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Plot Summary:
Danny movie is all about Daniel Thompson (Mammootty) who looses his parents at a very young age and he strives hard to make a living. Danny.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 266
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 108 min
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Kisarazu Cat's Eye: World Series (2006)
Plot Summary:
After terminally ill Bussan finally passes away he misses hanging out with his still living friends and decides to return to Kisarazu. In his ghost form however only his most trusted friends can see him, and his meddling in the lives of the living results in the return of Ozzy and a long dead team of American baseball players who drowned off the shores of Kisarazu. It's down to Bussan and the Cats to save the day and restore the town to order, but can Bussan bring himself to say bye-bye once and for all?.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 131 min
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Take My Advice: The Ann and Abby Story (1999)
Plot Summary:
Biography of feuding advice columnist twins, Ann Landers and Abby Van Buren, starts with their early lives in Sioux City, Iowa when they were known as Esther and Pauline through their double wedding and follows them into their columnist successes. However, much of the film also concentrates on their personal and professional feuds that ran the course of their lives. Written by John Sacksteder.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 183
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Angry Annie (2022)
Plot Summary:
Annie becomes pregnant. Since she doesn't want to keep the child, she meets a movement that performs illegal abortions. But, in the seventies, Annie will encounter allies and opponents along the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 615
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 119 min
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Broadway Bound (1992)
Plot Summary:
Neil Simon's "Broadway Bound" is the Final Chapter of his acclaimed trilogy that began with "Biloxi Blues" and "Brighton Beach Memoirs".
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
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Offset (2006)
Plot Summary:
The plot focuses on the lives of the soon to be married Stefan, a German working in Romania for a wealthy and eccentric printing company owner, Nicu Iorga and his soon-to-be bride Brîndușa, who is Nicu's secretary.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Romania, Germany, Switzerland
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: intercultural
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Kalyanaraman (2002)
Plot Summary:
An old man (Dileep) narrates his love story and about the curse his family possess to a bunch of teenagers.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags:
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How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning (1965)
Plot Summary:
The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The second part is about how the lantern and jewelery were stolen from a young baroness. And in the third part the hero of Louis de Funes hangs a lantern at the entrance to his house.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 594
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: anthology, slang
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Dil Hi To Hai (1963)
Plot Summary:
Children are exchanged by greedy aunt and uncle in childhood and they live undeserved lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 134
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags:
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The Tango of Our Childhood (1985)
Plot Summary:
The film is about the hard lot of a woman with an extraordinary character, who tries to raise her children and win back her husband, who left family for another woman, after return from the war.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags:
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If I Had a Gun (1971)
Plot Summary:
Vlado, an intelligent boy living in a small village, has fantasies that take him away from his humdrum life. But as the Nazi occupation begins to encroach on the townsfolk his fantasies and reality begin to merge.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Encore, Once More Encore! (1992)
Plot Summary:
A drama set at the end of the Forties and the beginning of the Fifties. In a distant garrison town, life proceeds at a measured past. The officers drink and debauch, while the soldiers serve. Meanwhile accidentally unleashed human emotions are suffocated by the atmosphere of cruelty and hypocrisy.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Russia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Supercock (1975)
Plot Summary:
An American cowboy in the Philippines gets mixed up in cockfighting.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Notorious Daughter of Fanny Hill (1966)
Plot Summary:
Kissy Hill, the daughter of a notorious madam in 19th Century London, follows in her late mother's footsteps with prositution in catering to various upper class gentlemen.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 159
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: grindhouse, independent film
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The Summer of Ben Tyler (1996)
Plot Summary:
Set early during World War II, the film has a lot to say about love, honor, relationships, commitment and power. Keeping their promise to their dying black housekeeper, a white family takes in her teenage mentally-slow son. The movie details the joys and conflicts the family faces as a result of their decision.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 216
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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100 Years of Adolf Hitler (1989)
Plot Summary:
The last hours in the lives of Hitler and his associates.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 453
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: black and white
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The Ceremony (1971)
Plot Summary:
Oshima’s magisterial epic, centering on the ambivalent surviving heir of the Sakurada clan, uses ritual and the microcosm of the traditional family to trace the rise and fall of militaristic Japan across several decades.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: spiritual, avant garde, cult film
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The Days on Earth Are Flowing (1979)
Plot Summary:
A profoundly empathetic, unpretentious and droll account of a how a swarthy, Hemingway-like sailor upends the droning routines of a nursing home when he checks himself in. Though his subtle interactions with the other residents – including his cantankerous roommate who obviously harbours resentment towards his family for putting him out to seed – the sailor gently whisks up an atmosphere of hope and happiness and allows the movie to deliver its beautifully simple message: that life should be savoured until the bitter end.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 125
