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Plot Summary:
Dimboola follows the interaction of various characters at a country wedding reception.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 126
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Night, the Prowler (1978)
Plot Summary:
Felicity Bannister is a young woman living in the shadow of her overpowering mother. Her oppression is her worst enemy until the day she is attacked by an intruder who breaks into her bedroom and forces Felicity into action. The tables are suddenly turned and Felicity transforms from the helpless victim into a ruthless renegade in search of trouble, driven by the anarchic thrill of malevolence.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 230
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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Stork (1971)
Plot Summary:
Stork is a gangly young man, a virgin with an overactive imagination who thinks he’s a revolutionary. Bored with a design job at General Motors Holden in Melbourne, he drops out and moves into a share house with his mate Westy. He daydreams his way through life, bungling job interviews, upsetting ‘respectable’ people, and getting drunk. The only girl in the house, Anna resists Stork’s advances, because she’s already involved with the other two resident males, Tony and Clyde. But when she becomes pregnant and Clyde and Anna decide to marry, Stork, Tony, Clyde and Westy are shocked when they realize that either one of the foursome could be the father. Then the fun begins.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 206
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, slapstick, cult film
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All Night Gaming (2016)
Plot Summary:
A teenage slacker has only one night to finish a major English assignment, his grades depends on it. He is forced to finish the work over night at a local Internet cafe where he encounters gamers, nocturnal goth-ghouls and drunken Clubbers.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 12
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Huevos rancheros (1982)
Plot Summary:
Two "naughty" comedy episodes with naked women and bodies of water.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Mexico
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: anthology
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Sitting on a Branch, Enjoying Myself (1989)
Plot Summary:
Pepe and Prengel, returning from war, meet Ester and both fall in love with the girl and live together in a deserted house. Fanatic communist, Zelmira, wants to turn their world upside-down.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 508
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czechoslovakia, West Germany
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags:
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Who Has Seen the Wind (1977)
Plot Summary:
The coming-of-age of adolescent Brian O'Connal in small town Depression-era Saskatchewan is told. The son of the local pharmacist Gerald O'Connal, Brian is in many ways a typical boy, who dislikes school if only because of his run-ins with the nervous schoolteacher, Miss MacDonald, and who tries to catch gophers with his friends, Artie and Forbsie. His best friend and protector is slightly older Jonathan Ben, better known as The Young Ben (as his father is referred to as The Ben), who is highly regarded as a problem by those in town who see themselves as the moral authority if only because of The Young Ben's association to The Ben, the town still keeper and drunk. Brian's life takes a turn when his parents have to leave town temporarily, while Brian stays on his Uncle Sean's farm. That stint leads to a series of events which make Brian see life around him through slightly older and wiser eyes.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Senza scrupoli (1986)
Plot Summary:
Silvia belongs to a respectable family, the wife of a jeweler in Turin, but charming woman bored by marriage. One night she is alone at home and unwisely opens the door to a stranger trying to rob her and eventually decides to rape her. The police and her husband try to convince Silvia not complain, but she starts looking for the man who raped her for revenge. When he finds, however, is attracted by humiliation and violence suffered and she becomes his lover with anything.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 55
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Shadow of a Chance (1974)
Plot Summary:
Mathias is an anarchist who lives with his 27 year old son, Michel, in late 1960s type communal weirdness.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 56
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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Anita: Dances of Vice (1987)
Plot Summary:
In modern-day Berlin (1987), Frau Kutowski goes insane, believing herself to be the (real-life) notorious Anita Berber, a nude art dancer/drug addict/scandalous figure of post-WWI Berlin. (Berber died of tuberculosis in 1928, having achieved significant success and recognition throughout the dance world.) Frau Kutowski is placed in a mental hospital, where in her own mind she acts out Berber's final days, including in her fantasies the hospital's staff and patients, to represent Anita's friends and associates.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Die dressierte Frau (1972)
Plot Summary:
An episodic battle of the sexes inspired by the best-selling book of the same name.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, erotic, psychotronic
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Ever-Ready Women (1987)
Plot Summary:
Seven women are sick of working in poor conditions on a farm. They steal a tractor and go to the city.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 81
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags:
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All My Friends Part 2 (1982)
Plot Summary:
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. All My Friends Part 2 (Italian: Amici miei Atto II) is a 1982 Italian comedy film directed by Mario Monicelli. It is the sequel to Amici miei of 1975. The movie features Paolo Stoppa in one of his last roles. Description above from the Wikipedia article All My Friends Part 2, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: hilarious, italian comedy
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The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972)
Plot Summary:
Barry McKenzie sets off for England with his aunt, Edna Everage, to advance his cultural education. Bazza is an innocent abroad, fond of beer, Bondi and beautiful sheilas, but he soon settles into the Australian ghetto in Earls Court, where his old mate Curly has a flat.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 913
Genere: Comedy
Country: Australia
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, cult film
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Diary of a Maniac (1993)
Plot Summary:
In this stylish and offbeat black comedy, Benito ( Jerry Calà) keeps a diary of his sexual fantasies and cravings. As a result of his on-again, off-again relationship with the beautiful and insatiable Luigia (Sabrina Ferilli), his thoughts along these lines have grown increasingly bizarre. For his own part, he is driven to pick up and bed women at almost every opportunity. As the fantasies recorded in his diary consume more and more of his life, and grow darker and darker, his ordinary waking life becomes flatter and duller, until he disappears altogether.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: erotic, ambiguous ending, psychotronic, grotesque
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Why Shoot the Teacher? (1977)
Plot Summary:
It's the winter of 1935 and Max Brown is newly arrived in Willowgreen, Saskatchewan - a rural Canadian prairie town - on his first teaching job in a one room schoolhouse. He quickly realizes that this is not his dream situation: the winter is harsher than he's ever experienced, he's living in the basement of the school, the older of his students treat him poorly and his wages are paltry if and when he ever does get paid. He also feels physically and emotionally isolated. There, he bonds primarily with two townsfolk. Harris Montgomery sees Max as an obvious choice to espouse the politics of socialism. And Alice Field sees in Max a person like herself: being a British war bride, she is an alien in a harsh environment. Alice is in an unsatisfying marriage and turns to Max for emotional support. As Max goes through his first year in Willowgreen, he learns to understand life in a rural prairie town, both from the viewpoint of his students and for his own benefit.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 479
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, thinking
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Ninguém Ama Ninguém Por Mais de Dois Anos (2015)
Plot Summary:
"No one loves anyone for more than two years" is an adaptation of Nelson Rodrigues' work about five couples that live in Brazil in the early 60's, who are seen by the society as conventional people, but whose intimate lives turn out to be morally questionable.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Dear Mr. Wonderful (1982)
Plot Summary:
Joe Pesci is a small man looking for a big break. Owner of a bowling alley and nightclub in Jersey, Ruby Dennis (Pesci) sets his sites on making it big in Vegas. But Ruby finds more than he gambled for and in the end is a much bigger man for it.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 298
Genere: Crime, Drama, Comedy
Country: West Germany
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: eighties
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Emerald City (1988)
Plot Summary:
A comedy of life's temptations - lust, greed and power. The city in question is Sydney and the colour green signifies greed and envy in David Williamsons amusing satire on its film and publishing industries. The story centers around the Rogers family, loosely modelled on Williamson's own.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 672
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The French Woman (1977)
Plot Summary:
Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any place in the world to satisfy sexual desires of wealthy and powerful men. Claude's manipulations also involve big business and politics. Meanwhile, photographer David Evans is trying to clear his own criminal record by providing the authorities with pictures of Claude's girls with important clients in compromising positions. But powerful men can do anything to keep their secrets.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 647
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, sensual
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The Hannas (2016)
Plot Summary:
Hans and Anna – together they make the Hannas: A hefty couple who love to cook. They meet sisters Kim and Nicola, both anorexic and excitingly different. Opposites attract, however, and anything goes, so the Hannas each wind up having an affair without the other’s knowledge. But Kim and Nicola have a secret of their own in store.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: feel good
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The False Servant (2000)
Plot Summary:
A young woman disguises herself as a knight to expose a gold-digging man divided between her and a Countess.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: weird
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Special Treatment (1980)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Ilic works in the hospital for compulsory treatment of alcoholics. By conducting his own "special treatment" through physical exercises, apple eating, the healing effects of listening to Wagner's music and psychodrama, a group of six patients have been taken to visit the brewery where there is a problem of alcoholism in the workplace.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 779
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags:
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The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (1974)
Plot Summary:
The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sad, clever, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical, semi serious, biting, semi autobiographical, suspense
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White Night Wedding (2008)
Plot Summary:
Jon, a middle-aged professor is going to get married tomorrow, for the second time, to one of his ex-students half his age. But it's not all roses. First, there's his cranky mother-in-law-to-be who violently opposes the marriage and who demands repayment of Jon's loan before the wedding night. Second, his plans to build a golf course on the little island of Flatey where they live aren't going at all to plan. Third, his extremely drunk best man is on the loose without any shoes and lastly, the continual presence of his emotional first wife is haunting his every move. When the guests start flocking to the island, Jon starts getting cold feet. After a very long night of drinking and thinking, will Jon be able to make it to the church on time?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Iceland
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, witty, realistic, semi serious
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Windrider (1986)
Plot Summary:
A rock star falls for a rich man's son who competitively board-sails the coast of Western Australia.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 749
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sentimental, realistic, serious, melancholic, touching, disturbing, erotic, independent film
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The Club (1980)
Plot Summary:
Boardroom and dressing-room intrigues spill on to the field at the Australian Rules football club.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Sport
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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Don's Party (1976)
Plot Summary:
Don's Party stars John Hargreaves as Don Henderson, a schoolteacher living with his wife, Kath (Jeanie Drynan), in 1969. Out of boredom, he invites a small group of friends to celebrate a predicted Australian Labor Party (ALP) election victory, much to the dismay of his wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: clever, humorous, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, black comedy, dark comedy, independent film
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Lonely Hearts (1982)
Plot Summary:
In this offbeat comedy, an unlikely romance develops between a flamboyant, middle-aged piano tuner and an extremely timid office worker.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 378
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, crying, independent film
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The Coca-Cola Kid (1985)
Plot Summary:
An eccentric marketing guru visits a Coca-Cola subsidiary in Australia to try and increase market penetration. He finds zero penetration in a valley owned by an old man who makes his own soft drinks, and visits the valley to see why. After "the Kid's" persistence is tested he's given a tour of the man's plant, and they begin talking of a joint venture. Things get more complicated when the Coca-Cola man begins falling in love with his temporary secretary, who seems to have connections to the valley.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: aesthetic, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, independent film, erotic, light
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The Efficiency Expert (1991)
Plot Summary:
Wallace is an efficiency expert, managing the high-profile downsizing of a major auto parts factory. But when he is hired to evaluate a small moccasin factory which seems from another era, Wallace has to reconsider the rapid modernization he advocates, as he is confronted by the human faces such plans hurt.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: clever, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film