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Plot Summary:
Satire about German reunification.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 52
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Stand Up and Be Counted (1972)
Plot Summary:
Sheila is a newspaper reporter who returns to her home town in order to write an article about the progress of the liberation of the women. Arriving at the town she is very surprised to see that her sister and also her mother agree very much with the feministic arguments.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: political, educational
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Anna's Dream (2002)
Plot Summary:
After a gymnastics accident leaves her paraplegic, 18-year-old Anna Morgan returns to high school. Because of time lost due to her injury and rehab, she is repeating her junior year, with her sister Beth. The film covers her adjustments to her new life, and her classmates' problems in dealing with her wheelchair. In a series of small vignettes, it also gives a picture of her family, good and bad, and her parents' efforts to support their kids while dealing with their own fears.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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The Shoe (1998)
Plot Summary:
Every night, Soviet tractors comb the coast of Latvia looking for signs of anyone who could have infiltrated the Soviet border from the sea. One morning, three Soviet patrolmen discover a woman’s shoe in the sand and footsteps leading to the quaint little village of Liepaja.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 198
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Latvia, Germany, France
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Einmal Hallig und zurück (2015)
Plot Summary:
Fanny, a reporter specializing in social gossip, unwittingly stumbles upon an environmental scandal involving a powerful politician. When her not very subtle investigations draw too much attention, she is sent to a tiny off shore island for her own safety. Here she meets Hagen, an uncouth bird enthusiast. He is a man of few words and nearly driven to distraction by this newly arrived reporter woman with her endless chatter. Fanny, driven by her curiosity of a journalist, tries to find out more about Hagen and gradually realizes that there is much more to him than his rough exterior. When she confides in him and tells him her real reason for being on the island, they find that they have much in common.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags:
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Sono Positivo (1999)
Plot Summary:
A Southern Italian family is suddenly faced with AIDS. One of them has it. Which friend or family member could have begun this cycle of infection? The characters include a vain housewife, her straight-laced husband, her gay brother, and her husband's and brother's best friend. Hilarious mayhem ensues.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Stop Train 349 (1963)
Plot Summary:
Roaring across the danger zone of europe...A sealed international express, with a human cargo that can explode a continent!.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Drama, Thriller
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (1979)
Plot Summary:
A newspaper editor decides to send his girlfriend, who is also a reporter on the paper, undercover to try out for the cheerleading team for the Dallas Cowboys in order to do an "insider's" story.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 290
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags:
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Dear Summer Sister (1972)
Plot Summary:
Sunaoko come to Okinawa to find his brother Tsuruo. Her searching is not very painless because it tears up old wounds in complicated relationships, some of which date back to the horrors of war.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Freud Leaving Home (1991)
Plot Summary:
In this story, the 60th birthday of Cohen-family matriarch Rosha is the occasion for a gathering of her children from the diverse places around the world. The central character in this drama, however, is Angelique, whose interest in psychoanalysis has earned her the nickname of "Freud." Her older brother is gay and lives in Florida with his lover. Her older sister has married into an Orthodox family, and lives in Jerusalem. They have all gathered in Sweden for their grandmother's birthday. Meanwhile, Rosha's daughter, the mother of these diverse children, has taken ill and is in the hospital. She has been diagnosed with a very advanced, inoperable brain tumor. Freud, who never left home, is perhaps as upset by this news as anyone, and she startles everyone by going out and beginning an affair with a biker. However, she is deeply involved in the new situation: she insists that their mother be brought home from the hospital rather than being allowed to suffer and die there.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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The Adults (2023)
Plot Summary:
The treasure hunt deep within as individuals and as a family is an admirable trio whose interpretation is as nuanced as it is poignant.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: poignant
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Pavithram (1994)
Plot Summary:
A young man's relationship with his career, fiancee and brother is brought under stress by the birth of an unexpected sister.The film deals with the relationship between siblings Unnikrishnan (Mohanlal) and Meenakshi (Vinduja Menon) who have an almost 30 year age difference between them. The film won Mohanlal the 1994 Filmfare Award for Best Actor.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 854
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: sad
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The Yen Family (1988)
Plot Summary:
Comedy about a family and their obsession for making money.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: independent film, black comedy
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Sauna (1992)
Plot Summary:
A film based on a simple situation: several men talk in the sauna.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 141
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags:
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Sugar Sand (2017)
Plot Summary:
End of the 1970s in East Germany: Fred and Jonas are close friends. The 10-year-olds live near at the German-German frontier. After the mother from Jonas has made an exit application, the boys have to recognize that they are soon separated from each other. But they want to dig a tunnel to Australia to meet there themselves again. When Jonas should leave the country with his mother this night changes everything.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 187
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: suspense, tense, unusual plot structure, suspenseful, contemplative
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Westler (1985)
Plot Summary:
Felix from West-Berlin falls in love with Thomas in East-Berlin. At first they keep their relationship going by regular visits from Felix, but the curfew forces him to return every evening. When the East-German authorities become suspicious, Thomas decides to try and flee to the West.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 429
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 94 min
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An Englishman Abroad (1983)
Plot Summary:
Actress Coral Browne travels to Moscow, and meets a mysterious Englishman. Turns out he's the notorious spy, Guy Burgess. Based on a true story, with Ms. Browne playing herself.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 61 min
Plot tags:
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Bro Daddy (2022)
Plot Summary:
John Kattady and his wife Annamma think about marrying off their son Eesho to Anna, who is the daughter of their long-time family friend Kurien. Eesho and Anna don’t act too impressed with each other, despite their parents’ interest in the alliance. Little do the families know what is going on behind the curtains in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 159 min
Plot tags: feel good
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Silencing Mary (1998)
Plot Summary:
Mary Stuartson is proud to be the first in her family to attend a university, but when her roommate, Holly, is raped by the school's star football player, Mary, who is a reporter for the college newspaper, begins her own investigation.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 336
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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How I Was Systematically Destroyed by Idiots (1983)
Plot Summary:
The film follows a life of a homeless, but very well read, Marxist who is coping with Che's death and wishes to live a life of revolutions and workers' uprisings. He is a hypochondriac, bitter at the world, and blaming his old capitalist boss for his life's misery.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: crying
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The Carriers Are Waiting (1999)
Plot Summary:
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IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium, Switzerland
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: black comedy, humorous, realistic, surreal, semi serious, dark comedy
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The Border Post (2006)
Plot Summary:
At a small border-post on the Yugoslav-Albanian border, yet another generation of soldiers suffering the usual amount of boredom awaits the end of their service, counting days to the moment when they should take their uniforms off for good. It is the spring of 1987 and the thought never even crosses their mind that they would, in fact, put them back on quite soon and go to war.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia, Serbia, UK, Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Hungary, Austria
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic, sex comedy, islamic, bleak, sexual, sexy
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The Man on the Wall (1982)
Plot Summary:
An East German man finds a way to cross the border between East and West Berlin. But when he succeeds in bringing his wife out as well, things are not quite as expected.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Open the Wall (2014)
Plot Summary:
A lighthearted look at the opening of the border crossing of Bornholmer Straße in Berlin from the point of view of the confused border guards.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 858
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: tense, humorous, captivating, light
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The Front Page (1974)
Plot Summary:
A journalist suffering from burn-out wants to finally say goodbye to his office – but his boss doesn’t like the idea one bit.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: talky, light, humorous, hilarious, witty, captivating, period piece, cult classic, independent film, realistic
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Man About Town (2006)
Plot Summary:
A top Hollywood talent agent finds his cushy existence threatened when he discovers that his wife is cheating on him and that his journal has been swiped by a reporter out to bring him down.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, witty, semi serious, cynical, romantic drama, clever, realistic, biting, crying, suspense
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Hooking Up (2009)
Plot Summary:
After "hooking up" with a series of guys at a house party, April is the talk of her high school.
IMDB Rating: 2.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: sexy, humorous, realistic, not serious, touching, melancholic, sex comedy, independent film, hot
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What Goes Up (2009)
Plot Summary:
Set in the mid-80's when a reporter is sent to cover the Challenger Space Shuttle launch only to become mixed up in the lives of some local students.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, realistic, erotic, sexual, crying, sexy, whimsical, corny
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Rikky and Pete (1988)
Plot Summary:
Rikky (Nina Landis) and her brother Pete (Stephen Kearney) struggle to keep their lives from spinning out of control in small town Australia.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 304
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: touching, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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The Rum Diary (2011)
Plot Summary:
Tired of the noise and madness of New York and the crushing conventions of late Eisenhower-era America, itinerant journalist Paul Kemp travels to the pristine island of Puerto Rico to write for a local San Juan newspaper run by the downtrodden editor Lotterman. Adopting the rum-soaked lifestyle of the late ‘50s version of Hemingway’s “The Lost Generation,” Paul soon becomes entangled with a very attractive American woman, Chenaults and her fiancée Sanderson, a businessman involved in shady property development deals. It is within this world that Kemp ultimately discovers his true voice as a writer and integrity as a man.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 107000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: stylized, sexy, light, surreal, humorous, ironic, cult classic, offbeat, talky, scenic
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The Paper (1994)
Plot Summary:
Henry Hackett is the editor of a New York City tabloid. He is a workaholic who loves his job, but the long hours and low pay are leading to discontent. Also, publisher Bernie White faces financial straits, and has hatchetman Alicia Clark, Henry's nemesis, impose unpopular cutbacks.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: talky, clever, sentimental, humorous, black comedy, sincere, realistic, semi serious, intellectual, feel good