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Plot Summary:
An aimless young troublemaker, Alessandro, squanders his days gambling and getting into fights, and he often spends his nights in jail. With few prospects, he begrudgingly accepts a job as a companion to Giorgio, an elderly poet suffering from Alzheimer’s. On their daily walks, the two banter and become friends, and Alessandro quickly learns more about this forgotten poet as the old man’s memory drifts. After learning a secret from Giorgio’s past, Alessandro and his friends work to uncover the mystery of this tale, an unexpected history lesson and a touching coming-of-age adventure.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: uplifting, motivational, light, inspirational, thought provoking, feel good, sentimental, sincere, intellectual, unusual plot structure
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You're Ugly Too (2015)
Plot Summary:
After her mother’s death, Stacey moves with her uncle Will to a remote region in the Irish midlands. As the two cautiously get to know each other, they have to deal with the dark shadows of the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 816
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Ireland
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious, offbeat, feel good
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My Dog Stupid (2019)
Plot Summary:
Henri is a middle-aged writer with fading inspiration who has published nothing worthy of note in years. Feeling increasingly misunderstood by his wife and four grown up deadbeat kids, he dreams of running away to start over again. Yet when he discovers an unattractive, bad-mannered dog in his garden, he decides to adopt him and both start developing an unexpected friendship that inevitably upsets Henri’s family and neighbors.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 106 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, feel good, humorous, crying
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Live Twice, Love Once (2019)
Plot Summary:
A retired academic teacher tries to find the love of his youth after being diagnosed with Alzheimer's.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: inspirational, sincere, thought provoking, sweet, road movie
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I'm Not Crazy! (2018)
Plot Summary:
A woman enters a quirky mental health clinic after attempting suicide upon finding out her husband is having an affair with her best friend.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 964
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Chile
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, thought provoking, touching, suspense
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Cold Feet (2018)
Plot Summary:
Although he actually just wanted to steal money, the crook Denis finds himself in the position of caretaking for the stroke patient Raimund. When Raimund's granddaughter Charlotte turns up, Denis has enough of it and wants to skip. But because of an huge blizzard, escape is unimaginable.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany, Austria
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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I'm Not Rappaport (1996)
Plot Summary:
Old Nat Moyer is a talker, a philosopher, and a troublemaker with a fanciful imagination. His companion is Midge Carter, who is half-blind, but still the super of an apartment house. When he is threatened with retirement, Nat battles on his behalf. Nat also takes on his daughter, a drug dealer, and a mugger in this appealing version of a really 'odd couple'.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: talky, feel good, humorous, witty, not serious, funny, entertaining, realistic, cynical, independent film
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A Month of Sundays (2015)
Plot Summary:
Frank Mollard, divorced but still attached, can't move on and also can't sell a house in a property boom, much less connect with his teenage son. One night Frank gets a phone call from his mother. Nothing out of the ordinary there – apart from the fact that she died the year before.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 493
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, humorous, psychological, light, feel good, independent film
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Hi, Are You Alone? (1995)
Plot Summary:
Nina is a 20 years old girl from Valladolid who lives with her divorced father, an autoritarian and conservative man. Trini is of the same age and has lost her mother. For both Valladolid and their families have nothing to offer and therefore they go on a risky voyage to the Costa del Sol at the south of Spain.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 846
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Spain
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: road movie, captivating, light, feel good, humorous
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Ventoux (2015)
Plot Summary:
A group of friends reunite after 30 years to climb the Mont Ventoux again. Memories to a happy youth but also new discoveries from the past. One person is not present at the reunion. Why is that? What happened?.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: unusual plot structure, captivating, light, feel good, humorous, contemplative
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Looking for Miguel (2007)
Plot Summary:
A wealthy Columbian politician blinded by his own privilege is forced to walk a mile in the shoes of the people he despises most after falling victim to a violent attack and subsequently losing his memory. Miguel was a man of fine stock, a politician who has led a charmed life since the day he was born. But Miguel has no appreciation for his lot in life, and scoffs at the everyday people who must struggle just to survive. One day, after being assaulted on the street and left for dead, Miguel awakens with no memory of the past. He has forgotten his distain for the dumpster divers, petty thieves, and wandering transients who crowd the city streets, and now their warmth and solidarity is the only thing keeping him alive. As Miguel forges a friendship with a pious but promiscuous drag queen, the fragments of the past gradually become illuminated in his mind, prompting him on a desperate quest to reclaim his identity and atone for the sins of his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 117
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Colombia
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, serious, realistic, bleak, contemplative
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Maman a tort (2016)
Plot Summary:
Do we really know our parents? Fourteen-year-old Anouk suddenly discovers another side to her mother during an observation workshop that she carries out in the insurance company where her mother works. An immersion week in the company's adult world, with its little compromises and many cowardly acts, which soon put a seal on her young life. Between an initiation, rift, and assuming responsibility for the first time, the experience is a form of adieu to childhood.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 262
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, light, feel good, unusual plot structure, humorous, contemplative
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The Best Is Yet to Come (2019)
Plot Summary:
Following a huge misunderstanding, two friends always decide to tackle everything to make up for lost time.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, sentimental, thought provoking, sincere, mind bending, touching, inspirational, buddy comedy, humorous
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The Most Beautiful Day (2016)
Plot Summary:
The quirky, overambitious pianist Andi (33) and the more laid back and relaxed Benno (36) have just one thing in common: They will both die soon. So the two of them decide after some trouble at the hospice, to have the most awesome day before its too late. First thing is they need is money, which they cleverly scam, since going to prison is -considering the limited amount of time of the question. Then they set off for Africa! It will not only be a nightmare for Andi the hypochondriac, but also a huge deal for Benno, who will have to face his past for the first time in his life. The journey leads them through hazards, a number of comedic, tragic, dramatic and dangerous moments and finally to their original aspiration: The most awesome day of realizing that you need to take life into your own hands to not miss out on it.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: psychological, humorous, sweet, sentimental, light, touching, road movie, art house
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Waffle Street (2015)
Plot Summary:
The true story of Jimmy Adams, a V.P. of a $30 billion hedge fund, who loses his job and winds up working as a waiter at a waffle shop. Amidst the greasy madness of the 24-hour diner, Jimmy befriends Edward, an ex-con grill master who serves up hard lessons about life, finance, and grits.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: uplifting, light, captivating, entertaining, motivational, social, extraordinary
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The Goldfish (2019)
Plot Summary:
Oliver is a banker and portfolio manager and leads a life in the fast lane, which one day comes to an abrupt end, as he builds a self-inflicted accident on highway with 230 km / h and raced through a guardrail. When he wakes up in the hospital again, he faces a devastating diagnosis: paraplegia. Actually, a rehabilitation stay of several months is planned in the hospital, but Oliver soon falls on his head and ends up in a disabled shared flat with the name "Die Goldfische".
