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Plot Summary:
A young poet falls in love in sofisticated woman who hates poetry.But,poet wants to win her with poetry and:a bit of help of his mum.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 950
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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In Therapy (2009)
Plot Summary:
In Rio de Janeiro, the forty and something years old Mercedes (Lília Cabral) goes to the psychoanalyst and tells the story of her life since she was a girl and lost her mother. Along the three years of analysis, her life changes and she divorces from her husband Gustavo (José Mayer) and has love affairs with the younger Theo (Reynaldo Gianecchini).
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 863
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Brazil
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, realistic, captivating, sincere, touching, witty, talky, semi serious
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Those Happy Years (2013)
Plot Summary:
A narcissistic artist's world turns upside down after his wife's affair and a disastrous exhibition of his work.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 986
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, semi autobiographical
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The Slap (1974)
Plot Summary:
A Parisian teacher (Lino Ventura) loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, semi serious, whimsical
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No Problem (2008)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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What's Up, Scarlet? (2005)
Plot Summary:
Scarlet Zabrinski, a successful, hard edged, L.A. matchmaker lives in the shadow of her overbearing mother, Ruth Zabrinski who relentlessly tries to find the perfect man for her daughter. Ben Zabrinski, Scarlet's pot smoking brother, an unemployed lawyer, becomes furious when Scarlet unknowingly sets him up with a porno star. When Sabrina Fisser, a homeless foreign actress, rear ends her on a calm sunny afternoon, Scarlet offers this seemingly helpless vagabond a place to stay for one night. One night becomes an eternity as the free spirited Sabrina outstays her welcome. When a vengeful Ben tries to seduce Sabrina, Scarlet finds herself protective of her new friend. A mutual attraction develops and the two unlikely characters explore the uncharted territory of unexpected love. Written by Randy Sinquefield.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 186
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, emotional, uplifting, independent film, touching, offbeat, realistic, semi serious
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Caruso, Zero for Conduct (2001)
Plot Summary:
A movie directed by F.Nuti.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Daughters, Daughters (1973)
Plot Summary:
In this Israeli comedy, a father is afraid that after having sired eight daughters, that he will never produce a son.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious
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Loose Cannons (2010)
Plot Summary:
Tommaso is the youngest son of the Cantones, a large, traditional southern Italian family operating a pasta-making business since the 1960s. On a trip home from Rome, where he studies literature and lives with his boyfriend, Tommaso decides to tell his parents the truth about himself. But when he is finally ready to come out in front of the entire family, his older brother Antonio ruins his plans.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, uplifting, humorous, semi serious, lgbt cinema, thought provoking, romantic, sexy, light hearted
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Shadows in the Sun (2005)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring young writer (Jackson) tracks a literary titan (Keitel) suffering from writers block to his refuge in rural Italy and learns about life and love from the irascible genius and his daughters.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, realistic, sincere, romantic, light, philosophical, sentimental, humorous, semi serious
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Nonna's Trip (2007)
Plot Summary:
A Mexican family, wanting to grant their Grandmother her last wish, embarks on a make believe trip to a small town in Italy ... in Mexico!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, emotional, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, gloomy
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Face the Music (1993)
Plot Summary:
Divorced couple Charlie and Lisa Hunter once a song writing team decide to spend a weekend in the French countryside to inspire them to write one last song together. But there is one person who isn't too crazy about the idea... Charlie's fiance!.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Worst Friends (2014)
Plot Summary:
WORST FRIENDS is the story of two childhood friends who are forced to re-think their friendship as adults. When Jake (Richard Tanne) is injured in a car accident, the only person willing to take care of him is his childhood friend Sam (Noah Barrow). With the aid of a tough-as-nails physical therapist (Cody Horn), Sam helps Jake recuperate, but when Sam's high school crush (Kristen Connolly) enters the picture, old habits and bitter rivalries resurface, threatening to tear their friendship apart.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, emotional, captivating, touching, independent film
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The Quitter (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a failed baseball player's ex-girlfriend moves back to the neighborhood with her seven-year-old daughter, he realizes he carries more regrets than how he handled his baseball career.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, touching, realistic, independent film
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Every Blessed Day (2012)
Plot Summary:
Guido and Antonia are a young couple with opposing characters and working schedules: he works a night job as a doorman in a hotel, and she works as an employee for a rental car service. This is the story of what happens to Guido and Antonia when they decide to have a child.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious
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Easy! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Bruno Beltrame makes a living of sorts. He wanted to be a great writer but he is content to write the books of others. He also gives private lessons to students who are not serious. Among his pupils is fifteen-year-old Luca, more quick-witted and revolted than the others. The day he meets his mother, a woman he once loved, Luca gets upset when she tells him bluntly that not only Luca is his son but that she intends to entrust him to his care as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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The Buddy System (1984)
Plot Summary:
A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer waffles between a sadistic relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and the mother. When one of the officer's inventions takes off, he chooses the girl and shatters the friendship with the boy and his mother. Only at the last possible moment does he figure out what he's sacrificed, and attempts to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Sequoia (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young man meets a 23-year-old cancer patient on the way to the park and disrupts her plan to commit suicide.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, sentimental, psychological, captivating, semi serious, independent film
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Bahu Begum (1967)
Plot Summary:
On the day of her marriage, the bride goes missing. She ends up in a brothel, compelling her wealthy husband to pretend that all is well to keep the family's honor intact.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
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Latin Lover (2015)
Plot Summary:
The five daughters of a famous actor, all from different mothers and different nationalities, get together on the 10th anniversary of his death for a celebration of his career.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 993
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, tragicomedy, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, witty, talky
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Paris of the North (2014)
Plot Summary:
Seeking shelter from the trials and tribulations of city life, Hugi has built a quiet existence for himself in a tiny village in the middle of nowhere. Here, he passes his days jogging, attending AA meetings and taking Portuguese lessons online. But when Hugi’s estranged, boozy father shows up out of the blue, the precarious balance he has worked so hard to achieve is tested to the limit.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 419
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland, France, Denmark
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, contemplative
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Finding Joy (2013)
Plot Summary:
Pompous and self-absorbed Kyle, is unhappily stuck in his life, longing to relive the success of his first novel. His not-so-desirable life rapidly unravels forcing him to return home to his wildly eccentric family with his tail between his legs. Life at home begins to show signs of improvement when Kyle meets the spunky, vivacious girl across the street who recruits Kyle to help her make the world a better place, making him feel alive for the first time in ages and inspiring his writing. But its short-lived. Joys been told shes going to die soon and wants Kyle to write her obituary.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 426
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, touching, emotional, semi serious, offbeat
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Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged man tries to get by in Milan while trying to retain his dignity.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, light, feel good
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Expired (2007)
Plot Summary:
The film revolves around Claire, a kind soul who resents having to enforce the law at all times, and Jay, an angry Traffic Officer who loves his job, being the perfect outlet for his anger and frustrations. Coming both from a place of despair and loneliness, Jay and Claire meet and engage in a tumultuous relationship which will eventually teach them that love can spread redemption.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sincere, touching, realistic, independent film, clever, offbeat
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All Relative (2014)
Plot Summary:
Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, romantic, romantic comedy, independent film
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Manual of Love (2005)
Plot Summary:
Four intertwined episodes on the joys and sorrows of love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, sexy, saga, realistic, anthology
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Incantato (2003)
Plot Summary:
The Pope's tailor sends his son, a virgin at 35, to Bologna hoping he will find a woman. Nello, a classicist moved by the romantic poetry of Ovid, proves to be a good teacher and also falls hopelessly in love with the beautiful Angela Gardini. Angela, herself recently blind and then spurned by her fiancé, uses Nello: she hopes her former lover will become jealous and return to her. Nello obliges, his head full of poetry and in love at last; he's happy to be near her, knowing that she, before her disability, wouldn't have looked twice at him. Bologna or Rome, teaching or stitching, love or solitude - will Nello make choices?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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The Tiger and the Snow (2005)
Plot Summary:
Love and injury in time of war. Attilio de Giovanni teaches poetry in Italy. He has a romantic soul, and women love him. But he is in love with Vittoria, and the love is unrequited. Every night he dreams of marrying her, in his boxer shorts and t-shirt, as Tom Waits sings. Vittoria travels to Iraq with her friend, Fuad, a poet; they are there with the second Gulf War breaks out. Vittoria is injured. Attilio must get to her side, and then, as war rages around him, he must find her the medical care she needs. In war, does love conquer all?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, humorous, surreal, emotional, stylized, romantic, sincere, surprise ending, feel good
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Kryptonite! (2011)
Plot Summary:
Set in 1970s Naples, bullied nine year-old Peppino is watching the world around him as his extended dysfunctional family change. Psychedelic flower power and hippie love is threatening the old traditional southern Italian family. Dad is having an affair and Mom has taken to her bed with depression. Super-mod brother and sister Titina and Salvatore take the boy under their wings, introducing him to demonstrations and love-ins, whilst caped superhero Gennaro visits Peppino even after being knocked down and killed by the number 12 bus. It is the imaginary appearances of this older superman cousin that help the nine-year-old navigate the complicated adult world.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 695
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic
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Cheeky Girls (2008)
Plot Summary:
Three teen-aged girlfriends navigate multiple love triangles.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, sexual, sexy
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Life Is Beautiful (1997)
Plot Summary:
A touching story of an Italian book seller of Jewish ancestry who lives in his own little fairy tale. His creative and happy life would come to an abrupt halt when his entire family is deported to a concentration camp during World War II. While locked up he tries to convince his son that the whole thing is just a game.
IMDB Rating: 8.6
IMDB Votes: 730000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, War
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: touching, inspirational, emotional, sentimental, tragicomedy, poignant, heartbreaking, sad, realistic, feel good