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Plot Summary:
Friends gather for the funeral of a friend. Sub-plots unfold as the group attempts to link-up to attend the funeral of their friend, Braverman.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 844
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, intellectual, dark comedy
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Who Is Harry Kellerman and Why Is He Saying Those Terrible Things About Me? (1971)
Plot Summary:
Georgie Soloway, a pop hit love song writer who cannot love, himself, or others. He spends his days with various women flying his plane, and dropping in to the world around him.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, tragicomedy, surprise ending, thought provoking, disturbing, mindfuck, independent film, realistic, semi serious
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Carbon Copy (1981)
Plot Summary:
A white corporate executive is surprised to discover that he has a black teen-age son who can't wait to be adopted into the, almost-exclusively-white community of, San Marino, California.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, intelligent, independent film, clever, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, hilarious
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Fairhaven (2012)
Plot Summary:
Long-time friends reconnect when one returns to their small Massachusetts town for a funeral.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sincere, realistic, thought provoking, captivating, humorous, atmospheric, serious, gloomy, independent film
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Loving (1970)
Plot Summary:
Brooks Wilson is in crisis. He is torn between his wife Selma and two daughters and his mistress Grace, and also between his career as a successful illustrator and his feeling that he might still produce something worthwhile.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 703
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, disgusting, cult film
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Looking for Kitty (2004)
Plot Summary:
A high school baseball coach and a down-on-his-luck private investigator form a bond as they scour New York City for the coach's wife, who's run away with a second-rate rock star.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 960
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, melancholic, sentimental, disturbing
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California Split (1974)
Plot Summary:
Down-on-his-luck gambler Bill (George Segal) links up with free spirit Charlie (Elliott Gould) at first to have some fun, but then gets into debt when Gould takes an unscheduled trip to Tijuana. As a final act of desperation, he pawns most of his possessions and goes to Reno for the poker game of a lifetime. A film set mainly in casinos and races, as the two win and lose, get robbed, and get blind drunk.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: grim, clever, witty, talky, cynical, dark comedy, funny, entertaining, art house, cult classic
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Beside Still Waters (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young man struggles for closure after the death of his parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, sad, clever, realistic, talky, independent film
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Sam the Man (2001)
Plot Summary:
Before he broke out with the J.D. Salinger-esque Tadpole in 2002, producer-turned-director Gary Winick filmed this little-seen relationship drama. Fisher Stevens stars as the title character, a writer with one novel under his belt who can't seem to deliver the follow-up. Instead, he spends his time compulsively cheating on his photographer girlfriend, Cass (Annabella Sciorra); giving the runaround to his agent, Richard (Ron Rifkin); and trying to keep his landlord, Murray (Luis Guzman), at bay.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sentimental, sincere, humorous, realistic, suspense, independent film, clever, talky, biting
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A Matter of Heart (2009)
Plot Summary:
Garage owner Angelo and big-time film producer Alberto find themselves occupying neighbouring beds in a Rome hospital after suffering heart attacks. Alberto is a gregarious joker - and chain smoker - who has a strong effect on the impressionable Angelo. However, as one of the men's condition deteriorates, the other becomes more deeply involved in his personal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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The Big Chill (1983)
Plot Summary:
Kevin Kline and Glenn Close star as Harold and Sarah Cooper, a couple whose marital troubles are put on hold while they host an unhappy reunion of former college pals gathered for the funeral of one of their own, a suicide victim named Alex. As the weekend unfolds, the friends catch up with each other, play the music of their youth, reminisce, smoke marijuana, and pair off with each other.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 41000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: realistic, weeping, cult classic, sentimental, clever, witty, talky, existential, funny, inspirational
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A Dog Year (2009)
Plot Summary:
Jon Katz is close to burnout. He's a writer with writer's block; his wife has left for her sister's because he's emotionally distant; he rarely answers his phone. A kennel sends him a border collie that's undisciplined because of abuse. Despite a series of mishaps, Jon decides to keep trying with the dog, and he rents a dilapidated farm house to give the dog room to run. A local handyman refers Jon to a woman who might be able to help him train the dog. Reluctantly, Jon gives her a try. Is the dog the problem, or the owner?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Helena from the Wedding (2010)
Plot Summary:
Newlyweds Alex and Alice host a New Year's Eve party for their closest friends at a remote cabin in the mountains. However, when an unexpected guest shows up, the group's facades begin to crumble.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 415
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, light, sincere, gloomy, independent film
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The World According to Garp (1982)
Plot Summary:
Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, offbeat, cult classic, clever, touching, humorous, black comedy, sad, period piece, picaresque
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All Stars 2: Old Stars (2011)
Plot Summary:
In All Stars 2 Old Stars, the unexpected wedding of one of the boys means they treat themselves to an ‘old-fashioned training camp’ in the form of a long weekend in Barcelona. The match between Barcelona and Real Madrid is meant to be the high point of the trip. But of course not everything goes according to plan for the Swift Boys.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, sentimental, sincere, feel good, semi serious
