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Plot Summary:
Returning home to working class Warwick, Rhode Island, Peter Latang encounters childhood friend Donald Treebeck for what starts as a simple favor and turns into a long van ride into two friends past.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film
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Mixing Karma (2009)
Plot Summary:
Comedy about a Seattle family whose son wants to go into art with encouragement from their Indian neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags:
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Me, Natalie (1969)
Plot Summary:
Since she was a child, Natalie Miller has always thought she was an ugly ducking. Despite her mother's encouragement that she will grow up to be pretty, Natalie has never believed it will happen. She rents a Greenwich Village apartment from an eccentric landlady and gets a job at the Topless Bottom Club. She rides a motorcycle to work, decorates her loft with a moose head, and rides up and down a dumbwaiter to get to her apartment. There Natalie meets David an artist, and the two have a love affair before she discovers he is married.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film
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Dakota (2007)
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
Plot tags:
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Furlough (2018)
Plot Summary:
In between caring for her mother, a young woman works part time at a prison. The rookie guard gets a chance to prove her mettle when she's tasked with accompanying a hell-raising inmate on an emergency furlough to visit her dying mother. But things soon spiral out of control, sending the pair on a hilarious, surprising, and ultimately touching road trip.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, thought provoking, touching, captivating, entertaining
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The Chaos Class (1975)
Plot Summary:
Lazy, uneducated students mostly coming from money, share a very close band. They live together in the dormitory of this private highschool, where they daily plan their latest pranks on teachers or the other classes. When a new and obviously strict headmaster arrives, the students naturally try to overthrow him. A comic war of nitwits follows.
IMDB Rating: 9.2
IMDB Votes: 42000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Turkey
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: cult classic, cult film
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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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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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Hambone and Hillie (1983)
Plot Summary:
An elderly woman searches for her lost dog. Director Roy Watts' 1984 drama stars Lillian Gish, Timothy Bottoms, Candy Clark, O. J. Simpson, Alan Hale Jr. and Jack Carter.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 236
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film, humorous, semi serious
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Underdoges (2016)
Plot Summary:
A sign holder gets fired from his job and as a result gets into the drug and bit-coin money laundering business.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 7
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min
Plot tags:
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Mr. North (1988)
Plot Summary:
Mr. North, a stranger to a small, but wealthy, Rhode Island town, quickly has rumors started about him that he has the power to heal people's ailments.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: offbeat, independent film, humorous, semi serious
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Sandesham (1991)
Plot Summary:
After his retirement, Raghavan Nair (Thilakan) is back at his home. His long cherished dream to spend his retired life along with his family is thwarted after seeing his two sons brawling each other over their political differences.
IMDB Rating: 9.0
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: India
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: political, cult classic, cult film
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Saturday Night at the Baths (1975)
Plot Summary:
The Continental Baths, a favorite hangout of New York homosexuals, provides the background of this socially conscious comedy drama that tries to examine the relationships between gay and heterosexual people. The story centers around a macho, heterosexual piano player who gets a job at the notorious nightclub and must therefore reconsider his attitudes. His girl friend helps him too. In the end, he winds up becoming sure of his sexuality when he tries to sleep with a gay man.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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David Holzman's Diary (1967)
Plot Summary:
This fake documentary which appears quite real on the surface is about a young man making a movie about his everyday life and discovering something important about himself and his reality. This film is not a real documentary or is it?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
Plot tags: mockumentary, independent film, cult classic, aesthetic, experimental, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, contemplative
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Swimming to Cambodia (1987)
Plot Summary:
Spalding Gray sits behind a desk throughout the entire film and recounts his exploits and chance encounters while playing a minor role in the film 'The Killing Fields'. At the same time, he gives a background to the events occurring in Cambodia at the time the film was set.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: cult classic, minimal cast, humorous, talky, political, realistic, not serious, semi autobiographical, independent film, funny
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Private Life (2018)
Plot Summary:
Richard and Rachel, a couple in the throes of infertility, try to maintain their marriage as they descend deeper and deeper into the insular world of assisted reproduction and domestic adoption.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, captivating, realistic, disturbing, clever, serious, mumblecore, cult classic, indie film
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Handle with Care (1977)
Plot Summary:
The interlaced stories of several characters in a small town united by their use of CB (citizen's band) radio.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: cult classic, humorous, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, independent film, sexy, thought provoking, enigmatic, bleak
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Hi, Mom! (1970)
Plot Summary:
Vietnam vet John Rubin returns to New York and rents a rundown flat in Greenwhich Village. It is in this flat that he begins to film, 'Peeping Tom' style, the people in the apartment across the street. His obsession with making films leads him to fall in with a radical 'Black Power' group, which in turn leads him to carry out a bizarre act of urban terrorism.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, funny, social, surreal, cult classic, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, cynical