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Germany
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: motivational, inspirational, uplifting, touching, humorous
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Caterina in the Big City (2003)
Plot Summary:
When her father, Giancarlo is transferred to Rome from the small country town of Montalto Di Castro, Caterina, a 12 years old girl, will discover her new classmates, a totally new world, an ambient extremely divided politically.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 107 min
Plot tags: touching, realistic, semi serious, humorous
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Intrepido: A Lonely Hero (2013)
Plot Summary:
A middle-aged man tries to get by in Milan while trying to retain his dignity.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 738
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, touching, realistic, light, feel good
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An Almost Perfect Country (2016)
Plot Summary:
Pietramezzana, a remote village in the Lucan Dolomites, is likely to disappear. Its inhabitants, led by the volcanic Dominic do not give up and, believing that the opening of a factory may be the solution to all their troubles, they want to make sure that the project is successful.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 699
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining, remake of french film
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Let Yourself Go (2017)
Plot Summary:
Elia, a depressed jewish psychoanalyst, one day meets Claudia, a young and eccentric personal trainer.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, happy, romantic drama
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It's All About Karma (2017)
Plot Summary:
Giacomo befriends a man, believing that he is the reincarnation of his dead father.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 908
Genere: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Station Agent (2003)
Plot Summary:
When his only friend dies, a man born with dwarfism moves to rural New Jersey to live a life of solitude, only to meet a chatty hot dog vendor and a woman dealing with her own personal loss.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: tragicomedy, sentimental, touching, humorous, sincere, feel good, psychological, captivating, dramatic, realistic
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Dad (1989)
Plot Summary:
A busy executive (Ted Danson) learns during a meeting that his mother may be dying and rushes home to her side. He ends up being his father's caretaker and becomes closer to him (Jack Lemmon) than ever before. Estranged from his own son (Ethan Hawke), the executive comes to realize what has been missing in his own life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 5000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, emotional, feel good, uplifting, inspirational, sincere, thought provoking, poignant, comedy drama
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Inseparables (2016)
Plot Summary:
Felipe a wealthy businessman who has been quadriplegic, due to an accident, is looking for a therapeutic assistant. There are several highly qualified, but he decides to take the assistant of his gardener, Tito who has decided to resign.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Argentina
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, humorous, captivating, surprise ending, crying, remake of french film
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The Specials (2019)
Plot Summary:
For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelter), they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions. It’s an exceptional partnership, outside of traditional settings, for some quite extraordinary characters.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 114 min
Plot tags: sincere, social, sentimental, touching, disturbing, inspirational, poignant, profound
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The Upside (2017)
Plot Summary:
A comedic look at the relationship between a wealthy paraplegic and a unemployed man with a criminal record who's hired to help him.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 62000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, touching, motivational, inspirational, feel good, captivating, light, entertaining, family comedy
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With Honors (1994)
Plot Summary:
Convinced he'll graduate with honors because of his thesis paper, a stuffy Harvard student finds his paper being held hostage by a homeless man, who might be the guy to school the young man in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 16000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, inspirational, road movie, humorous, semi serious, realistic, light, sincere
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Mind the Gap (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two girls of different background, one a immigrant from Turkey and the other a girl that needs to get out of her fathers shadow both apply to the police academy were they become close friends.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Sweden
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Dead Poets Society (1989)
Plot Summary:
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
IMDB Rating: 8.1
IMDB Votes: 530000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags: philosophical, inspirational, sentimental, emotional, uplifting, intellectual, touching, motivational, sad, tear jerker
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The Bucket List (2007)
Plot Summary:
Corporate billionaire Edward Cole and working class mechanic Carter Chambers are worlds apart. At a crossroads in their lives, they share a hospital room and discover they have two things in common: a desire to spend the time they have left doing everything they ever wanted to do and an unrealized need to come to terms with who they are. Together they embark on the road trip of a lifetime, becoming friends along the way and learning to live life to the fullest, with insight and humor.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 257000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, inspirational, thought provoking, sentimental, touching, philosophical, sad, emotional, tear jerker, road movie
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The Intern (2015)
Plot Summary:
70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 269000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min
Plot tags: feel good, inspirational, light, sweet, touching, emotional, funny, sentimental, motivational, entertaining