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Plot Summary:
Seth Warner has reached the end of his rope. Ever since his wife died two years earlier, his world has been in turmoil. He is despondent, his career has fallen apart, even his house has been destroyed. There seems to be nothing left for him to live for. Confused and angry after two years of suffering, he finally directs his wrath at God from the rooftop of his apartment building in New York City. In the midst of a wild thunderstorm he demands to know why he has been betrayed by the god he has believed in and honored his whole life. God's answer is to strike down Seth's dog in a bolt of lightning. Pushed beyond his limits, Seth decides to respond to his years of torment by breaking each of the biblical Ten Commandments.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, black comedy, dark comedy, offbeat, witty, cynical, semi serious, detective, light, romantic
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Nervous Ticks (1992)
Plot Summary:
A comedy about a man (Bill Pullman), who is on the run after his mistress (Julie Brown) confesses to her husband (Peter Boyle) that the two of them have been having an affair.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 697
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, dark comedy, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Divorce Italian Style (1961)
Plot Summary:
A married Sicilian baron falls in love with his cousin and vows to wed her, but with divorce illegal he must concoct a crime of passion to do away with his wife.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: black comedy, humorous, witty, light, atmospheric, talky, captivating, feel good, semi serious, dark comedy
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Pushing Tin (1999)
Plot Summary:
Two air traffic controllers who thrive on living dangerously compete to outdo each other on several levels.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 30000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: humorous, intense, feel good, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, clever, dark comedy, romantic
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I'll Take You There (1999)
Plot Summary:
A woman forces a man to move forward with his life after his wife dumps him.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 455
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Get Well Soon (2001)
Plot Summary:
After having a nervous breakdown, a popular talk-show host confronts his ex-girlfriend who is dating a cross-dresser.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: talky, semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, clever, cynical, biting, suspense
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Paperback Romance (1994)
Plot Summary:
Sophie, a writer of racy romance novels, is working on one of her stories in the library, when Eddie overhears her. Sophie, embarrassed by her paralyzed leg from childhood polio, spurns his advances, but when Sophie breaks her leg, she has the perfect way of hiding her disability from Eddie. As Sophie struggles to win over Eddie and hide her disability, Eddie's jealous fiance and a police officer investigating a jewel heist threaten their relationship.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 405
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, sentimental, touching, offbeat, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, slapstick
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The Shrink Is In (2001)
Plot Summary:
A young woman impersonates a shrink to win over her Prince Charming.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, realistic
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Feeling Minnesota (1996)
Plot Summary:
Sam Clayton's (Vincent D'Onofrio) marriage to ex-stripper Freddie (Cameron Diaz) comes about when she's strong-armed into the match by Red (Delroy Lindo), a club proprietor who once did her a favor. But Freddie falls in love with Jiaks (Keanu Reeves), Sam's brother, and the pair tries to escape the situation together. It isn't long before both Sam and Red catch up with them, resulting in threats against the two of them -- although tension also starts to build between Sam and Red.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, independent film, black comedy, clever, talky, retro, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty
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My Best Friend's Girl (1983)
Plot Summary:
Isabelle Huppert plays an attractive Parisienne out looking for some fun during her vacation on the ski slopes of Courchevel in the Alps when she starts up a relationship with a great-looking sportswear salesman, but at the same time she is entranced by a little chubby disk jockey in a night club.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sexy, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, sexual
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Denial (1998)
Plot Summary:
Couples split up after a comment at an LA dinner party sets up arguments about how truthful partners are in their relationships.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: realistic, humorous, witty, semi serious, independent film, talky, sexual, sex comedy, sexy
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Serious Moonlight (2009)
Plot Summary:
A high-powered attorney duct tapes her adulterous husband to the toilet ... right before their home is invaded by burglars.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: not serious, witty, humorous, realistic, cynical, black comedy, dark comedy, surprise ending, crying, independent film
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The Brothers McMullen (1995)
Plot Summary:
Deals with the lives of the three Irish Catholic McMullen brothers from Long Island, New York, over three months, as they grapple with basic ideas and values — love, sex, marriage, religion and family — in the 1990s. Directed, written, produced by and starring Edward Burns.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, touching, realistic, witty, talky, art house, sincere, humorous, contemplative, semi serious
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The Medicine Show (2001)
Plot Summary:
A cynical young man, diagnosed with cancer, meets a brash young leukemia patient in the hospital who more than matches his distaste for IV drips and weepy sentimentality.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, witty, independent film, clever, offbeat, black comedy, dark comedy
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My New Gun (1992)
Plot Summary:
Debbie and Gerald's lives drastically change after they get a gun. Their mysterious neighbor, Skippy, becomes an important and transforming figure in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 818
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, suspense
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Touch (1997)
Plot Summary:
When Juvenal, a presumed miracle worker, appears on the scene Bill Hill attempts to exploit him but his plans go astray with the untimely intervention of August Murray and the developing relationship between Juvenal and Lynn Faulkner.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: light, realistic, witty, semi serious, clever, humorous, talky, sex comedy, offbeat, independent film
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Wild Roomies (2004)
Plot Summary:
After his last girlfriend slept with his last roommate, Reno Rizzolla moves to L.A. with his new girlfriend... and chaos ensues when the debt on the house forces him to get roommates.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, scenic, independent film, sex comedy, hot, campy
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The Details (2011)
Plot Summary:
When a family of raccoons discover worms living underneath the sod in Jeff and Nealy's backyard, this pest problem begins a darkly comic and wild chain reaction of domestic tension, infidelity and murder.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, funny, entertaining, dark comedy, realistic, independent film, inspirational
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This Thing with Sarah (2013)
Plot Summary:
A free-spirited surf instructor volunteers herself as a strictly sexual - or so she thinks - rebound for a heartbroken, down and out writer.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 417
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, realistic, captivating, psychological, romantic, romantic comedy, indie film, sentimental, offbeat
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The Merry Widow (2007)
Plot Summary:
Anne-Marie vient de perdre son mari dans un accident de voiture. Elle est enfin libre d'aimer celui qu'elle voit en cachette depuis deux ans. Mais elle n'a pas prévu que sa famille, pétrie de bons sentiments, a décidé de rester à ses côtés pour la soutenir dans son chagrin. Anne-Marie se retrouve alors encore plus prisonnière que lorsqu'elle était mariée.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, touching, captivating, biting, suspense
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Blume in Love (1973)
Plot Summary:
Lawyer Stephen Blume, specialized in divorces, lives a paradoxical situation when, having his own marriage break up, is still in love with his ex-wife. Gedorge Segal plays a divorce lawyer who is divorced himself after his wife (Susan Anspach) catches him cheating on her. She, in turn, moves on and falls into an easy-going relationship with an even more easy-going musician (Kris Kristofferson in one of his first film roles). But Blume chooses this moment to fall back in love with his ex-wife (Marsha Mason) and begins to woo her anew.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic comedy, sentimental, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, stylized, 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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Chaos Theory (2007)
Plot Summary:
Frank Allen, a professional speaker who lectures on time management has a perfectly ordered and scheduled life, down to the minute. When his wife sets his clock forward 10 minutes as a joke, his day is thrown off. Deciding that his strictly ordered life has done him little good, he begins to make multiple choice index cards, choosing one at random and doing what is written on the card.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 33000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, funny, humorous, touching, cult classic, intense, philosophical, intellectual, hilarious, raunchy
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Home Fries (1998)
Plot Summary:
Dorian and Angus chase down their womanizing stepfather with a helicopter, frightening him to death. In his effort to cover their tracks, Dorian begins investigating his stepfather's mistress, Sally. She works at a fast-food drive-through, she's pregnant and Dorian quickly falls in love with her. Unfortunately, his scheming mother wants Sally dead. And Sally isn't sure she wants Dorian to be her child's father and also his brother.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, light, romantic, road movie, sexy
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One Too Many Mornings (2010)
Plot Summary:
Fischer can't remember the last time he woke up without a hangover. He lives in a church: a real one. Where people baptize, marry, pray and die. It's an ideal situation for a young guy with no aspirations: if he locks up the church, he can sleep in the back. Free of charge. 6:00am. Tuesday morning. Fischer's old friend from high school shows up unannounced. Even though they haven't seen each other in years, Peter just drove 10 hours straight because his girlfriend of five years just cheated on him. He's looking for a place to hide. To think. To drink. What better place than Fischer's church? After leaving 50 unanswered voice-mails, Rudy shows up four days later. That's Peter's girlfriend. She didn't cheat on him. She did something much worse.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 121
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, mumblecore, captivating, psychological, light, uplifting, clever, offbeat, realistic
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The New Age (1994)
Plot Summary:
Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find meaning to their empty lives, they follow various New Age gurus and other such groups. Eventually, they hit rock bottom and have to make some hard decisions.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: satirical, melancholic, meditative, disturbing, humorous, cynical, realistic, witty, semi serious, cult classic
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Just a Kiss (2002)
Plot Summary:
A group of thirtysomethings having problems with fidelity gets an opportunity to turn back the clock.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, clever, offbeat, talky, independent film
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All Relative (2014)
Plot Summary:
Things couldn't be going better for Harry and Grace, a young New York City couple in love, until Grace's mother turns Harry's world upside down.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: tense, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, witty, romantic, romantic comedy, independent film
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Two Family House (2000)
Plot Summary:
Buddy Visalo (Michael Rispoli) is a factory worker, a frustrated crooner who once had a shot at the big time. Buddy's dreams of greatness have been reduced to an endless series of failed moneymaking schemes. His latest is buying a two-family house for him and his wife, Estelle (Katherine Narducci) and converting the ground floor into a neighborhood bar where he can perform. The wrench in the works is that he also inherits the upstairs tenants, Mary,a pregnant Irish girl fresh off the boat (Kelly Macdonald) and her abusive, alcoholic husband, Jim (Kevin Conway). As Buddy's gang of Italians tries to handle the situation, the girl goes into labor, and a baby is born, forcing them all to confront the limits of their tolerance and compassion.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, feel good, humorous, semi serious, realistic, independent film, scary, fairy tale, sentimental
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Breakin' All the Rules (2004)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by his fiancée (who dumped him), a man publishes a break-up handbook for men, becoming a bestselling author in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: romantic comedy, romantic, entertaining, melancholic, talky, stylized, semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic
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The Longest Week (2014)
Plot Summary:
As he eases into adulthood at the age of forty, Conrad Valmont, the over-educated, under-employed heir to the Valmont Hotel fortune, is cut off from his allowance following his parents abrupt divorce and tossed out into the unforgiving streets of the Upper West Side. Luckily, he is taken in by his old friend Dylan, and returns the favor by immediately falling for Dylan’s girlfriend Beatrice. As Conrad attempts to woo Beatrice while keeping both their relationship and his bank balance secret, Dylan tries to set him up with Jocelyn. Ever committed to the charade that he eventually finds difficult to maintain, Conrad quickly realizes his charm can only extend so far into debt. Now deep into an extensional reflection, will it take losing everything to make Conrad realize what he can truly become?.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, India
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, humorous, light, sweet, entertaining, romantic comedy, realistic, semi serious, independent film