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Plot Summary:
JC is the hero of the Cornish surfing community. Staring thirty hard in the face, he fears that the wave that has carried him through a prolonged adolescence is heading for the rocks as his girlfriend pressures him for commitment and his friends contemplate growing up.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, realistic, entertaining, light, captivating, independent film, erotic, semi serious, romantic
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On a Clear Day (2005)
Plot Summary:
After decades of laboring as a Glasgow shipbuilder, Frank Redmond, a no-nonsense 55-year-old working-class man, suddenly finds himself laid off. For the first time in his life, he is without a job or a sense of direction, and he's too proud to ask for guidance. His best mates - rascally Danny, timid Norman and cynical Eddie - are there for him, but Frank still feels desperately alone. An offhand remark from Danny inspires Frank to challenge himself. Already contemplating the state of his relationships with loving wife Joan and all-but-estranged son Rob, Frank is determined to shore up his own self-confidence. He will attempt the near impossible - swimming the English Channel.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, emotional, stylized, realistic, compassionate, semi serious, crying, sentimental
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Eleven Men Out (2005)
Plot Summary:
The star player of Icelands top football team causes a stir when he admits to being gay to his team mates and then goes on a journey to discover himself (with the help of the local press). He soon finds himself on the bench for most of his teams matches and decides to call it quits and join a small amateur team made up of men like himself - gay guys trying to play football in a straight world of Icelandic fishing culture machoism.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Iceland, Finland, UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, crying
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North Shore (1987)
Plot Summary:
On a small stretch of coastline as powerful as a man's will, Rick Kane came to surf the big waves. He found a woman who would show him how to survive, and a challenge unlike any other.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Action, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: epic, feel good, humorous, semi serious, inspirational, romantic, unusual plot structure, melancholic, harsh, talky
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Booked Out (2012)
Plot Summary:
Ailidh (Mirren Burke) has two loves in this world: spying on her neighbours and writing graphic novels. The arrival of Jacob (Rollo Weeks - Girl with a Pearl Earring), inspires Ailidh and she soon begins conjuring up increasingly elaborate plans to bump into him. Upstairs, Mrs Nicholls (Sylvia Syms - The Queen) provides Ailidh with a perfect opportunity and she soon has Jacob teaching Mrs Nicholls dead husband French. Unfortunately, Ailidh's romantic endeavours are disrupted when she realises she isn't the only girl in Jacob's life. Featuring compelling performances from an exceptional cast of actors, the debut feature from Bryan O'Neil is a funny, unique and heart-warming story of love, life and moving on.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, captivating, crying, independent film
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London Kills Me (1991)
Plot Summary:
For want of a nail a shoe was lost, for want of a shoe... a young man's life is almost lost, which is exactly what this film is all about: a man barely twenty who wants desperately to pull out of London's drug world by taking a job as a waiter in a 'normal' restaurant. But to do this he must come up with a "sensible" pair of shoes, an item that his homeless meanderings hasn't provided him.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Newcastle (2008)
Plot Summary:
17-year old Jesse lives in the shadow of his older brother Victor's failure to become surfing's Next Big Thing. Even when he's in his natural habitat of magnificent surf breaks, his blue-collar future is brought home by the coal barges that constantly line his horizon. Jesse has the natural skills to surf his way out of this reality and onto the international circuit but can he overcome his equally natural ability to sabotage himself? A momentous weekend away with his mates that includes first love and tragedy leads him to discover what's really important, and also to the performance of a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Australia, Japan, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, captivating, light, sexy, erotic, feel good, sexual, independent film, queer cinema
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24 7: Twenty Four Seven (1997)
Plot Summary:
In a typical English working-class town, the juveniles have nothing more to do than hang around in gangs. One day, Alan Darcy, a highly motivated man with the same kind of youth experience, starts trying to get the young people off the street and into doing something they can believe in: Boxing. Darcy opens a boxing club, aiming to bring the rival gangs together.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: black and white, bleak, realistic, independent film, sincere, rough, serious, gloomy, slang, crying
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Forgive and Forget (2000)
Plot Summary:
A jealousy erupts between two long-time friends as one is about to move in with his girlfriend. Now the friend must confront his long-hidden homosexuality. UK.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 676
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, emotional, realistic, semi serious, crying
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Buddy (2003)
Plot Summary:
