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Plot Summary:
Two foundering musicians in the early stage of their careers meet and form an unlikely alliance.
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Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 62 min
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National Theatre Live: Amadeus (2017)
Plot Summary:
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, a rowdy young prodigy, arrives in Vienna, the music capital of the world – and he’s determined to make a splash. Awestruck by his genius, court composer Antonio Salieri has the power to promote his talent or destroy his name. Seized by obsessive jealousy he begins a war with Mozart, with music, and ultimately, with God.
IMDB Rating: 8.2
IMDB Votes: 338
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 206 min
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Cinderella: A Comic Relief Pantomime for Christmas (2020)
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Olivia Colman leads a stellar cast of actors, entertainers and comedians in a very special ‘stay-at-home’ adaptation of Cinderella for Comic Relief.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 140
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min
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L.A. Superheroes (2013)
Plot Summary:
Helena, a beautiful immigrant actress/model, way too old for modeling and too old for acting without credits finally lands a big job but overseas. Out of desperation and advice of her LA friends she commits a federal fraud to get her traveling documents. To escape jail time she gives out names. In this comedic/dramatic piece as she is still wondering where her career is going she needs to watch over her back wondering if she is going to end up getting whacked by the people she ratted out.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: funny, light, captivating, entertaining
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Second Chance (1972)
Plot Summary:
A rich stockbroker buys a Nevada ghost town as a community for people who need a second chance in life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 46
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 74 min
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Snide and Prejudice (1997)
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At a mental institution, the resident physician, Dr Cohen, encourages his patients who believe they are important Nazi figures to act out their fantasies. The therapy sessions show Hitler consolidating his power by assembling his gang of supporters; however, they are interrupted at times, once because Davidson's uniform is at the dry cleaners, and another time because a patient who believes he is Picasso interrupts a session.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 114
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min
Plot tags: christian film, independent film, black comedy
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Raymond & Ray (2022)
Plot Summary:
Half brothers Raymond and Ray reunite when their estranged father dies—and discover that his final wish was for them to dig his grave. Together, they process who they’ve become as men, both because of their father and in spite of him.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: existential
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How Good the Whites Are (1988)
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Ya bon les blancs depicts a fiercely farcical fable-like vision from Ferreri’s typically ruthless perspective where naïve white liberals attempt to give starving African spaghetti and tomato sauce as aid, ugly Italians attempt boning bloated black native broads, a Catholic priest is gang-raped while he eats Russian chicken and stares at the starved corpse of a preteen negro boy, a deranged jigaboo wearing a white mask claims to whites that he is a real white man and that they are imposters that must leave, and a group of cannibalistic negroid nomads who eat two crackers that dare to sully their magical waterhole. (cont. http://www.soiledsinema.com/2014/08/how-good-whites-are.html?zx=4dfcfb7d2366e8ba).
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 201
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain, Italy, France
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: grotesque
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Men Cry Bullets (1998)
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A young man wants to be a female impersonator, but gets mocked in his very first performance by a fierce older woman. He finds out where she lives and goes to her house expecting an apology. Instead, she locks him in her shed and rapes him. It makes him fall for her. But soon her even darker side reveals itself when she believes he is attracted to her more beautiful visiting cousin.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 129
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
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Van Nuys Blvd. (1979)
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A small-town kid hears about the wild nights of cruising the boulevard in Van Nuys, California. He drives out there to check it out, and gets involved with drag racers, topless dancers and bikers.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 582
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: cult classic, grindhouse, independent film, touching, offbeat, humorous, futuristic, realistic, semi serious, sexual
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Sweet Bird of Aquarius (1970)
Plot Summary:
A TV cameraman is having marital problems with his beautiful blonde wife. He comes up with the idea of going to a nudist colony as a way to help with their marital and sexual problems.
