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Plot Summary:
Listen to my heart, not my tongue. Crooked Tongue highlights the journey of self-discovery of a young adult Hispanic stutterer, his trials and tribulations, his yearning to be able to speak freely, and the characters he meets along the way.
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Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: spiritual, hispanic
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Trim (2010)
Plot Summary:
A misguided personal trainer struggles to clean up his life after he's sued by one of his clients, knocks up two women and suffers a major heart attack. Stars Jonathan Wade-Drahos, Ryan Bottiglieri, Bruce Dern.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 22
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, hispanic, islamic, student film
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Hives (2012)
Plot Summary:
Thursday morning, Jerusalem. Nira goes to work. Ahmad in London does the same, Ralf in Cologne and a priest in Prague too. Matija, Croat, goes to work as well. Ok, he doesn't, but he acts as if he does. Ahmad is taking his routine red bus journey. Out-of-breath young man comes in and interrupts it. Schoolteacher Nira is also interrupted - her pupil jumps out and performs a love rap song he wrote for her. The priest in Prague doesn't feel like singing today, he is in the mood for (over)sleeping instead. Someone falls asleep, someone else - Ralf - falls in love. All five mentioned above are listening to the top-news about the disappearance of bees. And trying their best, each one of them in his or her own 'hive': Zagreb, Jerusalem, London, Cologne, Prague.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Croatia, Czech Republic, UK, Israel, Germany
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: anthology, intercultural
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Applesauce (2015)
Plot Summary:
Every Tuesday night, radio talk show host Stevie Bricks invites his listeners to call in and share their stories. When one night he asks people to share the worst thing they’ve ever done, high school teacher Ron Welz can't resist. Big mistake—what he reveals sets off a chain of hilariously uncontrollable events adversely affecting his marriage and another couple. And when someone starts sending him body parts, his life really begins to fall apart. Who is tormenting him? An insolent high school student? His best friend? His wife? There are over eight million people in the Naked City, and everyone's a suspect.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: romantic, grim, romantic comedy, horror comedy
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I Love You Too (2009)
Plot Summary:
Have you ever been tempted to fall in love with your best friend? Well meet Whitney. When she is down on her luck with guys she turns to the one person who understands her, Dawson. His advice wasn't doing nothing but taking her heart. For Whitney finding love is hard but for Charles and Vanessa keeping love is the hardest. Charles and Vanessa is the image of a couple with deep love and wealth. All the time apart from each other leads Charles to devilish temptation. After spending a lot of time with his sexy business partner, Mrs. Denis, and his breathtaking secretary he gives into temptation. His life gets turn upside down when he decides to engage in a sexual encounter with one of the two. Charles quickly sees everything he worked so hard for is about to vanish in the blink of an eye. Will he get himself out of this disarray? This group of Miami's elite will go through all the modern day trial and tribulation. As they are facing obstacles, each of them must use every tactic possible.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 11
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: independent film, hispanic, student film, post modern
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Knuckle Sandwich (2004)
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After leaving his small Georgia town behind to start a new life in Los Angeles, aspiring businessman Carter quickly becomes a success. But when he loses his girlfriend and his job in the same morning, he decides to return to his old town with hopes of finding some clarity. With the help of his offbeat parents, his beer-guzzling buddies and an old flame, Carter discovers what is really important in life. Douglas Callan, Morgan Fairchild, John O'Hurley star.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 103
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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To Miss with Love (1992)
Plot Summary:
When a new teacher (Sharla Cheung) arrives, she finds herself caught up in the affairs of the students from her class. Jimmy Lin is harbouring an unrequited crush on childhood friend Athena Chu. However, he is too shy to reveal his feeling to her when he discovers that she has fallen for the cool kid in class, Nicky Wu. Meanwhile, another student Dicky Cheung has gotten himself into trouble with the triads after failing to pay a debt owed to them. With so much going on, how will Sharla Cheung find a way to solve the troubles of her students and get them to study hard to pass their exams?.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 94
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Taiwan, Hong Kong
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: slapstick comedy, slapstick
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Finnegan Begin Again (1985)
Plot Summary:
A schoolteacher in her early 40s, involved in a dead-end love affair with a married mortician, drifts into a relationship with an aging newspaperman.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags:
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Frank vs. God (2014)
Plot Summary:
Frank is a man who thinks he has lost everything, until his house is destroyed by a tornado. Then when he goes to the insurance company, he’s told they won't pay because the damage falls under the "Act of God" exclusion in his policy. With nothing left, and nothing left to lose, he decides to sue God himself for damages, naming representatives of the world's religions as defendants in the suit. What starts as a ridiculous stunt, becomes a beautiful, funny, soulful odyssey in which he rediscovers that love itself... requires a leap of faith.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 391
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: indie film, spiritual
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Brightest Star (2013)
Plot Summary:
A recent college graduate sets out to win back the girl of his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, humorous, captivating, light, independent film, semi serious
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Sunstruck (1972)
Plot Summary:
Stanley Evans, a Welsh schoolteacher, decides to emigrate to Australia for a better life but ends up working in a school in the dead-end town of Kookaburra Springs. He forms a school choir and decides to compete in a singing competition in Sydney.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia, UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Words and Pictures (2013)
Plot Summary:
An art instructor and an English teacher form a rivalry that ends up with a competition at their school in which students decide whether words or pictures are more important.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, Australia
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, independent film, sincere, light, captivating, intellectual, cult classic, cute, happy
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Headfirst (2014)
Plot Summary:
Headfirst is a black comedy about a single mother with anger management problems and her teenage daughter who is always in trouble at school. With yet another school comes a new teacher and a blast from the past for the mother. Before long, an accidental pickpocket and a notoriously lousy storyteller teams up with this one dysfunctional sort of a family. Nothing is the same anymore. Headfirst is a story about missing teeth, strange friends, hidden dreams and long-gone love. And about a hare.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags:
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A School Trip (1983)
Plot Summary:
Italy, 1914. Two teachers take their pupils for a school outing from Bologna to Florence.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 299
Genere: Comedy, Romance, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Ruben, Ruben (1983)
Plot Summary:
Based on a novel by Peter De Vries. Story of an alcoholic, lecherous Scottish poet on a tour of New England Universities, where he goes from one bed and bottle to another.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: independent film, clever, offbeat, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, eighties
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Andaz (1994)
Plot Summary:
Story about a young teacher in India.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 490
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: India
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags:
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Getting Straight (1970)
Plot Summary:
Graduate student Harry Bailey was once one of the most visible undergraduate activists on campus, but now that he's back studying for his master's, he's trying to fly right. Trouble is, the campus is exploding with various student movements, and Harry's girlfriend, Jan, is caught up in most of them. As Harry gets closer to finishing his degree, he finds his iconoclastic attitude increasingly aligned with the students rather than the faculty.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sentimental, thought provoking, touching, humorous, serious, emotional, realistic, contemplative, reflective
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Dream a Little Dream (1989)
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Bobby Kellar has a crush on Lainie Diamond, girlfriend of school jerk Joel. Coleman is working on an experiment which will help him move into a place where Dreams are reality. When an accident occurs Coleman finds himself in Bobby's body and can only contact Bobby in his dreams.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: inspirational, touching, humorous, epic, cult classic, offbeat, not serious, independent film, clever, feel good
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Kathmandu Lullaby (2011)
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Laia, a young Catalan teacher, moves to Kathmandu in the early 90's, to volunteer in a local school. She will soon discover extreme poverty and a devastatingly bleak educational system that leaves out the most needy. She initially protests and later decides to get married out of convenience, so as to legalize her situation and take on an ambitious educational project in the slums of Kathmandu. She immediately realizes that she can't do it all by herself. She also discovers a beautiful gift she had never expected: to fall in love with the stranger she marries. She finds herself torn between her love life and her commitment to the children she helps. Laia and Sharmila, another young teacher who becomes her dearest friend, work side by side to launch a new project that will distance Laia from her partner beyond repair. It will, however, always unite her to Sharmila and small Kushila, in a personal journey into the depths of the Nepalese society and also to her most inner self.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, psychological, atmospheric, uplifting, touching, humorous, semi serious
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Love, Once and Always (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Lucy’s childhood sweetheart plans to tear down the Gilded Age estate and replace it with a golf course, Lucy fights to preserve the historic mansion at all costs. As Lucy and Duncan set out to find a compromise, they learn that embracing the past may be the key to protecting the future.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Almost Normal (2005)
