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Plot Summary:
Santiago wakes up like any other morning. He goes down to the kitchen and his whole family is waiting for him: it's his birthday. They all sing "Happy Birthday to You" and give him presents. But when he opens the present of his youngest son, he gets angry and says he doesn't like it. The boy starts crying and saying that he loves him, but Santiago answers that he doesn't believe him and he tells the boy that he is fired and that he wants another son, who is thinner, who doesn't need glasses and who resembles him more. Written by Pablo Montoya.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: mesmerizing
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Tomorrow Is Another Day (1967)
Plot Summary:
With the intention of building a future in show business, Paco and Lisa flee to Barcelona in a stolen car. After unsuccessfully looking for work, The two youngsters will be immersed in crime.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags:
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Franky Banderas (2004)
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IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 51
Genere: Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags:
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Cracked Eggs and Noodles (2005)
Plot Summary:
An advocate of sex, but not of marriage, bachelor Daegyu (played by singer-turned-actor Im Changjeon), 26, produces bootleg music albums for a living. One day, he comes across a plucky, nine-year-old boy named Jeon Ingwon (played by Lee Inseong) who insists that he is Daegyu's son born out of wedlock. Daegyu tries every possible means to send the bold boy back to where he came from, including reporting him to the police, deserting him on the street and even pretending not to have known him, but to no avail. Ingwon makes an offer to Daegyu: he will leave him forever if they first travel across the country together. During the journey, Daegyu comes to learn Ingwon's secret and finds a reason not to continue their cross-land journey.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Lulu by Night (1986)
Plot Summary:
German, a young theater director, tries to organize a theater play about Lulu, a prostitute that was killed in London by Jack the ripper. While looking for the protagonist, Rufo appears, an introvert jazz musician. He could play Jack the ripper.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 80
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Thriller
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: neo noir, neo screwball comedy
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Theatre (1978)
Plot Summary:
Human attempts to understand why when acting they are all going through the heart, but in real life are playing a role.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 322
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags:
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Ovation (2015)
Plot Summary:
In this follow up to 'Hollywood Dreams' and 'Queen of the Lot', cheerful and neurotic actress Maggie Chase has cut some of her losses and focuses her acting career at local theater in West Hollywood. Still employed by her acting entourage of Gio, Kaz Naiman, Hildi, as well as the Lambert family, Maggie has reduced some of her neurosis and seems to find peace until she has a meeting of minds when she meets Stewart Henry, a slick and hotshot TV star who is seeking his own career choices by making the transition from TV and film to live theater.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 74
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Mama Turns 100 (1979)
Plot Summary:
Ana and her husband Antonio arrive in the manor in the countryside of Spain where she worked as a nanny many years ago, for the centennial birthday of the matriarch.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Spain, France
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, allegory, tragicomedy, suspense, weird
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La otra alcoba (1976)
Plot Summary:
Marcos, an important businessman working in Madrid, is wealthy, ambitious and has political aspirations. On top of it, he has a beautiful wife, Diana. Their married life, however, is marred by the fact that, after years of married life, they do not have children. At the last minute Diana backs down from adopting a Vietnamese orphan. She is determined to have a biological child. However, Marcos is sterile and has kept this a secret from his wife. When he tells her the truth, Diana reveals that she already knew it having recently consulted a gynecologist who determined that she can conceive.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, gay cinema
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The Truth (2019)
Plot Summary:
Fabienne is a star; a star of French cinema. She reigns amongst men who love and admire her. When she publishes her memoirs, her daughter Lumir returns from New York to Paris with her husband and young child. The reunion between mother and daughter will quickly turn to confrontation: truths will be told, accounts settled, loves and resentments confessed.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Japan, Switzerland
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, disturbing
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People in Places (2013)
Plot Summary:
This kaleidoscopic film weaves together approximately 20 fragmented scenarios that offer a view of contemporary Spain, drawing conclusions about the persistence of the human condition, strangeness, and the chaos within relationships. Starring Raul Arevalo, Eduard Fernandez and Santiago Segura.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: sincere, clever, humorous, realistic, surreal, witty, semi serious, biting, offbeat, suspense
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Carmina and Amen (2014)
Plot Summary:
After her husband dies, Carmina keeps it a secret until a check that he had been expecting comes in.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, melancholic, exciting
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Avvai Shanmugi (1996)
Plot Summary:
A divorced husband desperately misses his daughter. In order to be with her, he takes up a job in his father-in-law's house. The only catch is that the job is that of a female governess.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 161 min
Plot tags: cult film
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Living Is Easy with Eyes Closed (2013)
Plot Summary:
The unforgettable friendship between three people: an English teacher who travels to Almería when he hears that John Lennon is making a film there, a 16-year-old boy who has run away from home and a young girl who also seems to be running away from something.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: road movie, sincere, touching, serious, spiritual, realistic, gloomy
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Carmina or Blow Up (2012)
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Carmina, 58, runs a shop selling Iberian products in Seville. After several robberies and no help from her insurance company, she comes up with a way to recover the money she needs to keep her family. While she waits in her kitchen for her plan to kick in, she thinks back over her life, her work and her miracles.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: realistic, contemplative, humorous, captivating, bleak, social, sincere, offbeat, talky, semi serious
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Zapping (1999)
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IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 147
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: erotic, manga, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Amador (2010)
Plot Summary:
A drama centered on a young woman who takes a summer job caring for a bed-ridden older man, and the intimate secrets they begin to share with one another.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, sincere, serious
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The Queen of Spain (2016)
Plot Summary:
After her experiences in Nazi Germany, actress Macarena Granada traveled to Hollywood, where she became a star. In the 1950s, the diva returns to Francoist Spain to star a Hollywood blockbuster about Queen Isabella I of Castile. (A sequel to “The Girl of Your Dreams,” 1998.).
