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Plot Summary:
Brian and Jack were inseparable; now they barely speak. Their formerly close-knit group has all but disbanded in the wake of encroaching adulthood. But when Jack tries to hang himself from a plant hook while house-sitting, he inadvertently triggers an impromptu reunion that brings the old gang back together and could change everything. Forever. Welcome to DAKOTA: friendship, fistfights, concussions, quarter-life crises, blow-ups, breakdowns, toy guns, telemarketing, love, lies, and breakfast - all in someone else's home. In this dark, offbeat comedy everyone comes together to examine what went wrong. Along the way, they may just remind each other what went right.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
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Dogpound Shuffle (1979)
Plot Summary:
A man who has lost his beloved pet dog enlists the help of a young drifter in finding the animal. This leads to a series of misadventures, including a confrontation with a hulking dog-pound worker and a stint providing the entertainment at a millionaire's party.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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One Last Chance (2004)
Plot Summary:
A group of slackers think they have found gold in the Highlands.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Norway
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Aloha Summer (1988)
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It's the 60s and a bunch of crazy teenagers meet in the beautiful island of Hawaii during their summer holidays. Although they come from different backgrounds, they hang out together and shake up the island! They surf, dance, drink, fight and fall in love. As the summer approaches its end, they find themselves inseparable, friends for a lifetime.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 295
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Ordinary Greatness (2022)
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IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: China
Duration: 45 min
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Eastern Business (2016)
Plot Summary:
Two Moldavian friends begin a journey full of adventures and suspense trying various business ideas in order to earn enough money to achieve their dreams.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 868
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, Lithuania, Moldova
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: absurd
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Baby Comes Home (1980)
Plot Summary:
A family drama directed by Waris Hussein.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Four Letter Words (2000)
Plot Summary:
A study of the post-adolescent male psyche, Four Letter Words gives an often humorous but raw unadulterated look at the views, attitudes, and language of young men in suburban America. The film focuses on a dwindling summer night's party, at which the characters gather for the first time since high school graduation. As the night's activities take their toll, the immaturity level rises, the profanity flies and of course the drunken brawl breaks out. It will be a night to remember although some would wish to forget.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags:
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Knuckle Sandwich (2004)
Plot Summary:
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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Little Noises (1991)
Plot Summary:
A struggling writer steals poems written by his mute friend to achieve fame and fortune.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 245
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Exchange (2021)
Plot Summary:
A socially awkward but highly enterprising teenager decides to acquire a "mail order best friend"; a sophisticated exchange student from France. Instead, he ends up importing his personal nightmare, a cologne-soaked, chain-smoking, sex-obsessed youth who quickly becomes the hero of his new community.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 557
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: bilingual
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The Last Word (2017)
Plot Summary:
A retired businesswoman – who tries to control everything around her – decides to write her own obituary. A young journalist takes up the task of finding out the truth, and the result is a life-altering friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: psychological, thought provoking, humorous, captivating, disturbing, motivational, philosophical, sad
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The Red Thread (2008)
Plot Summary:
Mei has been in love with Yuya all her life. They've grown up together. But when they reach their second year of middle school, Yuya suddenly professes his love for her older sister, Haruna.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 152
Genere: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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Little Sister (2016)
Plot Summary:
October, 2008. Young nun Colleen is avoiding all contact from her family, until an email from her mother announces, “Your brother is home.” On returning to her childhood home in Asheville, NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal posters. Her parents are happy enough to see her, but unease and awkwardness abounds. Her brother is living as a recluse in the guesthouse since returning home from the Iraq war. During Colleen’s visit, tensions rise and fall with a little help from Halloween, pot cupcakes, and GWAR. Little Sister is a sad comedy about family – a schmaltz-free, pathos-drenched, feel good movie for the little goth girl inside us all.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, light, captivating, entertaining, social, light hearted, independent film
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Chloe and Theo (2015)
Plot Summary:
A young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit Eskimo, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to provide a message to the people of the world – We either change our destructive was or be destroyed by them. Chloe, who has been searching for something to believe in, becomes inspired by Theo and , with the help of a kind lawyer, Monica, the three of them present Theo’s story to the United Nations in hopes of creating a better future for all of us.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: humorous, tense, light, captivating
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Better than nothing (2014)
Plot Summary:
The 17-year-old Tom filled out a questionnaire for the Employment Agency at a vocational guidance office in his school. He falls in love with the trainee, which distributed the questionnaires. In the evaluation he gets out a job as an apprentice at a funeral home as a funeral professional.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Everything's Jake (2000)
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IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 146
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, psychological, independent film
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The Photographer (2000)
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A year after becoming the toast of New York City's art scene, photographer Max Martin has lost his ability to take a decent picture. On the night before his make-or-break gallery opening, surrounded by the trappings of success but devoid of inspiration, Max embarks on a bizarre trek through the city in search of ten mysterious photographs that could save his career. Shot in brilliant color and dramatic black and white, first-time director Jeremy Stein's industrial New York City is a wonderland, roamed by witches and magical creatures, where survival hinges on the completion of a simple quest. Accompanied by an unlikely crew of strangers he meets along the way, Max trips through a modern-day Oz and rediscovers the easily forgotten value of seeing magic reflected in everyday life.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 355
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, offbeat
