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Plot Summary:
The 17-year-old Tom filled out a questionnaire for the Employment Agency at a vocational guidance office in his school. He falls in love with the trainee, which distributed the questionnaires. In the evaluation he gets out a job as an apprentice at a funeral home as a funeral professional.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
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Urban Snap-Shots (2008)
Plot Summary:
Comedic portrait of middle-aged women in Rio de Janeiro, including overworked housewife Magali and her over-the-top twin sister Magda, psychoanalyst Paula and her troublesome daughter Melanie, and stage star in crisis Lise.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 82 min
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Dancing Quietly (2016)
Plot Summary:
After many dark years of depression Luca seeks to gain her high school diploma. Her little dog Mata helps her to find motivation and keep a positive attitude towards life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 401
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 69 min
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The Last Pig (2016)
Plot Summary:
Plum out of luck, Swabian farmer Huber’s farm goes under. Then his girlfriend Birgit takes over her father’s newly-acquired firm – in former East Germany. That's reason enough for Huber to bail on his debts and head out on a road trip through southwest Germany.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 209
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: road movie
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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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La petite allumeuse (1987)
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Fifteen-year-old Camille is a vulnerable and a strong-willed seductress- she chooses, she takes, she leaves; she can go very far in her desire for freedom. She is the daughter of disunited parents, Armand, a professor and Colette, an intellectual bourgeois. She manages to seduce Jean-Louis, a professor of letters of thirty-seven years, friend and colleague of her father. She makes him commit a lot of extravagance - he even dyed blond. Later she had a passion for Samuel, a former student of Jean-Louis, lout and trafficker. She is not easy, men learn at their expense, either sentimentally, as with the teacher, or that the first sexual experience come to ignite the relationship with Samuel.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 105 min
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Hedi Schneider Is Stuck (2015)
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A model family's happy life unexpectedly goes off the rails when the carefree Hedi, played by Laura Tonke, suddenly starts having panic attacks. First mental illness and then drug dependency – the happiness that these happy-go-lucky thirty-somethings once took for granted suddenly seems unattainable, and their world fragile and uncertain.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Norway
Duration: 90 min
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Divine Access (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jack Harriman becomes a spiritual celebrity after debunking Reverend Guy Roy on a public-access TV show. While on the road speaking his brand of truth, forces natural and supernatural lead him to question whether he has a deeper calling.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 113 min
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A golpes (2005)
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The first half of this movie may be tasteless: there is this bunch of girls and boys living in the working class suburbs of Madrid around the boxing club, some action, some sex, not going nowhere, but soon the characters begin to sharpen, the story takes shape around persons and groups. One can expect things to get bad in any moment but psychology takes over easy violence on the screen and the second half is a much more captivating linear part, where the characters have more convincing roles. Nathalia Verbeke is amazing, once again!, in a new and physically demanding role. Can't keep from comparing her with Hilary Swank performance in Million Dollar Baby.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 233
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min
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Where the Grass Is Greener (2008)
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A romantic comedy about an unemployed young woman from East Germany who ends up taking a summer job in the Swiss Alps and has to contend with stubborn cows, an amorous dairyman and illegal workers from the Balkans after a German passport.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 97 min
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Lover (1992)
Plot Summary:
Marie lives with Antoine, but while he is away she meets Paul, a filmmaker visiting from Canada.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
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Copacabana (2007)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
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She Deserved It (2010)
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Linda is a teenage girl whose own insecurities and frustrations lead her to viciously act out against others. By inviting Linda‘s boyfriend to her birthday party, Susanne unknowingly sets off a chain of horrific events. Is Linda a product of environment and circumstance or was she simply (in her own mother’s words) “born evil”?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 156
Genere: Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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We Need Your Vote (2018)
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Arnaud, a 25-year-old man, enters the campaign team of a candidate for the French presidential election as assistant to the Director of communication. While discovering the techniques, intricacies and rivalries of the electoral campaign, he will feel fascination for this world, as well as for its attractive director, Agnès.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 542
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 97 min
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Monkey King (2016)
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Wolfi is in his mid-40s and wants to revisit the good old days with his three best buddies in the Provence, where life is good. Little does he realize that his old chums are in the middle of growing up for real, bringing their wives and kids and all their everyday family problems too.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 190
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 98 min
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Too Hard to Handle (2016)
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It's no surprise when Karo is fired. She is loud, over-emotional and egocentric, more so than the average Berliner wise-ass, says her best friend Anna. Karo is not one to give up easily, though: she opts for radical change and goes into therapy. Although her therapist advises her to keep calm, Karo throws herself into it.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 503
