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Plot Summary:
After a bull is killed in a bullfight, its body parts are transported across Spain, France, Italy and Belgium. The bull's parts fall into the wide variety of people, including: an Italian actress selling the bones in a supermarket promotion, a Spanish woman who dines on its steaks, a little girl in France who imagines a world where animals are much larger than humans, and a taxidermist whose wife is simultaneously giving birth to quintuplets.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 739
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, touching, emotional, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, crying, black comedy, dark comedy
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Other People's Children (2022)
Plot Summary:
Rachel loves her life, her students, her friends, her ex, her guitar lessons. When she falls in love with Ali, she grows close to his 4-year-old daughter, Leila. She tucks her in, looks after her, and loves her like a mother... which she isn’t. Not yet. Rachel is 40. The desire for a family of her own is growing stronger, and the clock is ticking. Is it too late?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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The Farewell Party (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends at a Jerusalem retirement home build a machine for self-euthanasia in order to help their terminally ill friend. When rumors of the machine begin to spread, more and more people ask for their help, and the friends are faced with an emotional dilemma.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Israel, Germany
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, tragicomedy, semi serious, existential, dark comedy, humorous, realistic, contemplative, gloomy
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It's Easier for a Camel... (2003)
Plot Summary:
As a little girl, Federica fantasized about having beautiful long hair that would grow back as soon as she cut it, about never-ending cones of cotton candy and about countless adventures that took her to the far side of the world. Now a charming thirty-something-single woman, Federica's fantasies have evolved, adding lovers, stardom, and motherhood to her waking dreams, where Federica continues to press for her everyday life to be as real as the fantasies that invade her. Unfortunately, Federica's daydreams can only provide a meager distraction from the reality she faces. Her career as a successful playwright is heading south, her boyfriend is pressuring her to start a family, a former lover wishes to rekindle an old affair, her sister is barely talking to her, her brother is self-centered and her loving father is terminally ill. And as if to make matters worse, Federica is rich, too rich, and the guilt that consumes her because of it is pushing her over the edge.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 896
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, captivating, realistic, semi serious, neurotic, crying
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A Thousand Kisses (2006)
Plot Summary:
Rising, rather autobiographical novelist Giph has a hot girlfriend, doctor and model Samarinde. His crude, domineering and progressive mother Ria's suffering an incurable decease in which she suffers from paraplegia. Her inevitably ensuing death is brought forward with euthanasia. Giph is struggling to handle the situation with his mother. Shortly after his mother has passed he away, he decides to join his fun loving friends on La Palma for a holiday. There Samarinde tells her boyfriend she's expecting his baby.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, erotic, contemplative
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Elective Affinities (1996)
Plot Summary:
After an architect (Fabrizio Bentivoglio) is invited to the home of his associate, the harmony of the place comes undone with the visitor's attraction to someone.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: serious, emotional, realistic, gloomy
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Almost Peaceful (2002)
Plot Summary:
Set during the largely unexplored period immediately following World War II, the film follows a group of mostly Jewish Parisians who attempt to restart their lives and rekindle their capacity for happiness in the shadow of unspeakable horrors. Variety called it "thoroughly charming. Sad, gentle, and funny in the best French tradition of high quality cinema." A film by Marcelo Gomes.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 400
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, captivating, emotional, thought provoking, bleak, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, intellectual
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Cape of Good Hope (2004)
Plot Summary:
Mark Bamford's thought-provoking comedy explores the ever-present friction between class, race and faith in modern-day South Africa, tracing the intersection of multiple lives. A Drama revolving around 3 women's lives and how they are intertwined.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Africa, USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous, contemplative, crying
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The Republic of Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
A thrice-divorced radio DJ meets the woman of his dreams but can he convince her of the truth of his feelings? An exploration of love, adapted from the novel by Pulitzer prize winning author Carol Shields.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 543
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, realistic, sex comedy, humorous, gloomy, semi serious, crying
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Happenstance (2000)
Plot Summary:
How, thanks to what's known as the "Butterfly theory" (a random series of unlinked events), can a young woman and a young man meet?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: melancholic, stylized, touching, feel good, humorous, romantic, thought provoking, offbeat, sweet, realistic
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The Girl on the Bridge (1999)
Plot Summary:
It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: black and white, psychological, touching, humorous, sentimental, stylized, heartbreaking, serious, anthology, postmodern
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A Brief Vacation (1973)
Plot Summary:
Vittorio De Sica's A Brief Vacation (Una Breva Vacanza) stars Florinda Bolkan as a downtrodden working woman. Forced to support herself, her children, her physically incapacitated husband and her obtrusive brother and mother, Bolkan contracts tuberculosis. She is granted a brief vacation at a health spa, where a whole new world--and potential new life--is opened up to her.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: neorealism, psychological, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, crying
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The River (2001)
Plot Summary:
Episodic study of feelings where six stories intertwine over one Saturday in a small town. Two boys save a young woman, Anni, and her baby from suicide by drowning. Esa, a down-on-his-luck musician in need of a loan, arrives to his father's 60th birthday party. Waitress Leena tries to stir up a romance between her co-workers at a pizza parlor. Middle-aged Ilpo comes home early from the paper mill and finds a strange man in their bedroom. Old Milja waits for her daughter Merja at the hospital where she is visiting her terminally ill husband Henri. Teenage Santeri tries to cope with his homosexuality.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 845
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, serious, realistic, captivating, suspense, anthology, crying, freeze frame
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Julie Walking Home (2002)
Plot Summary:
Julie's son is dying of cancer and her marriage falling apart. She goes to Poland in search of a man who can heal using his hands. Julie finds not only a magical cure for her son, but also comes across a love so pure it begins to heal the aching in her heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, Canada, Poland, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: psychological, emotional, realistic, atmospheric, serious, contemplative, erotic, spiritual, crying, allegory
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Free Radicals (2003)
Plot Summary:
Following the death of Manu (Resetarits) in a car accident, the film relates the interwoven stories of several people who become indirectly connected by the events and aftermath of the crash.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 553
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Austria, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, realistic, touching, contemplative, gloomy, crying
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Late August, Early September (1998)
Plot Summary:
A story about the transition from late youth to early maturity, the film follows several friends and lovers as they come to make decisions on how to live their lives--getting a job more in harmony with ones ideals, committing to a lover, giving up a lover that no longer loves you: a film about grown-ups growing up.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: emotional, talky, melancholic, ironic, meditative, lyrical, psychological, serious, depressing, tense
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Tiptoes (2002)
Plot Summary:
A man is reluctant to tell his fiancee that his parents, uncle and brother are dwarfs.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, France
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, realistic, humorous, semi serious, offbeat
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Wilbur Wants to Kill Himself (2002)
Plot Summary:
The strange comedy film of two close brothers; one, Wilbur, who wants to kill himself, and the other, Harbour, who tries to prevent this. When their father dies leaving them his bookstore they meet a woman who makes their lives a bit better yet with a bit more trouble as well.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Denmark, UK, Sweden, France
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film, offbeat, clever, realistic, semi serious
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The Last Days of Chez Nous (1992)
Plot Summary:
The story of sisters Vicki and Beth, when Vicki begins an affair with Beth's intriguing French husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, thought provoking, clever, touching, emotional, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, crying
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Valentin (2002)
Plot Summary:
Valentin, a 9-year-old boy living with his grandmother in late-1960s Buenos Aires, believes his family has problems that only he can solve. The youngster dreams of being reunited with his mother, who's separated from Valentin's abusive father.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Argentina, Netherlands, France, Spain, Italy
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sweet, uplifting, realistic, lyrical, sincere, hispanic, serious, crying
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Music from Another Room (1998)
Plot Summary:
Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five years later, Danny returns to his hometown and finds the irresistible Anna Swann but she finds it easy to resist him since she is already engaged to dreamboat Eric, a very practical match. In pursuit of Anna, Danny finds himself entangled with each of the eccentric Swanns including blind, sheltered Nina, cynical sister Karen, big brother Bill and dramatic mother Grace as he fights to prove that fate should never be messed with and passion should never be practical.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sweet, light, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, talky, crying
