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Plot Summary:
Angry island fishermen declare independence and use a Soviet nuclear submarine to get Ottawa's attention.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 171
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Pampa Blues (2015)
Plot Summary:
16-yr.-old Ben wants to escape the small town he lives in, but a local bar owner persuades him to help with his idea to use UFOs to attract tourists.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 93
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min
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Never Speak Ill of the Dead (1984)
Plot Summary:
Tragicomic story about Communist activist who wants to bring the benefits of Communism to the inhabitants of a Serbian village after WW2.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
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Werewolf (2016)
Plot Summary:
Blaise and Nessa are outcast methadone users in a small town that doesn’t offer an easy way out. Each day starts in a long lineup at the tiny pharmacy, then it’s door-to- door begging to cut grass for people who just want them to not exist. At dusk they push their rusty lawnmower up a steep hill and crash in a filthy camper at the edge of town. In this bleakness, Nessa plots an escape, while Blaise lingers closer to relapse, arrest, hospitalization, or worse. Tethered to one another, their getaway dreams are kept on a suffocatingly short leash.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 604
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 80 min
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Konopielka (1982)
Plot Summary:
Kaziuk, a stubborn peasant and his pregnant wife live in a backwood village, unaffected by the civilization. The village is once visited by a couple of wanderers, and strange things start to happen afterward. A new schoolteacher is sent to the area. She stirs erotic fantasies in Kaziuk. In a stir of frustration Kaziuk cuts down a family tree - a sacrilegious act in the eyes of his family. Going a step further and using a scythe for cutting the rye instead of a sickle brings the whole village against him.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 886
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
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Something About Love (1988)
Plot Summary:
Wally Olynyk (Stefan Wodoslawsky) returns home to the Cape Breton region of Nova Scotia in this somber drama. After years of living in Los Angeles, he hopes to attend his high-school reunion and visit with his father Stan (Jan Rubes). Stan is the local mortician who suffers from Alzheimer's disease, but the 63-year-old father is too stubborn to admit anything is wrong. The contrast between Los Angeles and the grim Canadian steel town clashes like the father and son.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: surprise ending, independent film
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Turtle (1994)
Plot Summary:
A story about friendship between a boy and his turtle.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Cameroon
Duration: 90 min
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First Time Godfather (2007)
Plot Summary:
Brought up in California, offspring of an important political family, 11 year old Alex travels to Crete in order to baptize the baby child of a local cacique and parliamentary candidate. He will be a GODFATHER FOR THE FIRST TIME in order to prove to everybody and mainly to his father that he is a worthy son. His foreign looks, his difficulty with Greek language, the Cretan's particularities and the tests he has to go through in order to be accepted as a worthy son of the Leader, create a comedy with a political background, existential distresses and tragicomic situations. His first baptism-initiation in the art and tricks of politics will mark him for the rest of his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 708
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 86 min
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The Last Switchman of the Narrow Gauge Railway (1986)
Plot Summary:
The abolishment of a railway station in a remote Bosnian village affects the lives of the local railwaymen.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 50
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 99 min
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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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Faces of Women (1985)
Plot Summary:
At a festival, a chorus of women sing and dance as two stories unfold. In a village, a young women with a jealous husband gives him something to be jealous about when his younger brother visits from the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 95
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Côte d'Ivoire, France
Duration: 105 min
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We and Our Mountains (1969)
Plot Summary:
Calm of the mountain village is disturbed by the investigation on stray sheep.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 94 min
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Recep Ivedik 7 (2022)
Plot Summary:
Recep and Nurullah decide to go village house, which is inherited from his grandma. Recep finds out the existence of a big project, that will damage the village and the surrounding forests. Villagers will fight against the project with Recep's leadership.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Turkey
Duration: 133 min
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My Cousin from the Village (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two parallel stories set in a village in Central Serbia about two families and the political context of the time.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Serbia
Duration: 50 min
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The Wicked Uncle (2011)
Plot Summary:
In a small Swiss village, a school sports coach is accused of molestation by the mother of one of his pupils. The citizens are outraged…that the mother could make such a claim – for the coach she accuses is a local hero, a former world champion who has become the town’s closest thing to a sporting legend.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, Germany
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing, intellectual, independent film
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Under Milk Wood (1971)
Plot Summary:
This Dylan Thomas work is a delightful if peculiar story of a day in the life of a small, Welsh fishing village called "Llareggub" (read it backwards!). We meet a host of curious characters (and ghosts) through the 'eyes' of Blind Captain Cat. This is a true "Classic" of modern British writing with a wonderful, mischievous use of language. Under Milk Wood was Sinclair's first film and he was able to sign up Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor to the project with the help of O'Toole, Sinclair's long-term friend. Burton and Taylor were paid £10,000 each. Elizabeth Taylor was only available for three days of filming, which at her request took place in London. At £600, her three dresses took up half of the costume budget. It was the only film in which Burton, Taylor and O’Toole appeared together. It was shot on various locations in Wales and has since acquired a reputation among aficionados as a cult movie.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 840