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 87 min
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The Handcuff King (2002)
Plot Summary:
It is winter in the mid-1970s in Tornio, a village near the northern border between Finland and Sweden. Esko is a boy with a lot of problems. He has succeeded in getting on the wrong side of his gang.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 533
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Finland, Sweden, France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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The Price of Fame (2014)
Plot Summary:
A criminal duo learns of Charlie Chaplin's death and decides to steal his coffin to hold for a ransom.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 904
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Switzerland, France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: realistic, feel good, humorous, entertaining, light, sincere, captivating, offbeat, serious
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Hitler (1996)
Plot Summary:
This movie is about the life of Madhavankutty (locally known as Hitler), a bachelor protective brother of five younger sisters.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Action, Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 153 min
Plot tags:
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Musical Chairs (2015)
Plot Summary:
Perrine, a single, slightly awkward musician, loves birthday parties. One day she accidentally causes a man to fall into a skip at the waste disposal centre. When she learns that he´s in a coma, the young woman tries everything to awaken himand starts to meddle in his life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 361
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: touching, psychological, light, unusual plot structure, captivating, suspenseful, contemplative, tragic
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Vellanakalude Naadu (1988)
Plot Summary:
Vellanakalude Nadu movie which is a political satire based against municipal mafia in the form of Buildings.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 129 min
Plot tags: touching, political, satirical
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We All Loved Each Other So Much (1974)
Plot Summary:
Gianni, Nicola and Antonio become close friends in 1944 while fighting the Nazis. After the end of the war, full of illusions, they settle down. The movie is a the story of the life of these three idealists and how they deal with the inevitable disillusionments of life.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: sad, touching, realistic, semi serious, italian comedy
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Pranchiyettan & The Saint (2010)
Plot Summary:
Chirammal Enashu Francis, a.k.a. Pranchiyettan (Mammootty), is a successful businessman based in Thrissur. He is a devotee of Saint Francis of Assisi and often has imaginary conversations with the saint. His ancestors were rice traders, but he has grown beyond the small rice shop to expand his business into jewellery, real estate, finance, shopping complexes and lot more. Even though he is successful and wealthy, he is not well-educated and he is unhappy with his name and also wants to become a celebrity. He is called Ari ("rice") Pranchi by everybody, citing his ancestors' business as a colloquial taunt. He wants to change his image from Ari Pranchi to something great and is ready to spend a fortune for it. The film deals with how Pranchi tries to get a good name and what changes that brings to his life.
IMDB Rating: 8.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, slang, motivational, feel good, satirical
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Hammersmith Is Out (1972)
Plot Summary:
The Faust legend retold (loosely) and applied to a mentally disturbed patient in a hospital run by a doctor of dubious sanity himself. The patient (Burton) offers the innocent orderly (Bridges) vast riches if he'll help him escape.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 456
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: independent film, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy
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One Week and a Day (2016)
Plot Summary:
When Eyal finishes the week of mourning for his late son, his wife urges him to return to their routine but instead he gets high with a young neighbor and sets out to discover that there are still things in his life worth living for.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 953
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Israel
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Jack the Bear (1993)
Plot Summary:
Story of the relationships between two sons and their father, who moves the family to California and becomes a tv horror show host after the death of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, scary, uplifting, epic, psychological, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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One-Way Ticket to Mombasa (2002)
Plot Summary:
Pete loses his consciousness while playing in a pop band. The diagnosis is harsh and the doctor cannot say for sure whether Pete will celebrate his 18th birthday. One night, encouraged by the vodka on Jusa's 18th birthday, Pete confesses his love to Kata, his dream girl. Together with Jusa, they go to Lapland where Kata has her summer job. In Jusa's wild company, Pete experiences something which he never felt before as they decide to take a trip to Mombasa via Lapland.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: road movie, sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, sincere, captivating, offbeat
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Terms of Endearment (1983)
Plot Summary:
Aurora and Emma are mother and daughter who march to different drummers. Beginning with Emma's marriage, Aurora shows how difficult and loving she can be. The movie covers several years of their lives as each finds different reasons to go on living and find joy. Aurora's interludes with Garrett Breedlove, retired astronaut and next door neighbor are quite striking.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 64000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min
Plot tags: tear jerker, touching, emotional, sad, heartbreaking, sentimental, compassionate, romantic, crying, realistic
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Munna Bhai M.B.B.S. (2003)
Plot Summary:
A gangster sets out to fulfill his father's dream of becoming a doctor.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 87000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, funny, inspirational, entertaining, motivational, light, touching, feel good