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Plot Summary:
Chilean exiles in Paris discuss the problems facing them. They kidnap and attempt to re-educate a touring singer from their fatherland.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 173
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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Secrets (2008)
Plot Summary:
After long decades of exile, a leftist former activist returns to Chile to settle accounts with his conscience, related to the death of a colleague and political hero . The task of Atalibar (Sergio Hernandez) is to reveal his secret. But his view clashes with the current country, godless, far from the old ideologies and where all his old colleagues have changed.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 70
Genere: Comedy
Country: Chile
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, black comedy, dark comedy
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Manic Pixie Dream Girl (2013)
Plot Summary:
It's a tale about history's most famous Internet video. Roma Rises, Lera Lou, Coley Art, Jenina Mode, Nina Delicious. Here comes the Manic Pixie Dream Girls.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 57
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 70 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, crying, black comedy, minimal cast
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The Agent (2008)
Plot Summary:
It's all in a day's work for high-flying literary agent Alexander; manuscripts to read, deals to be done, celebrity clients to be taken out to lunch, but first there is an author to deal with whose latest book the agent thinks is, frankly, not up to scratch. However he hadn't counted on the author's resourcefulness.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 78
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy
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I, Distressing God (1969)
Plot Summary:
Adolf (Miloš Kopecký), the irresistible seducer of women, is fond of Janicka (Hana Lelitová), a novice opera singer. The girl, however, prefers famous men and Adolf thus does not have a single chance with her. One day in a hospital, he meets a Greek partisan named Apostolek (Pavel Landovský) who impresses him with his spontaneity and ease in solving all problems, especially those with women. Adolf has an idea for a revenge. He makes Apostolek familiar with social manners, dresses him after the latest fashion and introduces him to Janicka as a Greek conductor. Janicka instantly falls in love with the made-up composer and Apostolek does no better.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 118
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy
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The Treehouse (2014)
Plot Summary:
A 30 year old, delusional, no talent musician kidnaps a girl that he thinks is in love with him and stalks a guy who he believes is a record company scout.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 8
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, black comedy
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The Frontier (1991)
Plot Summary:
A Chilean teacher, Ramiro, is sentenced to internal exile in a southern town where tidal waves often appear. He falls for a woman, Maite, whose father asks him to take her away. Although he gets his freedom he doesn't leave and when the water rises, Maite and her father die, and Ramiro flees to the hills.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 501
Genere: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags:
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Tales of Paris (1962)
Plot Summary:
The omnibus made of four separate romantic playlets, each with its own cast, director, and scenarist. "The Tale of Ella," directed by Jacques Poitrenaud, stars Dany Saval as an ambitious nightclub performer who very nearly messes up her chances for success by bullying a mild-looking but important producer. "The Tale of Antonia," directed by Michel Boisrond, finds housewife Dany Robin exacting a sweet revenge on her cheating husband. "The Tale of Francoise," directed by Claude Barma, concerns the efforts of Francoise Arnoul to test the fidelity of her best friend's lover. And "The Tale of Sophie," directed by Marc Allegret, features Catherine Deneuve as a goody-two-shoes who fabricates a torrid romance in order to be accepted by her sexually knowledgeable schoolmates.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: anthology
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)
Plot Summary:
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 951
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, contemplative, semi serious, sketch comedy
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Brothers in Trouble (1995)
Plot Summary:
Amir is an illegal Pakistani immigrant smuggled into England in the 1960's to work, to send money to his family and perhaps even bring them over with him. A skilled laborer, he is forced to do unskilled work like shoveling sheep dung and processing wool. He lives in a boarding house with nearly a dozen other men, under the supervision of Hussein Shah. He befriends a young student, Sakib, who dreams of being a writer. Their existence is punctuated by secret movies, a visiting prostitute, fear of detection and deportation, and the gangster-like smuggler who comes by for his take every week. The household is shaken up by the arrival of a white girl, Shah's girlfriend, and the sense of femininity and family she brings.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 144
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: independent film, dark comedy
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While There's War There's Hope (1974)
Plot Summary:
Pietro Chiocca shifts from hydraulic pumps to heavy war weapons selling. He starts traveling all around the third world looking for clients, and contract by contract his economic situation shoot up, raising also his social status. But is never enough for his family, their needs increase more than the available earnings. For Pietro to sell weapons is becoming every day more stressful, every day more filthy. It has become normal for him to sell stuff to crazy corrupted bloodthirsty African dictators. He has also to fight competition with a French rival. His dirty activity explodes on national press; he becomes a monster for the public opinion. Pietro's family is hypocritically upset with him too! May be it was better the old bathroom equipment sector. Can he come back on his steps?.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 570
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: black comedy, dark comedy, italian comedy
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I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster (2007)
Plot Summary:
Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they might not have what it takes for a life of crime.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, realistic, stylized, dark comedy, black and white, non-linear, neo noir, silent, silent film
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That Day (2003)
Plot Summary:
A father (Michel Piccoli) is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage (Elsa Zylberstein) killed by allowing a murderous psychopath (Bernard Giraudeau) to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 776
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: France, Switzerland
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, mind bending, realistic, witty, dark comedy, surreal, cult classic, clever, offbeat
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Rimini (2022)
Plot Summary:
Richie Bravo, once upon a time a successful pop star, chases after his faded fame in wintry Rimini. Trapped between permanent intoxication and concerts for busloads of tourists, his world starts to collapse when his adult daughter breaks into his life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, France, Austria
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, comedy drama, black comedy, dark comedy
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The Other Side of Hope (2017)
Plot Summary:
A restaurateur befriends a Syrian refugee who has recently arrived in Finland.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 13000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Finland, Germany
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, captivating, realistic, comedy drama, political, social, absurd, art house, intercultural
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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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Balkan Spy (1984)
Plot Summary:
Balkanski špijun is a 1984 Yugoslav comedy/drama. Ilija Čvorović, a former Stalinist who spent several years in a prison on Goli otok, is contacted by the police to routinely answer questions about his tenant, Petar Markov Jakovljević, a businessman, who spent twenty years living in Paris, and now has returned to Belgrade to open a tailor shop. After only several minutes, Ilija is free to go, however, he is starting to suspect that his tenant might be a spy. As the movie goes on, his paranoia increases and more people gets involved: his wife, his daughter, his brother, Jakovljevic's friends.