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Margot at the Wedding (2007)
Plot Summary:
Margot and her son Claude decide to visit her sister Pauline after she announces that she is getting married to less-than-impressive Malcolm. In short order, the storm the sisters create leaves behind a mess of thrashed relationships and exposed family secrets.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: talky, depressing, melancholic, stylized, humorous, tragicomedy, semi serious, cult classic, biting, deep
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Smoke (1995)
Plot Summary:
Writer Paul Benjamin is nearly hit by a bus when he leaves Auggie Wren's smoke shop. Stranger Rashid Cole saves his life, and soon middle-aged Paul tells homeless Rashid that he wouldn't mind a short-term housemate. Still grieving over his wife's murder, Paul is moved by both Rashid's quest to reconnect with his father and Auggie's discovery that a woman who might be his daughter is about to give birth.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Japan, USA
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: cult classic, independent film, sentimental, clever, touching, intellectual, feel good, mumblecore, anthology, art house
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The World According to Garp (1982)
Plot Summary:
Based on the John Irving novel, this film chronicles the life of T S Garp, and his mother, Jenny. Whilst Garp sees himself as a "serious" writer, Jenny writes a feminist manifesto at an opportune time, and finds herself as a magnet for all manner of distressed women.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 29000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: dark comedy, offbeat, cult classic, clever, touching, humorous, black comedy, sad, period piece, picaresque
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Unpregnant (2020)
Plot Summary:
A 17-year old Missouri teen named Veronica discovers she has gotten pregnant, a development that threatens to end her dreams of matriculating at an Ivy League college, and the career that could follow.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: road movie, sweet, psychological, touching, humorous, captivating, feel good, sad, cult classic, teen
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Runaway Horse (2007)
Plot Summary:
Helmut and Sabine Halm have always managed vacations of lazy privacy at their favorite retreat on Germany′s Lake Constance. So when the energetic, handsome Klaus Buch turns up with his beautiful girlfriend Helene, Helmut is quite ready to dismiss this dimly familiar acquaintance. But Klaus is overjoyed to recognize his old schoolmate Helmut, eager to recall every incident of their shared time, and to display every detail of this successful lifestyle as a fit sportsman and author. The precious days of privacy give way to an unwanted and awkward intimacy, as the Buchs and the Halms hike, dine and sail together. Their joint activities aggravate myriad psychological tensions among the four characters, which are all the more intensely ironic for their peaceful veneer and which must eventually erupt.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, captivating, light, sexy, realistic, semi serious
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Our Brand Is Crisis (2015)
Plot Summary:
A feature film based on the documentary "Our Brand Is Crisis", which focuses on the use of American political campaign strategies in South America.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: political, clever, satirical, tricky, harsh, inspirational, political thriller, art house, cult classic, comedy drama
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Are You Here (2013)
Plot Summary:
When Steve Dallas, a womanizing local weatherman, hears that his off-the-grid best friend Ben Baker has lost his estranged father, the two return to Ben's childhood home. Once there, they discover Ben has inherited the family fortune, and the ill-equipped duo must battle Ben's formidable sister and deal with his father's gorgeous 25-year old widow.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: light, funny, intense, humorous, dark comedy, happy, realistic, semi serious, independent film, psychological
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Shampoo (1975)
Plot Summary:
George Roundy is a Beverly Hills hairstylist whose uncontrolled libido stands between him and his ambitions. He wants the security of a relationship. He wants to be a hairdressing "star" and open his own salon. But the fact that he beds down with the wife, daughter and mistress of a potential backer doesn't help. It also does little for his relationship with his current girlfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 14000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, stylized, cult classic, witty, biting, sexual, funny, dark comedy, entertaining, meta
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Thumbsucker (2005)
Plot Summary:
Justin, a teenager boy, throws himself and everyone around him into chaos when he attempts to break free from his addiction to his thumb.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 22000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: emotional, humorous, witty, sentimental, dark comedy, realistic, independent film, funny, gothic, educational
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Friday (1995)
Plot Summary:
Craig and Smokey are two guys in Los Angeles hanging out on their porch on a Friday afternoon, smoking and drinking, looking for something to do.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 122000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, hood, cult classic, light, semi serious, hilarious, independent film, black comedy, realistic
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The Descendants (2011)
Plot Summary:
With his wife Elizabeth on life support after a boating accident, Hawaiian land baron, Matt King takes his daughters on a trip from Oahu to Kauai to confront the young real estate broker, who was having an affair with Elizabeth before her misfortune.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 248000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: touching, depressing, emotional, sad, tragicomedy, thought provoking, sentimental, heartbreaking, suspense, talky
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Fast Times at Ridgemont High (1982)
Plot Summary:
Follows a group of high school students growing up in southern California, based on the real-life adventures chronicled by Cameron Crowe. Stacy Hamilton and Mark Ratner are looking for a love interest, and are helped along by their older classmates, Linda Barrett and Mike Damone, respectively. The center of the film is held by Jeff Spicoli, a perpetually stoned surfer dude who faces off with the resolute Mr. Hand, who is convinced that everyone is on dope.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 114000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: teen sex comedy, feel good, humorous, funny, sexy, sex comedy, teen, cult classic, light, hilarious
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
Plot Summary:
A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 157000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: feel good, road movie, light, funny, touching, humorous, hilarious, cult classic, buddy comedy, sentimental