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, entertaining, realistic, semi serious
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Happy 140 (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends and family reunite at the fancy new holiday home of a woman who is about to turn 40.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, semi serious, light, touching, captivating, suspense, realistic
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Princesses (2005)
Plot Summary:
Set in Spain, the story is about friendship and love in the world of prostitution.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: sincere, serious, disturbing, erotic, captivating, social, hispanic, touching, realistic
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The Perfect Stranger (2011)
Plot Summary:
The mysterious arrival of a foreigner to a small village in a Mediterranean island, awake the sudden interest from a diverse group of residents, who will appear unexpectedly in the stranger's life, believing that he's going to reopen an old shop. In contrast, the real intentions of the stranger are hidden behind an old Polaroid photo, which has led him to that place in search of answers.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 326
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, sincere, light
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Love of Man (1997)
Plot Summary:
Set in Madrid, Spain, this engaging comedy chronicles the complex relationship between single female Esperanza (Loles León), who can't buy a date, and her best friend Ramón (Andrea Occhipinti), a gay divorce attorney whose bed is never empty. The pair's friendship is put to the test when Esperanza introduces Ramón to her fellow teacher Roberto (Armando del Rio) -- who soon sends Ramón's life spinning out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 525
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, crying, sex comedy, sexy
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Tapas Bar (2005)
Plot Summary:
The film centers on a Spanish tapas bar and the love lives of the loosely interconnected people in the neighborhood surrounding the bar. The pairs of lovers include a middle aged woman and a young man; an elderly, drug dealing woman and her terminally ill husband in poor health; the tapas bar owner and his estranged wife; and two Chinese immigrants.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, Mexico
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, emotional, realistic
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Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (1988)
Plot Summary:
Pepa resolves to kill herself with a batch of sleeping-pill-laced gazpacho after her lover leaves her. Fortunately, she is interrupted by a deliciously chaotic series of events.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 45000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, enigmatic, melancholic, talky, feel good, realistic, semi serious, dark comedy, visual, hilarious
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A Gun in Each Hand (2012)
Plot Summary:
A comedy centered on eight men in their 40s, all with identity crises.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: humorous, cynical, psychological, captivating, sentimental, sincere, realistic, witty, semi serious, anthology
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No Shame (2001)
Plot Summary:
A script fell to Isabel by chance. In reading it you realize it's the same story of the romance she had with the film director Mario Fabra, author of the script. Isabel decides appointment with Mario, who was not seen again, but at the moment of truth she feels ridiculous and pretends not to recognize him. He has also recognized that, reacts the same way. Both have young lovers: Mario has to Cecilia, a soap opera actress with self-esteem issues, Isabel has to Albert, a professor of physical expression, as primal as a dependent. Mario needs new actors for his film. After thinking, Isabel chooses to use and your school to get them. Actually he wants to be near as much as Isabel Isabel wants encounter him.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 522
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, clever, realistic, biting, parody, suspense
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The Girl of Your Dreams (1998)
Plot Summary:
A company of Spanish movie makers leaves Franco's Spain and moves to Hitler's Germany to make a film in co-production. Soon some problems start to arise.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, entertaining, sexy, realistic, feel good, pre war
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18 Meals (2010)
Plot Summary:
Food, glorious food! Some of the most sumptuous and involving films revolve around that most common of acts: eating. 18 MEALS is an omnibus film of criss-crossing stories divided into three segments; breakfast, lunch and dinner. Jorge Coira's debut feature, shot over nine days in Santiago de Compostela has enough tasty portions to please audiences. Amongst Coira's expansive ensemble are aging street musician Edu, a pair awaking from a one-night stand, a businessman visiting his closeted homosexual brother and a lonely housewife, Sol. Victor and Sol are two of 18 MEALS' most fascinating characters as they each hide something - his sexuality, her depression - from those around them. Best of all is Pedro Alsono as Vladimir, a local celebrity actor who makes a meal for a mystery woman who never arrives. Who hasn't gone to a lot of trouble to do something extra special for someone just to have it go unappreciated?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: realistic, sincere, humorous, semi serious, culinary, feel good
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Mondays in the Sun (2002)
Plot Summary:
After the closure of their shipyard in Northern Spain, a few former workers: Santa, José, Lino, Amador, Sergei and Reina keep in touch. They meet mainly at a bar owned by their former colleague Rico. Santa is the most superficially confident and the unofficial leader of the group. A court case hangs over him relating to a shipyard lamp he smashed during protest against the closure. José is bitter that his wife, Ana, is employed when he is not. The gap between them is widening and he is fearful that she will leave him for a co-worker. Despite arthritic legs, Ana endures night shifts at a fish factory and thinks her looks are now lost. Not everyone seems to agree including her boss. Lino, an aging family man doggedly pursuing positions beyond his qualifications. The oldest member of the group, Amador, has degenerated into alcoholism after being abandoned by his wife; maintaining an increasingly transparent pretense that his wife will soon return from holiday.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, France, Italy
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: touching, sincere, realistic, political, psychological, serious, feel good, bleak, comedy drama, social
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What Have I Done to Deserve This? (1984)
Plot Summary:
Almodóvar has described his fourth film as a homage to Italian Neorealism, although this tribute also involves jokes about paedophilia, prostitution, and a telekenetic child. The film, set in the towerblocks around Madrid, depicts female frustration and family breakdown.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, surreal, stylized, black comedy, mind bending, psychedelic, social, hispanic, offbeat, humorous
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Le Chef (2012)
Plot Summary:
A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 18000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Spain
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, sentimental, funny, touching, sweet, feel good, humorous, culinary, social, happy