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Plot Summary:
A story about a third-rate DJ who finds his relationship with his young son rapidly deteriorating.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 165
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, entertaining
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The Danish Experiment (2003)
Plot Summary:
Qadry Al-Minyawi is a widowed husband and a father of four adult sons Mahmoud, Ibrahim, Abdulrahman and Hussien. When he is later appointed as the new minister of youth and sports, his old friend asks him to host his Danish sister-in-law Anita who is studying for her P.Hd. and visiting Egypt for the first time. Qadry feels concerned about Anita's presence and how her attractiveness and sex appeal drive all men crazy especially his sons.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Egypt
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags:
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Cracked Eggs and Noodles (2005)
Plot Summary:
An advocate of sex, but not of marriage, bachelor Daegyu (played by singer-turned-actor Im Changjeon), 26, produces bootleg music albums for a living. One day, he comes across a plucky, nine-year-old boy named Jeon Ingwon (played by Lee Inseong) who insists that he is Daegyu's son born out of wedlock. Daegyu tries every possible means to send the bold boy back to where he came from, including reporting him to the police, deserting him on the street and even pretending not to have known him, but to no avail. Ingwon makes an offer to Daegyu: he will leave him forever if they first travel across the country together. During the journey, Daegyu comes to learn Ingwon's secret and finds a reason not to continue their cross-land journey.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
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Of Love and Lies (2019)
Plot Summary:
Twelve-year old Theo plays for a local soccer club and has enough talent to eventually go pro. But his father has been on a self-destructive spiral ever since he started drinking and got divorced, and Theo feels powerless and anxious as he watches his dad slowly destroying his own life. But he refuses to give up on him. When a recruiter for a prestigious British club takes notice of him, Theo sees an opportunity to rekindle his father’s hope, but despite all his efforts he is not selected. So he decides to lie and say he was, hoping to make his father happy and proud. Theo’s dad is so overjoyed that he puts all his heart into helping his son prepare for “once-in-a-lifetime opportunity” gradually regaining his taste for life and motivation for the future. Until the lie reaches unforeseen proportions and completely spins out of control. Thankfully, Theo’s little lie has already operated big change and generated so much hope, that life is able to get back on track. Only better!.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 413
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, entertaining
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Diane Has the Right Shape (2017)
Plot Summary:
Diane doesn't hesitate for a moment when her best friends, Thomas and Jacques, ask her to be their surrogate mother. It is in these hardly ideal circumstances that she becomes infatuated with Fabrizio.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 385
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, sincere, touching, captivating, suspenseful
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Fly Me Away (2021)
Plot Summary:
Thomas, a blasé young man, spends his nights in clubs and his days in bed. Until his father, Dr. Reinhard, fed up with his son’s escapades, cuts him off completely and forces him to take care of one of his young patients. Mar- cus, 12, was born with a serious congenital disorder. He lives with his mother in the poor suburbs of Paris and spends his days either at the hospital or in a center for sick children. This encounter will disrupt their lives and change them both, profoundly and forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Debating Robert Lee (2004)
Plot Summary:
A group of jaded high school students sign up for a debate class taught by a tough, combative teacher from the Georgia Military Academy who teaches them that life is debate and DEBATE IS WAR.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 227
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, suspenseful, disturbing, independent film
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My Brother's Summer (2005)
Plot Summary:
When Sergio learns that he will soon have a baby brother, his imagination kicks into gear in devious and alarming ways. But when his mother suffers a miscarriage, Sergio's feelings of guilt are all too real.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 105
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining
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Maggie (2018)
Plot Summary:
A couple’s hospital tryst is caught on X-Ray. Thinking she and her boyfriend are the ones in the compromising radiograph, nurse Yoon-young goes in the next day to resign only to find that everyone has called in sick except the head doctor.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, intelligent, independent film
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Miss (2020)
Plot Summary:
A young man seeking his sexual identity decides to take part in the Miss France beauty pageant.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 930
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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My Dad Baryshnikov (2011)
Plot Summary:
Moscow, 1986, the heat of Perestroika. Borya is an average clumsy teenager who is miraculously admitted to the legendary Bolshoi Ballet School. The boy is convinced that he will become a ballet dancer like his father, Mikhail Baryshnikov. But is this father real or imaginary?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 312
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Russia
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, entertaining
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Young Bodies Heal Quickly (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers are fleeing arrest for the "accidental" killing of a young girl. Their destination is their estranged father's desolate compound on the sea shore.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, independent film
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Bed Bugs (2017)
Plot Summary:
Burned out and lonely Rocky is almost 50 years old and has seen better times as a womanizer. One day, Thorben shows up at his door claiming to be his son. He is trying to get advice on how to be successful with women.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing, semi serious
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Lousy Bastards (2014)
Plot Summary:
Two brothers got separated after their first love for the same girl. Richard Rohan is an ex-soldier taking care of his two daughters living in a small town. His brother Mikulas Rohan is a neurosurgery expert living in the capital. Both of them have something which the other one doesn't. We follow their separate lives, their everyday mistakes, their memories to slowly reveal the core of their grudge. Inevitable decisions lead to their most important choice in their lives.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 96
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: serious, captivating, realistic
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Another Kind of Wedding (2017)
Plot Summary:
A fractured family is forced to confront what tore them apart at the eldest son's wedding.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious, emotional
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The In-Laws (2021)
Plot Summary:
Is a party after a canceled wedding a recipe for disaster? It is. And what a disaster it is! Two families differ in everything - origin, status, wallet content, taste. The parents of the groom and bride are initially shocked. What did such a thing happen? Who was at fault? What about the wedding party? Should they welcome the guests? Play music? Pour the vodka? Who will cut the cake? From word to word, polite smiles turn into public washing of dirt. And finally a real bomb goes off... And in the meantime, the wedding party turns into a wild party. And no one is bothered by the absence of the newlyweds.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Poland
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Dany (2018)
Plot Summary:
Dany, the king of petty thefts, did not wait until the end of his prison sentence to reunite with his 13-year-old son Sullivan. The only thing he now needs is a job and an apartment to regain custody of his son.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Double Parked (2000)
Plot Summary:
A resourceful and high-spirited woman deals with financial distress and her asthmatic thirteen-year-old son when his life is gravely complicated by a new friendship with the son of her former drunken and abusive husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 193
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: psychological, serious, suspense, suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, independent film
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Reach (2018)
Plot Summary:
A socially awkward band geek, Steven Turano, is planning on killing himself. However, when Clarence, the new quirky kid in school, befriends him, Steven's plans are sidetracked and he reaches beyond his comfort zone forming stronger relationships with his father, friends and teachers. The boys form an inseparable bond as Clarence finds creative ways to pull Steven out of his depression.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 364
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: suspenseful, psychological, touching, serious, realistic, captivating, disturbing, queer cinema
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Familyhood (2016)
Plot Summary:
An aging actress is desperate to become a mother. In menopause and too controversial for legal adoption, she decides to illegally adopt from a pregnant teenager while publicly faking pregnancy. The ensuing media circus at first revitalizes her career but then threatens to grow out of control and destroy everything she cares about.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Accidental Family (2017)
Plot Summary:
Loïc Le Tallec never really took care of his son. When the latter disappears in a road accident, Loïc is devastated. He has only one idea in mind: to find the one who lives now with the heart of his son. He falls on Hugo, a young man that this brand new heart makes totally unreasonable and uncontrollable. Their meeting promises to be explosive.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 220
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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The Snake Brothers (2015)
Plot Summary:
Brothers Grass and Cobra Snake, in their late and early thirties respectively, live in a small Czech town not far from Prague. Coming from a disfunctional family, they both feel unable to build up a life to be satisfied with. Grass, unemployed and still without a girl, does not know how to escape from the shadow of his druggie and troublemaker brother Cobra. Things seem to change for Grass when all at once he gets the opportunity to be part of a promising business and starts a relationship with the waitress of a local pub. It is just then when Cobra and his addiction show up in his life once more to put him on the verge of losing everything he achieved. But this time Grass is determined to not let anybody or anything stop his last chance in life to be happy and he decides to teach his brother a life lesson he should never forget.... A lesson that uncontrollably turns into a nightmare.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 548
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Czech Republic
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: humorous, serious, captivating, suspenseful, entertaining
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That Trip We Took with Dad (2016)
Plot Summary:
Romania, 1968. Two very different brothers. Mihai is a secret police informant, Emil is a dedicated dissident. When they have the opportunity to have their ailing father’s eyes operated on in East Germany, the three set out on a moving odyssey.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 641
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Romania, Hungary, Sweden
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: touching, serious, captivating, realistic, entertaining, road movie, freeze frame
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Synonyms (2019)
Plot Summary:
A young Israeli man absconds to Paris to flee his nationality, aided by his trusty Franco-Israeli dictionary.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Israel, Germany
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing, independent film, weird
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A Millionaire On The Run (2012)
Plot Summary:
Young-in and his colleague Seung-dae are a pair of professional bagmen working for various lobbyists in finance, media and a host of other industries requiring political favors. Feeling guilty about his work, Seung-dae tells Young-in he plans on blowing the whistle on his boss Han’s illegal activities.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 149
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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Happiness for Sale (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mi-na takes over a small stationery store from her father when he suddenly falls down. She wants to sell the store because it seems only troublesome to her. But it is not as easy as she thought. The store's regular costomers force her not to sell it. The objections of the little children is hard to resist.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: South Korea
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: captivating, entertaining, satirical, disturbing
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Man Up! (2019)
Plot Summary:
Tom, 16, is a sensitive teenager who is about to enter a new high school after being expelled. He intends to find his place, make friends and seduce the girl he loves. Tom needs the support of his older brother, Leo, a true mentor, who is working to make him a “cool kid”. However, Leo's fraternal benevolence hides a destructive temperament... Will Tom be able to grow up finding his own path?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 342
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, satirical, disturbing
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Brighton 4th (2021)
Plot Summary:
Follows Georgian ex-wrestler’s journey to Brooklyn, New York. His aim is to get his son out of a gambling debt. He meets people who help him and people who ignore him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 882
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Georgia, Russia, Bulgaria, USA, Monaco
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Crazy First Love (2003)
Plot Summary:
A young student falls madly in love with a professor's daughter. Promised by the professor that he will let him marry his daughter if he graduates from university with a law degree, the student works hard and finally succeeds. When the time comes for the professor to fulfill his promise, his daughter suddenly announces that she will marry another.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 595
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, sex comedy, realistic
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Coconut Hero (2015)
Plot Summary:
It's not easy being a teenager and Mike, a sixteen-year-old, has it espcially hard. He lives in the sticks with his mother, a non-stop nagger, in Faintville, a Canadian timber industry town. He has no father, no friends, not even a favorite meal. Basically, his sole wish is simply to vanish from the face of the earth. One day, Mike writes his own obituary and shoots himself. To his great disappointment he wakes up the in the local hospital. During a routine examination, the doctors discover a plum-sized tumor in his brain. Mike can scarcely believe his luck and keeps the illness to himself to avoid undergoing surgery that would save him. Staring death directly in the eyes, however, changes Mike's point of view and he re-evaluates his opinion of both enchanting and crazy Miranda. Somebody seems to understand him after all.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 975
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, sincere, captivating, twisted
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Confessions of an Invisible Girl (2021)
Plot Summary:
When the clever but socially-awkward Tetê joins a new school, she'll do anything to fit in. But the queen bee among her classmates has other ideas.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, disturbing