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An American Reunion (2003)
Plot Summary:
The reality of life slams into the proverbial wall when a group of necessitous best friends and ex-lovers are reunited at a milestone reunion, igniting an already passionate and combustible past.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, captivating, sincere, serious, realistic, independent film
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All the Days Before Tomorrow (2007)
Plot Summary:
Wes is awakened in the middle of the night by an unexpected phone call. It’s Alison, the girl who could have been, who is flying home to Tokyo in the morning and wants to come by for a night of reminiscing before she goes.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 693
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, talky, semi serious, offbeat, realistic, contemplative, non-linear, independent film
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The Alumni Chapter (2011)
Plot Summary:
What happens when you graduate from college, only to find that jobs are practically nonexistent and your best friends aren't what they seem? Four old friends reunite after college graduation. The conversation quickly turns sour, and a series of flashbacks expose the bitter truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: humorous, contemplative, captivating, atmospheric, independent film, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy
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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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Jake Squared (2013)
Plot Summary:
A filmmaker sets out to make a new project in order to figure out how he's screwed up every relationship he's ever had.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 631
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, contemplative, semi serious, light, captivating, offbeat, mind bending, realistic, independent film
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The Lather Effect (2006)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of selling her mother's house, a thirty-something housewife wakes up to a hangover surrounded by her best friends from high school.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 712
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, semi serious, realistic
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The Trouble with Bliss (2011)
Plot Summary:
35-year-old Morris Bliss (Michael C. Hall) is clamped in the jaws of New York City inertia: he wants to travel but has no money; he needs a job but has no prospects; he still shares an apartment with his widowed father; and the premature death of his mother has left him emotionally walled up. When he finds himself wrapped up in an awkward relationship with Stephanie (Brie Larson), the 18-year-old daughter of a former classmate, Morris quickly discovers his static life unraveling and opening up in ways that are long overdue.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sincere
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Bastards of Young (2013)
Plot Summary:
Welcome to adulthood! When two early-30s couples celebrate their last annual Halloween party in New York, they are confronted with sex, lies, and unspoken drama which tests their relationships and futures.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Big Ask (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Big Ask is a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend heal after the death of his mother. They would do anything for him - except for the one thing he wants.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, psychological, captivating, realistic, independent film
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Isn't It Delicious (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Joan Weldon discovers she is dying of lung cancer, she sets out to reconcile her dysfunctional relationships with her three children, her husband, and along the way, her former best friend. The family's destructive ways are offset by messy and somewhat humorous attempts by Joan to set her children on the right course before she dies. In this big dysfunctional mix, they will all learn to connect in their own ways, and realize on their own terms what life is about.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, dark comedy
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Mind the Gap (2004)
Plot Summary:
Five seemingly unrelated people decide to take huge risks in their personal lives in an effort to find happiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 997
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: humorous, talky, semi serious, captivating, sincere, sentimental, clever, touching, offbeat, realistic
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Mrs Palfrey at The Claremont (2005)
Plot Summary:
All but abandoned by her family in a London retirement hotel, an elderly woman strikes up a curious friendship with a young writer.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, humorous, semi serious, hilarious, powerful, clever, realistic, crying
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Diary of a Mad Housewife (1970)
Plot Summary:
Tina Balser is a bored New York housewife-mother married to Jonathan, a pompous, social-climbing lawyer who ridicules her in front of their children, criticizing everything she does or wears. She begins an affair with George Prager, a dashing, successful and blatantly sadistic writer. Finally after George has tormented Tina in much the same manner Jonathan has, and has been unfaithful to boot, she goes back to her husband and begins group therapy.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: romantic, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, biting, sex comedy, suspense
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The Magic of Belle Isle (2012)
Plot Summary:
In an effort to tap into his original talent, a wheelchair-bound author moves to a rural town, where he befriends a single mother and her three kids, who help reignite his passion for writing.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 20000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, psychological, funny, inspirational, romantic, feel good
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The Four Seasons (1981)
Plot Summary:
Three middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, clever, semi serious, funny, light
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Motherhood (2009)
Plot Summary:
Motherhood is a comedy written and directed by Katherine Dieckmann, and stars Uma Thurman, Anthony Edwards and Minnie Driver. Shot on location in New York’s West Village, focuses on the dilemmas of motherhood, such as marriage, work, and self, shown in the trials and tribulations of one pivotal day.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, touching, semi serious, independent film, neurotic