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
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The Hannas (2016)
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Hans and Anna – together they make the Hannas: A hefty couple who love to cook. They meet sisters Kim and Nicola, both anorexic and excitingly different. Opposites attract, however, and anything goes, so the Hannas each wind up having an affair without the other’s knowledge. But Kim and Nicola have a secret of their own in store.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good
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Let The Old Folks Die (2017)
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Kevin lives in a time and place where everything is permitted and accepted. He wants to rebel – but against what? A tragicomedy about youth gasping for air in a cotton-candy world. A generation seeking a reason for its malaise and a way to shed the boredom – only to discover, at most, its own emptiness. That’s no way to start a revolution. Or perhaps?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 68
Genere: Drama
Country: Switzerland
Duration: 92 min
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A Place by the Sea (1988)
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A former prostitute and her reformed convict boyfriend try to make a new start in life. They begin to refurbish a derelict building close to the sea, but people from their past come back to haunt them.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 20
Genere: Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 93 min
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Lapland Odyssey 3 (2017)
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In the third instalment of the franchise, Janne embarks on an epic hike, a journey of self-discovery. His dreams of a tranquil retreat into nature are quickly shattered however, when Räihänen and Kämäräinen both decide to come along for the trip. Meanwhile Janne’s spouse Inari gets the chance to go back to work, but only if she can prove she’s “management material” and a real leader. Inari enters the Swamp Soccer tournament, where to her horror she finds out her ex Little Mikko is also competing.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Finland
Duration: 103 min
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Family Life (2017)
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While house-sitting for a distant cousin, a lonely man fabricates the existence of a vindictive ex-wife withholding his daughter, in order to gain the sympathy of the single mother he has just met.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, buddy comedy, art house
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Pretty Far from Okay (2017)
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Isi doesn't get the world anymore. Just a short while ago, life was wild, fun, and without obligations, but suddenly everyone around her seems to be grown-up and successful. With her diploma in one hand and a drink in the other, she is stuck between the careless days of college and real life. When her best friend Lotte gets a respectable job and becomes pregnant, Isi realizes that she needs to find a way to start living a life on her own.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 372
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Hugues (2017)
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Hugues is an actor but does not want to play anymore. He took refuge with Serge, his companion, in the house where he grew up. Micheline, a director, insists that he go back on stage. Serge gives him an ultimatum: it’s him or the room.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 32
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Legacy (2015)
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What do you do when the party of the year kicks you to the curb? Simple... create your own! When Sean and his friends are refused entry to the night of their year, they embark on a mission to stage a monster event, whilst at the same time taking down the opposition.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Saturday Night at the Baths (1975)
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The Continental Baths, a favorite hangout of New York homosexuals, provides the background of this socially conscious comedy drama that tries to examine the relationships between gay and heterosexual people. The story centers around a macho, heterosexual piano player who gets a job at the notorious nightclub and must therefore reconsider his attitudes. His girl friend helps him too. In the end, he winds up becoming sure of his sexuality when he tries to sleep with a gay man.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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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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Bonobo (2014)
Plot Summary:
Judith, an uptight divorcee, is appalled when her daughter Lily quits law school to move into a commune of hippie-misfits who live according to the behavioural principles of the bonobo monkey, a species famous for its 'make love not war' philosophy.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, psychological, light, realistic, sexual
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100 Things (2018)
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Best friends Toni and Paul decide to relinquish all of their belongings for 100 days, whereby they receive one of their items back on each day. During this challenge the two realize, that the only thing they cannot be without is their friendship. A story about contemporary materialism and the quest for the truely important things in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: inspirational, thought provoking, captivating, semi serious, sincere, satirical, realistic, happy, crying
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Digging for Fire (2015)
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Tim and Lee are married with a young child. The chance to stay at a fancy home in the Hollywood Hills is complicated by Tim's discovery of a bone and a rusty old gun in the yard. Tim is excited by the idea of a mystery, but Lee doesn't want him to dig any further, preferring that he focus on the family taxes, which he promised to do weeks ago. This disagreement sends them on separate and unexpected adventures over the course of a weekend, as Tim and his friends seek clues to the mystery while Lee searches for answers to the bigger questions of marriage and parenthood.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, realistic, sincere, serious, talky, independent film, cult classic, light hearted
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Things to Do Before You're 30 (2005)
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A smart, sexy and poignantly accurate comedy drama about a group of twenty-something friends desperately resisting the inevitable - adulthood and responsibility.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 965
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, indie film, sexy
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A Friend of Mine (2006)
Plot Summary:
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