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The Great New Wonderful (2005)
Plot Summary:
The Great New Wonderful weaves five stories against the backdrop of an anxious and uncertain post-9-11 New York City.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, clever, touching, humorous, emotional, realistic, witty, contemplative, semi serious
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Enemies: A Love Story (1989)
Plot Summary:
A ghostwriter finds himself romantically involved with his current wife, a married woman and his long-vanished wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: emotional, talky, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sad, gloomy, independent film, black comedy
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Le Week-End (2013)
Plot Summary:
Nick and Meg Burrows return to Paris, the city where they honeymooned, to celebrate their 30th wedding anniversary and rediscover some romance in their long-lived marriage. The film follows the couple as long-established tensions in their marriage break out in humorous and often painful ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, humorous, happy, powerful, clever, realistic, witty, contemplative, talky
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The Mother and the Whore (1973)
Plot Summary:
In this sexually frank French drama, the aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover named Veronika. The dialogue-heavy film focuses intently on the love triangle, with Marie increasingly jealous of Alexandre's fling with Veronika. As the trio continues their unsustainable affair, the emotional stakes get higher, leading to conflict and unhappiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 217 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, serious, tense, realistic, talky, black and white, sexual, erotic, sexy
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Full Speed (1996)
Plot Summary:
A brief extract of four kids' lives somewhere in France. Quentin, who won a writers contest and now pays more attention to his career as an author than to his friends, beautiful Julie, his girl-friend, much more mature than she looks, falling in love with Quentin's very best friend Jimmy, who is kind of stuck in his unability of self-expression and grown up under bad social circumstances. And there is the shy boy Samir, exiled from Algeria, who lost his "brother" and only friend some time ago. Samir heavily falls in love with Quentin, but he can't handle it.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 877
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: erotic, sincere, serious, realistic, contemplative, gloomy, sexual, sexy, gay cinema, queer cinema
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High Heels (1991)
Plot Summary:
High Heels is a murder mystery comedy centering on flamboyant actress Becky del Paramo and her daughter Rebecca, a television anchorwoman. After being estranged for 15 years, Becky re-enters Rebecca's life when she comes to perform a concert. Rebecca, she finds, is now married to one of Becky's ex-lovers, Manuel. The mother and daughter begin making up for lost time, when suddenly, a murder occurs.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: sentimental, art house, enigmatic, serious, sexy, sexual, suspense, social, captivating, black comedy
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Paris (2008)
Plot Summary:
Pierre, a professional dancer, suffers from a serious heart disease. While he is waiting for a transplant which may (or may not) save his life, he has nothing better to do than look at the people around him, from the balcony of his Paris apartment.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, sentimental, romantic, uplifting, semi serious, touching, serious, realistic
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It Runs in the Family (2003)
Plot Summary:
This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, semi serious, sentimental, touching, talky, epic, realistic, crying, romantic
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Kings and Queen (2004)
Plot Summary:
Nora Cotterelle, a woman in her 30s is caring for her ill father, Louis Jenssens. While Nora tries to present a facade that all is well with her life, she is twice divorced and has a son, Elias, whose father is dead. Nora's present relationship is not going well, and she is soon to marry a businessman, while Elias is becoming increasingly withdrawn. A parallel storyline follows her former lover and second husband, Ismaël Vuillard, a musician, with whom she had lived for seven years. He is given to strange behaviour, and as a result he has been committed to a mental hospital, from which he is planning to escape. Nora learns that her father's digestive problems are actually cancer, and facing her father's death, Nora desperately seeks out Ismaël to ask that he reconnect with Elias, but he has mixed feelings about adopting her son. Moreover, he has met Arielle, another patient.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 150 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, serious, emotional, clever, realistic, contemplative, talky, gloomy, crying
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The Myth of Fingerprints (1997)
Plot Summary:
When a New England dysfunctional family gathers for Thanksgiving, past demons reveal themselves as one son returns for the first time in three years.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sentimental, melancholic, talky, intense, sincere, independent film, compassionate, comedy drama