IMDB Rating: 4.4
IMDB Votes: 41
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Crazy Like a Fox (2004)
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This is the story of Nat Banks, an 8th generation Virginian gentleman farmer living in the past, who loses his family farm, Greenwood, to a pair of land speculators from Washington, D.C. When the predatory couple manipulates a "legal" real estate transaction that turns into a hostile possession of the manor house, he temporarily loses his mind, leaving his family but not the farm. Instead he hides out in a cave on Goose Creek, waging guerilla warfare against expansionism and the destruction of historic property with the help of his family, friends, and neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 177
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, humorous, clever, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious, independent film
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Slumber Party '57 (1976)
Plot Summary:
In 1957, a group of high school girls spending the night in a mansion tell each other about their first sexual experiences.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 218
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Which Way, Por Favor? (1999)
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The breathtaking sights and sounds of Mexico's lush Pacific coast come alive in this captivating comedy-drama shot in the isolated seaside village of Yelapa. Join four offbeat travelers hunting for romantic adventure, hidden cash, a mysterious father, and the mythic sorceror, "Don Juan," made famous in books by Carlos Castaneda. Featuring a cast of North American actors and Yelapa locals and an original soundtrack recorded by members of the David Grisman Band, Tito Puente, Van Morrison, The Robert Gray Band -- and the grammy-winning CARLOS SANTANA Band.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: independent film, low-budget
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Me Again (2012)
Plot Summary:
Things don't go as expected when a disenchanted pastor wishes for a different life.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 888
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: christian film, feel good, uplifting, humorous, semi serious, spiritual
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Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
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Damon Runyon's fairytale, sweet and funny, is told by director Frank Capra. Boozy, brassy Apple Annie, a beggar with a basket of apples, is as much as part of downtown New York as old Broadway itself. Bootlegger Dave the Dude is a sucker for her apples --- he thinks they bring him luck. But Dave and girlfriend Queenie Martin need a lot more than luck when it turns out that Annie is in a jam and only they can help: Annie's daughter Louise, who has lived all her life in a Spanish convent, is coming to America with a Count and his son. The count's son wants to marry Louise, who thinks her mother is part of New York society. It's up to Dave and Queenie and their Runyonesque cronies to turn Annie into a lady and convince the Count and his son that they are hobnobbing with New York's elite.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 136 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, light, feel good, humorous, semi serious, witty, black and white, cult classic, clever
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Burnzy's Last Call (1995)
Plot Summary:
A downtown Manahattan gin mill plays host to a series of comic vignettes.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 113
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: independent film, sincere, offbeat, humorous, realistic, contemplative, talky, semi serious
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The Overbrook Brothers (2009)
Plot Summary:
Road movie about two brothers who drive to Texas to find out the truth behind their parents.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 247
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, captivating, light, emotional, entertaining, semi serious, crying
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New Year's Day (1989)
Plot Summary:
A man returns to his sublet apartment to find the previous tenants, three offbeat young women, still in residence, under the mistaken belief that they have the apartment until the end of New Year's Day.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: independent film, heartfelt
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Bad Words (2013)
Plot Summary:
A misanthropic man sets out to exact revenge on his estranged father, by finding a loophole and attempting to win the National Spelling Bee as an adult. Figuring it would destroy his father, and everything he's worked so hard for as head of the Spelling Bee Championship Organization, Guy Trilby (Jason Bateman) eventually discovers winning isn't necessary for revenge, and that friendship is a blessing not a curse.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 55000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, humorous, not serious, dark comedy, clever, black comedy, feel good, social, spoof, romantic comedy
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Luster (2002)
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An irreverent and refreshing take on the queer world of sex, lust and unrequited love. Lanky, blue haired Jackson, record store employee and poet, is in love with most of the men in his life! A refreshing departure from the typical gay love story, LUSTER is a raw and darkly comic look at young punks in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: sexy, realistic, semi serious, humorous, erotic, independent film, sexual, lgbt cinema, queer cinema, gay cinema
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The House of Tomorrow (2017)
Plot Summary:
The film tells futurist, architect, and inventor R. Buckminster Fuller's incredible story through two teens hoping to get laid, become punk gods, and survive high school.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, enigmatic, captivating, semi serious, teen
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Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Plot Summary:
Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 75000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: ironic, humorous, talky, witty, sentimental, captivating, clever, intellectual, realistic, funny
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Best Man Down (2012)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple cancels their honeymoon and returns to the snowy Midwest to make the funeral arrangements for their best man, who died unexpectedly after their ceremony.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, light, melancholic, romantic, sweet, talky, touching, humorous, semi serious, realistic
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Spooner (2009)
Plot Summary:
Facing eviction from his parent's home on his 30th birthday, a socially awkward guy meets the girl of his dreams and creates his own rules for growing up.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 649
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, independent film
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All I Want (2002)
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Teenager Jones has opted not to go to college and is instead renting a room in a boarding house to work on his writing skills. Soon, Jones finds himself dividing his time between two women: a young actress named Lisa and a photographer named Jane. After Jane's ex-boyfriend arrives to help her recover from a car accident, Jones begins to understand just how much he cares for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, light, romantic, sweet, humorous, sentimental, realistic, semi serious, clever, enigmatic
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Foreign Letters (2012)
Plot Summary:
A bittersweet coming-of-age film, Foreign Letters is itself a love letter to the unshakeable bond between friends. Set in the pre-email era of the 1980s, young Ellie, newly arrived to the US from Israel, anxiously waits for letters from her best friend back home. Suffering from homesickness, language difficulties and rejection at school, life brightens when she meets Thuy, a Vietnamese refugee her age. As the two bond and become inseparable, they eventually hurt each other, and Ellie must find a way to restore their trust. Based on director Ela Thier's personal immigration experience, Foreign Letters is a film about poverty, prejudice, shame, and the healing power of friendship.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 273
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, serious, realistic
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People Like Us (2012)
Plot Summary:
It tells the story of a struggling man who, after flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30-year-old alcoholic sister he never knew existed, and her troubled 12-year-old son.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 44000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA, India
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: touching, emotional, sentimental, intense, semi serious, feel good, entertaining, realistic, talky, inspirational
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The Single Moms Club (2014)
Plot Summary:
A group of single moms are brought together in the aftermath of an incident at their children's school.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: sentimental, semi serious, touching, humorous, realistic, teen
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Geography Club (2013)
Plot Summary:
At Goodkind High School, a group of students of varying sexual orientation form an after-school club a as a discrete way to share their feelings and experiences.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: witty, touching, semi serious, sexual, teen, humorous, lgbt cinema, thrilling, realistic, sexy
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St. Vincent (2014)
Plot Summary:
A young boy whose parents just divorced finds an unlikely friend and mentor in the misanthropic, bawdy, hedonistic, war veteran who lives next door.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 108000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: realistic, feel good, inspirational, entertaining, witty, humorous, touching, sincere, social, sad