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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 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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The Women's Club (1987)
Plot Summary:
Patrick is a struggling screenwriter who takes a second job as a male prostitute. He is supposed to write by day and do right by his lonely clientele at night, but he develops writer's block. When Patrick decides to draw from his amorous experiences as inspiration for his next screenplay, the women conspire to prevent it.
IMDB Rating: 4.0
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: independent 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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One False Step (2000)
Plot Summary:
A comic feature film about an underachieving writer who sets out to write his masterpiece, but is confounded when one of its characters steps into his real life and introduces him to a life of sin and corruption.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: neurotic, suspenseful, tense, touching, captivating, suspense, independent film
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Hoodwink (1981)
Plot Summary:
Hoodwink is based on the true story of an Australian con artist who briefly won the hearts of the media (if not the authorities). John Hargreaves stars as a criminal serving time in a New South Wales prison. He's not partial to the physical labor required of the convicts, so he hits upon a labor-saving plan. Hargreaves pretends to be totally blind, thus lightening his work load....and carries off the hoax for years.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 163
Genere: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: neo noir, independent film
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The Picture Show Man (1977)
Plot Summary:
A man, his son and a piano player travel around Australia showing the first silent movies.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 265
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: independent film
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And the Wife Shall Revere Her Husband (1965)
Plot Summary:
When a man decides to marry the woman he's been living with, she stops being the silent patient person she was and claims to be the boss in the house. Her behaviour changes so much after the marriage that the husband gets so irritated as to ask for a divorce even a few hours later.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Greece
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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All Neat in Black Stockings (1969)
Plot Summary:
A small comedy drama about the life and sex adventures of an amorous window cleaner, in the hip and swingin' London of the '60s.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 249
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film
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Dimboola (1979)
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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University of Laughs (2004)
Plot Summary:
In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each other, the script ends up developing in unexpected ways.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags:
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Bergman Island (2021)
Plot Summary:
An English-German filmmaking couple retreat to Fårö for the summer to each write screenplays for their upcoming films in an act of pilgrimage to the place that inspired Ingmar Bergman. As the summer and their screenplays advance, the lines between reality and fiction start to blur against the backdrop of the Island's wild landscape.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Germany, Sweden, Mexico, Brazil, UK
Duration: 112 min
Plot tags: art house, psychological, captivating, disturbing, erotic, cult classic, metafiction
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The Wild Duck (1983)
Plot Summary:
The Wild Duck is a 1983 Australian film adapted from the play by Ibsen.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: serious, realistic, independent film
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The Adventures of Eliza Fraser (1976)
Plot Summary:
An old captain & his young wife share a lot of adventures after they're shipwrecked and captured by Aborigines on an island near Australia.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 130 min
Plot tags: independent film
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My First Wife (1984)
Plot Summary:
My First Wife is about the dramatic collapse of the marriage between John and Helen. It is also a film about our children and the future we offer them. Helen has decided to leave, and it is John who lacks the inner resources to cope with the impending tragedy. Slowly he is sucked into a tunnel of despair – fighting his conservative nature and the romantic memories of his married life.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 170
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Removalists (1975)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of David Williamson's play; John Hargreaves and Peter Cummins star as a good and bad cop who assist a battered wife as she tries to escape her belligerent husband.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 85
Genere: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: independent film
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The Boys of Cellblock Q (1992)
Plot Summary:
The Boys of Cellblock Q is set within the bowels of the Sunnyvale Labor Farm. Without the presence of women, the prisoners indulge in regular trysts with one another, make full use out of the jail's supply of priests, turn the eyes several policemen, and help a young convict learn the ins and outs of the prison community.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 112
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Strange Fits of Passion (1999)
Plot Summary:
Strange Fits of Passion is a 1999 Australian film about a young woman determined to lose her virginity.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 238
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: intellectual, independent film, sentimental, clever, offbeat, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious, sexual
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Some Girl(s) (2013)
Plot Summary:
On the eve of his wedding, a successful writer travels around the country to meet up with ex-lovers in an attempt to make amends for his wrongdoings.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, whimsical
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The Public Eye (1972)
Plot Summary:
A strait-laced British banker hires an eccentric private detective to follow his free-spirited American wife, whom he suspects is cheating on him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 841
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Black Bear (2020)
Plot Summary:
At a remote lake house in the Adirondack Mountains, a couple entertains an out-of-town guest looking for inspiration in her filmmaking. The group quickly falls into a calculated game of desire, manipulation, and jealousy, unaware of how dangerously intertwined their lives will soon become.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 15000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, suspense, suspenseful, intense, psychological thriller, philosophical, intellectual, dark, stylized, independent film
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Swinging Safari (2018)
Plot Summary:
1975: A 200-ton blue whale gets washed up on a local beach and the kids think it’s the biggest thing that’s ever happened in Australia. Behind closed doors, the Mums and Dads of a quiet suburban street are going to celebrate in their own special way, by joining the sexual revolution and throwing a wife-swapping key party. And like the rotting whale, it’s all about to go spectacularly wrong.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sexy, light, erotic, funny, unusual plot structure, humorous, captivating, entertaining, sex comedy, hot
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My Year Without Sex (2009)
Plot Summary:
A tender story from Australia highlights the realistic ups and downs of an Australian family in the year following a parent's emergency medical procedure.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 915
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, realistic, semi serious, sexy, clever, humorous, sex comedy, uplifting, hot
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Mr. Write (1994)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring writer (with no talent) gets a job on a TV commercial, falls for an advertising executive.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 210
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: independent film, feel good, humorous, realistic, witty, semi serious
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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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Love and Death on Long Island (1997)
Plot Summary:
Giles De'Ath is a widower who doesn't like anything modern. He goes to movies and falls in love with film star, Ronnie Bostock. He then investigates everything about the movie and Ronnie. After that he travels to Long Island city where Ronnie lives and meets him, pretending that Ronnie is a great actor and that's why Giles admires him.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK, Canada, Italy
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: touching, witty, independent film, entertaining, sentimental, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexy
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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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Mullet (2001)
Plot Summary:
Eddie returns to his home town on the south coast of New South Wales. Having left for the city without explanation a few years previously, he tries to pick up the pieces of his life and fit back in to the lives of those he left, including his ex-girlfriend Tully and brother Pete.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 488
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, touching, humorous, clever, offbeat, realistic, witty, talky, semi serious
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The Sum of Us (1994)
Plot Summary:
"The Sum of Us" is an Aussie story about a father and a son both searching for love and sharing an unconventional bond. Harry, the father, is the caring and open-minded "mate" that borders on annoyance. His son Jeff unsuccessfully searches for love, with the unwanted guidance of his father.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, melancholic, sentimental, emotional, independent film, lgbt cinema, cult classic, humorous, realistic