IMDB Rating: 8.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: funny, black comedy, dark comedy, thought provoking, humorous, realistic, disturbing, semi serious
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Zig Zag Story (1983)
Plot Summary:
The lives of three Parisians - a color-blind painter, a radio show host and a perverted photographer - intertwine and go hilariously out of control.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 178
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, fast
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Six in Paris (1965)
Plot Summary:
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rhomer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: anthology, realistic, semi serious
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La chinoise (1967)
Plot Summary:
A small group of French students are studying Mao, trying to find out their position in the world and how to change the world to a Maoistic community using terrorism.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: political, philosophical, artsy, art house, cult classic, thought provoking, clever, humorous, realistic, talky
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Age of Panic (2013)
Plot Summary:
May 6, 2012. Cable news reporter Laetitia is covering the French presidential elections, while Vincent, her ex-husband, demands to see their two young daughters. It's a manic Sunday in Paris: two agitated girls, a frazzled babysitter, a needy new boyfriend, a grumpy lawyer and France cut in half!.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 609
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, emotional, clever, semi serious
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Limbo (2020)
Plot Summary:
An offbeat observation of refugees waiting to be granted asylum on a fictional remote Scottish island. It focuses on Omar, a young Syrian musician who is burdened by the weight of his grandfather’s oud, which he has carried all the way from his homeland.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: comedy drama, sad
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Chinese Take-Away (2011)
Plot Summary:
A comedy that chronicles a chance encounter between Robert and a Chinese named Jun who wanders lost through the city of Buenos Aires in search of his uncle after being assaulted by a taxi driver and his henchmen.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 19000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina, Spain
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic, social, existential, feel good
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Philanthropy (2002)
Plot Summary:
In the 21st century Bucharest to get out in the city on Saturday evening at the arm of a beautiful woman is a financial investment risky. Ovidiu, unassuming high school teacher, never could afford. Looking for a source of income to something more substantial than a teacher salary, Ovidiu plunge into a fabulous world - beggars mob.
IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Romania, France
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, realistic, dark comedy, existential, light, feel good, entertaining, thought provoking, black comedy
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The Perfect Dictatorship (2014)
Plot Summary:
TV MX, the most powerful Mexican Television Corporation, discloses a scandalous story involving Governor Carmelo Vargas in serious crimes and illicit business. Governor Vargas worried about his political future, decides to clean his image and negotiates a billionaire secret agreement with the owners of the TV Corporation. Carlos Rojo, an ambitious young news producer, and Ricardo Diaz, TV network star reporter, are responsible for making a dirty campaign to change the image the public has of the corrupt Governor and make him, at any cost, a political star and a great presidential candidate. Mexican Television believes that democracy is a farce and has already placed one President... Will they do it again?.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 143 min
Plot tags: cynical, humorous, semi serious, realistic, dark comedy, political, political thriller, cult classic, biting, soap opera
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The Big Feast (1973)
Plot Summary:
A group of men hire some prostitutes and go to a villa in the countryside. There, they engage in group sex and resolve to eat themselves to death.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: erotic, disturbing, art house, surreal, humorous, controversial, atmospheric, black comedy, dark comedy, sexual
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Two or Three Things I Know About Her... (1967)
Plot Summary:
The story of a housewife who must work the streets to earn an extra living - and who becomes the starting point for a larger socio-political essay.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: political, surreal, absurd, clever, talky, cynical, avant garde, mind bending, psychedelic, social
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Carnage (2011)
Plot Summary:
After 11-year-old Zachary Cowan strikes his classmate across the face with a stick after an argument, the victim's parents invite Zachary's parents to their Brooklyn apartment to deal with the incident in a civilized manner.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 132000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Germany, Poland, Spain
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: talky, dark comedy, ironic, black comedy, minimal cast, cynical, absurd, comedy drama, psychological, tense
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Blame it on Fidel (2006)
Plot Summary:
A 9-year-old girl weathers big changes in her household as her parents become radical political activists in 1970-71 Paris.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Drama
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, emotional, realistic, political, epic, historical drama, sincere, crying
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Crossing Borders (2006)
Plot Summary:
Spain 1960, the dawn of the country's economic development. Industrial "reorganization" means that many workers have lost their jobs and are forced to emigrate. Martin is one of them. Martin, his wife Pilar and their son Pablito live with Martin's parents in a basement apartment that comes with their job as superintendents of the building. Encouraged by Marcos, his friend and co-worker, Martin decides to emigrate to Switzerland. The whole family has to admit that for the time being this is the most promising plan. Unable to obtain a work contract from the Swiss Consulate, Martin and Marcos decide to go anyway, pretending they are tourists to get past the border police. Pablito will experience drastic changes in a short period of time: his father's departure, a new way of life in a different country with a different environment and learning another language. But afterwards, in Switzerland, they will face new experiences which will allow them to live with renewed happiness.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, intercultural
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Murmur of the Heart (1971)
Plot Summary:
In the end of the first Indochina War, an open-minded teenage boy finds himself between the urge to discover love and the ever-present, dominating affection of his mother.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy, West Germany
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: sexy, disturbing, touching, sentimental, controversial, erotic, art house, sex comedy, funny, inspirational