Two Moldavian friends begin a journey full of adventures and suspense trying various business ideas in order to earn enough money to achieve their dreams.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Lithuania, Moldova
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: absurd
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Red Carpet (2014)
Plot Summary:
An Iranian man with high hopes of becoming a professional actor arrives in Can,France to meet Spielberg but his expectations and the reality are not so much alike.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iran, France
Duration: 75 min
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The Case of the Witch Who Wasn't (1990)
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Two girl pen pals and a simple summer in the country. They befriend a woman rumored to be a witch, and end up as amateur detectives when her pet pig is stolen.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 120
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min
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Grenzverkehr (2005)
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When three teenage boys from Bavaria try to lose their innocence in the neighboring Czech Republic, they get themselves and a young pregnant Ukrainian immigrant into trouble with local pimps.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 332
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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91.1 (2016)
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The story of 3 different generations living in the same city. Alper, his best friend Soner and his long-time girlfriend Hazan are studying at the same university. Lately the relation between Hazan and Alper do not go well. Soner supports them for the recovery of the relationship. Hakan, Barker and Serhat who are their twenties live in another district of the same city. They plan a vacation at a resort. They steal money and the car of their parents. Another generation living in this city are 12-year-old friends Mutafa and Emre. Their dream is to make programs at a radio. These three lives knotted together at some point at an unexpected time.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 270
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 108 min
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Supercock (1975)
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An American cowboy in the Philippines gets mixed up in cockfighting.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Little Noises (1991)
Plot Summary:
A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Class Of Miss MacMichael (1978)
Plot Summary:
A dedicated teacher (Glenda Jackson) tries to reach out to juvenile delinquent students at a London alternative school.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 468
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film, dark comedy
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The Minister and Me (1976)
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Mateo Melgarejo (played by Mario Moreno "Cantinflas") is a notary public and scribe for the illiterate people of Santo Domingo, a neighborhood north of Mexico City's Zócalo. A squatter friend asks for his help in negotiating with the land census bureau to regularize a land title. After a great deal of frustration with the government bureaucracy, he writes a letter to the cabinet minister, earning an audience with him. The minister hires Melgarejo to reform the bureau, and the appointee proceeds to lecture the officials on their duties in a democratic society. At the end, he gives up the post, returning to Santo Domingo to help its poor residents.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 289
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick, biting, suspense
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Chloe and Theo (2015)
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A young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit Eskimo, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to provide a message to the people of the world – We either change our destructive was or be destroyed by them. Chloe, who has been searching for something to believe in, becomes inspired by Theo and , with the help of a kind lawyer, Monica, the three of them present Theo’s story to the United Nations in hopes of creating a better future for all of us.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, tense, light, captivating
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Ride (2014)
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A mother travels cross-country to California to be with her son after he decides to drop out of school and become a surfer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, thought provoking, humorous, light
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The Price of Fame (2014)
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A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: realistic, feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, sincere, captivating, offbeat, serious
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Ana (2020)
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Ana meets Rafa in a chance encounter and they embark on a road trip to try and save him from bankruptcy, or worse.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Puerto Rico
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, realistic, road movie
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Mango Souffle (2002)
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Mango Soufflé is a 2002 Indian film written and directed by Mahesh Dattani. The film stars Atul Kulnani and Rinkie Khanna. It was promoted as "first gay male film from India" and was adapted from Dattani's own successful English play On a Muggy Night in Mumbai.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, queer cinema
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All inclusive (2014)
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After finding out that her husband cheated on her, Lise and her two daughters Ditte and Sigrid decides to go on vacation to Malta. The two sisters are very different and tries to cheer the mother up in very different ways. All inclusive is a movie about love and figuring out how to be a family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: emotional, psychological, humorous, captivating
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The Good Heart (2009)
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Brian Cox stars as Jacques, the curmudgeonly owner of a gritty New York dive bar that serves as home to a motley assortment of professional drinkers. Jacques is determinedly drinking and smoking himself to death when he meets Lucas (Dano), a homeless young man who has already given up on life. Determined to keep his legacy alive, Jacques deems Lucas is a fitting heir and takes him under his wing, schooling him in the male-centric laws of his alcoholic clubhouse: no new customers, no fraternizing with customers and, absolutely no women. Lucas is a quick study, but their friendship is put to the test when the distraught and beautiful April (Isild Le Besco) shows up at the bar seeking shelter, and Lucas insists they help her out.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, Denmark, USA, France, Germany
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, sincere, realistic, independent film, thought provoking, social, sad, crying, psychological
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We Need a Vacation (2002)
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It is the end of the school year for the children of a dormitory town. Most of them leave the place for a vacation with their parents but not Lucien and Adama whose parents can't afford the expense. While the big brothers of the housing estate are busy breaking the law Lulu and Adama manage to sneak into their neighbors' trailer. The two stowaways are elated until they reach their destination: a nudist camp...!.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 158
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
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The Storage (2011)
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Antero Rousku is a storeman in a paint store. His job requires raw muscle power, mixing paints and carrying house repair materials around to earn his daily bread. But the basic salary is not enough for Rousku. He also sells a lot of stuff on the side from the storeroom directly to Jylhäkorpi, a frequent visitor, bypassing company bookkeeping. Rousku's colleague in the cellar storeroom is Raninen whose life consists of work, quarreling with his wife, and lottery. Raninen wants to win the main prize but he wants to have the right numbers in exactly the order in which they appear from the lottery machine. Raninen is not the sharpest pencil in the pencil box. Rousku's freedom is threatened by his relationship to the saleswoman Karita. Rousku wants to keep a distance to the woman except in bed. Karita has decided otherwise.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sexy, sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty
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Empties (2007)
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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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Mickybo and Me (2004)
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The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the consequence that they run away to Australia.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, France, Ireland
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sincere, sentimental, touching, semi serious, humorous, captivating, realistic
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Emma's Shadow (1988)
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Emma (Line Kruse) is an eleven year-old only child from a wealthy Danish family. Emma's parents seem more interested in their own interests than in her. One evening when Emma overhears her mother talking about how tragic it must be to have your child kidnapped, Emma decides to stage her own kidnapping. She soon meets Malthe, a kind-hearted, child-like, naïve sewer cleaner who literally stumbles on to her. She convinces Malthe that she is a Russian princess whose family is being chased by Bolsheviks, so Malthe lets Emma stay with him in his very modest abode. After being "kidnapped" for a few days, Emma decides to return home. But, just as she is about to return, she overhears a couple of servants talking about how her parents don't seem to be very upset over her dilemma.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Denmark
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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A Friend of Mine (2006)
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An introverted insurance executive at a car rental service is annoyed by his hyperactive, garrulous coworker, but the two end up becoming friends.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, touching, non-linear
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Haute Couture (2021)
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Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20 years old girl, Jade. Instead of calling the police she decides to take care of Jade. She sees in her the opportunity to pass on her skills, the craft of dressmaking, her only wealth. In the frenetic world of Haute Couture, Esther will give Jade la beauté du geste, a way to reach beyond herself.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
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