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Step by Step (2016)
Plot Summary:
After a serious sport accident in a swimming pool, Ben, now an incomplete quadriplegic, arrives in a rehabilitation center. He meets with other handicapped persons (tetraplegics, paraplegics, traumatized crania), all victims of accidents, as well as a handicapped since his early childhood. They go through impotence, despair and resignation, with their daily struggle to learn how to move a finger or to hold a fork. Some of them slowly find a little mobility while others receive the verdict of the handicap for life. Despite everything, hope and friendship help them endure their difficulties.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: psychological, touching, thought provoking, unusual plot structure, humorous
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Donkeys (2010)
Plot Summary:
Alfred is 64. He's lost touch with his family and a threat to his health makes him realise he wants to make amends. The more he tries to do right, the more he does wrong, and as his past comes back to haunt him, he is forced to face up to what his life means to him. Rounding Up Donkeys is the second film in Sigma and Zentropa's three feature film concept 'Advance Party'.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 234
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 78 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, light, sincere, black comedy, dark comedy, contemplative
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Cas & Dylan (2013)
Plot Summary:
A dying Doctor, who plans to check out on his own terms, takes a reluctant detour when he inadvertently winds up on the lam with an 'anything-but-normal' 22-year-old girl.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, sincere, buddy comedy
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The Day He Arrives (2011)
Plot Summary:
Sang-Joon is a professor in the film department at a provincial university. He goes to Seoul to meet his senior, Young-Ho, who works as a film critic. Sang-Joon stays in a northern village in Seoul for 3 days.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: serious, sentimental, touching, realistic, black and white, poetic, crying
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A Matter of Heart (2009)
Plot Summary:
Garage owner Angelo and big-time film producer Alberto find themselves occupying neighbouring beds in a Rome hospital after suffering heart attacks. Alberto is a gregarious joker - and chain smoker - who has a strong effect on the impressionable Angelo. However, as one of the men's condition deteriorates, the other becomes more deeply involved in his personal life.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 875
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat
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Coconut Hero (2015)
Plot Summary:
It's not easy being a teenager and Mike, a sixteen-year-old, has it espcially hard. He lives in the sticks with his mother, a non-stop nagger, in Faintville, a Canadian timber industry town. He has no father, no friends, not even a favorite meal. Basically, his sole wish is simply to vanish from the face of the earth. One day, Mike writes his own obituary and shoots himself. To his great disappointment he wakes up the in the local hospital. During a routine examination, the doctors discover a plum-sized tumor in his brain. Mike can scarcely believe his luck and keeps the illness to himself to avoid undergoing surgery that would save him. Staring death directly in the eyes, however, changes Mike's point of view and he re-evaluates his opinion of both enchanting and crazy Miranda. Somebody seems to understand him after all.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 975
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, sincere, captivating, twisted
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The Carer (2016)
Plot Summary:
Dorottya is a young Hungarian actress with a burning desire: to make it on the English stage. Legendary actor, Sir Michael Gifford suffers from an incurable disease, and has one desire: be left alone. When Dorottya becomes his carer they both hope their wish will be fulfilled.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hungary, UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, inspirational, touching
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Lily & Kat (2015)
Plot Summary:
Set in New York City, the film follows a naive fashion school graduate named Lily who finds her world turned upside down when her reckless best friend Kat announces she’s moving away to London in a matter of days. At a Lower East Side art opening the next night, they meet the enigmatic rising artist Henri, who Lily quickly takes a liking for. With less than seven days left and a new attractor between them, Lily and Kat will find their “unbreakable” friendship put to the test.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 656
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: realistic, semi serious, light, feel good, independent film
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The Guatemalan Handshake (2006)
Plot Summary:
A mysterious power failure in a small mountain town coincides with the disappearance of one of its most eccentric young residents. Mystery piles upon mystery as his family and friends search for him, fail, and ultimately try to forget about him, an undertaking that results in many unexpected, and in some cases bizarre, effects on the town's already peculiar community.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: stylized, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, mumblecore, independent film, offbeat, black comedy, dark comedy
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Girls Town (1996)
Plot Summary:
Four women, Patti, Emma, Angela, and Nicki are completing their last year of high school. Unfortunately for the group, one of their own, Nicki, unexpectedly commits suicide. The three remaining women, upon finding out that Nicki had been raped before she died, begin to talk to each other about the ways in which they are oppressed by the men in their lives. They begin to fight together, taking revenge on Emma's rapist, Patti's abusive ex-boyfriend, and finally, Nicki's rapist.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 812
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: harsh, disturbing, sincere, touching, independent film, realistic, serious, sexy, thought provoking, unusual plot structure
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The Big Ask (2013)
Plot Summary:
The Big Ask is a dark comedy about three couples who head to the desert to help their friend heal after the death of his mother. They would do anything for him - except for the one thing he wants.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 679
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, psychological, captivating, realistic, independent film
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House of D (2004)
Plot Summary:
In the present, artist Tom Warshaw recalls his traumatic coming of age. As a 13-year-old growing up in New York City in 1973, Tom hangs out with Pappass, a mentally disabled man. With Tom's mother battling depression after the death of her husband, the young boy is left to his own devices. When Tom develops a crush on schoolmate Melissa, Pappass feels abandoned and begins behaving erratically.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, emotional, intense, spiritual, period piece, cult classic, feel good, humorous, realistic
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Nanban (2012)
Plot Summary:
The plot of the film illustrates the embankment of two friends on a quest for a lost buddy, who was once an optimistic and successful student. On their journey, they recount their college life and special moments that the three shared up until their lost friend secretly parted ways after convocation. During their quest, the two encounter a rival classmate who once made a long forgotten bet with them, a funeral that goes impossibly out of control, and a wedding they must crash.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 188 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, light, sincere, captivating, realistic, semi serious