Kristoffer is a billboard hanger, 24 years old and carefree. When his girlfriend Elisabeth dumps him for the boss of her trend bureau, his life falls to pieces. He feels like a loser. By coincidence some of Kristoffer's video diaries end up with the producer of the popular talk show "Karsten Tonight" on TV2. A few weeks later Kristoffer's life has become TV entertainment. People love the sequences from his commune at Tøyen: Kristoffer's half-twisted view of his surroundings, his crazy best friend Geir, not to mention the weird web designer Stig Inge, who hasn't set foot outside the Tøyen shopping centre for two years. Kristoffer's future again looks bright, everyone likes him. But revealing your life on national television comes with a price tag. As Kristoffer's future in the TV business looks brighter and brighter, his friends start suffering. Geir's big secret is revealed, and Stig Inge's personal problems are much more serious than Kristoffer first thought.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, humorous, semi serious, buddy comedy, crying
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Blue Crush 2 (2011)
Plot Summary:
Haunted by the memory of her deceased mother, Dana leaves Malibu behind and heads to South Africa to fulfill her mother's dream of surfing Jefferys Bay.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, South Africa
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, serious, realistic, teen
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Telling You (1998)
Plot Summary:
Two college graduates who find themselves stuck behind the counter of a pizza parlor while their friends move on struggle to find a new direction for their lives.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying
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Metroland (1997)
Plot Summary:
After ten years absence Toni, Chris's best friend, suddenly reappears in London to bring chaos and doubt into Chris's calm, tranquil, slightly boring, predictable life. Chris starts to remember his carefree youth as a photographer in Paris when he lived with and enjoyed a torrid affair with Annick. It was also in Paris that he first met and fell in love with Marion. The temptations and pressure exerted on Chris by Toni to return to their former carefree life of sex, drugs and rock'n'roll soon starts to have an impact on Chris's marriage. He starts to question his values, his lifestyle choices and his relationship with Marion and even suspects her of starting an affair with Toni whom she dislikes! Eventually circumstances come to a head and Chris is forced to decide whether to follow Toni back to the hedonistic, irresponsible life of his youth or face the harsh realities of the present and stay with Marion.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, UK
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: cult classic, sexual, comedy drama, sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, weeping
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Blue Crush (2002)
Plot Summary:
Nothing gets between Anne Marie and her board. Living in a beach shack with three roommates, she is up before dawn every morning to conquer the waves and count the days until the Pipe Masters competition. Having transplanted herself to Hawaii with no one's blessing but her own, Anne Marie finds all she needs in the adrenaline-charged surf scene - until pro quarterback Matt Tollman comes along.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, intense, entertaining, teen, serious, romantic, cult classic, erotic, freeze frame, realistic
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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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Dish Dogs (2000)
Plot Summary:
Two friends travel from town to town taking jobs as dishwashers until they both find love and must choose separate paths.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 730
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, sex comedy, realistic, talky, independent film, hot
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Brassed Off (1996)
Plot Summary:
A small Yorkshire mining town is threatened with being shut down and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At first mocked for being a woman, she soon becomes the only chance for the band to win.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, emotional, sexy, social, hilarious, mind blowing, indie film, sincere, uplifting
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Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012)
Plot Summary:
England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. But Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, semi serious, sweet, captivating, entertaining, heartbreaking, period piece, humorous, stylized
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Once Upon a Time in the Midlands (2002)
Plot Summary:
Dek, a decent but somewhat dull man, enjoys a happy existence with beloved girlfriend Shirley. They live together with her 12-year-old, Marlene: her daughter by the delinquent Jimmy, who flew the coop years ago and hasn't been heard from since. Dek loves Shirley so much that he proposes to her on national television.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, sweet, entertaining, melancholic, intense, atmospheric, witty, touching, feel good, semi serious
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Somers Town (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two teenagers, both newcomers to London, forge an unlikely friendship over the course of a hot summer. Tomo (Thomas Turgoose) is a runaway from Nottingham; Marek (Piotr Jagiello) lives in the district of Somers Town, between King's Cross and Euston stations, where his dad is working on a new rail link.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, black and white, social, humorous, witty
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Take Me Home Tonight (2011)
Plot Summary:
Recent MIT grad Matt Franklin should be well on his way to a successful career at a Fortune 500 company, but instead he rebels against maturity by taking a job at a video store. Matt rethinks his position when his unrequited high-school crush, Tori, walks in and invites him to an end-of-summer party. With the help of his twin sister and his best friend, Matt hatches a plan to change the course of his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: romantic, funny, light, humorous, stylized, realistic, sentimental, semi serious, entertaining, feel good
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Summer Storm (2004)