Plot Summary:
A gay man approaching a mid-life crisis is tired of being different because he is gay. He wants to be normal. Suddenly he is yanked back in time to when he was in high school. But this time, the world is gay and to be straight is considered deviant behavior. Then something else happens. He meets a girl. And suddenly normal becomes ...well almost normal.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying, queer cinema
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The Dive from Clausen's Pier (2005)
Plot Summary:
Good boy Mike Mayer is looking at a fine future and enjoys life with Wisconsin small town friends and steady girlfriend Carrie Beal. Then a stupid accident, diving from the local pier when the water is too low, leaves him quadriplegic. As if that weren't bad enough, Carrie does what none of the gang could imagine: she dumps him, as soon as best friend Rooster realizes she wasn't even honest. Carrie leaves for New York to pursue an undefined 'ambition', moving in with Simon Rhodes she vaguely knows. She starts a love affair with Paul Elliot 'Kilroy' Fraser. However he has his own nagging tragic secret, and her past needs dealing with.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 775
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic
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Children of a Lesser God (1986)
Plot Summary:
James is a new speech teacher at a school for the deaf. He falls for Sarah, a pupil who decided to stay on at the school rather than venture into the big bad world. She shuns him at first, refusing to read his lips and only using signs. Will her feelings change over time?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, sentimental, emotional, compassionate, heartbreaking, melancholic, sincere, uplifting, serious
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Love Affair (1994)
Plot Summary:
Ex-football star Mike Gambril meets Terry McKay on a flight to Sydney, which is forced to land on a small atoll. They become romantic on board a ship sent to take them to a larger island. They agree to meet in New York three months later to see if the attraction is real. One shows up but the other doesn't. However, a chance meeting brings them together again.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, romantic, light, sweet, romantic comedy, talky, sex comedy, serious
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The Story of Luke (2012)
Plot Summary:
Sheltered by his grandparents, Luke, a young man with autism, is thrust into a world that doesn't expect anything from him. But Luke is on a quest for a job and true love. And he isn't taking no for an answer.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, mumblecore, indie film, independent film
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Smoke Signals (1998)
Plot Summary:
Young Indian man Thomas is a nerd in his reservation, wearing oversize glasses and telling everyone stories no-one wants to hear. His parents died in a fire in 1976, and Thomas was saved by Arnold. Arnold soon left his family, and Victor hasn't seen his father for 10 years. When Victor hears Arnold has died, Thomas offers him funding for the trip to get Arnold's remains.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: road movie, touching, feel good, sincere, offbeat, independent film, funny, sentimental, realistic, witty
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The Buddy System (1984)
Plot Summary:
A quiet school truant officer, Joe, uncovers a young boy's attempt to fake a residential address, and subsequently gets involved romantically with the boy's mother. The truant officer waffles between a sadistic relationship with his on-again, off-again girlfriend and the mother. When one of the officer's inventions takes off, he chooses the girl and shatters the friendship with the boy and his mother. Only at the last possible moment does he figure out what he's sacrificed, and attempts to get it back.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Sex Appeal (2022)
Plot Summary:
Avery, a teenager with a tendency towards perfectionism, enlists her friend Larson to help her prepare for her first time with her long-distance boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, sex comedy, semi serious
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Big Eden (2000)
Plot Summary:
Big Eden is a tiny fictional town in northwestern Montana, as Preston Sturges or Frank Capra might have envisioned it. Timber and Cowboy country. This is the story of Henry Hart, a successful New York Artist, who returns to the town of his childhood to care for the ailing grandfather who raised him. Back in Big Eden, Henry must come to terms with his relationship to Dean Stewart, his best friend.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, romantic comedy, sweet, feel good, sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, crying
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Adam (2009)
Plot Summary:
Adam, a lonely man with Asperger's Syndrome, develops a relationship with his upstairs neighbor, Beth.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 36000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, sincere, realistic, independent film, romantic, light, inspirational, sweet, heartbreaking
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Funny Ha Ha (2002)
Plot Summary:
Unsure of what to do next, 23-year-old Marnie tries her best to navigate life after college in this romantic comedy. Still partying like there's no tomorrow, Marnie drags herself out of bed for her miserable temp job and can't decide whether she's wasting her time going after best buddy Alex, who doesn't seem to be interested.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: mumblecore, clever, touching, humorous, sentimental, art house, cult classic, sincere, realistic, witty