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Plot Summary:
One of the lead characters is Maria, an inn keeper; always a bride but never a wife. She meets the newcomer Pierre, who disturbs the peace of the small village and teaches the locals how to enjoy life. The film is full of fireworks of lovely colours, and a warm feeling. It is like a carousel of humour and human situations that carry us away, from the very first frame to the unexpected ending, making the viewer laugh gaily. Using a mosaic approach to the traditional narrative line, the film director creates a picture of fairly anarchic glee. “Celebration in the Botanical Garden” is a world of fantasy, full of summer fun, good humour and delight. E. Havetta´s debut was inspired by naïve art, French impressionism, and silent slap-stick as well as Western Slovakian folk traditions.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 176
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, experimental, expressionism, slapstick comedy
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IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 15
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain
Duration:
Plot tags: avant garde
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 968
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, War
Country: Czechoslovakia, France
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: experimental, psychedelic, slapstick comedy, cult film
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 92
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Duration: 80 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 337
Genere: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Hong Kong
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 143
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France, Portugal
Duration: 100 min
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Comedy
Country: Brazil
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, black comedy, weird
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 361
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Duration: 126 min
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IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: psychedelic, dark comedy
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This three-part ballad, which often uses music to stand in for dialogue, remains the most perfect embodiment of Nemec’s vision of a film world independent of reality. Mounting a defense of timid, inhibited, clumsy, and unsuccessful individuals, the three protagonists are a complete antithesis of the industrious heroes of socialist aesthetics. Martyrs of Love cemented Nemec’s reputation as the kind of unrestrained nonconformist the Communist establishment considered the most dangerous to their ideology.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 192
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Music
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 71 min
Plot tags: anthology, campy
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IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: surreal, gothic, gothic horror, cult classic, fairy tale, parody, psychotronic, spoof, slapstick comedy, slapstick
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IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Spain
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 18
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
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IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 127
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Country: Czechoslovakia
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IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 217
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Czechoslovakia
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IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
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IMDB Votes: 3000
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IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 533
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IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
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Country: Czechoslovakia
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IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 67
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Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
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Country: Italy, France, USA
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IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
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IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 668
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Russia
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IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
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IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 22000
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IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 56000
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IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 405000
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IMDB Rating: 2.4
IMDB Votes: 109000
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IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 16000
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IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 563000
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Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
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