Plot Summary:
Tobi and Achim, the pride of the local crew club, have been the best of friends for years and are convinced that nothing will ever stand in the way of their friendship. They look forward to the upcoming summer camp and the crew competition. Then the gay team from Berlin arrives and Tobi is totally confused. The evening before the races begin, the storm that breaks out is more than meteorlogical.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sexual, light, romantic, sweet, humorous, erotic, realistic, lgbt cinema
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Russian Dolls (2005)
Plot Summary:
Five years after their summer together in Barcelona, Xavier, William, Wendy, Martine and Isabelle reunite.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 21000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, UK
Duration: 125 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, feel good, humorous, witty, road movie, depressing, epic, clever, realistic
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Starter for 10 (2006)
Plot Summary:
In 1985, against the backdrop of Thatcherism, Brian Jackson enrolls in the University of Bristol, a scholarship boy from seaside Essex with a love of knowledge for its own sake and a childhood spent watching "University Challenge," a college quiz show. At Bristol he tries out for the Challenge team and falls under the spell of Alice, a lovely blond with an extensive sexual past.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 25000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: feel good, witty, light, sweet, melancholic, touching, humorous, semi serious, clever, realistic
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Kicking and Screaming (1995)
Plot Summary:
After college graduation, Grover's girlfriend Jane tells him she's moving to Prague to study writing. Grover declines to accompany her, deciding instead to move in with several friends, all of whom can't quite work up the inertia to escape their university's pull. Nobody wants to make any big decisions that would radically alter his life, yet none of them wants to end up like Chet, the professional student who tends bar and is in his tenth year of university studies.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: talky, humorous, independent film, depressing, melancholic, realistic, semi serious, clever, witty, mumblecore
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The Last of the High Kings (1996)
Plot Summary:
It is 1977, Dublin rocks to the music of Thin Lizzy and the world is stunned by the death of Elvis Presley. Frankie, caught between acne and adulthood, has just completed his final exams in school. Convinced he will fail, he survives the summer organising a beach party, having lustful thoughts about two girls he believes are unobtainable and fending off the advances from a visiting American family friend, all whilst coping with his oddball family.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland, Denmark, UK
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, talky, sentimental, touching, feel good, semi serious, sincere, independent film, realistic
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Forgetting Sarah Marshall (2008)
Plot Summary:
When Sarah Marshall dumps aspiring musician Peter Bretter for rock star Aldous Snow, Peter's world comes crashing down. His best friend suggests that Peter should get away from everything and to fly off to Hawaii to escape all his problems. After arriving in Hawaii and meeting the beautiful Rachel Jansen, Peter is shocked to see not only Aldous Snow in Hawaii, but also Sarah Marshall.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 299000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: feel good, sexy, funny, romantic, sex comedy, humorous, romantic comedy, hilarious, light, teen
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Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994)
Plot Summary:
Four Weddings And A Funeral is a British comedy about a British Man named Charles and an American Woman named Carrie who go through numerous weddings before they determine if they are right for one another.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 163000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, funny, humorous, romantic comedy, sweet, sentimental, light, hilarious, witty
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Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2011)
Plot Summary:
A fisheries expert is approached by a consultant to help realize a sheik's vision of bringing the sport of fly-fishing to the desert and embarks on an upstream journey of faith and fish to prove the impossible possible.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: inspirational, romantic, sentimental, entertaining, feel good, sincere, sweet, touching, heartbreaking, cute
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No Reservations (2007)
Plot Summary:
Master chef Kate Armstrong runs her life and her kitchen with intimidating intensity. However, a recipe for disaster may be in the works when she becomes the guardian of her young niece while crossing forks with the brash sous-chef who just joined her staff. Though romance blooms in the face of rivalry, Kate needs to look outside the kitchen to find true happiness.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 78000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: feel good, romantic, sentimental, sweet, uplifting, touching, cute, culinary, light, romantic comedy
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The Wackness (2008)
Plot Summary:
Set in New York City in the sweltering summer, The Wackness tells the story of a troubled teenage drug dealer, who trades pot for therapy sessions with a drug-addled psychiatrist. Things get more complicated when he falls for one of his classmates, who just happens to be the doctors daughter. This is a coming-of-age story about sex, drugs, music and what it takes to be a man.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 31000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, independent film, humorous, semi serious, cult classic, funny, light, psychedelic, feel good