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, realistic, contemplative, stylized, semi serious, independent film
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Queens of the Field (2019)
Plot Summary:
The women in a small rural town join forces to form a football club in order to save the funding for their city's field.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 638
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
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Farewell My Darling (1996)
Plot Summary:
When old Mr. Park dies, his first son Chan-Wu, a film director, and his troublesome daughter Mi-Seon hurriedly come back to their rural hometown, and third son Chan-Se comes back to Korea from America. As the quiet country village gets busy preparing funeral, the house in mourning becomes a meeting place where villagers gather to ask how they are getting along and meet old friends. The children mourn their father's death and above all Mi-Seon, who caused her parents a lot of grief, can't stop crying. Chan-Wu, the chief mourner, has a revelation about his career, and Chan-Se prepares to sing hymns for the Confucian funeral service. Old Man Park's sister sells insurance products and gradually the funeral service becomes for the living rather then the dead.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 116 min
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Butterflies (2018)
Plot Summary:
Three strangers with one thing in common — the same father — come to a Turkish village to bury him, and learn about him and each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, disturbing, art house
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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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Meesa Madhavan (2002)
Plot Summary:
Madhavan (Dileep) is a clever thief who does robbery for a living. He is following the principles of his mentor Mullani Pappan (Mala Aravindan). Meesa Madhavan got his name by the popular saying that if Madhavan rolls his Mustache (Meesa in Malayalam) looking at someone, he will rob his house that night. His enemy was a local money lender Bhageerathan Pillai (Jagathy Sreekumar) who refused to give back his father's property. Madhavan falls in love in Bhageerathan Pillai's daughter Rukmini (Kavya Madhavan). The sub inspector in the village Eappen Pappachi (Indrajith) has an eye on Rukmini. He steals the idol from the local Temple with the intention of selling it and puts the blame on Madhavan. It becomes Madhavan's responsibility to find the culprits and he does that with his mentor's help and thus uniting with his girl friend.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 165 min
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Desingu Raja (2013)
Plot Summary:
Idhayakkani and Thamarai fall in love but their villages, Pulipatti and Kilipatti, have been at each other’s throats for 50 years. Kani hopes to bring peace with their marriage but unfortunately, Thamarai’s dad is killed by his villagers. And, now, she and her uncle Veerasamy want revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Comedy
Country: India
Duration:
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Saving Grace (1986)
Plot Summary:
A newly-elected Pope Leo XIV finds himself accidentally locked out of the Vatican. Unknown to the outside world, he winds up in an impoverished Italian village, where his adventures ultimately teach the Pope and his new friends some important lessons about friendship and self-esteem. Written by Chris DeSantis.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Seducing Doctor Lewis (2003)
Plot Summary:
A much-needed boost, in the form of a new factory, is promised to the residents of the tiny fishing village St. Marie-La-Mauderne, provided they can lure a doctor to take up full-time residency on the island. Inspired, the villagers devise a scheme to make Dr. Christopher Lewis a local.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, witty, semi serious, entertaining, realistic, sentimental, funny, light, romantic
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The Perfect Stranger (2011)
Plot Summary:
The mysterious arrival of a foreigner to a small village in a Mediterranean island, awake the sudden interest from a diverse group of residents, who will appear unexpectedly in the stranger's life, believing that he's going to reopen an old shop. In contrast, the real intentions of the stranger are hidden behind an old Polaroid photo, which has led him to that place in search of answers.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere, light
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Seventy-Two Days (2010)
Plot Summary:
A family from isolated village in Lika makes a good living out of American pension earned by their late granddad Djuradj and received by his widow Nedja. The very existence of a family is threatened when Nedja dies, but the head of the family comes up with a cunning plan.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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Submerged (2001)
Plot Summary:
A moment by moment account of the sinking and rescue of the crew of the submarine USS Squalus which was the first rescue of living crew on a submarine.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 495
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tense, captivating, suspense, disturbing
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Sub Down (1997)
Plot Summary:
When a nuclear attack submarine crashes on the floor of the Artic ocean, it's up to a pair of research scientists to save the entire crew before time and oxygen run out.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 752
Genere: Drama
Country: Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, serious, suspenseful
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Feyzo, the Polite One (1978)
Plot Summary:
A feudal village in Southeastern Turkey in 1970's. A poor peasant, Feyzo returns from military service dreaming about getting married to Gülo, the love of his life.
IMDB Rating: 8.7
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: political, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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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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The Jasmine Vine in Seethamma's Courtyard (2013)
Plot Summary:
Brothers Peddodu and Chinnodu are unemployed and do not get along well due to their contrasting natures. They have problems marrying the women they love before an accident changes their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, inspirational, sad